skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do understand, that no "traditionalist values" can contradict the principle of liberty. People should be free to follow whatever values they want to follow. Heck, I'm an ultra-traditionalist Orthodox Christian, and I consider Pussy Riot to be the best thing that happened to Russia in decades. I chose my traditionalism freely - there can be no real traditionalism without freedom, only slavery and deformity.
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Drop it from a great height? It's probably just measuring the flight time, by measuring the time for which the accelerometer reads zero. Infinite points if you can get your phone into orbit!
You're not going to get the turning point from accelerometer data, as the phone is in free fall the whole time. The non-zero acceleration will be on takeoff & landing (or launch & catch, or impact...).
What's AR?
I would love to see this happen, but it seems like this project has a kind of 'development by committee' feel to it.

As I understand it though, this plant is designed to be a bigger prototype, extending what was done at Culham, rather than a real commercial reactor.
> If I were the one pulling the strings of Horse_ebooks, I would probably focus on building a statistical model that uses the number of favorites per tweet as its training data, and looks for linguistic features that are highly correlated with getting lots of favorites.

Yeah, but the problem in that approach is that you will always hit the cold start problem. What happens at the beginning when there is nothing? And no one likes you? If this was a robot, I can't imagine significant time was spent initially on custom designing these tweets.
Didn't Valve recently ditch their AR-related work when they fired Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson?

I thought they were shifting focus away from that for now..
This news gives me the shivers.

(I recently read "masters of doom" after a HN recommendation, so a couple of months ago I'd have been like "what? who?".)
The difference between watching someone using it and using it is huge, using it is literally unbelievable. One of the few things that shifted my perception of what is actually possible with technology.
Surely you have concrete proof that illegal blackmail occurs within the US Government, right?

Wrong. If this were the case, Congress would've defunded US IC years and years ago. You underestimate the determination of US Congressmen to investigate and get their name in the spotlight.
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Again, missing the point. Both your average attacker and average user have as much technical knowledge as a daffodil, which means even the most trivial barrier would be effective.

As to users who don't set a password - never make the passwords visible.
Russia made it explicitly legal around 1992, after the fall of USSR.
Augmented Reality (AR) vs Virtual Reality (VR).
Exactly. Corporations appear to have the benefits of being persons in the US without the ethical obligations.
Neat- I like the 'random feature'.

I wrote up a phantomjs script to generate a whole bunch of random fractal screenshots-
http://garysieling.com/blog/generating-fractal-images-with-f...
"Please be careful when playing this demo," Lipowitz warned players on the Oculus developer forums, "lots of people try to support themselves on the crates when they try to stand up or when leaning up against a column, but find there is nothing there." http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/6/4595062/new-oculus-rift-cov... (The original forum is down right now)
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I said the government shouldn't be trusted. That's the point of the adversarial system.
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Augmented Reality. For a good example of current projects representing each field:

Virtual Reality - Oculus Rift

Augmented Reality - Google Glass

AR sits on top of/alongside the real world, where VR tries to replace it.
Sorry, that was poorly worded. Will fix, thanks!

What's shown on the report is every single traffic ticket, not just a small selection.
There is quite a leap from Russian anti gay propaganda laws to boycotting the Olympics. Many people would argue that laws supporting any kind of torture or the death penalty are human rights abuses so should any and all countries practicing those laws be forbidden from partaking in or hosting something so arbitrary as the Olympics?

I'm not arguing that this wouldn't be an effective way to get the Russian government to go back on some of the recent legislation, but then why stop there? Can we use this tactic to stop drone attacks, decriminalize marijuana and improve women's rights in many countries?

No we can't. Because this isn't a genuine movement designed to change Russian public opinion and laws, but a simple us=enlightened you=backwards monsters campaign.
As long as we are going to try to be provocative: Hayden is responsible for most of the technical and policy changes at NSA (and presumably the same at CIA) which "caused" both Snowden and Manning, or at least turned then from minor discontents to 1) motivated leakers 2) with the means to leak massive amounts.

I personally support Snowden, but think Manning was indiscriminate and motivated mainly by personal issues, using public interest as a fig leaf.

Were I to hang Manning for treason, there would be a gallows to the left for Hayden. Arguably being much more senior and invested in the system, and presumed to be trustworthy and competent, his crimes were worse, even if less direct.
For the first time in my life, I disagree that Godwin Law's could be applied in this case.

It is truly a sad day and and it really shows the incredibly wrong state of affairs in Russia when comparisons to Hitler are actually justified. In this case the parallels with the situation an the state of affairs in pre-war Germany cannot be denied. It shows the same willingness to create two classes of citizen, and the withdrawal of the rights of that second-class.
I'm more worried about who they will label as hackers. Probably everyone on Hacker News, for instance.
Put it in an egg drop style container that will protect it from a large impact, the drop it off a building our launch it from a trebuchet.
I agree with you that PMs have to use charisma and influence to get things done, but I completely and utterly disagree that they are more "expendable." A good, certified, educated and experienced PM is worth a dozen engineers. You can find engineering talent almost anywhere - but good managers are a diamond in the rough.

I've been a PM for about a half decade now, and was previously a software engineer for some big name companies. I'm telling you, PMs, if they know what they are doing and are educated properly, are worth their weight in gold - because writing code can be outsourced, management can't.

Maybe it's different in Silicon Valley (which would explain a lot of the risk-taking, lax attitudes and failure rates of startups), but the rest of the country is the opposite of what you describe as the "expendable" PM.
Carmack has been edging towards this for a while now (not Oculus, but the concept), and I foresee great things.

OTOH, considering I played all of id's games up to Doom 3 (which I found a tad too creepy), I hope they strike a good balance between display smoothness and sheer unmitigated fun. I miss a good Q3A CTF.
He talked in his Quakecon keynote about being too uninvolved in Armadillo because he was working at id/Bethesda. Splitting his time three ways would only seem to exacerbate the problem.

It's been four years since id was purchased. Maybe he's just moving on.
Absolutely - but I see this a lot happening with other news outlets as well.

They heavily try to de-personalize issues like NSA or the IRS and attribute it to systemic failures and attribute the blame towards bureaucratic functions or something like "the current administration".

At the same time they seem to fully recognizing that attacks need to be personal in order to stick - as they demonstrated back at the time with the criticism of the Bush administration.
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The paper describes how to prevent the sniffing attack:

Website owners can protect themselves from the pixel reading attacks described in this
paper by disallowing framing of their sites. This can be done by setting the following HTTP
header:

X-Frame-Options: Deny

This header is primarily intended to prevent clickjacking attacks, but it is effective at
mitigating any attack technique that involves a malicious site loading a victim site in an
iframe. Any website that allows users to log in, or handles sensitive data should have this
header set.

I wonder, why is this option an opt-out and not an opt-in? Shouldn't this be the default?
> credit card transactions are in fact far more energy-efficient than bitcoin transactions

Huh? You seriously think Visa/Mastercard are using less energy than Bitcoin?

> Furthermore, there will be an energy cost to transactions even after no substantial number of bitcoins are mined, since just verifying transactions requires wasteful hashing.

You can call it wasteful all you want, but if you don't see the value in creating/maintaining a global framework for storing and exchanging value, then I don't know what to tell you. Besides, you are comparing apples to oranges. Bitcoin is a currency. You can build things like Visa around Bitcoin.
For internal things, we are a small team and find that Google Drive + Evernote helps us accomplish what we need. We store the .avi files in GD and then the link + keywords in Evernote.
I have a Rift. I'd say it's there.

I haven't seen a truly "killer app" just yet, but if I wasn't totally sold on the concept when I backed the project, I certainly was the first time I strapped the Rift on.
Why do you use 'gay' as a category? It's not, and categorizing people with a level of same-sex-attraction is insensitive.
So Chrome should not allow passwords to be read without the system Keychain password.

There is no technical reason it can't do this. Safari does this if you want to view passwords.

Chrome makes passwords casually available, this is unlike Safari and unlike the Keychain. So either Chrome informs the user of that behaviour or it stops doing it.

What it is doing now is very poorly designed behaviour. I am surprised that you are arguing for Chrome's current implementation.

I fail to see how it is beneficial to the user. As you say, most non-technical users don't know about chrome://settings/passwords, these are also the group of users who most likely need to be reminded of their passwords. So what Chrome is doing is essentially allowing slightly technically competent users to easily peek at the passwords of the "vast majority of the population." Bad design that is easily fixed.
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For now, maybe, but that's not much better. Stigmatization has to begin somewhere, alienating his audience from "hackers" who obviously aren't very human.
Makes it easy for someone to find a Monet for sale, and easy for someone to offer one (simple & cheap to list). I was stunned right off the bat that I could buy genuine Dali works for $5000 - maybe overpriced, but makes it easy to buy if I've got the cash and the stock market is tanking. Making it easy to move easy money (if such money is easy for you) is profitable for Amazon.

eBay has a lot of listings priced over 6 digits.

Both are positioning themselves as the go-to site for buying anything, recognizing that entries in a web-searchable database costs next to nothing regardless of how many digits in the offered price tag.
I think I read it based off the same recommendation.

After reading that book I don't think there's any way you can come away without seeing him as one of the top 25 programmers in the world. Mad genius for sure.
Maybe it's like Wine in other ways. Wine isn't defined by the fact that it isn't an emulator. It's just named as such.
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Bittorrent is so last decade! We need a replacement that is truly anonymous. An not just file sharing, but also browsing, email and search.

Problem is, suppose TOR is fixed and we are anonymous on its network, we still need to NEVER log in with an account we used over clear net. We have to give up our "friend" lists on FB and followers on Twitter, our karma on reddit, all that could tie us back to a known identity. We can never email a friend on his clear net email account. We are reduced to an anonymous identity talking with anonymous others. It's like 4chan in a way.

So, there, we can have anonymity if we give up our old identities and everyone we connected with in the past. And that's assuming we can trust TOR. Sad/

A deeper problem is that we need to treat our computers and phones as hostile. They can push updates with backdoors any time they want, to everyone or to selected few. Apple, MS and Google hold the update keys of most devices in the world. We need a secure OS. Maybe it's Linux, if we can be sure it does not carry hidden backdoors implanted by the state(s).

And even then, we need to trust the hardware. The disk, the networking card, all components could spy on us. Maybe they too have backdoors.
> If a law has been approved by the federal legislature and signed by the president, then the government has no right to suspend it. It doesn't have the authority.

Vitaly was interviewed once again, recently.

Take your pick:

http://www.ibtimes.com/george-takei-move-2014-winter-olympic...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/30/russia-anti-gay-oly...

http://abcnews.go.com/International/russian-lawmaker-suggest...

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/russia-anti-gay-laws-2014-...
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Not only list comprehensions, but database comprehensions as well.
Funny that you mention this in this topic. One of the characters mentioned in the title had very similar idea of the composition of Russia.
It does not work. It is a cosmetic security feature. If you don't log out, the next unauthorized user owns your account. You obviously know that. You're talking about a security feature based entirely off the incompetence of attackers. Why not also recommend that Chrome "Base64 encrypt" passwords? That will stop approximately the same set of attackers as the lack of a master password feature will.
Keychain is accessible through standard system API calls.

Apple does not require any sort of approval or valid developer certificate to use the Keychain. Any app that attempts to access the Keychain will trigger a system-level notification to the user informing them of what the app wants to access, and allowing the user to "Allow", "Deny" or "Always Allow" the request.
"but the other candidate on offer..."

There were multiple other candidates on offer. Furthermore, you can write in a candidate or even choose to not vote.
From the link:

Update: Bethesda Softworks (parent company to id Software) responded with the following statement to today's news: "John has long been interested in the work at Oculus VR and wishes to spend time on that project. The technical leadership he provides for games in development at id Software is unaffected." We've followed up for clarification as to what that means for Carmack's efforts at id. In the note from Oculus, Carmack is said to be heading up and working out of newly created Dallas offices for Oculus.
My issue is that chrome blatantly ignores the user's decision about when it can access a stored password, and creates its own copy, giving itself arbitrary access to said item.

This doesn't affect me personally in the slightest, I don't use Chrome for anything but debugging, but claiming this is anything other than Google doing what Google does best (fucking the user) is short sighted.
The threat model hiding the passwords wants to address is not about thieves, criminals, 'bad guys' etc.. Instead it's about protecting your password from jealous boy/girlfriends, friends who want to prank you, curious kids, etc., while you leave the room for a couple of minutes.

In many situations its cumbersome or not socially acceptable to log out if someone just wants to use your browser for a second, because that implies you mistrust the other person. On the other hand, you wouldn't necessarily give the other person your passwords, of course.

I guess what many people expect is that passwords you save in the browser should be really hard to get out. There should be a function to recover them, because it can really be a life saver, and because it would give a false sense of security otherwise. But this function should be in a separate tool, and it could be really cumbersome to use (only runs in safe mode, is a command line tool, displays a full screen warning in red on black, plays a loud fanfare :-), etc.). It should be the equivalent of taking a bolt cutter to your bicycle lock, when you lost the key.

What people want here is not more security in a strict technical sense. Most people understand that you should log out, and if necessary enable disc encryption and/or physically secure your computer, to be safe against "bad guys". What people want in addition to this is a layer of obscurity, a social speed bump. Something that makes it inconvenient for nosey people to see your passwords, that adds friction and shows them they are doing something wrong.

(Oh, and having a master password (that is forgotten after a few minutes) does offer perfect protection against anybody who doesn't know how to install a keylogger etc.. I guess I and many other people are mainly worried about "foes" that are not so technically adept.)
What this article calls currying is actually partial application.

Partial application is a technique where you take a function that requires n arguments, pass in the first one and get a function that needs n-1 arguments.

Currying is a technique where you take a function that takes n arguments and turn it into a function that can be partially applied. E.g. in Haskell it works with tuples as arguments. There is function 'curry :: ((a, b) -> c) -> (a -> b -> c)' and its counterpart 'uncurry :: (a -> b -> c) -> ((a, b) -> c)'.
Unfortunately I do think there is a grain of truth in what he is saying--citizens have more power to affect change individually via the Internet than they ever have before. That's gotta be scary as shit for people comfortably in power.
before the "show passwords" button, there is a "use a master password" option that is unticked by default.

Generaly tho, i don't have any passwords there (all of them are in lastpass), except a few email account ones. Why do i have ANY passwords there? Well, they are being used by an extension that sort of needs them to push notifications about emails. I do have them protected by a master password, but the extension can still acess them. However, the extension has an option to ask for the password if i click one of the mailboxes in its menu. But then again i can still bypass that if i type the adress of one webmail provider, because i will get credentials for it. A good way around it would be if that extension developer would integrate with lastpass somehow, but does lastpass allow that? Now or in the future forevermore?
They've updated it, now looks like he's supposedly still involved with Bethesda/Zenimax. Which at least to me seems weird, since last I knew he did at least a LOT of the work on any new engines himself. Hard to do that if he's busy with being CTO of another company working on the Rift.
They deliberately do not, because that password doesn't solve any security problems, but does communicate to users that Chrome is doing something to protect their account that it doesn't and can't do.

Firefox should lose the feature.
And PragProg automatically syncs with Dropbox.

I wish Manning would do that for their MEAPs.
Apple losing innovative core?
"Make sports even more political" -- this is our disagreement, yes. You think sports and politics are somehow 'independent things' -- but they aren't. Best parallel would be: money and wealth and private property and capital and production are all connected. Communists said they really aren't, and should be made 'less connected' - somehow, they want to have production without everything else. Well, we all know it doesn't work this way. Same here -- you can't artificially disconnect 'politics' from 'sport'. It will remain connected... because it is connected!
I'm not sure I'd call Google Glass "AR".

It's just a small screen in your vision, it doesn't analyze or enhance your existing viewpoint in any way (unless I am mistaken).

Cast AR is a better example:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/18/cast-ar-hands-on-with-jer...
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It is not an emulator though... It is a reimplementation layer of winapi.
You could fairly easily throw and catch it while in the vomit comet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_gravity_aircraft). That should get you in the 25s range. Next up would be using it while in the IIS.

If the software is not too picky detecting weightlessness, just holding your phone while inside a fast elevator going down could also work.
"I did vote for a candidate in 2008 who opposed the Bush administration's massive build-up of surveillance infrastructure: Obama"

Did you have any reason to think that was true, other than what Obama was saying at the time?

"the other candidate"

Which other candidate? Here are some of the people who were running in the 2008 election:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_third_party_and_...

You had a lot of choices then. You also had a lot of choices in 2012:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_third_party_and_...
> and if they end up picking Mike Abrash I'll be unsurprised.

Abrash is working at Valve on AR &VR, I'd say that's unlikely though not impossible.
Not an option to not sell on Amazon. As you said, that's where people look.

Any sale is better than no sale.
FWIW their AR stuff was really weird. It looked stupid when I saw it at a convention. I would have dumped them too.

If they had been doing Oculus Rift type stuff I'm sure they'd still be at Valve.
Armadillo is in "hibernation mode", nothing is really going on there at the moment.
If it goes away, just compile the source to javascript and maintain that.
Don't make assumptions. He could still work at Id as a consultant or continue as a technical director with a diminished role.

EDIT: He still works at Id
http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/16593/article/john-carmac...
I'm a big fan of this approach, it weeds out the idealists and folks who just want to coast. When interviewing we like to reveal what we see as the sordid underbelly parts of our company to see if they flinch. It means there's no surprises when they join and they don't feel they've just been bait-and-switched when they get chucked into the murky depths of a long forgotten and hastily knocked together business critical service app. This was how I was sold my present job and I'm still here ten years later enjoying it.
Most assistants actually do this, because it's critical to their job.
This political news influx on Hacker News is getting out of hand.
Voting for a lesser evil is still voting for evil. You can always choose not to vote or vote for a candidate that does not have a chance of winning.
The interesting parts are quoted anyway.
> I personally see no problem with how other nations manage their internal affairs, as long as they keep to themselves.

Really?