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I don't want my living room as the backdrop for games - it's kind of a mess at the moment.

I want to be taken OUT of the real world to a virtual world.

Seems a dumb idea to be displaying stuff onto my living room.

Outside things, maybe that different - as Pokemon go has proven.
Extensive discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13133954
Reminds of of this Raymond Chen post:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060220-00/?p=...

A Windows program ran faster if you clicked and held the mouse button on the title bar (as if you were going to move the window) because it would stop the window from re-drawing itself, making whatever loop it was running (and constantly updating the GUI) go faster.
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Having used Microsoft HoloLens for more than a month. Microsoft is doing a disservice to a great product by dropping the ball on HoloLens compatible games & software. It has potential to greatly transform gaming. It ought to start dropping the price and releasing more titles.
Noodles are a great question. Why aren't noodles bread?

* They're often made from dough that is identical to bread dough (perhaps minus the leavening)

* They're cooked wet (which is why they don't leaven themselves) --- but then so are bagels and pretzels!

I'm guessing the reason will go back to the original purpose of bread, which was to create a portable, palatable, readily accessible foodstuff from grain. Without bread, the only straightforward way to eat grains is porridge. So bread can (and I think maybe always is?) eaten out of hand, and is cooked often well in advance of consumption.
The AR big problem is displaying dark. You can put bright things on the display, but not dark ones.

There is actually a solution (EDIT: nope, see replies), but it's tricky: If you stack two sheets of polarizing filters on top of each other, then rotate them, you can get them to pass all light at 0 degrees rotation and block all light at 90 degrees rotation. It's like special paper that adjusts brightness depending on how much it's rotated relative to the sheet of paper behind it. https://www.amazon.com/Educational-Innovations-Polarizing-Fi...

So you could imagine cutting a series of circular polarizing filters and using them as "pixels". If you had a grid of 800x600 of these tiny filters, and a way to control them at 60 fps, you'd have a very convincing way of "displaying dark" in real time.

It'd require some difficult R&D to be viable. Controlling 800x600 = 480,000 tiny surfaces at 60fps would take some clever mechanics, to put it mildly. Maybe it won't ever be viable, but at least there's theoretically a way to do this.

A minor problem with this approach is that the polarizing filter may affect the colors behind it. But humans are very good at adapting to a constant color overlay, so it might not be an issue.
1. Could you provide any links to similarly high quality content or services like Clerky that are geared towards setting up an ideal lifestyle business structure (such as consulting and a smattering of low-revenue SaaS products). Particularly something that covers what to do beyond just setting up a passthrough entity.

2. Can you provide any links to resources on how to evaluate E&O policies for professional technical work? Some of the work I do involves spending 6 figures a month on a marketing campaign, building out BI solutions that are then relied on for making critical decisions (not to mention giving me access to highly confidential data), and building out SaaS products that enforce TCPA compliance on telemarketing databases. Even with a solid contract in place, I'm somewhat terrified at the thought of a well-funded, sue-happy client trying to use me as a scapegoat someday if something goes sideways or doesn't go their way.

3. Any good contract templates for the kind of services mentioned above, that include solid indemnity clauses?

4. How do you find a competent lawyer to ask these kinds of questions to? The few I've spoken to locally don't seem to have many clients like me and were generally about as helpful as a google search (with a much higher pricetag). And I'm unsure how to find the ones that can give actionable advice.
Karl Guttag, one of the MagicLeap critics and analysts has an interesting update on what he thinks ML will actually release [0]. The product they might release is actually different from what all the hype has been about: LCOS Microdisplay, two sequential focus planes, Variable Focus, photonics Chip.

[0]: http://www.kguttag.com/2016/12/06/magic-leap-when-reality-hi...
> And whats up with the size of the meals served in restaurants?

Two things. If you have a (non-fast food) restaurant and want to increase revenue, there aren't too many options. One approach is to increase the size of the meal (eg serve 10% more food but charge 25% more money).

The other is the doggy bag (taking away leftovers with you). You can then reheat that to make another meal.

When I lived in the UK, going to eat at a restaurant was a rare thing (maybe once every few months). On moving to the US I found my colleagues would often eat out three or four times a week, and have leftovers for many of the other meals.
You really have to be careful these days, though. Sometimes you find stuff that is close to the old Craftsman quality, other times it is much shoddier. The consistency isn't there, in my experience.
I've been asked to blank out a screen in a single page web application and re-render after 250ms when people switch 'folders'. My boss thought it was a familiar user interface pattern to draw attention to the page content. This is... not the silliest thing I have done professionally.
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The low-power devices don't actually generate any signal at all thus don't have to pay that expensive power cost. Instead a passive antenna is modulated to reflect or absorb ambient signal, the reflected signal conforms to traditional 802.11 packets. The ambient signals are created by a relatively high-powered device that is plugged into wall power.

Here is a 2 minute video showing an early prototype of their work from 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snZWgAZqo2c
I think the GTA has as many people ~8 million as all of Quebec ~8 million.
We could lose an entire airliner once a month to terrorism, with everyone on board dying, and air travel would still be 100 times safer than driving a car.
You joke, but if you make the mistake of looking at a possible present in a non-incognito window, Amazon ads will now obnoxiously feature said present in all websites that you visit...
Same goes for me when doing CAD and having to constantly convert between standard & metric -- 254, 508, etc show up in numbers a lot and it gives you a nice hint that it's a "clean" value in the other system. Super useful for reading IC footprints off datasheets that only use one of the two systems
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131794
I do vr projects for work occasionally and previously was in film when they were pushing stereo. Content makes a huge difference. On a flat screen the most dramatic space contrast is left-to-right, in stereo it's near to far. If you're exaggerating something you'd use those. It's way more fatiguing on your eyes to focus near to far, than left to right--it also takes like 10x as long for people to focus and recognize something that changes near-to-far.

FPS games are awful for VR when you move around with a joystick. Also, a lot of the "dramatic" things that get used to try and sell games make you dizzy. There's also some acclimation. They say devs are the worst subjects for testing of some vr demo will cause sickness.

I also think people underplay the motion sickness film and FPS video games can have on people who are unacclimated (FPS games didn't have big money pushing it in the early 90's and were on tiny, low res screens). I know I've felt motion sickness playing flight simulators and certain FPS games, especially at first. Movies like Blair Witch and Cloverfield were criticised for making people feel sick.

To address the focus problem, I've been wondering why there's not much talk about light fields for VR (maybe because of patents?).
When you go to visit someone or to an event, the place is fixed. When you plan a vacation, travel time is a factor (certainly not the only one)
Wow. Been studying high-assurance systems close to 10 years and just hearing about her. That's how scattered that field can be. Let's look at this.

"Started new area of research: software safety." That was Bob Barton in Burroughs B5000, Dijkstra on THE, and Margaret Hamilton on Apollo code. Maybe they mean first dept at MIT or just making status of sub-field more official. Then TCAS II. I recall reading that long ago as an exemplary work in formal specification & safety analysis but project was too heavy for me. Article says them too haha. Props to her for it & others. Article shares my view on scattered groups & methods. At least seen STAMP referenced once but unfamiliar with it. They wrote against N-version programming being re-invented... which I proposed for subversion resistance. Hmmm. I'm sure my variant is the one that works this time. ;) Also did SpecTRM at their company that looks a lot like state machine and modeling schemes I saw elsewhere in high-assurance. Not claiming a copy rather than inspiration or independent invention + convergence of multiple parties. Usually means a good idea.

Very interesting person. Thanks for the tip. Your sister is going to learn some wise things for sure given they've got sane methods and got results before. I especially liked how the article jokes about writing what she knew on high-assurance development then gotten wiser or more confused. I know the feeling where I'm redoing the foundations now with what a decade taught me. More slowly this time given I have more doubt than certainty.

Note: Just got to the last part. Wait, she was the one who wrote the THERAC paper? I just assumed it was some guy (male-dominated field) named Levenson since that name was all I saw in references to the report. Never saw it again. So, she wrote up an investigation we've been citing about software safety for decades, helped spearhead efforts to legitimize it as a field, did huge projects, and I basically never hear about her. Unreal. I'm bookmarking her stuff to go through it later.
Not to mention there were other phones before the iphone that used close to the same exact curve profile even, like the Motorola C168.
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>Similarly, we could replace food stamps/welfare/etc with a government-issued basket of healthy vegetables, complete with printed instructions on how to cook them.

While many people don't have good cooking instruments where they live, I do think making at least part of food aid into a direct provision of healthy fruits and veggies, including those which can be eaten raw-at-worst, would be a large improvement. Honestly, at this stage, government-run cafeterias serving healthy food for free to anyone in need would be a massive improvement.

It's a pity that people have such negative feelings about "paternalism" that they'd rather give out food stamps for buying rice and beans at inflated convenience-store prices than actually let the government provide healthy food directly.
This bike may be the closest yet to doing something like that. http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/5-hour-energy-cre...
The Sears catalog and the JC Penney Christmas catalogs. Such an amazing time of year.
Being an outlier here, I don't disagree with you're using the word "coward". If someone acts cowardly, they are a coward. If someone lies, they are a liar. Anyone downplaying such talk may do so for a number of reasons (pride, emotion, to name a couple), but I think the best reason is that they know it's better to build people up than tear them down. Also, some things are subjective and calling someone out on, say, "being stupid" is relative (to one's idea of stupidity) and demeaning.

The overall tone of your post could be read (by some) as insulting in a sense. I wouldn't call them cowards for backing out before a week. It seems more a matter of didn't-have-a-choice. The community ran away with it. So they aren't perfectly honest, so some people would rather be the captain who goes down with his ship, but sometimes it's better to face the inevitable and try to make the best of it.

In short, I can see why your post was downvoted, but I wouldn't downvote it myself. You stated your mind. Just that even geek culture is sensitive it seems (or at least it is here).
I didn't know for sure they were still in business.

Who shops at Sears? For what reason?
if you're an iPhone user, you get one choice Mobile Safari... or a webkitWebView that is Safari. Yes, you can install other browsers, but they are only allowed to use Safari's rendering engine.
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The US is too busy using TOR as a honeypot and offensive weapon to shut down access.

TOR actually amplifies the asymmetry betweem the NSA and smaller actors: the NSA by owning the whole network can easily break it, but it prevents smaller players from getting the same access.

Of course, the FBI seem to routinely compromise TOR sites they don't like.
This is great research!

10,000 times lower power is only for the "passive wifi" devices, but these passive wifi devices require a "heavy-lifting and power-consuming plugged-in device" nearby.

Assuming that device consumes no more than a traditional wifi device, then the overall system would consume:

[usual consumption of 1 wifi device] + [# of passive devices] * [usual consumption] / 10000

So, if we want to calculate per passive device it would consume around

[usual consumption of 1 wifi device] / [# of passive devices]

In other words, the more of these devices, the better. Too few devices might not offset the plugged-in device energy cost.
> Really? 'dozens died' is ok, but 100s died is not? Are we cattle?

Yes. Some people are choosing to pay less for a little more risk. The market should allow for that in the fringes. The vast majority of flying happens on the major carriers, so having stricter standards for the majority of your flying passengers is the right way to approach safety.
That's probably a good first approximation, genuinely wonder about how accurate it gets. How many people die in LA gridlock?

If your driving experience is "hours moving at 5mph", and your flying is "lots of shaking", easy to get scared of one.

As someone who has developed a fear of flying (I still fly because I'm not taking a boat but...), one small thing that scares me is looking at plane wings in flight.

A lot of bending, and a lot of parts that look old. On one flight I could see a piece of rubber stuck on the rudder , that seemed to slowly get more worn out as the rudder moved up and down.

I'm sure it was by design, but at the time, I was legitimately scared.

EDIT: it was a flap, not a rudder
Maple syrup is serious business/organized crime in Montreal.

CBC: Reputed ringleader in $18.7M maple syrup heist found guilty

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/maple-syrup-heist-que...
And killed the only reason to go in there.
By contrast I see my 4 year old itching to tear apart any complete Lego model and tear it down to make...planes. Always planes. And rockets.
Ah, ok, fair enough.

So other than full-on burner smartphones (ie: throw away $600 every time you need to do something privately), what's a reasonable heuristic for conducting private business? Maybe collectively owned or rented burner phones so that the metadata collector only ever knows, "Someone rented this device for encrypted communications" rather than who in specific is communicating with whom?
How would that be different from an LCD, which is something they've presumably looked at and not used?
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Recently I've given up on craftsman all together. Harbor freight owns up to being Chinese junk, but still gives a life time guarantee on and hand tools now. So if they're half the cost of craftsman but break and replace the same, why buy their name brand Chinese junk when I can buy generic stuff from probably the same factory?
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He made a monstrously inaccurate statement about the area of a solar panel and the power output of an area equivalent with the surface area of a nuclear power plant. I thought he was well versed in how utilities and energy work, but this made me see him in a different light.

https://youtu.be/UKT2tKmVk6g?t=16m52s

I at one time thought Elon Musk was monstrously good engineer, but I found out he was a physicist recently.
I think a lot of software engineers would be blown away at how strict software standards are for avionic systems. Like 100% modified condition/decision coverage for all software tests, strict. No pointer math and no dynamic memory allocation, strict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_condition/decision_co...
I wouldn't be surprised if QA is completely automated right about the time that facial recognition becomes viable. I guess that means many years from now, but if the hitch to automating QA is having person-eyes looking at a page and using the site in order to find problems, then I think they might ultimately converge their tooling because there's similarities in there. Something you can throw your PSDs or Balsamiq URLs at it and wait for the notifications. Web page recognition rather than facial. Heck, it might be simpler...or already exist.

Update: Here's a guy doing text recognition for localization: http://www.jebriggs.com/blog/2013/04/imug-computer-vision-an...

Also: http://browserbite.com/

Comparing screenshots from Selenium is a pretty nice way of doing it.
> Re: Google Play Services. Here's is the way I understand this to work, so please do correct me if I'm wrong.

> Signal uses Google Play Services to notify me that I have an incoming message from Signal.

More importantly:

a. That dependency, along with other "restrictions", sets an artificially high barrier to actually using the product independently. This is presumably so that they can maintain the pretence of being "open source".

b. Keep track of application downloads and whatever else Google provides to developers.

Moreover, as the paper that someone has linked elsewhere says, if you are allowing Google services in your app (Google Cloud Messaging, to be exact), you're at the mercy of anyone with control of it. A relatively trivial attack via GCM, as the paper hints, would involve simply replacing your application with a backdoored version, and you'd be none the wiser. It is a massive attack surface that just cannot be ignored.
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That would only work if the scene was a single flat surface and you were only moving in parallel to it. If you were doing that you may as well not use VR and just look at a normal monitor. Otherwise it wouldn't match your motion, which is the problem you're trying to solve in the first place!
I have a couple of the SICK LMS units (picked them up cheap off ebay) - while I like the fact that these tiny and low cost sensors are available (and great for small-scale robotics) - they won't match up to a SICK unit in the near term.

There's nothing like the range, 180 deg scanning speed, and general industrial robustness of the SICK LIDARs.

Then again, these chips aren't the size of a small coffee maker, and don't weigh a ton, either.

I think these devices will occupy a nice niche for when you want something with a better resolution than either the Sharp IR sensors or some ultrasonic pinger - but don't mind the limited range.
Not on the same scale, but castAR is definitely in the game.
>That is bordering on harassment by most standards.

Which standards are you referring to and what border is this approaching?
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> The fact is, giving people a small income makes them inherently lazy.

No it doesn't. Why do you think it does?
Actually, only two of the world's safest airlines hail from the US

The list you just cited includes Alaska and Hawaiian on that list, for a total of four US carriers. My original statement was in context of major legacy carriers, so I could understand you excluding those—however, each of the airlines you cited has a comparable—if not smaller—fleet size to that of Alaska Airlines.

Also, keep in mind that major US carriers have underwent major consolidation in recent years:

US Airways and American Airlines

United and Continental

Northwest and Delta

>And 6 of the top 10 are not from English speaking countries (ANA, Cathay, Emirates, Etihad, EVA, Finnair).

If you total the fleet sizes of each of these, you end up with 907 aircraft. American Airlines alone operates 952 aircraft.

Moreover, many of the airlines you listed tend to hire Western pilots formerly of major legacy carriers—captains in particular—in order to meet high PIC experience requirements.

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It's also worth mentioning that AirlineRatings.com[0] (the source of the list you cited) currently assigns Malaysia Airlines a safety rating of 5/7, despite the fact they managed to lose two 777 hulls (MH370, MH17) only months apart—one of which was perfectly preventable (don't fly over active war zones?).

The same site affords Asiana Airlines a similarly lofty rating of 6/7, despite a 777 hull loss (Asiana 214) due to its pilots being unable to perform a simple visual approach in ideal conditions at SFO. A truly stunning display of incompetence that belied a terrible training and safety culture at the airline.

Of course, going by safety records alone, I'm sure both airlines looked great on paper about five years ago.

[0] http://www.airlineratings.com/safety_rating_per_airline.php
Aside: the bare except clause used here [1] is a bad habit. You should try to avoid it. Python raises things like NameError and TypeError for simple design problems like mistyping variable names. It's extremely rare that you can handle errors like that. Your "except:" would attempt to handle and effectively mask bugs like this.

[1] https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit-chef-env/blob/master/shut...
That's why I specified how widely travelled I was. I definitely understand weather related issues having grown up in Ontario with a 50-60c swing in temps over the course of a year + salt. But I saw lots of awful roads in the north east, the south, midwest, south west, west, and north west.

It's pretty safe to say that in general US roads are poorly maintained. Like saying in general UK rail is poorly maintained.
That's not really how it works. Tornadoes can form anywhere that enough warm humid air hits enough cold dry air. And that happens a lot in the Midwest/Plains region during certain times of year. Tornadoes would form there even if there were forests. The trees might stop the classic funnel cloud from touching down completely, but it won't stop the storm.
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