skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's talking about some FiOS combo modem/router. Not sure about FiOS specifically but with DOCSIS modems everyone snooping on the line can see the MAC address but if you want to query the modem for something "privileged" like SNMP access back when certain modems would let you do that yourself you needed to know the serial number to authenticate yourself. So yeah generally the serial number isn't anything special but for cable modems it is supposed to be secret and I know Cox in particular also use the serial number as the WiFi key.
My idea isn't so much to propose a single solution to the worlds economic problems, but instead to ask: what else might digital currencies do?

I don't know of anything else being proposed that works in a nonlinear way, and I don't know if the idea is even on the table as a possibility. I'm hoping that putting it on the table might give other people who can penetrate the complexity ideas for how to make the system work.

That said, I think the transaction types I list are fair intuitive. When I'm going to make a purchase, I have some options: I can pay a lump sum directly, or I can engage in an extended relationship of support, for which I can specify the duration of time, and the amount of support I'm willing to give it. There's different ways that support might work, but that's the gist.
Commonwealth Bank in Australia has a similar app - Kaching.
Sleep deprivation was an integral part of my work experience, from working on my dad's farm during the height of the summer harvest, to the Army. If you couldn't keep up, someone else would.

I often go 30, or more, consecutive hours without sleep when working on certain projects.

No drugs involved, no coffee, just a driving desire to accomplish my goals.

I also sometimes go 2 or 3 days without eating a real meal.

I think I got around 3 hours of sleep last night.
API design should be an alternating optimization
I would summarize it more as, the main vulnerability is the user's choice of password, the security of their email account(including phishing emails), or the possibility that a tesla employee could fall for social engineering. None of which are actual vulnerabilities.

There is the possibility that one day an issue could be found in one of their services, but these issues could be found in almost any modern service.
A Makeshift Solution to Expression Problem
MS and patents? A very bad mix.
For a modem, at least all DOCSIS modems the serial number will be totally separate and is used for authentication to the modem. Not 100% sure about FiOS as I don't have it but I'd imagine they would do something similar to the rest of the industry.
It's not a matter of 'simple', it's a matter of correctness. GET being safe and idempotent is really important. For example, you get breakages like this: http://signalvnoise.com/archives2/google_web_accelerator_hey...

And hopefully, even on an embedded device, sending a POST as opposed to a GET should be trivial.
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

I think that this quote is very much true. Take it how you wish to.
Still, fabricating a chip whose feature size is measured in nanometers takes much more sophisticated equipment than a 3d printer[1] (not to mention some very toxic chemicals that would probably be illegal to use in residential areas[2]). You might be able to make a replica of a 1970s vintage chip at home, but not a modern microprocessor. And you could never make one cheaper than Intel could, with their economies of scale.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_device_fabricati...

[2] http://www.globalarcade.org/sv/chemical.html
> I would think that for people engaging in an inherently risky endeavor such as entrepreneurship, the most important goal would be to hedge against failure.

The thing is, social safety nets aren't especially relevant to that kind of risk. Those of us with the luxury of education aren't going to end up starving on the streets if our startups fail, we'll just go get jobs. The people who really need social safety nets aren't in a position to start startups.

So the more tangible risk is how others in your profession will perceive failure. This is an area where America shines.

> lack of consistent healthcare, lack of social safety net and much lower quality of life (vicious judicial systems, abnormal incarceration rates, high crime rates, militarized police, draconian drug laws, etc.)

Those are all serious issues, but you're misunderstanding them if you think they apply to typical startup founders.

America is very unequal. Those problems persist precisely because the relatively wealthy can easily stay insulated from them. And any educated European coming here to start a technology company falls comfortably into that class. He or she would be living in one of the nice cities, surrounded by people with similar values and education, enjoying quality-of-life metrics that are significantly higher than the broader American averages.
Letting the car automatically phone home to the manufacturer worries me. Collecting anonymous stats about the car's health and battery condition will help them design better vehicles and firmware in future, so that's okay. But isn't knowing the location of each and every Tesla vehicle, and who they belong to some kind of privacy risk? Is law enforcement able to subpoena the manufacturer to release all previously recorded locations of an individual and use that as evidence against him?

The ability to remotely unlock the car opens up a whole new can of worms. Could someone potentially steal a car (like how they steal domains and twitter handles) through social engineering? Or perhaps by stealing the auth token on the user's mobile device? If you don't continue paying the loan for your car, could they refuse to unlock the vehicle remotely?
If they only have one method it should be POST. HTTP clients are free to retry GETs without warning the user or even without their direction.
Every generation says the generation immediately after theirs is the worst generation ever!
wow, you're really cool.
I posted a patch here: https://gist.github.com/dberlin/9867614

It adds AVX2 and SSE4.2 instruction support. It makes no discernible difference performance wise that i can find :)
You make it sound like people are born with a religion, which can never be changed. Discriminating based on immutable characteristics such as ethnicity, sexual preference, or gender is wrong and I'm glad many such forms of discrimination are prohibited.

But beliefs can and do change. Moreover, beliefs are the reasons why people do what they do. Choosing to avoid interacting with people who express certain beliefs seems totally fine.

I doubt the economy would suffer much if religious discrimination were allowed. First, it already happens (especially against atheists). Second, most people (including myself) are willing to overlook the vast majority of differences in beliefs. There's only a fringe who end up with slightly lower wages.

I knew my opinion was controversial, but I didn't expect this reaction from people. I guess I stumbled onto something you can't say.[1]

1. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
> The ability to remotely unlock the car opens up a whole new can of worms. Could someone potentially steal a car (like how they steal domains and twitter handles) through social engineering? Or perhaps by stealing the auth token on the user's mobile device? If you don't continue paying the loan for your car, could they refuse to unlock the vehicle remotely?

You know GM's OnStar [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnStar] has existed since 1995, and allows not only for vehicle tracking, but the remote shutdown of the vehicle (typically used in the event of theft), correct?
in the UK, Barclays have PingIt, which I use a lot with my friends for cinema tickets and such.

the main issue is /knowing/ they can receive the money- sending it to some mobile number might not be good enough for them to retrieve it. (unless I know they have the pingit app)
Nasal cycle
- What's stopping us?
- Geometry.
- Just ignore it.
You worked on UOX Shard or the emulator? I played Novus Opiate, worked on Alphanine (scripting / GM / Player).
While this is a valid objection to the design as stated, there are solutions. For instance, the insight behind Bitcoin is that instead of the one-IP-one-vote policies of previous distributed protocols and the sock-puppeting that ensues, proof of work means that it's one-CPU-one-vote. And schemes like proof of stake go even further so it's one-coin-one-vote.
Business isn't the only perspective to take on IT. There's social impact, personal and cultural ethics, art and creativity. Different rewards, different goals.
> MIT has insisted it maintained an appropriate, even compassionate, neutrality toward a determined hacker who stole 4.8 million articles and eluded numerous efforts to stop him before the college sought help from police.

The tone of this article is very defensive. "stole" vs. downloaded, both MIT and JSTOR didn't want to prosecute, yada yada.
Sorry, I'm confused. Are you suggesting that we will have a 3D printer that can print ceramics, metal, rubber, and circuit boards? Because I just don't see it coming. I certainly don't see how it could be any cheaper than simply buy metal stuff made in a factory with metal-only 3D printer, for example.

Sure it may disrupt some industry: Boeing may start to use a 3D printer for airplane wings, Intel may use one for CPU cores and Nike may use one for sneakers. What I don't see is everybody having a magic 3D printer at home that can print airplane wings, CPUs and shoes. I'll believe that when I see one.
Yeah - maybe sleep deprivation really is a dark blight on the tech industry, but this article is so tendentious! Google Glass is bad, and not only that, it's because of sleep deprivation! Proof by assertion.
I have a feeling working on VR outweighs Armadillo for J Carmack. One is achievable in short order and the other is more of a gamble and passion-play.
Sleep deprivation has been a major cause behind more things than people appreciate. Many major disasters have occurred during the wee hours of the morning, often by people working later than intended. Chernobyl, for example, and the Bhopal leak. Sleep deprivation isn't the only cause in those cases but when there are minimal safeguards the effects of sleep depression become that much more dangerous.
@salehhamadeh One small nitpick: the Twitter portion of the social media bar, on mouseover, slightly covers up the "S" in your first name while viewing in 1280 x 800 res and on Chrome.
And cars that won't start if you don't pay your loan are already a thing: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/04/17/aa.bills....
That's not so much of a problem - in the long run Oculus was going to have to become profitable in some way or another, most likely by selling consumer hardware at a profit. The narratives people get afraid of are of Facebook trying to get profit through the methods of a free website: selling advertising and user data.

Given that this is a hardware product, and especially since it's one that will not yet be commoditized when Oculus releases it, I don't see this being a real problem; Apple doesn't need to sell ads or snoop your data to make enormous profits on the iPhone, for example.

To extend the smartphone analogy - I think it's more likely that when there's a popular competitor trying to undercut Oculus on price, someone is going to start trying to sell advertising or user data to pad their margins, but I think that's a pressure that exists independently of Facebook ownership.
I didn't say a person's religion can't change? Obviously people change religion all the time. But that is not the reason why discriminating based on religion is wrong.

Again, the first reason is moral. Imagine if catholic people were the majority in some area, and on average wealthy, and wouldn't hire muslims which in that area were a poorer minority. That's just not fair - why shouldn't all people in that region have the same employment opportunities?

The second reason is practicality. There are so many religions and ethnic groups in the US, everyone has to work with everyone else. Otherwise we are losing out on a huge amount of economic potential. Let the best people work at the best jobs, even if their religion doesn't happen to match their employer's. It's a job, not a place of worship.

Also, I never said you can't say what you said. Only that I and the law disagree with you, on this topic. But I wouldn't hold what you said against you - not employment-wise (I would still potentially hire you) and not in any other way actually (if we met in person, we'd probably get along just fine). Disagreement doesn't need to be the end of the world.
I see your point but, from my limited experience, I've found the material on decidability crucial to get a good working grasp of many of the core abstractions central to both complexity theory and theory of computation in general such as languages, non-constructive proofs, reductions, etc. I feel that without such exposure, it would be hard for a newcomer to appreciate the subtleties of the discipline...

Big fan of your math \cap programming series, by the way. Keep it up.
Carmack says that he wants objective arguments, not emotional ones, and all this blog presents is yet another emotional argument. All that stuff about the community 'roaring' is avoidable hyperbole.
Would be nice if they started adding support for Go in Android 5.0, which won't be out until the end of the year at the very least.
The purpose of patents absolutely is to provide incentives for innovation. What you describe as the purpose (protecting capital intensive R&D from free riders) is merely the method.

To the extent that the method does not result in the purpose, the patent system is a failure.
I'm not the original poster and I have no evidence to share, but I'll point out that Go executables are often quite large due to static linking. Client-side apps have to worry about code size.
I accept that some some political views are unacceptable to you.

Do you do background checks on people you might work with to see whether they hold such views? Or do you just avoid working with people about whom you found out by accident that they hold such views?

That is, are you actively making sure that none of the people around you hold the views you find unacceptable, or is it more of a don't ask don't tell kind of policy, where you don't care if people have unacceptable views as long as they don't mention them in your hearing?
Unless you've developed games for the facebook platform, it can be hard to understand why so many devs reacted so negatively to the news. I've made facebook games and decided not to spend money on the second dev kit, so maybe I can shed some light as to why.

As a gaming platform, Facebook sucks. Pure and simple. The APIs we need to use to make money change, sometimes on a daily basis. We get no notification when these changes happen. We find out because our games suddenly stop working. Facebook also has a history of trying to screw game developers over in an attempt to get a bigger chunk of cash for themselves. Case in point, they tried to mandate that everybody use Facebook Credits for in game currency. Not only did facebook take 30% off the top (effectively slashing our existing revenues by 30%), but we had to use their API to process transactions. Their buggy, buggy API. That lasted for maybe 6 months? I'm not sure, I got out of it just before the facebook credits thing went down.

Before everybody jumps on me about Facebook not necessarily locking Oculus game devs into their platform, that doesn't matter. Facebook has a history of treating game devs poorly and as a result I have absolutely no desire to deal with the company again.
Cancelled preorders, permanent PR damage, several dozen projects have been canned & fear has replaced confidence in consumers & devs alike when talking anything Oculus now. Not the rule but it's prevalent. You downplaying the impact is just plain stupidity.
For me the explanation is much simpler: I do not trust Facebook.

Bring on the competitors to Oculus.
/r/Occulus reacts to the announcement of the Facebook acquisition.
I'm heartbroken by the loss of Readmill. Met some incredible people in the margins of books, and have had long and thoughtful conversations with fellow readers, authors, and myself.

Readmill have done an awesome job at giving us tools to rescue our data. But where to put it? How can we keep getting value out of the time we've invested into Readmill? I personally have over 600 highlights and tens of thousands words written in the margins, now locked up in a big JSON dump.

A few of us have banded together to build a tool ( http://readshelf.co ) to rehome your Readmill library. It'll sync your Readmill highlights up until July 1 (and you can upload your dump as well.) When Readmill shuts down for good, we're hoping there'll be a nice replacement service that we can integrate with—giving you some continuity with your library.

Of course, all of your stuff will be exportable in a useful format; lest history repeat itself. In fact, we're really keen to hear suggestions on:

- a sustainable business model for something like this

- some best practices around your data: access, portability, etc.
Axiom Zen Collective :) https://www.axiomzen.co/
Dont know why just because of a negative critique, people have downvoted you.. so im doing justice and doing a upvote

I might not agree with this comment, but at least his showing the reasons why he dont think Go is a good candidate for mobile development, and his opinion is technical backed

I think this should be in some HN etiquette somewhere.. dont know why people are so sensitive when a comment is not to say something nice about something..
Cancer vaccine a step closer as natural killer cells are rightly activated
His article is about how Google scrubbed the names.. Not how they're evil because of their association with DARPA and Blackbird.

Also going after the guy's credibility is a good tactic if you're an NSA agent but does nothing to remove the question why they were proudly listing those names 2 weeks ago and now the names seem hastily removed.
It seems to me that you're doing everything in your power to hang supreme importance on the six-year-old donation, dismissing people's positive reports and creating a fantasty situation that is pretty much wholly invented from 'what if'. In the intervening six years, there's been plenty of opportunity for people who once worked with him to voice their experiences.

It seems to me that you didn't fully read the second link that bzbarsky provided, in which the author says that while she's not happy with the past donation, she doesn't see that it has changed how Mozilla treats its staff, and that in past years it has been improving (years in which Eich was a CxO, if not CEO): To be clear, I’m personally disappointed about Brendan’s donation. However, aside from how it affected me emotionally, I have nothing to indicate that it’s materially hurt my work within the Mozilla community or as a Mozilla employee. Mozilla offers the best benefits I have ever had and goes out of its way to offer benefits to its employees in same-sex marriages or domestic partnerships on par with those in heterosexual marriages. Last year we finally got trans-inclusive healthcare. We didn’t have an explicit code of conduct when I started, but adopted the guidelines for participation within my first year. Progress might be slow, but it’s being made. And I don’t see Brendan standing in the way of that.

To throw away commentary like that with a handwave saying "well, any dissenting employees would be silenced by fear" does not do Eich justice, and it also does not do that author justice, because you're effectively saying she doesn't count because she's not in fear. A well-written, considered article, one that is neither gushing nor abusive, presenting a complex, nuanced picture... and it's worthless because 'someone might be too scared to speak up'.

It's apparent that you won't be happy unless there's a vocal dissentor to support your point of view. You've essentially pre-convicted the guy against evidence provided by people that currently work with him, and are groping around for ammunition.
It's still troubling to see the possibility that an entire industry (VR) might head in the wrong direction for years to decades.
right reason: fuck facebook
You don't even need a Facebook acount for Facebook Messenger.
Once upon a time I did the start-up, sleep-deprived, living at work thing, and frankly younger me thought it was awesome. Older me looks back and things younger me was sometimes an idiot.

Recently I had a kid and got to experience the sleep-deprivation effects all over again except this time with one big difference: I work with an awesome team who were able to pick up the slack, and I was smart enough to know when to ask for help (once literally saying "I'm too stupid to do this now, can you do it?")

Sleep-deprivation is going to continue to be endemic in our industry (not just amongst start-ups, the twenty-somethings today are going to be having kids soon themselves). Instead of fighting through the slack, find ways to mitigate it; build your teams with people you can rely on to cover you when you're short.
In the long run, gaming will probably be a small but awesome percentage of the total VR industry.
I feel a bit embarrassed to have to say the obvious but:

When you sell your company, you don’t own it any more

http://pando.com/2014/03/26/a-reminder-to-founders-when-you-...
Strongly suggest setting up http://meta.ycombinator.com for the same reasons we did so on Stack Overflow. Self governance and public discussion of policies is hugely important to sustainable community.

http://blog.codinghorror.com/listen-to-your-community-but-do...
did you see something about this somewhere? care to share or elaborate? (im really curious)

if thats is true, it means AOT compilation for Dart?
I really hope they were developers in the old Origin, pre-Renaissance days; and not developers from the EA, post-Age of Shadows days.

For those not in the know, much of the open-ended nature of the game was removed or destroyed in order to appeal to the popularity of MMOs such as World of Warcraft. An entire PvP-free world removed all of the danger of exploring, item insurance and infinite item durability repair removed all of the risk of carrying high-end gear, the Doom gauntlet added WoW-style dungeon grinding, power/stat scrolls brought in near-mandatory guild raiding, endless new classes brought serious balancing issues, veteran rewards chased off new players, countless new lands combined with dwindling players made the game more of a ghost town, etc. The entire game shifted from a social gathering that was a blast to explore, into a grind-fest treadmill.

I really miss the old game, but not enough to run a hacked client on a fan-made server with under 200 users that could disappear at any time.
You might've noticed, but it looks like your second post with this same exact link is dead. It seems HN has anti-duplicate code.
What a condescending bunch of horseshit. These kinds of stories are always awful but this one is particularly galling. Why millennials have a tough time landings jobs? Maybe because they came onto the job market in the midst of the greatest economic slump since the great depression? Maybe because systemic, unrelenting unemployment has recently become a basic feature of the economy? Through no fault of their own, "millenials" (I hate these terms) have come onto the job market at the worst time that anyone younger than 100 can remember.

Note that I am not a millennial and I've been lucky enough to skate past this business relatively unscathed. But I find it pretty disgusting to spectate upon the misfortunes of others and then write Shadenfreude puff pieces like this, attributing these misfortunes to the moral failures of the victims.
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I smell an HN movie.