skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what if it turns out that torture really is effective? I think it is wrong and should be banned on that basis - but I am very open to the idea that properly used it might be a really valid way of collecting imperfect but useful information. I think the anti-torture side (shameful that such a concept is necessary!!) needs to be careful of putting too many of our eggs in the 'ban-torture-cause-its-ineffective' basket.
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This would require an Ozymandias-level of forethought... But I think Thiel is odd enough to pull something like that, so weird to not have a clue about the underlying reasons now.
I use the Unifi NVR software[0] which ships with their hardware NVRs, running on a Debian VM within my home network. This works nicely with their iOS app[1].

The new UVC-G3[2] is rated for outdoor use, but appears to be preorder-only for now[3].

[0] https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi-video/unifi-nvr

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/unifi-video/id964967062?mt=8

[2] https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-video/unifi-video-camera-g3/

[3] http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1244761-REG
(probably off-topic) you might want to check out this guy and his work: Laurent Bernadac https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurent-bernadac-b5223ba4. YT has some recordings.
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That has been my experience with foscam IP cameras as well. The UI was horrible, they routinely lost the static IP's I had assigned, and it reached the territory of being something that caused more stress than it was worth. The only appeal of Nest for me would be a potentially more reliable experience.
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yep. The neat thing about this is that it's composable primitives, so you could imagine having an arbitrarily shaped tree of demand-creating producer-consumers and consumers. And with distribution, it'd be possible to scale this out pretty far.
People have been digging through the game's data/files or whatever and have found strings referencing McDonalds. I think it's safe to say that they have planned promotions.
Forgive me for taking this to an uncomfortable extreme of a hypothetical:

As a parent, would you seek to prevent an AR app from allowing overlays of an artificially created model of a beaten and bruised child over your child's body when a user looks at them?

As a spouse, would you seek to prevent an AR app from allowing overlays of a pornographic representation of their body when a user looks at them?

As a homeowner, would you seek to prevent an AR app from allowing overlays of "#blacklivesdontmatter" from appearing as graffiti when a user looks at your home?
Nvidia  VR Funhouse shows why physics simulation is fundamental to immersive VR
I gave my experience and even provided screenshots but it appears that the above commenter downvoted me for having a conflicting opinion. Downvotes are supposed to be used for offtopic or malignant comments. I hope we can get a reply so I can see the shortcomings of dropcams -- because so far they've worked very well for me, but little do I know, maybe there are some real big issues that are just not in my regular routine use cases.
Not in our minds, but these people see others with power and think if only they had that power, preferably centralized (who likes redundancies??? DRY!), they could do something really special. They are The Anointed[1]. They've cracked the code somehow. But they get to the helm only to discover there's 10 other hands on the wheel, and no one can see the effect until well after the next election cycle.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-S...
>They will prefer – and actually perform better with...

That's an important distinction. There is something to valuing a tool that makes you use it better. My first version of Visual Studio I paid for out of pocket and I made sure to get my money's worth. My bicycles, probably don't actually make me that much faster, but when I enjoy riding them and like them, I am faster.
To be fair, a flight can be a horrible experience do to other passengers, and not the airline.

On average I think the experience at the airport is worse than the flight itself.
It is possible to think through the law and write it well to avoid that sort of situation. In this case, a clause stating that 1) a primary residence can only be rented out x days a year while the owner is not present, but may be rented an additional x days a year with the owner present 2) A secondary or vacation home can only be rented out x days a year with a minimum of x days between rentals, and the owners must be present at least x days out of year. 3) A non-primary or secondary home may only be leased out x days of the year, with longer x days in between. 4) A unit that would otherwise be a unit for longer habitation can only be rented out a smaller x times a year, and must be offered for long-term renting at competitive prices in between times. 5) All other residences being rented out must be registered and liscenced as a resort or a hotel and uphold the regulations of those. 6. All must register their rentings with the city and obtain the appropriate permits (simple stuff for single home owners looking to supplement income, of course).
No paywall: http://archive.is/t4H4T
regardless of Thiel, there's nothing invalid about the concept of peak oil. The main questions are "when?" and "will we have enough oil so that full destruction of the stability of the climate hits us first before major peak oil issues?" and things like that
Mr Robot has some of the coolest easter eggs
One of the comments really highlights a good point here: For default bootstrap, this will mean less to load, and more readable fonts. For sites that want consistency across all devices, it seems extremely unlikely they'd also want the default font from a css framework anyway.
If you're wearing AR gear in the casino, you might see in the corner of your eye while playing the slot machine a little gambling Pokémon, inviting you to play with him for better odds than the stupid slot machine.
There's also the Retron 5 that plays NES, SNES and Genesis carts.

Also the Retro Freak:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-cyber-...

Each of these devices have their own issues though.
A lot of Democrats support homeopathy/alternative medicine, think GMOs are bad, dismiss nuclear power, etc. It's not like only one party suffers from a lack of evidence based thinking.

It's misleading to go from "Parents should be allowed to seek whatever treatment or therapy they deem fit for their children" to "Republicans are advocating gay conversion therapy", anyway. Not opposing something is not the same as advocating it.
Back in the day nearly every "port" was a full reimplementation, from the code to custom graphics and sound. Such are the perils of writing to bare metal.
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Apologies if I'm being naive, but how does it take 3 architects a whole year to upgrade a family of websites to HTTPS? The BBC are way behind the times here, although the article alludes to issues with suppliers.
What would be better than peer review?

Arxiv lets preprints be published. Would be cool if afterwards they'd have reviews from credentialed users.
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I wonder why the webrtc video calls only work on Chrome(OS) and not other modern browsers (Firefox, and even Brave which is also a Blink based browser).
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If memory serves me right, one of the violins that came out on top in the original study was moderately priced (eg 1/10th the price) of the high-end models.
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Yeah, I ate there last night. It was hard to get a table at several restaurants and I almost got bumped into by a few Poke-hunters.
I used to volunteer teaching coding to youths (teens in highschool, mostly) and I tend to believe this is the case. Though I think it's driven by the fact that it's user-friendly to set-up & use vs. alternatives.

Consider the fact that it's super easy to buy a bunch of cheaper Chromebooks or tablets, fire up Nitrous or Cloud9, and now the focus can be on solving problems - rather than set-up/deployment.
One of the biggest issues with Nest is that they pretend to be a serious company that takes cares of your home needs (security/monitoring, fire & gas prevention and heating) but their products are toy like in that respect.

However I own 3 cameras and the fire alarm. The fire alarm, is worthless, I eventually disconnected it given the large amount of false positives.
Then there are the cameras. I travel a lot so wanted a system that allowed me to monitor my home remotely for security purposes. However, I soon found out they are pretty much gimmick and any burglar will by-pass their security. If you own a nest cam, be aware that if the cam is disconnected from your Wifi, it will take 30 MINUTES FOR NEST TO NOTIFY YOU.

What did I learned? Burglars will power off the electricity in you house upon entry - to prevent alarms etc from sounding. This will bring you Wifi and your cameras down. Don't worry, 30 minutes later, or approximately 20 minutes after burglars have left, you'll know.

You'll also only be able to set notifications via email and push, so if you are sleeping you're out of luck. I was thinking of hacking a system with Twilio to do an automated call upon the email being received, but after finding out that it would take 30 minutes to even be notified I gave up.

Nest is cool, easy to setup and the cameras look nice, but they are toys. Other products might be hard to setup, look uglier but work. I'd rather they did both, but if I have to chose between ugly and works, and beautiful but doesn't - i'll take the first.
You'd still have the regular BEAM reduction-counting backpressure in place, and it would be trivial to have your flow components report their work rates and/or demand requests to whatever monitoring service (statsd, etc.) that you might care to set up. Or to respond to state query messages like sys:get_state/1.
Everywhere that provides internet access will give you a browser, where they may not give you a proper SSH program (or worse, they'll block everything but 80/443 outbound). This happens with a lot of cyber cafes, free wifi hotspots, and so on.
Here is what TechCrunch says:

"Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed but we’re trying to find out. And we’ve also reached out to Amazon for a direct confirmation of the deal."

and

"Cloud9 had raised just over $5 million from investors that included Accel and Balderton..."

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/14/amazons-aws-buys-cloud9-to...
The Matrix kind of did this, with the switch in color saturation & tint between "inside" the matrix and "outside." Inside was desaturated and tinted green; outside was desaturated and tinted blue. At the time it was considered a nuanced way of exaggerating the difference between the two.
No, they do not own your vision. But where able, they certainly have the right to protect how their brand is presented inside their own property.
I'm also a fan of Zero to One and Thiel's other writings, and not a fan of Trump...

To me, it's a reminder that people are complex. Peter Thiel is a remarkably lucid thinker, but he was openly homophobic when he was young, while in the closet! Ron Paul is probably the only political candidate I've ever learned anything from, but he also has a history of racism.

Even Trump is complex -- he's not just the arrogant, ignorant character he plays on TV. I found this piece in the NYTimes to be illuminating (sorry if it's a subscription link):

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/opinion/campaign-stops/...

Like Peter Thiel and Ron Paul, Trump has contradictions. He is both ignorant and accomplished. He says a lot of bigoted and sexist stuff, but he has also known to be been shrewd in cultivating gay and female executive leadership. It's been said that his best advocates are his children, and that's saying a lot when you compare them to their peers (other children with 3rd generation wealth).

Trump is tapping into a real need that the electorate has, which honestly NEITHER party has an answer for.

Trump probably doesn't have an answer for it either, but acknowledging it is the first step. Honestly, it's probably NOT irrational for lower middle class white men to vote for Trump (over Clinton, at least). I would argue that it was probably irrational for them to vote for Bush, since Bush didn't act in their interests.

As for why Thiel would support Trump, I'm mystified too. But what I would guess it's because he doesn't support either Democrats or the "establishment GOP", which Trump isn't a part of.

Thiel is a contrarian, and in tech social circles, Trump is the ultimate contrarian choice :)
> social issues are a nice little diversion from what government is really all about: taking your money, borrowing against it, and spending it.

The Republicans seem to waste a great deal of effort trying to fit the government into people's bedrooms, family life, and women's doctors offices for it to just be "a nice little diversion."
I believe I read somewhere that if the caliphate falls it means that they never truly had the mandate of heaven. How could their followers justify continued obedience?
I am on my phone (sorry) but the documentation for the GenStage module has a section on the message protocol between consumers and producers. GenStage is simply one implementation of this message protocol.
Incidentally, the company Unicomp produces modern Model M keyboards, which are a cult favorite among hackers and writers (http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/UB40P4A). But that company has a similar problem: Model Ms in general, and the keyboards it sells, can last for decades—which means that their revenue stream is tiny, because customers don't need to replace their keyboards.

I used one for a couple years (see here: https://jakeseliger.com/2009/01/31/ibm-model-m-unicomp-custo...) and only switched because I was having some wrist pain and tried a Kinesis Advantage instead. Which has in turn outlasted several computers.
The default RetroPie installation is notoriously laggy[1] when it comes to NES/SNES games. Some of the issues have only very recently been patched by enthusiasts:

http://libretro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5428

[1] I guess it depends on how sensitive you are to lag in the first place...
> The CPU overhead of TLS encryption has historically been significant. We’ve done a lot of work behind the scenes to improve both the software and hardware layers to minimise the load impact of TLS whilst also improving security.

I thought that it hasn't been significant overhead for a while now?

related:
https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/ssl-performance-myth/
https://istlsfastyet.com/
He said "You kinda don't want to win 2016".

Thiel isn't just "weird"; it should be pretty clear that he's out-and-out nuts, by this point.

At least he's being honest in conveying to us that not only does he not expect his sockpuppet candidate to win in 2016 - but that his ideology as a whole is essentially fatalistic; and that he needs some major catastrophe (in the form of either the economic collapse he's predicting; or of an actual Trump administration, which he's smart enough to realize would also be a major disaster) to bring about the sweeping, transformative change in global consciousness that he seeks -- the social chaos, ruined lives, and piles of corpses be damned.

Just like any megalomaniacal ideologue anywhere, since the beginning of time.
Note, that nowhere in my post did I condone the actions of the president and advocate for a violent penalty of any sort towards the addicts.

I was merely mentioning that you might not win the argument with the way you were responding before.

> I strongly suggest you study up on the person of 'El Presidente' a little bit more before you come out in defense of this person.

I'm assuming here you're talking about some particular South American dictator, but perhaps you could elaborate?
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I understand the multiple buying is because, unlike Microsoft and Sony, they never really invested in their online network to support this.
Some of the issues were recently patched:

http://libretro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5428
The split between the parties is a result of stored societal dissonance which was previously not a "natural" arising event before the arrival of the Internet. Search and watch "this video will make you angry" for more context.
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I would buy it if it allowed downloading new games into it. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game! Who's with me??
I'm partial to the Hikvision 4MP IP cameras and Blue Iris dvr software. What is great about Blue Iris is you can mix and match IP camera from different OEMs and it doesn't require any plug-ins to view live streams or recorded footage from any web browser. The only issue I've been running into is having too many 2k res cameras at 20+ FPS eats up a lot of CPU on DVR PC. Don't know if the Unifi DVR software is better optimized or if it only works with Unifi gear.
So cross-promoting is illegal? The New York Times advertises its subscriptions and branded experiences, not those of other papers.
Thanks mgrennan!
I've never understood this. I'm not a huge soda drinker, but I can tell the difference between at least Pepsi, Coke, and Dr. Pepper, by smell alone, no tasting required. One sip and I can tell you Diet or Regular, on top of the brand. I have not observed that I've got an above-average sense of smell or taste. What good does the blindfold do?
This is something that should be taken care of when vetting the project on whether or not the company should use it. Anyone whos been around that block a few times knows to look for:

- current dev status (hasnt been updated in 6 months? probably shouldnt touch it)

- community review (is anyone else using it, hows it working for them?)

- limitations (this one is pretty obvious, technical limitations/benchmarks/etc)

- code quality (unless its a third party service you pay for you should be able to see if the code is worth a crap pretty easily).

- vendor lock (if we need to change, how easily can we change? do they use open source protocols/standards that other tools understand?)
Totally understandable. I wouldn't just because my budget is very tight now.
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Yes to building and breadboarding. At least discrete components will never have proprietary APIs ;)
A much lower-effort solution, if you can hear: "some_command; say 'done'". (Replace 'say' with 'espeak' on Linux.)

I personally went kinda crazy in this direction, and made 'judge some_command', which, depending on exit status, runs either 'yay' or 'boom', themselves custom commands which play clapping or explosion sounds.

So I can do 'judge run_tests' or 'run_tests; judge' and hear what happened. (The latter form is nice if I realize after the command started that I want notification - I just type it and hit enter while waiting for the first command to finish.)

https://github.com/nathanl/.dotfiles/blob/64b0ae9e53c0bbf9c5...
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It definitely does a lot more than when I first looked into it. Someone tuesday night was trying to get a bootstrap repo using webpack dev server on cloud9. She had a local node install, so i had her use that instead, simply because I wasn't familiar with c9. She showed me her node+react app fully running on it though, which I thought was pretty damn cool.
So people are paid according what they spend, not what they produce? That doesn't sound very sensible to me.
This is fantastic news - Skype is a decent product, and fairly universal, but it also happens to be NSA spyware. I'll now use it, because it's sandboxed within a web page!
According to http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp, Chrome has 3 times the market share as Firefox
Estimates and Parkinson's law: why software projects run behind schedules
the democrats want to outlaw sodas and guns. it's all bullshit to fire up morons. do you really think there's a snowball's chance in hell of overturning roe v. wade? do you really believe republicans want to force gay people to convert to heterosexuality? if you do, you're an abject moron, exactly the type of person this kind of divisive diversionary nonsense is aimed at.
I didn't take it as being confrontational, no worries. Not being able to measure if people take enough vacation is a drawback of unlimited vacations. But we feel that having to ask for vacations and administering them doesn't rhyme with our value of focussing on results instead of hours.
> The "n.1" restaurant in terms of monetary value is McDonalds.

No, the No. 1 franchised chain of restaurants is McDonald's; there's a pretty big difference between the No. 1 restaurant and the No. 1 chain of restaurants.

> But they are wildly successful.

The chain has, over its lifetime, been wildly successful, a success initially fueled by a reputation for extremely high quality, consistency, and efficient service compared to the greasy-spoon diners that were the mainstay of low-cost restaurant food at the time of their initial growth; the recent history is something a bit different (they have, IIRC, recently ended a period of year-over-year drops in same-restaurant sales by, among other things, significantly cutting the number of restaurants, particularly the corporate-owned rather than franchised ones.)

> Conversely, michelin star restaurants go bankrupt all the time.

So do individual (independently owned and operated) McDonald's restaurants.

> But the goal of most companies isn't critical accolades, it's to make money.

Yeah, but McDonald's didn't make more money than other restaurants by skimping on quality, they made more money by being successful based on quality, and moving quickly with that success to branch out to other locations rather than merely saturated a single market, and by offloading much of the risk (and some of the rewards) of expansion to fee-paying franchisees, which is what differentiates them from single-location restaurants that are trying to extract maximum value from a particular local market.

Trying to generalize from this to say anything about succeeding in the software market is probably pointless, mostly resulting in very bad analogies.
We make heavy use of C9 for our code academy. I hope they don't shut it down :(
Well, every 3rd party scripts e.g. for tracking you are using needs to be on https too. CDN and all webservers needs to serve traffic over https. You need a secure way to update cecrtificates across the whole network. Of course if you run single website it's simple but when you have hundrets of servers and multiple 3rd party tools it might get tricky.
Tech giants say black lives matter. But will they fix their diversity problem?
>I don't understand e-sports teams. They're not representative of a geographical region [snip]

I don't understand traditional sports teams. They claim to represent a geographic region, yet the typical player on such teams have as much history or loyalty to that region as I do to Jupiter.