jre

13 ms·

61.
by jre 13y ago
This has already been posted multiple times in the past few days : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7057049 https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=1%2F12
62.
by jre 13y ago
It's funny this comes up in an article about Samsung Electronics. They're not exactly in the business of selling essential goods. They basically try to convince you that each year you should get the N+1 TV or smartphone which has
63.
by jre 13y ago
Good points. What I wanted to point out is that the typical arguments about an agent's incentives to not destroy BTC usually fail to take into account gains outside of the BTC world.
64.
by jre 13y ago
Here is a thought experiment : Say the pool operator is also the owner of Bank A (which has nothing to do with BTC). Now, a competitor of Bank A, Bank B, just announced that they will support BTC. The pool operator can now decide to "d
65.
by jre 13y ago
Antialiasing typically produce artifacts and somewhat blurry letters.
66.
by jre 13y ago
This is not the haswell/HD screen version though. I'm currently looking for a laptop and it will be either the XPS 13 or a rMBP 13 inches. I'm currently favoring the rMPB a little bit because it seems it get less hot than the
67.
by jre 13y ago
As long as the disallowed permissions simply return empty results (or random stuff) for the API calls, I don't see how this can break apps.
68.
Turn mobile phones into 3D scanners(cvg.ethz.ch)
2 points by jre 13y ago|0 comments
69.
by jre 13y ago
That is a great intuitive explanation. Much better than the current wikipedia informal solution. You should add it to Wikipedia, maybe under a new "An intuitive explanation" paragraph.
70.
by jre 13y ago
The smartphone app-centric OS is fine for the use case where you only work with one application. But I don't see how it can work if you need to use multiple applications to work on multiple projects. In a typical professional use case,
71.
by jre 13y ago
Then Google just has to remove the "Up to 1GB upload & download - no data caps" part of their advertising [1]. And just put a cap on the upload they find acceptable. [1] https://fiber.google.com/cities/kan
72.
by jre 13y ago
I think logical reasoning can be improved by training too. In my first year in CS at university, we had a logic course. I was definitely better at solving that kind of problems after the course. They usually become easy once you formalize t
73.
by jre 13y ago
4000CHF was regarding the minimum salary, not basic income.
74.
by jre 13y ago
This is one of the question that will be central to the upcoming debate. Usually, when we vote on economic issues (like we voted on raise in VAT, more holidays, etc...), we usually have all kind of organisation explaining what their positio
75.
by jre 13y ago
It doesn't seem to be available in English, but the organisation that wrote the initiative say so on their website[1]. They say "It is added to other revenues". So yeah, the intention is really to have an unconditional basic
76.
by jre 13y ago
Before.
77.
by jre 13y ago
Yes, this is unconditional and on top of any other income you get.
78.
by jre 13y ago
I think you raise an interesting point on the second-order effects, but that is only relevant if a big country introduces basic income. In the case of Switzerland, I think the first-order effect greatly exceeds any other effect on the neigh
79.
by jre 13y ago
As a swiss citizen, I'm really happy we'll have to vote on this. I'm not sure yet what I'm going to vote (I'm slightly bending towards a yes), but I think this is a very interesting debate to have. Especially becaus
80.
by jre 13y ago
Just to put things in perspective (I'm swiss), 2500CHF is a really low salary in Switzerland. There is another initiative asking for a minimum wage of 4000CHF per month. The median swiss salary is close to 6000CHF[1]. The administratio
81.
by jre 13y ago
It's definitely far from being an easy attack. But it raises an interesting question in that the current smartphone security models don't require special permissions for accelerometer access whereas they do for cameras and other t
82.
by jre 13y ago
This makes me wonder about the legality of all this. Isn't the CEO supposed to act in the company's best interest ? By giving him a bonus for selling the company at a low price, isn't the board somehow betraying the sharehold
83.
by jre 13y ago
Their SQL examples don't seem to perform any kind of input sanitization. They just use raw $_POST. http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_insert.asp
84.
by jre 13y ago
A lot of problems are going to require quite a bit of engineering to scale to 300 cores... I mean, if you're just serving some simple webpage, it's easy to just throw servers at it. But if you want to implement say a distributed k
85.
by jre 13y ago
One of the major (the only?) reason I still write C++ code is the amount of libraries available. I'm writing computer vision stuff and all the important libraries (OpenCV, PCL, nonlinear optimization stuff) are in C++... Sure there are
86.
by jre 13y ago
You can even imagine previewing the furniture "live" in your apartment. I've been thinking about this for a while and Ikea made the first step with their 2014 catalogue. Ikea's version is pretty limited though, but that&
87.
by jre 13y ago
I agree, I don't think a traditional government-controlled company is the answer. It's probably a mix of public and private entities, with a very strong and independent control authority that doesn't fear shutting things down
88.
by jre 13y ago
I think there are similarities between the nuclear power debate and the GMO debate. In both case, I think it's stupid to be fundamentally opposed to the technology/research itself. But in both case, the industry is so fucked up (l
89.
by jre 13y ago
You could "unproject" another projection for which you have texture back to your sphere and then do the isocahedron projection. Also, maybe you can find a database of the countries border as lat/lng polygons and just draw the
90.
by jre 13y ago
I think there are a number of specific areas where Leap Motion can be interesting. For example, there are some startups that use Kinect to let surgeon interact with a screen showing patient data during an operation. Some researchers have al

More ›