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It's really surprising to me to see so many people on HN poo-poo on VR like they do, for this reason. Isn't this site supposed to be about startups, entrepreneurship, being forward thinking, etc? Where are the "thought leaders"? If you can't see the huge potential for VR, there is something wrong.
> I would hardly say even the craziest company (cough Apple) would rush out a new version that quickly.

A side note: although Apple does come out with new product versions rather quickly, it's worth noting that they take a very long time to create the first version of their new products. More often than not those efforts don't even end up seeing the light of day. Now that I think about it, it's probably why Apple hasn't thrown their hat into the VR ring. Once they do decide to go to market with a brand new product category it typically has a ton of polish and iterating from that point on can be done incrementally and rapidly.
So what prevents a B-movie style plot of attaching these types of proteins to influenza viruses?

Is the blood/brain barrier the ultimate savior?
The ACA isn't supposed to help healthy and financially secure people like your lawyer friend. It is supposed to help sick and financially insecure people, by forcing healthy people (who are in the majority) to subsidize the cost of their care (which is very expensive).

There's a moral question at the heart of this, the answer to which defines the solution space: do we, as a society, think it is important that all sick people receive care? If yes, there are a bunch of potential solutions, but they all involve healthy people subsidizing care for sick people. If no, there are, of course, a lot more options.

The thing that frustrates me about the current Republican approach is that they seem to want to answer "yes" to this question, while telling voters they will not have to subsidize care for the sick in any way.

Depending on your point of view, either the best feature, or the biggest failure, of the ACA was that it made this subsidy for the sick visible to anybody buying their own insurance, rather than hiding it behind taxes or complicated dynamics between governments, insurers, employers, and hospitals.

A little more succinctly: either we decide to let emergency rooms turn sick people away, or somebody will be paying for their care. There's no magical solution.
Easier to change the system clock than set up a VM :P Especially for macOS.
Unexpectedly Good Things VR Will Probably Cause (2016)
As someone who owns both headsets from day one and has been developing software for Vive, I'd honestly say the current generation of tech just isn't worth it for most people. In five years when we have wireless headsets with eye tracking and full FOV displays with no discernible pixelation and the library of games are finally here it will be worth it. As it is most people would probably be let down after the initial wow factor wears off.

I think VR is at the point smartphones were from 2000-2007 until the iPhone showed up. It's going to take another generation of devices that incorporate all of those features in a really well designed package before it goes mainstream.
Right on. We've had some form of universal coverage at least since the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act was passed in 1986. Unless someone wants to roll that back, then it's just a matter of how you want the universal coverage to be structured, not whether you want it to exist.

But, as with many things, the politics around this issue is all about feels over reals.
"3. New frameworks. Building and iterating VR apps is going to have to get a lot easier."

Hasn't Unity already cemented itself as the go-to framework for VR? Has anyone seen anything better?
You're fined if you don't have coverage (and that being a robust government-specified plan, not simple catastrophic insurance).

It's stupid to require the poor to pay for plans they don't need/want/afford, and for rich to pay for plans when they can pay their own way.

MANY people opt to pay the fine as substantially cheaper than compliance.

And it's a safe guess that the political "Left" would be screaming outrage if the "Right" were compelling people to buy private-sector products (health insurance) they didn't want or afford.
The Democrats went into the debate compromising with moderates within its own caucus. Joe Lieberman threatened to filibuster if a public option was added to the bill and effectively killed any chance of passing some form of HR 676 (originally introduced by Democrats in 2003, it was floated around early in the healthcare debates of 2009). So the Senate began working on a Republican plan that was introduced in Massachusetts under Mitt Romney. However Mitch McConnel convinced his caucus to not support the bill in any way and succeeded in stopping moderate Republicans from breaking rank.

This debate went on like that for a good while, with Democrats negotiating to keep moderates like Ben Nelson (Cornhusker Kickback, if anyone remembers) and Joe Lieberman from defecting. The Democrats were then dealt a blow by the death of Ted Kennedy and subsequent election of Republican Scott Brown to his seat in the Senate. With Brown's swearing in, the Democrats' caucus would have lost the filibuster-proof majority it enjoyed.

I just want to point out that a long debate was expected, and it would have likely gone on for another year had Kennedy's seat not been won by Scott Brown. The Senate's bill, which became the ACA, had to be the one implemented otherwise the Democrats would not have succeeded at any version of healthcare reform. Obama's '"compromise" position' was to encourage a bill that was not single-payer and could keep Blue Dogs on board.

I mean what should he have done? Kneecap Democrats who didn't fall in line?
Like most people, I'm completely sick when I'm in VR. I don't see how the VR could become mainstream if they don't fix this problem.
Well the Vive/VR workout isn't my aerobic workout and/or what keeps me fast enough to play with those guys at age 49. I do a variation on the the Tabata Sprint workout, which is probably the toughest, most intense part of my workout outside of the pull-ups. Most people I know can't handle fully sprinting near exhausting repeatedly for 2m; the threat of vomiting alone from the workout stops most of my friends. So no, I don't mean to imply the VIVE workout is in anyway the main component of my aerobic fitness routine.

The Vive, for me anyway, is more a overall body workout that strains muscles I don't seem to hit from hockey, snowboarding and/or other such activities I do regularly. I would say it's a) a great overall, full body workout, but not super aerobic, and b) extremely good at training for tracking/responding to multiple 'threats' from multiple angles. Or sharpening my focus, or indirect focus skills. For example I often de-focus my vision and think about the "Inner Game" and just get out of the way of my body; I often will hit two targets with each hand independently from each other spread out 20ft or so apart. I've noticed on the ice I'm picking up players on my side/other team earlier and it's giving me an edge in just being ready a second earlier with the puck.
> That is easily the most physically demanding VR activity that I've found so far

Have you tried soundboxing? I'm on OSX so can't try it, but I really want to give it a shot - it seems awesome, and a good workout. Bringing back the glory days of DDR in the arcade...

[0] - https://www.soundboxing.co/
It perhaps ignores the validity of your approach to your relationship to the state, but it's a stretch to say it's naïve.

FWIW, I used to be solidly in the "social contract" camp, and over the last few years have walked out of that camp, na'er to return.

Want to see how that argument feels when reversed?

"Your blind adherence to the maintenance of the state, despite vast evidence that it's a force of oppression shows an incredibly naïve view of the goodness and trustworthiness of man and institutions composed of members of the human race."

See? not much fun. Lets get a little more nuanced, and talk about, perhaps, at which point might a society by improved by ignoring the "social contract". Do you think that point CAN be reached? If so, when? What must we do when it IS reached?
Meditation has a growing body of evidence that it reduces stress, not sure if it reaches high quality threshold yet. But there is very little harm in trying it (versus diet or pharma interventions).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/05...
Honestly, I'm not really sure it's worth the effort. I'd have to spend time setting it up and baby sit it all year for the one time a year I am hurt by the problem for a couple of hours. Or I could just take the office out for expensive coffee and usually Github is back up again by the time we get back.
I'm the cryptographer (lvh on GitHub) providing some context on the issue. I'd be happy to answer any other questions here, although I think the example on the ticket demonstrates the attack pretty well.

The way you generally fix this is by providing appropriate binding between long-term and short-term secret. MQV does this with some weird group-breaking, but another way to do it would be, e.g.:

session_key
= H(l_A*E_B + e_A*L_B) (as computed by Alice)
= H(l_B*E_A + e_B*L_A) (as computer by Bob)

Note: DON'T DO THIS! USE NOISE INSTEAD. This is just for insight; although this how at least one of the KCI-secure AKEs works. H is a secure hash function; l_X is X's long-term secret, e_X is X's ephemeral secret, L_X is X's long-term pubkey, E_X is X's ephemeral pubkey. This works because the attack doesn't simultaneously know e_A and l_B in this model. Off the top of my head, ISTR this is how OTR's AKE works, but don't quote me on that, it's been a while since I looked at OTR specifically. This is by no means exhaustive! There are a handful of secure AKEs like this.

Another classic way to do this is by signing the handshake, but that has its own share of problems. For example, the KCI attacks on TLS worked because an certificate was being used as a static DH key.
Yes, of course it backs out to taxpayer money - and likely money from taxpayers who haven't even been born yet, to the extent that the Federal Government runs a deficit exceeding inflation.

If you look at the Federal budget it's clear that the Federal Government, beyond national defense, is simply becoming a giant healthcare and pension fund administrator, re-distributing wealth via social security, medicaid, and medicare. All other expenses are dwarfed by these. I'd expect this trend to continue until the singularity occurs and we enter our long-awaited post-capitalist utopia.
When you're undergoing short-notice heart surgery (trust me), it's very easy to rack up out-of-network costs fast.
The current VR/AR situation is nowhere near the iTunes app store situation when it was taking off in 2008-2010. The most notable difference is visible adoption of the technology. By 2009, non-tech peers and relatives were spending more time consuming content on their iPhones and iPod Touches than I was as a developer. You'd see more smartphones everyday just walking around.

I work in San Francisco in an office with multiple tech companies. VR/AR is about 99.9% invisible. It's occasionally mentioned by developers/gamers upon returning from GDC. Otherwise, it's completely off peoples' radars. I think the technology has potential, but claiming it's "the next iPhone" is inaccurate. It remains to be seen.
I got pretty invested in VR in 2016, and to be honest I wish I'd just waited. Here's the history of how VR went for me last year:

* Pre-ordered Vive and Rift, planning to keep whichever one arrived first.

* The Rift encountered tremendous shipping issues.

* I got the Vive pretty much on launch day, so I figured I'd cancel the Rift order.

* I was blown away by room-scale in the Vive initially, but really disappointed in the visual quality. It wasn't just the resolution or screen-door effect. I was shocked to find how small the sweet spot is and how much of the image is out of focus around the edges. I was shocked at the godrays and various other optical phenomena.

* Because the Rift was said to have a much clearer picture than the Vive, I decided not to cancel the order.

* By the time the Rift arrived (in late July I believe), I had basically stopped using the Vive because I'd run out of content and the only new content coming out was incredibly unpolished Early Access indie stuff. Some of the games people are talking about here like Space Pirate Trainer or Holopoint I grew bored of by June of 2016. They're not new.

* The Rift was immediately more comfortable, the picture looked a lot clearer despite having the same resolution, and it was a big relief not needing to worry about separate headphones anymore.

* While I enjoyed the charm of Lucky's Tale and Chronos reminded me of Dark Souls, I couldn't get into any of the other seated content, so the Rift fell into disuse rather quickly. Keep in mind that if you're into racing sims or flight sims there's already a wealth of content for you -- but I'm not into those things (and I did try them).

* I entered a limbo where I didn't know what to do, which to sell (perhaps both?). I decided to preorder Touch, hoping that the Rift+Touch would be decisively better than the Vive and my decision would be made for me.

* Touch arrived in December. The controllers themselves were great. The tracking was not. It was a real pain to set up. I fiddled with it endlessly. The tracking software itself seemed to have glitches. It was really sensitive to which USB ports I used. Eventually I got the tracking working acceptably after my third sensor arrived -- still not as good as the tracking on the Vive, though, which was basically perfect.

* I've been experiencing a brief VR renaissance with the new Touch content, which is generally a lot more polished than anything on the Vive. However, most of it is purely multiplayer, which I'm not really into.

* Rift+Touch is not decisively better than the Vive, but I've somewhat arbitrarily decided to just keep it and sell the Vive, largely because it's the system that I currently have set up.

In retrospect, I wish I'd just waited an extra year or two. VR with tracked controllers and room-scale is definitely cool and I don't think it's a gimmick, but it's still very much in early adopter territory right now.
Satellite constellations could be poised to challenge the broadband industry
Serious question: why do people believe that corporations can somehow beat government/law? The government has absolute power and will always win.
Anandtech has a picture of the bottom of it. It appears to be solid throughout. It also appears that this system bolts onto bottom of MBP using longer screws that fit into the factory screw holes. From the full article[0]:

"To install the OWC DEC, users will not have to open up their MacBook Pro, only remove Apple's screws and screw the DEC on to the bottom of the machine."

[0] http://www.anandtech.com/show/11033/owc-previews-dec-addon-f...
The President’s Final Ask of Us (Code for America)
How much "progress" is really necessary?
Nobody wants VR. You can try and ram it down our throats all you want with TV adds showing befuddled old people discovering the wonders of a phone strapped to their head, or calling VR systems a "hot Christmas gift," but that won't change the fact that nobody wants it. It's too awkward, and it makes the user too vulnerable. You cannot create this market.
I bought this one but I'm not totally happy with it. For now it does the job but I'm sure better options will come out at some point hopefully sooner than later:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LZZ3M8B/ref=oh_aui_deta...
I've had chronic, sever depression. Never went to a doctor. Stopped drinking and changed my diet and prayer. Fine now. My wife is a social worker who worked with kids with emotional issues. She issued the depression test to me once a month. All in house.

> People change their minds, and sometimes you're not capable or competent to decide for yourself.

This means one of two things. 1st, I should be able to upgrade my policy or pickup a secondary one. 2nd, my family will have to live with the results of my earlier decision to not include mental health in my coverage. Decisions have consequences. The government shouldn't force me to pickup coverage just because they think it might be a bad decision to forgo it.
A lot of programming courses in India still use course materials which rely on Turbo C++. It's really unfortunate -- means that students are learning "C++" without access to the STL.
Forgot to mention FSA. Employers love them because unused money deducted from your paycheck (i.e. YOUR MONEY) goes back to them. I suggest you look into HSA accounts instead.
Currently there are no VR porn games for female either. And it's not because it's not fun for them (NSFW): https://vimeo.com/198344395
I'm sorry, my words were poorly chosen. I am happy you reported this and I'm very happy with the discussion. This was an "if", not trying to point at you in particular.
Toxoplasmosis may have similar (if slightly more subtle) effects on humans: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/273/1602/2749
The SMI one, and the accompanying Nvidia foveated rendering demo.
Do you know a large reason why premiums and deductibles hiked ?

What I read, and I did read this online and haven't had the time to look for primary sources so please take with a grain of salt, but worth looking into is this:

pre-existing condition check was a major risk to the insurance industry since nobody knew how much it was going to cost them. So the ACA told insurance companies we'll subsidize some of your costs until things settle down (this is different than subsidizing people's payments). However when it came time for the gov to pay, Republicans blocked most of the subsidy payments to health insurance companies (I think they only received 12% of the expected amount).

And then because insurance companies didn't get that subsidy they obviously passed the cost onto consumers. And I'm sure whatever subsidy was further promised by the Gov they could no longer rely on so they priced that risk in as well.
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If only Mr. Altman had a pre-existing relationship with someone very close to Mr. Trump. He could then perhaps raise these arguments with that person.
Culture matters. In 1997 I had offers from both Apple and Sun. I was working at a Macintosh ISV which was very badly impacted by Steve cancelling the Mac clones. I knew from friends about the secrecy and siloed environment at NeXT and in Steve's Apple. While I had respect for Steve's accomplishments and vision I made a very conscious effort to choose a different work culture.

I ended up working at Sun (and eventually Oracle) for 16 years. It may not have been great for all those years but I can't imagine that I would have lasted at Apple that long and I certainly wouldn't have had the mobility between projects that I did at Sun.

Doing it again I would still choose the company with the culture that I felt was the best fit for me with that company's potential being secondary.
So your argument is that the ACA should provide healthcare that's both very cheap and very comprehensive. Because it isn't doing so, we should repeal it and go back to 2008, and healthcare will be made cheap and comprehensive?
Do you mostly use Blender to create the actual environments? I've started to do a little reading on this stuff too and it's a daunting hill to climb coming from primary a web-dev background (at least I know C# like the back of my Left Hand haha couldn't resist...).
> Massachusetts had Obamacare (RomneyCare) years before the federal law existed (it acted as a model for the federal plan).

And we (in Massachusetts) are still trying to figure out how to pay for it.

Massachusetts already had an incredibly low uninsured rate to begin with, which helped, but even then, the costs have been unsustainable. In each of the last three governor's races, the major issue on both candidate's platforms were their respective promises to find a way to pay for it all.

Most recently, MA elected Charlie Baker, a former health insurance executive who has promised to find a way to make the program sustainable.
The ACA in it's current form is probably comparable to a fire department in your analogy.

As others have pointed out the true problems in our system revolve around medical providers price-gouging, someone who is ill and seeking medical attention is not operating within a free market due to the duress of their situation, but we still use free market principles to justify the massive profit margins of the companies that sell to ill people under duress.
Very rarely does something someone posts on a discussion board make me stop and reconsider things. You just did. +1 to you, +1 to Hacker News.
The Federal Government funds >90% of California's medicaid expansion which is the vast majority of newly-insured people under the ACA. 1 in 3 Californians now receives free health care under Medi-Cal, California's medicaid program. If the Feds withdrew medicaid expansion funding I don't think California could afford to keep it up themselves without extremely painful tax hikes (which it may already be slating for future pension bailouts).
Pretty sure you're mistaken on this one - they're riffing on Apple. The Macbook Pro Oct 27 unveil event was named 'Hello Again'[1], which was also the slogan used at the iMac unveil event.

[1] http://osxdaily.com/2016/10/20/hello-again-apple-event-set-f...
One of the more common stances, though I don't know if it's that of OpenAI, is that the singularity is not what we should be worried about. It's the extremely powerful tool AIs we'd see before the singularity, in the wrong hands.

Consider an ultra-effective AI for finding security vulnerabilities. One nation builds that first, and then with keys to the kingdom they exfiltrate billions in intellectual property from other states, manipulate foreign economies, and shut down electrical grids.
Fastest in terms of bootstrapping/dev would probably be using Ionic or Cordova (https://ionicframework.com/) but in my experience it is not super performant (as it is hybrid) and allows for little customization. Learning curve isn't super steep, esp if you already know Angular/Angular 2.

Coding knowledge: html/css/es6/typescript/angular

If you want good performance & a huge support base, React Native is probably the way to go. Learning curve is probably a bit higher than Ionic/Cordova (you will deal with platform specific syntax for components), but its what many top companies (AirBnB, Instagram, FB) use for their mobile apps. It is really performant. You may need to write platform specific code and it may take slightly more time, but I still would prefer this route over the hybrid app route.

Coding knowledge: need to know html/css/es6 & have experience with frontend frameworks. Redux/Flux has a bit of a learning curve.

TL;DR: Try doing tutorials for both, and see which one you prefer. IMO it's probably not as fast to develop for React Native as it is Ionic/Cordova, but its still the far better option. It's worth the effort to go down the React Native route.
At what point does your friend not say "f-it" forgo ACA individual mandate, pay the $2085 fine and not put the difference from paying 450x12 premium into a Health Savings Account?

Edit: It looks like you need to be enrolled in a plan to be eligible for a HSA
Sure, but Unity is a game engine, I think he means more like Xcode is to iOS dev as _____ is to VR. Unity isn't optimized for making general applications, although it looks like they want to head in that direction for VR.
Or don't rebase and teach people to use tools like `--first-parent` and learn to love the DAG. Git log doesn't have to be a perfectionist's straight line.