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> I have to accept that it's possible to be happy, even knowing that I gave some things up for other things.

I was just contemplating this the other day. I concluded that it is better to look at what you gained with your choices vice what you lost.
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> How would the blockchain deliver this info to the user in a concise, readable way?

Easy, the rating system is part of the blockchain. An app would consume the blockchain and determine what to display, just like bitcoin apps right now. In fact, it's easier for me to imagine a rating system using the blockchain rather than a ridesharing platform.
Interesting, but I was thinking more of USA orange news-casters.

Whilst I'm on my high horse, because I don't watch tv when I see CNN in our building lobby I always find it so weird how the reporters, especially the women, employ body language to emphasize their point. There is no volume on just the image and they are nodding so vociferously and making hand gestures. They look deranged.

They obviously all get taught this as a way to get their point across but look quite mad.
It's not that easy.

If a team member gets sick for a week, it can already be impossible to meet the goals of a two-week sprint.

It happens (not so often, but it does) that we underestimate the complexity of a task by a factor 5 or so; that alone can also make it impossible to meet the goals.

There are just too many things that lead to building pressure when there's no actual need for pressure from a business point of view.
If you use twitter, I'd recommend following a couple of Javascript groups, this will help keep you informed. Also follow a couple of JavaScript publications on Medium too.

It's important that you are always updated as a developer because tech is really fast-paced, I was not fortunate enough to know this when I started programming 4 years ago in college because we had poor/no internet connection.

But with regular internet connection, I have learnt a lot and in a very short time.

I cannot not over-emphasize the importance of having steady source of programming info, especially if you do not have a mentor around you as was my case too starting out.

Also familiarize yourself with Git, create a github account because many companies use it a lot for collaboration.

PS: I live in West-Africa and I currently work remotely as a software developer for companies in New York and San-Fransisco and write a lot JavaScript daily.
If they're ditching the 3.5mm jack to get thinner, I'm not sure they're going to switch to the thicker USB-C connector.

It made sense to move to USB-C on the MacBook where it replaces every other connector and makes their product more aesthetically attractive and thin.

On the phone they already have a thinner connector with a much thinner plug. It also allows them to have a high-markup proprietary adapter market.
That's how I justified the KickStarter.. boy has that paid off! :D
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Your resume is mostly about word smithing. What you have done, major projects, accomplishments and career goals. Make sure to include the alphabet soup of acronyms for technologies you have worked with, and reinforce them in your work history. Proof/portfolio work is a separate issue.

Build something slightly more than trivial for yourself, and host it somewhere. This can even be your resume/personal website. Put the relevant code up on Github under an appropriate license. Bonus points for actually using Github Pages to self-publish your project. Bonus points for automating this. Travis-CI is a free option, and you can encrypt your GH credential information to publish on a merge/commit to master.

If you're using modern JS tooling, modularize what you can into discrete npm modules, and re-use what's already available. This will show far more than what is on your resume.

These are just suggestions, if your work history doesn't demonstrate a strong knowledge/aptitude on its' own, your GH profile can account for a lot.

Also, interview and other soft skills are important. About half of the work I've had the past decade has been via connections at local user groups. If you have local C#/.Net or JS/Node user groups, start going regularly. Most will meet once or twice a month in most major metro areas. Phoenix, for example, has 5 technology groups around .Net, 3 around JS/Node and others on IoT and Web tech that you could go to meetings every evening if you wanted to. Every meeting tends to have at least a few people actively hiring.
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So the idea is that private enterprises are able to run refugee centers cheaper and more efficiently than the government. Unfortunately, it doesn't work and is a myth. It's a myth that fits hacker news because we are all entrepreneurs here..

Private companies have just as much waste as the government. One random example: Pension funds. The private ones are all more expensive than the government run ones. A share of the income needs to go to marketing and profits -> higher prices. Common sense.

All across the board it is the same situation, and it has been shown in study after study. Health care, train operators, retirement homes, banks, military... , banks.. When private enterprises take over prices go up and the service level goes down. Again, it's common sense, a number of private companies fighting for market share and profits are more wasteful than one government organization run with zero profit.

I forgot. One counter-example is telecom which has benefited from privatization. But it is an area in which a lot has happened in the last two decades so it is not clear privatization is the sole cause of it.

I was asked for links:

http://www.sns.se/sites/default/files/konkurrensens_konsekve...
http://www.su.se/om-oss/press-media-nyheter/pressmeddelande-...
http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/McNulty_InterimRe...

Maybe use Google Translate to read them.
That is not the reason bartenders are not supposed to give drunks more alcohol. If the person is already drunk and the bartender refuses to give them more, do you think that would encourage the person to remain at the bar or leave?

Why do you think heroin or meth are illegal? Those substances are only hurting the person using them, right?
I bet you think you're clever with this dismissal of sports and that nobody who actively enjoys sports is aware of the objective nature of what's going on.
> […] any ethical objections I may have are meaningless, as the only thing I can do to object is lose all my household income and be replaced by someone more pliant.

“How do you know the chosen ones? ‘No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother.’ Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person. In the dark, where no one will ever know, or see.”

— Babylon 5, Season 2, episode 21, Comes the Inquisitor, 1995
The blockchain doesn't move currency, either. You are thinking of the blockchain as a living organism rather than what it is, a store of information.
> And it means we will have decent competition to the Rift, for those who don't want Facebook monitoring our every glance and gesture.

Howso? I was super interested in the Rift, until it was acquired. Now I have absolutely no interest in it.
I don't mind the criticism constructive or otherwise.

I have already sketched out where to take part 2 and filled in some of the sections. That being said the 80/20 rule applies here like everywhere else.

That being said, if anyone wants to collaborate on part 2, feel free to ping me at rjones@mailgunhq.com and we make a mailing list.
As someone old enough to remember that time, no one said that.
He talks about it with Tim Ferriss in his podcast. That might add to the understanding.

That's all I got as to guessing why.
I've read that some of the old cities of Europe are so difficult to get around in as to constitute a significant drag on economic activity.
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What is your definition of a "private citizen"? Does it, say, exclude anyone who the government (or parts of it) would consider worthy of retaliation by definition? If one has enough of an audience to embarrass the government, it might just so happen that one doesn't fall under your definition of "private citizen" anymore?

(Also: "random citizen" or "private citizen"? A citizen who criticizes the government is barely a "random citizen".)
He might have seemed to gloss over it because he's written an entire book about it called "Who Own's the Future".
Have you have ever used the "flex" nib? I wonder if anyone found some "use" out of it that couldn't be done by just pressure feel adjustment.
Not true, they sold it on Mr Porter
Release cycle for VR is not less than a year. I've read anywhere between 1 (mobile) and 10 (console) years.
A lot of people felt the same way about Smart phones, until cheaper options with decent features arrived. Now nearly every one agrees with the utility of smart phones, to a point most people would find quite difficult to live without one.

The same will unfold with VR over coming years. Affordable options with great content and applications can make this a common place gadget.

I currently live in a living room, disturbance and lack of privacy are the biggest annoyances. Something like this looks like an ideal way to create a wall of privacy regardless of who is around. The use cases for such a device are uncountable.
> what

Any kind of abuse of power. The penalties for that should be severe. It's one of the few cases where I think that the penal system should be used as a means of discouragement rather than as one of education and rehabilitation.
How many years till they start analyzing the DNA for behavioural risk factors?
Along with the broadcast advertising partnerships, DK and FD also have significant financial partnerships with many of the major sports leagues (NFL, MLB, etc.), which makes things a little awkward.
If you read the article, you would find out that the blockchain could store information about the driver. All rides would be public, so your app can determine a rating for any particular driver.
We have a TV but we don't get broadcast television, only on-demand. You don't have to invite the worst people in - for example we've sat down and watched the RI Christmas lectures (http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures) together.

We also use the TV for gaming/DVDs.

Initially we went cold turkey on the TV but then we used one for DVDs only and eventually slipped back to watching shows (primarily via BBC iPlayer). Partly because we hadn't accounted for the cost of the hobbies we dreamt of filling our time with; instead we continue to live vicariously through the on-screen experiences of others.
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Fair enough. I started skimming around halfway through so I missed that.

I'd agree that there are limits to what you can read into the method of delivery, but:

I think anger and indignance are valid attitudes to have, and that seems largely what he's defending. They're not like smugness in that I can still imagine someone sincerely caring about the truth having them.

I'd also point out that I react with discomfort when I see smugness from my side, and annoyance when I see smugness from the other side, and these are physiological reactions that can't exactly be controlled.

I guess I didn't see much actual content in the Bond article (ironically, most of _that_ article was criticizing method of delivery), so the method of delivery was all I had to comment on.
> ask yourself "If I were a hobbyist building a Bitcoin exchange where would I host it?" then don't host there.

What's the rationale for this? This would seem to rule out inexpensive VPS hosts like DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode, that are good not only for hobbyists, but for small companies on a shoestring budget. Are you saying something like AWS is better simply because it's less attractive to hobbyists?
Well, he could also be hurting his family. Imagine a gambler betting the children's college fund.

The damage is not as impactful and severe, but it is still damage.

But I'm still not convinced about your parents first sentence.
The whole HTC/Valve "roomscale" thing with the chaperone system is pretty remarkable.
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Can you point me to, let's say, three of these studies?
I would argue that price (and this being a high one) could just as easily lead to ruin.

The quality of a user's experience with the Oculus is going to be directly correlated to the quantity and quality of games/experiences available for the device. Even if it's silky smooth and you can use it for hours on end without issue if you run out of quality content in two hours there's a problem. Quantity/quality are even more important to the user after making such a significant investment.

The problem here is if developers will be able to make money creating quality experiences for Oculus if the userbase is tiny because no one can afford one. The user market is already being fractured by the different units available - if I develop a game for the HTC Vive (which supports room tracking) is it easy or even possible to port the experience to the Oculus?

Developing a high quality gaming experience is EXPENSIVE, and AAA regularly do not recoup their costs even when they're being offered to a huge user base (XBOX/PS4/PC/etc). Due to the nature of VR a quality experience is going to require a significant investment to build. If companies can't recoup that cost they'll stop developing and if there aren't any killer experiences people will stop buying the Rift.

For Oculus (or any of the upcoming units) to be successful they need to walk the line between quality and price, and I'm not sure they've done it.

I'm starting to think Sony is in a better position even though it's looking like they have inferior hardware.
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Superior DOM API is the biggest utility of jQuery anyway.
We are still a good 5 years from any real benefit of machine learning and AI systems. So much research needs to be done still. All the bots we are creating a cool toys, but any real impact is still years ago. We need the Einstein of ML to find his theory of relativity.
Thanks, the DO's and DON'TS were heavily inspired by a talk given by Colin Percival called "Everything you need to know
about cryptography in 1 hour". You can check it out here: https://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/attachments/135_crypto1...

It's really good!
There are very little things that can happen totally unexpectedly and that you can avoid once you know about them. Yes, a falling rock can crush your car, but there is not much you can do about it. My point is that if you are driving on a mountain road with a steep cliff, you should be driving slowly. If you see rocks on the road, you can expect larger rocks on the road ahead of you and you should be driving slowly. If you have to make the decision between driving off the road and falling off a mountain, or driving through people, you are driving badly and self-driving cars shouldn't be allowed to drive badly.
It's not just flat-Earthers. I suspect this is reflective of some broader psychological phenomenon- what the article calls "conspiracy-theory psychology", but I don't think that quite covers it. I recently came across someone who was just as religiously convinced that JavaScript was not Turing-complete. No amount of mathematical argument could convince him otherwise. He didn't claim any conspiracy, just had an utter refusal to consider any evidence. It was surreal.
That's fair. Seeing an impressive example of the tech put to good use might get me excited about it, something beyond another 3D "walking around" simulator.

Maybe it's one of those technologies that needs a breakthrough moment, or to reach critical mass to where mainstream adoption starts occurring. Because right now it feels very "really? We're trying to make this happen again?" to me.
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It's not Xbox One compatible either.
> Compare that to the whole of Europe, where you have maybe one per decade.

Really? There are a couple Wikipedia entries you should read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting#Europe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers_(Europ...

There have been two mass murderers in Switzerland alone in the last 15 years, and it's basically the size of Dallas/Fortworth. Not to mention, y'know, recent events in Paris.
This seems really short-sighted on Firefox's part.
The best bet for Oculus and VR companies, in my opinion, is not to approach the market assuming that VR is going to be everywhere and used for everything in a few years. Sometimes, that's a safe assumption (like with the iPhone), but with a technology that has as many caveats as VR, marketing the product as if it's going to change everyone's life is the best way to torpedo it.

Case in point - Google Glass. I think Glass could have found viability in specific uses, but they marketed as "people are going to wear this everywhere!" and the resulting backlash completely destroyed the concept in the mind of the consumer.

Not everything has to be an overnight success, or requires every person on the planet using it to be successful. HDTV took years and years to gain traction, during which time the technology improved and became cheaper by leaps and bounds.

I think the current Oculus marketing message - "we know it's expensive; the technology is still improving; we don't really know exactly what the killer apps and best uses cases are for VR yet; this is targeted at hobbyists and people who want to push the envelope and set the stage for the next phase of VR" - is right on. They should stick with that and make sure they don't drift into "VR will revolutionize your life and your social network" territory. Let the early adopters figure out what to do with it.
loved it! just one question : when the universe expanded, why did the size of the spheres, the rocket and the asteroid remain constant? shouldn't they expand too?
That reads like you intended it as both a personal and national slur, which would be a bannable offence on HN. Please don't comment like this here.
If a hub solved the problem, they probably would have integrated it into their hardware. I suspect that it won't play nice with many hubs.
Of all the time and effort that must have went into this, you are complaining about the sound of his voice?
exactly, the high price tag was to discourage (but not actually preventing) normal consumers from buying it and being burned by a poor experience.
I hate when marketing tries to add value or justify cost with bundles, add-ons or promotional items. None of those items appeal to me and I'd rather buy a barebones kit and save $50.

I don't need a wireless xbox controller, I have 2 sitting right next to me.

I have no interest in those two games, they'll be thrown on the stack of AOL floppies, Colin McRae: Dirt download codes, and McAfee CDs I have gathering dust in the corner.

The headphones are nice I guess if you don't have wireless ones but I do so they'll be relegated to the bin.

The Oculus Remote doesn't appear to be integral, it just looks like an optional accessory you could use instead of another input means.
These seem to be good reasons for the alleged move by Apple. My personal experience has always been horrible with 3.5mm jack especially on the connector side. My Android phone is already huge and it almost sticks out of my pocket. Add the height of a headphone connector to it (some are huge) and you have to be surgical when taking the phone out of your pocket and putting it back in.

I'm actually looking forward to a well built, long lasting, high quality audio bluetooth adapter that I can plug my headphones to. I won't mind recharging the adapter and considering that Android 6 phones can charge other devices, this isn't as bad as it sounds.
Oh man, the people complaining in /r/oculus on Reddit. Insane.
With regard to "vestigial monotheism": I think what you're describing is just a property of discourses in general, in that they're all built around bodies of knowledge which have fixed points [assumptions/truths/whatever], and that participants act in such a way as to keep those things stable.

Definitely seen things like this before, very poignant. Not to knock on Kurzweil and friends too hard [lots of interesting stuff in both spaces obviously], but I've had this vibe from talking with self-described Singularitarians as well (there's some overlap between those circles).
Simplified, generic, basic guide follows. You can probably find a guide for hardening all these individual things on your system, so trying to enumerate them all would be a losing game.

Primary question to ask yourself: What connections are allowed from the internet into each host, protocol and port on your network?

Primary task: Firewall off all traffic coming into your servers from the internet to be only web and VPN access.

Secondary question to ask yourself: What stuff can run on my servers, and by whom, and what access do those users have?

Secondary task: Limit the users who can run programs, limit what parts of the system those users can view or modify, limit the programs that can run, limit the files and directories that can be accessed.

Tertiary question to ask yourself: Is my software full of bugs or security flaws?

Tertiary task: Use software designed to be secure by default, configure it to be secure, and update it for security patches constantly. Note that this does not mean "upgrade it constantly".

Additional considerations: Don't use shared accounts, don't use root, use keys/certificates whenever possible, use a separate machine for the VPN, put some sort of network intrusion detection/firewall/defense-in-depth/blah blah network appliance in front of the public facing servers, use a web application firewall, monitor your logs for unusual behavior, and get someone who's very familiar with security to double-check your setup (read: break into your servers and tell you the holes they found)
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> in VR dropping frames / latency directly maps to motion sickness, so it's not a case of "eh, I can deal with the framerate not being super solid" like it can be on normal gaming.

Do you have any articles/papers about this? I'm not doubting you, just curious!
Well, the $599 price is close to double their "ballpark price" of $350. It also comes just days after they announced they're giving away ~7,000 free Rift units as a special thank-you to those who Kickstarted the devkits.

Right now they have a serious expectation management problem with their price - they're turning off customers because they nearly doubled their asking price overnight. Those free units would translate into a sizeable discount for their paying retail customers, so I argue that the problem here is both real and self-inflicted.
No, we're building ELIZA with larger databases. You can't take any research we have on hand today and say "a natural extension of this leads to consciousness". Part of that is because we don't even understand what consciousness is. Part of that is because we don't have any realistic work beyond pattern matching.

That's why it's not rational. There is no fact you can exploit to come to this conclusion. That's called "faith", regardless of the particular subject matter.

A little faith is important. We didn't know if the first astronauts would survive orbit, and we didn't really have any data to prove it unequivocally. We just had faith that our limited understanding wasn't missing anything and the only way we could find out would be to put people in orbit. We found out soon enough.

But it's really, really a bad idea to call something rational when it's really faith, just because you don't want to be associated with religion.
Seems like:

export default class ...

would be the clearest and least bug-prone and satisfies the "no extra closures" complaint. Considering you're buying into other ES6isms, why not use that one too?