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The problem is, without establishing a beachhead in gaming, there's no real path towards adoption. You can't just leapfrog the gamers and expect to build a market with other stuff that might or might not turn out to be compelling: gaming is VR's no-brainer killer app.

People are going to be buying this for games first, and when a critical mass assembles, other stuff. So, this is either a very, very long range bet, or a misguided one.
My experience was amazing this year, good organization, good service, and luxurious facilities! This time it was far better than the previous year's conf held at Hyatt, Pune. But when I heard that organizers of conference faced so many issues because of management at LaLit, I really felt sad about whatever bad happened there. We should have other good options instead of such nasty hotels, IMO.

Ruby community is with you, fellas!
"I am not a crook."
> When was the last time AWS EOL'd a service?

When was the last time Google Cloud Platform EOL'd a service? I mean, if you are asking about AWS and not Amazon, you should ask about Google Cloud Platform, and not Google.
This would be an awesome list for the new YC company Threadable to manage.
I've wondered whether Pixar would have ventured into making more grown-up movies if they hadn't been bought by Disney (not that I don't enjoy their current stuff, even as an adult).
May I ask, what happened with TotalBiscuit?
Of course, there is a lot of nuance in the OAuth spec(s), but we didn't feel the need to be that verbose for an "An Introduction to APIs". We'd love to hear more about what broad but important aspect of OAuth that we missed! We'll absolutely make revisions and updates.
They meant "marquee". A name that's impressive enough to put out on display.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marquee
No it's not.

It will be, but it's not. Right now, you can play games on an Oculus. You can't watch basketball games, we aren't watching interactive live drama. It will mature as a gaming platform before any of the other things it is to become, come to fruition.
Facebook missed mobile. This was a concern pre- and immediately post-IPO. It took an engineering overhaul and tens of billions of dollars in acquisitions to bridge the gap.

The Occulus VR acquisition looks like Facebook hedging its bets with the future of consumer computing UX. Better $2 billion and, say, $200 million a year for ten years today than $19 billion tomorrow. Or so it seems he is thinking.

Still, I like to check the math. Occulus VR says it has sold 75 000 "development kits" [1]. It has been 1 year and 7 months since August 2012 [2], when Occulus VR began selling its development kits. Let's assume a 200% YoY 2013 growth rate - that means 56 000 kits were sold in 2013. Let's say these keep selling at the $350 the Developer Kit 2 goes for [3]. That's $20 million in 2013 revenues. Let's turn that into $2 million of profits - a 10% margin.

Let's value Occulus VR as if it were a growing perpetuity. If Facebook had a cost of capital of {10%, 20%, 30%}, Occulus VR free cash flow (FCF) would have to grow at least {10%, 20%, 30%} a year. Otherwise, its $2 billion price tag would not make sense.

Companies are not immortal. Let's value Occulus VR as a 20-year growing annuity. Setting Facebook's cost of capital at {10%, 20%, 30%}, Occulus VR's FCF would have to grow at least {45%, 58%, 71%} a year.

Not a bad deal.

[1] http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/oculus-joins-facebook/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift#History

[3] https://www.oculusvr.com/order/
Facebokulus, please.
They've said that they formally got the ball rolling on the acquisition less than two weeks ago.
3D TVs never made sense. VR is a wholly different analysis. I wrote a bunch about this back in 2012:
http://killring.org/2012/08/14/the-vr-revolution-begins-now/
http://killring.org/2012/08/30/virtual-reality-creating-imme...
Us? Or himself?
Except he hasn't stopped hanging out with you. Maybe he will in the future but that remains to be seen.
When you have a clear visor that you're looking through that will seamlessly super-impose exactly matched visuals to reality with enriched data... yes it wil change the world.

We need hybrid LCD/OLED displays that give us an alpha channel.
Brazilian congress approves pioneer bill of rights for Internet users
And it turned out that Google was correct. Guardian backtracked on their original story and changed the story to NSA surreptitiously stealing user information rather than claiming tech companies were complicit. In response, Google enhanced encryption to further protect users.
What did you do to get around the grid adjacency problem, where adjacent points can have different prefixes?
Do you have 1,000 karma?
It's obviously because they are devoting all their R&D efforts to fax machines.
no, they are very different.

NVIDIA is SIMD, a 32 thread warp doing the same instruction in lockstep (in 4 cycles usually on 8 SPs, the 192 SP chip can run 24 warps simultaneously, though specific numbers may change a bit from version to version) and heavily penalized for in-warp divergence.

Parallela - i.e. Adapteva (http://www.adapteva.com/epiphanyiv/) is 64 independent (execution-wise) RISC cores.
This reminds me of the same arguments that were made about Bitcoin and exchanges and how the mean old SEC wasn't letting the little guy get in on the action.

The same thing would happen in the world of Kickstarter - big asset bubbles and rampant speculation, bogus funding campaigns, graft, and exploitation.
The quality of their books is decent, but O'Reilly books are typically clearer to read and more focused. I might buy this book today, simply because there is currently no O'Reilly book on Go (not even early access).

I wish someone would provide an early access book on Rust (even if it is a bit of a moving target).
Stephen Wolfram: Injecting Computation Everywhere
how about $400 getting you a headset and $100 of equity? You're being obtuse.
Does the managed VM feature mean we can finally run any language / framework on it?
Do the 1k people have special privileges in this area?

The guidelines say the title can be changed if the original is misleading, which would seem to apply here.
Interview with Oculus founder and CEO
Show HN: Make Movies on the Go without Hassle
Ah so much of white text on black background. Is there a web app I can paste the url and it will make it readable for me?
>It took an engineering overhaul and tens of billions of dollars to bridge the gap.

Tens of billions of dollars for Facebook's mobile efforts?
and/or subscribe to "codeschool.com" and go through their ruby path. That's how I personally learned Rails! :)
Interestingly, both Luxottica and local rival Safilo are both from small towns in the middle of the Dolomites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safilo

Not the first place that would come to mind for precision manufacturing, but there you have it.
Oculus Deal Said to Deliver 20x Return to Spark and Matrix
fuck u lalit for treating a community like a shit ... how can we sue them .. im really feeling bad for our organizers :(
This might explain things:

http://www.whatsmyip.org/fios-wep-key-calculator/
I didn't make it this year, but I really enjoyed RubyConf India last year. Everything went super smooth. So it sucks to hear it was so hard for them this year. :/
Here is the full update:

"• This article was amended on 20 March 2014 to remove statements in the original that the testimony by Rajesh De contradicted denials by technology companies about their knowledge of NSA data collection. It was also updated to clarify that the companies challenged the secrecy surrounding Section 702 orders. Other minor clarifications were also made."

They may have updated their article to excise the denials about PRISM - however the water is still muddy regarding the truthfulness of their statements under numerous other programs that the NSA has conducted under other legal authorities like Section 702, Section 215, etc..
I don't understand facebook hate. While it is a bad platform in its current state (for me) because of all the noise, it is also a great platform for many people to stay connected.

Their engineering team also seems to deliver some great solutions and plays well with OSS community.

As for this deal, I do not understand how they are going to integrate it into their platform or even what they are going to do with Oculus. I would like to think it is a long term diversification strategy because they feel they have great technology.
Rescape – AR gaming
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Until you can demonstrate empiric data like the book can, I think I'll stick with the book, rather than an anecdote from a day-old account.
Some companies have license agreements that forbid reverse engineering their software if you have used it / worked on it. It may be even worse if you have actually looked at the source code of the closed source alternatives.

INAL, But if you are contributing to projects on tangential areas you should be OK.
GitHub has also posted some of the projects that power GitHub for Windows: https://github.com/showcases/projects-that-power-github-for-... and GitHub for Mac: https://github.com/showcases/projects-that-power-github-for-...
Amazon has deprecated & disabled old API versions, SOAP & security issues and the like. I think they removed some of the old SimpleDB eventually consistent Query calls & made strongly consistent Select. Some of the regional API implementation around S3 and the original "us-standard" region were changed. But yeah, AWS has never turned off a service or major feature that I canrecall.
they could have been a competitor to apple, google and facebook if they had gone it alone.
Maybe; but Zuckerberg didn't buy the company, Facebook did.
I personally think something like 'Code Atleier' has a nicer ring to it. :)
Why does ANYONE give a single fuck what Rick Perry says?
Look at the market. Don't you see it's counter-move to Google Glass?
Mostly native clients. And a provider that hosts in the same country I live in (Germany), that values my privacy, and uses green energy.
How to never forget anything ever again
"Camera in the living room? Nice idea. We should buy this company!" – Facebook
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You can configure the metrics that cause a new instance to be launched. I forget where that particular setting is ... somewhere in the console I'm sure.

We aren't live yet, so I haven't needed to think about that stuff yet. However, I've talked to people that have applications live on App Engine, and that hasn't come up in conversations ... so there must be some solution ... if not the exact one you want.
What's wrong with that? Would you rather Texas leave the ban in place and not employ anyone at all?
I sympathize with you and hope the story reaches more ears. I can believe how unprofessional hotel staff can be despite their own mistakes.
That's especially true for hotels that are run as a family business and lack corporate culture & ethics. They'll throw around the word 'sorry' freely but they rarely mean it.
I'd suggest you to take the legal route, or atleast get plenty of press coverage on this. Let's also hear out what they have to say.
Google releases official APIs for Windows Phone developers
After thinking about this some more, I think it's going to come down to: "Can they make their Metaverse cool?"

Zuck probably has some tricks up his sleeve to accomplish this goal. And he's been able to learn from G+ about how not to go about it.

Whether the Metaverse is cool will make or break its popularity. It's what made Facebook's.

The coming years are going to be pretty interesting.
it's just an analogy. Your description has likely gone way above the head of the op.
I don't have any links ... but Dart support is coming (already have Python, Java, Go, and PHP).

Also, with managed VMs you can basically run anything you want and still get Google to manage things for you. Manage VMs give you a sort of script you can define that apt-get installs the packages you need. You can also use Docker if you like to make your own VM images.

Haven't used it yet, but it looks good based on the demos. They showed a demo with Node.js today.
Give me one example where that actually has happened.
Cars 2.
Yeah but Pixar was already a mature business minting money by that point, with a mature business model, which is very similar to Disney's:
Make animation. Release to the big screen. Profit.

No need to tinker. It's not like when you buy a startup that's bleeding money with 50 engineers that you could add to your existing products.
> Why is it not good enough for someone to enjoy programming and have an intellectual curiosity about programming?

For me, it's not so much programming, but the power it gives me. The capabilities that programming gives me. I can sure talk about static vs dynamic typing, but I'm going back again to things like power.

Programming the same thing over and over again sounds kind of boring, but making something new sounds grand!
Suddenly, the SEC wants to regulate your crowd-funding business. Oops.
$19B for WhatsApp
> You still had to have your TVs run through to the actual U-Verse modem, though, and can't plug them into a router sitting behind it.

Yeah you can. I have

Uverse Router ==> PFSense Box ==> GigE switch ==> Uverse TV box.

The trick is enabling IGMP proxy. The first 10 seconds of a Uverse TV stream is transmitted over UDP. After 10 seconds, it switches to multicast. You need IGMP proxy on the PFSense box (or IGMP proxy capable switch) to relay that multicast traffic to the ports on the other interface.

After that, DMZ your PFSense box, add just a few firewall allow rules, and you're done!
'k, well, I'm going to go with "Milton Friedman was not economically illiterate", whether or not he was actually correct...
The history of Pneumatic Mail
it got my vmware IP address, not the actual one.
Been busy, here it is, surprising how annoying it was to make interactive:

http://pastebin.com/WMEK5PPt
At the moment, all three top level comments are accusing Google of lying, despite the fact that these kinds of flat denials by high-profile companies are almost never proven false, probably because they almost never are false. (As described elsewhere, PRISM was not such a case.) In this case, the original story was already dubious, and it should be clear that the fallout from being caught lying would be drastically worse than either ignoring the story or being the second to admit to doing something (legal) that Microsoft already admitted to. The fact that the comments exist anyway tends to shake my faith in the rationality of other, more credible criticisms of big companies in this forum.
Indeed. It's like a witch hunt.
Slightly offtopic, but a raspberry pi makes an awesome cheap offline bitcoin wallet.
Sexual orientation is what's protected

Right—same with race, creed, and gender. That's the theory, at least. How fearful do you expect, say, the Super Bowl–winning Seattle Seahawks are of a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination on the grounds that its defensive squad is biased against non-blacks?

http://fantasyfootballwarehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/...

In practice, the treatment of "underrepresented" minorities vs. "overrepresented" groups is almost completely asymmetric.

Prop 8 is an attempt to remove rights from a group of people.

You can't remove a right that doesn't exist. Even if you're generally sympathetic to gay rights (as I am), the idea that the framers of the California state constitution intended to protect the right of two men (or two women) to marry each other is risible.

The proper analogy would be a hypothetical Prop 88 which seeks to ban straight marriage while allowing gay marriage.

You're assuming that gay marriage and straight marriage are equally valid relationships. This may be true, but the whole point of Prop. 8 was an explicit rejection of this premise. By positing a symmetry between gay and straight marriage, you're simply begging the question.
Maybe we should file a complaint here - www.akosha.com/onlinecomplaints1.html
Why Apple will never make floppy disks again
personal beliefs of people in power do affect how they wield that power. Opposite is true only for machines [not for long though].
Yes, but first it has to win the gaming market, or it's a non-starter. Games are the Facebokulus's killer, game changing, app. Everything else is just speculation, and will take a while and will build on whatever happens in gaming, because VR gaming is already here.
Or maybe http://www.core.nic.in/
> However, if Verizon knows your WiFi keys (from the router), it stands to reason they have total control over their routers--so putting your own WiFi behind Verizon's router won't help you if you're looking for privacy. Verizon can see your LAN through their router, even if you disable WiFi.

How does this effect your privacy? If you put your own router between your machines and their device, sure, their device can see the WAN interface & IP address of your router, but it can only access your LAN like every other machine on the Internet at that point, if you have your router do NAT. (Which is the point of doing this.)
Why did this 5 year old article make it to the front page?
Or Zuckerberg's examples: seeing an avatar of your doctor in 3D, or your classmates in a classroom. It's got the whole "imagine a fridge that can tweet you when your milk is about to expire!" smell of having to work far too hard to come up with something interesting-sounding.

I think the reason people were excited was that this could have be something transformative - a new sensory conduit into our brains. And I think the disappointment is to have that be replaced by something so mired in the same-old same-old. A stereoscopic rendering of the world as it already is, by a player that's practially a figurehead of lack of innovation (other than in ops management and revenue models).
Apple Engineer Recalls the iPhone's Birth
Is it still a bribe if benefit is for the state and not an individual?
I've been meaning to look at the trend in reactions to comparable news about google and that about microsoft. My suspicion is counter to your first statement, but very much believes your last.
> I know women, programmers, who are in love with programming. Hell they're more in love with programming even maybe than I am.

Two things:
1) "I know people" is anecdote, it doesn't say anything about broad social trend.
2) The issue isn't whether women are as likely to share the feeling men call "love" toward programming, its whether women who have that feeling are as likely to call it "love".
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"rr currently only supports x86 32-bit processes."

While the idea of a replay debugger is really nice, I don't understand where this limitation comes from. I thought, that since years we practically live in a 64 bit world.
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This is not a legal proceeding. It is more of an emotional outpouring of disappointment.

The unwritten deal was that the funders were backing a low-overhead, indie organisation.
Because that's not their M.O.

They like getting the PR value out of all of their projects even if it isn't commercially viable.
A technological area where Apple made strides forward. The particular market doesn't have the margins/innovation worth pursuing for a company like apple.
Just to clarify, re-reading this it looks a little confused. The rubbish I maintain is not stuff on CPAN but legacy code inherited from another non-CPAN project. The legacy modules are sometimes annoying in some ways but they are serviceable.

Some of the non-CPAN code I have (the rubbish) is sufficiently unmaintainable that the only way of dealing with it is to refactor with a chain saw and avoid touching it otherwise.
> Mozilla provides the same level of benefits and advantages to domestic partners as we do to married couples across the United States, even in states where it is not mandated.

That is awesome, actions speak louder than words.
there is a reason executives avoid getting into any details of anything. Just like that Enron CEO "I'm not an accountant". Time for SOX style act for privacy/security area?
There is personal experience - from our people and the many that talk about hashtag successes. As examples, "operation wallstreet" rallied tremendous community support with #ows and then related hashtags like #owsboston etc. When there was media blackout about a rigged election in Iran and phonelines were even blocked, a hashtag spread the truth. What's more, it was my personal experience, during the big earthquake and tsunami (tidal wave) in Japan, and seeing how I could find very relevant tweets from hashtag streams rather than the cover-up on Fukushima on TV that led me to understand that hashtags have power - but that no one knew which was any better than another.
Any new niche language always sing the same song to market themselves.

Unfortunately the song doesn't "keep it real".
In his own words: http://www.reddit.com/r/Cynicalbrit/comments/1xrx27/in_light...

boogie2988's response is worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvSXgBmu2Pc

Nerd³ weighs in with his own experiences: http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/1xs45h/realtotalbisc...
If you are trying to NSA-proof a service, obfuscation is not going to cut it. At best you could have a client maintain its own index locally, I suppose.
These are really just design houses that aggregate brand names and manufacture largely in China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdq2rIqAlM is a great watch if you have time. Nothing too surprising to those that understand where this stuff comes from, but certainly interesting to see it laid out.
A model for justice in the Internet age
I agree, definitely a big potential here. They say that there is a $16 billion potential in claim each year, which is a pretty huge pie. Does anyone know how much of this is currently claimed each year?
Zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word under active attack
The US doesn't have federal sales tax, but many states do, so Americans have this too.
Related: http://macjournals.com/mwj/laserwriter-8-5-1/
I've given several reasons why it won't work this way, and you just come up with an assumption that the current VR tech is SOOOOO good that everyone will want one. Did you go to the GDC ?
Love this! More companies should do this. Teach your customers how to use your product.