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Ask HN: Creating content for VR spaces (long question in text)
So I'm a creative that works a lot in video and music. I've enjoyed the benefits of the democrization of video and audio production over the last 15 years. I think I'm typical of a lot of artists now that love that I can fairly easily express an idea by getting a crew together and making something.

Currently I find myself at a pretty sweetspot with wear the internet is in terms of video. If you've got a decent HD camera, production knowledge, and creativity - you can etch out an okayish living.

However, I've beeen around, and I know how fast stuff changes. I know Oculus isn't going to take off overnight and be something for everybody, but with the maturation of technlologies such as Google Glass, I was wondering what you guys think the upcoming VR landscape / augmented reality will mean for people like me? Will there be greater barriers for entry to create content for this market than there currently is? To me, right now is a golden age, but I feel that once VR / AR becomes mainstream, then content may be harder for low-mid tier creators like myself.
yep. They recently changed it to 1000. At the time, I found out that for whatever reason the minimum number was 7.

I'm pretty sure LinkedIn ads weren't intended to have a picture of the guy's face who you're targeting as the ad though!
Since you seem to know what you're talking about - can you explain: if the system can be accessed and controlled remotely, why it can't be patched remotely?
Where does your inherent trust in Government come from?

It has nothing to do with the Government, but the sequence:

1- Company needs gatekeeper approval for a deal with some entity.
2- Gatekeeper approves deal on suspiciously very good terms for the company, bad terms for the entity, like paying 500 dollars fee for something they make millions.
3- The gatekeeper ends making millions on the company check.

...is part of corruption 101. While it happens all the time it is corruption. I have seen it myself too many times. I have seen people decide invading a country with huge benefits for some industry, then this industry hiring the guy on luxury terms.
If we're playing the pedant game, what I said was:

> In the process they created the canonical example of a console first-person shooter

Whatever one thinks about Microsoft's involvement in Halo, it wasn't going to be a console game at all without them. And I don't think it's the game that changes the whole industry if it's not the game that brought PC's biggest genre to consoles in a way that made them feel like they belonged there.
The service provides "(and a bit of research)" to those people whose time to DIY is worth more than the $$$ they pay to have it DIY'd.
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Sure.. it was straightforward to track down once you see that a value is in a register but is being collected anyway. I seem to remember the other fun bits were the fact that function pointers were not actually function pointers.. they were pointers into a giant lookup table that contained a struct that contained the actual address of the call. Also, unwinding the stack was so complicated that you could not reasonably do it manually like on nearly any other architecture -- you needed to link in an Intel library to do it. None of these things were giant issues -- it just showed how much of a departure from other prevalent systems it was.
I'm pretty sure that "mail" means the post office, not email. So you would receive a physical postcard.
"a public Youtube comment that was once authored by user LordofPants, but thanks to G+ real name policy is now known to the public world as John Smith"

Are you saying the real-name policy was retroactive? I wasn't aware of that. If that was the case, wow.
the evolution of my role at Vungle would be a bit of a longer story. I wouldn't describe it as being 'pushed out' exactly.
But I feel that my business partner scaled with the company a lot better than I did personally. Me leaving certainly wasn't as dramatic/interesting as something like the Twitter founding story for example.
Right, the problem with Vinay's explanation is that it requires people to have deep understanding of blockchains already. I'd recommend to anyone who wants to understand ethereum to first perform some Bitcoin transactions, to get an intuitive feel for the appeal of blockchains.

But the big difference is that programs in ethereum run on the "protocol level" not the hardware level. This means that correct execution of all programs is a necessary step before two ethereum nodes can talk to each other, this gives very high guarantees of correct and transparent execution beyond what other systems allow.
I think the fact that the company didn't get the same treatment as others under his watch is pretty much the textbook definition of evidence of preferential treatment.
To take a slightly different example, when I lived in Canada I was a member of a group trying to remove barriers to FLOSS in the Canadian government. One of the things we often talked about was our concern that people with purchasing authority in IT sometimes took early retirement from the government as soon as they could get full pension. They would then take up various positions in Microsoft in their retirement.

The concern was that there was an implicit agreement that if the people with purchasing authority made sure that Microsoft products were pushed through, they would be able to retire early, draw their pension and also receive a salary from MS. Indeed, Corel once won a lawsuit showing that the Canadian government was making RFPs which specified that the software had to come from MS (which is against Canadian government policy).

Of course it makes considerable sense for companies to hire retired government insiders to help them with strategy and/or lobbying. There is no way to prove that there was any wrong doing while the person was a government employee. There are also no conflict of interest guidelines that can apply since the person is no longer a government employee.

It does, however, raise the question about whether or not the appointment is actually the payment on a bribe for services rendered. While such an allegation requires proof, it is important to stay alert to these kinds of things.
> Marginal cost generally increases after a while

That is possible, but I would generally expect the opposite with economies of scale.
And you're still banking there? That sounds kind of serious...
Because Facebook had it from the beginning. Nobody wants to put their real legal name on their YouTube comments they've made in last 8-10 years.
Yeah, maybe the specific implementation here isn't so great.
There must be a lot of retardnesses to believe Uber does not make the world better by helping millions of drivers and travellers, when both volunteerly involved.
Gotcha, yes -- it comes from understanding the system and its optimum. Certainly not from mindlessly advocating for either extreme.
You're citing the oxford dictionary. If you look at the example sentences, the latter two cases are figurative, not literal. Only the first definition refers to literal slavery.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...

However, I agree there's ambiguity. One of the additional example sentences of the first definition includes a case where the slavery was illegal.

If someone is held as a slave and effectively beyond the reach and help of the law, then it does them little good to know that their situation is technically not tolerated by society.

But citing the latter two definitions of slavery from Oxford is not a good way of making this point. Those definition are incorrect, when referring to literal slavery.

Probably what most people mean when they say slave is something like "a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them, or a person who is illegally held as such yet beyond the recourse of the law"

[Click on "more examples sentences" to see the broader meaning of the definitions cited]
I don't think it amounted to any performance issue because SM was only using the setjmp() buffer in that way as a shortcut to get all of the register values in a buffer to scan linearly. Since there was the RSE backing store, there was an extra block of memory to scan regardless, but you're still talking about a reasonably bounded area only scanned on each GC run, which is not a frequent (to the processor) event.
For my Xiaomi Redmi 1S running MIUI 6, the instructions are:

Go to Settings -> Messaging -> Additional Settings -> Auto-retrieve MMS and toggle the settings to off.
As an additional datapoint:

In my -and my lady friend's- experience, TextSecure is the the only app to correctly handle MMS group chat. We tried the stock Android app, the stock Samsung app, and Hangouts. They all failed to do the right thing in one way or the other.
I commenced my boycott of Nestle products the very same day their head honcho asserted that water is not a human right. There are many other good reason not to purchase Nestle's wares it's just that that single statement drove home my understanding that Nestle employers and stockholders are notorious criminals.

My boycott is difficult not just because I enjoy many Nestle products but because it is not always easy to determine what products Nestle actually makes. I have learned to read product labels very very carefully.

Many fine foods and beverages that were once prepared by other, independent businesses that are now Nestle subsidiaries. Even if Nestle does not own the manufacture it distributes their products.

Just for grins, read the ingredients from a few Nestle foods soldin the United States, fly to Geneva then read the ingredients of their Swiss products. One of the greatest scams in all of human history resulted in American children drinking nonfat milk.

Here in Vancouver I drink "Swiss Chocolate Milk", made in the United States b Alpenrose with whole milk.

For a parent to feed their children nonfat
milk is child abuse.
That is a very misleading title. At first I thought it was confirmed that the propulsion was impossible... After reading the article, turns out it _is_ possible, it's just that it should not be.
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We don't yet know that other companies weren't treated with similar incompetence.

While I'm skeptical of Zimmerman's actions here, and am inclined to believe that there is apparent corruption, that does not mitigate that corruption has not been shown to be apparent... yet.

It's neither impossible nor unlikely that there are dozens of other companies working with similarly expired licenses, or under similar states of neglect.

(Note, this is speculative. I don't honestly even know if the forest service has any others extracting water from them, so I could be totally off-base, but as bad as this looks, it's worth reserving judgement for something less circumstantial.)
It's not, there would need to be evidence that substantially similar permits did not receive the same treatment.
Actually a lot of ancestors did stop asking. I think that is established fact, not theory, as even today it is easy to find people who disbelieve even basic science when it contradicts a religious view.

But fortunately, as you point out, not everyone stops asking questions.
I've also include my notes on keyboards, mice, and programming by voice.
Im with you on the Snapchat development. Once many people got on there they leveraged it in really cool ways. It's very interesting how they turned an app which people used for nudes and what not into one that advertisers now pay toooons of money to certain content creators.
Well, more precisely, aliens who are transmitting something akin to the Arecibo message:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message

Except we only sent ours once in 1974, so aliens who didn't happen to be listening in the right direction right then are out of luck.
Thank you for posting this, I was beginning to go insane with all the deep learning hysteria.

I would encourage everybody here to purchase a neuroscience textbook. Then, if you see an AI researcher, bash them over the head with it.
I've heard of others having this problem with Skype before, so after reading your story, I investigated how to find this information. The process in this link definitely results in a date that is in the right general ballpark. I haven't had cause to authenticate my ID with this date however.

http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-archive/Account-questi...

Because this method exists, verifying by incept date is kind of stupid on MS's part. A hacker would also, if he's got control over your account and has you logged in on his device, be able to perform this procedures.
That's a good argument in favor of keeping time zones, but it's not why we have them.

The reason we have time zones is because people started keeping time long before fast travel and communication made it necessary to consider what time it was on the other side of the mountain, let alone the world. The reason we keep them is because the status quo is hard to change.
Great stuff!

I work for one of the large mining company in AU, and doing compliance training sometimes is like pulling teeth. There are a lot of things that can be done to improve the experience and this seems to be heading into the right direction.

In my industry specifically, some of the stuff we need to be able to do:

- link compliance to operational sites (i.e. site-specific induction)

- link compliance to specific (pre-determined) roles

- remind users to refresh their compliance training (e.g. retake every 12 months)

- courses needs to be easy to edit and amend (seems you already have this sorted)

- most importantly, we need to be able to self-host it. We run remote sites with limited bandwidth (which makes video stream a challenge), so being able to do a mixed deployment (i.e. hosted for site personnel and remote / cloud for potential contractors will be a great help).
So, it seems to be "computational currency". Is it too much to ask that something that'd like to be a currency manages to have proper SSL certs?

(Both Chrome and FF reject the issuer certificate)
My team handles this by committing to personal dev branches, then reviewing relatively small merges to mainline. If a review is in progress and you want to work on changes that depend on the code in review, you make another dev branch from the review commit. Then you merge any changes back in after the review is done.

Ordinarily this final merge is fairly painless, since you ideally won't have many code reviews that call for sweeping changes in your design. If you do, that's a sign of failure earlier in the process.
That is a stereotype, and a rather crude caricature of what happens after funding. Anyway, that seems to be your opinion, but out of curiosity how many companies have you personally witnessed this happen in?
Distrust in the government comes from the framers of the Constitution.
Some pretty critical reception here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/3eriyg/the...
Wuldn't a Raspberry Pi 1 (with emulators) work much better? It's just $25, runs 1-4th generation console games as well as MAME games.

Raspberry Pi 2 can do even more for $35 http://blog.petrockblock.com/retropie/
One way to dampen Microsoft's enthusiasm is to spread the word that in the entire confederation of Canada it is a civil offense to denote yourself as an Engineer of any sort unless you are a licensed Processional Engineer.

A computer science degree does not count; one needs a software engineering degree and that is quite a different thing.

If you happen to spot any Microsoft Certified Solution Engineers the Ontario Society of Engineers will be happy to have a jury tear them a new one.

Most offensive to me is that one can develop industrial control system software provided one's job title is "computer programmer". I kept insisting that we were software engineers then resigned in protest from Trihedral.
alot of 12's in that article
Get used to it. I used to do federal contracting. The biggest contract I was on was to do a bunch of work for one of the smaller three letter agencies.

The total amount of work encompassed many areas, and as such was a long, expensive project (to my standards, but not necessarily for government work) -- I think the project was slated to take approximately five years and cost approximately $50 million.

Despite incessant changes, we were closing in on finishing the project on time and on budget, but in year 4, the project was scrapped (after having spent the majority of the money) because nobody had planned on how to fund it in year 6, and the organization decided that instead of spending the remaining money going through the motions, they'd just pocket what was left over and apply it to their operating budget, which was (naturally) under-funded.

We built a smallish data center, procured water-proof routers, cameras, built websites and data processing workflows, all on the assumption that at the end of year 5, they'd actually USE the things we built and bought for them. Turns out, that was naive.
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I think you have your numbers backwards.
Hmmm, I guess your argument is that Apple could prevent San Francisco from being usable as a font in even a desktop word processor, so you can't make an error message in that font and screenshot it?

It seems like this boils down to DRM on the font -- only making it accessible to Apple-signed applications (not even to third-party apps, since I can write a third-party app that pops up a custom error message and then take a screenshot of my app). This is untenable for the usual reasons that DRM is untenable.
FB's threaded replies also only go 1 deep.
I sometimes think (maybe hope) that the purpose of sending Voyager into deep space is to, some day, give someone an excuse to make a quick detour to pick it up and bring it home.
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I really tried to visit http://burrito.nyc.us.gov. It was all a lie.

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Without time zones I'll still know that it's somewhere between 12 and 2am. Good enough for that purpose.

Missing a phone call, WoW raid or whatever else I plan on the net by an hour is less forgiving.
Handy, a hot startup for home cleaning, has a big mess of its own
The funny part here is that the real problem is the complicated and non-free-market based rules of the games when it comes to water consumption. Cleaning up the rules and making them fair is the responsibility of the government and I think Sacramento completely to blame here. Of course, the current situation gives the California government the ability to trade political support for water rights. But this is not something anyone talks about.
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Its like this guy who was looking for a date using Adwords and Facebook ads! ha good read thanks for sharing
The first article stalls out when I try to load it.

Here you go:

Use of marijuana for chronic pain, neuropathic pain, and spasticity due to multiple sclerosis is supported by high-quality evidence. Six trials that included 325 patients examined chronic pain, 6 trials that included 396 patients investigated neuropathic pain, and 12 trials that included 1600 patients focused on multiple sclerosis. Several of these trials had positive results, suggesting that marijuana or cannabinoids may be efficacious for these indications.
>Surely, Zimmerman's position as forest supervisor actually makes him more credible than a biologist and a permit administrator?

Wait, you mean the guy who was in charge when the permit review died of inattention?
There was a similar story on reddit a month ago; internet detectives "ENHANCE-ed" a photo and determined that the driver could not taken an incriminating photo at the time they claimed to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/399rp1/please_h...
You heard that one soundbite and didn't even look at the context.

From this article (http://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/24/nestle-chairman-time-to-turn-...):
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"Water is a human right. I fully agree with that," Brabeck-Letmathe said, noting that the around 30 liters a day needed for basic living should be provided without charge to those who can't afford it. But that amount is only accounts for around 1.5 percent of the fresh water destroyed daily, he said.

He's more concerned about the other 98.5 percent. "I don't think it's a human right to fill up a swimming pool. I don't think it's a human right to wash cars. I don't think it's a human right to water a golf course," he said.
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How do you feel about that quote now?
"Farmers in general blame housing."

Farmers in general are talking out of the wrong end of their trousers.

http://water.usgs.gov/edu/wuir.html
I'm so sorry. If it makes you feel any better, it got me too, earlier today.
I think that is over-complication of informercial proportions.

edit: Though the days of the week point I don't have an answer for. Religious holidays are easy, they would follow the old calendar, but I'm not sure how the days would work otherwise.
Is there an API and intents for this?
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I got a visual from this comment that I don't think I'll ever get rid of. So disturbing, sad, and enraging all at once.
This is what backports is all about. More up to date packages from sid, built for the current stable release.

If you're a heavy erlang user you could also consider helping to support the Debian packages for it, I'm sure they'd (Debian erlang team) appreciate any help offered.
We only have 4 major banks here. Not much of a choice.
'Maxicode' uses a hexagonal pattern to encode the data - it's probably how this idea would evolve if you wanted to store the data in the pattern itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxiCode
> it created a text-based record of all objects and their movements on the screen,

Also known as what every single ID Engine / GoldSource / Source[1] / Unreal Engine / many more engines do for records and replays, except they do it in a binary format. It's not exactly a novel idea.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/DEM_Format
The thing Google really fails to understand is the cognitive burden imposed by all of their byzantine rules. I didn't mind creating multiple accounts for YouTube versus G+ and the like, the same way I have one account name for HN and another on Fark.

If I'm forced to create a single account, now I have to take the time to understand how it works and what it exposes to the world. I have better things to do than to try to keep up with Google's business model du jour and anticipate the many ways they might alter the deal in the future to my disadvantage. It's so much simpler for me to do the worst thing for Google that they can possibly imagine, which is to ignore their offerings altogether.

I think that's how they ended up with a ghost town full of millions of unused Google+ accounts.
By a mile this http://www.whatsupbro.co/
Sadly, it never realized its full potential!
Here in BC Canada, nestle has been tapping our natural water resources for free. They have been tapping a well in hope bc

Our government in turn setup a deal where nestle pays $2.25 CAD per million litres of water they extract starting in 2016.

They took 265 million litres last year, what a farce, they will only by charged about 600$ a year at the new price... Better than nothing but still... I pay out of my ass for water.

Nestle in turn sells bottled water for about $1 to $3 per litre...

Recent article on the matter: http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/british-columbia/nestlé-b-c-...
Messaging on my Moto G (Android 4.4.4) does not have this setting.

Edit: Messaging (default app) doesn't have this setting, but Messenger does. I tried Hangouts for awhile but didn't like it.
As people have pointed out, this tag is reliant on the service operating. What about using Bitcoin's blockchain to store URLs/bytes? Make the tag a digest of a public key. Physical and digital graffiti.
You may not be able to directly help those currently enslaved by this system. But you can stop consuming the products that it produces, and encourage your friends and family to stop consuming these products.
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