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> 1) they've only gone after those with clear intent in the past

This guy would disagree: https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/sacramento/news...

But yes I agree with the thrust of your comment. I'm just saying as a hard left dem, it pains me to be put in a position where my only real options are two symbols of how the rich and powerful are beyond reproach in this country.
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I think VR can only become mainstream/ubiquitous once it has an "iPhone moment" that fundamentally changes what VR even is in the first place. Right now everyone is thinking about how to make the VR we heard about 30 years ago. Sure, we have faster processors and everything is smaller and lighter now but if you look at VR demos from the 80s it's really all of the same stuff taking the same approach with all the same issues and all the same empty promises. VR's problem right now is it's just the same boring novelty it's always been.
Rather try 2GB Redmi Note 3 for 145$ or 3GB version for 180$...
I'd say the GearVR is the more production-ready version of Cardboard, but requires a specific phone that only a segment of customers have. I own a GearVR and S7, and Daydream seems very similar to that hardware while addressing a few of the out-of-the-box issues that GearVR has:

1. GearVR has no controller. Daydream's controller provides both direct and motion input.

2. GearVR has decent resolution with the S7. Phone resolutions should only improve over time, and so will the experience (particularly the screen-door effect).

3. The GearVR hardware is hard plastic and a little uncomfortable after 30-45 minutes. This headset seems to go to some length to avoid that problem.

4. From what I understand, the GearVR has high-resolution sensors inside of it to offload some of that processing from the phone. This has the effect of tightly coupling the GearVR hardware to Samsung, since they're the only ones making compatible hardware (to my knowledge). Daydream is more of a reference, so there will soon be more compatible phones out there.

5. Publishing apps to GearVR requires going through Oculus (Facebook), period. On the S7, plugging into the GearVR is actually a hard shortcut to Oculus. You may not agree that Google is better, but I doubt it's going to be as walled-in.
For some SLR systems 50 mm (or more often 51.6 mm) isn't actually all that easy (in the 60s), eg. Nikon with a comparatively large flange back distance. We still see some artifacts of this today, e.g. the classic short reproduction macro was always around 55-60 mm, because it's a spot where the lens design is easier.
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The phones are available on Fi and at Google Store for full value or financing.

I think Google Now On Tap is gone.
Features on phones seem to have plateaued.

I can't justify spending $650 on the newest phone for a slightly better camera.

My current iphone 6 is just fine, the battery is waning but not unbearably so.

Does the pixel offer anything that justifies the price? Or would a consumer be better off just purchasing an older generation smartphone?
This dump claims to be from a Clinton Foundation server; it doesn't have anything to do with the email issue. Also,

> While I could never vote for either of major party candidates for a variety of reasons

Then who are you going to vote for? There's only one other candidate that's on the ballot in every state.
Reminds me of "the ludic fallacy":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy

Which points out... Casinos are sometimes a bad model for randomness in the real world. In a casino you have only "known unknowns", but in the real world it's "unknown unknowns" that often cause problems.
Sure but the problem is, some random, ununiformed dude maybe or maybe not claiming to be a cop starts to man-handle you and trying to physically subdue you.

It should be reasonable to resist that. How can anyone tell that is a lawful arrest vs an assault/prelude to kidnapping?
Yes, the original firmware sucks massively and I wouldn't wish it even on my worst enemies.

That being said, it takes about 5 minutes to flash a custom recovery and the latest CM, so in the end it's a non-issue.
I was a bit disappointed that there wasn't much detail given about the problem being attacked, and no information about the results other than some timings. Sure, Julia's nice, but what are we looking at here?

Also, there's talk about how slick this is when using IJulia notebooks. It would be cool to provide a link to an actual notebook.
Stock Android is dumb, annoying.
Thank you kindly for directly demonstrating my point. You are exactly the target audience for the data the article is talking about.

In most other aspects of daily life, people are willing and able to make judgements from circumstantial evidence without rigorous quantitative work- you don't demand a formal Bayesian analysis of the day's weather before you decide to take an umbrella with you. But in issues like this, people who don't want to deal with it will plead "lack of sufficient data" until someone does an iron-clad study with five-sigma-significance results. So, that's what they're doing! Public awareness proceeds onwards and upwards through this kind of rigamarole.
This was not unusual in premodern Europe. European scholastic work still happened in Latin in the eighteenth century. Dante is famous for being the first to publish in Italian ("housewive's Latin") rather than Latin, and he was writing literature in the 1300s, centuries after people stopped being able to understand Latin.
Containment seems almost fractal to me. /pol/ drains other boards of people who complain about black people and Jews all the time and also drains the nastier sorts out of /r/The_Donald.

/r/The_Donald, in turn, drains Trump fans from /r/politics and the like.

Of course, containment isn't perfect.
Restricting speech is restricting speech and UC is not allowed to do it.
Well, it was illegal to smoke marijuana everywhere in the US for several decades. That didn't stop people from doing it. And now it's becoming legal.
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That seems to be an Apple specialty, because Windows software always lacked that as well.
I think the parent was stating that Pixel phones will soon be the only way to actually get into Fi. For now, you can start service if you bring a 6p or 5x but who knows how long they'll support that.
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Between public records and private marketing databases, is it information that can't be bought?
The presense of drivers inherently make other forms of transportation worse. Drivers often kill cyclists (seemingly for the fun of it, sometimes, see the case of Matthew Van Ohlen). Drivers intrude on crosswalks, and honk their car's at people that dare cross with the light. Drivers occupy the majority of the allocated street space, despite being a minority of street users.
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I think the usual method is to forward just help@ or support@ emails to the 3rd party support email address. See http://docs.helpscout.net/article/54-google-apps etc
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Don't a lot of the big providers pass emails between each other encrypted with TLS? And emails internal to Yahoo's email system wouldn't be visible to your ISP or anyone outside of Yahoo.

https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/
I'm one of the thousand who run an RSS service (feeder.co), and we're still growing! From speaking with our users, it's evident that the uses for RSS and similar open standards are endless.

It can make you feel really small at times when the product you are creating is standing on the shoulder of not-so-benevolent giants. For example, Craigslist apparently hates when somebody actually uses their feeds. They IP ban anyone doing a pretty regular amount of requests per hour, and are completely impossible to get ahold of. (have you seen their forum?) When our spiders are blocked by Craigslist, our users suffer. And then they come to us asking why feeder doesn't work...
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Git automatically exposes the email of committers, or at least a string that is nominatively an email, I see no evidence of a anything beyond that here.
SWAT is supposed to be for that kind of thing.

The problem is that most places don't have the funds to run a completely separate dedicated SWAT. So what they do is place a bunch of regular cops on it, so that they end up sharing their time between SWAT training and door-busting, and regular policing. Needless to say, it doesn't go well, because SWAT training and practice instills the kind of us-vs-them "warzone" mentality that is extremely detrimental to day-to-day policing.

The other problem is that once SWAT is there, cities start using it everywhere on the basis that they have already paid a lot for it, and might as well get their money's worth. This is encouraged from below (i.e. by the officers) too, because raids are more "fun", but also because civil asset forfeiture proceeds from a well-timed raid can be immense, and goes towards the police budget - from which they can buy more SWAT toys like APCs, battering rams or .50 BMG rifles... which then become things begging for an excuse to use, and so the cycle closes.
Cool idea, but not sure if the Trello boards ux is suitable as a help desk.

At 15$ per month i use Reamaze (https://www.reamaze.com) for my consultancy and it serves as a full featured help desk with slack and github integration as well and i hear they do have a trello in the works, last I asked. Not sure if there are ones out there with a trello integration though.

Good stuff!
Not really. Ancient Chinese poems as far back as 3000 years ago are still required materials for recitation by Chinese school children. Any educated modern Chinese can read and understand ancient Chinese text.
I meant how actual people are capable of kindness, rather than a bunch of analytic-philosopher stuff.
The fact no-one has done this means the consequences must be absolutely devastating. Probably jail time for executives and potential financial collapse.

Probably the only time an executive would go to jail for breaking the law in the US...
I disagree that it's a similar crime distribution per capita, on the whole. Of course, many of those "racial" or "cultural" differences disappear once you control for other factors, mostly economic. That being said, we still need to control for if we're using "black" as a proxy for "poor" before we call the police racist, for example. (That would be classist, not racist, policing.)

> Are you blaming this problem on black culture?

In part, yes. It's not popular, but I think that black culture has developed "pathological" behaviors, similar to the defense mechanisms we see in children, were the behavior was actually adaptive at one point in time (and likely essential for survival), but has become maladaptive now that the circumstances have changed. (I would even go so far as to argue that a lot of the backlash over "microaggressions" is that people think talking about "microaggressions" before those maladaptive behaviors in unreasonable and unfair, but we're getting on a tangent.)

> Have you ever actually asked any black people (Lower, middle, or upper-class) about how their interactions with police go?

Sure. There's HUGE correlations between those stories and a) economic status (usually as conveyed by dress) and b) culture (usually as conveyed by language choice).

My point is that you're getting like 10 variance points from what you wear, another 5-10 variance points from how you conduct yourself, and like 1-5 variance points from the color of your skin.

I'm not convinced there's not a racial component to the policing either -- I just suspect it's much like the wage gap, where what we find is that it's mostly social issues we don't really want to talk about (women leaving work force to have children; men having more variance as a gender; men skewing slightly more competitive) and a little bit actual problematic bias (that last 3-5 cents).

So I suspect we'll find a little bit of genuine bias in policing, but I think we'll find, once we dig further in to the numbers, that mostly what we're seeing is behaviors that correlate highly with facts that make us uncomfortable, and have to do with either economics, social class, or culture.
But it sounds like the core apps on iOS work the way they want them to, whereas the alternatives on Android are all lacking. So being able to change is a nice option, but if you don't use it, doesn't really add much.
I suspect (speculate) that the issue is with normal vision being a sequence of saccades, wherein you don't actually see anything between point A and point B, vs most VR which is a smooth glissando between points.

I heard of one hack, for minecraft or something, that snapped view angle increments to 30degrees or something like that, and it was helpful. That would simulate saccading.

Expect a lower point of view frame rate (vs animations that don't change point of view) would be helpful. i.e. smoothly move whatever is in your hand, or that pig on the landscape, but turning your head triggers saccade emulation.
Any citizen has the power of arrest. But yeah.
I don't understand. Do you dispute the logic, or just worry about where it leads? I read your comment and rebutted it, but your response doesn't feel like a rebuttal.
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I'm not arguing that we should not keep those cautions firmly in mind when interpreting this data dump.

A few points:

- Some may be DKIM/DomainKeys signed, which could provide evidence of tampering if the tamperer was unsophisticated enough to try tampering with a signed message.

- Any other party to any contested email could potentially produce a version of the email that differed from the leaked one.

- Chances are more than one group/individual hacked the server, so there could be other sources of verification, though it would still be difficult to determine which one to trust.

All in all, I hope that nothing interesting or troubling is found in the emails and we can all move on from this issue. I'm also skeptical Russia had anything to do with it.
Let's remember that the vast majority of jobs are non-technical and held by people without college degrees. Most of the middle class don't have college degrees, and of course very few have technical jobs.[0]

My point is that the range of possibilities is immense. Nobody could possibly answer your question, especially without knowing more about you. Here's some general advice from a stranger on the Internet:

1) Self-knowledge is most important, IMHO, to career choice. Learn what you care about, what inspires you, what you like and don't like, what your strengths and weaknesses are, etc. Most people have a poor understanding of these things.

2) Based on that, embark on a career in something you love and which suits you well. It will take plenty of time and effort to get traction and build 'career capital';[1] it will seem impossible to get your foot in the door, but be patient and persistent and use the time to acquire skills and contacts - you will be very busy later. You might as well invest that effort in something you love. That way, later, when a contact calls you with a business idea or you come across some great opportunity, it will be to do what you love instead of something you merely endure.

3) No matter what you do, some people will tell you it's wrong. You can't please everyone, and they really don't know you the way you do (see #1). Ignore most advice (especially from strangers on the Internet).

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[0] A quick search of formal education levels didn't find anything but I did find that only 40% of middle-class students who start college get a degree, so the number with degrees is very likely lower. http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/25/news/economy/middle-class-ki...

[1] https://80000hours.org/career-guide/career-capital/ - this whole website seems pretty good.
What a guy. Way to be an entrepreneur or businessman.
you should have a look at this bootstrap template:

I won't be self-promoting here, but I use this template for my "portfolio" from time to time, and it definitely seems to do the job.

http://themes.3rdwavemedia.com/website-templates/free-respon...
Excepting major thoroughfares, public transport will be replaced by self-driving car service. The economics of busses running mostly empty on centralized don't make sense when you can have a fleet of variously sized vehicles roaming around picking people up and dropping them off.

For almost all routes, the cost per mile, carbon footprint, and convenience will all be better than a bus or train.

Major thoroughfares will still want to be subway/light rail/commuter rail/bus, for traffic alleviation purposes, and because high capacity is where public transit efficiency really shines. But think of it more like internet backbone—a way to quickly and efficiently get batched traffic through bottlenecks—not as the default mode of access.

Think commuters disembarking rail cars and boarding a swarm of continuously replenished self-driving vehicles, from 2-seaters (faster) to microbuses (cheaper), on the other side of the platform. Those two modes of transport, maximum efficiency and maximum convenience, will squeeze out almost everything in between.

Without centralized routes, there is no point to government involvement for the last mile (last five?) transit system, and Uber/Google/Tesla will coalesce close to cost plus 10% or whatever.
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> Ancient Chinese poems as far back as 3000 years ago are still required materials for recitation by Chinese school children.

This is true.

> Any educated modern Chinese can read and understand ancient Chinese text.

This is false. Try them on something they haven't seen before.

Furthermore, just as modern Chinese who have studied ancient Chinese can read it, modern Italians who have studied Latin can read that, too. In fact, modern Italians who have studied ancient Chinese can even read that! That doesn't mean their knowledge of Italian is helpful; it isn't.
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The Klingon alphabet was proposed but rejected.

Subscript letters were proposed as well: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11208-n4068.pdf but apparently "Not accepted: Because this has been controversial and is not directly related to repertoire under ballot, it is not appropriate to add it to Amd1 but may be considered for a future amendment" http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12130-n4239.pdf

Looks like here's a recent draft for a new proposal: https://github.com/stevengj/subsuper-proposal
FYI, foundation and campaign both denied to me that the hack happened or that the docs are theirs:

http://techcrunch.com/2016/10/04/clinton-foundation-denies-h...

The Hill thinks it's snippets from the DCCC hack in July:

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/299236-alleged-gucci...
This 100%.

However most people who hold this view seem to apply it only for adversaries of their nation, and not the intelligence activities of their own nation.

For example the selective leaks known as the Panama Papers was criticized for being screened before being leaked of implicating US officials - and for being selectively published to implicate other world leaders.

Ask an American about this an Hanlon's Razor suddenly seems relevant.

Really, whether to take the mental effort to understand the realpolitik implications, incentives and to pry into leaks and their sources to understand what's true, what's false, what's mischaracterized and what's missing - that decision to be careful and skeptical is immediately under the bias that nationalistic individuals hold dear: cognitive dissonance, etc.
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Their "subway" is actually more like light rail. I think the lesson here is that more cities should be building high quality underground light rail (none of this at-grade Muni BS that exists in SF and other Pacific Northwest cities).
Aside from the typical, I watched Damian Conway "Standing on the shoulders of giants" from YAPC 2016 last week and found it interesting. Always fun to see a modern feature full language collide with history and algorithms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq2HkAYbG5o&index=2&list=PLA...
First, it's Crowdstrike, not Cloudstrike.

Second, no, the attribution was specifically about "Guccifer 2.0".

Third, I'm not sure any of us can speak to the motives and objectives of any intelligence service, so the notion of what is or isn't "rare" isn't helpful.

With regards to Russia hacking the DNC and then the FBI separately hacking the Clinton Foundation and then sending the documents to Wikileaks(!), I refer you back to Occam.
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He never said Nacchio was a hero like you wrote.

Further.. where is the motive?? So they guy scams everyone and their dog out of 50MM and doesn't care about shareholders and is evil to the core.. but yet disagrees to play along with some government agency that would put a spy trap in his servers?

If anything this could probably somehow helped him along the lines of some secret plea bargain.
>but is pretty soulless

What does that mean?
You're right, it would take a huge investment in effort and resources. You will know they are doing this when you see the Mac lineup sit unchanged for a long time...
Thanks for the recommendation. I haven't read Butler at all and have been wondering where to start - this, maybe? or something more well known?
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What are your favorite talks that are not appropriate for the "What's your favorite tech talk?" thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637239)?
Even if we believe that this is a Russian conspiracy, why is it more important than the actual corruption? Leaking DNC emails was probably illegal, but that does not make the content any less damning.
I would call it deeply incomplete, selectively applied logic.

Also I am a different commenter than the one that you responded to (I'm not the guy from your internet argument).
If America is so obsessed with happiness, why don't Americans take, or even receive, substantial amounts of vacation time? Seems like it's more of a workaholic culture with a workplace culture of faked positivity.

>Their answers range from the mundane to the mind-boggling. Yoga and meditation. Keeping a “gratitude journal.” A weekend seminar on how to Unleash the Power Within. Keeping your baby attached to your body for a minimum of 22 hours out of every 24, and, most bafflingly, not least on a practical level, the drinking of wolf colostrum.

Jeeze, spent any time with people who aren't caricatured yuppies?
Saving time and disparate product integrations are definitely the main requests I see from them. We buy a ton of crap to do patient care and people want widgets that talk with everything. Then someone decides those products are out of date, and so the widgets need to be rewritten. Then there are budget constraints because the hospital's goal isn't to have very quick EMRs running on beefy hardware/infrastructure. But naturally if you show them how much time/money is wasted waiting on a slow database call, it gets ignored.

Google should write EMR software. They would probably be pretty good at it.