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Avoid GearVR and go with Daydream if you can manage it: GearVR used Android to bootstrap itself but locks things down similarly to Amazon Fire phones. Just go with Daydream, it is "real" Android and avoids adding another locked down system to our lives--you don't have to get special keys from Facebook to send out your app like you do with GearVR, and third party stores are allowed and practical.
Yes, I had a manual transmission. I assumed your comments regarding "second or third gear" implied you had a manual transmission. Automatics have come a long way in the past few years in terms of fuel mileage, but "slushboxes" like yours are probably the worst. I didn't know the Subaru automatics were that bad. I do know the new 2.0 with a CVT yields good results. It sounds like your driving pattern forces you to be in the worst fuel mileage ever (lots of time idling plus several bursts up to 75? ouch!). I assume you've explored other routes for your commute. Even something where you are driving slowly but not stopped/highway speeds should give a marked improvement.

The hatchback probably doesn't impact your fuel mileage much. I don't think the difference between DOHC and SOHC is going to have any measurable impact on fuel mileage either. Nor would I assume that a compression ratio change does that much. Your final drive ratio is probably the most significant impact. Additionally how much time you spend in "lockup" mode (where the fluid clutch is essentially disengaged and the engine crankshaft is directly connected to the driveline) is a major contributor. The roof rack absolutely impacts fuel mileage as Consumer Reports demonstrated: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/07/tests-show-b...
Actually, it's gal. Point blank. Not used as often, because the diminutive term passes for an alternative among many.
That's Not Art
You can't make personal attacks like this here! We've already asked you not to do this. Please comment civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

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But he talks about an ongoing business relationship. He probably spend a lot of time that isn't obvious in the code (requirements, interface design, software design etc.), but we can only see code that anyone could have coded within one hour. That's substantially less than what I would have expected from the article.
Have you taken a look at OBS (openSUSE)? Every package in openSUSE:Factory should have a link or _source script to fetch the archive which is then used for the build, so the source of the source should be transparent.
The thing is that I don't see Stallman as the PR arm of FL/OSS. He's just a more notable contributor and advocate. And that doesn't always mean you get someone who's slick and sharp. Besides, you have Brendan Eich (despite my own issues with his politics, he's a damn good advocate for a free web) so it's not like Stallman is the end all be all of free software advocates.
The Syrian civil war was initially a conflict between Assad, and the Free Syrian Army, into which NATO poured munitions, training, and 'volunteers' from the Lybian civil war, letting it blossomed into a multi-directional hellscape, involving Assad, the FSA, Kurdish groups, and notably, Al Qaeda's Syrian branch, Al Nusra (Which, ironically, is considered by the West to be a 'moderate' group in the conflict. We've done a good job of bombing the people they've been fighting against.) Soon after that, ISIS, the estranged lovechild of the Iraqi civil war enters the picture.

No, Syria wasn't invaded by NATO - instead, NATO poured, and continues to pour oil on that fire, because instead of making the situation better, it would rather fight a proxy war with Russia.

Despite our best efforts at supporting the rebel groups, and bombing Assad, he's still in power. Given that, I think it's reasonable to conclude that had the conflict been left to resolve itself, he would have won fairly quickly - or at least, by now, most of the country would be under his control, as opposed to a five-way horror-show. We'd also probably be seeing a lot fewer beheading videos on Twitter.

NATO's perspective on the whole conflict, start to end, was not humanitarian - but rather as a question of "What can we do to stick it to the Russians, and topple Assad?"
I cannot get ahold of Instagram! This is impacting a lot of our users and there seems to be no channel of communication!
You can also have the idea that there are one-way interactions between the normal-matter universe and the dark-matter universe.

It isn't too difficult to formulate a mathematical system where two subsets are completely identical when considered in isolation, but when interacting, one subset operates as if the other doesn't exist, while the other is easily perturbed by any values in the mirror subset. I'm not sure if you can do it without at least one dimensional basis unit that squares to zero, though.

Imagine, if you will, that there are dark-matter people. We have no evidence whatsoever that they exist, any they are constantly annoyed by all the real-matter people that wander between their dark-couches and dark-televisions, and the real-matter bicyclists that pedal through their dark-bedrooms at the worst possible times.
I asked my dad a similar question, growing up in the 1970s-1980s era. "Why is IBM running TV commercials for mainframe computers on The Dukes of Hazzard? Don't those cost millions of dollars? Do they think we're going to buy one?" He muttered something about how the commercials might encourage people to buy IBM stock.

Later, I realized that the reason for those commercials was to make IBM more or less synonymous with "computers" in my adolescent mind. They were playing a very long game... too long, as it turned out, but still not an altogether bad strategy. Maybe that's why the arms manufacturers do similar things.

If he were alive today, I'd ask him some other hard-to-answer questions, such as "Why are the Democrats still obsessing over gun control, when all it does is cost them one election after another?" I guess it's just another misguided long game.
The Pegasus launch system has been around since 1990. First private orbital launch system that worked.
Payoneer is not really a solution for a serious international business selling into the USA.

1. They use First Century Bank for the routing which does not have the greatest reputation.

2. You can only get paid out in your local currency (at least for Australia where my business is based) and the exchange rate is terrible. This is a really killer.

3. The fees are very high.

4. They seem rather prone to cutting people off and having very poor customer service in regards resolving issues. They don’t appear to be worse than paypay in this regards, but I would not be keen to have hundred of thousands of dollars in transit with either company.
You can care as much as you want: If you don't have the money to save them, you will be of no use.
The US too. We need to stop invading other countries.
It's not that stippled line are bad per se. It's just that they shouldn't be baked into a protocol that goes "over the wire" (so to speak). It's much faster if the program just gets a bitmap to draw on and draw the stippled line itself. It's important to note here that "itself" could mean that you just call a (Qt/Gtk/SDL/whatever) library function to do it.

There's no conceivable reason (these days) that you'd want to send a "draw a stippled line from point a to point b" command to an X server or graphics card.
All screen-sharing and device multiplexing is broken under Wayland, and it's by design. Wayland only lets an application see its own window content and its own input events.

On the one hand this is better than the security free-for-all which is X. On the other hand it breaks a number of useful tools, and at the same time I've never (provably) seen an X exploit in the wild.

However it's the lack of network transparency which stops me from using Wayland in the foreseeable future.
Why do pharmaceutical companies advertise products to regular people when they can't be purchased without a prescription from a doctor?

Certainly gun companies advertise directly to military as well, just as pharmaceutical companies are infamous for the extent they advertise to doctors. But there's some benefit to your product being a "household name", even if households aren't purchasing them.

And it goes beyond "well, military purchasers probably watch movies too", but the notion that such purchases end up in front of politicians, and eventually voters are in some fashion involved in how hot or cold desire for military spending is.
The story is good, the app really isn't worth mentioning. It's little more than a slighlty nicer version of a paper prototype of the basic UI.
That'd require a rather huge balloon. Rockets are quite heavy. Pegasus XL has a mass of over 18 Mg, for payload mass of just over 400 kg.

Not sure how this relates to SpaceX' drone ship landings. Falcon 9 couldn't launch from the air, as cryogenic fuels mean you have to launch rather soon after fueling. Furthermore fuel is cheap (compared to the rocket), and their mode of operation seems to work rather well (despite CRS-7 and Amos-6) with normal launch and propulsive landing.

SpaceX also has made it clear that a lot of the things they're doing, trying, and learning are designed to work in other places as well. While you can land with parachutes on Earth, you can't do so on Mars. Same holds for balloons. They just won't do it.
> Many soldiers, while deployed to Vietnam, ended up addicted to cocaine. Yet when they returned home, the vast majority kicked the habit. Why? War is about a billion times more stressful than being home. They needed a coping mechanism, and they found one, albeit an unhealthy one. Removal of the environmental stressor removed the need for a drug addiction.

This doesn't seem a deep seated problem with the person, but a problem with their environment, like you said. That seems very different from what concinds is talking about.

War is also a bad example in general because it tends to rearrange priorities. Can we even say that they were addicted? If I was in a war, I'd probably do a lot of unhealthy things, too, because a war is far more unhealthy than most of them. This doesn't really imply I would be addicted.
While it's always an option to sue for payment of unpaid overtime after you left that will still leave a mark on your resume an people may be hesitant to hire. It's also lengthy and risky because it requires solid documentation. And, first of all it requires that you're aware that the clause is overreaching and thus null and void. I often see people not getting paid for time worked because they're unaware. I also fairly often hear about uncompensated non-compete clauses which are also illegal, but people are scared to go see a lawyer. A good union provides both: a check on the contracts in a company and legal advice and professional backing in court when needed.
Yeah, we'll downvote the comment, that'll serve 'em right! :-)
It's a shame Azul doesn't make their custom silicon anymore...
I wonder if the chipset can't do a sort of DMA emulation, or DMA with conditions versus the sort of free-for-all stuff you'd see with things like FireWire.
I would say that video games affect people's choices more than TV or movies.

For example, gun ranges usually have Desert Eagle for rent, but not S&W M&P. In real life Desert Eagle is pretty rare because it is completely impractical, while S&W M&P is popular with civilians, police, and competition shooters. But in video games the situation is reversed - gamers know Desert Eagle and ask for it when they come to the range.
Couldn't we build a launch pad above the clouds, at 100k? I know building a space elevator is rough/difficult but if it's a lot easier/cheaper to launch from that high up, why not a permanent structure as high as you can get?
I've been completely unable to find a Debian sticker that:
a) is big enough to see from more than 3 feet away
b) that works on a black laptop.

Do you know of a good supplier?
What bothers me is that all the data collection is on by default. If I purchase something I expect it to have my best interests at heart, if I get something for free I expect it to have the providers best interests at heart. Since you buy your computer, all data collection should be opt in. If Microsoft wants to give me a free computer, then make it opt out.
You might be interested in some code I wrote to write the image meta data for Facebook/Flickr etc. directly via JavaScript when you save the image instead of using something external like exiftool.

I capture scenes from Second Life and let you view them using three.js - I added an option to export an equirectangular image that has the embedded meta-data I mentioned so you can upload it directly to Facebook etc. and it;ll work.

Example here: http://callumprentice.github.io/apps/360_snapshot_viewer/ind... - click on the "twirly arrow" icon at the top :)

Code is here: https://github.com/callumprentice/callumprentice.github.io/t...
Nice Joke.
If they continue to stay in power, have they really 'failed'?

How do we define a nation state failing?
He's engaging in a power fantasy that has a fellow scientist as a student. I'll bet this guy is a lot of fun to have as a professor.
C++11 “smart” pointers need “careful” programmers
Yeah, fuck that bullshit. Irked the heck out of me too. I hope it's not too common.
See also http://www.sens.org/research/publications?research_themes_ti...
I have no reason to believe that Russell wrote a garbage collector for the first Lisp implementations. I used the adverb "properly" specifically because it's possible to implement Lisp without GC, but this isn't really a viable approach long-term. So to make Lisp practical, significant work on GC had to be (and was) done.
> This is still entirely the fault of the one who mistakes ribbing for actual team building.

When two people agree that they're engaging in friendly banter with/against each other, and an unrelated third party freaks out with their own misinterpretation of the situation, is it still the people engaging in banter who are to blame? Because I've seen this.

And what about the person who cannot handle having their code reviewed - no matter how softly and kindly the reviewer attempts to approach the topic? Despite making it very clear that minor suggestions for further improvements aren't some kind of slanderous attack against one's personal character?

Look: We agree sometimes someone's just being a dick, even if they weren't intentionally malicious about it, and it's their fault and they need to change their behavior. But it does not follow that absolutely every bit of miscommunication is completely and utterly the fault of the person attempting to convey something. If I misremember the meaning of a word, that's on me. If I willfully twist and misinterpret someone's words, that's on me. If I mistakenly do so, when the other party has communicated quite clearly and in good will? That's still on me. Communication requires the effort of two parties, and completely absolving one of them from any roll in doing so successfully isn't reasonable or helpful.

If I have a habit of ascribing malice where there is none - in an ideal world, someone sits down and we have a conversation where they can successfully convey that, no, pointing out a typo in a doc comment isn't a personal attack on my character, we all make the same mistakes, we're just trying to help each other out and get more stuff done better as a team - they mean to offer me a hand up, rather than to put me down. I'd call this a long winded way of saying: "toughen up." What would you call it, instead? Or do you even agree with me that this conversation should happen? Surely we shouldn't just fire the person giving me a code review, because of my own hangups and hypersensitivities?

> Telling them to knock it off is NOT censoring.

Which is why I suggested it.

On the other hand, we see calls to disinvite people from conferences, ban their social media accounts, fire them, to 'dox' them and harass them off the internet entirely for perceived transgressions. These, perhaps, are attempts at censorship. This I suggest against.

> Because no one has ever faced retaliation for doing just this. No one, upon hearing this from a co-worker, has never ratcheted up the "friendly ribbing".

At which point, you've moved from assumptions of malice to evidence. Yes, there are assholes out there. It sucks. We should try to do something about it. "Doing something about it" should not be pretaliation based on thin assumptions, being an asshole before they can be an asshole.
Accurate, engaged criticism is great, that stuff belongs everywhere.

"I wouldn’t okay this wrong piece of work as an undergraduate term paper" is not accurate, engaged criticism, it's mean-spiritedness under a veneer of toughness.

It's easy and fun to be rude and insulting, and when you can get away with it because of the subculture you're writing within, why not, right? Because being a dick is being a dick no matter who or where you are, that's why, and being a dick doesn't advance anything beyond your own momentary joy.

Every industry, every field, everywhere, will be better off once people get past being dicks just for fun, and give accurate, engaged criticism while maintaining civility.
although secretly I hope this link is to a virus and it screws everyone who tries to get a "free" copy of free work.
Australian science fiction writer Greg Egan is complaining because Google keeps showing photos of other people called Greg Egan while claiming they are him.

As a Facebook user, I thought the problem of face recognition was pretty much solved. Even if not, it seems peculiarly stupid of Google to show photos of several completely different people under the label "Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction writer".

A partial solution would be to post several authenticated photos of the real (in this case) Greg Egan, but if I search Google on my own name, I see several other people's photos come up as well...
Motl is notorious for this sort of thing. He once called me a "category 5 loon" because something I said in a talk was wrong. But the reason it was wrong is because I was advancing it as a straw-man precisely to show it was wrong.

http://motls.blogspot.com/2012/10/evading-quantum-mechanics-...
They removed it to cut down on complaints. Most people wont get the advertised 10 hours, and now most people wont notice.
Appropriate username? They never said they thought they were better.
Wait until it happens to you. There are many crimes that don't actually hurt anyone which would still ruin your life if you were caught committing them. Blackmail pulls someone from the innocent-citizen category and puts them into just-another-gangster category in a way that smoking some pot does not.

But also, there's a big difference between giving someone an absolute 100% pass and simply being able to empathize.
That's approaching a chicken-and-egg problem. Other parties are working on verifiable open hardware, but their work is only worth so much if any useful software can be tampered with at multiple other points in the chain.

Reproducible builds are an absolutely achievable way of adding trust to that particular step and reducing the overall attack surface.

We don't need to live in a world of two extremes, 'curl http:// | sudo bash' or hand-built silicon.
That's exactly right, thank you!
Philosophers aren't in the business of pretending to have answers.

By "need" I just meant that it was a matter of course that the surgeon general said it.
I remember reading about this as an undergraduate and thinking how attractive his ideas were -- I think Verlinde's ideas have been around for some time. Back then it seemed like few people were giving these ideas thought.

I hope more people decide to explore this avenue. It really is a fascinating take on gravity.
I feel like you're not fully articulating your point here; in what circumstance would prioritizing leisure entail working for 6% of one's market value?
Bitcoin. Because it's most widely accepted, narrowest bid/ask spread and plenty of possibilities to exchange Bitcoin <-> Fiat.

Risk and volatility is there of course.
A Warning to People Who Bike: Self-Driving Ubers and Right Hook Turns
This guy is being downvoted, but he's right, although he put it in a very antagonistic way.

I don't see Trump making it to a second term, especially with all the missteps he's taken so far, and he's not even President yet.
The thing about balloons is they're relatively cheap, and the stuff you put in them isn't expensive either. If you want to flirt with danger, hydrogen filled is one way to do it.

The drone part is mostly to do with automation, as a terrestrial platform allows a lot of hands-on work to prep the rocket for launch. A high-altitude platform would have to be automated.

Plus the way rocket physics work is the less fuel you need to punch through the atmosphere at speed, the less fuel you need overall, which reduces the weight of the rocket exponentially, as the fuel itself requires more fuel to get lifted.

Anything they can do to get to a higher altitude without paying a heavy price is worth considering. Turning a theory into a viable launch strategy is not easy, I understand, but they've shown a remarkable ability to innovate.
Sharing is caring. :)
Is your comment supposed to do more than show how much you know about VR?

This is basically a brain dump of information some people gleaned from working with modern VR. I don't see it billing itself as _the_ fundamental VR resource.
Users may have flagged this comment because you made a very controversial claim without any support. On Hacker News, the bar for substantiveness is higher in this situation because the site exists for civil, intellectually interesting discussion, and predictable flamewars are precisely opposite.
Do We Really Understand the Cosmos?
Please change the submission title. It is downright misleading. This test did not "kill off" dark matter. To do so would imply overwhelming evidence against the concept of dark matter as a whole. Instead, this theory, which eliminates the need for dark matter in certain situations, has passed its first test. The sentence "... test ... kills off dark matter" is simply false.
I disagree, but I applaud the high quality of your argument.

it seems reasonable that if the Senate would prefer to remain permanently in session so as not to diminish its authority, it's within its right to do so

Legally yes, politically no. There's no quorum so it's not possible to transact any legislative business and everyone knows this. That gap between the procedural state and reality delegitimizes the procedure through its self-evident falsity.

If the public perceives the government to be a sham, why keep obeying it? I suggest to you that the emergent political reality is that the constitution is becoming a dead letter and that the Declaration of Independence more closely mirrors national sentiment.
I'm not sure it's possible to create a stable (in the sense that prices for the things you buy don't go up or down) currency that isn't somehow managed. If the currency becomes more popular prices will go down. During recessions prices will go up.

The fractional reserve system, which injects money into the economy as the economy grows, is an attempt to create that stability. But you'll never create a workable fractional reserve currency that isn't intimately tied with government regulations.

The most you could probably ask for is a digital currency that wasn't subject to the whims of politicians and central bankers.
>> The "terminal", PowerShell, is slow to launch, path completions are crawling.

Powershell often seems to hang on startup when it's actually already up and running. You're left looking at an empty terminal, waiting for a prompt. If that happens, you can try pressing enter, at which point you'll most likely get your prompt, er, promptly.
War is a racket.