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"Do things that don't scale"[1] references Stripe specifically for actively recruiting users, but your description of the Atlas program makes it sound like an extension of that strategy. Whereas launching in a single tiny overseas market probably didn't look like it had favorable numbers in absolute terms, they probably got better at opening new markets after each success, and an ever-increasing portfolio would made it increasingly difficult for competitors to imagine ever catching up.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
This is a great price point and excellent feature set for mainstream VR. I have almost no interest in it, but would be comfortable recommending it to less tech savvy friends and relatives.

Having a Vive and GearVR had taught me that I don't like the helplessness that comes from Oculus's mobile VR design philosophy. I like a little more control over my devices, but I totally see the appeal of an "It just works" setup.

The thing I am struggling with is how they will determine play space. Not the sensors, and cameras, etc. If I start a game in a large open room then later continue in a smaller space, how will the games handle that? Right now you can see that a game requires a certain amount of space for roomscale and games are generally divided into seated, standing, and roomscale options. Will devs be expected to support all modes and all reasonable levels of roomscale for every title, since the room layout can change at every launch?

I'm really looking forward to full 6DOF, untethered VR, but it seems like this might be a bit premature and better suited for AR (environment variation would be to AR as 6DOF tracking was for VR). It's a convenience feature before other unresolved and non-standardized core MR features, like eye tracking, balance, simulation sickness, full body tracking, etc. I'm very interested to see how they handle the inside out tracking, but I fully expect it to be a little watered down (but hopefully better that the Windows MR implementation, which isn't terrible).

The Quest seems like a marketing decision taking precedence over a raw technological development path, but I'm not sure if that's a bad thing here. VR hype is waning in the public eye and this is a very noticeable improvement for average consumers. It may have been a smart decision that will keep the conversation going, and the investment dollars flowing to devs.

I do wonder why this wasn't introduced with a GearVR 2, though. Charge $200 for a pair of controllers and the headset and it's salt the same system. It makes me wonder if they found dealing with varied hardware and an OS not under their complete control too burdensome, or if they just didn't see the numbers they were expecting.
every vacuum in the Roomba lineup now has an internet connection. Why? I cannot see a benefit to the consumer.

Well, they do make pretty neat wifi coverage maps of your home. But I guess they could do that without actually going online.
Just a reminder to those of you who are (rightfully) trying to avoid feeding the beast that is Facebook:

Oculus is Facebook
As mentioned in the article, Revolut is the one I used from all the digital banks listed. All others are similar.

I genuinely wish it to be available earlier and know about it. If it doesn't benefit you, that's ok.

Isn't it strange to see almost everybody on HN complain about PayPal, but then write "clickbait" when alternatives emerge? I'll save my time in future.
Thanks for the insight. That seems quite reasonable, especially the fact that you'd need your dependencies to implement it before seeing any speed up.
If you plaster random devices in public places I think you'll get something like this happening:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_panic
If you're looking for something on the right - Ricochet has a number of excellent podcasts. They are trying to be like the NPR of the center right.
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For anyone not interested in setting up pi-hole, having a blacklist host file is just as effective for your local machine [0]. I have that full list set as my /etc/hosts file on a Streisand server [1] and run all my devices through that with IPSEC VPN. It's a little more flexible than pi-hole since you can use your mobile devices over LTE with it.

[0] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

[1] https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
"quality of living" is all relative, I'm from France and one of the reason I don't want to go back is that I don't want to live in Paris (and outside of Paris the job opportunities aren't really there).

With my family, we are feeling that we're very much better off in a suburb (like Mountain View) with quick access to hike trail and some nature. On top of this, I also have 10min commute by bike. My friends in Paris commonly have 2h commute daily.
Does the Unifi mobile app work with the setup you described? If you are outside the network? Do you use a vpn client to connect your phone back inside the network?
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The difference is that crypto is only good for fraud. So it'll never move past this early stage.
Well said. It reminds me of Warren Buffet's statements about insurance companies and excessively low premiums.

The well-run insurers are always competing against the most poorly run, excessively risky insurers.

Some of these poorly run companies offer irrationally low premiums and gain lots of customers because of it -- but then go bankrupt. OTOH, well run insurers that used sound underwriting principles and charged rational premiums end up with fewer customers.
This.

For my blog that I mentioned in my top comment, I use Google Docs because I'm working with people that usually don't know Markdown (I'm interviewing e-commerce business owners).

I need it to be as easy as possible for them to get the written interview done. From my experience, a Google doc is the easiest way to do this, and it allows for very familiar features when I ask them for edits or provide feedback in-document.

Basically, I'm trying to make as little friction as possible to getting the document complete.

This is just my experience.
Reminds me - one of the ways Philip Glass made ends meet in the early days was by being a plumber, and he was particularly bad at that.
It's not about people not knowing what happens, it's about people not understanding the significance of what happens. Watching videos and seeing pictures can make you understand the meaning of murder, massacre, and genocide in a way that headlines never can.
CVR overwrite is bad news here. The crew knew this was a serious problem when it happened, there's no way they should have allowed the CVR, crucial evidence of exactly what happened, to be overwritten.

Perhaps the full report will have more detail on this, as it stands I have to believe somebody made the decision to overwrite this because they thought it'd be better if it didn't exist. Whether that's the crew, their bosses or other staff, somebody managed to go from "serious incident, preserve evidence" to "maximum ass covering" and that person or persons are an obstacle to effective investigation and thus to safe air travel.
Yeah my first experience was with gofmt. I am currently working in both large and old java code bases so I have needed to only use tools that auto format lines that are staged for committing, but it was one of the first things I set up.
I applaud France's action here. Should have done it earlier. These women are often forced to wear such garments or face severe retribution from their fundamentalist communities. Making it illegal allows them a similar loophole that a US law not permitting US companies to implement surveillance programs would allow US companies. It takes the option off the table without inciting retribution against the women or the companies.
It's the classic "grow the pie" strategy - if you create more customers that feed into using your service, it's worth it even if you're running a modest loss.

Think of it as a marketing or business development strategy, rather than a service of its own.
"Very tired all the time" - Where I come from (EU) this is the reason why it's not allowed to work two jobs (>40h) if the employer doesn't approve.
Europe gets a lot of its consumer electronics, even the big brand names like Sony, from a company in Turkey that manufactures in Spain, Poland, and I think Germany.
I'm not on FB. I also haven't used Instagram for a while. How has Instagram changed in the last few years?
This was an amazing and inspiring story. Thank you for sharing.
That's a poor analogy, since flatscreens aren't state-mandated (nor have a mandated value-increasing component).

A better analogy would be catalytic converters, which increase the loss when a car is stolen, since there's a significant quantity of precious metal up the tailpipe.

Perhaps an even better analogy (since it provides a direct safety benefit to the purchaser) is that of airbags. For a while, they created an attractive break-in/theft target on their own, due to their very high value to size/weight ratio. I'm pretty sure that was an unintended consequence, too.
You are right.

Right now, 1 euro is worth about 1.17 dollars.
I was just about to post that link! VASAviation has a really good youtube channel with ATC radio recordings and high quality visualizations of all kinds of interesting events: https://www.youtube.com/user/victor981994
Quite rarely in practice.
I recently read a couple github threads in prettier's repo that said prettier won't do import optimization/organization, nor object property organization (e.g. {c: 3, b: 2} -> {b: 2, c: 3}) because it has potential to cause AST changes and could break things for people.

Do you think it's feasible to have a "jsfmt" tool or is the technical hurdle too great?
> Don’t put 5 GHz on its own band.

Uhh, do they mean "don't put 5 GHz on its own SSID"?
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Jeremy from fast.ai here - I teach this course. Let me know if you have any questions about it (or else head over to http://forums.fast.ai for the dedicated course forum if it's a more specific technical question).
For the cost, I'd agree that Ubnt gear is quite good. I use it at home, and rarely have any problems.

That said, I'd like to provide one caveat: In my experience, they tend to not do great in very noisy RF environments. Twice now I've deployed Unifi APs in offices with RF spectra similar to what the OP has going on, and we had nothing but problems. In each case, we ripped out the Ubnt gear, replaced with equivalent Ruckus APs (with their cloud controller) and haven't had a single problem.

I admit this is not a large sample size, but thought it worth mentioning.
Yeah, just getting it working is ...unbelievably difficult. Then again I think git is unbelievably difficult and people keep having to explain to me that it's really simple, lol.

So you turn on your computer, wait half a minute to half an hour for Steam to update, then try to launch anything (like a game) and it too has to update, so now you're just standing in the middle of your room, controller in hand, waiting for another 20 minute download. ...god, is steam downloading something else now? Okay, take off the helmet, fix steam and the three things that crashed while you were in purgatory, put the helmet back on, restart ...everything use the fraction of a percent of the UI that HTC devoted to selecting something from your library, and then your gtg.

Famous first words: "you just"
Supply chains aren't really owned by a single entity, right? Walmart may be the biggest actor and driver of requirements but they don't own anything beyond the specific services they are paying for. Its a complicated system of actors - which is where something like a DLT or blockchain can help bring together in a more cohesive way.

Agree with everything else you said.
Safari Content Blocker is pretty great but it's restricted to Safari only. So if you use Reeder, for example, to view articles then ads won't get blocked.

As an additional system-wide layer, I subscribe to Peter Lowe's ad block list with Little Snitch. Now I can block all outbound requests to ad servers system-wide.

As much as I like PiHole, I don't think it's a one-stop solution. It's generally easier to manage stuff locally on my system. I think the big advantage is for software that isn't as open (like iOS, tvOS, etc).

I find that working in layers instead of trying to find a singular solution is easier to work with and provides more flexibility.
I think this is France's mistake. Should children not know what is going on in the world? Upon turning 18, do you want new voters to have no idea about the malevolence and potential for massacre in the world?
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So they're turning a well known product that was free for decades into an expensive enterprise offering. And you're saying that calling it a "substantially different" license is a warning?

In my book this is not a warning at all. This is clearly an attempt to mislead without breaking any laws.
Thank you for showing why it's worth standing up to you.

Viewers note: This is what I meant by "it's impossible to point out he might be mistaken."
Yes, it should. Assuming you're running your unifi controller on a public ipv4 /32 somewhere on the internet (at some commodity VM host), it's entirely up to you how you want to lock down access to it. Some people do leave the TLS1.2 web browser admin control panel login exposed, but on a non standard port, other people set up iptables ACLs to only allow traffic from a certain IP range, other people set it up so that you can only reach the admin control panel login page over openvpn. Entirely up to you and depends on your level of experience with linux sysadmin/firewalling tasks.

However I am more in favor of having the unifi controller on the same premises as the APs, or at least in the same metro area network as the APs, in your own private network. Just throwing the L3 management option out there for people who truly want 'cloud' hosted everything.
I ran Jira with OpenJDK 8 on FreeBSD, everything worked fine.
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Where can you find bias in this image and why even bring this up? I commend this over-committed person for providing us with up to date information.

Just when I thought I couldn't think less of Palmer Luckey...
It reminded me of the old days when I had a big library of AUTOEXEC.BAT files, one for each game, to set things up exactly the way they needed to be set up for that game. That was great for me, but it was a sign of just how unapproachable PC gaming could be for the average person back then.
Indeed I did. Thing is, I see how blockchain could help existing processes. I just don't see the revolution yet. Which puzzles me, since on the one side I see the potential but on the other hand I still fail to see a real use case. And that introgues me quite a lot.
FWIW, http://skiplang.com/docs/type_definitions.html says "A class can define a type, and later redefine it in on of [sic] it's children." Thanks for sharing your work.
Normally I would agree but Markdown-esque text annotation has been a feature of many commonly used platforms for years now. A quick search plus my own knowledge tells me the following platforms support it: Facebook Messenger, Skype, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram and Reddit posts. It looks like LINE, Viber and Kik Messenger don't support it, but those are the only major ones that don't seem to.
I don't see a story in your post. It's incoherent and doesn't connect. The conclusion must be incoherent.
title += (2014)

This was also on HN back then too.
A lot of people have successfully coupled eslint with prettier, where they enable eslint rules that do those transforms with autofix.
> Mileage rarely matters anymore for cars 2006+

What happened in 2006 that made them less vulnerable to wear and tear?
Haven't the Mikrotiks had lots of serious vulnerabilities recently?
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I don't think your rural/urban example is a good one.

A lot of the time people mean exactly what they say. Many rural folk would be happy to see city folk pushed off a cliff. The race thing is just an unfortunate correlation.

I also think that a lot of rural racists only have beef with city people but they're unable to properly articulate that so race just becomes a proxy they direct their hate at instead.
Perhaps investigate the historical response of human societies to the integration of technological advancement into arenas of life they see as "fundamentally human". It's not a pretty history.
But why can you trust the oracle to report correctly but not to maintain the record?
I'm curious to know more. Maybe some form/relative/precursor of EDIF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDIF)? Not exactly Lisp, but an S-expression based format for describing netlists.
I'm very impressed by this tool, I am surprised that it has not gotten better traction in the community yet.
IDK. I have listen to each of the 172 episodes so far several times each... yes, there are enjoyable moments, but some of the hosts are weird and a little politically incorrect. Just my opinion.
It might be a symptom of another issue altogether, such as Firefox blocking some assets or communication.

I noticed that I can pass most instances of reCAPTCHA by randomly moving my cursor across the page for 2-3 seconds before clicking on the checkbox. Usually this lets me bypass the image captcha portion, assuming the reCAPTCHA was not configured for additional security. This probably works on invisible reCAPTCHA as well.
Having been in the “mesh” space for years, there’s a ton of this techno-primitivism fantasy floating around. The reality is that people want to access the internet and they want it to work well.

This article is a perfect example. This solar powered server which does not have 100% uptime for artistic reasons is probably sitting in someone’s kitchen next to a refrigerator which uses many times as much power and definitely has 100% uptime.
AFAIK the DK1 didn't even have positional tracking. Going from that to a Quest would be a huge step up in basically every conceivable metric.

Positional tracking and hand presence make a massive difference.
>2. I'm yet to find a site that takes my subscription and turns off ads and invasive tracking. Just ads. Still not an equitable deal.

As it currently stands, a large chunk of the newspaper industry in the states is willing to block the whole of the EU, when it could offer it that model, so I wouldn't hold your breath.

A source at Tronc says not only have most of the chain's papers blocked EU visitors because of GDPR, but Tronc "currently has no plans to support the EU" because doing so is seen as not economically viable

https://twitter.com/mathewi/status/1001571559679582209?lang=...
> This would be clear evidence of what a stupid idea it is to match browser sign-in state to your cookies.

It must certainly is a stupid idea.
How did Stripe bypass the law here?
why not replication?
"There’s nothing being done here that couldn’t or shouldn’t just be handled with a traditional database."

Okay, I'll bite. A few questions that I think lead to the idea of a DLT system being an appropriate fit:

If it's a single
Reading the third response to this question is fascinating:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29093986/How-do-y...
"Companies need to be willing to cannibalize themselves or someone will do it for them." --> This. exactly what Steve Jobs said when the iPhone was launched and there were questions about if the iPhone would cannibalize the iPod.
I'm not going to defend what Google is doing. Having said that you should be very careful when asking corporations to enforce any kind of morality.

The electorate defines our morality through government. Companies should play no part in this definition outside of the rights of their employees as private citizens.

You should also be very careful when imposing your own personal views on people living in an entirely different country. Our (western) moral superiority is something we have justified to ourselves many times and it has rarely worked out in our favor.
>The search engine requires users to log in to use its search features and tracks user's locations. It shares user's history with a Chinese partner. All searches would be connected to a personal phone number and user movements, along with the IP address of the device they used, would be recorded.

How is this at all different from the US version?
I do not doubt your work experience, but I would like to respectfully point out that the data I have for those ~10 engineers does indeed match to the numbers I have presented.

Either way, with $200k salary the rent mentioned in the article is doable.
He choose to leave with 3.6bln instead of 4.5bln to make a point. I have no idea how to evaluate the weight of such a sacrifice at levels like these.
Yeah this is something I've been thinking about lately as well. Pi-Hole seems cool but what about most of the time when I'm somewhere else than my local network?
Isn't that usually done with CSS?
I ocassionally seem to get locked out of captcha. The images appear, but no amount of selecting them makes it happy. It is infuriating. I end up usi g a different service that eschews googles terrible captchas.
Usually due to some "lesser of evil" solution as a result of some UI or system library, which in this case might be handling the alerts.
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I understand their rationale, but the problem is that unless your state protects you from nonsense, they are still written in a way where they literally are saying they own everything you do outside of the job. Likely? Who knows. But if an employer was really interested in the value of one of your projects, they could potentially bring up a suit against you for it.
I don't think VR is ever going to reach that point, just because our eyes are too important. Very few people would be comfortable putting a VR headset on while commuting on a subway or bus - because you lose all awareness of your surroundings. With sound you are losing one sense, with VR you are losing two.

AR is the only one with a hope of becoming socially acceptable in public, but it will have its own hurdles (Namely the fact that you will always be pointing a camera at someone just by looking around.)
> Arguing that a CoC should be welcoming to the behavioral abuses

Nobody argues that. What is being argued that a) proponents of the CoC seem to be prone themselves to behavioral abuses, yet let themselves off the hook because they are on the Light Side, so it's ok for them; and b) people (often the very same people) use CoC to argue that disagreement on any political topic represents "behavioral abuse", since they feel very bad if somebody disagrees with them, so it's virtually the same as physical violence. Since there's no objective definition of "behavioral abuse", and the people in question are holding the reins, other people who might disagree with them, eventually, feel like they are getting the bad end of the deal here.
Surely that is your pitch. But what I am getting at is how you arrived at the particular claim that this tool "accelerated [your] development work 10-fold," and "10 x Faster API debugging" which was the original title. Without justification, you are misleading the potential users and that does not inspire confidence. i.e. why not 5-fold, 8-fold or 100-fold?
Conservatism is about small government and while Republicans and conservatives overlap, they aren’t the same thing. It’s kind of how Socialists tend to vote Democrat, but that doesn’t mean that Democrats act consistently with socialism.

But I agree, government forcing a company to do something isn’t particularly in line with Republican ideas and it’s hypocritical in the context of limited government.
What are your views on net neutrality?
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