skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've suspected the same reasoning. Which is probably the optimal strategy they could have taken. Samsung seems to clearly have the best screen tech/market-share combination. By partnering with them they prevent samsung from copying them anyway and potentially not giving them access to the screens, also if Oculus was smart they agreed but with a non-compete or exclusivity clause so that Samsung doesn't provide competitors screens. Also Samsung probably has the most resources besides Apple to actually be modifying/manufacturing customer hardware/software innovations that are requirement for future versions of Oculus.

Re: Gear VR, I think it's very impressive. Definitely better than the DK2. You don't miss positional tracking as much as you'd think when you get wire-free and light/polished product experience. The Crescent Bay demo was definitely better than both, but Gear VR is your best bet right now for experimenting and promoting your experiments. Being able to walk up to people just show them your demo is priceless and powerful. I'd shown maybe 10 people my DK2, I've already shown probably 100. I brought it into work, I brought it meetups, etc.

Caveat: I was due for an upgrade from my iPhone 4S and wanted to tryout Android for a generation, so getting the Galaxy Note 4 was logical so that I could kick in the $200US for a Gear VR. If you already have a great phone, it's a pretty heavy price to pay to get the Galaxy Note 4 and Gear VR. I'd recommend waiting if you aren't feeling loaded at the moment or are not a developer.
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Heroku supports arbitrary "buildpacks", it should be easy to create one for iojs.
From their changelog, it seems that addons changed, does anyone know if current npm packages will still be usable?

Also, good to see bnoorhuids in there.
Spreadsheets made it easier/possible for "users" (accountants) to write financial "programs", reducing the need for custom development of financial software. If there are more innovations like spreadsheets, there will be less or different needs for programmers as the labor category exists today. Fungibility cuts both ways.
Reminds me of Intellivision Skiing
Design and 3d print your own dildo
OpenBSD's kernel gets W^X treatment
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> I don't really see what is evil about Monsanto? They're just a regular technology company. We, better than anyone, should understand technology companies.

Not the OP. "Evil" is a value judgement that many may not agree with.

But imho Monsanto is a little bit more than "just a regular technological company" as you put it. This section on Wiki makes an interesting read for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Legal_actions_and_con...
We should start referring to PHP as a "Composer compatible platform" and Python as a "PyPI compatible platform"
How Similar Are Those Six Country Songs?
Isn't bitcoin already owned by a mining pool (ownership defined as an entity that can express 51% of the mining power)? Why is anyone even playing with this system anymore - the growth of the blockchain is controllable by a single entity! Isn't preventing that the whole point?!

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/bitcoin-pool-ghash-i...

When a protocol depends on the "Evil Bit" being set to 0 to function correctly, that protocol is broken.
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A Start-up to Promote Start-ups. It provides 360 degree marketing to new start-ups at practically very very low cost(few sections are for free too).
The Great Debate: Should You Use Docker or Not?
But can I play Bolo?
Greenland's dark snow is coming to America
You're partially right, though overly optimistic about the power of "democracy" in America. It's worth recognizing the power of gerrymandering and money in elections. But, that's another discussion. There is no such thing as a viable political candidate who discusses reigning in police power...not because of the voting public. In America we choose between two parties who have differences, but there are entire categories of governance on which they are in lock step. Police is one of those categories. You will never hear a Republican or a Democrat suggest abolition of the institution of police as we know it, or even demanding basic accountability for killer cops.

Short of revolution, the only effective tools citizens have is to educate more people about the problems (and the cost of "tough on crime" policies), protest the clear human rights violations, film police so there are fewer invisible victims, demand accountability from city councils and mayors and police chiefs, etc. And, I do a little bit of all of these things (there's a Black Lives Matter march on Saturday here in Austin; I'll be there).

So, yes, many Americans are stupid, violent, poorly-educated, racist, and vindictive, or at least support law enforcement that is all of those things. But, the number of people who support no-knock raids is surely not high enough to claim the people chose this (I don't know, but I can't imagine it would be).
I dont think its the first time. Space explorations like this are always a hit or miss thing. And scientists said that it's even much cheaper to launch another project than attempt to retrieve it.
I took a stab at it:

http://baddox.github.io/six_country_songs.html
Homebrew asked me to overwrite my node symlink with the iojs symlink. I decided to link iojs to iojs on my own. I hope I'm not spinning myself into some technical debt here, but for now, I'd like to maintain both.
Even if we had Steam Machines the video game makers are not cooperating with Valve to port their games to Linux. Your SteamOS based Steam Machine would have to connect to your Windows PC and play games over the Cloud in order to have games to play.

The Steam controller, they went too fancy with it. Didn't design it very well and made it very expensive to make. The Xbox One controller is much better and you can get a Windows driver for it and make a Steam Machine with Windows 8.1 on it to play Windows games with Steam.

Valve didn't keep up a good communication with the PC makers in making Steam machines, so they delayed or made Windows boxes instead.

At one time Microsoft wanted to make a new standard called ACE Advanced Computing Environment with Microsoft OS/2 and MIPS CPUs with a dozen PC makers. They too had communication issues and Microsoft OS/2 got turned into Windows NT and the MIPS version of NT was used on those machines instead. As of Windows NT 4.0 MIPS was no longer supported. But the MIPS NT 4.0 machines could run 286 DOS programs for some reason. Yet who wanted a MIPS based NT system when an Intel X86 NT system was cheaper and ran more software titles?
(replying to self) I charted out the chord progressions of the six songs for comparison:

http://baddox.github.io/six_country_songs.html
No, but they were definitely tripping balls on 2C-T.
Lol at this reply from someone. Always sanitize your inputs, kids.

@harrisonpage 4,8,15,16,23,42,\"import os, subprocess; subprocess.call(["rm","-rf","~"])
I've searched high and low, all over the place for a bookmarking service that satisfies and works well. I've even thought of developing my own, or improving a now defunct service. However, I've recently started using Pinboard. So far, it's certainly the best I've come across. It allows for good organization, takes away the "social" aspect of many of the other bookmarking services - I'm not really looking for my bookmarks to be "your" bookmarks.

My biggest issue was finding something that would allow me to begin to approach the task of organizing the some ~7,000 bookmarks I already had hoarded over my numerous browsers. Pinboard has at least allowed me to begin the daunting task. I'll see where it takes me.
If a city reserves the right to grant other parties the right to lay down the cable in the future, but never actually exercises that right, they have effectively given Comcast an exclusive franchise.
Mechanical Sympathy: HTTP/2.0?
It does make sense in a way. With how our systems have become very vulnerable to security breaches, threats and attacks, we have to double or tripple efforts to secure these systems.
Oof. I foresee a hard road ahead of you if can't bring on someone knowledgeable with the actual interpersonal dynamics of hiring. Reason is this isn't a technical problem, it's a social one.

One of the things that the recruiter who found me my job did for me was to interact with the company for me. I told him my concerns, and he either talked me through them or relayed them, through the filter of someone whose seen this all before, to the company. Had I had to do this directly with the company, I wouldn't have done so well, and I might have gotten passed over.

When my company wanted to keep me on a contract basis three months after his job was technically over, and I was prepared to walk, I called him, and he calmed everyone down and got the company to bring me on full time. Had I had to negotiate it myself, I might have said something unwise and a bad decision would have been made.

Now that I'm on the other side of the table, I find myself playing the same role my recruiter played for me as far as the interpersonal dynamics is concerned. I talk through his concerns, I discuss the money aspect with him, advocate his case, and protect him from HR bullshit.

I don't see a purely online web agent as bringing any more value to the table than (just another) job board.
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Congratulations to the io.js team! I look forward to future releases. Specifically, no longer having to use --harmony_arrow_functions.
And now I've done it:
http://baddox.github.io/six_country_songs.html
Or Crystal Quest...
Wow, that's 1 g / bee / year.
You are right, but there's a huge obstacle in the form of people who trumpet the notion of liberty (for some) while simultaneously supporting draconian/authoritarian policies for other people, and who make up a fairly solid political constituency. Even people who don't necessarily approve of such policies are strongly conditioned to accept them through their incessant repetition on television shows, news, and so forth. Producers of such shows aren't necessarily part of a secret conspiracy to scare the populace - although you could wonder about their network buyers - but are simply trying to provide engaging entertainment, and police shows reliably draw large audience, as do detective shows and stories. I'm not immune from this, I love a good detective story.

The net effect is an ideological structure within which the distribution of power becomes further entrenched. No conspiracy to engineer such an outcome is required; like many other social phenomena, it can emerge naturally due to market forces, and is arguably a unintentional by-product of the economic and political structures.
It's sad to see that even freedom of expression now has a price. And such high price to pay really - 12 lives.
And? There's no way I'd build an app on a platform like this without knowing what the future of it will be. Storage is cheap is no excuse for "Oh, we're gonna start charging $10 a month for that plan, so you'll have to start paying for what your app on the apple app store is using. Have fun switching to something else or start paying"
> people expect the display to become the only visible component of the computer ... from a usability as well as a design perspective

I'm not sure putting the ports on the rear of the e.g. iMac improves usability. It certainly looks nicer, but I wouldn't consider the required neck acrobatics to plug in a thumb drive a usability improvement. (But I guess it makes sense in the long-term with everything going wireless.)
>The Luddites tried futilely to stop progress that benefited society

Luddites were not anti-technology nor were they anti progress. They destroyed technology as a tactic to raise the price of the more automated competition. Their competition made cheaper, crappier equivalents of their artisanal work made with de-skilled McJob equivalent workers whose wages were pressured to abhorrent levels (via other means like the enclosure movement/Napoleonic wars).

Similarly, people who strike are not "futilely trying to stop the existence of work". It's another tactic.

In a way, the Luddites are pretty similar to the anti-H1B crowd of hacker news.

>Before these technological advancements, workers enjoyed mini-monopolies.

This is a hacky way of looking at it but the conclusion sort of works. It makes much more sense to look at relative market power of employees vs. employers rather than use the all-or-nothing terminology of monopoly vs. perfect competition.

If Amazon workers attempt to sabotage Amazon's stock picking machinery, I expect it will result in an increase in wages, much like it did for the Luddites. They will be called Luddites, but similar to the original Luddites, they kind of only really have a problem with technology that is used to control them.
Someone should take advantage of the Facebook hordes to compute something beneficial for the humanity.
I heard that there are some drugs, medically prescribed to some cancer patients actually contain marijuana. I think there are several studies about this. The latest news I can find is http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-quinn-...	8866429
For what it is worth, the Silicon Valley tech giants have their own fair share of lawsuits[1][2][3]. I don't think that detracts from what kind of company they are.

I am a practicing farmer though, so I actually have to deal with them, not just read about them from afar, so perhaps I am biased on the subject.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Google_litigation
I always feel like mainframes are off in some weird parallel universe.

> Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD), a vector processing
model providing instruction level parallelism, to speed
workloads such as analytics and mathematical modeling.
For example, COBOL 5.2 and PL/I 4.5 exploit SIMD and
improved floating point enhancements to deliver improved
performance over and above that provided by the faster
processor.

Most people would consider COBOL and PL/I to be laughably out of date languages from the 60s and 70s. But here's a new machine with 10 TB of RAM, and the release notes are quick to point out new features for COBOL and PL/I. Go figure.
I hope so. Pretty much everyone on that list except isaac and mikeal are apolitical.

Mikeal is overtly political. Isaac is political from time to time since he's strongly aligned with the identity politics mob that attacked ben noordhuis back in the day. I really hope identity politics doesn't creep into the io.js governance.
Oh my. When I was in college, the study of the OS kernel was my least liked subject. I don't know, maybe it never really fascinated me. Or maybe my professor didnt.
In the mid 2000's? That's just so sad.
(1) is mostly solved by valuing long, well written reviews over star ratings and allowing users to upvote / downvote. You can also allow up voting / down voting of user-posted reviews to create a reputational penalty for non-useful reviews.

(4) is addressed by volume. That's easier for something like restaurants than apartments or recruiters though.
Agree...couldn't find a clear explanation anywhere within several clicks of the home page. If it's a fork of node.js with ES6 support, as people are saying, they should put that on the front page or at the top of the FAQ section or on the front page of the documentation.
The Ratical source has been debunked, see the snopes link.

Pedigree for this quote is often asserted by pointing to the 1950 Lincoln Encyclopedia, compiled by Archer H. Shaw, which "authenticates" the quote by citing a purported 1864 letter from Lincoln to one Col. William F. Elkins found in Emanuel Hertz's 1931 book, Abraham Lincoln: A New Portrait. However, this source is fraudulent: the Elkins letter reproduced by Hertz was a forgery, and Shaw, a sloppy compiler, added the bogus letter to his encyclopedia (along with several other pieces of Lincoln apocrypha) without verifying its authenticity. As historian Merrill Peterson, author of Lincoln in American Memory, noted of Shaw's work:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/quotes/lincoln.asp#TmQ2MSs5eXjUah3P.99...
The specs from 2045 will still mention COBOL, PL/I and of course Java.
> Funny how Linux is mentioned in the press release, and other platforms don't even rate a mention.

Because the other OSes which run on the hardware are so obscure that non-technies would never have heard of them. I'm morally certain CMS and z/OS (or whatever MVS is called these days) and VM are still in use, but Linux has the penguin and the media coverage. Therefore, it gets the inches.
Ask HN: What is one discontinued product that you miss?
What product(s) that are discontinued do you miss the most? (ex : Google feed reader, Diggit, etc)
Simply hook up a short cable and let it dangle from the rear.
I would focus on technical strategy. It is by far the most high-level, important thing you can do on the engineering side and your point of view should be critical. Is there a CTO? Nothing beats a system wide view to really know where to focus.

I was in your position in 1996 when I worked at WebLogic — I was the first server engineer after the founders. To give you an idea of what a crazy career path that can lead to, see my LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/in/spullara

I'm still an engineer and code everyday. Just have a lot of other jobs :)
I would understand some of the reason why they prefer women. For these reasons, I dont think they are biased, they're just realistic.	8866413
>In a way, the Luddites are pretty similar to the anti-H1B crowd of hacker news.

H1B crowd == de-skilled McJob equivalent workers ?
s/college students/rioters/
Wow, you weren't joking.

http://youtu.be/Fr6Rco5A9SM?t=2m33s

I knew about Kiva and the widescale automation in warehousing but I had no idea the UI was so...simple. I see no reason the person couldn't be taken out of the loop completely here with a robotic arm.
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but isn't 22nm big, SIMD available on almost everything, and dedicated crypto and compression more or less ubiquitous?
Domains were nowhere near ~$70 in 2006. Maybe in 2000.
If it is true that Nim is without any dependency whatsoever, I think it is great news! However, I personally have yet to see how it really works.	8866405
Without reading, just looking I thought it would be about Steve Dekorte's Io Language targeting javascript.
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Please, don't blur if you want to redact. Instead, use a uniform, opaque color. See http://dheera.net/projects/blur and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8078747.

Context: I just looked at some of the screenshots showing example findings. While it is thoughtful to blur some sensitive information, it is clear that blurring is not enough. I hope that we can get this message out.
People who kept doing things the old inefficient way will see their wages go down.

If a worker can make ten times the widgets with newer technology, the amount that can be charged per widget, and thus the amount a worker can be paid to produce each one, has to drop eventually.
It was the pesticides that killed the bees.
Monstanto corp always doing good things for humantiy
agent orange etc
What are the masses going to publish?
de-skilled McJob equivalent workers = Outsourced (often Indian) workers that are paid peanuts and who consequently don't give much of a shit about the quality of their work.

Elance with its screen recording feature = the equivalent of stocking frames
Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer (2011)
what's a transaction in this context?
This is a welcome news. I've had it with name.com and it's horrible webmail. Unable to send email for weeks, support replying with unhelpful answers every 48 hours. Have to pay for whois privacy and bunch of other stuff most registrars give you for free.
Great initiative, great work and great concept. Certainly moving in a right direction. The most striking point is its sections Story, Entrepreneurs talk, Events, Startup place and Social news. Must for all startup lovers and entrepreneurs
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What I'm saying is that I am more quality- and convenience- sensitive than I am price-sensitive. Not because I'm rich, but because the mental overhead of coupon deals etc. carries a cost that typically exceeds the saving on the coupon. If you make the service sufficiently attractive, you can raise your prices. Admittedly this is a bit challenging when your firm is branded as 'namecheap' in order to attract the most price-conscious consumers, but companies can and do rebrand themselves.

I mean, Google is charging more than you, and it's not like they couldn't win a price war if they were so inclined - they could probably sell domains for $1/year without significant damage to their bottom line. Maybe it's time to get out of the 'cheap' box.
pg is an HNer. It's safe to assume that several other HNers have reputations that would allow them to write such a ticket. Do you assert that someone whose only marketable skills revolved around software development could achieve such a thing?
They even changed the rules for the Fields Medal so that he would be eligible. Technically the arXiv document was a preprint, and the Fields Medal was for published research.

Sensibly, that rule was changed.
May be this is because of a combination of reasons that PHP has been optimized to compete with itself and other trending languages: they include : * HHVM-PHP is compiled & may or may not be statically typed * It uses multiple threads to handle and process n no. of requests concurrently * PHP source into bytecode & JIT support * Fewer CPU and RAM usage and therefore less resource consumption. So, the ability to use it as procedural, object-oriented or scripting language for web makes it an ideal competitor for coldfusion, ruby or Java apps written for web applications.
You pretty bang on. I think the unfortunate thing is that it has become an arms race. The police up their arms in response to civilians-gone-bad having heavier weapons. If I were in the police, I can imagine I'd feel safer riding in a tank to take down a suspected 'dangerous' criminal too.

I think in some ways, this is a result of our fondness for the second amendment rights and arms as well as accepting the police as a necessary force to keep the peace.

I'm not sure if there is an easy way to de-escalate things. We might start with police 'engagement' procedures standardized from a federal level --but there'd probably be pushback from the states.

I do have a quibble with _always_ presuming innocence. If you see someone in the act, then I think they can take action without such presumption.

One of the specially hard things for me to understand is the necessity to shoot at 'disturbed' people wielding knives. Yes, I know knives are deadly --however, knives don't travel very far, compared to firearms, why not back up, give them a safe distance and try to de-escalate before shooting at the 'lunge.' Again, I know most of those disturbed people do mean harm[1], but you can avoid their intended harm by giving them space.

[1] Some intending assisted but unintended suicide from the police.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_processing_system
Great concept, and great work; a much needed one in this space. Never seen such a wide digital marketing platform with 360 degree approach. Kudos. please Lemme know how can I promote my startup with Pixr8.com.
I wrote a simple FORTH-like compiler/interpreter for a 0x10C CPU simulator. It was a really fun little project, and completely doable with my tiny amount of prior assembly experience. Very peaceful, like you say.
I was sold on the game video, then the article talks about SICP and LISP - nice! Sounds like great fun and possibly some real innovation here. I hope it's beta for a few years like Minecraft with a strong developer community around it.

Reminds me of the lofty goals of http://lighttable.com and EVE http://www.chris-granger.com/2014/10/01/beyond-light-table/
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