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I completely agree. VR is a false start for a couple of reasons.

1) Spending a couple of hours in VR messes with your body, many feel motion sickness and other effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_sickness

2) As antisocial as staring at your iPhone is, VR is much worse. You can't even function in the environment you are physically in because your body thinks it's somewhere else.

I think VR is really interesting, don't get me wrong, but it's not the next app platform. Yes it suits gaming really well if you don't get sick, but Augmented Reality is the next iPhone, and we are probably many years away from doing it right. We're not even at the T-Mobile Sidekick stage yet.

I would buy a discrete AR headset like I'd buy a smartphone, but I can't see myself buying a VR headset for anything other than setting aside an hour or so to be entertained.
I wanted VR. I spent 800 on a Vive and 700 on a GeForce 1080.

Get some sleep, gramps.
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I don't understand why people are so opposed to the "mandate". We have the same thing in so many other places, only those are handled by paying taxes for things you might not need.

I can't avoid buying "invasion insurance" by not paying for the military. I can't avoid buying "transportation insurance" by not paying for roads. Why is paying for health care any different?

If anything socializing health care costs makes more sense than transportation infrastructure, because the needs are so unpredictable and beyond the individual's control and the costs so potentially huge.
Umm why!
It's more like 7 hours a day to be anywhere near competitive at DotA.
As another anecdote, the premium increases per year my company has to pay has (mostly) dropped since Obamacare - the highest increase was a year or two prior to ACA.
Wow, I've played Robotron a ton at a freeplay arcade and I noticed it seemed to feel a little different in difficulty some games compared to others. I didn't quite put my finger on why, but it was probably the games where I lost a couple of lives in the first wave. Thanks for sharing that.
Sounds like your employer used ACA as an excuse to switch to cheaper plans and cover less of the costs. Are you sure you're laying blame on the right culprit here?
I think they just don't keep the contact list. It is uploaded, but only matched against the list of subscribed users at the time of the upload and then deleted. Only downside is that if a contact joins later and does not have you in its contact list you don't get notified, or only when you recheck your contact list.

Your link above says at the end:

For TextSecure, however, we've grown beyond the size where that remains practical, so the only thing we can do is write the server such that it --- doesn't store the transmitted contact information ---, inform the user, and give them the choice of opting out.
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I am both a huge proponent and skeptic of VR. I am no veteran but to my credit I was dabbling with VR many years before Oculus ran its Kickstarter.

I am skeptical in the short term because the hardware is still struggling to keep up with the demands (at a reasonable price point). Maintaining 90-120 FPS with any sort of detail is much more difficult than 30 FPS.

I am a proponent in the long term because there is definitely some sort of value. The feeling of "presence" just can't be matched by anything else (short of directly manipulating our sensory input).

I think people are still struggling to figure out where exactly the value is now though. In the long term I can see it being a huge social tool (to the point where people might regularly meet their significant other in a virtual environment, if the rendering is accurate enough). There is also likely benefit in creative tools (I have found modeling in VR to be much easier and more natural).

Interestingly, from the people I have shown VR to, it is the less technical people (non-programmers, etc) that walk away with their minds blown. Perhaps we are still not marketing VR strongly enough, because most people I know still have not tried a real device.

IMO VR will be different from mobile though. The evolution of apps for phones was explosive, but we are trying to game evolution by throwing huge amounts of funding at VR, perhaps prematurely. This is not to say any advancements at this point aren't worth the time, I am just not so sure there will be a large payoff in the short term. (And of course, this is just my opinion, feel free to disagree).
I think that the Vive is a little like the release iPhone. It has all of the pieces, but it's also clunky and extravagant.

You had to have a pretty good imagination to look at any 2004 phone and envision the iPhone, but once you had the 1st gen iPhone it's pretty easy to imagine a modern smartphone. It's pretty much just the same thing only more so.
It will be interesting to see how people build for ios post mac, right now xcode is the only way to build for ios. Or will the mac be an expensive tool for ios developers?
> Does the correctness of Poly1305 not depend on P ≠ NP?

Not that I know of. As far as I know the security reductions are unconditional.

Even worse than revealing the XOR of 2 plaintexts is the key recovery enabled by GCM (source: other comments in this thread). And if you're that scared of nonce reuse, just

Nevertheless, it doesn't matter. Avoiding nonce reuse is easy. And if you're really scared, just use a random nonce from a big enough space (192 bits, like XChacha20, are good). That way if you have access to a random source, you can turn any encryption algorithm into a nonce-less algorithm.
Pre-existing conditions prevented many from getting health care.
By "competitive" in that context I meant "won't get stomped at 1.5k MMR". Which is still, frankly, a pretty high bar compared to most games.

But yes. If you want to be actually competitive at a tournament level, you're dead on.
You're missing the variable N, the number of times you'd have to repeat the experiment to replicate the quality of the results. N might be 10, might be 100.

As an analyst it should be easy for you to figure out x for Maluuba, just McKinsey it. But that isn't really a meaningful number. Researchers aren't fungible commodities traded on an exchange.
> It is a political imperative for Republicans to repeal the ACA now, and worry about replacing it after the positive PR.

The positive PR of... 20 million people losing health insurance?
from seattle:

google: 15.377/20.966/40.077/9.587 ms

freenom: 192.673/222.957/287.720/41.386 ms
Agreed, I think the writing was on the wall for CodeWarrior from the day OS X came out.

Apple was vendor-neutral regarding development tools for the entire classic Mac era: yes they sold MPW, but Universal Interfaces, SDKs, documentation were all distributed separately. It was a level playing field for Apple, Lightspeed/Symantec, Metrowerks, and even Microsoft to compete and sell development environments (IDE, compiler, libraries).

But of course this all changed with OS X. The entire Mach-O world was just not intended to be targeted by anyone else's environment (each CodeWarrior release from that era is basically tied to a specific OS X version for Mach-O development because of header/library changes between versions). Objective-C was Apple's language, being evolved without any standards body. Cocoa was a fantastic framework, taking away much of the need for PowerPlant. And unlike the 68k->PPC transition, Apple didn't give tools vendors a heads-up on the PPC->Intel transition.

Although I miss Metrowerks and a competitive market, I think it's outweighed greatly by the benefits of having the best dev tools be free, something that was unheard of 15 years ago. I sometimes wonder if the software landscape on the classic Mac would have been different if the best dev environment (THINK C, later CodeWarrior) had been free.
(although Metrowerks put a lot of effort here too: I remember CodeWarriorU, and also the Discover Programming Edition which was a full-featured 68k CodeWarrior + extra documentation for $100)
Now that is a headline!
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> The uncertainties seem extremely large.

I am pretty uncertain that we will reach singularity. Maybe AI will plateau at at level above humans but not increase much further.
Where did you find the dev to help you out?
"Give us a hundred thousand dollars or you die of cancer" doesn't sound like a great healthcare plan.
"Accusations of astroturfing or shilling without evidence are not allowed on HN. Rushing to that as an explanation is, invariably, evidence of sloppy thinking—or maybe non-thinking, of the kind that political passion leads us all to."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13345070
So 10% margin then. Still outstanding.
I put some of this blame on the hospitals themselves as well. The fact is that I have no idea what I'm going to pay when I get to a hospital or doctor's office. They won't tell you anything up front. By the time you know what they cost, you're on the hook for some ridiculous amount. They won't give estimates, you can't shop around.

And medical coding to figure out what you're paying for and what a normal price should be is ridiculously hard to understand. Some of this is going to be their response to a litigious society, but you can't use that excuse for all of it.

Also, if someone doesn't have insurance, the fact that the hospital puts you on the hook for the full bill is ridiculous. Insurance isn't paying 100%, they are discounted crazy amounts, even only paying 20% in some cases. But you don't get this discount from the hospital. If you show up without insurance, you will be charged the full amount, less what you can negotiate on the spot. And most people don't know they can even try to negotiate it.

I agree that the insurance companies are a huge problem, but I don't think the hospitals and doctors' offices themselves should be absolved from their share of the blame.
clever. shady, but clever.
I lol'ed. I agree that it is more of a niche application for sure. I also agree with the further conclusion that making it removable would have made it more useful.

Like someone else mentioned, I also didn't see HDMI.

I think I heard the 'whammy' sound play...
I Tweet a fair bit currently, and I've written about my VR work a fair bit over at strangecompany.org over the years.

I'm actually about to start doing more writing or videos on the topic of VR development and my experiences in it, so keep an eye on my Twitter, blog or YouTube if you like - they'll be up there starting in the next few weeks.
Oh yeah they're going to be real eager to hear from someone who can't vote.
Anytime you make a compromise, there's always the possibility that maybe you could have held out for more.
Developers have to support safari on iOS.

Chrome's implementation on iOS doesn't help development, but it doesn't appreciably hinder development either.
Even if we concede that the overwhelming majority of people that go through the criminal justice system are guilty, US law has a presumption of innocence, perhaps for the very reason that the system should handle so many more guilty people that it makes everything much easier to assume guilt.

We have the standard "beyond a reasonable doubt" in a criminal trial, arguably calculated to let some criminals go to help ensure that we don't imprison as many innocent people as possible. With a presumption of innocence, the system should assume innocence even if dealing with 99.9% guilty people, and I would call any other optimization corruption enough.
My bad. Let's call it "indiscriminate bombing" instead then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqAmIcIpq_4

The "knock on the door" technique employed by the IDF seems very considerate by the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjxsrqCdl-4
Insurance for just my family went from $1400/month (already expensive!) to $1850 per month. I live in the midwest, so it's not like we have crazy high prices. I keep thinking of the mansion I could live in with that much going towards a mortgage.

AND, until we hit our $5K premium, it doesn't really pay anything. So we've got to pay $27K to get a real benefit. And it's not like we're young and healthy (nearly 50). Feels like we're getting shafted.
I'm almost certain the parent's comment is tongue in cheek. The last sentence, "It's all relative isn't it?" seems clearly mocking. Of course if I'm mistaken, then I totally agree!
This has been anticipated for a while (I recall posting comments about this years ago) as multiply antibiotic-resistant microbes have been spreading in India, where the woman mentioned in the article kindly submitted here had traveled.

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/04/23/india-has-lost...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/world/asia/superbugs-kill...
Re: inside out tracking - have you seen Bridge? It's a mobile, spatially aware headset for IOS. It uses an onboard Structure Sensor to power positionally tracked VR + high end MR. All on an iphone (no remote processing), and < $400 :)

We've been working on it in secret for a couple of years, and just launched it in December.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iys8yo0sjYg
> Like most people

Most people?

I've run 20+ people of all ages (4-63) through my Vive setup and the only person that got nauseous was a guy trying out Project Cars (a seated experience), and that was only after an extended period in the game.
> This is slippery-slope weasel-wording.

Please.

> The particular impersonation-to-A scenario is well known (due to a standard DH key agreement property) and can be protected against (see lvh's top comment for examples how it's possible to do that).

Yes, it's an excellent explanation. But ultimately, while this should be fixed, it is not critical, as it requires A's private keys be stolen.

For the layman, without touching into the crypto details, the analogy GreyHatter made is not so bad.
Regaining control presumes you had control to begin with.

I'd wager having little control over attention has been the default mode for couple generations. The world is full of distractions that start from childhood. Gaining control over attention requires awareness and a more deliberate effort, through meditation or the like.
some sort of blockchain based dns would be killer
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It works decently for me. I had to get on the Windows Insider for beta Windows builds because the stable only has Ubuntu 14. Beta has 16.
So, how do you overcome the motion sickness / nausea problem?
Google could easily "motivate" them to provide AMP pages (as they have successfully done) without adding their own caching layer, which the complaints above mostly seemed to be about.
Is that a different case than someone putting off enrolling in health insurance today, with or without the ACA?
Except that he made the good point that there are several female dominated fields that have no such push. So it's fair to ask why are we seeing such a selective focus?

If you accept there is a certain one-sidedness, can "awkward manual corrections like quotas" ever result in "real equality of opportunity"? Because equality of outcome is a great way to demotivate people.

I went to university in the UK where more woman than men attend. And while there's a real drive for more women in e.g. STEM (about 80% m/20% f), there isn't anything like that for e.g. psychology (roughly 90% f/10% m). The distribution of lecturers in gender studies is also hilarious. You'd think that's the one field you'd want to keep very even. So this striving for equality does seem inconsistently followed at best. I guess you could argue that you've got to start somewhere, but I find that a bit naive.

> A man who earned his status through merit has nothing to fear.

If the selection is based on merit, then quotas would be unthinkable and this argument would also apply to women, no? So somewhere along the line we're admitting it isn't based on merit.
AI will only have a will of its own it is designed as such, and that means it would have a reinforcement learning system on top of lower sensory and action modules. Even if it is based on RL, it will do what it's reward signals tells it to do.
Well, the Tabby Evo - with all due respect - looks like a slighty beefy golf cart and actually costs more or less the same as what you can probably buy a beefy golf-cart-like vehicle with.
Like - say - a Polaris Gem.

The news are about the joint-venture (or whatever) with Renault for the POM (the "open source" version of the Twizy):

https://www.osvehicle.com/
California could require a minimum years of residency to be eligible. Kind of like in-state tuition.
> A free market would have various accrediting bodies

This is actually an example of market distortion.

For me, I view the use of "Free markets" to be implied uses of "competitive markets" and Perfect Competition is defined as follows:

> the situation prevailing in a market in which buyers and sellers are so numerous and well informed that all elements of monopoly are absent and the market price of a commodity is beyond the control of individual buyers and sellers.

An accrediting body (of any type) is a symptom of a market where buyers are not (and perhaps cannot) be well informed enough to make decisions that maximize their utility/benefit.

Now you might think, at this point, that's ridiculous! No one can be well informed about every potential market decision they make in their lives. And you would be right, this is why it's an unachievable ideal:

> Though there is no actual perfectly competitive market in the real world, a number of approximations exist [2]

Moreover, there exist market externalities whose burdens aren't appropriately placed on the responsible actor. The classic example is pollution, which can often be modeled as a social cost rather than a supplier cost [3].

Now accrediting bodies and government regulation can be good steps at correcting these distortions, but they aren't perfect...as anyone who has hired a licensed contractor and gotten poor results can attest.

> Then why don't houses crumble, long after they are built?

There is a lot of government regulation that tries to correct for this. But even then, a lot of homes have significant issues despite things such as home inspectors, building permits, contract licenses etc. My parent's fairly expensive home, for instance, had a chimney that was nailed to their roof and ended up falling over in a windy storm causing roof and water damage. The house was new construction, inspected, and part of a large development.

But a lot of government regulation is actually an argument in support of the points made in this publication...as it means that the market was not suitable to laissez-faire handling [4].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=perfect+competition&oq=perfe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire

Edit: I am moving fast and simplifying significantly, but I would be happy to address follow up questions/go into more detail if interested. But, as a disclaimer, I am far from an expert...I just have a limited understanding of some precious few Economic fundamental concepts.
Its true, I was thinking about that same thing. But they still are making some high level decisions. Would definitely have to compare the default, and avoid the custom ones.
I've found that to be true in general for Common Lisp projects.

With StumpWM, it's nice in terms of finding where certain functionality is implemented so I can rework it in my ~/.stumpwmrc. Having easily-accessible source code was invaluable for me adding gaps between tiled windows (and has helped me get 90% of the way done with adding a second modeline to hold WindowMaker-style dockapps).
Well, deconstruction is easy. The hard part for me has always been figuring out what to build up.
This headline is not the article headline. It's not a small change either. There is a huge difference between:

"WhatsApp vulnerability allows snooping on encrypted messages"

and

"WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages"
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Let's please skip that right now. It's far from the original topic, and there are so many places you can find reasoned arguments for either side.
I don't understand how this isn't being talked about as a solution.

It is being talked about but there is significant opposition from those that don't want to raises taxes to the level that would be required to finance such a proposal.
I've been totally immersing mine and drying it out so far without any problems.

Can't be all that different than sweat itself. If we're not supposed to be getting these wet, then we shouldn't be doing VR workouts at all.
> Because VR games are so physical, gaming will no longer be perceived as an unhealthy activity. I could have used this growing up.

What kind of VR games are you playing? I haven't seen a single physically demanding VR game (unless you count standing "physical"). Unless everyone is going to have a dedicated room for their games or we come up with some kind of rental halls there won't be any physical activity in VR games just because there is no room to move around.

Sure ducking and crawling is somewhat more physical that just sitting and playing games, but not by much.
That same person developed ScrambleSuit[1], which is used as a pluggable transport to obfuscate traffic and prevent detection/active probing. Work is continuing to keep the GFW from being able to catch up [2][3].

[1] http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/scramblesuit/

[2] https://github.com/Yawning/obfs4

[3] https://git.schwanenlied.me/yawning/basket2
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> Also, if someone doesn't have insurance, the fact that the hospital puts you on the hook for the full bill is ridiculous. Insurance isn't paying 100%, they are discounted crazy amounts, even only paying 20% in some cases. But you don't get this discount from the hospital. If you show up without insurance, you will be charged the full amount, less what you can negotiate on the spot. And most people don't know they can even try to negotiate it.

And what happens with the majority of people who don't have insurance, they don't pay it. So the costs get eaten by the hospital and eventually by everyone else that can pay.

In that respect, we have socialized healthcare already. It's just a horrible implementation.
Since we are making up stats, I'd say 82.6% of my coworkers and friends use their laptop as a desktop and have at least 4 things plugged in all the time.
I'm curious what you feel general applications need? I come from a games background and am in current heavy R&D for VR and AR applications. I tend to feel VR is much more like a game than anything else. You're fundamentally working in 3D space with tracked game controllers in a simulation that updates at 60/90/120Hz. Most of what's lacking for common application development is the sort of things we won't see until there are some mature VR/AR operating systems. AR in particular really needs to allow multiple programs to run simultaneously. There's not really the need for that with multiple overlapping virtual realities right now.

I don't think Unity necessarily has things wrapped up but it would be really hard to eclipse them right now.
>>> . I've heard many small companies could not afford to provide health insurance for their employees after ACA passed ( I don't know the details of exactly the causal chain there )

>> if I were you, I would research that and figure out if it's true or not.

> I can't even seem to validate the original claims, so...

I was just asking if you knew the reason already or have looked into it.
> We now have to fund these subsidies.

Maybe, maybe not. Here's a case of a death that cost $250k for want of a $80 tooth extraction: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02...

We were already paying for uninsured folks via bankruptcies etc.
I'm nearsighted, and I play with my glasses off. It's much less strain on my eyes TBH.