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I disagree, and the answer is released next week.

It's the Playstation VR. Sony has sold 40m of the things (the PS4) world wide and each one is capable of doing VR if you buy the headset.

Something wireless is almost certainly the ideal way to do VR but until we get WAY more power and efficiency that won't work.

In the mean time the PS VR will have lots of industry support (best push we've got) and doesn't need a $900-$2000 computer.
It's an interesting goal, but I'll disagree on that "needs" part. It can be widely successful just by being some VM you cross-compile to when you want your code to run on a browser.
I'm excited about VR, but strapping your phone to your face doesn't seem like the best approach.
In Py2.7 you need:

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to get the print("hello") behaviour.
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Any manufacturer can produce a Daydream-ready phone; ZTE and Asus have already announced theirs. To ensure a good experience, Daydream-ready phones must meet a set of minimum standards. They need consistent performance, low motion-to-photon latency and Android N. Google don't want to harm the Daydream brand by opening it up to phones that won't provide a good VR experience.

I wouldn't expect many people to upgrade their phones purely for Daydream, but it may be a factor when their contract is up for renewal. Daydream compatibility is attractive to phone manufacturers who are struggling to differentiate their handsets or offer a compelling reason to choose a high-end device.
Neat list, but What exactly does "Most Commonly Used Camera-Lens Combinations" mean in this context? I find it highly suspect the the most common camera/lens combo is the $3000 US EOS 5D Mk III kit; I'd expect the more affordable D3200/EOS t5 camera range to be more commonly used. Some more information about the methodology used would be helpful.
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Since it had a gag order, she likely wouldn't have been allowed to tell him. The government doesn't care about the security implications of these backdoors, they just want the data.

Also, Yahoo spent many years fighting similar requests (I think before anyone else did) and won nothing.

She also was obviously being advised by Ron Bell, the GC. If she didn't tell Stamos, it was probably based on the guidance of Mr. Bell. I'm not sure we can fault Mayer much on this one.
I think the GP meant more along the lines of "Focusing at 1.5" for a long period of time" not "holding electronics near my head for extended periods".
The lesson from this is to not trust corporations with out privacy. Sadly, it seems many of us are not learning it.
There are a bunch of boards people would migrate to. But the culture would become more fractured and as a result more extreme at each new location. Similar to what happened after the banwave in November 2014.
"The Last Lecture", by Randy Pausch. While it's by a well-known CS professor (who was dying of cancer at the time), it's not a technical talk, but about life and work, and how to make the most of it. One of the most inspiring things I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Another fantastic one is Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement address at Stanford:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
Makes sense. I believe Sony has said that the PS VR is designed so you focus on it like it's 8' from you to make it more comfortable.

I can't imagine anyone could focus on something 2" for more than a few minutes without serious issues.
Should I be concerned? Isn't the reason I would want to avoid doing that for long times eyestrain? Isn't the eyestrain caused by the eye struggling to focus on something so close? Don't the optics in VR systems allow the eye to focus much more comfortably?

Or are you asking more about the impact of non-visible EM band emissions?
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I thought the answer was somewhere in the web already, so this wouldn't be a new question. CppCon is a lot less fun without Alexandrescu.
I find this hilarious since the only thing I use my yahoo address for is retailer sign-ups and things I know will land me a boat load of junk mail. It is my email landfill.
Ah, that's good.
There are a few big rushes. The morning east coast shuttles get in at about 8:30, and the evening ones at about 6. The big bunch of intercontinental flights get in around midnight.
Why would you need a GUID? When you have a URL?
Have either Google or Oculus addressed any health risks due to cell/wifi as a result of holding a phone close to your face for extended periods?
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The client is open source[1], we can at least define a limit to what information can be stored that is not end-to-end encrypted.

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android
Depends heavily on the task and way you're using it. They both excel at different things.
Yea that Verizon Nexus was the least Nexus-y of them all. One of the reasons I swore off Verizon for good. But that was 4 years ago and hasn't been an issue with other Nexii since.
Given Google's track record of being able to deliver hardware they actually had available for a demo at their product and service announcements I don't hold out much hope for this ever happening.
I met with a company recently that started out on the clinical side doing fMRI brain imaging. They currently house the nations largest private dataset and have some very compelling sub-datasets in various areas, such as Parkinsons, ADHD, Alzheimers, and Strokes.

They've hit the point of gaining enough training data and were moving onto the next phase where they wanted to utilize deep learning to help augment the doctors decision making. There's a ton of red tape here with the FDA but that was the near term goal. Augment the doctors decision making but not replace them.

I believe they'll succeed in doing this one way or another. We had talked about also pairing brain imaging data with genetic data (eg. Alzheimers and mutations on APOE). The critical things we talked about were how we actually train the different models, what a sequential approach towards this type of software development would look like, etc. We believed that the most pertinent focus point would need to be a refined supervised deep learning model.

I can definitely sympathize with the complexities of deep learning in healthcare.
Daydream is still a toy. It's just a fabric toy instead of a cardboard one.
Why do you bring up screen resolution? Both phones have 400+ ppi screens. You want more? Why?
I agree that people gotta start somewhere.

And I agree that it might be possible to paint useful models of human morality with small sets of parameters... Just not the way this study is set up. Not with the parameters they're measuring, and definitely not out of the logical presumptions of the experiment.

I am presented with the choice that either 4 women must die or 4 men must die. For me, it would be more "moral" in this case, for the computer to choose randomly, rather than to attempt some shallow, eugenically judgemental "moral" logic.

I'm also aware that these kinds of rules, regardless of their "morality", can be gamed. Randomization increases the risk for people considering playing games. This adds more weight to my conviction that, if some of these false dilemmas really did present themselves to a machine, in real life, that randomization must be an option.

How does this moral logic map to this survey? It doesn't map, Not one single bit. That irritates me, because if I were to click through this survey, using eenie meenie miney moe in cases I felt that randomization would be more moral, it would be all but lost in the error. The MIT students would go on CBS morning media and talk about all the bias they measured in my choices of who to murder. But their data would be totally polluted by the way their study discounted moral logics outside of their parameter set. And important parts of my moral reasoning would be lost in the error bars.

What's more, my conviction about the necessity of randomization is just just one of a huge variety of moral considerations that are inherent to peoples' sense of morality.

Hopefully the study is considering these kinds of things and they have some clever way mathematical of extracting useful information out of this data. For example, hopefully they are measuring the number of people who visited these pages but refused to make a choice.
Yes.

What is the purpose of that wall of text you pasted?
I think it will be a big use case but the main one? I'd guess that goes to..

(note NSFW)
http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/07/japan-vr-porn-festi...
I had the same thought. Unless I missed it, the site doesn't give the source of the data. I find it very suspect (as in not representative of broader use) that the top two cameras are late model Canon prosumer+ full-frame bodies.

[ADDED: It actually appears that this does align with Flickr stats--which is, of course, not what you'd find on Facebook or other more mass market sites.]
Because URLs can change and if they do you'd want to update the item without adding a new one.
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Nacchio is no hero. He ran a $50MM pump-and-dump scam that personally netted him millions of dollars in profits at the expense of common shareholders, and he was indicted in a wave of similar prosecutions in the wake of the Enron fiasco. His offenses are there in black and white: with full knowledge that his company faced materially adverse changes unknown to his investors, he not only promoted the company but privately (and illegally) sold his own shares.

You do people like Stamos a huge disservice by drawing this comparison. People like Nacchio are exploiting the good work real privacy advocates do, for their own personal enrichment.
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I see a couple of Bret Victor videos here, but the one I loved the most was "The Future of Programming":
https://vimeo.com/71278954

Really set me on a path of re-examining older ideas (and research papers), for applications that are much more contemporary. Absolute stunner of a talk (and the whole 70's gag was really great).

"What would be really sad is if in 40 years we were still writing code in procedures in text files" :(
This could be straight out of the show 'silicon valley'. Gorgeous polar lights as the background of a sleek landing page, a strange but appealing geometric structure hovering between dark outlines of trees --> scrolling down, a pair of diving goggles are revealed that you can use to stick your phone into. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited and it's probably going to be cool, it's just hilariously stereotypical.
This is great. I love easy to start playing web games like this. I was playing the game in < 20 seconds and enjoying myself.
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That Xiaomi Redmi 2 seems to be exactly what I've been looking for. Maybe a little big but I'll take it if it means CM support, replaceable battery and swappable SD card. Any idea if it works on Project Fi? I can't seem to find a definitive answer.
No message search in hangouts makes me angry to no end. I had message search on my old Windows Phone and got so used to it I don't ever want to go without it again, especially when my girlfriend and I talk about something and then want to refresh my memory later (We discuss ideas we have, preferences, etc. and I used to be able to search for them again, now I can't).
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I think there is a market for both. I think that you will see systems bifurcate (like you see right now with games -- high end rigs and consoles vs mobile) to high end systems and low end systems.
Right, makes sense. Thanks.
Thanks, I actually didn't know that.
This is a poor article....
I don't think that you deserve to be downvoted; you make an interesting point. Obviously an OS is a sort of framework; so too is a web server which calls one's code (I'll be honest, I don't quite get your point about compilers — can you elaborate?).

But good examples of both OSes & webservers offer pretty simple interfaces (I'm thinking of Plan 9 as an example of a good OS, and Go's http.Handler as an example of a decent HTTP interface). In both cases there's one entry point (a single designated function), with a reasonably well-defined API to query the environment in which it's called.
Fail: Microsoft?
It's not an apple jab. I really hate when cameras stick out the back of phones. I'm actually complaining about my Galaxy S6 if that matters. Most manufacturers do it though.
The consensus is that there aren't any.
> what does this have that the year-old Nexus 6P and 5X don't, other than incremental hardware improvements?

As someone who owns a 5X:

- The Pixel is a premium 5" phone, not a budget one. It has a flagship SoC rather than a mid-tier SoC.

- The camera is better and more responsive (the camera on the N5X is slow and annoying).

- The body isn't plastic, which means there will be less issues with heat and CPU throttling than on the N5X.

- I can finally get a phone with a reasonable amount of storage and no bloat. The 5X only went up to 32GB and had no expansion. Alternatives from Samsung etc. are mostly carrier locked, unrootable and stuffed with OEM overlays.

- There's no camera bump, so it can sit on flat surfaces less awkwardly.

- They actually mentioned this phone during the announcement, unlike the 5X last year. They might actually pay it some attention in the future.
The person I'd question the most, after Marissa, is Yahoo!'s general counsel Ron S. Bell (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronsbell).
Exactly, currently if a podcast feed changes URL they have to hope that the client on the other end notices a 301 redirect and caches/looks at the new feed url in the future.
> Not sure I agree with this. I've been on android for a while, so I'm sure I'm biased, but stock AOSP Android is pretty much perfect for me. Very minimal and aesthetically beautiful, but still powerful and customizable.

This is the go-to line for every Android fan. How many devices out there run stock Android? Is it possible to buy a device with stock Android? How much comp-sci experience are you going to need to make your device run stock Android?

What difference does it make how good the OS is if Google gives it's OEM's free license to ruin it?
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This looks cool! The GRPC support's what caught my attention, especially as I've found trying to pass GeoJSON objects around GRPC to be a pain.

One of the irritating things with Protobufs is the lack of support for nested JSON-style arrays, which GeoJSON LineString and Polygon use. I've seen some https://github.com/mapbox/geobuf but after trying it out for a bit, I felt it wouldn't work well for me.

Anyways, I searched the Protobuf files on the repo, but I can't find anything that gives me a guide on what's being done on Tile38. I'll have a deeper look at the source.
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How on earth is it a fear-mongering hit piece? It reports, accurately, some of the difficulties Uber have had in launching self-driving cars. I don't see any dismissal of self-driving cars as a concept, just reporting of the difficulties that you encounter along the way.

Are we really at the point where any coverage that is even vaguely critical is a "hit piece"?
The reference to Nest isn't a big plus in my book.

I've only heard bad things about it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpsMkLaEiOY

This phone isn't going to kill the iPhone - in fact it would take a big screwup on the part of Apple for people to start migrating away from its products. Not that Apple is incapable of screwing up, but so far they've sailed their ship pretty well.

Apart from the hardware, there's the whole ecosystem of app developers, programming environments, cloud services.. Ultimately it's about who can attract the more talented developers - and that is a lot more difficult than snapping a faster CPU or better camera in your phone.
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I thought Uber uses Google Maps. When I open the app, I see "Google" in the bottom left.
And then waste money on hacks to get all that stuff that is missing from the standard to work.
The Pixel isn't locked to Fi. It can be used on any carrier. Fi is also pay as you go which means you can leave at any time. It's really not risky at all even if they shut it down tomorrow.
When Android is ~87% of the smartphone market, I somehow doubt Google views Apple's iPhone as the thing to beat.

http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/one-blackberry-upcoming-smartphon...
I keep thinking it's a joke dreamt up by Mike Judge. Especially with Cardboard. A little bit less so with this though, so hey I guess that's progress!
The touchpad has had swipe support for a while, and works pretty well depending on the game, but it's still stuck to the side of your head. We joke about getting a gorilla arm from extended use...

Daydream has a definite advantage with their remote, but I think Samsung offering a bundle with their gamepad could close that gap a little bit, or even offering something similar to the Daydream remote.

The Rift remote looks very similar too, minus the positional tracking, but is still really handy for casual Rift games.

I think the big differentiator Gear can play on is social games. Oculus has been putting an increased emphasis on their social platform, and I think we'll see more of that this week too.
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So a slightly more production-ready version of cardboard, but requires a specific phone that not one customer has yet.

When do we stop buying into the Google product hype? How many other chase-the-rabbit approaches to products is Google going to shove in front of our faces before we realize it's almost all smoke and mirrors? It seems completely laughable to me that this "product" will even exist past 2017, let alone be any kind of leader in anything (innovation, market share, creating a new market space, etc.).

I know jaded cynicism is never attractive, but it's honestly baffling to me how these threads aren't peppered with what I would think to be well-justified skepticism when it comes to Google and their ambitious hardware products. They almost never succeed, period! You never even hear about them most of the time a few months after they get launched, and the only time when you do is when the PR machine is working fast and furious to prop it up (see: Glass).

So sure, let's all pretend that wearing a pair of underwear on your face stuffed with a cell phone is going to advance VR. Yeah. That seems totally plausible.
The Constitution states, 'no Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed'; to the extent that those executive agencies' enabling legislation permits ex post facto regulations, that legislation is unconstitutional.
Keep in mind that what you want may not be one font that covers lots of glyphs -- that makes the font take up lots more memory and take longer to load. And you definitely wouldn't want to use a high-coverage Unicode font as a dynamically-loaded Web font.

Operating systems are fine at understanding that different fonts are necessary for different glyphs, so what's better in a lot of cases is to have a family of fonts that together cover all the glyphs you need. That's what Google Noto [1] is doing.

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Symbola is a good font for covering a lot of symbols, while not representing many text characters (on the assumption that you already have fonts you prefer for text).

That said, there's a justification for having a few of the fonts on that chart, like Lucida Sans Unicode and Arial Unicode MS, because they guarantee consistency without you having to install a huge font family. GNU Unifont is also interesting in a hackery kind of way, in that it achieves good coverage by using only pixelly bitmaps.

But on the other hand, Code2000 is an awful font. It eats gobs of memory and it looks bad. Don't use it just because it has a lot of glyphs.
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We as a species have decided that killing is how you cure.

This is wrong, on every. single. level.

This isn't an anti science rant, this is the truth, and for those who down voted this post, you're not yet aware, but someday it will be common knowledge.

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So, in the RSS spec, the <guid> tag is used to identify individual posts. Without some sort of identifier, it's hard to know if a user has e.g. already heard something in a feed (because new things can be added and old things can be removed).

GUIDs, as defined in the RSS spec, are also not required to be globally unique - they're only supposed to be unique to the feed that includes them. This, combined with the fact that a feed that doesn't include them at all is still completely valid, is usually a pretty big stumbling block for developers looking to consume RSS. This is the biggest issue that got talked about during the Atom vs RSS discussion of a decade ago.

And if you're referring to the UUID I'm automatically adding to every feed, it's so that there is an unchanging canonical way to refer to a feed that follows it across URL changes etc. The sibling comments get it perfectly.