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I just bought an Azure Kinect DK[1] which should arrive today; Microsoft is clearly aware Kinect has many other opportunities outside of Xbox.

A massively undersold market for Kinect is VR. The thing I see nearly all high-end Steam VR headset users wanting is full-body tracking, and surprise surprise the old Kinect is used there a bit heavily already but is lacking in precision and pose detection algorithms. I would not be surprised if the Azure Kinect DK becomes heavily used in the VR community soon, since it improves both of those pretty heavily.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kinect-dk/
It's not the first time this angle is mentioned or that foreign executives in Japan have similar problems (though not as big but he was the highest profile one as well).

See this from 2012 (with Ghosn being mentioned as the "most successful foreign CEO at a Japanese company". Well...) : https://www.ft.com/content/fb6974b0-9066-11e1-8cdc-00144feab...
I remember my first visit to California. We were in Santa Cruz for work, and got down to the breakfast room in the hotel and the tv news talked about storms. We looked out and it was drizzling. Walked to the office and got slightly damp, and coworkers thought we were crazy.
Since pH is a log scale, that is a huge change - almost 40%.
I think something similar has been suggested in the book called Godel,Escher,Bach.
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Is there any evidence that Google spend this much on Chrome/Chromium?
Stagnation was the biggest problem. Stagnation is not the problem with Chromium; in fact, it's the opposite, and that's really what's forced Microsoft's hand. They were simply wasting resources playing catch up to Chromium. Why bother?
Leave the debate about science to scientists then.
We are all colonies of creatures, really interesting book written 100 years ago called the "Soul of the Ant" by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Marais
I accidentally dropped many Yens coins in Tokyo last week and multiple individuals rushed to help me. I was literally shocked.

I also forgot my wallet with my passport beside an arcade game in Akihabara and someone found me inside the arcade to give it back to me before I even noticed it was lost.

Un-locked bikes, products outside of shops, etc.

Their "Trust" system is incredible. It would never work here in Canada.

I really enjoyed my 3 weeks in Japan.
Thanks for the article
It sparked useful discussion around the world
It is almost as if for some reason they don’t want programmers outdoors ;) But on a serious note this could be THE e-ink killer feature to propel it in the market.
We started with Gecko in 2015, but it lost on many dimensions in a head to head comparison enumerating gaps vs. Chrome. DRM is just one example. We don't like DRM, but users want Netflix to work, and Google makes WideVine free-as-in-beer; whereas at the time, Mozilla had an Adobe deal that did not extend to non-Firefox Gecko embeddings.

So we switched to chromium/Blink in late 2015. Much later, when I visited Apple in early 2017, a devrel friend asked why we couldn't use WebKit. A WebKit founder in the meeting agreed with me that there was no way for Brave to do so on Windows w/o running out of capital. DRM again was an issue too, without WideVine. Don’t blame startup for not carrying a full engine — that needs deep pockets. While MS does have deep enough pockets, it is starting by using chromium/Blink and slow-forking.
If you are Europe based, it doesn't even makes sense anymore to fix it as daylight savings time is on its way out soon.

"Sitting the problem out" is a valid problem solving strategy. :-)
Even more surprising for me is that the queen can live
30+ years.
$0.00

It is, after all, open source and we make it all available for free.

However, having great contributions to D have landed several contributors very nice jobs. The sponsors of the annual D conference, past and present, did so to look for crackerjack D programmers. I expect it's the same for other open source conferences.
Kind of, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

When it comes to typing systems you have to pick 2:
Depth, Mutability, Soundness
It's not just about confidence. It's also about the speed you can use/refactor the code. Suggestions, type information on hover and instant feedback if you forgot, used wrong order or type, misspelled or simply don't remember exactly signatures or auto generated documentation means a lot when writing code. You can move much faster when working on typed code. Nobody ever claimed that types are replacement for tests. It just means that your tests don't require obvious clutter anymore, you can focus on more complex/important test cases to cover.
Related: Bernie Blindness: https://imgur.com/a/VyNVA8D
KHTML was always designed and positioned as an embeddable browser engine. Mozilla deprecated the embedding of Gecko, so you have to fork and change the whole browser instead of just lifting the engine...
I think the demand for action is present and will only increase in the years to come, so I am not worried about that anymore, actually.

My question was more why this particular course of action is not taken? What are the main arguments against it, and can we do something to address those?
Thanks for letting me know rust isn't OOP. I never said it was. Funnily.

>Ignoring type systems and just looking at functional vs imperative, the advantage for functional is immutability making functions easier to reason about. Haskell in particular is also lazy, and therefore enables you to not be concerned with evaluation order.

Sans the part about laziness, for which the formal term is "normal order evaluation" FYI, OOP guys say the exact same thing about objects word for word.
> Your response is downplaying someone's actual concern by acting like it's wrong that they don't spend their spare time participating in open source software development.

Anything that broken would be fixed, almost instantly, had they reported it. I am not very amenable to people who discuss their very extreme personal anecdotes that they have failed to even put even the basic (some may even say courteous) amount of help and instead talk about their experience like it's typical.

> Furthermore, this "browser monoculture" argument is ridiculous. WebKit and Blink are both open source, and Mozilla is increasingly becoming what Opera was back with Presto: a lone engine with quirks that nobody wants to waste their time working around.

Open source does not ensure that a monoculture will not develop; both WebKit and Blink are financed by billion (trillion?) dollar corporations that have almost complete control over what will or will not be worked on or merged in. Every engine has its own quirks and slant on how it interprets the web standard: if WebKit was the dominant browser today we'd all be even more hesitant to roll out WebM or WebGL 2.

> If Mozilla gave up Gecko tomorrow and forked WebKit (a la what Blink is) I don't think I'd bat an eye. This is like what junior programmers wind up learning at some point - nobody cares what the code looks like, just that it does what it's expected to.

Who exactly are you likening to "junior programmers"?

> I say this all as someone who's contributed to some Mozilla repos, has a massive personal investment in Rust (and has read a good chunk of Servo, and liked it), and has been a fan since the Mozilla Suite days.

And you know my personal history on this pretty well too, but you'll notice I'm advocating for Mozilla in this case.
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Except it is 80% Google's work.
You also won't new[] a lot there. How much can it even physically address?
>With 50 or so devs (let's forget for this example about managers, UX researchers and designers, HR, etc.) you'll get maybe a JavaScript VM and a small UX.

Not so sure. I remember the Webkit guys being a very small team (and they basically did the whole of Safari). There was some such mention on Dave Hyatt's blog at some point.

And, as far as the "chrome" part (UI, settings, etc) goes, wasn't Firefox at first the work of a couple of people, who forked their own UI version of Mozilla? And still it got to be the most popular browser at the time.

Not to mention how whole OSes and other challenging things have been done by smaller teams...
Even with that I hope we get to see missions where they send unmanned craft in that direction in my lifetime. I mean it's still only Voyager and New Horizons (afaik) that have been sent on a trajectory out of our own solar system on purpose. (faux edit: looking up the wiki page, it's the 5th to escape the solar system).

An unmanned mission would probably have to go even faster, and probably has to be a bigger craft with better on-board power supply (with backups) and a big communications array. Maybe it would even need similar craft following it after a while to form a chain of communications relays on their way out.
> Foraging in a harvester ant colony requires some individual ant memory. The ants search for scattered seeds and do not use pheromone signals [...]

This was surprising to me. Until now, I was under the impression that all ants used pheromones, which leads to coordination not with each other but through the environment [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy
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Ask HN: Lost my appetite for software development, any recommendations?
So I am in my mid 30s and started a new and interesting job about a year ago. A company I wouldn't have dreamed working for even a few years ago.

Now I am in a team with about 10 super eager software developers who constantly try to improve the code base and know the ins and outs of the libraries they are using. Some are very highly respected in their fields.

That's generally great, however I can't connect emotionally and mentally with them. I mean I wanted to work there, bought books and was so excited to dig deeper into this new topic.

Now I am one of two in the team who has a wife and kids. I chip away my tasks, do them fairly well, but everyone around me brings out new solutions and general improvements to the code base. This is a) intimating, b) I wouldn't even know how to start to catch up on them and c) I feel like I lost the lust to constantly keep up with new tools other bored developers wrote.

I feel like I lost this special "I am unstoppable" gene and don't actually want to tinker and hack in my free time anymore. Every time I want to help out with a project of a friend, and something is not working, I am thinking "why should I fix this stupid problem when I could read a book or just chill".

I feel generally less excited about programming and actually don't know what to do. I tried to apply for engineering manager positions, since this is what I did in the past year (although not on my resume) but I made people do the work for me somehow because I just couldn't bring my hands to write that piece of code needed.

Did this ever happen to some of you? What direction should I take?
Doesn't that break when std::free does not have the default C++ calling convention? I think `decltype(std::free)` would be easier to read anyway, but writing a deleter class that calls std::free in its operator() has the advantage that it will not use any memory in the unique_ptr thanks to the empty base class optimization.
It is a feature I wanted to have in a web browser; the ability to save form data to a local file (and to be able to refill a form with the saved data from a selected file). (This might be possible with an extension. I wanted it for a different purpose, although the purpose you give is also a use of the same function.)
Damn, lacking :focus-within is a big one. That pseudo-selector is very useful when creating custom widgets.
One thing that helps for me is to consider the bell curve profile, and the fact that a small shift greatly increases the area under the upper tail part of the curve where the extreme weather events live, eg:

https://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/small-change...

It does require some ability to grasp the concept of these nonlinear effects, so might be an uphill battle, depending on who you are talking to.
I don't really think this is a problem anymore. It's more that no desktop OS provides secure native execution facilities a la iOS. The web browser was the best solution for sandboxing web applications in 1995-200x, but now CPUs have multiple cores, virtualization extensions, systems with multiple gigabytes of ram, etc.

There are better ways to sandbox applications in 2020.
It’s common to read criticisms of the justice system in that regard.

If the DA is able to construe a set of charges carrying a maximum multi-year or even multi-decade custodial sentence, and when the option of not even being able to be considered for parole can be added as a condition of your sentence — no matter what kind of prison behavior you show, or how you respond as a prisoner to rehabilitation or reconciliation programs — then the plea bargaining process itself begins to seem a lot like an extrajudicial and unconstitutional trial of the kind one is surprised a moral society would endorse.
The phone was released with iOS 13 which prominently featured enhancements to USB restricted mode[1] which was supposed to defend against GrayKey/Cellebrite attacks. Seems like GrayKey can easily bypass that feature. Does not really inspire much trust in Apples security team as the USB restricted mode was already a bandaid itself.

[1] https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2019/09/usb-restricted-mode-in-io...
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If it wasn't obvious from my tweet, in a thread on "cancel culture", many valley investors were scared of being mobbed if they invested in me.
Oh, I see.
Just wondering, How GUN handle a situation like described above when working with Arrays?
It would surprise me if someone was able to sleep while influenced by stimulants. However, being on stimulants is very exhaustive for your body, and it temporarily stops the racing thoughts many people struggle with, even some time after taking it.

I was having quite severe insomnia when I was younger and it all cleared around the time I was diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed stimulants. My insomnia doesn't seem to return when I'm on holidays or during weekends, periods which I usually don't take any medication.

I asked my doctor about it, and he said it could be related, but it could also just be that I grew out of it, or any number of other reasons. He did say that some doctors was been experimenting with very low doses before going to bed with various degree of success. But it was a high risk that these people was suffer from some kind of undiagnosed variant of ADHD or another where insomnia typically is a comorbid disorder, like bipolar disorder.
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How does an airline know who is slower just by looking at them? Other than a few exceptions, of course. There are substantially many more who just take their time settling in.
Hasura on Postgres works really well too.
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Square kilometerage is not on its own a useful measure. There's different terrain types, that have different responses to fire.
It could be that Japan is lenient and does not prosecute cases which are not cut and dry. I don't know.

Anyway I don't know how much you are helping the USA here in your argument. A deal in the US is often like:

"Look, kid. With this deal, you get 1 year in prison. If we choose to prosecute, you are looking at 30 years to life. Your call. Remember, you have a [kid|mother|girlfriend]."

Who would risk going up in court, even if you maybe didn't even do very much? It's basic economics. The risk is too great that jury is going to hate you, no matter what you did or didn't do. Better take the bargain and cut your losses.
I didn't see it. I deleted my comment because it was getting negative karma and I'm hovering on the borderline right now.
For many japaneses, the attack on Pearl Harbor is the mistake where they have lost the war. The Japanese army is essentially a navy. Sailors play chess, but not go. Therefore, they are very strong to win great battles, but lack the global vision to win a war.
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> That makes me wonder, why did something like BrowserChoice.eu not happen for google?

Infinite this.

Google shouldn't be allowed to deploy their browser to their OS that defaults to their search engine and locks you into their paid app store. That's anti-competitive af.

Microsoft was skittles compared to what Google does today. And MS' telemetry has nothing on Google's pervy panopticon.

Google shouldn't be allowed to do browsers.
I don't think that's possible, and in that case the std::function wouldn't work either.
> I don't know, but I can think of one way involving the immediate threat of instant sunshine followed by nuclear winter. At least this is a kind of threat that humans can better relate to.

Would you clarify who should threaten who in your scenario? Just FYI, US is now the biggest oil producer in the world.
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Does anyone have a TLDR for people who aren't turning off tracker blockers?
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It's unusual but Mexico did extradite El Chapo to the US.
> This comes as a surprise to me.

Were you expecting them to live longer or shorter? (I would likely have guessed six months.)
On the contrary, a lot of people store stuff in the overhead bins that they will access during the flight, so sitting in the aisle is the best spot for them (if you're trying to minimize how many times the people in aisles have to put their tray table up and rotate their legs.

On flights more 2 hours (so 6/9/14 hour flights) I'll put on the provided slippers and store my shoes in the overhead bin so my feet have more room. I usually travel with a backpack and a satchel, but my sound cancelling headphones take up a lot of space in my satchel, so before landing I'll put them back in my backpack. I usually have to go to the bathroom anyways before landing, so it isn't an extra get-up-out-of-seat-and-into-aisle-operation.

Yesterday I saw someone get up to access the bin 4-5 times in a 14 hour span. They were conviniently short enough so that they didn't have to get out of their seat (just had to stand on it) to access the bin.
Google forked WebKit and it worked out pretty well for them.
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You would get lynched by taxi drivers within the first month of implementing such a ridiculous policy.
> Also, this is troublesome because in the US, we're told that cops can force you to hand over your fingerprint but not your passcode.

It's not settled law that you can't be compelled to provide a passcode. In general, the 5th Amendment prohibits compelled testimony that is incriminating. Disclosing a password to your own phone is usually not per se incriminating. Contrast that with disclosing a password to a device you're accused of hacking, where showing knowledge of the password is evidence of guilt. Many (most?) courts haven't yet been prepared to defend such a fine distinction, and seem to be more comfortable with a simpler rule that prohibits compelling password disclosure, period. But that could easily change, especially at the Supreme Court.
I want to comment, but like, I can’t. For all the typical reasons.
It's the same in Sweden. You can't have contact with media, family, other inmates, basically anyone except your attorney.
I'm sure this is has some obvious reasons but I find it interesting that Japan can fill 800-1200 seats of the shinkansen in < 4 minutes

I get there are many differences, lots entrances, slightly wider isles. Still, it's fun to think about what it would take to do the same on a plane.
I disagree about all computer languages being about lambda calculus. Lambda calculus is fundamentally about functions being first class objects (as opposed to say sets, if we are taking a math prespective). Well that has become a more popular language feature, plenty of languages do not support this. C being an obvious answer.

I'm not a haskell programmer, but I agree with you on the math aspect being largely over excited bloggers. Sometimes i feel like half the haskell articles posted here are taking some simple concept, wrapping it up in heavy duty mathematical machinery, not using the machinery for anything, and then proclaiming profound insight. The other week there was a haskell article on hn literally talking about how great it is that strings form a semigroup under concatenation, because i guess nobody realized you could concat strings before that.
Same idea stated differently: the problem is the amount of carbon available at the planet's surface: a huge portion of that carbon will eventually end up as CO2, as that is the lowest energy state. Earth's biosphere allows for an equilibrium where part of that carbon will will be present as non-CO2 (i.e. biomass), but as we get more carbon to the surface, we'd have to move the equilibrium point to compensate for the added carbon, which doesn't seem to be a scalable solution.

The only scalable solution is to stop bringing up more carbon to the surface :)
And it was only not the hottest because of a neutral ENSO. ENSO (the El Nino - La Nina cycle) puts a wobble on the trend. A strong El Nino year will bust the current 2016 record.

The UK Met easily predicted this year's temps to be second-highest.
I was aware of Ekioh, but only tangentially; I had no idea of their progress so I didn't bring it up. I'd say it's great that they've managed to come this far. And to clarify if it wasn't plain from my other comments, I think that Chrome is the exception rather than the rule: it's an absolutely massive team. Possibly the largest of all the browser vendors that can make something close to compatible with the modern web. When pressed for an example I mentioned WebKit because just happened to be the by far the best example: it's the one that I could point to as competing with Gecko or Blink, plus it had a nice webpage I could link to instead of making people comb through Git commits.
I think it’s important to stress that we have essentially no solid information as to whether these attacks are real, and if they are, then the methods they use or the amount of time they take, nor what measures can be used against them.

Let’s not sing the requiem for their security team just yet.
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A single degree increase is significant because that suggests soon it will be 2, and then 4 and then 8... etc etc

The real worry is when we get to 8 degree increase which based on everywhere we've looked in the world that suffers from a 105+ degree avg temperatures tends to suffer from sparse plant life.

Though with that being said, our assumptions about that being what happens to the whole planet if our summers on average get to be 105f on average is very very very very speculative and actually counter intuitive in the sense that one would assume that with increase temperatures you should assume more water evaporates all over the globe, and therefore more rain should occur.

Nobody has pointed out the just as likely possibility, that perhaps global warming might be a problem that fixes itself. (i.e the amazon and africa is warmer because its closest to the equator therefore it has the most densely populated plant life) That is of course after all the Democrat's real estate ends up under water. ^_^ jk jk
For a sci-fi take on this, Children of Time and Children of Ruin, Adrian Tchaikovsky
Do you consider the things in the "gang of four book" to be patterns? If so, how do you distinguish them from something like "sort" or "hash table", since they are also solutions without problems? If not, I'd argue that your definition of pattern doesn't match the present meaning.