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Can somebody explain the drama/context that led to the original list being shut down? From the linked announcement from Cartwright:

> However, I always assumed that the turning
point would be a sweeping request for large-scale deletion of
information that some vendor or other had taken exception to.
I never imagined that request might come from a researcher within the
'community' itself (and I use that word loosely in modern times). But
today, having spent a fair amount of time dealing with complaints from
a particular individual (who shall remain nameless) I realised that
I'm done. The list has had its fair share of trolling, flooding,
furry porn, fake exploits and DoS attacks over the years, but none of
those things really affected the integrity of the list itself.
However, taking a virtual hatchet to the list archives on the whim of
an individual just doesn't feel right. That 'one of our own' would
undermine the efforts of the last 12 years is really the straw that
broke the camel's back.
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Whaaa? Serial numbers are not secret, and no one should be regarding them as secret. Where did you get this idea?
No relation? I can clearly see a Virtual Social Network :)
You seem to be completely failing to understand o0-0o's objection.

Your example of another Google "venture" is, at this point, vaporware. Now we are told that Facebook is moving into a new "venture"? Why are we to believe that this will be any less vaporware? The only thing that matters to us, the potential consumer, is if they can ship. Everything else is irrelevant.
I completely get the issue. I, personally, support the right for LGBT individuals to get married. However its not about buying the argument

What I'm worried about is the social ostracizing of those who hold different political beliefs than you. At some point in time it was completely kosher to say the same thing about Blacks. At some point in time, a company that hired black individuals would have had trouble recruiting workers that would have given them a business advantage.

What worries me is that you could say the same exact argument for not hiring Black workers in the mid 1900s - the exact same you posted, and you seem to be completely cool with that. Theres a point where we are now using the same tools of suppression that were used on minorities of past on the now unfashionable opinions of today. I would have liked to think the human race has learned from that experience.
There is no solution in the admin settings, nor according to their enterprise support. It is plain old tough luck.

The vast majority of our traffic is from devices that retry later if anything goes wrong. It is analytics information and hence there is no human affected by it.

Despite having identical settings and code across a number of appengine apps, we see variance in the number of instances they decide to run (eg they will start 4 at once even though only 1 is needed for the load).

At one point they were starting hundreds of instances due to some of our aggressive inter-app traffic (thundering herd problem). Things would have worked fine if we could limit the number of instances, but tough luck there. It required considerable engineering and tuning to make the problem go away that would have trivially been solved (in the short/medium term) by limiting instance numbers.
> A good place to start when creating a new social app for the first time is to build upon these normal concepts, and then add your own twist. Much success has been seen on the Internet by doing this.

But you have to break out of this pattern to create ground breaking innovation, no? What Dave Morin is saying is that you take a particular product in a particular category and then improve it a little, and iterate over the process.

This only works if someone else has created that product/category in the first place. This article is perhaps about social networks, but someone must have initially imagined social networks on the internet when there were none and tried to create one. Of course it follows that innovation follows from many false starts in the same space and I can see his argument making sense for things like Myspace improving upon Friendster; and Facebook improving upon Myspace, etc. But if I come up with a better facebook (Super Normal), there isn't any interest or mindshare because facebook has a majority mindshare and there is only a certain minority that might choose my super normal app vs what already works.

Also, this pretty much fails in a lot of real world applications. For example you could argue that people were social to begin with and TELEGRAM was an improvement on that process. But then the TELEPHONE came along. Was the Telephone an improvement on the Telegram (it's super normal) or was it a new product category all together. Were Personal Computers the super normal to mathematics/games/writing or an entirely new product category?

I'm not sure if Dave currently reads Hacker News, but if he does (and this might be an unpopular opinion on HN) I'd like to ask him what his motivations behind continuing with Path are? Surely he is financially secure enough (w/ FB and now Path), and Path is mature enough that it could live on as a functioning experience on its users phones, but is this really his life's mission? I mean he is smart, financially secure, perhaps has awesome friends and familial relations, but why make another social app at all? I mean how much can you optimize the user experience? What happens after you can't optimize further? It's not like users will jump on your platform because they find their current social apps sub-optimal. Surely smart people have some end game in mind, so in this case is it just more money?
Why do they have to sell to anyone? Can't a company live on its own these days? They had everyone cheering up behind them.
OT, but I always thought "Respect, but don't trust implicitly" would be a more accurate, if less felicitous, way of putting it. Or at least as I understand the ideal.
"My foray into virtual reality was"

Note the 'was'. As in past tense. He's got his exit.
We persuaded mySQL to add the --i-am-a-dummy (http://sql-info.de/mysql/notes/I-am-a-dummy.html) option after about the third time one of our developers did this.
To be honest, this announcement made me realize how much what I was expecting was unrealistic. Sometimes you believe in miracles.

For the other company that I wouldn't have minded buying them, I'd say Valve getting back their CTO, Sony ready to provide the only VR platform of the market and using Oculus as a test bed, or even Samsung or Intel.
The problem with that thinking is that it assumes Facebook is unchanging and just wants to mash Oculus into Facebook as it currently is. Actually they've done quite a good job of sticking to their word on not messing with Instagram.

Zuck also talked about VR being a piece of a new computing paradigm, and threw out that quote in response to whether the business model was selling units of hardware.
Considering almost everyone hates on Facebook and is sort of forced into it due to the network effect, I wouldn't call this move brilliant.
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If Apple made printers, they wouldn't compete on price, but on quality. And it would be developed in secrecy.

Just saying "this is how the market works today, and I don't see Apple doing anything" isn't really relevant when you talk about Apple.

Not that I think they would make a printer, but the article is bad.
I would think many would not want to share Oculus usage data with Facebook, but would rather keep info private.
As I understand, you can't "go live" with the current architecture. In replay, no system call is executed. Write is no-op. Read is done from the trace. This is how PTRACE_SYSEMU works. To "go live", you would need to actually execute system calls.

http://sysemu.sourceforge.net/

Re: Chromium IPC. "Channels are implemented using named pipes on Windows, and socket pairs (or in some special cases unix domain sockets) on POSIX."

http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/ipc/ipc_channel.h
Or, how about CCP?

They've both managed to maintain long-running virtual communities.
Tax would still be deflationary as rich people could easily escape it by investing their money in gold or other currencies.
Too much JavaScript
So why did Google just removed http & is now only https?

For show?
It wouldn't be if the mitigation was to stop viewing RTF as it says on technet...
Library < DSL.

Library still have to follow the semantics and syntax of its language host. DSL does not.
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4th point is most important, as it's been 2 days gone since conference. Need to hurry!
Sounds more like a pre-recorded greeting than a "conference call." Conference calls in our company sounds kind of like a huge argument at any given time.
1. We don't know anything about the acquisition. We don't know why it happened. We don't know the terms. Nothing is clear yet.

2. People have a right to be angry, but what kind of hubris and egotism must a person have to tell Palmer Luckey to go fuck himself and to call him scum, right to his face? Do people really think this man went from passionate inventor to greedy businessman overnight? I think the top comment in this thread as well as Notch's response demonstrate the healthy adult way to respond to this news. Personal attacks are the lowest of the low, and yet sadly they're the norm on the internet.
I don't know how this kickstarter works, I know I should accept it as a charity but people donate money to this project and then they just sell it without even delivering a project?
I find the layout to be very refreshing. Whoever put it together did a pretty sweet job since it doesn't feel like reading the usual technical guide on how to use XYZ.
Wrong. They show adverts based on personal information (groups, friends, events, etc.) used incredulously to target folks of interest. That doesn't mean that person wants to see an ad regarding a band they have on their profile.
No. IntelliTrace records, but does not replay.
This corruption is known as regulatory capture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

> Regulatory capture is a form of political corruption that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating. Regulatory capture is a form of government failure; it creates an opening for firms to behave in ways injurious to the public (e.g., producing negative externalities). The agencies are called "captured agencies".
They had investors focused on profits as soon as possible.

Now they don't.

Of all the criticism you can level at Facebook, one thing you can't say is that they're driven by short term need for profits.
This is really cool. I am curious why Chrome on iOS wasn't made available yet? (i.e. if there was technical roadblock that made it difficult for you to do so.)
Isn't changing the rules while in mid-play just like an actual monopoly?
The article already addresses that concern:

> You might suspect this is actually a clumsy attempt on Facebook’s part to get people to change their settings from “friends” to “public.” But it isn’t, at least for now: A Facebook spokesman told me the only people seeing the pop-up box in the current test are those who are already posting publicly on Facebook. From Facebook’s perspective, then, this feature can only lead to one thing: Fewer people sharing publicly.
Ready Player One – what Oculus + FB will look like?
Pretty cheesy right?, I wrote my thoughts about it in this post https://medium.com/p/c0cc85f9c6db
Double port forwarding, for one.
I see. My suggestion would be to keep the lift animation, but replace the shaking with something that is persistently visible as long as the selector hasn't changed - this way it would be much easier to make out what has been going on. Also, one could play around with different selectors before actually answering the question.
Guys I know this ain't a troll or fun site, but you should see this (related to post):

http://9gag.com/gag/a75AdZA?ref=fbp
There was specific language that explicitly said "this is illegal" until the latest revision. Now, it's implicit, and in inquiries to the SEC they have repeatedly said "that goes against regulation".

The general idea behind rule 144 very sane: It's supposed to limit pump-and-dump IPOs and M&As, by forcing anyone who did not pay for their shares outright to wait 6 months before they can gain anything (and legally, the SEC is only interested in the overall guarantee - e.g. put options that guarantee you don't lose are AGAINST the current spirit and the former letter of the law).

However, the laws apply equally to someone who owns 90% of the shares (who is in a position to abuse an IPO and M&A) and 0.1% of the shares (who is likely an employee receiving RSU or options, has zero control, and likely not even any finances to draw upon)

The tax law is insane, the security regulations are complicated, and their interplay is ludicrously insanely crazy.

Whenever you see people saying "oh, it's very simple - you just didn't get the right advice" you can be sure that they have no idea what they are talking about - either they didn't have to deal with it, or they weren't aware they were doing something illegal.
I think he meant that Oculus now has money to do things that they could not do before.
For OAuth, I highly recommend the OAuth Bible: http://oauthbible.com
You are unreasonably conflating the legal situation and people's moral expectations. No one doubts that Oculus had every legal right to do what they did. People just feel it was unethical.
good to know I have nothing to fear.
Fair point, I'd have to be holding the car for investment purposes, or using it as a business asset, not using it for personal transport.
The system is so corrupt that even an honest business that just wants to make healthy profit by serving customers have to dirty their hands with politicians and legislators to run a legitimate business.
Sure it's cheaper, but DO doesn't provide consistent performance or security. Look at their past security problems with users able to read others disks or performance benchmarks for proof.
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Before you can expand, you have to first hit your core market. This deal seems like putting the cart before the horse, to me.
That statement is neither addressing the issue (some people have deeply held problems with _the person of the new CTO_) nor giving any insight on whether that was even considered this kind of reaction before choosing. It does in no way attempt to speak to the people that were hit badly by this.

Your opinion whether this outrage is justified or not doesn't matter. It is there and Mozilla should deal with it.
Honestly I am not sure if it is such a good idea to post a license key for Windows 8 in public like that.
I really hope it's fake ;)
Rick Perry always has a lot of brave things to say when the legislature isn't in session. Funny that the only time he has come out in support of an environmentally friendly industry is when he stands to gain a 6500 job windfall at the end of his term...
The lens cover would defeat the whole purpose of having an at an instant camera. You may as well pull your cell phone out of your pocket if you have to fumble with removing a lens cover while you're wearing Glass. I understand why people are concerned, but I still believe through my own experience, that the issue is gratefully overblown.
If they can get MySQL to scale in those data centers, I am sure they can attach a tv helmet to a large population. I still think Sony will come out on top though, they know this business better and have the battle scars with Microsoft.
Coming from a country where this statement would simply mean "we're obeying the law", I'm not particularly impressed by this cold and formal statement.

It about as strong a stance as saying "we provide clean toilets".
"Would never" is less accurate than "has not yet to date".

Never say never. Especially with a company that likes to surprise...
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http://www.opencompute.org
> I really, really don't understand the pathological and irrational hate for Facebook and/or ads.

Just look at Facebook's past relations with developers in their ecosystem, that should fix it.
F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS applications for Android.
Are you seriously implying that we should split English into "women English" and "men English" now?

Even if a woman is less likely to call it "I love programming" when she sees "if you love programming, come check out site" do you expect she'd react something like "woah, fuck that I don't love programming, I merely like it with sufficient intensity"?

Are we going to analyze women like these strange animals, with their own language and what not? I prefer to see them as people.

I don't have to mimic precisely the dictionary and phrasing of a woman to effectively communicate with her. Speech is flexible enough to accomodate unique expression while expressing the right intent.

What have we turned into that "I love my job" is controversial language all of a sudden?
Google Launches Managed Virtual Machines
For future reference: would there be benefit in hiring a reputed event management company, if so what would be the overhead?

Reasoning is three fold. The event management companies: (i) know which places work, (ii) they give repeat business, so less likely to be brushed off, and (iii) their boss (even if not onsite) has been in such situations before & knows what to do.
The latest gdb also contains a reversible mode. Anybody can comment on how does it compare with rr?

I have only tried myself the reversible debugger in ocaml, and it was an eye opening experience.
> I agree. People are hating on social VR here

Uh? Notch very specifically notes social VR would likely be great, and that he does not mind, just does not care.
Try writing a book sometime. You'll quickly learn that $30 is a bargain.
> I don't understand where this limitation comes from.

Time and money? Such as scheme requires a lot of very low-level ops (including things which are not available on all architectures), x86 is simpler and better-understood than x64, starting the project there seems as good a choice as not.
Who cares?

You seem to live in a universe where everything goes according to plan, that's not any real universe I'm aware of.

Kickstarter is about being a patron of creators for specific projects. Sometimes those projects are by people working in good faith, sometimes not. Sometimes those projects succeed, sometimes not.

The idea that this is somehow unusual is ridiculous. The idea that it should be discouraged is actively harmful. One of the most powerful things anyone can do with their money is to fund the development of things which change the world. Create products they wish existed, create art they desire, support creative or productive people, help others, etc.
Ok, if you're so full of hate for Facebook then I understand why you don't like this deal on an ideological level.
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Completely agree - that's the first time I've read a guide to oauth and actually understood it. So big thanks from me.
I thought the Maemo/Meego/Tizen/Sailfish family had all shifted towards HTML5 for apps?
Heremo.com what do you think about this project?
Visited the website. Just my advice:

(1) The domain name is hard to remember.
(2) On the home page the value proposition isn't clear. Also, remember, benefits over features.
That's what doomsayers usually say about these kind of deals but I have yet to see it happen. Let's see if you're right this time. I don't think you are.
Unfortunately there is a difference between "backer" and "investor", even if they both chuck money in the project. Would there be such a thing as a kickstarted kind of thing where backers can become shareholders? Or could this simply be a case of "if you invest 10 grand, you get x shares"?
This way there could be a way for investors not to ride on the back of backers later on?
Or am I being totally silly?
Again: no one denied receiving 702 orders, the point of contention about PRISM isn't that entities receiving data requests knew they were receiving them, it's that they grant the government "direct access" which they denied and still deny.

That Guardian piece was wrong and ill conceived and in minimizing their backtracking (they didn't even change the headline) they did themselves a disservices: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140319/17162326629/dont-f...
There's a huge difference between the government spying on its citizens without their knowledge and citizens recording others. If I knew that constantly being on camera would be inevitable in the future, I would definitely choose Glass over CCTV and the NSA.

David Brin puts it best in The Transparent Society (which I would strongly recommend to anyone concerned about privacy):

"We may not be able to eliminate the intrusive glare shining on citizens of the next century, but the glare just might be rendered harmless through the application of more light aimed in the other direction"
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Don't think so. Valve's total equity was estimated at ~$2.5bn in 2012
Same reaction here. This page would be so much better without animations at all.
Explain how sitting in front of my desk, with this gear on, looking at avatars of my friends, no matter the fidelity of the gear, is a better communication medium than group chat or video hangouts or the million other more efficient communication mediums that exist is worth anything more than a passing novelty?

Or are you proposing that I look at a high bandwidth, 3d video stream of somebody with a black rrectangle strapped to their face while they look at my complimentary version?
Google didn't avoid details here. Their General Counsel issued a categorical denial not just of Arrington's story, but of the notion that anything like Arrington's story had ever happened in any other circumstance. It is very difficult to argue that they're weaseling.

For whatever it's worth, Google is also not Enron. It's not hard to imagine Enron executives saying anything, because Enron was a sham business, "faking it until they made it" or, as it happened, fell off a cliff. Google generates tens of billions of dollars of revenue per year. They have a lot to lose. When Google's General Counsel says something newsworthy, it's not done casually.

Finally: I think it's worth reminding people that the other side of this argument is a person who claims not to have reported on this story until a few days ago because --- despite the fact that the story was immensely relevant to the public interest, and despite the fact that not reporting it put his own sources at grave risk not merely of losing their jobs but of being sued by billion dollar companies --- to have reported it earlier would have risked the bottom line of his own publication. Who are you going to believe?
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> Think about when Microsoft got into gaming and created Xbox. Now imagine if they didn't.

Kinect would have been developed independently and be sold the same way the leap motion controller is sold today, and console and game makers would have licensed it instead. Not so bad I think.
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Looks like it needs physical access to ATMs USB port. Isn't the physical access most of the problem?