skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that this can be used to easily disallow hotlinking of content. It should be enough for a content hosting site to set any cookie (doesn't need to be a secret cookie) with the
Same-site parameter and drop all requests without the cookie.
Oculus / Vive / PSVR are all "consoles" in a way, and that as competition becomes more and more fierce, profitability on hardware will go down over time. By staying a closed platform, if Oculus can deliver on their hardware while selling software on their platform.

What's different about consoles though is that, at least in Oculus and Vive's case, the software looks to be fairly compatible with one another (hack-blocking aside by Oculus). What I don't understand is, if it's trivial to run Oculus software on other hardware platforms with hacks, why wouldn't they want people to buy their software if it can run on other platforms as well? Is it brand protection? They can't make large margins on their headset forever.
Fair enough, I should have known that putting the words "Trump" in the first 100 words ofa post would be auto downvotes. I meant it to say that this is one way that candidates, particularly those who have most estranged the scientific communities, could shore up or make amends.
An imperfect autopilot, running on extra cpu cycles from the automatic door lock processor.
> being "the rock" typically gets you better long-term social results.

It's also really fucking exhausting.
I was responding to a post that appeared to claim that all we have to do is identify the best teams, not the best people.

These hypotheticals are to illustrate that that doesn't work.
So it's like the "stand by" mode of a tube amplifier, which keeps the filaments on.

Even though fluorescent lamps are called cold cathodes, "[a] cold cathode does not necessarily operate at a low temperature: it is often heated to its operating temperature by other methods, such as the current passing from the cathode into the gas." (Wikipedia, Cold Cathode).

Obviously, the tech you're referring to requires a special circuit, since an ordinary light socket goes comletely open circuit when switched off. (I.e. anyone who claims to have these zero-warmup CFL's in ordinary light fixtures is confused.)

I find that the slow warm-up time of regular CFL's is excellent for bathrooms. When you have to "go" at wee hours in the morning, you don't want the full glare in your sleepy eyes.

Your notes about the ambient temperature effect on warm-up time are spot on. People who are not seeing the effect with CFL's may be living in a warm climate or well heated home.
PDF on iPhone, do yours also go black?
Grunt still exists, npm has been a common point for close to half a decade now... it's pretty solid... everything else builds from there. If you've gotten used to npm and cjs modules, that's been very consistent for a number of years now.
Citation needed. You seem to be quite certain that control is the means to happiness yet have not offered any reason to believe this.
Here is how we can start killing patent trolls vernetx stock is trading at 4.89 and has a total marketcap of $252M[0]. When the list a massive portfolio (e.g. a huge weapons cache which is then publicly purchaseable) all major companies and a fund set up by the ETF or a responsible steward, buy enough to control the company. This would technically fund a patent troll, however, you could limit the attack vector to a payout less than even a single win in court would be given the apple lawsuit was >600M minus all the law fees.

There is conceiveably at least 1 other company with comprable shitty patents that is public, so a bidding war race to the bottom would incentize prices down instead of up if possible.

It could also be possible (in a much more gray possibly worse) way, actively drum up interest for a patent trolls IPO from the alliance funds, and then not invest in the fund, but release open source patents sourced from a different provier inavlidating there ability to sue in the market, with the alliance fund promising anyone using [ rediculously standard tech ] would have their full support in leveraging the open source patents and fighting legal fees associated with someone trying to invalidate the open source patents. this could disincentize bad behaviour.

It is pretty rediculous a company that is less than 2 years old can win a settlement for fucking twice it's market cap. I don';t think the market/law could limit age/market cap as startups would get killed if bigger people poach there stuff, but maybe some requirement to file suit of needing a working product or service using the technology and maybe some combo of years in the market / market cap, plus (which I think is critical) the public company must be owned by some reasonably large but not insane number. e.g. if you quietly ipo your shell and then you and your horrible 10-20 stakeholders foot the legal bill, then you shouldn't be allowed to sue, but if hundreds/thousands ++ are buying it, then it is likely actually a real or semi legit company.

[0]https://www.google.com/finance?cid=663422
There was a weird feature about Oculus at Facebook some months ago, where it was sort of hinted between the lines that Luckey and Zuckerberg didn't get along all that well. They even had to photoshop to get them into the same picture.

Found it:
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/09/oculus-rift-mark-zuck...
Copyright does not protect ideas and never will.
The other way to cross check this is to look at the relevant M2/M3's (definitions vary between countries), but otherwise knows as "the total sum of bank deposits" in a countries banking system.

i.e. compare and contrast:

Argentina: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MYAGM2ARM189N

USA: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2

The USA's money supply has a doubling function of 2x decade, while Argentina managed something like 12x 2006-2016.

The people who were predicting hyperinflation in the 2007-10 timeframe for the USA were predicating the banking system's behaviour based on the regulatory framework in the old gold standard regimes, and not under the newer Basel capital controls. Which is not to say that you can't get hyperinflation with Basel, but you need to do a little more than just inject asset money into the system.
Hey, girls cry more (typically) than guys.

As noted in the article, different people have different sensitivity levels that their emotions must meet before the waterworks start. Just because you cry less than the author does not mean that her amount of crying is abnormal.

Personally, I cry just as much as her if not more.
And go doesn't have a package manager? It doesn't need any other modules to create gui apps? Aren't there wrapper bindings that would be simpler than direct api calls?
I thought they did not have the "reason" for the arrest -- only the warrant.

The arrest may have nothing to do with accessing the Public FTP, and entirely to do with the research he was doing on the FTP service itself. If he was attempting to exploit the FTP service hosted by someone else (something or other aboubt database credentials was mentioned), he would absolutely be in violation of CFAA. You do that sort of research on your OWN system.

First rule of security testing: make sure you have permission.
Dear AirBnB,

Please end racism.

Regards,
A dissatisified customer.
Really cool tech, but kind of a depressing start to this young industry.

I feel like desktop apps are making huge strides in being cross-platform, both in attention from developers and the lower development effort required thanks to a myriad of software platforms and tools. It's just sad to see games still clinging to "exclusives" as if that's a positive thing.
Fate of the INTERNET – Feat. Dan Bull (2015)
> I really wish I could know how Carmack feels about this.

That's a really good point - has he spoken at all about the direction of Oculus & HMD VR in general since the Rift was released?
From my friends and family i'm the only one not on FB or Whatsapp,i'm listening every week why i don't join so the can send me update sand invitation cause every time the have to remember that i'm not on their lists/groups and that they have specifically phone/text me about family/friends/celebration/news. I've missed several friends dinners cause no one thought about the "hermit".
I'm not offended. I like cartoon boobs. Why do sexual themes make it into tech promotion often? I don't know. I'll just go back to reading http://oglaf.com and leave this alone
Stay at hotels. It's illegal for them to discriminate.
Then why wasn't it protected by authentication available to teachers only?
True, but it is still far lower than I would have expected.
How is a NoScript with community filters different from uBlock/AdBlock? It would be vulnerable to the same profit-driven whitelisting AdBlock does.
As satisfying as that might be, an ex post facto law would be unconstitutional in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law#United_State...
No because I'd like people who can't cultivate physical might to still be able to succeed.
Wonder how many of those were in active use recently? Passwords belonging to people who'd recently visited Myspace might be a bit more useful than those from people who left about when Facebook started getting big...
Another guy here.

I've found that as I age, I've become more emotional (and simultaneously better at dealing with it). I never cried in movies as a child/teenager, but nowadays I find myself choking up during particularly emotional moments in movies, shows, and life. Sometimes I just look at my son for a minute and the same thing happens. I try not to cry around people, even my family, but more because I'm conscious of the effect it has on them (upsetting or, in the case of other people, just awkward).

My theory is that, as I've developed a stronger sense of empathy and experienced more things in my life, I have a more direct emotional connection to events I witness. From what I've read based, this seems to be fairly common.
They could potentially anonymize race by redacting the photos/names until after the booking acceptance, no?

Discriminating by age could be considered reasonable (don't want a large group of college students) and I see valid reasons to discriminate by gender (Women may not want to book male guests if they're sharing the same space and vice-versa)...

You'd still run into the problem of real-life racists (a problem for minorities everywhere, all the time)... but such a policy would likely eliminate many racists from the site through the frustration of not being able to discriminate.
The best products will win
Likewise, I'm a lot more sensitive after becoming a dad.

I hear it's pretty ordinary. You need to be more sensitive so you can keep up and empathise with your kid.
Would you feel better about basically that with no striking or submissions? Those seem like what separates martial arts from sports.

Among well-developed, modern wrestling styles, I also like how Folkstyle (called scholastic and collegiate[0]) doesn't reward for big throws, which have big risks, so it has a honed focus on skillful control (without violence).

0: for very good matches, search "NCAA Wrestling Finals"
Or (4) they do believe the research, and they use it in their calculation that says that while they should err on the side of caution and should overdo force "a little bit" just in case, that they should be careful not go too far...

... which turns out to be the same calculation they used all along.
Got through most of the short version and didn't see anything about broken laws.
It's hilarious. They only have 10 Mib/s in the on-campus housing, but if you go to any lecture hall after hours you can get 100 Mib/s or so (synchronous!) over the wifi. Good luck getting anything but dropped packets over that same wifi network when the lecture hall is full, though.
Why does a property owner need to see pictures of the guests? Hotels don't make you upload a picture before you come. If AirBNB wants pictures for verification, that's fine, but they shouldn't release them to the guest.
From my point of view, it should be the same as in Ada, Modula-3, C#, Go, Swift and many other memory safe native languages, some of which targeted to systems programming. Where unsafe relates to memory corruption and numeric errors.

Anything else about expressing unsafety of algorithms, or validations not expressible in Rust type system shouldn't be marked unsafe just because of it.

Then again I am just a vocal language geek and the Rust community should decided what is best.
Making an 'effort to check':

- Imposes an enormous regulatory burden and cost on companies, which they then pass on to consumers and use as a moat against competition

- Excludes tons of ex-convicts who are perfectly capable of doing the job from doing it and thereby increases their likelihood of reoffending.

This isn't a case of "oh we can reduce violent crime in exchange for nothing". There is no free lunch. There are very real, very significant costs to implementing a law like this. And the simple fact of the matter is that those costs overwhelmingly outweigh the benefits in this particular case.

The number of crimes that would be prevented is tiny. The social and economic cost is huge.
> but retroactively assess punitive damages

This is unconstitutional. And not the fuzzy kind of constitutionality that pundits like to fight over. This is explicitly called out as forbidden in the U.S. constitution.

> No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

Punitive damages are also not awarded as part of criminal cases. These would just be fines.
How do you value the ability to buy oranges at any time of the year? The ability to buy shirts of any color/size, within minutes? I don't know if I would agree that the quality has been going down, it really depends on how you define quality :).

Basically, I completely agree that it is tricky, and traditional hedonistic adjustments really are pretty poor approximations.
1) In what way is it "doing harm" to the patent system? Usually, when people are vague about a harm, it is either because there is none, or it is some sort of vague "causing people to not respect [thing]" or some such. I suspect you mean the latter due to complaining about "the media". I, ahem, have very little respect for that viewpoint. I do understand the arguments respect for legal institutions being necessary for them to function, but respect is two-way - act disrespectfully enough, and nothing is going to save you. Perhaps more importantly, it is the patent trolls are the ones doing the damage, not "the media".

2) This patent troll is an NPE, which is usually (along with, you know, suing) the defining trait of patent trolldom. Why are you reciting grade-school nostrums about the Noble Idea of IP protection in general when responding to news about a particular entity in a particular case, who is quite clearly a troll? If I'm missing something, do clue me in.

3) If I'm misreading you, please do clarify. Being specific about harm, to whom, exactly, you're referring when bashing "the media", and perhaps why an extremely simplistic defense of patents seemed needed here would all be edifying.
How is discriminating by age reasonable? Not all 20 year olds are booking for 15 people. If someone lies about the number of people attending, then kick them out.
I can see where you're coming from.

My preference is to just read the article. Given the decay rate of Hacker News submissions, it is probably rare for an academic article to see an update during the time it is receiving attention.

Anyway, the original submission has the abstract.
Three Questions to Ask When Starting Your Next Bot Project
Thank god for the atom bomb [pdf]
Although I find lichenology to be kind of boring, the fieldguides for it are outrageously good. Unlike with mushroom books, the lichens in the pictures pretty much always look exactly like the ones in real life. And since lichens are much easier to photograph, the photos tend to be much much better also.

There's also a really easy onramp into the hobby. Because in most cities there are only a handful of species due to their pollution sensitivity, you can pretty much figure out what they all are just by guess and check. And then once you learn the basics, you can start going out into the suburbs. There is a good list of all the species in NYC here: http://lichens.nyc/

It also doesn't matter what season it is, whether or not it's recently rained, etc. And given that roughly 100% of trees have lichens on them, if you can find a tree then you've probably found enough stuff to spend an afternoon looking at.
Well, I'm an anaesthetist, and have heard this argument.

I personally did a heimlich maneuvere on a hospital inpatient who was blue and choking on a big bit of bread, and the bread came out and he turned pink again.

So from my samples size of N=1, it works 100% of the time. I would like to know the high quality randomized controlled trials which show that it doesn't?
Dear AirBnB,

Please stop providing hosts with information that basically can only be used for discriminatory purposes against protected classes.

Regards, A dissatisfied customer
> "Pain will help with our maintenance costs", you said. You said. You didn't mention how much it would HURT.

From the wonderful web comic "Schlock Mercenary", http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-11-14
>His handwriting was so perfect and distinct that in the late 1980s Luca Cardelli, then from the DEC
Systems Research Center, designed a ‘Dijkstra’ font for Macintosh computers. Soon after, Dijkstra received a letter typeset in this font and thought it was handwritten until news reached him about the creation of
this font.

Ddsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930–2002): A Portrait of a Genius - CWI
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~apt/ps/dijkstra.pdf
I know that this article is talking just about subways, but they brought up the issue of infrastructure spending being far too low. In many cases, however, it's more about the spending being incredibly poorly directed. I was talking to someone who used to sit on the commission of a Virginia city. He told me that VDOT pays for 95% of road construction and maintenance if it conforms to VDOT urban code. This is incredibly foolish for two reasons:

1. Urban code requires a minimum 28 foot road width. Understanding that "urban" here best means "where there might be some people" rather than significant density, this is a horrendous plan because it encourages huge roads designed for ~45mph. these roads optimize traffic throughput in places that should be optimized for livability, resulting in unnecessarily high spending and, more importantly, dangerous car-paths that discourage crossing the street, or even using it at all without a car.

2. More relevant to infrastructure spending, this imbalanced gravy train means that a town can easily add the tax base of large retailers at the edges of town, and the only cost to them is 5% of the huge roads involved in getting people out to those relatively unproductive stores. The result is a land-use problem where people have no inclination to build near one another, and the resulting dysfunctional road system that tries to move people and foster economic activity with the same infrastructure, and does both quite poorly. It's the futon of roads. And sure it's nice (if you live in one of these places) to be able to drive to the huge grocery store and pick from 8 different kinds of mustard, but if you're buying the specialty versions, you should probably just be ordering it online.

Granted, that's just the Virginia system, but it seems reasonable to expect that it would be similar in other states. In my travels, I haven't noticed many (U.S.) places that didn't fall into similar patterns.
Why Netflix Isn't a European Company
That basically used to be true, but this trial was over the "sequence, structure, and organization" of the API.
They're more peripherals than consoles. This is what makes it so frustrating to see what's happened to Oculus. Their recent moves are very anti-developer.
but they have cool toys and can pretend they are actual badasses when they raid your home and shoot your dog.. .even tho many of them cant qualify to get in the military ( too fat )
This YouTube Star Got Sued, Raised $130,000, and Wants to Change the Site Forever
Really? I wouldn't think this of a friend not on a particular social website or if I myself was the one on a particular social website.

I guess I'm old (mid thirties) and rely so heavily on text et al
This is just the cost of progress. If every imperfect piece of technology didn't ship, we'd have no technology at all.
Is it really wrong though?
Making your emotional state dependent on others is a terrible thing to do to yourself, because people can be fickle and change. Emotional independence is tremendously helpful for emotional well-being.
But the stated premise is that they're selling at a loss. Economies of scale don't permit you to generate profit while selling at a loss.
Because they hide under bridges not of their own making and accost unwary passersby.
or maybe they realized that having him on reddit talking about the "current circlejerk" isn't the best idea.
> The patent system was designed to foster innovation.

No, the patent system was dedigned to elevate Queen's friends above their competition.
Operating systems do in fact frequently tend to expose internal organizational boundaries of the company that produces them.

This tends to be more obvious when you start looking at packaging, interface, or documentation where different teams responsible for providing different parts of the product provide components.
It's going to be a much bigger problem in the future.

I looked at the descriptions for the three shows. Frankly, nothing seemed out-of-line because I didn't watch toy-oriented cartoons in the 90s and that subject matter falls into a genre I just don't care about. Truthfully, I suspect that those synopses pretty much describe all 90s cartoons.

For that matter, your entire article could be a social experiment, but the subject matter of Street Sharks is so far off the spectrum of things I care about that it's the first time I've ever even heard of them.

But, it does illustrate how easy it is to slip things in like that. Do it enough times with lots of small things and sooner or later, you have enough evidence for something larger and so on and so forth.

Still don't care about Street Sharks, though.

And please, for the love of <deity>, don't show this to Michael Bay.
Nifty! The config needed some fixes and tweaks (using `babel-loader`, `<MyRootComponent/>`, a `resolve` section) before it actually works out of the box, but it's a nice idea. I made a `git clone`:able version of the setup with fixes and a `Makefile` at https://github.com/johan/make-react-hack
> It'll make CSRF prevention a whole lot easier.

For a time being, it won't - unless you intend to only provide CSRF protection for the browsers that support this extension (and can server even detect whenever the UA is capable or not?). I think for at least a few years, Cookie+POST data is the only reliable option.
What if they didn't have a phone? would you take the time to write them letters? wouldn't your interactions be much different? That's the point.

At what level of saturation does the person opting-out of a communication medium become the more difficult one? The majority of people in the US have a social media account.