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There's already an attempt at doing this on PC [0] led by Brian Fargo of Interplay / inXile fame. I can't speak to how effective it is or how many people use it but it seems to be …

The NZ renting experience can best be described as punitive, and for foreigners coming here can be quite a shock at what it entails (no pets [0], no hanging pictures, short-notice …

Sorry to be the downer on this article, but if you head to oneroof's "news" page [0] you'll see their entire raison d'être is to push out articles for NZ's media outlets to reprodu…

> laws-of-physics limitation This is only true if you limit your AR HMD design to beamsplitter + projector. There are existing prototypes [1] which demonstrate quite accurate lcd b…

I think my manner of speaking was too wry. To be clear: I'm perfectly happy for people to read my research by whatever means they need to take. I too hope that scientific publishin…

Whilst I am certainly supportive of open access science in general, and in the case of my own writing am glad to see it reach a wider audience, I'm surprised by the brazenness of l…

Have you used any optical see-through HMDs? There's heaps, and they all have no problem displaying text. If you look at the spec sheet for the BT-300 for example [0] you'll see "Vi…

Sounds like an interesting place, I loved Isle of Skye when I travelled that area. I think the article might be overselling the "leading the world in energy" angle though -- I too …

Epictetus, Stoic philosopher says: "Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. Some things are up to us and some things are not up to us. Our opin…

And if compile times are getting you down, you can still get the checks without producing a binary and save quite a bit of time with https://github.com/rsolomo/cargo-check

If you haven't tried ConEmu [0], it's pretty awesome. I use it with the Git Bash that comes with the full windows git installer and it Just Works for most of my terminal needs. Hav…

Correct. I can't find the exact news article I read it, though this one shows the trend [0]. The most recent HILDA report shows that over 50% of never own a home [0] http://www.abc…

> But at least one of these videos — showing an alien invader game that let the wearer of the supposed headset or glasses make use of real-world objects — was created by visual eff…

I know exactly what you mean. "Half" "of" "my" "searches" "look" "like" "this" "these" "days". I can understand throwing out one of many keywords when I'm down on page 6, but when …

We have a setup that combines ToF, structured light and multiple colour cameras to reconstruct hands from the elbow down. Short version: it's a massive pain in the ass. In fact the…

Spare a thought for us Cooks of the world. Four letters, a noun and a verb... After the gTLD explosion I thought I could finally snare a decent one but they all went into the $1000…

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose …

> I suppose a case could be made that people are entitled to a share of the success that they didn't help provide, but no one ever even tries to make it. Ha! If you genuinely want …

I've never mined coal, but I did fly-in/fly-out work at coal mines surveying, and compared to coding it had the following benefits: - way better pay (not everywhere pays developers…

If they knew about it, sure. All it would take is a 3 step (after initial download) instructional with some screenshots: 1. Open Explorer where you downloaded youtube-dl 2. Shift+R…

The tragedy of this software (and many like it) is that despite working exactly as advertised, easily and with a lot of features, because it's a quiet open source project without a…

"You can mine my social life all you want, but when it comes to business, get the hell away." I like it when people accidentally summarise life in 21st century capitalism on HN

Sounds like the 'unlimited vacation' that's getting quite popular in the Valley

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10008769 (and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10160133 with no comments)