skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A gag order couldn't possibly compel someone who made the discovery on their own (for the simple reason that they wouldn't know about it to be compelled).

If the company was gagged, I don't see how it would matter whether company employees knew about it in advance or found it by accident. Either way, the company is still gagged.

Also, while your comment makes common sense, national security restrictions don't have to make sense to be legal. For example there is information that is "born classified," meaning that even if it is independently developed, totally separate from the defense apparatus, it's still considered classified!
I'm not even necessarily talking about just the hardware specifically - the whole experience stinks. Nobody's really figured out what to do with it yet. I think mainstream VR as a whole will have to be something way different from what's being made now, and I don't know what that even looks like.
It would be great to see the difference with other languages. So why Julia and not R, or Matlab, or Python? Is it more elegant, more concise, does it have more libraries, can it be run in parallel better? That would be great to know!
What's the difference between subway and underground light rail?
It's kinda like reference hardware. It's the baseline, with nothing special or unique. It takes a talented designer to take the toolkit and design language, and extend those to inject their own style and character into the finished product so that it both solves the specific needs of the product being designed by clarifying the interface to the user - and hopefully delights the user in some way to make the experience of using the app not just tolerable but delightful.
And here's an example of Congresspeople saying that the analysis is being done as intended: http://spacenews.com/house-members-express-support-for-space...
> The icon-based home screen is showing it's age and will need a revolution rather than an evolution.

Why? It is easy, intuitive, and used by millions of people.

Change for changes sake?
Well, they're half way there with the "force"-push shortcut actions on icons. It's a good idea even if discovery is a little bad. That was easier to add however since it really doesn't interfere with existing users. Changing how the home screen looks for everyone might be perceived as risky.
You'd have eye strain from focusing on such a nearby object. In the headset itself each eye would only see half the screen.
Techincal Cofounder | San Francisco Bay Area, CA | Tixit | Full Time or Half Time | Equity: 10-20% | REMOTE welcome

I'm Billy Tetrud, the Founder of Tixit. We're a small (5 person) team building a lightening fast extensible project management system that lets teams work on their terms. https://angel.co/tixit-1
We're looking for a 2nd technical cofounder to accellerate the development of our product, which is currently alpha-stage. You'd be working with me (the other technical cofounder) in designing and implementing the core backend as well the web frontend. We value our test-driven development, clear internal and external documentation, and doing things right rather than rushing things. Our stack is node.js and mongodb.

I'm happy to chat with you over the phone about what we're doing. Email me at billy@tixit.me and mention you're from HN, I'd love to hear what you've been working on.

Thanks,
Billy Tetrud,
Founder at Tixit,
billy@tixit.me
https://angel.co/tixit-1/jobs/114395-technical-co-founder
Which reminds me of this great passage in Atlas Shrugged:

“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The article states that the minimum wage in Mexico is $100/month ($1,200/year). My guess is he moved to Mexico to work on this and gain experience. Pay sucks but the game is successful and if he didn't publicly come out against the company it would have likely led to higher paying jobs in the states due to association.

This may not be popular to many people but I'm sure it's well known on on Hacker News by now. Long hours in startup companies are not new nor are they going away. This was a startup for all intensive purposes.
If you can only afford one lens, it's a fine all-around piece. It just isn't as good as some other choices. Many have complained that it is too soft. I was explaining why this combo is at the top of the list and commenting that it's popular, but not "the best" combo.
$2400 is their annual wage, not monthly. Only 2x
I spent less than 5 hours playing this game. But I think it is very, very important for gaming, for space travel simulation, flight simulation, and space exploration. Would buy it again and feel sad that development stops.
24x the Mexican minimum wage would be $28.8k. This is 2x minimum wage.
> My basic conclusion to what you say is, there is no way you can understand classical Latin if you speak modern Italian.

As someone who knows a little latin, spanish and french, I think with a little bit of thought, you can get a decent gloss of quite a bit of classical latin. I'd say it's probably easier to guess at latin than trying to understand italian if you only know spanish.

For example -- the first line of Caesar's commentaries:

"Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres"

"All of Gaul is divided in three parts"

Spanish (using google translate, because i'm lazy, but you get the idea):
'Toda la Galia está dividida en tres partes'
French: Tout de la Gaule est divisée en trois parties
Italian: Tutto della Gallia è divisa in tre parti
I don't attribute malice actually. Sorry if I came across like that. I believe this whole shift is occurring because of systemic structures and incentives rather than individuals motivations. A rational employee is going to do the best they can at their job within the framework of their company, the economy, and the regulatory environment. The same can be said of those in the C-suites. And the same can be said of the investors. I don't believe there is any conspiracy or individual malice. I believe it is a very boring, rational outcome of the overall operating environment we've created.

In that context, I believe that it's important to prioritize "citizen" issues over "consumer" issue, and security over convenience. Google has done some awe inspiring work, much of which I believe Google could have accomplished without requiring a user to agree to a single ToS governing all Google products, without demanding access to all user data. Statistical methods have come a long way, and much smaller data sets coupled with more explicit interaction with its stakeholders/customers (out in the open, explicit conversations vs deep dives into data without notifying the sources of the data) can still enable almost everything Google is doing. The stuff that would not be enabled within that framework could still be accomplished by Google explicitly paying folks to provide data sets (paying people to read scrips or have conversations explicitly recorded for instance) for the express purpose of building up data sets to work against for deep learning related to NLP for Google's "assistant". Lord knows Google has the cash to afford such an approach. But, since Google's current corporate structure requires it to highly prioritize profits, it just takes the data from private conversations.

The argument then is, well, that's what happens when you utilize a free or subsidized service. Yes, that is what you get. But it is not the only way we could be going on about this business. We just have our priorities all mixed up, because of the systemic incentives.
Did you mean to respond to me?

I just said that the Russian intelligence services will use the trust they've established (by disseminating truthful information) in order to spread lies when it comes closer to the election - do you not see harm in that?

Edit: Also, can you point to the 'actual corruption' that occurred? Not the dirty tricks (which I agree happened), but the 'actual corruption' that you are alleging occurred. So far I've heard plenty of people allege corruption, but I've yet to actually see this corruption. With the contents of the DNC emails it shouldn't be difficult.
Psychic reading by Utsava who predicted Hillary Clinton's fall
Which isn't to say that government organizations only ask companies with unquestionably above board accounting to engage in legally dubious initiatives.

Plainly, there's no reason to take a company's compliance as a sign that they 'have nothing to hide'. Likelier, it was in part because they did that they complied.
Well, that's a deal breaker. I don't own an Android device. There's no excuse for not providing a web interface.
Or maybe I'm just pointing out that the title of the reddit post isn't an actual quote either?
Nanotechnology for energy materials: Electrodes like leaf veins
I am just hoping for a smaller phone like the iPhone SE. I never understood the drive towards huge screens that prevent proper single handed usage. I'm still using a Blackberry Q10 because it's a productivity monster - no time for games.
Having played with some VR apps on it, gets hot on the back
Let's take this one proof of company cooperation with NSA at a time.
You've seen the iPad Pro?
What is the solution here? The solution that minimizes damage involves everyone building from source and connecting in a peer to peer fashion that makes it pretty difficult to push a malicious update if you're looking for targeted surveillance.

However, even this requires an understanding government that isn't willing to poison the well in order to get to the target. A government that justifies dragnet (and whose agencies allegedly buy and sit on a stash of zero days) isn't something I'd trust to be bothered by the idea of leaving many people vulnerable in order to catch one bad guy.

I know it sounds trite but technology will not provide a full solution here. We need a lot of lobbying and a lot of PR to have any chance. Co-ordination will be very challenging when our goals very so wildly. But I guess we need to ask ourselves where we stand on this issue. Given we have difficulty getting almost half of the people to even bother registering and showing up to vote, this is an uphill task.
Pages like this make me really convinced I need to print up frame cards for the various lenses I use. I use a lot of vintage glass when I'm shooting that obviously won't have Exif data. It would be useful for later browsing to know at a glance whether I was shooting with a Jupiter 3 or a Pentax Super Takumar.
Likewise. The ZeroMQ book such a pleasure to read, has to be one of the best written tech books I've ever read. I learned so much about distributed systems from that book, even though I've got a PhD in the subject.
> Now we're back to whether actual guilt is ascertained by a prosecutor or by a court.

Actual guilt is ascertained by a court. Whether there is strong enough evidence of guilt for it to be reasonable to expend resources in prosecution is ascertained by a prosecutor. Evidence of potential violations exists all the time without anyone being prosecuted. (Heck, without even meeting the "probable cause" standard -- for which "evidence of likely violations" would be a reasonable approximation -- for a prosecutor to secure an indictment or proceed beyond a preliminary hearing and actually compel a defendant to stand trial.)

> Anyways, someone actually was charged and sentenced for equivalent actions:

I don't think that's equivalent, either in terms of evidence (and thus, whether prosecution was viable) or the alleged offense (where there is no question of the intent to put classified information on an unapproved system.)
New social media network for gamers
This site is new and in Alpha and it's being developing daily on livestream. It's quite interesting and worth checking out.
www.SugarGaming.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni497s_8Enc
You do realize that Daydream is meant to be a huge iteration over Cardboard, right?
NYPD-picked bodycams are having problems in other cities
Shit, I didn't read the annually versus monthly part... corrected in the original, with edit note.
Comparing MVVM and Viper architectures: When to use one or the other
I saw an article about Portland and how smaller houses and outbuildings are forbidden in the U.S.

Also, people in the U.S. have ridiculously large houses (except in S.F. and New York).

800 square foot is huge, the average 2-bedroom apartment here in Montevideo is about 600 square feet, and serves a family of four more often than not.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/style/portland-affordable-...
If only Apple had resources to do that. They must be struggling.
Large volumes of data from ITER successfully transferred to Japan
gross is a living legend
And I'm arguing that, in any other issue, you would think "controlling for background statistics" in a formal sense is unnecessary. I'm not telling you not to think, quite the opposite. Think of this:

In a country with a long history of terrible racial oppression and documented contemporary racist sentiment, a large body of people are convinced by their lived experiences [1] that police violence is racially biased, and this conviction is further supported by a massive number of known individual cases. Among the huge space of possible injustices that could be claimed, this one particular form has received tremendous attention and accumulated consistent material evidence across the entire nation.

We as yet lack the huge amounts of data to settle the issue in a way that would satisfy a physicist. But if you think about the issue with an open mind, you're still going to feel pretty damn confident about what's actually going on.

[1] Taking this as distinct from the large body of people who are convinced at a safe distance via their TVs.
I said "relatively". That is to say: relative to getting 3rd party app support from everybody.
Nine allows you to specify a variety of security-related options including local passcodes, internal app data encryption, and whether the security policy (remote wipe capability) is applied at the application level or at the device level.

I believe many of the other third-party Exchange-connecting apps have the same type of options.
Sometimes HDCP is only required for digital connections. VGA may be exempt.
This is a weird thread.

I hate to be so contrarian, and I'm beginning to question people's knowledge in this thread, but I was taught Middle English and they hammered home how it was very close to modern English.

Yes, a lot of students were first shocked and disagreed, but if you stuck with it, you would see a lot of similarities. One thing that I think threw off a lot of students was the spelling versus the pronunciation.

If you analyze Middle English on a purely visual or "literal" level, it looks almost nothing like English. Once you start learning the pronunciation and liaisons and connecting words, and with a few minor pronunciation differences, you really do begin to hear its strong correlations to modern English.
Is there some overlap between these types of tools and http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ProjectionalEditing.html
No, it just means, if you're going to dig in and take on the government make sure your house is clean. That's all it means. That applies to dealing with anyone with power, really, not just the government.

I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted. They had a case, and while the conclusion I was responding to is extreme, Qwest's accounting fraud ran into the billions and they had a pretty strong case that Nacchio profited from that. I'm not saying whether I agree or disagree nor am I saying I don't think Nacchio is notable for taking on the feds, just that Qwest is not a good example of what happens when you do because the government had a legitimate gripe with the books.
I'm a technophile myself albeit one that has spent the better part of a lifetime interacting with non-technical users. Such experience has left me with impression that expecting end-users to do anything I would consider bothersome, or requiring even a modicum of effort, is a no sale proposition. This is true when it comes to actually improving one's experience, to say nothing of achieving a reasonable baseline. If people have to jump through hoops to achieve usability, it seems a fair bet that they won't be a repeat customer.
> Maximizing shareholder value is like a death grip that squeezes any public corporation into not making financial gambles on ethical grounds.

Will this meme never die on HN? There is an obvious counter-example: Apple, a public corporation who publicly fought a similar request.

The idea that "maximizing shareholder value" is some sort of inescapable Faustian bargain is just not supported by the facts. People who run corporations might choose to act unethically, in order to maximize a certain outcome, but they are not forced to do so by the mere fact of running a for-profit corporation.

To the extent there is a structural problem in public corporations, it is one of executive incentive, not shareholder obligation.
They later responded. Quoting from Arstechnica's 5:11 ET update:

A spokeswoman for Microsoft, Kim Kurseman, e-mailed Ars this statement, and also declined further questions: “We have never engaged in the secret scanning of email traffic like what has been reported today about Yahoo.”

For its part, Google was the most unequivocal. Spokesman Aaron Stein e-mailed: "We've never received such a request, but if we did, our response would be simple: 'no way.'"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/fbi-demands-signa...
Pixel phones, designed by Google, made by HTC — according to [FCC filings](http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/google-makes-its-2016...)
I mean, wouldn't the line about Google apply to any of the other Android OEMs?
I’ve said the same a few times before, sadly, I usually get downvoted for it.

It’s impossible to trust Google (Search, Chrome, DNS, Fi, Voice, Android, etc) or other big US companies at all regarding this, so we need open source solutions.

The US government is openly hostile to citizen of other countries, on the internet and in the real world, so relying on them not sending an NSL to Google to fuck you over is quite dumb.

Personally, I built my own cloud for everything I need, and I run Firefox on Arch Linux.
I also still don't understand why they never did anything more useful with it.

For example, there's an XPosed module which let's you swipe to the right over the navigation keys to change them out for music controls. If you swipe to the left, you can access some apps that you've pinned there as well as quick-toggles for system settings (such as WiFi on/off).
Glanceable information on the home screen is useful so users don't have to open every app, it also changes the home screen from being just "an launcher" to potentially provide useful information that you might need rather then being "just a launcher". It's just "one step less" in some scenarios.

Notifications are great for things that need your attention but the home screen becomes a little more of a seredipious view of app information that can increase the usefulness and engagement with an app
That seems like it would be something like self consciousness, no?
I have second gen Nexus 7 tablet and Sony Z2. One is stock, one isn't, but both are pretty much the same. Great and unobtrusive. Love both devices. Manufacturer that keeps it cool on crapware can go a long way these days.
> The Palace of Versailles is, in its way, one of the last dim shadows of the Han court

Lots of arguments are a pretty big stretch in this article.
Parking requirements repeal? Ask the residents of Portland how that works. What happens is a large apartment goes in without parking and suddenly home owners nearby cannot park their cars anywhere and everyone is angry.
The edge case is HDMI to DVI, everyone wss weaned off VGA painlessly, deluxe DVI monitors aren't so readily upgraded.

This situation was the big fear of DRM and HDMI, also the 'evil' plan. Seems the introduction went smoothly, there were no riots, just the odd reddit thread many years later.
Secret history of silicon valley: https://youtu.be/hFSPHfZQpIQ
Video games highlights
HTC technically manufacturers the Pixel along with the nexus line
The culprit finally revealed:

> Ever since Herbert Hoover’s Commerce Department helped promote the spread of model zoning codes that physically separated people and their community institutions, the federal government has poured its energy and resources into encouraging the growth of widely dispersed single-family homes and large, centralized tower blocks. To this day, FHA standards for loans, which set the market for the entire private banking sector, prohibit any but the most minimal commercial property from being included in residential development. As a groundbreaking report by New York City’s Regional Plan Association found, these standards are “effectively disallowing most buildings with six stories or less.” And depending on the program, a building could have to reach to 17 stories before it is eligible for participation in the normal housing markets. Without the FHA’s blessing, projects are granted the “nonconforming” kiss of death unless their developers can persuade a local bank to write an entirely customized loan for them, one whose risk the bank would have to keep entirely on its own books.
"I am not happy about it. This is what was recommended," Sarno said. " It is a most severe suspension of 60 working days without pay and retraining."

You can say your hands were bureaucratically tied if you want, Sarno. But please don't describe a 60-day suspension for an incident of near-homicide (on top of extreme evidence tampering) as "most severe."
It's not a sign that your data is safe, but I think the point here is the opposite: You can take easy capitulation as a sure sign that your data is compromised.

Similarly, the lock on my door doesn't make me safe against everyone who might want to commit any crime against me, but all else being equal, a locked door is still preferable from a security standpoint, and it's very preferable to keeping your valuables in an unlocked room with a known thief.
I disagree because I do find JavaScript to be the best tool for client side development. You get full access to the DOM without worrying about your transpilers abstractions. Also I think JavaScript is a pretty wonderful language to code in once you apply a strict linter + Babel.
Sounds like you're describing Art more than Design.

I would agree that I don't prefer Material design. It feels, to me, too much of a lowest-common-denominator.

While I wouldn't use it, if I feel frustrated or find usage unpalatable, that to me is an indicator of inferior design.
Rule #89: if someone on HN argues that something that seems subjective is actually objective... they're wrong.
Amplifi has 3 models. The high end, the amplifi HD is $350 for a 3 pack
Apple’s new fingerprint patent hints at a future iPhone with no home button
Did you mean "intents and purposes" or did some wordplay go over my head?
its called going outside, people developing this stuff should try it sometime