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Vive's works with multiple people in the same space, Rift's does not. So there is a relevance to someone considering an HDM today.

There are VR experiences were 2+ people are in the same sim in the same space. There are also VR spaces (arcades, tradeshows) where if there are 2 rifts near each other (2 adjacent booths) the rifts interfere with each other
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I didn't really understand that point? Is the claim that if there was no inheritance tax, a family would accumulate enough money to start a mid-sized business? Or is the ownership of a business taxed upon death?
Have an upvote. ;)
How about two-provider authentication? (2PA?) Send codes/links to two confirmed but independent accounts (email + Twitter, or Facebook + SMS) and require those to be entered.

Probably not anymore secure--and a nightmare to manage. But look to consensus algorithms for authentication ideas.
A better example of work that Congress might be interested in would be Schneier and Kerr's writeup on encryption workarounds showing government tools they have available with legal considerations of current or expanded ones. That's the kind of practical stuff that can influence powerful people's opinion as they're always looking at grey areas to balance many conflicting interests.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/03/new_paper_on_...
I read the article, but I misread your comment as mean-spirited. I didn't read the author's bio initially due to banner-blindness perhaps.
Everyone in VR thinks they are creating things for the first time. From 2000 to 2009 I founded and ran the second largest VR company in the world. The number of firsts that my team had was amazing.

What really amazes me is now that VR is growing. Zero people have talked to me about what my team learned. Its like the past never existed...
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Exactly. She's a decrepit, arrogant Republican whom also wants to assassinate Snowden. She needs to be primaryed into history.

There's a post-partisan, grassroots PAC to do exactly that:

https://brandnewcongress.org/

https://twitter.com/BrandNew535
Hey andrewflnr, he's pretty right. We've also worked on some mechanisms to prevent accidentally making unwanted/mistake transfers :)
Meh. I don't want to take it away from the author, it certainly shows they're motivated, but I have a hard time this isn't a textbook example of how publishers/conference organisers are trying hard to get "underrepresented" token demographics in cover. Even if it is to perform trivial talks (a glorified "intro to channels in golang"... really!?) or write platitudes like said article. They're clearly underqualified to distillate advice to anyone, maybe interns/students could benefit from this though.
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No defaulting and instead trying to rough it out and pay off a crippling debt is massively more harmful for a country. Because they have to basically cut all services and investments into the economy, which causes GDP to contract heavily, which causes a huge decrease in taxes, which causes yet more cuts in government investment.

You get a Greece like deflationary spiral that basically totally destroys your economy, and any hope you ever had of paying off the debt.

Bring on the defaults.
Maybe the AI overlords will learn from history. One can only hope.
I find the cave example non-intuitive.

At some point I would like to write a book about crypto for children. Here's a dump of material I have w.r.t. zero-knowledge:

https://github.com/sustrik/crypto-for-kids/blob/master/zero-...
Foreign investment might be the problem in Vancouver but the situation is not the same across the west coast. The SF Bay area market isn't dominated by foreign investment, people make more money. In the end population increases but the number of detached homes does not therefore a smaller percentage of the population we'll be able to afford them and they will be now expensive. You simply can't expect everyone to have a house in a city. Move to rural Kansas or Oregon
People go too far with generalizations. I teach my kids not to judge people by nationality, gender or race. My German wife doesn't know how to change tire. These are nice anecdotes though.
It's true. I live in London Ontario, 2 hours down the 401, and it's shocking how the home prices have jumped. We are a medium sized city that often feels more kinship with Michigan and Windsor as far as our economy goes.

I had different plans than becoming part of a retirement community for TO real estate lotto winners. I'm trying to start a family and it feels like a race now.
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Do we want to create a society where you are essentially enslaved by the money choices people made before you were born?

Rich banks losing money vs poor people being exploited for the rest of their lives.

I think I know which one I prefer.
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I personally wouldn't suggest pretending that your opinions are different for any reason. There is a way not to give your opinion without being disagreeable.

The article, however, suggests changing your deeds based on who you are interacting with. I see such behavior in management in my company here and there. I can't stand it. In my opinion, people who engage in such interaction are liars and impediments to success. I see them as a sort of optimized apathy. They say what everyone wants to hear and then they find a way to do almost no work. Or they promise things they never deliver. It creates bad culture because the people who actually do work watch and learn, then apply the same technique.
Awesome project, I really like it, so this is my attempt to achieve similar result with different approach.

I feel it might be an useful example for illustrating the intuition of ZCA and Wasserstein metric.

http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/tjwei/Animation-with-Iden...
That will be interesting for the tmux (or do we go all the way to nurses??) developers, because tmux has probably always been way faster than any terminal emulator it has been running in.

Where will the bottleneck be?
If I believed that the people behind the fund were capable of separating nonsense projects from real ones by reading their whitepapers, then absolutely yes!
> A distinction is still habitually made between industrial and non-industrial occupations; and this modern distinction is a transmuted form of the barbarian distinction between exploit and drudgery. Such employments as warfare, politics, public worship, and public merrymaking, are felt, in the popular apprehension, to differ intrinsically from the labour that has to do with elaborating the material means of life.

At other points, he adds academics and capitalists to the exploit category.
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What is/was a Diplomacy map? Anything to do with the strategy board game of the same name?
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Yes, mainly around the computationally complicated parts.

One of my side projects is also a test framework, so that has tests of itself using itself, in hindsight this was a poor decision.
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This. I love Lego - I grew up building Lego, but you are right. For the time and money spend on this model you could build and fly a real rocket. Do that instead. (And it will look just as nice on the shelf between flights.)

I also regret spending more time building Airfix model planes than building flying RC planes. oh well.
What about the degenerate subculture of "bug chasers"? Aren't they literally asking for it?
There are some obvious contributing factors:

0) The majority of programmers at this point in history are novices. Src: Joe Armstrong.

1) There is very little formalized training except in some enterprises. Many outsourcers invest very little in training and expect staff to learn on-the-job.

2) Large enterprises with immense codebases with many committers easily become Tragedies of the Commons without active code reviews and high standards.

3) There is very little standardization (convention over configuration): many languages, many non-orthogonal coding styles/language features.

4) Security seems like a non-value add activity... until there's a major problem. (Non-proactive development/CMM.)

5) Offensive and defensive sec require a different, acquired skill-set and engineering mindset from simply implementing features and fixing bugs.
All I see is praise for Tesla on HN. I rarely see sentiments like "Tesla makes great cars, but I just wish their ECU and other critical systems wasn't internet connected" or "I refuse to buy any Tesla products until they remove the constant user tracking".

People vote with their wallets, and if the technology-savvy and privacy-conscious HN crowd is voting this way then...
(or greater)

Wide-spread internet-enabled command and control, plus long term surreptitious reconnaissance, coupled together with machine learning to maximize impact, and I'll hazard a guess that such a scenario can reach beyond the destruction of 4 full airplanes and 3 inhabited large buildings, in ways too uncomfortable to contemplate.
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I wish there was more stuff happening outside of the Node ecosystem. It feels like everything around vector tiles is written in Node these days; the only exception I can think of off the top of my head is TileServer-PHP.

And Node can be painful to work with on some platforms and in some circumstances, not to mention that JS is not everyone's favorite PL.
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The key is to own both, so you know the difference. Then you wear the fake, and use the fakeness to tell a story, or start a conversation, perhaps with someone who also knows Rolexes, and now you have a shared interest.
BlizzCon all expenses paid is several grands alone. Whether they should have shelled out for more is another question, but it's certainly not "$20 worth of flimsy plastic crap".
There already is such a thing with Iconomi.
https://medium.com/iconominet/iconomi-cryptocurrencies-index...
Can we use it on bubblehunt.com?
I'd guess less "catching up" than "shunted away from"—Vancouver specifically.

(Vancouver passed a foreign home-buyer tax; suddenly the housing market there began to cool down. But, very likely, all that money didn't just stop trying to find a place to "land"; it just skipped over Vancouver for the next-easiest city to invest into.)

If Toronto enacts similar measures, the money will just move somewhere else again.
I was with you until "It can (and will) be used against them at election time and their checks and balances (us as voters) fall for it all the time because we (as a collective whole) are short sighted and scared that something might happen and don't want to be someone who voted for someone soft on security."

Everyone's vote is secret, so no one will come to your house and bust your balls over voting for someone who comes out against defeating terrorists. The problem is that there are no incentives to become well-read in the issues behind each election. Maybe we can find a way to incentivize learning the facts and becoming well-read on issues before elections [1]

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/06/17/political-vi...
Because being one of numerous factors is not the same as being the only factor, or even necessarily the deciding factor.
I have a few Eth and Btc, but was thinking today how it would make more sense to hold a portfolio of say the top 10 coins weighted by market cap, and rebalance every month based on https://coinmarketcap.com/
I don't think we know where AI driven cars will lead.

no parking lots? If we have AI driven cars than billions of people who can't drive can suddenly use a car. Your 5yr old kid wants to visit grandma? The just ask the car to take them there. Grandma who's too old to drive wants to go somewhere? She jumps in an AI car. All that public transportation in Tokyo, HK, Singapore, NYC, London, Paris, Berlin? Maybe all that disappears. Maybe many people stay close to home because they don't have a car and public transportation is no fun (10 minute walk to station, 2-3 transfers, possibly a crowded train standing with sweating people, 10 minute walk from station to final dest) but if there are ubiquitous AI cars then I can go door to door at any time. Those two 10 minute walks disappear, the standing with sweaty people disappears. Now I start traveling far more often. Even better I don't have to concentrate on driving I can use that time.

In other words, AI cars might 10x car usage
> Google can afford to lose some money and perhaps it could improve the ISP competition in the US.

Comcast revenue per user is >$1500/year, Google revenue per user is <$100/year. No amount of transferring money from Google to ISPs is going to change the way the ISP market works. But it would certainly change how the markets for over-the-top services work -- and not in a good way.
I would invest in the index fund. Maybe it would be better if it was managed this early on where the assets the fund invests in are hand picked and rebalanced every month.

Also I would suggest allocating more than 20% to ETH.
How can Nikon and Canon even exist now [Chinese brand smartphone] can take photos?

Oh, that's right, SLR's take much better pictures.

This reads like an ad.
These funds exist but it isn't as easy to buy into as an index fund if you want the analysis behind it.
I would like to hear your opinion why you think Bitcoin is more secure than Ethereum.
See, I think there's a huge difference between Activision Blizzard games and either Valve or Bethesda games. Sure, Valve and Bethesda have probably contributed more gaming experiences to the world across their many games and their liberal policy towards modding. There are only a few Blizzard games, but they're better and they make much more money. It's a tightly controlled experience, but the quality control means Blizzard fans will at least try almost every Blizzard game at some point. Can't say the same for Bethesda. Valve has fewer games, but the experiences are not as different as say, Hearthstone and Overwatch.
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I'm a bit confused about how this works. Can you just use markup like :zap: in a commit message, and GitHub will automatically replace it with an emoji? Or do you need to use some client-side scripts to handle that?
Checked out this area where I saw some condos driving on Kippling Street. Unfortunately, because they are sort of a "ravine lot", it shows that there are +200 houses in the park it is atop.

http://prntscr.com/f3w9pu

So that green area in the above image is a park. I think the map tiles are likely segmented incorrectly.
Doesn't this make Prepack completely unusable? Surely it should try to apply its optimizations to each block of code, and for each block where the "optimized" version results in more lines of code - or perhaps better, more operations - the optimizations are thrown out, keeping that block of code untouched?

It makes no sense to use an optimization tool that does the exact opposite in cases it cannot handle. In no world is 1400 lines better than 10.
How do you validate your program transformations? In school I wrote a haskell to clojure translator that also does AST transforms (some of which unpack syntactic sugar). However, my only way to validate the transforms was that the input program passe the "same" unit tests as the output program. Do you have any insight into this?
If everybody has it, it's not wealth signaling.
Please don't say that... I am hoping to rake in the giant ROIs...
Kinda. I remember mods which featured a World map, where units would spawn at your capital in set intervals, and you would use them to capture everyone else's cities.
"I don't have the space. I don't personally know anyone that does."

Same (NYC). Urban centers have been trending for the last 30 years and have become prohibitively expensive as a result. I can't help but wonder if a future (next?) generation of kids will move back out to the burbs in search of McMansions with two-car garages to use as immersive VR environments.
To add to less talked about downsides of the "German boom": Wage suppression has caused the fact that Germany has the largest low-wage sector in Europe.

An article in English:

http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=18499

> The share of low-wage workers (less than 2/3 of the median hourly wage) rose from 17.7% in 1995 to 23.1% of all workers in 2010. The number of low-wage workers increased from 5.6 million in 1995 to 7.9 million in 2010.

Another article, from Süddeutscher Zeitung, in German:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/bremse-fuer-die-wirtsc...
I built and launched my project (http://willyoudidyou.com) but stalled on actually starting a company for it to accept payments, because of the expense. instead I am deferring to generating a mailing list of potential customers that I can launch to, so i'm not just burning limited cash on a project that goes nowhere. ( built it to solve my problems, so in a sense i've already won on that front)

I will say, being unemployed and trying to get a project off the ground is a mixed bag. You have the time to focus on it (awesome), but getting it to have any hope of supporting you is always farther in the distance than you can really ride out.

In that, I think this is a great thing to do. Some people just need extra runway or extra wiggle room to do something - and not having to give up your vision to get support is a an important perk. And I think most people, if they do get traction, would want to pay it back with interest, or at the very least pay it forward for someone else.
This is a huge thing - Germany couldn't run its huge trade surplus without its currency appreciating and reducing its competitiveness otherwise. It's a pretty bad deal for the consumption-based Eurozone economies though - they have to internally devalue instead of just being able to devalue their exchange rate.

It's one of the major problems with the Euro... It was a terrible idea from the start, and situations like Greece were foreseen by economists like the great Wynne Godley decades ago (see Maastricht and All That, London Review of Books, Oct 1992). Unfortunately the mainstream of economics still doesn't have a developed enough understanding of monetary systems to have worked that out yet...
And pretty awesome. You will appreciate it 100% more if you visit our capitol.
>>>For that matter, I wish drop box was versioned. Same reason. It's always blown my mind that nobody has done a file system that was versioned so you could merge stuff. Maybe that's because BitKeeper merges so much better that the others. It's possible to automerge a lot more if you have the history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files-11

(A little facetious here...no merging, but come on, it was the 1980s.)
They did capitalize on the modder community in World of Warcraft (almost by accident, thank you Sam Lantinga! and what a success it turned out to be).

But what you need to understand about Blizzard is they are extremely conservative about the game experience. They're proud of their work and while they never consider it perfect, they want the one experience for all their players to be consistent and to have the consistent feel of Blizzard polish (which lacks with mods). They're the Apple of game design.

It's also a bit of a different question when you're talking about pre-wow and post-wow Blizzard. Pre-wow it's also a matter of "it's hard". Nowadays it's easier, and their philosophy is I believe slowly changing.
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That's pretty poor. In Australia we have a few well known vendors that do pre-built systems and they fortunately are very high quality. The one I would use (PC Case Gear) don't allow modifications so they do them in batches, and the premium over the parts isn't very high.
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I wonder if a city could just decide to turn all the land titles that detached homes sit on, from freehold titles, to life-estate titles.

So, it'd be like eminent domain, but you can keep living in the property (if you do live in the property) until you die. But, if you were to try to sell the land, you'd only be allowed to sell it to the government, at the market rate (as they would pay in under eminent domain); where the city would then tear down the detached home and (presumably) re-zone the land for highrises or mixed-use buildings.
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I know right! I love building PCs. I was itching so hard to build a new one but couldn't really justify it... so I bought a new case and CPU cooler and did a transplant.
Totally. He could've seeded a torrent and uploaded to Mega from a coffeeshop and no one would've known.
Buying 4 isn't too hard.
what a complete idiot. i hope he copied it and it resurfaces sometime.
Room scale tracking is just about the only aspect which the Vive is better. Rift is better at everything else. Comfort, performance, controllers, optics, audio, microphone, apps, screen door.
are what is 'code', maybe they were just textual changes (eg adding a contributor covenant)
I'm pretty sure NSA will want a backdoor in the system. If it can do what they say it can do, they are basically the new pipes of the Internet. It's too good for NSA and our current US govt to leave untouched.
You're overfitting. This is exactly the problem I'm describing. Case in point, you've omitted 2000-2010.

Real (CPI as inflation) averaged annualized return on the DJIA 2000-2010: -2.219%

This is with relatively mild inflation.

Of course, 1960-2000 looks better when you literally put in the apex of the software bubble when P/E ratios shot skywards...part of which corrected over the decade following.

Expecting a 8% nominal or real return is simply nuts in my opinion because you are staking yourself on a really small sample size with crazy inflation to boot. Nominal or real is a nuanced distinction to what is plainly just bad overfit thinking. The introduction of just one decade with low inflation and bad returns can wreck you -- case in point: Dallas Firefighters/Puerto Rico ($43bn + of unfunded pension obligations)/Detroit etc. etc. etc.
> An RTS or an RPG lends itself to modding tools better than an FPS in general.

We got some awesome FPS mods in the past though. Team Fortress and Counter Strike stick out as the most prominent examples.
You don't see the connection between "make more money" and asset inflation in prices of homes? You act like you're (Bay area) living like kings.

I pay moderate amount for a nice place in a less happening tech but far more pleasant city, and I don't have to live like an animal.
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