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Interactive and augmented environments are far more exciting to me than the promises of VR. Why escape my life when I can make my lived world better?

The Dynamicland stuff is particularly fun due to the promise of accessibility. A mature version of this vision would be tremendously exciting for me as a high school teacher.

When I read about VR in education I mostly see "experiences" as a defining value of the platform. This is fine, but less interesting than the potential for augmented environments to enhance my nuts-and-bolts professional practice. I want to be able to create personalized tools for interacting with media and ideas (extant and live creations) and managing interpersonal communications/interactions in my room. I can see immediate value in the ability to build branching lesson plans with trigger-able subroutines to provide more individually appropriate experiences to students. I feel strongly about non-linear learning opportunities, but they're logistically difficult. Likewise, to create modifiable one-to-one/one-to-some/one-to-many communications channels to smooth the experience of working with 30-35 people when I can only be in one place at a time (and to mollify the anxieties/anger/angst of being a teenager expected to publicly perform in a crowd).

There are any number of small tools I would like to build. I know what problems I want to fix to improve my efficacy, and I don't need polished consumer products to do that.

If "Hypercard for the World" allowed me to start hacking together useful tools for myself, I would shower them with love.
If they make fewer $200m movies and experiment more with $10m movies... would that be bad?

They are risk averse right now but they’re doing it by putting all their eggs in one or two baskets.
> A movie designed to do well on a RT score needs to please everyone. The end result is something that tries to be bland, uninteresting, and inoffensive. As an avid movie goer, that is a horrible result. I would much rather see a movie that takes risks and fails than something with little ambition outside turning a profit.

I've just finished watching for the second time a non-bland and pretty-offensive (at least for today's sensibilities) 1997 comedy starring Jamie Foxx and Vivica Fox, among others. It's called "Booty Call". It has a 5.3 rating on IMDB (which is comparatively speaking pretty low) and only 25% on RT (which I guess is even lower). It doesn't matter, because this movie has made me laugh so hard that I literally had tears in the corners of my eyes and my stomach-muscles were beginning to hurt because of all the laughing. And remember, this was the second time when I was watching it, but I was still laughing my a.s off.

Now, I thought that maybe I'm the crazy one out, a stupid viewer who doesn't understand interesting and thought-provoking movies and who only laughs at "stupid" movies, but when I went to the movie's comment page on IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118750/reference) I saw that I was not alone in this, all the top comments were giving the movie a rating between 8 and 10 and the commenters were mentioning how hard they had laughed while watching it.

The conclusion is that there is something definitely wrong with the way some movies are rated. I'm not sure if there exists a fix for that, apart from us, the "normal" viewers, just starting to ignore reviews and movie-critics and then watching movies with no preconceptions.
I have friends who are pilots at the majors who clear $300,000+ a year. Pay has risen substantially since the round of bankruptcies cleared legacy debts. FedEx and UPS apparently pay the most - although I'm not sure why.
In the insurance field "acqui-license" deals, like "acqui-hire" in tech, are not impossible or even necessarily discouraged. Every US state has its own set of regulations for who can be issued a license to sell insurance, and usually it's easier from a bureaucracy perspective to maintain the license once you have it than it is to get a new one. So buying and selling of companies solely for their existing insurance licenses is a thing.
Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
Sure, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is used for tax evasion, supporting corporate interest in developing countries and to control the WHO.

https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/r...

They even advised not to lower prices for vaccines, because then pharma corporations wouldn't invest in the global south anymore.
My gut tells me that calculus goes by the wayside when you're flying Bill Gates around the world, or even just flying your 'garden variety' billionaire and his/her family around the country. I could be totally wrong here, because I'm neither a jet owner nor a pilot. But I've worked around enough uberrich people in my day to know that their domestic staff gets paid really well, and I have to believe a private pilot cracks into the sixes rather handily. Whether or not he/she cracks $200k is another matter, but it seems likely.

There aren't very many of these jobs going around at any given time, and they involve exhaustive security and background clearances. You are also privy to a ridiculous amount of inside info flying these guys around everywhere, and you need to be trustworthy, i.e., come with references from other billionaires and such. It's a very hard world to break into, and if flying commercial paid better than this did, no one would bother trying.
> I had chat with Chinese people that went all anxious after they started to emit the slightest critic about their country.

They are wrong, but it's a common misbelief. China government wants to censor posts that initialize collective action, not criticism. See this quantitive study from Harvard[0].

[0]: https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-censorship-china-...
This wouldn't help at all. Kernels (micro or no) can only implement preemption with the help of hardware timers (and, if you want parallelism, hardware cores), which Webassembly cannot access. (The C library does not implement threads; it merely wraps the kernel's implementation of them.)

So at some level WebAssembly itself must provide some sort of primitive for threading, or else at best you'll get cooperative coroutines/an event loop.
The parent poster is explicitly saying that smoking a few joints in college, or taking some LSD once at a rave is not a health issue. They are right.

Saying that does not imply that they endorse criminalization.
Hollywood movies are getting objectively worse, and there's a good reason for it. The market is global now - the North American box office is just a vehicle for pricing deals when the international rights are sold.

So they have to make movies that appeal to the global lowest common denominator. No witty or understated dialog. No cultural signifiers that might be missed by someone from another culture.

All the money and effort is going into flashy stuff that someone in Beijing will appreciate just as much as someone in Los Angeles. Thus all the superhero garbage and Michael Bay style action.
I never experienced mass layoffs, just a slow removal of employees. Either outright firing, but one at a time, or some aspect of the job was changed abruptly and in a manner that garunteed people would leave. Those positions then wouldn't be backfilled. It's not doable on a scale of 1000s but it was doable on a scale of 30-40
Reminds me of this: http://binvis.io/

http://corte.si/posts/visualisation/binvis/index.html

(Ancient HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11077222)
Everything you need to know about Wi-Fi calling
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I used to smoke half a pack a day throughout college, quit cold turkey and it was a good decision. However, a few times a year I'll have a nice cocktail and bum a cigarette. Something about them is just so nice with alcohol. Then my wife complains about my smell, and I cough the next day, and I feel guilty, and I remember why I quit. But every so often I fall off the wagon
The industry is not monolithic. The THEATERS don’t want that, and there are certainly some directors who don’t, but there are plenty of others who would be fine with it.

Having Netflix and Amazon but movies to distribute directly day one may help. They’re offering things to theaters but theaters want to hold the line.
The reason for the disagreement is that they were big at different times. During the lifetime of the Dutch company, it was far the bigger. But the British company conquered India, held it for decades, and then supplied Britain during the Industrial Revolution.

The British company had the bigger long-term impact. And probably did a lot more business in the end. But not while the Dutch company existed.
People like drugs because they like getting high, not because they like cartels or doing illegal business or being rebellious.
"I said, ‘No, that can’t be so, Larry,’ ” Eno recalled. “ ‘We’ve all worked to that track, so it must be right.’ But he said, ‘Sorry, I just can’t play to it.’ ”
Eno eventually adjusted the click to Mullen’s satisfaction, but he was just humoring him. It was only later, after the drummer had left, that Eno checked the original track again and realized that Mullen was right: the click was off by six milliseconds. “The thing is,” Eno told me, “when we were adjusting it I once had it two milliseconds to the wrong side of the beat, and he said, ‘No, you’ve got to come back a bit.’ Which I think is absolutely staggering.”"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/25/the-possibilia...
It sounds like you've been going to the wrong movies, at least for your tastes. You seem to be exclusively seeing blockbusters. Maybe you'd prefer smaller, less action-focused films.
Because FS operates pages, and not individual bytes, MySQL will also, for each column, read whole page with row included, and write it back, thus rewriting whole table..
The amount of bugs my old company ran into with TFS was just astounding. Sometimes a bug would pop up that would prevent all devs from committing, and instead of patching it Microsoft would just give us a 6 page work around cheatsheet.

Also we couldn't push enough performance out of it, even on it's own VPS. Once you have 50+ devs pushing to TFS it just gets slow as dirt. Some 5kb commits would take 3-5 minutes.

From my own experience, I don't suggest it as I don't believe it is a well polished or reliable product.
In any case, it should be hierarchical. It should be simple and efficient to move an object and all its children around.
the D in ACID addresses this. Your standby transactor process is attached to the same storage as the previous transactor (EBS block or dynamodb or whatever cloud HA storage people use these days). If they don't share storage, it's not a single writer.
Sad but good point.
That "moment of clarity" is literally just accepting that you are an alcoholic. Like, that's all it is.

Normies love to pontificate about the causes of and solutions to addiction, but I never get more than a paragraph in before I find a vacuous statement that highlights how completely the speaker misses the point. It's fucking exhausting.
I agree that your statement is morally and logically correct.

But from a legal perspective, it's quite false. SCOTUS has said that the government's need to ensure security at the border leads to a different balance of rights versus authority when you're near the border. (you should also ignore the fact that these rules put 2/3 of the US population "near the border" and thus having weakened protection over their rights)

We can yell all we want about the clear meaning of the Constitution, but that doesn't stop the government from confiscating our stuff and throwing us in jail.

For what it's worth.... There's a statement attributed to Abraham Lincoln, "The Constitution is not a suicide pact", which is taken to mean that we shouldn't be so dogmatic about the Constitution as to let it destroy us. I think the words of this statement are correct, but everyone interprets them backwards. It's not a warning, it's an affirmation. As Americans, we should be confident that our Constitution is not something that can harm us if taken too literally. It's not a pretty idea, a luxury that becomes dangerous if indulged in too much. Rather, the Constitution is, indeed, our strength.

We should have confidence that things like the free market of ideas that our freedom of speech creates, or that ready militia made up of all able adults who exercise the right to bear arms can defend us from invaders or errant government. I believe that our freedoms are not luxuries that we should forgo when the government decides there's sufficient danger: it's holding fast to them that will deliver us from danger.
Java doesn't provide a sufficient security model for running arbitrary C/C++-like code, which is the entire purpose of WebAssembly. Drop that and all the new use cases will just go back to asm.js instead.
now someone needs to make the milkdrop plugin for it in webGL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFZBTYFTeto

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

http://www.geisswerks.com/milkdrop/
No. Your platitude here is only dangerous. The collective mind moves in terms of generations while the free mind moves in terms of days.

The function of research is to discover new knowledge, a task often dependent on questioning old knowledge. Worse, when collective operations favor collective mindedness, they are obstructing research by displacing open mindedness.

The post is a valuable recollection that should be internalized at any expense.
Death to asymmetrical patent clauses! Huge victory for OSS.
I mean, sure, I think I am probably going to hire someone to cut grass next year because I hate doing it. But still. If I'm going to optimize my time it's so I can spend more time doing things I like to do or spending time with my wife, not so I can work more.
Startup: LPPFusion Embraces Instability
The machine looks fascinating and I would've loved to learn more about the intricacies of how it worked (and that's the sort of content I come to HN for), but sadly, nearly the entire 5 minutes ended up being about this guy being nostalgic, saying how this old system was the best and how the new systems will never be as exciting.
> When I see that a discussion is not progressing constructively (as I observed from your first response to me)

You offered unsolicited advice. I didn't take it personally, I tried to reply with arguments.

> I'm not interested in tit-for-tat back and forth

Just because I don't agree with the arguments you make it doesn't mean I have anything personal with you or that it is tit-for-tat or don't like conversing with you. Quite the opposite, the more difficult and challenging your arguments are, the more I enjoy the conversation.

Edit: Removed the "I am having doubts if you were interested in an open discussion in the first place." Please disregard it.
But if it's a different URL for each recipient then google will fetch each individual URL, for each email. So every URL will be opened exactly once, by the google fetch that happens when the google server receives the email. The user will fetch the pixel from google cache. So how can you track open rates by pixel download when 100% of pixels are downloaded just one time?

It probably depends on email clients. If a desktop client fetches email direct from smtp then it will probably also fetch the pixel directly. So tracking all downloads after the first (by google) may yield some signal, albeit not for gmail web users.
> If you ask people why they don't go to the movies more they will often cite the idea that there is nothing new they haven't seen before

I've started skipping a lot of the super-hero movies because they started being all the same to me ("Wonder Woman" was a little different and more interesting, fortunately). The same goes for most of the action moves being filmed today, which pains me to say it because I'm a huge fan of guys like John McTiernan and the way action movies were made in the '80s - early '90s. Maybe it's because I'm getting older? (I'm in my mid-30s now).

I actually like the experience of going to the cinema, with all that it implies, is almost like a ritual. Some people wait for Sunday to come so that they could go to church the same way as I wait for the weekend to come so that I can go to the movies. It would be nice though if tickets were a little less expensive, with that I totally agree.
Wow, that's a fantastic move, huge win for open source.
It even works the other way around. IIRC, there have been something like 2 documented cases of HIV(-) people becoming seropositive while taking PrEP as prescribed.
(A bit of an aside) This represents an interesting 1-person 'business model': make yourself useful (and known to be useful) working on an open source project. Once established, use kickstarter to gain some full/part-time funding. The amount of pre-kickstarter work involved to get there obviously wouldn't make a good business case in purely utilitarian terms, but it seems like an appealing way to have a chance at getting paid to do some good work.
I was not fully sold on digital synths until I used a Nord Modular. That thing was so responsive it convinced me that analog modeling could be just as fun and expressive.

Now I think some folks want particular analog sounds. There are digital replacements for most of them, and of course they are a lot more convenient, but they don't always sound _completely_ authentic. If you want the tuning instability, noise, distortion, etc., well, go ahead and maintain an antique synthesizer. It's kind of a pain, but if you really _must_ have the original sound, go for it.

What I miss is the quality of the actual keyboards. I had a chance to buy a vintage Yamaha KX-88 keyboard some years ago and I chickened out, and I regret it. If I had bought it, I'd probably be still enjoying it alongside my vintage DX-7.
Is there any data about the success rate of mba founders vs founders from other professions ?
Curious, how long it will take to create index on single node for a such large table?
Yeah, it’s flipped. Part of that is more control when working for TV, part of it is the ability to tell a story in more than 120m. Let’s you explore much deeper things or have way more character development.
From a UI POV, even enterprise Bitbucket (formerly Stash) is way ahead of Github Enterprise.
I can imagine this having massive potential in music videos.
Honestly, when you US folks talk about how your medical bills work and are paid there is so much jargon and complexity it sounds like Star Trek techno-babble to my ears.

"I have a common but chronic ailment so all I had to do was re-route the phase-converter to the deflector shield and invert the chromaton particles in Shelk-Einstein space and we're done!"

:/
While I actively help the poor, it frequently appalls me how many of them choose to live that way. Basic needs met, a significant percentage find no reason to do more than watch TV, eat, and reproduce. Hence my comment elsewhere on this thread lamenting that Y Combinator, having focused on financially assisting the hyper-productive, have lost comprehension of how much of society is populated by those that only produce because they have to for survival; supply basic survival, and they do nothing.

(I'm not saying that about all poor, but the fraction thereof who are is significant.)
No, it's by law. You have a minimum of 4 weeks notice in Germany (some exceptions apply, for example you are hired for temp work). So you cannot quit on the spot, and your employer cannot fire you on the spot, unless it is for gross reasons on one side which makes it extremely unreasonable to continue employment.

Examples of this would be if you're caught stealing or harassing a coworker - or if your employer is breaking the law by repeatedly not paying you on time or endangering your health etc. You cannot be fired for being late once. Your employer has to document that he has told you "Do not be late again, or else" (and you have to sign off on this).

Work load may not be unreasonable. Usual work load is 40 hour weeks, and overtime is dependent on contractual definitions. Some people are (by union) not able to work more, others are exempt from overtime restrictions (managers), others will receive money or free time as compensation. You can enter contracts that specify a certain amount of overtime work, but unless they are specific enough, those clauses are void. You cannot get less than 24 days / year of holidays, you must not work on Sunday (unless: emergency or working in an exempt job, like healthcare), and employers risk fines/prison if they deny you those rights.

Overtime usually requires an explicit order, and is limited to 48h total work time /week. Anything more (for example: seasonal workers) needs to be compensated with free time in the following 6 months. So an employer can demand a death march for a project, but even that is limited to not more than 10 h/day.

That said, while the law may be on your side, people may work more than the contractually defined amount "because it's necessary / they need me there" or other strange reasons.

(note: there are exceptions for all rules. When your data center is down for some reason, you are not going to tell your boss "sorry, my 8 hours today are up, find someone else to restart those servers. I'll be back tomorrow.")
Show HN: An Express.js-Style router for the front-end
:O

Never thought this would happen
You can, with sufficient motivation. The problem is people with that kind of motivation tend not to become junkies in the first place.
You never know but I'm in Japan bootstrapping startups and definitely need a product designer. My email is in my profile.
What about GraphQL?
391,499 Londoners (and counting) beg to differ: https://www.change.org/p/save-your-uber-in-london-saveyourub...
Which will you regret more? Selling knowing you could have made more, or losing it all knowing you were a contender and gave it your best short?

Do the one you'll least regret if it turns out badly.
Looks like React Native isn't included in the list for a license update.
No, but explains a part of the decrease of those 25% once productivity stopped being a function of population size in at least a part of the world. Of course one has to recognize the values destroyed by western influence, otherwise the story will be far from complete, but I found the mention of those 25% rather loaded. One can study the past development of societies without being "a revisionist". It is as much possible to push for cheap apologetic revisionism as it is to get allergic reactions and to dismiss perfectly valid opinions as apologetic revisionism needlessly. Most of the time, post scripta to the effect of "BTW, don't respond with things that I won't like" seem like warning lamps to me, regardless of the topic.
Nine of them, as one could easily deduct. There's dozens of HPV strains, most of them relatively harmless.
Virtual machines tend to take a while to initialize, for Java in part to verify the code.
Out of curiosity, what are the exciting developments happening in the Linux ecosystem these days?
So if I get it, we are this is that first demonstration of a mouse, carved From a block of wood, moving windows around on a screen.

One day soon we will all have cameras and projectors and sensors in our home and office environments and be able to improvise new interactions.

Seems ... plausible. Where do I get a block of wood the right shape then?
Nicotine ratio has been going up for decades; my bet is he smoked some type of mold.