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Sony has a fixed hardware system. PS4 is likely to be around for at least 5 years. Carmack has stated already (and I doubt he's bullshit, even with his competitive motivations) that this gen of consoles just aren't powerful enough for what VR needs to be truly immersive. From my experience, most PS4 games struggle to even maintain 60fps at 1080P. VR is likely to require more than 4x resolution and even 1.5-3x refresh rates. Who knows what kind of latency is baked into the graphic cards and such because they didn't think they'd need more refresh rate.

I'd concede that maybe Morpheus will be just good enough to make it work, games can be simplified to run faster, and games can very tuned unlike PC games because it's fixed hardware.

Personally I think any one of the players in the game can just copy any strategy anyone else makes, to a point. Samsung for instance is likely going to be ahead of the game on display technology manufacturing, but who knows I don't have the best handle on the display screen technology race.
Great, but be sure to pack a good book for the remaining 13 hours of flight time after your devices have used up their battery.

Editing comment to respond to replies in one place instead of individually.

1) The Note 4 is housed inside the Gear VR. Larger battery pack probably won't fit. You will need to carry spare batteries. Possibly the next generation might solve this.

2) I may have missed it, but I didn't see anyway to charge the Note 4 while using the Gear VR. So assuming you do have a charging port, you would need to stop and charge the device. Or carry a spare device to charge your spare battery while you use the Gear VR.

Just to be clear, I am not criticizing the Gear VR. My response was only targeted at the Parent comment's use case. I think it is really cool that Samsung is trying to think out of the box and come up with innovations. Some will stick, some won't. We will see.
Now we can plug the bttn functionality to send a Yo! message and finally come full circle.
This is great.

Your organization is fulfilling the instant gratification need that the bigger guys aren't delivering on which is the value and revenue opportunity.

Did you start this company with the Uber ah ha moment? ie. why can't I push a button to do this or was it a pain point that evolved into a business model?
Your comment sounds sarcastic, but I don't see anything strange about the statement that the solution to problems of a constrained market is to make it more free.
No in my case I've had these conversations and they've always dismissed them. Even my girlfriend who liked the idea hasn't bothered with something like Kiva while she's asked for an invite and I've sent her a few and told her several times, and she's done years of community service and studied international development. Somehow a lot of people dismiss participating outright despite saying it's awesome and saying it's cool I'm doing it and appreciate why Kiva's model, and some willing people seem not to be able to be bothered.

I'm not much different by the way. I've been participating in Kiva for quite a while and donate monthly to doctors without borders since I was a teenager, but despite being interested in the topic of development, I am barely motivated to learn the nitty gritty and get more deeply involved. I'm only barely beyond the point of superficiality to be honest.

Hope you'll talk to your friends about it, too!

As for not giving to random things at events, I don't either. Effective giving is extremely important. Here's some great talks to start with if anyone's interested:

http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/research/theory-behind-effect...

For a quick bit of context, here's a very rough example. A guide dog for a blind person typically costs upwards of $20k for raising, training (both the dog and the blind person) etc. This improves the quality of life of a blind person considerably. Alternatively, we can spend about $30 per person to operate on people's eyes who are effectively blind due to a vitamin deficit and allow them to see again. This literally restores their vision. The latter is almost two orders of magnitude cheaper meaning you can help that many more people with every dollar spent.

That's one of the most extreme examples of why effective giving matters.
SPV doesn't seem like the right approach. I'd like to see full blockchain hash verification, just not starting from the very beginning of the chain. Why not download the hash of a more recent block and verify the chain starting from there, periodically throwing away old blocks in favor of a single hash?
Wow, Hacker News really hates the idea of paying a reasonable amount of money for important software?

Edit: And hates being told they hate it. How meta. If you disagree, please leave a comment. Drive-by downvoting does not help anyone.
TaskRabbit is selling spare time for cash. Put together this desk, bring flowers to this girls office, etc.
Don't be discouraged by that. :) We haven't gotten many applications yet and we don't care who you know, if you have a bunch of followers, or if you contribute to open source. (Personally I'm a bit bearish on GitHub as a resume - my publicly-visible GitHub is very underwhelming.)

Our selection process is pretty much: have you (or do you aspire to) build cool, interesting things and do you seem like someone we'd enjoy living with for 10 days (we do a 15min phone screen).
Air pollution on a large scale (i.e. anthropogenic climate change) is a particularly difficult problem, whether you've got a laissez-faire free market, a global society like today, a world government, or any other system I can imagine.
There are tons of open source alternatives based on standard protocols:

* https://jappix.com/ Jappix (XMPP)

* http://gnu.io/social/ GNU social (statusnet/pump)

* http://twister.net.co/ Twister (p2p microblogging)

* http://redmatrix.me/&JS=1 Red Matrix

The thing is: noone uses them.
Many (most) C compilers are 4 pass, but yeah...the old Microsoft C compiler was especially bad.
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Enocean has been doing this for years, http://www.enocean.com/en/edk350/
The Note series has the best battery life in the smartphone game. An external battery pack is also easy to bring along.
Thanks for the straw man and entirely manufactured quote. We're talking about paying $50 for software that manages your passwords for everything, not paying hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.
If you are developing server-side code where a user supplies both a regex and the content, be aware that it is trivial to DDOS most regex engines - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReDoS. The RE2 library leaves out certain features of the regular expression "language" (such as backreferences) in order to achieve linear time execution and limited memory footprint. Much better than most build-in language regex engines. Not affiliated with them, but figured it might be useful for some.
One common confusion people have when reading patent is the word "comprise," which appears a lot in the claim language. This probably comes from the confusing definition of the word in the legal dictionary, http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/comprise, which implies there are more elements than the ones specified.

Comprise always means all or nothing in the claim conditions. All conditions have to be satisfied for the claim to be valid against a product.
Perhaps contact the author of submitted link? I'm fully open to setting something up; 10+ years of vim usage behind me, just inexperienced in writing up this kind of stuff. Might still give it a shot though :P
Downvoting me without commenting suggests I hit a raw nerve. To me it's sad that the meaning of 'innovation' has become so watered down.
I think they're superficially different, and continuing the eating disorder analogy, consider this anecdote. in the middle ages, monks and nuns used to torment themselves in many ways. While men used various inventive self-corporal-punishment techniques, women mostly employed one: starvation. It was their fight against their earthly body, which they tried to minimize as possible. So was that an eating disorder? Absolutely! It's just that today, instead of reducing your earthly body to become more spiritual, women (mostly) have other excuses for the same practice, namely modern standards of beauty. When a sociologist or anthropologist encounters something like that, the assumption is that a deep underlying human psychological need uses contemporary ideas and beliefs to find justification. When it was "known" that superhuman deities rule the world, the afterlife was their domain; now, when science rules, ideas from science fiction explain those (currently?) superhuman abilities and the after-life they bring. So the same deep cause is expressed using contemporary ideas.

If you don't like the word religion, we can call it "a belief in the afterlife", although the same trend applies to other behaviors that have commonly been considered religious, so the correlation is far stronger than just a belief in the afterlife (there are also notions about "purity" that are now explained by pseudo/shoddy science).
The hypothetical futarchy is designed to improve this issue. http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.html
>can "bootstrapped" businesses really tackle big problems?

Eh, most of your "funded" cash is spent on labor. What does someone working for a funded startup cost? $200K/yr if you skimp on office space?

Figure that as a bootstrapped company, you spend 1/3rd of your time earning money to feed yourself (Without dependents, you can live pretty okay off of 1/3rd of a competent coder's salary, even in SV.) Note, it may be easier, say, if there are three of you to rent out one of you as a contractor full-time and use that money to pay everyone else, rather than all of you working for other people 1/3rd of the time. Getting part-time work that pays good is a significant marketing effort, while $90/hr corp to corp full-time work is easily obtainable through the body shops.

So to compete with a company funded with a half-million bucks, you and your partners need to be willing to put in almost four years of your time.

this is not unreasonable. I've done rather more than that. and there are many advantages; getting contracting work, in my experience, requires a hell of a lot less marketing effort than getting VC money.

Of course, the difficulty increases as your funded competitor gets more funding; if, say, your competition has tens of millions in funding, say, rather than just half a million? yeah, that's going to be rather more difficult.
Are there flights without charging ports nowadays?
The quote from Turing, most relevantly:

Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.

doesn't seem to go anywhere near as far as the author implies. Further, the source for the quote is a link to a paper which apparently just attributes the quote to Turing...but I don't even know that for sure since the link 404s. This is particularly...problematic...as the immediately preceding quote:

You have no choice but to accept that the major conclusions of these studies are true.

(which does appear to go as far as the author implies) is actually attributed to Kahneman much later.
This is exactly the service we are offering to everyone (SF only now, NY in oct) who doesn't use Amazon fulfillment.

The things we are doing behind the scenes to aim for cheapest/fastest service is unbelievable. We will continue to innovate here so business/consumers can focus on what they do best. Shipping is what we do best.
Even if it's not being used algorithmically, it may still be useful as a form of gamification. I mean, people deleting their poorer comments is probably a good thing - particularly when it doesn't effect the placement of their comments on the page.

Developing a willingness to delete my less productive comments was a big step toward improving my skill at self editing. Since average is not being used algorithmically, it's hard to see an advantage in penalizing self-editing.
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We look forward to hearing from you. And playing ping pong with you.
I used to be a very successful eBay power seller. I knew the pain-point myself very well. Wanted to solve it for others.
I started a pretty involved REST implementation (but borrowing a few things fron contrib/rest), complete with heartbeating and a RESTful events resource, which has since stalled as I got busy with other things. I hope to return to it soon.

My plan was to increase the tick time quite a bit and use it for global (in the literal sense) service discovery and coordination.
Awesome analysis of a rarely documented problem.

By shining the light on this, solutions will be much easier to deploy.
My great worry is we are doing what our educated class always has done. We try to help, get scared off when we get too close, then retreat to our safe enclaves of high pay and social walls -- then close the door behind us. I feel so guilty about this it keeps me up at night. My only hope is that we can somehow continue to thrive, but keep the door open to anyone who wants to be a part of it.
there are power outlets on long distance flights.
"We all like to believe great works are made like the book Ulysses. James Joyce locking himself literally in a hotel room for 2 years straight and doing nothing but working. But reality most great works take as much from what surrounds them as give back to it." -John Green (Slightly Paraphrased).
Kevin - How much do you ship to Central and South America?
IIRC, if you have multidimensional arrays only the last dimension is ignored so arr[3][4] is equivalent to arr[3][]. Of course, in the one dimensional case it means that the dimension is ignored.
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This has been a problem people thought had been happening for a while. It's only with this detailed analysis that the light is being cast on it.

Now we can work on solutions. And we will.
I might as well chime in too. I thought this was a fun way to get the motor-memory down for movement:
http://vim-adventures.com/

And although I agree with the post you made, that everyone should know how the .vimrc file works, I use Vundle to help make my vim experience less painful: https://github.com/gmarik/Vundle.vim

My biggest complaint about vim is probably a common one: the key commands don't seem to have much rhyme or reason. Perhaps in Bill Joy's mind they did but even now after years of use I find myself always having my vim cheat sheet nearby.
Agree. Patent language is way too confusing. Hopefully the Supreme Court's ruling in Nautilus v. Biosig will force lawyers to clarify their patent language. From Justice Ginsburg:

> we hold that a patent is invalid for indefiniteness if its claims, read in light of the specification delineating the patent, and the prosecution history, fail to inform, with reasonable certainty, those skilled in the art about the scope of the invention.

https://medium.com/patents-technology-law/good-news-in-the-f...
I guess I am envisioning frequent switching. If I had to turn a knob to Cmd+Tab between apps it would be terrible.
Isolating Football Player Movement by Eliminating Camera Motion
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In economy? Uhh yes. A lot.

In business class and above? Fewer.
Google hires leading quantum computing expert
I'm confused. Is this a preview of what the CV1 will be? Or is this a separate product?
Does this come as a surprise to anyone?
Very high. How much time were you on that dosage ? Any bad side effect ?
Sounds like it would be an amazing game!
I actually think it would be better off in it's own universe rather than needing to be Gotham - if it's Gotham, I'm going to expect/want Batman and the Joker, not some randomly generated heroes.

Possibly there could be the default non-affiliated game, and all various licensed city/hero/villain packs could be purchased as DLC.
gmail and yahoo have not shut down, so i've had no reason to stop receiving mail from those accounts. if i so desire, i can keep renewing a .com domain almost indefinitely for a pittance, and run my own mail for the domain. on the other hand, every 1-2 years when my mobile phone and/or internet connection contract runs out, i reconsider my phone plans. free phone number portability is relatively new thing compared to how old gmail,yahoo mail and hotmail(or running your own mailserver) are.
It was down for 1 hour, 2 hours ago.
It's probably something with my browser, but a weird line appears on your page, which I haven't seen anywhere else.
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0753f9w38b

(I'm on Chrome 37 on Mac 10.9)
The only con to the K810 is it does not incline.
Er, what? That page doesn't say "Wikipedia" anywhere on it. It is running Mediawiki, like Wikipedia, but that's free software; it's supposed to be used by other sites!
It would be fun if airplanes would integrate with these portable VR gears: using cameras outside the airplane to create a panoramic view in VR so you could look around without seeing the plane and feel like you are flying without a plane. Also they could show info above cities when you look down on them.
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A tangential question:

Does any of this benefit a desktop app? I realize that most of the green-thread interest lies in asyc i/o and i/o bound workloads. But can a desktop app with a couple of dozen threads (i/o + cpu mix loads) gain something from Quasar?
Project Tango doesn't just use a camera to track position, it uses structured light - like the first kinect - with an infrared projector and camera to build up a 3D model of the environment.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Project+Tango+Teardown/23835
Linux means more than just Android. Is Android going to have the best security out of the box? No. But that security can be improved if you want it to (checkout the Blackphone for example). With Apple devices you're reliant on Apple doing the security work, so like I said before it's better that they follow Microsoft's example of securing the devices.
Some lies not based on empirical evidence can never be shown to be false. However, there's tons of them that CAN be shown to be false.

I just bought a house in San Francisco! They're so cheap!

(That was a lie, based on no evidence, that can be disproven with evidence. People do this all the time)
Yeah, it was interesting.
One trick I find very useful is to read the claims out loud. It forces me to slow down and concentrate on the words.

Also, some patent lawyers have a "said fetish": every component is referred to as "said component" so you get sentences like "A widget consisting of a foo, a bar and a finangle, with said foo afixed atop said bar and said finangle to make an assembly where said assembly has said foo..." etc. The presence of the "said"s makes the claims weirdly unreadable, as they grab scarce attention from the lay reader, so just blip over them when reading.
It's logical for the dealers, of course. But it's not logical for society to allow it.
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The data does however show a few cases where actively routed address space was announced by the Spam networks, making this a hijack.

So on top of everything, you can get blacklisted for mail that didn't even come from your network?
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Politicians trying to leech off entrepreneurs trying to help the poor. Where are the folks that say Libertarianism can't work because we can't expect private enterprise to help the poor, and only a centralized government has the incentives to do it?

I applaud your and your brother's efforts. Hopefully this will help people realize who has an incentive to keep the poor poor and who actually wants to help them.
I don't think the market shifted away from owning/renting servers (IaaS?) - I think part of the shift was from web-based startups and companies having just development teams to having "devops" teams. Devops replaces the managed service that Rackspace hung its hat on.
Hi Kj3, we have discussed this in one of our first conversation with Square, however Square first considered this option and then just disappeared for a while to then come back to sue us!
The big problems are structural. And the first structure that needs to be fixed is your belief system, which supports the existing structure.

Start with the word "developing nation". I believe that is a racist term that is used to cover for gross inequality of resource distribution between relatively rich nations and poor ones.

Social Darwinism is another belief system that causes quite a few problems. Basically, anyone who isn't doing well financially, at a root level, many believe that they should either die, or live in squalor, because obviously they have little worth to society. People won't say that outright, but when you get right down to the details, most believe that.

You really have to look at the function of money in society and how it connects to the structural belief frameworks.

Also, in the existing framework, the general availability and buying power of money (which currently has been going down for some time) affects everything and everyone.

The _vast_ majority of people on this planet do not have any security for basic necessities. That is a result of the basic organizational principles of our "civilization". And the belief system assumes they are inferior and that helping that majority of people is a charity effort.

I look to technology to continue to mitigate these structural/cultural problems.
Please, would you read that new News ?

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Why_Pascal_is_Not_My_Favorite_Pro...
when you mentioned a hypervisor, do you meant to run the router/firewall on a the hypervisor?
Quasar shines when there's a lot of inherent concurrency in the problem domain. This concurrency mostly arises on servers where you have many concurrent requests, but it's also common in simulations/games. If your domain has no inherent (large scale) concurrency, then the OS is more than capable (very) efficiently handling dozens or even hundreds of threads.
Why not create a "food stamp" delivery service? Hire ex-cons for delivery & older "unemployable" graduates to manage the whole thing. Deliver in the evening after the parent(s) are back from work.

Better yet, try to change the system to allow EBTs to be used to delivery ready-made meals...