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It's a Dell Latitude E6430 aka whatever my workplace gave out at the time I got a new one. Which means I can not claim that any sort of research went into choosing this one or that that it runs FreeBSD dis-proportionally well - which it does not. It just runs it, with the occasional hickup here and there.

For example on boot, it always prints that the boot device is invalid, since it gets confused by finding GPT partitioning without UEFI. Then you press enter and it happily continues to boot...

I never fully configured the UMTS modem in it I think, that entire class of hardware is just soul crushingly awful.

And as I am running CURRENT, every once in a while there is commit that throws i915kms into a suspend/resume tantrum (refusing to shut down, not coming back up). But since I do actually power down the laptop instead of suspending it, so that the disk encryption actually has a chance to help me out, I am not too bothered by it.

My use case for the laptop is mainly being a glorified ssh terminal multiplexer. It just needs to provide a comfortable, familiar runtime that I can navigate blindly at 3am, still partially asleep and without any coffee. All the tools need to be there, in the correct drawer, with the correct label and all the right marker labels on the man pages.

I tried running a Linux laptop/workstation combination at work since that is what our boxes predominantly run, but it just feels like running around in somebody else's slippers all day.

Sorry for oversharing.
I don't expect there will ever be a lack of high quality content produced for free by hobbyists.

Instead of pointing your analytic engines at finding the perfect ad to send my way, why not let me pay you to find me the best content instead?
Great points. It is interesting to me how little "slack" people developing wholly new technologies get. Even among tech people. It ends up being "meh, it's ok but - doesn't work yet" when I would have expected more "I know how I could improve this to get it to my expectations."

Quite frankly I think this is due in large part to how much most companies hype it.

It's tricky though, because if you don't hype things - anything really, you never catch anyone's attention - and this applies to all things unfortunately. Even wikipedia had a shitload of hype in the early days.
Consider yourself lucky. DO seem like a bunch of clowns. I'm not saying there aren't good people working there b/c I'm sure there are but by and large as an organization they are clowns, management recruiters etc. I think it was about a year ago that most of their ops department up and left. That should tell you something. It's not known as a great place to work(heard form ex employees) And if you consider their business model - a race to the bottom it's not surprising.
Apple Music Becomes First Streaming Service to Include DJ Remixes/Mashups
BTW Some of recent voices of Festival speech synthesis engine are awesome.

Try "Nick - 2 (English RP)" and "Peter (English RP male)" at
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/morevoices.html

They are not publicly available, though.
"And maybe it is just that simple - you don't need super high detail to convey presence."

In my experience with various modern VR systems this is absolutely the case. Latency and proper movement tracking is non-negotiable when it comes to achieving an eerie feeling of presence in the simulated virtual world, but rendering detail is far more optional. Nice to have if you're going for true reality, but not required.

If they've nailed the latency and tracking (I haven't used a PSVR so I don't know if they have) the lesser detail will be lost in the noise, sort of like it is now when you compare the PC version of a game (say, the Division, for a contemporary example) to the console versions.

Everyone knows the PC versions of these games are capable of looking better in A/B tests, but many people are perfectly happy with the lesser detailed version.

I buy PC/console releases on console far more often than on PC despite having a powerful enough PC to run new games just because I find avoiding the pitfalls of driver versions, the perfectly standardized voice communications for multiplayer, etc more valuable to me than the extra rendering detail.
Well isn't that kinda what Unity stands for, running things on multiple platforms, including in your Browser? So if you want to showcase the engine, showcase the engine.

But anyway I don't want to be overly critical, after all this is probably just an internal demo, they thought would be cool to share with the public.
Operational costs != switching costs.

You can backup/restore and run your database on basically any hosted service so switching costs are trivial here.
I understand how tempting it is in our age of big data and all that stuff to perceive this as some curious new phenomena, but it really is not. This is precisely the reason why we've come up with some criteria for "science" quite a while ago. And in fact, all this experiment is pretty meaningless.

So, for starters: 29 students get the same question on the math/physics/chemistry exam and give 29 different answers. Breaking news? Obviously not. Either the question was outrageously bad worded (not such a rare thing, sadly), or students didn't do very well and we've got at most 1 correct answer.

Basically, we've got the very same situation here. Except our "students" were doing statistics, which is not really math and not really natural science. Which is why it is somehow "acceptable" to end up with the results like that.

If we are doing math, whatever result we get must be backed up with formally correct proof. Which doesn't mean of course, that 2 good students cannot get contradicting results, but at least one of their proofs is faulty, which can be shown. And this is how we decide what's "correct".

If we are doing science (e.g. physics) our question must be formulated in a such way that it is verifiable by setting up an experiment. If experiment didn't get us what we expected — our theory is wrong. If it did — it might be correct.

Here, our original question was "if players with dark skin tone are more likely than light skin toned players to receive red cards from referees", which is shit, and not a scientific hypothesis. We can define "more likely" as we want. What we really want to know: if during next N matches happening in what we can consider "the same environment" black athletes are going to get more red cards than white athletes. Which is quite obviously a bad idea for a study, because the number of trials we need is too big for so loosely defined setting: not even 1 game will actually happen in isolated environment, players will be different, referees will be different, each game will change the "state" of our world. Somebody might even say that the whole culture has changed since we started the experiment, so obviously whatever the first dataset was — it's no longer relevant.

Statistics is only a tool, not a "science", as some people might (incorrectly) assume. It is not the fault of methods we apply that we get something like that, but rather the discipline that we apply them to. And "results" like that is why physics is accepted as a science, and sociology never really was.
I love to see someone summarize the most successful websites and the JS stack/build tools they are based on.

stackoverflow : jquery + anything else?
map.google.com : ?
facebook : ? React (?)
I've seen video footage of it. Don't have the link but it was bad enough to throw me into a fit of rage at the drone operators. There were like three or four drones flying directly in the path of a prop plane dropping some kind of retardant on a forest fire.
By "working" I meant the latest poll has 47% in support of Apple and 42% in support of the DOJ [1]. That is better than the previous poll which was 51% in favor of DOJ and 38% for Apple [2].

The original poll was biased in favor of the DOJ, since it only framed the question as, "should Apple unlock the phone or not". So it is hard to know if public favor has truly shifted.

Regardless, you're all correct that we need to continue educating each other about this. Find public figures and inform them. 42% is a lot of people who do not understand the issue and implications of what the DOJ is asking.

[1] http://www.dailydot.com/politics/apple-iphone-doj-fbi-wall-s...

[2] http://www.people-press.org/2016/02/22/more-support-for-just...
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That isn't true for all devs.
That's a very strange use of the word democratization, a domain error really, because it's about markets, not politics. A better word would be consumerization. Associating democracy with a particular economic pattern is just a swindle to try to make the two inextricable. I suppose that's why Thomas Friedman was so fond of this abuse of language.
Thomas Ptacek – America has doomed the industry. Please send help
well with 3 attempts one went over and kept working until he got a solution (took a while), another stopped at around 2 hours to submit and asked for feedback, 3rd finished in time and is a badass.

You've be surprised. Maybe I expect too much, but the assignment is essentially network aware k/v store with a single get command and set command. Extremely poor mans redis and a step up from an echo server but for some people doing anything over a network that isn't HTTP breaks them.

Thanks for website, my consulting/blog site that pretty much fell into disrepair after taking architect position at a startup.
Previous discussion 11 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11227662
Site seems to be down for me.
It would be interesting to see the major parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives) colored. Instead this is a coloring of fairly random words. A bunch of short words are grey, but they don't belong to any particular part of speech. They include some articles, prepositions, conjunctions and a few verbs...
Would you send cash in the mail to those countries?

Edit: You likely meant to pay for things while you're visiting there? Yeah, I would probably use cash for that too.
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Twitter have implemented it, but it's an optional global setting (for now).
Depends on your position in the current situation.
No, it isn't but enough devs put up with it.
I'd like to think the company is pretty desirable and building something legitimately special :)

10-20 hours invested to find and and sell yourself to the job you'll be spending the next year at (optimistically 1% of the working hours during the next year and realistically a lot less) seems like a good use of time to me, but to each his own.
Guess I was also in a hurry!
Electronic government controlled bank accounts seem like a good idea.

It is good our government would never violate our freedom.
The hearing at the district court level will be before a magistrate judge (because of the way that the issue arose in connection with a search warrant). Magistrate judges' orders can also be appealed to the district judge assigned to the case, which happens before an appeal to the court of appeals.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_59
This is one part of the CLJS story that I think prevented it from becoming more widespread - it lacked a good REPL/compile story for a long time because of closure compiler. I would almost characterize that decision as a premature optimization - they focused on producing small output from the start, IMO larger JS size wouldn't matter that much in majority of use cases (you won't use CLJS to write websites, and webapps can tolerate few hundred k or even a MB of JS that's easy to cache), but they gave up one of the signature strong points for CLJ/Lisp so it wasn't as attractive even to CLJ devs.
Only related to review in a somewhat indirect way, but I really wish the commit view on github (as well as other git tools) had an equivalent of --left-only command line option to git-log. It's incredibly useful for viewing a high level of the history of a repo that uses merge bubbles, and lack of tooling around doing just that seems like that main reason people do things like squash their branches before merging to master (which is where I think it connects back to review).
The webplayer actually doesn't work anymore in most recent browsers because of changes to how plugins work/security concerns with plugins in general.
It looks like they are/were all prisoners based on the word 'Felon' on his name plate as well as the orange pants. Definitely will be an interesting story (maybe repurposing felons as robots to test stuff).
There's a lot of... judgement? projecting? something else? in this comment.

> As if the whole purpose in life is to reduce friction from our lives. It's not.

Purpose? No. But it does feel really good not to have friction with silly things in your everyday life.

> That is, people who might save an hour's time by automating activities don't go out and spend that hour productively. Likely they'll find something else that'll use up their time.

Why do you say so? What's objectively productive? Doing nothing with the extra time may be actually a productive / useful solution. If your day is full, just removing stress from life is great.

> we have people who work in industries which are automating jobs away [say Uber, or even supermarket automation, HFT, etc.] but who on the other hand want authentic hand made or bespoke items

Do they? Some probably. But generalising like that over whole industry's lifestyle is silly. Even if you do see those items, maybe they just buy something cool they like, which is simply not what's mass produced and stocked at Walmart.

I feel like you're trying to criticise lifestyles of other people, but don't see a real reason for it.
Bitcoin isn't anonymous. You pay someone and can look at every transaction they ever made.
The comment was not directed at Apple's tax avoidance, but rather at the fact that most people don't care about what companies do.

Regardless, this is a quote from Apple's 2015 10K filing (whatever that is)

"The Company’s effective tax rates for 2015, 2014 and 2013 differ from the statutory federal income tax rate of 35% due primarily to
certain undistributed foreign earnings, a substantial portion of which was generated by subsidiaries organized in Ireland, for which no U.S.
taxes are provided when such earnings are intended to be indefinitely reinvested outside the U.S. The higher effective tax rate during 2015
compared to 2014 was due primarily to higher foreign taxes. The effective tax rate in 2014 compared to 2013 was relatively flat."
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"Accessibility from China" might be a good column to add.
I don't see any evidence the US has more or less "wackiness" in its legal system. It's served us quite well, over the years.
I think the thing that is new is that it's becoming accessible to the masses. PCs and Smartphones were certainly only for the "rich" to begin with but it quickly moved downmarket.

This PSVR news is moving that downmarket accessibility faster for VR than happened in the PC market at a minimum.

Your other points are spot on though, which is why I (and basically everyone else) thinks that the VR market has a cap, whereas the AR market really doesn't - at least until neural interfaces come along.
Application of the All Writs Act in this manner is unprecedented. The conditions under which it may be applied are well defined and are not met for this application.

The Supreme Court isn't a factor at this stage.

"Typically" you are correct. The formal method for checking the power of the Judiciary is for Congress to remove Judges from the bench.

Apple is arguing that All Writs doesn't grant the authority that is being used. If that authority is to be sought then it will have to come from Congress. At least one Judge agrees.
What would you suggest? Banning everyone who likes functional programming off the internet, so they do not post thing about things that you do not like? To be fair, I have seen very few projects that use scalaz or cats.
Physics uses statiatics all the time, e.g. detecting the higgs boson at cern. Do you have a formal proof thay each time they fired the accelerator it was going to be i.i.d.?
This is related to an issue I am trying to solve.

I want to know if its possible to make an application that will make some task more efficient for people in VR rather than on a 2d screen.

I am having difficulty finding ideas that are more involved than just using the space in vr as an infinite 2d screen. Even with an infinite 2d screen though we have issues in vr because text is not very legible.

I am at GDC right now seeing if I can get ideas based off the games people are making.
Good. It's not just me that reads this stuff and constantly wonders at the the complete lack of reason in Silicon Valley. (silly con?)
When will actual testing be conducted on this?

My understanding is that bird strike tests are conducted against jet engines. Am I missing something that prevents us from conducting a few tests with these everyday "drones"?

I have seen some experts speculating that apart from hitting the windscreen, a collision would not lead to complete catastrophe [1].

Regardless, I personally support these regulations, but would really like to see the outcome of a few empirical tests.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/drones/what-migh...
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He covers that exact comment in his FAQs.

Q: Why don't you have some obvious fields like "Works with Netflix/Hulu", "Works in China", etc?
A: Besides the impracticality of testing each of them, these services/governments could use the data I publish to crack down on those that still work.
Moore's Law would predict realtime rendering as inevitable. Now let's hope something interesting comes of it.
It wouldn't have to be a new DVCS. It could be a Rust implementation of Git. e.g. Java Git implementation (JGit) used by Eclipse, Gerrit, etc.
haha. and the realtime coordination of all the 100+ agents.
Great idea for Unity to have their own demo team producing stuff like this to push the technology further.
Part of a good review should be to review how you decided to split your PR into separate commits (does every commit have a single purpose, or did you sneak unrelated changes in a commit? Could the commit message be improved?). Furthermore, sometimes you have to rebase your PR on top of master (for example, because things changed in master too much, or because your PR depends on a patch that was recently accepted in master to actually work), this shouldn't make review comments disappear.
Looking forward to using it!!!
I agree it's a terrible title, but I think the "went rogue" reflects more the NYT's attempt to conjure up a BuzzFeedy title than anything else.
I have always wondered when I see charts like this that add a column for bitcoin accepted. I would much rather pay with a prepaid gift card / visa which can be purchased with cash. If I even wanted to pay with bitcoin I have no idea how I could get a balance and remain anonymous.
Since the huge influx of new JavaScript developers happened we've entered a Wild West of development. Almost any combination of code is a great choice right now. It will settle down but open source stacks last only as long as their supporters. If you want to avoid all of the churn in JavaScript stacks then just write straight JavaScript, ES5 or if you want to just support bleeding edge browsers ES6. Then rely on a traditional backend framework with full page reloads. It won't be bleeding edge but it won't fail anytime soon either.
At the very least it would make sense to provide the source that outputs the document. That could be something like OpenOffice or Latex. There are probably some WYSIWYG solution for Latex. If you are referencing a table from another paper and you want to show or alter it, it would be a lot quicker if you have the code that renders it. If you are in the business of writing papers that you want people to read and quote, it seems like a good idea to master the tools that help you do that.
And also stuff that's not games (like say interactive stores, presentations, etc.) can easily hit that frame rate because of simpler scenes
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I started reading with skepticism and you hadn't convinced me by the end that you were any more or less "correct" than my own approach. That being said, I never for a second thought you were wrong and needed correcting either. Your tone never implied to me that the you thought anything similar about the reader either. Your responses in the comments on Medium basically confirmed in my mind that you were just talking to the void about what has worked for you and your team.

1| Don't let anyone bother you about headlines that attract readers and healthy conversation. Despite the romantic notions we may harbor about writing, it is an attention game for most who do it. Good headlines are a part of that game.

Kudos on handling the unexpected attention well :).
very cool. fill time usage at $0.02/hr ~ $0.50/day ~ $15/mth. reasonable usage, say 5%-10% of the time, $1.00 / month. totally reasonable.
Honestly, if I thought JSX was too complicated (it lints very well with ESlint, so even if it was problematic, you can just let the tool figure it out for you), all I'd do is use destructuring with the React.DOM built in element factories and call it a day. They're fairly simple to use, and then it really is just javascript.

But I've never seen anyone, not even the most junior, backend-only developer touching React for the first time, have any issues with it for more than 4-5 minutes. ESLint catches any mistake they make.

The only real argument, and it is a valid one, is that Babel does not use shorthands in the output, so it's a trainwreck to read. If that was the primary argument, I could get it. Though then IMO the solution would just be a better Babel plugin for development.
"We got burned giving these people too much power" is absolutely a rational basis for public policy. The biggest threat to your life and liberty comes from the government, not some shady group out of the Middle East.
Thanks for the meticulous efforts, whoever worked on it.

However I especially didn't understand why some of the values under Privacy > Traffic / DNS Traffic say "NO" but are still in green. Or why some of the other values under the same Privacy column like "connection" say "Yes" but are in red.

Can anyone explain what those mean? Also does empty values there mean "no data available" or something else?