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What does AR and VR usage not overlapping have to do with them not doing research? The technologies DO overlap, so they might as well try to catch two birds with one stone.

Oculus doesn't have to make money immediately since they're backed by Facebook, which is a huge leverage.

Also even if Vive IS outselling Rift right now, doesn't mean Rift is doomed at all. For now it's enough for them to be in the market and look for opportunities since NONE of the VR companies are turning out to be the next big thing, yet.

I'm sure there will come a point when VR will grow extremely fast, but VR itself as an industry is not growing too fast anyway.

In this climate it's best to hunker down and do research instead of trying to sell as many devices as possible, so I think they're doing the right thing.
Well, to be fair, they don't really have a choice in the matter.

Open it out to code review by only a few number of people, mainly governments, and you are opening it out to a small set of people doing code review explicitly driven by the primary intention of finding vulnerabilities in it. This would apply to even the US govt, who routinely request software vendors to delay patching or even disclosing 0-day vulnerabilities till they have sufficiently exploited it.

Allowing more scrutiny will work only if enough eyeballs are devoted to it driven by benevolent intentions. Best results would be to open source the whole thing but that would not make business sense to the company.

Basically, either you open it out completely or not open it up at all. Opening out to a few government funded hackers is probably the worst choice they could make.
> (Disclosure: Mindfulness helped my anxiety a lot. I believe it to be more than placebo, but then I would, wouldn't I?)

I don't see why this would need to be dismissed as a placebo. A placebo is something that works by tricking the mind into have an effect on the body, right? The key being that there really is an effect. So couldn't mindfulness be seen as purposefully harnessing the placebo effect?
Would it be easier to just completely replace our eyes and directly modulate the optic nerve? From engineering point of view - that actually seems more reasonable.
I see this has been totally missed by HN.
Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
> I have since understood it as training yourself to being bored, and through that, focus better on a single task that is boring but you have to do it.

I've been meditating for years (on and off, not much at the moment) and what you've come up with there is actually a very useful description of at least some of its aspects.
I find the idea that "the map is not the territory" useful in considering delusional beliefs. It keeps belief and reality separate, where "belief" could include things you know to be hallucinations etc (though I've never had those). https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_map_is_not_the_territory
Plot twist: There never was a candidate.
I don't get how that quote relates to the parent post, can you clarify?
You might think, but metadata travels separately from the actual file, so that wasn't a factor.
Hacking Assistive Technology for Lilly [video]
> Avoiding mutating state means that either those objects have no attributes, or that the state can only be set on construction. (In FP speak, this corresponds currying of common parameters. Or to an internal abstract type, if the constructor is private and you can only create it via a specific set of static methods).

I don't think the style you're talking about is something that most people would call "object oriented programming" ("modern" or otherwise). Indeed the usual name for the programming style in which you avoid mutating state is "functional programming".
"archeologist at a university who wasn't looking for evidence of Arabic culture"

What evidence is there for this statement, if I may play devil's advocate for a moment?
I think the OP was referring to the massive memory bloat of these applications.
The financial sector isn't the best counter-example. Every little bit of latency matters in HFT, so there's probably a competitive advantage to running servers there compared with the countryside.
"Manufacturers or software developers who're especially privacy-conscious"

Those are few and far between. I still don't see how you are going to get major players into this. Niche -- maybe, but we already have few of these (other comments in this thread mention them). Also, such server would be a very sweet
target for hackers and high security requirement raises upkeep by quite a bit.
Alternative version:

http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/enhanced-class-decomp...
What does Idris do? That seems to be the best hope of combining Coq-like advanced typing with Haskell-like practicality.
Not a good example, chmod, chown and chroot accomplish pretty much the same thing.
I partially disagree. Games will be created, because they can be, and there's some unique fun to be had in AR. Think e.g. of an FPS you can play with friends anywhere you happen to be right now, with real-word terrain but virtual weapons[0].

I agree though that they will not dominate VR - real-world constraints are mostly arbitrary restrictions that rarely add anything to the fun, so most games will happily do without them.

--

[0] - arguably, beyond AR, to make it happen we need advances in geometry sensing and mesh networking; the ridiculous trend of pushing everything through the cloud is not helping.
Are there any other kind? At least thanks to electron apps we still have a need for Moore’s law.
Ask HN: Should tech giants create their own free universities?
To hoover up vast numbers of people and train them as programmers, project mangers etc (not testers, the world is full of testers).

If the universities were not just free, but had lots of other benefits to make them appealing.... and they taught all the development and restored fields to qualify them to work at FB, GOOG ASPL, MSFT, whichever TGU (Tech Giant University) they attend.
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SELinux is quite possible and easy to disable with any local root kernel exploit.
They only thing it might make harder is actual act of exploitation by shutting down syscalls and sensitive parts of file system. Compared to these, VM are rare. You typically need one of those to attempt breakout anyway.

Then again, three were a plenty exploits against general FS or common calls like poll...
Things you cannot limit in this way because they are used by apps in question.
Show HN: JAZZARI: A programmable band in your browser
This is a huge bet by Mark Zuckerberg to reach 1 Billion people.

It can only happen if;
1. VR goes mobile.
2. The headset cost comes down to $100 to $150.
Tangential, but has anyone else noticed a surge in newsweek links here and on reddit? I feel like they hired some consultants.
Brazil is actually ranks in the top half of country's by per capita earnings at 8,840. http://databank.worldbank.org/data/download/GNIPC.pdf

The median income is a little over half that at ~4,800$ per year. But no single person or family's income when distributed among the population would change that much.
if all AR ever did was give me 3 virtual monitors on my desk it would be worth it. No more need to buy monitors. Can display them even at the coffee shop. that alone would be worth the price of admission IMO. same at home. no need for 60inch TV or multiple TVs per room when AR can just display a tv of any size in any room

but of course thats not the limit. AR includes input. whether it's some breakthrough camera tech that can track my fingers or a glove or rings bring able to manipulate objects in 3D with my hands is a 3x to 20x boost in production speed for 3d design including objects, architecture, movie and game assets, etc. That in itself is low hanging fruit and could open 3d design to so many more people than the months of blender/Maya/3dsmax training currently required.

assuming input works pen tablets are no longer needed. want to draw in 2d, project a piece of paper on the surface in front of you and a pen in your hand and you start drawing. any child growing up with such tech would probably never use paper.

that again is practically low hanging fruit.

there lots more ARish ideas. car navigation that paints on the road (though I guess I don't need that for self driving cars). look down a road see what's in every store

I'm sure there are tons of applications we haven't even thought of but any of the above would be enough for me
BTC smashes above $5,000
In fact, our closest neighbour galaxy is just 25,000 light years away, while the milky way is 100,000 light years across.
Paris to ban combustion-engine cars by 2030
From quantum machine learning to Trump in 4 comments lol. Maybe everyone is a little touchy. :)
yea indeed
I just can't think of compelling use cases, and no one has ever showed one to me that has impressed.

The likes of Upskill[1] and Realwear[2] have been selling AR to industrial customers for ages. They have clients like Boeing who use it to enable their engineers to access data in context in the field. It's not quite 'project a realistic 3D image in space' AR, but it's more AR in the 'Google Glass' sense. It's very much real, and there definitely are use cases that people will pay decent money for.

That doesn't mean it's going to be a huge industry and we'll all be wearing headsets in a few years, but it definitely means there is a use for it. And perhaps someone will invent a killer application that does mean everyone will want it. You never know. It happened with smart phones.

[1] https://upskill.io/
[2] https://realwear.com/products/hmt-1/
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The X-Mailinator-SMTP header
Them and NYT
The real world isn't an interesting setting for a game.
Mass Flow Meters in Research Industry
SMS Backup+ for Android can put all texts into your GMail archive (and calls into Google Calendar), knocking out one dependency there.

https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/

It's actually one of the first apps I always install after I discovered the hard way that Android used to delete corrupted SQLite databases and I lost the SMS DB on my phone.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7764943/what-can-be-done...
How taking a break from a problem sometimes allows you to figure out the answer
You are right, despite the downvotes.

Ironically, Hitler's Germany had many common ties with Islam, an aspect that now is conveniently swept under the carpet.
A grotesque side effect of this is that the "diverse" society Germany is getting with the increase in migration from Muslim countries comes with a sharp increase in antisemitism. The migrants are often very open about their opinions regarding Jews and admiration for Hitler.
Fruits of hard work are not a privilege, if his parents wouls get the home for free it would be, but they earned it. Assuming that wealth = privilege shows only the bitterness of the person making such an assumption.
Was a fair game still. You were safe at home.
Although in some jurisdictions such a right exists, it is not copyright.

The US constitution limits the restrictions on free speech caused by copyrights and patents and does not allow generic database rights systems that you find in the EU.
Apple iOS 11.0.3 rolls out, fixes iPhone and iPad
Come to think of it, this would make a good comic or sci-fi film.

A mob of former truckers, farmers and Uber drivers armed with bump-stocked AR-15's wearing Make America Analog Again hats and fueled on pillaged Soylent trying to overtake Silicon Valley and having to fight through an army of Teslas, Otto, Boston Dynamics, Weaponized Amazon Drones, etc.
Epic Sues ‘Fortnite’ Cheaters for Copyright Infringement
For leisure travel the US is just not a viable destination any more. There's plenty of other beautiful places in the world. Why deal with all this political insanity...
> the fact I always carry an unhealthy number of electronics.

A few weeks ago, passing through Heathrow, the lady at the security check commented something like "wow, you really like technology" because I had a laptop, tablet, phone, kindle and battery pack... I never really considered 5 electronic devices as excessive, but I guess its out of the ordinary.

I get swabbed occasionally, but it does seem a bit more random than you (but I don't have a beard).
Awesome, not too far away from Spokane, WA!

http://www.getlockedaway.com/

I wonder if there's a market for re-selling experiences to other locations.
Sensationalist. "Christopher Pyne ... stressed the stolen information was commercially sensitive rather than “classified” military information.
My gym allows you to book squash courts from midnight, two weeks in advance. All the prime courts are gone by the time I get to work the next morning.

I wrote a scraper with Python and selenium which books a court for my favourite days and times, and adds the appointment to my google calendar. It runs on my raspberry pi on the crontab.
If you have a passwordless key, you're nullifying half of the security.

Yes yes, ubikeys or smartcards exist... but it is the same second factor: what you have. Password is what you know.
Biometrics theoretically are what you are but really what you have on yourself.
Even recent and not so recent equipment that supports jumbo frames do not have it enabled by default.
Large mtu hosts (or the specific interface with a large MTU) should be in an isolated network where all hosts have that large MTU. Best practice is to not mix MTU sizes on hosts that should talk to each other and never go over 1500 for hosts/interfaces that need to talk to the internet.
Not hygienic IMO.
While the analysis in your [1] above is plainly wrong, the algorithm started a long work of (traditional) research. The Ph.d. thesis [1] has a great summary on the impact of your [1].

For Cuckoo hashing, the original publication might be difficult to digest, but the journal version [2] improved it already quite a bit. There is a great explanation with an actual analysis by one of its original inventors available at [3]. It usually takes a long time to find the best way of describing an algorithm and showing why it works.

1. http://wild-inter.net/publications/wild-2016.pdf

2. http://www.itu.dk/people/pagh/papers/cuckoo-jour.pdf

3. http://www.itu.dk/people/pagh/papers/cuckoo-undergrad.pdf
Seccomp can only disable syscalls. LSMs are more nuanced. Three most important difference is that it is easy to check if seccomp is available and the policy is not kept in or on a file.
I use two windows. I split my screen vertically.

It would be nice if content reflowed to fit my borders, with a bit of whitespace.

Here's a screenshot. https://imgur.com/a/I0hnF

The more readable wikipedia requires horizontal scrolling. (But also note YouTube includes too much whitespace, making the video small. This is a recent, annoying, change that I haven't created a tampermonkey rule for yet.)
Don't forget our bizarre and inexplicable neoteny. We are the Peter Pans of the primate world.
You're saying nobody would be able to test if, when and what an Antivirus program is sending over the internet? If it all of a sudden is uploading enough data over to some server vs downloading (for updates) it's kind of a tall tale sign that it's phoning home with files. I don't use AV software anymore since I'm mostly on Linux, if I'm on Windows it's dedicated to Windows based programming, all my browsing is isolated usually.

You can go as far as finding the amount of data software is sending over the wire through the Task Manager -> Performance -> Resource Monitor. And to say an AntiVirus can hide this would mean it shouldn't be trusted whatsoever if it behaves like malware. The type of reputation any sane A/V company does not want to fall under.
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How has he never heard "I want to invent the future", I thought that was pretty much a staple. I've heard that in business consulting interviews for years.
I believe there are only 2 way to reach truth.

1. experience your truth
2. do statistically sound study to show if your truth is in fact the truth of majority.

to challenge and test the use of , meditation and 'Mindfulness', JUST TRY IT on yourself. this won't kill you or cost you fortune. find your own truth.

P.S. - I think this magazine Article to be somewhat hocus -
pocus. I can't pinpoint what's wrong1 except something just doesn't seem right!
No, almost certainly not. We can't even interface with nerve cells directly, effectively to operate limbs. That's many orders of magnitude less information than the optical nerve. Peripheral nerve interfaces that can actually get good performance are quite a way off.

Plus, from what I remember there is a significant amount of preprocessing done before the optic nerve. But we don't really know what exactly it is.

Edit: There actually are several projects that look at artificial retinas, making use of most of the eyes nervous system and only replacing the outermost layer:

http://www.artificialretina.energy.gov/
http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v16/n6/full/nmat4874.html
Imagine you have two functions that you only call with lists of integers:

def summarize1[A](list: List[A]) = ...
def summarize2(list: List[Int]) = ...

Even though you don't call summarize1 polymorphically, the signature tells you that it's only looking at the structure of the list rather than what's inside it - a reader can immediately see that it's going to do something like return the length of the list. Whereas summarize2 could do other things, e.g. sum the elements of the list, add and subtract alternating elements...

A list is a pretty simple structure, these kinds of guarantees become more useful when the structure itself is complicated. E.g. in the project I'm currently working on I have a tree-like datatype that only ever contains Strings, but I've written it generically so I can be confident that my structural functions only work on the structure, and I have a clear separation between functions that operate on the structure of the tree and functions that operate on the content of the tree.
Identifying a Large Number of Fake Followers on Instagram
I totally agree with you, but I suspect it will end up in a net positive for Trump and his cronies, just not for the rest of the world. That said, it is fascinating to watch, even if terrifying at the same time.
Exploding Git Repositories
Not at all, the site is definitely compromised. Someone posted a link[0] that when I opened on mobile is redirecting to a malware site. Confirmed on two separate Android devices running 7.1 + Chrome.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15456533
Sure, in contrast "dependency graph in insights tab" is not bad feature.
There is a lot of infrastructural work behind a university. Why would a tech giant deviate some of its capital to train people in a specific field within the corporation? Besides having to pay for the student to attend and graduate, they would also have to pay them a competitive salary afterwards ? What specifically is the advantage point ?
> not mention any of the nice things about times gone by

Unexploited natural resources aside, what are those nice things?
main and argc are declared as int (technically auto int) by default. argv is declared and given its type between the function head and the function block, which is perfectly legal but quite unusual these days

This syntax is probably nice if you use a line oriented editor like ed
What is there to be credible or otherwise about? It's a geometric pattern which symbolizes Ali (of Shia) and the Islamic god, in a piece of fabric traded to the Vikings. The research even says it was likely an incorrect copy done by a second party of the original design from the Islamic world. That is interesting in the context of trade and cultural links, but is in itself exceptionally uncontroversial.
Long time ago, when I was at the university (around 2010), I created a script that was scraping a dating website, browsing every girls profile who were in a reasonable distance from me and store all their details into a database.

Then from this point, I could search for any girls detail I wanted and find the perfect match according to my criterias.

One important drawback with that, is that the website used to send a notification to the girl everytime you were browsing her profile. My scraper was not smart enough to understand that it shouldn't scrape twice the same profile. So I had a bad moment everytime they asked me why I was so interested for in their profiles and why I used to see them, let's say 10 times a day. :D

Ah, and for those who are curious: this little side project never brought me any girls. :D
Someone in marketing probably didn't know that it mattered. Same with the head person who approved the email.

But don't worry, they'll have an engineer approve it next time as well!
In the absence of civil institutions regulated by the people, regulation does not disappear. The mantle is picked up by corporations. It's our choice.
> When I meditate I need to turn my thoughts off.

Mindfulness meditation is very explicitly not about turning thoughts off, but about letting thoughts arise and fall away without getting caught up in it.

Concentration meditation practices do involve turning thoughts off.

That said, I also find the comparison to CBT curious.

> (in 95% of the cases it's your body).

In mindfulness meditation, while it can be your body, it is not generally nearly as dominant a focus unless you want it to be. The "baseline" tends to be mindfulness of breath (anapanasati) because it is a convenient basis for a necessary level of concentration, and while it may involve the body peripherally as where you will notice the breath, is not about the body (indeed, while mindfulness of breath is simple as a starting point, people have written 500+ pages of books just on that one subject, and that involves e.g. the selection of other meditation objects to use while practising mindfulness of breath to achieve specific effects, such as dulling distractions, and a lot of that seems to be down to draw attention away from your body, because your body is a rife source of distracting sensations).

Mindfulness of the body is a separate aspect which tends to explicitly involve letting the sensations of part of the body fill your mind and diffuse outwards until it feels like that part of your body is all there is. When you do it with sufficient concentration it produces very curious sensations. It can also be a useful practice to reduce physical pain (I've had success with it but to very varying degree) - I see that as a trick of the mind where you basically seek to "spread the pain around" mentally so that it feels like it dissolves; sharp pains feel like dull aches. Nevertheless when successful it is a very useful trick of the mind (as a skeptic it feels to me as intentionally seeking out a placebo effect, but if it works it works).

Mindfulness of mind and and mindfulness of emotion are other separate aspects, and purely disassociated from the body, though you will tend to use mindfulness of breath to bring the concentration needed for it.

Most beginners mindfulness practice tends to focus first on mindfulness of breath to attain base levels of concentration and then mindfulness of mind.

If you focus only on the body as the object of meditation, you miss out on many aspects.
They're completely okay with that response. What they're worried about is that customers in U.S. government would consider their product more secure if they can ensure that the potential attackers in e.g. Russian government don't have access to that source code.

You can't please all customers if customer wants you to protect them from another potential customer of yours, you have to pick a side and stick to it.