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My mistake, seems like whitespace+html+copy+paste to the HN poster went wrong here. We too have been trying to get it back to its former state ;)

Will make sure I get an accredited third party to review before posting the next one!

If anyone is in London/SF hit me up for a beer or three :)

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Google Earth VR is definitely a thing and it is amazing. You can get it on Steam.
An article/thread about Steve Ballmer and the origins of this project is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14136081.
Seems like it's just going to create tons of confusion.

When was the whole Docker circus not confusing?
That makes sense to me since there are other programs which exist specifically to provide food assistance.
Joking aside, it's eminently normal, if you're setting out to help people, to ask first where your help might do the most good. And when attempting to answer that question, if you find that nobody has bothered to collect the data, it's normal to proceed to collect the data. The effort itself is philanthropy, and it forms a foundation for future philanthropy.
I can absolutely sympathize with the post's author, having been to my share of poorly-run events and those with poorly-communicated goals/topics.

However, I've also been to some that are run quite well, with clear & focused topics, and where I have learned something practical or gained insight into a particular subject from a speaker's unique perspective/experience.

And, yes, many of these events have a strong element of networking which is clearly helpful given the job offerings and job seekers routinely in attendance. Though I've no first-hand experience in the matter, seems like a good starting point for a match between people who are being proactive in their professional development and employers who value that.

"Some common characteristics of programming meet-ups" really should be restated as "Reasons I stopped going to programming meet-ups". These would be an excellent checklist for perhaps starting one that addresses these issues since there are many who would agree and appreciate if someone (else) did it right. You don't even need to be the permanent organizer, just an initial facilitator or catalyst to get one off the ground.
I don't see how any of that is relevant. If your health is not enough to get you off something, you are as weak they come.
This isn't limited solely to vegetarians/vegans. Any diet that goes against your social group is difficult. Take keto/low-carb diets. It's amazing how snacks and foods I've been offered from friends and family that are just pure sugar.
I am aware of that. I guess it was just a bad example. I'm sure you can find other less exceptional instances though.
If curious, it was a Columnar Transposition with Billforward as the key!
Backblaze use Reed Solomon / Erasure Coding for their data, plus checksumming with healing, which means that it should be very safe.

Their main disadvantage is that they only have one datacenter, unless they have gotten a second one recently.
Simple fix: "Explore the far reaches of the world, right in our browser. "
Backblaze supports external hard drives. You just have to keep them plugged in. If they aren't plugged in for 30 days, Backblaze will erase the backup - but gives you a warning.
Quite. Not quite Stanford Duck syndrome, but something similar...
Hasn't NaCl been abandoned? On top of the annoying browser incompatibility, this is also a pretty embarrassing case of Google's left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.
No, I started searching at midnight.
I've tried it but ultimately the cost of storage outweighs the benefit to bandwidth assuming infrequent data access.

OVH is also entirely located in Canada and France so performance between much of the US and their services isn't fantastic.

Also notable is that unlike many of the other cloud providers, OVH doesn't seem to offer free bandwidth between their services. You can't spin up an OVH server to thumbnail a bunch of images for example as far as I can tell.
Absolutely agree. There are also animal products that can be produced ethically, including eggs, milk, cheese and yogurt.

In passing, anybody who eats a lot of salads also eats at least a few insects ;-)
I'd love to read another edition of Founders at Work -- it's one of my favorite books.

Some of the companies I'd be thrilled to see included:

Airbnb
Stripe
Uber
Lyft
Slack
Robinhood
Palantir
Snap
Instacart
SpaceX
GitHub
DraftKings
Warby Parker
OfferUp
Since the project itself is now at #1 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14139186), I suppose we can treat this earlier discussion as the duplicate.
Related: is there an AMD card which can smoothly run modern Linux desktops (with all of the effects) using a built-in kernel OSS driver? Preferably fanless. I want to try Ryzen but don't want to buy a loud power hungry monster and deal with proprietary nVidia drivers.

Thanks!
Juice. Goods: Eat healthy and good
I guess we can agree to disagree. AMD implementing it, motherboard mfgs implementing it, but Windows not having an updated driver to handle it in all situations isn't on AMD. And it doesn't mean it's not there - it means that Windows is lagging slightly behind on a brand new platform. Something that's been fairly common with AMD for decades now. There's a reason the acronym Wintel became a thing.
Go gotchas
The original book is from 2002; this seems to be a revised edition, if I understand it correctly. Note Patricia Cornwell's research received a lot of criticism, and is far from conclusive. I do not think it's widely accepted that Jack the Ripper is indeed a "case closed", or that he was Walter Sickert. Cornwell has also been accused of buying and damaging Sickert's paintings in an attempt to prove her case, though I don't know if those accusations were fair.
It's kind of surprising that a lot more people aren't now?
> Could I de­bug a driver in a live sys­tem? Turns out it is pos­sible, but not without a second com­puter with a serial head­er.

You can do kernel debugging over ethernet: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh...
Hi Gleb!

The thing I haven't done due to the download pricing is back up very much data into B2. Since the B2 API doesn't support renames, you have to download and then re-upload a file to rename it. I would be storing a lot more there if renames were available! [Note: they may be available now; I haven't checked for a few months. Please tell me they are.]

I was an early adopter of B2 and uploaded a bunch of files with naming that's incompatible with the "virtual folders" of the web UI (wrote my own script to handle this since Duplicity et al did not yet have support). Now I'm stuck and the only solution offered is just "pay us to download everything again".

Also, the web interface does not have any pagination. Since virtual folders are based on naming, and since rename support is not available, this can flood the browser. I have a bucket that crashes the tab every time I try to open because it's not paged. I could write a little Greasemonkey injector to page it myself, but meh, I don't really care enough to do that. Instead, I just don't really use B2.

When I discussed these issues with support and suggested that at least pagination on the web interface was a basic thing that engineering should be able to accomplish quickly, they did not seem to agree.
Then it's doing its job. Those of us with adblockers arent as affected by ad invasions, and so can skip the article. Emergent simplicity!
I don't know anything about the man, but, maybe he really is that innocent. Maybe he threw himself into his career and that's ALL he focused on.

I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and hope his wide-eyed innocence helps others by making this data easily digestible.
Backblaze is doing to S3 what I dream about doing to Amazon Retail after several years working for them.

The amazon philosophy is quite a bit like the underpants gnomes: 1) grow, 2) ..., 3) profit. Where there are natural monopolies with obvious economies of scale, this is an incredible strategy. But outside of that (retail, for example), it just doesn't work. Economies of scale come coupled with diseconomies of scale, and #2 needs to be an intentional and deliberate approach to managing those diseconomies of scale. If you look at their financials, it is obvious that Amazon retail has had a miserable time managing this...over the last 15 years they have steadily lower inventory turns, steadily increasing logistics costs, availability inconsistency, etc. Anybody who works there now or worked there in the past can see how inefficiently they run things and how efficiency improvements one day are ameliorated by political and speculative decisions the next day.

Combine this with their typical acquisition strategy, as exemplified by the Quidsi approach. Lowball, and when they don't accept, spend money subsidizing your own product to undercut their market and make them more desperate to sell.

The Backblaze approach is genius for taking on Amazon because it inverts the priorities to 1) meticulously manage costs, and then 2) directly engage amazon by competing on price. Backblaze can compete on price because their cost structure is lower than Amazon. Amazon can always subsidize their product, but by doing so Amazon is in the weaker position in the endurance race. Backblaze can ride out the attempts at undercutting them because they have a lower cost structure and prices need to drop a lot before they affect their cash flow safety. It's also a resilient strategy; Amazon can know that's exactly what they're doing and they can't do anything to stop it apart from beating them at their own game of cost management. It's a slow and steady road, but it can work.

Now, if only they would start running more than an S3 competitor :)
Why Are Mathematicians So Bad at Arithmetic?
I consider myself to be a "closet vegan" because I only buy plant-based groceries to prepare and cook at home.

It's when I go out that I eat meat/dairy to fit into my social circles. It sounds sad, but it's my reality: I've moved to a new city and I need friends.

I've had moments in the past when I've attempted to dive into full vegan and failed, mostly because I (a) had no idea how to cook food in the first place, and (b) didn't know the first thing about nutrition.

I feel like what I'm doing now is a good first step. Whether I become a full-time vegan or not is left to be seen.
A part of it is that the data models are genuinely different and different orgs want to do things in different ways.

Another part of it is that orgs recognize the value of stamping their brand on what they believe is a candidate for the next generation of the web.

But you don't need any of these frameworks to do WebVR; the API is (going to be) a standard and it's relatively straightforward to roll your own if you understand the browser's render loop and any 3D engine. I'm more worried by the fact that so much of today's WebVR code is just a layer on top of THREE.js. It's actually more of a monoculture than it appears on the surface.
Well then that means that it's not a "holier-than-thou fad diet" for that person, right?
I originally posted a smartass one-liner response ("I don't think even the Lib Dems understand the Lib Dems") but deleted it as it was not constructive or particularly fair on you. I think that it is worth explaining what I meant however.

I genuinely admire that you are motivated enough to get involved with UK politics - and I wish you all the best. You've no idea the disappointment I had in the LDs though - I cheered them on in a handful of successive elections (they ousted the Tories in my home constituency West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine in '97 much to my family's delight) and in the run-in to 2010 was convinced they could rise up to challenge Labour and the Conservatives.

And then to join the Tories - it just boggles the mind, I cannot fathom how anyone didn't think "won't this completely kill us off?". For one this basically lost them the foothold they had Scotland (my home constituency was lost to the SNP, for example) and whatever was left of the younger supporters who weren't turned off by the association with the Conservatives were then burned by the Tuition Fee saga in England.

We'll never know what would have happened with Brexit if the Lib Dems were still in the coalition. But they completely capitulated on a single extremely simple promise in 2010. Now I (a previous Lib Dem voter) have no reason to believe they wouldn't do the exact same again.

But overall, yeah you are right. I do not understand the Lib Dems. And it fucking saddens me.
Yeah, we haven't pulled a United yet, and, barring enforcement of the code of conduct, I don't intend to ever do that. :)
Electronics design software. :)

Most of the time is spent doing fine collisions with shapes coming out of an R-tree to build up a connection graph.

For the vast majority of designs, it's fast. For very dense, imported designs, it can get slow. (No two tools keep data in the same form, so translating leads to inefficiencies.)
Seeing Is Believing: Evaluates Ruby code, recording the results of each line
> You can easily live on a vegan diet without those things

That's not true. The vast majority of convenient off-the-shelf meat substitutes use soy or seitan to replace meat protein.

Staying vegan while giving up soy and gluten means committing to a massive amount of meal-prep, and vegan food is already more labour-intensive in meal prep than the corresponding omnivore meals. It would mean basically giving up on all restaurant eating everywhere.

I'm not saying it can't be done, but you should not downplay that with "easily".
Theranos reaches agreement with U.S. health regulator
Have you tried rate limiting? Or setting other simple rules? For example say: 5 servings of meat per week max, and only 1 of red meat?
Influential Chinese Historian Urges End to North Korea Ties
I wonder if the same applies to sleep deprivation. Some people don't really do well at the hours required of jury service, one wonders if they are making an important decision with the right level of mental capacity in that case.
That is an interesting thought. We tend think of that law in terms of raw energy, but the inertia of society is no exception. We see this over and over whenever anybody goes on strike. Business grind to a halt. Sometimes entire industries. The Russian revolution was an example of several key industries doing this at the same time, and that society collapsed, eventually replaced by another.

It's not just a matter of supplying the raw power to keep everything running. It's also the sheer amount of continually supplying human effort and willpower. Much more nebulous concepts, but arguably more important.
Or enough of the legacy media sees the clicks as a zero-sum game, and seeks to strangle the competition before it gets too powerful.
Homer-Dixon's book is really good. Tainter's is a classic but it's not fun reading. Homer-Dixon explains Taiter's argument well enough.
This seems like it could be really useful. How do you deal with sites that might block you?
Google Ads is currently serving malware
Steps to recreate:

Go to https://www.google.com

Search for 'walmart'

The top result is an ad that appears to be for Walmart.com

WARNING - MALICIOUS URL:

https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjOg4vXwK7TAhUFgGkKHS9vC9EYABAAGgJpcQ&sig=AOD64_3_4octTbmC5G2Nb3xDVZ2NSTPRXA&q=&ved=0ahUKEwjUsIPXwK7TAhVB7IMKHcbiCZ4Q0QwIIw&adurl=

The link redirects to techsuppoortcenter.us [sic]

I tested these steps 1) on a Windows 7 PC (both Chrome and IE) on a corporate network 2) on a Mac with Chrome over a VPN 3) on an Android phone with Chrome over cellular internet

Note that "data-preconnect-urls" includes both walmart.com and the malicious (non-walmart) website:

<a href="https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&amp;ai=DChcSEwiovvW-y67TAhUBEWkKHT5LC9sYABAAGgJpcQ&amp;sig=AOD64_0rRlaI552aSP76PKakt3W_BAHSlQ&amp;q=&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiU-u2-y67TAhUs4oMKHTcXBNMQ0QwIIw&amp;adurl=" id="vs0p1c0" onmousedown="return google.arwt(this)" data-preconnect-urls="http://www.walmart.com/,http://techsuppoortcenter.us/" jsl="$t t-zxXzjt1d4B0;$x 0;" class="r-i_4sBuVBkxq8">walmart.com - walmart - Frash Products‎</a>
What's with all the -isms?

I don't eat meat. It's an ethical thing. And I really, really do not need to box myself into some defined ideology.
out of topic: do you know if gocrazy works well on the Raspberry Zero?
This was my first major memory leak; specifically not closing all my JDBC result sets. Fun fact, if you get table metadata, that creates a result set. :-P
> "Google Chrome required" - sure, because current crop of web developers are too young to remember dark age of Internet Explorer domination.

This is the same with the new YouTube TV too. I'm not sure if it's a DRM issue or not. Especially galling if so given the controversy over HTML5 DRM content, after other browsers have decided to support it, to then roll your own solution anyway...
The museum described in the Tech Crunch article is located in Seattle.

Are you sure you aren't thinking of the Computer History museum? The CHM is much larger although much less interactive.
No popup on my end thanks to NoScript.
What I want is for a web site to use standard web technologies so I can use it with my browser of choice.

I have no issue with Google putting things over the wire via HTTP but if it only works with a specific client it isn't, to me, a web site but an internet-based application akin to Microsoft ActiveX-based sites which were awful for the web.

The whole point of the web is that it was developed as an open platform and we had to fight with Microsoft to stop them turning it into an Internet Explorer only platform. I don't want the same thing to happen with Google/Chrome.

I want an open web where I don't have to use one particular browser for certain services.

I should also say I do think Google do a lot of good though. They do work with the web standards committee and they do a pretty good job of making their innovations open so I am not quite as worried as I was about Microsoft but, to me, it is better to stop it before it happens than fight to get it back.
Ruby internship ( remote )
hello all,

I recently finished the ruby course at http://www.codecademy.com and now I am studying ruby on rails. I am learning by doing much more faster and I want to commit 10 hours per week to a project as free. if interested please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Some background of me :

- linux admin for 4 years
- has ccna education and network knowledge
- love the time spent in front of terminal.
> Theranos Inc said on Monday it would stay out of the blood-testing business for at least two years in exchange for reduced penalties from federal health authorities.

So, think they're done? What else could they possible do to bring in revenue at this point?
I have a real issue with Docker Marketing Speak bullshit. "Democratizing containers"? When were they not democratic? What were they before? Tyrannical? or - gasp - communist? And now they are going to ADVANCE THE SOFTWARE CONTAINERIZATION MOVEMENT what does that even mean. Hacker News commenters tend to be pretty smart, and at the time I am posting this, most comments are along the lines of "eh? say what now?" When their core consumers don't understand the message, you can bet your hat that they are not the real target of the message. Or the people at Docker are not good at marketing, which I find harder to believe.
I wish atom would just add preloading. I be happy to always have a hidden, sleeping window ready to pop to front on request. There must be some reason this is harder than I imagine...
> The parent seems to be suggesting that a vegan diet didn't work for them for health reasons. But countered objections to this by saying that it's difficult. (Which it is. Stupidly difficult to eat meat, gluten and soy free in my experience) But convenience is a different argument from health. Which is it? If the issue is convenience, I concede. If it's health there may be room to explore other options.

Why can't it be both? A diet can be both medically necessary and inconveniencing. See my own example or a diabetic diet.
I think there is a distinct difference between the things that can be viscerally demonstrated, and those that people can not easily see as a yes/no proposition.

This woman set out to prove she could run marathons. Her ability to finish was visceral proof that at least some women can run marathons. The guy that tried to push here provided additional fodder to make it look idiotic to refuse them to try to run.

In comparison, many of the others things are not something you can see is wrong with your own two eyes, and can see repeated anytime you care.

It's harder to see for yourself that one race isn't better than another, especially not when you're looking at things with a biased starting point. Even when you meet nice/smart/law-abiding people of another race, you can write it off as "but not you - you're different" and hold on to the stereotypes. It takes many more examples to overcome for someone who has first gotten convinced by the stereotypes.

A woman running a marathon on the other hand, is such a simple thing to show, and it takes very few repetitions, that can be delivered in a very short amount of time, to prove that it's not a fluke or a single abnormal person. You might write it off as fake if you read about it, but not if you see a marathon go by or hear about female friends running one. And once it's happened a few times it sounds remarkable unremarkable.

But unfortunately that means a whole lot of issues are likely going to take a very long time to resolve because they are not nearly as easy to demonstrate.
I thought the best chapter was on Phillip Greenspun of ArsDigita. Phillip was forced out of his own startup by his board and he eventually maneuvered behind the scenes to regain control.

If there's a "Founders At Work 2.0", more stories about failures, mistakes, and how people learned from those failures+mistakes would be super helpful. Most startups aren't an overnight success or a unicorn with "rocketship" style growth. Learning more about the non-sexy, non-linear successes can be just as useful than reading about the unicorns.
There is a Shield + Gateway coming out soon , the Lora Alliance will use it as a dev kit. In the summer we'll have a MKR format board. SigFox is good becaue it can deliver now on a lot of use cases
Some proxies for race:
- Where somebody lives
- Their name
- What sports teams somebody supports
- Their finances
- consumer preferences
- education level
- what medical conditions somebody has
- political leanings

I'm not saying these factors can't legitimately be used in a risk assessment, but they could be used to make a good bet on race.