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A common illusion in films is that in one scene, you think you are watching a fixed space/acting/events from just several different cameras.

In fact, it is often the case that acting, positioning of actors, backgrounds or even locations, are adjusted for each shot. The acting you see in a master shot is different from you see in a close-up shot in the same scene. It's amazing what editors can do to build a coherent illusion from pieces of footage.

So I agree on the original article; VR experience would be similar to plays rather than films. Maybe future films would employ stage-play like effects more (especially if you need to shoot a shot with cameras that allow VR walkthrough, the whole new technique of film shooting need to be developed.)
>I've found most estimates for the cost of skilled labor in other countries to be low

One thing people forget is that major goods cost the same all over the world. Cars in India cost almost as much as cars in the US, decent models cost more. Electronics in Brazil cost more than what they do in the US. So you just can't pay people such low wages.
Generally in Western countries, the groups that pay in and take out are quite disparate.

The universal basic income would be paid for by the upper and middle classes, and taken by the working class.

At least in the UK these groups are seperated enough that there's very little socialization between them, very little overlap in voting preferences, etcetera. Different cultures, within the same country.
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the universe and how it changes over time isn't a human construct, but physics is, one that tries to describe the universe and how it changes over time at a certain level of complexity. same for medicine, except that the human body is actually a human construct ;)
I totally agree. Although I must add, that I've recently shifted more towards the much more ancient and even much more prominent Astrology. Astrology is both far older and has a solidly proven track record, particularly in the field of finding compatible couples (as still used frequently in India).
Yeah, there are bridges for converting Python data types to R and vice versa (Rpy2).
But blame is the wrong word if anyone else would do the same given the same circumstances.
Non-interactive VR is what game developers call a "track ride". You're locked to a path. You can look around, and maybe stop, start, shoot at stuff, and solve puzzles, but you can't get off the track.

Kids a generation hence will think about games like this like we think of "classic" books. (One of them will reinvent the Mark Twain about a classic book being a book everyone says is important, but no one has actually read.)

We will further perfect an artistic and intellectual language of interactivity. (What we now call the medium of games.) On top of that, we will start to develop a language around emergence as well. The Minecraft generation will be the first generation starting fully down the path of emergent-world literacy.
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That just means you weren't one of the ten thousand[0] today. But rest assured, there were thousands of readers who weren't aware of Mate before and are now.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1053/
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What I like about acting on stage is immediate, live reaction from audience. Film acting largely lacks that, though there are techniques to compensate it. I'd imagine "VR film shooting" would be similar to film acting in that regard. (Except in the case that VR becomes live and bidirectional---that would be interesting.)
Cationbot? Why? Is it positively charged? :P
well, companies that have actual secrets to protect that are valuable do do that, for example, trading companies.
The world would have been a very different place if he had built Google or Facebook. A better place.
If people who work in SF could also live in SF, wouldn't that reduce the demand for taking BART across the bay? Yes, that's oversimplifying things a bit, but the principle seems sound.
I heard a lot of times that he wrote bulk of the NT kernel himself, is that really correct? I feel like a lot of people in his team are not given enough credit, and I also feel like he is being pushed as another tech hero.
They invest based on a sales driven valuation.

Stated less cleverly:
The East coast places a premium on assets. There is an expectation that these assets will increase in value. Think mortgages.

The Midwest places a premium on sales. Think GM/Ford and the Detroit auto industry.

The West places a premium on ideas, a la Silicon Valley.

The point being made is that East coast and Midwest investors have very different notions of valuations from West coast investors. Perhaps the recent write downs are unprecedented not because we are in a bubble, but because we've never had non West coast investors be this active on the West coast.

Edit: I'm not terribly opinionated here, just elaborating on the original point.
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"Is it really necessary to make programming more accessible to non-programmers?"

no, but it might be helpful for designing programming languages. not necessarily to make programming languages that're easier for beginners to use, but because there are two immediate entities that interact through a programming language, the computer and the programmer. so learning how humans naturally tend to formulate problems and solutions could be valuable for designing that interface.
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I've noticed that the bot does best with real photos. It goes wrong with cartoons or objects with a white/black background with no surrounding detail.
Usually people who aren't trying to muddy the waters and defend will make a normative statement about the underlying topic. What's your take on whether some ethnic groups are genetically good slaves?
"The problem is a lack of transparency" might have been true in some historical era when there was less money involved; We could target a singular corrupt politician taking bribes if we knew about the bribes. Sure.

But that's not the problem we have. Our problem is fund-raising. Politicians are not meeting once every few years with a lobbyist at 2AM beneath the Lincoln Memorial, they're spending 60% of their time on the phone begging moneyed interests for reelection campaign funds or party goals, the day after they get elected. They're spending 25% of their time negotiating with lobbyists about what laws the lobbyists get to write ("The legislative subsidy model" of RL Hall, wherein they replace Congressional staff increases), and another 10% trying to raise their professional profile through non-legislative activities in the press or with political powerbrokers. Maybe 5% of their time is spent in committee meetings or on the floor.

On top of that, it starts out as a part-time job, with meaningful meetings limited to a few days of the week in order to satisfy the need to fly home to meet with contributors. The Senate has become nearly impossible to get bills through for a similar reason - a filibuster is a time-wasting annoyance legislatively, but its requirement that 51 Senators stay on the floor to break it prevents them from spending days fundraising, an existential threat to their careers, while the filibustering party only has to commit a couple Senators to keep it active.

Of the bills voted on in their legislative career, the proportion actually read by the legislator will be under 1%. The number read in full by their staff, under 10%.

Politicans are not hiding this; They are complaining about it. We have created a system wherein legislating ranks as the lowest priority, and not even the wealthiest in Congress can be free of implicit corruption.
> Obviously I never plan to sue (or be sued by) my employer; I do a great job and any place I choose to work is somewhere I'm sure I'll love

This is irrelevant. These bits in contracts are for cases where your relationship with your employer has completely degraded. If there was no probability of this happening there would be no need to have the clauses in the contract in the first place.

You don't even need to frame this as an issue of not trusting the people from the company you are currently negotiating with - in future they may be replaced by other people who will not treat you reasonably, but you may still be restricted by whatever you agreed to in your employment contract.
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Oop - thanks!

I've had it running on OSX, but haven't tried it recently. I'd expect there to be a few hiccups, but nothing fundamental.
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Thank you for sharing. I recently have begun an interest in programming for old 1990's systems and this provides a great insight into the "best system" of the time and how developers felt about it.

Curious about the dev kit. You mention that Sega provided sample code and there was at least one other dev platform, did Sega provide support and good documentation or did you always basically have to figure everything out for yourself? Is this true for other vendors (ie, Nintendo, Sony and now MSFT)?
They do protect a very specific minority.

It's somewhat inaccurately referred to as "the 1%".
There's also Raton Pass, which is nothing to sneeze at.

A big problem of an urban corridor for CO Springs to ABQ is that of not enough water to prop up an exploding population.
This is true for direct contributions to a candidate's campaign, for contributions to an member of Congress's "personal PAC", and for contributions to political parties.

It's not true for contributions to "super PACs" and other independent expenditures, aka outside money--the stuff the Citizens United decision liberalized. The reason for that is that the law (even post-CU) prohibits coordination between a candidate and any group making independent expenditures. Ted Cruz cannot ask anyone to give money to his super PAC.

And it's important to understand that there are still limits on the contributions in my first paragraph. A given person can only contribute a set amount of money per election cycle to each candidate, each PAC, and each party committee. That said, the aggregate numbers are still huge.

CU did not outlaw limits on those types of contributions. I wish we could lower then farther and (especially) take away the privileged position that political parties have within elections and campaign finance laws.
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It's good that people are cognizant of the problems here but lobbying and money in politics are much more symptoms of deeper issues. You can treat the symptoms all you like but without solving the underlying problems you'll likely get something just as bad happening in a way you can't control. Right now the system is so corrupt and broken in every way that the only people who would ever want to be a part of it are either corrupt themselves, power seekers, or incredibly dedicated (which leads to an odd mix for sure).

Things are changing, slightly for the better in some ways though it's overall a complete mess. It helps that it's no longer necessary to spend tens of millions of dollars just to communicate with the electorate, though we're still not quite there yet.

We can't just make a few tweaks to the legal code and magic our way out of these problems. It's going to take a generation or more of concerted effort and, as always, constant vigilance afterward, and a bunch of legal changes along the way as well.
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Probably some metric says that if "Bob" gets less than X cases per year he gets a bonus. Problem is "Bob" determines "Frank's" wage and "Frank" is "Brian's" boss. It is probably more complicated than that but that's what it always boils down to.
Could you elaborate on how this is more understandable to a novice than the typical C program? My guess is that neither is immediately understandable, and that the C program is clearer to someone experienced.
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Limited access state highways are the same speed as interstate limited access highways ("freeways"). The feds dont give the states magic pixie dust when the states build and maintain the interstate freeways.

In CA, my understanding that the most used parts of interstate freeways are actually state limited access routes (highways) extended to major national cities. This is in addition to the other state routes (expressways, etc.) and other county routes that permeate pretty much everywhere. Together, this state highway system (the county being an administrative instrument of state government) is by far more efficient than e.g. taking an interstate to a major national city (skipping even large regional cities) and then off-roading everywhere else. "Efficiency" is pretty loose term in this respect, no?
Yep, this has been an unfortunate thing for us as well.
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Here's a Theo de Raadt talk on the OpenBSD release cycle, for those who are curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7pkyDUX5uM
Furthermore, there's a mistake there. The plant name is not written "maté", which would be pronounced mah-TEH, but "mate", and it's pronounced MAH-teh.
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People are four times as likely to order dessert when their waiter is overweight
Unless your project uses CMake, YCM is really hard to set up. You basically have to write a parser for your build system and plug it in.

And that doesn't solve the problem of having one file compiled with different flags, which happens frequently.

And it won't do completion in headers because those aren't actually compiled.

It all really comes down to Vim not having the concept of workspaces and projects - Vim only views files as the filesystem sees them, rather than as your build tools see them. That, to me, is Vim's greatest failing and biggest source of gripes.
You're the first person I've seen on here mention they are from Milwaukee!
what do you mean by an imminent crash? in some sense, widespread markdowns are a crash. Since public markets don't appear overvalued, it's a crash in private valuations and it's going on now.
Thank you. I'm starting to loathe all these WSJ links on HN because their new paywall is impossible to break and I have no intention of paying WSJ subscription since I read only few articles per month.
You do know that roads crossed state borders before the interstate, right? In truth, for the traffic volume, they were pretty good.

That said the states would have evolved them to meet the needs, while the federal government took a more revolutionary approach. I tend to prefer the agility of incremental approaches. That said, when you are on the right side, revolutionary change is nice too. Despite how it seems today, I'm sure there are those that would argue the money could have been better spent. Ultimately, the question is where you put your faith; we the people or we the government?
Any idea if it's faster at presenting output? One of my biggest gripes with Jupyter is that it's crazy slow when presenting even a few hundred lines of something. It makes working with e.g. AWS APIs even more headache-inducing.
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Plus empathy feels good and doesn't force us to confront unpleasant moral tradeoffs. In this emotional calculus, black pain doesn't matter:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3108582/ http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Nor does the pain of low status or unattractive people, or out-group members. And for that matter, the pain of 100 = pain of 100,000 - human emotions just don't scale.

I'll take principled moral philosophy any day.

The main purpose of empathy is to (often hypocritically) signal to our in-group that we will face a high psychological cost if we behave disloyally and are therefore more trustworthy.
This is a case where footnotes would be tremendously useful.

I could not tell when the author was writing something from Zephyr Teachout and when the author was citing another source.
thanks! what problems do you mean? maybe they are fixable :)
questions and feedback are very welcome.

btw, look for a big announcement from beaker next week! https://twitter.com/beakernotebook
The smaller the project/team, the easier it is to recognize mistakes and change direction. At the federal level, competing interests make that nearly impossible.
One of Rich Hickey's talks talks about this (I think it was 'Are We There Yet?'). In it, he references musical instruments, which are absolutely NOT designed for beginners. Why should they be? Tools shouldn't be designed specifically to PRECLUDE beginners, but why should any of them be optimized for beginners?

A good tool should allow someone to progress from beginner to novice to expert, but at the end of the day, the expert is who the tool is really designed for. Anything else is just bonus.
Hi, I just added a MIT LICENSE file to it.
it just securely overwrites the sector containing the encryption key with a new one

This technique isn't just for SSDs. Something similar can be used with normal hard disks. Just store the true key as metadata on a hard disk. Erase the few sectors of metadata and the disk is no longer readable.

Apple's FileVault 2 does something like this. https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2012/08/06/analysis-of-f...
That arms length separation elevates the power of lobbyists and other political operators even more.
I agree. This is not vim, it's a hand dryer. User should be able to master it on the first use.

This can be fixed by measuring user's hand proximity to both sides and adjusting the air jet flow to keep their hand in the middle.
Not exactly the same but many years ago I did a small experiment: I gave a few relatively easy logical puzzles to my family (including my grandmother who only finished elementary school) and to friends studying CS and math. In general, my family solved the puzzles faster and making very basic (but useful) representations that my friends who followed more formal thinking.

Obviously I can't extrapolate or make big assumptions about this tiny experiment but I underestimate my family members capabilities. Also, it is obvious that on complex areas of study it's very difficult to came up with a solution if you are a novice.
I think you are mistaken...
I agree, I think most people who comment here are at a level that they could pull it off without getting caught if their life depended on it. Be your method burner phone, bitcoin with a little voip and tor, or something else it's relatively easy to be anonymous enough over the phone to not be worth the effort.
While it may be sad if history goes back to where it was before modern technology, where most people disappear without a trace, I think it is more important to ensure the world continues to be a viable place in which historians can operate uncensored, and privacy is a very important part of that.
But, currently, it's just the opposite! Power is by definition "ripped away" from residents of urban areas (or any dense areas) due to the fixed population-invariant representation of each state in the U.S. Senate (and partly, electoral college).

(E.g., North Dakota has the same representation in the Senate as California, despite an order of magnitude more Americans living in California than North Dakota. That is to say, a Californian has maybe 2% of the influence via the U.S. Senate as a North Dakotan.)

Is this really fair to the large and growing proportion of Americans who live in denser areas? Some of them, like those in D.C., aren't even represented at all!

> Using faceless macro-economics to justify ripping power away from suburban and rural communities is the exactly the type of liberalism that pissed off every person Trump is appealing to right now.
is it just me or does this article smell like advertorial?
those 360deg videos suck. I can't believe what content authors would like that.. you have a total lack of control over the narrative, because you can't control what the viewer sees.
Are you confident that it doesn't appear anywhere else?

There's two main concerns: the first being that you use a URL differently---and think of it differently---than a password; and the URL persists in various forms.

Accessing a resource on the Web might be logged in numerous places---e.g. your web history and internal network logs or MITM if not over https---and might be sent as metadata, like a referer header to another website. Imagine if all of your passwords were logged by your client any time you entered them in.
Google the headline and click through from the SERP. Sometimes you need to do it from an incognito window if they set a cookie.
I thought the most interesting one was the use of then as a temporal construct. First this, then this, then that. That's the common use in literature, but that sense of then is implied by statement sequence or function composition in programming. When you are programming the use of then as conditional consequence is so natural you don't think of it as different to the way most people (66%) use it.
Has gnome 3 changed the way it does workspace management or something? The only difference I remember from Gnome 3's workspace management and virtually every other implementation was that it adjusted the number of virtual desktops dynamically. As opposed to the common case of a fixed number.

Is there something else it's doing?
The article describes it as 'clunky'. But, I think much of its popularity is due to its accessibility. It's a very intuitive system, and even my 1 year old gets it. She messes around with it on the tablet and enjoys moving and looking around and watching the cows and chickens.
> The biggest problem with it though is how effective it can be at influencing policy against the public interest.

The thing is that "public interest" is hard to define and dependent on each individual. Someone lobbying for a nuclear power plant in "City A" will be lauded by some and derided by others. In this case, is lobbying good, or is it bad? Who decides that?
Maybe, but I wonder if issuing fines to a low income household or taking a wage earner off to jail would actually result in worse outcomes in those cases. It is a difficult problem, perhaps we should address it culturally and discover if we truly have a need for so many swat teams like this in the first place. Mission creep may be a contributing factor here.
Oh, come on. "Landless peasants".

The middle class will not be able to afford to live in the most expensive housing markets in the country. But that's the way it's always been.
"Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents." - Tesla

I think this one is more illustrative of Tesla's character and the fact that he was not driven by financial motivations.
It wasn't organic at all. The NE corridor has a powerful, although declining in many ways, economic engine as a result of nearly 400 years of access to the best transportation resources available: water, later canals, later railroads eventually interstate.

If you think the Congress is a cesspool of corruption, state governments are the scum at the bottom.

Examples:

- The legislative leaders of New York were just convicted of felony charges. About a half dozen of their colleagues have been convicted of various corruption crimes in the last few years.

- The NJ governor basically stole Federal aid intended to rebuild the overloaded and damaged Hudson River rail tunnels that connect NYC to NJ and the rest of the country by rail.

I agree that this regional vision is pretty dumb. But, I think the Federal government has a pretty good record on planning and funding transportation infrastructure.
Spoken like someone who's never owned a house.
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No, but they will charge you with something.