skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You only get 1CPU (probably heavily limited), 512MB of RAM and 10GB of storage.

This is basically the AWS micro instance which you get for free:
"AWS Free Tier includes 750 hours of Linux and Windows t2.micro instances each month for one year" (If you want it free for life, just create another AWS account ;)).

These instances are way to limited to run anything even remotely intensive at best you'll be able to use it as some VPN/Proxy or a small scale hosted VOIP server, but what more often than not will happen is that tons of people (hopefully) will register pay the 35$ and never use them, this is pretty much the Gym membership business model.

With thin provisioning at the fact that at best one out of 10 registered instances will actually be used they can make a huge profit, especially in the short term and considering that with how hardware scales overtime and the fact that more of the few actual users that they'll on board that would actually use that instance will drop off as time passes, it will become exponentially cheaper for them to support this type of business model with time.

This is a pretty ingenious quick cash grab if they'll manage to attract a large amount of people because 2 years down the line they'll probably could support their entire actual user base with a few RasPi's in a broom closet some where (And yes I'm aware that you can purchase much bigger VPS's from them for a much higher (onetime) cost, but the overall premise still stands)....
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Animated PNG Support Is Still Being Blocked from Google's Chrome Browser
It's basically a completely safe method and does not open up for anyone else to connect ...

Except that it's opening a port into an unverified P2P network. How can you say for certain that none of the peers are compromised or nefarious?
Business in Chicago collapses into contraction
We used journo-tech communities like Hacks/Hackers, college boards, company mailing lists (ie. the post design group), or directly in touch with influencers (ie. NYTimes technical evangelist).
if that were true:

1) Why just close booze stores? Why not close restaurants or grocery stores or any of the non-essential businesses on sunday?

2) What about a grocery store that is already open and staffed and has piles of beer. What does not selling it do for the already working employees?
It's a German tradition that whenever somebody mentions the name of that publishing house, all Germans have to jump in and go apeshit :D
> Millenials will experience a lost generation and things won't start to look good until we're well into middle-age.

At least Millenials have better numbers than Gen X. Nobody even mentions us anymore..
What If There Are No More Googles, Facebooks, or Airbnbs?
Since Valve's SteamOS is Linux-based, then SURELY the Vive will work on Linux machines out of the box.

The lack of a Linux version of their VR Compatibility tool has made me a little nervous, though.
Poké API is coming up to 54 million API calls - pokeapi.co

People still love Pokemon it seems
> Zero-conf is fundamentally broken.

Yep. Double-spending zero-conf transactions can work as long as you are using a payment channel (where the other side is receiving each transaction). That's how the "payment channel" concepts work.
DoveCote was a hackathon project. Here is an introduction post on Medium:

https://medium.com/@dashersw/introducing-dovec%C3%B4te-f9383...
I don't think it was in error, but a deliberate attempt to add emphasis. I usually put it in parenthesis(!), so it does not confuse the reader.
Is this true? From my personal vantage point, young folks in the west don't seem to want change at all. They tend to support establishment politics. Even pop culture is full of artists promoting the establishment.

For example, consider John Stewart - he's somehow made a shtick of mocking the establishment while somehow calling for them to have more power and deligitimizing anyone who is outside the mainstream.

Insofar as young people want "change", it seems merely to be going back to mythical glorious past era when a single person could support a family, have "health care" and engage in real estate speculation via the proceeds of unskilled manual labor. They believe this "change" will happen mainly by funneling more money into existing programs and bringing back a few policies from the recent past.

(Admittedly, the tech world is an exception to this. And my vantage point might be skewed due to spending my US life in NY.)

What change do you believe the young want today?
> Those people have simple mind, once a brand settles in their life it is very difficult for another one to replace it.

This sounds offensive and it is obviously not true in my first hand experience. The main issue is cost effectiveness once merchandise is not heavily discounted. One good example is telecom. There is no brand loyalty even in remote areas as people keep changing already cheap prepaid plans for something cheaper. See this: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/1963915

> At US$40, the ARPU in India is among the lowest in the world and about one-third of that of China

Much less talked advantage in India is extremely cheap labor who deliver merchandise to homes, and that is available to any new competitor. Flipkart/Snapdeal etc are not much different from Indian IT industry which talked a lot about innovation. However it was(is?) mainly about 1/3rd or less cost comparable to west. But for E-comm it is going to be worse as all/most of their customers are in India.
By definition, if it phones home, it defeats the purpose of a P2P network.
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A geo database for polygons, foundations
I didn't dismiss anything. I was remarking that it's unusual to see "only taxpayers should be allowed to vote" coming from someone on the left.
Games/experiences like Budget Cuts, Hover Junkers, Tiltbrush, Modbox, and Fantastic Contraptions are what sold me on the Vive. These are fundamentally new approaches to gaming that just can't be replicated without everything the Vive is offering, including the tracked controllers.
Wikipedia is copyleft, and has a preemptive immuninty to ads. Is wikia?
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From 1950:

"What concerns me, as somebody who has absolutely zero interest in computers or electronics or whatever, is that as electronic devices become more and more ubiquitous, I'll probably still end up with some kind of quasi-electronic garbage in my house. Either because I didn't mean to purchase it, or because there was no alternative because in the future every under-sink washing apparatus requires electronic connection or some nonsense.
Here's binary search from Go's sort package:

func Search(n int, f func(int) bool) int {
// Define f(-1) == false and f(n) == true.
// Invariant: f(i-1) == false, f(j) == true.
i, j := 0, n
for i < j {
h := i + (j-i)/2 // avoid overflow when computing h
// i ≤ h < j
if !f(h) {
i = h + 1 // preserves f(i-1) == false
} else {
j = h // preserves f(j) == true
}
}
// i == j, f(i-1) == false, and f(j) (= f(i)) == true => answer is i.
return i
}

There's lots more examples of you search for "invariant" thru the std library source code.

A few, to give a taste:

ast/print.go printer.Write

// invariant: data[0:n] has been written

printer/printer.go trimmer.Write:

// invariants:
// p.state == inSpace:
// p.space is unwritten
// p.state == inEscape, inText:
// data[m:n] is unwritten

path/filepath/path.go: path.Clean

// Invariants:
// reading from path; r is index of next byte to process.
// writing to buf; w is index of next byte to write.
// dotdot is index in buf where .. must stop, either because
// it is the leading slash or it is a leading ../../.. prefix.

Invariants really are a really useful way to think about code.
Just as an example: the Logitech Harmony range of remotes. The only way to program those remotes is to go through Logitech's application portal.

I'm not saying it has to be done that way; I'm just saying that it is.
987€ to Spain, with shipping and taxes. Ouch!
This reasoning that made innovation stall and VR is not an immature new tech.
It was initially launched back in 2011, tendency is that you gonna get a very mature product out of the bet.
If you haven't tried yet, the vive is quite impressive.
I'd certainly expect a fine, but $300 seems way excessive. On the other hand, so does the phrase "police state."
It depends. From the point of view of a consumer ? easy and comfy wins. I would not pay to go in space now.
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Machine Learning with Naive Bayes
And yet somehow it's still the biggest newspaper publisher in Germany.

(And hey, at least nobody is blowing up their offices any more.)
I did not vote on the post, but it probably isn't true, there are all sorts of gaps in a power distribution system (at most or all transformers).
>As I have consistently said, that may be the case.

Just like it may be the case that the moon landings were faked.

>unless you're both one of a very select group and violating an explicit confidentiality agreement by posting here, neither do you.

The full text of TIPP has been released for months now. I know because I have read factual reporting from journalists who have actually read the text, not from ignorant FUD spreaders in website comment sections.
There's a lot of research and literature on the subject, and even a term "Third Culture Kid", for those that bounce between countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_culture_kid
It's not only about children, even if those particular cases are most widely reported due to their illegality.
This is pretty impressive. Being able to decouple the user-facing realtime transport layer from the database engine is one of the main things which has been holding big companies back from adopting Firebase (due to Firebase's tight coupling with MongoDB and the associated lock-in factor).

I imagine that eventually you would be able to hook fusion into any database engine or service you like - If you don't want to put your sensitive data on a public cloud, you could just use fusion as-a-service but host the Database part yourself.
You're about 40 years too late to complain about foo and bar being debased: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable
Without using IoT as an example.

Parents are permitted to sit on their porches and wait for their children to arrive home.

Government agents aren't permitted the same right.
I guess its the free market that 'disgusting'? Confused. Economic systems work a certain way. Demonizing a group that participates like everybody else is a curious notion. And probably not a route to a solution.

I always find it a curious approach, taken by so many activists, to start by disaffecting the group that they claim is in power. How can it help to piss of and blame the actual people than are in a position to help?
Viruses may become a serious problem both kind. In the future you might need to get medicine for your computer :)
In 2016, going to space is no longer a novelty. Now, if you asked me if i want to be the first to hook my brain to a computer ...
Why HN Loving SysAdmin Linux Nerds = Beauty Girls with 50 Product Makeup Routines
Apropos of the title, Dennis Prager's ''Happiness Is a Serious Problem'' (http://fave.co/1LPTkKH) is the best book I read in 2015. It was published almost 20 years ago but I think it might be even more relevant in today's pursuit of happiness obsessed world. It helped me understand why I have trouble feeling ''happy'' and why that is OK.
This time it won't matter that much which one to pick. Developers will want to support both systems. The display code needs only small changes to work for both systems (or the engine supports it already), the controllers on the other hand should be interesting. If there won't be some standard and the input and haptics diverge too much, this will hurt adoption and/or game/software sales.
So I'm just a HN reader, but this isn't a new trend. Folks have been doing it for ages. Just sayin'
How does attribution and second/third authorship work if you "just" bounced ideas off your supervisor or fellow students in verbal discussions? I'm trying to gauge how strict attribution rules are in what I would consider a gray area.
Is the new Quartz news app really innovative?
> American society was mobile in his day and has only gotten more mobile since.

This is the conventional wisdom. Is it true? I've seen assertions challenging it in the past, suggesting Americans were less likely to make big moves today than in the past, and instead remain in the same city (this was in connection with some divorce/custody cases).

Blurbs challenging the assertion:

http://www.newsmax.com/US/americans-moving-less-than/2014/05...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/why-are-a...

http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=151554.0;wa...

and one on how Americans are still mobile compared to the rest of the world:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/05/15/the-u...
> the dark side of the Moon

... is not really a thing, BTW. Earth's moon is tidally locked to Earth, so one lunar cycle (synodic period, about 29.5 Earth days) is approximately one lunar day.

You'd need to build a train on the moon to keep your cryo chamber in the Moon's shadow, or something similar. I doubt you'd save energy by doing so.
>Many devices will require connection to the internet to be configured

Impossible. My bachelor pad apartment came with a washer and dryer. Those need to work without the building owner paying $50/month for internet access for a clothes washer. Maybe you could write into the lease terms that the appliances only work if the tenant pays for internet access. Imagine if the thermostat refused to turn on the heat because there's no internet access because no tenant, then the pipes freeze in winter...

Likewise my MiL does not do internet. She has no computer, tablet, smartphone... but she does have a lot of retirement income. Most of the VCRs in the USA blinked 12:00 because most VCR owners were uninterested in using that appliance to set up timed recording. A VCR that forced owners to set the clock before it would play back rented tapes would never survive in the market. She has one of those smart TVs that spy on people and spam them, because she liked the style of the case (bezel, stand, etc), but its not connected to the internet and never will be.

UI design is beyond human ability today, and will only get worse. I have one of those "efficient" nearly silent clothes washers and it drives me crazy that there's no way to predict when it'll finish, because it spin cycles until water stops coming out, etc. So from an efficiency standpoint I want to move damp clothes as fast as possible into my dryer, but the darn thing quietly plays an annoying little song once and then goes silent. I wish it beeped for an hour. Most UI design choices are made solely to impress other UI designers, therefore the user is left out. This is an extremely bad portent for the UI for internet of things.

There's just too much money to be ignored in places without internet access.
> parking your car facing the 'wrong' way

In the US you get fines for that too. (I learned this after I moved from places without curbs, where everyone parks on the verge rather than the street, to a town with curbs and therefore on-street parking.)

> staying in a parking spot for 10 minutes too long

Also in the US.

> I'm looking forward to living in San Francisco

Do you think the parking will be easier and driving will incur fewer fines?
I have learned through crystal clear negative reinforcement that criticism on HN will be attacked on the most ridiculous, minor, red herring points imaginable. If you don't preface your comment with about half a page of disclaimers, prepare for three comments addressing inane edge cases and posing unrealistic demands.

Id love to be more curt. But a deep thread-war is the death of every comment, so preempting every possible rebuttal is your only choice. And on HN, every rebuttal is possible.
Minor factual correction: The Google Docs article on this site says "When Google launched Docs in 2012"... but Docs launched way earlier than that (Feb 2007 according to https://www.google.com/webhp?q=when%20did%20google%20docs%20...).
It is clocked at a higher frequency though.
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SteamOS currently doesn't support SteamVR there were (unconfirmed AFAIK) plans for "day-one support" but last time I've checked (maybe a month ago) there isn't support for SteamVR-Vive (driver and software) yet in the beta version of SteamOS.

There were also some comments from HTC last year that most of the SteamOS based Steam Machines could not support SteamVR in their current state so they will be focusing on the "core gamer" demographics initially.

However it needs to be mentioned that even if Vive will support SteamOS it doesn't mean that it will have Linux support, all the binary parts of SteamOS including Steam, it's various components, drivers etc. are closed source.
This strikes me as false wisdom- in software it is a mistake to look at a large job that needs to be done, and insist that that job is only the purview of megacorps like Amazon or Google.

The company I work for has about 200 people and our system is at large scale, many thousands of events per second, so a microservice architecture is required. (It started out as a monolith actually, and grew out of that pattern when it didn't fit anymore.) But most people haven't heard of us.

I say you should be careful when you read stuff like this. It makes so much sense! Which is why you need to be careful of course.
I was under the impression that they changed their mind and allowed Google to re-index their news snippets following the sharp decline in traffic. Yes, they later sued Google and lost, but this doesn't change the fact that they reversed their decision 2 weeks after their content was removed.
The Hololens technology looks really exciting. I can't wait for a consumer version. That said, this release looks like it is analogous to the Oculus Rift dev kit, we are years away from a consumer version. On the positive side, most the shortcomings of the device look like that can be solved with a little bit of time. The field-of-view will improve with processing power and battery life, and room scanning and tracking will improve with a cheaper and smaller sensors.
Hmmn. These sorts of interviews are always flawed. Either they're done by someone with an agenda, or they're done by someone whose understanding of the subject is so rudimentary that he/she can't yet muster up an agenda.

In this case, it's an interesting stroll through Zuckerberg's stated priorities of the moment. We're all free to re-filter the interview as we see fit to adjust for Springer spin and Zuckerberg spin. Getting vexed about the full range of Springer activities at this particular moment seems like a waste of good cortisol.
In reply to a comment that was deleted (maybe it was getting downvoted?)

I think (hope) the difference will be the utility to the the average user of these devices. We're basically in the infancy of IoT and are already seeing useful consumer grade devices. Going back to the home hubs as an example: You can grab a z-wave light switch from a big box store, a generic z-wave thermostat from Amazon, the hubs go from free to $200, and The only knowledge you need are to be able to replace a light switch in your house and the knowledge you would use to install a new WiFi router, you can have your outside lights come on only when it's dark outside and your thermostat respond to outside temperatures or vacancy just like Nest does. All in, you're less than the price of a Nest Thermostat, are (probably) more secure, and have a real shot at actually reducing your electric bills- and that's just with what we have right this second.

Is it saving the world today? No. Is there WAY too much hype. Heck yes. Are there some REALLY useful devices out there today? Yeah, once you wade through the crop.

Admittedly we're in the super early adopter phase, but there are real non-superficial benefits to making our biggest home energy appliances smarter with respect to consumption. There are attempts to interface with the power providers to have things like dishwashers and washing machines automatically wait for lower usage times to run- which means we can use slack in the energy network instead of firing up more coal or bringing more turbines online. It's a bit of a rosy picture as its well understood that residential use doesn't compare to local industrial use, but let's get any efficiency we can.

As I've said to friends that are dubious on global warming- even if it's not a real threat, is it really a bad thing to use less energy and tear up less of our environment? Even if our residential efficiencies barely make a dent, assuming our privacy and security aren't completely compromised, is it bad to make our homes work just a little better?
SteamVR doesn't support Linux yet AFAIK. Here are the min requirements:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/323910/
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MinWhile
Too the article is broken on Android mobile.
Or, conversely, most of their 'best engineering minds' came from classes already valued.
Former Bain consultant. We used comps from public companies to sense-check things.

The interest rate for an energy conglomerate would not be something you would also use for a non-diversified tech company like Dropbox. As long as we could sell the number (both internally and to the client).

But within like OP said, the range of defensible numbers is still quite wide.
$1200+ CAD, yeah I'll wait a bit.
Zulip (https://zulip.org/), a recently open-sourced Slack alternative, has a clever solution for this. They have a light-weight threading model which ensure that discussions stay within context. That way, you can just ignore discussions about topics you're not concerned with without missing anything else. It's great.

> Sometimes, important things get discussed when you’re not around. Unfortunately, so do a lot of unimportant things.

> Zulip makes it easy to review the conversations you missed, so you can focus on that important project without having to catch up on how Jim’s guitar lessons are going.

Someone on HN described it very well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10281065
But let’s remember that computing used to be a hobby for most people and largely the domain of professional computer scientists. It was also a highly profitable, multi-billion dollar industry even back in the day. But once it became easy enough for regular people, personal computing exploded into a industry so large & worth so much you are probably reading this on a mobile computer in your hands.
Don’t you wonder why it is that makeup hasn’t had this explosion? It is a big industry with a lot at stake, but largely serves very skilled women with a lot of time & often cash on their hands. It serves very skilled hobbyists & professionals. But shouldn’t it serve any woman so that say someone like me can use it with ease and joy?
Awesome. Somehow I missed the C2 release. Been happy with my C1+.
On the topic of excessive fines - If a fine is meant as a deterrent, surely a large, but not plainly ridiculous fine is a significant deterrent?

I think they need to be small enough that people can feasibly pay them, but large enough that they can't just shrug it off
Pirouette 0.1.0 released
> battery tech

> catch-up

So... never?
And be the first person in history to actually catch a computer virus? ;)
Yeah, as I figured it eventually rolled out to all the stores as the business day started.
The SteamVR API works on the OSX and Linux versions of Steam (it's some what missing from SteamOS oddly enough).

It's not enabled by default and seem to be buggy as hell but no Vive software support has been implemented, you can use (older versions before the support was dropped) Oculus with SteamVR on Linux but it won't be pretty.