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So in looking forward to a time when people actually want a VR focused browsing experience and just for WebVR/WebGL there is this HUGE gap missing.

Where is the "HTMLTexture" support (the hacks for it are janky and not viable in my experience)?

I think WebVR will not take off if it doesn't have a clean way to experience the web's existing 2d elements, not to mention even VR needs a way to do 2d layout.

Any thoughts? I know Chrome guys were experimenting a few months back and there was some talk of it being in WebXR...
Kubuntu 17.10 because I wanted per-folder views in Dolphin. The 16.04 backports repo hasn't had an update for ages.
Is this a dupe of FloydHub's blog post from a couple weeks back? Markup looks very similar
The first two federal officers involved in a Bitcoin-related investigation (Silk Road) stole the money and tried to cover it up. Which shows just how bad US law enforcement culture is. People like this can, and should be, filtered out.

At some point I hope to see a #MeBlue social campaign by good cops to out bad cops.
Race engines are not known for their lack of EM emissions :)

Vehicles are not friendly environments to begin with, race cars are outright hostile territory. Vibration & G forces, interference, fluctuating power, huge temperature variation, aerodynamic effects on antenna and cabling are all factors that will make this quite a bit of work to get to acceptable reliability levels.

I like your idea of a cellular hotspot, that might be the easiest way to get to something that works. Compact, no external cabling. That's good.

Edit: I tried running a webcam in a racecar in the mid 90's but it never got beyond the planning stage before the obstacles became insurmountable for the budget available, now, obviously a lot has happened in those years and F1 and other racing sports prove on a daily basis that the bandwidth is definitely there if you have the budget, you make me wonder how easy it would be to pull this off today, mostly likely you could just plug it together from some consumer components, a small tablet with a SIM card in a waterproof and vibration isolated enclosure would probably get you 90% there.
The taxi union teamed up with city governments to restrict competition at the expense of consumers. It's not the rules as they were written so much as the rules they wrote. Getting rid of them is great precedent. What's unfortunate is that it'll be much harder to get rid of rules like this in other, not as consumer facing industries.

Also, re: the "speed" at which this happened. Seems like driving for Uber or Lyft (less money but on your own time) would in theory be a great way for drivers to transition to something else.
The point of insurance is to group recipients with different likelihood of risks into the same risk pool, such that it's very unlikely that many of your insured will need a payout at the same time. How you set pricing is largely a different matter.

Now, as an insurer, you have a monetary interest in ending up with as few riskier clients as you can. You can try to use pricing or exclusions to try to achieve this, but regulations often step in, because otherwise only the least risky clients could obtain insurance, and everyone else would have to fend for themselves. However, the least risky people often don't even want to purchase insurance, because they perceive its utility to be low, and the incidence of catastrophic events to be unlikely.

This generally means that clients who perceive themselves to be low-risk will place a lower value on insurance, necessitating a lower price, or they'll take their business elsewhere or nowhere at all. People who perceive themselves to be higher-risk will "accept" a higher price, because they expect to have a better outcome with insurance than without. Since companies want to avoid this type of customer, prices can creep higher than they need to be just by factoring in their risk.
I do not like repetitive motion without productivity. I understand the argument that this type of movement ("exercise") leads to enhanced capacity for mental labor, and less healthcare budget. What bothers me is not getting anything done.

Riding a bike is repetitive, but you instantly see results (going somewhere).

Swinging an axe into a tree over and over is repetitive, but a felled tree can be a useful resource.

Rearranging all your furniture may seem repetitive, but you are creating a fresh space, simultaneously cleaning. Doing this with others further reinforces community.

"Exercise" became a common term as we gradually started expecting machines to do the heavy lifting.

Now we pay a "membership" fee to go somewhere safe and climate controlled so we can simulate labor (mostly iron going up and down up and down).

The hydrocarbon killed creativity and fortitude?
Will an iPad from today last longer or less long? If the hardware is stabilizing, maybe they'll have more longevity (due to easier iOS compatibility)?
Given her level of tech-savviness, that's not as easy as it sounds. Also, it seems more secure to have her just use the app - less possibility of phishing attempts and the like. She already bought a new iPad anyway.
They think about stealing but realize that they might get caught due to the wiretap. In a later season when they're taking part in a raid with a dead wiretap and no risk of being caught after the fact, they do take the money.

The entire 5th season has most of the department cooking the books to get their overtime pay.
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Interop was a little pain for me as well when testing ELM, so for practical reasons I'm ended using Typescript and I like it quite well but I think immutability by deafult is good step forward towards better programs and I'm happy FB engineers work on ReasonML.
> This is not a good precedent.

If you're only analyzing this from the side of the drivers, I would agree. As someone who has used public transpiration my whole life, the service that taxis provide has been average to blatantly discriminatory.

I have stories from Washington D.C., New York City, Chicago, and L.A. where I've not been able to get a ride because of how I look. In some cases I've been denied rides at cab stands and been forced to walk to a friends house (over a mile). I've had to ask caucasian women to hail a cab and then do a quick swap to get a ride. I've been asked "where I'm going" and then been told "no sorry I'm not going there." I've been given a joy ride around a city, using my iPhone to realize that the driver is doing loops and taking me out of the way to run up the fare.

Not all taxi drivers were like this, but I have real experiences that make it difficult for me to empathize with a community that really didn't care about my dollar in the first place. I can't speak for riders that never had problems getting a cab, but the traditional U.S. taxi market was barely accessible to me; Uber and Lyft were never like that.
So your argument is "no it ain't"? I don't really understand your argument.

Are you doubting the part that people are using it for fleeing capital controls in China or for asset protection or how they were using it during Venezuala crises?
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>What is going to stop something like this occuring again? Officers going to jail?

wrongdoings by officers are mostly handled internally with administrative leave aka paid vacation
No, he is right. cargo-web supports three backends, of which only two include emscripten and the third using a native rust backend.
https://github.com/koute/cargo-web#features

Rust can be compiled to wasm without emscripten using wasm32-unknown-unknown.
> Pretty amazing to drop into the same channel for 6-7 years in a row and see the same faces every time.

This... shout outs to darkf, nedbat and aria from Node JS

It amazes me how these people continue to help others and blessed to have them repeatedly help me on so many occasions
There is: in significant chunks of the world we call that "social security".
YouTube suspends Cody's Lab for making video about homemade gunpowder
That's a reward, not a punishment.
agree on first point! will try the workaround for mouse pointer
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Why would TV need speakers? It's almost the same argument as with the smart TVs. I have a nice set of standalone speakers, why would I want to pay for the crappy speakers in a TV?
I mean leverage and inverse ETF's aren't broken, they are behaving as desired.

You just should never, ever hold one overnight as per the SEC guidelines due to how they reset each night.

https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/leveragedetfs-alert.htm

I can't think of a single valid reason to hold a leveraged ETF overnight. If anyone has one, please let me know:)

The awesome KidDynamite blog goes into how these ETF's are re-balanced and how they can "rip your face off" if you don't understand them.

http://kiddynamitesworld.com/leveraged-etf-trading-flow-case...

http://kiddynamitesworld.com/leveraged-etfs-and-high-school-...
Our iPad2 is now useless, mostly because the old models were severely memory constrained. If the mic still worked we could use it for calls however.
FYI, iOS lets you add sites to the home screen, when you do they behave almost appish.
its called planned obsolescence
uber does follow the law in NYC. You need a taxi/limousine license and plates to drive for uber there.

There are several classes of taxi/limousine in NYC regulations and the medallion'ed yellow cabs are only one of them, ubers just count as a different kind. I think as a livery cab ("black car") where the number of them was never fixed like the medallions were. Distinction is you're only allowed to hail yellow (and green) cabs on the street. Black cars have to scheduled and or sent from a dispatch, which uber counts as.

BTW, the black cars pre-uber were notorious for brazenly ignoring the hailing law, they would show up where the yellow cabs didn't and you could still "hail" them and you would have to play hardball negotiation on the price like you were in a third world country or else they would try to demand an abusive price.. Much more clearly illegally competing with the yellow cabs but not centralized into a single corporate villain and therefore more difficult to feel outraged towards.
Good question, I'll add it to our FAQ later.

Down the line, yeah. We just launched so we're still iterating and linking to more WebVR content to improve the experience on Windows where most of the users are today. Then hopefully, towards the other OSes.

I think if those can somehow support OpenVR, maybe :) At the moment, focused on Vive/Rift/Windows MR. Perhaps we nail that and then we can time travel back to 1995.
The authors only looked at weight and BMI, and not bodyfat % or lean mass, which are much better indicators of health than weight or BMI alone.

Someone who is 6' and 200 lbs could either be a body builder or a coach potato, and they'd have the same BMI.
Framework performance should rarely be an issue in normal use, by super fast you're talking about milliseconds of difference to toggle hundreds of todo item.
There is a vast gulf between 'plainclothes detectives' and 'secret police'.
Ipads where never meant to be computers. I mean just look at the new Ipad commerical with the little girl. This is made worse by the fact that it's completely locked down. You have no way to fiddle with it. If Ios was free software people could develop for the ipad so it could continue to do the things people expect of it, but it's not.
Police unions are the only strong unions left in the country.

The conservatives will come for them at some point too...until then you have places like Philly that, at least used to, have complaints against police be heard by the union before they are passed on to internal affairs.

Bmore takes the cake, though...just wtf all over and back again.
The last mile problem [0]. A rail system could work for a very densely populated area, but there is way too much sprawl. It's part of the reason why cars are basically seen as a necessity in the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile_(transportation)
It's all but impossible to buy a high quality dumb TV these days. I bought a 4k TV this past year with the intention of never connecting it to the internet but I guess I didn't do enough research because I can't even access all the functions of the TV without pairing it with an Android "remote" over a wireless network. Even better it's from a manufacturer that sells users' viewing habits.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/06/vizio-smart-tv-viewing-h...

Even now they make it opt out. To disable it I had to go into some obscure submenu and disable an option called "smart interactivity," something I never would have found on my own. I had to look up a guide on how to stop my TV from selling data about everything I view on the TV to advertisers!

The way "smart" TVs are going makes me wary of what other "smart" appliances will do in the future.
Does your company sponsor H1B visa?
Man, the main character from the shield was one scary effing guy.
It is not exactly the same because real Baltimore cops would not even consider the possibility of being caught and know that if they were, nothing would happen to them.
Find and watch inclusive movies and TV
That is interesting one.

Backing up - and looking at it years later gives you a perspective on your thinking process in the past years
Delete - leaves lean set of Todos to focus on, without blogging down by laundry list of old things.

> I once read a statement attributed to Steve Ballmer that every six months, he tears his todo list in half and throws the bottom half away. If anything far down that list was actually a priority, it will naturally get re-added (by thinking of it again, in response to a customer, etc.).
I personally do not care. Selecting migrants based of their value for the agriculture industry is about the worst thing a nation can do itself. Let's hope that constraints breed creativity and industry invests in automation. I think the government should do more to support farmer automation... especially when it's been proven to be effective like for dairy.

(I come from a family of farmers... going up my family tree there are been nothing but farmers)
For the VM, follow the same OS hardening standards you would apply in a non VPS environment. Each OS distribution has its own NIST, CIS hardening guides. Do not use pre-built images created by someone else, as you have no idea if they are tainted. Build, patch and harden the image in your own continuous build environment.

Each VPS provider have their own site specific means of locking down their API's and web consoles. Speaking in generic terms, limit API access to known trusted networks when you can. Limit the lifespan and capabilities of API keys. Rotate API keys, just as you would passwords or ssh keys. Delegate the minimum permissions required for people to do their job. Audit accounts and delegated sub-accounts. Set up multi-factor authentication for non API key logins. Set up email alerts for account changes.

In high level terms of networking, do not allow unfettered outbound access from your VM's unless there is a specific need to do so. Either set up your own traffic logging at the host level, or determine if your VPS provider have the ability to log traffic.

In terms of payment methods, use a virtual account number (virtual credit card) that is tied to that vendor and has a currency spending limit. Not all banks have this capability. Ask yours to add it. When possible, set upper limits on the number and sizes of VM's your account is authorized to create. Ask your VPS provider to add this capability if it does not exist.
The CoreRT and Mono folks certainly do talk to each other.

As I understand, Mono is going to be moving forwards with WebAssembly much faster than CoreRT will do. Mono has officially committed to it already, whereas for CoreRT it was more of an exploratory spike.

Also it makes much more sense for Mono to be the .NET runtime for WebAssembly. Mono is already Microsoft's preferred production-grade .NET runtime for most client scenarios (iOS/Android native apps, Unity games) and is designed for that kind of portability. WebAssembly is another client platform like those.
Thanks!

VR, despite the hype and push, is still very early stages. The headsets that can provide quality experience are difficult to set up and clunky. We haven't replaced Skype with meeting up in VR...yet. But we'll see prices drop and ergonomics improve quickly to make it viable.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/us/farmers-strain-to-hire-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/despite-economy-americans-dont-...

Most americans are unwilling to work on farms, even at the heights of the recent recession.
I've dreamed for years to have a single cloud OS, and then multiple "dumb" monitors and speakers controlled by that OS, Chrome seemed to be aiming for that, but privacy concerns could kill that dream.
That's a much better statement of the issue.

So, it sounds like the author is asking for: upgradeable, portable hardware, with longevity of 5+ years, that can have a "maintenance" release of software, for under $350. I don't think there exists a business case for such a product.
Why are people downvoting this? The US is 2nd in social protection spending (total as % of GDP) in the OECD it’s second to bloody France the only problem is that it seems to be much less efficient.
But the crab cakes are so good!
Nootropics for dogs
Ummm...I don't know if 'vast' is what I would use there, but there's a difference.
DOJ report: https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/883366/download
> Again, I use Rust and Go similarly in this post because Go is my frame of reference. I thought they were the same on this front, though. No?

No. Rust used to have a green threads runtime like Go (and Erlang/BEAM, Haskell, etc.) but that was removed before the 1.0 release. So today, a thread in Rust is a heavyweight OS thread, like in C/Java and most mainstream languages.
Probably the state, not the feds.
Not directly related to the initiative itself, but comparing and contrasting the Electron website vs. PyQT is striking:

https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro

https://electronjs.org/

I've been a (proud) Pythonist for years now, and I've always been a bit chagrined by the quality of the "marketing" of Python projects. It doesn't at all reflect the quality of the community and the projects.
Ok, thank you for this. I'll have to see some time about that Arrow support. JSON and CSV is already plenty enough.

I didn't have time for a proper look yet, so no worries. If at all possible post the code and data (or something like it) that is in those animations you have. That would perhaps allow users to dive in by tinkering here and there.
From the article:

"Within three years, deep learning will change front-end development. It will increase prototyping speed and lower the barrier for building software."

-- This is an article that somewhat breathlessly claims that AI will be the thing plugging the "last mile" problem in the coding of the front end.

I think myself and other other folks chiming in here would be less skeptical if this "last mile" problem hadn't existed since the 90s. And moreover, it seems like a conventional solution to this should work.

The problem is that last-mile, best front-code varies not based on the input image but on a multitude of contexts outside of the image itself - the server software, how the code will be used, etc.

I'd say this is indeed a problem for AI but it would require a distinct paradigm than the present train/test/output paradigm, more like a expert system that could modify it's behavior with natural language output.
The complaint is that a device which was once useful is getting less so year by year because of vendor lock in and planned obsolescence, and not because of hardware failure. This is a “should” question: Should a device manufacturer be able to decide to make an otherwise fully functional device less and less functional until it is useless?

Case 1: Like others here I have an old iPad 1 which is stuck on iOS 5 or so, and although the hardware is still as flawless as the day I bought it, I can use it for fewer and fewer computing tasks year after year, can install fewer and fewer software on it, and have no way to fix the problem.

Contrast that with case 2, my 12 year old Dell PC which has undergone a number of software updates (currently running Linux beautifully) and continues to be very useful and updatable to this day.

The trend seems to be to move us more and more towards case 1 and away from case 2, which is in my vein an overall loss for end users.
I can't wait to hear the majority of HN bad mouth Microsoft and Windows for locking down general purpose computers to apps blessed by Microsoft, from their Apple iOS devices that can only run apps blessed by Apple :)

The iPhone and app store are dangerous trends normalized by supposedly logical coders here. Never in the history of computing have general purpose computers restricted the execution of binaries not vetted by the hardware manufacturer. All your BS support of open source tantamounts to naught if you let hardware that you own, to be locked down by arbitrary constraints that ONLY serves the interest of the hardware manufacturer
Tech support scammers find new way to jam Google Chrome
Taking hints from a 2D page and presenting as an interactive 3D structure doesn't sound far-fetched.
Is Brexit the maddest thing England has ever done? Not quite
Wanting to cut down on news consumption was one of my original motivations for subscribing. While I haven't cured myself entirely, I'm able to keep it a lot more under control. Reading about Trump and Brexit every single day was having a very negative effect on my mood and outlook. I remain aware of the stuff that matters, without having to deal with the blow by blow every single day.
Wasn't the linter thing just about moving the lint rules (for checking proper Android API usage) to a language-independent format so that they could be shared by Java and Kotlin? Previously they only worked for Java code.
They should probably consider doing that again.
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> I haven't seen this done in this context, but it would allow things like passing an async closure, or a generic type with an async trait implementation, to a normal function and having it automatically become an async function instead.

I've done that a fair bit in Scala using HKT. E.g. superclass is written in terms of a generic monadic type, one subclass implementation uses Future (actually EitherT with Future), another uses identity, a third uses Writer to track statistics...
Yes, I always carry a notebook even in non work situations. It's never been an issue for me as far as transportation is concerned, I just slip it alongside my laptop or other books.

I also have a Samsung Note phone which is useful in the rare case I'm caught without a notebook or pen. I'll re-write any notes to my work notebook as needed.
The decline is similar but not nearly the exact same. PCs can generally do tasks they once did years later without compromise, iPads get slower and hardware is forced to update to a newer OS just to run existing applications, making tasks like simple note taking slower and more of a process than before. With iPad you can't keep your past experience because your product's ecosystem isn't your own vacuum you can't keep it away from forced updates.
No worries. Not having it than. It's just to classify that relationship as symbiotic which makes my question your understanding of the word symbiotic.
Good. These are some of the worst paying jobs in the country.. because they have used migrants to solve their labor problem, removing the need for them to compete for workers.

They need to raise their wages, pay what it really costs for labor.

And as a bonus, the increased costs will provide an incentive for future automation.