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For me, the biggest headline out of this not being mentioned is that half a billion in VC was just raised in Hollywood, FL.

I'm building a startup community in Myrtle Beach, SC and Paul Reynolds is one of the founders of Startup.SC with me. Paul is involved in Magic Leap as a director, and after working remotely, just moved there last month. It's very exciting to see unfold!

It drives home the fact that a startup can make such headlines not only outside Silicon Valley, but even outside other well known northeast tech metros. It's the sort of news I feed on to explain scalable startup growth potential: Magic Leap has done a spectacular job attracting talent from all over the country. There are worse places to be than the Fort Lauderdale, FL area.

I watched the revival of the Boston startup scene while involved with TechStars, DogPatch labs, etc. from 2009-2012 and although we certainly don't have the same resources, I'm doing my best to apply those principles to the Myrtle Beach market.
I hope to one day have a startup come through Startup.SC which can also demonstrate the ability to attract talent and investment dollars to a coastal city not known for tech, and demonstrate that a company can thrive!

Edit: And not going unnoticed in Miami: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article2942814.html
#7 is somewhat famous, and there are plenty of articles available on it if you google for the name of it.
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You guys just aren't old enough to remember twm, the original flat design.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Twm.PNG
And yet .. programs are not just for composition.
They have to behave sensibly for people.

I love that 'git log' outputs in a pager.
'svn log' by comparison is nuts.
"Odd thing it is—the word ‘experiment’ is unpopular, but not the word ‘experimental.’ You mustn’t experiment on children; but offer the dear little kiddies free education in an experimental school ... and it’s all correct!"

-- C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, 1945
I tried to compile emacs statically but under archlinux I need to build ncurses (and probably others) statically too. Which is too much of a black art to me. Gonna try on debian since I believe they include static binairies in packages.
Yes, the article discusses and describes Summerhill, and mentions that it inspired the school that's the main focus of the first part of the article:

> There is really just one genuine free school left. Summerhill is a boarding school in Suffolk that inspired Ord to set up Scotland Road.
There's no theoretical reason this wouldn't be possible - there's been a lot of very cool work on lightfield technology. The best I remember was a display where by adding multiple LCD layers (3 I think) and calculating a high frequency distortion signal, you could achieve wide-field of view 3D TV, glasses-free, with pre-rendered images.

There's other work to do the same thing to the retina - throw a lightfield at it which simulates the proper wavefronts to focus a 3D image at a short distance.

Of course this is all kind of begging the question of what this company is actually doing: for example, the big problem not answered is where they get the portable processing power to make this work, and what the actual resolution is? The Oculus Rift already tells us 1080p is not enough and even 1440p will be imperfect.

Of course you could try to end run around the problem: I've been curious what you could do with 3-color lasers shone through an interferometer setup mounted on piezoelectrics, so you could add or subtract interference peaks by advancing the mirrors a few nanometers and then scanning the output over the eye (or, as one company is doing - using a DLP mirror chip). Focus that laser beam small enough, and you'd be addressing individual rod and cone receptors in the retina, granting infinite focus to any projected image.

EDIT: Looking at that jobs page, a laser and fiber optic engineer being top position seems very intriguing.
Do you know if this works with Knock?
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> We are nowhere near US or China in mass surveillance.

Just because no one else in here (or even the original article) has mentioned it: cell phone encryption is illegal in India. All GSM is done in the clear. Think about that for a second. It means any citizen with a few hundred dollars worth of hardware can rival the best abilities of the NSA.
Some interesting rewards in the Kickstarter.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/142464853/hendo-hoverbo...

I do like the White box idea. I wonder though at the price where they start and if thats going to eat the profit generated. (I don't know, they could be very cheap to produce at scale.)
"Previously head of Firefox ux & Product Design Strategy at Mozilla "

I'm guessing the word previously wasn't there back when the post was written.
If you're not hosting heavy files (big images, videos, etc.), not much, really. The cheapest plan on linode is enough.
https is not that secure, most of the root ca are owned by big corp/gov. It is trivial for any big gov to decode your https traffic.
Ask HN: What's your approach to learn new language/technology?
Hi

I am interested to know how do approach to learn a new technology/programming language so that you can get into deeper. I know that best way to do is to actually implement it but how? Do you write Hello World kind of programs or use it in some big project?

Please share
>law of big numbers ...Lenovo is #1 in computer sales ...China owns the solar business

I think the big numbers thing is slowing things already. Going from 10% to 20% of the solar market is fine, 80% to 160% can't happen.

I agree China will do well. If you look at how Chinese people do anywhere outside China (Singapore, London etc) they all get degrees, drive nice cars and so on. Mainland China was reduced economically to close to zero by Mao's communism and is now catching up to how the Chinese are anywhere else.
What am I missing? Isn't this just a hardcoded set of 20 colors that doesn't change? What if I don't like those particular 20 colors?
http://www.magicleap.com/#/wizards-wanted

Looks like they're heavily recruiting across the board.

- FPGA / ASIC engineers;
- Android developers;
- Unity developers;
- Raft of machine vision PhDs (eye tracking, iris recognition, 3D object tracking);
- Deep learning experts;
- Rapid prototyping experts;

I guess they have a super compelling prototype that needs a bunch of polishing before commercial release?

Exciting stuff.
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What makes these colors "flat UI colors"? (Not trying to be snarky, actual question from someone who spends much time in Sketch.) Is it just a palette of somewhat matching colors or is there an underlying theme that I'm missing?
Is it possible to get a startup off the ground for 100$?
I just tested Firefox and Chrome, both made a HTTP request successfully to my laptop's rfc1918 address referenced from a web page on the internet. Maybe you are thinking of IE's "zones" feature?
Let's say it was absolutely completely 100% intentional and I surely knew what I was doing.

The game seems to have gotten popular on /r/webgames, but if it gets popular on /r/gaming or something, then it's gonna explode.
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Why didn't they give $500 million to Meta? Seems cooler to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJNnX3OaCTY

This is the one I found from a few years ago for Magic Leap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOW3b7YmeKk
Maybe they have googles now or improved it somehow.
Or use `git stash`.

Or use `git add -p`.
I've been using this for a couple of months now, great work and thank you!
Imagination releases ISA Documentation for PowerVR Rogue GPUs
This sleek new “3D carving” machine be what finally makes CNC routing mainstream
I find it amusing that one of his examples is disabling SSL 3.0.
I'm surprised there isn't mention of the Spiedels Braumeister [1] - it seems to be a similar product (albeit with less tech, and possibly a bit more manual work).

I've heard lots of good things about them, but the price has always put me off, though it is comparable to the PicoBrew, at least here in the UK.

I think they require a bit more interaction if you want to sparge (from my cursory internet forum research performed just now [2]) but at least you can (batch) sparge, and create recipes that would scale up to your big rig if you desired (and had a big rig and space etc).

[1] http://www.speidels-braumeister.de/speidels-braumeister-en.h...

[2] http://forums.morebeer.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=39249
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One of my buds from architecture school is quadriplegic from the neck down. It was an obstacle not a barrier. It would have been less of one if the Kinnect existed.

He ran 3D Studio by pushing the trackball and hitting keys with a stick gripped in his teeth...and with a pen, he could kick most of the studio's ass sketching - so long as someone set the sketchbook on his lap...he used that as a pickup line with the ladies.

Your friend is grieving. You can't fix that. But it will work itself out.
What command did you try? I am able to run the iso in QEMU, VirtualBox, Bochs, and on real hardware.

This is still in the early stages of development, and much is not yet implemented. One way to trigger a crash is to call an unimplemented system call.
Are you going to create a new assembly project or join an existing one?
Yeah I played that game too. I remembered it when writing the hints... I guess that counts as inspiration.
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Fully Scaleable Apple iOS Devices for Sketch.app
It looks like UI design is becoming like fashion; you need to completely revamp your visual presentation every few years, unless you want to look ancient. Personally, I much prefer OSX and iOS before it became flat - I understand why Google jumped on the FlatUI bandwagon (to differentiate themselves from Apple), but I really don't understand why Apple did too - do this people really think that there 5 year old's drawings are the height of visual experience?
It's the colours used in the Flat UI Bootstrap theme: http://designmodo.com/flat-free/
Sweet. Installing it when I get home.
Additionally, I think a key part of learning about something is to have that control and information there. It's hard for me to say where I'd be today if every application had a UI which was designed against the entire idea of me having to learn something. I might have never had the interest to learn more. The first, and often most important step to learning about anything abstract is knowing that it exists.
As a counterpoint, I also stumbled on to this same post at the same time as I was experiencing "RSI" (severe eye fatigue from computer use)

I bought the book immediately, which is odd for me because I am extremely skeptical but it is a pretty good indication of the dire situation I found myself in.

Within the first 20 pages I knew I had been had. The author is really proud of himself for being the only health care professional to finally connect the dots, and he takes at least the first half of the book telling as much.

Looking back at the blog post and even this comment it is weird that no one actually acknowledges the "process" or provides any sort of detail on their own situation and what really worked for them.
10 actionable generalities that will improve your project.

Something new and more specific, please?
>these options are surely useful for a portion of the userbase otherwise they would not be displayed.

These options are there because they've always been there.

Would you give users of the JVM (not program writers, mind you, but just people using the JVM) the ability to turn off the garbage collector?

>All these options are under the configuration menu anyway so no inexperienced user are not going to go in this menu anyway...

First rule of UX is not to assume you know how a user acts. Very inexperienced people can end up legitimately confused and do very irrational things. Probably for the best not to give them the gun to shoot their feet.
Many of the smartest and most successful people I know were not well served by the traditional school system. For myself I only began to do well in school when I somehow managed to acquire the maturity, at 13, to realize that I needed to take education seriously and make use of the system. I went from being in several remedial classes in my freshman year of high school to near the top of my class at graduation and attaining a bachelor's degree at age 20. But it was a very close thing, and I've seen others with great intelligence who struggled in school.

And, to be frank, much of what I learned, at least half, while attending public school I learned on my own, independent of classes. But again, I was fortunate. Fortunate to still have faith in the system. Fortunate to have gone to a very high quality high school where I actually could get a decent education and where most of the teachers and faculty put education as their top priority (this is not necessarily the norm). Fortunate to have a home life that encouraged and facilitated reading and learning, as well as acquisition of reading materials. Fortunate that I had acquired maturity ahead of most folks at that age at a time when it was critical. Fortunate that I had not fallen in with "the wrong crowd" of people and ended up dropping out of school or getting into drugs or petty crime or what-have-you.

A lot of kids, smart kids, are not as lucky as I was. And if anything the system is even worse today. Teenagers' lives are more regimented, there's more busywork, there's less trust, the academic bureaucracy is more onerous, it's harder to escape peer pressure due to the ubiquity of social media, and so on.
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I was probably being an over-judgemental arsehole, is just that it seemed really weird to have a price in a foreign currency referred to in a piece as "a lot of mumbo jumbo to most people", especially in a business paper, though I would have found it out of place in the normal press as well.

I do not have any idea how your mother would react, however I am sure that prices in Guatemalan quetzales can be presented in an article for general readership outside Guatemala without worrying too much about how the audience might react and without describing the written price as mumbo-jumbo, or otherwise confusing.

You just tell them that the prices are in Guatemalan quetzales and how much it is in something more well known. There is absolutely no need to prepare people for the shock of the existence of obscure currencies.

The US journalist H. L. Mencken was quoted as saying:

"No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."

For my money, writers taking this advice to heart has been one of the most damaging forces in journalism and the knock-on negative effects into the culture are incalculable in their horrendous variety.
This site is really easy to use. I like it. I just wish there were more colors!
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It can also simply show the hex or rgb numbers inside the box as text. Selecting the text and pressing Ctrl+C should work flawlessly.
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That's an interesting case. Should it not just output to stdout and you have to pipe it to less? If you wanted it to always pipe to less you could just set up an alias for it.
So is your proposed solution not to have colored prompts? (I vehemently disagree.) Or not to put them in a .bashrc? (I still disagree, but only strongly.) Or something else?
> What makes you think human brain isn't just an ensemble of hundreds of different specialized algorithms?

Experiments such as this one http://web.mit.edu/msur/www/publications/Newton_Sur04.pdf

The plasticity of the brain is phenomenal.
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Supervisord for deploy pipelines
Avoiding systemd isn't hard
(Engrish ahead...)

I have great memories from a Montessori School I went to as a kid. Spent most of my childhood education there. It was a big house, each room was dedicated to a subject and students would change rooms, big shared tables and very few students per room. I also don't remember grades or at least no focus on it.

When I got to a normal school it was one big room packed with tiny individual chairs, all classes happened in that room, everything was easy, suddenly I was a "top student" and grades were a carrot to chase after. I didn't turned out exactly a Noam Chomsky but I find it funny he had this same experience while going from an alternative education to a traditional one.

I think he talks about it in this interview:
http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20130326.htm
Does anyone know if the physics checks out? Can producing an eddy current create a repelling force that levitates? Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?
I took inspiration from SQLite: https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html https://github.com/ers35/luakernel/blob/master/dep/sqlite3/s...

I agree that the licensing terms need clarification.
Perfect comment about FF becoming the next IE. Same thought crossed my mind as well.
This is nothing new. As long as there have been GUIs, platforms have issued style guides to developers and expected them to emulate the look-and-feel of the platform's own OS and flagship apps. Remember "lickable" OSX?

Flat itself is a design fad like any other, and the reality is the app's appearance and adherence to trends is a real signal of quality to most users.
I guess this needs to operate over a conductive surface? Would saltwater work?
Ask HN: Ubuntu-friendly laptop comparable to MBP Retina?
Hi folks,

I've been wanting to jump to an Ubuntu-based laptop for a while now, but I can't find anything that beats (or is comparable to) a Retina Macbook Pro. I tried a Lenovo X1 Carbon and was underwhelmed.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
AR is okay, but it will probably be gimmicky for a long time before it's useful. VR is the closest thing we have to the Holodeck, and it's almost here. I thought Google loved Star Trek. It shouldn't be ignoring VR.
"It looks like UI design is becoming like fashion;"

How could it possibly be anything else?
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> UI design is becoming like fashion

I think it's always been fashionable to have a modern UI. Just look at windows (the concept). I think the trends are just moving faster nowadays, as the tools to related to developing UIs become more accessible.
Awesome, thanks for the information, I think I'm going to have to try that! :)

Before I sold off my brew equipment (that was a very hard thing to do!) I tried to set something up with my friends where they would store the equipment and I'd come over and brew with them. Amazingly no one wanted to at the time, but to this day they are kicking themselves for not taking advantage of it. I had nice quick-release hoses, a Therminator chiller (that is the one piece of equipment I almost kept, prior to that chilling times were killing me!), an nice 15 gallon polar ware brew pot and I was working on getting either a nice gravity setup or getting a stainless steel fermentor. The latter was in consideration because I'd once bounced a 6 gallon glass carboy off my floor accidentally and split my hands open. Not fun! Man, I miss brewing thinking about all that! :)

EDIT: I think once my kids are just a bit older I might be able to get back to a bigger brew. My kids are 6 and 3 so they still need a lot of attention. But I think once the 3 yo is maybe 6 I could probably do a big brew day again.
Cut the stubby antenna down to 68 millimeters and it will do even better. Set it on a cookie sheet for more effectiveness.
Yes i think you're really onto something and it's part of a much broader discussion. There's a lot of negativity around the two year subsidized plans by telcos in the US. Yet would people be upgrading their iPhone's without these programs? Is the iPhone unique vs laptops and tablets? Or would iPhone sales drop dramatically if those programs disappeared as if we had to pay the full price out of pocket the refresh cycle would move out 12 - 24 months.
Indeed; the curiously named "atavistic" seems to be lumping me into a "species" (?) of humans I've never even heard of. Which I grant is possible, I'm a Gun Culture 1.0 type by upbringing (e.g. hunting and bulls-eye target shooting, even lettered in that in high school to my amazement) who since ... high school or thereabouts became an early Gun Culture 2.0 type (e.g. self-defense and sports based on that like IDPA and 3 Gun competitions (which I might consider competing in if not for a bad knee)), but there are so many gun subcultures in the US I might not have heard of the one he's referring to. Or know anything about, like the perennially persecuted Pennsylvania pigeon shooters. (But feel free to ask me how good moose minute steaks are. :-)

As far as good and bad guys, we might take it as axiomatic that a shooter considers himself to be a good guy and his targets as bad guys (even if only because he fears they could identify him after the crime), and therefore is at least somewhat interested in "terminal ballistics". I tried to keep it value neutral precisely because I wanted to focus on "how different types of bullet hurt people in different ways."

Needless to say, don't get me talking on "opaque vocabulary" unless you have a desire to learn about all this and can use a glossary of jargon like "permanent crush cavity", "hydro-static shock", etc. before diving into the literature. But I hope I avoided that when talking to the general HN audience.
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Seeing that the OP is a new account and the kickstarter has only one backer yet, I'll take a guess and say you are the game's creator. Is this correct?

If so, I'd like to know the reasoning for the multiple control schemes, specially having "tank controls" in the mix. I believe "tank controls" in Resident Evil were a deliberate choice. Their "clumsiness" added to the mood of the game. The lack of quick and flexible movement added to the hopelessness and clautrophobia of the game.

I feel that, with the other two control schemes, only a small subset of players will use "tank controls". Please stick to one of the control schemes. And if you want to stick to the "tank", keep in mind it is generally a much slower way to move the character, so enemies and pacing must be adjusted for it.

Anyway, it's a cool project. Gonna keep my eye on it.
From this Reddit thread -

http://np.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/2jtd2f/worked_on_a_com...

Screenshot
http://i.imgur.com/VMqYo5b.png
In my opinion, you should make it public. Over one year is more than enough time to respond. At least once its public it will get pressure to get fixed.
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Google is forcing its browser, Apple has its own, and Microsoft has one as well. I don't see "regular users" using Firefox unless it is recommended to them by the "2%". So don't annoy the 2%.
He is actually talking about the case where bash binary (or gdb or whatever you're going to exec) does not exist in container. So the hassle of loading bash from the parent, then moving the process into container's namespace with nsentry.

So, nope, docker exec just wouldn't work.
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Have you considered just running Ubuntu on a MBP?

I've successfully run it on a non-retina machine, and currently have a 2013 MacBook Air running 12.04 (I'm too lazy to update).

The installation is fairly simple and just about everything worked out of the box.