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That's a good point, and I agree with you to an extent. But there have already been plenty of opportunities for Facebook to muck things up since the acquisition. The fact that they haven't done so in any way does count for something in my mind.

Also, I think the increasing pressure from HTC and Sony is showing pretty convincingly that Oculus would have been in a lot of trouble if they didn't receive solid financial backing from a larger partner like FB. The Vive has already pulled on ahead of the Rift in terms of offering a much more versatile tracking solution in the form of the Lighthouse stations. PlayStation VR is the sleeping giant in the room that nobody's really talking about.

Oculus is not going to be able to rest on their reputation for long and still win the VR game. VR is slowly becoming high stakes; it's not a harmless little Kickstarter campaign anymore.

If it's true that they're not making any money on the $600 CV1, then it seems to me that they desperately needed FB or a similar partner.

Ultimately, we're faced with a dilemma where the deeper we go into the Oculus + Facebook timeline, the further we move away from being able to predict what might have happened if Oculus had never been acquired. If FB does something to upset people (like requiring FB login), there might be a lot of outrage, but nobody will be able to say for certain that Oculus could have even remained competitive without FB. It won't be long before we reach a point where nobody will be able to competently know what we should be comparing FB-owned Oculus to in this hypothetical alternate timeline where Oculus was never bought.

The good news is that if Facebook does seriously muck things up there are great competitors who will gladly take your money instead. I just don't think there's any sense in condemning the Rift based on some hypothetical future wrongdoing from a company that has so far treated the platform quite well, especially taking into account the fact that we don't really know how well Oculus would have fared without the acquisition.
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Compiled versions of Java libraries and apps would ruin the whole ecosystem and basically the best thing about Java. The CLR is a good compromise but in the end its not that much better.

Hindsight is always 20/20 so it really doesn't surprise me any rewrite is faster than the previous version.
I recall reading a book by Rodney Brooks where IIRC he recounts his time in the MIT AI lab and how Marvin Minsky prose him certain problems to solve.

I think this was in reference to a robot turtle or something to that affect.
I find the exact opposite to be most effective with myself and the others I have seen in groups around me. Eat food that is nutrient dense and filling and take out empty carbs and you can succeed at eating less a whole lot easier. And that is when people who have been overweight for a long time succeed in the long term.
I found the BPG was stuttering.

Tried to just view the BPG alone by right clicking and "view image". it just gave a static png though. Amusingly the URL of the static picture is amazingly long (at least thousands of bytes) and does nasty things to my computer when I tried to copy it.

Edit: It actually appears to be the images encoded since it starts with "data:image/png;base64"
Note that kids don't reach the formal operational development stage until they're ~11 on average. Until then, expecting them to do abstract (formal) reasoning will be about as successful as expecting a chimp to do so.

And, on the converse, in previous centuries, you'd often see people only start learning math from the beginning in their late teens or early twenties—the time when they first attended "university" without previously attending a grammar or seminary school. These 20-year-olds would be able to pick math all up quite quickly, proceeding from addition and multiplication to calculus and beyond within a year or two.

This suggests to me that what we think of as "mathematical aptitude" is far more a measure of developmental age than anything else. I think a large part of why kids hate math is that we try to cram concepts into their brains when those brains aren't yet the right "shape" to take in those concepts. I expect that offsetting every part of the mathematical curriculum at least two years upward—if not far more—would do wonders for attrition rates.

My belief is that we could even fit all the same curriculum in by the end of public high school: although you'd be "squishing" more of the learning into the later years, the stronger minds kids would have at a higher age would allow them to acquire each successive concept both more quickly and more thoroughly, serving as a better base for the learning going forward, which would in turn be accelerated by that base.
When the user grants permission to a site, how does that permission work? By domain or resolved IP address? If it's by domain and there's no HPKP for it (and IP not cached), the MITM can send a malicious IP through DNS for any domain. The server at malicious IP can fake being whatever domain and the attack will work.
> I think that the only hope for a good API is to actually have an API. Bukkit was the correct way to go from the start, forge is not an API.

However, most of the more interesting mods still could not possibly exist for Bukkit, due to it's server side status, so I can't see any MS API faring any better than Bukkit
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I don't even get to spot the difference. For some reason on my box chrome pegs the cpu at 25% for about 30 seconds then asks me to kill the page. Stripping out the alternate format, the other one plays instantly and with minimal cpu usage.
Yes to your OpenCL stuff, no to your reverse-engineering stuff. The post you linked is about generating your own native shaders on GCN. GPUOpen could possibly expose that, but that's a difficult problem to expose to developers considering the variety of architectures exposed at any time by the IHVs (including just inside one IHV at any time). If they did go down that path, they would open up their internal bytecode-to-native-ISA shader compiler...which they haven't done yet, and have shown no indication of doing.
I'd argue that the purpose of justice is to ensure that a society can be sustainable in the long term.

That means justice is combination of deterrence and rehabilitation to a. discourage behaviours that are detrimental to society as a whole and b. to ensure that the offender ceases that behaviour and becomes a productive member of society again.

'Punishment' can play as small or as large a part in point (a) as you want, but the more you make it a large part of (a), the less success you will have with point (b). And failing at point (b) means you effectively fail point (a) - ie offenders coming out of the justice system who can't integrate back into society often reoffend.
I remember reading a blog post where somebody talked about how they severely decreased Minecraft's performance after refactoring and replacing function calls with separate X, Y and Z parameters to using a single Position object, which would of course in many instances have to be allocated on the fly. I can't seem to find it anymore, though.
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Clearly the problem is that the executions are too humane. We should create a gradual system of corporeal punishments instead. Like chopping thieves' hands off or cutting liars' tongues out. That would obviously work far better.

/s
I had a '94 (last year in the US). Had it up to 130 MPH with 4 people in it and the sunroof open, and it was silent. Man I loved that car. Now I'm married with 2 kids and drive a minivan. At least I sold it to another enthusiast.
Here's a link for the (download-able) pdf: http://www.physics.utah.edu/~starykh/phys7640/Lectures/Feynm...
Oh, you mean like this giant bank which laundered money from the Mexican mafia?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-...
Sure, the board may rarely actually hold a vote on a given direction, but their ability to vote to remove the CEO is a huge threat hanging over the CEO. If a majority of the board favors a certain direction, even if they don't hold a vote on it, that exerts enormous pressure on the CEO to follow that direction.

In that sense, we are saying the same thing. I agree that "control" does not require voting by the board. I do assert that investors with board seats exert far more control that those without, and investors with higher equity positions exert more control than those with less. I also assert that an equity stake of 1.5% exerts very little control. Again, YC exerts _influence_ (call it control if you want) simply because of their reputation for being good at what they do, but 1.5% ownership barely changes that equation.
You're comparing something known (the Rift as offered up for pre-order by FB-owned Oculus) with something unknown (the Rift as it might have been offered up for pre-order by an independent Oculus).

Many details might have been different in this alternate history: price, timeline, quality, bundled games, future games as funded by Oculus, and more.

Unfortunately I don't know if any of us really have the information necessary to make a truly correct comparison.
Doom and Quake mods existed in a world before sketchy download sites. And today, most Doom and Quake mods seem to be hosted on websites dedicated to either just those games or mods in general (and I say this having spent some of this past weekend revisiting Quake and Doom mods).

Minecraft modding seems to be centered around a third-party controlled forum with ad-interstitial links to pay-per-impression downloads from some sketchy file hosts. The whole thing is super sketchy. And the fact that you're basically patching in compiled code (that can do bad things to your system, as there is no limited API or scope-limited runtime like in Quake and Doom modding) makes it really, really scary to get those mods running.
Does anyone know why the APNG format was rejected by the PNG group? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG)

It seems like a great replacement for animated GIFs.
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It was a one-man hobby project turned into one of the biggest video games. I doubt many codebases would work well after growing so far past their original aspirations.
Roger Penrose writes about how fractions are incorrectly taught in school in the preface of "Road to Reality" always the pie visual is used as an approximation which later confuses students.
Interesting to note that the MP4 stops playing when off-screen, while BPG does not. Also, I too find the BPG quality worse.
Well I think in general that's a problem with a centralized anything.

We need a decentralized github.
This is interesting. I volunteer at a homework-help clinic for public housing kiddos. They've heard "the answer is right but you got there the wrong way" a lot. It's frustrating to work with the kids, because they say "if I do it that way, the teacher will say I'm wrong."

And, I basically don't have a clue about how they're being taught to do this stuff. Any sane person turns 2 x 15 into 2 x 16 - 2 or 10 + 10 + 5 + 5.

But this Common Core arithmetic is not quite sane. The intention is to teach reasoning skills, but the reality is that some curriculum-writer's idea of reasoning skills has become codified. Grumble.

You'll be missed, Dr. Minsky. So long, and thanks for all your teaching.
required.acks works together with min.insync.replicas.

Basically "required.acks" lets you choose between "no acks", "leader only" and "all in sync replicas", while min.insync.replicas lets you control what "all in sync replicas" actually mean.
Regardless of the unit eating less will make you lose weight.
Back when I was in high school, they used to break my class into to groups: those who study German and those who study English. I was in English class. I don't see why this won't work for mathematics. Break students into two groups: ones that never question anything and those who can't move forward until their why questions are answered in a satisfactory manner. The first group can study precalculus, computational analysis, matrix methods....basically anything that can be done by rote. The second group could be introduced to proof writing, beginnings of set/category theory, abstract algebra/topology, statistical inference...
- Why should I care about the backing CA as long as all browsers accept it?

- You can register up to 100 subdomains in a certificate and up to 5 certificates per domain/week. With their certificate expiry set at 3 months, that comes out to about 6,000 subdomains you can register. I know there are some setups where every user gets a subdomain. But I'd wager that less than 1 in 10000 LE users would run into these limits. (which may actually be lifted when the beta period ends).

- LE doesn't offer any paid certificates so it's really hard to spin this as a shareware-style incentive to spend money with them.
It's so exciting get so powerful tool in my browser, even with debug feature. This is future....
The finished product is only useful as 'Art'. However, you can actually make useful things with a similar approach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_furnace

IMO, this is just cool as an easy to understand 3d printer.
Yeah, I think in this case T-Mobile was re-encoding anything in HTTP, so the stream appeared to be full quality but wasn't. Simple QoS would keep the quality down and the bandwidth low, but hopefully it would be more apparent that a better quality stream exists but is not being delivered.
They're not doing it to stop him from killing others. They're doing it to make him an example so others don't kill guards.

The quote pretty much straight up says that it's an intentional cruel punishment to deter others from doing the same.
Consider setting up an office in Bangalore, you can find great developers here and considering the cost of living differences you won't have to pay a lot.
They shouldn't have to follow exactly the same rules as taxis; regulations usually distinguish between taxis (which can accept street hails) and call-a-ride services (which can't) -- though the two are usually confused because you often hear "let me call you a cab", which will summon a ride.

They reserve lighter regulations for call-a-ride since there's much better authentication (it's "look for Paul with this license plate" rather than "get in this random car"); a separate, audited, non-cash payment channel; and a third party monitoring it. The distinction long-predated apps.

Comparisons to reckless gypsy cabs are unwarranted.
The device will stand alone without Oculus software (besides drivers), so you definitely will be able to use it without a Facebook login.
MS hasn't, to date, mentioned any VR products. Their focus seems to be on the AR Hololens, which doesn't really compete with Occulus.
Not only is that true, but the first R is also the one providing the least value to society, aside from sating the vengeance-lust of generally uninvolved parties.
Edit: realized I had a contextual homonym typo... and it has been too long so I can't edit. (Why does HN do that... gah)

> or Claim-Monetize (claim content, ad advertisements

ad --> adds

Which is an interesting distinction because this means content that had no in video ads (pop over text ads, pre-roll ads, trueview ads) can get ads added to it when it is claimed, if that is what the claimer chooses to do.
It surely is. But how does Merlin help with that?
This is what I see after I install Spacemacs on my Macbook:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e6vhweatnrb98ow/spacemacs.png?dl=0

Are you _sure_ it is something usable? :)
Deterrence exists, but all the research (in the US) suggests it's caused by certainty of punishment, not magnitude of punishment. A two-week stint in jail that's almost guaranteed will do far more to deter criminals than a ten-year stint that almost never happens.

Unfortunately, it's much easier to crank up the penalties and posture as "tough on crime" than it is to make sure police are actually closing cases.
Chat is definitely becoming the default way of operating small to mid-sized agile teams (Slack specifically for us). It's fascinating how much more productive we have become through it.

We're already moving towards completely distributing the team, all remote. 2016/17 seems to become the year when remote-default teams become not just possible, but easier than co-located teams. The tools are almost there.
p.s. I love how trying to genuinely be helpful has resulted in an onslaught of downvotes.

I wish people wouldn't do that. It does appear that Namecheap has behaved very poorly in this case, intentionally or otherwise. Sadly, downvoting a person who works for an organisation has become a proxy for downvoting the organisation itself on HN recently, which doesn't seem constructive, particularly if that person is trying to share relevant information and/or improve the situation.
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It's been a long long time since I've seen a developer using a Windows laptop. I don't think you're living in a bubble....it's like that everywhere. Every student in my undergrad CS program was using Macs, everyone at my work uses Macs, every place I've interviewed provide Macs to their employees (including huge companies like Google and Facebook).
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Lol,apologist scum.

The President had no problem ignoring TORTURE, or engaging in multiple illegal wars, condoning war crimes, lying repeatedly to the American people, pursuing whistle blowers, the list goes on and on, Obama is a corrupt and evil man.

Lol, its a farce to read what you write.
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Facebook has a pretty good record of non-interference with acquisitions, especially in the user-facing sense that you're describing. It will be even more true for Oculus, because Oculus was not a competitor to Facebook like Instagram, and, to a lesser extent, WhatsApp.

Facebook buying Oculus was a two-billion dollar bet on virtual reality being the next big platform, and to have that bet pay off, Facebook has to play the long game, and let Oculus and the virtual reality market grow.

Facebook isn't stupid or myopic enough to require a Facebook login to use Oculus products. It makes absolutely no sense when you consider the reasons that Facebook bought Oculus.
Why the false dichotomy?
Whoa, sorry about the double title. Nowhere near as cool as a double rainbow.
TL;DR: "And then, as it happens, 16 years ago I ended up finishing this 150-year process, by finding—largely as a side effect of other science I was doing—the provably very simplest possible axiom system for logic, that actually happens to consist of just a single axiom.", says Stephen Wolfram.

So, although the article is seemingly about George Boole and his work, the real hero is the always humble Stephen.
No I did see that. My response is

1) As my parent notes, He's still president. Time has not yet run out.

2) Publishing his opinion in the Washington Post is part of pushing for legislation, especially when we are talking about state systems over which he has no authority.
Well, I was wrong. I was fully expecting the rewrite to be in C# to get the Java people to switch to C#, not in C++.
So I take it then that working remote with founders was actually much more successful than the folks at YC originally thought it would be? Because I remember sama saying that he was very skeptical the remote thing would work.
I can only speculate on this aspect (from inside the industry), but it's been plain to see that AMD has been hemorrhaging engineers (though they still have plenty of talent). This relates to your request about getting built-in support: I'm not sure AMD has the manpower to do that work, and they might be hoping the OSS community helps them with that...
That is and will continue to be one of the biggest concerns for the GPU market for some time now.

I assume that after a few years, factories will be buying computers, cameras, and GPUs instead of people for inspection.

This will be a large market, and that's what NVIDIA understood when they started making ties with different companies. AMD has a lot of catch up to do, but in my opinion they can do it.
Same here. I read this every year -- it motivates me like no other work or fiction or reality. I bought a few copies for friends, and it seems to have similar effects on them. I can't recommend it enough.
I gave up on modding around 1.7.8ish I think, so this is good information.

I also agree that, by default judgement, Forge basically is the modding API at this point. But I disagree that blessing Forge as official is the way forward, precisely because of how tightly bound it is with the existing structure. How well would Forge be able to integrate with this new C++ version? Who knows! So, yes, use Forge as a primary input or even a starting point for a true official API. But don't just blindly bless Forge.
Based on all this discussion I regret using the phrase "it's your fault" which sounds too aggressive. Instead I wish I just emphasized that regardless of biological and societal pressures everyone of us does possess the ability to control your weight. Specifically by accurately counting calories (with a food scale) and tracking your weight you can adjust your caloric intake to lose, gain or maintain weight.
Ask HN: Making the eradication of aedes aegypti my life’s work
TLDR; I want to help eradicate zika, chinkunguya and dengue. I think the technology exists to have a good shot at this in the next 20 years. I am willing to devote basically all of my time to making this goal obtain. What should my next steps be?

Eradicating aides aegypti mosquitos will be a tremendous net gain for humanity. It’s no longer a scientific problem, but rather one of coordination and political will.

Shortening the time to eradication by even one year would be worth a lifetime of work, because the ill borne by these diseases compounds: every person who contracts chikungunya fever is riddled for life with pain and arthritis; every person born with zika virus is a human tragedy as well as a tremendous economic burden.

About me: I am in my late twenties. I have some outdated and very minor publications in biochem/molecular biology—I’d say that while I’m not fluent in genetics I certainly have the vocabulary and can converse at a basic level. I haven't done wet lab work in years.

I’ve spent the past 5 years working in finance startups, building and shipping product. I have enough passive income to be able to live frugally relatively indefinitely.

I’m closest (emotionally and politically/socially) to southern Mexico, so that’s the place I would like to start.

What should my next steps be? What level of impact do you think I could have in the next 5-10 years?
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Let's wait a bit before praising MS as an open company. They properly changed just last year. If it only takes one management change to do that, we may end up with another reversal in a year or two. It would be really easy for them to just say "well, that experiment didn't work out; no more published code".
I would start using this if the data never left my network. Without it, this is a huge security risk.
Funny how the administration got the drone program through and sheltered the NSA without any problems though.

At least you have the ACA, where the administration had to fight tooth and nail against a hostile right to get what they wanted. Oh wait, no, they compromised on almost everything and still passed it without a single Republican vote.

Weird how that narrative doesn't actually hold up when you examine the issues.