Mine were:

77 Olympic Destroyer 78 Knaves out 86 The LinkedIn Incident 97 The Pizza Problem

Same thoughts here on the downward trend. It feels like a good concept, luck and good timing re Twitch exit. A bit less about the product per se.

You read my mind! I was just going to post this -

So here's a real application than Snap and kiddie jokes (not saying they are not fun!) - a scramble suit to protect witness/whistle-blower identity

How possible is it for users to have haptic gloves for typing instead of using controllers? I remain positive on VR productivity tools in future but think we have to get flexible and creative on hardware. Personally, I would love to have collaborative meetings with my colleagues worldwide, even just to demo my modelling ideas on a whiteboard which I think would be tremendously helpful (I believe FB keynote last year also voiced the same sentiment). I fully agree with the hardware limitations at the moment but certainly don't think investment and work now is a waste of time. To push this area forward, we also need to find compelling experiences that are unique to VR, like remote presentation rehearsal, collaborative white board brainstorming sessions for 3D design etc. Wearing a VR headset to work 8 to 10 hours straight is not the answer I look forward to, at least not for now. What VR is strong about to me todate are: minimising limitations resulted from physical distances and fading memories of past experience, as well as its ability to create limitless imaginary worlds, boosting multi-dimensional communication.

Early on we actually built out support for leap motion in dream, and this was super cool because of the networking stack we built - we were able to send all 20 points per hand in real time at 90 FPS at low latencies. This was really an amazing experience, but there were a lot of issues we simply couldn't overcome - like wrist occlusion where your hands would suddenly fly off into the distance, or when your hands didn't do what you intended due to incorrect data from the sensors. As a product minded company, we had to make the hard decision to hold on this - at the end of the day, users don't care whose fault a bad experience is, they just uninstall your app and never come back.

Really excited for new HW and capabilities to become available commercially. We built out our keyboard to be effective without anything but what's currently available (6DOF HMD with 6DOF controllers), and we'll continue to expand support for commercially available capabilities. Maybe it's an unorthodox perspective, but we really only want to ship and represent capabilities that any user can attain easily - and not tease things that are soon to (but may not ever) come.

I too feel I couldn't pass the $190m cost in the first place. Granted, I can see where the cost ramps up as explained by @morei. Could someone explain whether this is for the 10-year contract or a license of some sort for each year?

If it is annually, they got 17m tickets over 7 years so for 10 years, assuming they issue just over 19m tickets, that means each parking ticket needs to be at least $10 to cover the cost, even at $100 per ticket, IBM is banking on 10% share? That seems excessive to me but I never worked in government so could someone enlighten me on this?

By any chance there's a conflict of interest for government to be willing to make improvement and cut down parking tickets or any other similar source of income? Or maybe that's what public audit is for?

I'm half way through Google's crash course on ML which I think is helpful. As a machine learning field guide, I also find Andrew Ng's short paper series Machine Learning Yearning helpful. I watched the first FB video and didn't feel like they added anything particularly interesting. It's almost like they feel obliged to put something out there under the FB name.

This is actually how I select books in a book shop. I admit I was ruined by all things tech with very limited attention span. In fact I only read the first paragraph over about a dozen books on the website and finally decided on one which turned out to be The hitchhacker's guide to the galaxy.

My suggestion here is not necessarily putting out the first page but a page the author feels most representative of the story/view/idea. Personally I would either draw to a unique plot or some really smooth/beautiful verse. In both scenarios, I don't think the first page may necessarily be representative enough, leaving me the shame of missing a damn good book.

Love the idea though! Thank you.

This looks pretty neat! Thank you.

This is just personal experience. I have both google home and alexa (plus a dot). My observation for my use:

1. Google responds more to my command with slightly (not much) more natural tones;

2. Google recipe for cooking (I tried only once) is tremendously more helpful with waits and timers automatically added on;

3. Alexa has better sound for music although I only listen for working background not for serious music listening;

4. If you ask Google to say hi to Alexa it does whilst Alexa would say a long blurb about your contact skill is not available blah blah. But she responds to Google's greetings;

5. Calling "Alexa" is just easier than calling two words "hey google";

6. When Alexa skills work, they are awesome but it really is annoying to remember all the cues for skill names which i don't.

Overall, they are both very limited still. Right now I use Google a little bit more. It probably also helps that Google knows everything about me given I work in front computers all day but not so much with Amazon.

I've seen comments similar to this before. Why would it matter? As an end user, knowing it was Department A rather than Department B that gave you a crappy experience is meaningless.

The company is responsible, whether that's down to culture or management or whatever else. If they focus on getting the best engineers but don't put the same effort into setting up the best customer service, that is very telling.

Enjoyable user experience isn't a high enough priority for Google. They have the resources and they choose where to focus them.

maybe I wasn't making it clear. I didn't mean they should be different. I'm merely saying their customer facing staff don't seem to be as brilliant in customer service as their engineers in engineering. But reading it twice, i realise it can be interpreted either way. I don't disagree with you.

Are you doubting that a Google spreadsheet disappeared from Google documents, and that support reps had a difficult time finding it?

That seems like a pretty weak criticism to make up. And the account your questioning has a history here, and is not promoting another product, so why would they make that up?