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A lot of skepticism here, which is understandable given the somewhat unbelievable scope of what they are promising.

I'm a very active user of Magic+, so I'll give my perspective. (and of course I've been working with them from the beginning at YC, so you're also free to discard my opinion as biased)

For me, Magic+ is basically the impossibly good personal assistant, kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man, or Emily in The Devil Wears Prada. Unlike a conventional assistant, it's available 24/7, always happy to take on more work, and capable of accomplishing just about anything.

Obviously the $100/hr price point puts it out of reach for most people, but my expectation (as an investor) is that as the tech improves, they will be able to bring down the price while maintaining or even improving the quality of the service (I call this the Tesla strategy).

For me however, $100/hr is totally worth it since it effectively increases my leverage and enables me to get more done in less time. I've used it to plan events for YC founders, answer questions that are hard to Google (they will find the right experts and ask them), and provide unique and memorable gifts to friends, family, and business partners. I'm used to paying a high price for quality professional services such as accountants or lawyers, so $100/hr for the best possible assistant feels completely reasonable and rational.
Lol. Great idea although it would likely take longer than that.

I would however pay for an outcome based solution to this as it's a pain to call Comcast every year. Renegotiate to $X for Y and I'll pay.
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I believe you're confusing Open Source with Free Software. Open Source literally means the source is openly accessible.
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Unlike 9.5, they never stopped commercial manufacture and processing of Super8 so all of the commercial infrastructure is still there - its less of a revival, and more a introduction of a new Super8 camera.
Excellent https://github.com/rlmcpherson/s3gof3r is my tool of choice for "fast, parallelized, pipelined streaming access to Amazon S3."

If you want to saturate network bandwidth with S3 that's the one tool I know that can do it.
I've dealt with something similar but the manager in that case was a "hunt and peck" typist. Once I saw him typing it all came together. I wouldn't like typing either if it took me several seconds per letter.
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Good point, but 9.5 is still kinda amazing format, if only.
I have ADHD. I'm fully aware of my impulse control issues. Identifying bad practices is NOT treatment.
Sure, but a) I have no interest in issuing Bitcoin or any other currency, just using it as long as it works, and b) if I were to issue an altcoin, I would be creating money out of thin air!
Do you have any fun examples?
I strongly oppose "just limiting to GitHub". If this is to be used as some sort of merit factor, its inclusion can't be contingent on using a particular centralized repo. For a start, there are several such providers. Larger projects might well prefer self-hosting, too.
I am so glad an Aldi opened close to my place in Australia. I hope they beat the Australian incumbents into adopting better practices (or drive them out of business).
Mistaking a castle for a temple in an article about Japan is a pretty big tip whoever did it is deeply ignorant.
>(1) have more children, (2) bring in young immigrants or (3) build robots.

And (4) cope with the situation. Japan is a first world country with first world resources - they can cope with an aging population without doing any of that.
There will always be a big market for items of nostalgia, whether it's taking photos, playing music, enjoying ancient video games, or banging out letters on a typewriter. All good fun as long as people don't spout pseudoscience about its inability to be emulated with modern equipment.
Rose-Hulman (my alma mater), should probably revise this:

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/news/academics/2012/rose-hulman-n...
Meh, you can get carbon nanotubes out of soot too [0], they occur in any high carbon and high temp environment. Their existence in something is not proof that metallurgy is advanced in any sense, just luck.

European and Japanese fighting styles are also very different, as the katana is made with much more brittle steels [1]. In Japan, the block is not hard and the other blade has to slide along your's to not break the sword.

You use Damascus steel if your steel is of poor quality or you don't have the chemical know how to make good steel. You do what you can with what you have.

Still, swords cost a lot to make and end up as a status symbol. Look at the Japanese officers in WW2 [2].

[0]http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1044580305...

[1]https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/5729/how-do-tama...

[2]https://41.media.tumblr.com/ab40ee35c57c64a56570035045f61c4e...
To me, 1% is rich, but not "super rich". The 1% net worth cutoff in the US is somewhere in the single-digit millions. I'd say "super rich" starts around a 9 figure net worth (hundreds of millions). That's more like the 0.01%.
By uploading their code to a public GitHub repository, they agree to GitHub's terms of service[1], which grants other users additional rights to this code.

Although NaturalMotion Limited says they grant no rights under this license, you are allowed to fork this repository, as they have implicitly granted those rights to you by agreeing to the GitHub terms of service.

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/

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Although I'd argue that, if anything, a conglomerate is even more likely to just walk away from a business that's in sharp decline rather than taking heroic measures to try to fix things the best they can. Maybe maintain it as a small cash cow business if appropriate, but you probably end up with a lot of the same factories closed and workers laid off.

The company as a whole probably makes it through OK and that's probably a net positive given HQ staffs and so forth will be more likely to keep their jobs and there's less disruption than a bankruptcy but a lot of the same net effect is still the same.
I'd expect the camera to cost 2-800 and the processing/film to be about 30 bucks a cartridge. Too bad they don't make a color reversal film anymore, so you can project it too.
Yes there is almost never any ambiguity.
Could be just a coincidence if you keep SSH open on standard port. SSH bots don't sleep.
It definitely supports HMDs. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebVR_API

>60 fps has been done. But, it is not reliable yet.
"but there's something fun about not knowing the result instantly."

Let me guess, you have never ever used a super 8 camera. I have, and FUN is the last word that will come to my mind about those machines.

Using a new cartridge and not being sure about light exposure in complex scenes, only knowing about it after having sent the cartridge away and returned. Idem with motion response, color and lots of little things that now we have feedback about in seconds, but at the time, took weeks.

I mean, after all the pain now you need to mount the projector, switch light off only to discover that your film is ruined, because you did not take the right decisions or just the developer lab did it wrong. Frustration, anger, disappointment, anything but fun.

This happened several times to my father. It was an expensive process to learn, only fun if you did not pay for it.

It was a pain in the ass.
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What kind of 8mm film does it take? I don't think I've seen anything but Super 8 for ages.

I know some 8mm cameras can take standard 16mm film that's been cut in half.
I call bullshit on you calling bullshit on every point of this comment.

> How many 'best practices' do you need?

Actually, there should only be one way to do something in a framework. While not a framework, think about the Go language. Go is a very strict, almost paternal language that 'enforces' best practices in the language itself by giving you only one way to do something. Angular, on the other hand, provides numerous ways to create a service. Because of this confusion, the Angular team provides best practices. It's like saying, 'we screwed up in designing this thing, so you have to read all the documentation to find out the subtle differences in all this bullshit.' It's not the lack of best practices that concerns me, it's the abundance of them that gets shipped with a bloated framework that wasn't designed well.

>Every large release?I seriously doubt it.

Think of all the pain involved in removing all of the digest cycle code when switching from Angular 1.4 to Angular 2.0.

> No they don't, maybe a small differences and what do you mean with 'templating'? It's not Angular.

Seriously? There are no small differences between Django templates, Soy templates (client and server side), and Angular templates to name a few. They are all very different yet they do essentially the same thing. At least Soy templates can be used outside of a framework (with either JS or Java).
I'm nervous to start conversations with the idle person next to me, because the person 2 desks over looks like they're concentrating and I don't want to knock them out of flow.

What happens in our open office which is half engineering is that nobody says much of anything. It doesn't help collaberation. If we had cubes or god forbid OFFICES with CLOSABLE DOORS we could have 1-1 conversations whenever we like.
Cool. Has kind of an H.R. Geiger vibe to it.
>So one answer is given "up the chain" (cost/density) and another is given "down the chain" (collaboration), and that's not cool IMHO.

This kind of crap is so offensive yet so common and most managers have no idea how transparent it usually is.
That would make it quite difficult to retrieve the book at the bottom of the stack.
Agree. Trying to see Zen in every cultural aspect is pushing it way too far. Especially since spirituality is a pretty shallow thing in Japan for the large majority of people.
What you are describing has been a core of any ledger/immutable database. It isn't new and in fact has been around for ages. You don't really think a bank keeps all you money in a sacred database cell do you?
Came here to say this. I'm also pretty certain that the picture of the boat on the lake is a painting, not a photo.

28 years of living in Japan and the author can't identify Matsumoto Castle (one of the country's most notable) at a glance? Not a good start.
I've perused that list before! We've finished reading off the titles now; nearly 600 books. People have started adding Amazon links.

Also started badgering Bret over the unmarked books. It's been a fun evening.
That's absolutely true! hypertextual isn't a one-size-fits all thing, by any means; for me, it's about building what I need - no more and no less - and then getting to use what I've built.

If someone else uses it, I'll be excited! If nobody else ever uses it, I'll still be excited - because as simple as it is, it's something that I can use, and enjoy using.

And to be fair - Markdown is pretty damn expressive... you just have to roll your own expression if you want anything beyond the basics. But again - it's about only using what I need, and about getting to use what I've built.
The concept is bullshit though because either everyone is having to fight the distraction of someone else's collaboration or everyone stays quiet so to not distract anyone.
I just noticed something strange in the screenshot. It seems to imply that Magic will work over iMessage. As far as I know, there is no publicly available API for iMessage so I'd be curious to know how this works.
Interesting to see history repeating itself a bit: "When you purchase film you will be buying the film, processing and digital transfer". Kodak was pursued by the DoJ in the 1950s and ultimately ruled against in an antitrust suit for doing the exact same thing with Kodachrome, the market leader in color (still) photography at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome#Prepaid_processing
Shows you Pico's editor picked the pictures.
dumb question. as someone who shot plenty of super 8 about 35 years ago, what I don't see here is the projector? That was the part that sort of sucked (not to mention editing). You still need a projector to consume this media, right? Or is it just teleported through some hipster USB device now...
No idea why this was downvoted. Perfectly legitimate question given unclear circumstances.
I'd say the bigger concern is spurious correlation. The two factors may very well be unrelated, or share a common cause (like drowning and ice cream prices -- they're both driven primarily by heat).

However, when talking about price and revenue it is legitimate to render them on the same chart, since revenue is a function of price. Steam in particular has proven to be a wonderful platform to demonstrate this phenomenon, as the elasticity of demand for games software is very high, and discounting even modestly generates far more revenue than you lose through the discount. Steam and the publishers benefit even more due to the low marginal cost of delivery, largely accountable to transmission costs and the marginal wear-and-tear on data servers.
It probably wasn't a random guy.
If you want to get better performance out of dynamic language implementations that use NaN-tagging, you'll likely get better performance by adding one instruction that performs an indirect 64-bit load using 52-bit or 51-bit NaN-tagged addresses. The instruction should probably contain an immediate value for a PC-relative branch if the value isn't a properly formatted NaN-tagged address.

All languages would benefit from instructions to more efficiently support tracing of native code. A pair of special purpose registers (trace stack and trace limit registers) to push all indirect and conditional branch and call targets would really speed up tracing of native code a la HP's Project Dynamo. Presumably upon trace stack overflow the processor would trap to the kernel or call to userspace interrupt vector entry.

A small pseudorandom number generator and another pair of special purpose registers (stack and limit register) for probabilistically sampling the PC would make profiling lighter weight, both for purposes of human analysis of code and also for runtime optimization in JITs or HP Dynamo-like native code re-optimization.
I find him the least funny professional comic I've personally seen. Even as a pretty young child, watching him on TV for even a few minutes made me cringe. It felt like humor aimed at 12-year-old boys or rednecks. Dane Cook is a comedy genius compared to him.
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I can't seem to read it without subscribing or signing in..
On the second point. It's called meta-analysis and is an important area of research. However it's very far from operating automagically and requires substantial manual input.

On the first point this is equivalent to contracting a builder to build a house in any style.

Choosing a prior isn't always just about picking a wide band around 3 or a narrow band around 2. This is like the builder offering a choice of curtain colours from a swatch.

Making a commitment to implement any prior could be totally. Like the overcommitted builder being asked to reconstruct R'lyeh.
Ask 99.9% of Twitter users what RSS is, and I think you'll have an idea of the "leg up" that Twitter has.

* Not to mention, even if folks knew what RSS was, they don't necessarily want to host their own blog.
I like that copy. It signals who they expect their customers to be.
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I was just reading about a company started by 2 brothers that does exactly this. If I can remember the name, I'll post back. Maybe I saw it in Bloomberg? Anyone?
u r so rite! 140 char limit limits my thoughts 2 that which is critical. without it id waste tons of space expressing my brilliant thoughts (140chars)

(speaking of crap formatting, I still can't get used to HN comment formatting.. apparently no way to make a line feed or a list, at least, none that's documented)

But seriously, it's ironic that Twitter limits tweets to 140char but the site and mobile app are some of the worst wastes of screen real estate I've ever seen. I keep trying to find it of some value but I just can't do it. Either nothing shows up in my feed, or I follow "must follow" people and get to hear them go on about random crap I don't care about. My real actual Twitter mobile app feed currently looks like this:

* retweet

* promoted tweet

* while you were away (1)

* while you were away (2)

* while you were away (3)

* while you were away (4)

* while you were away (5)

* actual tweet in proper chronological order (1)

* actual tweet in proper chronological order (2)

* people you may want to follow (1)

* people you may want to follow (2)

* people you may want to follow (3)

I had to scroll down 4 entire (iPhone 6) screenfuls of tweets before I got to the chronologic list of recent tweets I actually want to see, and even then, saw only 2 of them before the next chunk of junk! The light grey bar on a light grey background is poor delineation between sections, as well. It blows my mind that a mostly-text medium with such a strict character limit manages to have vastly worse information density than Facebook.

I use them differently, too, of course. Facebook feels more personal; I'm friends with real-life friends, and am a member of some groups for fun. Most of the updates feel personal to me.

Twitter I use to follow "important figures" and some friends.. but no friends tweet, and the important figures never say anything interesting.. or at least, if they do, I can't get to it, because the UI is such garbage.
What I understand was that they had developed advanced technologies on holographic film technology, had a nascent business in forgery-resistant ids, and declined to pursue that business.
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Oddly, if you Google the article name, then click the first link, you can (temporarily) circumvent that pay wall.
Resumes, interviews, and referrals disproportionately favor the BSers, conversationalists, and the well-connected. No surprise that employers have buyers remorse. For how much emphasis companies put on hiring, I'm surprised there aren't better ways to identify diamonds in the rough.
I forget who it was specifically but when listening to a podcast recently the guest mentioned a long term habit of writing a book report after finishing up a book! I plan to try something similar in a plain old composition notebook for 2016. I'm thinking no more than a page of text highlighting some important points, thoughts, etc.
With Linode's extended DDoS I have not been able to get into the Manager for a couple weeks. I'd really like to cancel my account with them (and they do keep billing) but I don't appear to have any tools short of a chargeback. Anyone else in the same boat?
What missing from description is network setup.
Is it ec2 classic, VPC? Is ec2 getting to s3 through IG? Hopefully not through NAT. There is also VPC endpoint to s3. Which all may have different performance profiles especially with multiple instances.
And yet Facebook has vastly better information density on their desktop and mobile sites than Twitter manages. (see my comment elsewhere on this comment thread)
This literally is why San Francisco has such a huge class divide. Congrats!
They include processing and digital transfer.

it's teleported to some hipster cloud storage now.
On the other hand in English the subject is required. It is not in the other languages I know. Funny...
A dude from Compose here, I'm currently helping out with hiring.

If you'd like to know more about the process described in the article, we've recently blogged about it:

https://www.compose.io/articles/compose-hiring-scaling-to-10...

We have a bunch of postings up right now for those of you who are looking to give something like this a try (you may have seen us looking in the latest Who's Hiring):

https://compose.io/jobs

If you have any questions, I'll be more than happy to answer.
I'm no lawyer but I'm not sure that allowing others the ability to view and fork your repositories is the equivalent of granting them a real license to the code. I don't think the definition of fork implies much in the way of licensing, but I could be wrong.

I'm thinking that they are talking about forking within the GitHub infrastructure, which means having the same code in multiple locations within GitHub (as a copy). The licensing doesn't change when the code is forked.
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> But for example Java, C# and Go (slices) substring doesn't copy data.

If you're stating that C# Substring doesn't copy the string, that is incorrect; .NET always makes a copy: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6742923/if-strings-are-im...
"For him, a better future is one where a team of eight guys makes billions of dollars with an invention that replaces thousands of people currently earning livable wages with automation. If those people lose their jobs, they’re just collateral that got in the way of progress. This is a bizarre way of saying that the only thing keeping people poor is their inability to capitalize on their future obsolescence."

This is a completely luddite position.

So if she had it her way we would still have people walking around planting seeds instead of using modern farming equipment because the people planting seeds would have lost their jobs, even though history has shown us time and time again that people retrain and do different work. Not to mention that the new jobs that replaced the old ones are nearly always safer and more productive for society.
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It conveys that the users are rich, yes. What about it makes them lazy or douchebags? Assuming you're rich, is it a logical use of your time to, for instance, go through the process of tracking down and renting a bunch of cars for some event online? Or would it make more sense to pay someone else $100/hour (considerably less than the opportunity cost of doing it yourself) to do it for you?

Does wanting to meet a celebrity make you a lazy douchebag? Or is it the presumption that it might actually be possible? Renting a venue last minute? Perhaps they lazily left it until the last minute, but perhaps there's another explanation?

The Jason Bourne one is eccentric at least, but surely wanting to engage in that kind of extreme training is anything but lazy.