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> Our lightfield photonics generate digital light

is it just me, or is "digital light" an absolute nonsense term?
Wasn't that before Google bought it and it was owned by a University?
I think this is the core of a very interesting idea.
Lots of original research in the US is done by Chinese PhDs. Have you not done your research? So is it really stealing? Or the US is taking advantage of the best and brightest from China?
Might be a coincidence, but I haven't been able to get into my Toshiba's BIOS since moving to 17.10. Every time I try and enter the BIOS config menu, it reboots.
Damn, that SS from 1993 was a sweet system [1]. My 486-66 (DX2) from 1992 with 16 MiB of RAM, a ~340 MiB HD, and 17" sony trinitron set me back more than $5,000.

http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/nextstep-3.1-x86.png
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I just don't see anyone winning other than trash app sellers.

far too many using iOS expect apps to be free or so cheap as to be free. how will that outlook crossover into the Mac world? Let alone how will all the apps with in app purchases play out in the Mac world?

finally, how much functionality must mac apps give up to be compatible with both systems? the mac ecosystem is much more open than iOS, is that going to change?
>but it wasn't exactly a pleasant experience. Apple — back then at least — had the user experience at the forefront of what they were doing. You endured the pain of writing your app in Objective C, in XCode, submitting it to the app store, paying the subscription fees, dealing with the terrible portals and jumping through many hoops because Apple's platforms were where the users were.

Yes, I did those same things and found them as frustrating as you did. While I don't do iOS dev anymore, it has gotten a lot easier. Swift is an attempt to make a more modern, friendly language. Submitting to the App Store is mostly built into Xcode now, as is managing certificates. Their API/SDKs are top notch for the most part. Subscription fees were extended to include all Apple development (not just iOS). The portals still exist and haven't gotten any better.

The point I'm trying to make is Apple isn't as good to developers as Microsoft is, but they are definitely taking actions to move in that direction. Visual Studio is my favorite IDE by far, but Xcode is definitely taking cues from it.
You seriously can’t tell it’s a AR/VR headset by looking at a guy wearing glasses with two wires coming out of it?

You may not know what MagicLeap - the company - is, but you certainly don’t need to be told it’s a AR/VR headset.

I agree with obscure random crap that shows up on HN and takes forever to figure out what it is. This isn’t one of those cases. It’s utterly obvious.
Agreed. Virtual IMAX-sized screens far away would solve the eye focus strain problem. The health benefits would be very large.
ReplayTV back in the day. Man, was that an awesome, if underappreciated, product for its time. Seriously loved the upgrade capability and user-centric features (like commercial-skipping, until litigation came along).
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I don't think blaming the victim is a useful criticism. Trusting a vendor to perform the tasks for which they've been hired is hardly a fault. Woodshed represented this as a service they had offered clients in the past, and the client had a contractual addendum. In the world or raising money, it is extremely common, even required at times, for a fundraising partner to control some or all aspects of the financial arrangement. Indeed, many times it is this logistical coverage that is a primary service sought by the client. You protect yourself by having the appropriate contractual agreements in place, which the client did here. That is the way modern business works: Not without trust, else all business would be impossible. But with limited trust, and recourse to a legal system when the trust is betrayed. Again, this is the path taken by the client.
Apple’s Sprite Kit “sort of” does this with SKColor, etc. While you can still stumble across a surprising number of platform-specific variants even with those, it is definitely useful to have some simple common elements.
When I said course-correct I didn't mean complete reversal, it's usually been just enough to satiate temporary outrage in early-adopter/tech circles before it goes mainstream.

Thanks for taking the time to document the details of this particular situation which I've never heard about before. I wonder how many other mildly upsetting (?? - per "nonplussed at best") decisions are currently accumulating under the radar. Each time another pops up I'm amazed at how much Mozilla has successfully swept under the rug.

The two I knew of are including Paper by default for some time (after taking heat for this, then acquiring it a year later... though I didn't see it when I just checked) and sticking with opt-_out_ for Google Analytics on the add-ins page. After digging recently thanks to the Mr. Robot stuff I discovered the opt-out Cliqz add-on for Germany and now your anecdote.
IANANuclearScientist either.

There are different types of radiation. I believe the water pools are used to protect against high energy neutrons. Water is not a good shield against gamma radiation.

The water doesn't become radioactive. The neutron hits the hydrogen in the water kinetically, meaning it bounces off. The neutron and hydrogen have about the same mass, so about 1/2 of the energy goes into the hydrogen. (I think. It was a problem in my high school physics class, from the Halliday and Resnick textbook. That was many years ago.)

After a few collisions, the neutrons slow down enough so the energy levels are no longer a problem.

Think of it as a bullet. A fast bullet can go through your body. A slow one doesn't even go through your skin.
> The problem is that these words have become nearly meaningless from vast overuse

i do think it's sometimes thrown around unfairly.

however, from the other direction the criteria for such is nearly impossible. for some, racism 'doesn't exist anymore' and short of explicitly saying 'i am a legit racist for realz' everything can be explained away. be it 'race realism', stat framing or a variety of other things.

part of this is the issue of what it means 'to be a racist'. some people would (for example) happily endorse laws that would disproportionately burden hispanic americans and harass hispanics of any sort, but claim they're 'not racist' because they 'don't care about color'.

basically this dialectic allows real world racist activity through deferring the assessment of racism to a fundamentally unknowable and unprovable internal state.
The UK may be one of the only European countries to take military spending seriously, but attempting to leverage that advantage in any kind of "direct" manner would probably backfire. Aside from lacking the political will to actually press the issue, they're not really that superior to their neighbors :

https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-comparison-detail....

Note that France's GFP rank is technically higher than the UK's. This obviously ignores certain intangibles, and I personally would put higher stock in the British armed services than in any continental military - but the fact remains that they're not head and shoulders above the rest. They're not the US with its unquestionable military superiority, and they're not even China who enjoy massive military (and economic) asymmetry vis a vis their neighbors.

I do tend to think that UK military capabilities could be a valuable negotiating tool, particularly in uncertain times and in the face of (or fear of) potential Russian aggression - but I honestly don't see how they could successfully bully their way to a favorable resolution.
One of my questions was what the contingency plan for the astronauts actually was. From what I could find, it's only that they would stay in comms with NASA until the air ran too low, when they would end comms—shortly before suffocation. Then NASA would broadcast a burial rite by a select clergyman.

Is this the extent of it? Does anybody know if they were to suffocate, or if they had another option? Surely suffocating on the moon would be similarly terrifying to drowning isolated in the ocean. Sure the potential was known, and the reasons noble, but still...
I kind of wish there was a business set up that would take a small cut to deal with payments/contracts etc. to do this. As a developer I'm not sure I want to deal with the headache.
See my other comment. I don't care if people use adblock, I just hate the argument people some use to justify it. I believe there are good arguments, but not the "it's my browser" argument. It's self righteous to the extreme.
Ever walked through a tourist district and seen someone handing out freebies of some sort - palm readings, or flowers, or what have you?

Once in a while an inadequately wary tourist accepts the freebie, and then they’re accosted angrily for payment/gratuity.

I understand it’s not a perfect analogy, but the bottom line is largely the same: if you give your content away for free, you want payment, you aren’t owed payment. Giving stuff away for free and then crying about the payment you’re owed is a bait and switch.
Ahh yes, I see it. I'm seeing the edits I made in the past and they have not been applied, with no reason given. I tried to elaborate on the issue, hopefully this time they will fix this.
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Thanks for providing a recipe of a society where everybody hates each other because everybody is trying to "make money" off of each other. In reality, you're getting free content for which you're "paying" with having your attention bothered for a microsecond by an ad that's barely in your field of view. The horror is unprecedented and that is why this is what you give your attention and emotion to, not all those other horrible things that the world lives with. You're spoiled and you have no real worries, so you create a boogie man that you fight because it gives life meaning. That's my impression of this topic.
This sham site can't reliably say anything. It returns results of things I didn't touch and fails to show anything I did download and seed. You'd think it would be technically easy to get this right.
What excites me about AR is the augmented part!

What we've seen so far is more toy like. But imagine an AR tutorial app that guides you through replacing the brake pads on your car.

It could point the the exact spot for the next step, instruct you which tool and size to use and all sorts of things assuming you can recognize the objects well enough and a specific tutorial was built for your car. You could even build tutorials by having it observe what you do.

That sort of application is probably pretty far off but having it as a HUD instead of having to pull out your phone every 30 seconds would be super useful.

In the industrial setting some workers are already using Google Glass type devices to have some information readable without pulling out a phone but those don't have any real AR features yet.
Why wouldn't scale be relevant? The harm that a tiny ad network causes is obviously smaller than the harm that a large ad network causes, so... yes, a tiny ad network is less bad than a large one.
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I agree. But this is the new form of economic imperialism--nobody suspects a bunch of nerdy billionaires under 40 with multi-national employee pool linked to target countries elite educational institutions...good luck telling your best and the brightest why they shouldn't take that 7 digit salary from Americans, especially when no other domestic enterprises exists or willing to absorb that many new graduates.
To update your BIOS. In this case the kernel module doing that was buggy and not ready. The real question is why the module was enabled by Canonical.
Those ideals of productivity sound amazing but in practice I can see problems. A floating, non corporeal keyboard with no feedback would be tough to type on for starters.
Check this one out: https://vspatial.com/
Is undoing brexit (fully or partially) still an option? If not, is it because the UK government is still committed to brexit or is it because what has been done so far is irreversible?
Leap doesn't have a great track record. They show really cool ideas and then deliver ok toy products.
>small, irrelevant websites that resemble what existed in the 1990s.

I take issue with this statement. The websites back then were small but they were not irrelevant. If anything they featured more relevant and original content than the majority of sites today. Combined with the tech of today like free CDNs I don't think we'd be much worse off.

I would enjoy it. I doubt you would enjoy one day getting some random malware through your ads that you leave unblocked.
sqlite has already done a similar thought experiment: https://sqlite.org/affcase1.html
Teaching is hard. It involves good communication, breaking up what you want to convey in smaller parts, organizing these parts according to the model of the learner, checking that everything is understood by asking questions and doing it all again to correct the misunderstandings.

We can infer that having to teach a computer won’t be easier than straight on telling it what to do with a formal language and getting feedback. The hard part is designing the problem space.

Of course better, continuous feedback would greatly improve the ease of programming.
> Both transportation and renting are regulated markets for a reason: because we already have experience that infrastructure related markets without regulation will be abused.

While that's true, that experience comes from a different time period. I don't agree with the idea of exploiting unenforced laws, but this is also an issue where the community, government, or regulatory bodies aren't reacting quickly enough.

There's this weird dissonance where people like the new ideas and convenience, but don't wish to revisit the rules around these industries for any reason.

If every person prefers to hail cabs from an app to get in an unmarked car, then the city or state or whichever body should be forced to contemplate medallions. And if people want to AirBNB, the community should find reasonable compromises in rules that keep everyone happy.

It seems like the law makers and citizens are taking a slide, forcing judges to evaluate crummy old laws against what look like scammy businesses that the people love.
Bitcoin is only hyperdeflationary because it's being pumped, to my mind. It's mostly used as an investment and speculation tool, not as a currency, that is, not for paying for goods and services.

It's not (yet) "digital gold", but rather "digital tulips" [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
But couldn't ask the same question of the VPN that the grandparent post asked of the cloud provider? Namely, won't they turn your info over just as fast as an ISP?
Existing VR displays have your eyes fixed focused either several meters out, or at the horizon, so the kind of eye strain your talking about is not an issue.

MagicLeap supposedly has variable distance focus working.
I don’t think you fully understood his point.

When a website comes to your computer, and you choose to digest it in the manner you see fit, our using YOUR resources the way YOU see fit.

The content creator wants you to use your resources the way THEY see fit. They ... can’t really demand that.

As opposed to charging a subscription fee, in which you are aligned in wanting to use your resources in a way you both find satisfying.
> The UBI debate is fundamental to how we perceive society and what kind of society we want to build into the future.

Right now it's only fundamental to the minority of HNers who can't stop talking about it.

> If one's idea of human society is people working to earn money. Fullstop.

We don't work for money, we work for value, I do my part and in return, I'll get food shelter, protection by the police, roads etc.

> This seems to be a pretty impoverished view of humanity.

Requiring people to do their part for the group as a whole is an impoverished view of humanity?

> Then words like lazy

Yes, that is what you call a person who refuses to work, yet probably expects the fruit of other people's labour and yes, that's UBI in a nutshell.

> But one that our current capitalist system necessitates,

And by capitalist you mean all systems that we have tried so far.

> The other way is thinking of the billions of brains wasted every generation just trying to survive, exactly what humans did 2000 years ago.

Survival is just as important to us now as it was 2000 years ago, you are also overlooking the fact that we are getting better and better at it.

> Now imagine if all these brains could be freed and god knows how much innovation, progress and intellectual output can be unlocked into a completely different kind of society. That's a vision.

It's not a vision, it's just ignorance about the huge progress that we made as a species.

> But the reality is many will stick doggedly to the personal wealth and achievement mantra and because of the disproportionate influence of wealth and entrenched interests in our societies right from feudalism to now, and UBI or any such fanciful idea will be sabotaged and blocked.

The reality is: we want stuff. The more value we provide to society, the more stuff we get in return. For you to be able to give me free stuff means that somebody was happy to produce that stuff without getting anything in return, I believe the term for that is slavery.
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A lot of contractor's work in similar situations -- it seems like you're implying that the passenger is the customer but the passenger is just a package to be delivered. The customer for the driver is Uber. A lot of these are good points, though.
> These are completely unfounded guesses. You have no basis upon which to determine whether it's "difficult."

Those are guesses, which is why I used "probably" and "it’d be". Glueing parts together takes less space so it makes sense they use that to make phones thinner.
I’ve yet to find a single smartphone with the iPhone 7’s thickness and a replaceable battery. The Fair Phone has a replaceable battery, but it’s thicker than every iPhone since the 3GS from 8 years ago.
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Planar presentation matches the limitations of our visual input. Isn't that why we appear to have copied former presentation media.
This is nonsensical--your interactions with other entities belong to them just as much as you. Chase gets to talk about their experience with you just as you may talk about your experience with Chase.
That's a pretty big if. Also, currency is liquid nearly by definition, and bitcoin in relation to other currencies has demonstrated many properties that make it practically very illiquid (e.g. the uncertainty of day-to-day price changes).
They are explicitly not. They want to abolish the screen. They want real, touchable objects to be imbued with dynamism.

From their FAQ:

"Is Dynamicland augmented reality (AR)?
It depends what you mean by augmented reality. Dynamicland is primarily about working with actual physical objects that everyone can see and touch. Glasses and phone-based AR is usually about 'holograms' floating in space that only the person with the device can see. It is a central tenet that all people who come in to Dynamicland share the same reality. This enables social cues like pointing, eye contact, and shared attention which are essential for people to be fully present with each other."

https://dynamicland.org/faq/
I think that you need to build some sort of coordination platform. Fundamentally, I think that people aren't more active because they think that they can't change much. You have to build some sort of system where people can see how their participation directly affects things. The problem that these things generally only work once you have a large number of participants so getting this off the ground would be tricky.
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Think of a high-end clothing store where they offer you a cocktail while you shop. Now imagine you have an ad blocker that prevents you from seeing the clothes. You just walk in and they're happy to hand you a cocktail and you stand in an empty-looking room with a friend enjoying your free cocktails. You're still getting manipulated because the free cocktail brought you into the store. Without it you would have chosen to go somewhere else.

Or imagine you don't drink, and you go to a tapas place and buy some loss-leader food items and a water. You were manipulated by the loss leaders. They manipulated you into the place.

Of course what that comment is referring to is sites where the content is harmful, but no matter how sites sustain themselves, it's up to you to choose content that benefits you rather than harms you.
Put up a paywall and charge for your service. If your service is not one that people will pay you actual money for, reconsider whether it's actually all that valuable.

How does a lack of advertising revenue kill off independent publishers? Anyone can get a VPS for $5 / month and host whatever they want. 99.9% of them will never achieve a level of traffic that would either require additional investment or produce any significant advertising revenue anyway.
And stuff like Wikipedia which runs ad free off donations.

Honestly, I'm okay with that, most info I get is from Wikipedia, scientific papers or tiny random blogs. What sites are you afraid of it killing? Junk news sites? Reddit? I can live without them. I struggle to think of any with significant value.
You can create a fork today but should you be allowed to take the bitcoin name? Leave the name with the existing entity.
Very cool! You can also test-drive it online using their shell (has some restrictions according to their docs)

http://www.litedb.org/#shell

I wonder how 'production ready' this is.

A very valid use case is for use in MVPs and side-projects that would be hosted on Azure. I built an MVP using .Net and SQL Server for the database (db was needed only once a day for 30 mins to do batch jobs and save data), only to find out upon deployment that you have to pay about $50/ month minimum to have your 1 SQL Server database up and running, and also that you can't 'switch it off' ever and save $ [1].

So I ended up rewriting parts of the data layer to use SQL Lite and an embedded .DB data file.

[1] Source: Stopping SQL Azure DB when not in use
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No one's mentioned this but could this be a precursor to weaning themselves off of Intel for MacOS devices?
What support does Nim have for message passing? It looks to me like it has async/await and a thread pool-based version of something like pmap.
Sqlite is one of the simplest RDBMSs that you can run on a client, which is really useful for deploying apps that need their own data store
Regular languages cannot. Many (most?) implementations of “regular expressions” can express more complex grammars.

(My sibling is also correct)
Unifying the ui itself is less important than unifying the frameworks to build the ui.

Assuming that the effort is focused on making frameworks that simplify macOS development for folks trained as iOS developers, then this will have a large impact on native Mac development.
Thanks! I am looking to attach just an older monochrome monitor to a current-day PC rather than a full-blown terminal. I was unable to find any obvious solutions with a quick search.

I believe the constraints of the older technology may offer some advantages like reducing eye strain, nostalgia (as you mentioned), and maybe even making the interface obtuse enough to reduce my interest in staying online. Your suggestion sounds doable today and would accomplish my intended goal.