skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're focusing on gaming because they're pursuing the consumer market. The things you describe sound like a much better fit for the business market (and there are people, likely including Magic Leap, pursuing it).

But what you describe isn't quite there technologically; they just don't have the resolution or refresh rate and input methods are still evolving. Another issue with AR is that it's only additive. The lenses make everything darker and they can only add light.

Some of the best use-cases I've seen for AR is assistive technology where it walks you through taking something apart labeling each part. Right now that requires an incredible amount of manual resources to generate (or would require a huge investment and significant breakthroughs to make dynamically generated or procedural). That tech is orthogonal to the display and input, but both are necessary for a product.
I'm too young to know, so I'm guessing, but was this move also to get Jobs back? I think not long after he became CEO.
I hope this is only approved in places where the average temperature is below zero and most common form of transportation as snowmobile.
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They're clawing back deductions that helped high income earners because they also helped fund local schools & infrastructure that benefits everyone. They had no problem letting rich people give away 5M more tax-free in estate transfers, for instance.
Congress is full of lawyers who assume that everyone has access to lawyers. That's why everything is so complex. In reality the big guys have lawyers on retainer and can handle the laws and the little guy is at a disadvantage.

The same happens in a lot of companies. IT develops rules for IT people and the regular user is screwed.
Did you read the Rolling Stones article?
What would the ownership situation look like ina company like this? It’s raised nearly a couple billion, but has not delivered a single unit.

What is realistically the ownership of the founding team at this point, and how would they go about raising all this capital and still maintaining some semblance of ownership and control?
Actually NS is short for "NeXT & Sun". The prefix was adopted for OpenStep:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep

The pre-OpenStep version of the APIs used a NX prefix. You can still see some lingering NX* classes/functions in macOS stack traces.
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Be was designed to be lightweight and parallel. It was optimized for many threads and the API pushed you to embrace threading. It also had pretty decent scheduling for media stuff. Not quite real-time OS, but closer. It was screaming fast and responsive.

The catch is that it was much less mature. It was single user and had very little real security. It had basic Posix support, but NeXT has much more rich BSD-ishness.
Data for the US is still extremely sparse. Many US towns don't have addresses. But it is improving rapidly; mid-sized towns have been getting building outlines for a while. OSM Europe is far, far ahead of the US in what is mapped.

But OSM has some advantages over the others. You can do Simple Indoor Tagging of your building, say for accessibility reasons, and you can even modify it later.
Done, thanks!

https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/issues/63
It's probably solvable eventually, but the tech isn't there yet.

Companies can focus on the gaming industry first because it's tolerant of slightly degraded looking graphics and inability to render high fidelity text, and they can start selling headsets now to that demographic. A person writing code all day or looking at spreadsheets will not tolerate reading small text through a screendoor.
I first learned of that speech from this xkcd https://xkcd.com/1484/
Slow roll-out is so much more likely.

WebRTC has been supported for a while in Firefox, and no nightly will make Google serve you with a proper version. It's entirely up to Google.
I used it last night and it worked for me. I accidentally forgot to switch to Chrome to use Hangouts and was pleasantly surprised Firefox57 just worked.
Agreed. What I like best about cities is the people; we're social animals. (Musk and others are entitled to their preferences, of course.)

And there’s like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer

I suspect Musk is orders of magnitude more likely to win the California lottery jackpot than meet a serial killer on the bus, much less be killed by them. He's too smart for this silliness.
That was a great book right up until the last few pages. It just ended so abruptly!
https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/US/daily from the fine link show it's about 80% movies and 10% porn.
Google's VA presence is in Loudon and Fairfax counties. Those are Democrat-leaning counties driving Virginia's status as a swing state. There are 88 companies with 500+ employees in Fairfax, and 220 companies with 100+ employees in Loudon. Google doesn't make either list.
Is there anything hardware wise that should affect a plugged in laptops performance?

Bodies and glass are pretty obviously going to deteriorate and a lot of that will be about how you care for your machine as well as build quality but they shouldn't affect performance. Thermal compound? I have no idea if that will affect performance under "normal" use.
Having a monopoly and abusing it are two different things.

MS was in a position to abuse it because no one could switch to OSX or Linux without huge expense; hard to run win32 apps.

Google is waaaay different. Alternatives that work just as well exist, and they exist for the same "free as in beer" to users as numerous alternatives.

Are we to punish Google because people aren't switching from their from their products to alternatives?
As I understand it, your original assumption was correct. The 20% only applies to distribution income, not to W-2 income. But the 20% deduction is limited to 50% of the W-2 income. So to maximize the deduction and minimize payroll taxes, the business owner will try to set his W-2 wages at 40% of the pass-through income, or two sevenths (~28.57%) of the business income before owner wages.
Marshall doesn't currently allow visitors.

However, there's one in Huntsville, at the US Space and Rocket Center (also home to space camp, for those of us who grew up with that). On it's side, on the ground, in pieces/stages. When I was last there it was out in the open. Apparently it's now enclosed in it's own building after restoration.

There's a replica standing up in their rocket garden / rocket park; it is just a mock-up, not the real thing, wiki says it was done in 1999.

There's also a real one in Houston (Johnson Space Center), and of course the one at KSC.
If you download torrents, the datacenter provider will forward copyright infringement notices to you, just like your normal home connection would. So it doesn't protect you much other than making it a bit harder for your tech savvy friends to use this website.
I take it that next year we will see a totally different macOS user interface, in order to make the one ux experience alignment. macOS has not had major UI changes for a few years, so maybe macOS app with no menu bar?
Currently, about as many as those who use Rust, although going by hype, Rust seems to be getting a lot more attention (i.e. larger derivative of the usage curve, perhaps?). If you look at usage on github, there's quite a bit of D code for such a niche language.

I've been doing Advent of Code in D, and I'm having a blast:

http://inversethought.com/hg/aoc/file/tip/2017/

I particularly enjoyed doing day 18, which required doing message-passing concurrency (or at least simulating it) and D's concurrency primitives fit the problem like a glove:

http://inversethought.com/hg/aoc/file/tip/2017/day18.d
The move was more to acquire a rock solid Unix/BSD based operating system with serious multitasking functionality, for the purpose of building professional workstations... If you look at the G4 power macs and G4 powerbook laptops from the 2000 to 2006 era the result is evident. Legacy MacOS on PowerPC was a dead end.

At that time in 1996 they knew that Microsoft was going to take the NT kernel and build it into something very stable and more consumer friendly. NT 3.5 and NT4.0 never saw widespread consumer adoption, only in corporate environments. But the later release of Windows 2000 was significantly more stable and capable than legacy MacOS.
Even those places aren't a guarantee with global warming happening.
From my visits to the U.S. I understand some if the disfunctionalities of U.S. taxi systems, similar to most other U.S. infrastructure, while not having deeper insights. This ruling is by an European court about European markets, though.
A Raspberry pi will do all of that. Emulating a 486 is no big deal these days. Otherwise, early Pentium laptops aren't hard to come by.
Probably because AT&T has no problem fronting the cash that they'll make next year, but this lets them get a publicity bounce because it's very topical right now.
I haven't heard anything about continued leaking. Any sources on that? Googling turns up nothing besides the sheep incident.
Thinking about it, for my end of the country, that is 2 months rent. That would sure be nice.
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North Atlantic Oscillation dictates timing of tree reproduction in Europe
TLDR: doesn't work on linux
Maybe you have an add-on that disables WebRTC?
> I don't understand why this entire field seems so focused on gaming, and not productivity.

Meta is focused on productivity.
Microsoft has 2 Mixed Reality studios now that do 3D capture, one in SF and the other in Seattle, which they rent out for VR game creation and other purposes.

NVidia also has a 3D video capture tech called Virtual Eye. Rumor has it modern compression brings the video within 20% of 2D video size.

While it's not yet feasible for an AR headset to do such dense capture, the tech is not far off.
Yes. The machines used to render that demo were, in the author's own words, not the full Magic Leap hardware.

edit: Also, even if that demo was the advertised Magic Leap hardware, it still only responded to camera movement, and Miller said the demo had capabilities that he refused to actually display.
But it isn't one-click non-anonymous like normal payment methods either ;)
I don't think that's corruption, I think that's just politics. It will be easy to get agreement to extend the individual cuts before they expire. It would be much harder to get agreement to extend the corporate cuts.

If you want to cut both then you basically have to do it this way.
It's not meant to.
The 'morality card' pulled for... ads?

Sorry, the ad companies never gave a shit about those poor ole websites.

Stop trying to pull on our 'oh those guys, they're just hosting little sites that NEED the revenue from the scumbag departments'.

If you live with worms, you get eaten by them.
Jack Horner – A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story
On the other hand, a buggy C++ program is still better than no rust program.
I clicking on this telling myself that this was the last post I would read today on HN and I'm glad I did. This is exactly the kind of thing I wanted to read and I'm going to spend my time in the coming year holding this philosophy close.
In fairness, those things do, in fact, sound like the kinds of things that civil matters are intended to address.
Its down for my in San Francisco.
Masters of Scale (https://mastersofscale.com/) by Reid Hoffman is a good podcast for tech entrepreneurs.
Last time I replaced a battery on a phone I am sure it cost less than 10 euros and was a case of popping the back off of the phone. $79 sounds hideously expensive in comparison, but then you have to pay for some semi skilled labor rather than do it yourself these days.
Possibly. Or rates will come down now that people aren't forced into buying them and insurance companies have to compete more. Also consider the supply/demand chart. What happens when demand goes down? So does prices.

In Utah there are quite a few clinics like Medallus that are offering very low cost pay as you go services. You can save easily over 10k a year with that. They have memberships too for like 100 a month that are more like insurance. When I look at my medical premium every month around 1500, plus deductibles and copays it's freaking ridiculous.
That's some really neat rendering, I can't remember seeing a better representation of the OSM data.
Matei Zaharia (one of the PIs on DAWN) here. Snorkel, MacroBase and ASAP are already being used in production at several companies, and we intend to continue publishing everything as open source. We only started this lab a year ago, so a lot of the projects listed are still new.
Yeah, the iTunes store is still WebObjects.

Project Wonder is community supported additions + fixes to WebObjects. https://github.com/wocommunity/wonder

Meanwhile, I found this hat on eBay yesterday: https://i.imgur.com/CuInqYo.png
Yep, the US Space and Rocket Center is a museum right outside the base. The Davidson Center for Space Exploration (seen here https://www.rocketcenter.com/admission) has a Saturn V rocket broken down into stages. I had an hour to run through there while on a work trip, wish I could have spent more time.
Zoom, and several other "meeting" sites.
I used to do that (I guess I'm a bit crazy).... since then I changed the mac address on my router to get a new IP, encrypted my wallet and deleted plain text wallets...
A lot of people need to work in a city but DONT want to live there. Many only live in cities because its convinient but would otherwise live outside the city.
like freeing up income to donate to charities that actually move people out of poverty?
Thanks for your reply too. Yesterday I had a bizarre run-in with another person I inadvertently offended (apparently), so I’ve become hypersensitive to the prospect of being rude and/or upsetting people.
This comment in particular wasn't super bigoted, but it could bet taken as "the UK needed to leave the EU because of immigration." On the other hand, a comment down the page by the same account seemed to suggest at least they were engaging in conversation not just using a throwaway account.

Mind you, when I flagged the comment I was extrapolating based on a similar interaction I had the other day, when a newly created account with no previous history posted a comment implying that rape was a problem "with a certain culture". A few other comments on that thread were nuked, and a comment from dang (a moderator) seemed to suggest that type of behavior is relatively common.
This is mostly correct.

For cable/satellite/OTT, most of the package (Viacom, Time Warner, NBCUniversal, etc) content providers bundle content and get a large lump sum up-front per annum from each distributor. However, premium a la carte content providers (HBO, Showtime, etc) receive a small lump sum plus a a bulk of the per subscription fee.

For Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime - content is bundled and paid for up-front per annum on a multi-year contract. For example, Paramount/MGM/Lionsgate/EPIX distributed solely through Netflix thru 2014 and then switched sole distribution to Amazon Prime.

Hollywood traditionally likes cash up front because production and marketing costs are "bursty" rather than evenly distributed. And this is because the success to failure rate (risk) of entertainment products is too abysmal to easily obtain reasonable financing rates from lenders or reasonable terms from investors.
Huh, interesting. I came across NXHashMap in the Objective-C runtime documentation and was wondering what the "NX" stood for.
>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.

I'll admit that I might not be the "average person" that this is target, but I completely disagree.

I've often said that developers should have powerful machines and tools, pretty much regardless of price. Salaries are often over $100k/yr, and at that price if something makes you a few percent more productive but costs a few thousand dollars, it will (in theory) pay for itself in less than a year.

And for something like this, it would easily make me more than a few percent more productive. Just being able to take the equivalent of 3 monitors with me when I'm on a plane, or am working somewhere other than my normal workstation alone would be worth it. Plus the fact that i'm no longer limited to screen realestate means that when i'm actually "in the zone" and really getting shit done, I'm not going to be struggling with frustration at needing 3 console windows open, plus 2 editors, 2 browser windows, and a chat window. Just being able to throw a console or 3 at a spot where I can glance without having to take my hands off the keyboard or alt+tab through several windows in some cases would be a giant QoL improvement!

For me, this would truly be revolutionary. A headset that lives up to the promise of "a 1080p screen, but everywhere" would change so much of how I work it would be completely revolutionary. And I'd easily be willing to throw a few thousand at a product like this without even thinking about it (with the caveat that it would need to look like it's going to be supported for a while, and won't just ship a device and never release software for it again).
Because I hate people that lie and spread misinformation.
You are not expressing healthy skepticisim, you are outrightly affirming that the Rolling Stones journalist is lying and you are misinforming everyone with your false statements.
> Sometimes upstream software has tests that fail within Debian's build system, so Debian will patch the software to build/test under their build system.

This is the source of my question, as one of the worst Debian bugs ever[1] happened due to this policy.

> In a surprising number of these cases, upstream developers can become super hostile. And it's kinda-sorta understandable.

I believe in the case I mentioned above an upstream user stated after the fact that the entire developer-base would have been super hostile to that patch. That hostility would have been quite valuable to the Debian community.

So I take it there is still no requirement for Debian "patchers" to contact upstream prior to patching?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number...
Unfortunatly, there are no serious Photoshop alternatives. On any platform. It's very sad, but true.
My impression is that the rate regulation is to protect consumers from being ripped off or exploited. Does anyone know the actual history?
You can always donate the surplus to private entities.
"they want that low-latency responsiveness which is important in situations like drawing with the mouse"

Yes to this in general, not just with mouse polling- I've noticed a disturbing trend towards more and more buffering, caching, and latency in a lot of modern software and hardware. In my humble opinion, if your API/interface can't match the response time of the human nervous system, then it's just flat out broken. Nerves fire at 100 hz, for pete's sake. Transistors operate on a gigahertz level. Let's get our sh together, people.
In larger cities, such as Chicago, the building shapes are part of the data the local government makes available to the public. All Google has to do is translate it into its format.
This is very NYC/east-coast true, but travel on the west coast is much more individualized.
I know a couple people that got hired specifically to work on content for it. I don't know anything about what they're working on because of the secrecy of everything around Magic Leap.

I imagine the reason they haven't shown anything is because they can only showcase the tech on the hardware itself, which isn't far enough along or in enough quantities to demo. I always thought the ads trying to show off some new 4k thing playing on my non-4k tv was silly.
Thanks for the link! FreeCAD (https://freecadweb.org) has had some discussions about various funding methods, but hasn't really got a good answer to the "how do I contribute money?" question yet. Open collective looks like it could be that answer.
I recall statements from EU that they'd accept "take-backsies" of the Article 50, so from that perspective it would be an option; however it seems politically implausible for any UK government to do so after the referendum, at least without some serious mandate from the population i.e. a landslide election victory on a Remain platform paving the way for a repeat referendum, but scenarios like that are more similar to fiction than reasonable speculation.
ABP’s filter list syntax is underspecified with vague, conversational English; some members of the community have tried to formally document the more common pieces of syntax but it’s far from complete. Instead of using a simple-to-parse CFG or regular expressions, ABP appears to have arbitrarily added new bits of syntax as they please. I’d encourage you to attempt to make an ABP filter list decoder before calling ABP alternatives “easy”.
If you are rich enough, go for it.
A good point. One thing: I've studied philosophy quite a lot, and even I don't know, or have forgotten, the meaning of 'etiology'. So I assume there's no chance the person you're responding to knows what it means. It's technical philosophy jargon.
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I had the chance to try only one of those, so I cannot make an informed comparison: one really has to try the device because I think that there is almost no relation between marketing videos and the actual experience.

My interest is mainly the healthcare sector, and while I have in mind a few applications, I think that for now they are not able to offer something a smartphone in the pocket of a doctor with a properly designed app, cannot do in the same amount of time.

If I had to make a wild bet on what will be the first successful consumer application of AR glasses I would say glasses for cyclists: the user can really benefit from not having to watch away from the road and we are already used to see them riding with funny glasses anyway :-).
(in fact it seems there are already a bunch of companies focusing on that).
I have some experience on this: If you want your KS campaign to be in USD, you need to have a US bank account and, if I remember, a member of the team living in USA. Paypal is not a solution on their system. There's a deal between KS & Stripe's Atlas to let you create a US company and bank account to solve this issue, but for a gameboard that's going to maybe collect 10K is a lot of complexity for not enough gains.
Fares are regulated and in many cases the start, per kilometre, and waiting charges are listed on a label inside the taxi.
Here [1] is a post by the NoScript developer explaining how the new UI works and which buttons map to which legacy functions. After reading it and letting myself adjust for a few days, I'm perfectly comfortable with the new version.

[1] https://hackademix.net/2017/12/04/noscript-quantum-vs-legacy...
By 1999 it was too late. They'd already transitioned to x86 and that was their death knell. At the time most hardware would provide drivers only for Windows which meant that other OSs needed to create their own.

This sorta-kinda worked for things like Linux where the masses would crowdsource them, but for a commercial OS like BeOS they had to spend a ton of time working on this instead of the actual OS.

My recollection at the time was as soon as they entered into this phase the forward progress on BeOS itself ground to a halt, and within a few years the mainstream OSs had started to at least pay lip service to its key features. Any momentum they had was completely lost.
Are you talking about everything being an Electron app?
TLA?
> It's not a Linux problem, it's a Windows emulation problem in Wine.

If you need to run Photoshop, it is a Linux (as a plataform), problem.
Also “Wine Is Not an Emulator”.