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Improbable's SpatialOS is actually a really, really neat piece of tech. For the first time it's becoming easy for an independent developer to build an MMO type application.

With the impending growth of VR (and virtual worlds in general), this is a great candidate for being the foundation of a new generation of apps.

Unity has done this for game development. It's the de facto engine of many research projects, video games, and some applications.

Unity lacks the ability to scale to large projects, however, which is where SpatialOS comes in. It's for projects that are large in scope (encourages/requires better programming practices) and is literally made for scale. The nice thing is that the SpatialOS tech uses Unity, but doesn't require it. It can be used with any engine if desired.
So Linux users should get the shaft because they're the minority? Android Studio and the emulator work very well on all 3 platforms.

>Trying to be identical across 3 platforms always means adopting the lowest common denominator and always results in being equally shit on every platform.

In that case we're fortunate that Xcode isn't cross platform.
... and used to exhaustion on YouTube mainly
Maybe it's just me but when I glance at the cover it looks like the book is about Windows 7 Internals only. I'm wondering how many others would think the same when seeing it on a bookshelf. It looks like the same layout was used for the 6th edition, I want to suggest the use of a different layout for the next editions.
Makes me wonder why they don't do original Xbox emulation on Xbox One -- seeing that both are X86.
They always did, but FOSS people always downplay the work that Microsoft Systems Research does, as if having a clone of an existing OS and UIs was some kind of innovation.
What happens if Uber just pleads guilty, in order to get back to work ASAP? They lose important patents. And then, the victor is obligated by patent law to license patents at a reasonable price, by some unknown definition of reasonable?

It looks to me like Uber could take another PR hit, burn a $billion or more on the fallout, raise more billions, and keep on going. Have ethically motivated boycotts ever worked out, historically?
That will just force Netflix, Apple, Amazon and others to start producing their own movies.

It will have the opposite effect.
Squeaky wheel optimization might help here.
The difference is the Uber app consistently underestimates the time to pick up.
This is the whole promise of UNIX. Do something once? Write a shell on-liner at the console. Do it a second time? Save your one-liner to ~/bin or as a shell function in your .${SHELL}RC. Need something more complex than a one-liner? Grab Ruby or another "loose" language that adds some sanity -- but importantly not too much.

When you build tools, try to add options to make my tools more flexible and amenable to scripting. Options like -z, to separate records on STDOUT with NULL, or having a trailing -- read input from STDIN, make tools much easier to script.
One major trend over the past 20 years has also been the realization that "non-coding" regions tend to be anything but, their effects are subtle and still being discovered.
For Windows I use ShareX, which is also open-source but not cross-platform. It's incredibly feature-packed.
.NET always supported ARM for embedded deployments, and nowadays UWP as well, so they have enough code around to update RyuJIT to also support ARM.
Do you want to hear a funny joke by the Australian Prime Minister?

The "cartoon that united Australians" - Malcolm Turnbull, PM, 2017 (his comment, he's not the cartoonist)

http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/53a5099c7991c37bb152ddf53...

Funny one, isn't it.
How long can Uber go without more money? They've raised billions, but they are burning through billions to subsidize growth. I don't see Uber doing too well if this drags on.
Isn't this a trade secrets case, not a patent case?
Would you please not post uncivilly? We ban accounts that violate the site guidelines like this.
Have you tried Monosnap? It's my favorite for macOS and Windows. Unsure if it had a Linux app, but it has a great quick editor, and support for a bunch of image hosts, including S3 uploads.
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Yeah, i found that too, but unfortunately they are not able to port it to MacOS due to all the native system calls required. :-/
Why write new bash scripts in this day and age...
The GPU looks like a monster, and I am sure it'll deliver more power to AI applications, but what I really want to know is when I can put one in my gaming PC.

I think it's great that what started as a specialist gaming device is now being used in industry for Big Things. The development cost that Nvidia et al. have invested in new designs has undoubtedly been financed in (large) part by the gaming community. Now income and advancements for both sectors feed into the other and gamers like me are reaping the benefits with reduced price:performance across the range.
I'm sure you never used an iPhone, or you suffer from cognitive dissonance.
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The two cameras have different focal distances so what one camera sees is totally different from what the other sees.
> Nothing in life is free, asshole

Commenting like this is a bannable offense on Hacker News. Please (re)-read the site rules, and please don't post uncivilly again.

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14318709 and marked it off-topic.
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Yeah i did, but it doesn't allow you to upload images to your own S3 account - only the one in their control.

It does have a really sexy UI though, almost as good as Capto!
All of you with your "clever" workarounds don't get it. It's you vs. someone who has been questioning people all day. Do you really think the agent will just go "Oh you don't have a device, you're good to go!" or "This phone looks like it's never been used, nothing suspicious here!"?

That's going to raise suspicions and make your life much harder. Unfortunately there's not much you can do to fight it except at the legislative level. It's a shitty situation, but telling people to do these "tricks" is going to make their lives even shittier.
Another great tool is Everything https://www.voidtools.com for Windows.

It's searching files with an ease that you start question yourself why windows search is so fucking retarded
Please don't post unsubstantive comments, especially not generic ideological tangents, which usually amount to trolling.
Wow, are the founders around 26 year old? They managed to build something like this a virtual reality technology from ground up? Or am I missing something.
This is gonna sound funny, but once way to train yourself to do this is playing Factorio[1]. Virtually every new thing you can build starts off as "that's a pain, I'll just make it manually" and rapidly graduates to "oh I need 5000 of them." You learn to just build at least a minimal production line for everything.

[1] https://www.factorio.com/
Until a game is delivered isn't it premature to label it a AAA team?
That's both unsubstantive and uncivil, exactly the opposite of what we want here. We ban accounts that comment like this, so please don't do it again.
Nope, not Raytheon.

You make a good point, but I think that it's not really a life or death thing for any of these ranchers. Obviously if it was then there should be some mitigation in place​ (and probably for all of them regardless).
You know, that could be true, it would be consistent with the fact that multiple entities involved have no real comment about this...
Certainly, I didn't mean to go so far as to say what we can see and touch might not be real. As far as I'm concerned, that's covered in the "common observances" I mentioned in my previous comment.

The "truths" I was referring to are things we can't verify ourselves (due to practicality or lack of knowledge), yet are commonly believed or taken for granted. Some examples:

- World maps

- Authorship (of music, books, etc.)

- Photos (see #bowwowchallenge for a good laugh)

- News

- The immutability of physics :)
That's entirely at odds with the data. More to the point, please don't troll here.
- Any film that wishes to compete in Competition at Cannes will have to commit itself to being distributed in French movie theaters. This new measure will apply from the 2018 edition of the Festival International du Film de Cannes onwards.

Makes sense. I guess they want potential winners to be viewable by the people and not appear to be promoting netflix as the only option.
Your table doesn't include the new "tensor core" TFLOPS of V100.

That's a core that does 4x4 FP16 matrix multiplication + 4x4 FP32 accumulation in one go.

That's where V100 gets its boost, up to 120 TFLOPS.
> The budget was already blowing out beyond 2x the cost

According to partisan figures that were often repeated but never justified. I don't doubt it would have blown out, world class infrastructure would have been worth it at twice the cost. Instead we have the current NBN who's costs have blown out just as much to delivery 20th century infrastructure.
Isn't Netflix already producing their own movies which is what the dispute is all about? Now what Netflix/Amazon need is their own film festival and awards show (never mind, apparently the Streamy Awards is already a thing).
I've played a lot of Elite: Dangerous it is unclear how much new ground is actually being broken here. I'm looking forward to and hoping SC succeeds, but let's not ignore the competitors that have already delivered.
Wow, these are really great tips for anybody thinking that their photography is a bit stagnant. Thumbs up to Apple for providing a simple, creative, and 60fps <3 videos that could be generalized to any camera.
Finite State Entropy is the leaner, faster entropy encoder that you probably want to use instead of Arithmetic coding. It's also much more likely to be something that could be made parallel--at least for encoding, Arithmetic coding traditionally uses division, and there's no SSE integer division.

But that's okay, because ANS / FSE are here.
I think this is much simpler than Oracle v Google concerning Java APIs. Levandowski stole thousands of documents from Google, started a competitor using those documents, then sold his startup to Uber. And the timeline makes it look like Uber was involved from the beginning.
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For supporting the "oops I accidentally deleted my table/collection/graph - how do I get it back?" scenario, Cosmos DB automatically takes periodic, full backups of all your data. Currently, we restore your backups on demand and its free - you just send a mail to us. In a few months, we will expose an API using which you can restore the data you accidentally deleted yourself.
More like, the more we realize how little we actually knew before.
Not sure about the rest, but doesn't the Australia and New Zealand Food Standards Authority just adopt the USFDA stance where appropriate?

I don't know. What leads you to think that?
> New government decided to make major revamps for no reason other than it was different to the previous government so they could use it as an election issue.

The worst part was the nationals. In 2007 they were bitching that it needed to be fiber, by 2010 they were saying copper is the future.
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The downside is that you'll be subject to compression artifacts, whereas digital zoom means you crop before any compression is applied.
> What if the cells of the brain have their own genome because each one of the billions of cells has a near specific specialized function.

That's the opposite of my interpretation -- it goes to show that even in the face of inevitable statistical noise, biological systems are incredibly fault-tolerant and durable. And furthermore, a neuron is just a neuron. It's unlikely that the genomic differences in a genius's neurons are significant compared to the overall genetic average which gave rise to a certain structure, certain proteins being more common, etc.
The biggest issue with the whole project wasn't the abandoning of FTTP and move to MTM but the locking in of 2010 prices for the foreseeable future via a ridiculous CVC charge that only existed to turn a profit.

The founder of one of Australia's largest independent ISP's Internode (and later NBNco board member) Simon Hackett put it very well in 2011 where he showed locking in a arbitrary $20 charge per megabit hobbled the network.The whole profitability revolved around charging more for faster speeds/more data in the future.

Every other technological advance gave users faster for cheaper whereas this network would only work if people paid more. Cut to the future and now you've got competition from 4G cellular data at the low end and private companies providing private fibre/wireless networks at the top end. The whole pyramid is coming crashing down so much that the government has had to introduce a new broadband tax ($7.10 per month) to subsidize it.

And even the tax won't solve the problems because the CVC usage charge still exists and the business case still resolves around charging more in the future. In about 5 years when they realize what a stuff up it's been we can only help they write it all off and we can go back having affordable fast internet like the rest of the world.

https://simonhackett.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/commsday-w-...

https://blog.internode.on.net/2011/07/21/nbn-retail-pricing-...
Thankfully, the unhinged racist who drew it just shuffled off this mortal coil. He had many more which were just as terrible as this.
Just installed on my OnePlus One. Is very laggy to switch between options by touching the buttons at the bottom of the screen. In particular, pressing the chat button seems to do nothing for over a second before it switches to the chat page. I've had this phone for a few years, and this is definitely the lagiest app I've used on it.

[edit] /data/data/io.keybase.ossifrage/files/service.log seems to be getting filled with a tonne of data every time I interact with anything in the app. I can see that filesize becoming a problem.
Have ethically motivated boycotts ever worked out, historically?

Yes, but very rarely. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott
I think you're worrying about a problem that most users don't care about.

Improbable could cap the density if they need to, and over time they can do optimizations to increase the maximum.
Yes, they invested $250m at a $3.5bn valuation, estimated to be 2-7% ownership currently[1]. Makes me wonder: if Uber is found liable for a huge amount that would bankrupt them, could there be a situation where Waymo absorbs Uber as a post-trial settlement rather than Uber being liquidated?

[1]https://www.recode.net/2015/12/6/11621176/google-ventures-ow...
I think the comic undersells the value of automation, there are documentation and accuracy benefits as well, not to mention they can often remove a lot of mental context switching.
An interesting hypothesis, but difficult to reconcile with the surprisingly successful history of hemispherectomy [1]. Unless, perhaps, many unique neurons still serve nearly identical functions, despite their differences? Perhaps their uniqueness is a defense against disease, rather than functional specialization?

I don't mean "functions" in the sense of classic neuroscience, like specialized regions of the brain; I am using it as a very generic term, for lack of a better one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy
One of the cofounders is already a billionaire - money attracts money, not product or talent.
Everything doesn't index file contents, which makes the problem of searching significantly simpler. It does require the human to remember filenames. Offloading the problem to the user isn't the greatest idea.
Read only transactions existed in DocumentDB too. DocumentDB was a strict subset of the capabilities that Cosmos DB provides/existed underneath. Hence, read only transactions exist in Cosmos DB too. The first technical overview blog post attempted to provide you a high level overview. We are hoping to cover specific areas in either future blog posts, conference publications.
There's a whole series of those films, all done for Chevrolet.

- "What Stops Them" - hydraulic brakes

- "Tough Friends" - automotive steel alloys

- "No Ghosts" - auto frame design for stiffness

- "Horsepower" - shows exactly what one horsepower is

- "Balance" - system integration of the automobile

- "Precisely so" - measurement and manufacturing precision

- "Streamlines" - air resistance

- "Down the gasoline trail" - from fuel tank to exhaust

All these are in the Internet Archive in the Prelinger collection of industrial films.

Chevrolet really wanted to explain how an automobile works. These films are much better at explaining than most of what we see today.
Wait till you have someone file a wrongful copyright complaint against your Google Play App. Google took ours down two weeks ago and won't respond to our appeals despite clearly owning the copyright for all work done on the app.
It should be noted that comment was made at the artists funeral and is not complete. The full quote is 'cartoon that united Australians in defence of freedom' referring to freedom of speech

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/mar/17/turnbull-lauds...
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I always remember being impressed by the Amiga and the ability to automate GUI applications with Arexx - I know OSX has Automator but apps don't seem to integrate as deeply (if at all) and Apple script feels nasty.
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I guess it kind of makes sense because the Streaming-Only movies are not available to the general public in cinemas and require a paid subscription. "Normal" movies have a one-time fee too and these competitions are free advertising for every winner, but in the case of Streaming they are essentially free advertising for a movie subscription.
Everything is really great; anyone who uses Windows should try it out.

I have 1.3 million files on my C: drive, and it can find any of them (or any matching subset) as fast as I can type.

It has a ton of options, but I have most of them on the defaults. Here are the ones I like to customize in Tools/Options:

In General, turn on "Check for updates at startup". ("Start Everything at system startup" should be on by default.)

In View, turn on "Show row mouseover".

In Keyboard, set "New window Hotkey" to Win+Alt+F (or any other key combo you like, but this one is pretty convenient).

And related to the current topic, Everything does have a CLI and an SDK.
Like here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14318899
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We use Ansible to deploy/manage peoples' SSH keys on our servers. From their laptop or a jumpbox (within the management VLAN) with their personal key (and a passphrase!) they are able to login in to all those servers. So logins are personal (as opposed to shared accounts which have to be updated when people leave). Now when new people arrive or when people leave we just run an Ansible playbook and all our 400+ servers are updated.
> I'm not sure if it's helpful to think about things that way because it can be applied to just about everything.

It can be applied to just about anything (well, anything combat-related) because, in fact, nothing combat-related is purely defensive; it's all, including things whose direct use is protective, developed and acquired in order to improve the ability to destroy the enemy.

It's not helpful to delude oneself into believing that the purely defensive exists.
You can always pay 9.99 or whatever the price and cancel after one month. Still cheaper than movies.
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Not just copper. 100-year-old waterlogged copper. We prefer our transmission lines to be well-aged down here.
Yup, and they recently wrote down half a billion in Ola and Snapdeal in India.

Basically, this investment gives Improbable a 5-10 year time horizon to basically do whatever they want. But they can't just work with every game dev studio under the sun -- they actually have to grow the entire MMO market in order to actually turn a profit for investors.
The spirit of the article was to praise the fruits of SV culture, in which Elon Musk is a revered leader. But yeah, if you want to be pedantic, yes space x is in Southern california.
Out of interest, do you think the extra context ameliorates the Prime Minister's proud defence of base racism?
It is certainly preferable to you and others in a similar situation. It is, I suspect, somewhat less preferable to git maintainers, who would need to build and test an additional binary package using a different toolchain for every release, and deal with bug reports from confused users mixing up git-with-bash and git-without-bash.
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It is both. What happens if they admit to stealing trade secrets, and clearly intend to continue to compete in the market? Could the judge literally kick them out of the industry, or force the company to disband by labeling it an illegal organization?
"SF city occupies approximatively the same area as Paris, with only a third of the population."

And so? Is it affordable live in Paris? No, it is not. I just looked up rents there, and a 500sf studio will run you around $1300-$1500USD a month. Given average salaries in the area, this does not compare favorably to SF. (As a matter of fact, the city of Paris has just enacted strict rent-control laws, because rents were seen as unaffordable.)

Also, be more specific: what part of SF are you talking about? If you're talking about the 1/3rd of SF that could be characterized as "city", the density is already quite high. Increasing the density of already dense areas won't meaningfully impact rents. But meanwhile, average density numbers completely ignore that the western 2/3 of SF looks like suburbs:

https://www.google.co.jp/maps/@37.7501516,-122.4626812,3a,75...

That's in the city of San Francisco. I dropped a pin randomly in the west side of the city. You can see Sutro Tower!

When we talk about density in SF, these are the areas that matter. But even if you could build higher density in these areas, you'd still have to buy the land (which would suddenly be much more expensive), build transit, infrastructure, and so on. There is no inexpensive solution to this problem.
"SF city occupies approximatively the same area as Paris, with only a third of the population."

And so? Is it affordable live in Paris? No, it is not. I just looked up rents there, and a 500sf studio will run you around $1300-$1500USD a month. Given average salaries in the area, this does not compare favorably to SF. (As a matter of fact, the city of Paris has just enacted strict rent-control laws, because rents were seen as unaffordable.)

Also, be more specific: what part of SF are you talking about? If you're talking about the 1/3rd of SF that could be characterized as "city", the density is already quite high. Increasing the density of already dense areas won't meaningfully impact rents. But meanwhile, average density numbers completely ignore that the western 2/3 of SF looks like suburbs:

https://www.google.co.jp/maps/@37.7501516,-122.4626812,3a,75...

That's in the city of San Francisco. I dropped a pin randomly in the west side of the city. You can see Sutro Tower!

When we talk about density in SF, these are the areas that matter. Building slightly higher buildings in the Mission won't move the needle, even slightly.
Either that or they launch their own film festival to eclipse Cannes.
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Some people just never notice certain parts of UI. There are millions and millions of people with iPhones and there is likely going to be someone who just learned about the camera-switching icon for the first time.

Plus, that same video showed people that you can use the volume buttons as shutter buttons which is something most people likely don't know about.