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It sounds too good to be true, which automatically means it will fail.

Wish I was joking about this...
Ask HN: How do you translate better knowledge to more money?
I love learning.

Today, I'm seeing things that my past self would have never conceived. At first I would bang away at the keyboard to get something done, today I see a philosophical computational dream world.

Unfortunately, there's a problem. It doesn't matter how much more I learn, the amount of money I can make is nearly the same as if I didn't learn anything new.

As awesome it is in discovering these things for itself, I'm not sure how to translate better technical knowledge into more money.
What is the point of this?

The cool thing about the rift is how modern components and graphics capabilities allow for a light VR device to provide a very immersive experience.

This is basically being used to show video from the drone's camera. No stereoscopic image, no controlling using the gyro/accelerometers. Also, low latency, that is one of the most important aspects of what makes the rift experience interesting, certainly wasn't part of this experiment.

No point in posting a video showing new/trendy devices being used in such a meaningless way, just for the sake of combining cool toys
Ask HN: What are some successful YC-backed product companies?
Which Y-Combinator backed companies are product and not service related? How successful are they?

Just a curious question to help out the users
That quote is just astounding. The "Cloud Security Association?" Really? It reflects a strange kind of toadyism that some "security professionals" have about cooperating with intelligence and law enforcement.
It's just a matter of time. One of the great thing is that tools like Docker and Vagrant give you options that allow you to keep your infrastructure provider agnostic. We mainly lack tools to automate billing issues among providers.

I wouldn't be surprised if you can eventually migrate your online business from country to country on a regular basic eventually. e.g. Here's a list of countries I want to operate in, here's what I'm willing to spend, here's how long I want to operate continuously in one country for a set amount of time, and here's how much redundancy I need. From there, you just let the software perform regular migrations of your business.
Yes, if you "go off the reservation" and outside of the Twitter Future, you will lose your automatic trace identifiers.

This isn't a unique problem, but using consistent libraries goes a long way (which works well internally at Twitter).
Why is this HN material? It looks like thinly-veiled product placement advertising.
Some ideas (at least on x86):

- alignment greater than 16-bytes, eg. 128 bytes for isolated buffers.

- the hardware prefetcher like to load cachelines around the memory actually accessed, just in case. So data chunks that will be accessed at the same time better be near each other to save cache usage a bit.

- memory access which does not have a simple pattern is slower than one which is contiguous or have a simple stride.
> a guy like Putin whom is balls of steel

that is the reputation Putin goes out of his way trying to build, yet he will forever still be a staffer in St.Petersburg government, like in this photo (which many think is a photoshop, though a one being true to life :)

http://ura.ru/content/urfo/14-12-2011/articles/1036257434.ht...
Yep. And depending on where the attackers are from, it might only be illegal in US jurisdiction anyway. So it's just plain negligence not to do your best. That said, it is a huge attack surface and it sounds like they had a lot of time and resources; they can afford to just wait to get lucky. NASDAQ had to be lucky ALL the time. /devils advocate - obviously someone f'd-up.
Same reason as why demo coders from amiga, c64 and other limited systems are premier coders today. Limited financial and hardware resources make you shine in all kind of situations.
Ask HN: Best way to sell a domain?
I'd like to sell one of my domains, but am unsure the best way to do it. Go Daddy, Namecheap, etc. have auctions/markets but they are flooded with random names like asdfasdf.com.

Is there a smaller but higher quality domain name marketplace?
When is the last time anyone here has connected successfully to outdoor wifi? Here in NY, I try it all the time in the parks that offer it, without success.

(I haven’t tried Google’s wifi near their office in Chelsea, maybe it’s better.)

Wifi seems consistently to be a poor choice for large, uncontrolled spaces. If anyone can make it work through sheer engineering will, it’s Google, but the evidence thus far is that it is a misapplication of technology.

LTE et al do a much better job of it, because they are engineered for such environments. Why do we keep pinning our hopes on wifi?
Usually there is a lot of value to a district or state in having a powerful member of congress (the right committees, leadership roles, etc.), in terms of what things he or she can bring back to the district. It's unclear how much value SF actually gets from her; SF people probably care about union and (especially) environmental issues, but don't particularly need direct government spending ("pork" or real). LGBT (marriage equality, etc.) and immigration are probably the other big issues, and "traditional left values" like abortion access, racial/etc. equality, etc., which arguably a powerful representative in the senate is likely to support -- and sending one from SF to do it rather than a potentially more conservative democrat from elsewhere should help those issues.

However, even on those issues, Pelosi is a pretty worthless congresswoman. I don't think there's much real value in having her in Congress for anyone (except her and a limited number of donors), but perception and reality may not be the same.
> How is everything now free? Disqus’ business now centers around new advertising built on top of content discovery.

I appreciate they needed a business model but when they launched this it was auto opt-in and enabled by default. I had dozens of clients email me complaining about 'weird ads' appearing on their sites, all mostly completely unrelated to what they had written or their site category etc (some of the clients who were female even complained about links to lad-mag style content, pictures of busty women etc, they were very offended). It felt like a really dirty trick and I have since migrated all Disqus installs to other solutions, mostly self-hosted comments. I would be very wary to trust them again given their history.
Can you provide some more information about this?
As a current FastMail customer I am quite interested!
> "Well, I didn't vote for the PATRIOT Act the last time it was up," she said today, at her weekly press briefing. "I don't want anybody to misunderstand a vote against the Amash resolution yesterday."

Er, I don't think there is any way to misunderstand a vote. It's really as simple as it gets. I doubt that some supposed underlying strategy holds more truth than the vote itself.
You are right that this fails when you move outside of the model. However, we don't.

You may be surprised (amazed?) to learn that, internally, 100% of composition happens in this manner. We have a massive code base, and we've not seen this be an issue.

Further, we've worked with the Scala community to standardize the idea of an "execution context" which helps make these ideas portable, the particular of the implementation transparent to arbitrary producers and consumers of futures, so long as they comply to the standard Scala future API. (Twitter futures will when we migrate to Scala 2.10.)
It would, except that the JVM is short a stack -- Forth really likes having two. A Toy Forth is a great next step after writing a Toy Lisp. It's like exploring an alternate universe, where any sort of abstraction between you and the hardware should be knocked down in the name of simplicity.

A few great places to get started:

- Forth Warrior, a programming game using a java-based Forth machine with 2d sprites.

- Jones Forth, a literate x86 forth implementation (great for learning plumbing)

- Retro Forth, a minimalist little virtual machine and Forth image that targets it.

None of these are ANS Forth / FIG Forth / etc compatible, which I think is in keeping with Moore's tradition of just whipping up a new dialect whenever he has a new problem domain.

[1]: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/tree/master/games/Warrio...

[2]: http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=blob_plain;f=jone...

[3]: http://retroforth.org
I think you're looking for points to argue on and prove your superior understanding of economics and fair labor, and in the process brushing away important points and ignoring the insights of peoples' comments.

You've asked for more context, so here's what I have that is not talked about in the article.

Leading up to 2006-2007 and the financial crisis, these entry level jobs were salaried positions with standard benefits. Obviously this sounds expensive for a company, and there's plenty of arguing around whether this is worthwhile, but arguing won't help build the context.

During the financial crisis, as companies scrambled to cut costs as much as possible, a trend began to emerge. Companies realized that rather than give salaries and benefits for these entry level jobs, they could hire new grads and anyone else unable to find a job to be unpaid interns, doing the some level of work -- sometimes more depending on the person and position. I hope you would agree that not paying people for work is taking advantage of them. This is obviously more extreme than the contract practice talked about in the article. After it became clear companies were taken advantage of the job market to get free work out of desperate people, states began making legislation to make unpaid internships illegal. Here in California, it is illegal to not pay an intern if their work contributes to the business in any way.

Now that businesses can no longer get free work, they have reacted by filling these positions with hourly contractors who get no benefits whatsoever, no PTO, no sick days, nothing. Salaries for these contractors are often very low. 25-35k a year based on the hourly work. Salaries aren't being dictated by the value of the work the employee provides the company, but by the difficulty in getting (and really going through the process of finding a new job, possibly relocating, etc.) employment elsewhere.

The contrast between these positions 6-7 years ago and these positions now is why people say (feel) they are exploitative.
The "Do I Look Like I Give A Shit" Public Licence
...if the claims by the former employee cannot be corroborated.

Corroborated by whom? The King of the Internet? Health code violations are investigated by local officials hired for that purpose. For all I know, no such officials have even heard of this kefuffle, but they certainly don't care about what some guy posted on Yelp. Even if a health inspector made an extra inspection on the basis of this, it isn't a hardship to be inspected, so no one can complain.

Assuming you are or know the owner of this pizza dive, no one is "harassing" you by posting a review of your crappy restaurant. If any particular review contains statements which are propositions of fact (not opinion!) and if you can prove those propositions are false (not merely if the reviewer can't prove them true), then you might have a civil case for defamation/libel/whatever.

If you're a USA citizen, this shouldn't be news to you. We have something called the First Amendment, and this is how it works.
How We Ran the Second Khan Academy Healthy Hackathon
"kimsufi" is actually phonetic in French for "qui me suffit", ie that suffices me, that is enough for me. I didn't know they translated those.
A very large number of spam servers and botnet C&Cs come still most definitely from OVH rented servers. Script kiddies and cybercriminals alike pretty much always flock to Voxility, Ecatel, or OVH.
> The engineers seem to be very well compensated...

As an ex-engineer at Amazon, unless they drastically changed things, their compensation did not seem to be anything special, compared to what one can get at other companies. Their "benefits" were laughable.

Around how much does an SDEII make at this time there?
Thank you! I can not bElieve I had to page down beyond 50% to see mention of this.

Come on guys! This company has major security issues on top of the fact they are way overstepping in the personal data they require.

I can't think of many better strategies than big sales right after a major hack when customers are dropping like flies
Oculus is perfect for this.

I was really hoping the cameras would be mounted on a 3-axis gimbal, with each axis controlled by the Oculus motion sensing.

The Oculus is a great option for for first person flying, even with using it as a regular 2D display, $300 is pretty cheap compared to most head mounted displays.
Seniority, power, ability to control the agenda (theoretically to the benefit of the district she represents), potential to be speaker. These are strong selling points against a primary challenger who would start at the back of a very long line if elected.
When a paid game gives a poor freemium experience, should you ask for a refund?
Hardware vendors have the absolute worst, lowest quality software I have ever worked with. It's ubiquitous across the industry. The best players in manufacturing silicon ship software that's unworthy of a student in a high school student in an intro to CS class. I wouldn't be surprised if many of them don't want to release it because they know how bad it is.

Much of it is also an amalgamation of licensed software. They can't release what they don't own. And remember, we're not talking $15/year startup prices here, we're talking $0.50/unit or $2 million/year licenses -- you want to bring open source to hardware, you need to deal with changing that industry. And that industry charges so much because they get "certifications". And certification costs.

And for the big guys, a few hundred thousand phones is a good customer, but nothing worth changing your business over. Not when the DoD just ordered a batch of 15 million.

The FAEs I've worked with from most hardware manufacturers have been pro open-source.... but their software departments always seem powerless and anemic, despite being the front-line for making sales, and unable to really push for it.
Oh. Your parents and grandparents aren't Americans, then?

Look, if you hang with the hipsters who "consume" better media, then sure, you won't have any clue what the vast majority of the public cares about. It's not surveillance. It's whatever mass opiate has been focus-grouped out for the week.

In the meantime, though, that mass opiate is mainlined into every public space in the land on countless television monitors in essentially every place where a person has to spend more than 30 seconds. They've got no time to think about the future - they've got to be outraged about this week's 15-minute hate, or admire this week's baby, or fear this week's terrorist.

You may simply not visit those downscale places. Good on you. But Washington really doesn't care, except to the extent that you earn more money they can extract or possibly build more centralized data processing services they can mine.
Maybe the people of San Francisco aren't single issue voters. She has been a very strong supporter of gay rights, for example.
> so why not simply fire off a few nukes

Did you really just equate firing a nuke with scaring a mouse?

> You know, mice may seem minor to you, but they're basically persons just like everyone.

Persons like everyone hu? Well I guess it makes sense then that you consider firing a nuke and scaring a mouse to be equivalent.

Here's some news: Mice are not people. They are not as important as people and their lives have little value. Yes, avoid causing them pain if possible. But don't over do it and start to think they are people.
> "communism" (there was never such thing)

In college I wrote a major research paper on market-style exchanges on the factory floors of Eastern Europe, with the underlying point that you can never really purge all market forces, that "capitalism" is more descriptive than normative.

When I think back on it, well, I'm mostly ashamed for talking out of my ass about what other people actually experienced. It'd be great to hear more of your thoughts on it.
Why do we keep pinning our hopes on wifi?

It is the only wireless technology that is standard on every device.
Was hoping for ASCIIfied videos too... :-D
Monarchs versus managers
The experiments they did had no real scientific value. Nominally, they were doing research, but it wasn't rigorous or useful results.
I would think that someone out getting clients 100% of the time would soon bring in too much work for a single developer. That is the point at which you become an agency, and can afford to hire a team.

I would also be reluctant to give an equal share before that happens. Later on in the game, when you have a handful of developers under you, that's a different story.
Well, you've certainly made a great point there, swordswinger12!
> No stereoscopic image

Did you even click the link? Of the three sentences, the second one starts out with "Using its two cameras", and the two cameras are shown within the first 10 seconds of video.

>What is the point of this?

The stereo view allows for depth perception in flight. They're getting fish eye lenses, and one thing that's hard to express about VR helmets like this one is the sense of space around you, even without stereo vision. This will create a feeling of flying that no monitor could ever hope to achieve.
I'm not saying they're insolvent.

Zynga's Free cash flow was ($14) million for the second quarter of 2013 compared to ($204) million for the second quarter of 2012.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/zynga-reports-second-quarter-2...

Things crumble fast on Wall Street.
Having someone who's that powerful in the House is useful for other Democrats in California. She has influence and connections that can be used to help raise funds for other Democrats and make political deals. Whoever replaces her as her district's representative would be a newcomer to the House with very little political influence.

I don't think the Democratic Party could actually prevent a challenger to Pelosi from running, but they could put all their support behind Pelosi, which would probably ensure her victory.
Technically I think it's just two double negatives.
In every line there are more consecutive whitespaces at the begining unless the code isn't indented.
Wow. It's not often I come across someone who is willfully ignorant. You even link to sources!

Did you even read those very things you linked to?

Not only do you know of one case of torture you know of two! And still somehow believe they were intended as experiments and not intended for pain.
Or you can simply load (or refresh) the page and when you can see the article, but before the overlay appears, hit the stop button in your browser.
What's surprising is the lack of alternative services (even outside the US) that clearly state any service they provide will in fact shut down before not being transparent. I have cancelled quite a few services over the last few months, but struggle to find real alternatives.

Also, I doubt even transparency in the aggregate would be enough to make me go back into US based offerings.
Note: I like the way you think!

You might eliminate a few per-token function calls and cache thrashing by making it less of a 'pull' tokenizer interface. I.e., instead of the (elegant) method having Lexer::scan(&t) scan and produce just one token, scan a batch of them at once and fill a contiguous array.

Also, your Token class looks like it might be 7 or 8 pointers big. Seems like that could probably slim down a bit.
I don't understand this point. Gmail doesn't have a calendar either. Google Calendar is a separate product. I don't even find the integration between the two particularly strong.
Pretty simple way to frame this in a way that Washington can understand:

The NSA data collection programs are _job killers_ for American high-tech workers and its most innovative companies.
But none of their friends. More enemies means more federal funds doled out to Halliburton!
See also Benoit Chesneau's CouchDB vision which he has partly implemented in his own fork:

https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307...
It's not that people don't know how to properly code a web application. It's that coding a web application with a strong and secure perimeter is more expensive, more effort, and difficult to QA (the perimeter) than building one without.

"Ship it."
I'm happy to see the video of the Zipkin presentation at Strange Loop was put up a few months ago ( http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Zipkin ).

People working on distributed tracing systems all tend to eventually come up with a similar architecture. Even going back to the IPS research system made at University of Wisconsin in the late 1980s (that's the earliest distributed tracing system I know of).

They all tend to do tracing via minimalistic, low overhead logging of RPC calls between machines. They tend to do tracing via low-level libraries which application developers can ignore. The trace systems seems to be good at uncovering latency bottlenecks. I am ignorant of what success systems like Zipkin or Google's Dapper may or may not have had in areas outside of latency checks.
> If you actually value either, you also have to value the other?

If by value you mean assign a positive number then No. If by value you mean calculate then Yes. (Sorry for phrasing it that way, but I wasn't sure which you meant.)

> which do you value more, slow but steady progress, and planting for generations ahead and reaping from what generations before sowed, or instant gratification and profit, and the constant low-intensity war that entails?

Now I'm confused. In another post you appear to be against this experiment (i.e. the slow and steady progress), but the way you write this makes it look like the slow and steady progress is the better way - but that's the experiment.

So which is it?
It also displays fine if you have the NoScript add-on.
I've bought the (cheaper? uglier?) cousin of the 2270, the HL-2170W. It's a fantastic printer with a 'good enough' web UI for configuration. Works for months without grief.

Have an upvote for brother love.

Edit: Curiosity got the best of me. The 2270 is the new version of the 2170. Adding automatic duplex, dual simultaneous networking, faster printing, and... that's about it. Not quite worth the upgrade, but when mine dies it's good to know there will be a replacement available.