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Thanks, allow me to amplify.

I used those early systems, definitely ones better than the Jaguar at least, and in the same year it was released. And, I'm saying anyone who thinks the Jaguar's failure means modern VR is doomed is missing some super basic things about the threshold at which VR is compelling.

And, I'm saying we are just over that threshold, sometimes, with some experiences, and that there was never a snowball's chance in hell that any kind of compelling VR experience could have been had in the early '90s.

If the Jaguar had been compelling, the liability issues would have been sorted, full stop.

Anecdotally, I've found even my 70+ year old father-in-law responds well to Chaperone bounds in the Vive, he 'gets' them immediately. A friend who is partially disabled is also successful at using the Vive, despite some mobility issues. None of that (or the attendant safety) matters, though, if the tech isn't compelling.
inflammatory and shallow.

e.g. "Should we ban coffee, cars and mobile phones under a rationally consistent application of the precautionary principle? That would almost be as absurd as the idea of banning pesticides, chemicals and GMOs."

how about the line is when it affects more than you? drugs, alcohol, coffee, abortion etc affects you (with small reservations). GMO taking over other crops, pesticide near workers or houses, driving drunk, not taking antibiotics correctly, etc screws up things for everyone.
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> The point being is that there is a need for people with engineering skills, but there is also a need for people with craftman skills.

I disagree. We don't need people with craftman skills, or better to say, we shouldn't need. Because once you can define what is craft, then computer can be programmed to do it.

At work, I still code in (mainframe) assembler sometimes. It's a craft, but it has been largely replaced by compilers. Where it cannot be replaced by compiler (which is definitely not the case of my job), it becomes engineering.
Running your own is the way to go if you want it cheap. Any hosted solutions are rather expensive.
I suspect it has a lot to do with building in urbanized areas and using construction and siting methods that care about things like public input and how the environment is affected. (Note: I do not deny that the process can be twisted to suit a particular goal of a small minority--see also Sound Transit's East Link planning through Bellevue, WA.)

Instead of the days of the "city fathers" coming in and declaring that a thing will be built in a place and that which exists can either get out of the way or get flattened--and the thing being built in a way that benefits those who greased the right palms with the public coming in a distant second or third--we study, plan, and consider a lot more.

As a secondary bit, we also don't have the financial capacity, either by accident or intent of the legislature and voters. Many projects are built with bonding authority backed by voter-approved taxes. The legislature of an area restricts what authority and taxes can be used and in what quantities. Dallas Area Rapid Transit's light rail system was built with a 1% sales tax in member cities...and it still doesn't extend to every city that was a charter member. Sound Transit's light rail and express bus system was built with a combination of taxes, mostly on vehicle registrations and sales, that are under periodic assault from statewide initiatives. Many countries have a "land bank" where the national or provincial/state government "front" the money for the local bonds. (Like Canada and British Columbia did in Vancouver.) Most U.S. states do not.

We "did this" to ourselves. It's not the construction, it's the mechanics of getting there.
The tapes themselves could last 300 years (or, for more realistic common needs, around 30 years).

However the tape reader/recorder will probably not last that long. These things need special care (don't forget the cleaning tape every other month) and can act a little weird when the mechanical parts wear down (or even before in many cases).

The Ultrium LTO standard states that a tape recorder for version N must read/write N-1 and read N-2.
Given that there is a new version around every 3 years, it gives you around 10 years of strong guaranty on your capacity to actually recover your data.

To properly manage data on a longer period you need to migrate the data to a new media.
In fact, the problem then became mostly organizational.
I want to:

- Promote interesting people/companies/organizations that are transforming the way people work

- Give anyone a chance to freely connect with people on the list

- Personally connect with people to write and spread the word about the experiments taking place
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What is the source of their right to seek an empire in the first place? At root it's the social contract of the society whose members they seek to enlist.

The source of the implied responsibility of beneficence is the fact that without assuming such a responsibility the acts of a corporate empire are likely to be destructive to the long term interests of the society. By (for example) controlling the social network, they leave members of the society with limited choice not to participate, and thus the implied responsibility of beneficence in exchange for that removal of choice.
I mean kinda...

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-i-acted-like-a-pundi...

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/elections-podcast-paul-r...
There are some "Managed Alcohol Programmes" that give out alcohol to the homeless (and encourage them to cut back).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-01/ezard-homelessness-and...
Let’s get started!

Turn off the power to the dryer installation area at the breaker box.
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As far as I can tell, the model shown here doesn't seem to take supply and demand into account when calculating the price of the resulting housing.
The title is clearly asking the wrong question.

There are very few situations where it is not benefitical.
How many years from John Logie Baird's first invention did it take to get TV right. Mainstream? Colour? Picture & sound quality? Ditching the cumbersome CRT ... best part of a hundred years but people where ready to use it long before that and pay big wodges of cash for it too. I'd say there'll be a big market for sub optimal VR :)
No story about Nate Silver and 538 is complete without mentioning his new rival in the prediction space - Carl Diggler - who has been kicking his butt on the presidential primaries, calling tough elections correctly where Nate has refused to give more than a "Maybe Sanders, Maybe Clinton..." prediction.

Carl is a work of fiction, invented by a couple of journalists/friends as a parody of pundits: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/05/09/... - the story is hilarious. Watching this whole thing unfold on Twitter has been a total blast too (check out @carl_diggler), they never break character and have a lot of running gags (such as Carl's troubles in "Family Court"). Here's a wee excerpt from that WP link:

"
Carl exists to satirize all that is vacuous, elitist and ridiculous about the media class. From his sycophantic love of candidates in uniform to his hatred of Bernie Bros, from his reverence for “the discourse” to his constant threats of suing the people who troll him on Twitter, Carl is predicated on being myopic, vain and — frankly — wrong.

But something funny happened along the way. Biederman and I, who are neither statisticians nor political scientists, started making educated guesses for our parody about the results of the primaries. And we were right. A lot.

We beat the hacks at their own game by predicting every Democratic winner on Super Tuesday. We told readers who would win in the unpredictable caucuses that FiveThirtyEight didn’t even try to forecast, such as those in Minnesota, Wyoming and even American Samoa. We called 19 out of the past 19 contests. FiveThirtyEight, whose model cannot work without polling, accurately predicted 13
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How is this different from just doing a filter for entrepreneur on twitter?
There is other big connection between math and programming, which article completely ignores - functional programming (from the mathematical side it corresponds to various lambda calculi).

Interestingly, lambda calculus is a different language (syntactically) for mathematics than classical logic, so the connection is not obvious.

I think programming will eventually become more mathematical, due to this connection.
Unfortunately it ends up being the lesser of two evils.

Many people would rather have to wait for treatment rather then pay $10,000 a year for a policy and still be completely unable to get treatment because they can't afford the copay, since their policy doesn't kick in until after they shell out an additional $5,000, and even then only pays half.
Without basic maths, sure.

But I've had a 30 year career in software development (covering everything from low level comms software in the 80s through to workflow automation software today) and I never got further than A level maths - which for non-Brits, is the exams you typically do at around 18. I don't feel the lack of a university maths background has ever particularly held me back.
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You shouldn't pay for advertising if you don't want to. The issue is that, as the creators of the work, artists have the right to decide what they want to charge for access to their creation.

You do not have a right to access that content without paying whatever price it is the artist has decided to charge.

If any artist WANTS to release their music for free, they can. If they do not want to release their music for free, they can also do that.

But it is their right and choice. Not yours.
Good question, what drives politicians I can only guess. Neoclassical economists have their heads buried firmly in the sand, preferring their a priori fantasies and pushing that as their agenda.

Taxes are good for creating currency demand (and large scale markets systems resulting from it), shaping incentives and income redistribution. It can also be used to put a brake on a bubble economy.
I find that knowing how it works is the only way the commands and flags make any sense. I am constantly seeing people around me fumble through git trying to get by on a handful of commands they've memorized and just live with the fact that they need to re-clone their repo every now and then.

These people scare me. How can they be comfortable not even knowing what they are telling git to do?

I taught myself how the DAG worked, then the low level commands to manipulate it. Now when I read the docs I get nice surprises like pre-built commands for doing the series of operations I plotted out in my head (most recently 'git merge --no-commit' instead of read-tree, update-index, write-tree)...

Oh god, I've become that guy in college who refuses to use a CRC library until he understands the proof.

But seriously, I'm genuinely amazed people can use git at all without understanding it completely. The mnemonics make zero sense without background, and the operations are completely arbitrary looking.
Dave Ramsey has ascribed to an unbelievably unrealistic view of peoples' responsibilities for their financial outcomes, as well as what they should sacrifice to be solvent. All this coming from a huckster who sells rainbow snake oil.

We live in a world now where we get half the porridge our parents did, and he's teaching us how to starve and hide porridge in our pockets for rainy days. He's part of the problem and a distraction.
I'm on the other side of that one, which is to say I don't like the JVM, (I think of maven and have a bad, bad feeling) and inre: WSDL, and SOAP, I prefer something much, much simpler than anything that came from XML-RPC folks.

I guess if you think back, JSON has the same story that the node story you tell has; it was easy to work with for developers and didn't require a lot of theory or tooling. That makes sense to me as a great pattern to get adoption.

The much larger point though is that we should be able to talk over pluses and minuses in different ecosystems without calling somebody outdated or too old or too slow.
Acquisition of patent is one of the top priority of Xiaomi at this stage when it's trying to expand itself globally. I believe Hugo Barra is doing an excellent work here. The acquisition of Microsoft patent gonna open the door of the US smartphone market for Xiaomi. As per this report -- http://www.greyb.com/patent-portfolio-analysis-of-xiaomi-glo... -- one of the biggest hurdle is Xaiomi's miniscule patent portfolio in the US. In the past they acquired patents from Broadcom in the US. Still they had only 220 patents there and now with these 1500, they are going to have like 1700.
This is why it's better to go to a YouTube channel like Rahdo Runs Through [0] than BGG's ranking page. Rahdo plays with his wife and they prefer games with a lower interaction level than the typical BGG forum power user. This means strategies based on blocking the other players' access to the resources they need are not included or emphasized in the games they play.

Though you will find exceptions, of course. The current number one game on BGG is Pandemic Legacy [1], a purely cooperative game.

[0] https://youtube.com/user/rahdo

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161936/pandemic-legacy-s...
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I'm sorry, what was your definition of virtual reality? I sort of read it as "a reality that is virtually reality itself."

My point was those problems might be on the horizon of nvidia in the next 20 years, but its not even scratching the surface of what VR needs to be.
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I have the same issue, seems to be very erratic with its measurements. Frustrating as fitness tracking was one of the main reasons for getting one in the first place.

I would also like to be able to up the number of measurements it takes. I often only use about 50% battery a day so would happily utilise the remaining charge for more regular monitoring.
From [0], "Patients are being denied mental health care, new hips and knees, and drugs to boost their recovery from illnesses". Does this also happen in the US or does the market ensure that everyone get every medical treatment they need?
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You're the one claiming people don't perform destructive actions with VR.

If you want to defend this horribly dangerous product, feel free. But normal people will continue to call out such an awful product design.

Really, we need to get rid of VR.
Given the that someone on BI has a guaranteed income, loans will be no problem and affordable. The risk being assumed by the lender is lifespan and capacity to live within your means.

And if you get to the point where your cost of living and debt repayments can't be met by your BI, I guess you need to get a job, be institutionalized or declared bankrupt. Just like today. BI isn't going to replace prisons, mental hospitals, or rehabilitation centers (although it may provide a way of funding them, if for example you sign away a prisoner's BI to the prison).
You mean how many chip cycles he needs, right? How many he's got we all know: maybe 2. Then CMOS scaling is over. (Not that things will completely stop evolving, but they'll surely slow down.)
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I have been self learning Python programming, in conjunction with Flask the Python web framework, off and on for about 2 years and will really like to clench a development role. so I set out with the idea of building a CMS system based on Python and Flask, in order to both aggressively push my learning and programming savvy and ultimately clench that dream developer role. What are your thoughts? Too big of a project? have any other projects you might suggest? I will appreciate your feedback
wow, as of writing this comment there are 1114 points and 1134 comments

i remember only a few years ago developing a model for capitalism without the need to acquire capital and being mocked, ridiculed, and chastised

i am glad to see that this conversation is so mainstream now and the strongest voices are becoming those in support
I have a 512GB SanDisk SD card.

The SSD is much faster, but there's no BGA socket on the side of my laptop. There is an SD slot.

Judging by the dimensions, I think it might be just possible to make a 1 TB SDXC card using the same silicon as Samsung's new SSD. Now that would be interesting. It would need a different (non-BGA) package though, and it would still be a tight fit. I'm looking forward to 10 nm.
Potentially all of the programming can be, and most likely will be replaced by machines, so it's a moot point. Until then, there are tons of programming jobs that are poor fit for automation but are definitely thin on engineering challenges.
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Ah this reminds me of all the different proposals for closure syntax in Java before it was implemented, the following links put compare some of the proposals:

1. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=180638 (Inner Classes or Closures)

2. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=182412 (Clear, Consistent, and Concise Syntax (C3S) for Java)

3. https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=202004 (Comparing Inner Class/Closure Proposals)

PS. I remember the Artima articles because I liked them at the time.
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Right, that makes more sense to me. But with that clarification, I don't understand your argument against "Moral facts exist because humans employ moral language and must to survive".

I'm assuming 'must', here, is not some kind of moral imperative (that would be circular reasoning I think), but rather more of an observation: without moral language we'd be a great deal worse at surviving, and one of the reasons we're doing so 'well' is that we have moral language.

So what's the problem there?
Not necessarily. As long as it wasn't related to the JIT or the GC, one could always look up the SSCLI (ROTOR) code to understand how something was implemented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Common_Language_...
Uhm, yes? Tegra had numerous design wins, including Nexus tablets.
Because entrepreneurs aren't the only people changing the future of work. Big companies, small companies, individuals, government orgs, etc.
Insulin doesn't require a prescription in most US states either.
It's kinda stupid that you can't just download the latest and make commits on that. I wonder why
All of which is fine; and in such cases (where this is a common occurrence for your staff) DVCS is a good fit for the requirements.

But do these situations represent the overwhelming majority of use cases? In all probability, not.
Indeed. Making it easier for beginners to read is like writing:

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The government created a market failure by passing restrictive zoning regulations leading to a severe under-supply of housing. Resolving the market failure requires either eliminating the restrictions or providing enough cash money to justify the builder's expense in contending with them.

Obviously the better solution is to do away with the restrictions, but politics is the devil's day job and all that.
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When you use information to deduce information about information, you're doing both I guess. Abstract math was elusive to me in college because it was folding over itself, there was no concrete object layer as before. Anything could be reflected about. Sets of applications from sets of applications to sets of sets. After looking at lots of CS ideas I kinda recognize this too. You encode relationships between anything and deduce new relationships.
In almost all real-time networks playing games, there's very high jitter in inputs. Even when the machine is moving straight, it's always very keen on doing some wiggling with the other keys.

My question is: Is it possible to eliminate that by further training? Naively you could drop 'stupid' inputs, but I assume that may also mess with the machine's understanding.
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In 20 years? I think he's got at least 4, maybe 5. Of course, I don't know how big those evolutions will be in terms of advances, but I'm just a silicon dilettante, nothing like an expert.
Free speech and freedom of religion demands nothing of your neighbors except non interference. Basic income, on the other hand, demands their labor (at our current level of technology). In the future automation may change this, but right now there is a big gap between demanding free as in speech and free as in beer.
Show HN: Facebook touts counterfeit NHL shop as “Suggested Post” in fans' feeds
"Suggested Post" in my Facebook feed:

http://i.imgur.com/hcsMbdK.jpg

Here is their front page; note that they clearly masquerade as the "Official Online Store":

http://i.imgur.com/jc7Z7lC.jpg

(The actual Official NHL shop is at shop.nhl.com

Note the similarities, then note the key differences in branding and copyright message content, and copyright date.)
You're talking about room-scale VR, which I think you have confused with VR in general. Environmental awareness doesn't matter if you're sitting down and holding a controller.
At least Alpine and Arch use the demo (testing) version. IIRC their initial announcement said that the distros can continue using the demo version and not the stable version unless they pay. And no distro can get the stable version even by paying because Brad knows that the distro would have to redistribute the sources as per GPLv2 and thus he will only make ridiculously high offers.

There is no distro or any other consumer product that does or ever will have the stable patches. Brad is a greedy asshole and all around a bad person.
A basic income is supposed to provide enough to live on. So if rents rise, so should the basic income to cover that rise. And the landlords would notice their taxes rising also.

More interesting is what would happen to wages and salaries. If someone's on a wage that's equal to what the BI will be, if it's introduced they could have their wage halved and still have a bigger income. And their boss will have halved their wages' bill.

A basic income would be revolutionary and I doubt anyone has a good idea on how an economy with one will behave.
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Recorded music is the advertising for the musician. I don't understand why I should pay for that advertising. What they are advertising is their ability to perform music and they will receive my money when I pay to watch them perform or purchase their merchandise.

That's a very limited view of music. Tons of music/audio workers out there neither sing nor play live instruments. Songwriters, composers, electronic musicians, recording engineers, mixers, Foley artists, etc. To them, recording is their only product.
Clickable:

"Suggested Post" in my Facebook feed:

http://i.imgur.com/hcsMbdK.jpg

Main page:

http://i.imgur.com/jc7Z7lC.jpg