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> I didn't say I thought key based logins were bad, but that not allowing a password login during setup made it more awkward for people trying out CoreOS to test.

Especially if it's awkward, it's good to force this immediately. Thus "test deployments" will not evolve into real ones while keeping the possibility of password-based authentication.

You can also argue that disallowing empty password for remote access makes things more awkward (which is true). Yet, I expect that you are very happy with systems that do so.

> That said I wouldn't say that SSH key based login were necessarily great for large deployments, one lost key+passphrase ('cause everyone totally always has a good passphrase on their SSH keys right) and an org. can be in for a world of pain, as in many cases the procedures for key management of SSH aren't well formalized.

You are arguing that the situation is bad with keys, while ignoring the fact that the situation is much worse with passwords (seatbelts are annoying and people still die in accidents; yet, they're useful):

If you allow passwords, the situation is the same, except you don't have to lose the key too.

Also, password reuse between different systems in the same deployment is usually rampant, which makes it very easy for an attacker to jump between such systems (just wait until someone logs in remotely to a compromised system and you have the password).

If the situation with keys is bad enough for you, then you can use SSH certificates, which require you to just protect the CA (It is, unless you need revocations, very simple to set up. You can get by without revocations by having an automated CA that gives you certs with a validity of something like an hour.)
I see much of the above, but not the rampant depression you mention.

I also see parking lots full of BMWs, and many Teslas.

And some leading-edge work being done.

And pleasantly-intellectual conversations between like-minded individuals.

But for some, the cons outweigh the pros. Anyone feeling rampant depression should make some changes.
> They can refuse the work, get fired, and then sue...

The parent was talking about Germany in particular.

Employee protection is fairly strong, so an employer will think twice before firing someone over non-compliance with an illegal contract, as they will get their ass handed to them in court.
I was talking about the world view, not just the US.

But you've actually backed up my point, despite there actually being large chunks of land, no one actually wants to live there, so we continue to squeeze ourselves into small urban areas.
Well, you are running a restaurant right? There must be some balance and regulations are too easy to exploit both ways. As you well know, there are many toilets cleaner than some food places and yet they passed the regulations at some time. I would not want to have my name under a restaurant that runs that risk, while everyone games regulations and avoids the risk legally. If I pass regulations (at one particular moment in time), the insurance will cover damages; if it was the law I would go to prison/pay a high fine.

How do you keep regulations fair and enforceable?
> You can make Bitcoin literally unusable with about $1000 worth of transaction spam.

Heh, not quite. You can increase the fees a little with about $1000 worth of transaction spam.
No, that's definitely wrong. Initially they compiled LISP code into assembly by hand (when LISP still looked a lot like fortran) and the plan was to write a compiler in assembly to automate that. Instead, McCarthy came up with a way to express LISP code (aka M-expressions) as data (aka S-expressions) to give a definition the LISP semantics in LISP itself. Steve Russell then hand compiled this definition, and lo, they had a working interpreter of S-expressions. M-expressions were never implemented and the compiler was written in LISP instead of assembly.
Common sense is not so common. I would certainly find it very useful if the cryptographic community developed best practices for how to stack algorithms.
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I have had double-digit hours of hands-on time with both systems including a Rift with Touch support. I have used them in a minimum-scale Vive space and something close to its maximum--obviously less for the Rift, but I wasn't even holding that against the Rift in the first place. My main beef with it is that tracking with the two-camera Rift setup is messed up. The two-camera diagonal setup is not really working and while the three-camera one is better (about on-par with the two-lighthouse Vive solution), it involves long USB runs that can't be worked around and costs more than the Vive does. While it is certainly possible that the Rift improves its tracking, I am fairly confident that the Vive lighthouse solution is going to be a better one long-term, too, and will improve more rapidly than the Rift's. Internal positioning intuitively makes a lot more sense to me.

Meanwhile, the Touch controllers do have some nice features that the Vive controllers don't--and, realistically, few developers are going to target those features as more than throw-ins because the Vive doesn't have them (to say nothing of PS VR, which seems to be a strong entrant as well but I don't advise it because PS4 development ain't exactly cheap to get into). You are buying into a platform, but developers are going to be targeting all of them; both as a gamer and as a developer I would want the median setup until and unless the Rift becomes the only choice, not one of the choices.

But, sure. I'm "misguided". I'm a technology zealot (not somebody who, like, looks at markets or anything, or somebody who's used all this gear). You sure I just didn't rustle your jimmies because you like the Rift? I mean, don't get me wrong: it's fine, it'll get most if not all of the same games, and while its FOV feels shrunken a bit to me it's even a little more comfy than the Vive is (though PS VR is more comfortable than both). But if you want to develop on it, it would be my third choice, behind "buy a PS VR dev kit" and the Vive, in that order--and I don't know many hobbyists who can score a PS VR dev kit, so the Vive's the only option.

And now I have burned three paragraphs repeating what 'moron4hire said in the Iribe thread to disabuse you of your notions, but I don't take kindly to shots at my credibility from platform warriors. Haveaniceday.
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San Francisco is almost unique in this

So when are you flying to Austin? I'd like to, among other things take you on a trip to 7th and Red River, and provide you with an oral history of (also among other things) CapMetro, Metrorail and the numerous mass transit solutions shot down by the voters who THEMSELVES called for a referendum vote on options for mass transit.

TWICE.

Or we can go to a little town called Spartanburg South Carolina. Or I could tell you the tale of Indianapolis' almost hilariously doomed transit improvement efforts in the 90's (hilariously in the way it happened, not that it happened so much all).

My point: SF isn't unique in this regard. Not by a long shot. Their problems may be exacerbated by many other compounding factors comparatively with other cities...but I agree with the comment you've replied to: here are built in logic ladders constructed over years of subtle social conditioning and assumptions made about the cross section of mass transit and public service that make for some interesting outcomes at the municipal level.

See also: MARTA.
To be fair, it seems that all OS vendors overlooked this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXthwl6ShOg
Uber breaks even in the US. No predatory pricing there.
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John Oliver's take from 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU
Tldr: teach your execs to speak clickbait
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Fun story: when logjam broke, the company I was working for at the time immediately changed their SSL configs to require 2048-bit...then had to change it back the next day, because we had clients with ancient java versions that could only handle up to 1024. So we made do (and as far as I know, this company still makes do) with 1024 and a randomly generated dh_param.
> Common sense is not so common. I would certainly find it very useful if the cryptographic community developed best practices for how to stack algorithms.

Here's the list of best practices for encryption:

1. Have at least one well-established & accepted cipher (e.g. AES).

2. Generate the keys for all the layers independently.

Source: my (apparently un-)common sense.
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Even if you're not the only one, it might not be a big enough market to get the economies of scale required to turn a startup into a mass-market business
One of the people you might be thinking of is the glass blower who is retiring from Caltech.

http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-caltech-glassbl...
And it's really, really clear that a successful presidency on the part of the currently elected-one (should it happen) will be many folks' worst nightmare.
Price is the measure of where a buyer and seller agree. If sellers are rejecting bids because "Why bust your ass to live in your patents basement anyway?" then the price could never be that low.
Touch is the best part of the Rift, one hundred percent (the controllers are better than the Vive ones for sure)--but in practice I found that dealing with its cameras was a bear to the point that, while both the demo units I set up have gone back, I'm probably buying a Vive when I get into VR work. The Rift requires some long USB runs unless you've got an office/game room with a lot of space to burn, whereas you can be a lot more flexible with spacing with the Vive because the lighthouses are passive and the brains of the device are on the headset and the controllers. I have a studio space that is built on inadvisably long USB runs, but that's with gear that seems a lot friendlier to it; the third camera for the Rift was a real problem in terms of USB spacing and it wasn't the sort of thing I'd want to leave set up in any room I'd have any other people in.

I don't personally agree that the Rift display is superior, but I think that's a reasonable-people-can-differ thing.
Peeble certainly wasn't the first smartwatch company.

I have a few Casio and Timex that prove otherwise.

They were just a victim that smart watches aren't really that sustainable long term product.

There is a reason why Japan companies stop selling them in the 90's.
> pretty much every story he wrote was about how the laws could be subverted via "loopholing" of sufficently intelligent AI.

The most chilling of these is the "Robot Dreams" short story.
I would be comfortable using, "guys" for females. I do it all the time. And I'm also female.

However, I would not say that some people get offended by everything or that they are looking for things to get offended by - not in a professional environment at least. Though I believe it to be reality, I think saying this bit would cause more problems than the word, "guys".

I'd also avoid the term, "guys and gals", but that's mostly because I dislike it, but that's just personal preference.
I have some dark thoughts about exactly who's still haunting Reddit these days, but that aside--how many of the people repeating that are developers?

Every developer I know personally who's either developing or considering developing VR titles--sample size not large, but north of ten or so?--is considering, in order, PS VR, Vive, Rift. (PS VR is difficult unless you're an established developer, obviously.)
Wow, this is so close to mine, except for the polish language. I moved from Vienna to Amsterdam for a job, with a great team tha I am happy to be a part of. Long distance relationship but still happy. Studied some more functional stuff with Clojure and started my project for real. (Trying to) quit bad food habits. And yes, my savings are very very close to 0. I need to learn more about that in 2017. Year goal: learn, plan, and have more savings so I can be more independent and free with my money.
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The social screen on PS VR is untethered from the headset display, so it's not really reflective of the performance of the headset itself. Also bear in mind that the baseline PS4 can barely hit 90FPS normally when it isn't rendering very much--this is why a lot of the early PS VR games are so visually simple. I think the PS VR stuff will heat up when more PS4 Pros hit the market.
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I encourage you to not stop reading after he called you a loon. He dedicates a few paragraphs to explain what he feels is wrong with your talk.

Also read the comments, where he says:

I am watching the talk (final minutes now) and except for the history, meaning of interpretations etc., he actually understands QM more correctly than many people employed as physicists...

(The audacity! Someone that actually watches the thing they'll be bitching about!)

[0]: http://motls.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/evading-quantum-mechanic...
> This is not uniformly true for cryptosystems--it is not naively the case that P(Q(X)) is a secure form of encryption, just because P/Q is. A contrived example is when P and Q are inverses

If P and Q are inverses, then Q is not secure, because you could just apply P to its output.

The same holds true for encryption: if you have two independant keys K1 and K2, then if Mallory can crack P(Q(X, K2), K1), then she can crack Q(X, K2) just by picking a K1 at random and computing P(Q(X, K2), K1).
FWIW, I upvoted this, but it's also the best post I've ever seen on HN about the current state of VR tech. I'm glad it's here, and I wish I'd seen it before I replied to 'TwoBit's combative initial post in "VR Resources" so I could've just linked yours.

Thanks.
Shortage is defined as a situation where price cannot rise, such as the government setting a price ceiling. If price can rise then a shortage is impossible.
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https://www.notion.so/

I just googled "notion notes" and it was the first link.
Looks quite interesting!
Absolutely true.

But it might also be evidence of how early adopters were forgotten in the attempt to appeal to a greater number of users.

I would also add that, imho, the biggest smartwatches problem is that a watch is still a style choice over a fitness utility tool. I'd rather wear my colourful and inexpensive "Swatch" watches or my grandfathers Rolex over my moto 360
Scott Adams has it right:
http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-05-01

Uber has become too convenient to quit, it seems.
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Take NixOS as an example. When libc gets a security fix, everything is automatically rebuilt and binary cache packages are available for users.
have a copy sitting in the corner, just curious how the art spirit influenced you?
I see no problem leaving it as it is.

Advanced typically becomes fundamentals in a few years.
I have literally no idea what would lead you to that conclusion. C# has been growing by leaps and bounds.
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"Web push notifications allow users to opt-in to timely updates from sites they love and allow you to effectively re-engage them with customized, relevant content."

Christ, opting into these things has always been a mistake for me.
Same here. I actually chose Pebble as my "brand" explicitly because it was a tool first, and initially had none of the bullshit fitness focus. I was a tad disappointed when they later started focusing their marketing efforts on fitness crowd, but thought - hey, maybe that's what they need to survive/grow. I guess it wasn't enough.

I'm painfully aware I'm too nerdy a person and don't fit well on the market. Shiny toys that provide little utility just don't appear to me. I guess the only way to get a smartwatch I want is to sit down and finally go through that The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition, and then build one myself.
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There are more points to consider than that. For instance, which order should you apply the ciphers in?
Agreed. There is still a chance the human will see something that the vision-system misses -- like the red light far off to the side. The human may instinctively hit the brakes to avoid hitting someone/something.
They did that exact thing in the USSR in 1991 - removed 50 and 100 ruble banknotes (the two largest) from circulation - presumably because there were a lot of fakes floating around, and the legitimate ones were heavily used in money laundering.

Except they gave people 3 days to exchange any that they had, and it was announced at 9pm on the day immediately preceding that 3-day period.

The end result is that they effectively took out 14 billion rubles from circulation - i.e. country residents were collectively robbed of that amount of money.

A similar thing was repeated in 1993, except with a 2 week timeframe to exchange.

When such procedure is done properly for legitimate reasons, the timeframe is usually set to several years.
yet I find the code practically in-understandable and the
language looks very complex

Well, then I wonder what these 'quite some languages' that you worked with are, because the language really doesn't look that uncommon or complex to me.

I was also involved in CS education [..]
And the language is really the last problem there

The people that created Pyret have been in CS education for decennia and have done a lot of research on 'how can we make CS education better'. Their conclusion was that the idiosyncrasies of the various industrial languages very much are the problem. You give to much weight to your own prejudices and subjective observations. The experimental results prove otherwise.
Typical New Scientist really. I went to a lecture and Q&A with Alain Aspect when he visited my department in 2007 and he had a bit of a rant about how they had fundamentally misunderstood his work. They published an article claiming his Bell experiment could be used to send messages back in time.
> You are buying into a platform, but developers are going to be targeting all of them

Given that Oculus finances games while HTC/Valve doesn't do it that sounds dubious to me.

edit: Not impossible, just dubious. Most game devs at the moment only do VR if someone pays them as VR doesn't pay for itself, not even with all three platforms.
I was just thinking the same thing.

Given that Yahoo, Google, Microsoft et al recently-ish obtained permission to release rough numbers of NSLs and such ("in FY 2015 we received between 1000 and 2000 requests for user data"), I would not at all be surprised if the result is:

"We have surveilled between 1 and 318 million American citizens"
Usually I define new types, when I use them a lot like:

class Something {
typedef std::unique_ptr<Something> unique;
typedef std::shared_ptr<Something> shared;
typedef std::weak_ptr<Something> weak;

};

// ...
// later in the code

Something::unique a;
// instead of std::unique_ptr<Something> a;
Let's hope so.

I'm a bit reluctant to write this, but it made me worried, so here we go :

I had a chat with a taxi driver in Stockholm the other day, and we talked about the situation in Somalia and that he planned to move back there as it's getting better there.

He had 8 kids, but wanted another wife and 10 more kids when he became my age - 40.

I mentioned that I have been married before so I have 3 kids with 2 mothers and was quite happy with that number...

He actually laughed and looked at me and said - "man, you Swedish guys will disappear."

I don't know how representative this was but looking at some societies in Sweden, I'm guessing it's not unique. It would be nice with some research.

Anyway.I'm hoping that the Somalian women will get some say in the matter, because if they don't, looking at the demography and the socio-economic mechanisms, both Sweden and eastern Africa might end up in a spot of bother.
I think you may have missed the "will have" in that sentence - as in, they're claiming this will destroy the value people's money otherwise would have.
The article suggested they closed the border with Colombia during the transition (perhaps they did this with other countries too), as the hoarded money was meant to have been held outside the country.
Have you been inspired by http://www.hyrenpensionar.net/?

It's a Swedish site that's been around for quite a few years.

Translated it means exactly "hire an oldster", or rather "hire a pensioner".
What productivity thing would you use a smartwatch for?

I got a Pebble as a hackathon prize and tried to use it for a while, but I wasn't able to find a use for it that I didn't already do with my smartphone, which you must take with you anyways if you have a Pebble. So I'm really curious.
> There are more points to consider than that. For instance, which order should you apply the ciphers in?

No. The order shouldn't make any difference unless for some reason you're sending extra data in cleartext that is encrypted with one cipher but not the other. This is because the output of the standard cipher (e.g. AES) would look random, so that implies the final output must look random, and hence they won't be able to tell there's another layer on top just based on the order of the ciphers. That is, unless they've already broken the other standard cipher (in which case now you're only dealing with the custom layer regardless). If the final output isn't random, it means you're partially reversing the standard crypto, which, as I said above, cannot happen unless you've broken the crypto or avoided using independent keys.

Edit: I suppose the theoretically optimal thing to do may be to apply the standard cipher last, to absolutely, positively ensure that the adversary is forced to break that before they even know you have another layer underneath (to avoid parallelizability of breaking both). I can't imagine this ever being worse. But at this point we're talking about theoretical optimality; from a practical standpoint I don't see this mattering. But at the same time since I don't have an argument for doing it the other way, you might as well always do it this way.
Revenue isn't the issue. It's the sheer number of missed opportunities and bumbles during Balmer's tenure.

Search / Online Advertising... lost to Google. Google went from under $1B to $74B. Could have been Microsoft's. https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-gl...

Smart Phones... lost to Apple and Google. During Balmer's tenure Apple went form ~$1B in to ~$54B. Could have been Microsoft's. https://www.statista.com/statistics/267728/apples-net-income... And... what did they even get for a $7B investment in Nokia?

Cloud Services... lost to Amazon. AWS has grown to $10B -- with no end in sight to the growth there. Could have been Microsoft's. http://www.recode.net/2016/4/28/11586526/aws-cloud-revenue-g...

Online Office Tools... including email servers for SMBs... lost to Google. Despite having a near 100% share in office tools prior to the advent of Google Docs. The UX for their first generation of "flat office" made it damn near unusable. Personally I still think Office 365 is weak compared to Google Suite. $9B investment in Skype... only to have it be less interesting than Google Hangouts or Slack.

Microsoft Project / Project Central is all but irrelevant at this point. Lost out to Atlassian, GitHub, Trello, Asana... 200 other tools.

Windows 8...

So Windows 10 has been nice. Office 365 is getting there. Azure has been improving as well. It's clear someone lit a fire the last year or so to fix all the shit that was stagnant or fucked up during the last 15 years.
Why is this relevant? Are llvmpy and llvmcpy related?
No I'm not saying it was the perfect productivity tool before. But, of many uses, the only one I was looking up to, was to perfect productivity in some way. I feel that path was dropped too soon.