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"Magic Leap is vaporware"
Where are you getting that? The article seems to imply that feature to feature they are matching the Hololens and that is the worst case scenario.

Edit: On second thought you maybe meeting the exact definition of Vaporware in that they are not manufacturing it yet[1]. No indication that they won't be able to though.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
> everyone's applauding the gatekeepers who insisted on significant refactoring and the creation of additional tests before the change could be approved.

I certainly didn't applaud the gatekeeper because I believe they opened themselves up to a great risk. If you are doing an emergency patch to production you should minimize the amount of changes. All the refactoring of code was an unnecessary, reckless risk. The refactoring should move to the next scheduled release as the top priority since part of it is already in production.
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600km(~360 miles) by road from NYC... Could possibly be worthwhile if the energy is significantly cheaper*

* Pure speculation on my part
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There are numerous comments like this and they ALWAYS come up on Safari posts.

Why exactly do so many people care?
>"The only advantage of having an Intel processor would be for the old-style traditional apps, and if you allow those, you have all sorts of problems."

That's precisely what MS is allowing. From Thurott's article:

"Even better, Windows 10 on ARM will supply a long-rumored feature: The ability to run 32-bit Win32/x86 desktop applications—Apple iTunes, Adobe Photoshop, Google Chrome, whatever—directly on the system, unchanged."

I suspect that MS probably would have very much preferred not to have to use emulation, which is always a tricky business, for Continuum on the Surface Phone. Curbing resource intensive apps is a vastly less complex engineering problem.
It works both ways.
I am currently contemplating an idea around processing *.svg. Here, for example, I could not find any nice library for Python that deals with this mess of XML tags in SVGs. I could run it in JavaScript on a server or maybe still in Python.

It would be nice to have a website to look for similar projects and how they defined their stack.

Thanks for your reply!
Bummer. I was using css-layout to lay out svg elements[0]

[0]: https://kentor.me/posts/creating-diagrams-with-react-svg-and...
Nvidia is now clear to test self-driving vehicles in California
Economic growth is not 0.

So, really it says that 1/2 the population is flat our worse off. Further, a rising tide lifts all boats is a complitly false analogy, and anyone using that phrase to talk about the economy is lying.
Jane Street has always been on my list of companies that I wanted to work for, especially since I'm in HK. But I'm mostly coming from a web development background, and reading through your interviewing posts I got a little scared. Would you recommend me applying anyway?
I went to https://membership.theinformation.com/subscribe because it looks like something I'd pay for. I hate the trend of not putting pricing upfront. I'm just going to assume I can't afford it.

Edit: possibly $400USD/year from https://hunterwalk.com/2013/12/17/400-for-the-information-is...
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Can and is are two very different things. My brand new Nvidia GPU doesn't support it. Neither does iGPU. I'd wager that 99% of devices in use don't support HW decoding of VP9.

Which means that Google is wasting tons of electricity by pushing their own codec. That's not good for the environment and for global warming. Extremely irresponsible.
Sounds good in theory, but so far the real world results I've seen from the windows app store haven't worked out in practice.
That only works for very, very minimal differences. It's the Oculus that does this. It guesses where your head will be, renders the scene at that location, and distorts the image slightly to match its guess vs reality. It also introduces a bit of softness, but seems to work pretty well. But it does re-render the whole image each frame.
I came away with a similar reaction, but there is no need to map separately first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13136056

Sometimes I do wish Erlang had something like F#'s active patterns because it'd make this sort of thing trivial to add to standard pattern expressions. Maybe someday I'll figure out how to add it myself.
Sort of like the 20th century newspaper business.
I understand what you’re saying but I wouldn’t completely dismiss the psychological effect that a sense of feeling needed or the pride you can gain from work has on many people. The sense of being needed may not be important to you, and to be clear I make no negative judgement about that, in fact I’m glad to hear from anyone whose own self worth or happiness isn’t tied to their job as this probably leads to much richer lives, but for many people this doesn’t hold true.

I often see the sentiment shared on HN that if posters here didn’t have to work for a living they would be equally or more fulfilled working on their own projects or spending more time with friends/family, but in some ways I think this feeling at least partially correlates with intelligence, creativity, ambition, or simply being a confident well adjusted adult. I definitely get the impression that HN is filled with people on the higher end of the intelligence/creativity/entrepreneurial spectrum and that might be resulting in a particular narrative that doesn’t always hold true for the rest of us.

I would say that I definitely fall into the very bottom portion of intelligence/creativity among the readership here. I don’t really have much to contribute to this community beyond personal anecdotes, and I’m frequently in awe of the projects and overall knowledge I see on display here. As someone who isn’t smart or creative, never did well in school and has no formal education beyond high school, grew up in poverty and has been homeless for extended periods (12 months or more) twice in my life, doesn’t have a whole lot of self confidence or things to be proud of, my work (which involves machining and precision manufacturing) is pretty much the main thing that gives me a sense of self worth. For many people that statement may seem sad or somewhat pathetic, but it’s honestly how I feel.

I live in LA county, not exactly a low CoL area, and as a single person without dependents I can very comfortably survive on $1100-$1200 per month. BI could easily fulfill my financial needs but it wouldn’t do much to provide for the other things that my work provides for me, namely the sense of purpose and pride it gives me. I understand that BI doesn’t mean the end or work, or that people wouldn’t be allowed to work or seek out volunteer opportunities, so my comment isn’t a general critique of BI, particularly as the more I learn about it, increasingly from HN, the more optimistic and supportive I become of it, but a realization that while I think it’s effects would be very positive overall, I don’t think it would solve all of our problems. As a society we will still need to find ways to make people feel wanted. And as of now for many of us work is what fulfills that role.
An archive of the original report cited in this post:
http://archive.is/DHVL1
Yeah... definitely not the best experience. But it's free software so I'm not going to complain.

I have been using enigma on thunderbird in the meantime, which makes me appreciate how well the native mail app functions.

Can't wait for that fix.
No, I'm worrying about a strategy that would have been a bit easier to implement. I have about as much belief in the hypothetical nature of a Surface Phone as people had about an Apple Phone. An intel chip would have made much more sense for Microsoft.
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Obviously that's not even remotely true, so why are you telling your daughters that?

Don't lie to your kids. They're smarter than you think.
We'd love to, but are pretty focused on the US at the moment. Maybe one day :)
HP did something similar, from quality brand to race to the bottom cheap. Maybe there's just so much value you can extract out of quality.
Seriously? Paying to learn a skill is a sign of impure motives? That seems like a very unfair assumption. Not everyone can learn on their own in their spare time.
To follow up on this: don't verify based on what they're telling you. Anyone can tell a story. Look at their past and who they've worked with (either professionally or personally).

You don't identify toxic people based off how they interact with you. You identify them from the impact craters they leave behind. (And if they figure out how hide by no longer causing damage, then good - that was the entire point).
As others have said, this is a constant resounding complaint about modern Lego, and I don't think there's much truth to it right now, if there ever was. I agree that very large, single-purpose piece like large molded rocks or entire wall sections aren't great, but in my experience most of the smaller "dedicated" pieces aren't single-purpose at all, and really encourage creativity.

Personally, if I have a big pile of mostly plain bricks, I tend to make a few generic things like a stick figure and a car and a rocketship and then run out of ideas. But give me a piece with a weird angle, or a bar sticking out of it, or a weirdly-shaped socket, or an engraved texture, and I start thinking, "What else could this be? What could I attach to this and how?"

Online Lego galleries (and official sets!) are full of designs that use apparently single-purpose pieces--handheld items for minifigs like weapons, tools, food, and flowers; larger components like doors, radar dishes, and wheel wells; even minifig limbs that were never even designed to be popped off of the torso or pelvis piece--to build weird new joint assemblies or imply small details or represent all sorts of objects. Limitations foster creativity.
when a metric becomes a target...
A different version of that comment is often attributed to Alan Shepard (first American in space). Any connection to Glenn seems to be apocryphal from shortly after 9/11 http://www.snopes.com/rumors/glenn.asp
I found a PDF version for those interested: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2015/papers/p445.pdf
That's 40gbps of voluntary (technically settlement free, but not in the usual meaning of the term) peering, not paid transit. Paid transit numbers are several orders of magnitude higher, and total traffic numbers are unknown.
walmart has a 2 day delivery program similar to prime for 40 dollars a year. they need to advertise better..no one knows (you didnt did you?)
That's not the big unsolved problem with augmented reality. Those are all problems VR systems can already solve with enough money and transistors behind them.
The AR big problem is displaying dark. You can put bright things on the display, but not dark ones. Microsoft demos their VR systems only in environments with carefully controlled dim lighting. The same is true of Meta. Laster just puts a dimming filter in front of the real world to dim it out so the overlays show up well.

Is there any AR headgear which displays the real world optically and can selectively darken the real world? Magic Leap pretended to do that, but now it appears they can't. You could, of course, do it by focusing the real scene on a focal plane, like a camera, using a monochrome LCD panel as a shutter, and refocusing the scene to infinity. But the optics for that require some length, which means bulky headgear like night vision glasses. Maybe with nonlinear optics or something similarly exotic it might be possible. But if there was a easy way to do this, DoD would be using it for night vision gear.
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It's a mix of a few things.

First there's plain old motion sickness. The first time I flew in Elite Dangerous in VR, I tried swooping into a landing pad slot. It was a maneuver I could do ok autopilot from playing in a flat screen, but when I pitched up hard, my stomach dropped. My body was expecting G's it just wasn't feeling. I had to take the Rift off and take some deep breaths to ward off the nausea. I don't usually get motion sickness. I can read on shaky busses with no problems.

Second is simulator sickness, which I think comes from latency and resolution issues? This also hits people differently. I have friends who can only do minutes with the Rift on. I can last as long as my face can take the pressure of the headset, meaning an hour or two at a time.

All in all, yeah, some people just won't be able to handle cutrent gen VR for various reasons.
viper is strictly worse than evil mode. Evil is so close I often have people not even notice they are in emacs
I always find it instructive to read glassdoor reviews about a company I'm interested in. There's obvious astroturfing and upset people, but lots of interesting information also leaks out there.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Magic-Leap-Reviews-E799754...
Be careful when projecting your experiences onto others.

I would be very surprised if you honestly can't conceive of people who would struggle immensely to teach themselves the way you did. Or even if they could succeed in doing so, that it might take too long or be too financially risky.

I personally know plenty of people like that. Some of them are very intelligent as well.
I'm sorry your upthread comment got killed, but it was inevitable -- because it was absolutely spot-on, and HN people just cannot countenance anything that disrupts their self-mythologizing about how rational and civil and meritocratic they all are
The fact that they're still far away from getting to market . . . . Their platform strat of making devs work in seattle/sf and timeshare the devices . . . makes it seem as if they're going to fail super hard. Hololens is clearly out front. The device itself is really impressive. And I imagine V2 of the hardware is coming soon. Wait for more credible players to enter the space for real competition.
Technically this would be possible to overcome with a light field display. Light field displays are currently very far off from becoming commercially viable.
According to [1] it seems there are 2 az.

1: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/
At least 80% of programmers have never invented anything significantly new.
I don't know about that. Nearly every adult American drives nearly every day of his life, and only about 30,000 die each year. That's still too high, of course, and I look forward to autonomous cars, but it does mean that while many of us know of folks who've been in fatal accidents the vast, vast majority of us won't.
If you're watching carefully this shouldn't be exactly surprising.

When the Snowden revelations came out Andreessen said that Snowden was a traitor because the revelations didn't reveal anything that anyone in the know didn't already know: that there was a massive dragnet surveillance program by FVEY.

Now, I know I'm a distant minority here when I say that I think that dragnet surveillance is a good thing (I think our opponents are going to do it anyway and we should know what they get, though I'm mostly against secret courts / laws / etc), but what I don't like is hiding information of critical importance from the democracy.

Should we have dragnet surveillance, I say Yes, and I'd like to convince you all of my view; but the critical part is that I don't presuppose myself so important as to label someone like Snowden a traitor just because he's brought to light something that a few of us have known for a while. Andreessen not only argues for dragnet surveillance, he argues that Snowden is a traitor. It's in the same elitist vein as the conflict of interest issue with Facebook. He views himself as above us all. This isn't unique amongst the SV elite, but it usually isn't so hopelessly beyond the pale that it so obviously spills over into becoming obvious.
Last time I broke a ratchet, they gave me a rebuilt one that they had under the counter in a box.
That comment/summary makes a good point about Walmart. Also not mentioned, is growing wealth disparity / shrinking middle class...
> But at least one of these videos — showing an alien invader game that let the wearer of the supposed headset or glasses make use of real-world objects — was created by visual effects studio Weta Workshop. Prior to today, it was believed Weta had simply created the visual assets for the game. However, The Information reveals the entire video was created by the studio.

Was this ever really in doubt? You don't have to be a physicist or AR expert to note that throughout the video they occlude bright background colours with dark AR elements - somehow projecting 'black light'. Whilst I wouldn't expect the man on the street to pick this up it would be nice if journalists about to pen a breathless puff piece would at least give the subject matter 30 seconds of consideration.
or they could use the online editors like they were for years.
Or pay more.
and if your idea is really good, you won't be able to shove it down anyones throat fast enough. See classic dropbox thread.
Why don't we change society so we won't have to do this? Why change the man. At the end of the day I think our civilization is highly misanthropic. It really hates people and having to deal with all their human needs.
If you have exactly one opening at a fixed salary for the offer and that's all you know about the two candidates, sure. If I magically knew their technical aptitude and employability in perfect detail, being a high school dropout is not just irrelevant, but actually a positive for the candidate. Other companies are looking to hire developers as well, and you're competing over the best-looking candidates. Like, there are plenty of great developers that you can't hire because they're happy making $250k/yr at Google.
This seem another wifi achievement only replicable in a desert environment, during a solar maximum, on the dark side of the moon, while holding a black cat.

If you are using a "wifi" antenna then that antenna is going to be picking up all sorts of little things. Normally these aren't much of an issue, but at these sensitivities suddenly that phone down the hall, the one not running at a 10e-3 power setting, is a real issue.

Also, February 2016?
One of the problems with companies that have cash cow revenue streams is that it sometimes doesn't matter what kinds of decisions the executives make, poor or good, the money will keep rolling in...until one day it doesn't and nobody has a clue how to actually manage the rapidly sinking ship.

I've been studying Atari for quite a while, there's so many interesting pieces to the company and their success and failure, and it's all been so well documented and autopsied that it makes for a marvelous case study that still has amazing applicability today.
the fact that this has to be mentioned. the autism/immaturity runs deep. you're a good person.
As far as i can tell (on the spot, not a ton of introspection on the subject):

When speaking verbally i don't mentally experience it. There is no thought, the words are just expressed. When i'm searching for words to expand on ideas i have already spoken, there is often.. just nothingness. Eventually i speak it, but there is nothing that triggers this.. the words just come to my mouth. As strange as that sounds.

When not speaking verbally, i think in internal monologue. No pictures, just a voice that seems to be soundless (i can't tell if it sounds like me, i mean).

When i am forming an idea, such as a data structure in code, there is no way i can describe how i experience that. If i'm searching for how to design it, sometimes i'll talk with myself (verbally) and figure it out, but if i'm not talking in myhead or verbally, then it's this.. ephemeral idea that slowly becomes actionable, but never visually/audibly clear.

This is actually quite the interesting question to try and answer. Thanks :)

edit: expanded on a couple things.
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I agree, fuck everyone who doesn't go to a top school.
A friend and myself were talking about this exact same thing the other day (he works in the web / desktop app space and I work in the embedded space). We were working on an embedded project a while back and he didn't like seeing "bit magic" sprinkled throughout the code and I completely agree.

I approach this issue in 3 different ways: #define what those series of addresses and values mean, have a function that calls each one semantically, or a function that wraps all of them (what OP is doing).

I was going to show an example specific to this, but unfortunately ST did a poor job this time documenting this specific init sequence. If you look at those application notes linked in the tutorial, they just state they are mandatory private registers, which is disheartening. Looking at the example code that ST provides with their Nucleo boards for the evaluation kit of this module, it doesn't shed much more light, except that it seems to be something to do with ranging, tuning, and up-scaling of the data. They have two functions VL6180x_RangeStaticInit() and VL6180x_UpscaleRegInit() that call this sequence, depending on if up-scaling was defined.

Software for Nucleo Board for the VL6180X: http://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/embedded-softwa...

At this point, if I was actually working with this part, I would contact a ST rep and ask them what is up, because it seems weird they are forcing you to write to "private" registers.

If you look at the OP's code, you will see that he does wrap this series of code with VL_InitDevice(), and since ST does not have it documented any better than "These settings should be applied in this order with no substitutions", this is what you get. Doing what is suggested, I don't think really gets you much further, imo, but does condense your code, for what it is worth.
The part that's surprising to me is how instantly popular of a startup it became with so little information. Was this "demo" they gave so damn good that all the investors (some really reputable ones such as Google) started throwing money at it, without doing their research to see how real it was?

Sounds very suspicious to me.
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> Tbilisi draws patients from around the world who are suffering from untreatable UTIs, acne, cystic fibrosis, and intestinal infections.

I've heard of a case where someone with a horrible Staph leg infection was desperate so flew to Tbilisi, apparently it worked for them.

Wonder if they can monetize that better. Say set up something in Mexico right across the border, so people don't have to fly half way across the world...
I 100% agree with you. It's a gigantic company. As far as I can tell (finger to the wind), my team is in the 90th+ percentile in terms of experience and maturity. I feel very lucky to work with the people I do, I've learned a lot from them.

When we start talking about the distribution of experiences of hundreds of thousands of people over a decade, we should expect a very long positive and negative tail. I expect that if I were rehired, my experience would regress to a mean worse than what I currently have.
In Canada you can pretty easily get a work permit to stay longer and PR without jumping through 70 hoops and waiting years.

The US immigration system is much shittier.
"... the first officer of flight 587, Sten Molin, who was at the controls, overreacted, rapidly and repeatedly moving the widebody jet’s rudder from side to side,... . The vigor of his inputs caused the entire tail to fracture and fall off."

I was interested in learning more about this, and it turns out there's an alternative interpretation that argues he was flying according to best practices at the time rather than "overreacting": http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan/11/opinion/oe-garrison1...
I thought it was the opposite, that's partly why phage therapy works, as I understand it.
Yep, there is no (good) reason to use var anymore.