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Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc

Whoosh http://youtu.be/9S4cldkdCjE?t=2m19s

Interesting that the functional prototype was 3D printed.

Apparently I can edit the link text, so I've done that. Normally, I'd just go with the title text, but that was was too long to fit, so I had to get a little creative. Thanks for the tip.

This is good news for Oculus, but I worry about them having two locations at such an early stage. They're going to have to work very hard to keep everyone on the same page. Hopefully they're not going to split hardware and software development.

That would be one hell of a glide ratio. A little research on Wikipedia tells me that modern sailplanes get a glide ratio of something like 50:1. It's roughly 350 miles from LA to SF, so you're looking at launching from about 37,000 ft. This sounds doable, but I don't know if it really works like that. Can they keep the same glide ratio at that altitude? What about weather conditions? What about Elon's claim of 30 minutes for the trip?

I missed it in the presentation. Did they say when this will ship to Nexus 4?

Hmm. That path doesn't seem to work on my Nexus 4 running Android 4.2.2. The closest I could find is Settings > Backup & reset > Backup my data (Backup app data, Wi-Fi passwords, and other settings to Google services). Tapping this, it says "Stop backing up your Wi-Fi passwords, bookmarks, other settings, and app data, plus erase all copies on Google servers?". So, it sounds like it's all or nothing.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5849186

If you use your email password for any other site, yes!

Not according to Mythbusters:

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-da...

Agreed. I think Google has enough interaction data (between +1's, comments, and shares) to know what the top posts in any community are. They need to slap the volume control slider that they use on other parts of the site onto the community pages to make it easy to view the top 10, 50, or ... recent posts. Similarly, it would be nice if they allowed the cream of the crop posts from the communities to bleed through to the main page. Discoverability of communities needs a lot of work to, but that's another comment. :)

I think that answers it. Thanks. :)

Thanks. That is what I was asking.

It sort of comes down to the question of what's really being learned here? Are they modeling some inherent process of topics becoming popular (or memes spreading in a population) that could be used in other situations, or are they just modeling some arbitrary algorithm that twitter uses to mark some topics as "trends"? If they're just modeling twitter's existing algorithm, then it's less interesting because that algorithm already exists. Since they're able to detect the trend before twitter does (well, before twitter announces it anyway), then it seems like they're probably onto something more fundamental.

There's something I don't understand about this. It depends on twitter supplying its picks for trending topics. How do you use something like this in general if you're just given the stream of tweets but nothing else?

Lack of prior art should be used to establish novelty, not obviousness. The test for obviousness should be based on the proposed solution, not the problem.

> Do you thing that your HR dept could manage 100 different health care providers? do you think all the providers that you may wish to use are affordable to your company?

Ah, I see where the confusion is coming from. I'm not arguing the the employer should allow you to choose whatever health care provider that you want. I'm saying that I don't understand why they're involved in the process at all.

I don't know if health coverage should be like eating at a restaurant (entirely optional and up to the consumer), like car insurance (required, but you buy it yourself), like the military (you have to pay for it through taxes and have no control over it), like lower education (required and you can go with the government option or pay for a private option out of pocket), like higher education (optional and you can go public or private), etc..., or some sort of combination. At this point, I'd probably lean towards health coverage being required, provided for free for poor people, available through the government(s) for everyone else, and a voucher system for anyone who wants to get it privately (with a regulated level of coverage). All of this would have to be funded through taxes (probably a combination of corporate and personal taxes), but employers wouldn't have to manage it at all.

Based on other comments, I understand why the situation is what it is today (because of tax benefits to both the employer and employee), but I don't understand why it should be this way.

> with ObamaCare, you will still not be able to choose whatever health care provider you want so I don't see how you think that this will help you.

I didn't mention ACA/ObamaCare (maybe you're thinking of someone else?), and don't have much of an opinions on it other than it's so full of compromises that it's unlikely to make anyone happy.

Add a points filter to the new stories page. This would allow people to find potentially interesting stories (say, with 5 points) that haven't made it to the front page yet.

> Does it baffle you that the school location for your kids is so tied to where you live?

No. Kids need to get to school, often by walking/biking. Schools can't afford to bus random kids in from 100 miles away. At least where I live (Ventura County, CA) parents are able to drive their kids to more distant schools if they prefer. As long as schools are a physical location where you have to show up to benefit from, it makes sense for them to be location based. If schools were 100% online, then it wouldn't make sense.

> Does it baffle you that your employer decides how much it wants to pay you as well ... desk ... computer ... 401k ... bonus ... vacation ... etc...

All of those things are either related to the relationship between you and your employer. The 401k thing is a little funny. I'd rather take the cash and manage it myself. I'm assuming your point is that health care plans are just another form of compensation and if you don't like what's offered, quit and work somewhere else that offers something better. The problem is that 1) coverage chosen by the employer can change every year, 2) you can't get the same coverage at the same price on your own or at a small company, and 3) it's non-optimal because it bundles unrelated things and requires you, as a "consumer" of employment, to make your decisions based on the aggregate value instead of individual values of the components.

> Let me ask you though. What if your employer would give you the money they put toward your health care to choose the provider of your choice (even if you had to pay the difference for any shortcoming)?

That seems good to me as long as you had the option to buy the same coverage at the same rates as the big companies.

I agree that starting a business isn't for everyone. I'm doubtful that I would enjoy it, but I would like to be an early employee at a company. If that company can't afford health coverage, then I can't take that risk for my family.

It just baffles me that health coverage is so tied to where you work. What if you could only send your kids to the schools that your employer selected, or eat at the restaurants the your company had a deal with? It's just weird. I don't know if government provided insurance is the solution, but employer provided just doesn't make sense as the only solution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mil not "percent"

I had some trouble manually retyping my UDID. It turns out that once you click on the serial number, you can go to Edit->Copy Identifier (UDID).

I don't know anything about Firebird. Is it really a good replacement for MySQL?

Your website's not loading.

What's UTMA?

Here's mine if anyone is interested. I wrote it in D and haven't looked at it in years. I'm sure it's not usable as-is, but it might be fun anyway.

https://github.com/nogwater/NetflixPrizeD

The algorithm is based on Simon Funk's blog post here: http://sifter.org/~simon/journal/20061211.html

For me, the best part was squeezing the data and indexes into memory. :)

I'm pretty sure the MSL team is a different team than the ones managing the DNS servers, and expertise in one area doesn't transfer to another automatically.

Maybe they do have some reason why it would be difficult to add a CNAME, maybe not.

No, unfortunately it doesn't work like that. It's not like the big bang took place "within space" -- like a grenade in the center of a stadium, but the bang is the rapid expansion of space(-time) itself. So, the universe could have even been infinite and very dense, and then BOOM!, it's still infinite but less dense.

The observable universe is even bigger than you'd expect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Size

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Now that it's official, I hope that the documentation gets the attention it needs. Congrats!