skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been seriously considering this lately. The camera and a location-based game that gets me out walking around periodically throughout the day are the two things I'm not sure I can give up at this point.
I had no time to write a full-fledged comment but people here took offense. Shrugs. I meant that the existential risk for founders is that of looking or being scummy. The precise, non-offensive definition of the sense of "scummy" that I intended, which unfortunately does not rhyme with "crazy", is, "profit from information asymmetry". Newton did not clearly "profit" --- though I had almost taken the 3 bets to mean the ones he placed on the South Sea --- even though he had a massive edge. (Pretty much people are arguing about scale here, in my opinion.) I do think PG wants a modern edge over Newton's methods, which concretely means pumping the applied intuitions/phronesis of the SV intellectual elite using software value capture or the VC network. By the way YC do employ heavy-duty "scum filters", e.g. the women interviewers. This is all consistent to the point of being trivial.
> open is the only option that makes any security analysis possible

I'm not disputing that. Let me repeat myself:

> Open beats closed

All I'm saying is that it doesn't stop there. Too often there's this complacent 'great, it's open source!' - I'm as guilty of it as anyone.
That works for some people but not all - but for those it does work for, it works very well.

I've added exactly that - scaled movement - as an option into my VR game, Left-Hand Path, and so far most of my users are very positive about it. I love it personally - it feels very much like it doubles my available play area.

One of my playtesters hated it and found it made him nauseous, though, so like many VR locomotion options it's a YMMV situation.
I recognize that 3d model from when I was learning blender. It's carl from the walking dead, from a tutorial by Sebastian Lague. His channel is full of Blender, Unity, and general Game development tutorials. All very detailed and helpful: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmtyQOKKmrMVaKuRXz02jbQ
There's many non-tiling WMs that actually manage the windows for you:

http://fvwm.org/documentation/faq/#when-my-specific-window-o...

http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Applications
I still have all my Sony Magic Cap [1] stuff which came out around CodeWarrior 6 I think. Some type of Metrowerks MPW environment and a software emulator which crashed if you breathed on it!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Cap
It's not all that close. It's also an out of network, out of pocket maximum, not a deductible.

Eliminating networks is certainly something the US should do if it wants to do more than pretend that people have good access to healthcare.
I look around HN and see that the same people who believe a majority of climate scientists do not believe a majority of economists. Do they then parse it down to 'labor economists', or just look at surveys of all economists? Should you trust anonymous surveys, or those of non-prestigious researchers, or those conducted by organizations with an interest in the result?

It seems to me that all of these decisions are arbitrary, and often practiced inconsistently.
Migrating to Emacs, carrying my 4 years of Vim with me
Just charge out-of-state patients the difference -- like how out-of-state tuition is more than in-state tuition at state-run universities.
There is no god.
Yeah, good point. I mainly just picked those two because of popularity.
Holoball is my current favorite, but I have to try these others tonight
The plans for the future of McMurdo ( https://www.usap.gov/news/documents/McMurdoMasterPlan_2.1.pd... ) are quite exciting, but unfortunately, if it comes to fruition, it means less science for some number of seasons as the construction project happens.

I'm sure there are vastly more experienced folks here, but I was just McMurdo for a ~month in November-December. I've also spent some time at Summit Station in Greenland, which is a much smaller (but newer! with some buildings on stilts!) station.
I think there is a good point here, though. By compromising early and relatively privately, it never became a real topic of conversation amongst normal every day Americans. Maybe if Obama had come out as a fire-breathing liberal supporting single payer ("Medicare for all!") and used his bully pulpit to make everybody hear about it, we could have had a better discussion. Sure, it might have kept the ACA from happening, but maybe in the long run it would have given us better results.
I'm going to assume you're being purposefully contrarian but in case you're not, or for the benefit of anyone reading your comment and considering agreeing, know that hormonal birth control medicine has many, many benefits aside from preventing pregnancy:

https://www.asrm.org/FACTSHEET_Noncontraceptive_Benefits_of_...

Also consider the case of a woman who does not want to become pregnant due to genetic or physiological issues that would make pregnancy dangerous for her or the baby.

I know this is a common retort, but are pills to give men erections worthy of medical coverage? What about hair loss medications? If your rubric is based on fertility, should we not cover women once they reach menopause?

Finally I have a critique of your rhetorical strategy, "let's face the truth" is lazy and weak. For example, "Let's face the truth, jimlawruk hates women."
> Don't forget. Obamacare is the Republican plan.

Kinda, sorta, not really [1].

1 - http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2013/nov/15/...
I think we pretty much agree here. For me the best way to remain aware is to periodically abstain, and the effects on my awareness persist after the abstinence.
>> What's stopping OWC from including a charging port that does just this while sending a message to the MBP that it's plugged in?

Nothing is. But it would be weird to do so with the base having only one USB-C port. The more common expectation is that there would be a pass-through USB-C port.

>> That's effectively what all those external batteries do.

I've always been under the assumption that all the external batteries have their own circuitry to take power from its incoming port and send power (either passing through AC or from its battery) to the outgoing port when the host device demands it. I was not aware that the outgoing port on all those external batteries also got power from the host devices, so I guess I learned something today.

>> We're discussing a theoretical change to a device that isn't on the market yet.

Going back to my original comment, I just made an observation that it would be weird for the product ---as shown in the photos--- to use that one port to charge itself and to charge the Mac. Most products I know use a pass through. That's it. I did not suggest a theoretical change to the device.

--edit - by "charge itself" I mean in the case where it did have a battery
I agree completely. What's really interesting is, if you start to think of VR as exercise equipment, suddenly $800 for a headset and $1200 for a high-end gaming PC aren't that much money. You can easily spend twice that on a treadmill and a treadmill is a terrible workout. You could almost spend that on gym fees in a year and not ever show up, whereas the VR system in my home is fun and compelling: I do use it. And it's only going to get cheaper from here on out.
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I feel like the world needs to have a deep discounting of either controversy or controversy arising on/within the internet. Merely changing database records does not change reality. The "thing" itself is not the online representation of the thing - unless the "thing" is a purely online object (say, a webpage). If my family member sends me a photo of what looks like my car totaled at an intersection my car may well still be sitting and safe in its parking spot outside my apartment.

The internet is well beyond "peak controversy." On the internet you will find the thesis and antithesis of every statement. People need to laugh it off. So what if an email gets leaked that says something inflammatory? Every person has at least one view that would severely offend at least one other person. Penalizing people for things arising online quickly leads to things like 'thought police'.
Yes, training is another area where there's clearly a lot of potential to address pain points and make a great deal of money.

I was discussing VR with an ex-military colleague recently, and he got quite excited about the potential of the technology to enhance and extend early-stage simulator training. It's a hell of a lot cheaper to buy a Vive than a tank simulator.

And the therapy applications are incredibly exciting. Early days for those still research-wise, though.
Cool weather app with beautiful animations and themes
Looks like the Rax version is based on React-Redux 4.x, which was was primarily a single file and kept most of the logic in a React component. React-Redux v5 is a complete internal rewrite that pushes the logic out into memoized selector functions.

In fact, it appears to be 98%-ish the same as React-Redux v4.4.6. They've added semicolons, swapped out the React imports for Rax imports, and shuffled the order of some of the methods, but the code is effectively identical.
I'd say there's a major difference in that believing a majority of economists is usually mathematically impossible, since there's almost never consensus on anything in that field.

Edit: as proof, I will soon have at least two replies telling me that I'm wrong and that all proper economists agree on idea X, where each comment's X is incompatible with the other's.
> I've skated with guys that didn't make the NHL cut and they were extremely fast to me. All most no effort it seemed like.

All great athletes seem like they're barely exerting effort when in reality they are way above average peak performance. Just running back and forth on a football pitch for a whole game is something that would bring most of us to our knees.
Just finished reading Ready Player One, and have never put on a VR unit. This post is timely. I can see having a very similar reaction.
>aging parents. Even if they die

When they die. May I suggest you make the most out of the time they have left and enjoy them while they're still alive. The pursuit of income is one of the main reasons separating families and you don't have that problem. You can learn whatever you want to because you don't have the constraints 99% of people have. You are alive and they are now. Cherish these moments for they are never coming back. Ever.

I'm not being patronizing and I'm doing a whole lot of projecting here. I wish I knew my parents better. They are still alive, but I wish I had spent more time with them. Something I am trying to correct.

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
The author is giving out bad advice that's not relevant to Git's mental model. He's using the CVS/SVN old mental model that treated commits as A Really Big Deal instead of embracing Git's new way where commits are merely a savepoint.

Instead, commit to your local private repo whenever you want. Whatever spurious commit you want to make, just do it without thinking. (E.g. "WIP stopping temporarily to go get a soda"). Then use rebase if you want to clean things up.

EDIT ADD: reading the essay again, the author may be restricting his advice to commits on public master. If so, the blog's title should make that distinction prominent because that drastically changes what the "when" in "when to commit" means.
Fogging in the lenses is usually a sign the lenses are dirty. Usually, if I let them fog over and then clean them with a clean cloth, they don't fog over again. I do a very similar workout to the the person you replied to. Once I get the lenses cleaned, I can play Space Pirate Trainer without any problems.
selling abandoned property you found ? no thats not a crime. If this is such a serious "crime" , why wasn't Gizmodo charged for possession of stolen property ?

You know what's a crime ? The fact that Apple has expedient access to the police when they negligently lose a $400 phone at a bar, instead of being told to "fill out a missing property report online" like everyone else when they call to report something missing or "stolen".
Nope, you have to do a user agent string to get around it. From what I can tell Netflix is filtering it. But I may be wrong, I'm not sure how this stuff works. But I can do it on Firefox and Linux as long as I have DRM enabled (the change in FF49+) and change my user agent string to Linux Chrome (see image http://i.imgur.com/twjpXgv.png). It WILL NOT work without changing the user agent string.

Talking to their support Netflix says it is FF's problem. From what I can tell it isn't actually FF's problem anymore (because this wouldn't work, right?).
This is why I love HN, the first 2 top voted comments are sharing complete opposite experiences using the Vive.

EDIT, in case it changes:

Positive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13393449

Negative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13393606
>Why? It's all about the pre-existing conditions.

Yes this is what both sides of the aisles won't admit. You can't have 20% of the people use 80% of the services and make things fair without forcing the users to eat the costs.

Same things with:

1. The US (like most Western countries) has a huge post WWII baby boom now approaching old age. The younger generations will have to pay for this.

2. The US refuses to allow chronically sick and dying patients to let death takes it course, managed only with pain killers. Instead, vast amounts of money (some say 80% - there's that number again) are spent on the last year of a person's life carrying out procedures that only prolong a few more painful months, with no chance for recovery.

The costs could be reduced by taking away some of the huge profits of the medical and pharmaceutical industries. But in the end, there will need to be societal changes.
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There is a debate on whether this architecture gives any advantage over classical computer architectures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems
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The fact that Obamacare was mandatory meant it had to go. Obamacare was really a fascist's wet dream and why the insurance companies ended up being pretty giddy about it.

Good riddance!
I just had the same experience today testing Onward.

Closed my eye by reflex to aim with the iron sights on a rifle, then had one of those "oh my god I just did that" VR experiences.

When it feels real it feels very real.
My problem wasn't default public but rather that I am fairly certain they retroactively made pricate stuff public.
As the sibling comment said, maybe things only came to Obama's attention recently. There could be information that intelligence personnel were pursuing but felt like they needed to escalate to the president given other information that has come to light. Could be people with a grudge. Could be that they were pursuing rumors but then recently found more substance to those rumors.

All things considered I think there's a decent possibility that President Trump has more skeletons in the closet that haven't been outed yet.
Yeah, it is. I am hesitant to buy a couch for this reason. I live in a studio by myself and basically my entire living room is a VR space and it is still pretty small.
Do... do they know that Lucifer is referred to as the "Lightbringer?"

That said, as for your hairdresser, tennis partner, etc... in a democracy it can make a difference if enough of them are anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, anti-Semites, etc.!
Get it into a playable state and up on Steam in Early Access, sir or madam. There are a LOT of people looking for a good VR giant mech game right now.
I'm a cryptographer, and I replied to that issue on the ticket. The analogy is flawed; and it later becomes clear that GrayHatter ostensibly didn't understand KCI specifically.

https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426#issuecomment-...
> It allows you to impersonate anyone else to A, if you steal A's keys

If A got his keys stolen, he's indeed in for some trouble.
We can replace ACA by opening up Medicare to all US Citizens. IT works and it is well managed.
Paul is the better writer.
This is a topical click bait tittie for Wired.

Researchers and medical community already are reaching consensus on the why. Being the leading theory a deficiency in the sphericity of the ocular globe due to a lack of a growth hormone that ought gets triggered correctly if you have enough exposition to sun light while growing up.
I'd say you were probably just very jaded going in already. I've ran literally hundreds of people through the HTC Vive (my company ran a popup VR arcade for a while as a marketing stunt) and 95%+ people said they were completely blown away.
Agreed, came here just to make this comment. It's silly that a piece comparing the two map apps - inherently very visual - has such bad imagery, especially considering the author clearly spent good time making those images. Worse, because of the image loading design I can't easily zoom. Would have been better there was no image loading and I could simply use Chrome!
Sure they do. They cost as much as you can get away with.

Especially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
I'm not saying it can't be done; I'm saying its a pain in the ass due to the political climate in the US. Apologies that wasn't clear.
Then if you're still on it, pay COBRA for the year. Based on what I can see without making up fake info to look at the Minnesota exchange[1], a Silver plan for a family of 4 went from $905 in 2016 to $1405 in 2017, but with $68k/year in income there'd be a $725 tax credit so the monthly premium would have gone from $622 to $680. I assume since your numbers were a bit lower that you were looking at the Bronze plans instead.

Just take hope! If you can just make it through this year you won't have to worry about the question of purchasing insurance as an individual, because as a family with several preexisting conditions (fertile female, children/disease and injury vectors) without the ACA you'll be effectively uninsurable unless you can grow your startup fast enough to make a group plan feasible.

[1] https://mn.gov/mnsure-stat/assets/2017-MNsure-healthcare-cov...
... but my question http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/152579/do-i-un...
was immediately deleted without any access to the link. I'm giving up!
Where's that sarcasmark when you need it!
This is actually what I was trying! Perhaps I can dump this all into a GitHub repo and we could collaborate. E-Mail in my profile if you are interested.
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>And that was my fault for setting the chaperone bounds a bit optimistically.

I learned that the hard way.

They need to add a note to SteamVR: Don't make the edges directly against obstacles.
I turned of notifications of all kinds 99% of them were not worth clicking. I do periodically abstain, but I when I do use I try to stay self-aware. I mentally keep track of how long I've spent, and what I spent my time doing. I then periodically ask if I thought the previous 15 minutes was spent doing something I was interested in or if I was just on autopilot / guided by clickbait. I still use my phone a LOT, but I definitely am doing more of what I enjoy, and reading things that are more meaningful to me.
A permanently attached docking station. This is not going to sell like hotcakes.

However, what if computers ended up being made and sold like very expensive cars? You know how it goes, a standard brand new Mercedes G-Wagon/Range Rover won't do, that is just the donor vehicle that gets transformed with more cylinders, even bigger wheels and lots more leather.

Why aren't the people who go for that sort of display of opulent wealth not getting visibly pimped computers such as this one? A few more ports, a bigger battery, some quality to the machined ports, with that people will think I am pro. A bit like getting a Porsche and swapping all the panels out for carbon fibre, bigger wheel arches and a roll cage.
Depends on the Federal requirements. Something that's lost in this whole conversation is the idea of insurance. I have auto insurance because I could be hit. I've gone 15 years without being hit, at least not enough to make a claim. I keep it just in case.

Going to the doctor for an annual physical is not something that should be insured. It's a known cost. You, as the individual, should pay that out of pocket, or get another extended coverage policy or rider to covert that. It's like my auto insurance paying for oil changes.

As a result, our costs are too high.
Ah, that explains it. Thank you.
I've had a Vive for a few months now and I hardly ever use it. I too was blown away at first. It really is an amazing experience when you first put it on and play a game like the The Blu but that sense of awe doesn't last long and you're left with a somewhat uncomfortable headset with less than stellar graphics and pretty boring games. These days I would much rather play a game like TitanFall 2 than any of the Vive games. Much more interesting.

Having said that, some of the non-game titles are great. Google Earth and The Body VR or whatever it's called, are fantastic learning tools.
It's not really an issue of trust but rather defense in depth. You want to protect against rogue employees who can tap into the network, for example.
I think there's a bit too much exuberance around VR and AR at the moment. I can imagine a future where fully immersive AR is technically possible, but no one uses it because it's annoying or inconvenient. Sort of like how video calls are possible now but most people just text.
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I think you hit the nail on the actual issue with health care in the USA. The problem is not as much insurance companies but medical providers' price-gouging.

Edit: sometimes it's a good idea to call ahead and ask for "uninsured quote", you would be surprised your $200/visit physician might only charge $50 to someone without insurance.
Isn't 200k like the top 5% of household incomes in the US? I think 100k would put you in the top third of household income and that would just be the minimum.
Hospitals can't leave a person with a bullet hole in their stomach to bleed out, but they are under no obligation to provide, for example, chemotherapy to a cancer patient, or a kidney transplant.

So, no, you can't just walk into a hospital and get the same care you would if you actually had insurance, and then just stiff them with the bill later.
You're begging the question.
Insufficient exposure to bright light is the most accepted explanation, not time spent focusing up close. 90% of Asian schoolchildren are shortsighted.
No the issue is that ALL the plans are now 'bare bones'.

Big Fortune 500 companies that used to offer 'PPO' plans (i.e. you paid your rate and then had $10-$20 copays) now only offer catastrophic plans.

So we are paying the same (and higher) for the plans as we used to, but now we don't actually get anything for them until we reach the deductible, which is higher and higher every year.

I pay the same as a few years ago every month, but get absolutely nothing until I hit $2K or so.
I also can't imagine that would be constitutional either.
You know, co-opting a phrase is also a valid means of parody. If you are so "triggered" by phrase structure that you have no sense of humor left, then the terrorists have won! ;)
Honestly I think HN draws a crowd that leans contrarian by nature. A lot of people here like a good argument and like to feel they've arrived at conclusions on their own brainpower, no matter how popular or unpopular. (There's a tempting trap that holding an unpopular opinion is validation you are thinking for yourself)