skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"JQuery has a lot of the same stuff now via 3rd party libraries, but often I've seen the production schedules of those various 3rd parties lead to cases where you need a newer version of one but can't upgrade because it would interfere with another."

this is long solved.. i read your post twice and if you take this statement away, your argument for YUI seems to unravel. The statement also seems to demonstrate you think it's YUI vs jquery which is not an interesting comparison.

I'm interested in a pro-YUI argument when compared to Backbone, Knockout, Ember, Angular, ExtJS, etc, in the context of "enterprise intranet" apps. In my particular case we need to be able to work with arbitrary markup and widget toolkits such that our design team has minimal constraints due to stack choices, but I'm also interested in the case where the design team is able to be constrained, if that makes the argument easier.
Oh man. This may be my favorite startup quote in all of history. "Investors make more money as founders' bitches than their bosses."
Consumers might buy them if they were advertised as 'green' cars that were cheaper than hybrids and more reliable than electrics (you just need to remember which pump to use) Though it does seem like a bit of a chicken or egg situation.
The links to Facebook/Twitter/etc. should best be HTTPS, I think.
I see that X, the Y of Z is still going strong as an elevator pitch.

What's wrong with "Omni: a 3D Treadmill"?
> When people will realize that the problem is always in the governments themselves

Though I agree with your broader thrust, I'm deeply suspicious of any use of "never" or "always" in the context of complex systems.

> While belief in a magical all-powerful and caring government is no different than a belief in deity.

Belief, for better or worse, is a fundamental component of human social behavior. For instance, I challenge you to construct a monetary system that does not at least partially involve belief. (See also: http://www.meltingasphalt.com/religion-is-not-about-beliefs/ )

Rather than tilting at the windmill of belief, I'd rather we started believing in better things: naturalism over spiritualism, human rights over state power, decentralized currencies over fiat currencies, etc.
I would assume you're referring to potato-based processed foods (like potato chips) that been have cooked at high temperature. If not, and you're seriously trying to argue that eating a small amount of potatoes exposes one to cancer risk, it would be more enlightening if you posted an actual comparison between the levels of carcinogens in a sack of lowly potatoes and a bottle of red wine. Hint: there's a reason the bottle of red wine you bought at the store has a warning label and the sack of potatoes you bought with it doesn't.

In any case, while I appreciate your attempt at being clever, the whole point is that we're not talking about abuse here, we're talking about moderate consumption. Let's be clear: there is debate as to whether moderate alcohol consumption provides any net benefit to health.

Moderate consumption of, say, grapes or salmon, will not add 3,000-plus excess calories to your diet each and every month. And there are plenty of studies showing that regular consumption of fruit and Omega-3 rich fish is associated with significant health benefits.

I used to be a wine snob, and still enjoy a glass every now and again, so I'm not anti-alcohol. But if you'd like to believe that moderate consumption of wine or beer is about as healthy as eating fruit and fish regularly, or that eating fruit and fish regularly is about as risky as having a glass or two of wine every night, I respectfully hope you don't become a nutritionist.
For those wondering about why a private/charter jet is not really feasible:

http://blog.privatefly.com/edward-snowden-fly-private-jet-mo...

Not impossible, but highly unlikely.
I had the opportunity to ask Palmer Luckey (the founder of OR) directly about the possibility of smartphone based HMDs. It turns out he's looked into it quite a bit, but ultimately the unsolvable latency of the sensors made him move on. It could work for viewing 3D content or for situations where the head will only be moved fairly slowly, but it's not a great solution for most applications. I would note that a dedicated handset maker could create the hardware and drivers which fix this.
Yeah, I think that that is prevented pretty clearly by the first amendment. And the 14th amendment wouldn't allow for granting one class of citizens rights over/at the expense of another.

As for the bigger picture, in my mind the debate over whether or not the Constitution is "living" is silly. Of course it is living. Unless you can send every case back to 1787 you'll never know what the founders intended. You interpret the meaning of what they wrote through the context of your modern life. Trying to use their writings of the time for context just exponentially increases the text that can be construed for any purpose, and you still end up reading the context through the context of modern life. And the founders almost certainly had different and unique interpretations of the constitution that they all voted for.

If a religious majority took over all three branches of government, then what can you do? The constitution won't save you. The constitution grants them the power to look at it through their own lens. No other lens is possible. The constitution is "living" then whether you want it to be or not.
I can't comment on why it resonates so well with people, but I noticed that the same Kickstarter was posted earlier today using the original OP title "Omni: Move Naturally in Your Favorite Game" and it received hardly any attention.
What Lessig is asking for (see his 1999 book "Code", and his plug of Palantir) is for software that can cross correlate data from multiple sources to identify leaks of information for the purpose of copyright protection. He (and others) believe that the right software can provide privacy while "securely" storing vast amounts of data, through "immutable audit logs". The problem is, he's wrong, and this isn't technically possible.

The kind of technical naiveté that believes that surveillance software can be secure and auditable, is what is allowing the NSA PRISM software to develop, and concentrating too much data. When you hear Obama claim that PRISM is transparent, he's referring indirectly to flawed technical arguments.

So no, of course Lessig won't argue for PRISM. But he is arguing for measures that PRISM probably already has, measures that cannot be sufficient.
AFAIK -- no.

There are speculations that he may be outside of transit zone, in some hotel under guard(still without crossing border): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732387390457857...

This explains absence of photos.
And this is all bad, bad, bad news for recruiting. These companies will all be fighting over the same talent pool that is growing only slowly.
You are right. The web today is full of scripts and is slow sites.
Looks like the NSA sympathizers on HN flagged this story. It's sitting on page 2 despite having 152 votes.
Because people would ask; "Why do I need a 3d treadmill? I am perfectly happy running in a 2d line." It is not immediately obvious what it is for.

I think it would have make a lot more sense to say "Omni 3d Treadmill: The perfect complement for the Oculus Rift."
What you think you know about psychedelic drugs is not true. If you judge what drug proponents say against what you think that you know, of course you'll find what they say dishonest. What many of them say is on a far firmer scientific footing than what you're saying.

LSD does not cause people to be schizophrenic; schizophrenia shows itself during the most likely years for people to be experimenting with drugs.

edit: and to add to what kinghajj mentioned about Philip K. Dick; Dick was on amphetamines, and amphetamines have a very established history of actually making you long-term crazy.
With regard to the Omni as a way to exercise, I wonder how it stacks up to actual running/walking since the user does not actually have to propel his or her own weight.
He's making the point that he has no reason to respond to such criticism, since he's neither involved nor advocates it.
Thanks for the advice. I will change them later.
See my sibling comment to yours for more context. There are two main problems with the sensors in current devices. The first is that the communication layers (hardware and software) between the sensors and your applications can add 60ms or more. The rendering loop itself will add another 16ms (60fps) or 33ms (30fps). The second problem is that they fast, but not very fast. Generally phone position sensors can run 100 times a second. The OR sensors, on the other hand, run at something like 1000 times a second. This lets a processor in the goggles themselves do predictive algorithms which guess at future head motion allowing the higher level software to compensate for expected head motion.

The key is that humans can perceive latency around 20-30ms, and the phone is delivering around 80-100 in the best case. For what it's worth, I did real measurements on all this before giving up on the idea myself.
It's surprisingly easy to get back out of the military, if you really want to. You just have to be willing to deal with a general or other-than-honorable discharge.
I propose that investing is a market and the state of that market will depend on how the participants act.

So, let me throw this idea out there: Be the kind of company that can pitch a VC and if they don't have a YES/NO answer to you within a week, pass on the VC.

I think there's a power imbalance because founders want money more than VCs need to invest. I think the economics are such that founders should have a lot more power.

When founders start demanding quick decisions (or more specifically, requiring them) ... the decision making process will become quicker.
I had an awesome visual representation that eventually made a lot more sense when I started doing some GL programming. Everything in front of me, on it's surface, was made of triangles. I could see those triangles were made of infinitely smaller triangles, ad infinitum. It was absolutely beautiful.
Duverger's law states that first-past-the-post electoral systems result in two-party governance. I am fairly certain Denmark uses either a double ballot majority system or proportional representation, which is why Danish democracy both excels and has multi-party governments.
That is why I said, I am thinking about not serving scripts from CDNs, at least not from public CDNs.
Is there evidence to support the claim that Van Gogh believed cutting his ear off was important to his life and work? If not, then this is a very different example to that of Jobs' claim and is an equally poor way of refuting a position.
That sounds very interesting, thanks.
Yeah, because the probability that a random alien would recognize "humans would rather not be reassembled into somebody else's compute substrate" as ethically relevant is slim.
Are you assuming these startups are all in the bay area? I don't think PG is. I think he's saying that doing startups is becoming a broad cultural phenomenon.

I think the "talent pool" really should be the whole world.

There are several startups I know of who hire people completely remotely. One guy lives in thailand, the other in spain, etc.
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I guess they had a significant amount of people who had never moved on. Better to serve them up something they knew than push they to Yahoo search and have then actually think about searching options.

Over time I guess that number become small enough that maintaining a separate brand is no longer worth the likely small amount of effort to do it.
It must be somewhere in between. But definitely closer to running than walking. When running most of you effort is directed against the gravity, that is why the treadmills work.
OK, I just busted your theory. Sorry. :) It has 16G

The LSM330 has an user-selectable full scale acceleration range of ±2 g/±4 g/±6 g/±8 g/±16 g and angular rate range of ±250/±500/±2000 d.

Samsung Galaxy S4 accelerometers/gyro Datasheet:
http://www.st.com/web/en/catalog/sense_power/FM89/SC1448/PF2...

Here's a FULL Teardown of the insides of the Samsung Galaxy S4. http://www.chipworks.com/blog/recentteardowns/2013/04/25/ins...
> City life very well might increase innovation in certain fields. I'd posit that country life increases innovation just as much, but in different areas.

Innovative people are everywhere - the benefit that cities offer is that for every unit of space you have a greater number of people, thus you're likely to find a few intelligent, like-minded people condensed into a smaller area. They become easier to find an collaborate with. To use a metaphor: you have a better chance of picking up in a bar if there are 50 members of the opposite sex than 5.
I completely agree, I was very excited until I saw the special shoes requirements. While I can see how it works, I don't really understand why they couldn't use a regular treadmill belt with some piezoelectric sensor to detect lateral movements.
Debian Wheezy (current stable) ships with Ruby 1.9.3-p194 + various patches [1].

[1] http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/ruby1.9.1
So? That's not a good reason to restrict life-saving technologies.
LSD is a complicated thing to produce and very few people have the skills / knowledge to do so, hence its rarity.

What I would recommend is Psilocybin Mushrooms; they grow in the wild, and the experience, imo, is whole orders of magnitude more strange, introspective and beautiful than LSD. Its also completely "natural" and leaves your system without a trace in just a few hours.
> Companies like Monsanto have already shown they are prepared to fight hard to keep control their GM monopolies:

An analogy: If Microsoft sues someone for selling unlicensed copies of MS PowerPoint, can they be construed to be fighting hard to keep control of their presentation software monopoly?
He advocates Palantir's surveillance program for the purpose of copyright protection, using its technological aspects of "immutable auditability" to ensure that the program is used for its intended purpose. The problem is, he assumes that such a thing is possible, when in fact it's more like flimsy DRM that the NSA can quite easily, secretly, bypass.
You're probably right, American teenagers are hitting puberty earlier too and growth hormones in milk and beef were the main suspects.

But also: When women have a large pool of potential mates to chose from they usually select the healthier larger males. In the USA we all speak the same language, use the same currency, can move to whatever city we want and that gives women a much larger selection of big males to mate with. While in European countries, there are language barriers, cultural barriers, and smaller populations per country. Although the population of europe is 700+ million, the population tends to stay in it's home country and intermarry with it's own kind to an extent. Meaning once all the big males in a country are married and taken, the women there start mating with medium & smaller men. That's my theory at least. American culture is also very extreme-masculine, homophobic, scared of looking weak, and obsessed with dominant macho males. It might have to do with white men's fear of strong dominating black men which are the majority in many physical sports and are over-represented in violent crimes and present in high-crime neighborhoods. So maybe it's a security thing.

http://metro.co.uk/2007/02/01/dutch-are-the-worlds-tallest-i...
I highly appreciate your feedback. Especially that the founders looked into that possiblilty, just shows how much class they have. Carmack doesn't support them just because they're cool. There is more to it.
> LSD does not cause people to be schizophrenic; schizophrenia shows itself during the most likely years for people to be experimenting with drugs.

This is very misleading at best. LSD use causes direct symptoms of psychosis, including symptoms of schizophrenia, schizoaffective, and schizophreniform disorders.

The effects of LSD resemble schizophrenia so closely, in fact, that it has led to studies on rats using LSD as a hypothetical model to represent schizophrenia. In other words, we give rats LSD and see what chemicals reduce the effects to find treatments for schizophrenia.

A very incomplete list of sources:

Aghajanian, G. K., & Marek, G. J. (2000). Serotonin model of schizophrenia: emerging role of glutamate mechanisms. Brain Research Reviews, 31(2), 302-312.

Crow, T. J. (1980). Molecular pathology of schizophrenia: more than one disease process?. British medical journal, 280(6207), 66.

Schneier, F. R., & Siris, S. G. (1987). A review of psychoactive substance use and abuse in schizophrenia: patterns of drug choice. The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 175(11), 641-652.
I don't disagree with all of PG's points, but I always find it intriguing that in discussions of the current startup landscape and the future of startup investing, there's almost never any mention of the impact of the easy money policies of the major central banks over the past several years.

Cheap money on an unprecedented scale has affected just about every asset class, including VC, so to discuss the future of startup investing without even considering the extraordinary monetary policies we've seen implemented since 2008 is interesting to say the least.
> One thing we can say for sure is that there will be a lot more startups. The monolithic, hierarchical companies of the mid 20th century are being replaced by networks of smaller companies. This process is not just something happening now in Silicon Valley. It started decades ago, and it's happening as far afield as the car industry. It has a long way to run.

I think this is predicted in part by Coase's theory of the firm.

As the transactional cost of coordinating between firms falls, the size of a firm necessary to sustain complex projects and processes shrinks.

For example, it used to be that getting computing done meant leasing mainframe time. IBM wouldn't deal with small-fry, just too much work for too little return. So to get started, you needed mondo capital.

Later, provisioning a server meant some faxes, phonecalls and maybe some emails; followed by sending some staff to a data centre to meet a shipment from the manufacturer and install it. This meant that you needed several actual people in the company to do this. Usually the founders and a few other people, on a weekend.

These days? I type a command. My computer talks to a remote computer and they set up any amount of computing that I need.

Now I need to jump in here and point out that it's not simply sticker cost. It's the full transactional cost -- cost of search, cost of integration, cost of coordination etc etc -- that is falling on many fundamental inputs to software development.

The other thing that predicts the fall in firm size is the increasing productivity of developers. One of the principal ways to improve the productivity of labour is to use capital, and the past decade has seen an accumulation of capital that is stunning in its breadth and scope.

For example, a decade ago, Rails didn't exist outside of 37signals. Neither did the vast ecosystem of tools that has grown up around it. Collectively these represent amazing amounts of capital that any individual can access and apply.
I have not experienced the troubles you mention with postfix defaults (actually debian's postfix defaults). Can you think of some examples to be on the look out for?
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I'm still excited; I think it's the type of innovation required to bring something like this to a mass market for a reasonable price.
It's a logarithmic graph. It doesn't go to zero. It just goes to 10^0 which is 1. And in this case one billion units of whatever. -1 is 100 million etc..
hmm.. I know about the humans limit, that's important to begin with. I don't know details about the latency. My busted post doesn't have that backing, but the sensitivity of 16G is enough for VR applications.
I haven't read the book itself, but it's obvious that 'immutable audit logs' don't prevent privacy violations. They would simply make these privacy violations detectable. Enforcement of privacy violations would still be up to the rest of the oversight structure (whether that's institutional, external audits, journalism, special interest groups, or a combination thereof).

And either way, technical measures that would be insufficient for PRISM may very well be sufficient for most of the rest of what government does.

As a final note I think that sometimes we tech types get way too wrapped around preventing outcomes which are already so implausible as to be merely theoretical, and use that to oppose measures which, while imperfect, would still be useful if applied. It's "The Perfect is the enemy of the good" that we see in software project management, applied to the government at large.
Government is the one institution that pays lip service to and can be influenced directly by the populace it's supposed to be accountable to. Obviously, in practice it serves the will of those already in power.

As someone who doesn't want to jump ship from the system we have now to anarchy immediately, I believe that even more corrupt power structures would take governments place without first eradicating the existing power structures and influence of the accumulation of capital has on global society.

To transition now, where the power and resources are in the hands of a slim margin of people, would usher in an era of neo-feudalism. Some would argue we are already at that point, so why destabilise the only organisation with power that exists, in theory, for the people?
Full-Disclosure: The comment above was made by the co-founder / CEO of mailgun.
One of the design goals was "No moving parts". (And was done to keep costs down and a more maintainable/repairable/defect-free product)
I know people who are fully on solar/wind power and grow their own food.
Now its not clear what the button does. Why not brand each link to match its respective network?

Edit: Your WordPress permalink code looks fine by the way.
The number one thing GMOing is used for is to make seeds resistant to pesticide. So now what Roundup/Monsanto farmers do is spread pesticide over the land, far and wide.

The myth is that GMO technology lets us produce high yield crops and mix a caterpillars with bananas to get Butterbananas. But the truth is GMO just lets us engineer soybeans to survive Roundup, and then spray, baby, spray.

The end effect of GMO is a stimulus for the pesticide industry, and negative externalities on the environment. That needs to be balanced with whatever crop yields GMO achieves, and it should be understood the crop yields are higher primarily because the bugs are dead, not because we have new super-plants that produce more food per plant.
I am not as in love with that quote as you are. I'm not a fan of the term, but also, it screws with the tone. You know it's janky writing when the reader stops and rereads to make sure they just read what they think they read.
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It's well known why you shouldn't feed a species to itself; they will be susceptible to the same pathogens, and the pathogens will accumulate from one generation to the next.

Why are you making the leap from this to unrelated practices?
Even if there were a single phone that outperformed the Rift in real world responsiveness (and there isn't), that wouldn't really change anything because the whole value proposition of a generic smartphone printed solution is you use it with whatever phone you already have. If you have some phone other than that super phone, as the majority of smartphone users would, you then have to buy some specific $650 phone for the thing to give you comparable performance to the Rift, and you just spent more than double what a Rift costs.