skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The “cops" will make sure that all the appropriate filters and processes are in place for the government to monitor its own citizens.

They are there to enforce regulation on the companies, not on “cybercriminals.” Or to put it another way, operating an Internet company that fails to acts as a de-facto arm of the state’s surveillance and culture-control policy is itself a cyber-crime.
I hesitate to call presence a buzzword because I've felt it (if only briefly), but then again big data is both real and a buzzword, so I guess presence can be too. However, I haven't seen the latter used in a bullshit way very often yet. Usually the people who use the word are pretty serious about VR and cautious about saying they felt presence.

I like the example of standing at the edge of something in VR and feeling the feeling you get in your stomach when you stand on the edge of a tall building. This happened to me in part of the HTC/Valve Vive demo where you stand on a shipwreck underwater.

I think more subtle examples are more interesting, though. E.g., when you're just standing in a room in VR, and you shift your weight slightly from one foot to the other (which moves your head slightly, of course), and the lighting is just right and something clicks in your head and for a second you forget you have a headset on — it's a bizarre feeling and very cool.
Aren't SURF and ilk free and pretty performant?
I said the clause was an unnecessary inclusion, the ellipses are there specifically to highlight that. The rest of the article is about the cyclicity of the digit.
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I'm not afraid of being killed because someone hates me, I'm afraid of being killed because a 12 year old with a laptop may not have a fully developed moral sense of right and wrong.
It will certainly have a 'chilling effect' if there ever was. China is between a rock and a hard place. Either they're going to have to open up completely (which will result in a democracy and obliteration the group that has been running the country for decades) or they're going to have to try to contain the genie. They're obviously trying to do the latter but it will hurt them economically in the longer run. As long as there is visible progress my guess is the current batch of leaders will do just fine, as soon as progress stagnates there may be a more dramatic change.
There are extremely good reasons to cap consumer upload bandwidth. For example, the majority of DDOSes start from consumer machines, not servers: enormous DDOSes become trivial even without a botnet without capping (and part of the reason enormous DDOSes are becoming more common is relaxation of upload bandwidth restrictions--let's not beat around the bush).
There may be no money in exploiting these bugs, but it's bugs like these that make a police state even closer to possible... if these bugs aren't found and squashed, they can and will be exploited by anyone who decides they need to coerce and control whatever they need to. One more tool for to be used against... whoever.
I'm split on the whole unlimited policy myself. Mostly because I've known people who have sneaked out of work early or sneaked in late. Maybe that could be classified as separate behaviors, but what prevents someone from doing the same thing on this sort of policy? The honor system? I have no doubts in a small firm it would work out because you notice, but in a big company I can't see this working out so much.
Also Evercookie and a drone that seeks and hacks other drones. His output is seriously impressive.
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What an incredibly crappy reason. That's the 'net' analogy of 'but what about the terrorists'. If such DDOSes are that much of a problem the correct response is to have better mitigation and/or detection processes in place not to limit the normal use of the net.

By that reasoning we should disallow broadband entirely.
Personally, I've been spending a lot of my recent time trying to debug a Parsec parser (it seems to be going into loops of backtracking, but I can't figure out where and why), and it's been a clusterfuck.

* `trace` and `traceM` don't actually get evaluated, so I can't use printing to find my bugs.

* Even putting `trace "..." True` as a guard to my parser combinators doesn't seem to actually print anything.

* `seq` and `deepseq` require that I implement all kinds of instances for datatypes whose innards I can't actually access, so I can't force the evaluation.

* I'm getting tempted to use `unsafePerformIO` just to get some damn debug output, but can't figure out how to make it have the right type inside the Parsec monad.

Debugging Haskell sucks when you need to debug dynamic behavior rather than type errors.
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If I understand this correctly, CRDTs allow you to cope with multiple add/remove operations for the same element on different nodes by assembling them into a meaningful order without relying on timestamp ordering.
You pick that quote and not the Mars one? Because that particular reference is already happening. Excessive hype is when Magic Leap spends two years lighting up the tech press without showing any hard tech to people not locked up under an NDA. You can experience, right now, being physically in a certain place, seeing it on TV, and being in it virtually. VR really is closer to being there, even in simple forms like Google Cardboard, than it is to watching TV. As time progresses, the hardware improvements will push it even closer. No, it won't be perfectly like being there, but not everyone can (or in some cases should) be there. VR is already showing people things they probably wouldn't have seen without it.
Or maybe it just should be a mandatory minimum number of hours of which PTO should be used either yearly or quarterly (with exceptions)? Unlimited seems a bit odd to me if you have people who often take as much PTO as they can then they're not really working are they? Just an open question.
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Why not both? In fact, I see this as the most likely outcome.
Smashing a window draws attention, social engineering when done right does not until it's way too late... certainly nobody watching in the parking lot would think twice about a guy on a cellphone getting into "his" car. They would however think twice and may perhaps even alert authorities or take your picture if they saw you smashing a window to get into what's quite probably someone else's car.
And Japan recently launched another satellite with the same interval and resolution!
There is a common bus, and there are reasons for it existing, but the fault is with an internet-connected module being able to break out of its role. Fixing that is the traditional game of whac-a-mole that we have in IT every day, at least until a secure-by-design Bus 2 comes along.
Are you familiar with DDOS attacks? Current mitigation strategies are literally "have more bandwidth than they do" and null routing. Given that null routing effectively means people have accomplished their goal of bringing down a site, the only way to mitigate that is to not allow DDOSers to acquire enormous amounts of bandwidth.

It's true that a lot of the biggest issues would be mitigated if ISPs would consistently perform packet ingress filtering, fix open DNS resolvers, etc. But to act like this is an easy infrastructure problem is to ignore the technical challenges inherent in the problem.
For reasons like this, I am remain very wary of the Internet of Things.
I know. :) But I was hoping that the Great Emacs Envelopment won't happen.
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Technology leaders should “demonstrate positive energy in purifying cyberspace,” Xi said.

It's not censorship; it's purification.
I think you're using highway-driving only. The estimate for the latest Civic I could find (2012) is 67.3MPG UK (55.9MPG US) combined, using a British cycle. This is diesel, which has a higher energy density than gas, so the equivalent in gas would be 49MPG. But also note that european MPG measurement cycles are much more generous than US ones: the EPA measure would be much lower in the US.

All in all the Volt probably is almost the same as and possibly better than, the Civic in gas-only driving, despite the fact that it has to lug around an additional electric motor and battery.
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> Or watch one of the many free channels on youtube?

Hopefuly the quality will be better. Most of the free teaching videos of magic in youtube leave a lot to be desired and are often harmful if you really want to learn close magic.

The link you provide (although way better than average) doesn't offer a structured way of learning card magic, and that matters.

Disclaimer: Please note that I am not related in any way to OP. I'm just a magic aficionado that loves the art and had passed throught the "youtube" phase too.
hasn't it been the same in China for 5000 years? What's different now? The only difference I can tell is China becoming the world empire and this is not because of the democracy.
No, it delivered a 34M JPG https://farm1.staticflickr.com/265/19667653813_94a68f5644_o....
Synergy.
So it's not a composition? It's exactly 10am UTC everywhere in this picture?
I wouldn't even blame the designers of CAN-bus. The crazy thing is that GM/Chrysler allow media devices and general computers on the CAN-bus without a firewall.

It's easy to say that the architecture is flawed, but that's no excuse at all. The CAN-bus allows control of the car, so non-control devices should not be allowed to send control messages on the CAN-bus.

It's the same as blaming the insecure architecture of the internet when your password gets snooped, when you should have just used a secure tunnel.
IANAL, but my understanding is that the fact that the clone was written from scratch doesn't have any bearing on whether or not it infringes on copyright. The clone uses the name "Agar.io Clone" and copies the look and mechanics of the original game, thus making it substantially similar in appearance and use to the copyrighted work. Unless they have found some way to invoke fair use (educational purposes, etc.), the clone you mention is also infringing.
An analogy: if someone were to write a book called "Harry Potter - Clone" in their own words about the adventures of young wizard, you could expect them to receive a notice of infringement pretty darn fast, regardless of the fact that they didn't copy the original word-for-word.
I pulled the module from under the back seat of my '07 3 months ago with no deleterious effects noted. I assume without a brain and no antennae hooked up it is disabled. However, I have assumed wrong before.
ROOT and SIFT are patented, that's why ORB was developed for OpenCV. It's mentioned in the OpenCV tutorials: http://docs.opencv.org/master/db/d27/tutorial_py_table_of_co...
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The Alliance really isn't gonna like that...
Absolutely awesome. I am about to embark on a large image processing / ML project for work. This is just what I need!
I've seen an article from blackhat[0] talking about how someone attack the firmware of the battery, bit not the eathernet controller.

[0]-https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/CHEN/BHUSA0...
Have you accidentally locked a baby in the car in temperatures exceeding 90 or 100 degrees? Judging by the amount of times I hear this on the news, I can show you a whole market of people that find this useful. Calling a locksmith or someone that can break into your car takes time as well as being concerned about potential cosmetic damage. If OnStar can open your car remotely with a single phone call inside of a minute to save a helpless child from being cooked, there's your market. "Will someone please think of the children..."
This is the entire point. I wish communications happened over an open protocol instead of over Twitter's protocol, not because it benefits Twitter, but because it benefits me.

Email is open. For some reason people think of email as different. GMail could've provided the exact same conditions and experience when they launched, but only enabled GMail-GMail communications. It would never have got to where it is, never.

And there's obviously no technical reason instant messaging, social networking, etc., should work any different, but for some reason it's perceived as different.
I completely agree. Range has completely mishandled the NSA situation but he isn't stupid. It's obvious that this would get him retired and doing it this way was decent attempt at stopping this whole affair and does his colleagues a favor.
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Has anyone notice a change in their attention span (and ability to stay on task) after starting a meditative practice? I would like to heard a first hand description from regular meditator and maybe a description of which practice worked the best if some people tried multiple meditation Technics
Many things have changed in the last 5000 years. For one now most Chinese can easily communicate with people for all over the world.
LOL I've done this so many times... who ever remembers where they left their car? I lose mine at the station almost every day :D
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I played around with building something similar. The problem becomes that you have to send down twice the amount of data for the page - the statically rendered html generated from your data and then the data itself so that when the React components mount their props/state match the statically generated html.
"I totally shot him! The game didn't register the motion at all! This sucks. I'm getting the controller."
I guess they are finally catching up to the U.S.

Edit: pre-preemptively editing because the original, though I believe correct, was too glib and snarky.

Three Letter Agencies in the U.S. have long had commercial "partnerships"[0] with private companies including internet and telecom companies. As has come to light in the past couple years, these partnerships were not "just" about securing national interests and infrastructure.

[0]https://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/ncsc.shtml
> "The first is that the disparities between regions within a country like the US are quite different from the disparities between countries across the world."

That's a fair point, I'm sure there are differences which make looking at a country in isolation not very useful.

What about the EU? There is free travel across the EU and the economic disparity between member states is huge. For example look at UK/Germany as compared to Estonia/Bulgaria.

This hasn't resulted in catastrophic mass migration across the union.
http://www.broadstreethockey.com/2015/6/15/8783249/nhl-tv-se...

Its not a perfect system, but some per-team pricing is nice.
So refreshing to see an article about VR that's sole purpose isn't to build hype for VR!

My only experience with VR was trying the Samsung Gear headset in Schipol airport. It was a new, exciting experience for the five minutes I got to try it out. I imagine that Oculus Rift will be a much better experience, seeing as it's not based off a mobile phone but built solely for a VR immersion.

Despite how relatively amazing my first VR experience was, I can quite clearly see what the author means about it not 'revolutionising' this and that industry upon release. But I feel the most important aspect is that the technology is in its early infancy and, just like the television/consoles that came before it, will take a lot of time, innovation and behavioural changes to truly break into the general public and make a difference across different industries.
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I would suggest someone else should keep his own righteous anger in check, considering he replied to a simple quip with a comment that is eight times as long.

I won't even bother to fight your strawmen (the financial crash could not be helped by better laws, really?), tbh it's just boring. You are right, why have laws at all? Car manufacturers are so enlightened, they obviously work for the greater good rather than simple profit, I apologize for my stupid remark.

Have a good day.
I did use the search function to search for ECHELON before I submitted, but that thread didn't showed up, probably because it doesn't mention ECHELON in the title.
Awesome project, can this compete somehow with photoshop in the future? Project has almost everything, custom plug-ins, custom filters, open source, devs can develop bindings and etc,.
We should start calling the Internet of Things the Software Apocalypse.
Yeah, that's super interesting.

To be fair, I suspect there is already a similar problem simply due to economics: running a relay costs money, so the vast majority of relays are running in the first world, which correlates well with countries that have extradition treaties with the US, for example.
https://github.com/webpro/awesome-dotfiles
One annoyance with Volvo though is that you can remotely open the windows by (accidentally) holding down the unlock button (i.e. by sitting on your keys), but you can't remotely close them again. You have to get into the car to do that from inside... apparently a safety feature (I called to find out how to do this).
Note that trace is implemented in terms of unsafePerformIO (which is fine for debugging).

To get a trace message, you need to attach the trace to something that does get evaluated. I mostly define a somewhat simpler helper like this:

tt :: Show a => a -> a
tt x = trace (show x) x

So you surround your expressions with it and see there values, when those values get evaluated of course. Eg:

myParser = (\_ code -> tt code) <$> parseComment <*> parseCode
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> Are you familiar with DDOS attacks?

No, I'm a clueless newbie who can't tell a twinax cable from a RAM chip.

> Current mitigation strategies are literally "have more bandwidth than they do" and null routing.

I think you may be behind the times a bit.

It is definitely not an 'easy problem' but it is also not so simple as to get rid of symmetrical net access at the consumer level.

Anyway, you're the guru I guess.
Counterpoint:

My friend's architecture office has Occulus, and everyone, clients and architects love it.

I asked her if anyone experienced any headaches or seasickness but since there is no action happening just a visual walk through buildings it seems side effects are minimized.

So for architecture Occulus fills a nice niche.
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"I've always been the first kid on my block to recommend an awesome, transformative gaming experience, from the Atari 2600 to the Kinect"

Kinect was an awesome transformative gaming experience? Really?
So instead you make a traceable call to OnStar, before which you will have amassed all of the personal details to somehow socially engineer them into letting you into the vehicle (not just their names and personal details, but the system also has a code you have to tell them).

This is one of those hysterical overreaches that has no correlation with real world crime at all.
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I don't think so, Photoshop (and GIMP too) are oriented to the photographic community: the UI, the tools, most plugins, etc. This seems to be more aimed to students and researchers. Though in theory, if the processing engine in the back is as good (and there's no reason to think it isn't), it could, the UI would get in the way to perform the same tasks that you would on PS.
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Absolutely. Moreover, many of these minor run time differences are bound to change from one Ruby version to another[1].

I would even consider it harmful to remember many of these numbers as some sort of practical knowledge. I've actually known cases where a programmer would use some extraneous idioms and when told about a more idiomatic solution it turned out that they knew there was a more idiomatic way of doing it, but they used the more obfuscated alternative because "it was more performant". But it turned out that that knowledge was obsolete (it only applied to an old VM version) or incomplete (it only applied in some very specific cases).

So, beware of "knowing" that `arr.last` is slower than `arr[-1]`. It might not be for too long[2].

[1]: I'm speaking about MRI versions here; of course all those measurements are off if you use JRuby, rbx or Opal.

[2]: It is useful to remember that `arr.bsearch` on sorted arrays is faster than `arr.find`. That probably won't change in the near future ;)
At least they're open and honest about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
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This is neat! I think the "why" section thats on some of them is the most valuable part, absorbing that "why" into your lizard brain can add up to huge changes in your natural style :)
> I think you may be behind the times a bit.

Elaborate. I may well be behind the times.

> It is definitely not an 'easy problem' but it is also not so simple as to get rid of symmetrical net access at the consumer level.

No, it isn't. But it's also true that you need 10x more machines with a 10x disparity for a volumetric attack.
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To be fair, most of the people who are excited about VR (including myself) have been that excited already about DK1 and DK2, so your comment feels like it's just moving goalposts without seriously engaging the article.

Personally, I'm very excited about VR. But I know for a fact that other people have tried the same gear that I've tried and have been way less excited about it.

Overall, I'd say it's a good thing to see a bit of hype-reducing commentary on here from time to time.
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I read somewhere Gimp is more web base and Photoshop can be both print and web.

Since they did away with version for Cloud base, I think Gimp have an advantage.
Your ellipses completely change the meaning. The clause may be unnecessary (as is the entire article) but the bit you complain about is useful if you don't chop things out first.
It’s the reason why long-term, VC firms (like Y Combinator) and the US startup culture have to fail. All of them focus only on short-term, exponential growth. That is not sustainable.

The only question is if humanity will die due to the environmental effects of exponential growth first, or if these companies default first.
Super interesting... thanks!
should be relatively trivial to install vim
First thing I thought about when I saw this was "can my wife, a photographer, use this instead of creating Actions in Photoshop to automated certain enhancements?" She does a lot of manual tweaking, but I'm going to show this to her tonight and see what she thinks.
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That's anti-immersive, too. When you fire a shotgun in real life, you don't have to do the recoil motion yourself -- you just pull the trigger, and the recoil occurs on its own.
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Just my two cents, look into working remotely as this could reduce your commute time. Another thing you could do is listen to podcasts.
LOL. I lived through the first VR hype bubble, and it's pretty remarkable how similar this is to my recollection of VR back then -- the only difference is that at the time, the goofy, uncomfortable headset was tethered to a refrigerator-sized SGI machine at the science museum, and there was no hope of getting it at home. Instead, we got the Lawnmower Man on VHS.

It sounds like technology has advanced enough that we have finally miniaturized the underwhelming user experience for the home viewer, but we still haven't addressed the bigger problem of coming up with something compelling to do with it. Plus ça change...maybe soon we'll get to see investors salivating over "multimedia experiences" delivered via some futuristic version of CD-ROM!