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I think many have misinterpreted what he was saying, especially if they haven't read the actual article. Nvidia's CEO is saying that VR won't be a "completely solved problem" for at least another 20 years. And that's very much true and has already been known by VR enthusiasts.

Carmack was even saying stuff like you need a 12k or 16k display to have the "ideal" resolution in VR, years ago. Well, we're not going to get those kinds of displays in VR headsets anytime soon, and even if we do, that's orders of magnitude more performance that's needed compared to what we're using in today's PCs.

On top of that, you also need "virtual reality" to be as close as possible to actual reality in terms of graphics fidelity, so that's a few orders of magnitude more in terms of performance needed. If you want "Matrix-style VR", then yeah, that won't be achieved for at least another 20 years. The headsets will also have to become "glasses-like" to increase adoption and make them more convenient, which is going to take at least another decade, too.

All of that said, while I do think the 1440p resolution is way too low, and probably even 4k won't be the "optimal" resolution for VR, I do think VR will start becoming "mainstream" within the next 5 years. I think many took his comments to mean that VR won't be mainstream for another 20 years, but that's not what he was saying.
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The content might be dynamic not static. For example, an SO clone might allow users to type a comment including code in mark down and then need to preview it.
The same researchers probably think there will be no oil either, just like researchers thought there would be no oil today.

20 years ahead projections are always wrong, sometimes VERY wrong.

It's just another case of "X will kill jobs" where X could be steam machines, electricity, robots, whatever... In the 80s my dad who worked in the automotive industry told me I should study IT because robots would eventually replace men. Today I'd say he was wrong: it's good to be in IT because of the Internet and mobile revolutions, which have nothing to do with robots.

The only sure thing is that we can't predict the future accurately.
The USSR suffered from mismanagement, poor treatment of workers, rampant corruption, a lack of natural resources, and crippling trade embargoes, and they nationalized virtually their entire economy. There are plenty of other examples of nationalizing critical industries going well, case in point Britain's NHS.
The most common dialect is PCRE. Most languages have an implementation of either that or a superset of it.

PCRE isn't exactly simple to begin with. That languages may implement it, or a superset of it, is exactly the problem. I know regular expressions very well, or rather I know regular languages and can fairly easily identify if a problem is solvable as a regular expressions. But once you start to go beyond that, it's not simple anymore and the benefit of a regular expression is lost.
But government spending within the national economy is not income constrained, so raising taxes is not a requirement.
> Perhaps work that doesn't pay more than a UBI can provide is not work worth doing

This is a frequent argument invoked in favor of a higher minimum wage, and the answer is maybe.

But then you find out that some fairly useful work, such as running a convenience store or a corner bodega in a low-income neighborhood involves significantly lower margins than operating a Whole Foods or organic juicery in a ritzy residential neighborhood, and people start decrying "food deserts" http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/02/03/food-deserts-contin...
> If we're talking about true VR, it's the replacement of reality, e.g. piping experience directly into your neurons

Yeah that's not what anyone here is talking about.
And neither does a market, regulated or not. You can generally find bad examples of such things.

At least it is possibly to cut back your use of toilet paper without dire consequences so long as you have clean water. It might not be pretty or wanted for most of us, but it is possible while still keeping clean. Bidets might get more popular, if available, and others would learn from the folks that use cloth diapers and real washclothes on their babies.

This situation isn't as easy to fix when you replace toilet paper with medication or health care. It isn't like one can simply make do if they are out of medicine.
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Programming is not a science. "Pad to multiple of 256 otherwise libX will fail" is exactly what a comment is for, and it is the "why", no the "what" - the what is already readable in the code.
Is the government incentivized and managed well enough to take big risks on new drugs and have a good chance at making them work?

Sometimes I wonder how much the rest of the world benefits from the US's capitalist-ish healthcare policies. How much do drug companies rely on their ability to charge US customers insane amounts of money to help recover their costs of developing new treatments?
12-lead ECGs are really only done with 10 physical leads. One lead is ground, six leads are each single-channel measures (V1 -V6) that wrap around the heart and the remaining three leads are used to create six channels - three single-channel measures, and the last three channels are calculated as diffs between them. V1-V6 have specific spots on the chest to live, but the remaining four leads (including ground) get one limb each, and generally work wherever you want on that limb.

(I used to be an EEG tech, and for us, the ECG was the primary thing we wanted to get rid of...)
> Build enough market rate housing that the price falls to what low income people can afford and you don't need any low income housing.
There are other kind of problems like buy-to-leave (http://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Buy_to_leave).
In that scenario the amount of housing to build to get to a point that it is affordable is a lot higher than it should be.

> subsidizing construction
If you mean state owned properties. I agree on that. Having low rent housing competing in the market bring prices down. But the number should be significant enough. Otherwise it just becomes a lottery where a few win but has not broader impact in the market.
>Facebook and Google know that keeping all your source code in one single repository is good

I'm not sure about Facebook, but Google continually wastes engineers on policing test failures because anyone at any time could have committed a change that breaks your tests for hours (along with all their other dependencies). The cadence of integration should match that of deployment; I don't want to test against code that won't be in production and I certainly don't want to be slowed down over shitty code that obviously can't go out.
This is actually a huge deal. Insulin is famous for lasting several times the listed shelf life if properly refrigerated, but people unaware of this still throw away unfinished vials. Other drugs are so stable they may never expire, so the dates on the bottles are completely arbitrary.
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Do you not like listening to music from home?
Ask HN: How people get travel tips from web
I'm always curious about how people get travel tips from internet, these tips should not only introduce the general info of a country or a city, but also with detailed info, or I can just describe it as a pdf or web version of LonelyPlanet Book.

I did some search on google with these keywords: American travel tips, China travel tips ,Japan travel tips.... something like that. But except lonelyplanet or tripadvisor, I can barely find any professional websites which focus on this topic. Most of the time, I have to gather information from all kinds of forums and websites, most of the time they just copying each other's content.

So I want to know how you guys plan your trip, do you think it is good to have a website or app that include detailed info about a country or city that will release you from googleing. or what are these websites/apps? Thanks!
Machine Learning: How to find sets of similar things
Hi all,

Does anyone have any good reading or code for finding sets of similar things? For example, given a text dataset like every comment on Reddit, how would you find lists of cities, or cocktails, or politicians? If nothing else, I want to know what the name of this problem is, so I can research it...thanks
"Blueseed is now on hold pending additional funding." - blueseed.com

Other issues:

The location proposed was offshore of Half Moon Bay. This presents a few problems:

1. Half Moon Bay has Pillar Point Harbor, but no facilities for cargo vessels, lighters, or ferries. It's a small boat harbor, run by the County of San Mateo, which probably isn't going to let you build a big dock for large workboats and ferries.

2. West of Pillar Point Harbor is Mavericks, where surfers fight 100 foot waves. Not a good area for boating when there's a small craft advisory.

3. The whole point of Blueseed is that it's not in the US. Half Moon Bay isn't a port of entry to the US. You'd have to go up to SF and pass through customs and border protection to go ashore. Every time.

4. If your startup is losing money, you're not paying taxes anyway. If your startup is successful, you probably need more space than Blueseed could provide.
One way is to think about BI as insurance. Then the emergency cases are averaged across the entire population. Joe's twelfth car break-down can be classified as "insurance fraud".
Because countries with public health care spend less on health care. Its fine if you have a moral disagreement with having a public sector, but the facts don't lie, the health insurance bureaucracy, misleading pharmaceutical marketing/sales etc, is way more inefficient than even the shittiest implementation of a public healthcare system.
If you truly believe that -- move to Venezuela.
nothing like that existed yet
The biggest potential I see with this is with helping people initially learn to program. imo the biggest hurdles with programing aren't programming itself; instead it's getting the proper setup (installing x, y, and z and configuring a, b, c properly)
ad "git is slow": when comparing SVN diff vs git diff on a SSD MacBookPro git diff is in most cases waaaaay faster than svn diff.

Also, the author ignores the biggest advantage of git/hg over any centralized system: you can commit stuff without needing to be online! Commits are basically free until you eventually do git push.
>useless in a Windows box (but that's just because it's windows)

Care to expand on that? You do realize that Windows dominates the gaming market, right? (and don't respond with anything involving mobile please).
Comparing mafia and creditors is non-sense: mafia get their power from their choice to use unjustified violence, while creditors get their power from your choice to borrow in the first place.
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I have all the wrong math. I got discrete math in CS - number theory, formal logic, and combinatorics. Now you need more real-number math - probability, statistics, and matrix algebra.
Snapchat is SO CONFUSING -- this is how I know I'm super old.
> There are other kind of problems like buy-to-leave (http://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Buy_to_leave). In that scenario the amount of housing to build to get to a point that it is affordable is a lot higher than it should be.

Not if you publicly announce your intentions ahead of time. Then people have no incentive to do that because the expectation will be for housing prices to decline and the investment to lose value.

> If you mean state owned properties.

I mean giving subsidies to builders who create new market rate housing. Although another major problem is zoning regulations that prevent new housing from being constructed regardless of financing.
The article is full of non-sequiturs.

"I believe that Gawker serves an essential function in a celebrity-obsessed culture"

? So, in a celebrity shunning culture they'd be useless?

"...the public right to information is more important than any individual’s right to privacy"

What is this public right to information, where does it come from?

"Gawker is responding to an asymmetry of celebrity power"

An obsession with celebrities. As if celebrities were the important aspect of society. If celebrity power is unfavorable to ordinary people, legislate their power down to size, don't rely on a white-knight like "protector of the people"

If Gawker wanted to do the public a favor, rather than say, just another way to make a buck or to wield power, they'd do hard journalism.

I mean, who cares what kind of sex HH has or Peter's sex preferences are? That's salaciousness disguised as news. And no, I don't care to see a congressperson's sex tapes either. I do care that they engage in illegal things, yes, but not about people's peccadilloes. Isn't society beyond voyeurism-thru-media-cum-news already?
In what market is a YouTube a monopoly in the antitrust sense, exercising pricing power?
> If the government spent the money it spends subsidizing rents on subsidizing construction then the problem would be solved.

Or just give poor people money?
Disagree with him if you want, but his entire point is that the lines between "their choice" and "your choice" are often blurred.
> A recent report from the Kauffman Foundation found that less than 5% of all startup funding comes from venture capitalists, and only 6.5% of high-growth startups take venture funding. However, 37% of companies that had IPOs between 1980 and 2005 had VC funding.

Wow, if that's true I'm very shocked by those numbers! To be fair I haven't ever considered the macros of the industry, but perhaps this points out just how much of a bubble (perhaps echo chamber?) I live within!
Who's bookmark widget are you using?
A static type system is a wonderful message to the present and future
This really seems like mostly an ego problem, or maybe I see it that way because that's the hammer in my hand.

I would recommend reading this article by Chris Grobmeier: https://www.grobmeier.de/the-10-rules-of-a-zen-programmer-03...

The philosphy in it is a good counter to most of the points mentioned in the post.
Building denser has to be part of the solution. One way is to build up. Another is to also remove minimum parking requirements:

See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/business/economy/15view.ht... and http://www.uctc.net/research/papers/351.pdf
Node/JavaScript cater to those who also know a bit of front end.

Node has its uses for prototyping and quick projects, at least for me.

I honestly spend about 1/3 of my time in the Java ecosystem -- it has its uses, I've done a lot of it (dev and operations), but I personally dislike the general weight of dealing with server side Java - app servers, etc.

Language and ecosystem, for me, are dictated by the needs of the particular project. I said 1/3 Java above, the other 2/3 for me (right now) are C and Node... Across 4 projects.
That's the model of a lot of financial firms, it appears to lead to very short-term, high-risk strategies, and financial engineering to boost the share price at certain points in time
Any kind of task that requires long periods of concentration is unfit for an open floor plan.

I'm a writer and man, I hate writing with people around me
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Google just got started before DVCS were a thing.

Some people are working on getting Google to a more decentralized future.

(By the way, having a single repository doesn't 100% keep the build green, we need extra safeguards for that.)
I think you need to read my comment again.
My top git commands from the commandline history are git status, git commit -a, git diff, git gui, gitk --all. There are a few git pull/pushes in there, but these 5 dominate. I hardly ever use git add, and over the years I've pretty much stopped using the index altogether. The GUI tools are my way of doing the fancy stuff. They work great and expose a lot of the more complex features without having to remember all the command line options.
https://krita.org/download/krita-gemini/ this?
I could not help myself, but laugh, when I read about Node.js

Yes, the magical silver bullet, that kills the dungeon master! Snake oil extracted from within the great depths of brogramming. Acme Elbow Grease to help develop scalable™ MVP's with possibilities of future growth. That's it - 42 is outdated and irrelevant anymore, the answer now is Node.js
But will it keep them from GETTING there? Isn't that the move important question?
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A lot of people around the world have been receiving old-age pensions for quite a while. Many are still healthy and able, with some of those working and some not.

Why will this study provide better data about how people will behave when given a basic income than the presumably huge amount of data available about how healthy people behave on a pension?

Working out how to plug a basic income into an economy, how to arrive at what it should be and how to transition an economy to include a basic income would be a better use resources.
http://www.genericpedia.com has price list of generic medicines
The author actually tries to argue that network access is ubiquitous. But no matter how much money you blow on tethering, you're going to have a bad time in a train tunnel. Or an airplane. Or a road trip.
To understand this article (swiped from Wikipedia):

TEU: Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit is the unit of the capacity of a container ship, a container terminal and the statistics of the container transit in a port. The two most common international standardised containers are those of twenty and forty foot.

LDT: Light displacement ton, the weight of a ship without anything on board, used to determine the value of a ship which is to be scrapped
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OSX never was a target platform, until recent times.

3.0 is still labeled as unstable release for OSX. 3.1 should be the stable though.
In response to the dead comment

"Is CS a subfield of math or is math a subfield of CS?"

This is quite an interesting question because I watched a Robert Harper lecture where he argues the latter.

In a nutshell proofs can be mathematical objects and in particular they can be seen as programs.
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> lottery (which is a tax on stupid people),

The lottery is a tax on hope
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Oh this is a huge help that you found this situation now. The last one - horses bodies - was the same, oval shape and skin with veins.

I do seldomly check the sandbox queue of images looking for those situations. But I do not know about the user taught neural models. You can't trust the internet to teach your AI as microsoft lately shown us. But I will implement some kind of reporting system. Thanks ilovecocacola!
EDIT: Disregard 'you consider the NHS...' - got your comment mixed up with somebody elses.

The actual point is that nationalization tends to have mismanagement and shortages as an outcome, and private markets do not (at least not to the same extent). You consider NHS to be an example of a well run nationalized system, and yet the NHS deals with chronic rationing [0] [1], has queues for many things (and actually lets you pay to jump place in line) [2]. I'd hardly call that efficient or well run - instead, I'd call it symptomatic of central planning. W/ regard to people using bidets, cloth diapers, and washclothes - in a system with chronic shortages, people don't have those either. During the 90s and 00s I thought that perhaps China's simultaneous transition from poverty and shortage to (relative) wealth and abundance (which was driven by their transition from state control to capitalism) would have finally put this 'the state could eliminate shortages and give everybody everything' nonsense to rest, but it seems that people have very short memories indeed (or just weren't born yet when the major experiments in nationalization were underway).

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/08/nhs-rationing...
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2015/apr/24/ra...
[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3104106/NHS-charge...
I think the GP is referring more specifically to Henry George Theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem). The theorem has pretty solid theoretical backing, so I don't see why it wouldn't apply to basic income. At the very least it's a good question to research.

My understanding is that all owners of would increase the rents/prices of their unimproved land, not just housing landlords. Everywhere you'd move is now more expensive by the same amount, because unimproved land is (mostly) fixed supply.
In Germany, I think, you can only get your state pension when you stop working? (Or at least, there are severe restrictions on working.)

But given these caveats, that probably exist similarly in other countries, it's a good field to study.

Of course, the social expectations on people on old-age pensions are quite different from the ones on the working-age population.
BounCA – SSL / Personal Certificate Authority Made Easy
I want to inform you that I just launched the open source tool BounCA (http://www.bounca.org). I'm open for feedback. Feel free to try it, and I'm very happy to hear from you and your findings.

Details: BounCA is a tool to create your personal certificate authority and sign/revoke your own keys.
The main purpose of BounCA is to enable the power of a personal trust chain and encryption to people who don't want to dig into the complex parameters of OpenSSL. A personal certificate authority provides the following use cases and advantages:
Use cases:

Trusted encrypted communication with your peers (man-in-the-middle attack prevention)
Secure your internal REST micro-services and internal API's
Client-certificate based login for web services, web applications and OpenVPN connections
Secure access to your private cloud services with your own HTTPS scheme
Secure your Internet of Things (IoT) network with your certificates and provision them via the BounCA
Advantages:

No single point of failure: Decoupled and decentralized authorization management
You are in control of your complete trust chain: Spoofing nearly impossible as no third party is involved
Rocket fast authentication: SSL off-loading can be performed by your webservers
My best advice is to take the fun math, whatever that may be. If a class is fun, you learn it properly, so you will be much more able to adapt the concepts and strategies to other problem domains.

So apart from the mandatory calculus, statistics and linear algebra, as an engineer I took functional analysis, operator algebras, group theory, and intro to hilbert spaces.
Because he's trying to teach them how to write good, readable, maintainable code.
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