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Well, at a logical level, it's one of the biggest existential threats, if 1. it can be done; 2. humans are intelligent enough to pull it off. There is a non 0 chance of AI (and related existential threat), as there is a non 0 chance of a meteorite coming down and wiping all of us off the Earth. But my guess is that most of us would say "YES" to a meteorite deviation project, while "Meh" to any attempt to better understand the AI problem.
But why does Neal Stephenson of all people feel he needs to write as many more novels as possible? Sure, it's good for us that he feels that way, but strange that he thinks he still has something to prove.
The big difference so far is positional tracking. Being able to move your head in a 3D environment is huge, and results in a lot less VR sickness.
More rumors that Apple might drop the 3.5mm headphone jack on the iPhone 7
BlackBerry Priv has a keyboard.
$600 is a bit more than people expected, but it doesn't seem "unreasonable" for a high-end consumer product. When Apple's first computer (the Apple II) came out, the launch price was ~$5,000 in inflation-adjusted dollars. The TRS-80 was the "cheap" computer, and it cost ~$2,300.
Django Rest framework was not always great :) .. In fact, nowadays I prefer to use one called Django Restless.

My argument is just that REST is not the type of problem that should warrant having three competing libraries (see comment above).. It has been pretty fundamental to the way you build modern apps ever since SPAs became a big thing.

To think that Rails got many of these things right-ish in version 1.2 which was released in 2007 is pretty damn impressive and speaks volumes about the technical clairvoyance of the ruby/rails community.
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Self-driving cars will come and save humanity from driving related deaths and ensure a new era of prosperity as humans get to relax while self-driving cars do everything for them.
If you're a 3D artist or programmer you'll probably find uses for it soon enough. Either making 3D art in it (something I've already done at a simple level, and will do more of once more tools are compatible) or making VR applications for other people.
What got me was the fact that the background image is a 3.4 MB (!!) file. Yowzas, talk about page boat.
So I'm wondering who Microsoft would sue under US jurisdiction for Wine implementing Windows APIs.

Its not like there is some central corporate entity behind Wine - Codeweavers sells its own proprietary fork and could be sued, but upstream free software Wine was founded by a guy from Switzerland (outside the jurisdiction of the incredibly barbaric IP around software in the US, at least until the TPP passes and spreads that plague through the Pacific rim, but even then Europe remains safe and sane for now). They could sue any individual contributor to Wine who lives in the US, but there is no way to extract royalties from the Wine project itself.
At least for something like Signal you can compile it yourself. They even provide instructions. So you could avoid gapps for that one with a bit of work.

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/How-to...
The site seems to autocorrect it to MM/YYYY if you enter MM/YY. At least, when it works. Even when I entered the information in manually I got the same vague errors.

I wonder what the purpose of collecting at as MM/YYYY even is given that everyone will have an expiration date of 20YY for a long time; and that when they don't, the ones collected now will be expired so not an issue. Even if they store it locally as 20YY to avoid some bug in 2100 (which would be rather long term thinking at this point), it still makes no sense to collect it that way and to autocorrect. Why not just append the digits on the back end?
They mention that tls-unique is used by FIDO. Does this include the U2F specification that is just getting starting to gain acceptance for two-factor authentication? If so, what does it mean for U2F going forward? Are there (potentially/in theory) issues with using it for 2FA?

(I'm not a crypto guy, obviously...)
I'm not an expert -- but I have heard the number 3.5x thrown around, i.e., the basic point is that a VR-rendered scene is 3.5x as computationally expensive as a standard scene.
The framework might be good, but you need to ditch that video and replace it with some example code. I need to know why it is better than Express or other Node frameworks and what it is like to work with - also you claimed it was next generation. How do you justify that claim?

It could the best framework ever, but without an example all that stuff is useless. The video could help, but it is a) way too long and b) appears to be pretty slow in showing the meat.
From the hardware FAQ on /r/oculus:

"Can I use a weaker PC for basic content?

With weaker hardware, it may be possible to run very graphically simplistic content like virtual desktop, virtual cinema (for watching movies), and 360 videos, however you will be totally on your own without support if you choose to do this, and it is unlikely that there will be many (or any) games that support lower specs.

If you do wish to take this non-recommended path, your PC must at least meet the absolute minimum requirements:

Video Card: GTX 650 / AMD 7750 desktop GPU or better and newer
USB Ports: 2x USB 3.0 ports
Video Output: free HDMI 1.3 output
OS: Windows 7 SP1 64 bit or newer

Remember: The Rift will not run on your laptop, this rule does not change!" https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/wiki/requirements
Well, I actually feel it concerns much more than simply money. The avant-garde - be it technological, artistic or intellectual - has always shown a tendency to join forces with the darkest of regimes during the early stages.
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Yes, also, it's probably in the millions in terms of number of people we'd consider to be living as slaves in NK.
600$? I thought it was rumored to be roundabout 350$?
Still looking forward to it. Looks awesome :)
This might be a better URL to link to: https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/oculus-rift-pre-orders-now.... Shipping to 20 countries starting March 28 and in select retailers in April.
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What's wrong with continuous improvement?

Our entire ethos is that software is never finished.
I stand corrected. I just got a $1 authorization charge placed against my AMEX even though it never once even got to the point of storing my AMEX information as my "Credit Card" in their system.

I guess I should be happy it was only a single authorization charge?
Feature request: make this a Retroarch core so I can play Drug Wars on my TV. Only sort-of joking.
My (older) home PC pretty much hits the minimum (GTX 970 and the 4590 processor, but 16GB RAM). Honestly I couldn't tell you how many USB ports it has, I only use two.

Looks like I'll be holding off consideration until I upgrade :)
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My thoughts as well. Plus the price is roughly comparable to a higher end smartphone. Given the hardware and software involved, it's not terribly far off for a gen 1 device.

I think of the Palm and WinMo phones I paid $500+ for during the early generations of smartphones and it starts to make more sense. And just as I'm sure those devices from Palm and HTC could've been a lot nicer even with the tech of the day, the price would've pushed into the $1000 range. Gen 1 is always gonna be fairly expensive and still not quite as good as you wish it was. With later revisions, price drops and capabilities go up.

The only issue I see here is that rather than looking at relative openness and ability to run in-development software on something like the Vive or the Rift, many people are going to look only at price and wait for something like a $300 Playstation VR headset that's limited to whatever can be sold and approved for a game console.

As I see it, it's still an early-adopter techie toy/luxury so whether it costs $399 or $599, I'd only really buy it if I had that sort of dough in my "fun stuff I don't need" budget. Even as someone who bought a Rift DK2 at launch, I'm both waiting on buying any consumer device and not too concerned with the price difference between a $400 device and a $600 device. If anything ends up striking me as really worth buying, I won't just buy a lesser device to save a couple hundred bucks. I'd rather wait until I see something I really want and will use and not buy anything at all until then.
> 99% of software engineers decide to take enormously strong stands against surveillance even at great personnel cost, and surveillance continues on as if nothing happened, except maybe those who work on it get paid a bit more to make up for decreased supply.

Yup. And the magic of digital content, software being a kind of it - it's infinitely copyable. It takes one guy to write a surveillance package and open-source it or have their company sell it, and everyone can now use it.

It's not engineers who make the decision to use surveillance technology. Hell, for most of the work a software engineer does, most of the data coming from surveillance tech doesn't even matter.
The former needs to sell in order to lead to a cheaper gen 2 and broader ecosystem though.
Unlike a lot of people, I don't think $600 is an insane price to pay for a good piece of good VR kit... The insane part is the fact that they don't even list basic technical specs on the marketing site?! Am I missing something obvious? I'm supposed to drop $600 on a piece of hardware that relies on a high-resolution screen to work well, without knowing the screen's resolution? They know they're selling mostly to nerds at first, right?
This looks awesome. The ORM itself may be the thing that makes me switch to Node.

Are soft deletes planned in the future? I saw that cascading is on the roadmap.
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I actually tried ordering but their website is not really working right now. Both credit cards and paypal seem not to work.
Isn't alchemy the transformation of lead in to gold - that's neither a hoax nor a delusion but instead a performable feat of nuclear physics.

Alchemists (like Boyle) almost certainly weren't working to deceive people nor under a delusion, they were attempting to do something that was not then possible and - in part by their efforts - has now become possible for people [to a degree].
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But who would they fight for?

1) These are random dental hygienists and goatherds, not soldiers.

2) military effectiveness requires leadership and belief in a commander's competence. That is hard to find in the current climate. For these folks, Ned Stark got beheaded a long time ago and they just want to get the hell out of westeros.
I had to pull out my AP stylebook since I couldn't find a copy online, but the colon does mean that in headlines -- along with a few other things. Best link I could find below.

[1] http://web.ku.edu/~edit/heads.html
God help whoever needs to support an environment where AWS makes sense because you can "just go make changes".

Developers want to make changes at will? Be prepared for your PagerDuty onboarding email and your rotation schedule.
Apache Harmony is Apache Licensed, and that license is only comaptible with GPL3+. OpenJDK is GPL2 + classpath exception, so no, Harmony is not a valid derivative work of OpenJDK.

Since the only free software Oracle still maintains is the stuff they couldn't relicense from Sun, and the acquisition was before the GPL3 was finalized and even then Sun would not have been able to relicense all their stuff before being bought out, there is no chance of any Oracle products being Apache compatible in the future.
Hey fellow HNers. I helped build this app along with a large group of volunteers in r/CodersForSanders. I actually learned Swift to build this app in particular. It's backed by a Rails JSON API. The Android app is another 1-2 weeks away from being finished.

As far as I know, this is the first time volunteers have come together and built a canvassing app for a campaign. The campaign heard about it, liked it, and asked if they could absorb it as their own.

Please ask us anything you'd like about its development, and any one of us on the team will be happy to answer.
> The solution here I think is to open the market for more private providers and let the refugees pick and pay for their service

Good news, the service you describe is already there! It's called "people smuggling".
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/powering-the-rift/

Apart from the recommended spec, the Rift will require:

*Windows 7 SP1 or newer
*2x USB 3.0 ports
*HDMI 1.3 video output supporting a 297MHz clock via a direct output architecture

It sounds like being able to pump out 2160×1200 at 90Hz is a fixed requirement, and not all videos cards can even do that based on the connectors available
Actually, even after the bombs were dropped, several high-ranking Japanese military officials were planning a coup to stop those were planning on surrendering to the Allies at that point. There was significant support to fight until the very last.

It is debatable where it was necessary to drop the bombs on populated areas as opposed to Tokyo Bay, but it is without a doubt that the nuclear bomb and subsequent further threat ended the conflict.
Somehow, I just knew a dumb mistake like that was going to make it in. Thanks for the tipoff, I'll record a new voiceover this weekend and edit those bits.
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Is this a serious statement? Have you ever done much in the way of research on North Korea?
Because time has shown again and again the benefits of transactional SQL dbs?
A micro-service is written in two different Functional Programming languages for the JVM. Both services are load tested on AWS and the performance results are compared.
Yep - the computer typeface snuck in there reminded me a bit of Nick Wilding's discovery of a forged Galileo book. There was a two-character chunk of a supposedly letter-press printed word that had blurred in the way things do when you bump a scanner. It turned out it was a forgery created just a decade before, but done with such remarkable expertise that it fooled even the leading Galileo and rare book experts. It's really a fascinating story:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/16/a-very-rare-boo...
> The Rift will not run on your laptop, this rule does not change!

IMHO, this is the biggest issue. The computer landscape has shifted towards laptops/mobile and now this device requires a device whose marketshare is shrinking.
Well i am happy to be proven wrong. Do you have a source/argument?
> Say what you want about our supposed inability to estimate, but I challenge any team to nail estimates within a 20% margin for a large feature on a large app.

Not to be pessimistic but this sounds like stories and tasks needed to be broken out in even finer detail.
You can also drop the leaves into a large trash can and use a string trimmer lowered into the can to chop them as finely as you like. Works just like a giant immersion blender, plus it's cool to take a huge pile and reduce it down to almost nothing.
That is not what's typically meant by surveillance.

Sure, it turns out using centralized web services has helped the government with things such as PRISM, but that doesn't mean we should blame people for those development practices rather than the government.

Prior to PRISM, pretty much any reasonable person would assume that the blobs you store in S3 aren't going to be looked at anyone or, worst case, metadata will be seen by AWS employees for debugging stuff.

What we have done is make things a ton better for developers; we can make things quicker and more easily which empowers society/humanity. The fact that it's incidentally contributed to a surveillance society through no intent of the developers in a way you wouldn't reasonably expect does not make the developers culpable.

It is true that customer data is trusted with a lot of services-of-services nowadays, but do you want to go back to the stone age where the only people who can store anything must run their own hardware with their own databases and so on?

The right thing to do here is to call for better use of encryption where possible and, for surveillance issues, to reign in the unreasonable government programs that make this practice result in such problems.
Ok, I finally got my order through. (If anybody had the same issue: Don't think I did anything differently than before though so it's probably just some part of Oculus' payment system that is under dimensioned...)
I definitely setup autopay as much as possible but I am exploring a single place to pay all my bills from so if I change cards, I won't have to re-enter my info in 20 different places. I've been using paypal whenever a service allows me. This has the desired effect but it isn't universal by any stretch.
It seems like Node is steadily advancing toward being more enterprise-ready in terms of its frameworks.
While IANAL, TI has not objected to emulators in the past; there are third-party freeware emulators available for all of their calculators (including the older 83/84 series, the 68K calculators, and the Nspire).

TI's legal department has tended to draw the line at two points: they don't like illegal copying of their ROMs (so, while they haven't objected to tools which pull a ROM off a real calculator you have in your physical possession, they will send takedown notices if you post those results publicly), and they've become pretty aggressive in working against anything that compromises the integrity of the OS on a physical calculator (because they don't want push-to-test features compromised). Just about anything else goes (and is occasionally encouraged).
> Why should I as a user be forced to upgrade from a system

You aren't forced. But you will be exploited for it, any security vulnerability will destroy your entire operation, and your customers should distrust you for being so stupid.

Its not that you made a mistake trying to keep the system running. Your mistake was using a proprietary foundation with no commitment from the provider it will be supported forever. So of course you have no option when the rug is pulled out from under you - but that was your mistake. If you were built on top of Linux 2.4 like the superposter said, you could just pay the developer costs to maintain it yourself.
Ummmm and women as well, as he is horribly sexist.
That's odd, I've been using a laptop to demo Rift tech for some time...

(Although it's quite a beefy laptop, optimised for 3D work.)
Interesting tweet from Palmer (https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/684772857625231360) on high load and fraud. Always interesting to see large launches not considering load/security on the web app. Out of curiosity, why is www.oculus.com not using a CDN (direct to AWS), and shop.oculus.com not using a CDN with rate control capabilities.
Going back to your boss . . . not recommended . . .

y, most likely you're never going to convince your boss that you're only productive 3 or 4 hours per day . . . if anything you'll be bringing scrutiny on what you accomplish daily and possibly lower reviews/raises/advancement.

Very few companies are open to anything less than 40 hours per week or even 4 day work weeks.

I would put your efforts in to finding a company/boss that does or work on starting your own thing in your extra time.

Good luck in 2016, fight the good fights.
Kind of like saying to buy a car you need a $300k house with a garage, when in fact many of the people buying a car already have a house with a garage.

That's also not a "killer" desktop. The 290 is a a 2.5 year old card. The GTX 970 is equivalent to a 680 or 780. The 680 came out almost four years ago. If you had no computer at all, you could build that system for ~$700 - $750 ($200 CPU, $100 Mobo, $200 Used GPU, $50 RAM, $75 SSD, $100 Tower+PSU).

But that's immaterial, as most early buyers of the Rift have hardware that meets the requirements above. And four USB ports? A $10-$20 powered USB hub solves that. Wouldn't surprise me if it came with one.
That's going to be incredibly dependent upon your state and local taxes.
If you're not an early adopter enthusiast: it may not be a great idea to purchase this right now. You will probably need a PC upgrade to match your new $675 toy. The new generation of Intel/Nvidia is right around the corner. Don't dig yourself into a hole where you buy current flagship and need to upgrade it 9 months down the road from now for Q4's toy.
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The deed is done. I guess I have about 2 months to figure out how to convincingly explain to my wife, just as our baby is born, that it's a business expense and I neeeeeed it.
OpenJDk's initial release was May 8th, 2007. Android was already far along in development by that point.
Same reaction here. I'm not used to reading American prices, and the missing dot scared me as I didn't expect anything higher than $1000.
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I really think it's time for guides to be written that don't contain the advice to disable all IPv6 support. IPv6 is coming. It's 2015 and categorically disabling (or actually just breaking) IPv6 definitely isn't good advice any more.

Yes. The article did qualify that advice with "unless you're using it...", but people should be doing v6, so advice should include v6 too.
That's awfully close to the Vive's ship date as well, this should be interesting...
Not so much among PC gamers, from what I've seen. And that's really the market that matters. Not many other segments are still buying high power desktops, but they certainly are.
33 minutes start to finish, it finally went through.

Palmer's thread on twitter "insanely high load": https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/684772857625231360
Will wait to see how all the major players compare Oculus, HTC/Steam, PS4's VR and let's not forget some interesting alternatives like http://castar.com/.
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Not an expert here, but Forbes doesn't seem like the go-to site for astronomy news.
I work in tech (but started and sold several companies previously). Of the first three friends who have assistants that come to mind: two are CEOs and one runs a hedge fund. I guess no surprises :)
The mistake is not what they are using, the mistake is every person today falling into that trap. We know it exists, yet everyone is still buying Windows computers running versions of a proprietary operating system we know Microsoft will stop supporting within 8 years (at least for Vista through 8, we still have no idea what Microsoft is doing with 10 going forward, and they honestly can do whatever they want - they control the software).

I mourn those stuck on XP, destined to be exploited for eternity by the thousands of malware payloads targeting them now, but you are right in nothing can be done about them really. But the real injustice is every person without the time to learn new systems (and that is a barrier on Windows and Linux - try switching someone from XP to 10 and it as massive a leap, or even more massive, than going from XP to Lubuntu).
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"turns fans into suckers"?

I would think spending time and money watching millionaires wearing shiny spandex pants give each other brain trauma in billion dollar stadiums paid with our tax money makes us suckers regardless of the existence of Fantasy Football.