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This is specious logic. You're saying that anything up to, but not including, getting eaten alive is ok because "it could always be worse."
I literally facepalmed when I got to "construction adhesive". You have my heartfelt sympathy.
> better positioned to capture gamers

If this generation of VR gets relegated to gaming then it should be considered a failure.
I don't have exact download count, but only 13 people actually launched it.
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653635
It's just pure torture. I've IF and exercised around noon for some time and it's a struggle. Coffee compensates somewhat.
I started to read this with some interest, as someone who's spent many hours thinking about and trying different metabolic strategies, diets, etc..

Then about 30 seconds in my reading got disrupted by a fucking light-box asking me to sign up or log in or god knows what.. my instinct to close tab won out over my curiosity. Please stop this pattern. If you really think your content is worth having to (whatever)wall from the public, do so, but don't make me get into it and then shove something mid word into my face. This is the digital equivalent of giving me a magazine to read, waiting until you're sure I've got my eyes on it, then shoving a business card in my field of vision and telling me what you do for a living. It's a low rent tactic, annoys rather than grips your users, and it reeks of desperation to monetize.
"Credentials: We're ex-Googlers and trained computer scientists. We invert binary trees [links to https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 ] for fun."

Wow, way to ensure I am never, ever going to recommend this service to anyone. I am not impressed they can invert a binary tree. What is impressive is how they can manage to come across as pretentious, try-hard bullies in their own effing marketing material.
> In his 1988 novel Foucault’s Pendulum, Eco had three men feed an unwieldy amount of esoteric trivia—involving Templars, Rosicrucians, Freemasons, Illuminati, and a thousand other occult sects—into a computer that synthesizes them at random to generate a master “Plan” explaining the course of European history.

Either the author, or I, really misinterpreted this book. As I recall, it was Bembo's word processor that took a few dozen phrases—some of which were about occult sects, some of which were connectives "If this, then", and some of which were garbage "Mickey Mouse is Minnie's husband". And it didn't synthesize anything; it spat back a random selection of them, and the characters then attempted to synthesize the results. Which seems like a minor hair to split, but it really reflected one of the themes of the book, that humans keep trying to find patterns and order in the natural world, and will create it if it isn't there.

However, a similar remark is in the blurb on the back of the book, which has always annoyed me. So maybe it's me that's misremembering (or maybe the author of this article didn't really read much of Foucault's Pendulum.)
Python3 is delightful.
Machine learning accelerates the discovery of new materials
QNX is 30+ years old, and is effectively defunct except in a few niche markets after being acquired by Blackberry (and was losing market share to Linux for decades before that). QNX is not an example of a new and successful proprietary kernel competitor to Linux, despite being well-regarded and pretty neat technology.
What is inside out tracking? Is that like tracking the facial movements and such inside the headset to allow an accurate facial projection while wearing the headset?
i had never been the site before, but i too wanted to know. i signed up and paid them $200 for their hard work.

spoiler alert: it was hunger the whole time.
> Researchers found that three quarters of systems infected with Jaku were running an unlicensed version of Microsoft Windows.

Which means, systems that are never updated, so, systems that are vulnerable to a broad range of attacks, and would likely be part of one botnet or another in any case.
You say "in order to disassemble and make sense of them", but the "sense" that a disassembler makes can just be the direct conversion from machine code to equivalent assembley. Machine code is just another syntax, directly converting that into assembly can happen instruction-by-instruction.

Making more sensible assembly that a human would write is another thing, if you want to follow jumps to figure out where instructions are and regenerate labels, then that's one step towards semantics.

I don't know what kinds of invariants panopticon is looking at, but there seems to be code for static analysis using abstract interpretation[1]. This could do the data-flow analysis, determine types and recognize persistent variables.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_interpretation
My understanding is that most unrepatriated earnings are actually deposited in US banks, meaning that those dollars are already being lent into the US economy. Repatriation is a tax accounting issue.
Not if there's only one intergration.

The problem with third party integration is that you're going to end up getting a bunch of duplicate "skills", to use Alexa terminology, of varying quality and capability. It's the App Store problem, and bot store problem all over again.
Are you referring to this foveation paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06292)? I'm quite skeptical of the claims in that paper; upon closer reading their experiments are problematic. Also, it appears the paper was rejected. I can elaborate if that is indeed the case.
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In 2016 Apple insists on wiping my iPhone's mp3s clean if I connect it to any PC or Mac other than the main PC or Mac that was used to transfer mp3s on to it.
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Immersive VR experiences outside of gaming are really really hard. AR has a much better chance of capturing the non-gamer market.
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To those of us who may not be hip to acronyms, could someone clarify LP and GP? presumably not speaking of Long Play (LP) records or General Practitioners (GP).

Seems like fundamental writing/journalism to introduce an acronym in long form when introduced. For example "blah blah Initial Public Offering (IPO) yada yada".
Okay. Debian GNU/Linux. Fedora GNU/Linux. openSUSE GNU/Linux.
Bingo. The only thing they showed that came close to this, was the tulips query, but I honestly couldn't tell if it was a query refinement, or simply a new query based on the keyword "tulips".
I don't see how at all.

Everyone (including myself) that has been tattooed KNOWS they were going to be permanent before they got them.
If they wanted a removable option they wouldn't have got them in the first place.

A lot of the appeal of tattoos is because of their permanence and the commitment that resembles.
Given that it's a VC backed company, no.
I want to know about the tunnelling machine. It was boring, but I think it's interesting!
> It is scary that Hitler basically did the same things and wanted to Make Germany Great Again.

This is a trend in history. Whenever there's economist recession, a protectionist/nationalist/authoritarian element emerges. It's happened in many European countries, where a far-right candidate has suddenly been almost elected or actually elected. Canada even had this problem.

What was unique about Hitler was not how he came to power or that he came to power. Most politicians follow a similar path. The unique thing about Hitler (that Trump doesn't share) was the degree of his hate-mongering, control over the country, nationalism, and militarism. He was far, far beyond any viable candidate in a developed republic today.

It's also important to note that the "recipe" that created Hitler was much different than it is for Trump, and it's not just about the candidate himself.

Post-WWI Germany was a non-empire surrounded by empires. They were "oppressed" by the reparations they paid for WWI. They had high net exports, which creates the perfect conditions for a war machine (and which is why it's illegal for Germany to be too much of a net exporter today). And, among many more details, they wouldn't have been raised with values of multiculturalism, tolerance of immigrants, and anti-racism that Americans are raised with.
I decided to tee my timeseries data into InfluxDB. Purpose built for the task and has builtin support for rollups/ aggregation/ retention policy/ gap filling. Admittedly I have not put Influx under much stress or scalability testing since my use case is more based on utility than performance.

Unless PG has some timeseries-specific extensions I have assumed it would be appropriate for a TS-specific database. Also curious to try Riak TS.
right right right, don't do anything to the plastic. To a museum the natural aging of the plastic is part of the artifact and its history. Ret0bright[1] is a chemical combination that could have effects down the line. museums have to think in terms of storing artifacts for 100 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retr0bright
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Why? Surely gaming, an activity usually conducted alone that already involves buying hardware, is an ideal place for new hardware tech to gain traction.
> The best example of this is to notice how bad automatic translators are. Guys at google tried to brute-force the problem, with a gigantic database of text, yet the result is absolutely miserable.

I suppose. I am fluent in two languages (also Spanish) so I'm in a position to be able to judge the quality of a translation, and I would say that pasting in blocks of text to translate them these days yields a result that's quite a bit better than miserable, thought indeed not flawless yet.
Email, slack, or the "Questions or Comments?" popup are all acceptable
It's easier to think of Mnesia as more of a persistent distributed hash map rather than a full fledged database.
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Execution is just the multiplier of ideas
This is not true at all. Adversarial input can indeed be probable input depending on your definitions and I haven't seen anything yet that describes the probability distributions of inputs. Everyone takes a bunch of training examples and extrapolates from there.
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I suspect your parent's point was that saying putting tattoos on pigs is "disgusting and shameful" is a little odd, given that animals eat each other all the time (which is presumably not disgusting nor shameful).
To understand what part that has in encouraging infection, we'd have to know what fraction of uninfected machines were unlicensed?
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I don't think it has to do with the combinatorics of the input space. Adversarial inputs are hard to generate until someone figures how to point a set of laser pointers at exactly the right spots on a truck on a highway to get it to swerve out of control.
Please refrain from labeling any article with a less-than-literal headline as "clickbait". I feel this lies somewhere between "avoid gratuitous negativity" and "complaining that a submission is inappropriate" guidelines; maybe I'm just tired of seeing the word slung at any headline even remotely designed to engage its audience.
Saying that willpower is a factor implies that it is unpleasant, which is actually agreeing with the implication of "pure torture" that the parent comment implied.
If it can fit on a single machine, those technologies are not necessary.
How does this work? I thought you can't pull money out? So how are you avoiding the taxes this way?
An old solution to this problem was the Logic File System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_File_System
(disclaimer: I am one of the author).
How to create nonbreaking arbitrary length snakes for full-width justification?
I believe Priceonomics went through YC, so I assume that's partially why it pops up on HN so frequently. From my understanding they started out as more of a data-driven guide for pricing things but seemed to have pivoted to being another media company.
Would you be okay if it was allowed to vote that someone you don't like can't live in the neighborhood? By imposing height restrictions, you end up doing just that.
In Japan, I learned what a truly healthy breakfast is.

Most days I eat a bowl of brown rice with a raw egg stirred in and a dash of high-quality soy sauce and topped with natto. Some days I'll also grill salmon or smelt. On the side, I usually have tsukemono (pickled vegetables) and miso soup.

Protein, probiotics, pickles...once you get used to it, the idea of eating sweet desserts for breakfast (which is what most people eat) seems counterproductive.

(By the way, it's probably true that many people in Japan eat the same crap as Americans do for breakfast——there's no shortage of bread, donuts, etc.)
Agreed -- people in low-cost countries have barriers. They also have opportunities. The income from content goes a much longer way if rent & food are cheaper.
Piwik started in 2007. It was inexcusable to use md5 then. The problem is that it was ever md5, not that it is still md5.

That really doesn't inspire confidence that they know what they're doing. md5 is a canary in the coal mine for me, and I definitely won't use Piwik now.
If you look at the screen during the presentation, the home screen includes every app that's used via Viv. Hopefully this means that you use whatever you install.

And it makes sense given the embedded app-specific widgets. (for example uber had the very specific map widget that I'm sure is not embedded into Viv itself)
Better. It's positional tracking using one or more cameras on the headset. No more external cameras, laser base stations, and limited tracking area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow

tl;dr: they modify words by adding suffixes (e.g. instead of adjectives). So they have (can make) 50 words out of anything
> because any random fluctuations can cause the whole thing to malfunction

You made a very specific claim that random fluctuations could have the same effect as adversarial examples. I was addressing that.
They are fast as giving you an answer but cannot tell you when are at the optimum solution. You need some termination rule to stop the algorithm such as time spent running, number of iterations etc.

We [1] have used a heuristic [2] method to solve vehicle routing for a client where optimum isn't important but certain features of the solution as speed of the answer are.

[1] http://www.biarri.com

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_Local_Search
Rain, stupid rain, fucking rain, miserable rain...
I lived most of my life in suburban areas where tattoos were uncommon. And then the last 5 years in a major city where they're everywhere. It's impossible for me to think of them as edgy anymore. They seem more like a cliche now. Just something you need to do to fully fit in with the majority of a much larger range of social circles than I used to think.
So does the new name ("Elizabeth line") imply that this is an expansion of the Underground - rather than a separate system? I know it sound like just semantics, but the DLR system for example is definitely quite distinct from the Underground, and I would like to know whether Crossrail will be too.
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Here is the thing, there is only so much room for people. You are either saying "fuck you" to the young people of the community that want to get a house in the place they have roots, or you say "fuck you" to the people that can't afford to live there. I don't see how it's particularly fair for a person to feel entitled to an area they did not purchase property in over another that just didn't happen to be there as long.
Yes, that makes sense and you're right. I don't have a proper definition of randomness and I wouldn't expect generic noise to cause issues.
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Great! It's "solved". No need to worry anymore!
Even as a kid, I had to drop breakfast. For literally decades, the several hours after I woke up, I'd be nauseated. I cut out certain categories of foods, and now I can eat whatever I want from the remaining categories, but I've also picked up intermittent fasting in the meantime. So now I typically don't eat until sometime after 4pm, with the majority of my intake at dinner. It's working well for me, but my wife just can't handle it.
Well, technically it's a "PHP extension", just one that several distributions include by default.
I fundamentally disagree with your belief that disobeying bad laws is an undesirable way to get bad laws to change. I think it is a very valid way to change bad laws, and in many cases the only remotely viable way. Do you honestly believe there was a viable way to get taxi regulations changed other than the general approach taken by Uber and Lyft? Granted, some of Uber's reported specific actions are slimy even to me, but I am convinced that their general approach (ignore the regulations and hope that the population realizes the superiority of your service faster than the government can shut you down) is the only viable way to do it. I'm tempted to go so far as to call this approach downright progressive, although I realize many self-proclaimed progressives will find that attribution repulsive.
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Limited Partner and General Partner.

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I would not consider it to be "one of the world's largest construction projects".
For more big digs, see also New York City Water Tunnel No. 3, a 60-mile long tunnel that has been under continuous construction since 1970 and which will allow the city's two existing water supply tunnels to be closed for repairs for the first time in a century.
completely depends on the app. It's a PaaS, not just a specific app.
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> the 1.5 million code line application written in groovy

That's quite big for Groovy. There's a lot of exaggerated claims coming out of that ecosystem. Most JVM apps that size are actually written in Java, perhaps with the codebase duplicated a few times, and counting testing copies of the code in the LOC count. If the harness for testing is written in Groovy, you could call it a "1.5 million line Groovy app". If some of that Java code is compiled or run as Groovy code in some testing framework, you could call it all "Groovy code". If the Groovy code is called from some app written in Java, such as Grails, you could get creative and call it a "Groovy application".

> groovy static compilation seems to work great

And just what proportion of that Groovy code is really compiled statically and run in a production app?
Hillary needs a shave too.
They tell their own story pretty well. Informative and interesting, pretty decent advice in there. Of course, no secret sauce, but that's overblown anyhow.

I find their articles very interesting, almost every time. Really high signal to noise, even if their content isn't always about weighty matters. I rather liked this one about breakfast, for instance: it taught me a lot about the historical development of breakfast.

Anyhow, not to tout these guys too much, but I do respect them for what they've done.

http://priceonomics.com/the-content-marketing-handbook/
You are thinking of tit for tat, right? I remember reading about generous T4T where in ~10% of the cases they were generous [CITATION NEEDED] it performed better that pure retaliation. Now there is a new paper in Nature[1] that I just stumbled onto in trying to answer your question. It seems like extortion is at least competitive with a generous strategy, though I need to give it a closer read.

[1] http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160412/ncomms11125/full/nc...
Consider that PG is adding wait events in the upcoming 9.6 release, a feature Oracle has had for about 20 years...
For mice (and presumably for certain other mammals), 12-hour daily fast seems to have positive outcomes.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/a-12-hour-window-fo...

The study suggests this is true even if you cheat on the weekend.

I'm super-dubious of evidence showing that breakfast improves school outcomes (except where it helps meet kids' calorie needs). You know what else boosts school outcomes? Sedatives, because school is hella boring. That doesn't mean sedating kids or adults is a good idea.
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Not really, it has nothing to do with it being pleasant or not. It means that you need to commit to actually doing it (like anything in life).

I'm absolutely fine with it and prefer it, like many other people. It's definitely not "torture".

Maybe it isn't for some but mostly it's about overcoming the change in routine and there's no shortcut to changing or building habits, it's just willpower.
True. But chances are once they go the gaming route, people will see it as just another toy and it will never escape from this deep pit of nerd-dom and into the hands of the average joe. See google glass, kinect etc. Not VR by any means but revolutionary for their time.
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Nice logo. D:
Agreed, VR is very anti-social. I have several oculus and there is no real viable use outside of game that I have used.

Screen replacement is a no go, way to much eyestrain.
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> Plenty of hardware in my life has backdoors (I'm looking at you Intel[1])

That same libreboot article[1] says that AMD is not any better. Is there any alternative I'm not aware of? An ARM Chromebook is unfortunately not fast enough for me.

[1] https://libreboot.org/faq/#intel
In my experience time-series is one of the use cases that warrants evaluating a specialized database off the bat. Plenty of databases (mongo ahem) advertise supporting time-series but under fairly pedestrian loads hit a wall and force you to resort to dirty hacks.
LUFO: is this some neologism for LRU? (Least-recently-used replacement policy: victims or removal from the cache are least-recently-used items).
Have you used an HTC Vive?

I have a couple oculus and they are nowhere near the HTC Vive in terms of immersion.
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The logic doesn't work because the two acts are not necessarily equal. Let's take another example: Would you equate the following items?

- Torturing an animal to death for fun.

- Killing an animal quickly and eating it.

They both end up with the animal being dead. Does that mean that they are equal and that you can't find one "disgusting and shameful" but not the other?
I'm guessing LeoNatan has an issue with:

> it's at best a subtle difference and for most code you won't be able to tell the difference.

Which is a pretty dubious claim. I removed a lot of retain/release/autorelease calls when I moved to ARC. Perhaps I'm missing the OP's point...
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Postgres is a better document store than Mongo.

The only time I would recommend Mongo is for storing geo-spatial data, as it has several built ins that make it much easier to work with. Even then I find it a lot more convenient to keep that data in Postgres and replicate it to Mongo.
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