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> It doesn't have to be more boring without advertising, in nearly all media now there are ways to enjoy great content without letting the sales pitch in. I hope we find good ways with the web too.

My point was that it's more boring if you forego the content that has ads, and I think your use of an ad-blocker to access this content supports this position.

I also hope we find good mechanisms to pay for content without advertising, but I also don't want advertising paid services to go away. It does allow a freedom of access that wasn't possible beforehand.
> company won't tell me what % of the company they represent, nor the board-evaluated value of the company

This is totally unacceptable
Streaming games have far too much latency for VR applications. Latency requirements for VR are much lower than console games because too much latency on head tracking can cause nausea and breaks the "immersion" effect.

But yeah, I agree that when VR blows up big, it'll be something like this rather than the PC-based Oculus. That solution has always felt clunky and more like a development kit than a consumer product.
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Actually we know enough to know that assuming that discrimination and perverse socialization is at least part of the cause is totally rational.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_Association_Test
I have their 5th-generation machine (now just called their "H-series" machine) with the 45 watt upgrade, and am pretty happy with it so far. Their software has a few quirks, but nothing I can't work around.
Last I checked, the majority of both genders support banning some forms of abortion and legalizing some forms of abortion, generally with later abortions being banned more often and earlier abortions and those involving the classical exceptions being legalized more.
The (myspace) vehicle the article is being sold as CPM pre-roll video, and not per click as the expectation is that people don't click video ads when they're watching an ad before the youtube clip that they came to see.
Very interesting, thanks
That does happen, praising men for doing basic things.

That said, I'm interested in your thoughts about something else… I read (sorry no cite, I think it was in the nytimes though) that while men are less likely to suffer a career penalty due to having kids, that's largely because men are less likely to sacrifice work for child care in the first place. People can argue about the reasons, but it's pretty indisputable in the data that this burden is more likely to fall on the mother than the father.

However, the study (again, I can't cite it, apologies for that) suggested that those men who do take time off from work for child care may face an unusually harsh career penalty for it. In short, employers don't like it when either parent takes time off to watch kids, but they may be particularly resentful when a man does it.

Do you think there may be harsher judgement for men who do this, something akin to pressure not to take paternity leave?
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Only allowing the cloudfront-domain worked for me.
The screen is only a small piece of the puzzle. Most of the value of the Oculus products comes from the insane software optimizations that have been done at all levels of the stack to bring down the latency.
Or perhaps violence is enforcement related, generally.
Those women were NOT living in poverty. They had access to the money, land and benefits of being upper class. They had servants and slaves. They didn't have to work or labor to survive.

While the law was clear that the men owned the money (I agree that this situation IS patriarchy btw), rich women enjoyed access to that money and power as well.
I agree that there was a bit of a tongue in cheek tone to the piece. For example, the title referenced the cold war. That being said, given the larger context of The Guardian's opinion pieces and their tendency towards feminist demagoguery, I read it as "I'm kidding!" (but I'm kind of serious, too.) There was also a mention of the higher temperature being better for the environment, which reinforced the "I'm only half joking" subtext for me.
There are many shows that for whatever reason I don't start watching initially but then enough people I trust like them that I'll watch. Those are the ones that fit the pattern we're discussing.

There are many other shows which I don't have high hopes for but start watching just because they're on. For those I won't give it the full season but I also don't judge just by the first few eps either. These are the sorts of shows that often don't make it past a season or two anyways so it's a bit academic :)

I like OitNB but have the same issues you state. It's a fine show but not great by any means. The sort of show I put on while I'm reading blogs and such.
>> I took a cursory look and I see that he uses executive orders less often than any other president (normalized per term served).

It doesn't matter how many orders he's issued, but the overall effect of constitutionality.

>> what are the examples of his orders that are shredding the constitution?

First you have to understand what executive orders can't do. They cannot make laws and they cannot stop laws from being carried out.

- This means his executive order to delay the employer mandate - but only for certain businesses. He said he will not enforce the mandate for businesses with 50-100 employees, but will enforce it for business with more than 100 employees.

THAT is effectively writing new a law. Congress said it starts at 50, but Obama says it starts at 100. By the constitution, only congress has this power, not the POTUS.

- Another example is his changes to the DACA act to include illegals who entered the country before 2010. Again, this is not something he has the power to do. By actively not enforcing exiting laws, and then creating his own set of criteria on who can stay in the US and who cannot, he's subverted the existing immigration laws and replacing it with his own.

- Another good example is how he said that person or business that doesn't support LGBT nondiscrimination cannot receive a business contract with the government. This means if a Muslim doesn't want to bake a cake for a gay couple, the government has the right to refuse to do business with them.

I won't even start with how unconstitutional such a law would be if it was passed by congress. Considering this is already protected under the Free Exercise Clause of the first amendment which states no citizen can be required to forfeit their right to do business with the federal government.

Again, only congress has the ability pass a law like this, but Obama did so anyways.

This is the issue with his orders. It has nothing to do with how many orders he's making, it's how he's using them. Effectively creating or overriding existing laws as he sees fit - something the POTUS should not have the power to do.
Still plenty of surprises... I like enka a lot but I wouldn't have anticipated any of the things it's associated with... "deep filthstep?" http://everynoise.com/engenremap-enka.html

edit: Oh, I'm probably looking at it backwards and those are the least similar genres. "Classic Chinese pop" and various folk musics are less surprising.
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I vented a 60W chinese laser out my window for a year in the suburbs, but I've learned never to underestimate what neighbors may complain complain about. The air filter is definitely a good idea. If you do the math on the volume, and compare it to the actual volume of the filter of e.g. a Purex, you'll find it's similar. Almost half of the volume of the Purex is in the fans or open airspace; we have the advantage of a ton of airflow from the Glowforge itself, so the filter needs proportionately less. We also have a sealed (basic) or almost-sealed (pro) case so it's easier to build up negative pressure and move the exhaust through.

Cleaning stinks, and wrecks alignment - the tube and turning mirrors are completely sealed, including the tube output, so there's just one flat window to wipe clean (and it unscrews for easy replacement). The head has a window and purge air to keep it clean too.

We're mitigating a lot of the risk of fire by avoiding trouble situations in software (e.g. not cutting a piece of material where the dimensions make it an effective wick, detecting obstacles on the bed, accelerators to detect problems quickly) but you're right that you don't want to run it unattended.
> Despite all the talk of hardcore gamers and abstract metaverses, a lot of people want to watch movies and shows in virtual reality.

Source for that claim?? strapping on a headset doesn't seem like a great way to share a movie with friends, but that's just me.
If I remember correctly, yes. Women are more likely to be harassed in general, men are more likely to be the victims of physical violence.

The difference in perception is because our culture is currently much more concerned with violence from "creepy" or "stalker" types (anything perceived as sexually motivated) than any other kinds.
So Apple users are supposed to be safe because Apple uses just static analysis tools to review the apps before publishing?
> For a counterargument from one of the believers of bootstrapping, superintelligent AI: http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/

Woah, Yudkowsky takes really long to get to the point, doesn't he?
So his point seems to be, that humans aren't very efficient in processing empirical evidence, and an AI might be better at this, because it would be really, really smart?
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>>I'm also pretty sure I'm part of a growing demographic who are finding every way they can to opt out of it because they're sick of it.

I think you're very wrong here. I suspect only a small part of the echo-chamber techies might think this way. The general public only hates ads when they're shown as those crazy multiple pop-up windows + auto-playing flash ads with audio.

Otherwise, people do click... or tune them out(but subconsciously, the ad is in their head)
BTW, I agree with your assessment of the NYT. You might enjoy the book What Liberal Media? by Eric Alterman.
Also a lot of Donald Becker's old network driver stuff in the kernel has a copyright assignment to DIRNSA. I don't know why, particularly because I thought Becker worked for NASA the whole time.
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The text of the article is designed to respond to exactly this familiar argument. If you're reading this, angdis, you may be interested in reading the article.
Here's a great conference hallway conversation with Carmack from yesterday. He covers a lot of fun topics with the random folks in the hall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUyg6cUfcw

for those who prefer text summaries:

http://uploadvr.com/john-carmack-talks-difficulty-mobile-pos...
>> My point was that it's more boring if you forego the content that has ads,

I dunno, I might get more done actually and have a more interesting life, but that's something of a philosophical point.

>> I think your use of an ad-blocker to access this content supports this position.

I think that if I didn't have one I would use the web much less, as I do find advertising that intrusive and awful now.

>> I also don't want advertising paid services to go away

I honestly don't care about them, I'd rather not have ads or the service and would be more than happy to see a model develop that blocks people like me from content if the advertising is that important to the site.
Who? :P
Yet I bet you know who Ford, Geicko, Chevrolet, Coca Cola and McDonalds are, regardless of how much you like their products.
FYI: dang is an HN admin, so has additional tools besides the upvote and downvote arrows, up to and including nuking comments and banning users. A comment before it gets to that point is a courtesy, I think.
I have been listening to Partially Derivative and Talking Machines, both data science related. Talking Machines is more industry focused whereas Partially Derivative is more fun. Also Reply All, a show about the Internet. Non tech I listen to the History of Philosophy podcast.
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You could share it with a friend who wasn't physically there if they had a similar setup, but I"m guessing they're talking about the fact people who are by themselves like watching TV and movies in VR compared to on a standard TV screen in a real room.
> that's over, I reject it entirely.

The root of this for me is that you don't reject it entirely, you just reject the portion you don't like. You (like most of us, let's be clear) reject the pitch, but take the stuff. I don't really think that's right, but many of us do it anyway. I do object to casting it as positive for the ad companies and the content producers though. I think it's very clear it's not, and making that more clear to more people would make update of alternate content payment schemes more likely.

Otherwise, if you don't owe the content producers anything after consuming the content, why bother paying for something like Google Contributor? Just to help support artists, patron style? I don't think the uptake due to that will be enough.
The main problem if I understand correctly is with pensions. They have 10 more years to invest your money, but they also have to pay you for 10 more years... so the longer you live, the less they profit. Live long enough, and they will lose money. And if enough people live longer than expected, the insurance company could go bankrupt.
> "The reasonable thing to do was just limit the streams to SD resolution – 720x480. That is slightly lower than I would have chosen if the need for a secure execution environment weren't an issue, but not too much"

Looks like the need for a "secure execution environment" led to the limitation.
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The President can't change the laws or the budget. But an order like: "stop warrentless spying," is exactly the sort of order the President can give.

Just like he ordered the military to let homosexuals join.

Unless the Bush era laws says the NSA MUST spy (and they don't), he is pretty much clear to order them not to spy.
> perceived graphics quality between a $1000 PC and a flagship cell phone is rapidly closing

Is this true? Can an iPhone 6S theoretically run CS:GO or Crysis (an eight year old PC game)?
Chinese President is a liar: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/22/us-usa-china-xi-cy...
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> The NSA isn't an independent agency, it's a part of the US military chain of command under the Department of Defense and hence is under the direct control of the Command in Chief.

The NSA's existence, as well as some particular details of officers that it must have, etc., are mandated by Congress in statute; see the National Security Agency Act of 1959 (and subsequent amendments thereto.) That it is within the military chain of command doesn't change this; Congress's power to do direct the structure of the military is an enumerated power in Article, Section 8. The designation of the President as Commander-in-Chief does not make the President unreviewed dictator of the military, it simply restricts Congress power over military organization such that the Congress cannot place authority to command the military within the regulations adopted by Congress in some other person than the President.

Congress's power to direct the existence, function, organization, and funding of agencies -- and the President's lack of Constitutional power to disregard Congress's directions on those matters and disband statutorily-mandated programs and agencies -- is not, contrary to your description, restricted to independent agencies. It absolutely does extend to federal executive departments, including the Department of Defense.

> The head of the NSA is always an active enlisted officer who is part of the of the joint chiefs

No:

(1) The Director of the NSA is always an active commissioned officer (and a four-star flag officer during the tenure in the position.) Commissioned officers are not enlisted personnel.

(2) The Director of the NSA is not a member of the Joint Chiefs -- the Joint Chiefs of Staff include the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and the Chiefs of Staff of each service (Chief of Staff of the Army, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Chief of Naval Operations, Commandant of the Marine Corps, and the Chief of the National Guard Bureau.) The Director of the NSA is Chief of the Cyber Security Service, but not every position with the word "Chief" in it in the military is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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It's in the Fine Article:

"The reasonable thing to do was just limit the streams to SD resolution – 720x480. That is slightly lower than I would have chosen if the need for a secure execution environment weren't an issue"
"The Act does not describe the functions of the National Security Agency (NSA), but deals with "housekeeping" matters such as pay and allowances, training, property acquisition, and leasing, It exempted NSA from the requirement to provide detailed information regarding organizational and functional matters to the Civil Service Commission (the predecessor of the Office of Personnel Management)."

The NSA is the only Agency that it's mission is dictated by the Executive Branch.
And now I'm dying to know what percentage of violent crimes involve police.
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Yes, I agree, if I "Default to javascript" then I'm evaluating options and picking Javascript in the absence of a clear choice.

However, if I "Always default to javascript" then I'm picking Javascript without evaluating any other options.
Again you're lashing out at JS due to your experience with node or npm which none is part of the language itself.

That's like someone after ordering a regular Big Mac meal (burger + fries + soda), he complains that the dessert portion of the meal either sucks or there are too many options available and some are not optimal enough when actually there was no dessert included in the meal in the first place.

Can we get real for a moment here?

npm/node reminds me of the implementation of a server side scripting language implemented solely in JavaScript written by people who have only ever heard other server side scripting languages described to them on a broken radio.

'Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.'
> I said that using Pascal, in order to write to memory-mapped IO registers, you had to call a function written in assembly, and that in C you didn't have to do that. I never said only C was usable that way. Please stop putting words in my mouth that I didn't say.

In what language do you think the Turbo C library functions for port IO and all those handy BIOS and MS-DOS calls were written on?

Assembly, of course.

As for doing memory mapped IO with Pascal, you could something like this in Turbo Pascal. Other dialects had similar extensions.

var
videoMem : array [0..255] of byte absolute $A0000;

begin
videoMem [0] := 12;
end;
How is it DRM that is limiting that?

There are four rather lengthy paragraphs and a graph in the article that explains this.
I like the linear algebra interpretation, where the DFT is a basis change, and the only 'magic' is believing/proving that the Fourier basis is orthogonal. (It's an easy proof.)

I still don't understand how the FFT works though...
I get paid a good salary. I also have options. Options to buy some fraction of the company. Those options could be a bonus if a Desirable Event occurs. Otherwise, I'm still being paid very well to do what I do on a daily basis.

If you've been offered a decreased salary and shares to compensate (or [$DEITY forbid] options) for the lack of salary, then negotiate or politely decline.
He's welcome to continue down-thread and copy/paste his comment to me as a reply to every 2nd or third comment in this thread if that's his intent. I stand by my statement and am utterly unconcerned by any consequences that might come of it.
I am not "taking it out on the language". I don't "expect find npm modules that can get the job done 100% for you and all the time". You are putting words in my mouth and then arguing against them.

The article is "JavaScript as default language and software stack"

I'm saying I don't want to use javascript as my default language and software stack. How do I use javascript on the backend without node and npm? Surely it is doable, but why would I want to? Other languages work great on the backend, they have standard libraries, and they have solid tools.
So basically it is the Ken Thompson Hack, the oldest and most devastating subversion of trust known to programmer-kind.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack
This would be a great time to point out that the diesel engine was originally intended to be run on peanut oil. Any diesel automobile can run on "bio-diesel" with no additional modifications. You may be (un)surprised to learn that the inventor of the diesel engine died a rather mysterious death on a trans-Atlantic cruise.
I'm pretty sure it's growing, at least on the web, if it were not we wouldn't see stories about adblockers hurting revenues.

The general public in the USA may be more inured to constant ads, I'm not sure that holds everywhere, and as ad-free services like netflix grow I think we'll see more people start to become more conscious of advertising.
| 0.1%-0.5% for very early engineers in startups

o_0

This is why most startup code is crap.
Instead of hackers, XI came personally to collect data. FB is just being cautious ;)
In case you're interested, John's scheduled to speak at Oculus Connect 2 at 13:00 PDT / 16:00 EDT / 20:00 UTC today.

http://www.twitch.tv/oculus
Am I missing something? This lets you watch a movie in a virtual living room on a virtual TV? Why would I want that?
People are going to be on a spectrum of finding scenery panoramas to be hugely positive to finding them hugely negative??

People are going to be distributed along pretty much any spectrum that you can imagine. The value of statistical concepts like distributions is not in providing certitude but providing a way to quantify and manage your uncertainty. This is why it's not a big deal that people lie on surveys - lies cancel each other out or stick out like a sore thumb depending on whether they're perverse or systematic.

Incidentally I like snakes a lot but that doesn't mean I consider them trustworthy :-)
I write an Outlook plugin for work, so if I've trashed the code by accident I don't receive any emails because Outlook isn't working.

That's the excuse I use anyway.
Actually Palmer worked on a research project in university that was using 3d printed goggles and cheap off the shelf lenses which you could snap an iPhone into. See http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/diy/vr2go/

I don't know if it was his idea or how involved he really was, just that he said he worked on it. The point is that cardboard was based on this.
Wonderful talk.
Looks like a great toy until you go through comments here. Honestly would have bought this for my woman, since she's into crafts and stuff, but cloud-only cutting/engraving, comments on fumes and filters + dealing with customs (if they even shipping int) quickly changed my mind. I've seen laser engravers on kickstarter before, hope to see more machines that do not require clouds to cut/etch a damn thing.
Even so, it can still be the result of life-long social conditioning, which determines what you want, part of which is gender role conditioning.

I think that playing with dolls is attainable (I could just go out and get me some), but undesirable for me. It has nothing to do with sex role stereotyping from a young age, honest. It's just a strictly personal preference, nothing more.