skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this might seem like a stupid question, but how does he keep count of his Redbull consumption? Just good 'ol fashioned counting?

Shopify have a beer tap which I'm guessing they use to update their 'Pints of beers consumed' counter and a sensor on their pinball machine which they update on their website [1].

[1]: http://www.shopify.com/careers
I'm sorry if you've found the development branch to be buggy - we strive for a high-level of stability there, so we'd be very pleased if you would open issues there.
In line with the other commenter, I have spent many years tinkering with just game engines in my spare time, and indeed it is a rabbit hole.

For that reason I think things like indie game jams (Global Game Jam & Ludum dare) are a good idea because you will write crappy code, but you will actually make a game.
It is one of the advantages of the API-first approach. I am convinced that's the way to go for building a modern Web app, but spinning off a special version of your client is not free; you still need to apply, as the author put it, "the occasional fix" and need to be aware that part of your audience is experiencing things through a different interface. Moreover, this approach requires a bit more investment upfront compared to regular Web development approaches.
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I get what you mean, but individually, someone paying $10 or even $300 isn't really taking a huge risk. Taking all the funders as a single entity though, yes you're right. Could this mean that Kickstarter may now be forced to sell shares in the company, taking the combined funders control to say 51% and the founders the rest? This would prevent something like this from happening again.
Eye tracking.
Buffett is notoriously reluctant to invest in companies he doesn't understand, or which lack existing revenue streams. He's not in the business of funding startups.
Well, the state is church and church is state in UK, so there is no surprise people want to control what Anglican church does or does not in UK. The sovereign is also the defender of faith and acts on advice of Parliament on temporal and spiritual issues. If UK were to adopt Islam as state religion tomorrow, we can also talk about forcing the mosques to do stuff according to will of Parliament.
#noguessing: tweet density and popularity of hashtags assoc. with 'hackernews'
I am so very glad I didn't buy the dev kit, which I was just about to do last month.

The kit would have gone from being a shiny cool thing on my desk to a shiny turd in my room.
What exactly did they lose?
Either you're misunderstanding me or you're equating an anthill with the pyramids of Giza. In Second Life, your avatar is a sprite on a screen. With Oculus Rift + Virtuix Omni, your avatar is you. It's like the Matrix. Or Avatar. Or a [lower resolution] lucid dream where you can interact with people from the real world in video game maps. For me, that's truly awesome in the literal sense of the word.
For fashion-oblivious people like me: who?
At least some of Facebook's history of arbitrary platform creation and destruction has to do with their youth as a company. They are growing up and we've seen successively fewer missteps in the past two years.

So there is room to hope for a successful partnership. Oculus has a really phenomenal product and partnering with Facebook is going to scale that product MUCH faster than it would've otherwise. This could be the perfect deal for both companies.

Don't get me wrong, my heart sank when I heard it was Facebook. And the WSJ's article on how disingenuous they were with their kickstarter backers is still real. But in the truly long-term, we might look back on today as a big moment for virtual reality.
Perhaps http://html5doctor.com?
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Seriously. This was very surprising to see. I had to double take the source.
Pro: few people are likely to get scammed out of life-damaging amounts of money.

Con: might lead to a system where some scammers are skimming small amounts from large numbers of people, but not causing enough pain to do something about it.
I second that, not only technology can improve operational efficiency of buildings, but also provide improved environmental performance for building construction.
In addition, studies have shown efficiency loss of up to 50 percent in coordinating labor and in managing, moving, and installing materials, and these cost burden could be avoided by embracing information technology in the construction industry.
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Did you grow up in a single parent home?
I hope this sparks the convo...
It does seem to make sense to me that Google would partner with a company that can place Google Glass in front of the average consumer. Luxotica owns 7000 retail locations [1] and I am pretty sure most of those locations accept EyeMed insurance (which Luxotica also owns). People would be very happy to put their insurance benefit towards a pair of Google Glasses.

I'm on my second pair of WB frames because I don't like spending a ton on eye-wear. I understand the value that WB provides to consumers. I just think Luxotica currently offers way more to Google than WB could.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica#Retail
And that is a stupid way to feel. Using your kid analogy, they didn't turn their backs on anyone, they took a better paying gig so that they can do more stuff for you. So that they can get you a quicker ROI by having more assets at their disposal, by being legitimized.

I don't understand any of your reactions to this. They took money, and so what? For a site that is dedicated to the entrepreneurial spirit, making it big, and "disrupting industries" you sure could have fooled me.
I doubt it was just money. Facebook has also shown that when they acquire companies they generally leave them alone.

That is so much more important to a startup than just money.
I think what most of us wanted is to see Oculus become something like FB, Google, Twitter, etc. The team was backed by early adopters that put their own money on this vision.

Although the "more resources" statement is true, the vision, the underdog, no longer is. They will always be under FB, not the visionary entrepreneurs and team that made Oculus possible.
I don't see how you're really addressing the point, the idea is that Occulus Rift's star risen would be way way more valuable then WhatsApp ever could hope to be. We all know they still have a journey in front of them, but the idea is they could have kept going on their own, and you know, had a star risen moment vs getting acquired before a general consumer product was released.

But, you get a couple hundred million users that make next to no revenue and will be incredibly difficult to monetize and your star has risen. Pretty hard to compete with that rock solid proven model I guess.
I didnt get that sentence, or the entire paragraph for that matter. Is there some story-dependent context that I'm missing here, or am I just too dense for Orwell?
>I don't think it will change the world

When you have a clear visor that you're looking through that will seamlessly super-impose exactly matched visuals to reality with enriched data... yes it wil change the world.

Follow the calendar of the Mayans; everthing in cycles. Observe these cycles for great benefit!

In this case, industry cycles around new tech will revolve. Certain circles will reach maturity, age and collapse. All circles will repeat an evolving pattern, spiraling out...

This is how technology evolves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMY_JlBfClI

AND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie-6tcX5jKg#t=15

Think of each end-point of an arm of the spiral as a market leader in that category.

They will evolve, separate, matasticize and cannabalize the other objects in their tech-arm-thread.

We need another visualization of colliding spirals to illustrate this -- but they all start to grow from similar seeds....
And? They knew the terms of the deal.
It's a rough estimation based on the average number of Red Bulls we consume per day :)
"if Google was the buyer, there would be much more positive comments here."

Right. Probably because Google is a technology driven company with some amazing technical products and research. Facebook has great backend skills but the product is meh.
Note that this interactive Hashtag Scan is free and open to all, but to see the data beyond the "Summary" tab, and to save tagsets so they'll be at hand in Tweet Composer, just register or login (free). You can even create your own Scans in "Alerts" at the top - and set which ones to turn on/off - so they'll let you know when new hashtags are associated with your query. Remember: queries are topic words, hashtags, events, products, brands, schools, anything.
Social is the PURPOSE of VR
If the barter is for services (I mow your lawn if you do my taxes), then yes, both parties would owe income tax on the fair market value of the services -- it would be the same as if they had paid each other the same amount in cash.

If the barter is an exchange of goods for services (I'll do your taxes in return for 10 dozen eggs from your farm), then the party that received the goods in exchange for their services owes income tax on the fair market value of the service provided. The party that provided the goods would owe income tax on the capital gain of the goods (fair market value minus the cost paid, or basis).

If both parties are exchanging goods, then it gets more complicated. In some cases (I trade you the deed for my apartment in the city for the deed for your beach house), the IRS deems it a "like-kind exchange", which is NOT a taxable event -- the basis of the old items carries over to the new properties. However, if I exchange my apartment for your car, then it's not a like-kind exchange, because the items exchanged are not of like kind (makes sense?), and both parties pay capital gains (or can claim a loss) vs. the fair market value of the exchange.

To add to the fun, one can do a delayed like-kind exchange by storing the proceeds with a "qualified intermediary", a form of escrow agent. This is often done with real estate, since it means that the counterparties don't have to be willing to swap deeds. To give a specific example, I could sell my apartment in the city, deliver the proceeds to a qualified intermediary, and use them later to buy a beach house, and it would be treated as a tax-free exchange by the IRS (if the prices of the two properties are equal and some other criteria are met).
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I think I've figured out why it asked for Flash. I forgot to remove socket.io related files that we were using before switching to Firebase.
I was interested to see the differences between this and Mattermark's top 8. The only two in common are Kimono and The Dating Ring.

Mattermark Top 8:

Kimono Labs, Taplytics, CodeCombat, Airpair, Beacon, Ambition, The Dating Ring, Style Lend

TechCrunch Top 8:

wit.ai, The Dating Ring, PushBullet, AirHelp, Weave, Boostable, Kimono Labs, BatteryOS
Facebook is now three things I don't want, plus a thing I don't want anywhere near the things I don't want, so I'll change my mind?

What?
uggghhh i am so sad right now... facebook is absolutely the wrong place for this to have gone!!!!
Or he could be taking an executive position as the head of Facebook's new fully-capitalized Virtually-Piloted Space Drone division.

I'm only half kidding.
Facebook has a lot of talent and can easily compete with Google on new technology sectors
You can do pure barter, you just have to pay taxes on the transaction -- and those taxes must be paid in dollars.

This is part of what it means to be a national currency -- it's what the government accepts for payment of taxes.
I can't help but be reminded of eBay's acquisition of Skype. Back then people talked about how it must be part of some grand strategy that would surely be revealed as eBay played its hand, because it didn't make a lot of sense at the time. What use could an auction site have for what is essentially a telecom company?

Turned out there really was no concrete business reason, just senseless feeding frenzy and hand-waving about vision. Terrible idea for both companies.
Just when I thought those sun-glasses couldn't get any more douche-baggy . . .
It's funny because they actually know a bit about rebranding. Hacker School evolved out of Hackruiter, which in turn came from HireHive. http://unschooled.org/2012/06/the-path-to-hacker-school/

All told they've been around since 2011. If they think three years is too late to change brands, well, it just sounds pretty shortsighted to me. They can take their existing customers with them and build much needed credibility in being true to their vision. As long as the new brand is better than the old brand I don't see a downside.
White Guys Wearin' Oculus Rifts
"a $2.4 million early-stage investment in what would become a $2 billion business in a year and a half, in return for 0.0% equity"
No. Those backers weren't investing in a company, they were purchasing a prototype device and software package. In practice, that's how Kickstarter works. Sure, there will be a lot of backers who are happy that their deferred purchase is helping a project actually get off the ground, but I guarantee every person who handed over the $300 read over the rewards carefully.
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Naturally from aljazeera
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Except that's not what he said. He didn't say that the C-levels didn't have control, just that they don't have to approve everything that you want to do.
A lot of people used to think this about Swiss bank accounts, until the US government compelled them to hand over their account records. Now a lot of Americans are on the hook for years of back taxes, and potentially for criminal tax fraud...
Plus $16M back in June
Why I stopped worrying about task runners/build tools
One week too early!
>...it might not seem obvious why Oculus is partnering with Facebook...But when you consider it more carefully, we’re culturally aligned with a focus on innovating and hiring the best and brightest

Looks like ALL companies in this world would be a good fit for a facebook acquisition.
The final paragraph of a novel is most times best understood in a story-dependent context.
Oculus has had several competitors coming to prototype recently. Now they have lost their following. I personally think facebook just bought a dud. Oculus just dug their own grave.

Additionally, this is a gaming device. Having utopian visions for a device that hasn't even hit the market for its intended use is not a good PR strategy.
Warby Parker is an American company that sells stylish glasses for a reasonable cost. They emerged out of a frustration with the cost and control of Luxotica an Italian company [1]. Luxotica dominates the eye-wear market by owning manufacturing [2], retail [3] and insurance [4] related to eye-wear.

[1]: https://www.warbyparker.com/our-story/
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica#Brands
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica#Retail
[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica#Medical_managed_care
Disregarding whether you like Facebook or not. What we should watch out for is the it decline. Friendster --> Myspace --> Facebook --> ???

What would happen happen to Oculus then? By then I hope it gets bought by Microsoft or Valve.
Al Jazeera is likely supported by the government, so I really don't understand the surprise or disappointment.
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But do keep in mind that the backers did bear risk- there is a significant chance that any Kickstarter project doesn't turn out, because Kickstarter shouldn't be thought of as a 'store to buy things'.

Risk is exactly what investors bear in exchange for a potential return. Companies require investment because they don't have the capital to get things moving upward otherwise, which is exactly the need that Kickstarer fulfills.
But the point is that the transform shows you two representations, one time-based, the other frequency-based, of the same signal.

And notice that time is a component in each of these.
This looks very cool, and will undoubtedly help with most run of the mill crashes. Unfortunately the machine model it uses is single-core, so you're not going to necessarily catch the really subtle concurrency bugs. Good multicore record and replay is hard, and has been the subject of tons of papers in the past 10 years. It would be cool to see some of that research make it out into practice.
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I don't get those who say that this is disappointing coming from Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera is run by a media group funded by the Qatari government. Qatar is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy. Non-democracies tend to like Big Brother-type scenarios because it keeps them in control.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_Media_Network
Here's an excellent visual summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKhOvBNakM
Your comment is irrelevant. My point is that Google is "trying to foray into other ventures" (my exact words). I never claimed self-driving cars are available to consumers right now.
The main concern, I think, is that if someone censors the official archive, everyone has their own copy of the censored posts to use to prove such. It's the same sort of resilience you get from having local Git repositories, or from the Bitcoin block-chain. You don't get this from any message board I know of (although that's not fundamental to the definition of a message board.)
.. not just keep track, but report the basis to the IRS.
VR is powerful precisely because it is communication. And communication with Facebook in the middle is such bad communication. No sane teacher, lawyer, doctor, CEO, judge, politician, etc. would permit facebook to be a third party to important communication. The dream of VR enabling and enhancing these communications has just taken a major step backwards with the least trustworthy name in communication swooping in to commandeer the intellectual property associated with the most promising of these technologies.
It's the rootkit CDs that do it for me.
As a Microsoft cloud services user, I know what metropolitan areas our services are hosted out of, and I believe that we can request a physical tour of one or more of those datacenters can be arranged. If you are a large customer, you can also arrange for dedicated connectivity to the Microsoft network via a peering connection.

Re the NSA splitter issue, that's just a reality of life. If you've run a large email, backup or similar system for a length of time, you've inevitably come across requests from law enforcement or litigating attorneys for data. So don't assume that nobody is accessing your stuff because it's in a room in your building.
According to the article a majority of the backers and a significant majority of the money was at or above the $300 mark
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Gaming Community Reacts to Facebook Buying Oculus Rift
If your down payment is a gift, you're supposed to disclose that fact... the lender doesn't consider it equivalent.
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Oh I see. This highlights an interesting flaw in the HN edit functionality - it can make the child posts look stupid.
As a developer I often encounter the issue when starting on a new project the best way to architect the database. What is best practice, what will the database that holds my applications information look like and this is where I got the idea to create this Github repository.

At the moment it is pretty bare, I am going to be adding in more schemas shortly. A few based on already popular services and a few other more niche schemas. The reason I've put it on Github is because I thought it would be awesome to see other people contribute schemas, improve upon existing ones and help create the ultimate schema repository.

The general idea is that the schemas are loosely based, so they can be interpreted into any database. I've tried sticking with generic terms for numeric values like Integer and String for text. These are not exports you simply import, you still have to build your database, they're just more of a guide and something I've been wishing existed for a very long time.
User-Role-Permission API developed in Node.js + MongoDB.
wow, I'm blown away
I understand that's what the Kickstarter team is most interested in. But what would that accomplish besides causing all the companies to simply move to the next crowd-sourcing site?

If Kickstarter doesn't want a cut of that money I'm sure Indiegogo will be happy to take it
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You're going to read this in 10 years and look like the guy who predicted the iPhone to be a flop. Usable VR is absolutely world-changing.
You don't have to use any particular approach, you can choose to match up purchases and shares however you wish (FIFO, LIFO, per-sale tax optimization). You just need to make sure you track what you're buying and selling, so that every purchase and sale are matched.

As of 2011, your broker does this for you -- and different brokers offer different levels of sophistication in their tracking. Some only offer FIFO and LIFO, others will do more complex optimizations for you.

For purchases before 2011, you need to save info on your purchases lot-by-lot and match them up yourself. This has screwed me several times, when I can't remember when I bought a certain stock and can't put my hands on the appropriate statements at tax time. Royal pain.
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I don't know how anyone can be mad. I mean. I understand why they think they should be mad. But it is not like Palmer lucky is not going to deliver on the promise. He's just doing it under a different corporate structure.
What's the different? If the final usage of Oculus Rift is different once they sold the company to facebook, you are still going to get different final product if you buy/pre-order it via kickstarter.
Well, here you go. I would never choose GCE, because I'd be worried about it going away, or Google increasing the price by some absurd amount with little warning and no feedback period, making my initial assumptions untenable, and leaving me to do a massive rewrite due to lockin on their proprietary features. Google did this with Maps (before backing off, perhaps due to backlash), and has done this with GAE in the past. Trust is a fragile thing, and hard to rebuild.
A quick question about the valuation:

Six days ago [1] we got an article where the most popular comment was this:

"I'm amused by it. It's a transfer of wealth from shareholders of those companies to founders and VCs. These are also the companies with dual class shares designed to keep control in the founders' hands. They all say it's to be able to focus on the long-term, but really it has bred empire building and poor stewardship of the shareholder's capital."

Since is Andreessen is in the board of both companies [2], do you think we are seeing an example of this problem?

(In finance-ish words, the problem would be that Facebook is doing "empire building". Usually the board is the defense against this, but if the directors own large interests in the potential targets, that may not happen)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7430152
[2] http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2014/03/25/marc-andrees...