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Sure, I think firstly editors can treat each other with much more kindness and respect.

Secondly, administrators should be refreshing their understanding of policy. Any editor who tries to be a wikilawyer and force their viewpoint even when it is contrary to the very policy they say another editor is violating should be warned and told to carefully read the policy.

Editors who deliberately hide discussions via tricks like adding collapse tags should be warned then sanctioned. That's deliberately being disruptive and preventing consensus based contributions.

BLP accusations should be more carefully analysed - a lot of what I was being accused off had nothing to do with a violation of BLP and huge swathes of non-controversial material was removed under the BLP policy, even though
Much of it was no a violation at all.

Admins should not accuse editors of not discussing things on talk pages when in fact that's what they have done.

And lastly, editors who are page patrollers only should not be given more weight than new editors who make substantial contributions to Wikipedia. Those new editors should be encouraged and a polite message should be given detailing what the issues are when material is contributed. If they ask questions in the talk page and the page patroller refuses to discuss things further, then the page patroller should entirely disengage from the article - especially those who have not shown any skills in research or even the slightest attempt at getting any article to good article start us, let alone an attempt at making the article a featured article!
So, not even the scrambler suit from A Scanner Darkly would work? That's depressing.
I think you were mistaken.
Perhaps it indicates a decline in the availability of low hanging fruit. Because the easiest and most common edits have been done, fewer new edits are needed, leading to an overall decline in the number of editors without necessarily indicating a decline in general.
There is not much of an opportunity, because a market capped at one copy per headset is tiny. People did not buy smartphones because they wanted to play angry birds, they played because they already had a phone.

What smartphones had and VR will never have is a feature like pinch to zoom: something that not only looks impressive but also happens to be routinely demonstrated in a social setting, without the explicit intention of showing off.
Does any of this really matter? Isn't search the primary use case for Google Maps?
My mom bought a weak super soaker and has been spraying pigeons with water, she says it works.

Not sure I'd recommend it.
Hopefully you're not merging the feature branch until it passes code review. And if there are bugs, then you kick it back to him with all the comments you made.
Being an IT Engineer and paying enormous German social taxes Huber shoud have earned a decent pension of about 70% of his salary.

Where am I wrong?
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I think this tone "art was created to be viewed" sort of hurts. Painting deteriorates over time when exposed to light and normal air. Also there is a not much difference between painting located in some container, and museum in prohibitively expensive New York.

Rather than advocating against "evil superrich" we should focus on digitization. It should be a law that any piece sold, insured or stored has to digitized in high resolution.
How "America's Supergun" is this if it is made by BAE? https://i1.wp.com/news.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/1...
This letter seems absurdly critical of a promising, if incomplete, technology. Really, it's like criticizing babelfish back in the day because it can't convey the tone of voice used. The gloves are really quite an achievement.
Wikipedia is neither mine, nor "silly little crackpot".
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Thanks for this reference. Thoroughly enjoying reading this.
If you can't describe what it is, nobody will ever know.
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I have yet to encounter a chat network that uses targeted advertising, so you're well off into the realm of conspiracy theories there.

Chat networks are all moving to the use of phone numbers because users mobile phonebooks are a vendor neutral, open access social network of high value contacts that almost everyone has and for which there are simple APIs available.

Phone numbers have other advantages. They are difficult to register in bulk (it can be done but it costs a lot more than bulk registering web accounts protected only by a CAPTCHA). Regulations in many part of the world enforce the ability to do number porting which makes mobile numbers truly user owned - unlike email or jabber ids which are ultimately owned by the organisation after the @ symbol. There is a simple remote attestation protocol: you can prove you own the identifier by simply providing a challenge code. Everyone understands them. And it outsources identity management costs to the telcos who have large branch/shop networks to help people who e.g. lose their device/SIM. Building out and staffing account recovery infrastructures is a significant driver of costs for large web platforms. For instance if you have a contract then you can recover your identity by physically walking into a local telco shop with your passport, you will walk out with a replacement SIM (and the prior SIM remotely deactivated) a few minuets later. It's partly by shifting these costs to the telco networks that WhatsApp was able to scale to hundreds of millions of users with only 50 employees.

When I look at how things work done this way vs a traditional internet federated network like email, Jabber, IRC etc, I have to agree with Moxie - it's not so bad, actually. I'm not normally a big supporter of government regulations, but making number porting obligatory is a relatively low cost rule that makes the use of phone numbers as the universal id a lot more palatable, because it's truly user owned at that point. Switching mobile networks and switching chat networks is a lot easier than switching email/xmpp providers because forwarding has always been an afterthought in such protocols, is legally optional, and at any rate is always going to be more complicated than just re-assigning ownership of a truly provider independent code.
Our society is at a point where it can debate having robot butlers for our cats.

What a wasteful time to be alive.
Cars, on the other hand, remain expensive. A robot with sufficient versatility to cook, clean and walk the dog is significantly more mechanically complex than a car and likely exposes manufacturers to similar liability issues.

And if the hardware costs mean it's not a mass market product, the software licences aren't going to be cheap either.
Right, but it doesn't change my statement that W^X is enforced by the kernel (meaning the kernel sets all of the program pages to have the right bitset). Not to mention that it was (is?) emulated in software for some kernels.
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Doesn't it give each individual user DMCA rights?
I think last link is the wrong data to use. Despite the title of the article, it is using the largest possible "Combined statistical area" that contains the city, rather than anything commonly known as the metro area.

> A combined statistical area (CSA) is composed of adjacent metropolitan (MSA) and micropolitan statistical areas (µSA) in the United States and Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social linkage. The OMB defines a CSA as consisting of various combinations of adjacent metropolitan and micropolitan areas with economic ties measured by commuting patterns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_statistical_area

For instance, the "Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area" (which is not part of the top 5 cities) includes all of Hampshire County, West Virginia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampshire_County,_West_Virgini...

a Google image search confirms that this is a very rural area.

https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&site=&tbm=isch&source...
This also creates a really, really strong incentive to look for a job that pays you under the table.

Each unreported euro earned is effectively worth two euros (the euro earned plus the euro lost to clawbacks) in addition to any unpaid taxes.

Not the kind of incentives a rational policy maker should strive for exactly.
It is not a marketing scheme, it is customer information just like the usual ingredients labels. As I said in another comment, declaring what is in a product should really be the norm, GMO labeling opponents should justify why it is okay or better to hide this information from customers.
There is the w3 and other standards comitties joined by industrie leaders and a lot of experts and public eyeballs. Chat hardly compares. Perhaps the W3 should concern itself with chat. The IETF released SIP. The w3c offers IRC channels.

A broken browser is a pain, new standars improve the user experience (e.g. html video). For the public user there is no discernable difference in any basic chat's protocol and implemetation.
About video streaming (Youtube, Netflix) - aren't they based more around keeping caches "local" to the user rather than relying on inter continental communications to stream?
(honest question, as I can't understand if those 10 terabits would scale enough to be the decisive factor on the feasibility of Youtube)
Nice sample of tests! I also love pytest, but one of the best things IMO is fixtures, which your tests don't seem to use?

For those who don't know fixtures are a type of dependency injection. You just make a function (e.g game) in a file called conftest.py, and wrap it with a '@pytest.fixture'. Then any tests you write that have an argument named 'game' will have the result of the 'game' function passed as a value.

So 'game' could return 'prepare_game()', and other fixtures can do the same with their arguments to build more complex fixtures. I find it saves a load of initialization code being repeated.
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Maybe I am completely missing some niche where Wii and Kinect are celebrating long term success, but my current impression is that they are more examples for short term novelty success than for a strong long term development. Better than dance dance revolution mats, but only marginally.
I wanna learn Go. After a lot of thought went into what new language to pick (Rust, Nim, Go, etc.), I settled on Go because like Go I'm a minimalist and the feature set and grammar of every other language is just exhausting.
In quite a few countries upon visiting they take a photo of your face. Some also add finger prints.
You cannot obscure that photo as they won't allow you to do so.

So yes this can be used against you, actually at th border it is only collected for that purpose, to be able to identify you as a possible suspect.

Adding big data in the picture does make it more scary as I don't believe it is completely reliable. If you've been tagged as a possible suspect you might find a nasty surprise upon leaving the country.
Moxie's argument is that interop takes place at the level of the operating system's notification tray.

If you want to make a better WhatsApp, all you have to do is ... build a better app. The traditional obstacles are largely gone in the mobile world:

• You can access the same social graph just by requesting the contacts permission on your mobile phone: it's not like Facebook where the social network is locked away.

• You don't have to go through some slow moving standards process which takes years to get the features into the most widely used clients like you would if trying to improve XMPP.

• There's no cost to the user having multiple messaging apps installed thanks to Google/Apple's push networks: it's not like Windows/MacOS/Linux where having an app running in the background uses resources and requires permanent on-screen reminders of the resource wastage. So it's easy to get the user to set up your app.

• Notifications will appear in the same place the user is looking for them no matter what.

• You can (on Android) register for the right intents and whenever a friends phone number is invoked, your app will be offered as an option, so there's no lockin there either.

These things together mean the traditional reasons for pursuing federated networks for chat (the avoidance of lockin) are largely irrelevant.
Are there any high traffic web pages using Flask? I'm interested but when I look at job listings it's really rare I see anything for flask compared to React/Angular/RoR.

If I was a python dev it seems like it might be worth learning but since I'm a web dev and already know a few frameworks I'm struggling to find a reason to teach my self flask.

Does Flask have any advantage over something like Angular?
Voat can have some good content in the sections for general gaming, tech, etc, since it's small enough that the spammers don't seem to be as common. That said, it's not really active enough to be anyone's primary social media/bookmarking platform, and that tends to mean that anything not super popular or controversial is pretty much completely dead there.
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> On the other hand, mobile is where the puck is going, and the base identity for mobile is phone number.

I don't get this. Just because you're using a device that has historically been tied to a specific method of identification doesn't mean that you have to limit yourself to that? Should desktop chat clients start only identifying people by IP addresses?
Literally most countries in the world:
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/160897/20160525/top-messag...

Sure, I have messenger and hangouts and telegram as well, but WhatsApp is like a primary mode of communication.
Phones are dying. Too inconvenient, too much spam, pants vendors, pervasive surveillance, pants call and voice quality, and a phone is too small for a tablet.

It's got a few years yet, but POTS and mobile are already legacy, they just don't know it yet.
This is not your great-grandfather’s industrial revolution
It's very simple. Food ingredients are on the label for safety reasons. There are no measurable safety effects of GMO, Halal, etc.

What criteria do you use to determine if a property should be on a label? Should foods with homosexuals or muslims involved in production also get a warning label? If not, why not? Or do you believe every random bias of consumers is something that every possible producer must account for?
If you are into flight simulation, then you are likely to have experience with the old head tracker / desktop monitor combo as well. How do those experiences compare?

(I'm asking because I have spent quite a bit of time doing headtracked virtual piloting, zero with a VR headset)
As a Sign student I've commented on this project a few times as I wanted to give some relevant examples.

As others pointed out ASL is not simply English replaced with symbols but is its own nuanced language. Many Sign speakers learn to read and write English as well and so can use a bridge called PSE (pidgin sign english) which is commonly used in the workplace, but it is certainly not ASL.

In ASL facial expression not only accounts for ones grammar but can signifigantly change the meaning of the sentence, for example:

-I pay him on a regular basis
-I always pay him diligently
-I always pay with ease
-I always manage to pay

These four sentences have very different meaning but can all be made with the exact same ASL signs and only a different facial expression.

Beyond that the grammar, syntax and even word choice of ASL is not the same as English. For an example, just the other day my ASL teacher who is deaf came away with the sentence:

"There[directional], swim swim finish drive shop food room [#CM] eat burger champ I"

In English this would be interpreted:

"I was swimming there (pointed at building down the street), then I drove to the food court at the mall and ate the best burger."

There are a lot of things we don't use in English such as directional pointers, or the fact that he finger-spelled CM as the initials of our local mall to clarify what he meant. Then there are different meanings such as using "finish" to list of a series of events, or "champ" to represent something is the best he's had.

If you take a pair of gloves and stick them on an ASL speaker and simply spit out English with no understanding of the language and no note of facial expression - you're going to have a bad time. And you are likely unable to easily build a system to translate ASL syntax to English as there isn't an easy to use large corpus of samples.

Lastly, in the article the founders are saying how communication is a fundamental human right and this is supposed to empower the ASL community. The ASL community is a vibrant community, who can communicate (even surprisingly well with non-ASL speakers). You'll certainly face a lot of backlash if you suggest they are disadvantaged or lack a voice. Many deaf individuals will be sure to tell you that they are not disadvantaged they just communicate differently.

All in all, it's an interesting technology but I think if you move forward with a technology like this for people to use it needs to be with the involvement of that people and an understanding of their needs, culture and language. For example, using this as input device for a computer may be a more natural use case for a lot of ASL users.
Wouldn't a collimator solve the problem of having the image too close to the eyes? In fact, that's how a hud solves it too.
This is a good point, and it's also one of the reasons a lot of 'news sites', blogs and Youtube channels are getting a lot of criticism, because they don't seem to be interested in following FTC (or other country equivalent) rules for disclosure.

Unfortunately, neither the FTC nor their equivalents elsewhere seem to be particularly good at enforcing these rules, so a lot of unscrupulous sites (and as in this case, many large ones) just ignore them altogether.
I've looked up russian sources and according to them the robot in question is managed by an operator using special "steering suite". The suite reads operator moves and transmits them to control the robot. AFAIK "Atlas" is a bit more advanced.
I know that WhatsApp is immensely popular in Germany. Most of my friends (me too) don't even have Facebook, and those who do, don't even use it regularly.

WhatsApp on the other hand, is more trusted than Email - When some friend sends me an email, he asks me via WhatsApp if I revived it.

Group Chats, especially with younger folks, are numerous and used for anything, even though the technology is obviously lacking, when compared to other platforms.

But most people either don't care, or perceive these benefits as less important compared to the network effect that WhatsApp has - "I don't want to switch between [random messaging app] and WhatsApp, why don't you just accept what everyone uses".

It's practically the same as with Facebook in the US, and just as bad.
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This technology could be also used for "good". For example it takes lot of time to manually identify Trump supporters and email their employers. Now it can be automated.
Actually, the the facts show "this time it's different" for both. Every indicator tells us this startup boom is nothing like the past bubbles and is actually quite sustainable. (In fact your comment seems to indicate you hold this view, which is not what the HN groupthink view is that I'm referring to).
That it was illegally obtained. (could the first seller of the sarcophagus legally prove they owned it?)
Best testing library I've used yet is https://github.com/HypothesisWorks/hypothesis-python. YMMV, of course, but I've always wanted a little more smarts than py.test...
Well, he's obviously wrong because we have it now and it does work. I've tried the Vive an Rift and while some things made me feel a bit sick, it was mostly when the camera moves without your direct control (e.g. in Lucky's Tale).

His section about momentum is stupid - the Vive especially allows 1:1 mapping from VR to real life so that isn't an issue.

Also, this comment is probably the most stupid thing in there:

> Sadly, the $80,000 googles we made for the US military had less latency, higher resolution displays, and more accurate head tracking than any of the current round of civilian VR goggles…and they definitely made people sick - so this seems unlikely.

Call me a skeptic but as if they had lower latency and higher resolution. $80k is a tiny budget for the military, and consumer displays and graphics hardware are the state-of-the-art, not military ones.
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nickpsecurity, I missed the link in your reply. Now I think you were listing only operating systems that sucked less than unix ("did vastly better than UNIX in all kinds of ways"). And I have just realized you are not the one claiming that most "most non-unix oses simply suck, too, and usually more."
Tachonomy isn't the word you meant to use there. In fact, it's not a word.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tachonomy
Fixtures are considered an anti-pattern by many as they over-DRY [0] your tests and obscure them by introducing 'Mystery Guests' [1].

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/a/11837973

[1] https://robots.thoughtbot.com/lets-not#will-our-mystery-gues...
I've had an oculus for weeks and have none of these problems. I even played Ethan carter without comfort controls and as long as I'm not standing up its fine. Standing up while moving in vr just makes me lose my balance.

The only time I've gotten sick at all on vr is playing project cars, and that was only from reversing and going forwards a few times after a wreck.

It really sounds like he's basing this on no experience with the current generation of headsets.
They're comparing apples to oranges. The $80,000 military VR headsets of 1989 absolutely did not use OLED or OLED light field displays. They've only recently been available from manufacturers at any price with their current pixel density and refresh rate (OLED has always had amazing response time, but refresh rate has been lacking until recently) specifications.

Even the most expensive research OLED panels with high enough pixel densities for VR have only existed since the early-mid '00s. The studies he linked to are from 1989.

> Depth perception

The author neglects to mention that OLED light field displays have already solved this problem completely. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwCwtBxZM7g

The technology already exists (you need a pair of expensive MicroOLED displays and some special lenses), it's just not available at a consumer price point.

> Momentum

For someone involved with military devices, it's surprising that this guy has never heard of galvanic vestibular stimulation. GVS will never be easy and will always require very, very extensive calibration per-user, but it's still possible to use for simulating perceived movement.

This isn't that important for me personally, as I've never experienced VR sickness even when playing fast-paced high-momentum VR games for multiple hours at a time. I could see people who get VR sickness wanting this, as GVS would help prevent it from happening.
In that case, it looks like the US sales tax laws are the problem.
They didn't remove all OSAScript (AppleScript) functionality apparently. This tiny thing still works: https://gist.github.com/aktau/8958054.

Perhaps the OP really is talking about the Messages.app UI, but the screenshot on github imply that this is some sort of alternate UI (curses-based). Perhaps I'm misundestanding.