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> - pocket lint routinely finds its way into the jack.

I find this issue with the lightning connector; around once every 6 months I have to take a drawing pin and clear out the dirt (it is often mounted on the handlebar of my bike) and other crap that gets in there so it will charge again. I've never had an issue with the 3.5mm jack.
Has anyone with vision issues been able to try out the hardware? I suppose it's more of a software issue, but I'm blind in one eye, and if applications assume you have vision in both eyes, you could end up with usability issues when controls are only displayed on one screen or the other.
It's not the default yet, but you can already enable multi-process in Firefox by toggling the "browser.tabs.remote" option in about:config. It should ship as the default this year.
Not a great example with the motorcycle, but I agree. There's a difference between people who exploit the architecture of the game vs. people who automate sophisticated strategies.

An interesting parallel would be the HFT "market-makers": I could argue that's exploiting the architecture of the markets, not "playing the game".
Isn't this like the third Linode hack? Back in 2012 one of their cust tools was compromised in order to steal bitcoins. In 2013, cc# and password hashes were compromised, Linode denied it until the hackers showed proof, then did a piss poor job of handling it afterwards.

Why were people still using Linode after their poor handling in the 2013 hack?
I really think this is entering into the land of pure fantasy.
The blockchain doesn't drive cars or allow people to sleep in rooms. It doesn't store or provide music

So, the answer to the headline is a resounding No
Except you can buy inflation adjusted bonds, right?
Because "Occulus webpage crashes with pre-order demand!" isn't such a terrible news item to get out there?
I completely agree with this.

In shorthand, having been Product Manager for a number of teams at a variety of companies in several industries, I've found that Scrum is better for teams developing mostly new features, with relatively little maintenance; and Kanban better for teams focused primarily on maintenance, with fewer large features.

The rationale is really simple: for new feature launches, reporting and tracking vs. schedule is key; for maintenance, throughout is key.

That said, regularly missing predicted story points by more than about 10% is not the sign of a healthy team. Being bedeviled by routine bug fixes is not the sign of effective management. Both are routine issues that most highly-effective teams, whether Scurm or Kanban, deal with well.
Except in this shitty analogy, I hire the driver, so if the pizza is bad because of the driver, it is my fault. Oculus doesn't hire most of the VR game developers in the world.

I absolutely would not blame the restaurant if my GrubHub delivery guy ruined the order.

And regardless, what the mythical "average consumer" does or doesn't do is immaterial. You should know better.
Obligatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
The MAD doctrine seems to have worked with binary superpowers up through the 80's.

But, I think its an open (and rather scary) question as to whether MAD will continue to work with multiple parties some of whom are batshit crazy and have demonstrated utter disregard for the safety and well-being of their populace.

Is their leadership insane enough to sit in a well-stocked bunker while setting off an H-Bomb in South Korea or elsewhere.... umm yeah, I think so.
Most people think of the parking brake as an emergency brake for some reason. These things are wimpy brakes that are designed to prevent a vehicle from rolling if parked incorrectly or on a hill. They are generally cable actuated and don't have much stopping force if the vehicle is in motion. The Tundra has a foot-activated ratcheting parking brake and I don't recall it ever being referred to as an "emergency brake" in the manual (although it's been a while since I read mine, I could be wrong).
It is of course somewhat a leap of faith to then say _everything_ is computation (or can be expressed as computation)

You don't need any kind of leap of faith to actually start working on it. That's the wonderful thing about AI and AGI more broadly. You can actually go work on it, today. Are you going to solve it immediately? Of course not, but at least you can chip away at the problems.
This.
At least, if you're not ready to accept incoming v6 connections (which really isn't hard to do), use connection tracking to let outbound v6 through and add the necessary icmpv6 accept rules.

ufw comes pre-installed on ubuntu and is dead simple to use, there's really no reason not to use it.

# ufw allow 22/tcp
# ufw enable

should be all you need to have connection tracking on both v6 and v4, have a tried and trusted icmpv6 accept list, and keep your v6 and v4 firewalls in sync.
I don't get it. Weren't sports fans already suckers long before this?
Where this is heading is augmentation that shrinks until it's unnoticeable that you're equipped with anything. Virtual and augmented reality merge, and the display components of traditional products disappear. Everything will get a virtual interface.

Gaming will be about as important to mixed reality as gaming is to all of computing today.

It's shaping up to be one of the most revolutionary technologies of our generation.
I'm very enthusiastic about Bitcoin but I feel like there is a massive number of people who would have an extremely hard time figuring it out. For that reason, I'm skeptical about mass adoption until things get easier for the less technical folks.
You don't add Finnish 24% VAT but the VAT of the country where the EU branch of the company is based - most likely Luxembourg with its 15% VAT rate. (All Amazon deliveries to the Eurozone come from Amazon EU SARL in Luxembourg, for instance).

Which means the fair price would be EUR 640, almost 10% lower.
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Fair.
I was just trying to take the problem to the hypothetical edge of having no privacy at all; to a case where you do not even enough privacy to share a thought without fear of retribution. I was also trying to align the idea with their understanding of freedom of speech, they do agree freedom of speech is ok, so if you can tie speech into thought and then also into privacy, maybe there would be a logical connection that allows them to understand the need for privacy as a type of freedom.

The situation is very complex because privacy has been implicit in our daily lives for so long, it's really difficult to map out the ways it would reduce our personal freedom. If we want to remove privacy, then we need to make it impossible for anyone to keep anything private from anyone else.

If privacy isn't important; then we should all live in proverbial glass houses where everyone can see everyone else's lives. Why should we trust the government with that power, why not everyone?
Yeah, I mean, what the heck has miniaturization ever done for computing?

I am struggling to think of a single thing in the entire history of computers that was made better by being designed or fabricated in a smaller or thinner form.
I do, yes. But the translator needs to be aware of the extra indirection to produce the text he needs, and between a custom layer and a standard formatting syntax, the second is definitely friendlier for anyone approaching translation, even when technically less powerful.

At some point the translator will have to format some string himself.
This is the most informative comment out of the whole thread. It is a big win for everyone.
No, market forces will not eliminate poor providers. It may eliminate those who try to beat the market and drop their quality too quickly, but as the options to cut costs are exhausted, everyone will be pushed down to the minimum quality level they can still get away with selling. Regulation can be an effective way to establish a border below which the quality won't drop, thus making the market solution potentially desirable.
You comment is already forecasting, overvaluing, and then presently justifying yourself using guesses based on a technology you likely don't fully understand.
One of the reasons why it may lack real-world interest is lack of content.

People need to believe in the medium and pioneer content in spite of lack of interest, in hope to generate that interest, or it will remain an unsolved chicken-and-egg problem.

I believe Newell and Carmack do want to make high quality "games" in the sense of interactive experiences, and they see VR as an opportunity for that. What's required is patience and dedicated resources, fuelled by early adopters/aspirers.
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In a recent study I read, millenials overwhelminly didn't think that the fredom of speech should be upheld, so why would privacy?

Many people have already gotten in trouble or fired all based on private conversations. Most people didn't care about the privacy implacatons, because of personal feelings.

I feel like our civilization has gone backwards: online mobs determine guilt and the ends justify the means.
It is really stupid to NOT allow any team choose its own process. Your scrum leader is not a wise person, to put it lightly.
Didn't dishwashers use to be very inefficient. They apparently are as efficient as handwashing now (not sure that accounts for making the actual washer).

>my generation buys them without a second thought. //

My parents have one, I think they're great, can't afford one.
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It looks like I exceeded your texture memory. I use pretty high resolutions (targeting 4K displays), and dynamically build the card textures at runtime based on your screen size. Let me know if the native app improves the situation.
Sure, on a normal computer that may be the case. But, products like the Kemper Profiling Amp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0SmSl1aS1w) are on the same price range as high-end amps and have been able able to model _any_ amp with an incredible precision for years already. Still, it's easier to find a wide selection of analog amps in recording studios than one of those.
That said, I think it has a lot to do with the guitar player "fetish" of recording on a boutique valve head with a pair of 4x12 cabinets.
Here's John Oliver's take on the daily fantasy sports industry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq785nJ0FXQ (probably some NSFW language)
There are lenses; the image is around 1.5 meters away.
Those $50 adapters have a microprocessor in them to map/convert the eight pins to whatever signals are needed. Lightning does not have an analog audio channel, so I'd bet this adapter would also need a (simpler) microprocessor and the attendant cost. Your $30 guess sounds right, and Apple probably won't even include an adapter as long as they include Lightning or Bluetooth earbuds. People who are fussy enough about headphones to bring their own will pay the additional $30.
That's not even what it says.
Fixed that, thanks for pointing it out.
Yep, this. Went perfectly, and thanks to Akka Persistence, end users (hopefully) just saw a minute of lag before their game resumed.
I can see the filters being used for research/academic use. Well executed!
If you want to avoid purchasing a blower altogether, especially one with reversible operation (1), a bagged lawnmower works equally well. I have a SunJoe electric bagged mower and I just place it on top of the leaf pile and let it hoover up the leaves into its bag.

1: As I read your post more, it seems that your blower does not officially have a reverse - you just rig it that way. That is pretty cool though any bit of debris in the leaf pile might break up the impeller if the latter is plastic.
I've been perversely interested in this Flat Earth movement for a few months. There are a lot of long, stunningly stupid, vehemently argued YouTube videos out there from flat earthers. There are a couple of basic science-minded people who take them on, often with some pretty entertaining results. But one thing is clear is that the flat earthers simply aren't listening. It goes a lot deeper than misunderstandings of facts or what they see when they walk outside. It's really hard to explain such weaponized ignorance. They aren't asking questions, they don't want to know, they just want to tear down the establishment (by exposing secret inside knowledge) in whatever way they can. It's psychological and goes much deeper than beliefs.
The free pass is meant from the community, not the legal system.
People are just going to turn on the speaker and listen to their music and conversations aloud.

If Apple really cared, they would remove the external speaker in their phones and just have a simple ringer.

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Don't forget that loose contact is a problem that's extremely common with the 3.5 mm jack.

Unknown to most there's another standardized connector that supports analog audio: USB-C. If they switched to USB-C on their iOS devices I wouldn't really mind.
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I'm surprised the article doesn't recommend using ufw or firewalld to set up the firewall. I like ufw, which is available on Ubuntu and Debian at least. Also, what about fail2ban, for automatically banning IPs that repeatedly attempt unauthorized access?
You underestimate the ability of international events to quickly spiral out of control.

This is an n-body problem, and one of those particles is a borderline insane government.
There is a point in the article which the author kind of glosses over that is really important. A lot of the bots (Siri, Cortana, Slack bot, etc...) are refined through free data provided by the masses. These systems get smarter at what they do, essentially for free.

And his second point, that once an AI understands it users preferences, it ability to change slows down because unlike when it started, it ignores virgin data, and only follows what hit has been taught. That is a huge potential issue. Seems like a topic ripe for researchers in Machine learning to jump on.
Yeah, that's what I meant. Honestly, for casual experiences, I expect this is going to be very nice. I can imagine sitting away from my desk in my swivel chair, using that controller instead of the gamepad, to do stuff like organize photo collages, watch videos, do teleconferencing, maybe even just meditate.
>is it good to have your eyes focusing on something that close to your face for a long period of time?

The converse thought about the differences between viewing a VR screen vs a 2D monitor.

VR Screens you have the capability of your eyes needing to adjust to different depths. That is, the muscles that dictate the position of your eyes will need to be recalibrated slightly when you start viewing entities at different depths.

With 2D monitors you're approximately at the same text tracking rate.

There's ergonomic software that will periodically instruct you to look away from your computer screen to focus on points in the distance for the health of your eyes.
> even the contributions must be accompanied by a signed agreement giving them joint ownership of the copyright.

Well, we could just all move to Germany, where ownership over copyright can never be signed away, and then fork Java.
Edit: Diversification works with investment when the average return is positive.

These games are negative sum for most players as the house takes part of the pool. For simplicity, let's say it's a 50:50 coin, but you win 1.99 of your stake. With one bet the house takes some of your winnings, but your odds don't change. With 2 bets, if you win both you win, if you lose both you lose, but if you win one (1.99) and lose one (0) you still lose (1.99 + 0) / 2 < 1.

Sure, your odds of losing 'big' went from 50% to 25%, but your odds of winning big went from 50% to 25% and your odds of losing slightly are now 50%. Same thing applies if it's a 10% chance to win 9.99x your state, with 10 bets and 1 when you still lose. However, your odds of a 9.99x win are much smaller. (1 in 10,000,000,000 vs. 1:10)

Granted, if your vastly better than other players you can get a small advantage. But, that's not going to be very significant over a small number of games.
I wonder why you're speculating given they used the attacks against default configurations of Java apps, Firefox, some Chrome builds, BouncyCastle, and more. Amusingly, the clients often accepted the weaker crypto even when it was disabled. Fits my meme's nicely. Then, some of the flaws that led to that were fixed.

Not sure how applicable it is now outside a checklist item for a situation that can repeat in a new client. Yet, the paper said they used it on real stuff. Was there something specific you were thinking about that's not covered by that?
One thing is you can have a conversation about things and ask questions about what you're stuck on.

It's also much faster and more fun than writing some mini-report on a planning board people may or may not read.

But the most important thing is that it is quick and encapsulated. Only about things the whole teams need to know. You need to be happy with reporting that nothing interesting for the whole team happened.
My phone with 3.5mm jack is completely waterproof. Why can't Apple do the same?
I did quick internet search and only app mentioned by people that is able to achieve such compression rate is KGB Archiver[1]. And according to its wikipedia page it uses PAQ[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB_Archiver
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ6
I think motivating factor is the least helpful thing stand ups provide so your assertions are slightly correct if that was the goal of stand ups.

Stand ups actually provide:

1.) Better communication of what everyone is working on.

2.) This leads to faster cross training as people are able to ask questions.

3.) Making others on the team aware of issues you are working on so they don't make bad assumptions that you're not doing anything etc.

4.) Social engineering shouldn't work here much as far as being lazy. Good team leads and coworkers will ask to help out should they see someone dragging there feet. Your coworker should be doing code reviews or know about how long it takes to setup a server. It should be pretty obvious if you manipulating, at least I've found it is.

5.) In the past 2 months we have let two people go because standups revealed they weren't really doing anything. Stand ups gave us a chance daily to ask what have you done? It gave the chance for a coworker to step in and help out. It identified this person just didn't want to work and we replaced him with someone who did.

>>> If a manager doesn't know what his team is up to before the meeting, he's not doing a good job. Perhaps because he doesn't already command the respect of the team?

I disagree. A good manager should have a broad overview of what's going on but, he should be busy in his own job planning etc. to not have to micromanage. A 15 minute stand up each day gives him insight he needs without standing over anyone's shoulder or worse making false assumptions about what they might not be doing.
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Unfortunately this is socially positioned more like a TV or a games console, rather than a smartphone (used every day all day), which have much longer lifespans than a smartphone (5-10 years vs 2-5 years).

The interesting question is how long before this version of the Rift becomes obsolete, or will Oculus provide a contract-based upgrade plan (like for phones).
I'm experiencing those same emotions in foresight.

I'm young---I'm 26, and I have a wife and two young children (2 and 4). I'm at that age where I could have gotten involved in so much, personally and professionally---and still could. And I know that this will be a bit setback for things I'd like to do in the future. But time with my family is more important, and we also bought a house that needs a lot of work.

And I fully expect to be feeling exactly as you are describing. And I'm trying to come to terms with that today, while I'm still young: focus on what I can be happy for today, recognize how my decisions affect my future, how I might adjust my plans, and recognize that the decisions I made (or didn't) have desirable consequences that I wouldn't change if I had the option to go back and do it again.

Thanks for sharing your experiences.
+1. I was taught this as a young lad at Intel by a graybeard who'd been developing since the 60s. It made a lot of sense then, and it makes a lot of sense now.
It is, in some sense, a very simple problem. When and if we advance to the point that AI algorithms are themselves capable of writing AI algorithms, what happens then? Quantify (albeit vaguely) the rate at which AI algorithms can improve AI algorithms. If that number turns out to be roughly as slow as human beings, there's no significant problem. If it turns out that number is greatly larger than human beings, that's a problem.

It is not particularly clear than the number is large; hard problem is hard. No sarcasm; arguably "general intelligence" is the hardest possibly engineering problem. Adding a bit more intelligence to the problem when it will already be getting worked on by a lot of humans may not move the needle much to speak of at all. But it is not particularly clear that that rate is small either, though; humans are smart, yet at the same time, really dumb in a lot of ways. We have terrible working memory (7 +/- 2 items is absurdly small). We have lots of irrational biases. We have lots of things to do in our lives that are not "thinking" (eating, sleeping, etc.), and the vast majority of our brain is dedicated to those problems, not rational thought. We are terrible at manipulating vast symbol systems without taking immense shortcuts, which inevitably completely color our manipulations. What happens when something that lacks those restrictions is turned loose on the problem of writing AI algorithms?

Heck if I know. I'm a human too.

I honestly think that those people who are utterly convinced the rate must necessarily be slow are just as wrong as those who are utterly convinced it must necessarily be fast. We really don't know, but it is hardly an invalid concern.

So far, AI algorithms have not written very many AI algorithms. I've seen some toys where one AI algorithm is hooked up to tune another one, but I'm not sure if any of them have ever been practically useful. (All I know is all the ones I've personally seen have amounted to toys.) And the system as a whole is generally constrained by what the final AI algorithm can output anyhow; if the domain and range of the AI function are immutably fixed, there's not much the AI-meta-system can do to "escape" and do anything terribly nasty.

I do think we're still a ways away from this being an issue. AI is currently still very much constrained to problems a great deal simpler than "writing AI algorithms", which is right up there with the hardest possible things that human intelligences are currently capable of, and that only to a rare few highly trained and highly talented individuals. We're easily decades away from this problem. But when the day comes, well, I wouldn't bet on the self-improving AI experiencing multiple orders-of-magnitude improvement in mere minutes, but I'd sure hate to bet the future of the species that it's not possible. It is not unreasonable to be concerned that the knee could be very steep. We'll know more as we get closer.
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I bet opinions like yours were prevalent when 3D games first came out. "This 3D thing is nice, but why don't you just concentrate on making a better videogames?".
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