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If you know Graph theory then you know git, all that remains is just reading the man page for specific commands.

Just because one of gits key abstractions is based on a kind of graph, I don't think it follows that knowing graph theory means you know git. I mean LISP is based on a graph structure as well but plenty of people find that confusing.
Yes, demoing things are using it every day are two different things. One issue for this tech is, you can show someone, they have to experience it - and for some things you need to actively use it to get your VR legs and really start being able to appreciate it.

The best analogy I have heard is that VR is experienced in layers, and the time it takes to settle into deeper and deeper levels is different for everyone.
>It helped give free or low-cost health care to people that couldn't afford it because now the government is picking up the lion's share of the tab.

But it didn't and doesn't provide care. It provides free or low-cost health care insurance to people that couldn't afford the insurance. They still have to pay for their actual health care with high, up front deductibles. Which many probably still can't afford. But the insurance companies are running to the bank with the mandated policy coverage and flow of federal tax dollars (via subsidies).
a cap on profit as a percentage makes it beneficial for insurance companies when medical costs rise ...
>"How many people I see having strong partisan like opinions on issues they know nothing about, aren't even affected by, and don't understand the full context of is just staggering."

Isn't this kind of dismissive of other people's views? This seems like you are declaring yourself to be an expert and everyone else ignorant when their views don't align with your own.

People are also informed by their own personal experiences.

I believe that refusal to consider a different vantage point is also really starting to become an issue.
Just to be clear, medical insurance != medical providers. The cap that the ACA set was on insurance companies. And it would be good to put a cap on the profits of medical providers that are paid by the ACA coverage. That however is very complicated.

By comparison, Bush's Medicare Part D prevented the Feds from even negotiating drug prices. Its author, Billy Tauzin, is now a Big Pharma lobbyist.
+1 Holopoint! It feels like dancing.
Can USB-C actually do that kind of two-way power transfer? That would seem pointless.
There is a very critical flaw in that though, people who identify as having good self-control don't necessarily actually have good self-control. Just like people who identify at being good at basketball aren't necessarily good at basketball. That doesn't imply one can't get better at playing basketball through practice.
Kind of odd that it takes yc this long to understand such a world changing technology. And their point is that other vcs are even more pessimistic and unexcited about technology.

It really shows you how absolutely myopic and limited the current startup ecosystem is. Many thousands of people could tell VR was real this time back when Oculus did a Kickstarter. But vcs take +n years? Shows how much room for improvement there is, I suppose.
We really don't have a good grasp even on the variety of plants and animals. We do know a lot about the foundations of each organism's genetics, but we're just now peeking into their variation. And that is precisely why you see biotech starting to get interesting and useful above and beyond basic discovery. When we start looking not just for 'how life works', but for 'how does it glow', 'how does it climb', 'how does it live so long', we start getting pretty cool answers. But we're JUST starting.

Much of what know comes from a short list of organisms (that can grown in lab conditions). There is a 'model organism' [1] for the simplest organism (that can grown in lab) for each step up the ladder of biological complexity (towards humans).

- bacteria : E coli

- eukaryote : yeast

- multi-cellular : nematode

- plant : arabidopsis

- nervous system : fruit fly

- spinal cord : zebrafish

- mammal : mouse

- primate : monkey

There are definitely others (sorry for leaving out your favorite model...), but in general, we know a lot about these model organisms. And that covers a wide gamut, but still we know very little specifics about everything in between.

Further, because we've been so focused on (funding) human health, we know a lot about how humans work. But what we've missed is all the ancillary tech that could be used to support human health, or human society/technology/industry at large. CRISPR proteins (and its similar tech) which will end up revolutionizing our biological tehcnology come from non-human-like, and otherwise unfundable hobby research. PCR/GFP all came from looking at weird things and saying, "that's cool, how does that work?" not "I want to cure cancer". It's hard to get funding to study how various bacteria battle each other in the soil when you cannot know how it might affect human health...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_organism
Making sure citizens are as healthy as possible while paying as little as possible (as a population) seems to me like exactly one of the things a government should be doing.

I think the problem is that healthcare after years of this broken system is now seen as private consumption rather than a public interest (like infrastructure and basic education).
> What if you, one day, bite into an apple that has a worm in? You'll probably feel different about apples after that and you calibration data is now useless.

More likely, what if you think about an apple while hungry. While in a mood for one vs not.
If you're going to try to use "the logic perspective" and be hostile for the sake of being hostile, at least have the decency of running your own post through that filter. "Everything - most = small" is a mathematically nonsensical statement.

Of course, you could also tone the hostility down before reading my post. Maybe that'd have helped you catch the fact that a flaw in systemd does not necessarily equal an argument against systemd, and vice versa.

6 years on Hacker News and this is what you've learned?
Not OP, but familiar with this - I don't notice it much while I'm still in it, but if you take it off and on again, it's then like putting on a sweaty shirt - it's gotten cold and clammy, but warms up and you stop noticing pretty quick.

You do need to remember to rinse the padding tho, just like a sponge in the sink. Super easy.
I don't know how secretive Tesla is or isn't at the moment, but with their aggressive approach to rolling out autopilot software, and the results that can already be observed, it seems likely to me that the autopilot division will see a significant amount of litigation over the next few years, and it would seem equally likely that this would lead to considerable caution in public communication.
Or maybe it's because Mozilla refused to pay money to the pwn2own organizers (unlike the other browsers)? Hard to say which one is more likely.
I do but I don't mind it. I wear a thin head-cap and bought the 'VRCover' which helps absorb the sweet (but is unfortunately made of cotton for some reason). My setup is in the basement too and so it's typically pretty chilly down there so it's probably not quite as bad as it could be.

I do have to take the headgear off every few games, towel off head/forehead, and clean up the lens.
The success of the Microsoft Surface Hub shows that regular web meetings have a long way to go yet:

https://convergenttechblog.com/2016/12/22/the-microsoft-surp...

Comments here are enlightening:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13166032

Its a product that finally got almost everything right when it comes to a digital whiteboard. And yes to another point that was raised here certainly integration with Mircosoft services was a plus. Its great to have a computer interface that is remote on half the board and white board interface on the other. You can mock up while you have the specs inches away from your face on a huge screen so everyone in the room can read and interact. The skype integration kills it as well; there's been a number of times I've seen teams huddled around the board mocking things up with one or two people remote.
Andy Rubin Nears His Comeback, Complete with an ‘Essential’ Phone
I am disappointed at the type of criticism of this post on Hacker News. This write-up is the kind of high-quality, original, analytical writing we so desperately need these days, in an online world that is completely saturated with clickbait that adds nothing to our understanding of the world.

Is the piece lacking in some semantics? Perhaps. But I was struck by the comments about market share and Android strategy, rather than directly discussing the article and the points it makes about the two maps at hand.
> I really miss the RJ45 connector. Since I bought this computer I have complained about inconsistent Internet speeds as the router — which is placed behind the computer — delivers only 60% of its real connection because it is consumed over WiFi. I am forced to restart the router every hour or so just to get the miserable 10MB that I pay.

Are you sure your problem isn't the router (I'm hoarding airport extremes)? Even my iPhone (much less my MBP) can max out my 150 mbps internet connection at home without breaking a sweat.
Have you tried Holoball or Audioshield? Those are my go-to games when I'm looking for some exercise.
You are correct that the touch controllers are essential for immersion. After getting the controllers, I've stayed in VR longer than I've ever had in the past, and the comfort level has increased significantly. Google earth VR is so much more addictive now. Also demo'ing it to people requires no feedback since the learning curve is so low.

The room scale works really well but is limited because of only two cameras. But adding a third camera would make it full room scale (which Oculus has announced)[1]. Combine that with new wireless hdmi/usb adapters for VR [2], full room scale VR is almost here.

[1] http://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-touch-support-room-scale-360-...

[2] http://uploadvr.com/tpcast-wireless-vive-kit-works/
Presumably the repeal wouldn't take effect for some time, allowing an alternative to be put in place before hitting that point.
I'll pass. Remind me when VR is a pair of glasses :)
<i>any</i> crime?

Like an analyst would know, better just send everything to be sure.
> Apple is incapable of delivering.

I don't doubt for a second that Apple could capably deliver such a product. The disconnect is that Apple has chosen, for better or worse, to dive in to USB-C as the future "everything" standard. It's one of those things where either this will look like a genius move (on the level of dropping the floppy drive & PS2 ports in the first iMac) or a bone-headed kneecapping of their own product line only with the benefit of hindsight.
Unless this has a decent eGPU instead of 2 year old technology it's still not "pro"
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I'm starting to see quite a few brands co-opting the President-elect's signature slogan like they have here. This baffles me. On the one hand, yes, it's a slogan that pretty much every (at least) American knows and is familiar with. On the other hand, there's some very significant portion of the population that is very viscerally offended (at the least) by the President-elect. So to jump on that wagon, you risk very strongly offending and alienating a large portion of the population along a line that has nothing to do with whether or not they'd be you consumer...but with which way their political beliefs fall.

My comment isn't meant to be a judgement call on whether or not doing this is normalizing something distasteful...it's simply meant to point out that OWC like many other brands may be shooting themselves in the foot over a lazy and reactionary marketing gimmick.
Corruption is the norm in most of the world. Does that entail that US legislators should allocate limited resources like US jobs by favoring the needs of peoples who 'have worse living conditions' or 'have more unjust governments'?

I can't see this as a plausible rally cry coming from many Americans, especially those who've traveled our backroads in the past 20 years and seen the decrepit state of small town USA. They want those jobs.
The reason why ACA was passed in the first place, was that it didn't attack the insurance industry. ACA was about access, not cost. Maintaining the insurance industry will limit the possibility of reducing costs, but the industry is too powerful to simply give up without a fight.
I've done just fine with tripods, even fairly cheap ones. The software seems to compensate really well for any potential drift - even if the tripod gets bumped, I often don't need to re-run the room setup to re-calibrate. The most difficult part of the cheaper tripods is that they're often fairly short, so if someone walks between them they lose optical sync. In a pinch I've set the tripods on top of tables and desks, and that's worked well enough.
I think that AR (think magic leap) is going to be much bigger, at least in the short term.

VR is like the desktop. It will have its uses, sure, but you'll be tied to your desk/room. Gaming will probably still be the most popular VR application.

Your AR glasses will be your smartphone, on you the entire time, and you won't even need to reach for your pocket.
Good point - on the Vive you can easily remove the face padding and rinse it off. They also sell replacements, I have a few so I rotate them in/out depending on which is driest etc.
Curious for reasons, but did you have a chance to try anything by Daqri?
There's also a profit motive in food production, should we move to single-payer for that (hint: this means breadlines)? There's also a profit motive in housing; single-payer? Mobile phones? Internet access? Entertainment?
The fake warez signature on the splash screen is a nice touch.
Mario is finite, bounded. The edges are clear. You pay once, and there’s no other way for Nintendo to extract money from you. No single player is a mark. There are no whales. In Mario you can not only see the end but get there.

My favorite games to play on my phone are those made by Square Enix. Final fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, lots of classic remakes.

They range from $6.99 to $20.99, which made people balk when Square Enix first starting publishing on mobile, but you pay once, and you get a full game to play, no bullshit.

Once again, cheap is better than free. Pay a few dollars and never get bothered again by ads or pay-to-play, but most importantly, you don't feel like you're being manipulated by a never-ending game that starts to feel much more like work than play.
The reason for what? I can't even seem to validate the original claims, so...
> If the guys had said

Why would they have said that, even if it were true? What's the upside for them?

I agree the net result is the same whether they were honest or not, of course, which is again why there was no upside for them to say that if it were true.
Also, I'm not recommending not to abstain. I'm only pointing out that abstaining alone will not develop practice in executive control and attention regulation. If the phone is too attention grabbing, there are other ways of developing attention regulation.
In the UK that's (more or less) the minimum plus or minus caps. It's not uncommon to get offered higher, month per year for example, in return for signing a waver.

Edit. I'm not suggesting that you'll get paid for 10 months. I have no idea what your company policy is. However, I received a year's salary with the first 30k or so tax free. So it may not surprise you that I was happy to sign the waver.
> Some parts of the ACA could be implemented in state law, some would be either illegal or impractical at the state level.

That's my poor understanding of U.S. Federal vs State government that fails me here: what exactly would be illegal, what would be impractical?
If a state ACA is challenged in court, couldn't they use the supreme courts rulings of Obamacare as a strong defense?

Other comments here mentions that Massachusetts already had it (and I assume would likely keep it even after Obamacare is repealed), Couldn't California copy the Massachusetts implementation?

> California already provides state-run send healthcare beyond the requirements of the federal programs it participates in.

But I assume those state-run programs aren't providing as strong of a coverage as Obamacare was? Now would seem a good time to update it to match Obamacare?
I feel the same as you tbh. Does the geek in me love it? Sure! But if I take that out of the equation and look at things as they actually are then I still feel VR has a long way to go.
What I want is: 1) desktop/tablet and phone message delivery, with sane notifications and reliability, 2) doesn't feed all my messages to an ad company, 3) works on my non-Apple devices (otherwise iMessage would be entirely sufficient), and 4) good enough that I can get people to switch (or transparently uses SMS, so it doesn't matter).

Signal fails 1 (the desktop app is pretty bad) and 4 (too many little problems, others won't switch). I'm starting to think Slack, of all things, might be my best solution. Really, I just want ICQ with smart phone/desktop notifications, and picture/video embedding, which doesn't seem like it should be a thing I ought to have any difficulty whatsoever tracking down in 2017.
Which eye-tracking tech did you try at SIGGRAPH?
Again, that's a characteristic of network coverage for health insurance. It has nothing to do with ACA so why criticize the ACA for it?

You also said that your costs were 20k a year, but now you're talking about hypotheticals?
>> Folks can whine about the lack of ports, but in a few years USB-C devices will be quite common and reliable.

For most people, dongles probably a non issue - you'll get used to it.

But the thing with dongles is that a) you can forget them, b) they can stop working -- and that usually happens at the most inopportune time (in front of a client during an important meeting).

I've killed plenty of the MiniDisplayPort to [VGA/HDMI/DVI] dongles just based on the repetitive flexing where the cable meets the DP plug.
Those are all admirable goals. But it's difficult to imagine a repeal and replace that accomplishes these. Why? It's all about the pre-existing conditions.

If insurance companies have to take all comers, that makes the system easy to game: don't get insurance until you're sick, and then jump onto the system. This would essentially destroy insurance markets.

What's the obvious solution? Mandate everyone sign up for insurance, at risk of facing penalty fees. Then you're always paying into the insurance industry, and insurance companies can survive and provide value to the healthy and the sick.

But this is tough: not everyone can afford health insurance. So, you provide subsidies to those who can't.

So, if you start from the 2008 status quo and want to add protections for pre-existing conditions, that game plan is pretty much set in stone. But the issue is that that essentially is the ACA. There are other aspects, but that's the core mechanic.

It's pretty much impossible to build a system from 2008 to cover pre-existing conditions without re-implementing the ACA. You can play with how high fees should be and how high subsidies should be, but that's pretty much it. And most of the Republican "alternatives" (insofar as they exist at all) work by putting a ton of loopholes in the pre-existing conditions protections, a strategy widely regarded as revolting and that only works because people are being bamboozled about what protections they would actually receive.
I didn't think the article was so scathing. It was very inside baseball from my software engineer basis, hard to understand what he was getting at. On the other hand, the article about axovant (the $5mil cast off drug they spun into a 1.x billion dollar company and it apparently doesn't work), that article was persuasive that I should short this. How come the axovant stock hasn't collapsed.
There are plenty of things to discuss within the broad camp of "accepts that climate change is real and a potential problem." For example, the severity, the cause of individual events, the best responses, the potential dangers in the future, etc.

Instead, we just get these condescending posts completely dismissing any notion of climate change at all.

I do not see this phenomenon with other fact-based topics discussed here. When there's a story about vaccine, we're not flooded with people telling us how vaccines are full of toxins and don't prevent disease. When there's a story about genetics, we're not flooded with people telling us that evolution is a hoax. Physics stories don't get flooded with comments pushing Time Cube or whatever. Yes, we do get some comments like that, but not many.

Sure, something like Signal is controversial, but that's something that's naturally based on opinion. Dissent about the tradeoffs of something like Signal is quite different from dissent about the reality of climate change.
> Everyone needs food, everyone needs shelter, everyone needs medical care, but this deep passion only exists for the last item.

Programs exist to make food and shelter universally available, as well, and while imperfect, the proportion of the population unable to afford food or shelter is lower than the pre (or even post) ACA rate of people being unable to afford healthcare.

The fact that the problem is less solved for healthcare is probably why there is more visible passion on the issue.
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It does log the standard error stream. The default value of StandardError= is inherit, which will cause stderr to go to the same place that stdout goes, which by defaults to journal. This is documented in systemd.exec(5).

If not overriden in an individual service's unit file, perhaps you have set DefaultStandardError= in /etc/systemd/system.conf?
So insurance is bounded by cost plus pricing now. They have no problem if actual health care costs go up, their bottom line profits go up too! The insurance companies interests are now misaligned. Yeah they want to keep costs down to increase their spread, but if the spread is limited and allowed now they have no problem if hospitals charge $200 for what was a $100 procedure last year because $30 is more than $15 and they'll just increase premiums!
Does that picture really represent the product consumers want?
Huhh? How's it a strawman? Strawman: an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument.

I am not misrepresenting you, I m not really even arguing with you or disagreeing with you all that much.

I agree, online degrees are not providing job skills. But neither are many (not all) traditional degrees. Just one example is people fresh out of school who have never used or even heard of version control. Then there's the "can't do fizzbuzz" example.

This isn't even exclusive to CS degrees.

The reason I choose my degree program is it advertised itself as career focused education.

Either we should make education more career focused or accept that universities aren't primarily for job training and find alternatives.
I thought adding more sensors (laser projectors?) to a Lighthouse system decreases the refresh. It halves for each one?