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I don't disagree completely but underlying the growing excitement was for the past 18 months (since Abrash, etc. started talking about VR and presence as something incredible, game-changing and deliverable in around 2 years) was in large part based on the pace things were advancing and what was in store for a consumer release.

Plus many of his specific points are just so temporary in nature, like resolution complaints, heaviness/comfort, tethered, form factor, etc. These will be solved in just the next few years.
I have three kids for the record. And trust me, if VR isn't doing a good job of making a believable aliens-are-destroying-your-house game, it isn't going to be any more believable when it is just rendering your house with bigger rooms.

That's the problem.
> They could have removed HBO Go on Apple's devices when Now launched & then gradually remove Go, as Now spread to remaining platforms.

This sounds like what they should have done. Replace the app with "HBO Now", but keep the HBO Go branding, app store presence and icon. Make it a major version update.
A lot of his complaints seem to be imposed by constraints on current consumer spending - basically, surely people won't be bothered to buy a VR rig if they have a current gen console or spend more than they would on a tablet.

I disagree. So much of consumer electronics (TVs/phones/tablets) has become cheap enough that I think the usual demographics with disposable income won't mind making a splash if Oculus is truly offering a new experience. I've almost been disappointed by going to Best Buy in recent years and not even seeing anything especially cool/desirable there.

This generation also doesn't place a lot of value on traditional aspirational purchases (eg you'll see a lot of well to do yuppies in Priuses or Subarus rather than the BMW that was a rite of passage in previous generations) - if anything, I think this may lead people to massively underestimate how much millennials will spend on novel/innovative big ticket items.
That's how its done in the DC-Metro area. You must have X number of parking spaces for Y number of proposed residential or office occupancy.
I've thought about something similar, with the ability to generate sprite sheets.

Is this possible with this tool?
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Less bloat, instant results, lack of images nobody asked for, and yes, it doesn't waste screen space by trying to fit into a narrow noodle to the middle of the screen.
> Safe. Smart. Innovative.

The minute any business describes itself as "innovative", I assume they write everything in PL/SQL.
> You lost my interest when I saw an ad manager in your HTML source: adannonce.com

Are you aware that adannonce.com belongs to Hulbee? Loading ads from adannonce.com should not bother you more than loading ads from hulbee.com . And the fact that it contains ads is no secret.

Please do your research before crying wolf in future.
Before, they only thought they were the best country in the world. Now, they can "know" it - as filtered by the great firewall, anyway.
It's also my favorite number, but I don't think any of us likes it more than the guy in the video :) Thanks for sharing.

I learned about 142857 when reading The Man Who Counted as a kid. I remember getting obsessed with it and discovering more properties (much fewer than the ones shown on the video), e.g.:

142 + 857 = 999
14 + 28 + 57 = 99
The downside is that you're then locked in to your ISP. People used to be trapped with their ISP just to keep their email address. It was terrible. If they host your blog on their own domain name, you're again trapped with them.
I have no idea. We've been using it for a couple of years or so now, and have a wonderfully varied set of products built using Haxe and its libraries.

If anyone browsing the comments section is interested in a familiar-ish, statically typed and fairly powerful language that cross compiles to a huge range of back-ends and platforms, take a couple of minutes to visit haxe.org. It's worth the time.
I wonder if it would be possible for a nonprofit organization to fund such a "hybrid search engine" with wikipedia scale donations.

If so that would be better than trusting all of these small companies to not sell you out a week before IPO.
There is a detailed explanation on Quora [0] that I stumbled upon some time ago.

[0]: http://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-number-142857-have-such-in...
Did you really equate communist forced police presence with voluntary and beneficial government partnerships with the private sector in the US? The Internet exists because of the US Government (DARPA) and US taxpayer; not under its direct police control.
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The 'thinking about money' is not at all the same as we in industry think. Its about survival on a shoestring, not about making it big.

Absolutely correct. It also begets the False Poverty Effect, in which negative, antisocial, and even unethical behaviors become more acceptable because people think of themselves as poor relative to where they belong.

You see the same thing (False Poverty Effect) in startups. Plenty of startup CEOs and founders feel like it's OK to be unethical because, at a salary of a "mere" $150,000 per year, they're practically performing charity work. When people like they're underappreciated or behind where they "belong" in terms of money or status, they're more willing to do things that aren't exactly legal or ethical.

At least in startups, as you noted, there is upside. In academia, the reward for busting your ass and beating the piss out of the odds is... a middle-class job where you can't be fired. If you'd worked as hard in finance, you'd be able to retire at 40. The stakes are small, the rewards are meager, and this gives the people who are in that game a huge sense of moral superiority.

Did you get your degree from Phoenix, the for-profit college? No? Because its not as legit somehow? That's the real issue. Ivy-league schools are the way they are, because we keep throwing money at them.

And, sadly... we'll keep doing so. If I ever have kids, I'm going to have to spend six-figure amounts on what is, in essence, a socioeconomic advantage under the name of "education". Schools have become a socially acceptable form of inherited wealth that looks like meritocratic academic admissions because, for the outsiders, it legitimately is very difficult to get into the top schools, hence the mystique and prestige.

I think it would be better if we replaced this socioeconomic "black box" of educational admissions with a purely test-driven system. Sure, there'd be really smart people with mediocre test scores who can't get into top schools... but that already happens, just for different reasons (socioeconomic ones rather than flawed testing). However, you'd kill that stupid mystique about Harvard and Stanford having some supernatural ability to select future leaders and people could just say, "yeah, my test scores weren't great", and that would be that. It wouldn't be some huge shame for a valedictorian to get shut out of the top schools; it would be, "I'm not great at standardized tests" (and smart people who aren't good test takers do exist) and that no one would care after age 19. It would work out well for the students at the Ivies who actually want to learn because, on average, they'd have better colleagues. It would probably end the 6- or 7-figure per child, pay-for-socioeconomic-advantage racket surrounding the top colleges and prep schools (and, in New York, grade schools and fucking pre-schools).
We will discuss this internally. We have not given to much though on nomenclature. It is mostly historical use.

Under the hood we have here ImagePlay 6.0 which is a rewrite of good old trusty Borland C++ code.
Britain in 1944, Germany today. The Greek people need to throw off the imperial yoke.
Honestly Zimbabwe has so many problems a lion dying is not a big issue. Hell Zimbabwe children were being tied up and set on fire a few months ago in South Africa[0].

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyX4aOd_2BY
I'm sure that also plays into it. Though DefinitelyTyped was started by someone who AFAIK is unaffiliated with MS, and I would say that is pretty critical to its success.

I should have specified that the above is the reason I would choose TypeScript over Haxe now. There's a lot of times when I will prototype a project in vanilla JavaScript, then set up the TypeScript build infrastructure and start enhancing.
I do not think Far Cry 4 would look very good at 640x480. Imagine it full screen on even a modest 20" monitor at that resolution.

There are tricks, yes, but big pixels are a fundamental problem until you reach a "good enough" size. Sort of like when the iPhone 4 and retina was released. We are very, very far from retina resolution in VR.
It says something that we're writing blog posts about, "This early version of tech didn't absolutely blow my mind"

I mean, this is still early-iPod-days of this tech. You could look at it, especially after hearing hype about the iPod, and say something like, "No wireless, less space than a Nomad, lame." http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...

Anecdotally, I've found that looking at anything from a perspective of, "People are raving about this, does it live up to the hype?" always makes me respect the thing less.

That doesn't make it less transformative. It just means you didn't like it as much in the beginning. The criticisms are warranted, but that doesn't sway what the future of VR looks like for me.
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Thanks for the info, care to dive into my other concerns?
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... Well except that Zimbabwe is trying to extradite the dentist for poaching. The lion was in a national park that brings in significant tourism dollars for the state, they quite literally were crying for this lion.
I understand the statement "the laws of physics are the same in all inertial reference frames" as referring to correspondences and invariances among some math under a coordinate transformation.
They also went to say these "maladvantage" were advantage back in the days but because of today lifestyle they've becomes a hinder.

So... they were positive effect but now have become a relic of the past and a burden.

edit:

Quote:

“Many traits that were adaptive 10,000 years ago might be maladaptive today” because of lifestyle, diet and other shifts, notes Rasmus Nielsen, a population geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley.
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What you were witnessing was not debate. Speaking to a largely empty chamber is the norm, and serves a different purpose.

Debate and discussion of legislation happens in the discourse Senate members have with each other, with their staff, between their staffs, with committee staffs, and with private industry and other lobbyists. These discussions are happening all the time, just not usually on the Senate floor. So while it does seem weird that Senators orate to an empty chamber, that doesn't mean that the other Senators aren't hearing the arguments.

Whether they are hearing the right arguments, however, is a different issue.
This is the dream for me too. We're a couple k more lines of resolution on cell phone screens to making it happen though.
The same thing any compliance officer does anywhere. Whether you have one because you're legally required to or you have one because you don't want to risk getting fined or sued isn't really a meaningful difference.
>Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles.

So don't learn from our mistakes, basically?

This is among the most ignorant things I have ever read. Terrible article from a person with a terrible mentality.
If people are hitting the paywall the gist of the article is that lions are dangerous animals. People living in rural village are terrorized by lions and it has a serious impact on their way of life. Zimbabweans have a lot of respect for wild animals but aren't opposed to them being hunted. America once again stirred up a social media frenzy when they don't understand the issue at all.
I fully expect a new genre of prank videos to emerge. Self-driving cars with cameras make for perfect targets. Innocent people will be involuntary passengers for a Grand Theft Auto style rampage that is livestreamed for the world to see.
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I prefer Hulbee for its in my opinion more appealing design. In particular, I like that the search results are in the center of the screen and not on the left half.
I dont know that but you can force HTTPS Everywhere to only allow HTTPS connections.
I think it is very unlikely any of that will be solved in a few years.

For example resolution, arguably the easiest one to attack, when we are talking 4k res at 120fps, that is barely possible on the highest end PC rigs today with 2 or even 3 video cards in SLI.
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Finally some sanity.
> We Zimbabweans are left shaking our heads, wondering why Americans care more about African animals than about African people.

http://www.usaid.gov/zimbabwe
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We consider that when pairing you to your peers to make sure that you are both a fit for each other.
It's a pity there is so much confusion between 1) how foreigners reacted to the incident, 2) the problem of endangered species and violated habitats and 3) the poor situation of the locals. It seems nearly impossible to have a rational conversation about a damn lion while these three things aren't considered separately first. Yeah, I've tried to read the article's comments, my bad...
If the victim is using Dual_EC_DRBG and Clyde Frog can obtain ~32 bytes of RNG output, they can figure out in reasonable time what the seed to the RNG was (assuming they know how the curve parameters were generated).

"This is a huge deal in the case of SSL/TLS, for example. If I use the Dual-EC PRG to generate the "Client Random" nonce transmitted in the beginning of an SSL connection, then the NSA (sic) will be able to predict the "Pre-Master" secret that I'm going to generate during the RSA handshake. Given this information the connection is now a cleartext read. "[1]

So, Clyde Frog can figure out your RNG state and predict what key you will generate for your TLS session. That's how they obtain the private key.

[1] http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/the-many-fla...
It's really just the other side of the coin. I'm sure the truth is somewhere grounded a little towards the middle.
I wonder how many of these issues are applicable to human processes ("headcount ML").

Glue code and correction cascades pretty much describe the average corporate reporting/BI department, with layers of complex Excel-based manual processes nobody really understands which are there both due to piles of "corrections" ("we need it in 2 hours, just get it done dirty") and due to Excel limitations (like effectively reimplementing sharding and map reduce in Excel with humans, because you've hit the 1m row limit). It is a wonder some of these businesses can reconcile their P&L with cash flow.

Entanglement and feedback loops definitely apply to a lot of things like A/B testing or online marketing budgeting, and many so-called "data driven" processes designed by managers miss out on a lot of important features/variables (and especially, interaction terms), assuming they even worry about significance in the first place.
which is cheaper, uRPF everywhere or re-writing everything (aka forklift upgrade).

my gut says the former and not the latter. I could be wrong.
I think they are saying "Solve your own problems, don't meddle in ours."
They can easily communicate through the great firewall so whatever the government allows and now their police force will ensure that.
The constitution treaty (TCE) was rejected, and the Lisbon treaty is not the same. Lisbon treaty did change the previous treaties of Rome and Maastricht, but again, saying "only to see it [TCE] instated through Lisbonne treaty" is disingenious.

The Lisbon treaty does not cover the same things as the TCE did, only a subset of which there was consensus.
I would say that we do less, but we do it much more effectively. But then, I only know what I read in the news, so to speak.
The prefix code to control my car's shields is 16309. Maybe I should change it.
I'm apparently a bit outdated, but it seems that Chrome is also now planning on implementing pointer events [0] after saying they wouldn't. Does anyone know if webkit has budged on their stance?

[0] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...
The author commits the same sins they rail against. Jingoist application of morals.

Instead of using their time in the spotlight to draw attention to what they would consider to be more worthy pursuits, they are indignant that we are not already familiar with their country's most pressing issues and equally outraged about them.
I still believe a lot of the hype for node comes from the absurdly large number of js-only or virtually js-only developers who enjoy the idea of using the language they have grown so familiar with everywhere where possible.

The trend gets accelerated because most new programmers start with javascript, or soon switch to javascript because they see it as the one language they can do "the most" with.

The fresh blood is, due to being new to programming, very explorative and curious about platforms and such drive the use of (back then) experimental tools up a lot.

I personally think that both PHP as well as javascript suffer from being designed not just with flat-out bad syntax, but also for a rather narrow use case and then being adopted widely for lack of widespread availability of other tools.

As a result they are used in places they were not expected to be used and for systems of scale that they were not intended to handle.

The backend of the future may run with node or it may run with PHP, I hope for neither. There are languages out there with more powerful and safer abstractions, with more carefully designed APIs and standard libraries that do not just clutter the global namespace, with usable import functionality from the get go and with type checking and -inference.

But that's just my two cents, I could be wrong :)
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fk, that is sickening :(.
Seems contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian. Even the cheap google cardboard, which ticks all his requirements except 4K (and probably will have that in the next year), is mindblowing, both to me and friends and family I've shown it to. I didn't even show them games running on cardboard, just videos shot using Google's special 360 cameras.

The technical challenges around VR are not that deep, hard, and fascinating. At this point, it's only a matter of prices coming down.
Except for the part where they say there are other problems of theirs that they would prefer we cared about.
If I recall, there was an article a few years ago about OnStar helping the cops turn off a car that had been stolen.

Turning off a car while you are driving it is a big deal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation

But you're right, it's not a big issue. There are other issues, which is why the US does more than just have citizens post to Facebook about a lion.

http://www.usaid.gov/zimbabwe
I totally disagree. I would have taken that crappy media room demo home and (along with another headset for my wife) right then and there, for the simple reason that as crude as it was it totally scratched the itch of "watch TV in a dedicated room in the house with no kid stuff anywhere."

FWIW I agree with you about the technical stuff -- the resolution has to go way up. But it will.

Again, the tradeoff is not "do I buy this megabuck Windows PC for VR gaming, or do I just stick with a console?" The tradeoff is, "do I pay a bunch of money to knock a wall out and/or redecorate, or do I buy this VR rig and some DLC from virtualcelebritycribs.com and call it a day."
Spooks? 😨
Must be brit slang.. Lol
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Yes, those without a high-school degree saw a small decrease. Although even that may be countered by lower prices, I've seen that argument somewhere.
> Well except that Zimbabwe is trying to extradite the dentist for poaching.

FYI the author talked about this in the article as he also mentioned their president had a baby elephant slaughtered for his birthday.

> The lion was in a national park that brings in significant tourism dollars for the state, they quite literally were crying for this lion.

While I agree that it seems like the author is missing some perspective from the park / tourism side of things he did offer a different perspective I haven't read about. I'm sure someone from their parks service would have yet another perspective.

Still, it's good to hear about these types of issues from other perspectives for I fear of drowning in an echo-chamber that is American news.
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Up to a point "professionals" can go over the 200mw limit but this is for PTP links using wifi tech.
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States have their own constitutions and their own courts to protect their own citizens. The original purpose of the federal courts was to ensure a neutral forum for the enforcement of federal laws, not to be a second level of oversight of how states treat their own citizens.

But I agree with you, the original design was stupid. I'm just saying that before people start frothing at the mouth about the spirit of the first amendment, they bear in mind it wasn't originally intended to be used the way it was here.
Of course. Ideally, head tracking would be locked to the latency no greater than the time between a frame.

240hz is only 4.16 ms, which is still within human perception of view. Ideally, I'd like 1khz refresh, but that's going to be a very long time away. I do remember an HN article recently discussing a 1khz 8bit screen with touch input running at 1khz as well. The comparison was fantastic and I believe also relevant.
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I find all these articles that try to compare and measure sympathy and emotion as pointless. People are comparing the outpouring of grief for Cecil to apathy towards human killings and inhuman treatment of animals in the meat industry. A person can be severely depressed if they lose a dog, and another can show no emotion when they lose a parent. You can't compare human emotion because it's not always rational.

In this specific case though, I would also argue given the declining numbers of lions, the anger is justified.
The first point applies to TypeScript too. It's hard to integrate a library that doesn't have a type definition or don't play well with its module system. This week I started to work on a Node hobby project and decided to use TypeScript. I rolled back my decision after noticing that it was not possible to include installed node npm modules using the ES6 syntax.

They'll probably fix this issue sooner rather than later but in the meanwhile it's a critical issue.
It makes the property market look a bit more stable than it really is if you compare to this graph http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/
This seems to be a trend with academic articles. I don't think they have bosses saying "that's great but Page Speed says..."
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Quite likely, there will be a feedback mechanism allowing businesses to produce cheaper products if they have access to a larger (and therefore cheaper) labour pool.