skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I can understand that reaction. When I started on Tox, I had a similar reaction. It was a project whose code base was only understood by a single person. The current specification is something irungentoo and I worked on to try and document the workings of the protocol, so that we can then make improvements and allow others to understand it.

I am working on Tox because the basic architecture is sound, even though there are some easy to fix security issues. I've started on a well-documented rewrite, but I had to put that on hold to make time for toxcore itself. Zetok has been working on a rust rewrite. I have good hopes for that project and I support it in any way I can.

We are actively working on making the 19k lines of C code better tested, better understood, and better documented. This takes time, but we're focussing on it and I believe we are making good progress.

Again, I can understand that such a statement incites fear, but saying anything else would be a lie. We're working on it.

If your intention is the same as mine (https://github.com/TokTok/website/blob/master/toktok/mission...), then I would hope we can work together in some way. Whether that means helping with discovery of security flaws, by helping us clarify sections of the spec (at this point we can't really call it a spec yet, it's more of a brain dump of the original author), or any other way, I'm happy to discuss opportunities.

If your intention is to incite rage and hatred, our discussion is over. I hope we can do the former.

EDIT: This last sentence is not intended to point at anyone in particular. It's more of a general "you". I'm thankful to zx2c4 for starting the discussion.
Despite there being no info on this page, judging by the sheer size of this thing (it looks bigger than the whole MBP), I would hope that it has eGPU, storage, battery, etc. Shit it's big enough to have a DVD drive from the looks of it.

If it doesn't have all that, I can't fathom what they could even put in all that empty space. Maybe it's only thick around the perimeter? It gets shallow in the middle?
If sweat becomes a persistent issue, products like https://vrcover.com/ will become standard.
> We have the ability to protect ourselves and we should be using it.

I don't doubt that the technology exists, I just doubt the ability of the average person to be able to protect themselves. As someone who works in a technical field with decent computer literacy, I still have a hard time approaching this problem. Perhaps I'm just not as literate as I think I am.
I feel that poor people in the countryside figured out that no establishment candidate will really change anything like corruption or most policies for that matter. Only the faces and promises change. I wonder if and when the poor and middle class in urban areas will realize the same thing. Of course the danger is always that 'change' isn't always a good thing.
Something to consider, though it doesn't directly relate to max out of pocket costs, is that healthcare providers fail to collect the majority of out of pocket responsibility from patients.

The cost to collect and the collection rates themselves are abysmal and the increase in deductibles has amplified the problem to the point that many hospitals are closing due to patients' inability to pay their bills.

Consider the percent of Americans who don't have ready access to $5000 (or even $500) for an unexpected medical event that causes them to hit their deductible. I work in patient payment technology and this is an all too common situation that providers are forced to accommodate.
>looking at creativity / design / conferencing apps, probably for enterprise.

I would too except for the fact headsets cost $800 and the computers to run them cost thousands.

Once price drops and it gets wide use, it will be a goldmine for early developers.
Do not look back at the image of the Parrot, shatter goggles or no shatter goggles.

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
That's fair. I agree there is nothing like that on the market now; instead we have plans with $25k premiums and $14k out of pocket maximums. Which is less than $50k, sure, but not by much, and is a _guaranteed_ $25k cost...

We may be violently agreeing here. ;)
StackOverflow has a lot of questions relating to bgi.h and conio.h, I wouldn't be surprised if other countries are still using it as well
Incorrect--both insurers and providers are regulated primarily at the state level. Allowing insurers to sell across state lines would be a federal action overriding state sovereignty which is typically not thought of as a "conservative" position.
So let him filibuster and let the whole world judge him.
I'm not wearing it wrong, and I know what adjustments are possible. This is an inherent fault with the lenses, it's just about optics quality.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4i8ogs/am_i_the_only_...

https://forums.oculus.com/vip/discussion/33085/halo-effect-g...

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/252662-Vive-hor...
I believe the author wrote "10MB" rather than "10Mbps". 10MB would equate to 80Mbps I think right? Unless he meant to right 10Mbps?
> When you describe the binocular effect, I know what you mean, however my experience is that all those issues fade away once your brain "accepts" the inputs and starts filtering out the noise.

Personally, as someone who owned and purchased some of the early HMDs of the 1990s - these kind of comments look "interesting" to me. I mean, people are complaining about the "low FOV and resolution" - when they clearly never had to use HMDs with 20 degree FOV and 320 x 240 resolutions...

Today's HMDs are things we only dreamed about (and those who could get close to this - well, those HMDs cost more than an automobile.

Regarding the "filtering out the noise" - we used to call this "seeing past or beyond the pixels". It was purely psychological or something going on (I think there were studies done on the effect). There came a point where you stopped noticing the pixels, and/or the low FOV - and it all just started looking much better than it did. The key, though, was to stop focusing on the issue - which some people couldn't.
Just FYI the frames dataset hasn't been available for download since the day they "released" it (although the QA dataset has been). If it is - someone do let me know :)

"Frame tracking" and adaptive slot filling without pre-canning is actually a very active area of research - the goal is to provide not just an Eliza style infinite conversational ability, but to be able to reason about and get the user to a specific outcome in a real world use case by prompting them for information in a semi supervised manner.

Being able to do it via a series of differentiable (calculus wise) functions is a fundamental improvement in achieving convergence between statistical systems and logical reasoning (which harks back to "classical" AI problems such as planning). Microsoft has some very interesting research here and papers like these [1][2]. Maluuba has some good stuff here as well. [3][4]

I doubt the company was acquired for their datasets. They've been a well respected AI company with some top notch researchers, and I think their area of research gels well with MSR's own NLP research.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01269

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/unsuper...

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02605

[4] https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05151
Show HN: Universal Tweed app (SSR) with code splitting for each route
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
A lot of Americans don't understand why messengers like WhatsApp are so popular around the world. The reason is that most carriers still extort users by charging text message fees.

In the US, everyone texts (or think they are using texts when running iMessage) because most plans give unlimited voice and texts, and charge by the GB of data.
> keep the preexisting conditions part and do away with the fines for not having insurance

Mandatory enrollment is what makes it possible to have that preexisting condition part - the basic idea of this (or any) insurance is that it spreads the risks over a larger pool of people, with the insurance companies taking a cut of the money for administrative costs and profit.

If you want to require that the insurance companies cover high-risk preexisting conditions without providing an increased customer base to spread those costs over then you'd better be prepared to see insurance companies go under.

> increased costs of forcing insurers into the ACA

Insurers don't have to participate in the ACA exchanges, and in fact many don't do so. Some participated in the beginning but decided there wasn't enough profit to be made or were losing money, so they've pulled out of the exchanges since then or have significantly raised their rates for their exchange plans. As an example of this, I believe United Healthcare (or its exchange-specific subsidiaries) no longer participates in most exchanges as of 2017 (http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/19/investing/unitedhealthcare-o...).

Interstate insurance competition isn't going to make it any cheaper to insure someone with a preexisting condition, or do you think that your local hospital is going to suddenly say "Oh, ccrush has insurance provided by a company in Montana! We can't charge San Francisco rates, we have to charge Montana hospital rates!" If you do think that, go talk to some hospital billing folks and they'll be happy to correct you.

One thing that the ACA did put in is capping the amount that insurance companies could spend on non-medical expenses, including both administration and profit. All the stuff early on about non-compliant plans having to shut down? That was for crap insurance with high premiums, higher deductibles, crappy service, etc. but with EXCELLENT profit margins. After all, if I can sell insurance but drop you when the bills start to come in, then all of those premiums you paid me are profit.
I don't think VR will take off unless the headsets become the size of big sunglasses, have great battery life, and someone releases a killer app. It's surprising that these headsets have been in the market so long, going on over a year now, and we have yet to see that one app that makes everyone run out and get a headset. Until all of these happen I don't expect much from the current state of the VR industry.
None of them big name VR machines have Linux support? Seriously? Are they Windows-exclusive?
So people who need to get insurance insurance wouldn't be able to afford it now?
I wonder how this relates to other findings about the relationship between stress, health, and mortality. It's a TED talk, but I found it to have some practical and interesting conclusions. Beliefs about stress impact how much harm stress causes.

https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress...
Here's another question: does decadence exist? The physicist would say that it's a meaningless question; the historian -- or politician -- would be well advised not to listen.

(Barzun, in From Dawn to Decadence, defined a decadent period as one which has an objective which it wants to reach, which it could reach if it made the sort of changes which it has made in the past, and which it fails to reach nonetheless. I forget where I heard it, but there's an idea that there's social technology as well as physical -- and social technology is easier to lose.)
"It literally saved my life" is an argument that could justify anything you want it to, no matter how bad it actually is. It'd be a little like saying nobody should ever leave their house because you never left your house and avoided any number of catastrophes that could have killed you. If preventing people from dying is the only metric by which a health care system is judged then pretty much anything can be justified at the detriment of other less tangible benefits, like insanely high prices, non-coverage of therapies used to treat non-life threatening conditions, no provisions for birth control, etc. Health care isn't simply about keeping people alive - it's about helping them live a high quality of life.
I'm making a VR game with giant mechs that has a totally unique movement mechanic. Anybody want to fund me? :P
You don't want to purchase mental health coverage. So, when something changes in your brain and you completely lose it, the rest of us can pick up the tab for you?

I don't buy that "I won't ever use" thing. People change their minds, and sometimes you're not capable or competent to decide for yourself.
Precision CNC milled from aircraft grade aluminum to 1/1000ths of an inch tolerance

There's some marketing hype there, I think 0.001" precision is standard for CNC machining with aluminum. All it's effectively saying is that the product is CNC-machined aluminum. Having said that, a CNC-machined aluminum enclosure is really great (as any MacBook owner can tell you) and it is more expensive to produce than injection moulded plastic.

In terms of machining precision on its own, relatively impressive precision would be somewhere around 0.0001" (one ten-thousands of inch) precision. But that would be complete overkill for this kind of product.

Apple is one of the world's largest (if not the largest) users of CNC machining. There are some great write-ups online about this that I can't find right now.
Oh, sorry to hear that! The end of that level does seem to stump people - I'm working on making it much more accessible.

If you'd like to either email me (email in my HN profile), reply here, or put up a post on the Steam forums (http://steamcommunity.com/app/488760/discussions/0/) I'd be more than happy to help you past that, as there's lots of good stuff beyond!

Climbey - yeah, the locomotion does get a little nausea-inducing :( I'm bulletproofed to it after months of VR development!
While stressful, the time limitation wasn't exactly demanding. The song of half-time was available fairly early on. Two hours was plenty of time to do just about anything in the game.
What type of refutation is expected when debating the validity of a theory? What is the standard for a qualifying theory?

Even if you have a high standard in the first case, and a low standard in the second, I can find a citation for almost any proposition, but there's usually no point to doing so because the people you argue against will just find a different paper to support their prior beliefs.[1]

My basic issue is that it seems mikeash is trying to impose their arbitrary standard on others.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume
I kind of wonder if stuff like that is going to require new levels of body-computer interfaces(contact lens, eye implants, brain implants). It's hard to figure out someone's exact facial expression when they have a headset covering most of their face. And if you don't get the facial expressions perfectly, you're going to have uncanny valley and miscommunication.
> Democrats don't want to attempt reform.

The top two Democratic presidential contenders as well as many of the Democrats in Congress campaigned on specific reforms to healthcare. The thing is, Democrats and Republicans have nearly diametrixally opposed goals in reform.
If your threat model includes targeted attacks I'd have serious doubts even about using Curl.
Only a matter of time ;)
That's very true. So price tags keep getting inflated to shift the burden more to those who _can_ pay (with the understanding that a lot of others won't be able to), which prices even more people out, etc. The same dynamic we're seeing in higher education....
Does anyone know if there is a correlation between the future of VR and the eyecare industry?
> On a completely unconnected note

You are not being sincere. You are implying that GP is a paid troll of spooks.
I used to use the Kinect for fitness in much the same way. I'm still upset that never really took off. The rafting game was particularly entertaining.
Because Joe Lieberman refused to support it. Without his support there was no chance of single payer passing.
So they can recover the messages, right? However, wouldn't these messages still be encrypted? Sure, they force a key change, and the messages are encrypted using the new key and sent. Theoretically, an attacker could have multiple copies of the same message, but these messages would still be encrypted under a variety of different keys right? Wouldn't the content of the messages still be secure?

Unless the key-change forces the user to be using an insecure key-pair, but is that actually happening?
Is there something on the horizon for graphics and GPU?
IIRC it was on Bill Gates' book list last year.
It's difficult to express sympathy for Republicans' political imperative to destroy healthcare coverage when the only thing that stands between it and people dying is... a Republican promise that they will expand healthcare coverage with a secret plan.
Politics aside, is birth control is really a drug that is used to make people healthy? Fertility == healthy. Health insurance should be for getting medical care in the event that someone gets sick. It's like mandating car insurance companies to block the A/C from working. It blocks normal, healthy functioning. It just doesn't seem to make sense. There are cases where it is required for health reasons, but isn't it mostly used as a lifestyle drug?
To add to those who have referenced the cost to the government: consider who else uses WhatsApp besides just activists - it's likely many government employees use WhatsApp as well.

Anecdotal tidbit: I worked at the Rio 2016 Olympics. My team consisted of Brazilians, Americans, Britons, and Koreans. WhatsApp was how we communicated[1], I'm sure the same was true for most of the other thousands of people working setup for the Olympics.

When a power-hungry judge forced WhatsApp to be blocked a couple weeks before the opening ceremonies, it was rather problematic for the Olympics staff. My first thought was "uhhh. This isn't going to last for long," and it didn't.

I can't say for sure that it's because the IOC president called up the Brazilian president, and the Brazilian president yelled at the judge, but I like to think that's what happened.

[1] Integrated language translation would be a FANTASTIC feature to add.
What's stopping OWC from including a charging port that does just this while sending a message to the MBP that it's plugged in? That's effectively what all those external batteries do. We're discussing a theoretical change to a device that isn't on the market yet.
why leave your desk?
Perhaps a video version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Am...? Good book.
It's weird, he keeps misspelling AR. ;)
Thanks for the comment I had not seen this before.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/

^Basic version is free to use!
Yes I understand that quantum annealing is different, but the whole point of having a quantum computer is that it is able to solve interesting mathematical problems, or at the very least is able to simulate other quantum systems efficiently (beyond nearest-neighbor Ising models). To my understanding, the D-Wave system has demonstrated neither of these things so far.
The Vive chaperone tech is really good.

I've been developing with my living room as my VR space for months now - as well as getting other people in to playtest a physically intense, scare-heavy game requiring fast movement - and to date we've only had one even moderately close call with a controller nearly whacking my TV. And that was my fault for setting the chaperone bounds a bit optimistically.
Much clear now, thanks a lot :)
Oh great, thanks man! And I have to tell you it's impressive as hell what you have create with Left Hand Path esp. considering you are a single developer. Simply amazing man! I will definitely take you up on your offer this weekend.
This would just result in the same encrypted message being sent over and over, albeit encrypted with different keys each time, right? The only way the content of the message would be vulnerable is if one of the new keys are insecure/compromised, unless there's something I'm missing.
It's always fun seeing people go through the various stages that I (and many many others) have gone through over the last couple of years. Unfortunately, he's missing the fact that it's exceedingly socially awkward to use these things and people in general actually don't like being removed from the world. It is mentally exhausting worrying about what's happening that you can't see. Not fun :(

You're probably saying, ahhh, that doesn't matter. It turns out, it does.

If you want to get excited about something, look at AR instead of VR.

(I have vive, dk1, dk2, and cv1. though i actually never opened my free cv1 ..)
I get that you're confident that you're wearing it right, and you probably are, but just in case try going through this excellent guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4e925m/ive_been_weari...

Maybe I'm substantially less sensitive to the aberrations you mentioned, or your lenses are not the same as mine, but my experience is much more positive.

I've given demos to probably more than 75 people at this point, and there are always some people who complain a lot and then we adjust the way they're wearing it and all is good.
but we must be careful not to think it immediately makes the code sound

nobody is saying it's automatically sound, but open is the only option that makes any security analysis possible.
I think that VR, unless much more advanced (e.g. expand to other senses besides vision and hearing) will have trouble catching on besides gaming and maybe some business applications. And even so, I have my doubts.

And I think Google Glass was dropped because the tech wasn't there yet. It was a small square on the corner of your vision instead of a "depth aware" overlay.
I find Magit mode in Emacs to be very useful to create coherent and concise commits. It has a fabulous interface for picking out the chunks of an edited file that should be staged.
Which VRCover did you buy specifically for sweat? I bought the memory foam soft cotton one (it's supposed to come in tomorrow" because I wanted to to be washable, but also comfortable in other scenarios, though I very much have the same experience as you described and I'd like to make exercising with VR games a much bigger part of my routine.

Edit: I'm mostly curious about the "leather" ones as they sounded uncomfortable for other usage, but specifically aimed at physical exertion.
Ultimately it doesn't matter because equating opinions to actions is like debating the difference between a recipe and a steaming plate of risotto.

If you want to help prevent climate change, put up solar panels, get an electric car and hook it up to a renewable grid, eat less meat, fly less, whatever, just do something, because arguing with strangers over the Internet changes nothing at all.

My comment has no effect on climate change either.
Imposing my faith on others. Disagree. They impose birth control on me.
Your hockey setup is fantastic, nice work. And that is some sick stick handling.

Watch the pullups. I fried my elbows by doing too many. Doing them on rings is much better (if you don't do them that way already, I don't know).

Interesting that you are taking PQQ. I've been meaning to research this stuff. I also noticed no creatine was listed. It probably belongs in your anti-aging stack as it has neuroprotective properties, along with its other well-established effects on muscle power output.
Sorry, yes, I meant 10Mbps (I will edit my comment)
Is the server sending the client a new key to use? Or is the server telling the client to generate a new key?
He had just a couple of months of full Democratic control. Due to Al Franken not being seated right away, Robert Byrd being ill, and Ted Kennedy dying, the Democrats didn't have a supermajority until September of 2009. They then lost that supermajority in February 2010 when Scott Brown was sworn in.

I do agree that Obama tended to negotiate badly by compromising before it was even needed, but that "two years of full Democratic control" thing gets repeated so often, and it's annoyingly wrong.