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I don't think it's reasonable to expect every article about global warming to mention "ocean acidification". Displacing fossil fuel power generation with nuclear power plants would certainly reduce ocean acidification, but nevertheless most of the nuclear power articles I've read neglect to mention this fact.

There are other forms of climate engineering that would address C02 directly. One that's received a fair amount of press is "iron fertilization"[1]. I don't know, but my guess is that most people who talk about "solar geoengineering" (of any sort) probably think we're going to be doing solar geoengineering, iron fertilization, and probably multiple other forms of climate engineering at the same time. But not every article that discusses iron fertilization mentions sulfur dioxide, and not every article that talks about stratospheric sulfur dioxide mentions iron fertilization.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
Er, I wasn't talking about pricing complexity, I was talking about the ability to actually get the vehicle that meets your needs. It doesn't do you any good to know that "a vehicle with three or more constraints costs $1.50/mile" if you get a vehicle whose three constraints are "4WD, Bike rack, Dog area" when what you wanted was "carseat1, carseat2, large storage area."

And if the fleet can successfully meet arbitrary needs around constraints, then the fleet is going to be heavily overprovisioned, and thus expensive.
You're right about the lifetime numbers rather than first year numbers. It's still likely they will hit 1 million units before Rift is end of lifed. Sales are definitely slower than Vive, but its possible they will catch up now that Touch is out.

As for PSVR, I've seen reports that they are actually supply constrained (http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/14/sony-expect-playstation-vr-sh...) and the smaller market size isn't due to lack of demand. It might also be because there still isn't much content available for PSVR and Sony is waiting for a larger lineup and for more PS4 Pro unit sales.
For most people computers and technology is already magic.
Problem is no one in NYC or any other profitable market will use them, because no seller is going to accept 10-40% lower price AND a higher fee in a market where it's already easy to sell.
I have to agree with you skepticism. Let's e.g. replace "car" with "apartment". Imagine an apartment where you pay a premium to have all the cooking, cleaning and maintenance done for you. This obviously exists today, yet >99% of people don't use it.

I believe people like owning things, and using them to do stuff. This is a basic fact of being human. Probably goes right back to the stone age. I doubt autonomous cars will change that pattern.
> I wonder if they should have made a "Super DK2". Lower quality headset hardware but Rift quality tracking and touch support at a lower price.

As the owner of a DK2, I can say that would have been a much wiser strategy. They CV1 costs roughly twice as much as the DK2 but the increase in cost is mainly attributed to adding features rather than improvements to the weaknesses of the DK2.

The biggest drawback to the DK2 was its low display resolution and having tried the CV1 and Vive, the bump to 2160x1200 made little improvement. The switch to a standard RGD pixel layout from the DK2's pentile display made more of a difference than the resolution itself. The increase in refresh rate also added little benefit over the 75hz of the DK2 in my experience.

I was massively disappointed by the news that the CV1 was forgoing the leap to 4K but I was still willing to buy in to the superior pixel layout and positional audio if the price difference mirrored the tiny improvement in the overall experience. I was expecting a $400 headset and was floored by the $600 price point.

Now I'm just clinging to my DK2 and hoping Oculus doesn't completely kill support for it while I wait for another challenger to recognize this huge gap in the market. I would have already bought thr OSVR HDK2 if it broke the HDMI spec and allowed for a true 75hz+ refresh rate.
I don't think you read my comment clearly. I think autonomous cars are going to be quite popular, but I don't understand how that necessarily leads to shared instead of privately owned autonomous cars.
It only needs to be a better driver than you for you to be safer, and its that already.

I can guarantee you that on a one to one driving skills shootout between you and the software you will loose 98% of the time.
What's the story in the video with 'pulling at heartstrings' by featuring a blind person? The problem of a blind person getting a ride is obviously solved. But more importantly it's an edge case of a need for a vehicle that is self driving. And actually I wonder whether someone who is blind actually would rather have a human driver in the car and feel safer generally that way. Seem to me almost like a strawman in a way. In other words 'if you feel that you have to help the handicapped you need to be onboard with self driving cars'.
Today most, if not all, enterprise grade AP have settings for minimum RSSI values. Think of it this way - having one client on your WLAN that has a weak connection will introduce errors and retransmission impacting every client to a certain extent (it's a shared medium). In a deployment wherin you have multiple AP working together (on different channels) there's going to be overlap so you have a continuation of service. You may move around and be connected to WAP-B with an RSSI of -70 but be closer to WAP-A with an RSSI of -50. Your OS will try to hang on to that connection as long as it can by default since it's not scanning in the background for something better on a differing BSSID (the BSSID is the MAC, generally in a multi-AP environment you'll have a singular SSID and each AP has a unique BSSID).

With minimum RSSI implementations the AP will kick (deauth) clients that no longer meet the minimum RSSI level. This will force them to reconnect to and will go with the stronger BSSID being advertised with the same SSID. Still rudimentary but works rather well. I don't even notice roaming in my home anymore after tuning. It's very evident when you're on a network that has defaulted to auto and all of the channel selection and power output is up for grabs.

If you're looking at doing this with Ubiquiti they have docu and even point out the warts with simple RSSI tuning. Trolling the forums before doing a deployment is something you should do as this equipment isn't really something that will autoconfigure itself very well. I mean, it works - but clearly you can see in this thread that people who just expect it to work have bad things to say about it's effectiveness. What they don't understand is that a lot of those problems are self-inflicted.

Here's a link to the Ubiquiti RSSI guide:
https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/221321728-UniFi-Unde...
As many people here are saying, Notes was at its core a remarkable achievement for its time. One thing that kept it from more widespread adoption as an application platform, I believe, was the lack of any synchronization or atomicity model. The open "multimaster" replication model was ahead of its time in allowing offline updates, but every application had to reinvent any needed reconciliation logic more or less from scratch, and with few helpful tools.

If Notes could have done more to solve that problem, I think people would have flocked to it as a distributed application platform.
Yes. Do you find it confusing in this scenario? Do you think they mean shoot twice?
I'm pretty sure the car industry has been doing that for years.
Third party headphones should work just fine, I don't see Apple breaking A2DP just to push their own product.

The fancypants features like iCloud sync and inserted ear detection though, I suspect that'll take some manufacturers some reverse engineering or exchanges of money for details.
Gzipping each file individually makes the compressor have to start over with a fresh context on each file. This will result in a much worse compression ratio than if a single compressor is used for the whole archive, especially if the archive contains a lot of small, similar files. (Note that this is essentially what PKZIP does, though, so it's not awful.)

Also, there are no tools I'm aware of that will handle that archive structure.
Machine learning tools also cannot cover corner cases, if they're not present in it's training data. Communication with human agents (other cars, police officers) is also extremely tough.
I think a good way to think about the last 5% automation problem is to look at other examples where automation has replaced human work. In every case that I can think of, the work of the human was never 100% replaced. Automated check outs at the supermarket still require a number of attendants. An automated assembly line still needs factory workers. Automated rail systems are still controlled by humans in a control room. You can also look at how the environment has been adapted to better suit the new technology. For example to allow big heavy horseless carriages roll along roads we replaced dirt with tarmac (asphalt).

Driverless cars will never (until we have general AI) be able to fully replace a human driver. However we don't need to get to 100% for the technology to become useful. It might be that driverless cars will be restricted to only driving on certain mapped roads. Or every car's movements are tracked in a central control room and if a problem is detected either by the car or the passenger it could be controlled remotely. Or let's say a GPS sensor breaks an actual human driver might be issued to come and rescue you. Lastly we might even accept a certain failure rate. Society is willing to tolerate failure of technology to a certain degree in cars and planes today. All we need is is for the technology to make us all better off on average for it to be successful.
If it's a truly adaptive branch predictor, one could naively believe it will yield good results for most inputs. Even if it's an absurdly deep pipeline with a cache miss penalty worse than the Pentium 4, it would be premature optimization for the vast majority of programs.
>I mean, even stodgy grumps like me have a pair that works well and cost $20.

Wireless headphones that "work well" don't cost $20. And especially in this form factor (separate).
You will find no fun at Hackernews. Only contrarians.
Presumably you would have to sync the iPod Shuffle equivalent as you would the AirPods. Maybe the issue is more with their syncing? (I know I find it annoying.)

DHH from 37Signals mentioned on Twitter recently that he has two iPhones - 6+ and a 6. Larger one for around the house, in bed, etc and the other when out and about. It struck me as an almost affordable luxury for some people, if you can endure any syncing hassles.
> How many versions of " get file created timestamp from ls" do we need?

none?
'ls' is for humans. 'stat' is for scripts.
Heck, Britain almost lost WWII because they couldn't make acetone. Chaim Weizmann invented a technique to make bacterial produce acetone.
Random brain dump of questions since I haven't had a chance to actually try a VR headset yet:

- Outside of car games, space sims, or any other game where the main character is mostly sitting down, does VR work well?

- Apart from games what other applications are there at the moment?

-Anyone try replacing their monitor with a VR headset? How'd that go?

- Anyone try combining a VR headset plus a kinect? Seems like a natural combination.
Multiple requests would also likley mean that if one were challenged in court, the other could still be fulfilled.
When I worked at Expression College I use to talk and interact quite a bit with Gabe the founder.Suffice to say if you heard the way he spoke in private about "these people" (the game audience world) it would make you cringe even more. This was before he "made it", but was still in the game industry. Regardless, he's very smart in the most Machiavellian sense of the word. Some of his online talks are actually really enlightening.

I'm grateful I'm not in that world. It reminds me of Donald Trump. Relentless hypocrisy, no shame, and the entire thing coupled with the grand illusion of success.

And stop calling these "games" they're not! They're real-money auctions to have your name at the top of some silly todo list.

lol
To be sure, if that's the definition of "magical" we're working with here, I'm not sure it reaches.
Was there any possibility of agreeing a license for the data from the Fortune 100?
How do you think that Juniper VPN compromise got inserted into the code?
> use … the new editor as your 'scratchpad' or diary. … Google commands as you need them and you'll pick things up bit by bit.

I personally found myself using vim a lot as, uh, some sort of poor man's one-shot data analysis/text reformatting tool among other things. What I mean is, quite often I paste in some semi-formatted text like logfile snippet (or open some data that is quite hard to process using shell and extensive piping if turning into csv/tsv and is painful to manipulate via dragging-and-dropping-and-cutting-and-pasting in spreadsheet software afterwards) to do all sorts of manipulations: I can use :s to replace things, or use macros with conventional actions like n3w2de, or bail out to :!awk, :!grep, :!cut, :!paste, :!column -t, :sort (or :!sort -nk123) if I need to format, filter, cut out some columns, sum over columns/rows etc. (I can even do |xargs!), or I can (rarely albeit quite ineffectively) use Ctrl-v to merge lines (if :!paste is not enough), or 'Ctrl-v I' to quickly type in something on multiple lines at the same position before processing any further -- all of that in any combination and with any selection. And I'm pretty sure I forgot something while writing all these things down before sleep.

I doubt if any other text editor or IDE could be as useful as vim in tasks like these, and now I also see this as a great opportunity to learn vim through googling for things one does not do every day (and does not know how to do) in any other editor, as these quite often will turn to be benefitial for everyday vim (or shell, or both) users. (However, it is also quite hard to me to imagine vast amounts of people with similar use cases, let alone people that would even consider vim as a tool that would solve their problems even with some time invested in it.)
I'd imagine all the GPS data could be loaded into the system beforehand and updated when there is a consistent signal. The same way cars now deal with GPS.
This. It could well have been a backdoor that predates the "superpeer" change MS introduced right after acquisition. Skype was already under pressure from European authorities at the time, to provide intercept capabilities; European criminal networks (mafia etc) were early adopters and everybody knew it.
I'm just using vim and spotify and get like 4 hours of battery life. I really do think some MBP's have faulty batteries and it's not a software issue. My 13" 2014 MBP gives me 7+ hours under the same workload.
Ask HN: Should I use a PaaS?
From costs to vendor lock-in it seems risky to go with PaaS, but the ease of use is appealing.

What do you think?
It's a reasonable concern, but whether to modify the biosphere is not a choice we have any longer. We are modifying it -- that's what all that CO2 that we are already putting into the atmosphere amounts to. Geoengineering is about looking for ways that we can modify it intentionally along with the unintentional modifications we are already making.

Caution is certainly warranted, and there is some danger of hubris, but running screaming from the room is not a productive response either.
I Thought Wireless Was the Future?
This might get lost in here, but one thing that I'm dissapointed by is I love this idea, it looks fantastic, and I'm a vim "user" that would love to switch.

But I put user in quotes because really I use IntelliJ or VS or whatever, with the vim plugin, for the rich refactoring / autocomplete support which, for most languages, is awful to try to integrate with a command line editor like this.

Anyone know if the author plans to make a plugin client? That would be amazing.
China largely owns the supply chain for electronics. Electric cars run on... electronics.

Either western countries such as Germany, USA and Mexico will develop advanced electronics supply chains, or China will own the EV market.
These magical wireless headphones use advanced technology to reinvent how we listen to music

Do we still have to use ears?
Well, you're talking of a publicly-owned university, and the perception of "mamoneo" and "amiguismo" funded by taxpayer money is, in my opinion, already high enough that I welcome anything that tries to make the hiring system more objective.

Mind you: The hiring policy at Google is that managers don't get to interview the potential hires they will manage, nor have any say in the hiring process. For technical positions, five engineers interview the candidate independently, and submit their feedback and recommendation to a hiring committee that makes the decision. The process tries to be as objective as possible, and the manager has no leeway at all.

That doesn't mean the Spanish system is any good, just that I don't think giving the PI more say is a great solution. The points assigned to "easy-to-publish areas" can be reduced if PIs give that as feedback. A way to evaluate a candidate without the numerical scale silliness could be devised too.
>>[...] while now nobody needs M&A anymore: just bet on 20 great looking startups and one of them will become a monopoly.

For early stage startups I agree, but the prevalence of acquire-hires and straight-up acquisitions in recent years is indicative of thriving corporate M&A departments.

Given the recent wave of early-stage AI investments, another wave of not only consolidation but acquisitions is probably on the horizon.
Serious question. What advantage is there to running Linux on a Mac? OS X is already certified Unix. Is there any open source software that you can run on Linux that you can't run on OS X?
Current voice processing tech is still very much worse than an average human, no matter how fancy the microphones and how much power it's allowed to consume from the grid.

Good sensors aren't cheap, the optical and mechanical elements aren't likely to drop in price soon. Only the computing power is getting cheaper, but harnessing it isn't particularly easy (we're not getting better at programming as quickly as we're making faster chips).

If you need another example, consider automated cleaning robots. It's a considerably simpler problem to solve, and they're still only a marginal product. At the moment, autonomous tech is only really used in well-controlled industrial environments. It will surely break out of there progressively, but chances are it will take a while.
I would agree that old Bluetooth devices (especially those from around 2005 or earlier) often sounded poor. But modern Bluetooth devices (say 2009 onward) have generally sounded fine/great. I would go so far as to say that if you're listening to MP3s and not FLAC, then Bluetooth isn't your biggest signal loss.
If your vimrc is 150 lines after three months, try Emacs. It's likely more your speed.
The Yahoo thing is a huge deal. Email providers do interception all of the time and have strong procedural controls.

The idea that people could bypass those processes and controls is a tremendous liability that no board would ever approve.
>None of which has any bearing whatsoever on the simple factual matter of how the attacks happened, and what parties where responsible.

Which I didn't address and I don't care much about. However the attacks happened, and whoever parties were responsible, they were obviously inconsequential to the outcome of the elections.

But pointing out the hypocrisy is important, because it brings things to perspective and shows the absurdity of the complaints.
Yeah, I really wonder who's in charge of this mess.

Like I said somewhere else in this thread, all these new features are for Apple, not for users.

If they designed it for users, they would have NEVER made it so that they have to tap twice to take a photo before sending. Not to mention how they don't even allow you to open the camera as fullscreen.

Isn't it really ridiculous how nowadays when you want to take a quick picture and send it while messaging, you have to close the messages app, open the camera app, take the photo, and share it back to messages? Used to be: tap the camera button. Take the pic. Send.
Google uses Lexus cars for highway-speed testing.
I understand that some people do do this. Affiliate marketing/joint ventures.
My background: Finnish SE born in Finland

"developers have a low social standing in China"

You couldn't be further away from the truth. I used to live in Shanghai studying CS and also working there as a developer and I'd say it's one of the best professions to have in terms of social status.

When you tell you are a Developer/Software Engineer etc. in the minds of Chinese people that often means: educated, intelligent and rich which is pretty much the complete toolset to succeed in (Asian/)Chinese society.

In terms of dating pool I had to say I was quite surprised that when I told some local girls what did I do for living and they got more attracted. What in the west (ignorant) people see as "geek" or "nerd" in China and many other Asian countries is seen as intelligence and success.

I'd say that the social status of developers world wide has been getting better because of the recent tech boom but in China it never was underappreciated.

Edit: Speaking money-wise: Also the relative salary in China for SEs is really good.
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"The agenda is unknown, but the mood is likely to be tense."

A billionaire businessman is meeting with other billionaire businessmen (and women). The topic is unknown, but we're immediately to assume that things will be "tense".

Fake news, indeed.
The point is, if you want to convince others why it is so, you have to play by their rules. Your opinion is simply your opinion.

I do like _some_ of Apple's products, but I would never spend 150 dollars on these headphones. I'm hoping that Apple cheerleaders will drive down the cost so I can get the version 2/3 for cheap when all the bugs have been ironed out.
Feds unveil rule requiring cars to ‘talk’ to each other
Sorry no. Cars kill thousands of people every year, and will continue to do so. Car companies are doing just fine. Power companies literally kill millions every year, a-ok. McDonalds, Coca Cola ? ditto.
I wanted to like VR. I made a few apps, shipped a game, tried the Rift, Vive, and PSVR. My initial enthusiasm spread to friends and family. Peers purchased GearVRs and ordered cardboard. Fast forward a few years and every single one of those headsets is gathering dust. Once enthusiastic friends won't take my VR hardware for free.

I guess my primary gripe is that it's just not comfortable relative to any other form of entertainment. It's worse than reading on a phone or tablet. It's worse than playing games on a phone, console, or PC. It's worse than watching movies in the theatre. Sure, those are high bars and VR is still kinda young. But all the hype is quickly being exposed as bullshit. VR isn't catching on. Catching on looks like the iPhone in 2008-2009 or the web in the late nineties.
Shure SE215s. Not all that expensive, but for the price they're an amazing IEM. You can also get a cable that has a mic/remote in it.
Has anybody got standard bluetooth headphones and found a way to reliably use them on multiple Apple devices? Mine are usually paired to my phone, and it's just not worth the hassle of unpairing and pairing repeatedly until the Macbook picks them up as unpaired and lets me try to pair with them, which works about half the time. Maybe my Macbook's bluetooth is just broken.. This is kinda disappointing though because I know it'll never get fixed, because why bother when if I just bought headphones from them I wouldn't have the problem?
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