skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because there's a big difference between laughable polygon-hell at 0fps and simulated presence.

Anyway, their principle interest is probably AR anyway. Everyone else is tumbling into that space.
This is what people fear from Facebook.

Selling out to Microsoft or Sony would have been "monetize by making awesome games". Selling out to Facebook means virtual reality ads will penetrate everywhere you walk.
Well you can pay to promote a post so it will have a higher reach. Businesses should be more appreciative of the fact that 5-10% reach for free is far more free reach than you will get with TV, radio, Google ads, or anything else short of putting flyers on telephone poles.
I welcome the new domains, how else would my bike get the web page it deserves? http://kyle.bike/
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great.scot is already taken.
I don't use Facebook and I don't play games, but I'm curious to see if the acquisition will have a positive effect on pure VR; meaning the kind of VR Jaron Lanier talks about.

It seems like FB could actually bridge between VR, AR, and everyone else more easily than most. I can imagine attending the next presidential inauguration (virtually) because of this deal, and that wouldn't have been the case with Valve, for example.
Equal outrage is because lots of people want absolutely nothing to do with Facebook.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but it's not always practical and perhaps not even possible.

For example the push notifications SDK from Urban Airship and app analytics SDK from Flurry depend on having credentials stored in the app.

These examples are not unique to them. I don't disagree that it's wrong, but I don't know how to work around this to be candid.
can you explain how $30/hr equates to $50/hr ? As stated in other answers, $50/hr is very low for an independent sw developer in the bay area (and many other places too)

EDIT:
Just think on how may real billable hours any of those contractors have in the year
Maybe if you replace "Facebook" with "Walmart" the comparison will be easier. Because that's what FB is, the Walmart of the Internet. It sucks and it could be so much better, but it's packed with "content" and everyone still goes there reluctantly. When you have high hopes for a new player in the game the last thing you want is them buddying up to a company whos whole strategy can be summed up as "find the lowest common denominator".

Is this judgement a fair assessment? Of course not. Facebook is just our whipping boy.
http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/1257

Relevant comic on the issue
AR will no doubt be helped along by VR tech. But I'd guess mass-market AR will first appear in vehicle and building windows.
Does anyone know of listings or a resource guide for when each TLD is going live and the registrars that are selling them?

I have a couple of domain hacks that I've been interested in that I want to use for a project.
I can't tell if I should be excited that Mike Judge is coming out with something new or downright hateful that I now have to almost certainly subscribe to HBO for whatever price the provider sees fit.

People like him should really follow Louis C K's example and make everything available over the web DRM free for a reasonable price. I can't think of a reason they would need HBO or FOX to make things happen. (On a second thought - Louis C K stand ups are one man show mostly but still for serials there must be a ton of independent investors willing to invest in the new model of delivering entertainment. There's Kickstarter even :))
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Easy to say 'cloned' when you mean 'built'. There's a lot of differences between those products. If an entrepreneur came out with them it'd be called innovation, not cloning.
Queer, Thought provoking...looking forward to :
50 things I have learned before turning 50
http://blog.europeandomaincentre.com/infographics-launch-dat...

Does not work well on mobile.
I remember how stagnant it was before EGCS came along, that's how old I am. :) EGCS was clearly technically superior to GCC (at least in some ways), and when the FSF gave up or came to its senses then the EGCS and mainline GCC projects were re-merged. (Compare also the Rails/Merb fork/re-merge.) By contrast, no-one outside Canonical seems convinced that Mir has important technical advantages over Wayland, and (as far as I've heard) Canonical seems to have little interest in preventing or minimising balkanisation, so it's hard to see the justification. The more efficient way for Canonical to speed up or shake up Wayland would seem to be to contribute to it, or failing that to maintain a fork designed to be a candidate for full or partial re-merging, no?

(I am not an expert on anything.)
You lost a prospect not a customer. Big difference.
He's pretty smart, but he's also a guy who knows how to get his hate on. I haven't seen the new show, but I'm concerned that it's going to be an uninformed hatchet job. Mike once worked as a developer, but he knows little or nothing about Silicon Valley and how it works (he's from Texas and has never lived in California). My fear — and I hope I am proven wrong — is that the show will be based on all the misinformed stereotypes and presumptions that outsiders have about how technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship work in the bay area.
I'm far more grateful to the tens or hundreds of people who wrote the bulk of the mesa project, largely unpaid for it.
big-budget shows can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per episode to make. HBO has very deep pockets.
This is the part that stuck out for me as well. They quite plainly state that they knew this would alienate their existing audience, and that they were perfectly fine with that.
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> But, suddenly, with GM's woes, he is taking these over the top measures.

There are no sudden movements in industry. That shield is probably being developed since the fires happened.
Money clouds proper judgement. (I'm not implying if this is good or bad, fyi).
If you're hiring from a company or agency, the company or agency may be taking a large cut of that. I know many cleaners round here make around minimum wage; £6.31 (around $10.50) an hour. Whereas hiring from a cleaning company will run you out to around £10-11 an hour (roughly $17)

So, if you knock a third of the price in OP off - and say that's what the company keeps - you'd be looking at more like $20-23 an hour in Bay Area.

Then you've got travel time to count in - say it takes them a half hour to get to your house and a half hour back to base. If they work your house for two hours at a stretch that's another third. So, 40 over 3. That'd get you down to $13 an hour.

And then you've got to ask how many hours they can really fit into the day.
I love how the real MS shows up from time to time to remind us that all the 'new openness' and fair play talk is exactly that, and probably always will be.
What do we want to communicate to this young man?

"If you stand up and announce a new idea, hundreds if not thousands of armchair quarterbacks will tell you why your idea is wrong / how they could do it better / why they are smarter than you"

or

"Good job thinking critically about an issue that literally millions of people have taken for granted for years and trying to come up with out-of-the-box solutions, backed by actual quantitative research."?

Personally, I want to communicate the second. Will he have to learn that solving problems involves creating ideas and then iterating on those ideas, sometimes tearing the original idea to shreds in the process? Yes. Will he need to learn to divorce himself from his work and not feel that criticism of his work devalues him as a person? Yes.

But some (not all) of the HN comments, while critical, do not feel exceptionally constructive. Too often, when some unique or innovative new idea is touted, smart people rush to explain why it won't work or why it's not actually that great an idea or why it's solving the wrong problem in the first place. But none of these people are actually helping to solve the problem. It is important for us to have this talk about fixing the frankly toxic attitude that seems to pervade this space sometimes. And it's important not to hide behind the shield of "constructive criticism" when the criticism is less constructive and more just petty.
Yes their were bugs, but nothing implicstingt actual observed failures.
This is why Facebook is buying other companies because people are migrating away from Facebook.

One flaw Facebook has, when everyone's been on it for years they collect hundreds of friends from random old parts of their life. This waters down the experience because random people you barely know posting all the time turns your feed into something less interesting.

Toss in more ads combined with old acquaintances, and distant family members and you have a spammy feed.

Plus advertisers are mad because they invested in broadening their reach only to have it taken away from them unless they pay to promote.

A new social network is a fresh social network, void of your parent's family friends and clothing companies you no longer care about.

Facebook is myspace all over again.

The most telling decline stat, my older sister who is a soccer mom and was obsessed with Facebook for years recently told me, "we don't really go on Facebook anymore, we use instagram."
uh-oh, it's the non-technical family member indicator. She was the last one of us to get a smartphone too.

That's why Facebook is buying other internet properties. Because their's is on the decline with actual engaged users, their stats might show new users joining quickly, those are probably bots, spammers, and foreigners. Facebook's future is a universal login tool and a place to see you're great aunt's inspiration quote spam.
The last time I tried to use an AMD video card with 3d acceleration under Linux it was a horrible experience. Nvidias binary drivers just work out of the box even with the most recent hardware and have OpenGL 4.3 support. Has the situation changed with AMD cards?
I don't think Facebook's acquisition of Oculus has much to do with gaming. I think what it does is give Facebook access to a part of our minds that few others may have. What we look at ... whether in a real world or a virtual one ... reveals what we covet. Perhaps it's something we'd never search for in a search-engine - but it is able to be leveraged to enhance the profile of a person in order to more-perfectly market to them. I suspect that what we look at, and for how long, will convert far better than anything we ever type into a Google search box. It's why Google is building Glass ... and why Facebook bought Oculus.
To me, the idea that the essence of a program is the model of reality it embodies suggests principles for the use of comments, literate programming tools, and other methods of documentation. A prime goal of documentation ought to be to avoid premature or unnecessary "program death."

Or perhaps, to enable program resurrection. Naur explicitly contends that theory is not something that can be expressed. I disagree. Communication from one mind to another is never perfect, but humanity has thousands of years of experience communicating mental models about the world.
32 / 64 bit shellcoding courses + assembly basics for anyone who is interested:
http://www.pentesteracademy.com/course?id=3
http://www.pentesteracademy.com/course?id=7
And iPhone closed from the Palm. And the iPod cloned from the Archos Rockbox. And Linux of course cloned from Unix. And the Mac cloned from Xerox. And the iPad cloned from tablet PCs. And the PlayStation cloned from Nintendo. Nintendo cloned from Atari 2600. Atari 2600 cloned from board games.

BTW, Word cloned from Word Perfect. BASIC interpreter cloned from all the previous BASIC interpreters that existed.

Being first or "leading" don't matter. It's about execution and a bit of luck. Look at Android. It sure as heck wasn't first, but they executed. Windows wasn't first, but they executed.
I thought their goal was to make money, go figure.
Why don't they raise prices now already?
Presumably it depends on the task, on how much the previous code-tuning prevents hhvm jit, on how much the code is changed with type hints, ...

Compare PHP fannkuch-redux with Hack Vector fannkuch-redux:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/program.php?test...

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/program.php?test...
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Doing the exercises is not rewriting calculus, but it does lead to the discovery of useful pseudo-theorems about mathematical expressions and calculus-based techniques for manipulating them.

An actual rewriting of calculus would involve discovering proofs for things like the Mean-Value Theorem or the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Short of that, you could wrestle with trying to discover proofs for theorems so that you can at least appreciate the canonical ones. Incidentally, this is what every mathematics major has to do in order to earn their degree.
That very true, however I think in terms of the entire valuation of Facebook. In the last 2 Facebook has spent more that $20 Billion. I think the Facebook Bubble will burst?
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> With uncommon domain extensions I always fear that they might jack up the rates at some point in the future, going from $20/year to $250/year or even more.

I sincerely wish that this would happen with all domain registrations. Maybe not $250/yr, but $100/yr would be OK.

It wouldn't bother anybody that owns a few domains for business or even personal use.

It would slow down spamming techniques that rely on registering lots of different domains.

It would almost entirely halt domain squatting.
I didn't see this posted on HN yet - Turekey is also blocking the Tor Project's website: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/03/when-tor-block-not-tor...
The anger slowed in a matter of hours though, it was pretty fast.
It's not unique to Toronto; Los Angeles is encouraging local businesses to use Laos' TLD (c.f. http://www.la)
And until HBO offers even a semi-convenient way for me to pay, I'll just pirate their content like I always have.
Thats interesting, thanks!

I plan to build something less limited to the traditional spreadsheet UI though. Same concept but more flexible UI, so that for example you may process image data by manipulating pixels as cells.
Is it? I didn't know they were taking registrations yet.

I'm determined to get great.scot myself.
Those are examples of AWS-like facilities. The embedded keys are not secret credentials that allow people to control your account! If you are embedding your account credentials from Urban Airship or Flurry in your app, you are badly misusing their APIs. They provide facilities for generating certificates/keys for each application.
I'm in Canada and it's the same. My salary agreement says I get paid X for Y hours per week and is very vague about how overtime is treated. There is a mention that there may be "expected overtime" required on an occasional basis. I have never received compensation or time-off-in-leiu for overtime worked and during term (i work for a university) it's expected that I work 45-50 as opposed to the 35 that was agreed upon. 35 hours per week is summer only, and then I'd be lucky.
I remember three or o years ago when NVidia showed no interest in making their driver separate from X on linux for use with Wayland.
Ok, now I get what you meant. You're totally right.

> If you are co-founding anything that uses twitter platform you should consider what happens if Twitter's biz dev team decides they doesn't want you to exist.

This is definitely a risk that must be mitigated in this type of projects, indeed.
No wireless, less space than a Nomad. Lame.

This was the slashdot editor's byline when Apple released the iPod. Just because a technology exists at one point and failed, doesn't mean that sort of technology can never work. Apple released the Newton ages ago, and we didn't switch to touch screen mobile devices till the iPhone.
Evidence that the "Facebook effect" is already kicking in: "Spin, spin, SPIN!"
Watching the vid linked by gfosco I was wondering this myself. It is an interesting comparison.
What happens when I run the command cat /proc/cpuinfo?
Face F*ckbook. Boo.
I'm wondering why isn't RDF more popular within the startup scene, because it's definitely popular and has shown its power in academia and life sciences; just look at the Linked Data cloud.

It may be more popular than you realize. Perhaps people are using it but just make a big deal of it?

It could also be that RDF and the associate tech stack (OWL,SPARQL, reasoners, etc.) are a bit specialized and niche in terms of application, and have a learning curve that's just steep enough to put people off until they really understand why they need them.

Anyway, I can't speak for anybody else, but the semantic web stack, including RDF, OWL, SPARQL, FOAF, SIOC, etc., are a big part of what we're doing. In fact, you could say that our whole initiative is largely rooted in bringing Semantic Web tech into the enterprise.
Well, no. I disagree with what you're saying. If I create a page for my business and share coupons and stuff, people are free to come like my page. That means they want to see more of my stuff voluntarily.

Why is Facebook extorting money from the business to allow users to see what they want to see?
I don't get why everyone is hating. The fact of the matter is Facebook is about to put a lot of funding in to Oculus. With a lot of other big companies getting in to VR right now, like Sony and apparently Microsoft, Oculus will need that to stay relevant.

When I first found out about the buyout I thought of the same thing this article points out; Facebook also purchased Instagram and it seems to be doing just fine. If Facebook truly lets Oculus "be who they are going to be", I'm sure they will do just fine.
>is that the show will be based on all the misinformed stereotypes and presumptions that outsiders have

So your fear is that it will be like every TV show about anything, ever.

Silicon Valley is not so special that it deserves or needs some particularly higher standard accuracy.
>* It's all about uneducated public being manipulated through religion and patriotism.*

So, not much unlike the so-called educated public, being manipulated by anti-clericalism and globalisation!
Guys Facebook is no Microsoft or Google who only buy to soft kill the competitor.

FB is different just look at their past acquisitions like Instagram and others, they all survived and are still in active development and rolling out new features.

If it were MS/Google acquiring Oculus, negative reactions would have been justified.
Not if you upload precompiled bitstreams into the FPGA.
Whenever people talk about new tlds, I always think mostly about names like google.con or googl.ecom. Yeah, yeah, it's cool that you can get some awesome tld, but I don't see the point. What's wrong with .com/org/net?
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Why “great care” for sync.atomic?
One TLD that stands out from the rest is .HIV:

-It's the first TLD ever bought by a non-profit initiative: http://www.dothiv.org (based in Berlin, Germany)

-Their goal is to create the "red ribbon" of the digital age

-Revenues generated through the sale of these domains will be used to raise funds in support of projects that fight HIV

-Companies that buy .hiv addresses can pledge to donate a given amount of money to the initiative each time somebody visits their site, thus creating a clever system of micro-donations.

In my opinion this is an ingenious idea and one of the most creative uses of domain names I've seen so far.
Not really. Pretty much everyone who was angry is still angry. They just stopped posting about it constantly, because what's the point?
Honestly I still don't get the hubbub over this algorithm change by Facebook. It's a scaling issue Facebook is attempting to solve, in a dramatically different (and IMHO superior) way than Twitter.

On both networks, every time you look at your feed you'll only look at the top X items. On Twitter, that'll just be the X most recent items. On Facebook, those X items are picked algorithmically based on the degree of engagement. The latter seems 1000x better and more intelligent than Twitter, even though it technically means not every post I'm subscribed to will make it into my feed.

As people spend more and more years on Facebook, we naturally accumulate more friends and pages (personally around 1200 friends and 200 pages). Thus, we're subscribed to more content. Far too much to reasonably make it into our feed. Given that X is fixed, the percentage of any particular source's posts which will make it into X should decline. It seems totally reasonable that which posts make it in are dictated by how much engagement those posts had.
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But then a lot of people wouldn't be able to afford owning a domain, which to me seems more evil than domain squatting. Artificially raising the prices hardly seems like a fair solution.
Not sure about the overall proposal but static code analysis and code completion as a service is something I have been wishing for.

But that is only for a selfish reason, it would save me from having to do the work for my own IDE HiveMind (crudzilla.com) :)

*Perhaps this is something the Eclipse project should undertake, decouple the JDT from the Eclipse IDE so that it can be used by other developer front-end tools.
I'm not saying that namespaces aren't useful but simply that the value of having a standard namespace mechanism in a triple is severely undercut by the complexity of RDF and the poor quality of the tools.

Consider: I want to use data from two sources. Do I spend months not working on the hard part of the problem — reconciling the different data models — because I'm learning how to use RDF, configuring, fixing and tuning a bunch of niche tools or do I just pick one of many database options which have much higher performance, are well tested and highly durable, have great documentation and language support, and simply JOIN two tables (classic SQL) or add a namespace in a document (NoSQL or hybrids like Postgres)? Unless you're in one of the few semweb shops, you need to have a HUGE amount of disparate data for that not to be a grossly uneven trade-off, which should not be the case.
Are you kidding? I know, and in the past have hosted, portfolios for a number of artists. People making $20k a year pre-tax. $100 is a lot to a lot of people.

Comments like this are why this weird social closure that so many tech people delight in is so disturbing.
$100 is a lot of money to some people. You'd be preventing even more people from the developing world from using the Internet.
It's easy to take the moral high ground when you don't have a three comma offer sitting on the table in front of you.
Yes, there are a few sites out there that have aspects of that. Some are flat out "vote on this idea" type sites, some are more focused on getting beta user, some are for buying/selling side projects / startups, etc.

Search through the HN archives... it may take some digging, but you should be able to find them.

Edit: here's a couple of potential interest:

http://firespotting.com/

https://www.sideprojectors.com/

http://betalist.com/

http://startupli.st/

and don't forget Reddit's /r/startups:

http://startups.reddit.com
“Tell me what the fuck it is EVERY GODDAMNED TIME YOU COMMUNICATE ABOUT THE PRODUCT.”

Seriously, so much this. I cannot even count the number of emails I receive along the lines of “We’re happy to let you know that we have launched macaroni.io" or some other crazy name that tells you nothing about what the product or service is.

Just take ONE sentence at the beginning of these emails to remind people what you do. Especially if they are not already users of your site and your goal is to get them to become users / customers.
Agreed, the current crowd funding model is broken.

Though interestring, if you backed Oculus with $300 and got a devkit for that, I think that's reasonable.

So the lesson should probably be only do crowd funding when it's essentially a pre order?