skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The naysayers here are funny. There's a fundamental basis for the technology thats rooted in physics and a mathematical model describing how to attain perfect bragg compliance in lightfield displays that has been well documented. But I didn't come here to argue about whether such a thing could exist in the world or not.

Let's turn instead to more practical matters. The reason they needed a lot of money is because no one on earth manufactures displays with the specs required to manipulate light in such a way. This isn't taking some already existing LCOS micro-displays and shoving them into an enclosure with fish-eye lenses. Oculus doesn't make their own displays and didn't spend the last 10 years perfecting them; that tech already existed because it came from the projector industry as a direct result of trying to make smaller projectors. What these guys are trying to do is basically as hard or harder than setting up a state of the art semiconductor company, that just so happens to be making a chip with special optical properties at the same time. Manufacturing stuff takes boat loads of money, let alone stuff that is that small. How long and how much money did it take to go from CRT->LCD is the correct frame of reference. They basically have to engineer and design the factory in tandem with developing the product/prototype. Not an easy feat, or cheap.

They could partner with one of the existing fab companies but its not clear that would be any more efficient because most of those companies are setup in such a way that is highly customized based on whatever fab and process tech the company specializes in or adopted, and most that deal with precision optical stuff (displays) are based on ancient and rudimentary liquid crystal and polarizer tech that is optimized for smartphones or TVs -- nowhere near what's required here. It's useful to know that even Apple doesn't make or design their own displays (although they do heavily influence the technology), but they do design custom processors and such.

I know its hard for the average reader here to visualize that someone was given a billion dollars to make something, without ever having made such a thing before and not yet releasing a product. And it probably makes people here mad, when they are struggling to raise a modest amount of money for their own startup. However, generally people who have billions to invest on high risk super high tech ideas aren't as stupid as people here would have you believe.
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This is absolutely false, the Rolling Stones journalist tested extensively the miniaturised prototype.
You're right. I meant that Linux kernel seems super solid to me but applications running on Linux are not always that stable.
At least when governments fork Bitcoin and force people and financial organizations to use it instead of other digital currencies, they can still call it Bitcoin legally.
If you're working for AT&T aren't you on corporate insurance?
A different approach to code highlighting
In issue 1:

> 1.) It's just like dollar! Shoot, coinbase won't allow me to trade it for 3 months! Every country is banning it? It went up 20% then dropped 50% today?!

Note the last sentence.
How to explain Bitcoin at your holiday dinner
Yep. Keep in mind that those numbers are taxable income not gross income. That means all deductions (including the standard deduction) except the 199A deduction itself apply before the 199A deduction. Even if you make a huge amount of gross income you can get below that threshold fairly easily by, for example, setting up a 401(k) and a defined benefit pension plan.
Something that startles me is the number of Telegram users who get openly angry when Telegram pushes a security or privacy update instead of an update with random new features.

It just blows my mind that there are people who actually exist -- a lot of them -- who want animated stickers that much more more than anything at all privacy or security related.
Actually, if you place your mailbox on the perimeter of the property - as is quite common in some areas - the mailman won’t enter your property.

Huh. Turns out you do have control over your property, after all.
I said "literary merit", not merit in general. Sci-fi is very much not about the words used and how they're put together.

The authors that can combine the two are very rare - Wolfe, Douglas Adams, Ursula K. Le Guin, and often Russian authors, though that might be from the translation too.
AFAIK it works with iTerm.

It attaches to the focus window on the app that launched it, so it should be terminal-agnostic.
Videos, slides, and others from NIPS 2017
My kids are very young and there are three of them. I struggle to find time when my brain's not already totally fried to finish even simple 1-2 hour projects, let alone re-housing a laptop to be kid proof and fiddling to get DOS drivers working on it, as much fun as that kind of thing might have been to 5-years-ago-me. This many kids+full-time work is roughly equivalent to having a 90-hour-a-week job. I'd rather pay for a finished product—otherwise it'll never happen, and if I try I'll just have a mess somewhere in the house that I'll fiddle with for 30 minutes every few weeks, never making progress. Gotta pick my battles.
A signifiant point of the post is to say that they learned something, and they hope others can learn from it too. Maybe the issue is you didn't read the full article?
In this particular case they only cared about not giving Trump a win. This will move the economy forward which is something as a party the cannot afford.

My problem is they always put party before their own voters. They did it during the election and they are doing it now. I know that many are trying to portray the cuts as mostly going to the rich but looking at percentages it isn't. Even more so they are clawing back deductions that only favored high income earners, like deducting state and city taxes. Deductions the middle and lower class never got to take advantage of, plus DOUBLING the standard deduction which favors those under 100k immensely
Do C compilers do tail calls through a pointer?

(How does that work if the target function has a separate entry point for accepting a tail call?)

If you pile up stack frames while matching regex, you will blow up on long matches. Eg. a+ matching string with thousands or millions of a's.

This could be made not to rely on tail call support by using a:

typedef struct cont {
void (*fn)(void *data);
void *data;
} cont_t;

which is returned from each function. A dispatch loop invokes the tail call by calling fn in the returned structure, passing it data. Needless to say, data can't be the address of some local variable in the function which returns this structure. Obviously, non-tail invocations of the continuations sometimes occur, and those have to be handled differently.
I understood your point. As my comment alluded to, the criticisms of tokio this blog post is attempting to address have to do with the implementation complexity - abstractions do not reduce the implementation complexity of themselves.
$1000 phones are a bubble. Time to wake up and rationally look at the other end of (generalised) Moore's law.

$100 one laptop per child, still waiting for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child

$100 phone today is probably as fast as 4-year old flagship and I can't think of anything I can do on my phone now that wasn't possible 4 years ago.
The Haskell performance checklist
It's hard to do worse on this than the HoloLens. That headset is ridiculous. Uncomfortable and hard to position correctly.
I know this list is especially overwhelming, but Q3 had been busy for React conferences. :)
What's with the tags in the URL? Is this an ad?
A Common Lisp REPL on Android
Big co wants support or bug fix? equals $ paid support
Yeah. "Someone" ;-(

No it's pretty awful how this thing works. It showed 4 videos for me that I had never heard of before and would've been downloaded on a torrent on my phone while I was sitting at my parents' house last week chatting with them. Definitely was me....? lol
There aren't many new components. The tech in the Orion capsule is new, but the capsule design is very similar to previous capsules (aerodynamics don't change). All the rest is basically re-used tech from the shuttle.

I may be wrong in this case about the upper stage. I don't know what they plan on using for those engines. If they're new engines (which I haven't heard of development regarding them), then that could be interesting, but they're likely reused OM engines from the shuttle or something like that.
It's possible that it's very difficult to engineer a virus that can do better than anything nature has come up with. Evolution has had billions of years to try all the attack vectors. A worst case 12 Monkeys-style disaster seems unlikely.

But I'm ignorant of this topic. Without handwaving or pointing at the worst case, how much should we worry? Is there any evidence that a genetically enhanced virus can be devastating? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_virus doesn't have much.
Here is an archive of Orson Welles' radio artifacts:

https://orsonwelles.indiana.edu/
Personally, I'd be really against that feature, because I think Unicode symbols as math juxtaposed with monospace can look awful. If they do implement it, please keep a toggle to turn it off.
What use cases does this have that Tcl/Tk doesn't?
Or "just" use a Scaleway VM and pay €2.99/mo for unlimited egress
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Netstat without netstat
Beautiful design! Great work on this. What inspired you to do this?
We're using it for syncing thousand of files and it's very reliable!
Having corporate insurance doesn't mean employees aren't subject to paying premiums that could increase next year.
> And even if you did make VR goggles that were great for giant spreadsheets at $1000, it would be a weird enough idea that it would have to be massively better than $1000 worth of monitors to get people interested.

If it took up less space than multiple large monitors, it would already be better by one criterion.
Wow, that's my new motto!
Hashgraph: Fair, Fast, Secure Distributed Concensus
There's a really good scene in Apollo 13 that shows this. Jim Lovell is giving a tour of the VAB and in the background you've got two of the stages coming together with a thud.
we'll check it out :) thanks!
An alternative full node Bitcoin implementation written in Go (golang)
Good point, and in fact I am.

My Instagram account is long gone, my Facebook account will be gone before the end of the month (I use it once a week at most anyway), and I've long since stopped using any Google account for anything. I run multiple browser extensions that help me delete cookies, block Javascript, etc. The VPN should hopefully take care of my ISP. It try to avoid even sending emails to Gmail accounts.

I haven't tried Tails, but I will look into it when I get some time free.
I agree that it is a feature. If shutdowns are a thing, I'd rather have this feature than not.

I emphasized that they call it a feature because they've hidden it and refused to admit it until decent proof appeared. Which is just shady.
for GUI, there is gtkD, I havent used it myself, but it seem to have good reviews
https://gtkd.org/

and there is DlangGUI
https://github.com/buggins/dlangui

and for web development check vibe.d
http://vibed.org/
The problem is that the Dutch government bought the whole 'free market will solves every problem' ideology. So obviously, a city government was not allowed to mandate anything in this context.

Public transport is the public good that the government pays (in part) for. I doubt that you can randomly pay taxis to be available at night. Then you have to figure out a scheme who gets paid and who doesn't. Otherwise, you may find lots of people who want to get paid for doing nothing at night.

I don't know the details of the old taxi system. There were a limited number of licenses. There was a limit on how much a taxi could charge. But probably there were lots of other requirements as well.
> uptight social culture of finance

looooool ... You mean like the men having competitions to see who can hit the urinal from furthest away? or barefoot wrestling on the trading floor?

Those are both reputable stories I've had relayed to me about people I've worked with. More like a frat than an uptight environment ;)
Nothing on that page makes me want to buy one.
So maybe you should think a little more before you make a statement?
What's ridiculous about that system. It sounds refreshing to have an electoral process not structured around political parties.

And why does this system make it harder to get Feinstein off the ballot?
I'm anti-Trump as can be, but I'd suspect this moratorium was always intended to be temporary while the protocols to protect us from accidents were checked and revised if necessary. There's genuine merit to understanding what makes a virus vary in lethality and how to combat that.

There's plenty of things to bash this administration on. I don't think this is one of them.
It absolutely was systemd's fault -- systemd regularly half-implements or changes default behavior in ways that "should" be okay, but aren't okay, because they don't know why the fence was built (in the Chestertonian sense). Systems programmers should know the history of their discipline.
I like that -- that's definitely what it should do, and maybe not even very hard because there's so few UI elements.
a virtual 1080 display that looks like the real thing would be a big gamechanger. Most companies don't buy 4k displays for their employees because 1080p is generally a lot cheaper and also good enough, even for reading. I still have 2 Dell Ultrasharp 1200p IPS displays at home that are 12 years old but reading/writing text on them is totally fine at the normal viewing distance. I'd want 4K mostly for more real estate.
Gemini Trust Company, LLC is a New York trust company. Gemini is regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYSDFS”).

Source: https://gemini24.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204734485-Is-...
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The engines were also ablative and couldn't be tested together.
.Net Framework Compact Edition has been around since 2002.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Compact_Framework
According to the article you WILL get the deduction but it will begin to phase out as your taxable income exceeds $315,000 for married individuals filing jointly or $157,500 for individuals
Trump just praised the AT&T announcement in front of the white house, looks to be working already!
Nice work! This is really slick :)

Blockstack is new to me. I've just been starting to dig into Ethereum. Would be really interested to hear experiences / comparisons between the two.
So this is the primary innovation here:

>Digital Lightfield
Our lightfield photonics generate digital light at different depths and blend seamlessly with natural light to produce lifelike digital objects that coexist in the real world. This advanced technology allows our brain to naturally process digital objects the same way we do real-world objects, making it comfortable to use for long periods of time.

Can someone explain in detail how this works and is better / different than a display? Also if this will kill the entire OLED business.
Now that Disney absorbed 20th Century Fox, is there a way to know what movies' copyright are controlled by them ?
Dynamic IP. My IP is so heavily reused that there's hundreds of downloads, porn, tv shows, movies etc.
Really interested in this also. Do share a link if you come across it. So far I have seen conflicting info on the 70/30 rule.
> For example, you can't create a rule in uBO to allow only image requests from google.com to googleusercontent.com.

Sure you can:

google.com googleusercontent.com image block

See https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-ru....

The only reason you'd use uMatrix is if you create rules that can't be done with the matrix frequently enough.
Looks like your homepage (archiveteam dot org, not linking for obvious reasons) has been hugged to death. I'm getting a "508 - Resource Limit Is Reached" response.
Buying Goodwill for Time Warner merger and Net Neutrality?
if I where an M&P grade in ATT (which all there tech professionals will be) I would be royally pissed off about this.

BTW if google did recognise unions they could also do this :-)
This is all I need to here. "SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed.". We have to just bid our time and wipe out an entire class of cockroach enter prices.
It was probably tracking the tower. I believe the towers use the same external IP for many internal mobile units that connect to it.
How'd they manage to get a Porg as a logo?
Thank God, about time. Any other major websites that still use browser-based proprietary extensions instead of open standards?
EFI is a fucking soup sandwich. In my opinion, it suffers from complexity and too much ambition.
A good chunk of it is that text is unreadable in current headsets unless it's far larger than what most people are used to. So that 720p hololens gives you at best a 720p monitor's worth of text at a time[1]. Sure, you can have any number of virtual displays around you at any desirable resolution - they're just unusable until you get close enough that you only see a tiny piece at a time.

To your specific example of "You could have one virtual display with close to your face for high resolution information, and then dozens of peripheral displays further back for ambient information.", yes, absolutely. That makes sense. But the "close to your face" one would show you less than a paragraph of text, if you could actually see the peripheral ones all the time. Useful at times, to be sure, but not equivalent in all (I'd argue "most") situations.

[1]: plus some fudge-factor, because you can read a bit better than with a comparative screen - the change in how the text lands on pixels as you move gives you a slightly higher "effective" resolution... though text at this size is still plenty difficult to read, so you still don't want to rely on it.
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That's ok, Project Wildfire will be automatically activated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain
I haven't been following articles on her. Has Disney scrubbed all the drug abuse from her past?
> one year ago, Magic Leap was lying about the technology they had

>> This is absolutely false

The Information documented Magic Leap lying about something unambiguous and untrue. That is absolutely true.
Is this after ignoring the deliberate corruption in making the individual tax cuts temporary vs permanent tax cuts for businesses plus the individual mandate repeal resulting in skyrocketing premiums?
IBM's new open source drag and drop programming tool Node Red
This is exactly what Progressive Web Apps are going to achieve! Reinventing the wheel once again...
Your first sentence is true, but ignores the fact that scientists aren't creating viruses from scratch. They are using what nature made and modifying it. Many treatments rely on a viruses ability penetrate cells. Why recreate what already works so well?
What's your source for that? I'd have assumed that the reason was the engineering effort required to produce an engine the size of the American F-1, leading to smaller engines, at which point it becomes more natural to steer with variable thrust than with gimballed engines.

The Soviets didn't produce anything rivaling the F-1 until the RD-170 in the mid-80s, and that uses 4 thrust chambers instead of 1 as the F-1.
That's what I meant in my last paragraph. There is some risk for the developer: if they are in the same country than the company, when the company declares the expenses the government can get to know that the developer is having 'customers'.

Of course we could say that "this will never actually happen", but if the company had to pass a tax inspection, they would have to prove all their expenses by showing the corresponding invoices. And this would show that the developer has been generating irregular invoices.

I don't know for bigger companies, but as a (proper) autonomous worker in Spain, I had worked for just 1.5 years and already was asked once to prove some expenses with the corresponding invoices.
>China’s Silicon Valley is an internal concern that has nothing to do with the rest of the world.

This is pretty short-sighted and naval gazing, but I cbf to argue it. I'll just point out there are people with far more credibility than HN rando's demonstrating with their actions the opposite of what you're saying. [1]

[1]:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-04/cook-kiss...
And even the seemingly small things; like how to detach the side boosters, how to handle the vastly different aerodynamics when you don't have an interstage (nosecone instead), etc.

It uses the same engines and very similar hardware, but there are so many new/not-flight-proven things on this rocket that it will be exciting, one way or another!
As more healthy people opt out of health insurance due to their no longer being a penalty, it's likely overall insurance rates will increase faster. They'll apparently continue to increase as they have for over a decade regardless, we just get to speed up or slow down the increase.
Why don't more open source projects simply state that if you are a business using their software you are required to purchase a license for X amount of money.

The source code is still available for anyone to freely download and use. Businesses are free to install and evaluate the software for as long as they like (there are no onerous checks to verify you have purchased a license). While some businesses won't pay, many will.

In fact, a self-hosted solution would probably appeal to many businesses over a SaaS-style per-employee pricing model.

What's stopping open source projects from trying this approach?
Vuziz is a pretty funny example there, because they used to be (pre-Oculus Rift) focused on VR gaming. The only problem: their product was garbage. I'm astounded the company still exists at all.
There was also the whole issue with two independent standard libraries. That scared me off.
I wouldn't say you're "not smart enough", I would say the subject is not yet well-taught.
The problem with the US keeping their eyes on it is that you can't trust them. All you need is a few lobbyists and rules and regulations seem to be just words. Hell, Net Neutrality had plenty of people "keeping their eyes on it" too.
Saudi Arabia to Freeze More Bank Accounts in Crackdown
A pretty standard experience for any service which relies on IP and has mobile users. Presumably the constant connect/disconnect and changing map of devices makes dynamic IPs much simpler for mobile providers to use. You're also liable to find yourself banned from a website at some point, if they use IP ranges.
> that social science tells us that diversity is probably a net loss:

The author of that study doesn't come to that conclusion: https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/robert-putnam-say...
There naive about politics which has caught out MS before over the anti trust issues and employment rights.

ATT as an ex PTT knows how the political game is played like all big telcos do, ever wonder why British telecom has development centres in Scotland Wales England and NI ?
It's kind of weird to write an article around the thesis that (a) Rotten Tomatoes is not representative, so (b) manually cherry-picked Facebook comments are needed to get a good idea of what the audience thinks.

Anyway, I hated the movie. I mean, <rot13>becunaf evtug bhg bs Byvire Gjvfg</rot13>, really? But mostly it's just too long and boring and full of plot holes.

Also, everyone is wrong about <rot13>jub enl'f cneragf ner</rot13>, but whatever.