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It's a really nice user interface. The 2d view has a few limitations though.

It could do with the ability to swap the control points on the 2d view at a click of a button.

Similarly the preview of functions could do with showing either a 2d view or a line at a slice along any line. Currently you can see only a slice across which means a sine wave going down looks like a straight line on 1d view. Letting you pick a slice line would let you see the wave preview more closely to what it actually is. For example a sine wave at a 45 degree angle could be represented as such in the preview.

In the 2d view there is even a space available for showing the wave at an arbitrary cross-section.

The layout is

[ X __ ]
[ 2D Y ]

In the __ area you could have a cross section line dragger.
In your example, most of the time the "market" won't fix that though, because there's no money to be made in servicing the users with "cheap" phones.
On the set up, it might be right but unfortunately I do not have a room to spare for a full room VR.

The odd angle I am refering to is having the sensors above the player. I used a bookshelf on one side but had to buy a tripod on the other side.

On the cable, the problem is that even when seated, you end up turning on yourself, and then you don't have one but many cables to manage that you cannot see. It almost requires some assistant.

On blury edges, it doesn't feel like a resolution problem, rather an optical problem. Perhaps my headset wasn't adjusted properly but I couldn't find a way to improve it.
This pattern of HRC Email articles falling way side on HN, is alarming.
If other forms of internet communications are any indication, China will have its own virtual universe, shut off from any outside influence, "harmonized" with the party line, requiring real names and such, and likely larger than any Western one.
Perceptual Speed Index
When I think about this problem, I feel like there are 2 major priorities that tug from different ends of the spectrum on this issue.

1) I want innovation. I want new features for the web. I don't want innovation to be hampered by the priority of making features cross-browser compatible.

2) I want cross-browser compatibility. I don't want to have to develop N apps (N representing the total # of browsers my website / app supports).

Personally I don't care if X browser has feature Y. As a developer, if I find a feature I want to program into my website / application, I don't want to have to wait for N-1 other browsers to implement this feature before I start using it.

I want to be able to "declare" or send a "hint" in my HTTP headers (or meta tags?) telling the browser that my site is supported by X,Y,Z browser engines. Each browser would implement a bare bones interface that decouples the "chrome" of the browser window from the "application" window, and makes the application window interchangeable (plug n play) with other browser engines. This would make browser engines interchangeable without requiring a user to close one browser and open another.

Granted, if a user doesn't have browser engine 'X', and refuses to download / install it, that's my loss as a developer / website owner. Or of course I could write some graceful degradation into my app / website. Already I hear some folks saying "but this is what we do now". Not quite. It's a subtle but I think important difference. Most people are willing to install (or already have installed) all major browsers on their computers. The point is, currently we must develop for / test for all major browsers to get the desired reach (or to prevent a user from having to switch browsers). This alternative approach moves the needle when a user installs a browser, not when they use the browser. So if there are a substantial # of people who have both Chrome / Firefox installed on their computers, but 'X'% of those people regularly use Firefox, I can still develop ONLY for Chrome and still get the desired reach into the world's population who have internet access.

There are of course going to be pros / cons no matter what you do, but given the above priorities, and the predispositions of all actors involved (web browser developers, web browser users, website / web app developers) I really think this is going to be the most scalable, least intrusive / obstructive path forward.
There are actually already a bunch of pretty decent VR multiplayer games (at least for the Vive). Some of my favorites, on Steam:

Battledome, Rec Room, Hover Junkers

There's a bunch more, but these are the most polished, in my opinion. Battledome/Rec Room really shine because you can get right next to a person, wave at them, talk to them (built in mic on the Vive headset). It's super immersive and cool to be literally right next to a person that is maybe in another country.
Insanity with Elixir, Phoenix and PostgreSQL
"But if they do show up, perhaps they can be put to work programming Skype Translator to produce a less cringy version of how kids today speak"

Cring(e)y is an example of how 'kids' today speak. For whatever reason this portmanteau is now being used more frequently than cringeworthy.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=cringy%2C%20cringey%...
The government wants to have a secret list of "potential terrorist" and then wants to deny them right to own guns and ability to fly. Yet, a lady who has clearly put national security at risk can run for president and commander in chief of American forces. Tells a lot about how government operates more like a Mafia. You cant touch Mafia bosses no matter what they do.
Facebook launches OpenCellular: an open source wireless access platform
I feel like I read somewhere that hacker news automatically filters snowden/intercept/leak stuff because it was polluting the front page for some period of time. Kind of a bummer but you get what you pay for I suppose.
smell-o-vision disagrees :-)

It depends on how you define VR ... if you define it as covering every sense, then yes, by definition is encapsulates all other media. But if you define it as how its implemented, then no, because net every sense has been implemented. Smell, temperature, wind, acceleration, weightlessness, full-body touch ... we're a long way from the holodeck.
VR is interesting. It gives content creators a lot more options to engage participants, but it also takes an axe to their knees in their ability to control things. The author has no control over where the participant is looking - and with room-scale tracking, very little control over where the participant is standing either.

The most successful content in my view capitalizes on this freedom, and provides new spaces for participants to express themselves. You do not have to roll on the floor to dodge lasers in the arcade shooter Space Pirate Trainer, but it is fun to do, gives you a workout, and was not programmed into the game.

If it replaces anything, it will be things like museums, casual sports (ping pong, pool etc that require big space commitment for a singular activity), and social interaction tools like skype.
Wow - that's brilliant. I have used firefox + pentidactyl for ages, on and off, but usually end up removing it as it mucks up web dev stuff too frequently.

But this for a daily browser and then firefox for heavyweight stuff looks cool.

Thanks!
Does anyone have a theory of why she did it? I mean, I can imagine using Gmail instead of corporate email if the latter doesn't really work and you can't do anything about it - definitely not the case here though. This prompts one to consider a more substantial motive than "getting a working email server" - perhaps hiding something from someone else working for the government - but to add up, it has to be worth the risk, and it has to be the least risky way of doing it.

So why did she do it? Or rather, what could plausibly be the reason?
There are a lot of psychological factors that go into tricking the brain into "being present" in the VR space. When you use that $60 VR headset your seeing neat VR technology but your brain is never tricked. There is tons of research on this going back to the 70's. The Vive / Oculus is basically the first time we are getting close at this price point. There is still a ton of hardware and software work needed. For example seeing a fake body in VR takes you out but seeing your hands 100% tracked makes takes you back in.
Where ever I looked it up carelessness is almost always the first that comes up in online law dictionaries to describe gross negligence.

But I'm not a lawyer too.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/gross+negligen...
Remember the Toyota unintended acceleration issue from a few years back? There was one confirmed case and then a lot of copycats. Could this be case where someone is trying to cover his carelessness by blaming autopilot?
It's true. I view syntax preference kind of like car preference. Very personal and some people have deep reasons and others don't.
Oh, same here. Two of my current manuscripts have now been replicated in 3-5 independent clinical cohorts. The thing is, if the field won't even recognize that "ability to produce the same outputs given your inputs" is critical, good fucking luck with things like "actually replicates in a separate population".

Neuroscience is particularly horrendous about this.
Not all the VR experiences will be AAA games. There are plenty of mobile and desktop indie games that are engaging and don't require state of the art performance (see GearVR). Also WebVR content doesn't rely on traditional DOM rendering that it's the main bottle neck for web applications to feel smooth.
> Laws control the lesser man, right conduct controls the greater one, and neither control politicians
IKEA literally already has such an app in Steam.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/447270/

[2] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/about_ikea/newsitem/040516_Virtual...
Nonsense. I'd gladly pay $1400 for a development environment if it made my job as a developer easier or better. My recollection is that Delphi (and its various owners) lost their way, not that people suddenly rejected Delphi's price point.
Reviews should be facts by definition of a review (as I use it), so the question is not begged.

The incentives are 'aligned' that way because it is the only way to benefit. Publishing into an echo chamber (or void) is not science, by definition.
I'm at a startup that has product-market fit, and are currently at the early end of what it seems like the target company is. Interesting to see how much of it has already been implemented or is in the process of being implemented (onboarding is a somewhat iterative process right now, but it's steadily improved), as well as what we haven't yet gotten to.
That project is a labor of love and the author asked for very little in return, but he did ask for it, publicly: https://github.com/magcius/xplain/blob/gh-pages/article/regi...

Had he asked for money, I probably would not have sent any. But he asked for something that I can provide with ease, so I did. And I enjoyed it.

Is that really what this is about? Is it wrong to do good if it might benefit the do-gooder in some way? Can we all take a collective moment to think critically about that? :)

(anyway, you're wrong(ish?). Posting an issue does not appear to have added my name to https://github.com/magcius/xplain/graphs/contributors . Though I could have sworn that I've seen what you are talking about happen before. \shrug\, that's github's fault.)
Ah ok, yea I haven't really tried a seated experience on the Vive, I could see that being the case.

I use command strips on the walls for my base stations in my bedroom, so no tripods take up any space and no damage to the walls =)

The blurry edges could be a focus thing, could also just be how it is, I've personally experienced a better FOV on the Vive than the Oculus, but I could be mis-remembering.

Blurriness can eventually be helped a bit by supersampling (already possible, just need a powerful system to handle it), and some work being done on things like foveated rendering [1] helping to create higher-res displays.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKR8tM28NnQ
Sure.
I also use Atom with gofmt installed (the Atom gofmt package allows you to use goimports as a formatter). Comment the line and hit save and the import goes away. Uncomment and hit save and it comes back. Tools exist to make dealing with this requirement painless.
>The spectrum is a public good, and it is scarce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-wideband
PocketC.H.I.P. has arrived! A collection of tweaks for the geekiest gadget
I think he means something like a very senior sales director, when in the early days, the best salespeople should be the founders and the team members touching customers every day
Trumpocalypse and other DNC plans for July – GUCCIFER 2.0
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> But they have a very good seed funding

This implies that they aren't at the stage that this article is aimed at.
Wayland, rootless, simpler replacement for X
Irony: Diversity according to internapalooza
Show HN: ZingTouch – A JavaScript mobile gesture detection library
> The minecraft hack that snapped view changes to 15 degree increments

Link? Haven't heard of this, and I sometimes have nausea when playing.
> You can read a sentence while shaking your and twisting your head.

I tried to read the rest of your post while doing that, and it gave me motion sickness. I'm not usually susceptible to it so I guess that says something. Maybe reality is actually as bad as VR?
Many of the top titles on both Vive and Rift are multiplayer (Elite Dangerous, Battle Dome, Eve Valkyrie, Tabletop Simulator, Hover Junkers, Pool Nation VR, etc.) and that's only games, ignoring purely social multiplayer experiences like AltspaceVR. I'm not sure why you think there is a lack of multiplayer content currently or in the pipeline (Project Arena, Ripcoil, The Unspoken, RIGS )...
> Ostensibly if you are later stage you have a bevy of advisers, investors, mentors, peers

You do. But Sam (and the rest of the YC team) have seen a lot of startups at every size and make an effort to share it, as more successful startups (whether YC or not) is something they believe is a net good (I agree)
Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365
It might surprise you then that nearly every homeless guy you see "has a place to sleep", they choose (not in the "choose to be homeless sense") to sleep outside. The main reason is that homeless shelters have restrictions on violence, drug, and alcohol use, and people make a choice between comfort hand having their buzz harshed.

Now you can follow this up with a lot of "but.." arguments, but the fact remains that in most places (not all) if someone is sleeping outside rather than inside they actively made that choice.
What can I say, I'm a compulsive early adopter =P I also have an Apple Watch and a Myo armband, but haven't found a ton of compelling uses for them yet. I didn't want to miss out on the opportunity to develop for it early if I was wrong and I had the cash to buy it.

The difference from 15 years ago is that the hardware is actually here and practical. We have the tracking and displays and they are actually really good. It really creates presence, there is 0 comparison between Oculus/Vive and VR experiences of yesterday, such as the Aladdin ride in Downtown Disney. Hell, HTC is literally pivoting the entire company to the Vive. HTC/Valve + Facebook + Sony + Samsung is a ton of top-notch engineering effort being put into just the first generation of devices/software.

See my comment above, but basically I imagine it'll create new media/experiences rather than replace. I don't think "floating monitors in space" will ever be compelling (maybe in AR), and I don't think "movies" as we think of them now will be practical (though I do think there is room for a more "theatre-like" approach).
Part 2: https://captaindanko.blogspot.com/2015/06/building-my-first-...

Part 3: https://captaindanko.blogspot.com/2015/12/building-my-first-...
Ok, let me switch off sarcasm and put it differently:

Facebook is to OpenCellular what Google is to Android: they do not really care for the disconnected, they just want a bigger market and are willing to invest in infra rather than waiting for telcos to do it.
So, I agree with you. She violated the letter of the law. The argument that the FBI director is making is that the law, while saying that negligence is also a violation, has never been tested with regard to negligence. It has only been used to convict people who intentionally released secrets.

The FBI director is right that it is novel application of the law, but that does not mean we don't attempt to apply it. That's my problem, is that the spirit of the law is clear in this case, but he's saying we shouldn't attempt to prosecute because it would be a novel application, regardless of the spirit.

In the end, we will have to hold our breath and wait for the AG to make a decision. I believe if I were in her shoes, I'd be praying that I received a minor fine for contempt of court, because of the statement that was made that the server was in use to make it possible to use only one phone. She obviously lied, there, because they found that multiple devices had been used. Her campaign would benefit from her admitting that she misspoke, and facing a slap on the wrist, because many will see it as her having done nothing wrong but lying. If she doesn't even get the slap on the wrist, she could be torn apart by a willing opponent (or motivated super PAC). That's just my feeling on it, though. It remains to be seen if she will even get a slap on the wrist and it remains to be seen whether the American people even care about the scandal.
To sell classified information to foreign governments in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation. I don't think anyone honest disputes this.
It was sarcasm yes but my point was that what you proposed already exists, just without the crypto currency bullsht and extra hoops to jump through.

I didn't say the current system was flawless. I'm just saying your proposal is the current reality already.
If it can do gzip, it should be able to do brotli as the HTTP-header "handshake" for both is identical, just use "br" instead of "gzip".

I've been seeing a lot of threads about Brotli lately and having experimented with it thoroughly at work (large social network let's say) and having ramped it up to 100% on production, I would say the benefit over Gzip is marginal and often not worth the increase in latency due to the compression taking longer offsetting your benefits. Of course you can compress once and cache but then there is the cost of storing multiple compressed copies.

SDCH is honestly a lot more promising and we are seeing notable improvements in page load times, on both dynamic and static content. That's ramped at around 10% in production and if things go as expected we will be at a 100% in production rather soon, and write a blog post on it. So far we are seeing 10% improvement in page load times in the United States, and 30% in India, Bangladesh, Vietnam etc. and compressing the content about 50% more compared to just gzip when we are using sdch+gzip. This is all achieved with a dictionary smaller than 700kB.
So why did she do it? Or rather, what could plausibly be the reason?

Why would you rule out plain ol' laziness and poor judgement?

Remember, the Clinton family already had the private email server in question, and Hillary's Blackberry was set up to use it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controve...

Odds are good she just didn't want to be inconvenienced and didn't recognize the ramifications of that decision.

Edit:

The cited article goes into more detail:

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/we-now-know-more-about-why-c...

Here’s the results of our meeting yesterday… as I had been speculating, the issue here is one of personal comfort … S [Secretary Clinton] does not use a personal computer so our view of someone wedded to their email (why doesn’t she use her desktop when in SCIF?) doesn’t fit this scenario … during the campaign she was urged to keep in contact with thousands via a BB … once she got the hang of it she was hooked … now everyday [sic], she feels hamstrung because she has to lock her BB up … she does go out several times a day to an office they have crafted for her outside the SCIF and plays email catch up … Cheryl Mills and others who are dedicated BB addicts are frustrated because they too are not near their desktop very often during the working day

So there you have it. Basic laziness combined with stupidity and, I think, a pretty hefty dose of hubris.
Probably just games, though other uses will pop up too. TotalBiscuit (the Youtuber) said he got one of the Samsung VR things (I forget the name, the one where you put your phone in it) and used it to watch a movie on a long flight, and it completely removed his fear of flying.
I guess we'll just be a-waiting a little longer! I'll see myself out.
Setup can be full of issues for sure - but when it is working properly you should never be losing tracking. Are you using the sync cable? Things got a lot better when I started using that. I still am not understanding the "many cables" functionally there is only one. It is a pain to deal with, but if there is any roomscale with Oculus touch, you will run into the same issue until we can get wireless systems.

Blurry edges depend a lot on where the headset is sitting on your head, and playing with the straps can really improve the experience (even the feeling like it's heavy). Mine is fairly tight on the sides and then long on the top strap, pulling everything back a lot further than it feels like you are supposed to.

Anyway, not trying to criticize your preference, but hoping your Vive experience can get a bit better.
NetMcr: A Regular Meetup for Network Engineers in Manchester (UK)
A few of us in the region are organising a regular meet-up for Network Engineers, Techs (or anyone else loosely affiliated with that area of expertise) for anyone based in Manchester and/or the North West of England.

It's not just for seasoned professionals (because frankly, all 10 of us are sick of the sight of one another now...) but anyone that works in the networking industry, studies for it, or just aspires to. Please do come along if the subject matter is of interest.

Thursday 14th of July will be our first ever meeting, and we've got three presentations lined-up already. The venue will be upstairs room of 57 Thomas Street, and it will start at 19:00.

The venue is a licensed pub, so please do not bring any food or drink of your own, and if you do happen to be under 18, please get in touch via hello -at- netmcr -dot- uk before attending.
There's a Lanyrd page[1] with a schedule of talks, and we're on twitter as @net_mcr[2].

Let me know if you have any queries. I've x-posted this to UKNOF/Reddit Manchester, so apologies for the dupes if you see one. :)

Tom

[1] http://lanyrd.com/2016/netmcr/

[2] https://twitter.com/net_mcr
I've tried Rec Room and I really like it. It's amazing how much fun it is to play with someone else.

It still seems like early days for multiplayer. There's no way to see other people's facial expressions, and the avatars are pretty basic. There's also no support for having a local multiplayer experience. Hololens is doing some interesting things, allowing multiple headsets to see the same holograms, but their hardware is still super limited. The void is also doing interesting things.

I guess I should have said that I want better multiplayer.
If one thing a STEM professor says can lead to ruining your life, then you probably have a lot worse things going wrong in your life.

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Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12026682
Because it isn't just about cache optimization. How you organize your data impacts the types of transformations that can and need to be done. Utilizing SIMD is another thing that is extremely sensitive to data layout.