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Having experienced slight feelings of melange/detachment following novels, video games, and movies in the past, and having experienced what this article is describing: it's not quite the same feeling.

With movies/novels/etc., I've always experienced what you're describing as something similar to a feeling of loss--the world you experienced or the story you were involved in or the characters you cared about will no longer be there as a new experience, no longer have new experiences as characters, etc. That 'world' is gone.

With VR, even if I don't really miss the experience, I've experienced what I'd describe as a "readjustment" phase of between 10 minutes and a couple hours (depending on length of experience and how recently I'd been in VR) where the real world feels disconnected/less real. It's a much more intense and visceral feeling, and doesn't have the same undertone of 'loss' that movies/novels have. It isn't a "Man, I'm not actually a space pilot in the year 3000" feeling, or a "I'll never be able to experience that world again" feeling, it's more of a visceral disassociation from the real world, as though my senses don't feel like they can quite trust the inputs they're receiving anymore.
I think the best way to go about it is to have a switch/checkbox for the user to opt-in. Only then will the browser prompt the user to enable notifications. It's trivial to make this change.

I'm amazed so many sites have this feature, because it was an absolute nightmare for me to get it working alongside Google's sw-precache library.
Population trends happen over several decades. CO2 from this will be released immediately.
> By the way iOS is the only popular operating system I know that doesn't allow to execute files downloaded from web or emails.

Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 don't allow it either. SmartScreen will block unsigned executables by default[0]. Enterprise customers should be using AppLocker which does a lot of what SmartScreen does, but with more flexibility and control.

The issue arises when [bad] System Administrators disable SmartScreen because it is a "hassle" and don't deploy AppLocker in its place. This effectively sends their users back to a Windows 7 level of security.

If Microsoft forced either SmartScreen OR AppLocker, then we'd have people on here screaming about freedom, Microsoft is evil, "Embrace, extend and extinguish," year of the Linux desktop, and so on. This is the best they can without treating System Admins like babies (even when they're going to use that power for "evil").

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2012/08/14/microsoft-sma...
So in most science, if someone comes out with a study saying that (say, for example) climate change isn't real, they'll be buried under the remaining 99% that came to consensus in the other direction.

Sure, Industry will bankroll lobbyists to fight any potential change in government, and fund crackpot theories, but ultimately, the evidence that will accrue will be damning.

Why wasn't that the case for Iceland? Why doesn't that happen more for economics as a whole?

Is it a function of time? In economics, people are more focused on sub 10 year plot lines? Perhaps our understanding of macroeconomics is so poor that we're surprised by "big changes" every few years, and evidence doesn't get a chance to accrue? Whereas evidence for climate change can accrue year after year?
>"Russia, a state-actor, coordinated an cyber-attack on an American political party."

Is there any evidence that the hacks came from Russia?

From what I've seen, the Russians have just been the scapegoats. Just because something is repeated a lot on the news, doesn't make it true. If there's evidence the hacks were orchestrated by the Russian government (or even involved Russia at all), let's see the evidence. Without the evidence, the claims are baseless.
The essay talks about Intel. Intel the company could design its next generation chip much much faster than its smartest member could alone.
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The Russians hacked the election in the same way that the Ashley Madison hackers hacked all those marriages.
> This attacks could be easily mitigated. [...] second, we should start using physical cryptographic keys instead of passwords

Man--I like the way you think, I really do, but this is not "easy". Technical simplicity and social ease are vastly different, and it's usually the humans who are getting hacked.
Al Jazeera English is a good news source. It definitely goes off the rails with its opinion pages, but its investigative journalism is top-notch. It's probably good to consume it with BBC, NPR, Foreign Policy, Moscow Times, and the National Review to get a good basket of viewpoints.
Only time I payed for in-game currency was so I could buy lures to drop for players at the restaurant or park I was at, or so my girlfriend could stay occupied while she was stuck in bed when recovering from surgery. It made me feel good to buy that stuff and spread the wealth, instead of feeling awful, and it was easy to justify because "it's only a dollar". I'm convinced that companies need to tap into this a lot more.
Heh, true! I think it's really more a question of which of those organizations' shareholders are willing to stomach the investment
I assure you almost none of these answers are the result of the New York Times lacking a bit of precision their headlines.
Why would IP addresses _in Russia_ automatically make attacks attributable to Russia?
I don't think Zuck or anyone else thought that the AI demoed was particularly hard to build...
I cannot imagine a resume with connection to the bloody KGB as a feature. «— I worked for organization which killed millions. — You are hired.» LOL
I'd choose C# over java, but I recognize that java currently has a better cross platform story.
>So while Asian American households seem richer on paper, many of them don’t really feel richer because they live in places where the rent is high and the groceries are more expensive.

Ok, but other things like online purchases and college tuition aren't affected by cost of living. If you live in a high cost of living area sending a kid to an Ivy is relatively cheaper for you than someone in a lower cost of living area.

Cost of living is high partially because there is higher demand for that place. Cincinnati isn't San Francisco.
Why does YouGov have low credibility? My sense is the opposite: they were the only polling company to get accurate results in important recent votes.
It's somewhat obvious from the context but for anyone not familiar with military jargon I think the parent post meant to say "humint" instead of "humit" which is short hand for "human intelligence" or in layman's terms "spies".
True or not, the idea that Russia could have hacked the US elections is pretty wild, and the way this is nonchalantly discussed, and met with the mild diplomatic gesture of dismissing some diplomats is a little surprising to me.

Is it because I have grown up during the end of the cold war? But what would Nixon or Reagan have done in this situation?

Messing with a country's political system like that sounds extremely hostile to me and warrants massive investigations, reorganizations and review of the entire voting process to restore trust.

Thoughts?
iirc it's the same for facebook: if they think you're using a fake name, you'll have to mail them your government-issued identification to get your account back.
For those new to Doppio, it's a JVM in TypeScript, useful for ex for running Java code in the browser. :)
Elixir, I'm afraid, is the wrong tool for ML. Numeric computation is Erlang's weak spot.
The OPM hacks did far more damage to the country, but Obama's reaction was - nothing. It was only when some elites of his own party got some egg on their face that he reacted.
One good thing about web notification requests is you can use them as an opportunity to evaluate what sites you want to continue reading on a regular basis. When I get a notification request I always stop and think about it for a minute. If a site isn't notification worthy then is it worth reading everyday? Sometimes yeah but I've been able to purge a lot of sites of my daily reading list using this method. I was surprised at just how many sites I was reading purely out of habit. Being forced to judge their quality / importance to me was super helpful.
Do you believe the DNC tried to slow down the momentum of Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primaries?
Live there. Immersion. Anything else is a distant 2nd and you will never "feel" the language.
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Because the basis for any conflict resolution is dialogue ?
Haaretz and Moscow Times often post stories critical of their governments' actions. I know it's easier to make blanket statements to form an effective filter in the modern deluge of information, but it's not enough. I guess there are worse optimizations to make.
Ed White has been doing it in production on RHEL/CentOS for a number of years now. He's got a great write-up on a "roll your own" clustered ZFS-based SAN replacement here: https://github.com/ewwhite/zfs-ha/wiki

You can probably hit-up Ed via Github or Server Fault if you want to talk to him about it directly.
Isn't there a history of signed malicious things? For example:

https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/research/yet-another-signed-ma...
Democrats want a war with Russia, and they just might get it.
http://theduran.com/breaking-obama-imposes-sanctions-russia-...

"Barack Obama announces more sanctions against Russia, citing alleged Russian hacking during US election. However though the sanctions will annoy the Russians, they will not seriously affect them. Their true purpose is to create further embarrassment for Donald Trump by insinuating that he owes the Russians the Presidency."
hmm, I figured the Singularity was just small, and it was fusion that was far away.
I'm trying to be motivated enough to finish one of my own project ideas and get it up and running next week... Had a rough couple months (extenuating circumstances) and my goal is to have enough relatively passive income to cover the essential bills so I don't stress out as much as I have been.

Although my model won't be recurring revenue, so will have to do enough marketing to keep a more consistent churn. Fortunately, I can do some pretty targeted marketing in a service that isn't saturated, and the incumbents haven't kept up well.
My complaint about the timing. I expect we'll also soon see some news releases or official government statements from Moscow about NSA and CIA hacking of Russian cyber systems.
Thank you, I'm always interested in seeing browser metrics in other industries. I'm assuming safari is so high due to your higher-ed audience.
WMDs were in Iraq, too, didn't you hear?
It appears to confirm what we knew: the DNC's failure to adhere to basic security protocols, which would be enforced in any corporation with more than a couple dozen employees (edit: or not, see eropple's comment below), allowed its systems to be compromised by script kiddies (for political reasons, the USG insists these script kiddies are sponsored by the Russian government, and insists we take them at their word).

This document says the attack would've failed if the DNC had watched out for SQL injection and if DNC staffers had not fallen for a phishing scheme. We're supposed to believe only a nation-state could've conducted these attacks? This is "Baby's First Hack" level stuff.

This only further proves the government's propaganda policy for dealing with prominent cybersecurity breaches: blame it all on a foreign boogieman, as they did in the case of the Sony leak, so that the public doesn't catch on to just how very vulnerable all their electronic data is to practically anyone with the inclination to attempt to steal it.
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Or, if one or both parties were running the Facebook app with location services enabled, it could also have been GPS too.

I wrote about this a few days ago.[0] Basically, new Facebook accounts that you run on the app with location services enabled will provide creepy location-based friend suggestions by default.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13252568
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> The media is no longer proving itself worthy of the little respect it has.

FTFY.
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Nice road-map and Kudos to Wes for the great work/tools for the data community!
What about bare-metal options? Is there any development effort in that direction?

Most of the C that I do these days is Arm Cortex-Mx work. Realtime cooperative multi-tasking using an RTOS on the bare metal. It seems like Rust would be a great option for that kind of work if the low-level ecosystem were complete enough.
With a consulting team of 6 people...? That actually sounds too low.
But under actual existing conditions, why do children die? It's not starvation (at least in the US and Europe), or EMP. It's lack of medical care.

So, back to the question at hand. Isn't the availability of medical care more valuable than the insurance value of the land? Yes, the land lets your kids live if there's an EMP. But the medical care lets your kids live through all the years until there's an EMP, if there ever is. Isn't the actually-happening reality more important than the might-be?

Or, to put it in more brutal terms: How many of your kids would you be willing to have die due to lack of health care, in order to have the land to keep all your kids from dying if there ever is an EMP? For most people, I think the answer is "zero".
They wouldn't?
I guess it goes without saying that the headline is clickbait. The difference isn't "an illusion". Rather, the article describes an insightful way of looking at incomes based on cost-of-living for different geographies.

The yawning difference between Asians and whites mostly disappears after accounting for geography. But it's still quite large versus other segments (blacks, hispanics).

Based on the headline, I was expecting to see income convergence among the four groups. Not the case at all.
Dershowitz has argued that Obama's Israel decision from just a few days ago constitutes just that. He went on a round of TV interviews to explain his view.
The report is literally titled: "GRIZZLY STEPPE – Russian Malicious Cyber Activity"

Yet it doesn't actually make a case for Russian Malicious Cyber Activity. People are pointing out the obvious spin on this especially since it's extremely light on technical details or a reason to exist other than propaganda. Reasonable companies don't need to be taught about phishing attacks.
That is a post-hoc rationalization and you know it. DWS was forced to step down amid a firestorm, not voluntarily "to give unity to the party." The same goes for Brazile. The claim that "they could have figured out the answer anyway" doesn't make up for the dishonesty in cheating during the debates.
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There are thermal issues with die stacking. Where does the heat go?

This is a general problem in solid state physics. Power density is already a huge problem.
We're not far away from living in a storage room like Hiro Protagonist. For many people, the ability to "escape reality" like that might seem like an upgrade on life.
How fast we forget Brooks. There is no silver bullet.
Wait What? Numenta is a scam? This is the first I'm hearing about it. Could you please expand on that assertion? By the way, one of the founders [1 ]of vicarious was also a founder of Numenta.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dileep_George
The exact quote is:

"On the other hand, nearly half of Trump supporters give at least some credence to the Pizzagate rumors. In contrast, 57% of Clinton voters say that is definitely not true (some, however, answered that it could be true),"

Putting aside the fact that this is shortly after "Pizzagate" was first widely reported and therefore a topic of broad discussion (of whatever quality) at the time...

... the contrast is that "nearly half" of Trump supporters give "at least some credence", as opposed to 43% of Clinton supporters. At most, that a whopping 6 percentage point difference. This is news?
> (it's not clear to me what it identifies, other than a PHP script)

It seems obfuscated code. The $base64decode string seems a regular expression to generate the PHP `base64_decode()` function.

At some point the script would read a base64 string, which would be an encoded PHP script retrieved from remote or included in the script. The output is then executed through the `eval()` function. Like in this example: http://ideone.com/awhqOg
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Does the release include the original game assets, or do assets need to be purchased (like with Doom releases)?
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This article offers nothing new and is written to sell this guy's "blood sugar detox" book.
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Similar to that Chomsky criticism is Robert Fisk's constant railing on LA Times (and others') constant use of "US government sources say".

Anything that comes after such a phrase needs to be taken with a giant grain of salt.
> which would be enforced in any corporation with more than a couple dozen employees

No they wouldn't, and you are one of the people here who I would say should very well know it. :p

The DNC screwed up, but the overwhelming majority of everybody else screws up to this level or worse on the regular.
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Reading your post again, I think we agree.

I'd just point that, even tough Schrodinger and de Broglie were pretty much focused on understanding, their contribution to quantum theory was very prediction-based, and not so much understanding based. As I said up there, it's not that they believed that, it is that they only got results when working this way. I took Einstein away from your list, there are always exceptions.

What I think is most interesting is that the XX century got an example of each of those "ways of doing science" working. There was probably a "right tool for the job" effect there, as people certainly weren't trying to create a predictive-only theory.
There's already public evidence. Circumstantial evidence, but evidence nonetheless.
"...wild speculations with no actual research or journalistic ethics."

Which is often what "mainstream journalism" offers. So how do we get back to Ethics in Journalism when what we have is driven by number of visitors?
It's not in their interest. If people stick to old games, they have less time to play others and buy less games.
Define "suspicious timing". People seem to forget that this has been in the news since much earlier this year.
I have to say, with the best will in the world, I don't believe you.

I don't believe that someone is paying $15000 a week for some basic software development.
I do not mean to pick on C++: the same problems plague C, Ada, Alef, Pascal, Mesa, PL/I, Algol, Forth, Fortran ... show me a language with manual memory management and threading, and I will show you an engineering tragedy waiting to happen.

I think if programming is to make progress as a field, then we need to develop a methodology for figuring out how to quantify the cost-benefit trade-offs around "engineering tragedies waiting to happen." The fact that we have all of these endless debates that resemble arguments about religion shows that we are missing some key processes and pieces of knowledge as a field. Instead of developing those, we still get enamored of nifty ideas. That's because we can't gather data and have productive discussions around costs.

There are significant emergent costs encountered when "programming in the large." A lot of these seem to be anti-synergistic with powerful language features and "nifty ideas." How do we quantify this? There are significant institutional risks encountered when maintaining applications over time spans longer than several years. There are hard to quantify costs associated with frequent short delays and lags in tools. There are difficult to quantify costs associated with the fragility of development environment setups. In my experience most of the cost of software development is embodied in these myriad "nickel and dime" packets, and that much of the religious-war arguing about programming languages is actually about those costs.

(For the record, I think Rust has a bunch of nifty ideas. I think they're going down the right track.)
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>Though theoretically possible, no full implementation has existed before.

And it's called a Goedel Machine because it has to prove, within an initial fixed logical language, that its improved program will be globally optimal. Rice's Theorem says this task is impossible in general (provided we stay within the deterministic, logical setting), and Chaitin's Incompleteness Theorem implies it should be increasingly impossible even in specific: the longer a successor program we search for (to incorporate knowledge that makes it smarter), the greater the chance of hitting a sufficiently complex successor candidate that we can't prove its optimality with our existing Goedel Machine program.

Again, that's within the paradigm of deterministic logics in which proof-checking is semi-decidable. Real brains don't stick within that paradigm (they're natively probabilistic), and thus AGI probably won't stay within that paradigm either.
If an organization is working with sensitive data maybe they should invest some resources into security. I understand it is not easy because companies like Microsoft have been releasing poorly designed software (with things like autorun for USB drives) for 20 years and it still is the leader. But we have to advance step by step. For every single person needing executable attacments there are maybe million users who can run them without understanding the consequences.
Political against the incoming President-Elect. It's all the same, however. Multiple layers of intrigues between actors in the deep state. The common man suffers of course, because he no longer has any hope for a better life. Soon he won't have a job either, after we'vr finished building our synthetic God.
Adam Johnson at FAIR (http://fair.org) criticized the Our World in Data website's standard for Democracy in this article: http://fair.org/home/voxs-cia-backed-democracy-standard-is-o...

I need to read more about the website and where its data is sourced to make a judgement myself, but the above link was informative to me.
This is a pretty common PHP payload idiom, yup yup. (It also is common with proprietary PHP applications, CMS extensions, etc. that are happy to burn your system performance to "protect their IP". I've been unwinding them since I was twelve.)
So do you agree that Rust should remain a "high transparency" language? Do you have an opinion on a "high productivity"/"application level safety supporting" superset of the language? Rust seems to be creeping out of the system space and into the application space. Will/should Rust go out of its way to support application level programming? (By, among other things, facilitating enforcement of application level invariants?)

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Or is that just looking too far ahead?