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ARKit / ARCore cross reference the camera with inertial data. OpenCV is just the camera. That's why they're smoother.

Even though it'll be that expensive, wait 50 years when we want to try and reverse all the shit coming our way. Maybe worth it at that point.

Amazon doesn't take visual design seriously, and they need to start. Heroku and Google do, and as a result their platforms are much more usable.

It's about when people go to sleep and wake up, which is based off biorhythms and cultural factors. Students are going to stay up late studying no matter what.

Nah. Don't kid yourself. It may be "not particularly difficult" to write the code, but Twitter is way more than code. It's a cultural entity built with the labor of millions of peo…

Insult to injury - I currently have loans serviced by Navient, but I didn't choose them. Originally they were directly from the government but the government sold them to Navient s…

Check out this awesome zine about networking the author made. IN COLOR! http://jvns.ca/zines/#networking-ack

This is one of the problems with applying cybernetics to human behavior like you would with psychology. It's not really the right tool for the job, nor is it meant to be - it's abo…

He's made supremely misogynist statements. He helped elect Trump. He put a publisher out of business by bankrolling lawsuits against them. He literally wants to use he blood of you…

Per the settlement, they will now stop collecting email addresses but will still collect data from your device. Seems like it could still be linked to you somehow. Maybe there's an…

Well. Does your wife work in info sec? Let's do our part to make this place less toxic to women please

The thing is, choosing to not punch Nazis leads to more violence.

It's not just about politics in an abstract sense, it's about a very real threat to students' safety. This person had called out a trans student during one of his speeches and enco…

Were you the one asking about this on twitter last week? :)

This is great and all, but climate change is going to kill a lot of people so......

Comments like these are literally what keeps me coming back to Hacker News. Thank you.

I used kirby for a brochureware project and it went really well.

You're so out of touch

It's a tutorial, not a paper. Chill. Also, I see no indication that this human is a "he".

It doesn't matter if it seems silly to you. It matters if Google broke the law or not. I know you think it's silly for non-lawyers to speculate on whether a law was broken, so I'll…

Tech workers need to organize. Don't agree? Remember that other class action suit Apple was involved in? The one where workers sought $3 billion from them, along with Adobe, Intel,…

Factor in the cost of society collapsing due to carbon driven climate change, and see where that gets you :)

You really have not been paying attention since the election, have you?

This place is pretty toxic.