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It's quite funny I made a very similar lament a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16230668 I only post when I think I can somehow add value to the discussion, at leas…

I confess I haven't read the whole thing but that figure 4 looks more like a set of approaches, rather than a continuum as in the periodic table. Their figure 1, which appears to d…

Regarding specifically the creation of 3D models for usage in games, this is particularly relevant: Avatar Digitization From a Single Image For Real-Time Rendering http://www.hao-l…

It's a theme I like to read about (I mean "practical issues around ML in production settings"). I find company blogs and some research publications are great resources. Examples: -…

When I saw what you were doing I thought "oh so you point your phone at the sky and it shows commercial planes around you as dots over the horizon" (or something). Then I saw the l…

I just tried this and Alt-l seems to move to the line above (equiv. to Esc+l), Alt-J the line below, and in gvim it produces some accented characters for me. It would have been a g…

I too hated the need to press all the time when I started with vi. It sounded as bad for wrists as the Ctrl key for Emacs. The trick I've found (I don't remember where) and used ev…

I'm glad that odd recollection can find a use :) In my case it's just discomfort but I'm curious as to why constraints around the waist don't get discussed more in articles about p…

You jest but I tend to think it'd be much better for posture and breathing if pants with more flexibility and wiggle room were in fashion for men. E.g. sweatpants. I had a teacher …

I have a very similar experience with sit-stand setups. I have one at home and had one at work. I stand up for routine tasks (email etc.) and sit down for deeper work. I find stand…

You're right about that. It might be that I suffer from a "person B" problem :) However I still think that the "short-lived" nature of discussions here is a relatively independent …

I don't often comment on HN and this (the short-timed nature of discussions) is one of the main reasons. The other main reason is that I have a high threshold for considering my pa…

That's what I don't get. Publishers have all the incentive to get behind a solution like this, but somehow I never see a "send a tip" or Flattr button anywhere (maybe I'm not looki…

Concerning the contribution of startups, I don't have much hard numbers, but my comment was motivated by this article I recalled reading: http://affaires.lapresse.ca/economie/20161…

Well to me it does seem, at least , as though the recent surge in public and private AI investments (Microsoft, Google, now Facebook) would have a positive local impact for AI rese…

That article is pretty light on details. I wonder if he pointed towards a specific form of unsupervised learning. Anyway it's pretty funny in light of an intro I remembered from on…

I built something very similar too. My setup is to have two screens, one for standing, one for sitting (and two set of input devices). I close one screen when I'm using the other a…

There certainly is, I coded one myself, but I never made any effort to publicize it. http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2012/12/diff-revision/ Basically you take notes like you normally w…

Or some clearly visible icon at the end of the URL bar saying "2832 more characters ->".

That's interesting. Are you aware of other teams using video chat like this, ie. all day long? Do you know what the Google monthly fees are? Is the bandwidth consumed a concern?

There was an episode of the american version of the "modern Sherlock Holmes" TV series, "Elementary", where the plot revolved around a company akin to Uber (called Zooss in the sho…

Some time ago I saw this similar project posted on HN: http://lapface.com/ Here's the thread I saw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9764241

Reminds me of this (not yet released?) concept, the GEAK ring: http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/17/geak-ring-nfc-finger/ The "unlock your smartphone" use case is underlined here, to…