skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Webcams See All (Tortoise, Watch Your Back)
In Alberta I had to get plates for a vehicle and had to keep them when I sold the vehicle (and the purchaser put their plates on to drive off). There are even regulations about how long you can have different province plates if you move leaving you technically with 2 plates for 1 vehicle (I think you're supposed to return the other plate to the original province but is more complex if you are moving around for short term work contracts of a few months and them coming back before the plate expires).

I just figured this is how people end up with license plates on their wall from their first vehicle etc.

However this is another aspect of my point - there is no clear uniformity on the relationship and handling of vehicle registration, plates, ticketing and enforcement. When things are poorly defined, you get inconsistent implementation and Bad Things(tm) happen as a result.

Considering just the wasted postage alone, thousands of dollars of public funds were wasted sending out obviously stupid and invalid tickets - totally avoidable if someone had stopped and thought about what they were doing.

Enforcement systems like this are always in danger of running away as a result and some schmuck being bankrupted or jailed (if states allow that) despite being able to demonstrate conclusively that they have done nothing wrong and are not responsible for any of the tickets. Public bodies are not good at admitting they are operating a fundamentally flawed system and it is always easier to ignore the small numbers of victims of their failure and hope no-one else notices. It does not take a lot of research to find examples of flagrant miscarriages of justice in these sorts of situations.
Wow, your very username is actuary :P And interestingly enough, i have a VERY thick MLC manual sitting on my desk right now, and it's only ONE THIRD of the whole syllabus! Just trying to come to grips with that.

As for your comment, no actuarial science isn't the ONLY profession that works like that. Consider doctors for example. I think same applies to lawyers and Chartered Accountants
Single Point of Failure on scaling application across AWS
Why go through the trouble of accusing them of implanting a backdoor, if all they wanted is to review other countries' offers, which they're doing now anyway (Russia, China)? Are you saying that now they will go back, and say "ok, since you removed the backdoor, we're going to accept your 30 percent discounted offer."? That seems highly unlikely.

If anything Russia and China will charge them more than the French now, to "guarantee" there's no backdoor, and since they are in a better negotiation position now than they would've been if UAE reviewed their offers pre-accusing France/US of backdooring the other offer.
Senators Differ Sharply on Penalty for Snowden
I agree, 1984 always seemed a bit 'Lord of the Rings' to me, with the dark lords scheming in their towers.

Huxley presented a future in which the ruling class knows what the lower classes need to be happy, and set that up nicely. Everyone wins!
A Church For The Godless Picks Up Steam
> Well, I wouldn't say drinking coffee or tea is a health benefit. Especially coffee.

OK. But that doesn't tell me much. :)

I brought this up because it has been conventional wisdom up until recently that you'd do better health-wise without coffee, while recently the topic has seemed to become more nuanced. Wikipedia lists both health risks and health benefits. It's not clear, to me, that it is straightforward to balance all the purported benefits and downsides and land on one or another conclusion.

As for tea, I have never seen that that is something that is unhealthy (assuming no extra ingredients like sugar). Conventional wisdom says that green tea is in fact very healthy. I haven't read much about the effects of black tea.

Personally I drink both coffee and tea without adding anything to them.
The BBC has a mandate to remain balanced, its the best you can do. The mid point of 2 distorted sources is not necessarily the center
Another experience with DigitalOocean support.

I created a ridiculous support ticket (with lowest priority) about how annoying their youtube ads are. Got response within two hours that they were disabled for my IP. It's a small and silly issue, but I was surprised that they even responded, not to mention they fixed my "problem".
I don't see how the caching thing is a problem specific to alias records. If you were using an A record instead, you would have to manually update the IP address, and then it would still be cached for however long.

The geoIP thing is pretty minor, ideally you should be able to tell the dns server the IP you are proxying for.

Who cares that there's no standard? Complete non-issue.

Even if I agreed that alias records were bad, whats the alternative? Manually updating A-records?
McKusick Denies FreeBSD Lagging on Security
Bear in mind that higher resolution display != smaller UI elements. It gives you that option of course, but for most people the benefit is that fonts, icons and images look so much crisper and more readable.

You're definitely not the only one who thinks it's overkill. I've shown my retina iPad and MacBook to a few people who don't get the fuss at all. I guess this reaction could be due to a) not caring much about aesthetics, b) bad eyesight, c) not spending the time to get familiar with it and use it for some actual tasks. Myself, I think the screens are amazing, and each time I go back to my 23" 1920x1080 monitor is a little painful.
I think you're doing a disservice to the 'bottom 55%' of society. Ignoring perhaps the bottom and top 5% of the curve, the spectrum of intellectual difference isn't that big. Most people can read a book. Most people can visit a museum. Hell, most could write a book. Most people can understand and enjoy intellectual pursuits. The reason why the bottom 55%'s chief pleasures are "TV, alcohol, taking selfies, incorrect spelling in text messages, Facebook, Instagram, Candy Crush, etc" is because they believe society's lie that they can't enjoy anything else. The overwhelming majority of people are actually very capable of doing intelligent and creative things.

The problem is that intelligence and creativity are a threat to the 'elite' at the top of society in terms of power and wealth - society has been designed to subjugate as many people as possible with Huxley-esque triviality for fear that if people started using their brains that power and wealth would no longer be in the hands of a few. Everyone would be a bit more equal if instead of sitting down to watch the latest Hollywood movie or listen to whatever reality star's new album we sat down and painted a picture or talked about philosophy - there would be no money flowing towards the rich any more.
Darn it, just bought their 27 inch 2560x1440 for $600 a year ago.
The NSA threatens national security by routing around the Constitution. If you route around something then it is effectively not there.
PlayStation announces new streaming service for all your old classic games
This Is The Internal Grading System Google Uses For Its Employees
And if you're interested in Adam Curtis, I recommend this parody/critique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg

Not saying that Curtis's documentaries are without merit, just lending a little context.
I know lots of people will look down their noses at anyone who dares to photograph their food at a restaurant, but as much as I enjoy cooking, I am clueless about how to present it.

For me, taking a photo of the plate in front of me is as much about learning how to make my dishes look appetising as it is about remembering the great restaurant I went to.
> What makes a teacher successful? ... Their No. 1 finding: "They were strict," she says. "None of us expected that."

Teachers are not successful because they are strict (it's not directly causative): they are successful because they are in command of the classroom.

You can gain better command of a classroom through fear of abuse, yes, but this is not a method we should aspire to.
$22 for a breakfast puts you in a fairly well-to-do area. As a comparison, I work in the Melbourne CBD and buy lunch every day from a variety of places for around $10-12, though none of these are trendy cafes. One thing to remember when comparing bought food between the countries is that the US price is usually stated as being before tax and tip, which generally adds 25%. In my experience, bought meals were roughly the same price in the two places (I don't eat fancy though) with the US being a touch cheaper, however the US meals were more substantial. Food you make yourself, bought from a supermarket, was considerably cheaper in the US. Real estate here is ridiculously expensive though; the most expensive in the world compared to average annual salary. It's something like tripled in value over the past 15 years, and that bubble shows no sign of bursting soon.

My steak experience in the US was in Fort Stockton in Texas. A $14 steak came out, so lonely and small that it literally slid right across the plate when it was placed before me. Fort Stockton isn't doing Texas any favours for their steak reputation :)

In 2007, Australia was at the start of it's mining boom's plateau - this was when the dollar started peaking with parity with the $US, and yes, things would have been overpriced for a tourist. Curiously, during the GFC, the assumption was that Australia's economy would crumble and our dollar dropped to US60c. It made no sense, because our economy did alright while the US economy crumbled significantly. It's just a reminder that currency values are set by the gut feelings of a bunch of suits in the city, not by concrete measures.

It's a great place to live, but I have trouble recommending it as a place to visit - pretty much all the nations which produce sizeable quantities of tourists have access to the things Australia provides to tourists, but closer and cheaper. I'm not the guy the tourism board wants to hire...
Look at the seiki 39" inch and 4k resolution. It is precisely what you describe.
> I think everyone's vestibular system is sensitive in different ways. But FPSs in the rift generally feel very "wrong" (not sure how else to describe it), when moving using a controller. Especially when strafing - it produces a sensory response similar to a feeling of drunk stumbling. But in a flight or driving sim, the same kind of movements feel much less wrong, even to the same people. Maybe because similar movement in the real world are also performed via control inputs, and our minds understand that?

I think that this is a very interesting phenomenon, a physical "uncanny valley" of unnatural movements causing VR sickness. Strafing is definitely something that doesn't occur in real life, there's no way you can move directly sideways at regular walking/running speed. If VR ever becomes popular with FPS games, the genre will have to change or the audience will be limited to people immune to VR sickness.

Another interesting case was one of the Rift demos where you travel on zip lines. The physics of this demo were so incorrect that it made me nauseous. My body was expecting a rapid acceleration downwards but instead the movement on the zip lines was roughly constant velocity.

I would welcome more realistic physics to games even if it weren't for motion sickness. Hollywood physics aren't very interesting gameplay wise although it is visually stunning.

I also got horrible motion sickness from flying in a flight simulator with the Rift dev kit. I have flown a lot of flight simulators but doing so with the rift made me feel awful. I think that improved resolution might help here, the resolution was too blurry to make out the instruments on the panel or see the airfield before it was too late to land.

I definitely think that the translation tracking with the external camera will help. I have been using camera based head tracking (TrackIR) in simulator games and it is excellent.

I very much want Oculus Rift to solve the VR sickness problem. If the Rift catches on, in a few years there's no way you'll be able to be competitive in combat flight simulators without one because everyone using a VR solution will enjoy a better situational awareness. So it is going to be a choice between motion sickness (or defeating it) and being a sitting duck waiting to get shot. A head tracker like TrackIR is almost a prerequisite even today.

I can't wait to try the new Rift prototype and the customer version when it comes out and see if they've solved the problem. But I'm not buying one before I can try one out and see if this problem is fixed.
I think it's something with the perspective being off in Hexen (and some other games) which makes you sick if you watch the player turning.
Im missing quite a lot in this article. Personally i have my reservations about ALIAS. Recursion backed implementations in particular are full of Dragons and sharp corner cases. It's a shame that its missing any substantial critisicm or examples of poor implementations of ALIAS records.

An authoritative nameserver ... can deliver records in a predictable speed

Thats a nice to have. And totally unrelated to the AA bit. Query latency is usually implemented via caching then querying multiple/fastest available authoritative NS.

An ALIAS record resolves on request the IP address of the

destination record and serves it as if it would be the IP address for the apex domain requested
First, backing with dns resolution is just one implementation of the idea. Secondly it is the ip address of the domain requested. An authoritative ns setting AA makes it so. There's nothing that specifies what the backing data store or resolution method is for AA answers. Implementation detail.

you will send traffic for your mapped apex domain to the wrong address until the record expires in all caching

resolvers.
Now weve discovered, but not actually mentioned, TTLs. How is this any different than the ttl & expiry on a traditional CNAME + A record chain thats proposed at the end?

you request the IP address from the nameserver of your DNS provider, not from your actual location.

Assuming implementation is backed by dns recursion, sure. Good thing theres a standard like EDNS client-subnet that provides a method to propagate and vary based on the network of the original requester. But point taken, DNS is a complicated protocol and you should probably understand it before developin new features and implementations.
If I point foo.mydomain at bar.otherdomain with a CNAME, otherdomain can transition to a new IP without doing anything more than is required to make bar.otherdomain work.

If I point foo.mydomain at whatever bar.otherdomain's IP is (i.e. use an A record), otherdomain breaks my stuff whenever they change IP addresses, and there's not a lot they can do about that. Automating this (via the ALIAS mechanism mentioned in this article) just means that the breakage eventually goes away.

The correct solution, as pointed out, is to use CNAME - which requires that you use a subdomain.
Another go at Go failed
When someone start a request in a near-realtime medium with stuff like that, I instantly get annoyed as it is immediately wasting time for me in having to respond and way for their actual request.

I much prefer you make the request right away without waiting, and just tacks on whatever pleasantries you feel necessary. Then I don't need to roundtrip with you to figure out whether or not what you are requesting is actually more important than what I am doing right now.
I simply like collecting and organising, and I get a kick out of composing a good picture of anything; even cups of coffee. That's enough reason for me to take pictures of random crap!
Why is that whenever I read something like, "Most of us will read this and continue living our life exactly the same way as before …wake up", my immediate response is, "Fuck off, you patronising wanker"?

I think it's probably the author's assumption that they're on to something new - a thought that doesn't recur over and over again:

http://www.tor.com/images/stories/blogs/13_10/BadForYou-tech...
Failing on the first error is not a feature, because the error that happen to be first may not give enough information on where it went wrong, but a different test may.
Mr Prawo Jazdy is the worst driver in the whole of Ireland.

Anyone who speaks Polish will understand why, for the rest of us: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7899171.stm
Interesting post...though more for what someone at Blogger is trying to do to improve its reputation, including improving the DMCA process.
They're close enough in round trip time for it to be indistinguishable for me on SSH. That is all.
Texting and using IM is bad advice. It's such bad habits that cause us to feel anxious because we need to be reachable via N different channels all the time.

Better advice: use the phone if it's urgent and you need to talk to someone immediately, otherwise use e-mail to allow the recipient to process your request asynchronously. It's not your fault if they have issues with e-mail in general.
> The fact that you think you're pointing anything out to anyone with that second paragraph is just priceless.

Posturing does not make your arguments more convicing.

> In GB and BG, he has only one way of telling you which is the boy. In BB, he has two. Thus, four possibilities a) GB, b) BG, c) BB and he gave you the first, d) BB and he gave you the second.

How is "ways of telling" you possibly relevant to the puzzle?

You're still apparently committing the same basic fallacy of ennumerating possibilities without assigning them probabilities and basing your argument on the wrong assumption that they must be equally probable.

> Your brain will of course refuse to process the above due to your earlier remark and the sweet, sweet motherfucking irony it would mean.

That describes exactly your behaviour in every single comment here.
One aspect of this system is that potential employees get an early sense of how much Automattic values their time.

$25 per hour for overtime work = apparently not that well.

In my opinion, they would likely get better results paying $0, and avoiding this negative signal.
I felt The Shield dealt with it very well though, especially the developments in the final episodes. We're supposed to hate all the people in the story that torture, and the 'wrong' of empathizing with them is spelled out in the end (in a much better way, I feel, than The Sopranos did).

In fact, I remember being somewhat shocked by Ryan's follow-up, "The Unit", which seemed much more pro-violence and torture (perhaps through some influence of David Mamet).
Its not the Indian VCs , its the nature of most of the Indians, I am an Indian living in Barcelona , Spain . I know Indians who make significant amount of money (6 digit) every month . They just want to invest in business where they can see returns from next day or month, Its Indian mentality and its common to think like this in India .
> The good news about VR sickness is that most people get over it with practice. Not only that, but there are many reports from Oculus users that warming up to VR cured their motion sickness outside of VR! As in "I can read in the car for the first time!"

I think this is might be correct, I remember getting motion sickness from playing Doom on a big monitor the first time. And several years later I was playing a lot of FPS games with no ill effects at all.

But it takes a person with strong willpower to practice! I got pretty bad motion sickness from the Rift, and it left me completely incapacitated for hours afterwards. Not only did I feel like puking but I couldn't do any work because my eyes couldn't focus on "2d" text on a monitor (we have a Rift devkit at the office, I made the mistake of using it in the middle of the day).

And I'm not a person with particularly bad motion sickness problems. There are sensitive people who will definitely not touch any VR helmet after the first time they've tried it and become sick for the rest of the day.

There will have to be improvements to the Rift hardware itself, the driver and peripheral software and the games that support it. And more games will have to be concerned about the physical correctness of movement, because it seems to be a factor in VR sickness.

Here's an interesting "competitor" to Oculus Rift with an alternative approach: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/casta...
That might be your opinion, but I think you are wrong. And not only that, but where I live you would even be legally wrong. If you open your access point for public use here and you then go and look at other people's traffic, that is illegal and you can go to jail for it.

And no, they don't have to give me free WiFi - they just have to not snoop on me. Just try to transfer your argument to a scenario that doesn't involve WiFi or facebook, but rather, say, tap water and as a prerequisite you have to confess belief in Allah. Illegal? Certainly not. Totally inappropriate? I would say so.

You see, this is not a legal argument, it's about ethics, about what makes a society worthwhile to live in, not about what the minimal standards are that we enforce using state power.
You can use an Asus WAVI to eliminate the wires between your PC and the Rift. It does both HDMI (1080p) and USB with very low latency.
Obligatory XKCD re. clever license plates: http://xkcd.com/1105/
Strictness and abuse are completely unrelated. To imply that to require pupils obey rules is abuse is mind boggling.
Do not they having cushons, overprovisions, dummy weights, tolerance ranges to account for unexpected spec changes?

I imagine the systems are very complex, so the components are made modular, defining functionality and specs (size, weight, mass balance) and letting the implementation details to subcontractors.

While the subcontractor fullfills the contractual functionality, any eastereggs can be discovered only in a very late phase (qc, assembly), upon delivery.

The wording "discovery was reported" can be read as if it was a surprise discovery for all.
>That turns out not to be the case. The answer to A is 1/3. Write a computer program to simulate it and then post it here. Seriously, don't just theorize about it, try it.

I misread A. I agree that it's 1/3 if you flip pairs until at least one is heads. I disagree that living in a world where pairs of tails don't exist and living in a world where pairs of tails do exist but are ignored are the same thing.

>Are you somehow suggesting that the probability distribution of the other options is changed by this?

Yes. I'm saying it's an unwitting double Monty Hall. The fact that he can't give you 3 cars changes the odds. Going (invisibly) from 4 possible worlds (including GG) to 3 changes the prob dist of the remaining 3, by which I mean 2. If Monty must guarantee you at least one boy, then there aren't really 3 remaining possibilities. The unguaranteed can be a boy, or it can be a girl. What is the third?
> "Hi, how busy are you?"

I usually respond to that with a "why do you ask?"

This might be because I'm not too busy to give you a couple of quick verbal answers about some figures that I've just given you, but I am too busy to revise them because you've just received new information.
Oh, SSH. I thought you meant ping (my home server has a latency of 0.3 ms, which is hard to beat even in the same city).
Do public intellectuals exist anymore?
The article is deliberately connecting the two (e.g. in the first paragraph), which is why I comment on it.
I wonder whether putting all the code on a ramdisk (with backup of course) is feasible. If so it might be a very cheap solution.