skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to note that Yosemite is not "the world" but a particular place.

While a National Park is owned by the government, in limiting allowed activities in the park, the Park Service is actually exercising the same rights that a private property owner has - you are the Park Services guests, the Park Service can request that you reframe from engaging in a variety of activities and naturally has a variety of reasons.

That's the way, uh, capitalism worked the last time I checked. In "the World", I would suppose that private property owners who like BASE jumping would be able to sponsor it on their land. Then if the state steps in with restrictions, we can complain about nanny states and such.
So none of the verifiability/security, all of the hassle?

Right, that sounds very much like the "age-old tradition of UNIX/Linux GUI".
> I'll give a simple example: Burrough's 1961 product

But the key there is "simple" - I imagine that's a tiny fraction of the size and complexity of a modern smartphone ecosystem. Scaling it up to a device that can be manufactured at a profit and will sell hundreds of millions is surely more involved than "we could adopt such methods relatively inexpensive today".
When I travel, I bring an empty cycling water bottle with me and send it through the x-ray with the top off so it's obviously empty. Once through security, I fill it up in a water fountain and hydrate for free.
I think the drug laws are one of the main reason that cops have isolated themselves from non-LEO. When was the last time you went to a party or even a dinner party and an off-duty police officer was present? The LEOs are isolating because they know that if they witness a crime such as drug use they can get in trouble if they don't report it. To avoid this they don't socialize outside other LEOs which I think reinforces the us vs them or citizen vs non-citizen distinction that needs to be broken down. The internet has really helped as some cops do participate in public forums and this type of socializing is crucial so that cops and cop culture are more integrated with civil society.
@evo-9, All of your observations and concerns suggest a really superficial understanding of VR in general and Oculus in particular.

Do a Google search for recent lectures by John Carmack. If you have any serious interest in the field, you won't find a more rigorous or illuminating introduction.
Add the word "phenomenon" to your search.
Can You Know a Stranger by Looking Them in the Eye?
I really want VR computer monitors so that I sit at a desk with no monitors so that I can run 4,5,6, any number I want or just 1 big monitor. Also it would give me a lot more privacy as no one else could see my monitors unless I shared the monitor to them which I imagine would be a little easier to do with virtual monitors than when physical ones (even considering screen sharing which is iffy sometimes).
But how many of those PC gamers have large powerful computers adequate for use with VR?
Nope, I remember numbered evaluators like lc-0 lc-1. Thanks anyway.
Yep, that's often true. Still think it's fair in this case, for the reasons explained above. 60 million are A LOT of people.
Speaking of languages in assembly. Here is a Java virtual machine in assembly language:

https://github.com/k1w1/javelin-stamp/blob/master/asm/javeli...

Until I looked at it again now I had forgotten my favorite instruction, a nop to avoid a bug in the silicon:

https://github.com/k1w1/javelin-stamp/blob/master/asm/javeli...
Since Oculus sold to Facebook I dropped them like a hot potato, and am instead embracing Valve's main platform for SteamBox the HTC Vive. That being said, where I think VR will really take off is going to a combination of VR and human brain interface (including gaze tracking) in order to get past some of the limitations of human interface design we have been stuck on for so long (mouse/keyboard/joystick)
Red is the conventional color for how to depict oxygen. Blue is the conventional color for nitrogen.

The convention is called "CPK coloring" after Robert Corey, Linus Pauling, and Walter Koltun. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPK_coloring .
Like all cities, it gets thoroughly screwed by the State

I'm no expert on this, but I can think of important counterexamples, so I'm not sure this is true at all.

Counterexample #1 - New York. It seems that this name is pretty much synonymous with the city plus a bit of surrounding area, and the upstate regions are completely forgotten. In particular, the areas that have to host NYC's water supply get particularly hosed: their economies are significantly based on tourism and fishing, but the flow of the Upper Delaware is entirely governed by NYC needs, ignoring the fish. Further, the State has banned fracking, largely in order to guarantee the integrity of the reservoirs, and at the expense of the only opportunity that those living on the Marcellus Shale have to escape their rut.

Counterexample #2 - Austin, TX. Again relating to water, it seems that the city gets priority access to water (a scarce commodity in much of TX). Lake Travis and Lake Buchanan were sacrificed, emptying to something around 30% capacity (I forget the exact numbers) until our recent floods, so that Ladybird Lake (the center of the city) could be kept beautiful and full - and they're even talking about building a water park. So suburban and rural interests were subordinated to aesthetics in the city.
Kevin has come across publicly as a bit of a brat, but when he asked his friends to leave their jobs and join Milk, he promised them a certain return, even if it flopped and had to give them his own money.

I've always respected that.
I was equally surprised by the on-ear style headphones. I'm sure the design team thought about the choice in depth and has good reasons behind it, but I would have imagined over-ear to be better for immersion (personally I find them more comfortable as well).
I agree these are questions for a tax pro. Also, I think the gift tax and rules are different for related vs non-related parties. If you pulled $100K in "gifts" from a Kickstarter project I'd bet the IRS would rule that as income, if they haven't already.
Really? What games have you found that the trackpad has worked well on? I haven't played too many PS4 games, but every game that's implemented that trackpad hasn't done it in a way that I feel like it's been to my benefit.
I don't think you understood his comment so here goes. VR is like going to the movies, where you are focused on a single thing and everything else isn't important. The people beside and behind you are dark and you don't focus on them, you focus on the movie. AR is like using a smart phone, you use it to talk to people, find restaurants and reviews, direct you via a map, tell you about locations around you, so many things can be done with smartphones. AR is that, using the world around you to give you more information.
I'm curious as to why you think that freedom of hand motion is essential for VR. Certainly I can think of many VR experiences where it would be useful, but I can think of just as many where having discreet inputs (buttons) would be preferable.

For example, a spaceship piloting game that allows the players head to rotate and look out the windows could very easily be controlled with a traditional gamepad.
They're no where near the screen resolution needed for that.
I know. But rightly or wrongly I personally believe the reach of VR long term extends a lot further than just gaming.
Considering eBay and Amazon fees, OpenBazaar might be quite disruptive.
I've thought a lot about this as well. There's one big problem I see with this: your eyes would get really tired. The nice thing about having a real-world monitor is that your eyes get a lot of ambient light as well. So, if Microsoft can really develop and evolve their HoloLens, that could be one solution to this problem since ambient light would come through the transparent display.

Update: as other people have mentioned, the resolution is also not quite there yet with the Oculus to have a convincing virtual desktop.
The difference between a baton and a sword.
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Your use case is particularly apt for frequent fliers. I've almost had a tray table-supported laptop destroyed on more than one occasion by a reclining passenger in front of me. It would be amazing to just set up a small keyboard+trackpad on my lap and not have to even pull the computer out of its bag.

If I could do this, I wouldn't even care how ridiculous I looked.
Do you? I can't imagine why anyone would want to strap something to their head that would make the programming experience more tiring than looking at a monitor for 6-8 hours a day, which this surely will. Ditto the speculation that this could somehow be a transformative social experience.
Seems like that's something you could easily suss out in an interview if you asked him questions about his code on github.
Exactly. If you look at airports that face actual, active threats (israel) - you'll see they've minimized security lineups.
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If you think that's the only reason, you should look into the additional dev costs of building modern games on mac and linux.
I am seeing a keynote mentioned in the comments, but I don't see anything about that on this website.

Could someone point me toward this keynote? I would very much like to watch it, thanks!
Does anyone know if the issues people were reporting with simulator sickness have lessened with the version they plan to sell?

see: https://forums.oculus.com/viewtopic.php?t=5127&start=20
> The SNAP-R process takes about 3 days and can be done entirely online.

True, but last time I looked at it (late 2012) the legalese was intimidating enough that I didn't feel comfortable attempting it without consulting a lawyer. Since the app was just a personal side project, paying for a lawyer wasn't an option and I chose to restrict my app to sale in the US and Canada only. (Which doesn't require any government filing at all.)

All because I wanted to access a backend service over HTTPS. It's mind-boggling that my app can be called "encryption software" because it calls a shared library built into the operating system.
The edit distance between two strings L and S, where |L| >= |S|, is at most |L|. For any number n and string W, a DFA can be built which accepts an input IFF its edit distance to W is < n. Such a DFA can be built and run in O(|W|) time.[1]

What's the complexity of a 'binary search' for the edit distance between L and S using this method? The DFA construction complexity grows very fast with respect to n, but we only need log(|L|) DFAs. And the search cut points can be skewed to amortize the growth with respect to n (i.e. first n << |L|/2).

[1] see page 63 of https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=99460367496861516...
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Has there been any news about the Zenimax lawsuit since last June?
What's the news here? Is this just a press release of sorts or new look for the website?
The mainstream experience will be on high-end smartphones, not PCs. When Carmack and Facebook talk about getting a billion users into VR, this is how they plan to do it.
So what did you end up doing with it ? ... How did you replace it ?
What do you see instead of red?
It will be interesting to see how all the R libraries play with Spark. There are bound to be some hiccups there.
I love this. My first (toy) compiler was bootstrapped a similar way, though much more ad-hoc (I didn't write a formal grammar until I was well into it). Back then a lot of compilers were written in assembler, so it wasn't such an unusual starting point - I assume I was drawing inspiration from e.g. PDQ (a public domain Pascal implementation for the Amiga) and others that I think I would have seen first.

I started basically by having the compiler do very basic parsing of M68k assembler and just pass everything that looked like assembler straight through.

Then I added support for defining functions, but all the content of functions was still assembler. Then I started adding expression support and things like local variable and types.

I wish I still had the source (lost in a move, long after I stopped doing anything on it) - one of the fun things about it was that I kept the ability to intersperse assembler instructions everywhere - they were treated as normal statements. And the M68k registers were first class variables in the language that could occur in any expression. So e.g. you could write "D0.w = D1.w + a", where D0.w would refer to the low 16 bits of the D0 register, and D1.w the low 16 bits of the D1 register, and "a" would be a variable allocated on the stack.

Basically the features I added were largely guided by what seemed like it'd let me shave more lines off the compiler itself...

You learn a lot about the language you're writing when you bootstrap from asm or try to condence everything into a tiny core - a lot dependencies in the language that are non-obvious becomes a lot clearer.
Yes that makes it supremely clearer. I also found a FastSS implementation, which uses the same d-deletion neighborhood. Here it is: http://fastss.csg.uzh.ch

I am looking at a python implementation for examples.
Prebuilds do work for users that

a) Want something that physically looks good enough to have in their living room - modern prebuilds are sleek and small while making a small-form-factor custom is super-hard

b) Have more money than time. Who has time to track parts compatibility and figure out the upgrade path for your device, only to drop half of the cost of a new unit on your upgrade? There's a reason Apple has been so successful while ignoring upgradeability: the hardware market has never made upgrading easy-enough to be in-reach of the majority of users. While physically installing the parts is simple, compatibility is always frustrating.
National Parks are preserves; they are not playgrounds. You cannot play loud music. You cannot drive off road. You cannot parachute. You cannot hang-glide. You cannot camp anywhere you like. There are many strongly enforced rules to maximize preservation and minimize disturbance.

National Recreation Areas are playgrounds. National Forests are mildly limited playgrounds. National Wildlife Refuges are strongly regulated playgrounds. Using a National Park as a playground is immature self-entitlement.
For anyone interested in seeing Faker's first game, and the series of events that they describe where he kills his lane opponent: http://www.twitch.tv/ongamenet/b/387298731?t=24m28s

Was a pretty one-sided game, but it was as much due to SKT as a team as it was to Faker. I'm not sure where they got that MonteCristo quote from, I don't recall him saying it.
Last time I commented on this topic on HN, someone called Dean a "career criminal".

BASE is dangerous. Wingsuit proximity flying is super dangerous, whether from a helicopter or from an object.

However, humans have spirit and some much more than others. These people are generally awesome. I know a few of them. We should celebrate them, and mourn them. Maybe they aren't the Wright brothers or Chuck Yeager, but there are still frontiers out there and these guys are pushing them back.
I used the rift with the full head tracking this year at PAX East and felt no motion sickness at any point. A lot of the issues in 2013 were fixed when they started tracking full head movement instead of just rotation.

Of course I don't think I'm prone to motion sickness and the demo lasted only about 20 minutes max but I believe that I could wear it for over an hour or more with zero adverse effects.
it's funny because it's true.
I've setup ad-hoc vpn or ssh tunnels when I've had to deal with cases like this... though lately my biggest problem is my carrier (or the mvno). I've been getting <0.3mbps when connected hspa+ with full bars (which used to be close to 10mbps)... I'm not throttled, I only use about 0.3gb/month of the > 5gb before throttling for my account level.

Fortunately, I usually only use trusted wifi at work/home for the most part.
To react to all your points view with my points of view:

1. It's not a display, it's a device that contains a display. It has motion and tracking sensors. What the rift wants to achieve is the latency from input (moving your head) to photon to be really really low. This problem is hard. And to solve it you need to create your own solutions first. In an ideal world everyone would work together to make the best "Rift" that works on all devices, but that is not how capitalism works. This does not mean that we will not see this in the future. Some companies will win the VR battle, and they will probably be the ones to provide the best HMD for multiple devices. Hopefully we will go to a world where we have a HMD standard, but that is just not how new technologies evolve.

2. The Rift is lightweight, and people who have tried the Rift don't even notice the HMD on their head after a couple of minutes.

3. The technology isn't there yet (or too new/not mature) to do it with as low latency as with a cable, but like you said it will be eventually.

4. Agreed. Although they have a grasping button I'm not sure if it will mimick grasping convincingly enough. Playtesting with the actual device will tell us more I think.

5. I think we will see a lot of games that are not FPS oriented to be honest. I didn't see any FPS announcements (except for the dogfighting in space game but that's not really FPS to me). I'm personally not too worried about this.
I did something similar to what you are looking for with my gocleo implementation. I create what I term the Jaccard(sp?) rating, which is the percent something is off by. github.com/jamra/gocleo

You can combine that with a thing like my LevenshteinTrie github.com/jamra/LevenshteinTrie (or if you can create a DAWG, it will be more compresssed)
I think part of the reason base jumping is banned in Yosemite has to do with the spectacle of it. The National Park system was founded with a mission to preserve the serenity of our land, and to give its visitors an opportunity to experience solitude.

But Yosemite Village is a lot like a city today. Unless you get more than a day's hike away from the valley floor, there's no hope of finding solitude or serenity. The Merced, with all its plastic rafts and floaties, looks more like a waterpark than a river. And the campgrounds have more RVs than tents, jammed so close together you can't breathe.

When a guy in a wingsuit is whipping through the valley at 100mph, whooping and hollering, it really is incongruous with the park's mission. As is drone flying, mountain biking, snowmobiling, graffiti-art, and lots of other things that disturb nature.

What would John Muir have thought about BASE jumping?

My feeling is that the restriction should be lifted, probably because it's doing more harm than good, but I think both sides of the argument are convincing, and it's unfair to point the finger at the NPS without trying to honestly understand their motivations. There are a lot of news headlines that read something like, "Rules to Blame in Yosemite Accident", and then leave out the relevant counterpoints.
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I would not call Moldbug obscure; neo-reactionaryism is growing especially in tech circles and legitimizing its source is a dangerous act, not because he will seize power given the platform, but because it communicates a lack of concern with the threat "neo-reactionaryism" or fascism represents.
I typically don't bother to remove "liquids and gels" from my baggage. The detection rate is less than 50%, and even then, they'll only find the most obvious offending water bottle (or whatever). You shrug, say "whoops", and move on.

You could probably claim contact lens solution as a "medically necessary liquid," which is exempt from the rules anyway.
> The mere act of calling it programming is somehow a problem.

There are some words that carry with them unshedable connotations that people want to get away from so strongly that they will call themselves something else at the first possible instant. "Programmer" is one of them.

"Poet" is another. No one makes money from poetry because as soon as a poet makes money they are something else: a musician, a performer, a copy-writer, whatever.

Just don't call them a "poet", because "poets" are poor, sad people with no future, just as "programmers" are neckbearded nerdboys who smell bad, and no matter how many programmers (or poets) fail to live up to those stereotypes people will continue to impose them on reality come hell or high water.
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No. That sounds enticing, and I tried that, but there are just too many things that can go wrong and you'll end up with corrupted repositories.
Also this one http://www.bloomberg.com/500
> I don't understand why Go is so insistent that dependency management is something for the community to solve

The expectation that every new language should come with a dependency management ecosystem is a bit questionable. A lot of major languages' dependency management solutions were created by the community:

Java: Maven, Gradle

Python: PIP

Ruby: Gems

Node.js: NPM

Some of these have been adopted by the official language maintainers, but as far as I know, they originated in the community.
It could have been possible to rebrand or restyle the controller to actually match the headset. It's a bit strange to buy something from them which you could get on a store shelf in Walmart for years. Make it exclusive somehow.
I think people are fine paying for niche things because otherwise they wouldn't exist. Plus with niches the people are generally enthusiasts and spend money in the space anyway so spending an extra few bucks for information they want and can't reliably get elsewhere isn't a big deal.
It doesn't? That must be the reason why so many trivial apps aren't available world-wide. I've always wondered why a publisher wouldn't just click the "worldwide" checkbox.

French iOS users must be missing out even more. Looks like Apple requires extra paperwork for crypto exported to France specifically.
Sounds quality isn't really dependent on circumaural vs supra-aural headphones. The major complaint I hear with supra-aural headphones is that they apply pressure on the ears, which can be unconfortable. Sound quality, however, is largely affected by the drivers.
I normally build. But recently I was helping someone purchase a new desktop. I noticed that it is extremely difficult to match the price of some pre-built systems. What he ended up getting came equipped with a Gigabyte motherboard as well as a load of standard parts that I costed out to be more than the purchase price.
Magic Leap, however, is apparently not exclusively additive
BASE is legal through most of Norway. Those particular sites are closed not because of "numerous deaths", but because the wall has much unstable rock and rescues and body retrievals are too dangerous. There are thousands of legal jumps made every year at (for example) Gridset, very close to Trollveggen.
Ask HN: Joinable slack teams for open source?
I know Socket.io has a slack team set up for their community, curious what other projects are following suit. If you know of any freely joinable slack teams, list them here please.

Socket.io: https://socketio.slack.com/
sadly, this is actually not new and has riddled many forums before.

skype has never allowed that before and, to my knowledge, never communicated why that is. Or if there maybe is a technical reason for it.