skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not prejudiced at all. It's common sense. Also, why would I automatically have empathy for him when I don't know the whole story. What if he was a complete jerk? You don't know this and I certainly don't either so let's not take sides unless and until the facts are known.

If he was, in fact, assaulted without any provocation whatsoever it was a criminal act that the law should deal with in the strongest possible manner. I am not disputing that and don't think anyone would.

Why didn't he go to the police? I would physically go to the nearest police station and file an assault report. Do you really think French police would ignore him, particularly with evidence and witnesses? I think not.

My post was about common sense and manners. "When in Rome", if you will.

I did not place blame nor justify the destruction of property. It is purely your choice to read that into my post. PleAse don't put words in my mouth.

If any of the post wasn't clear: I, nor anyone on HN unless you were there, know exactly what went on. Therefore it is impossible to take sides an feel empathy for him or justify the other party's actions. We just don't know enough, so let's not get overly polarized in one direction or another.

My comments were more about how rude and unreasonable it might be to force yourself onto others or invade their privacy. If you want to walk around with a bunch of tech scanning everything around, you have to be respectful enough to ask permission.

Prejudice? Where? There's a huge difference between prejudice and reality. The Dutch don't have protection from the mechanisms inside windmills. I've done windmill tours with my kids and you simply have to adjust to their reality (when in Rome). Some Americans think this is insane. We might want to have floor to ceiling barriers to prevent anyone from getting their hands into the gears. The Dutch probably think that we are an over-controlling sue-happy society. None of this is prejudiced. It's just the way it is. When in the Netherlands I behave with respect and consideration for their ways. The same is the case in the UK, France, Italy or Germany. I've spent a good deal of time in various places in Europe. I can say that we, Americans, can be total jerks and so can everyone else (except the Dutch, they are always nice).
What do you mean by "non-native"?
The technology used in eyetrap and Google's glasses is sufficiently different that I doubt the eyetrap patent is really being infringed by Google. I doubt Steve has the money or desire to take Google to court anyway, and probably holds the patent as a defensive measure against himself being sued by someone like Google.
Flash solves the problem of cross-platform development really well vs other platforms. You don't have to worry about making conditional statements for
specific operating systems or browsers. I feel the rapid deploying of browsers is just increasing the fragmented world of html + js. There are just way too many different implementations of html to make it enjoyable coding on.

And also, the way flash handles making animations and anti-aliasing almost makes my very non-artistic feel
somewhat versatile when tackling those things.
Title is quite misleading. It seems to imply we should build companies like they used to in 1999 (webvan style).
What he is actually saying is that is now time to build companies that people tried in 1999 but were too early. It's now time to revisit all of those ideas.
This is actually quite obvious to most people by now.
Why should it be predominately C++, in order to have an easy time being reviewed?

There's plenty of C++ code in the iOS App Store. I know a couple of people who've developed most of the code for their iOS apps in Visual Studio. They were computer vision apps with just a little bit of GUI toolkit code.
What 'open-source rhetoric'? It isn't a Valve Open-source blog, it's a Valve linux blog - open source is not really relevant at all to this post.
The human visual system adapts to its inputs. If you wear glasses that flip whatever you see upside down you'll be confused for a few weeks, but eventually you'll adapt and at that point removing them will render you unable to see properly. I'd expect the same thing to happen with visual augmentation of the sort that Prof. Mann is wearing here. That is, without all the extra visual cues he's getting he'd have a hard time parsing normal vision.
He goes from "we bought our food and sat down to eat it" to "this guy assaulted me". Really? Unless they have complete lunatics at that establishment I find that hard to believe. There's a large series of events before a non-criminal who isn't absolutely insane decides to attack you.

I'd love to see the store's surveillance video and read their account before choosing sides.
Ubuntu's the only major distribution (that I know of) that has an integrated and supported process for installing the closed video drivers you'll need to run their games on ati/nvidia.
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Most observers seem to agree that Yahoo's problem is cultural in nature. It's not a Nokia-esque situation, where the company was heavily damaged by competitive forces before Elop even showed up.

A big part -- a necessary part -- of the way Jobs changed the culture at Apple was by bringing in a lot of people who had been loyal to him for years at Next and elsewhere. I can't think of any cases where an outsider has parachuted into a large company, by invitation or otherwise, and turned it around by himself/herself.

Can/will Mayer do that? If so, where will the required team of revolutionaries and revanchists come from? If she doesn't (or can't) raid Google, then where will she get the people she will need?
From the perspective of a former Epsicopal turning Roman Catholic .. they don't have _any_.
> In terms of WebGL though, I think the major platform for it is the traditional Desktop OS.

Currently. However, that's how these things tend to start off, isn't it? On the one hand, handhelds have gone from dumb phones to the Droid and iPhone platforms; on the other, well, people wrote playable games for the Atari 2600.
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Thanks. As soon as the next cycle of apps opens up we definitely will!
You do realize these takedowns are automated? No one at a label sat there and clicked "report"
Look at the previous CEOs of Yahoo. Even excluding Scott Thompson (who lied on his resume) NONE of them have even held executive positions, or done anything significant in the business world. It doesn't seem like people forgave them just because Yahoo is a horrible mess.
I suspect it's more of a tongue-in-cheek self-reference to the Linux C coding style (http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle) where he suggests burning the GNU coding standards, using exactly the same phrasing.

Incidentally if you read the GNU coding standards I think you'll find they really ARE that bad (http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Formatting.html#...)
What evidence do you have that he did not provoke the incident?

Don't be so quick to take sides.

If you read my post carefully you'll notice that I did not blame him of the incident. How could I? Not one person reading this knows exactly what went on. People who jump at conclusions based on incomplete evidence scare me.

My comments had to do with manners and common sense. Don't go around rigged like a Borg and expect everyone to accommodate your presence. Be humble and respectful of others and seek permission before invading their privacy. It's that simple.
Oh yes. Hospitality is the central theme of Genesis 19, for instance, which definitely predates The Wanderer. I feel a little bad now, because I can't provide you with a solid set of sources, but every culture all the way back to the earliest stories we have will give references to the obligation of a host, the duties of a guest, and how gift-giving plays into that. The whole point of the Trojan War wasn't precisely that property had been stolen, but more importantly that it had been done by a guest to his host. (As modern readers, we recognize a breach of private property more clearly than we recognize a breach of hospitality.)

It's the earliest form of debt-as-community-glue, really. It only survives today in the habit of bringing a bottle of wine to a dinner party, and in the handshake. We mostly rely on codified laws of hospitality instead (which govern restaurants and hotels).
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This is a bit hacky, but you can set up pingdom (or new relic) to ping your (toy/side project) apps every few minutes. This essentially ensures that you never have to wait for heroku's spin up time.

cf. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5480337/easy-way-to-preve...
In regards to that slashdot article's comment, the comparison to watching a movie screen doesn't really explain it for most of us, I think.

There was an experiment[1] that had participants wear vision-inverting glasses for a while. Eventually they started seeing everything right-side up through the glasses. In fact, their vision was upside down after they removed the glasses!! Although they re-adjusted after a little while, it'd certainly explain Mann's temporary disorientation and the subsequent need for a doctor's note.

Also, it'd be weird to conduct such experiments on yourself and not expect weird stuff like this to happen to you from time to time, especially when visiting foreign countries.

[1] George M. Stratton. Some preliminary experiments on vision. Psychological Review, 1896.
Assaulting anybody is downright criminal in most jurisdictions.
It integrates with Google Apps, specifically: Google Calendar, Google SSO, Google Contacts, and Gmail. The widget listed is currently for Google Chrome and inside the Gmail frame.

Thanks for the feedback on pricing. We are going to add a tier below enterprise and compete in the JobVite territory. In the mean time we offer 30 day free trial on all plans and a 75% off coupon for early beta users: HN75PCT.
I hear people say good things about Hadoop... though the stigma of it's development at Yahoo has always kept me from investing the time to learn more.
Arch linux isn't all that hard, not sure if this counts as "integrated and supported"

But...
# pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA

Is all I did for the work install, took longer to finish the setup but thats more due to me having 2 monitors than anything else, one is mad simple. Can't speak to the ati stuff. I know SuSe is about as simple as well.
It's mentioned three times in the article, including:
"We want this to be a community of open source game developers, communicating with each other and talking about current efforts and future efforts in a powerfully creative environment."
Philip Monego spent six months there before Koogle.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/philip-monego-sr/0/11b/967?_mSpl...
curious to learn why you say this?
He probably means by running the games using something like WINE.
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Call me crazy, but operating the highest profile McDonald's franchise in Europe is probably not the first thing I'd consider if I needed to launder some money.

But setting up a venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, given today's ridiculous valuations, seems like an excellent way to launder money.
My brother was in a bar once where he ordered a shot of whisky and it came in at about 4-5 oz or so. Maybe it was money laundering?
This is an outrageous assault and battery. This is a criminal act. I hope the police are involved and arrests are made.

Steve Mann is the father of wearable computer. I remember seeing him as a undergrad in MIT wearing those clumsy camera and computer at the belt. He is the pioneer in real cyborg tech.
Has the 3-D hype bubble finally burst?
The real crime is that he went to Paris and ate at McDonalds.
His proposal is at http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/draft-kamp-httpbis-http-20-archit...

It comes with the caveats that "Please disregard any strangeness in the boilerplate, I may not
thrown all the right spells at xml2rfc, and also note that I have
subsequently changed my mind on certain subjects, most notably
Cookies which should simply be exterminated from HTTP/2.0, and
replaced with a stable session/identity concept which does not make
it possible or necessary for servers to store data on the clients."
http://libravatar.org/ provides a FLOSS, federated solution to the problem, instead of "just another centralised private service" that has the potential to leak data (i.e. every site you go to will make a logged request on their service, with libravatar you can run your own server instead)
If the company I work at is any indication, expect IE 8 to be around for a long time.

They just last year updated ie6 to 7 on our xp systems. And just recently are trialing windows 7 for certain groups. Big corporations move glacially slow at updates.
something that needs WINE to run. I want a Linux binary I can run.
XOR is the best DRM. Since all DRM is breakable since you need the decryption key to play the content, the purpose should be to trigger the copy-protection-protection stuff in the DMCA, and XOR is the simplest way to do that.
Loved the post and the blog overall!

I would be interested in reading more about different 'types' of Distribution Hackers. You mention they are often a 'mix of coder and marketer,' but I would be interested to see what other skill-sets might produce distribution hackers.
looks like it was a good thing i hedged ;)
If you ask for that first, and don't get it, it also adds more bite to a suit later.

The infamous hot coffee MacDonalds case involved a woman who had first asked MacDonalds (or that franchise, not sure) to pay her medical bills (around 20 grand iirc for extensive second and third degree burns) and they refused. It was only after that when she sued, got a list of other complaints about the temperature and won a large judgement (reduced on appeal).
The above comment should be read and thought about a bit.
More likely started as reasonable concern (or at least plausibly understandable), compounded with ignorance and machismo into stupidity and wrongness.

McDonalds should apologize, but I don't think it was a conspiracy.
Surprisingly, iOS 6 betas are extremely stable. Only 2 iPad apps (Instapaper & Air Video) out of hundreds of apps I have would crash with Beta 1 & 2 (and Marco issues an update to fix it).

When I installed iOS 5 beta 1, literally no third party app that used NSTableView would run.
Did you miss this part: it now runs natively on Ubuntu 12.04.
Along similar lines:

http://www.mailgun.com/

http://postmarkapp.com/

And a couple of non-mail-related ones:

http://www.fliptop.com/ - social intelligence API

http://www.twilio.com - SMS & IP Telephony API
Not one person being "scanned" would know what the rig is for. It is the responsibility of the wearer to communicate this and ask permission when entering private spaces.

A museum or a public place is a different story. If museum security has an issue then you either leave or take it off.

Even in public there's the concept of decorum. Let's say you have a teenage daughter who is also attractive and some guy stars to follow you a few feet in fron while recording her on video. While probably legal in most parts of the world this behavior is almost guaranteed to cause the videographer a lot of trouble, and rightly so.

Then there are other invasion-of-privacy type issues like people who choose to smoke in public. I recently had the experience of having dinner with my family in the outdoor dining area of a restaurant when a group of youngsters sat at the table next to us and started to smoke. They showed total disregard for the fact that we were being forced to inhale their smoke, even my young kids. We had been there for an hour, they just showed up and we were engulfed in a cloud of smoke. Legal? Yes? Incredibly rude and inconsiderate? Absolutely!
Removing cookies from a protocol which is otherwise fully compatible with HTTP/1, in the sense of being able to be interposed as a proxy or substituted in the web server without breaking apps, is a terrible idea.

> Cookies are, as the EU commision correctly noted, fundamentally
flawed, because they store potentially sensitive information on
whatever computer the user happens to use, and as a result of various
abuses and incompetences, EU felt compelled to legislate a "notice
and announce" policy for HTTP-cookies.

> But it doesn't stop there: The information stored in cookies have
potentialiiy very high value for the HTTP server, and because the
server has no control over the integrity of the storage, we are now
seing cookies being crypto-signed, to prevent forgeries.

Anyone with a grain of skill is capable of using cookies as identifiers only; it's hard to see what cookies vs identifiers has to do with "notice and announce" or security. An explicit session mechanism could provide benefits over using cookies for the same purpose, but what exactly would removing cookies achieve other than breaking the world?
Wait, OSX is loosing its desktop metaphor? Did I miss something? And since when is the desktop metaphor essential to mouse / keyboard control?
If the other party is doing it, you don't really have a choice. You either respond or you ignore it.
Yeah it would have been nice to see that mentioned. I was curious at how many games could possibly launch with the Linux Steam launch, and there were more than I realized:

http://steamlinux.flibitijibibo.com/index.php?title=Native_G...
Did you guys investigate any other choices such as DynamoDB, or HBase? I know that Facebook (inventors of Cassandra) have moved off of Cassandra over to HBase for its back-end messaging services due to its inherent consistency problems.
It really depends on the size of organization. For something like Google, I would say that long-response times are the norm and frequently the recruiter/contact person are extremely swamped and may have forgotten about you. Not necessarily because you aren't good, but because their volume is insane. In this case I would write a quick letter that says "Thanks, I really enjoyed meeting X (person you talked to). We had a good conversation and I wanted to check if you needed any more information from me." This is generally enough to push them if they are inclined to pursue you, if they didn't like you for whatever reason then they probably won't respond or will reject you. If they don't respond after that I would say send one more email about a week later that is slightly more urgent (considering other offers, etc). If they don't respond to that, then it's best to let that one go.

For smaller companies, they most likely don't have the resources to keep in touch with everyone. For me, this is the main value of an Applicant Tracking System: making sure no one falls through the cracks. That being said, most small companies don't have them, so they are relying on their memory + spreadsheet to carry them through.

If you're working through an external recruiter: talk to them, they have every incentive to push you through the pipeline and have a direct read on the process.

If you have a contact in the company or you met with someone in person: send them a quick follow up email is enough to move the pipeline usually.

If you've blind applied: then I would suggest sending them a quick note to get back onto their priority queue. Whomever is in charge of the process WANTS to respond to everyone, but if they don't see a fresh email sitting in their inbox, they quite possibly have forgotten that you're in the pipeline.

Also as mentioned below, pursuing many job opportunities in parallel is good for you and can be a great forcing-function/bargaining chip in late-stage hiring processes.
Anybody know if this is true? No facebook account. If true, anybody know why?
Well, if there was someway to mark links as "opinion" or "knowledge" related, I'd be happy.. But, that is certainly not the case. Like some sort of crowdsourced opinion/knowledge on each link. Like upvotes, but a little more meaningful/useful.

Then again, you're still relying on the crowd and its whims. But it'll be consistent!

I can't tell the difference between which type a thread is without reading the comments or article.
Are the changes published? If not, could somebody who's trying it let us in on what's new?