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by lhl 12y ago
Sure the US wants a trial, but it's important to note that in Espionage Act cases it'd basically be a show trial. Whistleblowing, intent, public interest, even constitutional defenses are inadmissible [1]. In fact the prosecution
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by lhl 12y ago
While the BBB may be more reliable, it's still not rock solid - I've been working on an embedded project w/ heavy USB usage and the BBB seems to have occasional, but unavoidable and hard to diagnose hard lockups every couple
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by lhl 12y ago
It looks like the prices for Berlin are a bit more reasonable on the spreadsheet now (but not the site yet), but yeah, considering there were 1000+ <€30/night listings just on AirBnB when I was looking last month... it seems like th
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by lhl 12y ago
I've been using SQLite in production with a few dozen kiosk-style systems (mostly OSX Mac Minis w HDDs) for a few years and while it's generally been great to work with, with unexpected power loss, I've intermittently gotten
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by lhl 12y ago
I haven't gotten myself in the headspace to watch this yet, but perhaps also of interest for those who are is Quinn Norton's recent essay marking the release of the documentary: https://medium.com/message/the-
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by lhl 12y ago
The TK1 is probably worth testing out and looks at least marginally faster in most tests, but it's worth pointing out that it seems nowhere near as much faster as its specs might suggest, and stability running under constant load is st
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by lhl 12y ago
The scenario where Upcoming excelled, or at least the one that that seemed to "convert" users and why I think 10yrs later it's still so fondly remembered (looking at the response on Twitter has been nice) is when Upcoming tol
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by lhl 13y ago
The current RPi A is about 2.5W, so already pretty cheap to solar power w a battery/small panel. Search for "solar rpi" etc to find lots of examples. Depending on your use case, the Beaglebone Black is a good alternative and
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by lhl 13y ago
While I'm sure Dalvik contributes, Android has had many more serious issues in terms of user responsiveness. * Android devices have very laggy touch responsiveness in general, while this is something Apple has spent considerable effort
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by lhl 13y ago
Is there public data/or a spreadsheet/simulator for eye/relief:fov (I assume data for the A-C cups aren't relevant anymore) and accounting for binocular overlap? Also is there technical documentation on the prewarp shade
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by lhl 13y ago
DK1 is ~110° diagonal, 90° horizontal, roughly equivalent (and varies a fair amount w/ the lenses you use). For comparison, the HMZs OP references are a HFOV of about 45°.
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by lhl 13y ago
GDC is going on right now - this announcement was at GDC! Oculus is likely to announce DK2 at a session tomorrow: Wednesday, March 19 | 11:00am-12:00pm (PDT) Working with the Latest Oculus Rift Hardware and Software (Presented by Oculus VR)
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by lhl 13y ago
The display is LCD so will be interesting to see how they do on persistence, but the FOV is 90 degrees horizontal - about the same as Oculus' units. Full PR here: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sony-comput
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by lhl 13y ago
Simulator sickness is different from motion sickness. That is, there may be low simulator sickness, but it turns out that pulling 9G turns or rocket jumping while running backwards at 40MPH, while not a problem on regular computer screens w
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by lhl 13y ago
Yes, compare the absolute stagnation of HMD development over the past 20 years to the leaps and bounds from the Carmack demo at E3 2012, DK1 in Q1 2013, Crystal Cove at CES 2014 and DK2/CV1 in Q4 2014. IMO, we're in for a wild rid
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by lhl 13y ago
Hmm, on Mac, my dev kit is plug and play. While DK1 has very low pixel density, these numbers increase fast as resolution scales. CV1 will be at least 1080p, and more likely 1440p, which increases PPI from ~14 w/ DK1 to 19 or 26, respe
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by lhl 13y ago
There aren't guarantees in life, but I think you're wholly misunderstanding the scale we're talking about. Visa processes about 200M transactions/day. Almost $17B/day. These are not small numbers. I think you&#x27
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by lhl 13y ago
All payment processors take currency risk. Coinbase has an interesting approach by also being an exchange and doing some algorithmic arbitrage. The current volatility isn't inherent to the protocol, it's just a function of market
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by lhl 13y ago
As a followup, someone apparently flew from Australia to Japan to try to get his BTC and has just posted an interesting writeup: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x9gue/my_protest_a... MtGox has
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by lhl 13y ago
I've stayed away from MtGox due to their issues w/ fiat transfers from last year (which seem to be ongoing), however, technical problems aren't a new thing for them over the years. I've heard not so great things about th
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by lhl 13y ago
While obviously it's a fundamental thing to teach/cover the various data types (or at least how '1', 1, and 1.0 are different since they'll be encountering this over and over if they continue programming), on a prac
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by lhl 13y ago
Yes, I'm interested in hearing about this as well. OS X comes not only w/ Python 2.7, but also easy_install. Getting IPython Notebook up and running is a single command: sudo easy_install ipython[all] Personally, I think IPython
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by lhl 13y ago
Yeah, it's a concept/great project, but I agree that 'bro' just carries way too much negative connotations (even besides the gender politics, I think the idea of "brogrammers" is pretty divisive). So here'
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by lhl 13y ago
zyxley, have you found any other good options? One issue it seems w/ all these services is it seems like it's easy to setup w/ a Form 1583, but none of these guys provide any sort of forwarding options for when you want to ca
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by lhl 13y ago
I'm looking into Earth Class Mail and alternatives right now, and I think more modern/advanced competition could definitely do well (and leverage most of what Outbox has built). Right now these services mostly target a very niche
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by lhl 13y ago
According to this report, NK's 3G network is about to hit 2M subscribers (almost 10% of the population): http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/26/koryolink-nears-2-m... It mentions offering (NK-only) web
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by lhl 13y ago
I think that in the NK scenario, meeting offline would be one of the last things that would happen. Just being able to anonymously communicate with each other would be pretty revolutionary, as so much of the way the society functions is bas
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by lhl 13y ago
One of the things that occurred to me was that flooding the market with cheap Android tablets/smartphones would be pretty interesting. Even more interesting would be if they came w/ Chinese/South Korean sim cards w/ data
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by lhl 13y ago
While I'm ok w/ the general principle of hellbanning (done properly, it can be a very effective way of tarpitting trolls/spammers) I don't think HN's implementation is very good. New accounts start w/ 0 karma a
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by lhl 13y ago
The Oculus doesn't have gaze detection built in right now, but there are actually at least two consumer eye tracking products coming out (focused on gamers). One is the Tobii EyeX http://www.tobii.com/en/eye-experi

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