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iPad mini 1 are selling on ebay for 80£, I wonder if there isn't anyone exploring the business opportunity here for corporate software, were instead of buying 300£ iPads to show the schedule of a meeting room, you can just code against an old version of IOS and supply your software with hardware at a high discount.
edit: had 30£ before, but was a bid not a buy now
Facebook hired a full-time pollster to monitor Zuckerberg’s approval ratings
To understand why Bret does not open source, you need to watch this talk from his lab's ethnographer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dweVuJBoK6o

Money quote:

"In the CDG, prototypes work decidedly against usefulness. That's the mantra, against usefulness. To be very clear, this being against usefulness is not the being against usefulness of artists, who like to do their autonomy. It's also not the grumbling hate of engineers who hate users, stupid users who don't understand their products. The paradoxical reason for the need to avoid usefulness is the experience that usefulness can stop the overall longer process of bootstrapping. Yes, at the end of the process of bootstrapping, products need to be shipped. But before this happened, usefulness is feared, at least for many researchers in the CDG, as a trap. Once you produce useful tools, they reify. Usefulness reacts to present users, and present users are not the future users that the lab is working towards. Useful prototypes stop being pointers of something larger, more long-term than what the prototype achieves. Useful prototypes become a means to an end demand, too much attention, become solutions, and maybe even are in danger of being turned into opportunities."

Now whether you think your understanding of open source differs from Bret's is an interesting question. But it seems like his is "throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks is no way to reinvent a civilisation."
Yeah, audio & music play a big role in VR, they can make the difference. In Supermedium we have some fantastic examples like Obsidian, Dance Tonite (LCD Soundsystem) or Under Neon Lights (Chemical Brothers), among others.
Wifi with good antennas, or a cellular hotspot seems pretty easy.
While I was reading the article, this appeared in my inbox:
https://i.imgur.com/FbaML9A.jpg

Retargeting? I did sell them an iPad mini a few months ago.
You should be OK going to Fidelity.com

Not the deep web

Of course not easy to communicate to parents or grandparents who are less tech savvy
The last person who tried to change the calendar got his head chopped off. Literally:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Romme
I'd like to hear about your pain points with interop. I'll more than likely be talking to Evan soon and I can discuss with him. Also, he's pretty responsive in general. The community is pretty eager to help with these sorts of pain points - join the Slack.
A New Look at Clinical Success Rates
FS: Gently Used Orbital Launch Vehicle – $9900000 (Port Canaveral)
sorry, I should have said "low end laptop," "netbook," or "chromebook." Those are all in the same class as an iPad, with the same portability requirements, etc.
I've always liked Baltimore, but I never lived there. I used to visit every year when I lived up North, but since moving to Richmond, I haven't been up at all. I kind of miss the weird grittiness it has.
Why are they afraid of being in America?
The article doesn't mention how Detective Sean Suiter was shot in the head the day before he was to testify for the grand jury against the task force officers.

FWIW, this was not news to the residents of Baltimore. They have been talking about this for over 25 years. Anyone who listened could hear about it. Nobody really gave a shit.

A friend of mine grew up in East Baltimore. They would sit outside on their stoop, because the parents didn't want them inside, and there was no place to play outside other than in the street - no playgrounds, no trees, no parks, no back yards. Sometimes cops would roll up on their corner, get out, and question them about what they were doing. "We're sitting." They were told to empty their pockets. If they had any money on them, the police would confiscate it and drive off.

Re: "one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation" - they aren't mentioning how Baltimore City Detention Center was literally controlled entirely by the Black Guerrilla Mafia for 20 years. 44 employees and inmates were arrested in a sting operation a few years ago.

Or how the city's police used aerial and other surveillance methods (thanks, FBI) to tap and track mobile phones without a warrant or court order.

Other recent controversies involve the wrongful death of Freddie Gray, planting drugs on a suspect on camera, and a US Justice Department report condemning the BCPD for "violating the constitutional rights of citizens, using excessive force, and discriminating against African Americans".
How are you as a farmer going to be competitive when your fellow farmers are getting much cheaper labor?

This is an area for regulation (no one raised an eye when they got cheap labor) and economic incentives (NAFTA f'd over Central American economies, commodities market manipulation causes prices to skyrocket in developing markets - both causing mass migrations).
About 66% of the United States' annual federal budget of 4 trillion dollars goes towards social safety nets, and that doesn't count local and state budgets. Please note that the federal debt is currently 20.6 trillion dollars.
I feel like old ipads would be useful as the head to another box, rather than a headless box. They have decent screens, and would work well as, say, an extra screen to a movie player for kids on trips.

It's unfortunate that there isn't an easy way to do it.
"Preferred" way to IRC is to run a client just like you did in your yesteryears. Nothing ever changed.
Many Rust programmers never learned C, or have only a cursory understanding of it.

Most C++ people I talk to would strongly disagree that in C++, you should do things the C way.
I live in fear https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12062807
I understand that.

But how does animal suffering correlate with the tire production?
Coinbase Should Stop Selling Bitcoin Cash
I literately know less about GADTs now...
Why I barely read SF these days
It's not about total packages, but about quality of packages and whether they provide good coverage of most problem spaces.

NPM claims to have close to 500k packages. Should we assume it solves 5x the problems that the .NET ecosystem does, that that perhaps by the 50th implementation of leftpad, there's some cruft on there?

That's not to say that Rust's package ecosystem is large enough or sufficient in comparison to .NET, just that raw package count gets to be an extremely poor indicator of quality after a certain level has been reached.

As a point of reference, I approach this from Perl and CPAN, which is one of the oldest large fully featured package networks. At this point, the problem is usually not finding a package that provides a solution, but finding the right package out of what's available. Different solutions exist, but a good curated list of well implemented solutions to common needs can help quite a bit.[1]

1: https://metacpan.org/pod/Task::Kensho
Hi there,

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> Java tends to allocate things separately and manipulate pointers, while Rust allocates things inline. This introduces allocation overhead and eats up the space needed by the pointers themselves.

Just a small nit but the term you're looking for here is "value types". Rust does heap allocations(with the pointer overhead) via Box<T>, you just get explicit control over the overhead and cost.
>I’ve only worked with proprietary implementations that do not

Hmm, what does this mean? I've used coroutines in Unity and to that respect, yielding functions in C# as well as generators in Python. The stacks are sane in the sense that they include the current running iteration.

Is that tricky to implement? Are you expecting something different? Seems pretty straight forward to me.
The southern agricultural economy suffered greatly after slavery ended. I think America will adjust to this some how, without starving.
Permafrost Stores a Globally Significant Amount of Mercury
As someone else mentioned, check the battery.

But I'd also suggest doing a clean install using iTunes; sometimes OS upgrades go subtly wrong, slowing things down, and resetting via the device itself is insufficient to get a truly clean install.
Taiwan Earthquake Kills at Least 2, Dozens Injured as Buildings Collapse
Would love to see a chapter in NYC maybe with a more broader languages and frameworks. For example say I am currently struggling with Spring Boot framework and Stackoverflow.com is a good place to tailor my question there but sometimes we don't necessarily get our questions answered in a timely manner there. Having someone who has plenty of experience with Spring Boot could guide me on the right direction. Sure I can always hire a freelancer for his/her time but this might seem an overkill for just a question or two.

Indeed a welcoming solution. Come to NYC as well.
Read the wikipedia page on coroutines first. It's a fairly basic concept in computer science.

It's a different model of control structure, primarily when you have a thing that produces data and a thing that consumes it. It could be in multiple threads, multiple machines, or just a single thread, so is often included in multiprocessing portions of designs, standards and instruction.
Last time I used Doppio, it was really slow. As in something that took 10s on the jvm took hours on Doppio; has performance improved in the last couple of years?
They're filling it with rocket fuel, so I think there's a pretty good chance of a launch.

https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/960956373994438656
My own implementation of coroutines for C [1] requires each coroutine to have its own stack. It simplifies things quite a bit.

[1] https://github.com/spc476/C-Coroutines [2]

[2] More of a "proof-of-concept" than something really meant for production.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Fortunately, there is no Deep State. Because that would be crazy.
I like it because it's ambitious, futuristic, and the passion is clearly genuine. Good luck!

My current interest in VR is trying to collaborate with remote teammates. But in order to justify buying VR HMDs for everyone, I need something that I know we will use.
I love passphrases and mnemonics. There are passwords that I retired out of anywhere they existed several years ago that I will probably never forget as long as I live. And not only is it easy to create memorable passphrases, and they're fairly long, you can then combine your passphrases in interesting combinations to get even more passwords that you probably will never forget.

Beyond that, the "never reuse passwords" adage is horribly oversold. If it handles my money, my email, or my web hosting, it needs to be unique. Passwords for places I comment are commonly reused and not as sophisticated because it is not seriously impactful to me if someone gets a hold of them.

Reuse passwords for sites that can't meaningfully harm you if they get compromised. Minimize how many accounts can harm you by not saving your credit card info in most of them, uncheck that box when you pay for stuff.

I'm also insanely liberal about deploying 2FA. I have it everywhere it's available, even sites with common/stupid passwords. So a lot of sites I don't bother with unique passwords will still be somewhat protected if my password is compromised. I'm also subscribed to haveibeenpwned with every email address I've ever used for anything.
Immigration plan could keep whites in U.S. majority for up to five more years
Invite to these slacks please
When / if the Tesla nears Mars, it'll be going at escape velocity, and so won't enter orbit. So unless lithobraking is employed, it'll fly straight by, and remain in an orbit around the sun.

Continuing the homage to David Bowie, the dummy driver is called Starman.
Correct, that’s why it’d be preferable to have it handled in the browser itself.

If it’s a message in the browser chrome itself, and not as <div> in the page, it is possible to add distinguishing UI.

With the current system, it’s literally impossible to distinguish the UI
I'm quite sure that English is the language that I've been using for the longest time without exactly knowing how it exactly works!

Or metaphorically I don't know exactly how English works when it decomposes so gracefully as it is capable of doing.

Is there any kind of equivalence in programming languages like this? I mean theoretically is it possible to design or possibly write code such that it is capable of imprecision and yet compiling to equivalent instructions?

(I realize I may simply lack the formal language to describe what I mean, but if by virtue of any fortuitous inherent redundancy in my question, a passing expert may recognise their field and be willing to guide me, I shall be most grateful.)
I assume the RAWG being talked about here is https://rawg.io. Odd that they didn't include a single link in the article.
Honestly, I'd be happy if it were just open sourced with a heavy disclaimer about not being able to support users.

If you see a piece of technology and have an idea you want to try, with an open system you can just get the source code and try it. With a closed system, the answer is "first, rewrite it from scratch..."
The author mentioned repurposing old computers for non-frontline work. Can't you do that with old tablets? Load a bunch of PDFs, pictures or whatever into internal storage, take the tablet offline, use it like a bookshelf in the form factor of a single book?
Technical schools exist for job training and have for decades. There is an entire industry built around technical training and certifications in the IT field.

University educations are valuable for more than just job skills, that is why they cost more and cover topics not directly related to one specific job.
As someone who's field is front-end development I have to say that among those three Rust was the easiest to learn - mostly because the compiler helps you understand what's wrong.

C seems easy at first glance, but has so much manual work(managing memory, dependencies) that working with it is to me - well - tedious.
> But bitcoin has utility, in case of hyperinflation, capital controls, asset protection etc.

It really doesn't, and in a blatantly obvious way. All it has is propaganda pushed by those who are personally invested in doing the pumping as part of a pump-and-dump scheme.
I have a 1st generation iPod Touch, still working as music player in an old JBL dock. It's just for that, and that is enough for me. An old iPad like the one described here is nothing more or less than an old laptop that's getting too slow.

So what has changed? Nothing much except excellent quality hardware. That hardware can still be used by the way, to display videos, play (old) games. Great toys for little kids?
I'm in the former category and am very enthusiastic about Elm. Reason is great and will probably be more popular overall as it's less of a leap for most JS devs as it utilizes patterns that are already being pushed as best practice and it's relatively loose in comparison. That being said, Elm offers a built-in architecture that reduces decision anxiety.
I dunno. He seemed to catch onto the fact that Apple's business model likes to screw over their users via planned obsolescence. That is more than most people learn.
I made tbe smart TV mistake. Not only are they bad for the reasons you state they are also utter junk. All I really want is a good panel with plenty of ports and good speakers.
Have you heavily used C++11 or newer on a "modern" codebase? I consider myself a more than competent C programmer but the complexity of modern C++ is non-trivial in my opinion.
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Any plans on supporting Linux or Mac?

Also - what about support for custom/homebrew HMDs (or legacy systems - like, what if I wanted to break out my Forte VFX-1 with my Polhemus tracker and VPL Dataglove and use them)?
Ask HN: What do you dream about?
Personally, I dream (literary and figuratively) that I can fly...
The author's other autobiographic essays are also worth reading: https://medium.com/@dreamertalin/index-of-talins-autobiograp...
Technically you can get the convenience of not needing to write async/await, with the same runtime implementation decisions underneath as Tokio/futures. Kotlin is an example of this approach- its coroutines are state machines but with implicit awaits.

This can even be extended to "awaiting across function calls" with effect polymorphism. 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.

The real choice between explicit and implicit suspension points is thus syntactic, not implementation-driven. The reasoning there is more along the lines of "I like to see where my function might suspend" vs "I don't want to pepper my code with `await`."
This was my first question. From their FAQ:

> Can I view normal 2D webpages in Supermedium?

> Currently not, we are focusing on providing a fully immersive and interactive VR experience.
The article doesn't clearly says the problem, but there is a problem, and it's none of what you said (although the article does talk a bit about repairability).

The problem, in iOS (but also happens on Android, to a lesser extent), is that older devices are locked out of OS upgrades at a way faster rate than they break down, and in turn, because they run older OS, they are locked out of installing new apps, including older compatible version of those apps.

Simple fact: a 10 years old computer (and probably some 15 or even 20 years old ones) can get the latest Windows/Unix of your choice, but any iOS device that was released more than 2/3 years ago cannot get latest iOS.

Really, it's pretty simple: Apple doesn't care about retrocompatibility. Either you get a new device, or you have to do with what's already installed on it.
I'd bet only a fraction of the cost of a system like you describe is tied up in the hardware. There's the cost of installing the hardware (running power, networking), managing it (device software updates), paying for a recurring subscription to the service.

Not to mention the risk of having old hardware on your network that doesn't get software updates anymore.

And anyways once a company is looking at something like this most will happily justify it balanced against something like "lost productivity".
I spotted this and actually imagined that it was on the todo list to fix... (was being the operative word)
> If you know C, which is easy to learn, you already know a lot about C++

Not sure I'd agree. If you know C you know a very small subset of C++(and growing smaller with each revision). Things like move semantics, exceptions + constructors, lambdas and templates are huge and each one can easily be as complex as straight C99.
In a perfect world, neither group would care about either of those things.
Tsuru 1.4.0 released, with volumes, improved Kubernetes support and more
I have been meaning to dig into Kotlin's implementation, thanks for that! Is there any good reference documentation to dive into? Most of the stuff I saw was from a user's perspective.
Global warming contributes to this, and will make the situation worse as the earth heats up as Warmer waters hold less oxygen compounding the problem.
Infrastructure. You can reach a lot further using roads than you can using tracks. A system that would replace roads with tracks would be completely impractical and we'd end up with the same as the road system with all its problems.
It's the medium. If you read the same thing on paper or on a Kindle the temptation to skim would be much less.
Great article - we saw the same lack of correlation between activity level and weight when analyzing data from 750+ fitness tests:

https://hack.fitness/2017/04/09/what-we-learnt-from-750-fitn...

Increasing activity however does have a positive impact on your fitness (specifically VO2Max) -- the challenge is that this increase in fitness is invisible to most.

That's a big part of the reason why we started Revvo (http://revvo.co) - to make it easy to measure the vital but often invisible elements of fitness.
Cool, please let me know how i can update safari on my ios8 (ipad mini).

You can't -- and in this age the OS and the applications are an indistinguishable blob.
That would be the beginning of a killer opportunity for regulatory arbitrage.
In general, accept that the TV is never going to be really Smart or keep up-to-date with the latest and greatest in content and services. Given the fragmentation it's just not going to happen. (May be a day would come when there's a common platform for all TVs but I don't see that). On the other hand, any of the major "TV" platforms - Chromecast, Apple TV, Roku, ...etc would receive regular enhances and no major content provider can choose to ignore them. So, depending on your preference, pick one and make your TV just a dumb display (which is exactly what it should be to be honest - it allows you to upgrade the hardware while keeping the display)
They have just started fueling the rocket. It seems the launch may happen today...

https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF
Seems like this would be more like tokio for Rust rather than Go's goroutines.
I don't disagree, but to add some additional complexity: cog-sci-y "learning science" literature mostly just captures one (very significant!) part of what goes on in a college course...learning things in the sense of being able to then recall facts (WWI started from an assassination!), perform new tasks (implement a linked list!), develop specific useful habits (cite your sources!), and so forth.

I know the headline says the word "retention" and the content deals with this above stuff to some degree, but there's also different goals stated like inspiring students to want to learn, getting students to reflect on their inherited values, and becoming sensitive to experiencing themes in literature. For purposes like these, there's simply no point to covering a lot of material, and it may often be counterproductive.

I think one key point is stated in the article: no one thinks "slow teaching" should be the only method. But (anecdotally lol) I personally am glad I had a few seminars with a glacial pace, as those were the ones where I really learned how to write, plus how to think when facts aren't available or directly relevant.

Personally I think stepping back and asking what a course is trying to do is the first step. If it's to expose students to as much evo bio as possible, a slow teaching "philosophy" wouldn't be appropriate. If it's to get a group of people who might be hostile to the idea of evolution to consider the possibility ("reflecting on values"), I don't know what other approach could work.
Does anyone know if there is any collaboration between support for WebAssembly in .NET Core/CoreRT[0] and Mono[1]? Or are they two totally separate efforts?

[0] https://github.com/dotnet/corert/blob/master/Documentation/h...

[1] http://www.mono-project.com/news/2017/08/09/hello-webassembl...
iPads age better if you disable javascript st some point.

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Sent from a 1st gen iPad.
Prostitutes afraid of being in America create shortage of females who put out - horny fat men of low SMV suffer.
what about nytimes or any of the other sites that have been compromised by malicious ad networks?

Its not safe.
They probably saw that a New York Times article mentioned them and emailed their customer base to catch anyone who was reminded by the article.
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