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> Was this mobile VR? Because that is horrible and nauseating and likely won't ever be a thing in the next decade.

It wasn't mobile VR - it was a dedicated space with external sensors and (usually) a complete Oculus headset.

Your experience differs from mine. As someone who used to love VR and considered moving across the country at one point to work on it, I've since fallen out of love. Ultimately I look at sales as my grounding data, and I don't think VR is going to take off for years.

Of course as I type this, Valve is announcing Half Life for VR - which is huge news. So maybe I'm wrong?
Yeah, that's how I found out about Inbox, and switched to it away from Gmail on my phone. Then they killed it and I'm back to Gmail. I learned my lesson and ignored the notifications begging me to try Duo instead of Hangouts. Now Duo is dead (hooray, I dodged a bullet) and I guess they're killing Hangouts for no reason.
I would think it is extremely easy to spot fake reviews statistically. The other day I was browsing a Dutch website similar to Amazon, and they show a distribution of the ratings. For a given category, there were a few products at the top that had hundreds of 5 star reviews, a wide gap, and then a few 1 star reviews. Meanwhile, the other products had a fraction of the reviews with a more natural distribution.
A lot of established C codebases are really preprocessor heavy. E.g. https://github.com/remacs/remacs
if you think about it, it isn't that much different from steam, there's an offline mode there and gabe promised a way out if they ever go out of business, but the concern isn't completely remediated by either. the only sure way to have your games working in the future is - unsurprisingly and unfortunately - to crack your copies.
yeah of courser
>I really don’t get the hate...

Not really hate but more people are so dazed by google's "product" zigzagging that it's hard to take it seriously anymore. Google managed to induce massive amounts of cynicism in their users.

e.g. Remember Google+? The thing that got shut down? Couple weeks ago I get a corporate email saying please update your profile pic on google+.

1. I thought it's dead.

2. What profile? Did you guys create a profile for me on a dead product?

3. Or did they keep the corporate version alive?

4. What about google currents? Google+ pages? Different things? Same thing but renamed?

I don't bloody know. And no I'm not updating my profile pic dear HR. Google will kill it in 3 months time and/or launch 2 clones or relaunch it with a lick of paint anyway.

It's the same with all their other stuff too. Their chat thing I use every day? It's got 3 different interfaces with different functionality and I don't even know what it's currently called. Hangouts? Meet? Google Chat?
> Nobody pays directly for Gmail or Youtube, or most of Google's well known "products".

Paying ISPs for internet access and on top of that paying for accessing a particular web app? It's too much IMO.
X Windows.

GUI toolkits on Linux are in bad shape. The GUI toolkits for
the Mac have nothing to do with Unix.

Windows has been through more widget sets than I can name, but has hidden that from the average non-observant muggle. On Linux they get some widget set to almost work, then make a new version that breaks things and repeat the cycle. Font metrics are all wrong so that text renders on top of other text but nobody seems to care. GUI toolkit developers are notorious for being unresponsive to user concerns. (e.g. a bug in GTK that prevented GTK apps from working right on a Windows X server that draws individual windows was marked as 'don't fix' because the developers think Microsoft is evil and you are too if you use Windows)

On top of that, Adobe might be able to get their product to work on a particular release of Ubuntu, but Linux advocates won't be pleased with that, it has to be whatever version of whatever distro they use.

Adobe right doesn't want to get involved in that s-tshow.
If you can't succeed because somebody made a low effort, low quality copy of your product, then you don't deserve to make money. Especially in light of the fact that Coke has been around for 150 years and is essentially just sugar water.
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Skimming the description, they used a structured light approach (active) for geometry deformation tracking. This is still probably useful for certain defense applications but an ideal goal is often to use passive tracking systems. It's impressive either way.

Lots of theater, performing, and visual art uses come to mind.
Can they do this with Catalina. I get a kernel panic twice a day and forced to reboot.
> These people didn't have to fight for jobs in a real business, they are benefiting from the WeWork illusion of grandeur and bringing in paychecks month after month.

Yikes. I have worked in two different startups that imploded quickly, largely due to an inability to find an effective sales and growth strategy. The fact that I was sold on the vision and that vision wasn't realized doesn't make the work I was doing any less challenging, nor did it make the job or business any less real.
Multiple windows is easy to ignore if you don't want it, but especially with the side-by-side multitasking view it's very nice to be able to group app instances together as they relate to things you're working on, and not sweating the fact that there can only be one web browser window.

For instance, if I'm doing research on something, I might have Notes or MindNode running with a copy of Safari paired alongside it. Those research related tabs are kept in their own world, not mixed with my main Safari instance and it's accumulated tabs.

And then let's say I'm writing an email about my travel plans and want to pull up the airline's website to look at my reservation. I can do that in a separate Safari instance instead of taking away the research sidebar from next to my MindNode document.

And the new Mail message can be its own window while I write it. If I need to refer to another message in my inbox, I don't have to close the draft I'm writing to get back to my inbox, and then go fetch it out of the drafts folder when I want to get back to it. Just swipe over to the main Mail window and swipe back when I'm done.

Or take an app like GoodNotes, where I have several notebooks on different subjects. I can open two of them at once instead of having to close notebook A, open notebook B, make a note, close notebook B, reopen notebook A every time I want to jot a quick note down in a different topic.

There's an adjustment period if you want to get in the habit of thinking about the iPad this way. But being able to operate it in terms of different tasks and projects, leaving their workspaces intact and unpolluted to come back to later, is a much more productive setup than having to play "How can I best allocate my single instance of the text editor?"
They can be vocal about getting people out all the want, won't make them effective at it, especially if most people don't understand why power text editor users hate WYSIWYGs. Once contracts are inked and the whole company gets hooked on something like Slack good luck getting it back out.
Sure but how would that work for Stadia?
Google Apps for Business will stick around, I have little doubt about that. Not because it's a paid product line, but because the underlying free product is used by hundreds of millions of people for mission-critical tasks (email, schoolwork, office work etc).

Same goes for Google Analytics and Tag Manager, which offers an incredible set of features for free, even though their is a paid Analytics 360 tier.

How many users would it take for Stadia to achieve that kind of critical mass? Gaming is not as sticky as email or collaborative document editing. So if the critical mass is not reached, I'd expect them to discontinue it.
The Violence Paradox
Yeah, that's the problem. Linux Desktop evangelists think they can slap a new coat of paint on this cobbled-together kludge of disparately developed software and that'll be "good enough for everyone". They don't seem to understand the way desktop software fits into workflows that aren't their own.
Uh, well... if you assume that wanton environmental destruction will never be addressed I guess you are correct.
DRM and copy protection.

Or more correctly, lack of rootkit capabilities to enforce such.

The main difference of osx/windows from linux, is that on the formers you (the end user) do not control the kernel.
Add two integers using only bitwise operators?
Nigeria’s Bitfxt and NaijaCrypto Exchanges Get Added to CoinMarketCap
>Reason, Cato

Reason and Cato are corporate funded think tanks pushing a corporatist agenda. If you look at CATO's front page piece right now, for instance, it's not an investigation it's an opinion piece on how hard it is to complain in the WTO inspired by their backers:

https://www.cato.org/publications/free-trade-bulletin/trade-...
I've run a mail server, and still help out with one, and getting consistent deliverability is hard. We've wanted to move to another hosting service for years, but the only reason we're doing ok right now is that our dedicated IP has a solid history and we just can't give that up in a migration.
Perhaps some people haven't realized this, but boost had been a testing ground for new language features for a long time. That's basically the point of TFA.

Boost runs a lot quicker than a standards body, but the proposal isn't quite as good. I personally like boost's "quicker but worse" methodology, but I can see the value that the official c++ standards committee provides. E.g. the atomics interfaces were previewed by boost, but to be done well really did require the more painful standards process.

In any case, I see the status quo as mostly healthy. It might be better if boost was to be officially encouraged, but most serious users of c++ understands that boost is useful without official endorsement.
Moving every last thing people do with computers into the cloud so their activities can be thoroughly data mined is innovative?
This is absolutely the answer (my parents live close to us and even a no-button interface combo item results in more work than I want).
Obviously this isn't an accurate psychological test. Yet it's a very interesting social tool, because it's more subtle than it seems:

- First, the most shallow interpretation, it sorta works. Not really of course, but I could believe based on empirical evidence that the "mind projecting itself on abstract objects" isn't totally BS.
- Second, when you get explained the supposed meanings of each element, you enter an introspective phase. You think about whether it does apply to you, "am I actually a fairly transparent person?", "do I expect my partner to be a part of me?". It doesn't really matter what you answered at first, it's your reflection about it that should lead to a mildly interesting self-questioning
- Third, and that's what people good at "basic social skills" have understood, it doesn't even matter if you personally didn't get any insight on yourself, or even if nobody around did. It's a door-opener, a way to engage with people around you, to get personal with them. Is it a shallow outlook on them? Doesn't matter, it's a start, a bond that you can strengthen continuing the discussion.
Yes, in the same way that high level employees leave those roles to spend more time with their families.
Someone has supplied a fix: https://github.com/kfahy/slack-disable-wysiwyg-bookmarklet
The vast majority of books printed up to the present day will never be available in digital format. Therefore, as long as there is interest to the older material, the secondhand book stores will thrive in one form or another.
Whatever Happened to Holographic Storage?
Yes, that is one of the reasons that her Maj has one of the best collections of Fabergé eggs in the world. Faberge Eggs are small jewelled decoration sharped like an Easter Egg. Faberge's production peaked in 1916 during the middle of WWI.

You can put a very large fortune into a pocket (or small bag) if necessary.
This is really interesting.

I wonder if this was built into the site, if people would still bother to like / dislike things as much?
Show HN: Holopod – Block Slack Notifications When You're in the Flow
"How is China not a 1st world nation? Or not an advance economy?"

Their per capita income is 15% of Americans'?
MSFT are working on xCloud, which uses actual Xbox hardware in the data centers, so you have access to your entire digital Xbox library, including Game Pass. I’m sure they’re going to replace whatever the current hardware they’re testing it with to the Xbox Scarlet hardware when it releases, which should put it on par (or better) than Stadia.
Sock Master's Game Console Controller Family Tree (2006)
Try to track a moving target when your screen updates almost 0.1 seconds after you adjust your joystick.

I expect Stadia input latency to be much greater than that, though, because most display hardware adds at least 30ms on top of whatever latency Stadia introduces.
We are building a Real-Time visibility tool to empower first-line managers
Why not put a little “x” on them to close the floating windows like tabs?
> How is China not a 1st world nation? Or not an advance economy?

Whether or not you think China is a 1st world nation, a great deal of political logic in China evokes a historical animosity towards Western nations for actions during the Chinese "Century of Shame". China has certainly caught up in many ways but is still developing, and the biggest leaps in development are still only a generation or two deep.
I tried Stadia and had a wonderful first experience on my Mac. Mac is relevant here because it's still worse for gaming, with access to fewer titles.

If the product is good, I'll pay for it. With streaming bundling, they can create a solid business.
> Tesla has a larger share of the electric car market in the US than Apple has of the mobile phone market.

You are comparing a tiny subset of the car market with the entire smartphone market. A more proportional comparison would be electric-car market vs feature-phone market.

> The App Store is a feature of iOS devices, if Apple decided they no longer wanted an App Store they could remove it entirely.

No, they couldn't, it would kill the iPhone... Removing apps from a tesla? maybe it would make some people unhappy, but it still functions as a car, as far as a car is concerned it is ancillary.

Availability of apps, programs etc beyond the vendors creations are a critical function to any computer platform that is not single use - Isn't this obvious? Do you really think the value of iPhones to the majority of it's users are merely as a more advanced feature phone?
Bug-for-bug? Nah. Just come up with something even remotely as productivity-enhancing as Excel is and you might have a shot. Fact is, people who think this already exists underestimate that powerhouse of productivity. It is possibly the most used programming environment on earth.
Startup world - venture capital

Arts world - generous patron
thank you for your advice, they were really helpful to me
My godfather has a bison ranch, one of the larger ones.

Regular fences work, as guidance really. If a bison wants to get through, they're weak as water and won't stop them.

You need telephone post thickness fence preferably cemented into the ground if you want to really stop a bison from getting out. If they are in stampede mode, you're screwed, would have to drive I beams into the ground.

Bison treat fences as guidelines really, they'll move around it if they're not in the mood to care, but if they are in a "screw this" mood, that fence is going down.

Note, when I say regular cattle fence, I mean 8 foot posts driven into the ground, with barb wire every foot to 8 inches apart. Anything less and they tend to work their way through it trying to get at grass on the other side and then no more fence. And that wire has to be taut, like string on a guitar play a note tight.

As an anecdote, even with fences like that, he had about 4-5 bison that escaped. Each one got put down to make sure the rest of the herd didn't get escape into their blood.
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If I could play high-end complex modern AAA games like RDR2 on my iPad Pro while traveling, I think there's a valuable proposition there. But ironically that's exactly the area where Stadia falls flat: internet connections are weak or nonexistent while traveling, and currently it's not even usable from an iPad.
I use a VPN for privacy, which is great, but routing my traffic through it will exclude me from sites that try to block VPNs (mostly streaming services).

What I really need is Cloudflare's WARP via wireguard config. I love the idea that they'll shield me from my ISP but still provide my real IP to service providers.

I can do this right now with a hack someone wrote https://github.com/maple3142/cf-warp but I don't want to anger Cloudflare.

Cloudflare, if you're listening, is it ok to extract wireguard credentials from your app and use them on my whole network? I'll gladly pay the $5/mo, but I don't want to be banned from Cloudflare or do something you may construe is illegal by extracting keys from your Android app.
For our favorite example, Google Reader, you could export your list of feeds, and import them into (e.g.) Newsblur.
Because governments are able to cajole or compel behaviour in ways no other entity can.
AFAIK, there is a big difference in the backend. Something like the Playstation 'cloud gaming' gave you remote access to a playstation console. Others gave you access to a VM running the game. I think Microsoft was talking about giving you access to your own XBox running at home?

The games were not re-engineered / ported specifically to run 'in the cloud' as Stadia is attempting. There are some interesting things that could allow, if a developer ever decides to utilize it.
Naturally, you can generate awful continuations in the same style via GPT-2.

Model prompt >>> As they sprinted together down the echoing, looping ramp of the deserted Guggenheim Museum, closely pursued by three swarthy members of the resolutely vicious Cannelloni gang, square-jawed British Royal Marine art historian/world's deadliest sniper John Savage and his voluptuous young modern art critic/Navajo linguist Samantha Silver cursed architect/interior designer/writer/educator Frank Lloyd Wright for designing such a circuitous route out of the building.

>>>
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The fact that the entire way was over a five-pointed star of the "Stars of David," which both men had tattooed on their arms, was beside the point. Neither of them would have been deterred if their pursuers had been armed with nuclear weapons, which would undoubtedly obliterate the entire museum, as well as any of the many high-rise buildings surrounding it.

At the heart of the building is an enormous, ornate winged monolith bearing the words "

======================================== SAMPLE 2 ========================================

"Just the way he built this place," Savage snarled, his hands clenched, "he'd be able to make any building disappear any time he wanted."

A couple of hours later, back at work, Silver and I were finally able to catch up with fellow explorer/writer/reporter Charles Fenton, who had been in the Museum galleries earlier in the day and stayed behind to observe our conversation. "That was quite a day!" he beamed at me.

======================================== SAMPLE 3 ========================================

As they approached the main lobby, Savage turned and grinned, showing off his impressive, biceps-bound physique. There was a reason the gang of thugs had been lured here, he explained to Silver. There were two other entrances out to street level. "The most efficient way of crossing this place is by helicopter." He paused, eyes scanning the distance. "And that would require an army or navy to pull it off." He raised his gun and laughed. A few yards away, Savage and
One thing which Google does have is servers everywhere in the world: pretty much everybody is at a low-latency distance from Google. Considering one of Stadia's main risks is latency, they do have something going on for them that other companies don't. Stadia will still probably fail, but if latency is an issue even for Google, it's hard to believe it won't be for Sony.
Hey all,

I’ve worked in and managed fully remote teams for 5 years, and while I love Slack have found it harder (especially as the team grows) to find any time in a day to do focused work. I could just shut down Slack entirely, but have found going offline for a day stresses me out and isn’t a great signal to the team.

THERE’S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY!

Holopod is a Mac desktop app that automatically updates your Slack status and turns on Do Not Disturb based on the apps you’re using. For example, when I’m in Google docs for more than 2 minutes my Slack status will auto-update and my notifications will be snoozed. My team knows I’m there and working, but I won’t get any messages until my status changes back.

The app is free and only available on Mac (for now). Linux and Windows folks - we hear you.

Would love your thoughts!
Google can only succeed with their own low-latency internet --- Fiber, Loon etc.

BTW Twitch is a different kind of game streaming.
I imagine your view on this would change rapidly if you were to lose your children in a terrible accident.
Your condescension makes it clear why you don't understand things.
1. subscriptions

2. subscriptions

3. tiered pricing

You need people paying you regularly, not just a-la-carte. And to attract the best patrons (aka customers) you need to sell them experiences (aka features) that people on lower plans don't have access too. Think artist events, special performances, travel, etc.
I don't think there is a change in skills to handle this. I think that what happened is that now information travels so quickly while the variety of information sources people consume has decreased.

Before people had time to think about news and talk to people with different views and get push back. That additional friction slowed the spread of misinformation and guaranteed it would mix with the information. When given both, a sufficient portion of the population was able to determine which was which. Then these people could moderate the discussion with targeted persuasive arguments. Sure, a lot of people still believed the misinformation, but they were less confident about it.

Now the information and misinformation travel separate channels. By the time they meet odds are the people involved are already emotionally invested in one or the other.
Abstractly, the question at hand is this: is a retailer that sells its own in house brand anticompetitive due to the information it has on potential competitor sales?

Other large retailers: Target, Walmart, etc. have a higher percentage of in house brands for sale than Amazon. So on this argument going after Amazon means you need to decouple retailers from in house brands across the board.

Even the concern about search placement has concerns, as shelf space in the store can be viewed as a analogous to search pages.
DIY Lane Keeping System Using Deep Learning
People aren't and will never be rational economic actors -- homo economicus -- and while we can chide them for making mistakes a rational person wouldn't, I feel like there must be a way to structure the world that doesn't set up this expectation no one will ever live up to. (edit to fix a typo)
Again I ask where, and How much do the local teachers get paid? Police? Restaurant staff?.

I'm not being disingenuous. If teachers must go into debt because $80K/year isn't enough to live on, then there are structural failures. If minimum wage is $15/hour = $30K a year, then how do the dish washers for the restaurants make a living?
It takes a fair amount of work on top of "set theory and traditional mathematics" if you want to actually state a semantics for APL.