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The big deal about this card can be summed up thusly: "AMD is planning on heavily promoting the VR aspects of the RX 480, as it brings the necessary performance down from a 250W, $300+ card to a 150W, $200 card."

So the card is more accessible from a financial standpoint and the 100W decrease in power draw means that it both reduces the overall cost of a new build in addition to its own lower cost by requiring a less beefy power supply and makes it a viable option in a greater array of existing desktops without needing to also upgrade the current power supply.
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As a New Yorker, I'll be stunned if anything comes of this "plan" except hundreds of billions of dollars wasted and endless hours of sitting in traffic while I pass construction areas filled with equipment and completely devoid of workers or activity.
As someone who works on eye tracking for VR headsets, this is much easier said than done. Doing it well requires levels of accuracy, latency, and reliability that are not available in any eye tracker on the market today.
Great point on resting my brain. Thank you!
Except that the wealthy don't pay that much taxes in the first place.
Alternatively, adding a BI may show that recipients do not need more social services to improve their lot, so we can stop growing them.

Similar to how we don't withold all basic medical care when testing efficacy of a new drug.
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VR barely works on the desktop with highend hardware and even then it's far from optimal. It will take a long time until that trickles down to mobile.
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So faraday bags when you're not using your device? Which ones actually work?
That's great idea to create visual map with a data file.
Can people share maps by links?
Microwaves work
From an Enterprise perspective (and I'm in the belly of the fortune 50 beast at a division level ~10bn/yr mfg) SaaS discussions internally aren't really about data security -- they're about lock in and leverage by the vendor. For anything of a certain level of criticality SaaS is just too much vendor leverage. Enterprise software licensing is a vicious lawyer on lawyer battleground with deeply unethical behavior and brinksmanship regularly displayed on both sides. If you think I want to give any of those vendors the possession of my server and data during a dispute, you're nuts. The enterprise SaaS model seems fundamentally flawed.
In 20 years we might be able to implement something that works with our visualization systems to produce images at will...at least for those of you without Aphantasia.
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As a type 1 diabetic in the US forced into paying $400+/month in copay to a premium PPO plan in the US for insulin that costs $1200+/month without insurance, on insulin that costs a mere $180 month WITHOUT INSURANCE in Canada, I say:

SHILL
If AMD released decent Linux drivers I might consider it over an Nvidia card, but as things stand now they're useless in a Linux box, and useless in a Windows box (but that's just because it's windows)
I may be wrong, but I think an algorithm could only be considered in terms of locking or lock-free if multiple threads were through that algorithm performing work on the same data at the same time (and so potentially running into each other, in ways which would break the work being done).

I've seen server code like that - all the time of course - but the only algorithm I can think of which has that property is a PRNG, and that can normally be implemented on a per-thread basis, each thread holding its own single-threaded PRNG.

This probably reflects my lack of work with algorthims. Could you give an example?
My first thought was that I could finally teach my mum that code is not magic, and that is a very, very powerful concept.

It's all about diminishing the barrier to entry, and honestly I'm very impressed with this project. To me, this is a breakthrough. I think that combining this with a very minimalistic class could teach people that computers aren't magical, and anyone can try.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/13/top-1-pay-nearly-half-of-fede...
> The most obvious beneficiaries of the decline of old TV media will be the dominant social networks who nail video: Facebook, Snapchat,* and perhaps Twitter, if the whole Periscope thing works out.

I did a double take at this. Snapchat and Twitter? Where are Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, or Twitch?
> I'm getting really tired of seeing centuries old laws being cited in 2016's technology.

Third party doctrine was articulated after the cell phone was invented. The whole "expectation of privacy" articulation of the 4th amendment is younger than Lisp (dating to 1967).
So now it's Adults Only Basic Income?
Is the leech the one who gets money from owning a factory, capturing wealth created by the automation and labor?
Facebook might start encrypting all your chats
You have to remember what I'm looking to achive here is that a new version can be released, and used, while the existing codebase using the old versions is utterly unchanged. The APIs are unchanged, the library they link to is unchanged - totally, utterly, unchanged, not one single byte of difference.

I've not thought about (or really come across - I think I have seen it on Windows) symbol versioning, but from what I've understood (from a pretty terrible explanation online) it would mean the library ends up with a single library file, which gains new members as new releases of the library occur.

This still has the problem of imposing unvalidated change on the user - the library changes under him. What if I introduced new bugs?
The possible failure of active VR (controlling something by walking around) due to space issues doesn't rule out VR as an immersive display technology. You can have one without the other.
Can't remember where I read this, but the idea is that the brain compresses a vast amount of data down to a small amount of meaningful information. VR's current approach is to meticulously spoof that vast datafeed in such a way that the result gets compressed down to something that seems meaningful. Which is a lot of work. Why not go in post-compression and merely spoof the meaningful bits? VR's job could be a lot easier.

I don't know how it would play out, but speculating, you might render a low-poly monochromatic "skeleton" scene and then simply suggest to the brain ways to flesh it out with feeling and texture. Show the user photos of war-torn Europe in 1947 beforehand for example. Even if it means direct neural interfaces, considering that we're 20 years out using the current approach, maybe that isn't so far fetched.
Not exactly a portable solution.
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Seriously though... The number of researchers who expect us to accept wild claims at face value without releasing data is unbelievable. It should be a prerequisite for most journals since it would help protect the journals from false experiments.
They had some wins with the Tegra line... Tegra 3 was pretty big in tablets and phones a few years back. Not sure how well it's going currently. But much better than mobile Atoms for sure.
Surprised that no startups in Portsmouth, NH were mentioned!
I could see this as a great tool for doing coding interviews. You get instant feedback to see if it works, and you can share the results with others almost as a code resume of sorts.
someone posted this in response to another comment a while back. thought it was relevant

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-do...
The thing is, OpenDyslexic and Dyslexie don't make reading easier for all people. Most non-dyslexic folks find them to be annoying/ugly/distracting.
But when the results are useless anyway, it doesn't really matter if they are right or wrong...they just may be speculative of some alternate universe, or may still contain ideas that are applicable elsewhere.
As a recent first time visitor to California, from Australia, the abundant eucalyptus and jacarandas were a major surprise. Of course the palm-lined strips in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles were expected, though still impressive - I hadn't thought to lump those in with the other immigrants.

Thankfully we also got up to Muir Woods (just north of San Francisco) for a taste of the pre-European flora. Looks to be an interesting book, weaving the history of the state through the botanical angle.
You're really not special, though. Why should I care if you asked me, your family asked me, your culture asked me, or nature itself forced my hand? As long as I have a justifiable reason for doing it, I should do it, whether you think it violent or not.
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Google's recent unveiling of Daydream at IO is aiming for that reality.

https://vr.google.com/daydream/
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No problem. Remember, you just think you are you because this reality has really good security.
Having a "clone this site" option would be great - spin off or make copies of a read only project you want to learn from.

Ah perhaps the "remix" button serves this function.
But why is set so popular on band trips, but not football trips?
> Our scraper back then was light years ahead of any others, both in regards to performance (think checkpointing of program state) + accuracy of parsing and JS execution (back then the target goal was a complete emulation of IE6+, sans ActiveX (exception being various host objects such as XMLHttpRequest))

If you don't mind, can you tell me the name of the software? I was very much into scraping business myself around 2008. One of things I failed to do was to scrape a site made in ASP.NET Webforms. I was looking for software that could emulate Javascript and I think can recall something of that sorts that I saw.
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Well at least they have some performance benchmarks to show for [1] (I wasn't able to find a comprehensive sustained performance-per-watt comparison though, which would be much more interesting) and at least they sold more than half a billion dollars worth of Tegras in 2015. Looking at [2] that's at least substantially more than Intel sold when their mobile business crashed and burned in 2014 [3]. It's however not as much as Intel sold in 2013 and the last quarter of 2015 wasn't good for Nvidia either. Maybe it's fair to say that Nvidia is just learning the same lesson with a bit of delay, but at least they have a very strong pivot going after the car market with rapidly increasing compute requirements.

[1] http://wccftech.com/nvidia-tegra-x1-benchmarks-apples-a8x/

[2] http://marketrealist.com/2015/03/why-nvidia-continues-to-foc...

[3] http://www.extremetech.com/computing/227816-how-intel-lost-t...
Thanks for adding that detail - the size of the New Panamax ships was one piece of information missing from the article that would have helped with perspective.
I went full-on, for documentation.

Many, many years ago, back at Uni, a friend of mine received 100% for his Uni project. I could code many years before I went to Uni, but I was shallow in all other ways - all the ways in which we actually produce quality, reliable, usable software. He showed me some of his project, and I saw his docs. What he'd done was absolutely fantastic - a page per API function, documenting the standard set of information that you need to use an API function. The approach you see in all the major projects today, the MS API docs, for example - this from a twenty year old!

That experience permanently set my expectations for documentation, and is reflects in the library docs. One page per function, per enum, per struct, etc, etc, etc. It's ALL documentated. Painstakingly, exhaustively.

There's absolutely no point in writing an API which people cannot use, for whatever reasons.

When I come to make a release, and I'm done (or rather, I think I'm done) with development, I write the docs.

This induces, always, a large final round of development work, as I come to realise, from attempting to document them, that some of what I've done is simply too complex or too awkward or too inherently confusing to use, and has to be rewritten.

I am of the view from my experiences that all developers should write their own documentation, because of the improvement in code quality that is induced by the code changes which come from keeping the docs comprehendable.
A code forum that's well-designed for talking about code (and not as touchy as Stack Overflow) sounds like a great thing, but right now, I think something's going wrong with the rendering.

Clearly people are supposed to be able to talk about code and have it show up as correct, readable, syntax-highlighted code. But in this thread:

http://www.devhaven.io/thread/2-player-checkers-application-...

the Python code doesn't have consistent indentation. This would be a syntax error in Python. On top of that, it's not even monospaced.
BobX is the logical conclusion of said behaviour.

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/We-Use-BobX
*precedent, not law.
I had to leave the U.S. to stop pretending to be an extrovert
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It depends though where you're coming from.

I write the library for the pleasure of it. I'm aiming to create something I think beautiful - for better or for worse, from other people's point of view :-)

I'm not actually looking for it to be used as such. It may well be, if my idea of beautiful is any good, it will come to be used, but that's... it's like a side effect.

When you paint a picture, or sculpt a sculpture, or write a song, you're not competing with other artists to make what other people will judge to be the better picture, sculpture or song.
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I just came across this today (VR Backpacks): http://www.anandtech.com/show/10370/hp-and-msi-demonstrate-b...

At first I thought the idea was pretty ridiculous, but now that I've given it a bit more thought, I'm beginning to think having to carry around a backpack like this might not be such a bad compromise between the traditional stationary wired VR setup and the holy grail of fully wireless VR.
I really like dygraphs (fast) and dimple (charting layer over d3). Both on github.
Actually anecdote is exactly what is most trustworthy in the context of another's mind. The primary reason is, in order to disprove my hypothesis that meditation is good for me, you must be me. Given you can't be me, disproving my assertion requires disproving what I'm saying about my own thoughts and feelings. While we, as humans, are exceptionally good at speaking for others, it's a horrifically inefficient process to render someone else's feelings. Chances are, you'll be wrong about how I feel, given you aren't me and simply don't have enough time left in this world to accomplish being me. And trust me, you don't want to be me.

Note that my "reality" here is lack of circumstantial evidence for the harmful effects of meditation, which would just help identify there was a problem to begin with. In theory, this could be put to the scientific method to prove or disprove, given you could measure someone's mental state using something other than "he seems unstable today", which you can't, without speaking for someone else.
Deadwood manages to stay, unnoticed by management, for decades. Most companies of a size has plenty, the body-shops (EDS etc) seem to consist of mainly deadwood.
"The top one percent of income earners, who paid 38 percent of federal income taxes, faced an effective tax rate of 23 percent." [0]

"The richest 1% of the world’s population now owns 50% of its total wealth, according to a report by Credit Suisse." [1]

I was in the top 5% last year. I paid an effective tax rate of 28% federal, and almost 45% including state/local. Why should I give one flying fuck if the people that control 50% of the world's wealth pay a majority of taxes, if they pay a lower effective tax rate than I do?

This idea that the 1% pay more than their fair share because they pay a majority of taxes is some ridiculous double-speak. One single percent of people control 50% of the world's wealth. You want me to feel bad for them how?

[0] http://www.economics21.org/html/rich-pay-more-their-fair-sha...

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/10/14/1-percent-global-wealth-credit...
Thankyou! I hope you're right :-)
> Wealth isn't created equally

Agreed. But that wasn't the claim (Equally != Collectively). It takes the whole society to produce both the demand and the capital for wealth creation.

> dividens should be paid proportionally to the "collective" taxpayer.

Although the IPhone example did refer to public financing; focusing on taxes here is missing the point, which also includes wealth without such an obviously direct link to government financing.
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UBI gives impetus to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility
So many intelligent people read this site yet only a handful understand real world monetary policy and economics. Thank you for this comment.
This strategy works when one person plays by the complicated rules and everyone else plays for fun.
When you go pull out some BGG game, you'll have the same problem: the board game geek rules lawyer playing strategy and trouncing players who play for fun.
Or one could accept that for essential things it is a very bad idea to hope that the market will provide and instead the state could provide them itself, which could guarantee a steady supply.
This is the premise of a 90's sci-fi novel about VR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth_of_Reflections). In the novel, a character discovers a graphical sequence that puts people into a hypnotic state in which they can be shown a low-res virtual environment which their brain then fleshes out.
plan B: wait another 10 billion years, and the sun will destroy the earth when it becomes a giant.
> I never said licenses were not important: YOU SAID THAT.

I thought you were saying I thought licenses were not important. I was trying to make it clear I think they are fundamentally important, by being an aspect of property rights.
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I was hungry and didn't know what to eat.. So I decided to make an app that shows food plates from restaurants around your location.
It just got approved on Google Play for android users: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.chewzr.food&hl=en
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If you're only counting money, it might seem that way. Perhaps you could measure time spent and freedoms lost instead.
Technically, you're right that it's atomic to create a file. But creating a lock using a file can be deceptive and is a common pitfall in my experience. I have seen a lot of shell scripts take this form:

if [ ! -f $FILE ] ; then
touch $FILE
# do something dangerous, assuming I have a lock
rm $FILE
fi

The problem here is, of course, that I've checked whether the file exists, but another process (even a concurrent execution of the same script) could remove $FILE after I've checked that it doesn't exist. Now I (or any other process) can happily proceed to create $FILE, thinking that no one else is executing simultaneously. Actually, if I ran two executions of this script at about the same time, they could both pass this check and executed the (mistakenly expectedly) "synchronized" block.

Of course, you don't have to use flock(1) to make this operation atomic. It just handles a lot of the extra work that I don't want to have to think about, even if I did set `noclobber` or something like that.
To be fair, if someone actually utters that sentence, I think most English speakers would reply with "I'm sorry?" or "Do you need help?"
Where I work, over the past 2-3 years we've used B+, Pi 2, and Pi 3 (all running Raspbian) for public display screens and browser performance is terrible on all of them. Even the Pi 3 is unable to play YouTube videos without freezing for 10-30 seconds while it buffers and skipping a ton of frames throughout.

If you have video files or use e.g. youtube-dl and then play video back with omxplayer it's nice and smooth (although using the --loop option seems to make the video freeze after several hours/days; memory leak?). Our solution was a 2-line bash script to start a new omxplayer instance when the previous one finishes ad infinitum until you Ctrl+C, and that's run for 7 or 8 months now without a hitch.
That would require a whole bunch of grade-separated right-of-way & track that doesn't currently exist. The brilliance of the Triboro is that it's all already pretty much there.

Note also that there's a long history of truncating the G train [1].

I personally would love to see the Franklin Ave Shuttle extended to make a loop out of Brooklyn portion of the current G train route along Church Ave, connecting north-central Brooklyn to Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Long Island City. That's probably a pipe dream.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_(New_York_City_Subway_servic...
Aren't these highly compressed and encoded concepts called books and language already?
>Helping others is hugely rewarding, fulfilling even, but most people are limited either by their real or perceived lack of funds, or by minor personal problems. With UBI the bottom Nth of people's BS is handled, freeing them up to help others whose BS is a little too formidable for them to cope with on their own.

Is there any data to support this? I'm genuinely curious. Thinking that people in general are innately good/helpful is a point where I seem to differ to a lot of others. It's just not something I see from looking at the world around me. The majority of people already have others around them with more formidable BS to deal with, and we all ignore them just fine.
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the piggy trough is so full of cash, cream and credit, that they ignore credible assessment(s)

about the VR industry from the top comment of that page

Edit: Thanks for the downvote
The importance of statistical transparency is part of the reason why I've switched to GitHub and Jupyter notebooks, as GitHub renders them natively which makes it obvious what code is being run and what the results of the code are. (two recent examples of mine are processing AngelList data [https://github.com/minimaxir/sfba-compensation/blob/master/a...] and creating graph networks from Reddit data [https://github.com/minimaxir/reddit-graph/blob/master/subred... ])

That said, there are a few reasons I've seen writers/researchers intentionally not release data. Either the code is sloppy/inefficient/embarrasing, or the data is used in bad content marketing for a startup that specializes in data collection so that they can say "we have data, pay us if you want more, neener neener neener." (The latter of which I see submitted to HN all the time and serves as a pet peeve of mine)
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I run into walls and furniture all the time if I can use the system long enough without getting sick.
Money supply increase does not necessarily lead to inflation.
> [Get Notified When We're Back]

The email notification during overload is a very thoughtful feature. Awesome UX enhancement especially for a dev service.
I always wondered if you could use adversarial neural networks to find images that the brain recognizes as something else, just like you can fool NNs. You could use this to find low-poly representations of your objects that are indistinguishable from the real ones. Probably you'd have to calibrate this for every user though.
You posted literally the only video on the Internet where this happened, and it's because the girl was an idiot.

And you don't make Call of Duty for VR. VR experiences have limited movement, or you use teleportation to move around large spaces.
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It's not about lying, but constructing a narrative that paints the facts in a favorable light. Just saying you were fired for underperforming gives you no room to construct a less negative narrative.
So you are buying your insulin in Canada, right?

(I don't mean mail order, but a border run).

Insulin doesn't require a prescription here.