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Let's put Google's denial off to the side for one moment. The core of Arrington's accusation is broken:

"The source had corresponded with me from a non Google email account, so the only way Google saw it was by accessing my Gmail account."

No, that's not the only way Google could have seen this email. It could easily have leaked via the non-Google email account: The employee could have (intentionally or accidentally) forwarded the email to their work account. Or they could have sent it or accessed it unencrypted from a Google internal network. They could have also sent the email to someone else who passed it on to Google. And so on.

Yes, these are all stupid mistakes that your careful, tech-savvy leaker shouldn't make, but people make mistakes like them all the time. And I wouldn't expect an inebriated leaker to make a point of mentioning whatever stupid mistake they might have made (if said leaker even realized where they went wrong).
Great work at organizing an amazing event @IndianGuru. I still cant believe that a renowned hotel like 'the Lalit' can take a risk to upset an online community. They probably have no idea of the power of ruby/internet community. Let's submit shit loads of reviews on tripadvisor and other places that teaches them a good lesson.
Yes. This. This sounds like a great project and I would love to integrate this into our debugging workflow but this one limitation basically kills that prospect.
Nice introuction to APIs.
Very helpful and easy to understand.
Greetings from Planet Facebook
They are dysfunctional & your complaint would go down a blackhole. Never to be seen or heard again.
But endorsing not at all guarantees loss of that privilege, in that you're never actually exercising it. If the penalty doesn't extend further, I'm not sure the cost will discourage terribly much.
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying. This is actually pretty neat. I think Docker really missed the mark with their "links", its interesting to see more full-fledged efforts on this front (see also: CoreOS's "software defined localhost").
True, Oculus has more focus & a narrower scope.

Though, we will see what a $2B valuation does to a "clearly defined" mission. The VR market has to be grown, after all.

Google is expanding it's efforts in new markets that require substantial technical vision. Same with Oculus.

Kurzweil is the "Director of Engineering" at a company without a CTO. Surely, there's some similarities in their roles.

Not a 100% match, but some interesting similarities.
They won't be of any real help. It's better to get to popular blogs in India like nextbigwhat, trak.in, etc. A coverage on TOI will get you a lot of mileage.
>what exactly is this position everyone keeps ascribing to him?

That he doesn't think gay people should have the same rights as straight people? Was this a trick question?

> What's wrong with it being a deeply-held belief?

That we are putting it to a vote at all will be a point of historical embarrassment in the not so distant future. Is this not clear?

I don't understand the incredulity; it's all rather plain.
I'm sure 6-12 months down the road - there'd be a scathing expose about how Tesla is abusing a non-profit status to steal business from legitimate neighborhood dealerships.
I wish the product wasn't so intolerable to use. It's a ten-year-old approach to syncing two folders with a minimal amount of collision detection.

Why does everything have to live in their folder?
Why do I have to use my boss's crappy organization structure?
Why is everything (sharing, permissions, history, changes) done through their website instead of on my local machine?

It's amazing to me they've spent as much time and energy on marketing as they have and haven't spent time getting a product that's usable in an enterprise in a serious way. It just becomes a bin that marketing throws a bunch of documents into and no one else in the company uses.
Brave thing to say when the Texas state legislature isn't in session to actually do something about this...
I saw it, read it, and upvoted it because I found the history described in the article to be interesting, slightly charming, and entertaining to read. (The part about the current printer market isn't very surprising or interesting, though. Ironically, that's what the title's about. Perhaps it'd be better titled "Apple's history with printers".) I suppose that doesn't explain how it got to the front page, but maybe explains why it's still there.
Do this:

1) Approach a good lawyer to send a legal letter to the hotel putting in all the problems and demand a huge compensation.

2) File a case in the consumer court of Goa, if no proper response from the hotel.

3) If the lawyer finds no issues then approach local and national news/press agencies and get your story published there. Anything that comes in the news papers has a far greater impact and makes such businesses get down on their knees.

4) Do not delay in filing the case. Do it ASAP.

I wish you get a decent compensation though Indian courts are not known for that.
Why Oculus had to sell out? I can't imagine them running out of capital. In current bubble market they should have VCs lined up outside their office if they wanted. I'm unable to think any other reason then plain old cashing out. Did FB used some backdoor to snap them or they actually willingly submitted themselves to cash out?
It's not really a bribe - I think a better word is "competition" since Tesla hasn't decided where to build it.

How is this a bad thing?
Try expressing a conservative or religious opinion. I've gotten downvotes for both even though I haven't been the slightest bit rude. I enjoy hacker news, but at times it can really feel like a hivemind.
They never had any problem taking money from these fans, though. Now they sell out to Facebook (yes it is a sellout), and fans get angry, you want to "revoke their Internet card"?

No, they don't get empathy for getting acquired for $2Billion.
> Asset management is (approximately) a fix cost business to run

It is, but not an overly expensive one. I worked for a couple of years in an asset management operation where we managed a variety of funds, all with different risk-return mixes. The smallest fund was a few hundred thousand pounds, the largest around three billion. Total assets under management were about five billion pounds, the most complex of which was a pension fund.

Front office consisted myself (the most junior member of the front office) plus 4 others, including the chief investment manager. Middle office consisted one person who was also the back office manager, and back office, including the department secretary, was four people.

Total department budget was less than a million per year - including office rent, taxes, information services (Bloomberg, Datastream, etc) yet we substantially outperformed (usually within one standard deviation, occasionally outside) performance and risk budgets, as they were defined to us by trustees. And we worked eight hour days, a rarity in the City at any institution.

In hindsight, what we did was quite simple - invest in what we thought was wise, and not worry too much. Much mainstream investment management seems to be embodiment-in-large of the Peter Principal: create work in order to seem busy / important. The upside of the Peter Principal is to collect large bonuses by virtue of seeming important, of which none of us did, as it was simply a job - look after the organisation's funds and the pensioners' pensions. This organisation was somewhat unique in both mandate and people attracted to it.

tl;dr Fund management costs, for a collection of a pretty good performing funds, was 0.02%. This excludes broker fees and management fees of indirectly invested funds.

Byline: I am of course aware that having a single middle office manager is far from ideal, and that the middle office manager managing the back office is bad from an operational control perspective. This was changed after I left.
Is this something similar to Intellitrace in Visual Studio?
I don't recall any good explanations, maybe you could recount the best ones?

It can't be because the rule provides strong protection of non-millionaire savings, because there are already endless ways for the gullible to lose all their money. It can't be millionaires are especially immune to common scams, because there's no evidence of that – and in fact quite a lot of evidence to the contrary.

Why not make these government policies wealth-oblivious, the same way they're race-, gender-, or religion- oblivious?

Why not base any necessary protections on objective tests of knowledge and ability, as with driver or occupational licensing?
http://graemenoble.id.au/post/48695277030/double-nat-explain...

Nothing really, but you should generally avoid it if possible. It just creates the possibility of having unexpected problems later on.
"Users with over 1000 karma are rare. From what I've seen they are less than 5% of the total HN user base of."

But a much higher percentage of people who actually post. The top 10 posts on this page (for me, right now) are about 50% from such users, and of the top 10 newcomments right now there's only 3 from users with 1000+ Karma, but several more from >900. If you're participating on the site for a while, it doesn't take that long.
I hope not. Secondlife is a terrible and dated piece of software. For a serious virtual world, they'll need something a lot more modern and robust.
A “Perfect Storm” Moment for Multibillion-Dollar Open Source Companies
>They now loathe VR for wedding with Facebook.

No just Oculus.
Is Second Life still a viable buy? Linden Labs seem pretty quite these days. Are they still growing?
They rarely get mentioned in the hallowed corridors of HN.
The last mention I could dig up was this, about 4 years back!!!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032309
Wow. I wish I could give you ten upvotes for raising awareness about this. This is probably worth submitting to HN directly (go for it) because it's both newsworthy in gamedev circles and will help people in a similar situation come up with ideas to cope with the stress. Thank you!
I wonder what other "proof of work" algorithms also now generate taxable events. Or whether something mundane like using iterated bcrypt2 turns the resulting hashes into property which I have to report to the IRS?
Nobody can make predictions so it's also hard to see where the future is going.

'People watching a mobile device all the time!?' Look at we are now...

I wouldn't be surprised when we will be programming with a VR set so you can put almost unlimited lines of code on your retina.
That just shifts $930 to hidden costs. Someone pays either way.
An amazing project. Would it be possible to get to a certain point in a trace, then switch the process back into "live mode" so that further inputs could be made into the program? This could open up all sorts of interesting things, like recording interactions with web applications and then allowing a developer to open up high-level JS/DOM debugging tools to see exactly what went wrong without needing to worry about replicating the exact input sequence that led up to the bug.

It's unfortunate that the no-shared-memory limitation is so hard-baked in, so it would seem that things like Chrome rendering processes wouldn't play nicely with rr (I'm assuming they communicate with shared memory, correctly if I'm wrong!).
Meh, I'll be interested when they release the source from the "fuck over DR-DOS" era. Maybe when the statute of limitations for antitrust expires...
I think this statement is unnecessary. Eich's personal opinion on the matter has never been imposed or interfered with official Mozilla business. It's one of the most ethical companies I know.
So. Post-Snowden, does anyone think Glass is a remotely good idea?

I believe the only kind thing that can be said is that glass is "perhaps not terribly worse than carrying a cellphone".
This makes sense when the only actors involved are you, the start-up, and the government. In such a case, I would agree with you. To explain why such a case does not exist, I'll ask you this:

Why is the most important piece of information Kickstarter shares with you the amount already pledged? You can see this in their page layout and in their various widgets.
There are a lot of low-level intrinsics that need to be called behind the scenes to do the recording, and I'm not surprised that they did their first experiments using the 32-bit versions, since they might be better documented, or there might be more expertise on the team if they've been working on 32-bit low-level stuff for decades. All those intrinsics should have 64-bit versions, though, so it's just a matter of time before 64-bit support lands. I'm sure they'd welcome pull requests!
I'll take the "corruption" that leads to economic efficiency any day.
"The FB deal" is likely an intentional euphemism intended to suggest its a partnership.

This is not a "deal". Facebook will own the company and can (rightfully) be expected to do whatever they want with it.
If your writing tests after the unit then you not doing TDD right.

TDD is not designed to be a good technique for developing algorithm's but rather for designing OO systems and discovering the collaborations between various objects within a system. This doesn't mean you can forget about solid OO design principals and just somehow land up with a good design just because you use TDD.
"What's wrong with it being a deeply-held belief?"

Wait, what? Alright, let's start from the beginning.

"Hell, for that matter, what exactly is this position everyone keeps ascribing to him?"

It may seem like we can't really tell, because he never really openly commented on this, but what we do know is this:

* he donated $1,000 of his own money to support Proposition 8

* the full text of Proposition 8 (according to Wikipedia):

Section I. Title

This measure shall be known and may be cited as the "California Marriage Protection Act."
Section 2. Article I. Section 7.5 is added to the California Constitution, to read:

Sec. 7.5. Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

Is it really hard to figure out that Brendan Eich is a man who would pay $1,000 so that two consenting people in love can not marry if they are of the same sex?

I am not a gay person myself and I think it's safe to assume you are neither. And you might have read http://www.teamrarebit.com/blog/2014/03/24/goodbye_firefox_m... by now. But I really recommend doing a little bit of a research on the topics of gay marriage and LGBTs to see what exactly is wrong with his belief that LGBT people don't deserve basic human and civil rights.

Note: I was only responding to the quoted text. It's a whole another issue whether he should resign as a CEO of an organization that prides itself for being open and inclusive (or at least issue an apology and/or a statement of his changed mind on this issue). Also another question is whether it is the right solution to boycott a whole company which I am sure is full of people who do not agree with the new CEO's belief.
Thank you. I haven't researched the subject. I still think you will be better of dealing with German tax authorities than with IRS. I suspect there are and will be some European countries that treat bitcoins with more leniency.
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Was Blizzard's removal of RMT from Diablo 3 more or less related to IRS issues? When ships in EVE Online are blown up, can we claim a deduction?
Google does not snoop, they just search
Copying stdin to stdout in Java
I think that the most promising aspect of this acquisition is the fact that with Facebook's resources, Oculus can scale like they never dreamed. Specifically, they have such a large starting cash buffer, they might even be able to sell the Oculus hardware at a loss-leading price, and therefore jumpstart the VR space.
this is the kind of stuff I come to HN for. Well done sir.
The headline is wrong but I wouldn't put it past some rogue Google employee who does have such powers and has abused them. Case in point: David Barksdale, ex-Googler. https://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-te...
Switching iPhone(s) from AT&T to T-Mobile
It's not an individual that is making these decisions, it's a complicated set of groups, technologies, and directions.

Does that mean having bad user experiences is justified? No. But it's incredibly complicated to tie together such large projects (at a complexity most people won't fathom) and do it well.

I would look at it the other way and be amazed how good some of the things work.
It's honestly frustrating to go down a well-commented post and see a half-dozen "the title is misleading" posts... and then finally one that actually quotes the old title, basically nullifying the validity of most of the discussions one just read.
Hackers text ATMs for cash via Windows XP flaws
Excellent post overall, very helpful.

>> However, if I exchange my apartment for your car, then it's not a like-kind exchange, because the items exchanged are not of like kind (makes sense?), and both parties pay capital gains (or can claim a loss) vs. the fair market value of the exchange.

You probably can't claim a capital loss for a car as you can only claim it for things you hold for investment purposes. Since the car's depreciation is expected to be because of personal use you can't claim loss on it whereas if it were to increase for some reason (memorabilia) you'd have to pay gains.
Nothing wrong ... in the short term. Will perform indecent act for every potential employer while bending over backwards - that mentality does not create a stable foundation for future growth and prosperity.

You should have policies first, deals second and not change the policy to get the deal.
Leadership views or behavior can influence corporate culture in subtle ways. For example, by simply lending credence to the private views of others in the company, that the bigwigs agree with them. People tend to align themselves with the viewpoints of people in power, either subconsciously, or consciouslessly (when brown nosing).

You could say that the private views of Chick-Fil-A's owner do not impact how the company does business, but I think it would be naive to say that it doesn't have some effect, both on the employees, and on people external to the company.

Or to give a non-political example, if your CEO believes the best way to motivate people is to scream insults at them, tell them their work sucks, or otherwise keep them in a state of fear, then, even if it isn't official company policy to do so, that management 'culture' will percolate down to middle level managers, so that suddenly you have a whole hierarchy of aggressive, alpha-male scream-bags who think they're the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.
> Or they could have sent it or accessed it unencrypted from a Google internal network.

This is the most likely scenario. If you are using a shared network administered by someone other than you, you should assume nothing about privacy or secrecy.
On the time scale western society's majority views, gay rights is definitely flavor of the month.
Apple does not have business units. Apple would also never spend that much money on an acquisition, so your general point stands, but your specific statement is false.
A consumer product like the Rift is an entirely different proposition with an entirely different set of challenges. The Open Compute project was essentially Facebook giving away some of their data center designs and specifications (mostly things like server racks and power management), with a few other companies joining the initiative but with none of the designs actually being used on a significant scale.

Also worth noting, the head of OCP left Facebook today. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2111680/open-compute-project-...
Ditto. I just preordered the DK2 yesterday and don't have a facebook account. Don't want to have to do anything with them. Shit.
> This acquisition/partnership gives us more control of our destiny, not less!

It's the first time I read a statement by Palmer, it overall seems reasonable, but this one line feels so much like BS business talk.

As I interpret it, being in a situtation where they had less controled that under Facebook means they had almost no control going forward.

Would it mean Oculus was going nowhere, they were seeing a strong competitor entering the market but no clear vision of how they could go on, so their destiny was basically a dead end, and getting into Facebook gives them at least one or two survival paths ?

Also, I'm sorry that you are disappointed...really ? Perhaps this guy at least is a really good fit in the facebook culture.
Truly amazing site. Thanks for aggregating some of the greatest free tutorials, for most of the languages and frameworks.
I'm not sure. Why do they have to sell?
I was one of the speakers at this event and I have to say that the organizers really made a heroic effort to ensure we had a good event. Anyone not talking to the organizers did not even realize the stress they were under...they did an amazing job covering up the failures of the hotel. I am friends with many of the organizers, and the looks of pain on their faces when these problems came up really hit me hard. I applaud the organizers for taking such good care of us speakers (even to the point of going through our hotel bills individually) and the attendees (going to bat to ensure they were unaware of the problems).

I had an amazing time...thank you for your hard work.
may want to link to the particular post in the gist :)
Yeah - but the parent company didn't make a distinction about startups - just big evil companies acquiring smaller ones.
I'm surprise nobody mentioned its potential use by the sex industry for virtual/interactive porn. Think of the possibilities. If you what I mean...
You're leaving out Glass, Fiber, Nest, Chromebook, and the 8 robotics companies they just acquired, among other things.
@Aloha
+ The minimum room requirement amount (as per contract) was paid a week in advance to the hotel already. So, we held good on the contract terms - this was 28.4 Lakh INR!

+ The actuals, incidentals and additional costs (which were about 8.45L) would have been done via RTGS settlement after the event. However, Hotel refused to let us even check-out! After paying 28.4L, to be threatened for the balance is ridiculous!

+ The Hotel double-booked events - they admitted it was their fault as asked us for our help. Once we had extended our help to save them from a huge liability, they simply shunned us away - we should have been duly compensated for this mess (not to mention the inconvenience at the conference - blasting drums, lunch in the hot sun etc.) But they refused to even MEET us the next day, the moment we helped them avert the disaster!

#Fail #Fail #Fail - we were treated as mis-creatants instead of guests!
"I think you're exactly right. Look at 3d television: they aren't selling. People don't want to wear glasses just to watch a movie."

For me, 3D does nothing to get more immersed into the story. Frankly most of the 3D movies suck. Weak plots sprinkled with in your face 3D effects. Booooring.

It is about the plot and the acting. The content, not the form. Look at Hitchcocks movies. Would adding 3D do anything for them? Look at Jim Jarmushs movies or at "Lost in translation", would adding 3D do anything for those? Would adding VR do anything for those? I don't think so.

In the end it is about content. Second life and "there" was all the hype around 2005 but the hype wore off. Maybe it is time for 3rd life with the OR and the myo armband now. I think it depends on whether there is something in there that makes it worth while to come back after the initial "whoa this is awesome, wow" effect wears off.

For my own part, I'd love to see a VR based construction application like Sketchup where you are IN the model and build something with gestures. I'm pretty sure that would fly with the maker possy.