skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and thus the cards are always racing one another.

If the cards display frames as they're available, they end up with uneven display times, which is a quite jarring visual effect. If they VSync they end up with the standard VSync issues where occasional slow frames are difficult to handle. Both are undesirable traits for VR. An output buffer naturally adds latency, which is also undesirable.

The card-race issue is called "micro stuttering" and you can read some outdated information about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_stuttering .

AMD cards in Crossfire used to be notorious for this effect, but they've since added an adaptive frame-rate limiter (forcing fast frames to delay, like VSync but not bound to the display's refresh) which helps.
Dogecoin and Reddit forum sponsor a car on NASCAR circuit
Tax fraud only became easy with the possibility of anonymous acceptance of payments. Now with Bitcoin you and everyone who produces intangible goods can officially complain about not getting preferential tax treatment.
If it were to avoid a patent infringement then it could still be considered contributory infringement - ie you [knowingly] provided the necessary parts, methods, information that enables someone else to perform the infringement.

That's not going to be the case here as the code is too old to be patent encumbered.

Things are certainly moving towards there being a wide definition of contributory copyright infringement, eg cases against torrent file sites that don't store copyright works. It would be pretty asinine and regressive to punish someone for publishing instruction on a copyright work could be modified, IMO, but the law isn't known for always making sense.

https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Copyright:_Infringement_Issues...
"rock solid 5-year SLA"

File that with "will always be free we promise".

Just so you know there is no such thing as "rock solid" with respect to legal contracts. There is always wiggle or weasel room. Better predictor is past behavior (which is what everyone is discusssing).

Not only that but a company like google has the finances to take any kind of legal action hit if they do decide to go against the contract even w/o a leg to stand on. And a band of users and a class action won't stop the process. [1]

Even Apple has in the past killed products (clones, xserve, newton for example). I remember specifically that a close friend told me that "they will never kill xserve" he was a big rep in sales and had tons of business in that area. Yet they killed it. Oh yeah mobileme also. I know I'm forgetting many other things.

While it's not unusual that companies kill products or services and there is never an explicit guarantee there are definitely companies that are more likely to do so if the product doesn't meet certain goals or fit in.

[1] Re-read this part. In other words promise one thing, do another thing, then simply clean up the resulting mess.
You can also disable the camera light on the glass with about $0.10 worth of black paint.
Note on the .doc included in Word for Windows 1.1a source code package: You will probably have to unblock the old Word file formats before you can open them in current versions of Word. In Word 2003 SP3 and Word 2007 you have to manually edit the registry, later versions provide UI for doing it. This won't work for the Word for MS-DOS files which requires a separate converter.
Even better example is Bugatti Veyron, fastest production car in the world. Some analysts say that company is losing over $6m on every car sold, despite $2m price tag. Only 400 cars were sold to date.
Google is once again the most-trafficked US site, ends Yahoo's 7-month streak
No need to go out of your way to provide rationales, this person is most likely misrepresenting himself.

Google employees are usually smart, this person isn't. I mean even at face value his logic is unsound: all mobile services are cloud supported, there is no conflict between being mostly about mobile and providing developers with a backend on which to build their wares, which in any case are also increasingly mobile.
very useful nowaday!
How to build a Rails engine
I agree, it seems quite doable. The specific number proposed by FairTax.org for the "prebate" is relatively low, making the overall result somewhat but not very progressive (their proposal is a prebate equal to 23% of the national poverty line, e.g. $2650/yr for a single person with no kids). But that seems like a pretty simple issue to fix: just increase the amount, to whatever level of progressivity you'd like. If you increase it enough, you simplify the tax code and roll out something like a basic income at the same time.

It's true you can't approximate every possible tax curve you might desire using the model of a flat sales tax rate + a flat prebate, but by varying the rate and the rebate size you can approximate enough curves for it to be interesting.
A Dogecoin-sponsored NASCAR is happening after group raises more than $44,700
Mega opts for a reverse takeover so it can go public on NZ exchange
(I'm VP of Engineering at Algolia) Be sure I'm the first one hating marketing bullshit. Our team of 6 is composed by 5 engineers: we're developers/geeks/tech guys too :)
When we speak about "database search" it has actually nothing to deal with "facet search". The 2 main differences of our engine comparing to "traditional/document search engine" is the way the ranking is working and the way we provide instant-search capabilities (not just "suggest" in a separated data structure like what you could have with ES/Solr, but real queries): we call that "database/record search". You may be interested by a blog post we wrote a few weeks ago describing our secret sauce: http://blog.algolia.com/search-ranking-algorithm-unveiled/. If you need more details, I'll be happy to chat (feel free to reach me at sylvain at algolia)
If you're a polyglot/polyplatform developer then eclipse based IDE's are awesome. You can drop an eclipse into a directory, untar it, and run it... and toss it away later if you want. Titanium Studio, SpringSource Tool Suite, and, of course, basic Eclipse are all versions of Eclipse. I don't pay a cent, and can make my way through several projects with the same IDE skill set as they all use variations of the same commands. I don't have to deal with annoying and expensive licensing issues. The IDE is free, and the plugins I choose are also usually free. By free, I mean free in all senses. If I want to get someone going on my project, they can download an Eclipse based IDE and get rolling without paying a cent. As a final bonus, most tutorials reference Eclipsed based IDE's... not a paid IDE.
Am I the only one who sees double meaning in using a "dinosaur" to help remind people about "privacy"? Or maybe I'm just reading too far into it.
> Even in 2014, I'm sure there are plenty of people out there still using Pentium 4s and Windows XP.

Don't forget low-end mobile devices.
Exactly. We have 1 year of data, and are certainly backtesting. So far the only thing we can really test is whether momentum helps with fundraising... more on that soon
I'd like to add some color to that. Google Wallet is for Digital Goods only. Checkout was for pretty much anything. (especially ecommerce)
Seattle police break promise to return drones to manufacturer
How and When to Use Both Ethernet Ports on a Mac Pro
Perfect Coffee: Startup using a optical grind analysis system on coffee
Windows 8 Update Might Delete GRUB2 and Set UEFI to Secure Boot
This is what made it `click' for me: http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-...

Ever since I found Better Explained I have recommended it to anyone wanting to get actual intuition for high school / undergraduate level math concepts.
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> You may not use or distribute this Software or any derivative works in any form for commercial purposes.
Examples of commercial purposes would be running business operations, licensing, leasing, or selling the Software,
distributing the Software for use with commercial products, using the Software in the creation
or use of commercial products or any other activity which purpose is to procure a commercial gain to you or others.

If you're in academia and getting a stipend and you look at it as part of your research, Microsoft could argue that that is a commercial gain to you. If FreeDOS has ever been used to make a commercial product (this is very different from the GPL which explicitly delineates derivative works from works produced by the software!), then its developers risk breaking the terms of the license agreement if they taint their thought processes with Microsoft's code. So yes, I'd probably say you're right.
You can take a general function and break it into its 'component' polynomial terms, this is called the taylor series.

You can also take a periodic function and break it into its 'component' sines and cosines. This is called the fourier series.

Fourier transform is essentially similar to the fourier series except you're allowed to have non-integer frequency multiples.

You can see how FT and FS are useful for analyzing all sorts of things that are periodic. MP3s, for example use a similar system to encode music (it's called the discrete cosine transform) and compression is enabled by deleting information that your ear will fill in - but this information is most easily selected and deleted by looking at the MP3 in terms of frequency and amplitude over time.
The astroturfing on this article is incredible:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dreamdweller

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=banpei

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dramatise

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kc99

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=conn23

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Darkpandemic

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SanktKlaus

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=freemefromthis

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SimonJester89

It's possible that this one article caused all the above users to sign up at the same time just to add their one and only HN comment. Occam's razor suggests a different conclusion, however.
How does that help when your content is in Cloud Storage? Is there an app which serves content out of Cloud Storage and runs on app engine? (I haven't worked with app engine)

You can set caching headers on Cloud Storage also. But that doesn't help when
1. you have a large number of requests with cold cache
2. want the flexibility to keep cache time small. Unlike cloudfront there is no purge method in GCS. GCS doesn't guarantee to serve new versions until the old one's cache time has expired.
Charge by usb would be nice. I lost my nokia 1100 after 7 years of use (including dropping in a pond) and moved on to a spare samsung I had. If nokia came out with something with >500h of standby and charge by usb, I'd immediately give them an entire £10.

edit: also, I like the lack of SMS space - it decreases my reliance on the device. I write down the important stuff and purge the rest monthly. SMS is a rubbish format for keeping my brain in.
I believe you just stated the new killer feature for mining pools. Miners will presumably dump pools which make their taxes harder for pools which make them easier.
I'd say it is in fact a familiar abstraction (as the "You Could Have Invented Monads" article shows) that's presented in an unfamiliar way with unfamiliar syntax. Taking something you already understand intuitively and learning to express it in a new formal framework (like much of Haskell) is often harder than learning something brand new in a formal model and slowly developing an intuition for it (like much of physics). Sometimes gaining a formal understanding enriches your intuition and vice versa, but I haven't experienced anything like that with Haskell so far.
I largely avoid UPDATE and DELETE statements. Changes are new rows, time ordered, which supersede prior rows. Like an audit log.

Works great. Especially for anything that needs history, e.g. medical data.
I agree. These brands are story, but still have a basis on some superior quality with the end product. When the craftsmanship and material differences go to zero, it'll be interesting to see what that story will be.
"Just upgrade to Rails 4." Five words, months and months of hair loss.

There is a lot less radical change and a lot more focus on compatibility in Rails nowadays, and yet upgrading a substantial app to a new version of Rails is still a shaky proposition. For a lot of companies, the gigantic leap from 2.3 to 3 was more trouble than just paying somebody to maintain 2.3.
Four plead guilty to selling $700,000 of counterfeit Android apps
> A few weeks ago Larry Page was asked about "putting the user first" at TGIF. His solution to this problem is to go mobile only and dedicate 80% of the company's resources to mobile (at the expense of everything else)

> Do you think Google is going to care about things like this with there new strategy?

Granting, for the sake of argument, that the story you relate is true, um, yes? One of the big things in Google's cloud platform push has been to build infrastructure that on which applications can be built for Google end-user platforms -- Android and Chrome. If Google was adopting a mobile-as-central-end-user-focus strategy, then backend services that support mobile development like Cloud Platform (and tools that rely on it like Cloud Endpoints) would seem to be rather important.
This looks pretty similar to the parallela, with better price, nicer software support and better manufacturing horizon.

Oh well, that was somewhat predictable: parallela competed with nvidia in something that nvidia cared about and could execute.
"but somehow, VCs (like Altman) keep squeezing this image into their blog posts somehow."

It is merely (or should be) a technique used to separate the "men from the boys" and the "women from the girls".

For example if that statement scares you away then you may not be cut out for what you need to do. According to Altman and/or YC.

I think this is quite similar to what I saw when watching a documentary or movie on Navy seals. It was quite clear to me that all of the seals interviewed were absolutely willing to die for their country. No doubt this was something that came up in training a lot in order to weed out the people who really weren't so obsessed with being a Seal that they couldn't imagine dying for their country.

I have to tell you that when I started a non tech company many years ago (after college) I worked for 6 years w/o taking a vacation practically 7 days a week. I didn't pay attention to the weather. Every day was the same. People used to pity me but it didn't bother me at all. I liked to work. I never thought about it it's just you do what you have to do. You know what? I still work that much and I don't even have to. (But I do take vacations..)
My "Future Computers MSDOS 2" manual finally has a use!

http://imgur.com/ejnlHY1

http://imgur.com/7NzGGWO

http://imgur.com/ljOV7XJ
Periodically, the board of directors will go through a process for determining the value (aka the market price) for stock options. If you exercise your option and the exercise price is less than the current valuation price, then you will experience a 'taxable event.' I would guess that you'd be hit with the AMT in the US if computing the tax based on that exercise value was higher than your non-AMT computed tax. But you would want to check with your accountant.

Some companies allow you to file an 83b election, which is to exercise all your stock immediately, and as it is worth exactly what you are paying for it, no taxable event, and then take ownership of it as it vests. A person might choose to do that because in the event of going public or any time when the common stock becomes liquid, you would only pay long term capital gains rather than short term gains. The downside is that if the company exits where the common stock is worthless (not an uncommon occurrence for startups) then you would lose that money you paid originally. (but you could write off that loss, $3,000 a year, against future income :-)
They moved newsletters, promotions and other commercial email into Promotions and now they're reformatting the parsable ones into ads.

From an email marketing perspective, I'm torn. I can definitely put out offers like this if that's what Google makes me do it. They'll probably be pretty visible too! Maybe I'll sell more. Unfortunately, we'll have to figure out other ways to communicate with people when we're not selling them something. (which is almost all the time)

The cynic in me thinks this is just a prelude to charging me to email my gmail customers, though. In line with Facebook's paid promotion features. Hope not. That would be dirty pool for an open protocol like email...

edit: I a word.
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It happens to people who got good advice too. I was an investor in a startup that sold for 3x (yay!), and the deal was less than 1 yr from my investment (35% short term capital gain rate + 13% NYC rate = 48% tax rate on the spot) but the deal was 45% cash, 55% stock. So I already had out-of-pocket expenses.

But I had to wait 6 months to sell any stock (SEC rule 144, applies to anyone whose shares were not bought), during which buying company share crashed 75% unrelated to this deal.

Now, since the deal happened to be in the first 6 months of the year, I was able to net it all, and a 3x exit was reduced to ~1.5x thanks to rule 144

If the deal had happened just 3 months later (any day after 1-jul), I would have lost money - not even full return of capital - on a successful exit, and had losses to carry till the end of the universe.

The tax laws are the problem. I have a good accountant, but wasn't in the driver seat for this deal, so I couldn't properly structure it.
That is some very expensive paint.
Nope, none in 1983.

I did an advanced search at USPTO for "AN/microsoft and ISD/19750101->19890101" (patents assigned to Microsoft and issued between 1975 and 1989). All it found were:

4,779,187 - Method and operating system for executing programs in a multi-mode microprocessor (filed April 10, 1985, issued October 18, 1988)

4,588,074 - Holder for storing and supporting articles (filed March 21, 1985, issued May 13, 1986)

Yes, if I understand it correctly, Microsoft's first patent was "relates to article holders, and more particularly to a dual purpose holder for both storing, and supporting in open position, books, magazines, pamphlets, and similar items."

I can't figure out why 5,848,246 (Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Object-oriented system, method and article of manufacture for a client-server session manager in an interprise [sic] computing framework system) references this patent.
The thing to note about this card is that it's a dual-GPU card - two chips with some sort of intra-card PCIE bus between them. You could get equivalent gaming performance by buying two of the GTX 780 Ti for about $1500. That level of performance is roughly what you want if you want to game at 4k resolutions at 60 FPS, so there are gaming applications for this card, even if it falls into "insanely high-end". The niche for this sort of card is in mini-ITX and similarly small computers, where there isn't enough room for a pair of cards and the builder wants "throwing money away" levels of performance.

That said, the selling point of the Titan cards is that their GPUs don't have the same restrictions put on their general-purpose compute performance as the standard gamer cards. NVIDIA locks this performance on their geforce cards in order to protect their lucrative GPGPU business, so this is really more of an entry-level card for scientific computing and other applications.

Cryptocurrency mining would be an obvious application, but a quirk of NVIDIA and AMD's differing architectures means that AMD cards are vastly more powerful at the specific functions needed to mine cryptocoins.
No, I think everyone sees someone claiming to be a Google employee (not specifically an engineer, though) trashing Google's product.
Ask HN: What's your side project and how much recurring income does it generate?
Try to be descriptive in your comments. When you started, what you've done, challenges you've faced, methods of earning revenue, we want to hear it all!
Ask HN: Entrepreneurs and freelancers, what are you doing for Obamacare? 
Are you planning to sign up for one of the plans in covered california, planning to pay the penalty, planning to use hacker care (http://hackercare.org/) or planning to use some other service catering to hackers?
Finally, in response to your edit that attempting to build billion-dollar businesses is the norm: you can only come to such a belief if you have firmly ensconced yourself in the Silicon Valley startup scene.

You misunderstood me. I never said shooting for billion dollar businesses is the norm across the country but rather in the context of startups, particularly those that YC is most interested in funding.

I'm not debating or necessarily even disagree with what you are saying about founders and their chances of success. But that is not what we are debating here.

The primary debate here is whether Sam Altman's post to his audience makes the right point about his message. I think it does.
Hackers Are Attacking Microsoft Word
This whole paranoia about Glass reminds me of those people who act like smartphones are only for calling/texting. "Why are you bringing your phone? Who are you going to need to call today?" Nobody, but I might want to get directions, or research something on Wikipedia, or check my to-do list, or listen to music, or...

The camera is the least interesting thing about Glass. Stop acting like it's a single-purpose surveillance machine.
This was a fantastic talk. Sad that you have to log in to view it now. That was definitely not the case a few months ago.
Facebook acquiring Oculus VR
But going from nearly perfectly smooth lines to perfectly smooth lines should not be a profitable market. Nobody will notice the difference during any real gameplay. You can already do great anti aliasing so why would someone pay $1000+ more for a 10% or less gain.
> Malnotes

Clever.
At some point you just have to go out on a limb and hope that everyone you know or meet isn't actively trying to invade your privacy.
Rovio signs up with Orchestrate, the database that wants to rule them all
MongoDB isn't an application server. It's a database engine.
The creator of Doom now works for Facebook.
Well, it is not uncommon for options to expire after you leave a company if they are not exercised. So if you take a new job and don't want to throw away your options...
RIP ET: The Legend Of The Long-Buried Video Game
27 ways to learn program online.
Facebook acquires Oculus VR
Why are MakerFaire tickets so costly?
Its now at $60 for a 2 day Adult entry pass. I think that's ridiculous. Their early-bird price was $50 which is still too high.
I think these high prices seem predatory to me. Maybe its time to make some changes to how the event is conducted and controlled.
Facebook to buy Oculus VR for about $2 billion
They do: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availabi...
I disagree. For that I only need the possibility of replacing something simple with a pipeline, not necessity. The pipeline I am forced to build today may not only occur unnecessary - it runs the risk of having split the components along the wrong lines.
If you select the right objects, they get lifted up in the air. If you select the wrong objects, they shake.
FB acquires Oculus for $2B
Wonder if they manually curate these lists or if they initially populated them with some sort of machine learning?
This feels like a bizarre shift away from Facebook's core focus. It takes a very different kind of company to bring a consumer hardware device to market.
This is awesome and it makes me wonder about other potential capabilities. Could a similar method be used to create two-way text chat, for instance?
Oculus Rift acquired by Facebook for $2 Billion
Look ma, JavaScript only Off-Canvas menu
Facebook Buys Oculus VR
Facebook to Acquire Oculus VR