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I was at a talk with someone who demoed building an application from scratch in about an hour using the unity hololens vr toolkit(?).

And I was able to try on on at a meetup.

Considering all the whole thing is self contained and is handling the rendering on the device is amazing. With some of the dev tools you can see it building models of everything and one in the room in real time.

I played the Conquer game which was fun to watch the characters hide behind chairs and stuff. And the maps sort of build them selfs to the room and worked even with lots of people in the meetup.

Getting the hand gestures take's a second but are pretty intuitive with "clicking" stuff sort of pinching your index and thumb together.

The field of view is actually only the glasses under the visor. The visor I believe is more to help with improve contrast and block a bit of light.
> Agent Orange

What's the issue with this? They (the former chemical company) were a DOD supplier.
Read alternatively, it came off extremely amateurish to straight up admit (or blame, depending on reading) that they're making a wholesale switch off a product line that was in development for a wild, and after public release. There's dozens of things that went wrong to get them to this point, 1 dev leaving shouldn't have even risen to the point of being mentionable.

I don't even host mission-critical data on my freenas instance, it's mostly a first-line backup for me + internal apps I run for the house, and I'm hesitant to go forward with them following this.
Looks like it's Ubuntu with a bunch more apps pre-installed.

After a fresh install I usually start with removing the apps I don't use -- games, accessibility tools, print drivers, cd burner, document indexer, default email client etc. etc. etc. So I guess this flavor would be the opposite of what I want...
I don't think it changes really it's just the next huge successes will come from a direction that will blindside the current incumbents. Either that or the model is dead as the ladder gets pulled up behind the winners.
Day 1, no processes, pedal to the metal are great for the business owner but suck for the proletariat. Contrast this to Google where for the most part Software engineers are happy to work.
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Ideally, sure. That's far from the only thing that's non-ideal about an Amazon Echo, though. The person I was responding to was interested in using "computer" as their activation word.
What?? No.

It is the artistic equivalent of putting a mustache sculpture in front of the Mona Lisa.
Yet by every account that mattters it doesn't, right? I understand that people who are there can certainly wish that the place and culture were different in some significant way, but the only barometer that should have some weight is the ease or difficulty that Amazon has in attracting and retaining top talent -- and that to the extent that it is harming their ability to deliver results. Which, from the outside, it certainly doesn't seem to be limiting.

The counterargument is that of course the things which makes Amazon's work culture toxic to people are orthogonal to their success and not a cause of it. My former boss was very well aware that she could sometimes be downright mean and nasty to our staff, and I cringed every time she justified it by citing what people thought the same of Steve Jobs: While true, we can't avoid the fundamental problem of causal inference, and there is no saying that had Jeff been actively striving to make a more welcoming culture, or if Steve or my former boss were nice people, that they wouldn't have experienced even greater success.
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I can't speak for US law, but in Canada at least the holder of the artistic copyright is allowed to control/restrict modifications to their art. For example, the Eaton's center placed temporary Christmas bows on a sculpture they were displaying. The artist objected, and won in court.

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

That said, I can't speak to how US law will see it, or how the law works in regards to adjacent art installations.
Looks like the launch bug is private? https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=705916
As I understand it they followed the procedures and rules just as they are defined and in the law. Had the guy willfully gotten out of his seat he would have been compensated the "involuntary bumping" rate that is set by the Dept of Transportation.

But the fact that United got to that point is the problem. They had the option to offer more money for volunteers, they even had the option to find a different flight for their employees, or maybe send them on a cab ride instead (one passenger in the video even pointed this out while it was happening). Of course, the excessive use of force is on the police and they should be the ones outside of the law on this one, I don't believe being loud in that situation warrants you get a concussion, that's just wrong.
AFAIK the early hours classes are meant to build discipline, not to optimise for learning. A lot of school rituals seem to be built with the goal of making you used to a disciplined punctual life, rather than actually teaching you any knowledge.
This is great. I love to see this kind of news. Good teachers are very expensive and there's a of schools that prefers to have mediocre ones and capitalize their earnings.

I'm doing 4 to 6 online courses per year I think it's a great way to spend my money. And I always have the same teachers with me
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To a point you have a point, but there is a point at which your ~/bin becomes unwieldy. I have 386 commands in mine, and for commands I don't use very often, I tend to forget their names, or that they even exist. So searching my fish history with Percol can be much faster than trying to remember the specific, hyphenated name I gave to the script I wrote a year ago.

I also have a `~/.savedcommands` file that I save one-liners to with a comment at the end, and `C-s` at the prompt loads that file into Percol, so I can search these more easily than searching the entire shell history. `savelastcommand` saves the last command to this file, or `savecommand COMMAND` does the same thing.
Exactly. A 3XX Redirection instead of shutting you down with a 417 Expectation Failed.
If you actually started the university day at 12pm, though, then evening classes would run later, and students would stay up later, creating a vicious cycle.

Plus, you'd have fewer daylight hours to walk home after class.
You could argue that the healthiest thing for the ecosystem is to build highly defensible, technology-driven businesses. In that sense, Snapchats shouldn't exist at all.

On the other hand, giant companies like Facebook are the only ones who can really afford to just steal stuff and make it high performance. A startup's main premise can't be "technology-driven" in the most traditional sense of high performance. A startup will be out-performed by companies with more resources, like giant corporations.

Instead, think outside the box: what if you distribute data in a decentralized way, like BitTorrent? What if the bank is distributed, like Bitcoin? What if content wasn't ALLOWED to make money, like CC-NC? What if you organize the world's information by empowering authors, like Wikipedia?

People think Google has all the power and all the information, and they forget how much better Wikipedia is at achieving Google's own goals, at 1/100,000th the cost!

Wikipedia might not have a mapping product like Google's, and they don't index your e-mail, and it doesn't have as nice of a collaborative editor. Wikipedia is playing a different game altogether.

Google thought, well, let's copy/acquire these things that Microsoft does (Office, Exchange, Maps). Google is Microsoft's Facebook. Nothing is going to happen to Microsoft just because Google copies tons of their products, giving them away for free. Is Google bad for the ecosystem? Microsoft (and Snapchat, for that matter) are powerful companies.

Baidu copies Google features too—are they bad for the ecosystem? It's not obvious, because our dislike of these giant megacorporations and our assessment of their contributions to society are all colored by politics and opinions.

I think we're more interesting in protecting Wikipedias. In my opinion, Wikipedia is beating Google handily in the world's information department. Someone will figure out an unassailable (though not necessarily lucrative) answer to what Facebook and Snapchat attempt to do.
Yes, it is per process, so it would only limit memory-per-tab. I believe you get the "aw snap" window in chrome if it hits the limit.
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The talk you linked to is quite enjoyable, thank you!
I can see the flip side to that argument when you're pitching which is that if you're profitable, then you're probably not investing aggressively enough in growth/bets. Consider public companies that pay dividends; that's basically excess operating profit that they couldn't think of a better way to use (capital investment, etc.).
I have no idea how you could make that comparison. The original artwork was neither destroyed, changed, or touched in any way. It's not in any way like "painting a black mustache on the Mona Lisa with a marker".
You say "just fb flow" as if it's the default choice. If I were looking at project and community momentum, tooling, and adoption then TypeScript would seem like the obvious choice.

I'm curious why you think "why not just fb flow" for somebody who wants typed JS. It's certainly an option, but it hardly seems the go-to solution.
I'm surprised turbine costs haven't fallen -- maybe we need more cruise missiles and jet-powered drones to raise the volume and lower per unit costs.
Why I still prefer Snapchat:

1. After launching the app I am right in the take-a-picture mode. With Instagram I need one or two touches.

2. Different DNA, different circles

3. Pics to one or several people is way better and faster than on Instagram.

Only because they share the stories features doesn't mean they are interchangeable. They are still different products.

Even if Instagram has more MAUs on the stories feature Instagram's DNA gets dilluted with the integration of the story feature. Random, inflationary and non-glossy media wasn't part of Instagrams previous shiny DNA and experience.
"The squeaky wheel gets the oil." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_squeaky_wheel_gets_the_gre...
I went to college with a guy who did industrial, embedded stuff you see in factories. One of his projects he told me about was a robot that cut the glass windows or something like that at a Volvo plant. Anyway, he wrote the software for sensors, control, etc. Integrated it into GUI tools or backends. I said something kind of like you said to him.

He replied that he'd have better job security than any of us in IT doing stuff like PHP or Java. He said the reason is he had to be on-site to do his work. Impossible to out-source. When I pointed out in-sourcing (H1-B, etc), he said they preferred people with both strong command of English (avoid costly misunderstandings) and experience (avoid costly mistakes). The experience often comes from working locally in colleges or companies.

So, I definitely encourage people to explore coding in C and C++ for local, embedded systems at the least. There's other jobs that don't require local or embedded where those languages are used. They're not outsourcing-proof w/ consistently good pay, though. ;)
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That's pretty sobering reading.
How about the performance? Is it a good fit to use postgres as a k/v store?
Well, now that it's morning I can't say that it's "mostly" X inactivation; male zebras and tigers are striped so that's not going to be X inactivation.
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Why would Amazon have an interest in dealing with counterfeits? It just primes the market for them moving in with their brand of the thing.
I think you're assuming a lot by saying "entrepreneurs" there. It's not like we pump "entrepreneurs" out of some sort of cadet school, and then some of them go on to join the Dark Side. People become entrepreneurs (i.e. found businesses) for a variety of reasons. One of those reasons is because they want to get rich quick. Social walled gardens are a good path to that, if you can manage to build one. The people who do so might pretend to be participating in the "hacker ethos"—but they're not members of our community able to be swayed by our social mores. They're just businessmen, of their own kind.
I'm not 100% educated on the law, but my assumption is that the name of the book is trademarked, but not the story itself. My apologies if that is incorrect.

It's also my understanding that book titles are not protected under trademark law, except for the title of a series, so The Lord of The Rings could be trademarked, but not The Notebook.
Agreed. As a long time prime user, it's been the rise in counterfeit goods that has really shook my unwavering loyalty to Amazon. I used to order everything on there, without thinking twice. Now, I'm much more careful about what I buy on there, and often just avoid purchasing on Amazon entirely.
Yours and new in the sense of what you're asserting in this thread. I'm just being poetic, don't be so literal.

But good luck having a particularly big advantage in a fight against most fellow adults of your species without using society to get there.

This sounds like a roundabout way of restating the libertarian trope about the state having a monopoly on violence. Look, let me just ask you directly: how much experience you have of real violence? Have you ever fought for your life, or put it in serious jeopardy? I don't mean an everyday bad situation, I mean one where you were genuinely on your own with no prospect of assistance.
It's as if someone hung a picture of a moustache next to a picture of the Mona Lisa. No copyrights remotely violated.
This is a really interesting case, since it seems like it really goes down to artistic integrity. The 'Charging Bull' statue seems to be pro-capitalism - which might not be a popular statement, but seems like a reasonable one to want to make. By adding the 'Fearless Girl' to the mix, it changes the meaning of 'Charging Bull'.

I mean, if someone added a 'Camera' statue to the mix that looked up the girl's skirt, that could be a valid statement about something (objectification of women, for example). But we'd be outraged about the change of the meaning to 'Fearless Girl' - and so I think it's at least interesting to talk about the change in the meaning of 'Charging Bull'.
There is a body of quasi-copyright principles that apply to artistic works called 'moral rights.' This framework recognizes a "right of integrity" which prevents unauthorized modifications of the work.

This approach seem pretty strange to those used to the American system of copyright law and U.S. law does not fully recognize them. But, being Italian, this framework is probably informing the artist's views here.

Here is a brief write-up: https://cyber.harvard.edu/property/library/moralprimer.html
You're 1.) implying that Amazon isn't actively trying to fix it (otherwise they would be "walking the walk") and 2.) that it's a widespread issue (all I've heard about counterfeit products are from a few HNers)
So - functional languages are what you are referring to then?

My goal was/is to find something to work on in my spare time using a new language. Just to keep learning as well as broaden my horizons :)
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I'm not normally one for Schadenfreude, but I sincerely hope he loses this case. It's okay for him to stick his sculpture in the square without a permit, but no one else can, even with a permit? He doesn't own the street, and he needs to learn that firmly and promptly.
Maybe it's just because I'm from the midwest and have spent time on farms, but when I saw that statue my first thought was "Does she want to die?"
Just in case FreeNAS people are lurking around here, all the talk about jails support does not speak to me in the slightest. Utilizing jails has been one of my #1 pain points with FreeNAS. The quality of user-supplied jails was so poor in my experience, I got out of the practice of using pre-build jails and just had to start wiring up my own.

The docker switcharoo in Corral had me excited and I was able to spin up my existing FreeNAS 9.x workflows very easily, but if you're going back to jails thinking that it'll solve problems, let me be at least 1 person to say -- the jails infrastructure has been abysmal for my experience, and I give a hearty thumbs-down to doubling-down on it.
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I'm experiencing this right now. My first 3 semesters or so, classes before 10am were both difficult to go to and difficult to get anything out of. Yet without changing any of my habits, getting up earlier is far easier. I'd lean towards this being due to maturing, but it's naturally quite difficult to say when my sample size is myself.
Facebook attempted to buy Snapchat for $3B 3 years ago (http://mashable.com/2014/01/06/snapchat-facebook-acquisition...). Entrepreneurs should be plenty encouraged by that. Snapchat made the decision to compete with Facebook.
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Isn't this the standard corporate PR response when a company does something wrong? "We followed our internal process, so everything is cool! I guess we're done here!"
I believe these are called 'moral rights."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights
Ok, what are we looking at? Could you add some context?
I struggled with multiple blind spots in Flow in the past, but recently tried porting the same code to Flow and Typescript and I was surprised that Flow took less work than TypeScript. Flow 0.43.1 has become very fast and seems to need less type annotations compared to TypeScript with noImplicitAny enabled. I wonder whether Flow’s happily infers any without complaining or whether its program flow analysis remains more sophisticated.
Because they are that powerful, they know it won't hurt them much, for example I will still fly united if the ticket is $10 less.
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So other than the patents Microsoft acquired from purchasing Nokia, did they gain anything else? Or was the acquistion a wash?
Are you on Android? I switched back from Android to iOS a while back, and my impression is that their android app is the much crappier version.
Looks like not much over a couple hundred feet and Copenhagen is flat as a pancake.
> This is a surprisingly common trap to fall into. I worked at a startup in which the CTO criticized my dev team for not having a perfectly linear burn down chart.

You are describing this far more charitably than I would. I would describe it as idiocy.

For some (idiotic) reason some management types have this belief that when they measure some metric, it should fit some ideal shape when they put it on a graph, whether or not that makes any sense.

This is exactly the fallacious thinking behind stack ranking where people persistently abuse/misunderstand the whole concept of normal distribution by changing employee evaluation scores to match a normal distribution. It's like these people took a statistics class and only remembered the shapes they saw (and really only one shape) and none of the concepts underpinning those shapes.

Anyone who subscribes to this dangerously simplistic mode of thinking shouldn't have a position of leadership. Unfortunately many times everyone in leadership subscribes to the same cargo cult so they can't hold each other accountable.
The title is a bit misleading. The article discusses the notable increase of 2nd-stage seed rounds, as the bar for Series A funding is getting higher.

In some sense, reminds me a bit of academia, where in the past couple decades it has become common for aspiring faculty to complete a second post-doc position because of too many rising post-docs competing over too-few open faculty appointments.
What's wrong with Starbucks doing that? Mcdonald's tried to capture the morning coffee crowd multiple times and failed. It's not dirty, it's how competition works. It's offering the same product more conveniently or otherwise improved- that's not far off a textbook definition of competition.
Interesting -- do you have a link on this?
Well, Java has generics, but you still can't do this same thing: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1115230/casting-object-ar...

I agree that having generics in Go would be fantastic, and I'm excited at rsc's articulation of why. But they don't completely solve this problem.
Yes, will use a windows server next time too.
I ran into an issue on upgrade that required me to connect to a monitor to figure out what was going on. Basically I just had out of date drivers on a storage controller so I needed to upgrade that, once I did, everything was smooth sailing.
I could see the plugin system working, but we're years away from that. So saying JS/TS will be deprecated soon is still pretty incorrect.
Similar to Douglas Adams' "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Calling something a DVR when it doesn't have FF is also interesting. If it's "ON DEMAND" with easy bookmarking, that's fine, but it's not a DVR.
Yea, Diaspora was an excellent book.

Biology tends not to be much like the mathematical cellular automata; it's generally much messier. On the other hand, we're made up of lots of cells and all of those cells are just tiny machines following programs, so I guess it's true by definition. Still, it's nothing like the minimal automata everyone likes to play with.
Do you have a background in electronic engineering / good understanding of hardware issues beyond cpu caching ? Just trying to understand what $125k requires in this space.
There's a quote that goes something like "never let a good catastrophe go to waste" or something like that. This would be a pretty good time for a start-up airline to step in and shake things up.

Problem with the airline industry is that its about as far from free market as you can get. The routes are set by the DOT and auctioned and traded among airlines like football players on an NFL team. And just like the NFL its almost impossible to bring a new team in because of the rules and the massive capital it would take. AFAIK there are a few options for companies that want to operate outside of the normal airport and commercial airline structure, but they are very limited.
Nope. Like most of the US, I have access to only one provider here in NYC (Unless you include slow, unreliable DSL or... shudder... dialup). And a friendly employee I know was kind enough to look through all possible deals
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JetBlue usually sells inflexible tickets with fewer connections, so passengers are much more likely to show up for their flight. In 2013, they only had to deny 18/21,000,000 passengers where the average rate is at 9/10,000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWksuyry5w does a great 5 min overview talking about this exact thing.