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I hate the "" -> “” thing with a passion. I don't know how much productivity that the world has lost with that “” shit.

It doesn't look that much better, and it always fucks with me at random times. That shit is on the list of annoying problems that shouldn't exist in the first place, along with the \nl\cr thing, and the txt saved as rtf thing, and the UTF-8 encoding-character-at-the-beginning-of-the-file or whatever it is called.

Someone complains your program gives them an error when they open a csv file you sent them. You tested your program, it works. You go on the phone with them for 30 minutes, try to figure out what the fuck was going on. There it is, it was opened in a program that meddles with that "" and replaces it with the “” shit.

Also, there has to be at least one time you're fucked by the "" -> “” snobbiness when you go to a random Wordpress site and paste the command they tell you to do to the command line and realize it doesn't work. You pull your hair for a couple of minutes, and there is that sneaky ” thing. Wordpress does that for anything it doesn't think as code (inb4 ”good programmers don't paste commands from wordpress to GNU+bash“).

One of the first things that I do when I set up a new Mac computer is to turn that damn "" -> “” ““““feature”””” off.
(if thoughts are a result of non-time-reversible computational process then) observing the logical state of a computation requires a minimum quantum of energy per bit, pretty much necessitating a physical mechanism that compensates for entropy increase (but the amount of energy is only just barely greater than zero per bit, so all I can say for certain is that to be able to think is not beyond physical constraints)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
They keep talking about a sunglasses size product. Is even such a thing possible? I understand they are using vectored graphics, and I can't imagine you could create an immersive world within a sunglasses sized computational unit, unless they have massive compression and crazy hardware. But can you pass that data wirelessly? Can BlueTooth 5 handle the necessary traffic?
Not sure how WSL is more compelling than using docker containers. I can very easily download, compile and run basically anything I want with minimal friction and way less domain knowledge than managing a VM.

Also, this might just be me being snarky, but MS is absolutely losing the battle for developer tooling and that's what's prompted them to try to sway developers back to their ecosystem. If the circumstances were any different, I'm sure they'd be perfectly happy letting us suffer using cygwin and putty.

Don't trust a snake.
Apple's ARKit release has opened many people's eyes to the potential of AR as the true nextgen platform.

Made possible by apples truly vertically integrated hardware/software biz.

Especially in comparison to goog with their stillborn Project Tango due to the huge android platform fragmentation.

So how is a magic leap worth $6b? Consider that Android generated in excess of $31billion in revenue by Jan '16(1).

Having a "killer app" to capture market share in the coming AR consumer platform wars is easily worth that price of admission and if ML pulls it off $6b will look cheap.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-21/google-s-...
"how much of an audio API can you have if you stipulate that all user-specified code must run in the UI thread?"

I just threw up in my mouth a little :/
As correctly predicted by Taek eight days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15175635
> The important thing there is to cache the result of the compiled expression or the dynamic IL code because the compile time/emit is slower than a single use of reflection

I came across some code a few weeks ago that skipped this step. It wasn't called remotely often enough to justify the complication in the first place (low volume internal web app) but it didn't cache the result so it ended up making things slower. Thanks to the wonders of RenderAction in MVC it compiled the dynamic IL 20 times per page view as well.
> category theory / abstract algebra

Woah there!

But otherwise, yes.

Most working mathematicians have seen category theory and borrow bits and pieces of notation and such. But most of their work is done in far more concrete settings.

Working programmers should adopt the same arrangement.

It's a subtle position, but not an inconsistent one. I promise :-)
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Well the assumption is physics being sufficiently mathematic to be able to calculate the next state making any movement a computation (albeit beyond our understanding)
Maybe sell it as a plugin for MS Word? Querystorm[1] (ThingieQuery, previously), a plugin that allows SQL queries on Excel spreadsheets, seems to be doing pretty well.

[1]: http://www.querystorm.com/
Last report I read mentioned two waist-mounted units for computing and battery that would be linked up to the sunglass-sized product (presumably by wires).

I'm sure they have made some good technical advances. But the fact that it's taken this long to productize it to something people can try is.. not promising.

Given their burn rate they really need the first product to have substantial market traction to sustain such valuations and keep moving. That's challenging to say the least..
Yeah except Google is one of the backers. If one of the companies actively working on R&D is backing it, isn't that saying something?
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by dual booting and using Linux for your hardcore development your basically ceding that Windows sucks at this. I agree honestly it's sad that Windows is not POSIX compliant, why can't I run bash, GIT, ssh, and a decent package manager on Windows? that will be it's downfall because the hardcore devs are all on Linux and OS X
So they previously raised a BILLION dollars. Why are they raising more? I can't imagine this company spending a billion dollars in only a couple of years considering they're not even shipping anything yet.
Have you spoken to current or former engineers? I have spoken to a few former engineers, and the responses ranged from neutral to negative on the prospects of the product appeal of the tech. Obviously both groups will be biased in their own way. My own impression is that the stealthiness comes from the lack of a quality deliverable, and not a holdout of some mind-blowing reveal.
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Why not use a browser based presentation app like Google Slides and not deal with stupid proprietary software that won't run on anything but a windows or mac machine?
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1.- name is ugly

2.- you don't have a target market

3.- while the Lawyers seem like a great target market, they like to use Word.

4.- there are Word products already in the market, so it's a Proven niche.

5.- I would drop the name and go for a Product that works inside Word with minimal fuss.

6.- Do you have the time and energy?

7.- why did you make this product?
At one point I read that the british universal system is actually cheaper per-person than the US market determined system. Sorry I don't have a reference for that, but anecdotally, I can recall several stories of simple items like "saline solution" receiving excessive markup in the market system because it would all be covered by the insurance anyway. I wish some more knowledgeable healthcare people can comment here.
Google Ventures is legally distinct from Google. And Google Ventures is actually a mediocre venture firm based on their history.
From that Wiki article you linked (just about everyone gets blamed) And to note, some of the contracts were signed by Davis:

>Some critics, such as Arianna Huffington, alleged that Davis was lulled to inaction by campaign contributions from energy producers.[28] In addition, the California State Legislature would sometimes push Davis to act decisively by taking over power plants which were known to have been gamed and place them back under control of the utilities, ensuring a more steady supply and slapping the nose of the worst manipulators . Meanwhile, conservatives argued that Davis signed overpriced energy contracts, employed incompetent negotiators, and refused to allow prices to rise for residences statewide much like they did in San Diego, which they argue could have given Davis more leverage against the energy traders and encouraged more conservation.[29] More criticism is given in the book Conspiracy of Fools, which gives the details of a meeting between the governor and his officials; Clinton Administration Treasury officials; and energy executives, including market manipulators such as Enron, where Gray Davis disagreed with the treasury officials and energy executives<
IMO duality is contained in both/either the first and/or the second case since the idea is that consciousness and matter is a feedback loop of some sort you can pick the chicken or the egg as an axiom and derive the other one. But then again this is some serious arm chair philosophizing so I'm sure there's a case that isn't covered by that line of reasoning.

Personally I'm a fan of defining the base of my reality as consciousness or subjective experience but I still like to think that there is Truth and that my experience contains at least a shadow of it.

Edit: I do think duality is a really useful conceptualization since you can think of The World (or what I just called Truth above) as existing and then there is Absurd which is everything that doesn't exist (and you can't disprove because yay category theory!). Then you can say all of Existence can be categorized in some arbitrary way, there are X categories that can be nested to any depth and maybe there are some strange loops or whatever, we then convert that into a binary tree (losing some relations along the way maybe) and call the resulting dualities shadows of the True Pair (of Truth and Absurd).

Now your problem is perceiving the world as it is, i.e. evaluating these 'perspectives', so you need some function to order them and pick the best one, lets call it 'religion'. If your religion function is to be effective we need a good assumption, one idea (suggested by some prior research) is to investigate the True Pair and assume that every other duality will have a part that corresponds to Truth and a part that corresponds to Absurd (or yin-yang, submissive-dominant, sender-receiver... whatever you prefer). A perspective that pairs things that cannot be interpreted as opposites becomes muddled and unsure about the nature of the information being evaluated.

Anyway, you can investigate the assumptions famous researchers like Jesus, Muhammed, The Buddha and others have come up with and maybe concoct your own view from theirs or you can ignore the problem and use the default perspectives of your culture / language.
Yeah, AudioParam's refusal to interpolate anything makes it really hairy to work with.

Comments on the spec suggest that there was something really complicated about the "cancelAndHold" method (which I guess is still in NYI limbo), but I can't for the life of me figure out what it was.
> It's not "serious business" but this is the browser after all.

This answer would have made sense to me circa 2003, but I cannot fathom it today. The web started as "let's put academic papers online". It moved to "let's put magazines online" with some modest interactivity via forms.

But we've spent the last 10 or 15 years turning the web into a "you can do anything" platform. There's been huge progress in interactivity and visuals. There's no a priori reason audio should lag so far behind.
This company is now 7 years old and has no product.

Total raised: $1.39B[0]. The last round was almost $800M in Feb.

This $500M will bring the total to $1.9B.

Truly amazing.

0. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap#/entity
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing, but it's kind of odd to see an article on the front page of HN that amounts to a less-concise version of the documentation for a very simple to understand language feature (the doc page has four or five sentences and is just as easy to understand).
No. This is a simple case of someone else using software on your machine. Similarly, You aren't distributing "Windows" every-time someone logs into do remote tech support.
I don't think grep is the best example since they could be different implementations of grep.
More details here: https://gpuofthebrain.com/blog/2016/7/22/how-magic-leap-will...
The Web Audio API is designed for web developers who would want to integrate sound into their web apps. Notifications, etc.

That pre-browser era where we would have sounds for everything. Minimize window, user logged in, logged out, all that crap.

Also the API has good support for visual. Spectrum analysis. This is pretty good for an education course to offer for beginners on sound processing.

I wouldn't use it for anything serious like a DAW.
I think you missed googles recent announcement for ARCore. They seem not that far off as it will also work on older phones to some extent.
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nobody is doing Linux dev on Windows, the only people I know at work on Windows are sysadmin types that just never learned Linux desktop and non-programmers. 95% of the dev people I know are on OS X or Linux
To call our healthcare a market system is laughable. There so many protections and regulations and distortions. In addition, when your house is in fire, you don't shop fire departments.

In a life or death scenario, you certainly aren't shopping hospitals. And so they can gouge you hundreds of $$ for even simple things like ice packs and Tylenol. Our system is a scam. One hour in the ER should not cost $5000
OP said it was about comparability, but MS does not care about compatibility unless it's in their favor, that's the point.

> "Linux" isn't really a viable desktop operating system compared to the other operating systems mentioned.

Well maybe if office and other applications were available it would be? That's the point.

> POSIX is dead. Linux compatibility is far more relevant to modern computing.

Uh, what about all those people running MacOS? homebrew etc are about running all that nice OSS on MacOS. Pretty much all that stuff will run on BSD/MacOS/Linux/*Nix due to POSIX compatibility.
No certainly! I never had a drivers issue when I was an Ubuntu user, to be sure (not one that was more solvable on Debian at least) and I have done some Linux games, I agree it was much easier after Ubuntu landed.

Hardware makers target Ubuntu and game makers target Ubuntu. Libc differences can give you a real hard time when it comes to running binaries that are not compiled on your target OS. I have definitely seen that! It's no fun and you may not be able to solve it based on strange timing of libc versions with respect to the Debian 2-annually release cycle. Game developers certainly don't care what versions of libc made it into Debian stable or Debian testing these cycles, so you may be out of luck for two cycles in a row and it's no better in Sid. I mean, this is anecdata too. But it's real and if you haven't had this problem, it's because you didn't use Debian, but used Ubuntu instead. I suspect RHEL/CentOS users didn't have this issue either for one reason or another, and Fedora users neither.

But it sure is a problem in Debian, if that's what you're into. To clear things up if it sounds like I'm talking in circles, I ran my share of games on Debian and I had definitely hit this type of issue, and ultimately failed to solve it for myself.

If I was using closed-source software or intending to play games, you'd get no disagreement from me I'd rather do it on Ubuntu, and that's a fundamental disagreement with Debian policy and any either closed-source or other than rolling release target (eg. one-and-done) game developer or realistically any other code system that needs either kind of g/libc as a specific version of shared library to link to.

You may genuinely be onto something here. But in my production systems, I tend to target using 100% open solutions, so I'm not sure I would have ever run into this at dayjob. Farewell!
> Seemingly her job is just to stand around and pretend everything is "normal" while her husband sexually assaults girls half her age in the room across.

This is really a low blow and completely uncalled for. I would expect such comments on reddit or Facebook, but not here.
So the new Apple iPhone X has a front sensor that can generate depth maps, and a rear-sensor that does even more sophisticated depth mapping. They also have a CPU that is as powerful as anything you get in Desktop PCs.

So tell me, what's to keep someone from using the depth information on the front camera, using a Google Dream VR setup (but instead of covering the back of the iphone, use that sensor for the world around them) and then projecting poor man's AR with today's world. If the answer is wrong sensors, they can fix that next year, and do it at a size and a scale that no one else can touch.

You just took a hardware problem, and made it a software problem.

The fact that Peter Jackson has evidently jumped ship to ARKit is a pretty big sign that Apple is going to get there first.

Apple's focus on ML on the phone directly, not requiring a server at the RTT latency is perfect for this application. They have hardware no one can touch, and do full stack miniaturization like no one else. Plus they also attract "lifestyle" buyers.
It's all about who's on their board and who they've raised money from. If they have relevant industry expertise on their board and have raised money from smart investors like sequoia they probably have real tech. If they have bunch of dumb money and people who bring nothing technical to the board they're more likely to be another Theranos. Not having medical and science expertise and raising dumb money was part of Theranos' problem.

Having said that Magic Leap's investors are Google, Andreessen Horowitz and Qualcom. The board is comprised of Google's CEO and Qualcom's executive chairman.

That's all very impressive in my opinion.
Alright then, I read it as a criticism. My bad, I seem to be traumatised by seeing Python 3 being constantly bashed x)
Both true, Amazon was one of the first web stores, Netflix was one of the first movie portals. And similarly, the ipod and iphones weren't the first music players or smart phones but the first ones that worked really well. Remember how you could chose between 20 different mp3 players, all quite cheap but usually in crappy quality and without a music store? Remember how you could buy several smart phones like an Ericsson with a stylus or a BlackBerry with a keyboard?

Doing it right matters more than doing it first.
> CBP has no reason to hide their activities because they believe they are faithfully enforcing the law.

It is far from settled that searching the electronic records of citizens just because they're crossing a border is a faithful enforcement of the law. That's precisely what this lawsuit aims to disprove.

That being said, I agree that the number is likely accurate. CBP is not regularly searching electronic devices.
From my experience the US health care market is not a functioning market. No price transparency, widely variable prices for the same thing, huge and inefficient bureaucracy.

It would be interesting to see if there was regulation for open pricing, billing standards and others. If that doesn't happen, Medicare for all is definitely a good option.
Here's my take on the history here:
http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/09/some-opinions-on-history...
From the beginning it was obvious that JS sample processing was important, and I tried hard in the WG to make the Web Audio API to focus on that, but I failed.
Who said anything about biometric data in the cloud? This doesn't need to work the same way the first time you see a device as it will work the second time you see it, after having fully authenticated the first time.

So, it doesn't have to alter the security attack surface or really even a major change in the secure element.

Someone from Apple should just reach out, the design is not simple but it's absolutely workable.
> All we have seen are a slew of videos “shot directly through Magic Leap technology” that give a sense of what is possible with a football helmet-sized rig, but perhaps not in their final consumer product which the company believes will be sized like a pair of sport sunglasses.

From "football helmet-sized rig" to "sport sunglasses" is a huge leap (ha ha). Is that much miniaturization plausible within a few years?
I disagree that "far fewer people can (really) understand" functional code. It's more like far fewer people care to. Either way, that's a separate matter from whether category theory matters to programming or not. I happen to think it matters in the same way theoretical physics matters to engineering: that is, eventually engineering will make use of it, and sometimes an engineering need drives the research in the first place, but as a matter of day-to-day practice they're effectively completely separate fields.

Although apparently some coders desperately want to think their glorified bit-shuffling is some deeply abstract mathematical endeavor.
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This program is obsolete!

Hm, I don't see that in man for ifconfig in Debian.
> at-the-beginning-of-the-file

That thing's the BOM.
I wonder if this could be used by JVM languages that sometimes fall back to reflection, like Clojure. Transparently profile the reflection calls and recompile the hot ones?
But phones are not exactly the same thing are they ? You are supposed to put a magic leap device on your face which then projects images onto your retina. Even if Apple and google gain AR experience, magic leap could still be game changer
Good to know that ifconfig is supposed to he phased out. I'm not a sysadmin, so I've never heard about it.
Anyone heard of the program "Persona"? Or sock puppets?

This notion, that there is a party that represents the interest of say, the left, and another party that represents the interest of the right leaning people in the U.S. is childish thinking. They are the same, there is no difference. In books written by international relations scholars, they discuss this openly. "American Politics : The promise of disharmony" by Samuel P. Huntington states it openly, that the idea that the two party system should have the appearance of that, that one represents the left, the other of the right. But in fact they are the same, and so when the peoples "creedal passions" take hold they can "throw the rascals out" and have no substantive change in the continuity of governance. Nothing changes. Nothing. Trump is doing what he is told. The reactions from the left, some of it is genuine, some of it is manufactured since the leftist groups are usually run by government operatives wannabes. The leadership that is, they are in lock step with the COG, they go along to get along. They want a seat at the table. As the left wing dissolves into their goofy tribalism and hokey dances. The right wing also has their crazies like the small white nationalist movement. While everyone runs around like a chicken with their head cut off, screaming about nazis and minorities, there is a love of fascism in America, in the corporate arena.
I doubt that theory. Chris Rogers @ Google drove the Web Audio API design, and he was recently ex Apple's Core Audio team, and probably neither knew nor cared about Android. More history:
http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/09/some-opinions-on-history...
Probably an ASIC with int8 and lots of SIMD? Beyond that, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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