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I want one of these things for software development. Being able to have one giant screen which encompasses your field of vision could work wonders for developers who feel constrained by monitors. Add in some sort of motion sensor and you can arrange your items on your giant virtual window with your hands. Throw a camera on the front of it so that when you need to look down at some paperwork, you can still see it.
60 Virtual speakers What does that even mean? It sounds like clever marketing talk.

I bet they have just regular stereo and software. Here, take a pair of good stereo headphones and try this 3d demo. And don't forget to close your eyes.

Virtual barber shop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA
The United States defense agencies also run and sponsor mathematics contests and summer program(s) for students. For example, the NSA sponsors the USA Mathematical Talent Search, the Office of Naval Research sponsors MOSP, the "Department of Defense" is listed for MathCOUNTS.
It will be interesting to see the hands on reports when they start to come out. The specs seem roughly comparable to the Occulus Rift, but Sony certainly has a ton of manufacturing power to make great the special screens in quantity.

But the name "Project Morpheus" just sounded like they were trying too hard. Of course this will probably get a much sexier name for release like "Playstation Virtual Reality Headset Environment".

Occulus Rift is a pretty cool name.
> There are plugins for Emacs (nrepl)

I think nrepl for emacs has been replaced by cider (which still uses nREPL)
I bought a Razer Tiamat a couple years ago (a true 7.1 surround sound headset) and it was one of the best purchases I've ever made. Imagine living your life with one eye closed, then suddenly having the opportunity to open both eyes, and how surprising it would be to realize that you have depth perception, etc. That's sort of what experiencing true surround sound is like.

It requires a bit of tweaking to get configured properly though, which led to a lot of negative reviews or people leaving reviews saying they weren't impressed.

Experiencing actual 7.1 surround sound headphones (rather than simulated surround) is kind of like a mini version of experiencing the Oculus Rift for the first time, in terms of the "wow" factor when you finally get it working properly. What Rift is to eyes, the Tiamat is to ears.

The reason headphones have had just two speakers till now is because people have two ears, so we've incorrectly assumed that that's all that's needed. But human ears are designed to capture 3D positional audio. Two speakers means there are only two positions that audio can come from. 7.1 headphones simply blow everything else out of the water. It's a very visceral experience that's hard to articulate.

The takeaway is that having a headset which is capable of physically producing soundwaves from 7 different directions at once is one of the coolest experiences that any gamer can have. For casual gamers, it enhances the experience and immersion of any game. For competitive gamers, you can hear people sneaking up behind you, so you gain a competitive advantage.

All of this means that real (not simulated) 7.1 surround sound is a valuable idea which till now has seemingly been overlooked by the gaming industry. The first industry player that delivers a true positional surround sound experience to the masses stands to profit handsomely, whether it's Oculus or Sony or someone else. So build it!

(That said, I have no idea what 60 virtual speakers means, but I wanted to share my experience with true positional surround sound. Also, the surround sound headset works fine in tandem with the Rift. So until the Oculus guys realize how important 3D positional audio is and ship their next product with a pair of surround sound headphones, you can get the same effect right now from the Tiamat.)
Well, apples-to-apples, I don't think that people selling fiber generally care very much about DRM or taxi companies. Neither does most of the rest of the tech industry. It's not like the tech industry is some monolithic cabal -- nor should it be.

The rest of the seeming conundrum is, I think, evolved institutional codependence, bureaucratic inertia, and people's fundamental conservatism. That is:

1. Taxi companies and taxi regulators have grown up together. It's not that taxi companies are exactly lean, mean lobbying machines, and it's not that taxi regulators are exactly corrupt. It's that they know each other and are comfortable with each other and even when they're quarreling, they understand the limits of their relationship.

2. Hand-in-hand with that, people just don't like to make radical changes to regulatory systems. Even if the existing regulatory system is kind of crazy. There is a fairly large class of people who will assume that any system that's present must have some virtue, by mere testament of its presence.

3. Finally, regulatory commissions will tend to solve any problem by thinking they should regulate it. Some of it may be cold-blooded, "Well, I want to increase or at least preserve my influence, my power, heck, my job," but honestly I suspect that most of it isn't nearly that calculated. It's just, you've been spending years regulating taxis, when you see something new and taxi-like on the horizon, your response is much more likely to be, "Well, I should regulate that, too," than, "Maybe I should just pack it in and get out of everyone's way."
Conversely, MH370 could potentially have later turned its transponder back on, masquerading as a different aircraft, in order to penetrate (for example) India's airspace without arousing suspicion.
Executives are waaaaaaay more succussful than actors in hollywood.

In what sense?
In Mobile Safari?

How?
Couldn't that be Dorian himself who wrote that? It's not impossible at all if you think about it.
Who are you thinking about who left MSR for Google?
I recently felt the pinch of stress at work...it wasn't due to being overworked though - it was due to being overstressed, due to insane work deadlines that had me concerned about getting stuff done on time. I'm starting to balance that aspect of my life better, with the realization that I shouldn't drive myself crazy just to meet the deadlines given to me. It's ok to let deadlines slip by if they were unreasonable to begin with, but still do the best I reasonably can.
Meh, all the previous headsets from Sony in recent history were really, really crappy (I tried most of them in exhibitions). Small angle of vision (making it look like you play a game through a small window), unbalanced weight (you tend to have you head looking down after a while), I really hope they are getting their act together here if they want to compete. Occulus Rift has a lot of headstart in that field.
>He also doesn't understand that his techniques are simply ineffective. Keeping surveillance and its limits secret has not stopped anything from happening.

... did you not read that as satire? It pretty clearly seemed to be satire.

I thought the whole thing was a reductio ad absurdum re: keeping the extent of surveillance secret.
Is it possible to automatically rotate the UI 45 degrees if the watch detects the arm perpendicular to the body?

Makes me wonder.
That is interesting. It's also interesting to think about it as:

- There are trade fees, but only to a maximum of $99/mo, and only if you remember to ask us to cap them.
Ca you elaborate?

Why would SAP be averse?
I always said terrorism is a problem of technology. And the inevitable reaction - the surveillance state to prevent terrorism - is as well.

We must embrace the new tech including the spying, as the genie is out of the bottle. What we have to dk is develop rules and culture for how this can help the public. For example police officers should be REQUIRED to wear cameras and the video must be kept available to be produced in a trial.
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For Child Life Month, Our Child Life Team at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore created this video to honor our patients. Each day their strength amazes us, their courage inspires us, and their laughter reminds us that they are so much more than their diagnoses....
It's worth noting that one of the goals listed for 2.0 in this post is increased modularity, which they imply will let you only load the pieces you're actually using.
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> I guess I kinda wonder if I could avoid the null checks in C# somehow

Without seeing your code it is hard to say, but using an object extension might work?

On many occasions I've used object extensions to hide checking code deep inside the extension.

C# really got that feature right.
I don't know the details, but maybe it kept the company from filling bankruptcy by a few months? They didn't have the cash to pay the loan, so they offered the tickets.
I guess an NFC tag in your belt would do.
After learning 6502 assembly when I was a teenager, I was floored by the beauty and straightforward cleanliness of the 68000 used by Macs and then the similar assembly of the VAX.

x86_64 is just plain ugly. While I admire the backward compatibility, it's sad that this nasty-looking architecture won out. I'm really glad that the compiler handles it.
You may be focusing on the wrong question in this scenario, although the aspect of self-preservation, or worse, being made a possible scapegoat, is completely understandable.

To answer the original question: The devs can be held responsible if employees in positions of authority have the ability to modify records or cast others in a questionable manner "after the fact". If you suspect fraudulent activities may be happening, you may wish to:

1) Create and maintain a timeline or order of events as they occur.

2) Maintain records, preferably written, of whatever activity is taking place that you feel may be fraudulent.

3) If the startup has an HR department (or person), consider reaching out to them or reviewing whistleblower policies.

4) Consider quitting, even if this might occur before your vesting cliff.

Fraud is a strong accusation. Without evidence, this would have serious and negative repercussions that may not turn out well for you. You would need to tread even more carefully if you are not a well-connected or well-regarded developer to counter the presumably powerful or better-connected founders or executives in the startup.

Also consider plausible deniability. If you only suspect, but don't really know, then as long as you have a paper trail, you may be tempted to invoke the "I honestly didn't know something like that was happening."

However, all of the above pales in comparison to the real questions you should be considering, which are a) how to quit as quickly as possible and b) whether or not to become a whistleblower.

You should consider well-regarded law firms and think about an attorney to confide in for a couple of hours.

EDIT: iends advice gets to the point more quickly. "Ask a lawyer."
Disclaimer: Off Topic

I am feeling like this (burnout/mental sickness of programmers) is becoming a successful theme on HN lately. Many-many posts are popping up to front page.

Not like it's a bad thing, being myself a victim it feels good to read experience of fellow coders who has seen what I am about to see or how to avoid seeing it, but still, it is becoming a theme. I am imagining hordes of posts on this topic coming up. Or may be we already have 'em, just the good ones are popping up to front page.

There are actually more than one pattern emerging. I think I gotta hint of for writing posts more likely to hit front page.
More money on average?
But he does mention that?

One of those creditors, to the tune of $190 million, was Icahn. He resigned as chairman in 1993, and by 1995 he was growing impatient to be repaid. TWA executives, desperate to bring the tragic Icahn chapter to a close, gave away the farm, the cows and the farmer’s wife. They came up with a deal called the Karabu ticket agreement, an eight-year arrangement that allowed Icahn to buy any ticket that connected through St. Louis… for 55 cents on the dollar and resell them at a discount.

Then of course, if you believe that the company is undervalued and can grow (and that is why you would buy it, anyway), you wouldn't try to force them to pay your money back, because they could generate a positive return on the money.
Actually, this is kind of the spirit of Mithril. It's really a tiny collection of standalone useful functions that also happen to work well together. Ironically, your examples of "libraries" are both quite big in the context of the "lean learner" mentality, and in comparison to Mithril.
Lein starts a JVM instance for itself, then loads plugins, checks dependencies etc. and starts a new JVM instance for the program if necessary.
Just a warning: the file I linked to is "broken" on account of needing Adobe Digital Editions and only one person (in the world?) can read it at a time.
> The odds are super high I would have died young had I not made the choices I made.

Please explain.
Late to this, but thanks for the feedback RickS!
I think you should basically say "oh by the way I am using AJAX", whether that means using Angular-style DI or require or a mixin some other means. In a language with a built-in concept of modules, you'd have to import or include something like that, wouldn't you?

There are some practical benefits, aside from the general happiness provided by namespacing. Not that every single app needs this, but it's pretty handy for example to be able to substitute a mock AJAX service for testing and offline development purposes.
AFAIK Cider is like SLIME, big and integrated. Emacs nrepl is just the repl connection, and is usually enough (at least, has been enough for me).
And go work with C# and you'll pine for nothing.

I've used all three and after a few years of C#, the other two are just a distant memory.
such as vuejs?
Selling off the most profitable route, tickets, short ordering replacement aircraft - there is not one thing he did that benefited anyone but himself. Nevermind long term company value.
It's like when IBM got into the personal computer market. They made it a legitimate business and created a bigger market for personal computers.
My question was not geared towards a specific business, but I would be interested in online marketing needs. Any suggestions for "boutique marketing agencies" (including yours)?
>I believe a standardised syntax to define compound data structures (aka defstruct)... would make Scheme language usable.

Isn't this what SFRI 9 is?

http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-9/srfi-9.html
Quik reader – Speed reading for your mobile device
Cleveland Cavaliers game intro 3D projection onto court
> The probability that it arose from chance is equal to or less than 5σ

That's not what p value means. The p value is the probability that a high-variance random effect (centered around an average behavior of "nothing interesting") would yield a result as extreme as the observation, assuming that random distribution. You need Bayes theorem and highly subjective assumptons if you want to derive a posterior probability that an observed result was drawn by chance from a sample with a boring/interesting mean.
That tidbit was included in the post.
How many thousands of people had a Harvard alumnus for a father and gifted and accomplished woman for a mother? How many of those thousands became president?
Battery life is my immediate concern as well. Between the big 'gorgeous' display (it's only simulated, so hard to call) and the high frame rate interaction I wonder if this will end up being another Galaxy Gear that may only last 12 hours.

eInk has serious benefits, especially when it comes to battery life. I love my Kindle. I can see how something like the Pebble would be a nice watch and eInk's battery drain is probably a big part of what makes it work so well.

But if you want it to feel interactive with a nice touch screen for swipes, eInk isn't going to do it. Take that video but change all the animations to 5 fps... would it be an amazing watch or just feel like a product that was reaching too far?

Similarly, color is a nice add but it could go wrong. The only pictures of color eInk I've seen look much worse than cheap newsprint. At that point the color isn't adding much, it's just detracting.

Samsung supposedly has much better battery life on the Gear 2. Keeping the display off most of the time would definitely help too. I want to see a review of this. If it's half as cool as it looks in their promo I'll be quite impressed.
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One reason I love JRuby.

The ruby language syntax with the power of the JVM and Java library interop.

As far as I am concerned that is a match made in heaven.
2048 with audio drone
I've heard it said this way.

"In school, first you get the lesson, then you get the test. In life, it's the other way around."
That is actually totally possible! How nuts. As soon as the iWatch/Ring/Hairband has an SDK..
I'm sure Sony can put together a nice hardware package, but I'd be very skeptical about their ability to duplicate all the crucial work Oculus has done with the software.

It's not trivial translating all the sensor data quickly and precisely into game camera movements.
Enterprise Sales Hacks: Writing a disaster recovery plan
Unity is not a "file format". It's a tool and development environment that reads and writes and edits lots of different "file formats", for which programmers can make runtime and editor components, that artist and level designers who don't know how to program can plug together and configure. And it can create applications for a wide range of different platforms, not just asm.js/WebGL.

It's nice that you're happy coding things up in JavaScript and WebGL just for the web browser, but Unity has a much wider scope than that.

Eventually somebody will write something like Unity that runs entirely in the web browser, and figure out how to make it target all the different platforms that Unity does (once Apple has their brain tumor removed and supports WebGL in their iOS browser for use in anything other than advertisements). But right now there is nothing like it for web development, and it brings a lot to the table that many people really need.
at 1080p... and what pixel density... it'd have to be pretty high to be bareable
How can you say that. He's a vet. His wildly uninformed opinion must be soberly considered.
We'll see what the real one ends up like. iPhone screens (and the recent Galaxy S screens) look great in 'simulated' images, and look pretty amazing in real life.

On the other hand, I've seen a Galaxy Gear in person and the screen was not impressive. But I bet the 'simulated images' look pretty good.
The Lenovo Yoga line is pretty great in general. I've been eyeing them pretty hard recently.
I thought I was clear that path tracing and ray tracing shared similarities. But ultimately they differ in several key ways.

For example, ray tracing tends to be deterministic, and it starts at the view frame and moves toward the scene and then light sources. Path tracing has no such constraint. Modern path tracing techniques use a combination of ray-tracing-like paths as well as paths beginning from light sources (gathering rays and shooting rays, in the parlance of the field).

In principle you could consider path tracing to be some sort of specialized subset of ray tracing (or vice versa for that matter) but in practice it is different enough in its specifics and implications that it makes more sense to treat it as merely related.
How could you possibly put the web on a screen where my fingertip is big enough to cover up 25% of it at any moment?

This seems like one of those cases where less is definitely more.
How would this even work if it was stored on the server? Every singkr sound triggers a roundtrip to the server from your phone to check the voice? I can't imagine this working any other way than being stored locally.
Is adding john resig to this list a joke?
But the point is that an ad was sent via a system not intended for ads, and arguably against what is advertised if this was a paid subscription.
Why does asm.js run so crappily on Safari/Mac?
Any link explaining the usual description of OPIAF? Urban dictionary and google are failing me.
Sidebar: a lot of anti-prostitute laws are actually anti-pimping laws. I almost guarantee the reason that 'no transporting prostitutes' law is on the books is that at some point someone had the wise idea to front his pimping operation as a car service. John pays a prostitute, she pays her 'driver', and if the police get involved he don't know nothing.

So they make up something to charge the pimp with.
But that is because of hardware capability... i.e. computers weren't good enough for artists to work with... wasn't it?

I've been out of the 3D world for a while, but Ray tracing was the be-all-end-all/holy grail of 3d. It is simulating light... you can't do better than physics.
Putting "control in the hands of designers" gave us flashing ads, pop-up ads, pop-under ads, pop-up ads again but floating, etc. Also Flash intros, disabling the back button, "infinite scroll", and enough other anti-patterns that I would run out of fingers and toes counting them all. I have recently returned to using NoScript on my desktop browser, because ABP and Ghostery together still did not provide enough defense versus web designers.

There is no way this "feature" is not going to somehow be abused to annoy users.
You can FAR more easily avoid generating garbage in Go than in Ruby.

In Go, it would be very awkward to use map[string]interface{} everywhere, whereas that is VERY common in ruby. sizeof(map) > sizeof(struct).

Ruby stores all of the source of all of the files at runtime in memory, and IIRC, the AST nodes themselves are still run through the GC. If you have a load of dependencies, this is "fun".

I believe everything in Ruby is heap-allocated. The profiling tools for Ruby can help you identify "leaks", by telling you the classes of live objects. In go, you can get a dump of the number of allocations attributable to each line of code.

Ruby has the interesting quirk that every interned string (symbol) is retained forever.

With Go, you can set a quick flag that will force the GC to run after the percentage of new allocations exceeds a certain ratio. With ruby, you can tweak the GC with certain compile and environment flags, but this is not regularly practiced by the community and is ruby version dependent.
I have to admit that I had no clue this man invented latex. But we studied Lamport clocks and lots of his papers on distributed systems.
Facebook's Facial Recognition 'Approaching Human-Level Performance'
That sounds dangerously close to the first digital watches. They used so much battery to drive the display you had to press a button to see the time.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._A._Ioannidis

"Most published findings are probably false."
Edward Snowden at TED
Instacart switched to Zesty for dinner and super happy so far. The restaurant choices are great.
Shitpiles like this always have a "business alibi" that they create liquidity, or improve efficiency/productivity, etc. I suppose it's true that the forest needs fires, but we don't have to like them.
It's entirely possible that platform-specific drawing paths matter here. :(
Instead of whining about it, why don't these companies negotiate with cities to find ways that they can raise revenue for the cities and generally help the communities they operate in? They do drive on public roads, etc. Why not propose some kind of fee to offset this? Cities might be slightly less hostile if they weren't staring a big fat hole in their budgets in the face.
Overcoming Trouble Validating Your iPhone App
Only if you assume you're going to fail. No entrepreneur goes into it thinking it's not going to work out. The difference is that a parent doesn't say "things look rough...fuck it, I'll sleep on a friends couch for a couple of weeks, go to some networking events and start something different". We're in for the long haul.
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