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I'm really wondering why Samsung would want to rush with this product to the markets, and more specifically why Oculus would want to agree to this. I mean, the Oculus hardware is still under development, the SDK is under development, and consumer software is just getting into grips what it is to develop for the VR platform.

Probably a deal between Oculus and Samsung, as Samsung is their display provider, in order for Samsung to continue providing them displays and other hardware ?

What I've heard (from CCP Games, developer of Eve Online for the Oculus, primary developer for Oculus) Oculus is focusing on making the best possible product, so it doesn't make any sense to publish what is in sense a beefed up DK2 to the public, other than that it was part of their Samsung deal.

I'm excited about VR, but I'm not at all excited about the Gear VR, there is no killer application yet even and it's just meh, pretty cool for maybe watching movies and such 3D -content, but what I hear the battery life is pretty poor too, and it's gonna be pretty obsolete once the consumer version of Oculus Rift comes out ..

Anybody have any more insight into this ?
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Also in Bangkok, having just come back from Myanmar. There are quite a lot of us, we should do a Hackernews Bangkok meetup...
fwiw the expansion is IMO a much better set of levels. longer, deeper, more bendy. especially after replaying it, the original set isn't as compelling (though still introduces the concepts very well). it is still pretty far down the "not much thinking required, just keep poking" side of gaming though, sadly.
Thanks for the references. Ok, perhaps Lincoln wasn't as brilliant as I thought he was. But whoever wrote those words certainly had some insight. I certainly don't mind quoting 'anonymous' :)
[I wrote the 1980s VC post]

When I think about building entirely new markets, I don't think the risk is the quantifiable risk that you're thinking of. It's what Frank Knight called "uncertainty" (Knight, "Risk, Uncertainty and Profit", http://www.econlib.org/library/Knight/knRUP.html). I prefer to call it "unknowability", but the concept is the same.

The unknowability of new markets is what makes them so valuable. If it were just risk, then it could be managed (ie. insurance) and established businesses would create all new markets. This, it seems, is not what is happening.

That said, I don't think Chris has misanalyzed the situation. It's just that he and I start with fundamentally different beliefs: I think Perez is wrong, and he thinks she is right. My post was written partly out of my rejection of Perez, but I don't think it comes anywhere close to actually refuting her.
>never you'll find any instance where he punished someone just because he ridiculed him.

Abu 'Afak seems close. He wrote a politically charged poem against Muhammad and was killed. Perhaps not just for ridicule, more for political opposition but even so it seems bad form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_%27Afak
Think of it not as a criticism, nor a suggestion that there is anything wrong with its author writing it that way. It's simply an admittance in advance that this thing I'm recommending might come across, on first reading, as more easily dismissed than I think it should be.

Perhaps I phrased it poorly, though. My first go sounded wishy-washy, so I rejigged it... I could well have over-tightened things.
There's a recent case in Albuquerque where 2 police officers are being charged with murder. In the case the police disorient a guy with a flashbang then shoot him as he turns away

The police video shows Boyd talking with an officer who was seemingly trying to reach an end to the stalemate. As he picks up his backpack, Boyd tells the officer to keep his word, and not to worry about safety.

"I'm not a [f———] murderer," Boyd says.

Seconds later, a flash-bang grenade is fired at his feet. Boyd then stands facing the officers — and as he turns away from them, at least two officers open fire. Boyd was struck by live rounds, stun guns and bean-bag rounds — some of which were fired as Boyd lay on the ground saying he was unable to move.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/01/12/376767254/alb...
Being a dick is not an option or a negotiation tactic, it is just that being a dick. Note I'm speaking to my experience, where tbe people in question do everything but actively sabotage the CTO in question.
When I bought Namecheap domains in 2006, domains were close in price to ~$70. Namecheap's name was intended to show that you'd buy it for less.

The brand grew from there. That's why Namecheap is still called Namecheap.

Disclosure: Namecheap employee/personal experience
OT: This is the third of fourth site in recent days that I've been on and thought I was on Medium. The designs all look identical. Medium's design is really nice so I'm not about to complain but it is a bit strange.
For a more hilarious use of military tech by police, see this video by Doraville, GA police of their "track-y fun-box" (a.k.a. "tank," sorry for the ear-splitting levels):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kajhu7qgojU

You have to wonder what threats they face among their population of 8,000 citizens in north-central Georgia.
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This is a fun coincidence, considering I was just about to assemble BASIC for a custom 6502 system. I suppose it is just that, a coincidence, but it gives me an excuse to rant about my silly project for a moment.

To keep myself sane lately, I've been working on a fun hobby project. It's an HTML5 game. You pilot a spacecraft, but the only way to control the spacecraft is through a 6502 based computer. So all flight controls have to be coded yourself on the machine. There are hardware modules for radar, engines, weapons, etc, but you need to write software to control them all. I haven't fleshed out all the ideas yet, but I get a strange kick out of the idea of piloting a spacecraft with a Commodore 64.

So far I've got an asm.js, cycle accurate implementation of a 6502, a bus system which is roughly a combination of the C64 and Apple IIe, and 320x200 4 color display. Just started working on the radar hardware subsystem, and was going to try assembling C64 BASIC for it today. Which is why seeing this article on Hacker News was a neat surprise.
> Instead of the claim of "I can easily get to twice £X million" -- in revenue? profit? valuation? -- it looks like the author's RoomScan app is near-moribund. RoomScan Pro, which sells for $4.99, hasn't been updated in over half a year and is listed as "optimized for iPhone 5." It's been mentioned in only two articles indexed by Google News in the last eight months. The Roomscan Twitter account hasn't been updated since November. The free version of the app has been updated more recently, but free in this context isn't exactly going to pay the bills.

> These are not the signs of an app that is getting to "twice £X million" anytime soon.

Easy to say nearly 10 months on from when this happened. From the article: "By this time, the app is topping both the free and paid charts in its category in many countries, and into the overall top 10 in some." Sounds quite healthy to me. Remember only a short time prior the guy had only 30 sales per day. There may be other metrics that would indicate that this app wasn't going to be a screaming success like his previous one, but his sales and media coverage at the time Google / recruiters got in touch aren't it.

> As for Google, I don't know how their corpdev team works, but my rule of thumb after working at some very large companies is: don't attribute to malice what can be explained by bureaucracy. It's not unusual for different teams not to know what the other is doing, even when they should. I don't see anything that justifies speculating about nonexistent employees named Maxine, and that kind of bizarre speculation likely poisoned the discussion.

For sure. I found it hard to follow his logic here.
Dude wasn't a libertarian. He was just a murderous asshole.

He sold hacking tools and identity theft kits that existed solely to harm others. He tried to have people killed.

Fuck him.

And fuck the inevitable posts here about how, despite selling tools that are explicitly meant to harm other people, that he was somehow some good-hearted libertarian. He wasn't. He was just a fucking asshole.

I hope he rots.
I don't understand this "first world" business. Is it a generational thing to be ashamed of not living in a shithole?
"TV-advertised laptops for 200-250GBP are very appealing for my client demographic. It irks me, sure, but then sometimes people have to learn by doing. The tide is very slowly turning."

At least 'formerly-known-as netbooks' aren't selling for twice that, anymore. Although, they are still excruciatingly painful to work on if you're used to anything faster...like an x86 Celeron.
I believe you'll love the new Namecheap backend when it launched. :) (Disclosure: Namecheap employee)
I think the strategy is to dazzle the jury with confusing uncertainty
A peek inside Notch's housewarming party
See also "Profiting from technological innovation:
Implications for integration, collaboration,
licensing and public policy" by David Teece @ https://bdpems.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/portal/sites/default/files/...
Hey, Tamar from Namecheap here. Would love to hear about your user experience so I can pass it on. thanks.
My father bought our family an original IBM PC (4.77MHz) when I was around 15 years old, after I spent 2 years riding my bike to the local Radio Shack and sitting, literally, in the display window of the store hacking on a TRS-80 and saving my "work" on a cassette drive.

I became good friends with the salesmen (yes they were all men back then) and they liked me working in the window...it helped them sell the system if they could show a 12-year old kid writing programs on it. "How hard can it be if..."

The first real program I ever wrote was in MS ROM-BASIC (that's what I remember calling it, because it booted into it if you didn't put the DOS floppy into one of the two (yes two, we were lucky!) 360k floppy drives it had.

The program was a blackjack simulation and trainer for counting cards. My older brother became infatuated with the topic and I remember reading the books on it and wondering if the math and systems were real or just casino trickery.

So I learned this version of BASIC and went to town, building decks of cards and configurable card-counting systems, and proved to myself that, yes, under certain conditions, BJ counters do actually have a long-term advantage over the house.

It's fascinating to see the actual code that ran my simulations.
Most companies have bad management. I would go so far as to call it the norm.

You're obviously better off with skills. I never said you weren't. But you don't absolutely need them to be an effective manager of other people's efforts. In fact one of the best ways is to just get the hell out of their way.
is there a version for color blind people?
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Ross Ulbricht admits he created Silk Road but says he's not Dread Pirate Roberts
Absolutely love the game! Well done!
Definitely playing Russian roulette with a loaded justice system. May skate on the (arguable) basis of "white male privilege" and possible lack of prior convictions.

IANAL, but I would play on empathy for an retiring, unaccomplished non-professor risking ignominy for ignescence... Dude was just deperate for attention. (Making an example of him wouldn't necessarily deter folks because they would throw their lives away anyhow... Making an example rarely does anything other than rationalize malicious sentencing.)
Oh man, this takes me back!
> It underscores that acceptance is something that one group (presumably the majority) confers upon another (presumably some minority).

Its more something one individual bestows on other individuals. That a group can be said to be doing it or not is simply an aggregate description of the actions of individuals in the group.

> And, I think, "why does this have to be conferred vs. being the default state"?

Whether acceptance, tolerance, or intolerance or the default state, there is still utility in all three distinct terms to describe states that exist in the world.
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I'm not protecting them, I'm protecting myself ;)

I said both were "top 8," they both probably top 5. I doubt there's a lot of difference between those companies, frankly.

Look, when you're one of these companies and you can go to 90% of startups and just say "hello" and have them on the verge of sending you their source code, that's a critical tactical advantage.

The lesson is simply - when you get this call, take a breath and realize they're as likely to threaten to sue you as they are to acquire you as they are to let you linger on the hook for months on end. Be upfront, ask explicitly what this is about and where it might be going.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8845507

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6187014
Samsung is kind of the king of rushing half baked ideas to market in an effort to beat everyone else to the "Next Big Thing" to the point where it's actually their slogan.
I would move on to starting the next business, but maybe you need the steady paycheck? You started company A, company B will be even better.

On a related tangent, I would love to know how someone in his shoes could get crowdfunded to start a new business. What do you advise? (Maybe I should start a new thread and ask.)
Because once they have the Credit Card number from a customer it is extremely easier to sell him other products.

That's quite the Google way, they are not looking for the one-time immediate profit, but for customers that will somehow generate income in the long term. It seems it's not working bad for them.
I have no real insight, but Carmack mentioned in his talk a while back that for VR to win it has to be mobile.

Basically if you have to show people VR in your computer lair nobody is going to use it. Maybe they're banking on getting people interested in it with mobile so when a better 'pro' version comes out from Oculus it'll get more traction?
Awesome! This is incredibly cool. Thank you for putting it together. I cant wait to take a closer look at the code!

I've been meaning to get my head around cassowary for a while now. I think your project is the motivation I need to get to it :)
The Power of the Golden Globe Awards 2015
Show HN: Inch Sprint(Android)-A running game played by “running” on your screen
Can Behavioral Tools Improve Online Student Outcomes? MOOC Experiment [pdf]
> Really? Don't you feel behaving in such a way won't help the company you're helping build?

You're helping the company by meeting your expectations and goals, which are set by your higher-ups who have clawed their own way up the hierarchy and so are presumed to know what they're doing. So long as you're doing that, you're a good employee.

What you do with the rest of your time is up to you. Certainly don't start working on side projects or screwing around, but you can do stuff like investigate future profit centers for the company, catch up on industry gossip, take people in your company and other companies for lunch, (networking) do personal / life stuff like taking your kid to the doctor.

All of these things are things that help the company in a roundabout way and may be overlooked by someone who doesn't properly understand what managers do.
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Here's some feedback: your 2FA experience is terrible. I appreciate that you use 2FA, but I have to hit the send button multiple times to get a text message every single time on my US mobile phone. After that the form fails 50% of the time.

I also find it frustrating that the domain dashboard has no clear path to my host record settings, which is 90% of the use case for me. I always have to click four or five times to find it.

Otherwise I love the product and pricing, and I will probably continue to use Namecheap in the future.
Works like real running but with your fingers. Instead of running 100 meters you just have to "run" 100 inches..
I mean, everyone's defense is "I didn't do it, I was framed". There really is no defense here. You'd think more people would be screaming about it if he was truly innocent. Hopefully, the defense will also include some sort of evidence backing up the statement, otherwise I'm pretty sure Ulbricht is going to jail.
I've been following this stuff fairly closely:

This is rooted in a deal between Samsung and Oculus. The DK2's screen is literally Galaxy Note 3 screen. The screen is a critical part of virtual reality, so a good partner already in the space is a major win. At the same time, Samsung wanted to get into this space with a Gear VR like device. Samsung already had some work done on it before showing it to Oculus. I'm not sure who approached who (I think it was Oculus to Samsung about the screen and Samsung replying that they would like help with the Gear VR.) This was also when John Carmack got involved, and has been the chief person responsible for getting the intensive software requirements to work on a mobile device.

As for why now? You gotta start shipping eventually. The current Gear VR is labeled as an "innovator edition", which a way of saying it's a dev kit without actually saying that. I'm guessing the Gear VR system will be attached to the update cycle of the Gear line of phones.

As for Gear VR vs Oculus CV1, the CV1 will be better in almost all aspects. However, you can't say use it to watch a movie on a plane ride.
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To what degree would you say your idea was influenced by Notch's cancelled 0x10C? Not a criticism, it's actually a game I truly want to see made.
I know he's fighting for his freedom and you can't begrudge a man for doing whatever it takes to beat a charge, but I really think this is such a cop-out defense and I wish he had the balls to act like the same person he pretended to be when he was writing his grand manifestos about freedom of choice and individual rights.

Whatever Ulbricht himself may be, whether or not the murder for hire allegations are true, however he might have gone about running Silk Road, the libertarian ideals that justify the existence of Silk Road should have their day in court. But that won't happen here, because his defense relies on Silk Road being a terrible thing that somebody else did.
"Then, when the sacred months have passed,
slay the idolaters wherever ye find them,
and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush."

Peaceful stuff eh? "This verse is often cited to justify attacks of Muslims on non-Muslims both in classical exegesis and in contemporary jihadism" according to Wikipedia.
An Open Letter to the People Who Brought Us HIPAA
Interesting thread, and I feel it applies to me too... I just recently left my role as a VP Engineering in a 20 people startup. I think there is some disparity here as I am UK based and titles here are a bit different...

When I started, there were already a few people working on it, but because of an office move, nobody stayed. In a way, I am engineer #1, just with some code to maintain already. I had experience as a lead engineer already, but my job here was much tougher, I had to change my role every 6 months, from only coding to only devops, hiring, managing, doing all tech strategy choices, doing resource allocation, doing management meetings, etc...

I was eager to improve as a manager, but I still loved coding. It was very hard to hear that the company was hiring a CTO and leave me no authority. Now that person is full-time.

I tried to be very clear about it, I am aware of my strengths and weaknesses. I also fully understand that a founder needs to think about what's best for the business and not just people's carreers. I also made it clear I was there to learn, but the reality is that I never felt I was given a chance.

I stayed there a few months to get some learning from the new CTO, vest some more options and then I left. I left because the situation was toxic for me, with a mixture of resentment and miscommunication from their side. I personally think there's not much you can do in those cases... just start again.

Now onto the next adventure...
Ah, the 'Keyser Soze' defense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyser_S%C3%B6ze
Nice! Needs abominable snow monster though... :-)
Excellent point. I wonder if it would be feasible to put this kind of check in a pre-commit pipeline to prevent it actually getting committed in the first place.
On the other hand, here is contrary reference: http://www.ratical.org/corporations/Lincoln.html

Not interested really in figuring out the real source. There's enough substance to the quote that I think it stands on its own.
The Big Five has a lot of external validity (as do the regression estimates of Big Five, if you read the paper), so that's fine. If things like Conscientiousness really do predict income, longevity, etc, then even if they're a 'self-judgment', why is that a problem.
Pantagonia... sounds like I'd like the weather there
More importantly, what happens when you exceed that limit? I don't see any mention of per-request pricing, so will they just shut off your DNS if you exceed the quota?
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From an economics standpoint, local "optimum" can be easily evaluated by looking at the cost of labor. Labor is expensive in the US, significantly more than herbicides, and weeding is extremely labor intensive.

However, that ignores the long term costs, which may be what you are alluding to. Farms don't operate at huge profit margins, so they cannot compete with each other if they started hiring significantly more labor. One primary feature of governance is passing on long-term expected costs (e.g. ecological collapse and unemployment) to citizens/businesses optimizing for short-term profitability.

In this case, you would want the government to somehow identify each farm's contribution to the ecological cost, and figure out how to pass that cost along. One possibility would be a pollution style tax.

If herbicides all of a sudden cost significantly more due to taxes, then other solutions (like labor) will become more common.

Our society also benefits from an increase in the number of jobs, which may have also been what you meant by "optimum". Creating meaningless jobs (e.g. picking/weeding when you could use a machine for less) does not add any long term economic value itself, though it does increase stability. It would be more efficient to just tax the economic base, though, and use the money for something economically more productive than weeding.
Will you be releasing an android version?
I'm a current namecheap customer as well. When I have to use your management interface for something, I feel like I've been transported back in time to a cpanel interface ca. 1999. I have 25 some odd domains but you can't show them all to me at once unless I expand preferences and select "all" which, by the way, I have to do every time I navigate back to the list.

It's a minor quip (and just one off the top of my head), granted, and otherwise I'm a happy customer, but am very tempted to migrate as well as my domains come up for renewal.

Any screenshots or other indications of where you might be going?
Looks great! Reminds me of http://www.mythicmtn.com/
Should be corrected to the non-mobile link: http://cacm.acm.org/news/181137-thats-traffic-up-next-weathe...