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Two interesting things I noticed. One is that the demos he experienced were not using the "goggles" pictured. You'll note that in the chronology, he sees the demos, and then later:

"My first close look at the full Magic Leap hardware comes in a secluded space upstairs that resembles a fashion showroom."

So the demos and any tests of field of view were done with surrogate hardware. It could have even been a modified hololens.

Second, they seem to be backing away from lightfield. I'm guessing they are switching to sending a single plane with pre-rendered depth of field based on Abovitz super long, super incoherent rambling monologue.

"Suddenly, if the theory was right, technology didn’t need to capture the entirety of the light field and recreate it, it just needed to grab the right bits of that light field and feed it to the visual cortex through the eye."

And of course later:

In theory, a light field should allow you to look past a created image to the reality behind it and have that closer image lose some focus. The demonstrations I went through didn't really present an opportunity to see if the goggles could do that effectively. So I asked if the technology supported multiple focal planes. "Magic Leap's Lightwear utilizes our proprietary Digital Lightfield technology, which is our digital version of an analog lightfield signal,
Who would sign a trade deal with a country which reneged on its agreements?
It seems weird to use the word "deserves" here, as if tax cuts were doled out depending on who has been naughty and who has been nice. I would prefer tax policy thought up more in terms of budget needs and setting the right economic incentives, but I guess us all being humans makes this unavoidable.
Interesting, I did not know that. However, I use a 3rd party framework to transform the table rows to classes, and I assume I would lose all that magic conversion. In other words, the reason I go through all the effort of transforming to relational is for querying and updating, but if I just put the raw document in there, I won't have granularity on my querying (I imagine).
Here's a second-hand account of why Uber is terrible and should be regulated heard from a finnish taxi driver a week ago:

1) Probably all of the Uber drivers are uninsured in the case of accident. Good luck getting your hospital bill covered if that happens and insurance company finds out you were taking an Uber.

2) There is no background check whatsoever for Uber drivers he told. They recently added a clause that requires Uber drivers to have taxi permit (or something similar) which is required by law but they do not actually check it but now the legal responsibility is out of their hands. He said something in the lines of that "bad apples" can start driving and remain much longer in Uber's system than while driving regular taxi.

3) There has been cases in which Uber drivers haven't paid any taxes and actually have been taking unemployment checks while driving. Sure not directly Uber's fault but again if their drivers were regulated I'm sure it would make checking their taxes much easier and Uber would pay pension etc. from the pay.

I think those were his main points if I recall correctly. In Finland regular taxi is well-respected and regulated so Uber has had little luck in succeeding to gain market share. Mostly foreign people use and drive Uber here.
A NY Medallion was going for over a million before Uber came along (now ~$850k). Wait lists are typically longer than 10 years.
The big problem there is resolution and the "Screen door" effect.

Text has to be fairly large in order to be readable. We will need an enormous resolution and incredibly low dot pitch to solve those issues and make productivity tools possible.

This is the tech space where I dream of working. I have been designing features for developer teams in AR but without the hardware being available, it's all theory.
Its a deal because you cant produce the Bitcoin at the same costs.
Because relationships between countries don't work in the same way as relationships between teenagers?
Because _everything_ that happens between countries (and between the UK an the EU) is driven by treaties and agreements.

Simple example: if UK leaves without agreements and treaties then there can be no flights from the UK to the EU. This sounds crazy but we have tens of thousands of bilateral agreements that drive even the most fundamental things, and they can be (and are) affected by e.g. the EU membership.

Or UK citizens would not be able to buy products from the EU because there would be no agreements in place that'd allow companies in the EU to export goods. Yeah, as soon as you BMW breaks down that's it, because no spare parts would be available.

Yes, it's this important.
Elixir is great but it most definitely doesn't fit the "C++ strengths" part of the requirements. Contrary to popular belief, Elixir is a slow language. Think Python/Ruby slow for compute-intensive tasks.
There is no real cost to keep on trying. It's like a forum without moderation.
> One database per account/user data store

This is very interesting to me. I am writing a multi-tenant app with a single RDBMS schema right now and balancing all of my needs (scaling/sharding, partitioning tables, normalizing vs denormalizing) has been challenging.

I've never written a system with a whole database per account. Does anyone have any good reading or examples on this general tactic?
Not if you're factoring that in with the thinness. I've bought a thinner phone over a larger phone specifically because I know that the total size of the phone + case fits in my pocket better. Especially when using something like a Lifeproof/Otterbox/Tank case...
Article 50 specifies exactly what will happen: WTO rules will apply.

I think most people now are assuming WTO and considering anything else to be a bonus.
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When I read math-heavy papers I often read them over and over again over an extended period of time. Back in the early 00's I would get paper conferences proceedings out of the library at my local uni and read them on the bus, now I read on a tablet while I spin at the gym.

If you really have to understand them, there is no substitute for working out the math partially or completely by hand, try to find a different way to derive things, reproduce the results computationally, etc.

Do that on more than 1 or 2 papers then you will start finding errors!
Convention that you don’t break treat obligations (presumably because consequences of doing so would be very bad)?
Sure. And I would pay SpaceX to launch a banana into low Earth orbit, if it cost $10. Doesn't mean it should cost $10 - you need to also look at what's sustainable. Uber isn't; VC money is not infinite.
The NYT did seem to put more effort into it:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/17/upshot/tax-ca...

At least it looks nicer.
No problem. I want to stream the Olympic Channel, and I even pay $100 for a cable subscription that includes it.

Oh, I can't stream it though. Uverse only lets me stream from 3 of the NBC Sports channels, and not that one. Guess I am going to just cancel the cable I pay for and use someone else's Comcast login instead.

I don't mind paying for streaming service, and when HBO cracked down I bought a subscription that night. But some services you can't even pay for if Comcast doesn't run cable to your house.
Buy a Jaguar then ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Read the story again. He experienced the demos with some sort of surrogate hardware, not the goggles pictured. You'll note that he goes through all the demos, and then later gets his first close look at the goggles hardware. The story provides no indication that the goggle hardware is yet functional.
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You need to work on the deeper roots of the problem. Campaign finance in Congress is the big one. It blocks common sense reform on the left and the right.
For the same reason your friends will refuse to go to dinner with you if you skip on the bill.

There are literally hundreds of collaborations between UK organisations and EU organisations. If we just stop our promised contributions to all of them they're not going to trust us again.
No it can't - it's as bound by Article 50 as the UK is.
I avoid proprietary software as much as I can, but if Free Software will ever be truly vindicated, I have a feeling it will happen via business applications.

Convincing a sizable portion of consumers to even try free software--much less pay for it--is pretty much a lost cause. Consumers have made it abundantly clear they value convenience and "free" (as in gratis) over freedom, privacy, customizability, and any other ideal or benefit we can try to sell them on.

The best hope for consumers is for a set of profitable, high-quality, free business software companies to rise, and for some of those companies to devote money, dev time, ingenuity, and vision to solving consumer problems. You cannot take on proprietary software with ideals alone; you need resources.
In the current parlance, this is called the 'No Deal'.
No, not the IRS. A few thousand dollars has zero marginal impact on the US government. I would rather donate my money to an organization that can better use a donation on the scale that I can afford to give.
Cryptocurrency aside, are any ideas new ideas?
It's unclear if this is just due to favorable lighting or not.
This is just the worst web site. A textbook case of masturbatory web design.
Maybe releasing the nam-shub of Enki in SV would be wise.
They never sold out, stop spreading this misinformation.
Okay, fine: "Why is a kernel module writing to my BIOS"?
It's just a counter. Also, you can shard based on a hash of the account letting you scale without limit.
Here's a question - What was the end game of the guys during the accumulation phase? To pump the price and sell, right? So we see the pump in action. Then there should be the sell/dump. What happened to that?

If I scroll to a week ago between 13th and 14th there is an identical pattern. There is accumulation and then a pump followed by sell:
https://imgur.com/a/Hysfc

Is this also related to Coinbase?
1. UK has obligations to the EU for the 2020 (already have deals & contracts), other than that they're free to leave. Of course you can just leave and end up with a chaotic situation where nobody knows how trading works, there are tariffs.

Opinion : UK is going toward vassal state status to the
EU by not having a say but still having to follow their rules.
Is MagicLeap Lightfield tech same as that of Red's $1200 holographic smartphone display (announced few months back)?

CEO Jim Jannard has revealed that RED is creating the screen in partnership with a company called Leia Inc. A spin-off from Hewlett-Packard labs, it calls itself "the leading provider of light field holographic display solutions for mobile," and the key words "light field" gives us a pretty good idea as to how it works.

Light field displays use multiple layers of LCDs with a "directional backlight," letting you see two different views of the same object with each eye, producing a 3D effect. https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/08/red-leia-holographic-sma...
Makes sense to include a tool with the OS that would let you download stuff then. Like a web browser. :)
using a specific heat of 4184 J/ kg*°C, those 400 megawatts can heat 1200 kilograms of water from 20°C to 100°C every second. That's a lot of hot water.

You would need a 1 meter diameter pipe flowing at 1.5 meters/sec to supply this.
Because the EU will say no and Britain will be screwed. It wouldn't be great for the EU either, but it would hurt them a lot less.
Who cares who created it? The calculation is laid out and unless you have an error to present, you're criticism is invalid.

It looks correct to me and is obviously more featured than the NYTs calculator which only allows you to pick ranges and subsets.
Or maybe you can get good parts from both approaches?
Really loving Crystal, although not using it for any commercial applications (yet). It's really nice for building small command line apps. It has stolen my heart from Go TBH.
The banks had extremely functional websites after years of iteration.

Some of those sites had been more or less unchanged since at least the early 2000's.

A shining example of if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I'm 99% certain people weren't leaving any bank because of an old website design.

The new ones have so much padding and empty space, and hide everything behind "clever" menus. I'm a PM and avoid this clever bullshit like the plague.
I watched this happen live. There was a very obvious trading software malfunction. Here's what I watched happen.

People could place orders before trading started. I was watching BCH/USD and BCH/BTC which had a fixed price, $3100 USD and 3.00 BTC respectively.

BCH/USD had a huge amount of buy pressure (people buying BCH with cash); BCH/BTC had a huge amount of sell pressure (people dumping the airdrop).

Only BCH/USD went live; BCH/BTC remained paused. (That was weird, I thought it looked like a human somewhere hit enter too soon, but apparently it was intended)

Once trading started (BCH/USD only), people couldn't place new sell orders. The unlimited buys cleared, including the guy on reddit whose order was "Buy $100000 USD of BTC at market price", which was filled at 6k and then he was unable to place a sell at 9k. Apparently placing buys without limits is common because unlimited buys are filled before limited ones are.

Since you couldn't place a new sell; the price was not bounded; the book cleared and everything was stuck at 9.5k for a couple minutes. There was a little bit of trades, not sure if it was only people with existing orders that were glitched or if maybe some people weren't glitched, maybe all the activity was orders placed before trading opened.

They realized the issue and paused trading; orders began to accumulate again roughly around here; here's a screenshot of the orders accumulating https://i.imgur.com/0NTyYXx.png There is incredible sell pressure here, the price was obviously out of whack with actual supply/demand.

(MY SPECULATION) Since there was never a functioning market I'd expect Coinbase to rewind all the trades which is what it looks like they are doing.

I might have gotten some of the details wrong, I am just a detached layperson learning about finance who happened to see this go down.

Sorry reddit, no consipiracy here. But none of those posts in r/bitcoin are actual humans anyway, it's all fake bots and a couple poor suckers who don't realize they're arguing with a content farm. Here's some required reading about the bitcoin information manipulation shitshow. https://np.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/6rxw7k/infor... TLDR: Nothing is real, everything is fake news, you think it can't possibly be that bad? it's actually worse than that.
For the same reason your friends will refuse to go to dinner with you if you skip on the bill.

What about if you refuse to split the bill for the next dinner, to which you aren't invited?
Of course it is. Hackernews tends to be extremely bad at telling so. Usually ends up with tons of downvotes.
Parser(s)? As in more than one? Hopefully you’ll ever need to only write one parser (e.g. for Rust) but practically zero since regexs are a solved problem.
Yea, the BFR is designed to be fully re-usable, unlike the partial re-usability of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. Which is why Musk believes it will be far cheaper than either.

Now Elon has always been excessively optimistic, but in the long run he's probably right (More likely in BFR2 or BFR3, than first BFR design, in my opinion).
4k per eye isn't even close to enough for grandparents wishes... You'd need at least 10k per eye, and would still have a lower resolution than a 24 inch full HD screen at 50 cm
$10M is cheap to get a $20M lawsuit filed against you.
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Snowdrift.coop is NOT quite "mostly dormant", it's just pushing ahead at the unfortunately-slow-pace that is common for all-volunteer projects. Regular activity happens every day moving toward full launch. See the activity links at the top of https://blog.snowdrift.coop/still-here/
Would you describe the present environment as chaotic? Rideshare companies have solved the problems you describe.

You can debate whether it’s fair that they’ve profited by breaking the rules. But they’ve made a very compelling case that the rules aren’t needed anymore.
1. resolution
2. fatigue
3. (for VR) limited input options

Beyond these, the main reason is that gaming is a much better exploration and experimentation field than productivity because each app can have far less capital investment, lifecycles are short, and there's no need for a reliable, successful output.
Even if you could solve the tremendously difficult technical problems, that's just not an experience that mass market entertainment audiences would want to pay for on a frequent basis.
I have the same opinion about their acquisition of Waze. But I think Waze itself as a GPS is quite frustrating. It tells me to take the worst local road, when Google Map takes me the better route (the exact route I would have taken anyway without the GPS). After tryig a few times I have given up on Waze completely. I feel Google is using Waze for getting additional usee data points.
There are a few things about this I don’t understand. How much money was it? Were they supposed to get a percentage of money raised, or did they get paid a fee and then get a percentage on top? Do I understand correctly that they’re having money problems so they kept your money to solve their money problems? The simple way to solve this is to take them to court. Is there anything more to the story than you trusted them with your money and they kept it?
WTO deals can take years to negotiate. The U.K's land of heaven is lobbying in Brussels so they can get a fair to everyone deal. As my British friends say, can't have your cake and eat it.
You used to be able (maybe still are?) to "rm" the files on a mounted efivarfs. See the relevant systemd issue ([1]).

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402
This is both a regex parser and a regex matcher, and I believe fao_ meant the matching part.
Making the iPad a giant phone was what made is successful compared to every other attempt (even Microsoft's) at making tablets.

The success of the iPad in the "pro" market is more of an accident and took a long time to come around.
Because the U.K. is not self-sufficient. Actually, I'm fairly certain that no country in today's world is self-sufficient. That means that for people to get by, day-to-day, the U.K. will need to import "stuff". If they were to simply up-and-leave the EU, chances are that the EU would retaliate by:

* closing borders with the U.K.

* embargoing or imposing severe tariffs on U.K. exports

* raise prices on U.K. imports to cover the monies not paid by the U.K.

So the U.K.'s choices are to:

* pay, in effect, what they owe (in the forms of tariffs and penalties) with zero bargaining position

* find enough other countries to trade with (who are willing to also thumb their nose at the EU) to make up for the goods and services they had been getting from the EU

* negotiate a clean exit
Excellent point, especially with the tons of semi rich people. Its often overlooked how young SV really is. The first gold rush was in semiconductors, and the people that made money there invested in software and the cycle continued. What essentially happened is that these "semi-rich" people, as you say, were perfect investors in new startups:

1. They had the money to get the startup going
2. They had the technical expertise to (mostly) select good investments and cut through the bullshit.
3. They had experience with startups themselves; they were excellent mentors and had industry connections besides.

Now the system is in place, it seems rather magical.
I’ll take it off your hands! I just sent my name and address to you via PM, but let me know if you’d prefer to send through PayPal instead of a check.
Who would have guessed that crypto currencies would turn into an industry
That rarity too is also software controlled based on the difficulty curve. Bitcoin doesn't have to boil the oceans, it could make mining easy enough again that transactions could be mined in a coffee break on an average person's smart phone's GPU.

As I said, the scarcity of Bitcoin is much more a political structure than an inherent nature of Bitcoin. The miners control Bitcoin so much as anyone does and it is their political intent as much as anything else that creates any scarcity in Bitcoin at all.
Wow. Uber single handedly made folks on ycombinator pro cab industry. The hatred I saw for the cab industry when Uber was announced or becoming successful was so strong that I am amazed at how grandly Uber fucked it up.

Practically though, Uber is still doing great and probably will be just fine even after this ruling. The traditional taxis are still bad and have never reinvented themselves.
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Are you able to point to where it's factually incorrect? For me, the NYT times estimates were in the same range.
Where does it say they used the goggles?

"My first experience with Magic Leap’s technology in action occurred in a sort of sound stage"

Note he uses the generalized word, 'technology', and does not say 'Magic Leap One'. Then later in the visit:

"My first close look at the full Magic Leap hardware comes in a secluded space upstairs that resembles a fashion showroom."
Should the power company charge you more based on what appliances you plug in at home, block appliances that it doesn't like, or slow down power to appliances it doesn't like on a whim?

That's basically what the ISPs want to do.
The European Union wants to maintain centralized power. A Country like the UK leaving weakens their authority. Meanwhile the uk wants to remain sovereign, but doesn't want to lose the benefits of the EU. Its essentially a power play. Freedom is the better choice imo
No, you didn't grow up with that sort of system. I was there too, and I remember the details you're leaving out.

How do you think you watched the average college football game in 1980? The answer is: you didn't. It wasn't broadcast. A handful of games a week were broadcast anywhere. Cable slowly increased the number of games available over a few decades, but it was no longer free. There simply weren't enough broadcast channels, or enough interested eyeballs, in order to justifying broadcasting the average Oregon State @ Utah random weekly matchup anywhere before big cable bundles with lots of expensive ESPN and regional sports networks.

Same for local pro sports: the 90s gradually saw more and more of my home teams' games being available on TV, but not purely on free over the air TV, the economics of that rarely made sense. Regional sports networks were the driver here, and they collected subscriber fees. The amount of advertisements shown saw some big increases too, to help recoup the costs with both revenue streams. You didn't use to always have the dude with the red hat stepping onto the field to stop play for TV timeouts nearly as much.

You sure as fuck did not watch "any live sporting event I fancy, for free." That poster is living in a dream world if he thinks that will continue to happen without people paying for the goddamn content.
> PHEVs are like EVs only they are terrible cars in EV mode. I guess that doesn't bother you, if you haven't noticed.

I'd guess that for a lot of car buyers, practicality of a car (capacity, safety, comfort, convenience) are more important than high performance. All the PHEVs on the market meet the basic requirements for all of those criteria as good as or better than equivalent ICEs, and many can even beat equivalent ICEs in acceleration due to their electric drivetrain, if that's important to you.

And the Bolt is indeed great, and clearly pure EVs are the future, and PHEVs will be relegated to particular niches.
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