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Do you really think not having Facebook around would have meant the Oculus wouldn't have gotten an exclusive store similar to an Apple, Valve, Google or Amazon store?

Essentially you are future-worrying about something that historically has not happened. The only thing that comes close is the whole Microsoft/XBOX indie parity clause, which they eventually just took away.

My guess is that Oculus will not be the only game in town (Vive, and I'm guessing many other challengers) and that other HMD will be competitive enough where Oculus cannot do something completely unreasonable such as forcing developers to only develop for their store. Strategy wise it would be terrible too as that splinters a market that may or may not actually be mature enough to splinter.

PC Gamers are the biggest targeted market for HMDs (in terms of already having the hardware and the desire to buy one) and generally don't stand for this kind of thing. Most people don't object to Steam as a store because they haven't done something bad as to lock out a game.
In other HN threads it seems people figured out that Tmo really was just throttling anything that looked like video and relying on the app or service to switch to lower quality.
If anything needed a re-write Minecraft needed one. With the resources Microsoft has at its disposal I'm surprised to see it looks like a 1:1 remake. They didn't update the visuals or anything.

This was an opportunity to release a slightly upgraded version of the product. It isn't backwards compatible so why keep for example all of the redstone bugs and so on, in it? This product could have been greatly refined. Maybe that's only coming in Minecraft 2.

In true Microsoft fashion, there will now be Minecraft, Minecraft EE, and Minecraft 2. Instead of just two major products.
Yes!

Also, do NOT mix 5-HTP with St-John's Wort (don't mix St-John's Wort with anything, really.).

You may want to look up L-Tryptophan instead of 5-HTP. From my understanding (I am no doctor or scientist, but I do research what I put in my body), here is the order your body synthesize Serotonin: Tryptophan > 5-HTP > Serotonin > Melatonin. You may want to start with the Tryptophan itself. However, since taking 5-HTP, I have no interest in trying this out or taking any more of those supplements because I am feeling well now.

It's also recommended to take EGCG (green tea extract) along with 5-HTP to keep your gut from absorbing the supplement and producing Serotonin there instead of in the brain. (It could possibly lead to heart valve failure if you don't!)
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Has Mozilla studied how end users acutally understand and respond to those icons?

I have no idea what they mean, other than the plain grey lock and plain green EV lock and name.
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There certainly are poorly done regression analyses out there and yes, things like coding-errors and correlations of variables can screw things up. But the point of regression (at least in the natural/medical sciences) isn't to give a definitive answer but to suggest actual experiments to be done. I think it isn't coincidence that both your link and the original link are from social scientists. There it is much harder (and often impossible) to conduct followup experimental studies based on the regression and so the regression often ends up as the end result.
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The idea is interesting, but I wonder how this isn't very expensive to run...
> This literally has no use case other than illicit transactions

My thoughts exactly. But they must have made a good case that there were other uses to their investors, they netted some pretty high-profile names.

I would imagine Dash is getting traction on darknets, but I haven't seen anything on that one lately
Speaking as someone who rolled his own version of this, there were a lot of more complete solutions out there, but they all involved some technology that I felt would cause more pain down the road. Whether it's Chef/Ansible/Puppet which are popular, but seem targeted at mutable infrastructure (one of our explicit goals was immutable infrastructure) or Mesos/Kubernetes/ECS/CoreOS which seem targeted at a larger fleet of instances than we're running, there didn't seem to be any starting point beyond composing the right set of tools and writing the glue that made sense for us.

What we ended up with uses Terraform for provisioning instances, Docker (and a private registry) for distributing our application code, Consul for coordinating everything and HAProxy w/ consul-template for dynamic routing. There were only two pieces that we had to write. The first (which we may open source, if we're given the time to clean it up and generalize it) is a small Go agent that runs on provisioned hosts, figures out its role based on instance meta data, pulls its configuration from Consul and handles deployment, both initial and subsequent when a new version is registered with Consul. The second piece is ensuring that CI generates Docker images as artifacts, pushes them to our private registry and updates Consul to indicate that there's new code to deploy.

It took us about a week to get this working and it's been mostly rock solid for almost a year now. Part of why it's been solid is that we understand exactly how every component of it works. The one problem we've had came from not understanding how HAProxy worked (never point HAProxy and an ELB...it will cache the NS resolution and ELBs can change IPs over time). If we'd tried something off-the-shelf, we'd have a much shallower understanding and, since it's not optimized for our use case, we would have run into many more issues than we've had. On the whole, I highly recommend rolling your own. The code that you will have to write is glue code that's really just replacing what would be configuration in something pre-built. I get that it seems imposing to people without devops experience, but between the tools that are available these days and articles like the one we're commenting about, it doesn't take a guru to get everything working seamlessly. Also, the tools from Hashicorp are fabulous. Use them whenever possible. No disclaimer necessary since I have no affiliation with them beyond using their tools and watching their talks on the subject.
I think this changes the market dynamics for startups.

All of the wannabe accelerator out their are going to have to double, or in some cases up by an order of magnitude, their deals.

It might dramatically incentivize people who were on the brink to start companies.

I'm curious what this'll mean for the culture of entrepreneurship.
The question is moot; sawdust is basically pure undigestible fiber (poor mans Metamucil), so since the caloric content of it is virtually nil, it would be impossible to consume 10,000 calories of it.
Let's take an example, which is actually not that theoretical (this happened several times in Europe). Say a Saudi prince, in one of his depraved cocaine trips to London, rapes a British girl. He is arrested, presented to the court. If he is sentenced to jail, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will react very badly and blacklist the UK from all future contracts, resulting in hundreds of people losing their job in the UK, and hardship for their families. The British govt asks the court to be lenient and to let the prince go. The court obliges. Is this justice?

If we follow your logic it is. Retribution would only serve the British girl but not the community. The community has nothing to gain from punishing the prince but everything to loose from loosing all these Saudi contracts. If you think justice is only about serving the community, not about retribution then you will happily approve the decision of the court. My personal position is that it is the very negation of justice, and that behaving this way jeopardize the acceptance of the judicial system by the population.

As for Gandhi, it's similar to the Christian "if someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also". But I am not sure that a recipe that worked well against a democratic British parliament will work as well when facing a violent thug.
I can only add to the chorus here. Recently used LE to generate certs for my servers running on FreeBSD, which to date is really only semi-supported by LE.

To my surprise, getting certs was quite easy. Just needed to run the LE utility, answer a few questions, like the domains to be included, and that was it. Took a few seconds at most.

The only other task was pointing nginx servers to the LE certs location, edited the config files in a minute or so. Of course that only needs to be done one time.

Using the early-stage LE tools is already quite painless, I expect fully automating the process will be developed in the coming months. But even with the "primitive" tools available now, it's hardly a burden spending a few seconds every 3 months to get the tremendous benefit provided.
The EE and ME stuff won't exactly be wrong, but could become out of date because of new device types and materials. Imagine studying EE before solid-state devices and ICs, for example. But it's still a pretty long half-life compared to biology!
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Actually, they've moved beyond that now. The trend in high speed trading is towards FPGAs. "Java don't play that." (not in any serious way).

Java in finance is actually slowly eroding overall. Performance-critical logic is being moved into Python modules written in C. "That's how we do it" anyway. The trouble is that Java code development is too slow and just getting your code deployed into a test environment is often ridiculously complicated (lots of middleware) whereas with Python "you write, you run, you're done."
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http://fossies.org/linux/units/definitions.units

home page at https://www.gnu.org/software/units/

full source code at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/units/
Latest release: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/units/units-2.12.tar.gz
Link for the lazy: https://gist.github.com/phaer/44bd758154fca29d6b38
Including this piece, he has not yet pushed for for legislation 1) regarding adults or 2) regarding state systems.
It is that simple; it's just not easy. Having been there, yes, it was hard. But it was also worth it, and I didn't have to change my gut biome or epigenetics to do it.
> "I still strongly believe that Notch (and many others) took it too far" is an (ironically) excessive reaction to what actually happened.

I don't agree at all. Your quote concludes with an attempt to completely sever ties with Oculus. I do not believe this was in any way a measured or reasonable reaction at the time. The nature of the underlying action is not changed by the fact that it happened to be phrased in a relatively respectful way in that particular post.
You forgot about the atlauncher. It has some interesting packs like TechNodeFirmacraft (a TerraFirmacraft based mod pack) that actually somewhat educate users about rising up from caveman to industrial era technology (real metallurgy names and semi-believable progression; at least until the end game where you make fantasy alloys to move blocks of non-finite water and lava about).
Very true, but FWIW, it's not too hard to find a copy, whether it's a used dead-tree copy (18 or more available on Amazon.com right now), or a bootleg PDF. The PDF version is on the popular e-book sharing sites.
Sounds great but they don't mention anything about drivers? Does that mean we still won't get vendor supported open source drivers?
good point for training purposes but for a cycling simulation you would want head wind, tailwind and wind while going down hills. You should be able to coast down a hill and know you are going fast. Also could be used to simulate drafting
Videos--more specifically mp4 videos--can be embedded into web pages. They just don't autoplay on mobile browsers.

Hence why there is a push for alternatives to Gif/APNG and mp4/webm. We want a video-like animation, that plays on page load.

Now, the real question is, why don't mp4s play when we hit play?

I can only speculate, but I think it's because mp4s are streamable media, where a troll can simply decide to keep streaming mp4s and drain the user's bandwidth. (Never mind the fact that it is also a problem with Gifs.)
Wait, what's going on here? What is astroturfing? Who did('nt?) what wrong?
I think your assumptions are fundamentally wrong. The examples of repetition you describe are specifically designed, whether by a video game producer, a musician, or a priestly class- to feel important and be generally pleasant. Video game creators spend thousands of hours researching the best ways to turn their systems into Skinner Boxes, priestly sorts have spent untold amounts of time preparing sermons to instill a sense of the criticality of religious ritual- in other words, no, humanity doesn't like repetition in and of itself, but it designs repetitions that it does like.

Meanwhile, that dual sense- the pleasure the video game designer tries to create and the sense of importance the priest creates- these are fundamentally absent from our teaching methods in early arithmetic, which, at least in America, we call 'math,' not differentiating the symbolic thought processes from the repetitive arithmetic, incorporating little if any fun, and constantly failing to appropriately create a sense of importance (the most common teenage question in math classes is, "Why do I have to learn this? When am I ever going to use this?").

While there Do exist efforts to instill a video game's sense of fun to arithmetic exercises and a sense of near-religious importance to the symbolic thought of math, we are functionally applying a tourniquet to the mathematical understanding of the young by just force-feeding arithmetic drills and emphasizing mistake avoidance instead of proper thinking- and it's very little wonder that only some few students' mathematical passion survives the tourniquet.
I see. So how would you package a todo app?
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Thank you as well.
Sure but thats not the point I was trying to make.

I am less interested in the harshness of the crimes than in the defintion of the crimes. This to me is much more important.

Where the actual sentencing becomes important (and potentially problematic) is when you are defining too much as a crime as it forces you to go even harder on other on harder crimes.

The feeling of justice isn't an absolute system it's a highly relative one with some upper and lower bounds. There are plenty of examples of female victims of violent men who feel vindicated by being able to tell the violator what he did to them or to understand why he did it. Just as an example of a punishment which is less deterministic in outcome than many of the rules we see in the US.
There are two different application dates listed

here: https://apply.ycombinator.com/ (Mar 24)

and here: http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/ (Mar 27)

Please just pick the latter.

Also, if it starts in July, why not make apps due in April?
is there a way to watch/download that documentary without using some Irish proxy?
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Funny because eating 2000 calories of a carb rich diet maintains my weight, but eating 3000 calories of a carb poor diet and I lose weight. All calories aren't the same, and your body doesn't use them the same. Why is this still controversial?
Thanks for clarifying!

I think there are two separate things:
1. Is there a principled notion of when a write is "committed" and a leadership election algorithm that works with this to ensure committed writes aren't lost as long as the failure criteria are met? This has been true since we added replication to Kafka.
2. The second is what is the recovery behavior when you have no available replicas. Previously we would aggressively elect any replica even if it had incomplete data. Now that behavior is configurable.

There is a more detailed explanation here: http://blog.empathybox.com/post/62279088548/a-few-notes-on-k...
It overlaps with it a great deal, but it is not simply that file. Quoting:

This file is adapted, modified, and extended from the units database for use with GNU units, a units conversion program by Adrian Mariano adrian@cam.cornell.edu, who did a damn fine job collecting much of this.
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You don't have to be incorporated to apply and be selected. But you do have to be incorporated to accept the deal and the money.
If you learn Egyptian method of counting you can get to 12 on 1 hand and with a single small tweak to it. We could count to 16 on each hand. If we taught kids how to count differently
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And also, I might point out, from an earlier comment that I posted; the BPG decoder is merely a polyfill.

If we rejected every feature that began as mere half-baked polyfills, we wouldn't have the web that we have today.

Here's just a few examples:

- images for rounded corners
- Gif/Flash/JavaScript for animations
- Cookies for storage
- Flash for browser-based webcam calls, etc.
Mathematics is hard to learn because it's a 'solved' problem.

Everything is taught as a convention through brutally boring rote memorization and repetitive mechanical operation.

Unfortunately, the people creating the training materials are usually so far removed from a basic level of understanding, they're blind to their own expert bias.

What we need sre training materials that bridge basic to advanced understanding theough practical application. Except practical application is hard to measure so it'll never be used. In a traditional teaching environment.
This is pretty sweet. Our product person is pretty happy now. It has a "stack" where it remembers what you just asked it so you don't have to enter fully formed questions every time (like you would expect).
Nice story. I guess the title is a reference to Heinlein's version (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon), which has greed/capitalism conquer the moon.
If you look at the chart about halfway down, the "Normal" (red) is HTTPS, and the "Binge-on" (blue) is HTTP.
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>GIF has already been replaced by better formats.

As long as Chrome/Webkit doesn't support APNG, there's no ubiquitous format that directly replaces GIF.

>Today, "GIF" nearly always means a short looping video with horrible compression.

To me, GIF means an image format. The fact that many people misuse the terminology doesn't mean we should propagate it. Instead, people should be educated on the difference between lossy video formats and image formats that support animation, and which is preferable for various sorts of media. Articles like the OP only confuse the issue further. As someone who has authored animation-editing software (Animstack script for GIMP), it's a major pain in the ass to explain these misconceptions to users. The least we can do is to use correct terminology, and educate people at every opportunity.
Thank you, i always thought about this but didn't know it already existed. This should definitely be used for any content included on a page, especially third party CDN, it could also allow caching if the address changes but the content is the same.
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Agreed. My girlfriend nearly broke her Macbook at the frustration of trying to fine tune table formatting in Pages, that she breezed through in Word.
Sorry I think we agree! My point is it is a psychological issue. All things being equal (calories, nutrients etc.) the speed/magnitude of the insulin response is not important for overall health (in the non-diabetic population). The study mentions things like:

> postmeal blood glucose and its long-term metabolic consequences.

and the point is there aren't long term metabolic consequences.

> but if we can put a finger on exactly what causes people to put on a few pounds it would be a significant advance in science that would affect billions of people

I totally agree! We know it's not the insulin response in and of itself that is causing weight gain, it's the subsequent increased caloric intake, so my point is by being deliberate about what we are studying we can get better results. I'm not saying we don't need to study the psychology of eating, definitely the opposite! That's really what we need to focus on, and stop worrying about the "metabolic consequences" of the insulin response.
Based on outcomes, I'd say "Recidivism" is the fourth R.
I would guess a lot of stuff wasn't completely POSIX either (still kinda true). It's really only recently C++ added a standard memory model, portable threading, etc... POSIX is even kind of falling behind for this stuff IMHO.
This concept is going to be the future of Slack. It is going to be interesting to see the multitude of start-ups focused on developing bots for Slack, Facebook and other platforms. Apple could probably make Siri more useful if they opened up the platform to developers for creating bots on the Siri platform.
I think for each person who doesn't want to constantly move with the times, there is another person somewhere else that does, so we just swap those two people and call it good.
I think that instead of HPKP, the parent poster meant to refer to HSTS.

If the attacker MITMs an HTTPS request, then they have to provide a forged certificate (whether HSTS is set or not).

If the attacker MITMs an HTTP request which would have normally been redirected (e.g. typing "facebook.com" into the URL bar), then HSTS is required. Without it, no forged certificate required.

HTTPS and HSTS should have just been the baseline the web shipped with, but the web shipped before people thought about these things, and arguably before encryption was stable/secure/fast enough to be practical for the whole web.

I'm very happy that the federal HTTPS-policy includes an HSTS requirement for federal agencies: https://https.cio.gov/
Aah, this makes a lot more sense. Still, the questions remains. Does it need to be a US C Corp?
It is also far more family friendly. It is almost impossible for someone with a family to do YC Core without substantial savings and financial stability.

YC Fellowship adds an additional stepping stone.

No idea if this was intentional, but it is very welcome either way.
> As long as Chrome/Webkit doesn't support APNG, there's no ubiquitous format that directly replaces GIF.

That's a fun trick, to quote one sentence and disagree with it in a way that is already covered by the following sentence stating there is an exception.

Do you find this helps further the conversation?
Human solvers do not hold all six sides of their cube in a tight grip.

I guess it all depends on how much force it takes to turn such a stepper motor when it isn't powered.
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I'll keep that in mind when I'm left out of the cold for the next minecraft release.
My 11 year old son is an avid Mincraft player. His favorite aspect is playing team games on multiplayer servers.

When I told him that Microsoft bought Mincraft, he was quite upset, and was confident that Microsoft would ruin it.

Change was bound to happen. Hearing their plans to go c++ makes me wonder how it will impact the server ecosystem. Also, the "Windows 10" messaging in the article does sound like a case of a big company trying to bend a community to its own will (get people on Windows). In my son's case, if things go south, he is going to end up hating Microsoft for ruining his favorite game.
AMD is still better for bitcoin mining but that's a matter of integer versus floating point processing power.