skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, hype could be an explanation, but it seems unlikely.

Multiple multinational companies sink many billions of R&D dollars into fundamentally flawed and dangerous consumer technology. Said consumers, not wanting to accept the truth conspire to almost completely suppress any meaningful spread of reports of the flaw.

Feels sorta unlikely to me! That's not really how the world works. Surely the simplest explanation is most likely ... that first gen consumer VR is in most cases "good enough", and a significant minority consumers experience some amount of sickness, but not enough to invalidate the industry?
When I was going through undergrad engineering we were taught linear algebra in first year but didn't really have a lot of the other background for the different applications.

As a grad student, I had a friend of mine who was teaching that same linear algebra course. I provided her with a lot of materials (similar to this) to help her students better understand different aspects of the material. There's a reason why the different introductory topics are taught, but often you don't really understand the topic until you get deeper into the applied material in 3rd and 4th year.
Have you tried Tex – The most secure message App?
The problem has gotten infinitely worse lately. I think the 2008 recession from a rigged economy was the first half of the problem. The NSA surveillance state uncovered by Snowden broke the last half of trust in government. This is why voters didn't revolt in 2008 or 2012 elections, but they are in 2016 elections (with Snowden's release in 2013).

The wrong doing in the 2008 recession plus the illegal surveillance state combined to shatter trust in government. Evidence is seen in the Bernie Sanders voters and non-establishment republican voters in 2016.
Punctuated Excitement
Maybe becoming a giant onerous company should have such barriers...
The idea of "ignorance" here is a type of slippery slope I would argue.

Offhand it would seem that many (all?) profits made in open exchanges proceed from some knowledge advantage on the part of one party—or at least originate from a calculated risk taken in light of some knowledge.

As a 'user story'; "I work in the field of <something>-ics, and suspect that <some products|raw materials> in <some industry> will be much <more|less> available in the coming years, so I'm going to go <long|short> on related stocks."

I don't think many would say I'm obliged to inform the selling parties of my reasoning in some interest of fairness. (I'm not including the edge case of insider trading, but run of the mill, hard-earned expertise.)

And at a more mundane level of analysis, c'mon—who doesn't know to at least do some web (text & image) searching before selling off something interesting (complex, artistic, hand-crafted, etc.) that you know very little about?
Yep, saw that video. It's a good overview of how the level design in Super Mario 3D World works, and well worth watching for anyone interested in designing good games.

I mostly only mentioned old school because of my disappointment with Mario Galaxy 2 and the 'tutorial disc', which was one of the most pointless additions ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbDLuDRgnkM

Still, least it made for a funny parody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rD5AskvHWc
It's not a swarm, but I think the one drone from 3D Robotics can be tethered for essentially unlimited flight time. So that's some progress towards what you have in mind.
"most secure"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11748826
I use wpa_supplicant on Debian, it has no problem associating with many different wpa-psk networks. I think it can also do wpa-enterprise, but haven't needed that yet.
The Rift once made me cross-eyed for several hours. I had to sleep to get rid of the effect. I haven't heard about this since then, so I'm wondering if you've seen or heard of it.

It happened when I attempted to use the Rift with Portal, which at the time had very primitive Rift support. The game had a calibration mechanism which adjusts the field of view for each eye independently, as well as the "left-rightness" of objects as they recede into the distance.

I fiddled with the calibration for a little while, but everything looked pretty muddled. Suddenly it all came into focus, mostly, and I played the game for an hour or two. Which is to say, I stumbled around in this weirdly-calibrated world.

When I took off my Rift, I was astonished to find that I was cross-eyed, and couldn't uncross them. I tried closing my eyes, focusing in the distance and then back, etc, to no avail. After a few hours I gave up and went to sleep.

I woke up fine. It was one of the strangest experiences I've ever had, and I was wondering if anyone's experienced a similar effect.

EDIT: Interesting. Apparently the answer is "No, no one else has experienced this."

I should clarify some details. This was several years ago, back when Rift support was in its infancy. The only thing I remember is that there was some sort of program designed to inject Rift support into games. Back then, Mirror's Edge, Portal, etc didn't have Rift support, but using this program, you could hack it to work.

I think what happened is this: Point at the ceiling, then bring your finger close to your nose. Keep focusing on your finger. There's a distance where you have to cross your eyes in order to continue focusing on your finger. Bring it a little closer.

I'm pretty sure that's how I had the calibration set up. And I played like that for a couple hours, which caused my eyes to adapt to that situation. Hence, cross-eyed vision.

I've played many other games with no problems, so it was definitely a product of the bizarro calibration. It'd probably be a bad idea to try to replicate this, but there were no lasting effects.
Yeah, your experience was an outlier.

Do you know what the biggest meta-lesson throughout my education was? The single thing that was hammered home in every single class? Following directions. I think that says a lot.

The learning experience was highly regimented and structured. Show up on time, do your work the way we tell you, get an A.

The actual content of any given class was a bit more varied but none of the classes had much flexibility. When they set out to teach or engage creativity, it was always in narrow, controlled ways: assignments and projects with specific, detailed instructions. The creative aspect was confined to how you fulfilled those instructions—the moral equivalent of coloring within the lines.

I think I had a grand total of two truly open-ended assignments in all of high school: one in a CS class and one in a physics class. I built a single thing for both (with permission, of course), and it was easily the best thing I ever did in high school. But that was definitely the exception, not the rule; every other "project" was just a bigger homework assignment.

Maybe I'm being too harsh but, looking back, the experience absolutely did not nurture independence—quite the opposite.
Pauli Effect
I think Larry Summers is part of the reason why Americans don't trust government.

But yeah, in Ithaca there was a little bridge by the police station that took 9 months to fix. It makes me wonder if the GWB and Tappan Zee bridge were built by aliens, as some have alleged the Egyptian pyramids were. (No, just by Moses... Robert Moses)
I first saw the term hamburger menu several months back and I thought, "huh?" as I had no idea what it meant. I had to go search the net to find out that they meant those three stacked bars. Why not just call it that? It doesn't really look like a hamburger.
On the other hand the brain is insanely adaptable. People made to wear glasses that flipped their vision upside down adjusted fine, and when they took them off, everything looked upside down.

Even your example is wrong. You can in fact adjust to glasses of the wrong prescription. People who need glasses have deformed eyes which is basically like having the wrong prescription. The brain adjusts, and people can go without glasses without vomiting everywhere.

The nausea reaction is an issue, but it doesn't affect the entire population. I have friends who can't play video games because of motion sickness, but no one argues that video games can't be commercially successful. And various tricks like removing head bob, adjusting the field of view, and adding a virtual "nose", have been shown to significantly alleviate that.
Mining platinum from the road [video]
Speaking of radar, many phones have FM radio receivers, which could conceivably look for radio signatures of cosmic rays. No idea to what extent the hardware is made available to software, but I just found another reason to procrastinate.

Also kudos on actually going through and doing something with this; I remember talking about using cell phone ccd's as detectors a few years ago with other grad students, but of course it never got past the chit-chat stage (I remember wanting a dosimeter in my pants to ring at me if I got too close to one of my radioactive sources).
This actually probably has more to do with the fidelity of rendering in the Vive apps. It's important to remember that due to hunter/gatherer specializations men and women (testosterone and estrogen dominant individuals actually, we tested this with hormone treatment patients that were swapping genders) tend to perceive visual reality differently [0], indeed the eye has the second most (besides genitalia obviously) sex differentiating receptors than anywhere on your body. All of the stuff the OP was talking about with motion sickness and parallax are mostly male concerns (as men use parallax and motion as our primary vision perception systems). Women use shading and lighting as their primary systems; which makes them prone to sickness when those aspects are screwed up (as in older systems) but if rendered with enough fidelity (as we are beginning to be capable of) may not have that problem. At the end of the day, we don't really understand how vision effects different people's brains that well.

[0] http://www.danah.org/papers/sexvision.pdf
> ..you can also download the food database to a handheld compUter.

I'm going to start referring to smartphones as "handheld computers".
Nitpick, but NYC is not inside of a county: five counties are inside of it.

Doesn't change your point, though.
Thanks - I do believe I can learn anything given enough time, just didn't think there were employers who would give me that time, so I was going to go away and study by myself and practise for another year or so before applying. Maybe I have more to offer at this point than I thought.
Who will create the lab? Won't he be the most powerful ?

Every oligarch(if there are many of them, like there were many kings in medieval Europe) would need to have a lab. It will be specialized. Just like factories today are specialized. Today, one company might use factory to make phones, another one to make clothing etc. They all use different devices for different products.

Can't these people genetically modify themself to not care about sex slaves (or even consumption, so no worker-slaves needed) ? Maybe scientists-slaves?

That's equivalent to suicide. You could do something similar today to eliminate sexual or other desires, but people aren't doing it.

The truth(by my simple/short unscientific observation) is that most people don't give a fuck at all about anything other than themself so why should the lab-designer care about them (and share his tech)?

Care about who? Other oligarchs? If there are other oligarchs(which is not necessary, since it could be one king and few thousand people below him), then he would receive benefits from them and vice versa.

What happens when you build you lab/fix-diseases and don't want to share them with the masses (you don't want their $$)(you just want to share with other lab-designers/scientists/doctors etc). They WILL try kill you. How to escape this ? Kill them first? Don't share at all (you supposedly want to share with other lab-builders)?

Who will try to kill them? Masses or other oligarchs?

I think, the lab creator WILL have to also build crazy weapons to protect himself from "the others"? They just won't accept no for an answer.

What others? Other oligarchs with different labs?

So you have to create your weapons first, then build the lab (or enslave others by using weapons to build the lab for you).

This is true. It could be a hierarchy where the top dog (king) shares some wealth with the lower ranked. Kinda like in medieval Europe. Most robots and lab-grown humans would be like serfs and those closest to the king would get all the benefits and practically unlimited wealth.
Unfortunately, I think a majority of those who insist that schools are "just indoctrination centers for our youth" would see your post as an example of that. IMO it sounds like you got a great education, but many other people would complain that you weren't taught to have more patriotism, religious faith, and distrust of science. I wish that was a strawman but I really don't think it is. :(
Sometimes I think we need to figure out how to rip and replace institutions quickly and efficiently. Every human collective or institution seems to have a shelf life beyond which it gets strangled by its own bureaucracy.
> Still, seems like this should be done at the distro package level.

This can be done at the distro package level. Packagers would edit /etc/systemd/logind.conf and set KillUserProcesses=no to disable it. It's a single line change if people don't like the new default. The behavior itself (killing user processes when the session ends) is quite sensible, and should have been the default over a decade ago, but people got used to terrible defaults and are now complaining.

This is handled at the packager/admin level, but they merged a patch two days ago (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3373) to fix the policy to let users manage it themselves with loginctl enable-linger. I think it missed the v230 merge window, but could easily be backported individually or at the distro level until the next release.

So, not only can the behavioral decision be managed entirely at the distro level, that decision can be punted down to the individual user if they don't want to explicitly mark the processes they want to continue running.
Someone might find this project helpful:

https://github.com/level09/enferno

This is a Flask based framework designed with best practices in mind, it comes with many nice preconfigured modules and modern features:

* Gulp integration (sass, minify etc ..)

* Fully configured flask security out of the box (register/login/reset etc ..)

* Cache, Blueprints, Mysql/Nosql, Mail, Background tasks, ORM etc ..

* Debug toolbar

* Command line (Flask script) to help you control your app

* A deployment script that fully configures your server in minutes (Ubuntu):

https://github.com/level09/enferno-ansible

edit: I'll get this project upgraded to 0.11 to integrate the nice new features, any recommendations/notes are welcome.
>> Your argument about classifying images trivially excludes the large amount of data and training that any human brain experiences during early childhood.

Not at all. That's exactly what I mean when I say that the way our brain does image recognition also takes into account context.

Our algorithms are pushing the limits of our computing hardware and yet they have no way to deal with the context a human toddler already has collected in his or her brain.

>> It takes many months to train a human brain so that it would recognize what a cat is, far more than a few calories

I noted it would take _me_ less than a second to learn to identify a new animal from an image. Obviously my brain is already trained, if you like: it has a context, some sort of general knowledge of the world that is still far, far from what a computer can handle.

I'm guessing you thought I was talking about something else, a toddler's brain maybe?
The FDA is very risk adverse. If they fail to block a dangerous drug and it kills people then they are blamed - if they block a new drug that might save millions of people then nobody says anything. The result is an ever increasing series of barriers to get a new drug to market in the name of preventing a bad drug getting through.

The solution is to hold the FDA (and other regulatory agencies) responsible for all deaths - those that occur from allowing a bad drug to market and those that result from delaying or blocking a good drug. Tort reform would also help as a large amount of the problem is caused by drug companies killing drugs in development themselves because of a fear of getting sued later if anything goes wrong. We also need to be a little more pragmatic as consumers and accept that drugs are risky and will have unexpected outcomes.
My architectural critique is becoming more pertinent (although they've had the sense to since deprecate the useless snapshot units): http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11/0/

Either way, dissent is futile. Jump to a niche distro or ditch GNU/Linux entirely if systemd bothers you.
I can't imagine where they got the hacker gene from. ;-)
> Isn't the usual answer to this, "If you don't like it, fork it?"

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, systemd developer, is asking for tmux to change to incorporate some systemd-specific Desktop Bus code. Nicholas Marriott, tmux developer, replies that this should go in the GNU libc daemon() function for everyone whose programs do this to benefit, repeating what he said 5 years ago.

Following your model, which should Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek be forking? tmux? Or GNU libc?
I wanted to share this link because I find this to be a beautiful

example of how sending something simple as an e-mail to thank for

writing a piece of software or giving some feedback/suggestion

can be a very big stimulus in keeping writing the software.
A) That's pretty scary, the extent of my problems with the rift have been motion sickness (it's worse in some games than others). Overall, because of all the cables + headphones + motion sickness + driver issues + finding my mouse and keyboard without knocking anything over, I never really got to play my occulus for more than 45 minutes before giving up. It's been in my closet for months. I bought both dev kits but am holding off for a while on retail versions.

B) I can't resist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaz2hxZLycY
Plugging one into the other would provide an AND.
> Nobody would complain about libc doing system-specific things. That's precisely what it's for. That's what it already does to do its job.

Unless those system specific things are systemd specific things, then all people do is complain.

A reply to one of my other comments:

> Systemd is not a platform. And not every Linux runs systemd.

Another reply:

> Didn't know linux also means systemd.

You're not wrong, updating daemon WOULD make perfect sense and solve this problem in a single place. People would rather argue and fight than solve real problems though.

> There's nothing Systemd-specific about the idea of a user_daemon(3) call

True, but as soon as a systemd developer proposed adding user_daemon it would immediately become a "systemd" function. As soon as they propose modifying daemon to work with systemd, systemd would be accused of trying to take over libc.

One of the BSDs could modify daemon and no one would bat an eye, apparently OS X did so to play nice with launchd. But "linux is not systemd", so they can't win.
It is also the reason why most common advice is to just turn off SELinux. It blocks valid (although sometimes weird) usage, because someone else decided that 90% of users should not do something.

Developer knows better what program should and should not do and is much more capable to set this kind of rules with pledge.
independence from complex, unmaintainable, ever moving code that is mostly controlled by other people who don't share our values. for example nobody in the loonix community seems to be able to ensure that cross-compiling works.
> That last one had me dying of laughter. If that video doesn't convey a direct, obvious example of white privilege

So, when white guy is stealing a bike, people confront him (not all of them) and some consider calling the police. When white female is stealing a bike, a guy offers to help her. This is an example of a white privilege, but not female privilege. Am I missing something in this picture, or discussing "female privilege" is one of those topics beyond the proverbial line in the sand?

I mean, I don't claim there is or is not white or female privilege. I just say if we look at the structure of your example and you conclude it proves there is a white privilege, you also must conclude there is a female privilege, for the same reason. Why didn't you?

> 90% of US prison populations are black men because they commit more crimes, and not because they simply are arrested more often

It's a false dichotomy. It is actually both. And black men is not nearly 90% of US prison population - it's actually 37% [1] for males and 22% for females. You may want to get familiar with actual facts before you argue.

> I would say that any government that is enforcing a particular behavior (that doesn't harm others!) has to provide the burden of proof that their actions are just

That is a very noble statement. Unfortunately, very frequently this statement is voiced by what I call one-point libertarians - people that are completely OK with widest government intrusion as long as it matches their opinions, but in one point where government policy does not match it they demand extraordinary amount of proof. This looks like opportunism rather than principle.

> there are real people out there, suffering broad cultural prejudice, and people like you are trying to ridicule them by using terms like SJW

Usually people called SJW and people actually suffering prejudice are very different people. People that are most frequently being called SJW are very frequently are very white, very privileged, study in very expensive and very selective colleges, live in countries and conditions that 99% of the planet population would consider very luxurious, etc. Not always, of course - but frequently. They just think that because they talk about privilege that somehow allows them to take "holier than thou" pose.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
While a regular bank won't give you a loan to invest in the stock market, stock brokers will: It's called margin trading, and it's exactly borrowing using the stock you have as collateral, just like you put the house as collateral in a mortgage. Since stocks are far more volatile than real state, you are allowing your broker to sell your assets if your account is about to go underwater, in what it's known as a margin call.

You can have a 5:1 margin account, like the one you describe, as an individual investor: If you have 100K to put in a brokerage account with your own money, you definitely have enough money for a brokerage to let you do it. It's just that it requires attention, because with a 5:1 ratio, a 5% loss just became a 25% loss. Ignore the market in the wrong week(say, in early October 2008), and all your margins get called, and you are in deep trouble.

Still, if you have 5 $100K rental properties, and you aren't bleeding a lot of money for a company to take care of it all for you, chances are you are still paying quite a bit of attention to your apartments anyway.

As far as whether mortgages or rentals are more expensive, it completely depends on the local market and local laws: In a pro-renter environment, rental is more expensive, because nobody wants to rent apartments out: People would rather let apartments sit empty. In a pro owner environment, at a place losing population, renting might be cheaper.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

search for 'downvoted'.