skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And we all know how fast that escalated. Seriously. They should probably find themselves a safehouse or a relative close by. Lay low for a while.
Only Marc Andreesen can get away with it, he is good at establishing break points. I can easily follow.

Vivek Wadhwa, on the other hand... his rants were a mess.
Not showing a message to your users is very user hostile. It's one thing to not offer a service, it's another to frustrate your potential users.
Let me ask you one question: What would be circumstances that would change your mind? As in: What would need to happen to make you think that surveillance is going to far?

So far, it seems pretty much like your belief that surveillance is not a problem for you is unfalsifiable, that you will believe that it is a problem for you only when the secret police is actually coming for you or maybe your family.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140425185111/http://www.accele...
Aside from this pre-order thing, will you be able to purchase a Rift only from Oculus directly? What about Amazon or other stores?
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Is there any way to pause?
This costs as much as a full blown PC.

Except you'll also need a killer desktop PC that can run it [1]:

- NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater
- Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
- 8GB+ RAM
- Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output
- 2x USB 3.0 ports
- Windows 7 SP1 or newer

The Oculus Touch is stated to need 4 USB ports [2], not just two, so better plan for that as well

So in total you are probably looking at close to $2,000 [3] to use the Rift not including whatever games or applications cost - of which there are not yet a lot of titles (I'm sure that will change in short order though).

[1]http://www.pcgamer.com/oculus-rift-pc-requirements-revealed/

[2]http://www.techtimes.com/articles/118068/20151219/excited-fo...

[3]https://www.oculus.com/en-us/oculus-ready-pcs/
599... not to mention I have a very high end computer by today's standard but it still needs upgrades. I have one of the better AMD processors but it tells me I need an Intel, which means I will have to buy a new board and rebuild the entire thing, as well as replace the GPU... right.
This is why people hate Airbnb
Browserstack, VPSes from a couple of companies, a private forum in the filmmaking market, just off the top of my head.

Of course, most of those are business rather than personal expenses.

Seem to recall my Spotify account comes in around $15 too.
You mean without JavaScript and CSS? The reason browser versions matter is because there has been a massive amount of innovation in JS and CSS in the last decade. That innovation has allowed websites to move closer and closer to the capabilities of desktop applications, which is a win for ease-of-installation, security and for the web as a platform.
The birth of Debian, in the words of Ian Murdock himself
Yes thats correct. You had to pick third party libraries for these types of things, which wasn't that big of a deal since the community did a good job of rallying around good libraries.

There's nothing like ruby/rails (I love me some rspec!), but ultimately it came down to lang pref for me, and maybe performance (dev reload cycle mostly). Plus, python has a lot of very interesting stuff in machine learning and science.
The link's not working for me, nor is any reference to SLOTH given on http://www.mitls.org/wsgi/tls-attacks.
There is a unique motivating factor to standing in front of your peers and saying you didn't get anything finished yesterday. That is, in my opinion, the entire point of the stand up. Everyone knows they are going to have to say something tomorrow and that adds some impetus to finishing their task as quickly as possible.
This please.
599 is more than I am willing to pay right now, maybe once both it and the vive are out.

The part that really pisses me off is the 30 dollars for shipping. What a joke.
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I thought I had heard in the $200-$300 range expected for the final product. I'd jump at the lower end of that range, but there's no way I'm paying $600.
Damn, they got a lot done in one day

Animals sure work quick
> given that the top 1% own 90%+ of the wealth.

Citation, please? https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/?fi... page 24 claims that globally the top 8.1% own 84.6% of the wealth, while the top 0.7% own 45.2%. So the top 1% owns something between those two numbers.

Within the US, the top 1% owns an even smaller fraction (of a bigger per-capita pie), because there are many fewer poor people.

That said, the top 1% do own quite a bit of wealth. Same report, page 15, figure 2, looks to me like total global wealth is about $260 trillion as of 2015. World population is 7.3 billion. That comes out to $35000 per person or so. So globally this number would in fact come out higher than a few thousand dollars; per our calculations above it's about 0.5 to 0.85 times $35k (but note that this is including the the "1%" quite a large number of US retirees, for example; the threshold for 1% global wealth is not that high).

If you look at the US, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States#We... has numbers for 2007 saying that the top 1% owned 34.6% of the total wealth but that grew to 37.1% after the Great Recession. Total wealth in the US according to the above Credit Suisse report is about $86 trillion; that gives about $100,000 per person if you redistribute the wealth of the top 1%.
$599 may seem like a perilously steep price to debut at, but right now, Oculus faces a much bigger risk than low sales volume: Poor reception. If this was the MSRP required to ensure a comfortable, nausea-free experience, it's far better to have a killer product at a high price point than a "don't buy the first generation" product at the price point people were expecting. The former can lead to a cheaper gen 2, but the latter can lead to ruin.
that's the point, was not a weaponized device, does not mean it did not go boom.
Good to see the Oculus Rift is on its way. Early tech will always have nosebleed prices and growing pains, but after a generation or two we'll be able to experience high-quality VR without getting a headache or our cars repossessed for nonpayment.

And it means we will have decent competition to the Rift, for those who don't want Facebook monitoring our every glance and gesture.
> I don't need to 'cite' what I can see with my own eyes from the stats of my payment services provider

You could be a liar, idiot, troll, or just really love IE. Why would anyone take your word for it.
Every time one of millions of developers commits code to a centralized service, they have a hand in exposing individual's data to the surveillance society we live in today. Data exposure can come from being publicly available on the site itself, being obfuscated through aggregation in the service's APIs, leaked through security holes in implementation of said services, risk of theft by hackers looking for high value targets with private data, or misappropriated by the company itself or its upstream providers. The idea that customers can somehow understand the scope of their exposure to privacy violations is laughable.

One thing which became apparent to me when I began to focus on this issue was the fact there are countless other services which provide services to other services, all of which have some degree of access to upstream customer data. For example, if you log to a hosted logging service, some of your customer's data is sent to them. If that service use AWS, then data is sent to Amazon. And so on.

http://www.stackgeek.com/blog/kordless/post/a-code-of-trust

Arguing efforts to make things better is pointless is a very dangerous thing to do, assuming we actually want things to be better. Cognitive dissonance is a powerful force, especially when there are startups to be built!
No matter how tight you make the stand up, it still creates an artificial time to do a disruptive start/stop. A 5 minute meeting really leads to close to an hour of derailment. http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html summarizes it better than I ever can.
I’m not a hippie, I’m an ambitious millennial
Every once in a while, you find a jewel in the sea of crappy security guides. This is a jewel: go for it.
Yeah hammerspoon rocks and is very lightweight and easy to use... This simple example shows how powerful it is for automation:

http://www.hammerspoon.org/go/#simplemenubar

-- Creating a simple menubar item
-- Lots of Mac utilities place a small icon in the system menubar to display their
-- status and let you interact with them. We're going to use two of Hammerspoon's
-- extensions to whip up a very simple replacement for the popular utility Caffeine.

local caffeine = hs.menubar.new()
function setCaffeineDisplay(state)
if state then
caffeine:setTitle("AWAKE")
else
caffeine:setTitle("SLEEPY")
end
end

function caffeineClicked()
setCaffeineDisplay(hs.caffeinate.toggle("displayIdle"))
end

if caffeine then
caffeine:setClickCallback(caffeineClicked)
setCaffeineDisplay(hs.caffeinate.get("displayIdle"))
end
Paypal and credit cards are both declined with "Something went wrong", console shows "Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)"

Watching my ship date go from March to April and now probably May was a bit disheartening.

Still no success.
> to become even more hardcore on algebra and categoric language

In some of the standard libraries, yes, that's true. However, it's possible to use PureScript without the standard libraries, and use alternatives such as Preface (a teaching library) or Neon (an alternative to Prelude)

https://github.com/paf31/purescript-preface

http://pursuit.purescript.org/packages/purescript-neon/0.1.1
It's a PC peripheral, and always has been.

Sony (PS4) has their own VR tech.

The Xbox controller ensures all Rift users have the same hardware, which is especially important with VR experiences.
It isn't blank anymore, but it was nearly impossible to place an order.

I kept getting vague "Something went wrong. Please try again." messages on both the Payment Method and (when I finally got there) the Review and Complete Order pages. Meanwhile, my expected ship date went from March to April. It wouldn't accept my AMEX at all, for some reason.
I don't know what dreamland you live in, but everyone knows what happened during the 2008 meltdown what laws have been created?

Everyone knows how the invasion of Iraq was a complete mistake. Has someone gone to jail?

The public is not going to shutdown anything they are wholly complicit in and benefit from. Which is why empires eventually fall.
As someone who wants to use this in my classes: should I be worried about TI's legal department swooping in to shut this down? I don't know any of the legalities surrounding emulators in general, or TI's friendliness to outsiders doing this sort of work in particular.

The reason that I even think to worry about this is because TI sells their own emulator: https://education.ti.com/en/us/products/computer_software/ti... . From literally just glancing at the screenshot, CEmu's interface looks not dissimilar.
I think that is correct. This case is a little misleading because there were both patent and copyright claims at the district court level. As a result of the patent claims, the Federal Circuit had jurisdiction over the entire case, even though the copyright claims were to be adjudicated under 9th Circuit precedent. If they had only brought copyright claims, this appeal would have been heard at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
When I googled "list of countries by size of government" to see if I could spot some trends, I found this very interesting article as the 4th hit: http://anepigone.blogspot.ca/2008/03/government-spending-as-...

It essentially confirms my temporary conclusion, what I've been reasoning in my comments on this page so far. Socialist policies at worst won't hurt the economy, and at best will contribute to it. In any case the neo con / libertarian position that Molyneux defends is flawed, indeed based on nothing (I wonder how he gets his data, besides from the economic freedom index which comes from the Wall Street Journal). Here are the highlights from the article, below (marked with ).

Now I really wonder how come Molyneux gets such a beautiful correlation between government size and growth output in his slides. Is it possible that his data is ... purposely altered or coming from biased sources? I don't see any other explanation. It'd be great if the author of that article (Audacious Epigone) and Molyneux had a good debate, so we can see who's right.

Quotes from the article:

There is a modestly positive correlation [of government spending as a percentage of GDP by country] of .25 with per capita wealth. To the extent that is of any importance, it is another reason why those on the left should favor policies that boost average IQ and by extension national wealth. Over time, as the economy grows, the government grows as well, generally at a slightly greater rate, then? But if European countries are removed from the analysis, the relationship loses statistical significance (p=.34).

(...)

* On its face, there doesn't appear to be much to validate the libertarian view that minimizing the size of the federal government, and suffering the consequent economic distortions its continued growth will otherwise cause, should be the primary goal of a society wanting economic prosperity (and a high quality of life). Ceteris paribus perhaps, but there are clearly a host of other demographic and cultural variables that are more important. Who would rather operate a business--or live--in Haiti instead of in Denmark?

Conclusion: For me it's not looking good for the neo con / libertarian ideology. I'm not sure I can identify even one pertinent spot on thing they say at this point. Could it be that most of that ideology and all its arguments really is 100% flawed and was manufactured by elites in their own short-term, near-sighted interest repeatedly in history? Or is there at least some good stuff in it? Any thoughts welcome.
Self-driving cars are going to make people even lazier then they already are. And as for those cars that automatically park themselves - whats going to happen when 5 cars see only one spot, and they all try and go for that same spot?
> The solution: Use all of this surveillance tech and data to expose all of the VIPs. Publicly post where they are and where they've been, who they've been with, what they read, and what they buy. You do this and laws will be created pretty quickly.

This has happened in the past and the reaction from the individual people has been to 180 completely on their opinion of surveillance (there was a recent post with sources, but I don't have it handy). This could work.
haven't felt dizzy trying the htc vive.
I get the same error
I regretted cancelling my devkit in righteous rage after the facebook sellout, but the somewhat tepid uptake of VR2.0 the last 18 months or so sadly makes it seem like the right decision, if maybe for the wrong reasons.

I kinda hoped that the other vendors would have had something remarkable by now.
> You could be a liar, idiot, troll, or just really love IE.

You omitted the possibility that I might be right, am not an idiot, am not prone to either lying or trolling and absolutely detest IE (and have not used windows for a really very long time).

> Why would anyone take your word for it.

Please don't. Ignore me and whatever I write here on the off chance that there is a grain of truth in it and that it will make you money.

Forgive me if I did not anticipate the Spanish inquisition demanding proof for something that to me simply makes good sense. Feel free to offend your users, to limit your products to function only with the latest browsers and to spend your marketing money to attract people that can then not use your product.
Web site says USD 59900 on Firefox mobile.

Edit: and on Chrome mobile
They don't charge you until they ship, so basically you are just saving the spot and can cancel before they ship when reviews are available (hopefully?):
https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/684540696951308288
I like the IIFE because of the way it reads. A developer new to Node.js It's impossible to miss. Putting your export line at the bottom is begging for silly bugs. Even if they're quick fixes, still annoying.
Graphics card question: If I wanted to run my own software on this (ie. I don't care about AAA games), would any old graphics card do, as long as I'm only rendering very simple, low polygon scenes? Or is there something inherent in the high end graphics cards that makes them essential?
It matters that they NK people are slaves to their government. Killing the people will not influence the government like it would in parts of the world with better morality.
just curious, but any possibility of rem0te within the U.S.? also do you have a email address to contact you at?
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I feel like we're out of ideas, so we revert to nostalgia. I just saw that Technics just re-reintrouduced the SL-1200 and now Kodak is reintroducing the Super 8. All so that we can feel the analog warmth. I think this is just the effect of software taking over the world. We cant have these tangible things anymore that have their own character, quirks, and defects(that when new infuriate users only to be remembered fondly 20 years later)
We recently bought my 9 year old an instant camera. Each pack only has 10 pictures. She blew through that in about 30 minutes because she was so used to the "infinite" digital pictures she could take. To add insult to injury, she kept taking the film pack out and exposing the pictures, and couldn't figure out why they were blank.
> They can still install Firefox.

Latest versions of Firefox cannot be installed on XP. Though, Chrome still works.
It's not clear to me that this work establishes that truncated hashes are dangerous, so much as that tls-unique is just not a very good protocol.
That's a religious position. We have absolutely no idea what consciousness is or how it works.

More than that, we have don't even have ad hoc good models for motivation and personality, never mind useful formal and explicit models.

I think Lanier is absolutely right, and I think there's a strong quasi-theological element running through all of AI and programming.

Programming is a lot like making spells and incantations. If you get them just so you get the outcome you want. But you have to speak the language of the system to make that possible. And you have to be very careful about unintended consequences.

There's something very medieval about this - both in the sense of the pure scholasticism of academic CS, but also in the practical sense of knowing how to formulate the correct "prayers" to make useful things happen.

Lanier seems to be pointing out that CS is still haunted and influenced by these religious metaphors, and that AI is the most visible example of that.

I think he's right - and more, I think that real AI, in the sense of autonomous personalities, won't be possible until that's no longer true.
If you use a module which uses longer cryptographic operations it is possible.
My experience too. A short deadline (few months to a year) and a green new codebase is a good place for scrum.

A medium/large project (200 man years in the code over 10 years say), then it's a lot harder. A required refactoring in the codebase that would take 200h is a common discovery in issues estimated at a few h.
Hah – I took my own photos of this bookshelf while visiting. Perhaps there are missing gems ;P https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g2dlzq39f8x3wf7/AABWlnT5NvPEZ0ycp...

Thanks so much everyone for compiling a list! I like to save such lists and take pictures of good books and bookshelves I come across. Full collection is here: https://www.are.na/morgan-sutherland/books-to-read--2.
I for one is super excited that the Rift consumer version is finally released!

I experIenced a lot of overload issues: "Something went wrong. Please try again." in red when I try to pay. I solved it by just keeping on trying. Issue was oveload, not my credit cards. See followup too.
Oh, that's great! I miss my old HP-48, although I don't remember what flavour (S or G or whatever) it was. I also like very much that HP simply provides (or just links to, I guess) the software, rather than TI's approach of selling it.
What does it mean to be authenticated in ASP.NET MVC
I don't think anyone argues that bigger phones shouldn't exist, that they don't have plenty of good uses, or even that they shouldn't be more popular than smaller ones. I can think of more advantages of a bigger phone (for users in general) than disadvantages. What's irritating is just not having the choice, and especially not having the option to get an updated version of the thing you were already happily using. I grumble about this a lot myself (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764713).

If typical mainstream phones are designed & built with a lead time of a year or more, & if a company was planning to release a small one soon, & that company was less secretive than Apple, we'd surely know about it already. There are rumours about Apple, and if they turn out not to be true, then we maybe have to conclude that no new small single-hander smartphone (as we know the device now) will ever appear again.
Sure, by running a fork of stock Android you can certainly reduce your exposure to Google but you also "severely" limit your experience -> no maps, no play store (= relying on limited third party stores) and so on, and these are just core applications (not including Chrome, Keep, Youtube, the other "Store" applications and all the rest here). Also there is no guarantee you cut all ties with Google. I am not sure I would dare to claim plain Android does not communicate with Google at all.

The desire to avoid Google and still using Android (whatever incarnation of it) does not go too well hand in hand I am afraid.
I think you'd be OK, but I can't say for sure, as I haven't tried it. Nothing I know of that would prevent you doing that, though.

You would probably need a card that supported DX11 or equivalent and possibly DX12 - not sure about the CV1 spec on that.
The other day I convinced myself to flash CM 12 on my HTC One M7 without GApps. However, within a couple hours had no choice but to flash it. Open Whisper Systems doesn't provide Signal's APK outside of Google Play (surprisingly Spotify does), and neither does Pebble. In addition there is some bug in messaging that prevents me from sending any SMS at all. I'd argue that GApps is a requirement for any Android device today. Unfortunately I see the iPhone as the only smartphone where it's even possible to avoid Google services.
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Another potential revenue generator for Magic, partner with large organisations so they can offer the service to their employees. If the global corporation where I work can trust files of thousands of employees to a third party cloud sync service, I'm sure this can be done.
We are never ever going to free those poor people in North Korea.

Such horrible lives.

China should be ashamed for perpetuating this.

Was hoping to see within my lifetime a re-unification like Germany but that's basically never going to happen.

Unless they find oil in Korea, unlike Iran we are never going to give a damn, politically, morally or otherwise.
So far, I've had my best (and) worst luck through networking - facebook and email.

I get contacted by recruiters and resume/remote work startups through HN and Linkedin, but neither has resulted in actual employment,

I would suggest trying everything, but focus on personal networking if your resume and CV aren't stellar, or you aren't in a large market.
Data portability is a non-issue: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Web-API/How-can-I-get-minute...
Customers Want Cars to Not Kill Them

FTFY