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I've seen demos with the controller that straps across your chest so you can move with your torso, and those look pretty cool, but you're still left with the problem of wanting to walk around but not being able to (because you'd step on your cat 'in meatspace'). There are solutions to that too, but they aren't great, take up space, are expensive, etc.

In a game where you are strapped into a seat, you don't have that problem. You remain seated in your chair at home and remain seated in game, so everything works great. The Sixense Hydra controllers, or similar, could probably be great for manipulating switches and leavers in your cockpit.
Yes you can. GA is RTM+updates.
The world is "awash" in oil at $110, but that oil simply can't be produced fast enough to meet demand.

That's the fundamental problem.
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This is precisely why I went into programming in the first place. A computer doesn't have feelings. It doesn't lie to me, I don't have to lie to it. It will do exactly what I ask it to do without fail, though I regularly ask it to do the wrong thing. They are completely and totally predictable.

People, on the other hand are emotional and mostly stupid (even the smart ones). They are going to lie to you, even if unintentionally, and you're required to lie to them in return. The person you're meeting might have had their family pet die last night and will react to you in completely irrational ways.

It's no wonder why when your job is to deal primarily with emotionless computers all day that it's tricky to then context switch back to lying and walking on eggshells.
A downvote for telling the truth...
I think it's the combination. Video conferencing is okay and I think interacting with a robot might be okay but this halfway thing is really weird. I'd rather not see someone's head floating around on a Segway.
That's like comparing an aircraft carrier to a rubber ducky. Budgeting for a country of 300 million bears no resemblance to household budgeting. The priorities and general principles are completely different.
PHP is not a partisan issue. And they should stop painting it as such.
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I find the code really easy to read, but I find the comments and prose really difficult to read. I'm not sure whether that's good, but I lean towards "no".

Nevertheless, nice project! Don't let the naysayers hold you back; programmers can get into font design just like font designers can get into programming.
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"That's treating people with respect gone mad!"

If you take away the sexual, objectifying context, the joke's no longer funny. "EyeContact" isn't an app.

It really doesn't matters whether they were trying to diminish a class of people's humanity and reinforce the widespread idea that that group's autonomy is subservient to straight men's desires, or if they were just exploiting that dynamic because they were too incompetent, lazy and uncreative to produce something of value and didn't care that the dynamic they were reinforcing is demeaning and harmful. Either way, it's worthy of scorn.

"I don't work for the NSA because I want a universal surveillance state: I just work here because it's hilarious when I tell my relatives that I know their shopping lists!" It being a joke doesn't make it better.
I think if you are using Mensa as your reference set, you've got some pretty extreme sample bias in terms of 'egos'.
I came here to say the same thing. Having one section morph into another is unnecessarily confusing, and mostly masks the entire point. Also, it would be nice to slice this data across time as well, by clicking on a particular box and viewing a plot below the main visualization.
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It annoys me too. If you do a git diff against the sha1 of a completely empty tree, you can see all of the whitespace errors that have been checked into a repository:

$ git diff --check $(git hash-object -t tree /dev/null)

...although many projects frown upon whitespace-only commits since they screw with `git blame`.
But that's a gross mischaracterization of Austrian economics. It's nothing like the 'string theory' of economics and is indeed rather simple.

All the seminal works (especially "Economics in One Lesson") are very elementary. You need no prior exposure to economics.

They say you can identify an Austrian work by flipping through it, as it will undoubtedly contain no graphs or formulas.
My car is much nicer than any seat in coach. I won't be touching or smelling the people around me. Nobody will screech "safety information" at me and then provide desultory food and drink service. The sandwich from Rein's will be tasty, and I can reek of garlicy pickles without offending anyone. I'll watch a movie from the Millennium trilogy in the extended cut with the profanity and nudity, and I'll talk on the phone as loudly as I please.

Once self driving cars come, airlines will rediscover service and make 80% of their customers pre-checked or they will lose half their business.
I was just thinking about doing this exact thing if I ever had a chance for funemployment. Exercise more, plan and prepare better meals, get a better sleep schedule. This is such a great suggestion, much different than just suggesting to work on side projects, building up your resume, etc.
Please read here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6355561
I'd pay for this and use it daily if it had inline comments, a la google docs. I've wanted a very long time Google Docs but in markdown. I want to collaboratively build a document but be able to comment (as metadata, not as text in the document itself) on certain paragraphs, bullet points, sentences, etc and have a discussion around those comments.
Does it have plumbing?
The R value for two layers of blueboard foam is 7.5 plus the r value of the corrugated plastic. But the structure is pretty darn tight and the shape tends hold heat much better than I expected.

You can always add more insulation layers and get more R value.
Shock of all shocks, the first thing I see when opening a link to an anonymous picture sharing site is two severed penises with a knife cutting through them.
A few issues I have with android intents (Overall I love them):

- They are sometimes vague, and apps often advertise support for many intents they can't actually handle sanely. Trying to setup an email intent which actually only shows email clients is an example of this. The UX of showing a list of many apps which are not really good choices is pretty bad. I think the blame for this is largely on the apps themselves for not being more specific in their intent filters, but it still reflects badly on the platform.

- It loses the default choices on a regular basis. Updating an app which supports that intent and/or installing a new one seems to invalidate the default choice, which is really annoying. Especially in cases where you have e.g. installed a 3rd party browser, and now every time you click a link you have to choose which one to use.

- Once you have selected a default, you can't choose to use another one without digging through settings and clearing them for the app which has the default action set. Something like the right click and open with which we have on desktop operating systems would be great.
iRacing.com already supports Oculus Rift. I believe it has Formula 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf65VGDs8OA
The concept "peak oil" to me seems to misdirect the debate right off the bat. Obviously the question isn't "when do we run out of oil" but "how does oil supply given continually increasing demand affect oil price" and "what does rising oil price do to the rest of the economy?

Inflation-adjusted, the price of a barrel of crude oil was $23 in 1960, and has been averaging almost $88 in 2013. What does that do to, e.g., suburbs designed around 1960's oil prices?

Most of the interesting questions when it comes to oil have nothing to do with "what happens when it runs out?" The fun stuff is before then.
No plumbing but it's certainly possible.
I think its a bit much to say that people being assholes is the dark side that no one talks about. Truthfully, there aren't a lot of dark sides to software that no one talks about. The dark sides I can think of off the top of my head: misogyny; we consider ourselves successful if we put entire industries out of work; ageism; classism; the myth of the meritocracy; neoliberalism; creation of a private surveillance society; overly dramatic HN headlines; probably more I'll think of in the next five minutes.

The thing is, all of these, with the exception of that last one, are talked about quite a bit.
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It's not being pedantic, it's crucial to the problem of Bitcoin. If I'm trying to live outside of government meddling, and yet I'm spending in dollars, then I may as well keep my savings in monopoly money. Why? Because converting to dollars (outside of a guy handing you cash in a shady park) requires a bank account, which in turn requires government involvement--and that's exactly the problem the OP is trying to avoid.

You think keeping Bitcoins prevents the government from seizing your assets? Well if you trade in dollars, then they don't HAVE to seize your Bitcoin assets. They can just stop you from converting to dollars, and effectively achieve the same result. All the Bitcoins in the world are worthless if you trade in dollars and can't convert Bitcoins to dollars. And if you think MtGox is going to stand up for you when the government comes knocking on their door and demands they stop honoring withdraw requests for your account, then you're wrong.

Bitcoins are cool, they're useful today, and they have potential. But until you can buy a sack of flour from the corner store with Bitcoins, they're not an effective way of evading government meddling. They're just a proxy currency for people who don't understand better.
And we got the Russian software that is taking over the internet.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/nginx/

So the internet endgame seems to be One Huge Reinvented Internet in a huge computer running Nginx. It could be worse.
> You BLEW UP all my monthly bandwidth.

This is why static content should be served on GitHub, or a similar zero-cost and unlimited-bandwidth host.
True enough, but the difference between FTTN and FTTP is currently sitting at numbers like 25mbps vs. 100mbps. That isn't even an order-of-magnitude improvement. It isn't worth the cost. If you want to argue that gigabit connections have a great use case, I'd appreciate examples - there should be some in Korea if they exist. Given that I'm all about taxpayer savings, I'd prefer educational/industrial rather than entertainment ones.

If it comes with a profitable business plan, it is a good time to leave it to private enterprise. I'd happily invest in a fibre-laying company if someone offered me the chance. I don't want the Federal government to choose for me.
Do Windows shared source files compile to same as retail binaries?
Yeah - the only restriction on a Nexus is that if/when you unlock it, you must wipe the data on the phone - which is for completely legitimate security reasons.
The country of Europe
Yeah. Last time I was in Europe the local gas tax was more than the entire price of gas in the USA. Our low gas tax is, in effect, a subsidy, because we (as a society) choose to ignore the externalized costs of burning gasoline.

Gas is currently 2CHF per liter (about $8 per gallon) in Zurich, in case you haven't been out of the USA lately.
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I'm really excited to see this kind of robotics become real. I wish we could have one of these to explore the office my company just acquired.

I've thought of adapting my Arduino self-driving car to be wirelessly-controlled, maybe by a RasPi. Use a WIFI USB stick and/or a cell-hotspot for connectivity. Then put a microphone stand on it & tape a webcam shield to the stand & SSH to connect to it. (The RasPi would make the project work better, as most of these pieces already exist/could be modified to work with it more easily than several Arduinos IMO)
I can't understand how are you going to reach for the controls though. In all simulators you need use the keyboard extensively - power up the engines, flaps, landing gear. Then you need to remember weird hotkeys for radios, autopilot or rarely used functions. You need to type in a lot of numbers when doing routes or changing frequencies. I don't know how can you type with this thing on your head. And then you will need to find you mouse/stick to resume flying normally. Something is still missing here.
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Oil will never "run out" it just becomes more and more expensive.
Here's a link to the mentioned controller, the Virtuix Omni: http://www.virtuix.com/
Not in my experience. That just lends itself to a lot of protectionism and equally inflated egos (and the piece of paper to prove you earned it.) In fact, only academia tops medicine for inflated egos and self-aggrandizing behavior in my book.
We plan to implement a web of trust at the protocol level in Tent (https://tent.io) before 1.0. Tent already allows users to store arbitrary data on their own servers and send it via webhooks to other users.
Already added.
This one seems pointless, but a lot of time it adds context. Like in a magazine, readers connect with an image and then the digest of the text comes easier.
yes! this is how it already works! if you click a box, it will show you a graph of how that item has changed over time. If you double click, it will create a new treemap made up of the underlying data for that box.
It's valid if you're a square kilometer of dirt and you're afraid of being mugged on.
I thought the article was interesting and the eventual conclusion good, but really didn't like the sentiment to "have thicker skin" and to basically just "suck it up" if someone is being mean to you. (He doesn't use those words, but that what he's saying.)

That part seems like victim blaming to me. If people are mean to you without reason, you shouldn't put up with it. You should tell someone. Maybe they're approachable and you can confront them directly, or maybe not. But you absolutely should not get used to it or just accept it. You should do something about it.
I'd have to say that's likely because we've been talking about it for as long as there have been software developers working for private companies.
It was just the downvote mafia. You're back in the plus. I've learned not to worry too much about it.
How much upstream bandwidth is coming from servers and multimedia producers in residences, and how much is coming from mobile devices?
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>Efficiency in capitalism is the unimpeded flow of capital to where it is most needed.

Who decides what is 'most needed'? What about 'wants' versus 'needs'? Are they chopped liver in capitalism? Where do you draw the line between a want, and a lesser need, and a most need?

>Anything that affects that flow negatively is an inefficiency.

What constitutes "negative" versus "positive" "flow"? Are you talking about net capital flows? Just the total amount of dollars that are being moved? Is this the same or not as actual value created? How do you measure such a thing?

>Healthcare, education, and a basic income have nothing to do with the government directing the economy's capital but rather with the government ensuring that capital can flow correctly.

Again, what is "correct" flow? Who decides?

Rolling back a few paragraphs:

> Every time this flow is blocked or diverted by some external factor, that's a loss of efficiency.

What is an 'external factor'? Last I checked, the economy is everything.

Lest these seem nit-picky comments, I'm trying to isolate some questions I have about your fundamental understanding of economics vis a vis mine. It's possible I'm missing something, since I have very little formal econ training.
sigh bunch of sick folks out there. If you hit Hate enough times, eventually the image goes away.
This is provably false. If oil couldn't be produced fast enough to meet demand, the price of oil would not be $110 a barrel, it would be $110+x per barrel, where x is the maximum number of dollars people are willing to pay to use the available supply of oil.

This thinking generally leads people to miss OP's point, which is that the world will never run out of oil. Price will always fluctuate to meet demand (so long as we let the market set the price).
How does it fair again strong winds in a storm and occasional hail? Is the isolation good enough to provide comfort in environment ranging from 35°C to -15°C ?

What is your solution for a bathroom? Where do you shower?
So why not start out as an open source project, then kickstart the hosting/etc after its been built and tested?

Many open source software projects (some huge ones today) came out of the woodwork with no funding and little community support.
Would it be less creepy if it had a midget-mannequin wrapped around the stand? Maybe it could be dressed like Tyrion from Game of Thrones?
The problem is that devdiv have been doing this for a few years so some of us (previously heavy investors in Microsoft's products) are now pissed off.

firstly the fuck up that is Microsoft Connect where critical defects which cripple teams for years are ignored (VS HRESULT errors, hanging, crashes) even if reproducible.

Secondly, partner support is a piece of shit. It took 6 months to get a damn registry workaround out for the fact that download prompting in IE9 basically fucked up ClickOnce for 2000 clients for us.

then you fuck us with two license audits which cost us a fortune as it's impossible to decipher your shit crock licensing.

then you pulled windows 8 on everyone, ignored the entire industry saying "no, you fucked up".

then you pulled free visual studio for desktop and did a 180.

then you pulled windows 8.1 (which didn't fix windows. 8) and told everyone that you're not getting it before GA then did another 180.

No, you're not delivering what people want. You're fucking us over again and again and we're fed up with it. The only reason we're still drinking the milk is that we're stuck with it until we do a major product cycle.

That time is right now.
Having been in grad school for a while, I can totally relate on using grants to churn out papers and egos running research.

Want to slightly disagree with this though: "Apart from feeling the gross unfairness of the whole thing – the students, who do the real work, are paid/rewarded amazingly little, while those who manage it, however superficially, are paid/rewarded amazingly much – the PhD student is often left wondering if they are only doing science now so that they may themselves manage later. The worst is when a PhD who wants to stay in academia accepts this and begins to play on the other side of the table."

The same thing happens in industry, except that you're paid more, and your work is directly relevant to the world you see (and not just a journal/conference where it is never read again.)
Oh, of course - I forgot I didn't click the outbound box. After seeing that it's pretty clear :)
And in the US we are starting to tax cars that use less gasoline than average. Not exactly in sync with the problem.
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This is super fascinating! You mention snow, but I didn't notice what part of the world you're living in. I'd be curious about building something like this, but I'm in a part of Canada where -40 and LOTS of snow is a real possibility.
I dunno, but "do a startup" is verbing a substantivated verb.
If I want to know the chances of someone breaking into my apartment I want the data per-apartment. If I want to know the same for cars I want the data per-car. If I want to know my chance of getting shot I want the data per-person. Overall crimes per person approximates what we care about much better than crimes per unit area.
There could however be a state where things just are not as convenient as they are now. There is no law of nature that says things have to stay as fun as they are now after we have depleted this unique resource that nature had to digest dinosaur bones for a few millions of years for.

Tesla's looking good though, so there's hope.
Well there are more than a few distressing music videos done with this device in mind, essentially porn paradise, if not shuts in fun. While it can have some great gaming,if not medical benefits, people tend to their darker impulses first.

Tame video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bytIGCeGxo but I would not call it SFW. Search youtube for Hydradeck oculus rift for a large collection of vids, most are very safe for work.
I love how breathlessly the article reports that "40 percent of outdoor participants come from households with incomes of $75,000 or more". If you take a look at some simple income graphs[1], it's fairly obvious why that is: Because nearly 40% of the population makes that much. Their education table is similarly ridiculous[2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Income_Distr...
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_U...
It doesn't particularly matter what the specific number is, what's really important is that we have consistent way of looking at all the different ways we could save lives by spending money and evaluate them rationally, rather than spending $1e9 to save a life here but refusing to spend $1e5 there. People's intuitions about these things are really horrible, and if someone is willing to pay an amount to save 1 life they usually aren't willing to pay anything like 10 times as much to save 10 lives.
> The risk is asymmetric: starting a crash program toward replacement of finite fossil fuels too early has great up-sides and marginal downsides (opportunity cost); but failure to act has enormous downside for marginal upside. - See more at: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/peak-oil-perspec...

This is a more intelligent way of stating something I've been saying for years. I always explain my position on peak oil by offering an analogy of a fire escape. If the owner of a building chose not to install a fire escape (assuming they could dodge the law), then a fire in the building would be absolutely disastrous; the law would certainly come down on them for anyone who died, and there would major financial ramifications. On the other hand, if they installed a fire escape but it was never used, then the only downside would have been the initial installation cost. Between these two worst-case scenarios, one is so significantly worse than the other that taking steps to mitigate that risk is the logical thing to do, without regard to the likelihood of worst worst-case happening.

Doing nothing with respect to peak oil feels utterly insane.
I wonder why we impart onto young people such an idealism about science only to have to crush it when they get older and must be informed that science, like everything else, is a business.
I still remember when they restored XP support in VC2012, but officially only using the Win7 SDK which don't include the Metro stuff, which of course Metro Firefox needs.
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Pretty neat, but didn't work with my Surface or Windows Phone 8 device. What role does the phone/tablet play? The webcam worked, though.

This isn't the first time Arcade Fire has done some neat stuff with Chrome, either: http://thewildernessdowntown.com/