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MIT seems to be getting the heat from this, more than the prosecutors who went after him, and more than congress who created a flawed law. And how does JSTOR get a pass from all this?
I realized this super early on in high school. I don't even bother doing anything remotely brain intensive if I haven't gotten 8 hours of sleep. I just can't, I know how great a good sleep feels and anything else sucks in comparison, so I cast it away as a lost day as my "punishment" for not sleeping.
It doesn't suppress dissenters. It suppresses people who contribute nothing.
People often work long hours because they feel more productive at the end of a long stretch.

It's hard to be stressed when you're sleep deprived. You just say "fuck it, X will work well enough, and I'm too tired to care if it's good enough". Which is probably what you should have done 8 hours ago, but didn't, because you were worried it wasn't good enough.

I find it's just as useful to close your eyes for a minute, and think "I'll probably figure it out later, and I'll still be smart enough to refactor any ugly but pragmatic code when inspiration finally hits" can be just as productive.
Ideally, a senior developer should be somebody whom "been there, done that".

However, most "senior" developers were made by political fight.
I am getting old. I remember I played with all of these when I was younger. Z80 in my Sinclair ZX81 and later ZX-Spectrum, and then in an MTX-500. The 6502 in a Commodore C64, and an MC68K in an Amiga.

Long time ago... The ZK81 had 1KB or RAM, seems impossible to do anything with that little RAM today. Yet, we wrote games with it.

I always feel a bit nostalgic when I read these kinds of articles.

What amazes me most is how easily one adapts to new technologies. These days I take my 4 core laptop with dedicted GPU running Linux for granted and don't think about it twice.

But that's also the fun part. I'm doing software for two decades professionally now, and there is always something new to learn, something new to pickup and explore! It's exiting, I hope to get to do this for another decade or two.

It was also fun to be part of those "pioneering" year (albeit just as a user of the technology).
Here's the most reasonable disaster scenario I can foresee: Zuckerberg is not personally invested in the technology, but believes a general audience can make it very profitable. Technical execution of version 1 is perfectly successful. Core gamers generally buy the product, but the larger market is uninterested because of usage limitations (headset size and portability and/or lack of compelling enough uses outside of gaming). However, the number of sales is not large enough to justify continued investment. Facebook needs to find a large buyer to divest themselves of the technology profitably.

If they do not, the patent cache they hold chills any potential competition for fear of developing a market being ripped out from under them.
Spotted the "venti non-fat 180 degrees vanilla latte with two equals, extra squirt of vanilla, and whipped cream" ordering hipster.

Just drink it black, it's infinitely better. Yes I am saying this objectively. Buy a hot chocolate and take a caffeine pill if you're going to make such an avante garde order.
The Swartz/MIT debacle reminds me of a chapter in Starship Troopers. A mobile infantry recruit punches his drill instructor. The recruit is publicly lashed and discharged.

Later in private, the commander reprimands the drill instructor: there were standing orders to never let a recruit hit you. They obviously have to punish recruits who strike instructors, but they do not want to. The drill instructors are supposed to be elite soldiers, and this one let a recruit get the drop on him, and that mistake cost the infantry a recruit.

MIT had sufficient opportunity to stop Swartz with technical countermeasures -- but they failed to do so. They allowed the situation to escalate until official punishment became unavoidable. MIT may claim that they did not want to punish Swartz; few people will argue that they did. It was not their intent but rather their incompetence that lead to his punishment.
I'm not a hardware guy so I didn't really know what to expect from an article about "microchips that shook the world". The title seemed somewhat hyperbolic. I clicked on it to see if there was any mention of the 555, one of the few "chips" I know about.

Some 20 years ago my sister's boyfriend and I made a simple "autofire" for my Amiga. I guess it was some kind of bonding thing. An autofire was a piece of hardware that you would hook up between a joystick and the computer. I didn't know much about electronics so he put together the schematics. It involved a 555 and a potentiometer so that the fire rate could be controlled. I was good enough with a soldering iron that he let me assemble the thing. Fun times.

(Turns out that the article had a few more chips I recognized.)
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He won't take another jibe at the aerospace industry. It requires a LOT of money with diminished returns. :(
What on earth gives you the idea that a generation is a good measure of time for a monopoly? Patents are intended to promote innovation for society not give protection to a racket. The only reason to give people a monopoly on production is to allow those who invested in the invention and research to reimburse the costs of research and development to allow for further investment in innovation.

After the time period the patent / copy rights should be released to the public domain so that everyone may benefit from cheap economy of scale production.

The only reason I could think you feel this way is that it is all you've known. In most cases a couple of years worth of profits from monopoly should suffice. In reality it depends on how much was spent on the initial innovation.
IMHO, it doesn't mean you can write for Android in go as much as you do in java.
Exactly, lots of emotional arguments. For the ecosystem argument i would like remind that there are IPO scale companies emerge from FB ecosystem. This post have lots of 'what ifs' type of arguments. I am not for or against FB, its just kind of Bezos acquisition of Washington Post: lots of hard to figure it out.
"Planning" in the sense that they had just set aside money to buy the device, and were working on the code that could be done without it in a experimental phase, testing out the libraries they'd use for non-Oculus related parts of the software.
Actually that's almost already the standard. I can't speak to the specifics of how it's enforced, but something is legally unpatentable if a pimple faced teen could develop it in a hackathon. The standard is whether it is non-obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art.
Sounds like the type of thinking that makes for revolutionary and wonderful new experiences.
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Both. None of my changes (aside from scripts) for UOX ever made it to the actual binaries, I joined too late. By the time I actually had the source, most major servers had already migrated (or died/been reborn) on other emulators. Prior to that, I did a fair bit with scripting in the UOX community. Once Sphere was 'stable' (in quotes, since it was never really… stable… and initially crashed a _lot_ more than UOX!) I jumped to it, since UOX had, at that point, stagnated and, IIRC, was behind the official client releases.
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I'm not a huge fan of The Awful Forums, but I do like their probation system. Right now, a moderator on HN can either permanently take away a user's privileges or do nothing. Probation is a nice middle ground. If the user persists in behaving badly, then the banhammer can be brought out.

It's also useful to have a notice such as, "This user's commenting privileges were suspended for 100 hours for this comment." By making the punishment public, the commenter is (hopefully) shamed into behaving better in the future. And like you said, it may even prevent others from behaving similarly.
Wow, this is the exact app that I need at the moment. Thanks for pointing it out. I dont know that there exist something like this.
Oculus VR employees got death threats after Facebook sale
Yes, reading the literature is often helpful.
The organism is a vessel to propagate the genes. Germ cells such as embryos usually have additional defenses and repair mechanisms, such as for DNA damage, that the somatic cells lack. Since the soma are merely there to help the replication of the germ line, they receive less investment.

No creature we know of has successfully evolved the capability to permanently stave off aging. Besides the inevitable issues with fighting entropy in a complex system, how would an ageless organism compete in the shifting landscape of an ecosystem as other creatures evolve around it? How would a non-aging organism adapt? It seems likely that continually creating new generations is the best strategy for genetic replication.

Now we are at the amusing point that genes may have unwittingly experienced their own skynet event. Modern science has given us the ability to not only gaze upon our creators, but manipulate them to do the bidding of ideas.
Tracking IPs doesn't help that much. Even non-technical trolls discover proxies quickly.

Because you cannot stop them so at this point it is less about saving resources and more about harm reduction. It's unfortunate some people who probably would change get caught up in it but it's really a small price to pay(their not having their comments public but still being able to use the site normally) for the greater enjoyment.
Somewhat related: I've been using an iOS app called NapCat for reading code from GitHub repos for pleasure and edification:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/napcat-github-client-for-open/i...

The 'trending' and keyword search features make it stand out from other GitHub clients on iOS. No affiliation.
How stupid. Microsoft pays a bunch of people who invented a bunch of ideas that are now restricted from being used.

What a joke the patent system is. We're paying people to innovate ideas, and prevent any product with those ideas from coming to market.

Patent holders should have to pay a substantial tax / fee every year to keep their patents. If these ideas are so valuable, they should be building products and benefiting society with them. Not stuffing them under the mattress and waiting to sue some poor sap who actually wants to ship something.
The difference between those two to a biased moderator (e.g. any human) is very blurry.
Funny, I was doing some work in iTerm2 today and I found this really nice reference for OS X:

http://ss64.com/osx/

"A-Z Index of the Apple OS X Command Line"

The new one for me today was "ditto," which I immediately googled to see if there was a linux equivalent (there is, and it seems to be 'cp -Rp --parents src/ dest/').

Edit: Compared to the OP link I like that it doesn't truncate words arbitrarily to wrap lines :)

Edit2: Lo and behold, a bash version: http://ss64.com/bash/ ...and a Windows version! http://ss64.com/nt/ I like to see that. Useful site, with more at http://ss64.com/ (no relation to me)
They mention JSTOR 27 times in the article. Most of the MIT references also mention JSTOR. I don't think they are getting a pass.
Hi, apologies for the slow reply. Yes predominately Monte-carlo simulations are used. If you are interested in the field an easy entry point is Paul Wilmotts "Introduction to Quantitative Finance".
djestrada 2 hours ago | link [dead]

Answered to another question below, from my G+ reshare, in the context of a question about account caps:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DanielEstrada/posts/hQfNmirDfsm

> I suppose one way around the cap would be for users to maintain multiple accounts. I have no objection to this in principle, although it has an impact on the networks they can develop on any one account. If I have 20 Strangecoin accounts all coupled to and supporting each other, but are only receiving income through one account connected to the external network, then my subnet isn't going to grow larger as a whole than the one node connected externally. So I can't use multiple accounts to inflate just my identity. If I'm using multiple accounts, it's because I want to maintain multiple identities. Again I have no objection to this, or at least the protocol I've described doesn't rule it out. ﻿
Unless a person is suspect in murder, rape, or serious assault, etc. Bail should be low. Most people are not running and it is ridiculous to punish people before they are found guilty. It is subsidy to the bail bond industry.
Yeah, I wasn't trying to be ironic. I think the comparison is reasonably apt. I think LKY's stewardship of Singapore mirrors Steve Jobs' of Apple and Elon Musk's of Tesla. I think all of them had a clear idea about what needed to be done, and they did it, in a way that could be described as obsessive or pathalogical. I'm trying to be descriptive rather than prescriptive.

I think "positive example" is too vague a term. What do you mean by positive example?
Have you looked at Octopress? Curious to know what your thoughts are. When I Google for static blog hosting in general and Jekyll in particular, many results say 'Use Octopress, which is a lot more convenient'.
This is awesome, I might even switch from LastPass to this. But I can't brew install it because the pinentry dependency is broken. Great idea though.
You're understanding of trolls is flawed. A troll will generally make sure their messages show up (using incognito mode, tor, etc). Think about it, the people who don't check to see if they're shadow-banned are the ones that don't expect to be banned. Trolls very much expect to be banned. It's their modus operandi.

The only people you're effectively hurting are the ones who think they are making useful contributions but make the unfortunate mistake of hurting the moderator's feelings.
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Let's see, Microsoft is extorting $3.4bil a year off a technology it did absolutely nothing to contribute to (Android).

The ill-intent is that they are betting on AR succeeding too so that they can extort money off that.
>I would be surprised if the evidence showed

Yet you argued in another comment that this evidence should be hidden from the community. If you have faith that the evidence would show that bans are always justified, why not argue for them to be public?
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Bravo sir!

This reads more like libertarian dogma: blaming individuals for macroeconomic trends.
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Trolls generally don't expect to be shadow banned they expect to be banned. Until they figure that shadow banning exists it's a very effective method and once you realize you make them check if they've been shadow banned regularly so it effectively doubles their work. Quite often their willingness to invest time into trolling drops off with lack of response so often they will leave before they understand that shadow banning is a thing.
Yes, you're right. However, in redo, you don't have a Makefile equivalent and, instead, specify the dependencies in the shell script that generates your target. Basically, the configuration language is shell (or any other program that can be invoked from a shell script).
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The same comment you're referring to to make this argument answers it.
What do generics or loop syntax sugar have to do with GUI development?
Also, leaving the clean link isn't trickery. It's usability.

I can do "right click + copy link" on DuckDuckGo and get a clean copy of the link. That isn't the case on Google.
I could very well be an anomaly, but I don't want to utilize a game device in which I have to associate my Facebook account (yes, I still have one). I don't care how fast you get it to market or how much lower it will cost. I don't want to login to anything with my FB credentials, there is too much personal information in the weight of that authorization. Way more than what I want to give to play a game (and I do love gaming).

And Yes, I have a hollow Hotmail account that is linked to my Xbox Live account - however I like to try to keep everything as segregated as possible. Its a constant battle to keep my information hubs segregated and this acquisition is one step closer to me just abstaining from certain tech that makes me cross hubs.
>Better is to assume good faith and accept that mistakes happen

This leaves no room for improvement of the moderation that does occur. This could be fixed by allowing people with 5000+ karma or so to see the mod logs.
"Unlimited" isn't a key value point. What matters is if it works and how well. Limits are just there to facilitate the creation of pricing tiers, and only work if the pricing tier you're trying to push them to lines up with the value delivered.
> banned users aren't supposed to know they're banned

As someone who has been on the receiving end of a shadow-ban several times over the years, you realize it right away if you actually pay attention. Your comments suddenly get no votes or responses.
This article may not be the best... but honestly the social construct that start-upers (especially in the early stage) are maniacally dedicated to work has become so tight that I worry it's solidifying into an expectation.

When I started working on my idea, I felt guilty when not working. (I naturally don't feel happy unless I'm productive, but this is probably also externally influenced.) In January, I worked 100+ hours. I cooked, ate, slept, went to the gym, but other than that I largely worked. Since I don't consume media entertainment by nature and am an introvert, it was easy to work on my passion unless a friend proactively reached out. I slept-worked a lot, but never felt mentally tired or burned out. Physically though, I became a wreck, at some point tweaking something to the point where I couldn't turn my head. Scary.

I used to think 4 hour work weeks were reserved for those who sought escape from a job they didn't like. But I now realize that the larger goal of work/life balance is equally important for people who love their jobs. And I get that time feels threatening: we have to move fast or the opportunity will pass. But if this idea is something that I'm truly passionate about, I should have no problem devoting a lifetime to it (not blindly treading water without success, of course!).

Now, I know my happiness is still driven by productivity, but I'm trying to redefine that for myself. A day with friends, cleaning the apartment, or climbing at the gym is actually very productive and a good recharge. I really hope more entrepreneurs read this article, and really evaluate what working and living means for them.

FYI I wrote a blarticle about my experience in January and work/life balance here: https://medium.com/entrepreneurs-corner/9461ce206589
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I mentioned canceled pre-orders and I don't think that was unanticipated. I don't know how many were canceled, but with Facebook's coffers backing Oculus VR now, I must say I don't think they're overly concerned. My understanding was that the DKs were being sold primarily to finance further development and prototyping (and in particular to provide proof to suppliers that sufficient volume would exist), which is now a non-issue since they now have essentially as much money as they want, and can order x million units to get bulk pricing regardless of consumer demand.

The only major project that's been canceled was Minecraft, which Luckey privately pointed out was complete and utter vaporware anyway. I have a DK1 and I can tell you that most "Rift projects" were one-off tech demos that mostly weren't maintained, and no one will miss. If OVR continues to develop a good product, people will continue to develop for their platform, whether Facebook owns them or not.

What PR damage, outside of the group that they expected would be unhappy? It's all over the head of people who didn't know what Oculus was before the acquisition. I don't think people who aren't part of the industry really care, because they don't know anything about it. To the extent that it was covered by mainstream outlets, it was because Facebook bought another company, not because they were outraged that the dream of Oculus VR was being destroyed by FB.

Fear hasn't replaced confidence in all consumers and developers. Logical persons may have their opinions and predictions, but no one is justified in anything beyond "wait and see" until something actually happens.

I'm not downplaying the impact of the ire of the gaming community. I just don't think there's been a noteworthy one other than the vast amount of fruitless rage that's filled tech forums recently. Perhaps we disagree, but I don't think my assertions are "plain stupidity".
Dart has nothing to do with ART, AFAIK. ART is an installation-time compiler for Dalvik binaries (essentially an AOT compiler for Java).
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> I was always dispirited by how conservative in sentiment Bitcoin and most altcoins were. It always felt to me that Bitcoin was mostly redundant to gold, neglecting the inherent advantages of ecurrency. Something more ambitious deserves to be implemented.

There is a good reason Bitcoin is conservative: it has to be, by design. It's also what makes it attractive.

Also, you are completely wrong if you think that lack of ambition is the reason we don't have a cryptocurrency that doesn't neglect "the inherent advantages of ecurrency" by now. Lots of smart people, including esteemed computer scientists, have been thinking really hard about the subject for years and I find your comment a bit insulting towards them (I'll pass it off as ignorance on your part). I too really hope we can eventually come up with a better cryptocurrency but please don't assume people are not trying.
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>Sometimes it's ok to pass over a thing in silence instead of telling a stranger to smile.

That's not how I interpreted Pacabel's response. I interpreted it more like him/her telling jl that his expectations of Daniel 'fixing' HN to ban critiques are unrealistic.
A world of command line interfaces and TTY text editors, instead of the powerful interactive GUI world Xerox PARC systems had.
Or, a reminder that if you want change, you have to educate.

Actually, in a gold rush, the very best thing for most individuals is to be among the first to start digging. Profits from shovel selling (and book publishing) are marginal.
The ZK81 had 1KB or RAM...Yet, we wrote games with it

The Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of ram. It was well-known for its games.
So much of this is doing exactly the things we do now, but with the added "bonus" of not moving physically at all? This will appeal to some people for sure, but I can only imagine the side effects of this little innovation...

I'd rather embrace VR for all the things you can't or wouldn't want to do -- insane stunts, daredevil stuff, things too violent or dangerous to really be contemplated (at least not on a day to day basis). And of course, this may have been the path Occulus was on before...
I believe Brian Cantwell Smith should be mentioned here.

Which leads me to say something about computing. I have repeatedly
mentioned computation as one of the intentional sciences. Some of you will
know that for almost 30 years I have been engaged in a foundational inquiry
into the basic nature of computing—trying to figure out what it is, where it
came from, what its intellectual importance is, what it augers for the future. I
have spent 30 years, the project is largely complete ... and I have failed. Or
rather: I have succeeded, I believe, in coming up with the answer. But the
answer is: there’s nothing there.[0]

[0]: http://www.ageofsignificance.org/people/bcsmith/papers/smith...