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Watch the first couple of videos.. It's pretty clever and cool. Doesn't look like it'll be fat friendly. All that aside, let's pretend like we're responsible adults for a second. The video, especially the end of the first, sort've makes me think this might be the "line". People have talked about violence in video games, and realism, and for the most part I don't think there is any real issue today, it's all malarkey. Something like this, however, changes the game. It's suddenly a very different experience when you have the VR goggles on and the VR running board and you gun down civilians in CoD, or kill XYZ in random FPS.

tl;dr. Does the omni + oculus rift increase realism enough that violent games require extra caution?
Why is taking away features "in" now?
You might try TechZing: http://techzinglive.com/

Here is the "on-ramp" for new listeners: http://techzingwiki.com/doku.php?id=on-ramp
The standout quote for me is on the second page: "When courts and judges negotiate secretly, when direct data transfers occur without limits, when huge data storage rather than targeted pursuit of individuals becomes the norm, all sense of proportionality and accountability is lost." This sums up the current situation quite nicely. Absolute power always corrupts absolutely. Always.
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I'll bite.

Due to the names Java and JavaScript being so similar, users get confused when their technically-minded friend recommends that they disable Java in their browser. Somewhat like ham and hamster, with no prior knowledge the user has no idea that the technologies are entirely different.

I've personally had to help a number of people out who have mistakenly disabled JavaScript. That was the impression I got.
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I have many good things to say about the people behind this particular project (they work at the web dev firm I run).
In theory, to make way for new ones and to avoid clutter in the UI.
Javascript is not required to read articles on the web. It's optional. That's why "Reader" mode is so handy, just show me the article so I can read it. Sometimes I don't like waiting for my browser to struggle with poorly written JS.

It sounds like a classic noobie mistake... "Why are users able to turn off Javascript?" "No idea." "Remove the feature!"

If anyone says Javascript is not optional, they are trying to sell you something: probably web apps!
friend, i wish i could convince you otherwise. there's a difference between exposing your identity to people you trust, and exposing your identity to the entire world.

I would use a product that lets gay people talk to other gay people without leaking information. No other product can protect free speech, and if nightweb can't protect free speech, then what's the point?
You're thinking about a scenario where you are carrying a hammer, and your looking for nails.

Real Estate is all about information. That information isn't in the MLS system.

Examples: How long is the old farmer by the interstate going to be around? What neighborhoods have weak neighborhood associations who won't protest my hacking a 2 family into a 4 family to maximize section-8 revenue?
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Is it possible nearly all advanced species have gone to great lengths to hide their existence ? The more advanced, the better at hiding?

Perhaps gravity is the only radiation they cant hide, so all we could detect of them is 'dark matter'?
It's a symptom of not really understanding the web or the browser.
I only watched the first couple of days, but this is seriously powerful stuff. And scary if you think about it too much.
I'd like to offer an observation: based on both anecdotal (and actual classroom data), college student interest/enrollment/majors in CS have gone up something like 2-3x in the past 2-3 years alone, and is only going to increase even further year-over-year. As with many other things, labor definitely has a significant lag period, and for all we know there could be a glut of software developers in 4 years.
I was imagining an even lower level service. I guess that CounterMail must store unencrypted email headers in order to serve IMAP, right?

I was thinking something that just manages the problem of being online 24/7 to receive email. This (and possibly sending email) is the only thing that can't be done completely client side. A service like I was thinking of would just accept messages, immediately encrypt them (headers and all) with an RSA key and then dump them into some third party online storage system (maybe sending a notification over XMPP too).

The rest of the email pipeline could then be run completely client-side. I'm talking about doing everything client side: spam filtering, sorting into folders or tagging, running email rules, indexing, and of course viewing and reading email. (A clever filesystem/database would need to be layered on top of the online storage system to manage the state of the pipeline and provide fast indexes.)

For maximum ease of use the client-side app could even be a rich Gmail-like JavaScript app that stores private keys locally and but stores most data remotely (e.g. uses S3 directly via CORS).

This would all allow hackers like us to build interesting (but still encrypted) email services without having to worry about infrastructure. That's something I don't want to manage anyway!

Also the barrier to entry of writing a Gmail clone would be much lower because you could do at almost zero cost. Since you don't have to receive email or manage storage your service would mostly be static JavaScript containing the client-side logic. Most - even all - of the service could just be served on a CDN.
> Javascript is not required to read articles on the web.

Unfortunately, it very much is. Nearly every website on the internet is completely useless without JavaScript.

I visited a large number of links from the HN front page, and many of them had broken navigation or images. You can't actually vote on HN itself either.
As it's going to be used only in controlled circumstances, they don't really need to be actual shoes, something like a sandal would be enough, and those should have fewer fitting issues... and it could also accept standard inner-soles for a more comfy feel. A larger size without an inner-sole could indeed probably just be used over normal shoes.
I wouldn't call it unpatched, there is a patch out...
So you are willing to discredit everyone's claim to the importance of their trips based on examples of people who falsely claim that their's was important?

I don't think anyone here is arguing the position that LSD will have a profound impact on anyone who takes it, just that it can give people a different way of looking at the world and sometimes that leads to novel and important insights.

Replace "LSD trip" with "university degree" in your example. Sure, there are many people who take a physics course and feel as though they have had profound insights but actually haven't. However, you can't use those examples to argue that everyone who claims their physics course has inspired their life and work is lying.
bitcoin standard practice is to create a new identity with every single transaction, and that's been proven to be insufficient for anonymity against an academic, let alone a government.
Thanks for the link, it was a great read.
He's describing classic cartel-breaking behaviour, a variant of the prisoner's dilemma. When an individual agent can profit more by cheating on a cartel, then such cartels are going to find it difficult to remain stable.

But the question is whether the VCs see it that way. By which I mean: cartels disintegrate when there is a clear profit to cheating. But the VCs might not see the "cheating" as very profitable.

What seems more likely is that this role would be fulfilled by an outsider; once the new model is proved, then the decision to cheat on the cartel is more obvious. aka "Disruption".
How can two companies negotiate when one knows every detail of the other, but not vice versa. One will always take everything 'left on the table' from the negotiation, and the other will just scrape along until a bump in the road, where they'll have no fat left to survive and will go bankrupt.

The US needs to show that there are proper checks and balances on their information collection, that the data only leaves company servers when a judge signs off that there's reasonable suspicion of a crime, and that anyone subpoenaed gets automatically notified after some reasonable period of time.
We can create things like brains (Bayes nets) that then react to stimuli like minds do, given all the experimental tests we can devise on "what minds are like." We might not fully understand the human mind, but that is not at all the same thing as having no idea how or why we think or observe or experience.
> Javascript is not required to read articles on the web.

Agreed. However, the web consists of far more than just "articles", and quite a bit of content legitimately uses JavaScript for required functionality. Disabling it needs to have the kinds of huge "this will break things" warnings associated with installing an extension like NoScript; it shouldn't have a checkbox in Firefox's preferences.
Hacker News sans voting is nowhere near completely useless. I strongly suspect that a majority of people who read HN don't even have accounts (and thus are unable to vote). And even if the posts do contain broken links/images, a fair amount of text is often still available; I think a site's textual content is often its most important feature (unless it's a site specifically geared toward images/interactive content).

The "1% Rule"[0] grew out of this idea -- the hypothesis it poses is that 89% of the users of a given internet forum are strictly lurkers. HN has a more tech-oriented population than many forums, so I bet the differences between groups are less extreme, but I also bet that the overall trend still stands.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
How about we collectively protest these kinds of interview questions. I vote that instead of answering questions, we ask difficult ones to our interviewers. When they protest, we explain "Just making sure I won't be working with idiots".

Remember folks, these companies are getting more from you then you are from them.
From the pdf, it looks like there is no patch available for versions <= 6.2.2

From my experience the time to turn-around a product upgrade is typically a lot longer than a security patch. Furthermore, the way the licensing works means that some users may not be able to upgrade; users who are out of their maintenance period need a security patch, not an upgrade.
Certainly one that doesn't put lifeforms in a lifeless universe like actors in a stage.

Astronomers should be the first to propose that, since they know how the carbon molecules in them can be traced back to a nebula, just like mitochondria can be traced back to a life form from Earth's early days. The parallel is obvious to me.

The Gaya hypothesis, for instance, gives a saner view of how the biota and biome are the same thing, and still, gets dismissed as New Age stuff. And that's talking just about Earth, mind you. Expand the theory to the entire Universe and you will be ridiculed by Dawkins himself, even though this "hunch" is persistent.

Many past thinkers had a gut feeling about this, with less data than we have today. Read about "Anatta" (Buddha's concept of "not self"). Or read about "Tao" (Lao Zi's concept that has surprisingly parallel to what we now call "Big Bang" and how nature works out of pure probability). This is all surprisingly insightful knowledge, made out of pure intuition.

But because post-illuminism abolished holism, we end up looking for analogous of humans with radio antennas, Dyson spheres, among other increasingly ridiculous things, and that gets called science. Meanwhile, ideas like Universal Darwinism are ignored.

Well, that's why I find that amusing.
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No, acrylamide is extremely common, in many cooked foods and in many raw foods. It's a myth that acrylamide is the product of deep frying food.
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IPO pyramids can be funded without central bank profligacy. Consider the first tech bubble: inflationary policy followed from the wreck, it did not lead it at all. The current bubble is actually remarkable for the relative rarity of IPOs; probably connected to lower founding costs and substitution of acquisition exits.
More puzzles: http://www.folj.com/puzzles/
How is this different from every President since and including Reagan?
Try taking LSD and then tell me if some aspect of the experience could not be described as schizophrenic. Seriously comparing the state of being drunk with that of one tripping their (rational) mind off is liking comparing apples and moons.
Because DNA has a few billion years head start, and brutally out-competes any upstart life forms.
Concise, elegantly simple, and precisely measured for student consumption over one semester (16-17 weeks).

Masterfully hidden from view are the edits, re-edits, discussions, Tex/Latex tutorials, file conversions, hand-written notes, lecture preps, student questions and a hundred other details that end in an 814 page treatise for humans to enjoy via that "other thing" they did at UIUC.

Well done Jeff Erickson, et.al.
I suspect that a better matrix multiplication algorithm would have a much more dramatic effect on performance than improving the memory access pattern:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassen%27s_algorithm

Constant factor improvements are great, but asymptotic improvements are better.
If it's a fun and intuitive device, it seems likely it will be used for all sorts of games, even those that are completely unrealistic...

[My impression is that the running backward technique is profitable largely due to limitations on user control and enemy AI, and those are probably not going to go away any time soon (even if developers might really want to make a game that feels realistic, it's, well, hard :)...]
The 8% real return is the arithmetic average over the last 80+ years. It's somewhat useful for predicting the expected return over a one-year period. However, what you need for retirement planning and what the IRR formula gives you is the geometric average, which takes into account compounding. The historical real return was only about 6% measured as a geometric average, and there are some reasons to think that it will be lower in the future.
Right, but the change isn't targeting you, the hacker news reader. There's dozens of mom & pops out there who have no understanding how browsers work and when they disable javascript, they'll complain that firefox can't render pages as well as IE.
Given that the axis in question represents genome size, I'd guess "bp" stands for "base pairs", not a billion units of something...
"...Oil fields contracted include the "super-giant" Majnoon Field, Halfaya Field, West Qurna Field and Rumaila Field." [1]

If you look up each of those fields, you'll see they are licensed to Shell, BP, and Exxon [2] [3] [4] [5]

Given all of those companies have a strong presence in the US and definitely have lobbying power. I'd say the US got effective control over one of the largest oil reserves in the world.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Iraq

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfaya_Field

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Qurna_Field

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumaila_Field

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majnoon_oil_field
I worked briefly on the same team as Gurmeet while I was an intern at Google. He's an incredibly smart guy and had tons of interesting puzzles to give out.
Because people now realise that adding features is not necessarily a good thing. It adds complexity to both development and using the product. If there isn't a very good reason for it to be there, then it shouldn't be.

Evidently the firefox developers do not think there is a very good reason for disabling javascript to be in the general options, so they removed it.
Correct, I didn't mean to imply these were 1 person businesses with a single A/C repair person doing all the work.

To reach $1 mil or more in revenue, these businesses use 1099 contractors or corp-to-corp sub-contracts to meet their labor demands.
Yeah, for instance the biggest overhaul of the healthcare system (Obamacare) happened without really trying. Imagine what he would have done if he was in office not playing golf. Also, looks like you are a time traveller from October 2012. So a flashback for you

http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/
Since the money supply (M2, eg) includes the monetary base (M0), the link is confused (at least about nomeclature.)

Monetary base in red (you can see where they started printing in the past few years), Money supply in blue
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=kcD#
You're German, right? (Judging by other comments you've made.)

You can sweat us a lot longer than we can sweat you. You haven't shipped your productive industries to China, you see.

There will be free trade. But don't be surprised if the terms just got a shitload more favorable to Germany. This surveillance thing was boneheaded stupid - I doubt you can really grasp the extent to which Americans really don't understand the independent existence of other countries.
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It depends on the type of article. I write a lot of blog posts about math. The most convenient way to do this is using Mathjax. If browsers had native support for mathematical notation then I would be inclined to agree with you, but this is not currently the case.
I have a crazy idea: a popup with an explanation the first time the user toggles the feature.
He shouldn't have promised that he would, then.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/js-switch/
Yeah, I saw a demonstration in Stuttgart once against the census - and now they're fine with Bestandsdatenauskunft?
I rather see him publicly try and fail, than not try. To stand up there and point out how he did as much as is constitutionally possible, and point out the representatives who prevented it from happening. ie the fault of gitmo not closing should be clear and not rest with him.
Hormones and antibiotics, perhaps. Chinese raised in America do not look the same as Chinese raised in China. They tend to be bigger, thicker, taller, and with a different skin tone. Go figure.
What makes you think German intelligence agencies don't have a similar program?
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> Introducing drugs into this method will shifts the balance to the less optimal side of the reward-effort continuum.

There is absolutely no basis of support for that in your argument.

I think you can reasonably make the argument that using drugs shifts the balance in one direction, but to say that it ends up over-the-line rather than to a potentially more optimal location on that continuum is begging the question.
Note that the attributes of the phone hardware sensors are important, but not sufficient—generic "use any phone, no root required!" solutions like you mentioned will have to send the data through a full stack of software layers that are very unlikely to be optimized for high-rate / low-latency uses like this one.

You might get lucky and have a phone so incredibly powerful that even non-optimal software stacks are fast/low-latency enough to work well, but I suspect it will be a long time before most people do...
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Well, speak for yourself. I'm a part of the community, too, and I certainly haven't noticed myself alone in expressing my outrage.
"Almost at feature parity" is kind of an outrageous claim... I just gave it a try with a friend, and it was glitchy, our video was stretched out (on both ends), there's a big "More" button that does nothing, no file transfers, no screen sharing, not sure if conference calls are even supported, etc. If only there were an open-source private version of Google Hangouts.
I thought Brussels found against at least one of them - but I don't know for sure.
Do you carry a cell phone? Because a lot of people believe that carrying and using cell phones over long periods of time will cause cancer due to the long term exposure to electromagnetic radiation. There is no evidence that this is the case, however, nobody has proven that they DON'T. And not enough time has passed to really know the long term effects.
Having just recently lived in Argentina, I can say the bitcoin community is really active. The biggest problem is that it's still really small so you're dealing with a few hundred pesos at a time. To take a subway across Buenos Aires and meet up, for say, $300 ARS ($37 USD at the unofficial rate) is a huge hassle.

I had the idea of bringing in say a few thousand USD/month (I have an office and a number of things like random office lunches, office rent, nespresso capsules, snacks, etc are for various reasons not payable via a check from a business account.) I could buy say $1500 USD in bitcoins but then I couldn't find people who are not miners to take the other side of the transaction that had enough bitcoins to buy $8000 to $12,000 ARS in one transaction.

WHY would that be useful? Well, if I have $1500 USD of bitcoins, I can get the "blue" rate of 8.05 * 1500 = $12,075 ARS. If I wire myself $1500 USD from outside Argentina, I'll get $8092 ARS. So, imagine I could use bitcoins to do the transaction. I'll get about 40% more money if someone properly values the bitcoin to the peso.

What we need is the coinbase of Argentina, but then being "legal" would kind of defeat the whole value of bitcoins in such a warped economy. Just check out http://dolarblue.net/ for the TWENTY different ways to convert ARS to USD/EUR, etc. Argentina is not a place you are going to setup a legal bitcoin exchange and have it last very long.
Sadly, google was just easier to type.
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Very cool! I want to know what is the payment plan of Kite? Thanks.
That's a terrible idea. The explanation would have to be very long - practically an essay. And the only people that will understand the explanation (or even care) are folks who are competent enough to quickly google how to disable javascript through about:config.

Increased software complexity and no tangible benefit. Lose-Lose.
The bug was resolved as invalid with no explanation. I hope that by the time this makes it to regular release the transition is handled better.
The way people discuss oil prices in popular media makes it abundantly clear that they have no damn idea what they're talking about.

Oil is a global commodity. It goes to the highest bidder. It will always go to the highest bidder, because if it went to anyone else that person who values it at less than the highest bidder values it would have the incentive to sell it to the highest bidder. The way that oil plays out in wars and politics is not a matter of who gets the oil, it's a matter of how much oil is released onto the market. This is why anyone who complains about things like the U.S. exporting oil to other countries amidst high gas prices is an idiot.

So now let's talk about Iraq. How much oil did the U.S. get from Iraq? It turns out not very much because Iraq is now selling a huge amount of its oil to China. But guess what that means: Now China can satisfy its demand for X barrels of oil from Iraq and doesn't have to get it from Venezuela or Russia or Saudi Arabia or the U.S., which means the U.S. can get that oil which China didn't need to buy. Because it's a global commodity.

The real question you have to ask is whether the amount of oil Iraq is currently releasing onto the global market is more or less than it would have been under Saddam. But determining that requires quite a lot of speculation, and it isn't even clear that lower short term global oil prices are even in the interest of the United States.