skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virtual Dreams vs. Realities (Oculus Rift Review)
The phone belonged to his employer. The employer gave the FBI authorization to access to the phone.
You raise a very good point about the Sherpa needing to have insurance against a failed expedition. Sadly, they rarely even have life insurance. An article from Rock and Ice cites a death benefit of $4,600 in 2013.[1]

[1] http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/exploitation-everest-sh...
Much like Slashdot's moderation system.
Boxed wine solves this problem too. It's just that very little good wine is sold in boxes. But this start up will likely have the same problem. You aren't going to find your favorite wine in a wine version k-cup (W-cups?).

Now you could argue that maybe they are going to get good wine and make good W-cups. But people are making "good" boxed wines now too.

Sticking wifi on it just seems like a gimmick.
I get how authoritarian pill pushers turn people into libertarian bootstrap people, but just because your depression isn't chemical doesn't mean it's your fault, or that there's anything that you can ultimately do about it by yourself. My problem with the pills is that they don't work, because they're targeted at a made-up disease. That the disease that current practice has lumped people into is made up doesn't mean that people are not suffering, they are, and doesn't mean that they don't need help; we do.

Talking to people, making sure that they're healthy, connected, secure, and that they feel like they can express themselves is more expensive than drugging them and/or warehousing them, so I don't think that avoiding the depression diagnosis should reduce public spending or concern with the same sufferers, but raise it. I also assume that when the people who are now lumped together in depression diagnoses are dealt with with more precise approaches, there will always be places among those approaches where drugging and warehousing will be the best option.

Treating sadness with drugs is like how we try to cure poverty with teachers.
> Assuming the Sherpas aren't forced into this line of work, then you're right - they're choosing it over the alternatives because it's a better option for them

> That doesn't mean that it's ethical for visitors to a country to enjoy a sport wherein they pay to transfer risk of death away from themselves and onto less advantaged local people.

I have trouble seeing how it's more ethical to remove the choice from their hands and force them to do things that they demonstrably would rather not do.
Of course, you are correct. I must have blocked the memory of all the book catalogs from my childhood, confused myself thinking that I requested bookstore gift certificates for every holiday for years. Obviously I must have requested the items I wanted from catalogs, year after year! I must be mistaken when I thought of how fun it was to wait the weeks or months for the books I _do_ remember ordering from pamphlets at school to arrive.

Obviously all these distorted memories should be forgotten as we recall how brick-and-mortar bookstores (or as we called them then, "bookstores") were in constant collapse due to the competition from these book catalogs.

Obviously I'm just daft and history didn't happen.
You would be surprised. Aside from the push it is getting from Windows 10, according to Microsoft filings Bing is now profitable. That is pretty huge, and while Google has had eroding CPC numbers, Microsoft's have been improving. It was just a matter of time before that would pay off for Microsoft.

Given the nature of the search market (there is only one other company in this case) what that means is that all of that profit came at the expense of Google. It gives additional insight into how focused Google has become on fiscal discipline.

[1] "Microsoft announced that Bing had finally achieved profitability. Search contributed more than $1 billion to Microsoft’s first quarter for fiscal 2016, said Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood during the company’s October 22 earnings call." -- http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/bing-is-profitable/
Oh? It seems to me that in this case, allowing the government to discontinue its trumped-up case is what has allowed the "highly malicious actions".
There are also some forums where people discuss abusing a depression/anxiety diagnosis to claim disability welfare. This is much more widespread than most people realise since the rates are higher and the requirements much lower than regular welfare.

It's a surprisingly cushy lifestyle, and some would do anything to keep it. And that entire structure is dependent on depression/anxiety being seen as a medical problem with no solution, only medication.

They are very vocal in it's protection.
Fair enough! People certainly seem to do a lot of disclaiming of their credentials these days so I guess everyone is getting the picture anyway.
I really think EVE Valkyrie is going to be the defining game for the beginning of this round of VR. Any sort of sim game is going to be a perfect fit for VR, and I'm sure there's games we haven't even thought of yet that will get released and really make the platform shine.
Sounds like time for randomized sequencing.
Basic Stats 101.
>Taking a vial of blood prior to a finger prick blood test could dramatically alter results.

Could you elaborate on why? My expertise is limited to an EMT certification that expired half a decade ago, but isn't obvious to me why this would be the case.

Blood is constantly circulating, and even a veinous blood drawn doesn't remove an appreciable amount of blood compared to the total flow.
That's why I use a white cardboard and tape all the screws to a diagram of the computer, camera, or whatever product it is.
That's fine :-) We are doing quite well and have a few paying customers. And lots of people evaluating the product.
Twitter CEO’s message to black engineers: We’re changing
It's a legacy of the era when IBM ruled the roost. All of the mainframe vendors were like that.

There was an office space in the middle of our data center at my first big IT job. Only Unisys people were allowed to enter, and crossing the threshold into that room, or opening a Unisys cabinet was a serious offense.

I'd be secretive too! That "mainframe" was a $25,000 Xeon server with a mainframe emulator running on it. They had these sweet contracts where they would lease the server based on performance -- MIPS/mo.

The IBM mainframes are big power boxes with custom asics for i/o and lots of mumbo jumbo to make it sound magical.
I figured that was probably the case; even optimistically, the Minion costs around $1000. But the parent comment seemed rather too absolute in rejecting sequencing at home, like it'd never happen. I'm going to wait a few years and then reevaluate the choices.
Aqua Squared
This is going to be controversial, but I think it needs to be said. IMHO, this scenario is an example of "top of first world problem" meets "bottom of third world problem" and the outcome is not pretty. You have a number of folks with tons of resources, hiding behind for-profit companies that aggregate demand, and hire the cheapest form of back-breaking help they can get. This help does not have any other options, and because the agreement is with the companies, they have very little connection with the buyer.

This happens with:

- Car washers (sorry, but can you please redo my car because you left a streak here and I paid $8).

- Nannies (sorry, have to cancel today. Sorry you cant reschedule other people but my fiance rescheduled our dining / wining outing)

- Home cleaning services (sorry, but I have a headache and can't have noise at the house. Sorry you can't reschedule and will have to miss my money to make rent)

- Drivers (sorry, i just wanted to go one block but did not want to scratch my brand new $400 shoes)

- Immigrant laborers picking your fruit (send them back!)

- Sherpas (read the article)

This is why if I have to use an Uber ride for < $5, I add a $10 on top directly to the driver.

I think the Everest situation is actually a little sillier, in that you have a bunch of people coming home saying "I climbed Everest!" and everybody forgets the little detail that they had personal staff prepping their every way.

I have a lot of appreciation for others though who do this challenge overcoming real obstacles such as blindness, missing a body part, or some other personal tragedy which must be conquered through conquering the big mountain, so I am not referring to these situations in my comments.

Downvotes expected.
I tried interviewing with Asana and they rejected me on the basis that I didn't have a computer science degree. For the record, I've built apps that have generated millions in revenue and I have many years of experience. If they are trying to be meritocratic and community friendly with this, they should change that aspect of their culture to reflect that.
Actually I think he's right. See page 18 (page 5 of the PDF), which explains what actually limits how much money banks can lend. Their need to earn more than they pay in interest is a fundamental part of it: in the longer term banks need to attract enough deposits to cover their loans, which may mean increasing the interest they pay to depositors, which in turn constrains their lending due to their need to earn more than they pay out in interest in order to cover their other costs and hopefully make a profit. (It's quite a lot more complicated than this summary, of course.)_
They'll find nothing on it.

Farook and wife smashed their personal phones yet left his work iphone untouched.

Investigators seized Farook’s work iPhone from a black Lexus IS300 parked
outside his residence in Redlands, which authorities obtained a warrant to
search, and two personal mobile phones were found smashed and discarded in a
dumpster behind the residence, court records show.

http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20160219/feds-take-on-appl...
Radha and the space-time illusion
If you actually want to run this software, JVM is a reasonable requirement: it's well-known, well-tested, easy to install, and comes in one package.

It's not zero requirements, though. (Go binaries still need platform-specific libc, AFAIK, but it's usually also a reasonable requirement.)
You mean, like Lavabit?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
One of the reasons that courts do not allow cases to continue when a party loses interest in the dispute (for whatever reason) is that the court can no longer trust that party to continue making a forceful case. You can end up with situations where the party refuses to spend money on making good arguments and finding evidence, then make very bad precedent because of it.
The industry is way ahead of you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_bottle#Sizes
If you force parties to fight cases that are moot, cases where both parties' interests aren't affected, then you're deciding cases based on arguments from people who don't care about winning. That's sort of antithetical to the adversarial system, where a basic premise is that the best way to make a decision is to hear parties on each side of the issue.

If a similar case occurs, then 3rd parties (Apple, ACLU, etc) may be able to submit amicus briefs to help the defendant. Apple might also be able to intervene and become an actual party in the case, if it can convince the court that the case's outcome will harm its interests (see Rule 24 of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure).
The solution is simple, we simply need to pass a law which makes it illegal for terrorists to use non escrowed key encryption software :)
I'm not a psychologist or have received any other professional training in this direction but really I think there are two types of depression.

- Clinical depression. The disease type that for many "comes out of nowhere" and paralyzes people to the point where they can't leave bed any more. I'd venture to say it's the minority of cases but the author may be wrong in putting them in the same group as the...

- Symptom depression. That's what I think the author is talking about and what I think is the majority of cases. People who work a lot call it "burn-out". Those affected can still function in daily live but quality of life is still pretty poor.

It's probably a mistake to put the first kind in the same class as the second kind. However I think it is a far bigger mistake to treat the second kind like the first kind and that's I think what the author was trying to say (and I would very much agree with it).
This country isn't just carbon neutral – it's carbon negative
Did I not say that there were side effects? :-) I realize this has problems, and I'm not the one to be providing solutions. However, "nuisance lawsuits" are a thing, and this case is probably the poster child. Only instead of "pay me and I'll go away", it's "we'll keep trying until we feel the tide of public opinion turns against us, then we'll pull out and try again...repeatedly." I don't know, just doesn't seem like the way things should work. You either have a case or not, public opinion be damned.

So fine, defendant doesn't get to push continuing the case. Then how about FBI doesn't get to try again? Of course, problem there is that the next will be ensured to be just different enough to not fall under whatever regulation or law is set up to deal with such a thing.
I got a DK1 a few years back and was ridiculously excited to try it out. I had blocked out the whole weekend to mess with it. I tried it for under an hour, took it off, and didn't use it again for a week. It made me nauseous and gave a killer headache. My wife and brother had similar experiences -- both expected to be thrilled and have difficulty putting it down, but both ended up keeping their distance after the initial experience.

I haven't tried any other VR devices yet (skipped the DK2), but I look forward to demoing the CV1 at some point. Since Linux support has been killed, it will probably be a while, whenever I get around to building the separate free-standing Windows machine I've been intending to get for the last year or so (with dual-boot, I find I boot up Windows once a year, or twice if MS is lucky that year; I just have too much stuff running on my primary workstation to let it go powered off for very long).
You're sending the wrong message since day 1. It's 2016, making things pretty is by default - there is a bunch of free icons, a bunch of default themes that make a site look decently without any effort. By not using those you also look like yet another wheel reinventor. It's an honest feedback, I wish you luck, not before you want to make people invest time in your technical merits, you need not to push them away with the looks.
The pain associated with a finger prick is basically constant. The pain associated with a veinous blood draw depends heavily on the patient and the skill of the phlebotomist. I can see how someone with hard to locate veins and one or two bad experiences would prefer the finger prick.
40 years later Apple still excites us
But they needed to get third-party help in order to access the phone, just by suing Apple they seem like they're incompetent at their jobs...
As a chess lover, I find live coverage of chess at all speeds compelling. If I have any preference it is for the slower games, because then you almost always have time to make your own reasoned judgments - i.e. guess the next move is more meaningful. Good expert commentary will entertainingly fill any deadspots - ironically a common problem is that the experts get so deeply engaged in "what might happen?" that they frustratingly don't notice when the players have made a move.
> Before Elizabeth's reign, England - like the rest of Christendom - understood a garbled version of Islam mainly through the bloody and polarised experiences of the Crusades.

> No Christian even knew the words "Islam" or "Muslim",

> Christians simply could not accept that Islam was a coherent religious belief. Instead they dismissed it as a pagan polytheism or a heretical deformation of Christianity.

That is just not true. Christians knew Islam for almost millennium before 16th century and centuries before crusades. There were christian communities all over Muslim world.
Given the same choices of wine I would choose a card board box and a plastic bladder every time.
I wish Apple would be able to recoup their legal costs from the DoJ -- the government shouldn't be allowed to force a company to spend money on defending their rights (using our "unlimited" tax dollars to do so), only to drop the case at the last minute making the entire case moot.

Apple should be able to recover their legal costs.
Most of the commentary here so far is really quite tangential to the actual research done. Everyone commenting on this article should make sure they've read the study first, with particular attention to the 'Limitations' section on page 11: http://m.jmq.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/02/25/1077699016...

One other feature of the study that limits its wider applicability is that it is entirely US-centric. It would be interesting to read follow-up work on samples taken from other cultures and countries.
The vast majority of national and world news printed in newspapers is written by the Associated Press.
There are licensing fees associated with AP, but it's not like the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald has a reporter on staff to get the latest scoop on the upcoming Supreme Court nomination.

The internet severely disrupted newspapers' business, and it took a while for them to figure out how to adapt.
Many of them have settled in and become profitable, mostly using a free-for-X-number-of-articles model.

Unfortunately, many newspapers initially took the approach of making everything free over the internet.
This conditioned the readers for free content, and made it tough to get money in the door for online access.
That seems to be changing though.
I'm not sure what "an early 2000's desktop-style interface" means, but the Linux-based Nokia tablets/phones aren't like anything I remember seeing on a desktop then; likewise Ubuntu Touch on he phone, of which you can find videos.
Your own link says this at the bottom of the introduction:

> In recent years, the discount rate has been approximately a percentage point above the federal funds rate (see Lombard credit). Because of this, it is a relatively unimportant factor in the control of the money supply and is only taken advantage of at large volume during emergencies.
Is VR a viable platform for porn? If it were, there'd likely be a sizeable market opportunity for it.
I've spent a couple months using VR (used to own a DK2) and hands-down the best experiences were "cockpit" style games.

I bought a joystick and Elite: Dangerous was the most incredible gaming experience I've ever had, if only for the sheer immersion.
And on Windows it's "potentially ill-formed UTF-16": https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/

Basically if your language/std-lib claims to be cross platform and considers paths to be definitely-utf8, it's busted. I think, maybe, plan9 is a case where this claim holds?
I don't know about US but in India any common citizen can continue to fight a court case which the government is not interest to pursue further.
Did not fix my iPhone 5S.
Who wants to take bets on how? My bet is they copied the flash, and are iterating passcode guesses until it slows down too much (or implodes, however it's configured) and then they reflash and iterate again. And it was only a 4 digit passcode, so it was pretty easy to do this.

The next bet is whether they find anything relevant? My bet is no. Next bet after that is whether they admit it? My bet is they won't.

But the more important one is if they tell Apple or open a CVE for the exploit they used if it's not a flash and guess technique they used? Is it ethical for FBI to sit on an exploit?
He's actually a volunteer moderator/admin. Users can be moderators as well. If you're interested in helping moderate let me know. The job duties are flagging spam, helping community members, and generally being an ambassador if they like the product enough. :)
Who wants to be there was absolutely nothing on the phone of value for the intelligence community? It's like the Reddit "what's in the safe" threads.

I just wonder what methods they used, I think it'd be pretty interesting to learn just the general strategy, as I assume they would never tell how exactly they did it.
Are you under the impression that all web pages and all web applications have been created with utmost respect for the standard and only the one standard (and not a specific browser in mind) and have been maintained for the last 10 years ?

Because those applications, that only work with IE (and not a too recent one !) do exist, and are a PITA to work with. It's not like the application would have some glitches or some CSS properties that don't render correctly with Chrome or Firefox; it's a real "does not work".
I suspect they didn't actually crack it. I think it's likely that they just realized the losing battle they were fighting. It sounded like a lot of public sentiment was against the FBI and they were unlikely to win the case (and it seemed like the information wasn't vital to them anyway) so they just gave an excuse to drop the case.

This has an additional benefit: rather than having the "boundaries" here be defined by a ruling, now in theory they have more time to work in a "gray area".
How do we think they did this?

Probably copied phone's memory and implemented a way to restore the state of the phone, then brute force try passcodes? I guess that could take only a week if they had only a 4 digit passcode.
Google Cloud Next 2016 – My Impressions
Interesting that they're actively looking to reduce bandwidth usage. Hopefully it's the start of a trend.
My CV1 just arrived. Resolution is adequate for gaming, but it's a long, long way off from being usable for text-based activity.

In a world where moving from a standard-resolution to a retina resolution for programming was a major eyestrain relief for me, I can't see VR catching up for another decade at least (though I'd be happy to be wrong.)
> This claim seems dubious at best. There's no proof that they got access, and it's in their best interest to claim they did.

Wouldn't that be perjury?

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2778264-Apple-Status...
Apple agreed. The court agreed.

And yes, next time with a smaller player we get to see if Apple decides to be a friend of the court, or even pony up legal help for it.
They are competent as they solved the problem.
I wish they (asana) listed down some of their real problems along with few possible solutions. A candidate can provide his solution or recommend one of their solutions. I think this approach can lead to a nice discussion where both parties can get to know each other.
> Government agencies are now able at least to break into handsets which don’t yet have the latest software upgrades.

Surely that should be latest hardware upgrades. The latest software upgrades are no good if not backed up by the secure enclave.
Private Preserve [1] is a good, inexpensive solution to this problem.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Private-Preserve-Wine-Preservation-Spr...
On the other hand, many smaller companies could not have afforded to take this dispute as far as Apple did, so the FBI proved they were willing and able to cause significant final injury to anyone trying to protect their users' privacy. One could look at this case as proof of the ability for the FBI to extort information and cooperation.
A Conversation with Arthur C. Clarke (1999)
They may also be saving their political capital to indict Hillary.
The vial of blood was only taken before the finger prick in the morning testing, in the afternoon testing the vial of blood was taken after the finger prick.
While it would have been nice to have them mix up the before/after scenarios between morning/afternoon it would be interesting to see if this has any effect in the raw data. I would guess it would have little effect as the volume of blood in a vial is still relatively trivial.