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The peak of teleconferencing are the Hangouts and Facetime of this world, and they struggle to deliver almost-still-frame 1080p 2D video streams and high-quality audio.

We've seen Oculus and others try to push the idea that 3D will help. The focus is wrong. The bulk of the pain is in understanding, for which the brain relies on two factors: audio and face/mouth position.

Audio requires good microphones, which are too expensive to be commodity. At least, very good and fast STT autocues would help, especially with non-native speakers.

Faces could use dedicated compression algorithms.

Ideally, everyone would have Wacom-style devices on an online whiteboard, but that is only complementary. And it is still 2D.
Yeah. It's like we've lost our grip on common sense.

When the U.S. courts decided, back in the Bush days, that the U.S. Constitution applied not just to its own citizens, but to everybody we interacted with? Nobody thought through the consequences. If it applies to everybody, it applies to nobody. That is, whatever rules you can make about killing non-combatants in a foreign land, you can make about your own folks right here at home.

And that is where we're headed.

It's like we're having to re-learn the rules of nation-states again: why they exist, why they have embassies, why they're polite to one another even when they do bad things, why they keep certain things secret, and so on. In the constitution issue, it's the rules of the way the country operates, as understood by its citizens, that make them give a crap about it. (Not the rules as applied. The rules as understood by the common person.) You start publicly saying that it's a sucky deal? Soon enough people will believe you. In the U.S. domestic arena, if you treat all of your citizens as if they all might be violent at any time and deserve close watching? They'll live up to that expectation.

I don't like any of it, any violence at all. I understand it exists whether I like it or not, and I understand that international politics is a messy affair. But there are supposed to be some grown-ups involved that keep it all heading in a good direction. Those people have left the room. Decades ago. (Note: my comment was about trends, not current politicians. I don't argue about current politicians and try not to mention any of them if I can. Trends are much more important.)
Quite a few airlines in Europe tack "fuel surcharge" fees onto tickets, especially those booked using frequent-flyer miles. Depending on the airline and destination, the "fuel surcharge" -- which must be paid in cash -- for redeeming miles can approach the cost of just buying a ticket.

For example, if you book a flight from the US to London on American Airlines, redeeming miles, you'll be on the hook for around $10 in taxes. If you book the same flight, using American Airlines miles, but happen to be unfortunate enough to get it on their partner British Airways, you'll get dinged for around five hundred dollars in "fuel surcharge".

Last time I checked, Brazil was the only country where this is illegal.
You are describing some idealized optimum vaginal birth. Those are not the norm. I've spoken to one woman who indicated she recovered rapidly from one birth. It was her first child. She attributed it to youth. Subsequent births were harder on her.

I've had two children. Both births were relatively uncomplicated vaginal births with episiotomy. It took me 5.5 weeks to stop bleeding after the first one. It took me six months to regain the weight I lost while throwing up for 8 months. Etc.

I had unusually good medical care. I was relatively well educated for a young woman. Etc.

I did have an undiagnosed serious medical condition complicating things. Medical staff came to get me off the floor after people in the waiting room harangued them about ignoring what a terrible state I was in and I got an admission of error on the part of staff to some degree. They had dismissed my complaints as "You don't know what pain is. You have another 8 hours to go." without checking me. No, I did not have 8 hours to go.

Although I have also read that vaginal flora may be good for the baby, you are conveniently overlooking the fact that it can also be bad for the baby. C-sections are sometimes recommended to protect the baby from the mother's STD -- for example, if she goes into labor while having an active herpes flare.

I'm pro vaginal birth. I'm not thrilled at the high rate of C-sections. But I don't think you do any good by so completely distorting the facts.

Women need substantial support to successfully birth a healthy baby with minimal complications for mother and child. We still tend to fall short on giving women adequate support. So, in essence, I'm not willing to argue that any particular woman was wrong to choose C-section for herself.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/264473.php

https://www.cdc.gov/std/pregnancy/the-facts/std_pregnancy_br...
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Fatter and taller. To me this is the most important piece of (potentially) good news.
Everyone on here is a 1%er.
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I admit, part of this is productivity theater. If you can simulate face time, seamless visibility at a meeting, sparking ideas spontaneously around the water cooler, etc., then maybe those dictating corporate conduct might actually be more willing to entertain mass adoption of remote work. As of now remote work is certainly feasible, but it’s definitely steps removed from the actual experience of being in person.

Also, my proposal isn’t meant to benefit engineers exclusively- teleconferencing through virtual workplaces should ideally help anyone who works in an office, not just those who are accorded more responsibilities that don’t involve social interaction.
I have had two vaginal deliveries. They both involved an episiotomy. I have never had an epidural. Both deliveries were completely drug free.

Episiotomy: A surgical cut to the vaginal tissue to prevent tearing.

Epidural: Spinal pain block.

Totally unrelated procedures.
I've taken an oximeter with me on flights before, and can give a data point of n=1 to say this isn't the case.

My oxygen % decreased initially with altitude until it stabilised around 90-92% (at ~10k feet, IIRC). It sat at this point for the whole flight (8 hours), with a low of 87%.

Through forced rapid deep breaths I could get it back up into the mid-high 90s, but also got light headed and funny looks.

Moving around the cabin would also raise it.
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You are probably mostly correct if you are basing that on income relative to the rest of the world. See http://www.globalrichlist.com/
I've received many phishing emails claiming that my account has been hacked. So that is a case of someone "pointing out an attack" who is actually causing the attack. Even technologically knowledgeable people fall for phishing (I haven't though).
They should've just said "China" and left it at that.

I live in "Asia" and that kind of usage annoys me, too.
Error 418 (I’m a teapot)?
imo it seems like data transfer would be difficult to use gravitational waves for. LIGO had to measure very tiny compressions occurring due to very very big things happening faraway in the universe (though I guess being distant isn't a prereq):

> On January 4th, 2017, LIGO detected two black holes merging into one. One of the black holes was 32 times the mass of the Sun (32 M⊙, where M denotes mass and ⊙ is a symbol for the Sun) while the other was 19 times the mass of the Sun. When they merged, they created a black hole 49 times the mass of the Sun. The coalescence instantly converted 2 solar masses of black hole mass into the energy that rattled spacetime enough to generate the gravitational waves we detected almost 3 billion years after it occurred. (Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab)

> Despite the stupendous energy released by colliding black holes, detecting gravitational waves is excessively difficult since the effects they have on LIGO’s instruments are incomprehensibly small. This latest wave caused the spacetime occupied by LIGO’s arms to stretch and shrink by 0.000,000,000,000,000,001 (or 1×10-18) meters (a.k.a. an “attometer”). That’s 1000 times smaller than a proton!

[0] https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20170601
I imagine the ultimate form factor would be eyecaps that are the visual equivalent to earbuds.
This article confirms a lot of the suspicions I had about Magic Leap's product, which is unfortunate. Had the company not overhyped the product and shipped with expectations so high, perhaps they could have had something which would actually impress the general public.

Unrelated, this weird aside is my least favorite part of the article:

> Magic Leap is almost entirely built on the visions of grown men wanting to immerse themselves in fantasy worlds ...

> It is telling that the most compelling glimpse of a possible future with Magic Leap was relayed to me by nonwhite, non-male product manager

There's this implication that the white male leadership is only interested in the frilly escapist aspect of the product, and it's those in minority groups who are actually going to be pushing the boundaries of tech. Why include this in the article? Does the author honestly believe that's true? Do jabs at white men get clicks and heads nodding.now?
Slim Fast is not on the list.

It's crap, but it's not on the list.
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There is some point in the claim, but still it feels bs.

You can popcorn a chip during reflow, some components are extremely moisture sensitive so they must be soldered the sane day they were removed from package, but you can't get popcorn from mechanical repair or a few touch ups with a soldering iron.

So, a screwup on Apple's contract manufacturer side is much more likely.
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Good observation. I'm in the Netherlands.
Doesn't Percollate save web pages as PDFs? If you have a web page with tables, you can directly use pandas.read_html to extract them!
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I really love, absolutely love, HN's design. Does anyone know the people behind HN's web design?
There are airlines which charge for use of the overhead bin.
Ohhhh I've been had.
That'll teach me to RTFM.
Thanks :-) Misspent my early career years as a C# developer following "SOLID" principles
I spent some years at Convergys. And definitely recognize many of the procedures and idiocies described in that article, even though it was in a different country. It's easy to forget how large the call centre business really is.
Yeah, maybe, someone, somewhere, will figure it out like Apple did with smartphones. The article does not dispute that. It just says that it probably won't be this company.
^This.

Similar example with wealth accumulation. If someone accumulates wealth without clear coordination and loyalty to the party, they'll be viewed as a potential or overt threat. Then they will either be charged/convicted of a crime that besmirches their character (which conveniently creates problems for their family), executed or increasingly just disappear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123

Worst single-aircraft disaster in history.
Möllemann seems like a clear cut suicide to me. He was finished anyway, why kill him? why do you believe he was murdered?
I haven't had my first coffee in the morning yet, so it may be me, but I'm struggling to see the link between food surplus & farming and war?
No one likes getting nickled and dimed. While they are at it, weigh everyone before boarding, to properly charge them for how much extra fuel they consume beyond the base charge. Then heavier people won't be using more than their "fair" share. Except now you've pissed off even the super skinny people who have to deal with the "transaction cost" / extra time involved, who were perfectly willing in the past to perhaps pay slightly more than if they were heavier because it simplifies the experience. Heavier people also think that way, not "oh boy I'm getting a good deal flying at the same price as this lightweight".
I've backpacked around all of those places and can tell you there's no shortage of Americans backpacking in Europe, Asia and South America. It's nothing to do with a safety net, if you want to travel you just save up for it like you do anything else.
> Project managing my life

Actually I started setting up a Redmine to pursue more complex goals that are usually not related to work.

In the past I also used classical todo lists on a sheet of paper or Asana for some time. But I gave up both, what I observed happens after using this 'tool' after a while: indeed a lot gets done, it's even fulfilling check an item, especially on paper. So after a year or so, the things on the list end up being more and more difficult to do. The only easy tasks are the recently added ones but the list becomes more and more static.

Problem with todo lists is that they are the end product of some ideas that happen at random times. But you lose the idea behind it, so a proper project management tool is worth it. (In fact when you look at how Asana developed over time, it converges into something like that...)
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Perhaps they were slightly airborne, like 0.5m above the ground, but ground-based instruments recorded the plane as still being "on the ground" (i.e. same altitude as the runway) because of the downhill slope? If they really were on the ground, the pilots would have continued to feel the vibration of the wheels against the ground, a very clear indication that they aren't flying.

I'm even more surprised that the plane could land on its own wheels despite the huge gash in the fuselage. Do landing gears retract so quickly, or was the wall simply not wide enough?
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hat's why no matter how much I try I can't go back to paper books and newspapers except for outdoor fashion purposes.
Very smart people can believe in and say very not-so-smart things. To make the output equal when the input isn't, you're skewing other factors.

I remember watching a video about communism the other day that talks about equality. When trying to make everyone's pay "equal" while each person works a different number of hours, what ends up happening is that you don't pay equal hourly rates. If you pay everyone one equal hourly rate, then you can't make the total pay equal. It's important to see what factor we want to make equal for everyone.

Here he makes an elementary mistake when the input ratio probably isn't equal and somehow magically the output ratio is equal. What could possibly go wrong?
Those incidents (CAL611, JAL123) only happened because the repair was completed improperly to begin with and subsequently missed by every inspection.

There's no reason the aircraft can't be properly repaired, and be as strong as it was when it was delivered. The Boeing Structural Repair Manual is very precise. It was just ignored.
The rate has fallen a lot in some countries, so there are large differences (https://patient.info/doctor/episiotomy-and-tears).

The main reason it has fallen is that there’s little difference in short or long term consequences, and non-selective use of it is associated with higher incidence of severe trauma.

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/content?templateType=full&ur...
If you don’t live near a major hub, there is about as much of a “market” for which airline you can fly to get to your destination as there is your ISP.
Dismissing an argument because it was made by a fresh account is the ultimate test of your intelligence.
That was pretty much my experience with HoloLens. Uncomfortable headset, awkward and inaccurate hand gestures, and like a postage-stamp-size viewport. You couldn't see anything functional in the least due to viewport alone, and the low resolution killed any hope you may have had left. Tracking was mostly alright about 95% of the time, in an office setting which is probably borderline ideal (lots of high-contrast edges and corners all over), but even while relatively still it made plenty of mistakes.

All of which I gather the Magic Leap is better on... by less than 50%. In two years.

AR has unbelievably misleading advertising. To enough of a degree that I think they should be fined rather significantly. Remember the HoloLens Minecraft "demo" videos? Or the full 3D models on the user's desk, nearly the size of the screen or keyboard? You couldn't even cover a coffee mug at that distance.
I used to be a government employee and was required to fly Air India so I flew it a fair bit. Personally, the flying bit was not that different from others. Their website was a nightmare to book on, usually I found them generous with alcohol on international flights, but sample size is small here. Their miles were hard to use, too many conditions. Staff was a bit low on professionalism. Saw a couple of fights between flight attendants.
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The US also tends to elect it's dissidents from time to time..

In the eyes of many Trump is probably a dissident, haha :)
(Obviously, Trump never opposed real oppression, and is not a dissident)

I'm sure one could also call Bernie Sanders a dissident, as he opposed real oppression. And he was elected to the senate many times.
Interesting, and feels like every editor of the BBC needs to have more than a basic knowledge / usage of these technical matters. So for example be able to inspect what every piece of software is doing with the content.
I’ve been meaning to try out the build system, and I suspect it’s worth paying for. I shipped a PyQt based app a few years ago and definitely lost a few weeks getting it to work.
I have observed that playing chess competitively helped me a lot with my anxiety. A game of chess is self contained, you can analyze afterwards what went wrong, the implications are limited and you learn that focusing on the task and setting aside your worries helps improve your game. Moreover, that happens in a protected environment, with well defined rules and no interruptions, which facilitates the learning process.
You're given a website to build for a customer. What situations would you decide WordPress is not a good choice?
Higher rate of complications during birth, more interventions (instruments), which in turn are associated with tearing/episiotomy. The implication that this never happens without an epidural is wrong of course.
Perhaps I wasn't clear: Some percentage of vaginal deliveries will involve either vaginal tearing or an episiotomy. Both of these involve trauma and sutures.

When a woman has sutures in that area, bowel movements can rip them out. Both bowel movements and urination can contaminate the wound with bodily wastes.

So a woman having any stitches at all between her legs for any reason whatsoever is highly problematic.
Would have been nice if he got around to the router at our office, we got cryptojacked: https://imgur.com/a/Q7Pmxth
This sounds petty, but thanks for sharing. Quite shocking and eye-opening (although I don't think it's fair to compare income directly like that).
The problem is that is what magic leap was promising, and so far they have severely under-delivered.
Probably just figured out it's a great way to pay slightly less for the same quality people. It's smart.

Recently found out the real reason everybody has these unlimited vacation policies - don't have to pay for unused vacation time.

It's better to come across as hypocritical but well-meaning than to have the real intentions revealed.
They are, but not for every flight. I've been told by pilots flying in Europe they get randomly selected for a breathalyzer test once every 20 flights or so.
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In reality, the soldiers would win because not only would they be well equipped, they would also be better at fighting.
> I think I've come full circle on this...
> (I was one of the creators of RSS).

To come full circle figuratively means to be back where you started. What you meant to say is that you've done a 180 (a U-turn) on the idea.

I think it is a curious thing that even though all major browsers are written and built by geeks their corporate entities have ditched a tech that geeks are very vocal about liking.

Google famously killed Google Reader, a much loved product. That decision made me for the first time look at Google in a different light (when Reader was around I practically lived in Reader – this is perhaps what Google didn't like, I know it's a paranoid/conspiratorial viewpoint but …) [0]

Microsoft killed RSS support when moving from IE to Edge. [1]

Apple removed RSS support from Safari in Mountain Lion only to add it back in half-heartedly in Yosemite but I don't know enough about the MacOS/iOS platform to say for certain where its support is at. [2]

And today – champion of the open web, Mozilla – kills support a short while after acquiring Pocket, a non-open feature of their browser that for most people sits uselessly on the toolbar taking up valuable screen real estate and also bloats the code-base.

That's all of them then. So what's up? Why is it that browser creators don't want us to consume content in an open, uniform and standard way using RSS when it works fine and clearly geek like consuming content that way? What's so awful about: “I like that site (or sub-site), please subscribe to it and notify me about new content.”? Anybody who has any inside info on this topic please let us know.

I think it mirrors why large tech companies have failed to deliver open and federated social media. From now on, given that Chromium is also open source, I know longer consider Mozilla to be the champion of the open web. Not if they kill useful open standards and don't champion other ones even if it's not popular. Freedom has never been about popularity. Firefox should have been the first browser ages ago to ship with a built in ad-blocking and anti-tracking tech but they never did. Why? I thought Persona was pretty cool tech, but nope, they had to shut it down. And Firefox Hello? D.O.A. In certain optics it looks like Mozilla only exist to enrich themselves and not rock the ecosystem too much.

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Google Reader shutting down

1926 points knurdle 6 years ago 704 comments (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cl...)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371725 (I have rarely seen such a uniform outcry on HN)

[1]
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_in...

[2]
https://thesweetsetup.com/apps/best-rss-reader-os-x/
If you're not used to it it might feel weird. But you absolutely can do intense exercise without eating first.