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I don't have a horse in this race, but, is there any reason to believe Vive won't have DRM too? I mean... Steam is like the biggest DRM software ever made (although they've made it work well).
When this issue of safety comes up I wonder why the NFL is being assigned responsibility for protecting the players when the players have the ability to define rules to protect their own safety through their union. The union should fund studies, provide their own doctors and trainers, and fight for the rights to ensure the rules of the game align to their findings and keep their members as safe as they want to be.
The Vive is crazy amazing. We've been working with the Dev version and the Pre for months now, and I have nothing but good things to say about it.
There are plenty of non-fungible goods of this sort that are purely the result of legal constructions. The simplest example is the same movie available from two different vendors with separate digital rights systems. If I have purchased rights from one, it does not give me the right to consume the media from the other, even though it is arguably the same work. This means I can multiply the number of non-fungible versions of the same product by making it available on N different competing DRM systems.
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What are the odds my wife's language would show up in an HN comment?
What's the purpose of a "VR company" supposed to be? It's social apps, not games, that will propel VR into the mainstream. And that's Facebook's specialty.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with adverbs. They're just a tool.

Like all tools, they can certainly be misused and inappropriately applied by people who don't know how or when to use them. That doesn't mean they're a bad tool.
> Iced coffee = 110 (with 2%, not whole milk or cream)

> http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/brewed-coffee/iced-coff...

That drink is not just milk and coffee. It contains a flavored simple syrup and falls squarely in the realm of "coffee-flavored beverages".

> Notwithstanding the fact most people do not use half-milk, I think you can look at the fact the starbucks drinks are >200 calories at a rate of 5:1 as indicative of the market demands.

Honestly, the market demand is for coffee-flavored beverages, not for real coffee. Calling the majority of what Starbucks sells "coffee" is really pushing it. Conflating that shit with actual coffee, black or doctored, is ridiculous.
This is insanity-inducing. Qi chargers are finally beginning to show up in the wild -- in counter tops at Frankfort Airport and in bedside lamps at IKEA.

At the same time Qi receivers are disappearing from phones. The feature is missing from the new Nexus phones, and never really took hold in Apple-land.

I love Qi because it leaves a very literal air-gap between the charger and the phone. That seems especially important in light of this news.
I disagree. At least in the NFL, players are making (incredibly good) money.

In the NCAA, so many "student"-athletes are taken advantage of much more than NFL players.
I was really struggling, trying to figure out which headset to get. They just decided for me.
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Please tell me you really did this. A company name would make my year, but I'll be satisfied with a simple yes/no confirmation.
I think HBO is that competitor. Also, the funny thing about Hulu is: nobody wants to acquire them b/c they know big 3 networks will jack up the pricing for the content as soon as they sell it. Hulu is less competition to traditional TV because they still have commercials which fundamentally hobbles them. I imagine Hulu's owners hobble them in other ways (admittedly, just a hunch).

Broadcast TV DVRs like HD Homerun and Channel Master DVR+ are currently under-utilized (even TIVO, the leader, is), but eventually may become well-known and used.
What you're talking about requires compound data types in the first place (e.g., lists in your example), whereas in the relational model, attributes are normally assumed to range over primitive types.

But, even in the absence of compound data types, the answer to a Prolog query may contain free variable, whereas the answer to SQL query may not. So you do have a point.
My team isn't exactly doing "top-tier CS work", so if someone "showed off" how far above the average they are with a Coq solution or the quirky GP you replied to or the OP's neural net I'd be delighted and want to skip the rest of the interview, recommending an immediate hire (or at least a go-to-next-stage since I only give these questions over phone screens). The question is beneath them and they have demonstrated that, our team's work is also probably beneath them. We just use that question to filter out the totally unqualified. Their potential value is high because they are overqualified -- they didn't just pass it, they passed it with style. Most dev work at large companies is dull and doesn't require much knowledge that e.g. a CS degree supposedly gives, which is part of why it's amusing/frustrating we have such a bad whiteboard hazing culture insisting candidates can invert a tree or whatever.

I head the "what if they do it this other weird way?" question off by giving them a simple problem, having them solve it (or at least convince me their solution solves it), and then asking them to solve it a different way. My screens mostly follow the ideas from https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-pho... I allocate about 10 minutes max for "basic coding" where I just ask them (lately) to write a function that returns true if the given input int (which is assumed to be > 0) is even and false if odd. Then I ask them to do it in different ways. If they use bit-and, I figure they know enough about the "bits and bytes" section too for my team's purposes. Last time someone couldn't recall using bit-and but surprised me with a way I didn't consider, which was convert to string and check the last character. I'm sure there are other ways to do it I haven't considered either. Maybe someone will give me a solution with tensorflow someday, but what would be really impressive is if they bust that out within a few minutes. :) All I'm really after is "can you write code?", if the answer is no then very little time was wasted, if the answer was yes we can go into variations and other questions to rank the other yeses / find other red flags.
Technically, it's not two layers. It's only two layers of parameters. A RNN runs the two layers repeatedly at each sequential input. So if my input/output is like '1000~>fizz', it can be seen as a feedforward NN with at least 8 layers. (This is how it's possible to train a RNN in the first place: it gets 'unrolled' over time and turned into a big NN.)
From experience, on-prem customers won't accept continuous updates anyway. They have multi-month change freezes.
No. Almost all of my programming takes effort, but most of it is obvious. (Some of it is obvious after a week's thought. But even then, there's usually nothing novel at the end of the week - just an architecture that thousands of people could have come up with. That's not patentable.)

As an illustration, any patented algorithm may take a fair amount of effort to implement. That doesn't mean that implementing it gives me a new patent, though.

Or say I write a novel. It takes a lot of work. I can copyright the novel, but not patent it, no matter how much work it took.

"Takes effort" does not equal "non-obvious".
Thanks. I'll have to have a Say-Malthus day soon.

I've always been fascinated by Malthus. Without Malthus I don't think you have a Darwin. I know he gets typed as the doomsayer but there has always been something very elemental about his idea. I think it was the first time I encountered a simple concept that explained deeper patterns and so it stuck with me.

> Who is that `we' that needs more or fewer humans?

I'm trying with some difficulty to avoid value judgments e.g. we should or should not interfere in human reproduction patterns so that's a reasonable question.

I think that 'We' is the information network. I don't mean the Internet or the price system. It's a broader idea that probably fits into ecology, something like the Noosphere. The premise is that there exists a lot of different states the network could be in. It could be in an optimal state or in a sub-optimal one. I'd guess that it's governed by something like Cybernetics but I'm confident we won't know most of the rules and certainly not the emergent consequences of the rules.

To be less handwavy - the 'We' can be the union of the Economy and Ecology sets. It would take humans as being endogenous variables. I'm sure other people have thought of all this before, but it seems difficult to avoid metaphors that could suggest latent policy prescriptions e.g. Spaceship Earth (limited resources) or World System (global government).
> The people that hate commericals are a small but growing minority.

I'm going to have to stop you there. With the exception of the 4 hours surrounding the superbowl, you go out into whereever you live and find someone who wants more commercials. Maybe you are correct, that people who hate them is a minority[0] as it is a strong sentiment, but they certainly aren't going to pay hulu? Why the fuck would they, they would just simply be purchasing a worse expereince than the DVR box they currently own? I mean maybe, if they demanded portability, and had an unliited data plan, but this is a strawman, as netflix exists.

> I have really good experience with HBO NOW

That's cool, and I respect that. One of my buddies worked on HBO Go when they started to think through the idea in 06. So I can't really trust a company that has arrived at mediocrity after a full decade of tackling a problem.

[0] This is a thought experiment. You are super obviously wrong. The majority of people, of course, fucking hate commercials.
What? You don't want advertising "dark patterns" piped directly into your cerebral cortex by way of a completely immersive interface?
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It's not that they're being assigned responsibility so much as actively campaigning against it - which puts them squarely in the middle of the issue. If the union was fighting for safety while the NFL was remaining quiet it'd be one thing. But when the organization is actually working to make the game more dangerous, they've squared off against the players.
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CloudFlare is ruining Stack Overflow for me with its recaptcha
In case anyone else was annoyed by the lack of technical details:

Old (Rec. 709) colour space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CIExy1931_Rec_709.svg

New (Rec. 2020) colour space:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CIExy1931_Rec_2020.svg

Most of the "new colours" are greens and turquoises; reds can now be slightly brighter, but blue is almost unchanged.
Agreed, the UI is very poor. However after using their dreadful UI to trawl their entire "catalogue" (more like pamphlet) and still finding nothing one is even more disappointed.

Agreed on the Hollywood part. They are asking too much.
Why do you think we have the classification 'parametric' if the only thing that matters is the distribution of the sample mean? If it's all going to converge to be normal as you say, why is there parametric and non-parametric tests?
There are a few groups out there but nothing I would say is commercially viable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_computing_hardware...
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Sometimes more - if your product is used in an internal app that has a 6+ month release cycle, they'll be updated in sync (if they're updated at all)
The minute there is a successful lawsuit at the high school or collegiate level where the school must pay 1 million plus you will start to see a change. I would guess high schools will drop the sport, and colleges will need to do something to either compensate players or also drop the sport. No one wants that much financial liability on their ledger.
Have you tried tuning Spark's memory parameters?
You said "Don't use QCOW2, just don't, it's slow and you're just adding extra layers where you don't need to.". I was agreeing with you when I said that it also has that effect on ZFS. What is my "assumption about QCOW2 and BTRFS performance"?

As for newer kernels, code churn tends to break things that previously worked, which upsets customers who want bugs to decrease as a function of time, rather than go up. Vendors like Redhat will not update distributions like RHEL to newer kernels because of that and they will not support kernels that they do not ship. That is why people run older kernels.
Between many channels on-demand programming and DVR, cable often isn't too far from "what you want when you want".
When an organization "funds" research that comes to a conclusion said organization knows to be false, that is fraud, outright. We should not accept fraud as "par for the course" or "we should expect no better." Actively attempting to defraud customers, employees, or government should be a crime.
I'd love to hear about your ethical issues with the Finnish government.
It's used in accounting in certain companies. It probably depends on the company culture.
I see - you're exactly right. Thanks for the clear explanation.
> The only other way to determine the amount of documents returned it to JSON parse the entire result which is not free and would add latency to each request.

Why do they have to bill synchronously (in realtime)? Why not return the response, then calculate the fee asynchronously? The customer is probably being billed at discrete intervals (e.g., weekly or monthly) anyway.
That group isn't qualified to do the task that you're asking them to do.

Again, this is my point. The number of 3D content developers is staggeringly low for the amount of content that needs to be created. Irrespective of that, for comparable skill levels the time it takes to produce 3D content again dwarfs that of 2D content - often cause you need a lot of structured 2D content for it to be shaded and texture mapped/baked correctly.
I agree, it's quite frustrating. Oh well, back to torrents I guess!
It's a good question, and I suspect that it's because the players who could influence that decision (the leaders and highly paid super star athletes), are not incentivized to sour their relationship with the NFL and the team owners over the health and well being of all players.

That is, their individual goal is to maximize the money they make while they play, and fighting for better working conditions may run orthogonal to that.

The NFLPA has a lot of good intentions, but without the support of the league stars, it's difficult to make any reason progress.
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Not that I'm very happy with Oculus right now, but:

>Curbing piracy is not their fucking job.

Of course it is. Oculus Home is a storefront. They sell games and piracy cuts into that business. It's no different than Steam using DRM.

>This kind of shitty heavy-handed behavior is what is slowing down AR and VR tremendously.

Maybe, but VR wouldn't be here in 2016 if Oculus hadn't kicked off the whole thing. They hired the talent, drummed up the interest, and set the best practices. But now we have three strong competitors (Oculus, Valve and Sony) releasing VR headsets. That's far better than the alternative.

I'm not trying to be an apologist here, but you need to keep perspective on this.
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Sounds like you should buy just the shows you want off iTunes or Amazon.
Most people say the Oculus Rift headset is much better than the Vive headset, but that the controllers for the Vive are much better since Oculus hasn't released Touch yet. Although people who have tried both have indicated the Touch controllers are better, at least for certain applications.
The author noted that iTerm on MacOS notifies when a paste that's about to happen contains a newline. Cmder on Windows does this as well, it's a nice feature even outside of the security concerns.
If I were you I'd explore a language that goes beyond those low level concurrency constructs because they can be extremely tricky to get right. Clojure and Elixir would be my top choices and the final choice depends on the kind of system you're trying to build.
>Data is very often approximately normal

>If you assume your risk profile can be characterized with standard deviation, well, you're an asshole.

Did you know that standard deviation can be used to describe a normal distribution? Or did you contradict yourself on purpose?
At the same time, there are a lot of really GREAT NFL players who do great things for their communities. Surely if a few shitheads spoil the NFL for you, the many more that are perennial nominees for the Walter Payton Player Award should make it easier to support.
I'm graduating from a Seattle area college on Saturday. This is exciting news to hear.
The lab I am working in has a Vive instead of a Oculus, and I am glad for it now. The headset is better, the demos are better and I don't have to deal with constant interoperability issues.
I wasn't able to get this to work. Do I need to use CNTRL + C?
I'm not sure where it will lead, but exclusivity is not good for consumers. This all boils down to trademarks and regionalities. Not something we've seen much of in games since consoles. TV has been around for some time now and TV Stations needed (still need) licenses from local governments and it's not a global play, until as of recent. Rights and global market are still feeling each other out. Music kind of went through the same process via Apple's iTunes, but it's also kind of a different business. With music you have other streams of revenue as well - live performance, different rights to it (song, performance, etc.), etc.

With TV channels going away, my instinct was the same - being oriented more towards "I'll watch what I want and when I want" and different outlets that enabled that have been booming (youtube, torrents, netflix-like platforms, etc). However, TV is bringing in more business than ever. It seems that it's not a zero-sum game between those two. In fact, it seems those two aren't even competing.
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I think they see their job as encouraging investment. I share your perspective, but some people are reassured when they see effort put into making a platform more hostile to license-infringement.
Thanks for the example. For me it loads slowly too (probably it has a lot of disk access) but doesn't affect the browser much. What browser are you using? I'm using Chrome on OSX. Consider creating an issue on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues or adding it to your existing issue and linking that here.
>there is hardly any authentic science left

I'm sorry, but what? You list a half dozen of the hottest-button research areas, but those represent (with the exception of pharma) probably less than 2-3% of non-proprietary research. The rest of the iceberg is just normal scientists working on hard problems that aren't going to make anyone rich, and scraping by on whatever money they can find. And keeping the 'science=corrupt' idea out there doesn't make it any easier.
(2006)

The basic premise is to mmap() the same physical memory twice in a row (in virtual address space). Then you can always point to a contiguous chunk of memory to reference a given object in your queue.
Google Fi requires unlimited voice/SMS at $20/month, which many people likely do not care about. To maintain data only, Charge only charges $3 a month.

A more direct competitor in the "low monthly fee for light usage" MVNO space is RingPlus, which seems to be cheaper than Charge.

There seems to be a different MVNO optimized for virtually every usage pattern.
They support JDBC out of the box.

ODBC works via a JDBC bridge which though they are often commercial and vary in quality.
This is one of the innumerable reasons why copying and pasting commands on the fly is wrong.

This also includes the awful popular installation commands in the form of "curl -s ... | sh" - which means you are basically giving your computer in the hands of a third party.
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But it is a SQL parser and execution engine.

You could easily turn it into a database by managing a set of flat files.
I think you're probably right and wonder then if it's not the players themselves who are to blame (at least when the fans/public gets "outraged" about this issue). It's awkward to assign (some) blame to the same class that contains the victims, but it seems in their own pursuit of wealth they might be forfeiting their own safety. Owners would care about the short-term safety of players so that they can realize their investments, but really don't have any long term incentive to care care about player health.
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I dislike that this piece of writing leads with the guy's age.
To me Steam is the antithesis of DRM, to be honest (I am quite a bit of a fanboi though)

It does so much things for me. I no longer have to worry about CD's or whatever. All my games are in one place, install pretty much as soon as I want (50mbit fiber), are always up to date, I never have to fiddle with goddamn keys - click install, wait a few minutes, click play and that's it! Some games have Steam Cloud, so my saves are there, my settings might be there too.
And don't start me on Steam Overlay! I've got a few hundred friends, clock (THIS IS SO RIDDICULOUSLY NICE TO HAVE), a web browser.
It does streaming. It does screenshots. It does remote desktop. Guides.

It takes my issues and solves them for me. Maybe that is some Stockholm Syndrome. It's been years since I had any issues with Steam-as-DRM (Or just Steam, really)

But fucking hell, look at uplay or origin or any other cancerware corporate trash that does nothing but fuck with you.

I don't really see Steam/Volvo locking down VR. It appears that they provide an API for other hardware to work. (At least thats what cursory googling says!)
College football is much worse than the NFL. Players get paid nothing and still burden the same risks mostly. The idea that players are "getting an education" simply just isn't true when you consider some of the majors these guys are enrolled in.

We need a minor league where players can make money. College football is insanely profitable.
If you were to go into /r/Android and read the comments on any Monument Valley story, you'll find a lot of people who seem to suffer from a persecution complex. They claim they'll never support a developer who "treats them like second class citizens". They'll justify their piracy of everything by saying this.
Right, because people will spend hundreds of dollars on specialty hardware to do "social apps"
Richard Stallman isn't an analyst or a historian. He's an activist, and from all available evidence a remarkably genuine and focused activist. I don't agree with a lot of what RMS believes (for instance: I'm just fine with DRM), but I respect him.

The same isn't true of Eric Raymond.
Well, how else are those people supposed to purchase apps?
The biggest risk to the NFL isn't young players finding the game dangerous, but their concerned moms. If the middle school and high school programs die off from parental concern then the NFL is doomed.
Any bets on whether Carmack will stick around much longer? Will he finish and release his Racket code before leaving? Will he go back to id, start a new company, or take up Musk's offer to work on rockets again? I can't imagine this sits well with him...
In their defense, they did note "publish or perish" as a "system of perverse incentives", which presumably affects a far broader swath of science than the few politicized topics they mentioned.
We use Replicated, and it was insanely easy to set up. We had an on-prem version ready to go in a few days. Definitely recommended!
It's effective writing, but is it "good"? Large chunks of it have been discredited. For instance, "many eyes make all bugs shallow" has been a running joke in the software security field for over a decade.