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So this is a topic I have thought about for awhile -- I released a 3D scanning app for iPhone nearly 3 years ago (uses the screen as the light source for scanning, called Trimensional) and have had many conversations about when Kinect-style sensing would become standard.

If we just take Apple as an example, for them to include it standard, it would have to really justify its existence. (I realize many people don't care about Apple, but I choose Apple because, for example, there have been stereo cameras on various Android models over the years, but since developers can't really count on the presence of a stereo camera for a large number of users, nothing game-changing ever really came of it, even though stereo cameras enable 3D sensing.)

Though user interaction and 3D acquisition are amazingly cool, I don't think Apple would ever include a depth sensor just for those reasons. However, Apple has shown it cares pretty deeply about the iPhone as a camera and is even willing to add new hardware if it helps people take better photos, the dual LED flash being the latest example of this.

So, as crazy as it sounds, I think Apple could add a back-facing depth sensor in 2-3 years mostly in order to allow for automatic depth-based post-processing of photos, mostly for better-looking lighting, all without the user having to care that there was 3D sensing involved. All the other stuff will then become possible, and widespread, as a side-effect.

EDIT: On the Android front, the PrimeSense folks had a booth set up at CVPR this year and mentioned that at least one manufacturer was planning to include their Capri sensor (a miniature Kinect) in an Android tablet some time soon.
This is nice, but, it feels like a splashy visual tool that took a lot of dev resources and will only be used significantly by a small user base. I personally feel that they would make a lot more users happy by spending a little on improving their existing code diff interface. Some ideas:

- make the context button "..." for the code diff actually do something

- side-by-side diffs

- syntax highlighting
Agree. Knowing that users of old devices will continue to be able to use your app makes me a lot more excited about releasing for iOS7 only.
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Driverless cars are the future. anyone thats missing that will stay behind at some point
Also the posting comments become a 'place' to put suggestions, alternatives, and other measures to deal with the issue.
Honest question: is there harm in competing self-driving schemes? I really don't want to shop "safety." By that I mean, paying more for stopping in the rain well or having one competitor hold the patent for driving in the snow properly. I imagine it will be properly regulated, but I'd love it to be an industry-wide initiative where everyone shares and maybe even uses the same codebase.
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Statist logic 101. Governments must establish their authority with violence and punishment. Without punishing those who disobey, society would be lawless and chaotic.
Well, Google did hire the people who won the DARPA Grand Challenge(s): http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Team-Behind-Google-s-Auto...
usually by not necessarily-- the cost of construction can (and often does) go up, due to things like higher labor costs, material costs, etc. of course, it could go down due to better technology but the general trend seems to be up.
Not jumping to conclusions was exactly what I was saying. I'm not saying that anyone should have to accept overt racial or discriminatory comments as you described. I'm saying that the referenced blog post does not contain any evidence at all besides the name of the poster that this was a racially motivated act. The problem with accepting the name alone as evidence is that doing so implies that any inconvenience faced by any member of any racial minority is automatically an act of racism. Something that is clearly not the case and is counter productive.
Having documentation on an official-looking letterhead that you're running an exit node may reduce the risk of such a thing happening.
> They could be too quiet, too loud, too aggressive, too passive, too arrogant, too sensitive, too confident, too insecure, strangely obsessed with tubs of jelly, etc.

How about too picky? Hint hint.

> We would not rule you or your wife out on grounds of gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, university, taste in literature, or the state of your lawn. If you for some reason wanted a job with us...

How generous of you!

The language one chooses to use can reveal a lot about one's thinking and here, "rule you or your wife out" and "for some reason" is, I would argue, very telling.
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I would totally think these guys are state-sponsored.

This: "Members wield advanced, zero-day attacks that exploit security vulnerabilities in Oracle's Java, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and other widely used software frameworks or applications. The report said their tactics and exploits are far more advanced than those of the Comment Crew, a China-affiliated hacking crew that researchers from security firm Mandiant said has siphoned terabytes of sensitive data from 141 organizations over the past seven years."

And this: "Team Moudoor, named for the trojan they use, takes a large-scale approach that broadly penetrates organizations in the financial industry, local and federal government organizations, and organizations related to healthcare, education, and law. Team Naid, by contrast, is more of a special operations squad that keeps a low profile so it can save its resources for the highest-profile targets in the defense industrial base."

In short, these guys are highly, highly skilled and specialized ... and a specific attack target and vector.

This is not a bunch of script kiddies looking for fame and glory.
Newsblur is really excellent, it has replaced Google Reader for me without a single regret and the premium account is completely worth it.

The iOS app is very good too and now with offline reading it will allow me to get my news fix while commuting :)
Nuclear technology barriers are more technological than informational. Finding information on how simple nuclear device works wouldn't be that hard I think. Actually creating a device that would work is another matter.

But here nobody actually knows even the ideas behind this - how exactly this thing works. Which sometimes happens too - e.g. see history here about lithium batteries, which was just recently discovered how they work even though they were in use for years. But there nobody knew that, there wasn't some inventor that hides it.
The simple truth probably is the company that made the app designed their Android version first and didn't bother to come up with a complete new app design for iOS, so they just kinda ported it. You can also find a lot of Android apps that seem to be directly ported from its iOS incarnations, instead of using native UI conventions.
To paraphrase Nietzsche, "A man can withstand any how, if he has a sufficient why." People have a hard-wired need for purpose in their life. And people want to think about and consider questions that are beyond the ability of science to answer. Thinking about those questions can be a lot of fun, and that is what a lot of metaphysics and theology is.
Will we get to the point where people will be giving the finger to anyone not in a self-driving car, because it messes with e.g. optimum traffic flow?
does this mean that TOR will have a close relationship with its exit operators? I dont like the sound of that...
The affordances for swiping through Springboard seem to work pretty well. More important than the dots is the physicality of the animation. You can wiggle the current screen back and forth with a small motion and transition with a more dramatic one, but either way there's a clear directness to the interaction.

All swiping should work that way, and Apple is emphasizing the importance of "physical" dynamics in iOS 7.
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This sounds like a great idea and should make the game a lot more rewarding. For one, it will make crafting useful instead of a waste of money.
Is this an acknowledgement by Apple that there will be tens of millions of iOS users who cannot upgrade their devices to iOS7?

I'm personally in this camp, with iPhone 3GS and iPad 1. I'm hoping to be able to get an iPad Mini Retina soon, but the older devices remain in use. (The original iPhone doesn't get much use anymore, though...)
So I rent a VPS in Egypt and provide an exit node there. I am as small time as it gets. Looks like this will not do anything at all for me since they are looking for very large players to provide exit nodes.

I do like the idea of Tor becoming fast. It's painful to use currently. If someone like Netflix was to donate 1% of their bandwidth to Tor, things would look so much better.
Official annoucement here : http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/10974978/ but i felt ars added some useful context and commentary.
Me too, but this is way better.
I feel like Apple learned the wrong lesson from the huge flap last year that suddenly jammed "skeuomorphism" into all our vocabularies. There's nothing wrong, IMHO, with UI that looks like a polished, compact control panel. The problem was UI that looked like a rodeo in an office-supply warehouse.

I do like Android's "floating cyberspace icons" approach, but I liked Apple's "UFO hi-fi panel" look too, and it's a shame to see a former design leader becoming such a follower. On the other hand, it's delicious irony to see an enthusiastic tosser of look-and-feel lawsuits reduced to stealing from the same people they've been suing, so it balances out.
Of all the non-math degrees that there are, I would expect that Physics would be the very next best thing for teaching mathematics, if for no other reason than because of physics' privileged position when it comes to mathematics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_... and the intertwined history of physics and mathematics.)

As a counterpoint, I have a degree in Computer Science, which I personally consider to be a slightly "vocationally oriented" field of mathematics, but I am currently reteaching myself trigonometry that I should have learned in highschool. The math that I needed for my degree I still have down pretty solidly, but for the most part the mathematics that is taught in high-schools I am fairly rubbish at. I currently would have no business teaching a high-school mathematics course; I could probably get through the lectures but would be completely unable to help any student that actually had an interest in mathematics.

A physics guy teaching highschool mathematics seems perfectly reasonable to me. A linguistics guy though? Ehhh...
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> I had this discussion with my friend. Would automated fleets of cars make sense?

The "automated fleet" idea is not how people are planning to see this idea play out. Automated, self-driving cars are one thing, but an automated fleet makes it sound like a train rather than many vehicles operating very efficiently (meaning without human drivers) but each with a separate destination.

To an alien watching from orbit, a country of automated cars would appear different from the present only in that the cars would be much closer together than they are now, with no increased danger of collision -- indeed, less danger. Cars would still leave the freeway and go to their intended destination just as they do now, just more efficiently.

> it wouldn’t make economic sense to use a self-driving car service to get to and from work.

It would if everyone still owned a car as they do now, the only difference being that the car drives itself. If the idea of a "fleet" were taken seriously, why not switch to trains or buses instead of cars? The only reason to have a car is to be able to go directly to your destination.
have you seen empire db? http://empire-db.apache.org/
no-one much seems to use it, but it's actually quite neat.
Finally. This was the absolute worst aspect of DIII. It completely ruined the gearing up aspect of the game. Loot drops were tuned down because of it, so how did everyone get gear? They bought it. Lame.

The new direction of this game looks really good. These kind of changes make me want to play the xpac. I had previously sworn off the game entirely.
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1. You're going to spend 15-30 minutes in a grocery store vs 5 minutes selecting items from a website

2. 30 minutes + travel time is worth more to me than $3.99

3. Not having to deal with finding the items in the grocery store is worth its own point
This is true. I think it would require working directly with SolidWorks to make it happen since everything of theirs is so proprietary.
I am at once in awe and jealous of the kinds of things these people must know/be able to do. It's too bad that this kind of skill and knowledge could not be used in a more legitimate manner with such a high profit potential to the individual.
Goldbely is a logistics company. While it's true they're doing food, logistics of this nature could be applied to other fields pretty easily.

The hardest part is setting up initial distribution and sourcing; once that's done, adding product lines becomes fairly trivial. That's how I perceive the Intel involvement.
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I think someone should write a tutorial about how to continue working while Github goes down. If you're trying to deploy from a master branch on GitHub, this could be an issue, but if you're just trying to share projects between peers, this should be a that big of a deal right?
also see "nymwars", pretty much my ENTIRE pseudonym-loving social circle hopped onto G+ with great enthusiasm, only to be chased off and/or fragmented by Google's REAL NAMES ONLY policy.
Wow, really. Charging money for a product is a crime now? We must shun this practice? Ridiculous.
> Punishment is a legitimate role for society; it is not juvenile.

How so? Who benefits from punishment, and what do you mean by "legitimate"? Do you consider punishment ethical?
I live near tesla hq. I saw some Audi cars with radars on top of it around. They are tesla people I guess. Because google cars are Lexus.
I read it too ... and that article also points out how dangerous it can be (one of the Titan workers died when he slipped on the wildly tilted deck).
This is a good and smart move, but it's only one step towards fixing the nature of the game.
A lot of companies with a "hardware" background have trouble writing software - they simply do not grok the management mentality and organizational culture that is required to do it efficiently. More to the point, they have difficulty distinguishing between ill-disciplined cowboy development and the agile, fast-moving (albeit highly disciplined) approach that you really need to have to develop complex systems without exponentially sky-rocketing costs. This culture may be changing (slowly) - but my gut instinct is that Tesla stands a chance to throw them some surprises before they do.
Sockethub, a polyglot service for social and other messaging applications.
I smell political econometrics a brewing.
Well, regarding the emulation issue, you've got me there, slightly, because that item was going by what I remember of what my teammate told me in the pub about 12 years ago :)

The platform was the Playstation2 and the issue was (as I recall) that the system's FPU supported floats but not doubles, and the supplied libc wasn't fully compatible with the compiler flag that effectively did a typedef float double. (I assume printf was affected because of the traditional varargs promotion rules.)

I suspect it was easier to write a new printf than figure out how to rebuild libc, assuming you were even allowed to link the final game to your own libc in the first place...

(As for the rest being simply differences between one platform and the next, that's quite true. (And you can usually work around to one degree or another - believe it or not I've worked on a number of multi-platform projects that didn't rewrite printf, though funnily enough every single one had to wrap it.) But then, for what reason does one do this sort of thing, except to remove these differences? You might as well rail against #define stricmp strcasecmp and the like - writing your own printf is just a difference of degree.)
> but the US lacking so many of these in a widespread manner makes me not consider it a first world country.

Cute. The inferiority complex is palpable. You create very specific custom goalposts for being a first-world country and then you just happen to meet them. Cheers mate, congrats on making your small nation a good place to live. Don't be so insecure.
Google could take a cue from this an implement Google Native Client (NaCl) in JavaScript like they do with Dart.
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Remember, there's an inherent goal behind their app and yours. Within your markets (as niche as it may be) they may have a different vision and that will make a difference further down the line.

Within a year, nobody is going to look back and call you a copycat -- unless your goal is specifically to build an identical version of that they're building.

Overall, don't worry about it. Polish yours and get ready for launch. You want to find differences? That's what features/support/pricing/service/design is for.
People buy houses on payment. Obviously the best time to buy would be when rates are very high and drive down absolute prices (and hopefully rates fall soon after so you can refi). The problem is the 80s to now is a 30 year time scale. Are you willing to wait for high rates, possibly years, that may never happen?
I'd strongly recommend having a presentation in the pitch meeting. It helps control the flow of the meeting and ensure you cover all the important points.
Basically, my same thoughts too. Everything's is being beaten with the flat design stick these days.

This nails it.

> There's nothing wrong, IMHO, with UI that looks like a polished, compact control panel. The problem was UI that looked like a rodeo in an office-supply warehouse.
Make trouble for yourself
I went in in August 2007, when the DOW was at 14700 or so. I watched my portfolio dip from $27K to $18K. Everyone I knew was going cash. I didn't. I trimmed the sails, turned into the wind, and learned. There's no better learning that reading everything you can about the market when the market is doing back-to-back triple-digit drops in the 8000's, with your money in the game. I sold some pigs, bought some as they were going down. The best pickings were on the floor, BK at the corner, and people had written them off. I got lucky that I was buying when everyone was scared, but I didn't buy because the stock was low, I bought because I knew the companies had customers, long term contracts, good manufacturing know-how, good management, and made products their customers wanted. At that point, I reinvested another $25K in securities, from when the DOW was around 7500, and gold was shooting up, to about 10,000. After that, it was all growth, reinvestment of dividends, etc. I pulled $10K out in December 2012 (down payment on car), and had $61K in the portfolio after. This week, not really doing anything, it's at $99K. Yes, it's a wave, but like in surfing, you gotta be in the water to catch it. I have holdings in about 60 companies. My last trade was selling $1600 of Honda stock and buying $500 of Fedex and $600 of Toro, both adding to existing positions.
This is stylish?
Thanks.

Basically I'd like to understand all this Redis, ZeroMQ, etc. stuff, message passing, queues, etc.

Not sure if there's a book that explains all this, or if I have to do a bit of research by myself.
This is aweomse. It's a small, but critical step in making the design for things versionable and forkable.
The outage itself isn't great, but on the flip side you know you've made it when people give a shit about your downtime.
They're doing it before a significant user base grows that precipitates a github-for-3D startup. Building this feature also fosters growth of open source 3D modeling and printing, which is a net positive thing.
We found out the hard way that directly deploying from github might be a bad idea. I wrote a little web service that receives notifications via hooks when code is tagged and rehosts the tarballs in S3 for deployment. it's been rock solid in production.
This is actually quite interesting though worded a bit strangely/abstractly. He's saying that the strong thief prefers a world in which low level thievery is guarded against because it makes targets fatten themselves up believing themselves to be safe.
That's less an issue of running native code (you can do that with asm.js or emscripten), and more an issue of the numerous additional platform APIs provided in NaCl that HTML5 doesn't have: USB, Bluetooth, GLES...
I'm curious as someone who has never played the game: What else do they need to fix? I've only heard complaints about the auction house
To be precise, a house is a depreciating asset, but the land it sits on is (almost alwasys) an appreciating one. Most homes are built well enough that their rate of depreciation is slow. And since the purchase price is high compared to a car, it is more affordable to spend a few thousand dollars rennovating an aging house than an aging car. But eventually the house will break down and its value will go to zero. In terms of longevity, the most successful house to date is the Great Pyramid of Giza, and it is so heavily worn that its value is now mostly due to the tourist dollars it brings in because of its uniqueness.

If cars were tethered to a plot of land in the same way houses are, the comparison between cars and houses might be more valid. Investing in parking spaces can actually be profitable, in some cases. But whether you buy a house or a car, you're buying a construction that time and weather will ultimately beat into a worthless object. Ordinary homebuyers are too used to thinking of a house as an investment by its very nature and ignoring both the expenses of homeownership and the investment quality of the land the house sits on.

Even land is a depreciating invesment in an area where the population is sharply declining and tourism/business is minimal. Nothing is a good investment by its nature, only by the circumstances in which it exists.
I would not doubt if they got paid handsomely (if not, relatively well).
Why you should be using a composable regex library.
Homebrewed swipe gestures, sure, but I don't think it's that big of a problem to introduce an app-wide swipe gesture. The problem with discoverability only shows up when it's in your own homebrewed component.
The traditional view is that the miracles weren't just symbolic, but actual historic events (that had intentional symbolic meaning), and most priests would subscribe to the traditional view; so they aren't lying, just being consistent with their views.

What you are referencing is the "Liberal Christianity" of the 1800's, but it is generally an unpopular set of views. Wikipedia's page is a bit short but a useful overview of the differences:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Christianity
Probably because there's no extra money to be had from altering the interface.