skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't quite understand it when people say that VR won't succedd but AR will. They're two points on a single technological continuum. One will enable the other. If AR does massively take off, all of that tech will benefit VR. Alternatively you can view AR as just a special case of VR, where display of the real world is passed through and where there's more sensing of the real-world environment for use in constructing the virtual parts of the environment. In that sense, VR is just a step towards more general AR; in that case the VR tech benefits AR applications.

Why do people insist that it can only be one OR the other? The technology is all converging to the one point. In fact I'd argue it's mostly the same technology. It's irrelevant as to whether it's AR or VR applications that break the technology into the mainstream. Once it's there, both AR and VR will have broken through.
I was able to buy one from Adafruit when they were announced.

http://i.imgur.com/aOtvz9H.png
The issue with the metaphor is that it's very subtle. We understand matter and mechanics. A broken bone is obvious. When you feel depressed you don't really know what's broken.
Last month it got renamed the "Elisabeth line".
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/23/crossrail-nam...
CNBC. Here is a link to the video where they mention Cellebrite.

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000505023
> If the FBI used a vulnerability to get into the iPhone in the San Bernardino case, the VEP must apply, meaning that there should be a very strong bias in favor of informing Apple of the vulnerability. That would allow Apple to fix the flaw and protect the security of all its users. We look forward to seeing more transparency on this issue as well.

It seems reasonable the FBI could still notify Apple of their method of entry and then later notify the public in time.

The EFF, as much great work as they do, is showing a bit of impatience here. Perhaps they feel they have a bone to pick with the government, as the government seems to feel they have one to pick with tech. Neither party looks great by leveling such public complaints prematurely.
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Tycho or Carbon Based Lifeforms. Both are quite good.
I think they attempted that, however due to a mistake wiped the iCloud data.
If the FBI pays a third party to break in, does VEP still apply?
I wouldn't assume that nation-state attackers would be thwarted by the Secure Enclave. Organizations which can deploy taps on undersea fiber optic cables from nuclear submarines, attack centrifuges deep inside air-gapped underground nuclear facilities, etc would likely be able to mount the kinds of specialized attacks needed to break into HW trusted computing models.

Something that is tamper-resistant isn't tamper-proof.

It will likely take some time to develop a capacity to attack these chips, but it is not impossible in principle nor intractable.
Not unless they add cameras looking at your lips and eyes. Just being able to see a body with a head in VR is not the same as sitting next to my dad who's facial expression I can see.
If you did a complete wipe and reset of the phone, you could unlock it but the data would all be gone. Obviously that's not a very useful outcome for them, but it's still "unlocking" the phone.
I have this wacky idea that maybe, just maybe we should reconsider the point at which opiates would be appropriate for treating depression. I mean maybe make them a 2nd or 3rd line treatment... right now I'm pretty sure they'd only give you opiates once that whole "induce a controlled seizure" thing fails.

Sure, they're addictive, but the "opium cure" was used up until the 1950's[1] and it's not like society was overrun by addicts. (I admit it's possible that the circumstances have changed, but I'd need to hear an argument for that.) Plus the fact that both Buprenorphine and Heroin-Assisted Treatment have been successful... opiates can be given as controlled medicine, and I feel like many people could benefit from them.

Over 40,000 Americans die by their own hand every year.[2] I would much rather have 40,000 opioid-dependent living people if it helped them bear the weight.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18956529

[2] http://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
Is "weight your equipment" a climbing phrase? Your comment if the number one result for 'climbing "weight your equipment"'.
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For a number of years the only remaining applications for tubes were the CRT and the magnetron. We are now down to only one.
Like RSS, iCal, IMAP, and so forth? Or are you thinking of something else?
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Having worked for Andy and Conrad I don't think that comparison is true at all.
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There's a famous story about the logician Kurt Gödel related to this.[1] In preparation for the US citizenship test, despite assurances from his friends Albert Einstein and Oskar Morgenstern that the test was a mere formality, he studied assiduously all sorts of details about local and national government, including the US Constitution.

He quite excitedly told Einstein and Morgenstern that he had found a weakness in the Constitution that would allow the US to become a dictatorship. They were horrified and tried to tell him not to bring up such ideas at the hearing, but the judge happened to note that it was a good thing that in the US, unlike Gödel's native Austria, we were not a dictatorship -- which prompted Gödel to begin explaining his discovery...[2]

Unfortunately, no one ever bothered to write down what
Gödel's idea was! But it has been speculated[3] that it is this: that the Article V provision for constitutional amendments does not exclude that provision itself from amendment -- so it is possible to first pass an amendment making it easier to pass amendments, after which it could be a short trip to dictatorship under the right conditions.

Fanciful, but a fascinating story. Picturing Gödel, Einstein, and Morgenstern hanging out and being playful with each other is a treat.

[1] http://morgenstern.jeffreykegler.com

[2] https://d78508e2-a-97b1dc77-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/jeffr...

[3] http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=42406910501309506...
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What would it take to put a stop to Everest climbing? The author repeatedly points to the irrationality of the situation:

But as irrational as it may sound, a part of my subconscious was worried that if we didn’t continue, I would be cursed to come back for a third attempt.

Everest induces vertigo on your reasoning processes.

"As a dice roll for someone paying to reach the summit, the dangers of climbing can perhaps be rationalized. There’s no other service industry in the world that so frequently kills and maims its workers for the benefit of paying clients.”

Despite knowing all this, people still climb which means there is some other factor at work. If there was a greater respect for life (for the lives of climbers themselves and for the lives of Sherpas) perhaps there wouldn't be so many willing to take great risks to scale the mountain.
I wasn't sure what to make of riprowan's above accusation that /r/bitcoin has become a toxic environment, but you've pretty much confirmed it.

Sorry for your loss.
And to also compel them to sign an onerous developer agreement after you tell them they have to do work they previously didn't have to.
> If you spend 20% of your time fixing bugs and 80% of your time writing or rewriting features, tests are not the bottleneck; it's not an improvement to spend 50% of your time writing & rewriting tests so you can avoid the 20% spent tracking down bugs.

That is a good line of reasoning about when auto-tests are needed.

However you did not take into account time that is required to discover that something is broken. Without tests you do not know if your code change breaks important features. So you should also consider how expensive it is to test your product after every code change. You do not have to test yourself and delegate testing to end users. But turning users into testers could be pretty expensive too (loosing potential customers).

So auto-tests should be introduced much earlier than when you hit "50% maintenance" threshold.
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That's not what i meant by straw man. I don't think anyone sympathetic to the idea that depression is strongly related to environmental and lifestyle factors intends the treatment of depression to be to tell the person who is depressed to magically deduce and solve the problems in their life.

While your reasoning from your premises are correct i don't think the position you've described is the one proposed in this submission. That's what i mean by straw man.
I don't understand what you are saying is impossible about this.

Are you just saying "try it and be really careful about it and you will see that it is impossible"? Because I don't see why that claim should be convincing without, saying why?

(Maybe I missed some other comment of yours?)
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It's going to be amusing when Apple tries to sue the FBI under VEP and they're told pound sand.
Wow, that's an excellent overview. Thanks.
I don't think you're going to get it. It's the same issue with instant messaging now. There's a business incentive not to allow interoperability.

Common interchange of what, though? IFTTT's utility came through connecting disparate services - Reddit to Pinboard, Twitter to Facebook and so on.
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2016/anomnight.3.2... - Here's relevant ocean temperature anomaly map. Predict away.
Is it… just for you? Can you just digitize your own 35mm film?
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They didn't wipe it. They got a six week old backup. What they did prevented triggering a newer backup.
> weight your equipment

They mean the act of putting your weight on your equipment. If you're climbing up by pulling on the rock, and resting on ledges, that's fine, but taking a rest by sitting back in your harness, or pulling on the rope to gain height is not.

Climbing is an one of the more logical sports, but like all sports, arbitrary rules have to be set if you want to accurately compare achievements between two people. It's just a way to make sure everyone knows what you mean when you say you've 'done' a route.

That said, I recommend ignoring this aspect of climbing -- fulfilling personal goals is a lot more rewarding for everyone than trying to compare yourself to others.
We are running Kubernetes in production at FarmLogs and LOVE it. We're a very small team with a ton of operational work to do in other facets of the company as we prep for the season to begin, but once we've got some free time there will be an in-depth blog post describing our migration and roll-out. We've also built some really neat tooling that we would like to share with the world.

Upgrading to 1.2 has been incredible. Deployments are faster and pods get scheduled almost instantly now. Our Master nodes are down to about 1/4th of what they were normally doing in terms of CPU usage.

We're really excited to be ridin' on kubelets!
Due to a mistake, or "accidentally on purpose" so they could punt with this law suit…
Thanks for these guides.

You may want to re-word what you say about patient rights in https://catalyze.io/assets/media/HIPAA-Compliance-Guide.pdf -- you say that HIPAA "gives individuals ownership of their health records", but I don't think that's quite right. The Office for Civil Rights has a good overview on patient rights at http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/medical-records/ind... and when it comes to the right to access, there's an excellent in-depth overview at http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/... .

(Note: it would be nice if you made your PDFs searchable; currently they're images, which makes it hard to find and cite relevant content.)

EDIT: for an in-depth treatment of the "ownership" issue (in its nuanced glory) see http://www.healthinfolaw.org/comparative-analysis/who-owns-m...
Just switched over to Medium.com with a custom domain.

The writers on the blog love the interface and the added bonus that their articles can get instant exposure to Mediums readers.
This! So many times I see that "depression is not just something you can address with actionable things, talking about rainbows", etc. and some sort of implicit acknowledgment that psychotropic drugs are necessary and that depression is totally okay and just has to be understood and empathized with. (I wish I expressed this sentiment better, but I hope you know what I mean since the same sentiment keeps appearing.) And then that can lead to downward spirals, drug abuse, and even suicide.

Depression and anxiety are usually symptoms of needs not being met, or embracing a worldview in which one is not living up to things they believe are essential. Often the worldview makes a big difference, including and especially religion and philosophy -- as these affect what the person values the most. That and the interpersonal relationships with people and how they are affected by the person's goals.

If you are close to someone who is depressed, ask them about:

Their worldview

What is important

Their values and goals

Why must they achieve those goals

How have they been achieving them

Their interpersonal relationships

What is wrong is often systemic - it is seen over and over in various people in various ways. The underlying worldview usually is the first factor, followed by interpersonal relationships that are colored by the worldview and goals. Often one's early relationship with the parents sets unconcious goals (eg must get married to someone within the faith, must get good grades etc.) that cause people to expend a lot of effort pursuing while not fulfilling their physical and emotional needs. They end up depressed or anxious as a result.
What i'm suggesting is that its perhaps not even a coherent idea that one can remove depression without harming a person's mind in negative ways in the general case. There are some people who make fantastic recoveries with modern pharmaceutical treatments for mental disorders, but there are many who pay a steeper cost.

I'm well aware of how distorting depression is. I've been nearly bed-ridden for days at the worst of times. I am equally well aware of how distorting the pharmaceutical treatments for depression can be. It is like trying to correct a distorted mirror by putting a distorted lens in front of it for many people.

Some people have mental disorders that respond perfectly to purely pharmaceutical treatment. I don't know how many, but i doubt it's a majority or even a significant minority.
This is great. This can be shipped on custom ROMs with only attribution required, correct? Can we (ROM builders and developers) incorporate this at the current state of the project?
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(long time sport climber here from a family of climbers, brother to a serious trad climber and mountaineer)

don't even get them started on the discussion of 'booty' and what is effectively claiming gear from the weak who test their limits or try things beyond them.

Climber logic is often strange and puzzling thing to me. It is some weird hybrid of libertarianism, anarchism, and statism at the same time. The unspoken rules must be followed, unless I disagree with them in which case they restrict my freedom you fascist....everyone should just climb how they want but hey stop that right now...love my climbing friends but boy do I end up scratching my head sometimes.
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I think 'rayiner' might just have meant "it would be preferable that the President be elected by popular vote of the entire nation without regard to state boundaries". While it's possible he was suggesting that the States themselves should be abolished, I think it's just awkward phrasing.
It wasn't wiped, it was disabled. They actually did get the iCloud backup data, but from about a month and a half before the phone was seized. Instead of waiting for another iCloud backup to occur, they reset the password, which disables these backups. The FBI then lied about this, saying that resetting the password was done against their will by the county. The county disputed this claim, and the FBI eventually admitted that they had actually instructed the county to do so, leaving open the question of why they did this.

source: just search "San Bernardino iCloud" and you'll get a whole bunch of articles on the subject
> I am the only person who thinks the entire idea of Theranos is nuts?

Were personal computers replacing mainframes nuts?

> It's far more painful to take blood from a finger than from the MCV in your cubital fossa (arm).

Why didn't you just call it an arm?

> Then you have to go around touching things all day with a band-aid on your fingertips,

I've never had a band-aid for a finger-prick and do them constantly for checking blood sugar. Doctors never did it either.
Okay? Then what? Do I read nothing? Pay $300+/year per site that I want to read?

I'm not sure what the "call to action" of your comment is - if the adver-article is interesting, more power to them.
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>Countries which try and share the wealth of the oil i.e keep it a state owned affair are quickly labelled extremist and a threat to 'democracy' and 'world peace', then are bombed to oblivion.

Oh? When did we bomb Norway?
>It encrypts data by comingling

does the use of the word 'comingling' here implies any kind of special combination technique??
Hey, I updated my comment with a footnote on exactly that. Not sure if you saw it. I agree it may be possible to develop an attack against the secure enclave with a big enough budget and access to lots of sample chips to practice on. But keep in mind secure enclaves are designed to self-destruct under these circumstances, so I almost think it may entail pushing the frontier of electron microscopy and/or techniques for exposing it that are more delicate that grinding down the chip.

In other words yes, I'd bet money there's a "secure enclaves" team at the NSA with a few million bucks to play with. Or teams.
Swaths of Waterloo and UofT grads leave Canada for better paying work in the USA. There is no lack of talent coming out of Canadian Universities. If they can't keep their own domestic talent, how do they figure they can attrack "top foreign talent"? It seems like a false flag operation to find cheaper labour.
> Common interchange of what, though?

Common interchange of schemeless data. Take data from here, put there.

Pushing JSON blobs around, essentially.
> Swift has a single String type

Which as someone who greatly appreciates the separation Rust offers, this makes me curious: does the string type either not enforce its contents being Unicode, or is it not capable of storing arbitrary OS paths? Because AFAICT, the two are mutually exclusive. The rub here is that OS paths — on POSIX operating systems¹ — are byte strings that we like to pretend are text; but since no particular encoding is enforced, you end up with effectively just byte strings. A String type that validates itself as valid Unicode is not capable of representing these (as arbitrary byte strings are not necessarily valid Unicode). But if we let the String type not validate, then I can pass non-Unicode to functions that take a "String" — something I'd rather not do.

There's also Python's byte smuggling, but I find that a bit weird.

¹While I call out POSIX, I'm told Window's pathnames are sequences of unsigned 16-bit values that most people expect to be UTF-16 — but that fact isn't enforced by the OS.
It'd make great Apple marketing PR though :-)

Did you see Charlie Stross's speculation that from Apple's end this is all about them becoming a retail bank via Apple Pay: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/03/follow-t...
Assuming you have the JVM installed.
Adopt an aggressive posture. Maintain eye contact and repeatedly say "amortized complexity".
Will it drive itself through the car wash after it gets puked on?
> That is pretty darn spiffy from a security standpoint. If it works as designed, about the only hope anyone has of getting at data from an iPhone 6 or later is through iCloud backups.

Isn't that 5S or later? Touch ID and Secure Enclave were introduced w/ the 5S model.
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An electoral college winner losing the overall popular vote has happened much more than once. Florida was more or less a coin flip that landed on its edge and stayed that way.
Isn't that what HTTP POST/PUT is for? GET for pull?
> but cork remains in heavy use especially for the pricier wines.

At my local grocery in california the most expensive wine is screw-top and most of the cheaper ones have corks. My favorite wine name is screw-kappa-napa which is a medium priced wine that comes in screw-top bottle.
> If you want news, you have to not only pay for it but, pay for independent 3rd parties to vet it so that over time you have media that you can trust.

General skepticism, independent vetting, and referencing multiple sources are good ideas.

Among the problems with sponsored content/native ads/advertorial is that people rail against it as if all the other editorial is completely devoid of any bias, point of view or financial consideration. It's sleight of hand and misdirection, in part.
Retaining local talent may be difficult enough as-is without even thinking about attracting foreign talent. I'm not too familiar with the situation in Ottawa (as seems to be the main focus of this article), but as a Vancouverite, it's no secret that tech salaries here are lagging behind from our American neighbours, even as close as Seattle. Despite the gap in wages, our CoL is more or less comparable (yes yes, I'm aware of > $3k/month rentals in SF, but unlike SF, $100k in Vancouver isn't considered low). That coupled with a significant drop in the Canadian dollar...

Well let's just say it hurts.
I would just go to thefunded.com
Sorry, yes. Updated.
Democracy is a term which refers to both republics and plebiscites. The word you are looking for is "plebescite". Plebescite is widely believed to have been problematic in ancient Greece, which is why it's relatively rare.
Assuming you're using Crouton or something similar on your Chromebook, your Ubuntu installation is inside a chroot. Chrome OS can be updated and just leave that directory alone. The important part of this is that Ubuntu itself is not being updated.

You could do this on an Ubuntu phone or tablet I suppose, by for example running a secondary "traditional" Ubuntu system inside a container in a read-write directory on the read-only system. I don't know if this will be possible from day one, but it's certainly possible technically if someone implements it (like how someone has implemented Crouton). I doubt you'll see the same level of integration (for example with the tablet UI seamlessly moving over to your desktop) if you do it this way, however.
Honestly, the more I read about Oculus, the more I want to move over to the Vive.

It looks like the Vive is going to have much wider support for games, platforms, and possibilities for developers.

I'm super torn right now but to be honest, the way I'm approaching it is "I'll wait for Oculus to finally drive me off", so I guess I'll just need to see what happens over the fall and winter release windows.
Agreed. You try to stay in Canada for love of the country(no joke. I love it here) or just not wanting to leave familiar scene. But with insane housing market and (relatively)low wage, the temptation is strong.
Yeah if nothing else the naming here could be better. If someone writes a blog post where the correspondence between String and ownership has to be repeated fifty times, it might have been better to name them OwnedString and StringView, or something like that.