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No, that computer is good enough. It's the devs making the app you played that are not.

Oculus is playing a game with their specs. On one hand, it makes their peripheral look like really cutting edge technology if it can only run on the latest and greatest hardware. And on the other, it keeps them from having to try to fulfill even more orders over what they have already proven they cannot handle.

Simple graphics + room scale VR is an amazing experience. AAA games need whizbang graphics features to be able to compete with each other because they haven't had any new gameplay features to show off in nearly 15 years. But a lot of this effects are unnecessary in VR--sometimes even a bad idea! Normal mapping, for example, is has been reliably shown to cause motion sickness in people with a relatively high ratio of estrogen to testosterone (not just women, but men with hormonal imbalances. Women with high testosterone seem to do fine).

I think Valve and Oculus understand that AAA game studios don't have a lot to offer to VR. You're not going to really adapt Call of Duty to the Vive. So they are banking on the huge cadre of indie developers to rapidly make the first content for them. And that is going to mostly be fairly new devs using Unity, not really understanding what they are doing other than following tutorials. Optimisation is not exactly a strong point.
Download HERE maps. You can download the maps and use it offline.
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Good luck. Multi-tasking is still a respected quality despite being detrimental to productivity.
I'm a fast typist on both physical and virtual keyboards, and I would never code or do any other kind of serious typing on a tablet, my wrists would go AWOL in minutes.
I wish I could upvote this more than once...this article - and associated - issue struck such a chord with me!
I used to use MSE as it was so light, but it seems to be awful.

https://www.av-test.org/en/compare-manufacturer-results/
Yanis Varoufakis does a nice explainer:

"https://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-danger...
this is super cool, awesome post
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Thanks. Here it is without a paywall. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~christos/classics/Feynman....
Such a simple title ;)
Also if you have a somewhat okish wheel+pedals Project Cars, Assetto Corsa (needs ReVive) and Dirt rally are all great experiences. Though this doesn't take advantage of the room scale stuff (so can be done with an Oculus) but still found that great enough to go and buy a Vive for my home racing sim setup.
> Maths people are not renowned for their ability to write readable or maintainable code.

I think it's because in that circle of heavy math coding, there are a different set of well-understood abstractions and shortcuts.

It's no different than saying front-end web developers are not writing readable code because they use $(...) instead of elementMatchingSelector(...) or use functions like xhr() instead of xmlHTTPrequest(). Node.js developers don't think twice about the mechanics of callbacks nor to Erlang developers have any mental block about async message semantics.

Each field has a lingo that has evolved over time, and those who have been in a field for longer tend to make more shortcuts because they are manipulating a concept for the 100th time and are well versed in it.
>Abstract.

>All organizational functions carried out by classes can be accomplished in a simple and natural way by object inheritance in classless languages, ...

Like javascript prototypes? Ah, yes.

> ... with no need for special mechanisms.

Is object the type then or a single class?

> A single model—dividing types into prototypes and traits—supports sharing of behavior and extending or replacing representations. A natural extension, dynamic object inheritance, can model behavioral modes. Object inheritance can also be used to provide structured name spaces for well-known objects.

>Classless languages can even express “class-based” encapsulation. These stylized uses of object inheritance become instantly recognizable idioms, and extend the repertory of organizing principles to cover a wider range of programs
Here's their current and planned lens line up:
http://www.dpreview.com/files/p/articles/8481938980/Lens_Roa...

Quality wise most of their lenses are top notch and can easily hold their own against the offering of other brands.
You would be right, if hacker news would generate it's own content. But it doesn't.

Hacker news itself, is free from ads. Only the shared content might have it.

As I wrote, forcing people not to share certain content just flies in the face of hacker news and the free sharing of information.

We can advise not to use these sites, but never restrict the freedom to do so, because in the end the ad itself is not mandatory and you can ignore it. And frankly hacker news would become forbes 2.0, but in a different way.

If forbes wishes to use aggressive blocking strategies, it's their problem. They will be the ones in the end not having new readers.
> Indeed, the current version of their Makefile is a great example of how to write a simple yet portable Makefile:

Yet it forgets the MOST important thing: make uninstall.

Nothing worse than software where I have to reverse engineer a makefile in order to uninstall!
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Ometa: http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/ (article on processing TCP with ometa using the RFC tables as a packet definition http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software...)
I have not tried Nikon's mirrorless efforts, but I have been using the Nikon F system for two decades and change now. Also, I've spent quite a lot of time with various Fuji lenses (For the G690 and GX680 MF cameras and lately also X system)

Nikkor lenses are overall very good, but IMHO the Fuji mirrorless ones mostly have them beat in both resolution, contrast and aberration control. (Much of the reason probably being that overall, it is less hard to get excellent optical quality when you do not have to design around the huge mirror box sitting between your lens and sensor!)

I'll definitely keep my medium format (film) cameras, but as for digital, I am seriously considering offloading two decades' worth of Nikkor lenses and switch allegiance to Fuji X - once they come up with a wider wide angle lens than the current 14mm offering. (When doing landscapes, I often find myself reaching for the 17mm end of my widest lens - equivalent to 11mm or so in APS-C. The difference between 11mm and 14mm is much, much larger than one would expect!

tl;dr: Fujinon lenses are excellent. You are not likely to be disappointed unless you need extreme wide angle or telephoto lenses.
"Handily" means the same as "easily", and "won handily" is, naturally, a common equivalent of "won easily". "Won handedly" seems to be a malapropism based on hearing that expression, misunderstanding the second word but understanding tge intended meaning, and then adopting the transformed phrase with the meaning of the original.
Source?

They can't take a statement on the street?
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Love this line:

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How did Iceland recover from it's banking crisis?

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Iceland's rapid return to health hinged on a series of measures that Nobel laureate Paul Krugman later referred to as "doing an Iceland." Krugman, an admirer of Iceland's dramatic comeback, has recommended a similar policy cocktail for other nations in crisis. The rules are as follows: Allow your ailing banks to collapse; devalue your currency if you have one of your own; introduce capital controls; and try to avoid paying back foreign debts.

That may sound like an extremely self-serving recipe -- and it was. Whereas billions of public money was pumped into the banking system in Ireland so that financial institutions could pay back their creditors, Icelanders voted against this route in two separate referenda. They couldn't see why they should pay for the greed of foreign investors who followed the Siren song of high interest rates to the island nation.

Jónsson only shakes his head wearily when asked if he has a guilty conscience. He claims to have been one of the few who warned of the currency bubble long before it burst. Now, he is excited about the country's new opportunities, which are remarkably similar to the ones it has always had. "A hard-working populace. A healthy democracy. A high level of education. Tourism. Natural resources, such as wind, hydro-power and geothermal energy. And fisheries. What would we be without the fisheries?"

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/financial-recover...
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I know, what I mean though is I'd like the ability to specify different options for different groups – favorites and everyone else isn't enough. Also, DND is really useful to limit people calling at night, but my days are divided more than just day and night – there's work time, play time, family time etc. There are also holidays and other times where different rules would certainly apply. It quickly becomes complex I'm sure (such as, what happens when a contact belongs to multiple groups and there are conflicting rules – which one wins?) but I feel this is an area where there's ample room to innovate. DND is good, but can be better.
> What are [Games]? Art, waste of time, intellectual gummies for your brain? All of the above?

It's like asking: "What are books? Art, waste of time, intellectual gummies for your brain?" Or movies, or music. "Game" is a pretty vast medium, and encompasses all of those. An individual game might be just mindless drivel, but that doesn't prevent another game from being Art, or a political statement, or anything else that we can produce.
I think one of us is confused. I don't see any portmanteaus in the linked article: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/web_drm_standard_next...
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" So they are not driven with economic gain as such, or prosperity of "the one percent""

Yes, they are.

Inequality is worse in China than in most Western democracies. They have more billionaires in Shanghai than New York (rougly, I may not be perfectly correct) and yet still 100's of millions in abject poverty.

Here's the Gini coefficient:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

But this only measures stated wealth, it's much easier to hide wealth as a Chinese citizens than as a US citizen. Ask someone living in Vancouver.
It's legal to record the police almost anywhere. Doesn't mean they won't harass and arrest you for it.
I thought the point of distinguishing them was that they didn't necessarily have language or modern intelligence. Just that their bones are similar.
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What would be the use case for VR on Web? I still remember VRML craze and didn't buy into it the first time, even though I had an Indy on my desktop!
Lawns offer a lot in return... unless you just don't like being outside. Since moving to a big city, one of the biggest things I've missed has been a back yard to run around in and hang out with my friends. At some point, I might get too old for that, but I suspect I'll enjoy reading outside for decades to come.

The reason lawns are disappearing is because people don't like being outdoors as much as they used to. They don't want to play badminton with their friends outside or read on a lawn chair by a tree. They want to stay indoors and play Clash of Clans. After a while anything not covered by a roof and closed in by four walls starts to look like "silliness".
The article is very conclusive. In nearest future I want to make a trip around the world. So my vocabulary topped off some interesting words.
Well I didn’t expect such Uber expansion. This company is well on its way to success. And I agree that it’s only a beginning.
Undefined type-punning cringes me out. memcpy is your well-defined friend.
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once they come up with a wider wide angle lens than the current 14mm offering.

They have the 10-24 mm zoom which is pretty good if you want to go wide, but I agree that I'd love a ~10mm prime.
When you have that many spinning rust drives replaced with SSDs - do you notice the change in power consumption?
I think its about putting the next generation to work. The Chinese model of manufacturing, which has really been the world's model for two decades, is that cheap labor is more economical than technologically advanced industrial robots. That is eventually going to change, and maybe sooner than later [1].

Then what do you do with half a billion unemployed people? Even doing nothing for them but giving them offices is better than letting their communities decay, even if it loses money in the short AND long term. And who knows, maybe after a few boom and bust tech cycles the innovation labs will actually make something useful and profitable. That's just an added bonus.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36376966
Finally I get to know why my mortgage was declined :)
I wonder if the Space Shuttle has a TODO left in there somewhere.
By complete I meant in terms of satisfaction for the Exit camp, obviously roughly half the country disagreed with them.

On the numbers, I don't think you'd get a higher turnout without Australian style voting. Voter apathy had been increasing for a long time (clearly seen in the statistics where half the kippers expected the vote to be rigged against them) so a turnout this high was quite an exertion for both sides.
I'm quite skeptical about "independent" AV test sites like these, especially when they come to the conclusion that solutions that would essentially make the AV industry obsolete are inferior ("AV industry" meaning third-party AV solutions in this context). There's a big incentive for them to come to that conclusion, otherwise they'd have no reason to exist any further.

Relevant quote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” (Upton Sinclair)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8063192
I wish I could downvote this article. It is from a developer who is married with Google Chrome and who is trying to tell us that other browsers are stupid because they don't have the same bugs as Chrome does.

It's especially unnerving for me as a firefox user since these days I come across a lot more sites that make stupid mistakes that just works fine in their Chrome.

This mindset makes me angry. The same applies when developers think that if your browser blocks google tracking it is ok to just fuck up the whole website.

The web should be

- progressive

- standards-compliant.

Some years ago this was widely believed to be right way forward.
Nowadays it seems that developers think that Chrome on OS X is the world we all should live in.

Loosely related: I am not going to switch to Chrome. I would never use a browser from an Ad Company like Google, as I don't trust them at all.
I honestly don't believe in five-nines and all that, but my experience is admittedly limited to sectors where it's more about point-in-time backup reliability (finance management) than anything else.

As I said, it depends on what your definition of "critical system" is. For aviation, for instance, there are many other factors (shielding etc); no hardware is perfect for all uses.

> How do you evaluate the cost of a risk you cannot compute?

Easy: you come up with a worst-case scenario, make plans to address it, and the cost of implementing such plans is your cost. Say you assume you could get silent errors: you build test routines for actual data integrity and implement test systems for continuous checks. The cost of building and maintaining all that is the cost of (accepting) your risk.
For math it's the other way around: long identifiers make things harder to read. When reading the code, the pattern of operators is what really matters; variables happen to be plugged into them.

For example, any person with a modicum of physics background will recognize the following as a kinetic energy calculation, even if I use random letters for the variables.

X = (a * b^2)/2

But if I throw that in a codebase for some web project, I would use fully explicit variable names.

This falls under the category of "know the audience for whom you are writing code".
Without knowing the rates of use of each kind of malware it would be hard to tell. Since the issues in AVs were published by Zero, rather than found in the wild, there's a good chance they were not known, or used only for specific targets.

AVs are still useful for "we're employing 1000s of people, some of them are bound to open that bad word document in the email". Useless for targeted attacks, but useful for worms with signatures known for weeks. If you can't deal with the issue in some other way, AVs still give you something.
I think that there's a common thread that underlies the development of intelligence in both humans and Portia spiders. We both evolved in an environment where we were at a sensory and physical disadvantage to our prey. We both relied more on understanding the behavior of our prey in order to hunt. In the case of early humans, we adopted a style of hunting known as persistence hunting.

Persistence hunting ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting )is a general hunting strategy in which a hunter chases their prey over a very long distance(15-30 miles). Eventually the prey becomes weak and succumbs to exhaustion. On its own, that's not very special -- both dogs and hyenas adopt a very similar hunting strategy. The key difference is that humans lack the extremely sensitive sensory abilities that are used by other persistence hunters.

In the absence of such senses, early hominids had to predict where prey would go and accurately pursue them over very long distances based on very small amounts of visual evidence. In short, early hominids hunted by simulating the minds of their prey. If you look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o (a documentary on persistence hunting), you can watch some Kudu tribesmen literally simulating where an antelope will go.

It certainly seems to me like lucking into an evolutionary niche where you get caloric benefits that are directly linked to how well you can simulate the fairly-complicated minds of your prey is pretty much a recipe for extreme selective pressure in favor of general intelligence.
The story is a little different in the case of Portia, given that they are apparently at a visual advantage to their prey. However, I think the examples mentioned in the article make a strong case that Portia's comparative hunting advantage is in planning the best attack method based on the behavior of a given type of prey.
There is some research which shows discrimination in online advertisements.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2208240

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2460278
I don't have Flash installed at all. Does the site require Flash?

If so, then that's news to me; other video sites that require Flash usually a) show a "you need Flash" message in the place where the video whould show, and b) don't show playback controls, because they're part of the Flash component itself. Also, I never saw any mention of Flash in any of the site's help/troubleshooting/FAQ documents.
I think my consumer-grade Intel S3500 SSD have some kind of power-loss protection.

I don't think that professional devices are 100% fail-proof either. I vaguely remember some test where they setup a test with forced power failures during heavy writes, and they zapped all drives but a few eventually.

Something that worried me was that the failure mode quite often seemed to be a totally bricked SSD.
It's already done. Many people in Pascal community works with Arduino, Pi, Odroid, etc. Ranging from simple LED toggling to complex robotics.
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I don't really think, except in the case that you are legally required to store the raw data for decades, that there is any reason to store petabytes of data to recheck your conclusion. I'm not aware of any retention policy generally required of scientists to do that- nor do I think the value of being able to recheck a conclusion by investigating this kind of raw data is really required.

If it was required, you'd be willing to pay the (large, but economically justified) cost of archiving the data.
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I subscribe to the NYT and yet still get asked to be whitelisted. So a subscription model will not generate enough revenue for them without ads.

It's like the cable tv model - we pay to watch more ads.
Oh fuck off with that bullshit. No jews/niggers/old/disabled/fat people etc. are allowed to comment on this site.
Generally speaking large changes to a creature's habitat are challenging. The arctic is undergoing massive changes, including rising temperatures and a reduction in sea ice, necessitating longer swims, increasing energy expenditure without, it seems, an increase in the seals and the like which polar bears eat. Also, the frequency of twins appears to have dropped (though, again, this data is not easy to gather), and that seems to be a response to stresses.
The markets they are going after is domestic, the primary language even at my branch of an American company (Microsoft China) is Chinese. It is not a place where multiculturalism is common or especially appreciated. A few foreigners get hired here and there, but it's not very common at all.

If they really want foreign employees, they probably think setting up shop abroad is the only way to do it.
Maybe we should create a community maintained list of blocker unfriendly sites, and serve a public blacklist compatible with existing software.

Forbes and others are blocked on my home DNS for hostility and crippling of features. If a company can demonstrate how it protects its visitors from its advertisers and respects my rights, I used to exempt them from my ad blocker. Now I'm sick of seeing rude messages targeting me as an ad blocker user telling me what a horrible person and a thief I am, so I block all ads, and I've discontinued use of nearly all ad supported software. Bottom line: It's not our job to make their business models work, they need to adapt and quit whining.
Archive.is seems to work without showing you that overlay: http://archive.is/76nRX

I removed the trailing hash after #, 'a2fe2c560df31', in the original URL, before posting it to archive.is. What is that for anyway? For them to log the source of the URL?
I'd rather have someone with real experience comment than someone who has done a few tutorials over the course of a week.

Edit: That being said, F#FFAP is a fantastic resource.
So far, I think Guardian has the best approach towards ad-blocking.
There's a non-intrusive banner message at the bottom of the screen, which says that they know you are using adblock and asks if you would like to support them via a paid subscription.
I don't think you'll find anyone, paid or otherwise, who would say MSE performs better than commercial solutions. It's weighted in favor of better solutions, obviously, but MSE is pretty much the baseline of the industry.