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I'm a bit late in replying, but hopefully you'll still see this. My current reasoning goes something like this:

The Oculus is aimed at high-end PC gamers. I know this because I have a desktop running an i7 3.5GHz quad core processor with 16GB of RAM and a £200 NVIDIA GTX 760 graphics card, and my PC still struggles occasionally to keep frame-rates high enough for VR. And that's just the DK2; expectations are that the consumer version will have a higher resolution and require even more oomph to work. Your average person that plays computer games on a PC is unlikely to have the resources available to commit to that kind of hardware expenditure.

My flatmate for instance plays a lot of games on steam, but they're mostly older games. If he wanted to get an Oculus he'd have to pay £300 for the headset, then another £200 (at least) for a new graphics card, more for a new processor (apparently some of the demos can be quite CPU intensive) and then he'd need to make sure his PSU could cope with all that extra hardware. That's a lot of money up front to make VR work. I should know because I just went through it.

Sony on the other hand has over 10 million PS4's in the wild, all running the same specs, and all with no upgrade path. If Sony can make a VR headset that runs against the PS4 specifications, even at lower graphics levels, then for PS4 owners the road to VR costs whatever Project Morpheus costs, and no more. Lets put it on equal pegging with the Oculus at around £300. That's a much easier sell.

Further to that, people own computers for a whole bunch of reasons. People work on their computers, they code, and they edit videos on them. Being able to play games for them is only part of the value they paid money for. Some people do have PC's purely for games, but I'd be surprised if most people used their PC's primarily for gaming. PS4 owners on the other hand have already shelled out money for a dedicated gaming device. People in that situation (so my theory goes) should be more easily sold on a VR gaming accessory.

The way I see things panning out is this. The Oculus will likely continue to provide the state-of-the-art in VR experience for the real VR fanatics or the hard core PC gamer crowd. They will also probably scoop up a whole bunch of professional users too, in the form of architects or engineers or the like. But the costs of all the peripheral PC equipment you need to make the Oculus a decent experience will see off the "mainstream". In my view, it'll take someone like Sony (or an xbox equivalent) to offer a lesser, but good-enough, product to a large audience of people who are already bought into "gaming" to really make VR a viable and mainstream gaming platform.

I think Sony stand a pretty good chance of "winning" for those reasons.
What’s Markdown™? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? that which we call a Standard
By any other name would smell of squeamish ego
I agree, Oracle aren't terrible stewards of MySQL, but that's not my point. Yes 5.5 and 5.6 are good releases. MariaDB 10 is an even better release and shows that Monty has still got value beyond what any large corporation can provide.

I know for a fact that if we were forced away from MariaDB back to stock Oracle MySQL releases, we'd have to expand onto more slaves and fix queries that are no longer optimized.
That was the idea behind PiCloud [1], which was acquired by... Dropbox [2].

[1] http://www.picloud.com/

[2] http://www.wired.com/2013/11/dropbox-piclou/
Another noteworthy design deviation (compared to run of the mill SWATH) of this vessel is the dihedral angle of the pontoon supports. Based on the wake behind the vessel, it appears that the pontoon supports might even be providing some lift. This could provide a hydrofoil like lifting effect, but the design of those supports wouldn't make a terribly efficient foil. The aspect ratio is all wrong. Hydrofoils typically have a very short chord, because water generates plenty of lift without a high aspect ratio.

This thing just sounds like a whole lot of smoke and mirrors. Hopefully the guy can sell it to some Hollywood studio to use in Mission Impossible 10 so he can recoup some of his investment.
I am fed up with all those warranty cards I am getting with every equipment I buy like juicer,external HDD,etc. so thought what if I can make a smartphone app with open API which other manufacturers can use to link their warranty info.

Through the app, you can apply for warranty , see when it is expiring etc.
Bukkit is a wrapper around the Minecraft server that is one of the two major modding APIs. It is used for a lot of server plugins for multiplayer gameplay.

It consists of two major projects. Bukkit itself is an API that plugin authors code against. In theory it could be implemented for e.g. Terraria too but in practice its completely tied to Minecraft. Bukkit (the api) is licensed under GPL with little issue.

CraftBukkit is the implementation of this API. It is licensed under LGPL.

This was originally started as a community project. However the issue is that CraftBukkit includes a decompiled Minecraft server, which mojang never officially allowed.

This meant that Bukkit (the server) contained the bukkit api (GPL), the craftbukkit implementation (LGPL) and the Minecraft server ( All rights reserved) and was being distributed as "GPL". While mojang looked the other way about their proprietary software being distributed as GPL, everyone was pretty much happy.

The issue gets muddier when Mojang hired the core Bukkit devs to work on Minecraft. They left the Bukkit project to run itself and everything continued as is for two years.

Then two years later the community team announce they're shutting down the project. At this point, Mojang reveals that when they hired the original team, they also acquired the Bukkit project (trademarks, infrastructure, the original core teams code, etc) and as such it didn't belong to the current community team to shut down.

Now one of the GPL contributors is demanding that Mojang take down the project because it contains his code under the GPL but isn't validly licensed under the GPL due to containing the all rights reserved mojang code.
You can select 'shipping options' and get a quote in there.

We are continuously A/B testing every interaction and hiding the price in a sub-menu helped across the board.
It wasn't from Mojang but from what I understand (very little, to be honest, I'm not much of a Minecrafter and only read up on this because the circumstances of the DMCA strike me as being so weird), it is due to some of the developers of this software being in a spat with Mojang:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/08/21/minecraft-bukkit-team-lead...

Seems like:

1) Mojang implemented EULA some 3rd party bukkit devs didn't like, they decided to stop supporting their Minecraft API software and publically quit the project, announcing the "end" of the project.

2) Turns out Mojang actually owns (or thinks they own) the project because some members of the bukkit team went to work for Mojang and part of the terms was that they would own it(?)

3) One of the external devs files DMCA to spite Mojang(?) citing GPLv3 incompatibility with being shipped alongside non-Free Software.

There's a lot of legal nuance here that I don't have any answers for, like how copyright assignment worked on this project and whether the people who "sold" bukkit to Mojang had the legal right to do so. If they actually did then Mojang (as copyright holder) could just relicense the project under a different license than GPLv3 and make this all go away in the blink of an eye, so I'm kind of assuming they don't own it as much as they appear to think they do.

Would love to hear more about this from someone who pays attention to this stuff because this seems like a fascinating copyright situation.

In any case, this is a really good case-in-point as to why getting copyright assignment from external developers on any FS/OSS project that you run is a really good idea in general.
There have been a couple attempts at this: and the general consensus is that the bandwidth issues tend to swamp the costs of what you'd pay to handle it internally.
Some good info about what you should log to track your system data.
A store-to-kitchen cart. I carry it in store, checkout items from within the cart - mos t current carts are clunky, heavy - one that you can push onto your car trunk and carry out into your pantry/kitchen. Basically the iPod of shopping carts. Would save billion of shopping bags, no more "paper or plastic?"
Also, "Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques" (https://ritdml.rit.edu/bitstream/handle/1850/5112/PWilsonPro...) is a great survey paper, and _The Garbage Collection Handbook_ by Jones, et. al (http://gchandbook.org/) is an excellent book covering the field as of pretty recently.
Would love to see the same treatment for ARM64.
We break into a city starting in a tight geography and expand outwards.

We don't consider Berkeley or Oakland as new cities as we can provide service from one warehouse. We will be overing service to those areas very shortly.
Something with the Oculus VR tech. I think there's massive, exciting options opening up with the Gear VR or similar, and anyone starting now will have a substantial first mover advantage.

I have two specific applications for VR: the metaverse, and really good porn. (These do not need to be combined though I suppose they could.)

I would argue that Second Life failed mostly due to execution issues. I'd love to see a virtual world where I can socialize, and where I can build cool spaces to hang out with my friends / hold meetings / work.
Yeah, but it doesn't define how markdown will be rendered.

For example, on github, to get a decent paragraph title, I must use #### (h4), on some other site that might be h1 or h2 to get the effect I want.

I understand the need to define the grammar precisely, but for me Markdown is highly tighten to the site it will be rendered to.

I'm not against a specification, but I feel this is a lot of work (and again I'm not saying it's badly done) that feels unnecessary.

Taking your google example, they might deviate from the syntax because their comment box is too small. I really don't want to argue, it's just some feeling, it might not be rational, and by all means I'm not saying I'm right. I was expecting (and waiting for) specifications for tons of things, but not markdown.
I'd like to see a not for profit bank in the sense that the profit the bank does make, goes directly back into the local community surrounding the bank. The bank would have a physical presence but strong and modern on-line support.
A new chance for peace in the middle east
ZenPayroll (YC W12) is hiring experienced product leaders
also look at: http://www.timebridge.com
it really depends on a number of things. Fedex and UPS proximity play a part but other things like availability of a suitable warehouse in a reasonable amount of time is more important.
I know here in Canada rail is far more reliable in winter than highway. Raised rail lines tend to stay clear of snow build up. Snow on the rails isn't a big issue, its more the build up that bottoms out the train.

I doubt these will be being shipped by truck given the quantities we're dealing with. I also would not doubt an improvement in the infrastructure for a corporation bringing 6500 jobs and $5bn into the economy.
If you believe in your path, product and market ignore the competitor. All they have done is validate you. But time is not on your side if you are all working full time jobs, not saying it is impossible but it makes it really hard to keep up.

Everyone has technical debt, likely in their new offering they put a shiny interface around a bunch of legacy code. That is what I have seen done over and over in established businesses. Part of it is because established businesses have a good revenue stream and nice margins as development has been paid back so they don't want to start over, instead they attempt to ease into the next version.

Someone else mentioned it too but when an existing business releases a new product sometimes the transition to that product is fairly painful for users. Even if they do an awesome job trying to make it a seamless transition for users, some users will have the attitude "If I have to learn something new I'd rather go somewhere else". So take advantage of it, go talk to some of their clients and market to the likely ones that may jump ship. You'll likely be able to find the pattern in the clients wanting to leave.
Start it in Colorado and Washington, of course. Go into any Weedbucks and the "O.G. Kush" (or any strain) is just as good (e.g. THC concentration constant) as at any other. Special sales on April 20th, and at 4:20pm everyday.

You'd make a killing.
A specialst book store or lending library or archive in hard to find new and seconhand books. For some subjects, amazon and its secondhand book site Abe books (?) sucks if you delve into narrow neiches. They are enthuaists out there who crave a book which will teach them something. These books are published in areas which may not be as commercial as they once were.

The neiches are small. One for example is model engineering and related subjects. Books with plans, drawings etc. Construction methods.
App that connects people with leftover food to pet owners.
This might have been true in 2011-12, but today MariaDB is demonstrably NOT dependent on Oracle or Percona. If both disappeared tomorrow, it would still continue.

The fact that they continue to "pull" some code is because they're not idiots, and aren't going to duplicate effort. As far as I'm aware, they are now being very selective about what they pull.

Calling Oracle an "upstream" is a joke. They aren't publishing atomic changesets, which also means the Oracle fork of MySQL is no longer a morally Open Source software program.

MariaDB is NOT impacted by some vaporous lack of tests. They are building tests for every change they're making. As for the tests privately held by Oracle, well, those tests don't help anyone because they're not public and don't enjoy public scrutiny. Who knows if they're even running them?
I agree, but hundreds of nuclear power sources hovering around the planet controlled by a single corporation ... sounds like the plot of a James Bond movie.
My point is your comment doesn't make any sense when directed at this community either. It's just a pointless statement of obviousness, phrased to communicate maximum superiority.
Funny, after they'd entered into an agreement to fix the pay across (a substantial part of) the industry?
Github for travel planning. You can collaborate with your co-travelers on creating an itinerary but then like github you can fork other peoples completed itineraries and make them your own.
Well, at least I know I can have a good idea.

Now I just need to be able to not be the last to have it.
Actually I think there are some reason to have slightly different markdown flavors depending of the context. Take the "indent 4spaces for code" thing, on a social website this might have a completely different meaning.

You will say, OK then, but this is not markdown, you'd be right, it'd be some markdown inspired markup, and that's my point, this specification might be relevant to github, and it is, but don't call it standard markdown, call it anything else.

Markdown wasn't designed for the purpose "standard markdown" is giving to it now. Alright, do something new, get traction, but putting markdown in a box doesn't seem to be the best approach to me.
> TVs are useless

Exactly, only the mentally challenged watch TV in the 21st century.
PureCSS is a minimal framework by Yahoo, i think it looks neat:

http://purecss.io
Cool, is there any info of the history of the language? It has been in development for a long time, with one main contributor.

phd project perhaps?
Well, well, if it isn't DaveT. Um, yes, this is a spam post. :-)
Not everyone does :)
How would the store not lose money on them, though? They have to cost money, and customers will probably just keep them.
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Another one is predicting price rises and optimal time to sell Magic the Gathering cards before rotation. Its like the stockmarket only unregulated Gambling. People, do invest in these cards and flip them. Not for the faint of heart but people love to buy into dreams...
I've always had a funny lower-tech idea along the same lines. It's an airplane themed restaurant where each table has one of the service buttons that airplanes have. When you want a server to come by, hit the button. It lights up at the table and at the server station.
'Brain' In A Dish Acts As Autopilot, Living Computer (2004)
If your enemy is a national government, yes. But we're at the stage now where national governments should know better than to get into fights with each other. Unless the recent idiocy between America and Russia gets out of hand, likely enemies in the near future are nonstate actors like ISIS who would have difficulty shooting down something at that altitude.
I strongly disagree with this. It may be true at many companies, but not anywhere I would ever work (esp. as a manager).

Requiring people to have a competitive offer in-hand basically says, "if you want a raise, go interview somewhere else." That's toxic and only effective for the people who game the system.

Responsible employers owe their employees a fair (according to market, their peers, and their contributions) wage, not the minimum they can possibly get away with paying. It might save you a few bucks in the near term to play stupid games with people's comp, but the attrition will kill you in the long run.
VIAs biggest problem is distribution and clinging to old corp culture.

They used to be a PC powerhouse supplying almost half of chipset market. Now they are a niche survivor, dabbling in ARM SoCs and embedded computer platforms (car PCs, the ones you can see mounted in a trunk of every police cruiser). But they cant seem to understand they are nobody today. They keep acting like Broadcom, requiring tons of NDAs, not delivering any documentation, making problems when you want to buy moderate quantities of their stuff.

Via could try to take over SoC market from the bottom up by simply being OPEN. Instead they make half assed attempts from time to time like http://apc.io
You know they are fucked if you cant even buy their products directly from them (out of stock).
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I mentioned this on twitter to @defunkt (https://twitter.com/_beid/status/507269600401440768)

I don't agree that it should be defined in markdown, RTL languages should be detected by the parser and be outputted within a block-level element, P is good, with dir="rtl" as you mentioned.
I thought Reid might have been on to something when he said that. I'm glad that Tesla seems to be shooting straight, for now anyway.
If using that name seems rude, I suggest the name "MarkUp."
It sounds like you've had some terrible experiences with employers gaming your salary, for which I'm sorry.

As a manager, I value my long-tenured employees _very_ highly and work hard to ensure they get significant raises year after year. I learned to do that by working as an engineer at several other companies that did the same.

So, if your employer doesn't work to make their best, most experienced engineers feel valued and well-compensated, by all means look for another job. But don't assume that all companies will try to force you out as soon as your salary is higher than a new grad's.
Show HN: Rent vs. Own App
Pocket change, all things considered.
Could this be used for telescopes?
Does Reddit still have a child porn problem?
It's not about ASCII, it's about where that ASCII is presented whether it's terminal emulator like mlterm or a text box in a sane OS like Ubunutu. RTL languages can be detected and viewed correctly without any additional information.

Addendum: I'm using 'ASCII' only because in this context we are talking about 'plain text' and not the actual 7-bit ASCII. UTF-8 encoding is a given when talking about RTL languages.
Stores can sell them. Offer discounts to people with the carts. They can be stylish and fashionable.
My dream is to buy 50 acres of land and build my own house.

I'm starting my own company, so hopefully in over a decade I'll have it to a point I can take a hiatus to build my own house. I figure I can draft my son like my dad did when I was a teen (renovated a 1600s French farm house).
How standing might be the best anti-ageing technique
Maybe when openssl supports gcm or some other authenticated symmetric cipher mode on the command line?
NASA patfinder has been around for some time already:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Pathfinder
We might also think of this as modern architectures being very badly suited for supporting these mechanisms for abstraction. This may indicate an opportunity.
> I don't see any advantages over asciidoc

Reddit uses Markdown. GitHub uses Markdown. HN (sorta) uses Markdown. Wordpress, Tumblr, and Discourse all use Markdown. If I used Markdown for my own User-Generated-Content Textareas™, people might already know it.

If I use Asciidoc, I may as well be using SGML. It's just another (nice!) syntax you're forcing people to cram into their brains.
Gruber also mentioned it recently on one of his talk show episodes. I cant remember which episode, but as I recall he was not a fan of the effort at all and thinks it is not necessary.
Totally want to build a NSA proof WIFI router. The problem is the wireless cards themselves are a big gaping threat.
Technically, public key cryptography is a (set of) protocols for sharing secret keys.
If you've never seen them, the infamous chicken farm footage from Baraka and Samsara is now on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFQhn8RW0Nk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOLfVMyql1M
Ask HN: Google interview process timeline?
So it has been almost a month that I had phone interview with Google and the recruiter said he will process my application. Until now I have not heard anything from Google yet and and I don't know what I should do regarding this. Basically this is the timeline ;
12 Aug, phone interview
13 Aug, sent thank you email
15 Aug, sent follow up email

if you experienced getting the job in Google, please do share. It would be greatly appreciated! Thank you :)
I had this random idea today, that I'd totally do if I had any free time. There may already be somebody doing this - I haven't looked. But here ya go:

An "eliza bot" like service that doles out Freudian dream analysis when you tell it about your dreams. Maybe even combine a logging service so you can log your dreams (ala the way some people keep dream journals).

I really have few ideas for monetizing the thing, I mostly just think it would be fun to do. But possibly you could do some cool targeted advertising based on the "discussions" you have with the dream-analysis-bot.
Report on Melbourne's East West Link Reveals Major Health Concerns [pdf]
can i just say duh? how else do you get so many chicken mcnuggets and fried chicken? it's like reverse survival of the fittest, the ones that should die are saved. yay viruses!
I think the server melted.
Now if anyone can get the Facebook Phabricator Phriction wiki pholks to use it... They invented one just their own, differing on even the most basic things.
One of the biggest gifts my parents gave me was the instructions "if you run unexpected trouble and need money, come to us immidietly". Fourtuantly, I have not had to take them up on this, but this type of safety net would prevent a relativly minor cost (like a broken window) from spiraling like it did in your case (as well as allow me to take more risk by having less in savings to pay off debt faster).

Of course, this 'advice' only works if you are coming from an upper/middle class family...
The book, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, comes to mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum
There's an error in the map. If you mouse over Stanley County North Carolina it thinks it's Stanley County Virginia.
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