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I don't think Iribe had the latitude to do that at the time. From what I understand Palmer owned most of the company still at that point.

He would have had to get signoff from at least a majority of owners before just doing it.
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I've used both and the differences between the platforms are so small compared to the huge technological breakthrough that I think which one people buy will be a toss up. I bought the oculus because I have a one bedroom apartment and have maybe a 2x2 foot space to use it in. Room scale isn't really an option for me. I like the Vive, but I really think that room scale is a liability nightmare waiting to happen. In two weeks of doing demos at work, we lost two computers from people ripping the cords out or kicking them and at least one person got clocked with a controller while I was watching people do demos for an hour. (and this was with a full time minder) Encouraging people to move around a swing controllers while wearing a blindfold is a terrible idea and someone's child or pet is going to be seriously hurt, no matter how many warnings you give people.
The Harvey character and shadow are one of the most creative things I have seen in a long time. Bravo!
Throwing mine in there too: http://blog.reverberate.org/2014/02/react-demystified.html
Yeah, I can see the value in redux for a big app with lots of complex state to manage (eg Facebook), but it seems like major overkill in a lot of smaller apps where people seem to be reaching for it by default for some reason. Plain React components and a few helper modules can get you a surprisingly long way--there's really no need for more framework until deeply nested components make simple argument passing unweildy.
Would you really have to call mprotect on OpenBSD?

When SELinux is enforcing this on Linux, you don't. The trick is to map the page twice, once for writing and once for executing. Assuming both mappings are ASLR randomized, it's actually safer than allowing mprotect.

SELinux actually has OpenBSD beat on this one: in some configurations, written pages can not be made executable.
Money that stops circulating has a tangible market impact, especially billions of dollars tied up in corporate treasure chests. Stalled money slows the velocity of the economy and effectively shrinks the monetary base. One of the hallmarks of post gold-standard fiat economic planning is to push monetary velocity as high as it can manage through many means because you get more market growth the faster money changes hands and circulates.

IE, the capital market could get richer, or it could get faster, and in either case absolute money moved increases. The former is often hard to do, since you either need to print money without causing inflation or cause the money to appreciate against goods into a strong dollar, and both have negative side effects going faster doesn't really have until you are going too fast and realize you have to slow down.
In your first few years of work, you should be structuring your life so that major expenses like car & housing are minimized (you're not used to better, and you likely don't have a family to drive around & frolic in green space) & you can build up a cash cushion. It just seems like there is just no frontier for which this makes sense, other than "person who knows their job is going away at 6mo+1day".
But is that an apple to apple comparison? Operating budget means only so much -- it ignores major costs like pension and benefit obligations and debt service (BART is among the worst at both).
We found ours, at all places, at a Lord & Taylor (or Nordstrom can't remember which one now) travelling rug show. List price was $11k, the show had it on "sale" for $4k we took advantage of a combined holiday sale and some other discounts (we signed up for a store credit card to get another 15% off of our first purchase) and after all the discounts stacked ended up paying around $2k.

Internet prices put it at similar rugs at between $6k-$12k.

Home Depot and a few other places have similar traveling rug shows. Harder to haggle at those vs. a rug store, but I feel like you get fairer pricing. The store "Homegoods" in the U.S. also has a rug section that will on occasion stock hand-made rugs at very good prices.

I would personally avoid the dedicated dealers as they'll pump up the price and take advantage of uninformed consumers. Definitely worth it to study up a little on what contributes to pricing variability in rugs (location, material, knot density, etc.)

If you travel, I've seen very good prices in and around the middle east (sounds obvious, but hey)
You should not be so cynical.
The insurance kicks in to supplement state benefits, for people who would otherwise max out on them (most states give at most around $400/w). So it only makes sense for people at middle or higher incomes.

The benefits are not "absolutely minimal". The premiums might be, say $800/y, and the benefits $10,000 if you are unemployed 24 weeks. Is it a lotto ticket? No. But for people afraid of job loss without that amount saved up, do you have a better suggestion?
Wordpress is, imo, the reason PHP has historically gotten a bad rap. Needle/haystack/type/performance PHP jibes aside etc etc, WP has been the single point of contact for situations where my company has had to remediate a hack/data breach/script kiddie scrawl. I've seen full hosted servers being unplugged with no comebacks, tens of thousands of dollars in rebuild costs, lost clients due to security concerns.. the culprit? pointing over there

The easy retort is "just keep it patched and up to date", natch. The ongoing costs/technical debt involved in maintaining a Wordpress install sometimes ends up being greater than what it cost to roll the thing out.

Wow, I'm getting old and complainy.
This has happened to me many times. In Los Angeles. And I'm just brown (asian brown).
Will neural compilation ever exceed the classical method?
If we can reliably cure it (let’s say immunotherapy advances or whatever), it might not be worth the risk of side effects from preventive manipulation.
You're right. I'll do better in the future. Sorry.
Antibiotic resistance is the biggest health threat we face.
Gauging off their patents, they've got so much bleeding edge shit to pack into their device that I'm not expecting a consumer ready product from Magic Leap in less than 5 years. I'm just going to have to get used to people throwing around the 'vapourware' accusation in every Magic Leap thread I stumble across for some time to come.
Actually, the issue the insurance most directly addresses in that case is that CA unemployment benefits max out at $450/w. So people making more, or much more, than ~$50k year would have a very significant income shortfall, as a percentage of income.
I saw this from Redux's creator that aligns with my take: "When people say setState() is an anti-pattern, they mean 500-line components with a complex setState() soup scattered across event handlers. When you spend your days looking for bugs in those handlers and moving them up and down component hierarchy, consider extracting it." https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/725090047557558272

I had that whole 'moving values and events up and down the component hierarchy, driving me nuts' thing going on when I tried to make an editor page for a two-level list. I added Redux and now I just directly read/update the list in the store from every component in the editor.
For any of the major IDEs with Perforce plugins, this happens automatically when you start editing a file. It's essentially a non-issue for normal use cases. Things work a little differently when you're offline, but for most people, offline work is uncommon.
"Misery" is a relative term. A 12 year old working in fields might seem harsh to an American but for an Indian or Bangladeshi kid that is an opportunity because the alternative is dying on the street devoid of any help.

Many top American brands use the services of slum sweatshops in USA directly and indirectly and employ children in harsh conditions but this work is better than working as child prostitutes of beggars. Globalization helped these slum children get better, earn more and live a better life than in past even though as per American standards one might see it as a miserable life.

Trading more and more with poor countries is the best way Americans can help the poor countries. People complain about China's sweatshops and work conditions but in reality Chinese are far better off than 30 years and and the labor value and conditions have improved steadily over last 3 decades.
Not going to work; trust me, I've tried. I tried for years to avoid getting my pictures online, they got there anyway and are a Google search away. Now I've stopped caring.

If you want to participate in social media (which you have to, some people won't communicate any other way) you've got to accept that not everyone views your privacy the way you do.

And even of it did work, it wouldn't solve the issue since discrimination based on name can happen just as easily for people with obviously-black or obviously-Islamic names.
Wait, what? There has long been a kind of private UI: those credit cards that defer interest if you lose your job, for example.
> but it's very sad.

what makes it sad?
A lot of black comedians have similar jokes about performing rituals to be accepted by whites. For example, Aries Spears says white women only date him after they hear him sing to 80s rock songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg-4e4PWGY8

Not a new concept to people of color. Despite the jokes, it's depressing.
As a small publisher and given Google's lack of customer support on such issues I will wait till this gets adopted to better understand best practices.
My otherwise healthy grandfather is going to be killed by cancer in the next few months. And for what seems like an utterly stupid reason: if they cut it all out of his neck, there's no way currently to replace the lymph nodes he'd lose or create enough replacement tissue to cover it over.

Actually coming to grips with the idea that a seemingly mundane engineering issue is what gets him was surprising.

Give that problem 10 years and I suspect I'll read the news one day and hear about how we've now solved it.
If these companies had such pressing investment needs in the US they'd borrow against that cash at 2% and do it. Those two points are not sinking their investment plans. They do not have unfunded investment needs.

Why should they bring the money here tax free? In fact why shouldn't they pay taxes on foreign profits?
The more you understand product design and usability, the more you value consistency with the platform.

The problem is, no one starts out with this knowledge or value system.
I dunno... I find the notion of crying as a reaction to fictional (or even non-fictional) media... foreign. I find this notion foreign. (Man, just a goatee, almost 33). I do consume fiction, but I just don't 'suspend disbelief', as it is called. Call me a fiction grinch, but it's just the way my brain works.

I recently changed jobs and moved to a new city. When, after a long hiring process I was given the job, I cried a little (like 10 seconds), out of joy. Then, once I arrived in the city, it was hard to find a new home but I faced it without victimism: I decided to move, so I had the obligation to face whatever hardships would emerge along the way. But the day I finally found a home and everything started to settle, when I finally had the keys, I sat down on one of the rooms and, beer in hand, cried, but out of relief and joy also.

When I was younger I used to cry easily, but as I'm getting older I just don't cry often anymore. Somewhat it has become a reaction reserved for existential highlights, so to speak.
Maybe, since publishing an open access paper is (currently) more expensive for the authors, researchers will end up publishing less often (and possibly more significant results), which is not necessarily a bad thing given the bloating state of research literature nowadays.

On a related note, a colleague of mine had this idea of an annual publication cap (3 papers) for researchers. Less burnout, less "superstar" researchers that "contribute" to 20+ papers a year (except for the fact that they have an army of Ph.D. students slaving off for them).
At some point the Linux kernel started adding stuff that reminds me a lot of Windows synchronization and kernel events. Like eventfd(2).

Combine that with epoll and you have something a little simpler than the code I am reading in this library. (And like win32 events can cross a process boundary.)
Any manufacturing experts can help us understand why white plastic is difficult?
If you look at it they are doing the job of extended if then/else or switch commands, just in reverse. What gets me is all the gosubs... :-D Seems like everyone was doing them to make the programs look smarter.
Ask HN: Do companies actually check your degree?
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I'm 2 classes short of completing my CS degree. I basically had to drop them and deal with family stuff so I have like 95% of a degree.

What should I put on my resume? Just that I attended? Or that I graduated with a CS degree? I don't feel that's very unethical and I need a job. Are there any legal issues I should worry about if I lie? Do companies actually check your info? Or just your attendance.
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The irony of this is that I said about the same thing as tptacek on his own blog. Which most of my designs/essays are backed up on. That was about when he stopped responding to my comments so much. ;)

Note: It's not necessarily a bad thing. We need more people to get info to laypeople, business execs, and policymakers in a way they can understand. Just shifts what hou can expect from the person in terms of technical stuff.
There's also the sense of justice in that the offshore money has already been taxed in the countries it was earned in. Why should shareholders, investors, and the company have to pay twice? And who are you to say that money wouldn't be useful in the US? 35% return on investment per year is quite a lot to ask of your money. If you can do that regularly let me know, and you can take over my 401k.
Interesting bit from the article:

By some definitions (including his) McCauley is a co-founder of Oculus due to his contributions and status as one of the earliest hires, though as far as Oculus itself is concerned, the company represents Palmer Luckey as the one and only “Founder” (with a capital F). As a seasoned design engineer who played an instrumental role in the creation of the Guitar Hero peripherals, McCauley brought hardware design experience to the young company, which was about to embark on designing, manufacturing, and delivering thousands of Rift DK1 headsets to eager backers of the crowdfunding campaign.

Kind of funny how kingmaking works, eh?
>Companies have these massive cash reserves because they are massively profitable each year and need somewhere to store the excess.

To be clear here, American companies aren't moving cash from the US out to overseas to hide them from the IRS - this is cash that was generated overseas. For every iPhone sold in the US, Apple is paying an appropriate tax.

A similar way to look at this is, lets say you moved to Russia, started a new life, with a new job, and every time you wanted to send money to your mom, the US took a 35% cut.

(I'm aware that American expats still have to pay taxes as well).
"And no one else could mimic their style, since it was just too difficult."

The magic of Apple isn't their design, it's the ability to re-create and distribute good design cheaper than Braun. [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/HannuRytkonen/status/731511690911711232
The point of an economy of scale is that, once reached, it can lower costs (think quantity discounts), which means what was a loss at lower quantities can become a profitable business.
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'Remember context forever' - that's serious privacy issue - isn't it
Not quite the same thing as getting a check in the mail, is it?
> But changing a &str to be invalid UTF-8 isn't inherently a memory-unsafe operation.

It kind of is related though since there are APIs that do unsafe things based on this assumption, IIRC.

The type has some guarantees, and while the guarantees aren't related to memory safety, breaking them will cause memory safety issues.
What breaks on the Nano? It's a solid state device.

If you treated an iPod Nano and an Edison phonograph the exact same way, the Nano would outlast the phonograph easily.
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Insurance only makes sense for events so unlikely to occur but so catastrophic if they do that any rainy day fund will not be sufficient - where an insurance company must, by nature of the costs, use the income from multiple people to cover the extremely rare instance of a claim.

As has been said, that is home and some health insurances are for. Most people will never live in a house that is destroyed that prompts a home insurance payout, and if you are someone who has their home destroyed, you will get back way more than you would put in in a lifetime because the average likelihood of it happening is so low. But not having the insurance would wipe out your wealth - you lose the house and writeoff the loss and have nothing left after the fact, and at best you spend an entire rainy day fund with a mortgage on the land to rebuild, and even then you are doing significantly more impactful damage than any rainy day fund could account for.

Same with catastrophic health insurance. Most people do not get debilitating diseases that don't kill you but will require lifelong care like Parkinson's or Dementia, but if you do get one of them you would be destroyed trying to pay the constant upkeep costs.

And strangely? enough, both are often best handled by the state. In some countries property owners are not insured privately but by the township to avoid problems where disasters wipe out multiple homes and some people do not have such a rainy day fund to afford to rebuild. And first world countries provide single payer healthcare to make up for the rare catastrophic conditions. If you want to have these costs borne out across the entire population to offset the individual costs when they happen to you, having them be society wide is often the least expensive option.
We do have a good-enough picture right now with which you can write code that works and will continue to work; we just don't have an exact picture (where you can knowingly cut corners and things still work). Niko's post is mostly about where these corners should be.
I don't know how old you are, but discrimination by race used to be legal and much more prevalent. People still need the Fair Housing Act. Remember Donald Sterling? He's been rejecting tenants based on race before today's college kids were born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Housing_Act
What do people mean by monorepo exactly (e.g. at Facebook)? For instance, FB's open source projects aren't all hosted in the same "open source monorepo", why not? And what goes into the monorepos exactly? All the closed source code?

As a "one-man-team" who uses at least 15 different repos, it's hard for me to imagine how a massive company would manage things within a single repo and no package management.

Also, aren't any of those monorepo companies concerned that a single rogue employee or stolen laptop could leak their entire source code?

I can only guess I'm misunderstanding what is meant by monorepo and how they're used...
I think you are dramatically underestimating the cost of getting "actually sick" if you think a $10,000 annual out-of-pocket maximum is "completely useless". Not to put too fine a point on it, but $10k could be a mere couple hours of care in the ER.

Also, there are cost-sharing reductions which would reduce that $10k significantly depending on your income.

If you do find yourself in need of actual medical care but without any insurance, the workaround is simply you will have to move to a new state, which will allow you to sign up outside of open enrollment periods.
Well, the truth is that very few companies can manufacture like Apple does. Between the obsession with design, details, and having the resources to have the manufacturers create entire new production processes just for them. And often, the companies who do the above are usually not consumer facing.
10,000 data points, modeling an extremely complex system, and 90% "success" rate?

The word "overfitting" comes to mind.

Assuming that VocalIQ knows what they're doing - and that's a fairly safe bet, I think - that's not the case. So they've either acquired a massively larger data set, reduced the complexity of the system, or redefined "success". My bet would be on the second one.

They've been in the news before, for working on voice IO for cars. That'd make much more sense than a generic system that massively outperforms all others.
Ask HN: Are funding rounds a substitute for business plan / revenue sources?
Hello,

I have been in conversation with a recently funded company about a potential position with them. During our initial conversation I inquired about their growth and business plan for revenue generation. I was told that they don't have one yet but they have seed funding and they are planning to go for further rounds of funding.

- Is this pretty common with startups or should this be considered a red flag?
- Is this just another form of "if build it, they will come" business idea?

(throwaway for obvious reasons)
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Hi, I built a little service to fetch .gitignore file on terminal. I built this to avoid finding gitignore files while working without a github repo. I wanted to keep the size as small as possible ( 2.2kb ) and the UI simple. I would love to hear your feedback on this.

https://gitignore.xyz

P.S this is my first fully completed app in production. I would love to hear your feedback on this.

edit: I'm running this on scaleway node in Paris, that's why the 100ms+ latency
"Congress shall make no law..." lol
> Even in areas where there is no true urban center, or the urban center remains essentially deserted, Malls are still dying at a phenomenal rate. The Internet and technology, has largely killed the mall. The Mall may live, but they're on life support.

Is this true? Current data largely supports the opposite argument.

There's no trend of malls (in general) going away, but of old/overbuilt/poorly-located malls dying (or their market dying) while new malls (or new types of malls) are being built. Most major markets are experiencing retail growth (net positive total retail sqft market-wide), despite many bad malls dying off.

> They're not urban shopping centers, they're urban entertainment centers that happen to have shopping.

Malls have always had a significant amount of entertainment. Nearly every major mall has had (and still has) a movie theatre and multiple restaurants. Some of folks may even remember a time when almost every mall had an arcade in it.

http://www.costar.com/News/Article/As-Retail-Finally-Enters-...

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2014/may/08/costar-...

The "dead mall" story is a lot like pointing at Detroit or Flint or Baltimore and saying, "look at all those boarded up homes. Housing is dead! People hate having a place to live.". That may certainly be true in those specific areas, but most markets are actually experiencing modest-to-insane amounts of growth.