skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't care much about downtime if you're using only one droplet for your app in production, do you?
So it's not as easy as walking into your bank, sending a text message to the ATM and walking out with a lot of free money.

You actually need physical access to a USB port of the ATM which is hidden somewhere inside. So I guess the hack here is that the money inside an ATM is very well hidden and even protected by exploding paint barrels so it cannot normally be stolen even with physical access for a long period of time. But it is possible to get the Windows XP based software to dispense money from the safe by injecting a trojan through USB.

Unfortunately, the article does not make that very clear.
Err MSDOS was a rough CP/M clone and CP/M did have drive letters. CP/M picked up some stuff from RSX-11 (pip for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program) and that's why the Windows/MSDOS command option is usually / as it was on a pdp-11 (backwards compatibility to BEFORE unix)
Sad news. I guess facebook is going to take the Oculus "store" (or "share" or whatever they call it) and try and get the facebook App Center to be the new Steam for VR games or something. Whatever they do I just know I want no part in it.
Need Finding Crib Sheet from Stanford HCI (2007) [pdf]
> Yes, minix ran on 286

Minix 1.0 ran on a 8086/8088
The thing is: you do not want "information" from someone, you want "opinion" and that is something personal, it is not got from a service, because "opinion" is something intrinsically related to SOMEONE.

So, being smart means having clear, firm and cultivated opinions (i.e. not just "I like")... Which requires culture, experience and thought. And a personality. And trust.

Go look for that in Google. Especially the last two things.
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Kickstarter is patronage. It can't be considered anything else or they get into some legal trouble with one or more US bureaus. You can't see it as investing because then the SEC gets involved. You can't see it as prodding a product because then, as you said, consumer protection act gets involved. And you can't see it as a donation because then the IRS gets involved (more involved, as backers will want to take deductions).

Kickstarter, as a company, cannot and does not promote any view of backing except patronage. You are literally a sugar daddy for the people working on the project. Backing buys their time. Time they have promised to use to make a thing you want, but your only recourse if they don't is to not buy anymore of their time.
I suggested a relative ordering of importance; nowhere did I imply that one was important and the other was not.
It will probably feel like this http://vimeo.com/m/8569187
Is there a term for this kind of thing - where a word or phrase ends up being used in a way that is almost the exact opposite of how it started? ["meritocracy" is another example]
Even java can do that setOut(system.in); (iirc)
At the time I seem to recall this was documented as being the SWITCHAR in config.sys certainly by MSDOS3.x this was well known and I seem to recall trying it out on MSDOS 2.x on a commodore pc clone (in Sweden) this would have been around 1985ish
I wouldn't say they are totally dead. They are great for relatively quick/dirty code.

The major advantage that CGI gives you is the fact that you get a new, clean process on each request. This means you have fewer and simpler failure cases. This can be helpful when you have a line of business web application though it is certainly suboptimal for public-facing scalable systems.

I wouldn't say cgi is dead. It still has a role to play. It is not the ideal way for doing many things though. I.e. they are no longer the go-to tool, but rather one tool for relatively lower-volume applications where performance matters less than some other considerations.
Python, shell, etc. isn't suitable for high scalability, fast applications (e.g. Apache Solr, Lucene, Hadoop etc.). And beginner examples like these make no sense. Java clearly has an important role in this world, maybe not in yours (if you're so irked by "verbosity").
I think you're entirely right. As other people have said, we're forgetting the previous VR boom, and also the various times Hollywood has tried to make 3D films stick. 3D TVs are currently flagging in sales. In my cupboard of "tech that was once must-have", I have a Kinect, a Wii Fit, a dancemat, and an NVIDIA 3D shutter-glasses set. I suspect VR will end up there too.
You can skip ahead, click three lines symbol on the top right and select an exercise.
Tourism could be a huge application of VR. I want to visit about 1000x as many places as I'll ever be able to -- VR could be a big part of making that possible.
For me, having a backup plan means when 10-15 years on into the startup career and the tenth startup doesn't work out and shuts it's doors, I have a foundation in place that means I'm not starting from ground zero or hoping that the next startup is a lottery ticket that pays off.

Also, the backup plans I envision involve more than one person and I realize that working with your partner isn't an option for everyone.
But at least, unlike CommonLisp, chances are it is actually used by someone.
Seems to be straight from The Onion
...but that's great.

Wow, this is a wonderful thing.

I would go as far as to say it is the tool every developer wanted and most thought was impossible (the low overhead part at least).

Only recording the nondeterministic parts and replaying the rest is so obvious, once someone else has thought of it.
> But this goes further and lays bare the sheer stupidity inherent in kickstarter or any other crowd-sourcing platform.

Only if the projects backed aren't Free and Open-Source.
It's similar to the idea of pg in The Python paradox (http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html) when Python was not as mainstream as now.
It seems this and subj patterns could be books themselves.
File manipulation, like any kind of computer programming, can be programmed in a high-level or low-level way. High-level is easier and reflects some assumptions and opinions. Low-level gives you more control. With Java, you can choose which way you want to go, and the easier route is only as "difficult" as choosing a high-level framework.
Vulnerable USB drivers exist in pretty much every OS. For example, here's a vulnerable USB driver under Linux: https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/system/assets/153/original/... , and a vulnerability in the FAT filesystem: http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2013/CVE-20... . Those were found with real simple googling, I could find others with a tiny bit more work. Unfortunately, most kernel development teams do not spend anywhere near the time they should ensuring that the code they write is hardened and modular, so such attacks will only continue until we demand better development hygiene.
except me of course cos I don't write bugs
Easily try out any OCaml pull request with OPAM
Why it makes sense for Larry Page to donate his billions to Elon Musk
Essentially the kickstarter backers feel cheated when the founders sell out? Didn't they know this could happen? That in the case of Oculus VR it was probably bound to happen?
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Remind me what did they do for (and with) PC gaming in the last 10 years.And how do you know they aren't making data of tracking you? What do you think Bing is about? Or their massive push towards the POWER OF THE CLOUD? Or the extremely closed Windows Phone platform?
Or they could have sent it or accessed it unencrypted from a Google internal network.

I have a relevant anecdote. When I was an intern at Facebook, during one of the university relations event that was of a "hackathon" genre, I was creating with my friends a multiplayer web game that was using websockets for communication. The guest wi-fi network wouldn't let packets between different machines connected to it go through, so we decided to just tunnel all traffic to my laptop (the game server) through AWS using ssh tunnel.

It took only a few minutes for network security people to contact me, asking what's this big encrypted transfer to AWS all about, and mind you, it was Saturday evening.
"95% of ATMs continue to run on Windows XP"...well that's reassuring!
All I can say is that the cover looks fabulous.
I guess this is why we have 100 HTML5 game engines and 0 HTML5 smash-hit games.
What Facebook buying OculusVR is all about
I wouldn't like any ISP messing with my router.

My router shouldn't be part of the ISP's network for it to use however it likes.

I would rather take full responsibility for it and manage it myself even replace it at my expense if it breaks.

Letting them do that is like giving the keys to your house to every utilities company you deal with and permission for them to give the key to whoever they choose. Do you really thrust them that much?
I genuinely have no idea what you're trying to say.

It doesn't matter what some people think about drugs - The Government spends vast amounts keeping them illegal and criminalising people who produce, distribute, or consume drugs.

Almost all of The Government sees no legitimacy in drugs.

The IRS will see drug money as taxable money.

The fact that tax authorities are happy to accept tax from illegal revenue means absolutely nothing about the legitimacy or otherwise of those activities.
Increasing the price by 10 times is the same as a 900% price increase.
ESO finds astroid with rings
They're having a press conference in Brazil right now, with an embargo until 19:00 CET (http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann14021/)

But someone pushed "publish" a bit too early with the announcement (since been removed, that's why the Google Cache) http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wral.com%2Fdiscovery-an-asteroid-with-rings%2F13510966%2F
Microsoft announces the Obnoculus ONE VR headset at CGDC
Interesting project, but I'm not convinced it solves the right problem.

If you trust "magic configuration" to secure your email, you can already have (a lot of) that with just smtp+tls.

As far as I can tell there's no way to know if the email you send will be encrypted or not. So there's no way to know if it can be considered secure or not? Secondly, it appears as if though if the receiver has a public key listed, the email will be encrypted, regardless of whether of the recipient uses gpg normally.

Finally all off-line storage an backup is still plain-text, so if someone, say, gets access to your laptop that you use for reading mail, it's all stored in plaintext on that machine, because it's been retrieved in plaintext from the kinko box.

Fundamentally though, this doesn't help with managing trust, and making trust visible. I agree that is hard, and inconvenient -- but without it I'm not really sure I see the point? Worse than that, I can't see how this won't give a false sense of security.
Are you really comparing those exchangeable webpages to a revolutionary human interface device?

All these webpages will go. Like FB. The device will remain there until we manage to implant something directly in our brains. We are talking about a new "mouse" here.
Except Tango didn't come from Facebook.Facebook has never made anything new aside from new standards in marketing and scummery. Google at least sometimes toy with the idea of things being open and is heavily investing in R&D other than just "where to place the ad so that it's always seen".
I don't think that's stupid. Kickstarter contributions are investments, they just don't have financial payoffs. The payoff should be that, if successful, a certain desirable piece of technology or art is created. If a company shifts focus away from the aims and goals they used to attract Kickstarter funding, then they have essentially acted dishonestly. There is no legal recourse, so the best thing to do is complain and make them look bad. The behaviour you think of as stupid is really the only way contributors can put pressure on Kickstarter companies to act in good faith.
Breeding Entrepreneurs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine
Not really. The problem is not an aquisition per se, it's an aquisition by Facebook (one of my friends, a backer, put it as 'the only thing worse would have been Zynga').

Imagine there is a company who you don't trust at all and who, in your eyes, has a history of betraying their users (in this case, with the changes and defaults in privacy settings, and the web stalking... ).

Now imagine this company buying a company you care about, who had the air of being honest and open and which you trusted. Since you do not trust the first company, you can now effectively no longer use the product of the second.

(While this may look a bit like paranoia, I know people who think like this.)
Actually I think the guys who predicted that iPhone will flop are the same guys who think VR is world-changing. The common theme is misunderstanding of the potential users and the problems the product solves.
VR solves zero problems for me.
Nozick's Experience machine
Why should the difference be to the user? The inner workings are important to the creators - it loosens their dependency on an external proprietary firm. The interface matters to the users.

It's no coincidence that six out of ten in this list run on Linux:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mobile_operating_...

In a roundabout way it may actually matter to users in that it enables more competition and better choice.
Not just CON but also con.txt, con.js, etc.! Try cloning a git repository with a file called con.js using msysgit. The result is that, when msysgit tries to clone the file, the contents of the file `con.js` are printed to stdout, i.e. to CON.
Yet another reason that kickstarter should be equity based. At the moment it's basically a charitable donation to someone else's success.
That was my exact thought. I had been waiting for the consumer version; now I'm thinking I'd better get the unencumbered dev kit.
Because Hacker News is relentlessly pro-Google? Have we been browsing different sites for the last year?
What is a good embeddable Forth for a game?
"Not connected to Facebook". Lol, not anymore.
Comments from Oculus Rift Kickstarter Backers
MS Word 2010 Security Advisory: Don't open documents named ".RTF"
> Even more awesome : integration with trello.

great idea! i'm putting this on my weekend-projects list
The first walkman cost 700$ in 2014 dollars (199$ in 1979). VR sets are not gonna be expensive forever, in 5-10 years your smartphone could probably power it and the device would not be larger than a a pair of sunglasses.
Go Program Crazy Stone defeated Yoshio Ishida, a professional Go player
LOL. They said this stuff in the 80s too. I remember, I went to an arcade where they had VR...
What's the point of putting unlimited lines of code on your retina, when your ability to comprehend them does not change a bit?
It is amazing how Sony has turned things around in the last 18 months. Mostly because their competition (xbox, nintendo, oculus) is simply clueless about treating a community well.

As for Oculus itself, I doubt they would have been funded in kickstarter if they used any of these words in their original pitch - social, communicate, Facebook, etc. Now it feels sad to see them speak a very different language.

Imagine if the iPhone, after being sold for 600$ to early adopters, sold out to Microsoft in 2007. That's how bad this feels for some of us backers and developers.
The fallen heroes of virtual reality (2014)
There is zero bread related content in this article. I am disappointed. I was hoping for someone opening a bakery startup, and fearful of something involving breaded entrepreneur-fingers in a cannibalistic way, but saw neither.
> Even java can do that setOut(system.in);

I was referring to an empty SED-program that would then be run via 'sed -f empty-file.sed'. Of course you need >0 bytes to invoke the SED program.
Yeah, I don't see why would anyone wanted to lock in with them. With AWS and others, it's not that hard to switch if you planned for it. There are open PaaS solutions (or at least one), why not use those? If the provider screws you, deploy your own (or pay someone else do it).
The best way to send data from the PC directly on your Windows Phone.
Never has a tech company been so hated and untrusted so early in it's existence.

Could we not create a human readable social network using email as the protocol. That way everyone's email client slowly starts to integrate social features and everyone not interested in these gets summary mails that they can just bin.

Just a thought.
Facebook To Buy Oculus
Microsoft has released a "Fix It" to disable opening RTF documents: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2953095
Povio: On it's way to cool
>> "10K drops by an individual are no different than an angel investor."

They are different. An angel investor is investing - they may lose that 10K. Someone dropping 10K on a crowd funding project is told the rewards they will get up front and receives them when the project is complete.
I've been thinking this a lot recently too, especially when swearing at my [trusty] old Canon printer when it eats up £10 worth of ink on a couple of unrequested cleaning cycles.

A the very least, some OS solution to ink...
I think it would be great to show one random "new" submission at the bottom of the front page on every page load (it could be marked as "just submitted"). Of course spammers would love that, but I think it would make the discovery process much better, and the end result would be positive.
They use MySQL and the MySQL Project use Bazaar.
Six Alternatives to Oculus Rift
Build a Chat App like FireChat using Multipeer Connectivity Framework
Do you work for me?
Flight MH370: 122 'new objects' spotted – Malaysia minister
Lol very true!

Thing is... children go through loads of bread :)
Blackberry 10.3 Leaked
I could see he lost interest quickly “makes no sense, dad… I cannot put a different price to any toy, I will need two lists, one for my toys and one for the children”

He had the right idea. Put the same price on all toys and steer customers towards the items where the profit-to-quality ratio is appropriate (ie. the ones he'd like himself).

Charge based on value, not cost!
The End of Our Illusions About Russia
I'm sorry, but you haven't really made any real argument here that wasn't a baseless non-sequitur or slippery slope, and apparently only acted on the fact that you have a strong stance against this person. None of the examples you provided really matter since it just so happens that the fact of the matter is not the opinions or actions this person has in his private life, but what he does for the organization (I'm also going to give you the benefit of ignoring that you just did a huge reductio ad absurdum by comparing being against gay marriage with the killing of black and jewish people).

Yes, making his opinions and actions public were a bad and stupid idea, but he's not a criminal for having opinions that differ from yours, and his current job isn't being the Pope. His job position isn't centered around his morality, it's centered around his performance as CEO of the organization. Again, stupid move to make his unpopular opinions public, yes. But having a personal stance doesn't make him evil.
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Great document, so I'll bite, since they deserve it:

What is this Zapier really? What are some examples of what it can do?

These services that basically sound something like "With our tools, you can do anything with data!!" always confuse me.

Until otherwise convinced, I'm of the opinion that if you can do "everything", you do nothing.
SP (nanomsg) in Pure Go
Forwarding Mouse Events Through Layers (2009)
Disney had extensive successful experience with animated movies prior to acquiring Pixar.

Facebook with games? HN's community and most people who would buy something solely for games would disagree. But who knows, maybe we'll see Facebook operate a successful diversification strategy by perfectly catering to both casuals and hardcore gamers. Unlikely but one can dream...
Amazing work by a tenacious and talented engineer. Great story.

(Question: What does his nationality have to do with it though? Seems like an odd addition to the headline.)
That's the most interesting thing I've read in quite a while. Thank you.
Mark Zuckerberg, the Warren Buffett of technology?
Think of education. Right now there is a great demand for video-courses. We have people looking at medium res video's and teatchers explaning and answering questions via email or skyper-sessions. Should 3D work as in Ready Player One (loved the book), why not sign in online in a 3D classroom? Or login to a pre-recorded 3D session? Make notes, highlight
"Being able to sit in a virtual living room and see your friend’s avatar? Business meetings? Virtual cinemas where you feel like you’re actually watching the movie with your friend who is seven time zones away?"

These all sound like crap ideas
Pedantic point: it's unlikely to be billions of simultaneous active users. They have ~757m daily active users, so that's around 32m per hour. Even with external requests from sites using FB services (which the daily active number may include - they don't seem to specify at http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/ ) and several connections per page load, I'd be surprised if it was even close to multiple billions of simultaneous connections, nevermind users.

However, they are still dealing with damn impressive numbers :)
As a investor who get's the money, i'd be that too. But if you bought a dev kit and invested money and time to develop for that platform this is about the worst possible news.
But that isn't what a Kickstarter buys you. You get rewards and you get to help fund the initial vision. (up to the scope of the Kickstarter, fulfilment of rewards, etc.)

In any case, if making awesome VR a reality was Oculus' vision, they can make a pretty good case for that vision being well served by the resources of Facebook.

At the end of the day, what are people afraid of? That the newest action games won't be playable on Rift? I just don't see how people figure Facebook might ruin this product.
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Actually, in the Kickstarter they state in bold:

"Designed for gamers, by gamers." [1]

Now, I understand that in the Kickstarted it was promised only the first developer kit and that it was successfully delivered, but I feel very uneasy knowing that the Facebook platform is geared exclusively to casual gaming. My worry is that Facebook will be happy with a VR technically good enough for a social VR but that can't stand the requirements for gaming. I may be too old to understand, but I really don't feel the urge to interact in 3d with my friends to say hello or to watch their holiday's pictures.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-...
Povio – Next snapchat?
Why is that a problem though?
Nothing pathological or irrational here. Facebook has a track record of trying to trick its users into revealing more information about themselves than they want. Sneaky TOS changes, anyone?

More facebook in the lives of everybody = road to dystopia.

Unless of course, you think privacy is bullshit. Then I'd recommend a book on European history (1850 to now).
Turkey Lifts Ban on Twitter
So, the conference was bigger and better -- even with an improvised stand-up comic making up for an electrical failure (yeah - electrical failure for a paid-for banquet hall hosting 400 ppl).

Beach party rocked - the community really "met" each other at length. Everything was awesome, till the management showed their true colours after we helped them resolve their mess with a double-booking!
I've gone on mediocre ski runs, so I'll accept the nitpick. Here's another; My hunch is that the simulations will involve standing, leaning, hopping, etc, so the runs probably won't happen on a sofa.

I've certainly been amazed by the paraplegics I've seen on the slopes. I still think that more people will be able to afford the VR gear than will be able to afford traveling to slopes, buying lift tickets, real gear, $10 sandwiches and $3 apples.