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It's clear that Microsoft is not targeting the same audience as Oculus and HTC. 3000 USD for a developer edition is a bold statement.

I guess hololens will "fail". A few big companies will buy them and develop random software to impress clients. But i'm pretty sure we will not see much else.
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Density alone is not an argument for mega-cities, though. While it's possible that the economies of scale keep increasing with size -- ie. maybe the electrical network of a dense city of 5 million people is more efficient than that of a dense city of 100k people -- there is probably a point somewhere between those two points where the gains are only marginal.

A dense city of a 100k can support an excellent bus network, a dense city of 250k can additionaly support an excellent networks of trams or subways. 500k gets you direct access to high speed rail and beyond that I'm not sure what additional millions get you in terms of public transport -- an airport, I guess.

And a dense city of 100k people is more walkable than a dense city of millions: In the former case, you can pretty much reach the whole city area by walking (if you are a healthy adult). In the latter, you can only walk in your general neighbourhood -- which probably ends up being much like a city of 100k itself, meaning you rarely have to venture outside for everyday needs (shopping, services, culture, even your job if you're lucky).
My main takeaway: They're creating a thing called fusion (will be renamed) which will allow you to spin up a rethinkdb instance with a single command which you then can connect to directly from your browser/JS-frontend, no backend needed (kind of like meteor with insecure/autopublish but with rethinkdb instead of mongo and no backend what so ever). The benefit of this is that you very quickly can create an app I guess, just create a frontend and you're good to go.

I suppose you can also setup rules as to what operations should be allowed from the clients, so you they just loop an insert to destroy the DB, but not much was said about security/auth etc.

I think he said they plan to release a first version in two months.

EDIT: Firebase is actually what he compares it to! But since I've worked a lot in meteor that's my first association :)
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We use rethinkdb in our current project: Python + timeseries data + mining. Pretty happy with it out of the box compared to mysql for speeds.
Don't worry, this is how HN works and we are able to discover different programs around a similar theme.
It's the same wifi chipset as the official wifi dongle, the BCM43143 (source: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13825).

This chipset is supported by the open-source brcmfmac driver is available from the brcm80211 module of the linux kernel package, maintained upstream by the linux kernel community (source https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx)
I am more impressed by the bevy of citations that go back to March 2010, and involve LambdaNative. That and the 10 countries and 100,000 subjects. The interfaces are not iOS/Android app polished, but very functional looking. I evaluated it last year, and I may look at it again. I think the market it targets isn't looking for the polish so prevalent in web tech apps, but function first. They could use help in that department, and it seems for a good cause. Hats off to the team!
Really? I find it very surprising that investors would follow such guidance without being able to see the numbers. How are businesses who produce this kind of report evaluated? Do people count the number of times they predicted correctly or incorrectly?
Agencies, game companies etc.

The price point is designed to stop people like yourself grabbing it thinking it's going to be a full experience day 1.

But it's cheap enough where anyone who'll be in the position to develop anything of quality to grab it without thinking twice.
It's about time we synthetically attempted to skew the gender ratios in an entire industry! Fucktards.
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It's about expectation and projection. You say 27% today. Tomorrow it's going to be 50%. The valuation adjustment problems in tech aren't over, they've only just begun.

When the Shanghai Composite Index started falling over after China created a market bubble there, people said: it's up 150% in under a year, and now it's only down 20%, no need to worry. Well, now it's down 50% from that high - below where it was five years ago - and those people are no longer talking about it. It was never the initial drop that mattered, it was all about what was coming next, not what happened the day before.
> They come from numbers of people.

Huge numbers of people on medium or large areas. There is no way around it: infrastructure also means stuff like waste handling, clean energy, clean transport, etc. These huge megacities often provide the least clean and the least modern infrastructures. Take Beijing. The city has a ring of waste disposal sites around it. Many of them are fully unregulated and illegal. Basically a catastrophe in the making.

> favour of dense cities

Dense cities have their own problems. They grow like cancer in the outskirts, because the dense parts growth is only in skyscrapers. The modern dense city is completely different from the small town here in Germany from the middle-ages (I grew up in one). My theory is that we have seen nothing yet. Once cities like the big ones in China will age, they will be hell on earth. Their impact on the people living their will be a nightmare. We've seen it in East Germany and also certain West German cities after the war. The centrally planned cities with low-quality buildings, degrading over time, at some point start to be fully depressing.

> Only dense cities can be walkable

Use a bicycle.

I'm currently living in the outskirts of one of the bigger German cities (Hamburg). I can tell you, the quality of life is really really amazing - at least for me and my interests. This quality of life is very very hard to get in the center of the town, which btw. is only 30 minutes away with public transport.
Hmm. I thought they canceled this project.

When I demoed it months ago, it was so not ready for primetime. The AR area was pathetic, and it used IR lasers for scanning.

The AR area is self-explanatory: when the size is not much bigger than a postage stamp, your project makes a great tech demo, and a really shitty customer product.

The IR laser is problematic in multiple ways:

1. If it's the same module as found on the kinect, it's a 90mW laser, which is a hell of a lot of power on a battery platform. Expect much reduced power in scanning mode.

2. IR means the device is useless outdoors and near windows. Think of anyplace where the Kinect fails: so too will this.

I'd pay $1000 for this, not the $3k they're asking. The tech just isn't there. I just hope this doesn't cause an AR desolation in the community the way VR had done for 10 years.
I think Microsoft has bet on the wrong horse.

When I play games I want to get OUT of my reality. I don't want every game being painted onto my lounge room.

It might be a great experience if you have a lounge room as stylish and clean and spacious as Bill Gates or Satya Nadella, but I have a small cluttered lounge room and I have no interest in playing games projected into that reality.

I'm holding a fistful of dollars which I am trying to throw at Sony as soon as they'll take it from me for immersive VR.
Password reset forms that force you to type in your email address again - when you've just typed it into the login form.
There is nothing wrong in itself with keeping up-to-date with master by rebasing. That's not the issue which is described by the link. The main problem is that the feature branch is being actively developed on by multiple persons.

The problem arises when, you rebase commits which have already been shared. The smoking gun is that you need to force-push, i.e., rewriting someone else's history (in other words "messing" up someone's chain of commits.)
I don't think OP was thinking about density but really about huge cities.

In Europe, even mid-size and smaller cities can be as dense as the big cities.

What he was arguing against was a model with a few huge metropolises instead of many Mid-size and Small cities.
That is a superlative discovery, and extremely intriguing. Thank you for sharing it!
The form of COD in India has been around for over a century across nearly the entire industrialized world. There's nothing innovative about it, the debate (Flipkart vs Amazon) is pretty moot given the history of COD stretches so far back.
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Any insights on why it took 3 years from RPI v1 to v2 and now v3 is released in less than a year? Not complaining, just curious. Is it just because they are so much bigger now ?
FWIW, asciinema is something that's been posted and discussed before...what's new is that the player can be self-hosted, as it consists of nothing more than a JS and CSS file. This means the recording can be exported as a flat JSON file. Previously, the only option was to host the replay on the asciinema server: http://blog.asciinema.org/post/self-hosting/

As someone who writes a few tutorials on programming...this is a godsend. Novices need to be able to see how the code works interactively...but it's a real pain in the ass to render animated GIFs. Asciinema creates something that is lightweight and just text, for all the flexibility and portability that allows.
The article misses a major point, ads are a form a surveillance and as such more and more people prefer to block them out of privacy concerns.
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There's also the entertaining "On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs" by David Graeber, although it has less to say specifically about science: http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
there is probably a point somewhere between
those two points where the gains are only
marginal.

I think we have not reached it in any city currently on earth. I think the whole earth's population could live in a space the size e.g. of Texas, if that space was as densely populated as London (which is not that dense). In such a scenario it would be near trivial to provide everybody with top-notch public transport, waste disposal and so on.

In the latter, you can only walk in your general
neighbourhood

That's true, but why is this a problem? For a sustainable, walkable city it's only relevant that all key infrastructure (e.g. schools, shopping, leisure, parks ...) is within walking distance and this infrastructure gets replicated in bigger cities.
> and eventually, a 404 after a redirect, with a fairly large spoiler

I don't understand. What is it spoiling?
Apps that don't auto-save.
Not sure why this is the top comment since this isn't Reddit bla bla. I've had my previous account hellbanned because of upvoting a comment like this. (I can only assume, since I hadn't posted anything in a long time).
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Hololens really does sound like an absolutely extraordinary and revolutionary product. I'm genuinely excited to try it.

...And then I see mention of Skype, which is a product that -- since its acquisition by Microsoft -- has gone steadily downhill in terms of its form, functionality, stability, security, and essentially every other metric. It's hard to find anybody who doesn't loathe it. There's some serious cognitive dissonance in trying to contemplate Hololens and Skype simultaneously.

Actually, I had the same reaction when Hololens was first announced. "OMG, the future is here! Thank you Microsoft!" I thought, and then immediately spent the next 6 hours tracking down an idiotic standards-compliance bug which existed in every version of Internet Explorer up until IE 11.[1]

I could go on at some length, but suffice to say that I am routinely astonished by Microsoft's R&D capabilities, yet virtually every interaction I have with their actual software leaves me with a dire impression. (Except for Excel, which for some reason Just Works for me). So as much as I want to have high hopes for Hololens, I fear that crappy software will let it down.

Please, Microsoft -- prove me wrong!

1: window.location.origin, if you really want to know.
I think this targets a completely different use case. It is not VR, it's AR -- enriching your environment vs. replacing it. Gaming is probably better in VR, but AR may be better when you want to interact with others in the same room (for example, when designing an object), or if you need some help with a real-life object (during an operation, etc.).
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We are using actually on my company Mandrill and Elastic Email and, given this mandrill change, are migrating from both services to a new one.

Elastic Email has been buggy for us since day one. The whole hooks system is very buggy and has cause serious damage to our image with some clients.
There are relatively few DOM APIs which take a trusted string. innerHTML and outerHTML are two and clearly state that they take HTML so it's no surprise for the stuff you give them to be interpreted thus. But if you use e.g. textContent or createTextNode to insert text into your document, they will correctly sanitise it.

jQuery has text()[0], but because most of its API takes strings to start with, it's very convenient to do the wrong thing and shove untrusted strings into unsafe methods.

[0] http://api.jquery.com/text/#text2
Although, in the case of a "Gish Gallop" you can very well argue against the method, which is not so much about presenting evidence as it is about keeping you from presenting your side of issue.

If I present my argument in a manner that intellectually dishonest and/or distorts your position, you can call me out on that without going ad hominem.
A lot of the time those same students are doing the bulk of the legwork for those findings then attributed to a professor, who is under greater pressure to advance (not confirm) science, who may or may not have even participated heavily in the grunt work of that research. The professor then punishes the work under his/her name, with no credit to the work of the students.
> Whether those regions will eventually grow into megacities or merely "polycentric urban areas" (as Wikipedia describes the Ruhr region) is ultimately philosophical.

I think defining regions around cities vs. regions around an area (Franken, Ostfriesland, etc.) makes some difference. In one concept the big city is the central point of orientation/development/... It's not necessarily political the center, but where the money, the development, the modernity and the culture is located. The other concept of the 'region' distributes power/wealth/culture/infrastructure across the region more even, with some respect for the different strengths of the enclosed areas.
If you have the technical skills to make it work it might be worth looking into the AC97 interface on some of the Allwinner boards. I'm not sure anyone's tried using it yet and some driver development will be required though.
That made me laugh out loud, causing some suspicious glances:

( ) years which count down instead of up are not very funny
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It does on desktop. Sadly, it doesn't on mobile.
Wait until its main industry moves or goes into crisis.
For much of Amazon's history, it was lucky to get a 1 to 1 sales to valuation ratio. Amazon's early participation in the dotcom bubble, the money they raised then, funded its ability to survive the drought years afterward. Their stock was net flat for nearly a decade. The market weakness in 2008 for example, pushed their market value below where it was at times in 1998. Between 1998 and 2008 their sales went from $20 million to $20 billion and their valuation didn't change much.

What are Flipkart's sales today? You can expect it won't be worth dramatically more than its recent peak, years from now - and that's the good outcome. It's the routine outcome of extremely high valuations; to the extent they're too high, is the extent to which they pull future returns forward.
OK, remember you asked for it

"If you know otherwise, then please cite the specific CVEs. Otherwise, you're just spreading false information"

man, you are so full of it

want proof ? no problemo

1. CVE are organised by vendors and products

HTML and JS does not show as products, only browsers

see http://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php

look #3 Firefox, #4 Chrome, #8 IE

that explains why you will never see a specific HTML and/or JS CVE, that does not mean they don't exists.

Also in term of volume, browsers have more CVE than Flash, it's all here in the numbers: Firefox 1320, Chrome 1216, but no let's ignore them and focus on Flash 713 CVE.

Just that it make your whole argument biased, the part "JavaScript itself has been pretty stable for years" is ridiculous, search for JS blackhole exploit, Rowhammer.js exploit, Heap Overflow exploit in JS, etc. you don't see them in CVE but they are here and exploitable.

It's better to think than JS is secure looking at that
http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/10288/Javascript.html

yeah no exploit in JS, none, we are all safe LOL

this for example
http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-0817/
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0817
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-2...

you don't see it show up under the tag "JavaScript"

2. Number of CVE listed do no equals CVE exploited in the wild

so you say "It averages to about 1 every 3 days", that's completely false

1 vendor patch for a particular product can close numerous CVE at the same time so it's more like "we squashed 50 CVE in 1 day"

look at http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-8449/

follow up on https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb1...

that's 1 patch, it does not indicate 1 CVE every 3 days, look at the details

"These updates resolve use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-8050, ..." that's more than 50 CVE of the same type patched
and closed at the same time

Also look the "Acknowledgments", numerous security team reported all those CVE for them to be patched, there is no indications they were exploited in the wild.

Saying such things as "oh 30 CVE discovered in 1 month, so that means there were 1 CVE per day" is totally misleading, even more misleading to assume all those CVE were exploited by default (eg. "could lead to").

At best it indicates that they (Adobe and other security team) are more serious about discovering and patching those CVE and so they close more of them more often.
> EMCA6 is not javascript because it supports features the previous javascript didn't, much the same as ruby does

Or, rather, ECMAScript 6 is not ECMAScript 5 because you can write code in the former that doesn't work in the latter, and probably vice versa on edge cases. They are separate languages. If you continue writing in ECMAScript 5, you're missing out on all the nice ECMAScript 6 libraries.

But with Bitcoin it's even worse - if you continue using pre-fork Bitcoin, you cannot reach consensus and thus transact with people using post-fork Bitcoin. They're not precisely the same protocol, by definition - they bare the same name but they're not the same protocol, they are different protocols and for the fork to win, the first protocol dies. The name is irrelevant to this.

Similarly, HTTP 2.0 isn't the same as HTTP 1.1, and claiming one is equivalent to the other is nonsense, even if they bare the same name.

I'd also argue that if the amount of hash power put into the network can be derived from the value of the network (trivially provable), the result of the economic majority choosing to adhere to different rules is that either the miners will follow or new miners will pop up quickly as there's a demand for them.
I have always wondered why people think "terseness" of the programming language leads to being able to deliver solutions faster. I have found that the nailing down business requirements ,end user expectations and integration with other enterprise components is the most time consuming part of my solution development cycle.
Especially toolbars both on top and bottom, leaving very little room to read the content on mobile.
"Kind of a childish move for the RPi Foundation to be making so much noise about their new board right now, actually."

It's their fourth birthday, a pretty good time to release a new/updated product, no?
I don't think Microsoft really see this as just a gaming device. I saw a presentation by some members of the hololens team that really emphasised the devices use right through the product design process. I think they see it as a productivity device for design studios and businesses that happens to have some game applications.

And honestly, I think they're on to something. Using an HTC Vive with the tilt brush app really emphasises just how intuitive 3D design work can be in VR. The robot repair demo features a really eye-opening moment when you're looking into the innards of an exploded-view robot. It's such an intuitive way to work with 3D models, and so obvious that it will eventually become commonplace.

The biggest problem with the Vive demos is that you're fully immersed. Hololens addresses that.
Supposedly, that a blog post with a certain title (shown in the URL) exists, despite not being publicly visible yet.
Hmm, no, it was the monoculture in businessland that made Finnish economy weak...
You know, the betting on 2 horses (1 horse) thing...
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The city has a ring of waste disposal
sites around it. Many of them are fully
unregulated and illegal. Basically a
catastrophe in the making.

This is not a problem of big cities as such but one that Beijing (and China more generally) has because it has only recently transitioned from a developing country. Indeed, modern sustainable waste disposal becomes more economical for bigger cities.

They grow like cancer in the outskirts

I'm afraid I can't follow your argument here. Land consumption is inversely correlated with density. Compare Hong Kong with Los Angeles. As I said in another answer, all the world's population would fit Texas if Texas was as densely populated as London. The tendency for suburban sprawl we observer around big cities can be counteracted with appropriate legislation.

the quality of life is really really amazing

I'm happy to believe this, but it's not sure this is scalable to and sustainable for the projected 10 Billion population.
So where is Microsoft's VR play?

VR is becoming huge and so far they have no product in the game.
> The majority of people can ultimately attribute meeting nearly all of their friends to either work or school. Having friends also makes meeting new friends both easier and far more likely.

and

> i'm not sure if its the majority... i used to be this way, but as i got older i ended up making friends in more 'traditional' social settings too (i.e. down the pub) and these friends greatly outnumber the "met them at work or school" ones now.

are the reason why I believe that it's not moving that is the primary issue, but rather that most of us only know limited ways of making, maintaining and having friends. And for many of us, that's okay. But if we move, or if we for some other reason need to make new friends, well, then we probably need to apply new methods.

My experience is that's is surprisingly easy to make new acquaintances and pretty doable to turn these into friendships. While personally I struggle with maintaining them, that problem has always existed. But making friends has never been a problem, despite the fact that I'm pretty introverted and not naturally gifted in the art of socializing.
Of all places its one has smallest chances to move or go into crisis.
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