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>> "Have you posted on stack overflow" — do you mean regarding my slow motion issue?

Yes. Was wondering if you tried capturing UITouches on a nil view to get global coordinates. Just a stab in the dark, since I'm fully occupied on an Apple Watch project.

> Are you planning to release something like that for the iPad Pro?

Short answer is Yes! I'm starting from the ground up by rewriting the underlying functional ontology, called Tr3, which will be open sourced under MIT license.
The actual space is really really cool and is the instantiation of their longer-term project, which is supposed to be an attempt to reify D. Engelbart's vision for what computation is to be.
You're correct! We recently moved out of the San Mateo office (sad) but still have space within San Fransisco.

We need to update the map...

Thanks for pointing that out.
Standard 8 - they made it from '32 to'92. Camera is a kodak, from '32, model 20, in the family since it was new. It is beautifully engineered.
Depends what you consider to be failure. In a financial sense, going out of business is failure. But overall you can easily argue that's how things should be. It doesn't mean what was built was crap, just that it couldn't find a market fast enough (or at all).
Not sure what point is being tried to be made here:

1. A startup that fails doesn't mean it has built crap. Sometimes things fail for unrelated reasons, whether ahead of their time or because the economy took a downturn, etc etc. SOMETIMES because they are "ripping us off".

2. 95% of scientific experiments "fail". Are scientists ripping us off?

The whole idea of the market place IS failure. In fact, if our larger market was healthier, we'd see MORE failure (and in more established corporations, such as the "too big to fails"). The fact that 95% of startups fail is one of the healthiest indicators of SV. Experimentation necessarily means many failures in search of the one success. Maybe some day we'll have a magical simulation machine where we can run product ideas ahead of time and know "the right place" to put our money, but until then, the best system is one that invests in diverse companies with oftentimes mutually exclusive ideas.
I also wonder which ones Bret actually recommends. I have what I call are my "top shelf" books, right now they actually do fit on the top shelf.
That's not a good reason for a business to continue to exist. A business should provide real value to consumers. Duping consumers is not ok, even if it helps to employ people. If you want to maintain the organization's structure then upper management should resign and the business can refocus under more moral leadership.
>You can feed video into the display (why?)

I'd guess it's cheaper/easier than using glass especially to support swivel. Unclear if there's a prism in the light path though or if they're getting the image to the sensor in some other way. It would seem to take away from the whole retro vibe though.
But is it worth $1000?
90% fail, but the winners win big - so big in fact that it makes up for all of the failures combined (or VC firms couldn't really exist).

The big winners have huge economic impact and create things that change the world.
Holly Wood - her real name, it seems - is just a talentless troll trying to get a PhD in gender studies and realising she's hurtling into her mid-20s with no nogotiable skills and a bitter hatred of the world.

http://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/holly-wood
Technology and wealth inequality
I use the busses, they work well (especially w/ nextbus/gps/tracking/whatever) but...

Somerville is the most densely populated city in New England, the GLX is (was?) expected to carry 45k people per day before 2030. For comparison, Somerville's population is 78,804 (2013) and Cambridge's population is 107,289 (2013). Not really "shrug" to me.
This is how I know him, a talk that every dev should at least know about. It is about live/realtime coding and has some pretty jaw-dropping demos.

"Inventing on Principle"

https://vimeo.com/36579366
I've heard rumours about it, I guess it's not open to the public in any way?

What did you mean by connecting it with Bret's bookshelf though?
Why? It's got 3+ redundancy and is simple & fast to snapshot to geographically redundant backups.
Um.

1. DSLR users are not.

2. The whole point of this exercise is to make a product for people who want a retro (and largely impractical) film movie camera. What people are used to is [EDIT: 100% digital cameras].
I don't think it's "FBI-proof OPSEC" to note that there are many things in a journal article that will give away the identity of the author.

While you can say "Remove obvious links", to many experts $Topic in $Location is enough to allow a pretty good guess of whose lab its out of. Or the name of a long running study. And I'm not going to maintain a whole separate Github account to anonymize code distribution.
There is no doubt that there is a large degree of influence from Taoist, Confucian, Buddhist, Shinto and even Hindu (people seem to forget this for some reason) philosophy in Japanese culture today.

I agree that Zen is not expressed in every cultural aspect, but by and large it is there.

Look, for example, at the collective reaction to the Fukushima disaster. If that Stoicism isn't an expression of Zen philosophy, I don't know what is.
Maybe, but in the mean time we have C++.
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Apps are bigger than Jesus
Voice can be transmitted as packets using IP, but is VOIP an extension of IP or core use of it? Well, I guess we can call it either, because the end result is similar (but the side-effects are not).
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Yes. The clothes and demeanor of the bourgeois class are a prerequisite for utilizing their resources.

This ensures that power networks remain tight, and closed to the chance of social mobility most of the time.
Bringing in immigrants isn't a solution. It's just replacing Japan with some other nation. Most Japanese would like Japan to continue.
I've actually been considering trying Mithril.

But it's not strictly parenthesis that bother me. You're right in that )]}) is actually far more annoying. I try not to nest that deep in JS if I can help it.

Arrow functions reduce the pain. Not passing array literals in function calls helps as well. Angular seems like the big culprit that injects [] into the middle of an argument list, for me anyway, and using that syntax is optional.
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Switcher.txt

> I eventually negotiated the final agreement with Guy Kawasaki, where, in addition to the $100,000, I managed to get a 10% royalty of the wholesale price if Apple sold Switcher separately, which Steve swore they would never do, but eventually the royalty delivered another $50,000.

This was written on a leave of absence, though.
Just got my email. Sadly apparently Greece doesn't exist but maybe I'd like a swag bag instead.

Disappointing I can't simply pay extra to ship it here; but I'll be routing it through Germany...

Still, very exciting they decided to do that and quite a big surprise actually, I wasn't expecting to get a new oculus at all!
Sounds like this is the epitome of "you get what you pay for."
From the F.A.Q:

Q: What kinds of things can I use Magic+ for?

Anything you want. As long as it’s not illegal. Seriously.

"I need you guys to unscramble this omelette by 5pm..."

Kidding, and violating laws of nature aside, am rooting for the Magic+ team. Good luck!
To sum up, with less vitriol:

Paul Graham:

> Variation in productivity is far from the only source of economic inequality, but it is the irreducible core of it

Holly Wood:

> [Paul Graham] assumes people who are not rich are not driven, and so he ignores...the probability that the poors are poor because they are busy being driven at enterprises that people like Paul Graham think are valueless. Like childcare. Or science. Or academia. Or education.
I think PG's essay was far better than this one. PG had actual thought-through points, whether or not you agreed with them (and whether or not it was wise for him to express them). This article is just someone looking for a pretext to yell, and flinging as much mud as possible in the hope that some will stick in the reader's mind.
" 95% of scientific experiments "fail"

Um, source?

Also, source for 95% of startups fail?
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Where did you hire him/her? I use fancy hands but would love to have a dedicated person
Where is this efficiency and net gain of which you speak? Real estate, food, energy, health care, education, and other necessities are getting more expensive, often dramatically so and sometimes at rates far beyond inflation.

If this is an age of rapidly improving efficiency then most things should be getting cheaper. The amount of free time and disposable income we have should be increasing. We should be getting wealthier. Instead the opposite is happening for almost everyone save a tiny class of professionals and capitalists. One could be forgiven for thinking we're living in an age of inefficiency and technological decline, since that's what the price signals are indicating.

I'm not sure this is SV or PG's "fault," but PG's rant is smug and non-productive and amounts to a whole lot of "why do they not eat cake?" It makes him sound clueless and out of touch.
Provided your data can be chunked in that way, yes.
This is a language problem: people with emotions hear "value" & recognize a (for lack of a better term) moral component to the implied judgement, where finance people are happy to confuse "value" with "wealth" or "profit" or "money" or "power" or "IGMFU".
This confusion allows economic arguments to fall back on economic arguments when confronted with moral opposition & it's worked for centuries.
When I put a picture of myself that had the contrast turned up my picture was rated "godlike", when I put in the original picture it was rated "hot", and when I turned down the contrast some it was rated "ok." I'm an unhealthy, almost pasty shade of white with a slightly bulbous nose and a classic fivehead.

Now, this a problem for bigger reasons:

An older picture of Denzel Washington gets an ok: http://imgur.com/Li0gZqH

A recent picture of Howard Stern gets a hot: http://imgur.com/L8hxoVK

Obviously this is just a toy and your algorithm is pretty inexact, but... you need to fix it, or at least note in giant letters that it only works for white people right now and that you're working on your algorithm to make it more universal. Because it only (kinda, sorta?) works for white people right now. If you claim something is universal in your headline then note its specificity in the fine print, you're lying. If you build an algorithm that calls most people who aren't white ugly, you need to think about the buzz-to-backlash factor of demoing it.

It's really not a good look, and you've got a week at most before you get called a "Nazi Dating App" on twitter and your potential VCs get spooked and pull out. I don't think it's intentional on your part, but literally no one cares about what your intentions are when there's an opportunity to create moral indignation clickbait. Just a friendly word of warning!
Agreed. Replacing menial work with automation frees up the people doing the menial work to learn new skills and do other work. The net result is that more useful work is done, which equates to wealth created. If some of those people are incapable of learning new skills, the net surplus of wealth that we have created should be sufficient for society to cover their basic living expenses. We do not need those people to continue doing busywork in order to provide for them.

The more that we can do this, the more surplus wealth we create. This is clearly working by reference to history: this is the best time ever to be poor, compared to all points in history before it.

This isn't quite so obviously true, but it's likely also the case that an unemployed person today has significantly better life outcomes than a menial worker 100 years ago (which means mines or factories). That's what improved automation buys us.
what if in such a world all production is owned by a tiny (say 100/1000) hypercapitalistic elite, and everything else is automated. Those people would wield more economic and thus political power than anyone else in history.

Humans would not have to work, but its a huge mistake to assume the elite will willingly share that prosperity.
>But for the average US person for example, the culture, historical legacy and customs of Japan can seem totally foreign.

It's no more true for Japan than it is for anywhere. People who get all their information from the western press and then actually go to Japan come away shocked at how normal everything is. It would be like people in other countries forming their opinions on the US based on the Castro district in San Francisco during the '70s.

>Second, yes, if Japanese people aren't having kids, Japan can be doomed, in the sense of population decline, economic and job issues, etc.

There are 127 million people in Japan. If the population shrinks by 35 million or so they'll have about the same number of people they had at the start of WW II. And they'll be a lot better for it, too. Certainly any time you have a pay-go pension scheme there are difficulties with a shrinking population, but it's nothing they can't manage.

As far as taking in immigrants, what Japan is doing makes a lot more sense that what the US or the Europeans are doing. I don't blame people who don't want to have to choose, at age 60, between immersion in a foreign culture and moving from the place they've lived for decades.
This reminds me of the Milton Friedman story where he was visiting a work site in some Asian country where they were building a canal. He was shocked that they were using shovels instead of modern equipment. They told him it was a jobs program, whereupon he responded that they should use spoons instead.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/
I feel like, if your income is such that you care about your Comcast bill, you are really not the target market for Magic+. This is aimed squarely at the Rolex-and-Lexus set.
There's a great deal of difference between science and markets--using failure rates in one to justify the other is sloppy thinking.

The idea of the market place isn't to encourage failure, it is (arguably) to efficiently allocate resources. One can imagine that, at steady state some point in the future, we've gotten enough businesses providing enough reliable value that there is no great rate of failure.

More bluntly: the average laundromat lasts longer than the average venture-backed startup. That should at least be worth some minor reflection.
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Why are some Asian apps so cluttered?
Ok, that makes sense, although the content creators for iTunes, etc, still often have to find out what RSS is.

I'm still not sure what your point is - you said Twitter is trying to "be" RSS, but that's just the format, not the application. Twitter is not trying to aggregate content from elsewhere, either.
Wasn't gobby (the software project) originally named as a play on another collaborative editor named Lobby? That's what my memory is telling me.
There's a Submit a commuting tool section at the bottom.
You can do that easily on Windows by adding a Vectored Exception Handler (VEH).

But of course that doesn't make exceptions go away, you just save on stack unwinding (if you discard the exception), there is still a pretty big overhead.
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> A startup that fails doesn't mean it has built crap. Sometimes things fail for unrelated reasons, whether ahead of their time or because the economy took a downturn, etc etc.

Yeah, that's a generous reading. I'm in the startup world and let me tell you, there are a LOT of clowns running around right now with completely shit ideas, just trying to grab some of the sweet sweet VC money before the music stops. It's appalling.
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They can be, depends on how they have been colored. 1-of-4,294,967,296 multisig is doable in bitcoin theoretically using Schnorr signatures https://blockstream.com/2015/08/24/treesignatures/
Ask HN: How do I get notified of comments?
How can I get notified when someone replies to my post or comment? I can't believe such basic functionality is not built in.
What role did you have when you wrote the code? If, for example, you were a full time employee, grad student, or postdoc at a university, the copyright belongs to the university (not true for undergrads!)

The website isn't required to list your contribution. That would be a courtesy.

Also, if you have a problem with this where you think it's important to change the website or get another form of credit, your lawyer should be talking to your ex-employers lawyer. That should have been clear when the current maintainers failed to respond to your email.
> social utility is not quantifiable

That's generally true, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a value. Social utility shouldn't be ignored simply because it cannot be assigned a convenient numeric value.
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I had a very similar outcome with Magic after trying really hard to rely on it. One of their suggested usages is to order flowers for someone, so I tried that on two different occasions.

The first time around, I asked for flowers, and got a picture of some flowers that they could send to my recipient. I didn't like the flowers in the picture, and so they picked another set of flowers per some feedback from me. The flowers arrived, and the recipient was touched, but my lingering feeling was that I would have spent the same amount of time ordering online, and it would have been easier to find the right kind of flowers if I had done so.

The second time I tried to order flowers was a complete disaster. I was ordering them for a special occasion, and Magic had told me they would be delivered within an acceptable time frame. However, the flowers never showed up. I was not notified that they had not showed up - instead I learned that they had not showed up after one of the more embarasing birthday calls of my life. Magic was very nice about it, refunded me and delivered the flowers late for free. The error may not even have been their fault. However, the extra layer of abstraction between me and the flower delivery person in this case seemed to make the whole situation worse.

I use a lot of different do-things-for-you services these days. In theory Magic is a service I should be totally hooked on, but these bad experiences killed it for me. What's the point of a service that does everything for you if it makes things more complicated or harder to get done?
the blue message bubble is iMessage specific.
Yeah, it was super bittersweet and still is. My developer circle is mostly on Twitter, which I still interact with from time to time, to see what is going on in that circle.

I just hate trying to micromanage my words and grammar sooo much.
yayyyyy really great counter arguments..how can something like candy crush saga be more valuable than a teacher? SV economy will head down in a couple of years.
In that case, how is it a reply to woodchuck?

"The subject matter that LessWrong considers is certainly unusual, but that alone should not be enough to call it arbitrary, questionable or outlandish."

"But let me tell you about the time LW experienced internet drama."

Doesn't seem particularly germane?
Please text-search Thatcher in the comments and answer my comment about exactly that idea that "if the poor are better off, but the rich are even better off, it's still fine". Thanks!
Okay. So your root argument is...completely incoherent? Whatever works for you, I guess.
>I note that Microchip is claiming to be shipping dev kits sometime this quarter. I won't hold my breath, and I still mark this as vapor.

As of a few minutes ago seven in stock at mouser: http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Microchip-Technology/DM1...
It really depends on the size of the company you are seeking for. I have worked in start-ups and one of the largest financial institution.

For start-ups:
As long as you are good, you will have a say in most of the area you mentioned (maybe not policy and long term objectives)

For sizeable company:

How projects are done - as development manager, you will be one of the many stakeholder in the project. Instead of thinking you will be dictating how a project is done, your role will more likely in leading some sort of committee where decisions are agreed upon by all the stakeholders.

Technical choices - the architecture team is responsible for deciding on the technology choices.

Policy - policy change is usually driven by internal, external audit. You will be assigned to take care of the aftermath of the audits depending on your area of expertise.

Technical design - manager usually don't have the technical know-how on the technical design

Long term objectives - these are coming from the investor level by setting ROI target for CEO to meet. It will subsequently trickle down to every level in the organization.

It sounds like you have a romantic notion of what a managerial role entails. In this day and age, management are usually the ones getting slashed. The smarter ones usually stay in senior technical roles because the compensation in the managerial role doesn't justify the risk and the time involved.
yayyy. .. how can candy crush saga be valued more than an elementary school teacher? Something is very wrong and anyone sensible can see it.
Until the nostalgic die. Things are going to be rough for Rickenbacker when Beatlemania breathes its final gasp ca. 2030.
Thanks. Didn't realize Wacom had one of these - has been a while. Yeah, I preferred the thinner "classic pen" https://www.wacom.com/en-us/store/pens/classic-pen

One trick is to use the eraser as a tip and to cover the tablet with a neoprene skin stretched tight. The result is a really light and spongy stroke. Has a very sensual feel.
Just as a heads up: "Total debt has surpassed (enter number)" on http://browseu.com/about-us.php
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> Sean Mattini	....	digital colorist assist

Edited and color graded on digital intermediate
The more you extrapolate the more frequently you will need to adjust your future predictions because of errors in your initial measurements. This goes for any kind of extrapolation (for instance: plotting a course on a map), but it goes even more for extrapolating the future from limited evidence present today. Your 'best guess' might be off by many orders of magnitude if the evidence you have today is only loosely related to the future in terms of importance and where evidence may not be nearly as independent in nature as you currently perceive.

This can lead to your best guess based on available evidence being about as good at predicting the future as randomness in spite of all the apparent effort at making the predictions mathematically sound.
Then it also solves too-high pricing.