skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the late reply, I was temperately banned after my comment got downvoted twice.

> Also, while most people who come to Hacker School understand our use of hacker, many of their families and friends don't. And that's caused Hacker Schoolers a surprising amount of annoyance ("What do you mean you're quitting your job and moving to New York for Hacker School?!")

That's a really great point, I hadn't though of that. I'm still glad you chose that name though, if you hadn't I probably wouldn't have been interested enough to read through your website and ultimately decide to apply in the future.

If you were to re-make Hacker School with the knowledge you have now, what would you name it?
The $10 backers didn't receive anything other than a pat on the back.
It seems from the reaction that for Facebook this wasn't just a $2 billion deal but a $3 billion deal — $2 billion in cash, plus $1 billion of Oculus' value wiped out by the announcement.
> Took me way too long to figure out that signal just means function.

If I was going to teach Fourier concepts, I would have no problem talking about signals initially, at the stage when I wanted the students to acquire an intuitive grasp of the topic before discussing the technical aspects.

But I think that way about most mathematical topics -- I think creating a visual analogue of, as well as some enthusiasm for, a topic is a very desirable first step as we move toward the formal and disciplined part.
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We're doing the VC roadshow in the next few weeks. So happy for all the excitement around VR/AR these days.
https://twitter.com/jeriellsworth/status/448665150568951808
> He wrote the code to show you that you don't need to import IOException you can use a catch all to avoid a throws statement in the method header.

You're conflating two things. I could just as easily have caught Throwable or Exception and not needed the import. The question is: what would you actually put in the handler that would be so much better? The actually provided sample code is much worse, as it prints to System.out instead of System.err, and it doesn't report an error to the parent process, so you muddy up the output (imagine if the file you were copying actually ended in "This is horrible software, and you shouldn't use it.", how would you even know) and there is not a terribly easy way to detect an error happened.

> This is bad code as he said.

It's not bad code to declare a static exception as escaping your method, particularly if you don't have any logic for handling it. It's bad code to have an exception handler that doesn't.
What utter nonsense. Larry and Sergey were shopping Google around and no one wanted to buy, Apple was acquired from within by their investors, FB, Yahoo, Amazon all took on a massive amount of VC to get off the ground. That is the cost of doing business and when companies like Sony begin to encroach on the space that you are pioneering, it might be in your best interest to get to market, and you need cash to do that.

Palmer doesn't want to run a company, he wants to make VR a thing, and the same goes for Carmack. You have no idea what the terms of the acquisition was, so don't throw around your conjecture about who has the final say on what. Why don't we just wait and see what the outcome is before we go all Harry Caray.
Can’t Play by the Rules? It’s Fine by Mr. Monopoly
Hi, Wit.AI team here. Thanks for your feedback.

We also have a free community plan: if you agree to give back to the community by sharing your training data, then Wit.AI is free for you.

That being said, we are just getting started and we'll adjust our pricing after we get more developers' feedback.
They already had that audience - down the line, once they have established their beachhead. Selling themselves to facebook doesn't bring it any closer.
didn't have a choice. initially applied to cleaning companies in mountain view (and surrounding areas) but was rejected. almost went all the way to santa rosa to take a gig there but the sf job turned up, which saved me two additional hours.
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I would have said Oculus, before today.
The trust issues go beyond what you mentioned. I have seen met people who's Google accounts have been summarily suspended without recourse for reasons unknown. No, these were not scammers trying to game the system. In all cases it was newcomers to the AdSense world who put up sites with Google ads. A few days later they got hit with full suspensions, no recourse, no customer service of any kind. These are honest people with honest brick-and-mortar businesses who definitely have not time to go on an ad clicking spree or anything like that.

The fact that Google does business as one might imagine an immature 13 year old might is troubling enough that I avoid them like the plague. The only service I use is analytics. Everything else is as though it didn't exist, docs, gmail, cloud services, etc. I don't trust them and I make it very clear to clients and associates that they should steer clear.

As you say, what I do like about Google announcing price cuts is that they are usually followed by AWS making adjustments.

If Google start behaving as adult responsible business people they have a shot at earning my and others' business. Until then I view them as teenagers more interested in popping zits in front of a mirror than adults conducting business in an environment of mutual respect.

Trust is one of those things that takes a thousand times more effort to earn back than it does to nurture and to keep.
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Have you tried a Crystal Cove Oculus? Have you seen the demos from HD cameras that capture video in almost 360 degrees?
I think a lot of people who are filled with negativity just don't understand how hard it is to make VR happen. I was part of a USC/ISI spinoff (www.alelo.com) that built educational mixed reality systems, and the reality is that to make it happen you need a ton of money, way more than we could ever acquire.

Seems like they've passed that hurdle, I wish them the best of luck!
$300 doesn't get you a headset AND equity. You might take $300 from person A to manufacture a headset to sell to person B for $300. But person A doesn't get both.
Yes, and moreso to people who are not, themselves, terribly careful readers.

Savvier folks can read a string of knowledgable corrections to a point that (apparently) wasn't made then work out what must have happened easily enough.
Oculus founder says that FB deal allows for custom hardware and big content deals
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They see you're up when most people are asleep, assume you work night shifts, and then advertise sleep aids and the local 24 hour gym.

There's very little personal info that's not valuable to someone, somewhere.
Yes, at the expense of American engineering salaries. Not a bad thing for innovation/technology as a whole but does lower American salaries.
hell, you think us neck-beards are taking it hard? The tweens on /v/ are threatening suicide and asking each other "where were you when video gaming died?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgmyw0yqPPE

This is it /v/. I'm killing myself. No, I'm not an attention whore, I will be killing myself now. Facebook fucking ruined everything. Everything I was looking forward to in life is now gone because of corporate greed. We will never have real VR gaming and waifu games. We will never, NEVER FUCKING HAVE IT. Our fucking DREAMS were taken away from us. There is no point in living.

This will get 404 because of mods but I'm sure one of you will see this. I hope this will make some people actually fight against Facebook. I won't be around to see if it will.
http://rr-project.org/rr.html is a presentation titled "How rr works" from Mozilla Research, with more details on the implementation.
I would second this. Imagine you can self-fund a successful company, there is no reason for your company to go public if you are profitable and generating revenue unless that in turn generates more income. This is a great for the owners of the company if you never have to take outside funding, but imagine that you have options in a company that never needs or wants to go public. Sure they can get you to work hard for a few years under the illusion of going public, but without a forcing function like a well timed exit there is no way those options will possibly be worth anything.

So by taking outside VC equity based funding an entrepreneur is signaling that they can raise money if needed, that if the company works out there's a chance the non-founders will make money, and that the founders can deal with the pressure VCs will put on them and the company to perform [and yes that can sometimes mean ousting the founder(s)] and produce an exit event.
The key should have been something like the serial number of the router which you can't derive from the MAC and is generally regarded to be a secret.
Too bad it's a camera by Facebook now. No, thanks.
Does anyone have the image link for the privacy dinosaur?
> Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts.

This seems really true to me. Zuck gives the impression that he's in it for the power, and not for the love of technology. That's what makes this acquisition disappointing.
Having built voice interface systems in the past, I'm definitely intrigued by what Wit.AI will deliver. Any plans to support multiple languages?
The last comment from Evan[0] on this topic is a little unclear what the cause of the cancelation was. He also never posted the retrospective he said he would.

[0] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/7R4lN2P2EY4/2oS8...
Facebook conference call about acquiring Oculus
Facebook is starting to act like a Corporation. When you have $171b market capitalisation you can expect some diversification in its corporate holdings.

Their big problem is that they perceived as the cashed up bogans of the corporate world. Buying companies with tangible products or services is the only way they will shake that perception.
I noticed that but I was wonder how sustainable that model was.
1 - you need to make money so, someone has to pay.

2 - at some point you'll reach saturation with training data and that won't be a viable option.

Anyways, love what you're providing and we'll look into where we can use it. But just wanted to do a quick back of the envelop math.
It looks like the presentation is still a work in progress; many of the later slides just have "TODO: example" or similar. But it does contain some interesting content.
Ask HN:What all things can be done from Big Data + Network Packet Data?
I have two questions:
1)What all things can be done from Sniffed Network Packet +Big Data?

2)Can we find actionable for Operations Management, Accounting, Finance, or business decision from the ways Multi-hop Packet Analysis(From App Server to DB to Bank) on various layers (Network and Application Layer)? (Let's say packets for Stock Market Broker company)

Some of things we are able to find at the moment are like latency of order execution, classify the orders,rate of order execution etc...
I've always found it bizarre that people would willing give hundreds (if not, thousands) of dollars to fund a business venture for some paltry token of appreciation while the founders (and investors) receive all of the financial rewards. (The "Veronica Mars" movie comes to mind.)

Also, I find it deeply upsetting that I am be allowed to give my life savings to a startup founded by a friend or family member, but I can't do this with a stranger...because the government wants to protect me or something.

But, really, I can't really blame regulators for this paternalistic policies since most people blame the banks for the financial crisis while pitying those impoverished home owners who stupidly purchased homes they couldn't afford.
Fun post, but why the caps?
Not an option with uverse unfortunately. The router and modem are combined into a single box.
"We could probably power a small city with the electricity generated by future-Stallman spinning in his grave over this." lol, this part killed me
Not completely sure all the blockers but I think it may have to do with 2.3 being in maintenance mode (may even be unsupported at this point).

Either way, being able to contribute back is definitely one of the things people are looking forward to about being on a current version. I've heard a few mention they'd love to be able to send any Rails performance bits upstream much like we see with the Ruby patches lately.
Sounds like a case for using separate Firefox profiles, one for each "hat."
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The rules are indeed a little ridiculous, especially when juxtaposition against gambling.

The distinction is in the process of being removed with the JOBS Act. It was signed into law in 2012 but the SEC has been slow to enact the regulations. Hopefully it can be used to support the future Oculuses! (Occuli?)
Are you aware of the Google Maps API debacle that (I would argue) single-handedly propelled OpenStreetMaps to the online mapping world forefront?
What is Lobsters?
Wtf are you talking about? This was an acquisiton, by definition the CEO of the buying company has the final say. Taking VC money is completely different.
Mexican entrepreneurs inspired by SF build a mezcal startup
"What if we made a web page which appears to have large sections with no content, but then when the user scrolls down so that the entire screen is empty, we fill the screen with content, some of which is already above the top of the screen? That would be great."
What does the Facebook Oculus deal mean for Kickstarter?
NSA infiltrates servers of Huawei
I have Time Warner (but probably a very similar device) and the wireless setup GUI lets you put the router into bridged mode. Good enough.
Title's misleading. Should have specified the version of Word they're open sourcing.
The difference is that gambling firms usually aren't allowed to advertise by promising a positive expected ROI.
It’s time to encrypt VoIP
So the only somewhat decent things that come to mind are some of Google's biggest consumer-facing products?

Also, user experience is not the be all and end all. Profitability on the other hand...
Wish it was anyone but Facebook. I can't rationally explain why, it's just a feeling.
The fact that Brendan hasn't publicly changed his position or donated $1000+ to an LGBT organization (to offset his Prop 8 donation) means that this must be a deeply held belief of his. I trust Mozilla will keep him on a short leash, but it's still troubling.
I agree. You don't even need the Actiontec router at all with FiOS, at least for internet - I plug my Airport Extreme directly into my ONT and have had zero issues with this setup.
I'm surprised people even think Oculus Rift will catch on beyond the early adopters.

It's just another 3D TV technology - sounds cool, is cool, but not in a long term way. Nobody cares much about 3D TV anymore because in practice it wasn't all it cracked up to be. It was hype.

When you strap a display to your head and replace your mouse with your own neck muscles, suddenly you are more limited than before. You can't rapidly spin 90 degrees to face an opponent in a fast-paced action game for example, without hurting your neck.

When you're sitting at a normal computer screen, you can look away for a second, out the window, to think or pause. Can't do that when the monitor is strapped to your head.

When you're typing on a keyboard, sometimes it's helpful to quickly glance down to target a specific key. That too, is gone with a monitor strapped to your head. There's a bunch of other limitations that will render any VR tech, no matter how advanced from what we played with back in the 90s, as just a cool gimmick... like the steering wheel controller with pedals. After awhile you sell it on ebay because it's not a long term thing.
Significant work has been done by tmm1, rsanheim and a host of others, but it's not complete yet.

Basically, the work is on-going and pretty amazing to watch!
Admittedly it's been a while since I have had U-Verse, but I was able to disable wifi on the modem, put the modem in "DMZ mode," and make an Apple Airport Extreme work well with it. Still not real bridged mode, although the router behind the U-Verse modem in DMZ mode would get the real external IP address handed to it so it doesn't act like a double-NAT situation.

You still had to have your TVs run through to the actual U-Verse modem, though, and can't plug them into a router sitting behind it.
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I currently have FiOS. I've never used their router for WiFi. For years I used their router plus various WiFi bridges.

However, if Verizon knows your WiFi keys (from the router), it stands to reason they have total control over their routers--so putting your own WiFi behind Verizon's router won't help you if you're looking for privacy. Verizon can see your LAN through their router, even if you disable WiFi.

For this and many other reasons, a while back I pulled Cat6 from the ONT (optical network terminal--where the fiber comes into your home) to my office. I'm using an ASUS RT-AC66U for a router. I'm running DD-WRT on it instead of ASUS' firmware.

Unfortunately, all of their TV STBs need Internet (for the guide), and those can only get Internet via MoCA (i.e., Internet over cable TV coax). (Also, various services Verizon offers will not work with the BYOD router setup.) You can purchase MoCA bridges, but it was easier to just neuter the Verizon router and use it as a MoCA bridge (behind my router). By doing so I am probably opening up my LAN to spyware again. Then again, if the STBs are on your LAN, they could be spying on you as well.

I keep an eye on the STB traffic, but who really knows.

I think my next step will be to curtail, then discontinue FiOS' TV service. Lately I seem to pay more for less (their STB interface is frozen in time, slow, and now has advertising to add insult to injury). I think the equivalent or less money will buy sufficient entertainment from Internet streaming or digital downloads. And as a bonus there's less potential for Verizon LAN abuse from their STBs.
> There's very little to learn from operating system design point of view in there

Actually there is quite a bit already for a single person to digest, if you want to understand the real details of how everything works. I learned about the DOS family by reading this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Dissecting-DOS-Code-Level-Operating-Sy...

UnixV6 and the Lions' book come close, but Unix is still far more complex than DOS because of its multitasking, multiuser heritage. Early Unices may be within the realm of an average student to grasp, but things like the BSD and Linux kernels are orders of magnitude bigger and more complex, which means that it's nearly impossible to get down to the details when studying them and the best thing one can hope for is a high-level overview of the various subsystems and how they interact. DOS is simple enough that a single person can study the whole OS at the level of individual instructions (and write an OS similar to it).
I don't either - I believe in governmental civil-unions for all, and the marriage ceremony (or not) of your own choosing and would allow for stricter contracts to be signed among willing parties.
If it's a bona fide gift, the lender will consider it equivalent. If you claim that the deposit is a gift, they may request a letter from the person who gave you the gift to confirm there are no strings attached, i.e. that:

- it's non-returnable

- it's not interest-bearing

- no interest in the property will be retained by the person giving the gift

If they didn't do this, the gifting party could later claim that the gift was in fact a loan, and that it is secured on the property. This could cause complications for the lender, who is relying on a first charge on 100% of the property as security.
I believe in all digital books. It lacks that real feeling of a book i.e. having paper/something physical, but for tech books it's nice to have them digital for a couple of reasons:

1. Copying code from the book to an editor is MUCH easier.
2. Books take up physical space and it's hard to be mobile when you have to pack/unpack and move heavy things that you aren't going to be constantly using. I define things that I constantly use that are like my computer, laptop, kettle.
3. Cmd/Ctrl + F - I can't live without it even with a digital index.
If you wanted raw memcached performance there was an awesome paper on using an FPGA tied to 24GBs of regular DDR3 RAM and a 10G ethernet port. The result was a memcached server with 3.5 to 4.5 microsecond response time, capable of saturating the 10G port even with tiny key-value pairs, and 13 million requests per second while using 50W of power to do so.

http://0b4af6cdc2f0c5998459-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f...
The incredibly capable Terry Davis has frequently espoused views shared by white supremacists. He's the guy who wrote Losethos, TempleOS, and occasional screeds against black people and immigrants.
I ran into something similar a few months ago. There's a bug in Oracle JDK 7u45 that causes SSL handshakes to fail ~5% of the time due to a bug in that version's Diffie-Hellman cypher suite.

Tracking that bug down was a fun three days.
Yeah, I just like the name :)
These are manually curated at the moment.

Though the selections may be inspired by machines.
Or rabbits.
Hard to say.
Facebook Agreed to Acquire Oculus VR
I just saw his twitter account as well- the HN/reddit reaction is awesome.
This is a giant casino for people that have a lot of money they can afford to lose.
...and if the vulnerability is in the MIME parser itself?
$2B isnt a short term profit.
Nah, it's irrelevant and will be a non-issue in a couple of years. Now that there are two strong VR players, things should progress much quicker. Consumers win. Hopefully, Notch will change his mind and embrace both platforms. Let's keep both companies in the game so the innovation doesn't stop.
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Excellent find, thank you.
Try these. Multiple flavors too. They're surely near the Redbulls: http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/bottled-drinks/mocha-do...

They taste so much better and have a nice kick.
Thanks for link. It would be great to add that to future emails so people understand the use of a generic email.

Impressed as always!
Has anyone seen the movie "surrogates" with Bruce Willis?
and it's actually a really great insight. I can only wish that I would come to a similar conclusion faced with a related situation.
FYI, your last post on the Nvidia post is dead.
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$30 for an e-book? Seriously?
It is both; FB makes a shit-ton of HW with their open-cmpute platform....

They have a lot of XP in building real physical shit these days.

Scaling traffic is a non-issue for them.
"As I learned more about the company and its vision and spoke with Mark, the partnership not only made sense, but became the clear and obvious path to delivering virtual reality to everyone. Facebook was founded with the vision of making the world a more connected place"

Anyone whose a soccer/football fan will recognise this speech from anyone who transferred clubs for a bigger salary. All that's missing was "As a child is was my dream to one day work for Facebook"
And They keep taking ours no matter what :)
Skirts the laws around crowd-sourced investing?

If it had been 'investing', the funders would have gotten a piece of facebook's two billion acquisition bucks, right? That's what investing means, right? As you mention, "without having to give up any equity."

I think kickstarter funders on technology projects are frequently suckers, but it's not got a lot to do with 'skirting the laws around crowdsourced investing'.