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Another attempt from Gibson to try and stay relevant? No thanks, I'll recommend the Microsoft KB article:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351
The downvote button is supposed to be for non-constructive (i.e. stupid/useless) or offtopic messages. Flag is for spam and very very inflammatory stuff.

It is NOT supposed to be used for incorrect messages! (Or at least, if the message is grey, don't keep downvoting it just because there is a mistake in it. One downvote is enough.) And most especially it is not for disagreeing with someone - that's what the reply button is for.

Too many people come here from reddit with the mentality that downvote is for disagreement.
This is the future. At this point it's impossible to un-do disruptiveness of banner ads. One reason that People block banners is due to how disruptive and gaudy they are.

Native ads camouflage among real content for a few reasons.

1) people like the how articles are presented on the rest of the website, so these ads are not disruptive

2) Many people don't notice the 'advertorial' or 'sponsored content' disclaimers. This reduced the 'bounce rate' of people that view this advertising there fore higher engagement
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It's a WSJ article, I'd be willing to bet that the majority of their readership doesn't have a recent gaming PC, or at least the number is significantly less than those with a recent Samsung phone.

All I was doing was defending Fowler's point that the Gear VR might be a better option for people wanting to dip their toes in for now without spending big $$$. Not the 'I have hundreds of dollars and a good computer' case (we all know the Vive and Rift and even PS VR will do better than the Gear).
I had no idea this kind of thing happened. I've never seen it (and known what I was looking at anyway). I have, however, looked at some hellbanned accounts to see what caused the hellbanning and sometimes it's not apparent- that is, replies that aren't particularly insulting or vapid or anything obviously antisocial. I figured they were banned for some other reason- like sneaking advertisements in or something (that are now removed).
> The knowledge/approval part isn't Google Analytics - that's usually built in to whatever uses it.

That's right, GA is the malware and websites / apps that use it are distributing malware. Sort of like SourceForge distributing malware with its installers.

> I'm not really sure I see the issue?

Do you have an issue IRL if someone follows you around, taking notes of every where you go? I do.
This goes for working environments too -- where it may not be ethnic or political minorities being intrinsically oppressed, but instead anyone expressing minority opinions within the context of the organization.

Open-plan surveillance workspaces are meant to produce monoculture, and a whole generation of programmers has essentially gifted that opportunity to employers by failing to insist upon minimally acceptable working conditions, in favor of an extension of college / dorm life.

One wonders why a staff that is uniformly willing to give up personal time for Whisky Thursday isn't viewed as a liability, in terms of lack of thought diversity.
Give the HTC Vive a try. I played with it in a reasonably sized room and it was a lot of fun and there was no motion sickness to speak of. It does positional tracking. The tilt brush app is amazing.
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If you don't have a bunch of heavily downmodded comments then you are doing it wrong.

Wear them as a badge of honor, that you speak your mind.
> audience that hadn't physically seen

I heard the Sears&Roebuck catalog was quite a hit in its time.

Also, some people made some money selling by mail and phone.

Crazy stuff.
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My 9 year old son, a SethBling fan (like me), got home from school right when I clicked on this. I had to explain why I was watching YouTube while "working." Great video for us to watch together!
1) No, you can't. Besides, am I really going to get to examine this tamper-evident lock on the front door of your decentralised-Airbnb rental before paying for it? Not a chance.

2) Locks could be connected to the Internet without any messy block chains getting in the way. It would really on trust, but you wouldn't need any nation-states behind it. (You can also rent locks without internet connectivity at all and without blockchains, so Slock.it is really a double layer of wasted complexity)
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Yep, you can see that happening right now in various tech fields. The scope of opinions that one can publicly hold without risking doxxing and mob harassment has been narrowed tremendously, with the result that while many have been bullied into resentful silence the ones still willing to talk have been thoroughly radicalized.
Alex Osborn was a partner at BBDO and had many secrets to his brainstorming sessions. The most important rule: don't criticize each other.

In 2003, Charlan Nemeth, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, put that to the test. She had folks brainstorm a problem. One group was told not to criticize the ideas, the other group told: "you should debate and even criticize each other's ideas."

The group told to debate and criticize each other?

Generated 20% more ideas. And when asked for more ideas after the experiment was over, again, the critical/debating group produced on average of 7 more ideas each vs. the "don't criticize each other" group of 3 ideas each.

Criticism and argument didn't kill creativity, it created even more of it. Osborn's ideas, though well intended, don't exactly all work when tested.

I increasingly find that the best companies/organizations are simply those groups that now how to argue well.

I recently took over Highrise from Basecamp and so being a long time 37signals/Basecamp fan I have this weird "almost" 3rd party perspective now getting to see how things work on the inside.

The early founders/employee trio of Jason Fried/DHH (the co-founders) and Ryan Singer argue. A lot. It was surprising at first. It was a handful of months before launching their latest version of Basecamp, Basecamp 3. And they were in a conference room, and though all the walls in this Basecamp office are made of sound dampening cork, you could hear them arguing. Strong opinions about some feature that was necessary, and someone else thought wasn't. When they broke for lunch, you could feel the heat come out of that room.

I went to lunch with them and it was like no argument even happened. We had a pleasant, fun, meal amongst friends.

And I keep seeing this in the way the chew on their ideas. Nothing is sacred. But they realize how talented each other is and the rest of their team. There's nothing personal about the arguments. A huge reason I think their stuff is designed so well is that the stuff that stands the barrage of attack is the good stuff. The stuff that doesn't gets iterated on or thrown out and the stakeholder moves onto something else.

You hear a lot of this at Pixar too amongst the creators (http://www.fastcompany.com/3027135/lessons-learned/inside-th...) and even when Catmull had to argue with Jobs http://firstround.com/review/Spark-Creativity-with-These-Tip...)

So, want to get more creative and have better decisions. Probably don't go the route of censoring argument; get better at arguing.
This makes sense as I installed Booking.com's app about the same time as I upgraded and now I have a brick-phone...
> Except for some massively parallel simple algorithms

You mean like when you are implementing a massive key-value store? ;-)
AFAIK, dramamine is still pretty popular for sea sickness. It's what I use if I need it. Like other antihistamines, though, it makes me really groggy so that may be the effect as much anything. Other things I hear people using are Scolpamine patches and just wristbands; no personal experience in either case.

I find being on deck and actively engaged helps me a lot too. For this reason, I suspect that I wouldn't be particularly bothered by VR but I've never had an opportunity to check it out thoroughly. You get to just sitting and going to yourself "I will not get seasick" tends to lead to problems.
Thanks for posting that. The answer to OP's question is right there.

"Nevertheless, describing his experience from his first startup, Danger, Rubin highlighted the benefits of using Java for a smartphone -- primarily the well-known brand name as well as compatibility being that it is a common language taught at universities worldwide."
This left me wondering - sometimes asking "why are you happy" really brings the person down and the good mood disappears.
Did I really just read that discussion? Have to stop wasting time on HN.
Besides the ones you mentioned, are there other such topics that tend to be taboo? I would like to keep an eye out, just for curiosity's sake.

I don't know if high intelligence within a group bodes well for freedom of ideas. Intelligence itself is a form of censorship.
In this post I’m going to explain the organization of Rust’s string types with String and str as examples, then get into the lesser-used string types—CString, CStr, OsString, OsStr, PathBuf, and Path

Ouch. So one thing that Rust is not going to succeed at is not having the chaos around string types that C++ has. Why is it that some languages can get away with just having 1 unicode string type with libraries to translate to other representations as needed, but not others?
You said it seems like an "extreme" form. Now you don't know what that means? I don't mean to seem confrontational; I simply didn't and still don't understand your comment.

So far my guess is that, as hinted in this and another response [0], that "extreme" is being used as a euphemism for "things I morally disagree with". Which, to me, does not make it any less "pure", but is rather your judgement on what "pure" capitalism is.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11376801
Because that would be public hosting, parent just explained that gogs is great at _private_ hosting. When it comes to public hosting of open source projects with network effect, github is still king. I don't think anyone denies that.
Assuming the Sherpas aren't forced into this line of work, then you're right - they're choosing it over the alternatives because it's a better option for them.

That doesn't mean that it's ethical for visitors to a country to enjoy a sport wherein they pay to transfer risk of death away from themselves and onto less advantaged local people. I'm not against this type of deal in principle - it's vital to the existence of institutions like EMS and the military - but when the whole thing exists so that megalomaniacs can tick off another box on the "hard things I've achieved" list, there is a real question of justice.

Most people who love capitalism might still draw the line at some types of transactions -- maybe your line is at selling organs or child prostitution, but it probably exists somewhere.
I agree with the merging in the future, but for the next few years consumer VR will be upfront. It will be 2+ years for consumer AR to really happen, even with meta and magicleap out there. The super small field-of-vision (FOV) on the hololens currently makes it dead in the water at the moment, and it looks nothing like the videos purport...
Hopefully this blows up in their face by driving away developer mindshare.
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He asked about his father, not about his "name". What kind of - where is your mother, anyway?
Imagine the following scenario:

Person A deposits $100 in the bank.

Person B receives a loan of $70 from the bank. Just to make the example easier, their only depositor is person A.

The bank now "has" $30, of which $100 is in person A's account.

Person A buys groceries, writing a check (yep!) to the store for $80. Their account has $100 in it, so they're fine. They've spent $80.

Person B also buys groceries, with cash. They give the store $40. The store now has $120, $40 in cash and $80 owed by the bank. They can spend their $120 in turn. There's no $70 spending limit imposed by the amount of the loan to person B. Person A had no trouble spending their money like money.

Some comparisons you might find of interest:

- The store ends up with more money ($120) than existed at the beginning of the scenario ($100). This is possible because the bank created an extra $70, and 120 < 100 + 70.

- The money the bank owes the store is more than the amount of the loan it gave to person B. This is largely a pointless comparison, but does illustrate that more money is available to spend ($170) than was loaned out ($70). From an accounting perspective, the bank started out owing $100 (to person A) when A deposited that amount, and ended up owing the same $100, of which $20 to A and $80 to the store.
Nausea is not the problem from my perspective.

At present I have my own small business creating VR experiences, I've managed to do about Euro 80k in business in the last six months. I have three large clients and have probably personally ushered more that 2,000 people through the Oculus based experiences at trade shows. Perhaps 1 in 100 people "bug-out" of the experience within the first 30 seconds. One executive I work with won't put the Oculus on anymore to approve work, he instead gets colleagues to try it and gauges their opinion.

However, it's been a learning curve avoiding 100% nausea inducing experiences. Certain camera moves and experiments have made me so ill I had to sleep it off for a few hours. So in my opinion, it's not the display tech, it's up to the experience of the application developer to know what works - and what will make you seriously ill. It's a strange job actually, programming that will make you sick if you get it wrong. :-)

At present, the big problem as a developer with a business like my own is that we can't get headsets. There is no VAR program. I feel that Oculus & HTC doesn't take developers of business applications seriously, or at least, I don't have any contacts there.

I've been involved with VR since the VRML hype of the dot com boom and the technology has come so incredibly far - my sense it that it will continue to progress and become a new display technology that's pretty much on everyones desk.
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> Plus, the treadmill also does not provide the bodily acceleration required to prevent sickness because you are stationary relative to the earth while you use it.

I didn't really get this point. So what if the treadmill is stationary relative to the Earth ? And what do you mean by "bodily acceleration" ?

I honestly do think the "omni-directional" treadmills would solve all the problems you bring up here. And it doesn't even have to be that big.
Ray Dalio's "How the Economic Machine Works in 30 Minutes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0 is a worthy 30 minute investment...
It's in the guidelines:

> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or announce that you expect to get downvoted.
I think VR would be marvelous in bringing classical entertainment - opera, theatre - available to all.

Call me silly but for me the most effective uses of 3D in movies have been single actor static shots where the 3D has emphasized their performance to lifelike qualities.
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Go is entirely pointless as a GUI language - it has a niche it tries to fit well.

Dart is much much better as a Java replacement and efforts like flutter are really promising for cross language dev - IPC architecture behind it and chrome (Mojo) is how Android should have been implemented, then it doesn't matter what languages you use they are trivial to swap because IDL defined interfaces can be reimplemented transparently and client API can be generated automatically. Instead you are locked in to their JVM
I subscribe to NewYorker and try to get in some deeper reading of a few topics every week. I like their insightful journalism on a variety of topics, which is fun to know about and of course, their cartoons!

Other than that, I use quartz once in a while - a nice interactive messaging format based news application. I recommend that for people who just want a few notable headlines.

Additionally, I skim through NPR and NYTimes first thing in the morning for the headlines for the day.
The thing that stood out to me in following the community around Oculus over the same period of time was how consistently insiders responded to complaints that it just wasn't quite there yet with statements that it was the next version of VR that would really blow you away. The one that people could actually get in their hands at any given moment was never the True Realization of the ideal. That was always just a little bit farther down the road -- conveniently distant enough that you couldn't actually put it to the test.

DK1? "Oh, that's not REAL VR, real VR is DK2."

DK2? "Oh, that's not REAL VR, real VR is Crescent Bay."

Crescent Bay? "Oh, that's not REAL VR, real VR is the Rift consumer release."

Now we actually have the consumer release. And what's the message? "Oh, that's not REAL VR, real VR includes controls like Oculus Touch." And so the can gets kicked down the road another few months.

The continual response to underwhelmed users with "oh, you just wait till the next version!" made the whole thing start to feel less like a revolution-in-waiting and more like a faith-based enterprise. True Believers can help a company through the hard times, but they do not a mass market make.
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Gini Rometty, Ellen Pao, Meg Whitman, and Carly Fiorina don't exactly have stellar reputations either.

I don't think it's a guy thing - I think it's a corporate culture thing.

You get failure and disaster whenever you have overpaid and undertalented management. Gender isn't particularly relevant.

You especially get failure and disaster when upper management runs a corporation as its own personal cash cow and makes decisions for reasons of self-promotion, self-image, or plain greed, instead of for sound growth-oriented reasons - never mind employee welfare.
True our paychecks may not be, however, the goods and services that we consume from developing nations will most definitely be 'drenched in blood, sweat and tears'.

This is also capitalism is it not?

I think the previous guy was trying to say that there is no morality in capitalism and therefore words such as extreme and pure do not apply. Capitalism is only concerned with money, nothing else.
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I am not sure if the HN community is intelligent and open-minded or if it's just filled with people who usually think like I do and are close-minded.
My philosophy is:

1) you cannot always be right.

2) truth is truth no matter it comes from.

3) denying or avoiding truth to protect your social rank is not ethical. admit when you are wrong and step on the shoulders of giants.

If you let the best ideas prevail, everyone wins.

If someone cares a lot about social rank, and comes up with comments such as "don't tell me what to do", "i know how to do my job", etc... that's the kind of people that you should just ignore and avoid. Those are people that are stuck in their ego bubble and will eventually stay in an ignorance limbo.
Thats not what Fractional Reserve Banking is.

It's not "Money from the bank" but allowed debt creation backed by the central banks beyond

This is the important part of the quote which you left out.

"fractional-reserve banking permits the money supply to grow beyond the amount of the underlying reserves of base money"

Nothing in that talks about limiting it within their deposits. If that was the case then we wouldn't have had any issues at all since all banks did with the sub-prime crisis was creating debt without any actual "real money" being used as base for the loans.

If they raised the reserve requirement they could not lend out as much but still more than they have because again it's not actually money but debt. It's just that they now have much harder restrictions on the ratio.

Not a single dollar is moved from somewhere else in the bank to the lendee. It's literally just debt created.

Thats at least how I have understood it and maybe we are saying the same thing just focusing on different parts.

The point really is that banks do not actually move money they have to your account but instead create debt on your account without anything else is affected.

Not sure how else to think of it.
Bryan is a smart funny guy, but he's an opinionated asshole that represents everything wrong with silicon valley engineer "rockstar" culture.

I didn't rewatch the video, but have seen it and met him dozens of times back in the OpenSolaris then Joyent days. He seems to simplify things to portray cause and effect that do not exist due to the complexity of real life.

I trust his ability to engineer a brilliant product, but I don't trust his ability to create a lovable product - it's all about the engineering goodness to him, and not solving the real world problems. Joyent's financials and yearly change of directions will probably back that up...

Oracle is Oracle - there are good things and bad things about a process driven company with 2000 products, but understand there is massive bias in Bryan's video - he didn't get his way and he wants people to know it.
Had tons of interesting, but half-baked ideas be needlessly postponed because of - I think - too much criticizing too early.

I guess the trick is "how to criticize the right way". Criticizing is very important - after the idea has enough to stand on; if you're looking into something which has lots of "don't know how this could be done" parts, it's not the right moment. At this time the idea needs not a critique, but a collaboration on how certain unsolved problems can move forward.
Maybe there's something to be said that the users with downvote ability have earned enough karma through upvotes. The community determines in this way that the only ones that can silence others are those with majority valued opinions
That is an interesting comment.

I have limited, hands on, VR experience. However, last week I went to the California Academy of Sciences, and they had this show called "Impact" going on.

Due to the way their spherical projector in the planetarium is setup, it takes most of your field of view. That particular show had a camera that moved smoothly, but seldom in sudden movements. Instead, it had would accelerate to a given speed, and that gives you the impression you are moving.

I though it was a little bit disconcerting for the first couple of minutes, then I adjusted just fine. My wife was sick for half an hour afterwards. Her son was so-so during the show, perfectly fine afterwards. The feel is exactly as you described, you feel that you should be moving, but aren't.

That was an eye opener for me. I didn't think that a stationary display would ever make me feel anything (I used to be a flight sim fan, and nowadays I play a lot of Elite: Dangerous).

I haven't reached any conclusions about VR tech yet, other than it is probably not suited for my wife.
> All I was doing was defending Fowler's point that the Gear VR might be a better option for people wanting to dip their toes in for now without spending big $$$.

Perhaps even then is not a good idea after all. Consider the option that some Joe Average will try out Gear VR on his Samsung mobile phone and is dissatisfied with the quality (say, because it causes nausea on him). So he will avoid trying out VR again in the expected future. If from beginning on he had tried a product of satisfactory quality he would perhaps have liked VR.

TLDR: Trying out a cheaper, but inferior product can be worse than trying no product.
I recently tried a search on Bing after failing to find what I wanted on Google, and it worked! Was really pleasantly surprised. Will be trying out Bing more often going forward.