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You're assuming we need photo realistic games to make VR worthwhile. This isn't true of games in general so why would it be true of VR?

Look at consoles like the Wii/Switch/Gameboy and how well they did. Gameplay is what makes a great game and VR gives you a whole new set of gameplay tools.

The first iPhone and iPad had very different types of games to mainstream consoles but those games were tailored to that type of experience - Angry Birds would have been a pretty dull console game but the touch input made it fun. Pokemon go couldn't even have worked as a console game.

VR is about a new way to experience and interact with a game (it's also awesome how they have standardised the touch controller so that can be properly explored).

Now it's up to developers to experiment and make games people love with this new set of tools.
Here we go, another HN comment that's awfully quick to dismiss the history of economic methodology and economics as science because they took one undergraduate class in Neoclassical Microeconomics 101.

Please, this is exactly like a first year psychology student trying to psychoanalyse you: Absolute bullshit. Economics has a lot more to offer than supply-demand curves, and it has been evolving greatly in many different directions and sub-fields like behavioural economics (especially living its golden age right now). Different schools of thought exist, and not everybody in the field is solving derivatives.
> The reason I never give fb my mobile

Here's the issue with it. You might not give it but your friends would. Therefore, this strategy is pretty useless as network effects kick in.
Indeed but only until someone opens their \.$SHELL(rc|_profile) or lists hidden files. Which, for some engineers, wouldn't take long. Bare in mind it might also take a while to collect data from your new boobytrapped SSH client so staying hidden is imperative.
My research area has actually started doing that. Sure it's a CS discipline, but yeah we have a second component of our conferences where we automate our benchmarks, and other people run those benchmarks and validate the results.
The troubling sentiment in my opinion is that you can't be critical of the people who pay you a lot of money.
Sorry. LI -> LinkedIn

Edit: According to iFramely your link preview works. Just retried on LinkedIn, but it does not. Probably LI's fault.. I have that issue more often.
You'll notice whenever you get the banner to add a phone number for 2FA, it says "add your phone number for additional security and more"
The worst part about these updates is that you have two options - "Yes" and "Not Now". The "No" option doesn't exist in their dictionary.
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Sounds nice, but as a scientist I can say that it would be a huge overhead to have to constantly prepare half finished work for public consumption throughout the entire process of a study. Scientific papers make sense because the point is to summarize your results, discuss what they may imply, e.g what theories they support or deny, and describe what you did in a reproducible way so that the work can be verified. The writing of a paper is an act of communication. It's important that it is an explicit thing that researchers are trained to do properly, not something that they just shit out at the end of a poorly done study that didn't work, or worse, in the middle of something where they can't draw any conclusions yet. E.g. journalists already pick up on wrong or hype-inducing interpretations of poorly written press releases of published papers. Imagine if they could also pick up on half-finished work. "Study being done could mean something amazing, maybe, if it works!" You think fake news is a problem now? Imagine the world you propose.

Now, if researchers were encouraged more to describe in detail their process and everything that went right and wrong throughout a study, along with data and algorithms and everything, perhaps as appendices or in supplemental material like blogs or videos etc., and and I find this is what is happening lately, that would be fine, and a nice ideal to strive for.

But realize that scientists are already required to not only perform the study but write about it, and convince every skeptic that they are right, go to conferences and get an article accepted by a journal which can take a year or more. And now add to this that they are required to prepare the data and software for public consumption, make videos and blog posts that describe everything, answer all questions that the public has. Think about all that overhead you are demanding that goes so far above and beyond doing the actual science. It's not small. And they are not paid extra for it, in fact their paycheck is probably half what they could make doing closed science for a for-profit company. Meanwhile their job as an academic is only to explore new ideas and convince their peers of their worth. Why should they go the extra mile, for free, for every member of the public who demands answers and transparency? Sorry, but it's too. much. work.
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> In the old days, the only terms people had to describe electronic dance music were "techno" and "house."

And then "garage". Out of those three genres, only one isn't named after the place it started at... otherwise we might have had "school" I guess :)
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Indeed, same here!
I mean I didn't call anyone a cracker, but would that offend you?
If you're running android, it has a word-based spam-filter[0]. But it does look like phone number blocking is a more common solution.

[0]: https://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-best-app-in-Android-for-b...
Charles proxy works only for local development as proxy for all your network.

intercept.rest monitor only request sent by your client to your server and it is easier to setup (just change the API endpoint), works both locally and in staging/production etc.

Some use cases are :-

- When you give an app to the client for testing and you wanted to monitor the API calls and its responses for debugging purposes.

- It can also be used to debug webhooks,

- You can also choose to share all the data with your team members without additional setup.
Notice I said 'pretty happy', not retire :-)

But if frugal enough why not, should be doable. Assuming no foreign travel etc. yada yada

Live somewhere cheap.
Sounds like this is against your beliefs, but I'd pay to read your newsletter.
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How much control Oracle has on OpenJDK development & support? Can they control some features which will never be shipped with OpenJDK?
> Are you channeling H. L. Menken?

I don't know who that is. But if I am channeling anyone, that would be R.J. Hanlon, who said "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
I'm probably wrong but I feel like there's a market for an ethical advertiser that does no tracking and placed ads by content only. is that impossible? it was reality until the 90s
Ask HN: Examples of issues in OSS that would have been avoided/solved with a CoC
With the recent announcement of the new CoC of Linux, I've been wondering about how efficient it is, in terms of protecting communities from abuse.

And since I don't spend much time following the discussion around OSS communities, I don't have any good examples.

So do you have examples of problematic situations in communities without CoC where problems appeared, that would have been avoided and/or solved if the community had a CoC? I'm also interested in issues solved because of a CoC in communities that have one.
I mean, if you give a $$$ option instead of giving up data than you removed the intended targets of most ads out of your advertising pool.
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As I understand it we’ve been ignoring the issue for so long, that we’ve begun talking extinction because all the gases in the permafrost and antics will make it hard to breathe.

But hopefully I’ev misunderstood something.
This is soo true. One of the best comments I have seen on HN.

Thanks.
I usually explain that the people that share stuff on Twitter (or Facebook, or Reddit, or HN) often get their news through RSS. It might not be used by everyone, but it’s used by the users at the centre of the networks you’re trying to reach.
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Short and sweet interviews with various entrepreneurs.
It is a walled garden network that demands you tie your phone number to your account making anonymity very hard. Moxie also has an obsession with keeping the network centralized, going so far as to threaten to campaign against attempts to release independently verified and signed clients via projects like F-Droid.

There is not even a path for users that opt out of Google Play Services on Android to install official builds without turning on "enable untrusted sources" and thus opening yourself up to Man In The Disk style attacks.

Signal is modeled very similar to whatsapp where you have to trust a central company to not sell your metadata, and central employees to not backdoor you under coercion.

I don't know what their real agenda is but it is not anonymous encrypted and decentralized communication.

Instead I would suggest looking at Matrix.org/Riot.im which are building anonymous, federated, end to end encrypted messaging where you can use any client that adheres to their published specifications.
Exactly, the structure and subdivision of local government is quite different. The ‘City of Sydney’ has only about 200,000 people in it [1] despite the population in the entire metropolitan areas being similar to that of Seattle’s.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Sydney
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You're assuming that the people who buy these things care about security. They don't, they care about creating a digital Panopticon. What happens to data when it leaves the corporate network is irrelevant to their interests.
I'm sure it's possible to advertise without tracking. We did it for years.
It's working here (Berlin), you didn't miss much though, just the usual "young people getting all excited about something" ad.
Just like asking which is the real river?
My career as an international blood smuggler
Maybe your opinion is actually terrible, have you considered that? Not everything is a vocal minority, especially not if your scope is "all of OSS"
First one works - the second one is blocked.
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Which is the best institute for doing UiPath training?
In the US, often employment agreements come with clauses that prevent working other jobs, and sometimes even preventing any out-of-work activities that negatively affect job performance.
Great. Now that the whole pack is $399, and fairly complete bundle at that - when it fails, and it will - finally everyone will get how much of a failure VR is.

(disc: in its current iteration, for mainstream, excluding special cases like architercture or medicine: it certainly is the future, somewhere)
Most internet service companies, including Facebook and Google, don't give you the option of paying for privacy even if you wanted to.
Doing this will not affect your software in anyway and you will still receive the full protection of the software. For any other assistance, contact their tech support number and get your issue solved immediately.
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I don't mind they accept pixels. What I mind is they require pixels to be carefully timed as if we were still chasing an electron gun.

I should be able to send pixels at any rate I want. I should also be able to send blocks of pixels to specific screen coordinates, control individual pixels and query the screen about its contents in a sensible way.
A tl;dr summary...

> A US Special Forces soldier bought fish antibiotics at a pet store to treat his sinusitis. It did not work out.

--

I grew up in an area with 6 to 8 different military bases and it is fairly common knowledge in military areas that you can sometimes get away with using fish antibiotics to treat human infections. And in a lot of cases the pills are exactly the same. But sometimes not.
As someone who is studying at the moment, I thought the same.
Didn't they propose that "Google is not entitled to all the business it wants" without justification? I'm prodding for them to support the claim, because (as you said) the onus is on them.
Works great for me. I’m pretty surprised.
The ultimate goal is to make money, not serve ads.
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True, for some reason I didn't even notice there's a second video after the disappointing first one :)
Made this mistake too. When I started back in paid employment I set myself ground rules of working when I am work, no email/messaging outside of work, arrive on time, leave on time, no overtime paid or unpaid, not thinking about work when I am not there, no socialising with colleagues and keep personal chit-chat to a minimum.

I found that this made me a better employee - focused on completing work quickly during the working day.

Easier to set these ground rules when you start with a company, also easier to set when you are 40 than 20.
I think it will stop pestering you for a phone number if you give it some neutral second factor like a Security Key ?

(Security Keys are actually way more anonymous than I'd even thought possible until I understood how they work, if you know Susie uses the same key for DropBox and GitHub, and you suspect Susie also uses this key for the account NumberOneSecretTrumpFan on GitHub, and then you steal all the account credentials from GitHub somehow, this doesn't end up being enough to verify that Susie has the same key as NumberOneSecretTrumpFan, nor is it enough to sign into Susie's DropBox account, and unless GitHub's data includes the backup passphrases or whatever it's not even enough to sign into GitHub as Susie, NumberOneSecretTrumpFan, or any other Security Key user...)
I got put off science at high school when I'd get marked down for having "wrong" but truthful results to physical experiments, so I ended up going around and averaging out other people's results (not their conclusions or write-ups, just the raw numerical measurements) which yielded better marks. I wonder if an element of that is at play in corners of the broader scientific community.
something that doesnt get enough love is just using something like libreOffice on whatever desktop platform you are on, and then using resilio (or syncthing which is open source) to sync your documents between computers.
Only the madman is absolutely sure.
> They are only suing customers who refuse to pay licensing fees or remove offending software.

That's the point: they are suing users because they demand those users pay licensing fees.

What other programming language and/or software stack comes with that risk?
While I really do like C++, generally, I see the question being whether to use Java or C#. And, for me, the answer to that question is always C#. It’s just a better language.

Sun open sourced a lot of software, but they didn’t co-operate with the community. When Oracle bought Sun, I remember thinking that they may have been the only company to have a worse open source background than Sun.

I’ll admit that Microsoft probably isn’t any better as far as actually being open (compared to throwing the source code over the wall on occasion?, but (1) they aren’t any worse, and (2) they never sued Google for using clean-room implementations of their programming language and libraries.
So, if we as a society decide that American companies shall not aid and abet human rights violations elsewhere in the world, then that's what they do.

Ah, I didn't realise we were discussing "entitled" from an American legal perspective. In that case, you're correct.

Imo, however, restricting globalism just makes markets less efficient. Thus hurts everyone, regardless of the moral questions in any specific circumstance.
>they monetise on my personal data and online behaviour.

Indeed they do. Personally I prefer this to having to pay a monthly fee, but others may disagree (and quality paid services do exist for them).

>Selling the data would mean losing their unique position.

That's right too. User data is their biggest asset versus their competitors.

>Btw, interesting article currently top voted at HN about ex-google employee ;)

Haven't caught it yet. If it's regarding their recent China play however, then that story concerns me too.
I tried finding a confirmation / "you're done" email from them but can't find it, so I'm not sure how long it took. I did end up getting the SV bank hooked up but haven't moved everything over there yet.
Senator Feinstein had a racial covenant on her home's deed. It came to light after she criticized another politician for that very offense.
> Oracle are just not giving users ... free patches anymore

IIRC they are also making commercial (non-development) use of Oracle JVMs 11+ something that they will charge for.

I don't think this was true of earlier versions.
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This is awful. Why should I have to install an app to continue reading just because of my user agent header? Screenshot: https://ibb.co/cTwVnU
Meanwhile .NET Core is MIT Licensed and the language spec for C# is still standardized and open to re-implement (hence something like Vala is possible). If you didn't want to drink Microsoft's koolaid it's free as in free beer and as in freedom, can't say the same about Oracles.
Context context, always good to add context.
I think Jon said somewhere that to start being profitable they needed something about 3 million users, and Vivaldi already has more than 800 000 according to their page and I heard some other sites saying it's already at over 1 million.
So he repents from creating a walled garden that abused its power and is now funding another walled garden that has the same ability to abuse its power instead of supporting any of the federated alternatives.

I am not convinced Brian learned the right lessons here.
Appendicitis will kill you! And the surgery in most cases will save you. :) At least in my case.

I technically died from a ruptured appendix and spent 9 days in ICU. The doctors delayed surgery to see if the antibiotics would work. This was ~10 or so years ago.
I never heard of this company when I did a monitor.firefox.com search of my work address.

Exactis
Breach date:June 1, 2018
Compromised accounts:131,577,763
It "doesn't seem racist" when Asians advocate such policies, but it does when whites do?
Well duh, it's a whole house in a millionaire city?!

Seems rather cheap. Where I live an 900 square foot apartment can also set you back by $2m.
The seven apartments currently listed are all above $1.6m with several having undisclosed prices (if you have to ask then you can't afford it:-)

AND you will top out at 200k as a Software Engineer here as well.
"This website is optimized for certain browsers and devices.
Please upgrade your browser." RAGE I have hoped that "made for IE6" was truly gone - but NOOOOO, except now You-know-which is the One Browser To Rule Them All, and you're not even supposed to name it? Browser War III is now.

(Adding insult to injury, I got that on current Chrome. Only -unstable seems to be working?)
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Also, one pays for Netflix, and there are no ads. They try to give you, the user/customer, a better experience, so that more users/customers sign up and pay.

Needless to say, Facebook's goals and incentives are very different.
So, if I beat my wife in front of my kids regularly, I can have a clear conscience if they'll beat theirs or accept abuses from their husbands in the future?
Well, I have first class degree in economics to be fair. I got the highest score across the university. I didn't just take one class and make my mind up. But I agree that doesn't make me an expert in the field. I also agree behavioral economics is a better direction. However, I'm just saying many strands of it need to use evidence more. A lot of models were kinda cute but also pretty silly. Game theory is a bit of a kafuffle -- Ariel Rubenstein agrees. I didn't see any predictions or studying of real-world data in my whole time studying it. The least we can agree on is that there should be way more of a focus on that for university level.
Messaging apps nowadays also allow you to send images and even videos.

How would you handle those? Or only allow sending text when the other person is offline?
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I also had a performance problem with DNS resolution with a big host file, but disbling the DNS client service helped.
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a train is a goddamn terrible escape vehicle

BART trains, especially in the East Bay, have harbored mass robberies and takeovers multiple times.
I don't think it's going awry but rather that certain fields have always been suspect and we're just now realizing how bad it is. In mathematics, there are proofs that have stood up for thousands of years; in physics there are models that have remained useful for hundreds. How many fields can claim that kind of longevity?
Does this affects Facebook's "Account Kit"? (toolkit that provides login/register by SMS to third party apps)
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https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites

> Compromised data: Credit status information, Dates of birth, Education levels, Email addresses, Ethnicities, Family structure, Financial investments, Genders, Home ownership statuses, Income levels, IP addresses, Marital statuses, Names, Net worths, Occupations, Personal interests, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Religions, Spoken languages
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> The 'Real You' is not a myth, and it is not based on thoughts. It is what you truly are, and what is lost when you die.

I don't think it was ... if anything "it is not based on thoughts" would imply the opposite!

An object "is" an object whether it knows it is or not.

EDIT I think maybe you're interpreting the final clause of the sentence "what is lost when you die" as "what is lost to you" but I read it as "what is lost to others".
Small question: how do you prove it, adequately for a court of law?

I imagine that to prove it, you'd have to make several accounts, with several phone numbers, and somehow demonstrate to a judge that the information leaks through. Not an easy task.
Yes. If you don't know how to do the grunt work then noone's going to be able to make you do it. In one job I ended up spending most of my time programming for my junior's project simply because she couldn't (or wouldn't) do it herself. When the company was taken over she kept her job but I lost mine.
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What worked for me... Punching myself very hard in the arm.
Thanks. A nice-to-know lifehack, I just really hope I'm not going to need it but who knows... BTW I've actually bought pure butyric acid in a fish food store to produce sodium butyrate in my kitchen and take it instead of the human-approved supplement which is available on Amazon but is fairly expensive by the east-European income standards (and, according to the scientific papers I've found so far, hardly does anything if taken in the doses it is usually packed in).
"stochastic treeset". Sounds way more scientific, which can be required to convince a pointy-hair boss. "Random" forest sounds... well, I can flip a coin too, how is that going to solve my problem?

For the same reason, "naive" bayes classifier are very hard to sell, to the point I stopped naming them and now just tell "a very fast machine learning algorithm", unless specifically asked.
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