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> The most surprising twist in the evolution of V.R. may turn out to be the pace of the new medium. Quick cuts are an almost physical act of violence in V.R.; jumping from one perspective to another can create a literal sense of nausea. But more telling, perhaps, is the fact that people don’t want to move on to another experience once they’ve put the headset on. They want to linger. “I want to just put you in a field,” Mooser told me, “and you just do what you want to do in that field.”

Quick cuts were seen as violent and jarring when film was new, too. We will get used to VR cuts just as we got used to film cuts. It may take a few generations; right now VR is still a novelty.
The "70% disappointed" figure has nothing to do with anything but the fact that 95% of UK restaurants and pubs sell appalling wine. A merlot is a merlot, but if you can only order shit merlot you'll be disappointed regardless.
Mozilla actually manually reviews the extensions and updates to the extensions, and would reject obfuscated code. See for example:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/08/19/a-simpler-add-on-...

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2010/02/15/the-add-on-review...
DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment
Poe's law strikes again. I honestly can't tell if this is satire. Entertaining either way on several levels.
> if a model is too complex for humans to reason about, then a business could encode any kind of illicit behavior in the form of model parameters they like

If a model is too complex for humans to reason about, how would a business encode illicit behavior, unless the AI itself was running a significant portion of the business? Even in that case, someone or some group is responsible for setting the initial parameters of the model, and they can be held responsible for its decisions.

In the end, I think the legal solution would be put less emphasis on mens rea and more on actus reus. In other words, if your AI does something wrong, you are in the wrong, regardless of your intentions.
"Opinion" is a subjective judgment based on personal weighing of facts by priority and probability. We must rely on judges and juries and expert opinions to form opinions.

This junk forensics is just "guessing" and "prejudice".
I won't. I've found TCO to be so much lower with Apple products that I won't switch until that stops being the case.
There's not a lot of corporate jets with that kind of range. It's more Gulfstream ($60MM+) than Embraer, Lear, or Cessna (~$20MM).
I think you are dangerously wrong.

Never before has there been a point in time where:

-A determined individual with the right equipment could shut down the information network our society almost exclusively relies upon.

-Weapons created for war could destroy the conditions for human civilization across the entire planet.

-Everyday consumption keeps people complacent while the artificially low costs contribute to and accelerate the pace of climate change, which could be almost as bad as nuclear Armageddon.

-The speed and scale of travel is such that a disease could reach every corner of the earth and kill millions if not billions of human beings (or our food!) no matter where they live or where the disease came from.

I'm not a pessismist about humanity's future but if you ignore these things you are only fooling yourself.
The problem is that satisfaction is completely relative.

A hunter/gatherer with no medicine and loads of superstitions doesn't feel anxious when everybody else is a hunter/gatherer with no medicine and loads of superstitions too. They feel anxious when they are that way, but they can look over a fence and see other people living in nice houses and living forty years longer than they do.

Progress is not uniformly distributed, and even in "advanced" societies there are wide and growing gaps between a small, privileged few and the rest who have to make do with much less. It's completely understandable why that would make people anxious, even if they have access to Netflix.
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Who wasn't sent to kill or be killed in South East Asia against your will.
Programming is boring
I care a great deal about this story as someone who went to UVA and worked both there and afterwards on issues of sexual assault prevention and awareness.

But why is this on Hacker News?
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I discounted that at the time by playing a muted YouTube video and using keyboard shortcut forward back.

It only altered in any meaningful way to trackpad movements and clicks.
You believe that the average african-american has an IQ of 90?
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I don't understand how "meaningful work," when the Dalai Lama says it, means "40 hours into the system." My understanding of Buddhism is "meaningful work" or "meaning" can be slaving away 60 hours a week at your own company, sitting on concrete tinkering away at a motorcycle, or even living on a mountain shaving your head and relinquishing all possessions. The idea is to "find meaning," that is, only do things that for you are important and for you give you a sense of purpose.
Hello Instapin.
I guess this is more of a problem in states that have a large majority one way or the other - you feel like the "extra" votes in that direction are wasted. But I'm from NH. We only have 4 votes but because we are evenly divided (and highly over-represented for our population), we regularly make "tipping-point" lists and each vote has a lot more power than it does in other states.
If the unis I've looked at are any indication then many offer an integrated masters programme but most students will be on the bachelors route. At the institution where I work (Uni of York) many more BEng degrees are awarded than MEng.
As far as I can tell, the qualify-of-life of the middle class is astoundingly high compared to almost-everyone in almost-all of history.
We need a pretext for what we want to do, which in America is to lock people up. If we can fool ourselves with something that sorta looks and smells like science, that fits the bill perfectly.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/07/16/are-you-in-t...

$80,000 USD for 4 people is "High Income" globally.
It's not going to help if you bring up downvotes, check the site rules.
> How many middle-class people had instant access to 90% of the human knowledge and entertainment 30 years ago?

But at the same time as they got that, they lost access to things their parents took for granted like job security and reliable health care and thriving, stable communities. Getting access to Wikipedia is great, but it does not automatically balance that scale.
Because, in the case of the first two, they are offering some of the only real journalism that remains. The latter is just fantastically adept at churning out gobs of clickbait.
There was another one in TX where a father was jailed for arson/murder? thinking he intentionally set the fire which killed his sons, I think, eventually new science cast doubts on the conviction. In the second revisit of the case it seemed the children had been playing with incendiary devices and accidentally set fire to a shed they were playing in.

Most of the evidence against the father was circumstantial and inferential (divorce? time he arrived home, etc.)

Not sure if he was set free, but scary anyway.
So, accumulating ever more amounts of personal wealth is fine as long as you aren't the the top 1%, er 0.1%, er 0.01%, er, as long as you have less than someone you know.
Anti-discrimination laws are even worse in that discrimination can happen with no evidence at all. One of the methods used to enforce them (particularly in things like hiring) is statistics, most of which assumes employees are interchangeable commodities. They were designed back in the 1960s for things like manual labor jobs. I am willing to suggest a compromise to limit them to these kinds of jobs.
Do what now? Can you expand on this? Having trouble finding an article about it.
Check if there’s a Shambhala centre near you: http://shambhala.org/centres/find-shambhala-centre/

They offer free beginners meditation classes and group meditation sessions.

You can also continue doing what you’re doing and try many of the free meditation apps to soak up their material. Give Calm, Sounds True, 10% Happier and Insight Timer a try.

As for free books there’s Mindfulness In Plain English: http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
Author of the figures used in the blog post here. We wrote https://github.com/ericmjonas/pywren somewhat on a lark, because it seemed to fit well with our research goals and it's fun to push systems to their limit. I'm now a total serverless convert! I'd love more collaborators and feedback, the goal is to make these sorts of computations as easy as possible for python developers, especially on the scientific computing side of things.
And what's specifically wrong with this, aside from the way the information was specifically acquired?

In tech, we bemoan laws against technological breaking and entering with a view to learn about how things work (we call it reverse engineering), but applied to mechanical engineers this is not right?

While I understand the law regarding trespass is different, this is just a means to an end.

I think your argument would hold more weight if you could elaborate more on the patent and monopoly stuff, but instead you focus on the act and context of learning how the cyclone works.
I wouldn't donate to save Twitter. Why should the general public bale out a commercial enterprise run (seemingly badly) by rich people for their own profit?

In the unlikely event Twitter does go tits-up, you might want to check out the open source GNU Social. The most Twitter- like incarnation of which is at:

https://quitter.no

In fact, if you're a fan of openness and open source generally, you might want to consider checking out GNU Social. It's actually better than Twitter in some ways (much larger character limit, for a start)
Someone who can afford a McMansion is definitely rich, even by American standards.

As I posted elsewhere: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/07/16/are-you-in-t...

$80,000 USD / 4 people in America is the lower bound of high income.
Also take a look through the AKP Party's emails, which led to the discovery of a backchannel between Erdogan and Assad (and subsequently) the recent Turkish military coup attempt: https://wikileaks.org/akp-emails/
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Are these for listing price or sales price? Average sales price is always quite bit lower than listing price.

By US state, Hawaii's average sales price is $740k (listing = $980k). DC's average listing price is $703k (sales = $538k).[0] If sales price, Auckland seems to be about $100k USD over Santa Cruz County, CA.

[0] https://www.trulia.com/home_prices/
Obama Announces Actions to Speed Deployment of EVs and Infrastructure
100 seems an odd number to be a technological limitation, doesn't it? It's not a power of two or anything so it's not the size of an integer. How could technology have been limiting it?
Title edit for length from original, which was "Obama Administration Announces New Actions To Accelerate The Deployment of Electrical Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure".
Please put the countries in the job description, i.e.
France, Germany, Japan
Simpson's paradox!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
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I don't know. There was a study done recently among the Amish, who in many ways live like it's 1900. It found that they we're as happy as billionaires.
The term "real" is subjective.
How do you know how to loop over an array for (int i=0;... ? You didn't invent that code. You read it somewhere many years ago and have copied it over and over many times since then. Do you have a license for that code? The author you learned it from did not invent it either, was he violating a license? It wasn't even invented by Dennis Ritchie since he copied the idea from earlier languages.

My point is that trying to copyright basic snippets of code is just ridiculous, it's something lawyers have tried to force on programmers but it makes no sense. We would be completely unable to program at all if we listened to lawyers all the time.
I know what you mean (turning someone into a pillar of salt, killing infidels, etc), but there's a stark difference between the "tenants" of a religion and the single books that drive them. Hence why there's a million different flavors of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc - they all take their given "book" and interpret it differently.

If you generalize Jesus' teachings, they're hard to argue as immoral - be good to your fellow man, abandon your earthly possessions, wash the feet of another because he is your fellow, stuff like that.

Anyway my point is, a tool is just a tool to be used as you will. Religious texts can be used to bring people together or start a war, obviously - just look at the current shitstorm surrounding "radical islamic terrorism." There are over a billion Muslims in the world, 99.99% of whom live peaceful lives - and a small percentage are convinced to turn their religion into an ugly justification for bloodshed. No religion is immune to this.
Heh, I guess I just inferred that from the tone of your comment, but maybe you were irked by the same implications I was and was responding testily to them, not me. Or maybe I just misread you entirely. Mea culpa :)
Most people aren't living in abject poverty for the first time in the history of mankind. Sure, it's not all roses, but we're moving in the right direction.
These sites in particular are not fully paywalled - search for the title and click through from google for wsj, and nytimes gives you 10 articles free per month (which resets if you use an incognito window).

Whether this is the "right" thing to do is another question. I do really wish there were more micro-payment enabled articles since I primarily get my news from twitter/fb links or aggregators like HN, and I can't reasonably subscribe to every news source that might ever have an interesting story posted to HN.
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Even that's tricky, because it's also Backend as a Service BaaS/MBaaS at work, various frameworks and other solutions, etc.
It isn't surprising that comfortable pop psychology is more welcome on the NYT opinion pages than esoteric theology.
On iOS multiple apps can listen at one time. On Android only one app can listen at a time.
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i don't understand your point. I'm not discounting any range of horrific tomorrows. I'm just reading The Periodic Table by Primo Levi (an Auschwitz survivor) and the future that worries me is the rise of fascism.

But you are still living in a world that is objectively the safest it has ever been for a human being.
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Serverless is definitely the accepted term. FaaS and BaaS (backend as a service) are both serverless implementations--is my understanding.
That doesn't sound reasonable at all. That theory hinges on the idea that doctors would prioritize getting organs over actually saving people's lives, which would be a truly horrific violation of the hippocratic oath.
You shouldn't expect lots of profit in a very competative market. Apple's profits in such competative spaces show how devoted people are to Apple products.
There is nothing special, unique, or new in those rules. I don't care abut Internet points and am well aware of the standard Internet community circle-jerk echo chamber, and HN is no exception.
You can manipulate value-level things like EitherT in ways that are not convenient or possible in Java.

EitherT and friends also force you to handle exceptions explicitly before getting a value out. In Java, you can usually just ignore it and "let it bubble up" as someone suggested earlier.
> 8MB of storage is a bit tight even for DD-WRT however

8MB of NOR flash is totally standard for a vast majority of consumer routers.

OpenWrt/LEDE will happily fit on 8MB with around 4MB available as /overlay (e.g. for additional packages or data).

> The PCIe option is surprising. I'm not sure what I would use it for, but it does open up some unusual possibilities.

You can use PCI-e for 5GHz WiFi (most common use for PCIe on this SoC line). You can also buy SATA controllers or Gigabit Ethernet in mini-PCIe form factor.

Most UMTS/LTE modems in mini-PCIe form factor are actually only utilizing the USB pins in a mini-PCIe slot, so you don't actually need PCIe for those.
"Capt. Barry turned the plane out to sea so that we could dump the bomb and the dummy core. As soon as we were safely over the sea we dropped the bomb. It was set to airburst at 3000 feet. We were at about 8000 feet when the bomb exploded so we could see the flash as it exploded."

https://web.archive.org/web/20090118032640/http://www.cowtow...
Thats about 75K a month...
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From the article: "The impossible challenge with Docker is to come with a working combination of kernel + distribution + docker version + filesystem. Right now. We don’t know of ANY combination that is stable (Maybe there isn’t any?)."

What combination of Docker version + distro + kernel + filesystem are you running, and how stable is it?
>> If that does not make us happy, that's a different issue.

Why ?
>The people fleeing to remote places because of instability are the very same people causing these issues in the first place.

Are they the same? How do you know? The finance world is a big place. In Canada alone it employs over 1 million people, which is one quarter the population of New Zealand.

Crappy software and models also contributed to the crisis (and other crises). Do you build either? Do you accept blame for your profession?
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Does anyone own this / alexa and use it for anything other than a glorified bluetooth speaker? I've had an opportunity to interact with one of these at a friend's in the dogfooding program and it's still so far from Jarvis I can't see the appeal. My phone is a much better controller for speakers and the television. (not to mention the privacy concerns of having an internet enabled mic in your home)
Or money is a proxy for value when value can be measured in those terms.

Money is worthless on it's own. Brings to mind the famous Warren Buffet quote:

"Price is what you pay, value is what you get."
What if the person(s) being impersonated were known ahead of time to not be voting?
But even then, they're not any better at 'tasting well'. You don't have to care about the fancy properties of the wine, just whether it tastes good to you.
"Expert" witnesses for US courtrooms is a special kind of a parallel voodoo-science world. Especially when it comes to arson.

Prosecutors like to pick the same people to testify as "experts" and their top qualification is that they have testified before as "experts". I imagine many have optimized putting up an act and throwing around fancy terms to make it seems really precise and scientific. Their future employment depends on that.
By which measurements? And why limit the window to the West?
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Here's one, https://eng.uber.com/dockerizing-mysql/
welcome to sales management for every 10 people you hire:

8 can't sell there way out of a paper bag

1 can sell but they're lazy or has personal problems.

and 1 sells 80%-90% of your sales but you either can't stand to be in the same room with them or they want so much of the pie there's nothing left(or both)
I can't say whether it's unreasonable. Doing better than their parents and is certainly what many people have come to expect. But it seems like an unsustainable expectation at least in the absence of some revolutionary breakthrough in energy and food production.

And our parents' lives don't have to serve as a measuring stick for our lives. There is no law of nature that says we deserve to live better than our parents, or in fact live in this world at all.
Those who benefited the most are those who will be affected the least.

Can you not understand why some people might be upset by this?
No need. Nicotine is absorbed by the soft tissues of the mouth. Inhaling prevents you from "correctly" smoking a pipe.

Take a look at this (formatting mine):

"The Breath Smoking Technique

It requires a relaxed setting, preferably sedentary and a very slow and calm breathing pattern.

The pipe bit is held to the lips continuously and all breathing is through the nose.

Every 2nd or 3rd slow breath through the nose, a tiny puff is taken through the stem, held in the mouth and slowly, very slowly, discharged back through the stem, raising but the faintest wisp of smoke from the top of the tobacco bowl, and then re-drawn back through the stem.

One does NOT inhale the smoke, but if one gets very good at it, one does not even have to puff: the slight vacuum created in the mouth by nose breathing will draw the finest of puffs through the stem.

The blowing back through the stem is alternated with regular, but very slight puffs so that the whole process of smoking seems as natural, regular and effortless as breathing.

I'm sure many smokers have discovered this technique, or variations of it, on their own.

The advantages are that mastering it will produce the coolest and most flavorful smoke possible, and the slow regular breathing will invoke the calmness and clarity of mind to perceive the results at their fullest."

- http://www.glpease.com/Articles/BreathSmoking.html

That being said, it's all a matter of preference. You can smoke a pipe like a cigarette if it makes you happy. There is no pipe police.