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Ditto, I was one of the DK1 backers so got the CV1 for free.

I haven't used it much past the first week - only to demo to friends and such, really. I have some disillusionment about it also - it seems like Valve VR/Vive is getting a lot more dev support.

Having tried the Vive also, I think delaying the Oculus motion controllers was a critical error. It turns out the motion controllers really open up a lot of use cases, whereas a "simple" HMD-only feels particularly limiting in comparison.

The Rift is substantially more comfortable than the Vive - the Vive I felt was extremely front-heavy to an extent it actively distracted from the experience. That said, the idea that Oculus Rift "works with glasses" is a statement that's at most 30% true. My glasses are pretty small but while the HMD is on it crams my glasses literally up against my eyeballs - my eyelashes literally brush against the lenses of my glasses while blinking. After using the Rift my glasses are covered with eyelash/eyelid/eyeball(?) smudge marks. It's tremendously annoying.

The backing off of the "switchable glasses faceplate" promise is disappointing.

And honestly, there just isn't much content. Most of the content are tech demos.

Lucky's Tale is a really interesting vindication of the idea that platformers can work in VR - but it's also just not very compelling by itself.

Ditto Eve Valkyrie - the technology is tremendous and you can't help but get that "Battlestar Galactica come to life" glee when you first launch in your fighter... But the gameplay is just not varied or deep enough to hold you for longer than a couple of hours.

Between the discomfort of the HMD and the lack of content, there just isn't much motivation to dive back in.
To top it off, I would love that open access is tied to open data and strong councils for standard setting of such formats in a particular domain. The current swath of approaches to open research data is babylonian.
No one? The data flat out refutes that claim: http://religionnews.com/2014/08/01/five-signs-great-decline-...

Looks like many have been refining their thought process. Perhaps it's from all of the criticism on the internet?

Just because all minds won't be swayed doesn't mean some won't be.

I do think criticizing the idea is more valid than criticizing the person who believes in that idea.

It sounds like what you mean to say is not all ideas need to be criticized always and everywhere they are present. Makes sense.

If you mean that religion should not be criticized anymore we've done it enough.... I don't see how this is not that same as saying religion is an idea that should not be up for criticism. Why is it special?
> They can't make large margins on their headset forever.

They don't. Oculus is selling the Rift at cost.

> Why wouldn't they want people to buy their software if it can run on other platforms as well?

Their goal is to build a user base through exclusives. Exclusives aren't exclusive if you can play them on other hardware.
And if you were to be dropped with no possessions save for a passport of the nation you are dropped in, where do you go today: Italy or Switzerland?
he should try driving a model T...
> By staying a closed platform, if Oculus can deliver on their hardware while selling software on their platform.

Hopefully they will just go out of business instead. No more walled garden bullshit, this is a VR peripheral. It doesn't need an app store attached.
Personal projects can work, but internships give you a foot in the door in a company. Do you know why you were not offered an internship? Perhaps it's simply because people assume that you want more money than the typical internship provides, but...

Since you're a mechanical engineer, you probably have a network there. Couldn't you ask one of them for an internship? Anything from an internship at a CNC builder to a custom system to organize drawings to a plugin for a CAD tool?
yeah, that was really close, wasn't it? just imagine we had all these mature IP protections in place two thousand years ago! so much stuff we could have had by now! imagine no one but the chinese government having access to silk production!? there'd be no nylon made without royalties!
I basically think of it like something like emacs, where it doesn't conform to the OS at all but instead works exactly the same throughout different platforms (and users who are intimately familiar with it expect that). The interop in Office for Mac was also just about as lousy as Pages for a long time although I think more recent versions may have improved it.
Lots of scientists and schools have to deal with cranks sending in papers just like this. Myhrvold just has enough status to get heard and get into the media.
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This is a public company troll just buy up all their stock and toss them in the nearest dumpster.
Interesting. I too have noticed a similar thing as I have aged. I developed the theory though that when it started happening things that did not impact me directly (such as movies) that it was more a case that I was feeling emotional about something else in life and that this was emotions seeping out where they could. I especially thought this because it didn't seem to always happen.

Your view bears merit though and I will have to consider it. Thank you for sharing it.

And my kids still make fun of me for crying at the end of "Winnie the Pooh", but I've always done that. And I maintain that Christopher Robin leaving Pooh and his childhood behind is cry worthy... even more for Pooh than Christopher Robin.
I wonder if it's too late for fiber, with companies like starry talking about working phased-array technology delivering hundred of megabits at low install costs?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601442/wireless-super-fas...
Anyone have public link to video?
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Most interesting thing in the article: they can likely use pulsed lasers to guide lightning!
Car insurance providers discriminate against young drivers for similar reasons: you're more risky. I wouldn't entrust the care of my entire house to college students.
What about them? If the urge to affect the gene pool is so irrepressible, the reason you married doesn't matter; you should still, instinctively, yearn for children.
Thanks for the direct source. Book marked
I went to Clemson years ago. No really decades ago. So my memory is vague. I had friends on zoology, biology and forestry (I was a chemistry major). They took me to a place maybe 10 or 20 miles away from campus that was an isolated ecosystem. It was on the top of a rock outcropping and was a little moist eco-system of lichens, moss and air plants. Some trees. It was so cool. Wish I knew the name of it. I was also fascinated with the plants and other life there. Not like anything I saw growing up in the burbs of Orlando.
> I really wish I could know how Carmack feels about this.

My impression is that Carmack is working on GearVR-related stuff in isolation from the rest of the Oculus/Facebook bureaucracy from the comfort of Dallas, TX.

Hard to tell, but I'm not convinced he's even aware (or cares) about what's going on with Oculus in general: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/733761224098242560
Not at all. Just because you don't cry, doesn't mean you don't feel. Does it? I think what they are talking about is a certain bodily way of expressing a strong emotion. I too am "built too close to the water" as the Germans say, but often, my tears are an expression of my lack of ability to otherwise express.

Maybe you express differently than I do? I'd be glad about that. If everyone was like me we'd have no love balads - only long play records with lots of sniffling. ;-)
Replace subway with road or airport and you get the same article for the rest of the major cities in the US.

The 2 hours a day I sit in my car to drive 10 miles to work and back cost me more in lost time (translated to money) than the property taxes I pay.

You can't tax cut your way to prosperity.
> Of course, discriminating in this way is already illegal for normal rentals, but when you have rentals of rooms in people's houses I believe it actually is legal for hosts to discriminate in some cases.

In California (the rules on this vary considerably by jurisdiction within the US), there is generally very little limit on discrimination by those renting out a room to a single roomer/boarder (but not if they are renting to multiple roomers/boarders), in an owner-occupied single family dwelling, though they generally can't advertise preference on any protected axis except gender, and only for that when there are shared living areas.

In a case like this, renting out the entire place when the terms of the rental is that the owner won't be there, this exception wouldn't seem to apply, though Idaho may have different rules (I'm having more trouble quickly finding a good description of Idaho's rules.)
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Having a kid. That did it for me.

I've always been an empathic person, but some chemicals changed when I had a child, and now a crappy movie trailer with the right cuts and a soaring soundtrack can get me teary.
> There are ways for humans to still maintain high-level directions with pain.

You have not experienced severe pain yet. I want to see you with acute severe kidney pain from stones.
Probably a good idea. VR has become so politicized on Reddit that any sizeable discussion about Oculus quickly becomes a hyperbolic screaming match. Him posting would simply add fuel to the fire.
I wish I would have used a version of this with my hires. At least something like problem 1 and 2.
the game is top notch though
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The laser power might kill the victim, but using this for actually sending electricity might work. Might be a good replacement for high power lines in some cases.
Because the regular pilots are so good at the job?
not all technologies are created equal.

If my macbook's battery dies when it rains, it's not the same as if my car crashes into another one injuring multiple people.
Well, when you get a big player like Facebook involved...
Exactly what I saw during my stays in Singapore for the last six months or so. How can there be so much retail? The only thing I could figure is that maybe there is nothing else to do ...

You can't work around the house on the weekend (because you can't afford a house). You don't go RV-ing for the weekend (because the are no RVs or places to take them). You don't go to the lake cabin (because you can't afford one).

I don't know, I must be missing something.
We have a minority South Asian population in my East African country. The South Asians are relatively wealthier than the other groups living in the country. However, it is not uncommon for one coming across adverts for houses to let, sell, and even a job or two, targeting only vegetarians. One of the jobs wanted only Gujarati speakers. While this is (or should be) illegal, the same happens quite openly.
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Cool to read someone else is the same way! My eyes have always watered when I laugh, when I'm really happy, or just excited about something.

What gets annoying is when I'm even slightly upset or having a disagreement with someone, my eyes want to water. I'm not even that upset, my eyes are just freaking out. I always have to be like, "I'm not that upset or trying to make you feel bad, my eyes are dumb, sorry, let's keep talking."
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> I'm not sure that it's fair to expect Airbnb to "fix" this.

Its perfectly fair to stop using AirBnB if you are concerned about this until and unless they fix it, independently of whether you "expect" them to fix it, when there are alternative methods of booking lodging where this problem is, at a minimum, less of an issue.
Raising federal gasoline taxes to pay for infrastructure? Since when does that make sense? Let the people that use the subway, pay for the subway's maintenance-- that way, the larger the amount of people that use it, the more money that gets allocated to maintaining it.

Keeping this kind of thing within the cities that are affected by the issues ensures that the amount of funding scales with the population of the cities, and ensures that a the infrastructure being maintained doesn't depend on the (often unreliable) federal government to give them money.
Thanks man. I have plenty of other stuff I used rally-ing up on ;-) next time all say 'well played' instead of up vote
I know it's just a blog post, but if we consider blogging to be journalism (even in some remote sense), then the accepted practice is to reach out to the other side and ask for comments. She could - obviously - refuse, then you write she refused comment. Or she might have some explanation that doesn't involve racial bias. It may be some BS excuse, we might not believe in it, etc. but this is her problem and it doesn't change the principle. On the other hand, not even letting that person know that you made the situation public, and offered conclusions at that, is kind of shady to me. But maybe I'm just old-fashioned (in the sense of believing in journalism standards, not racial segregation).
Success can (and needs to) happen in multiple domains with coordination.

In other words, a desk space is only as safe (and productive) as the strength of the structure that encloses, maintains, and supplies it.
I live in southeast Alaska, and it's almost impossible to avoid becoming an amateur naturalist if you spend a lot of time outdoors here. I've been thinking of using the Center for Open Science's tools to organize some long-term investigations my friends and I have been undertaking informally.

https://cos.io/
One might make the argument that the automobile--as originally released without autopilot--is a deeply flawed device and that even this level of "flawed" autopilot is superior.
HIPAA violations that are prosecuted are so rare they may as well not exist. I worked at a place that shared all the prod server/db passwords in a text file and they thought that was OK because they passed some half-ass audit. No one cared.
Connect to the VPN after connecting to Tor. Putting the VPN in there can actually lessen anonymity due to a financial relationship. So make sure you procured that VPN anonymously, via Tor, with a crypto currency that you have mixed.

This is my plan too. Responsibly disclose anonymously. That should prevent our corporate lords from sending SWAT teams into our homes.
Don't plaster your face all over your profiles? The early net developed around a culture of eschewing pictures and even choosing one's own name, putting the focus on the content of what was said. When one puts a picture front and center and you bring in a whole lot of monkey-sphere bullshit. Of course AirBNB gets blame for pushing users to do that, making it so that not having a picture is weird but using a picture of someone else is fraud.

It would obviously be politically unpalatable, but in a way it might be better if say AirBNB implemented support for discrimination on their platform. It's obviously something that exists, so reifying it into the formal system should make it easier to optimize away.
Based on all that we know about Facebook and how they collect and use all our personal private data, why anyone uses still Facebook is beyond me. Facebook is a giant spy platform where YOU submit all the your private thoughts and private info putting complete trust in Facebook.

We now now they censor. We now know their apps spy on you enabling your microphone eavesdropping in on your private conversations. We know that whatever you type into their input boxes, they collect even if you never hit the send button.

Get off Facebook. If it's free, you are the product.
One mishap which gets a lot of public scrutiny could set the field back by decades. When it comes to products with public safety implications its better to emulate the airline industry and their approach to safety rather than the "move fast and break things" mantra. For an example of how a few catastrophic events can destroy an entire industry / approach forever we just have to look at the nuclear industry with (chernobyl / three mile) and blimps (Hindenberg).
His last few comments explain pretty well why he stopped.
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Big companies are full of people who can't or won't help you but can easily derail you, even just on a whim.
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In many cases, its illegal for people offering rentals through AirBnB to discriminate under the same laws that prohibit this for hotels.
Well, seeing how Tesla just handed every auto insurance company in the world a free get-out-of-paying card for accidents dealing with that car, I'd say Tesla screwed up. Seeing as how Tesla has potentially exposed everyone involved in the supply chain to lawsuits, then yes, they screwed up.

If I were a well-backed lawyer, right about now, I'd be girding up to file requests for colonoscopies on the people who assembled the circuit boards in those cars.

Seriously, right about now, some lawyer is figuring out how to suck money out of Tesla until it's a dry, twitching husk in the noonday say. Tesla handed that guy a gift.
I would not say my sunshine light makes me tire quicker. I would say that the dim light of my house--lit through shades and by computer monitors--breaks my circadian rhythm, suppresses my natural "tired" signals, and keeps me up later than I should be.
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Ahmed: police called. handcuffed, questioned for 90 minutes, transported to juvenile jail, all without being able to see parents. plus racist comments.

iamdave: picked up from school by his dad, no police involved.

Not exactly the same situations. Both crappy situations, but Ahmed's treatment was an order of magnitude more inappropriate.
I have both. I greatly prefer my HTC Vive for the room-scale + wand experience. I also really like Steam VR over Oculus Home.

The HTC Vive works like a peripheral. I launch Steam, start Steam VR mode, and put the headset on. It feels like PC gaming.

The Oculus Rift feels like a console. I put the headset on, and it launches Oculus Home. It's a very polished presentation and the HW-SW integration is deep and satisfying.
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Same. I haven't cried since i was a little kid in the 90's. I've always found strange when people cry at movies and such.
I agree, but I see this all the time in news articles headlines. Wonder why?
Or just turn it off in East Texas. That would be fun. These juries come from somewhere, I bet many of them have iPhones.
It's off-topic because it turned into a tedious back-and-forth in which you became increasingly uncivil. You've done that repeatedly in arguments on HN. Please don't do that.

When comments get aggressive, good conversation flees the room. Such spats also go inevitably off-topic, since how-right-I-am-and-how-wrong-you-are is not a topic.
Tesla isn't responsible for how a driver drives their car.

But they are responsible for the software they ship.
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There will be better autopilots, but never perfect ones. Aircraft have been using imperfect autopilots since their inception. Most planes have a prominent red button you can press to disable the autopilot whenever it misbehaves.

I'm not sure why this post routes through facebook, but here is a link to the article: http://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/model-s-on-autopilot-crash...
> I know it's just a blog post, but if we consider blogging to be journalism

Some blogging aspires to be the kind of neutral, third-party journalism to which that standard applies, but this kind of sharing of one's personal experience is not that kind of blogging.

It's more like a personal version of an institutional press release, which might be the trigger and starting point for a journalistic story, but isn't one itself.
It beats the camper park, I guess (?):

"The camper park receives no direct Ethernet service. It does have CruzNet service via a wireless access point installed on a light pole. Residents can utilize USB wifi extenders to receive a signal in their residence."
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You can easily find teams of 5-10 in any company with no duds in, but the nature of stack ranking is that every year someone is going to have to take one for the team. If you don't know who the sacrificial goat is, it's probably you.
You're right! It's just for the duration of the voting period (two weeks) of the proposal that you voted on, to avoid people being able to vote for a proposal without the outcome having any potential to affect them (because they split away).

This massively undermines the OP's article criticism.
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I think CD Projekt RED are definitely in the same league as Naughty Dog - The Witcher 3 looks amazing (disclaimer: I haven't seen it on the PlayStation)
Yeah, I have experienced severe pain.
If Tesla can ship a not-perfect autopilot that could significantly reduce injury over not using it at all, shouldn't we abandon this pursuit of "perfection" and release early?
No mention of Idiocracy?! This movie predicted our fate: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

Edit: I read the IMDb blurb – ”… five centuries in the future …”. I guess we’re 500 years ahead of schedule.
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Who actually needs this? Why the corporations that want to sell people on-demand movies, TV and whatnot.

If you push the infrastructure in the name of "The Internet", you look like a saint.
Came here to say this. What do they think POSIX is?
The collision itself looks surprisingly minor.
ok, lets keep playing the hypothetical persons game then.

the lazy stoner? sure he smokes up at home and comes in to the office late basically every day. he's also an outside the box thinker who pioneers the use of new technology on his team, and is an expert debugger who can view problems from angles his colleagues haven't considered yet and maybe never would have.

the new hire who's struggling? its not her technical ability thats lacking, she's just going through some shit in her personal life. her father is sick with cancer and she's splitting her time between her tiny New York apartment where she lives with 3 roommates and her parent's house in the suburbs where she helps her overwhelmed mother catch up on laundry and sweeping the floors at home.

the girl genius who reworked the problem over the weekend? well she's an arrogant workaholic and constantly talks down to her coworkers and drains the morale of the team. she spends a lot of time thinking about ways to make herself look better to the boss and eagerly takes full credit for projects she collaborated on with 5 other people, but she doesn't mention that at her quarterly review meetings.

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Ah, interesting. Especially since the url is thefullstack...
This is one of those things thats just so common sense, its hard to imagine a solid argument against it.

Hopefully it will encourage the US to follow, although I'm sure publishers will dig their feet in and make up some bullsh*t reason why it would be a bad move.
Good point!

I was able to add the zoom capability without TOO much code:

http://slicker.me/fractals/zoom.htm
the problem here is not that the thing is flawed, is that it's flawed in a radical way that users are not aware of, i.e.

> Traffic-aware cruise control may not brake/decelerate for stationary vehicles

When you drive a car, you somehow expect to crash into something if you don't pay attention.
If you let your autopilot do it, crashing into stationary objects is not something you are prepared for.
Yes, and I think most people think the same. "Unsafe" is not a general marker for "proceed with caution" – it's specifically for memory safety. However, the debate is about what is considered memory safe. That's important, because that affects what the compilers are allowed to optimize and what not.
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