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Oculuson The Truth About Google X: A Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors

That's crazy. Did your friend mention how he managed to land the internship? Was it a software based role?

Oculuson Google Code Jam – Contest scoreboard

Man - that problem 3 was a pain. I couldn't get it to work until the last minute.

Anyone solve the small case for problem 2, but get the large case incorrect? Can't fathom what the issue might be.

1:30 am on the night before a physics test - why must this challenge be so tempting! There goes that studying :)

My guess is to have an in-house team that can help out the companies they fund. I know that Netflix's cloud architect, Adrian Cockcroft, left to join a venture capital firm to advise on scaling issues for companies that firm funded[0].

0 - http://gigaom.com/2014/01/07/netflixs-cloud-architect-adrian...

Oculuson Zendesk S-1 filing

I was expecting an acquisition of Zendesk by Salesforce more so then an IPO.

Oculuson MarkdownEditing – Markdown package for Sublime Text

I think a really cool new markdown editor that I discovered a little over a month ago is Stackedit: https://stackedit.io/

Stored locally or on DB/GDrive, latex support, and a very complete product. The interface is a little unintuitive at first, but I highly suggest anyone that writes blog posts in markdown to check it out.

Oculuson Tarsnap: No heartbleed here

I read the blog post earlier and this one line really resonated with me: we don't assess the structure of bridges by asking "has it collapsed yet?"

Security is one of those notoriously hard fields to get right for precisely this reason: you don't know you're doing a bad job until it's too late.

Oculuson This is how much tech consultants make per hour now.

Aren't you worried about downtime? Clients calling @ 2am doesn't sound like a fun time to me.

Oculuson Carousel – Gallery from Dropbox for photos and videos

It's interesting how this is a separate app from the Dropbox app (I make this assumption because the app store links say the app isn't up yet). I'd imagine with DB's mobile pictures push the app would be integrated into the DB app itself.

Oculuson So you want to be a consultant?

Could anyone point to some good resources for drafting contracts (templates, apps, ect.)?

Oculuson MongoDB 2.6 Released

The main reason I use MongoDB on Node is the maturity of the Mongoose ORM - I've used Node-ORM 2, BookshelfJS, and SequelizeJS and none of them felt as mature as Mongoose.

Oculuson Fog Creek's Intern Hiring Process

Second this - I think companies that offer year-round internships set themselves way ahead of the pack and get to choose from a very qualified and talented pool.

Oculuson Superhero.js – One stop for JS Knowledge

For anyone looking for some good Javascript reads: http://javascriptissexy.com/

Unfortunately Richard Stanley hasn't updated the blog in more than 6 months, but in any case. If you want to sharpen your JS skills I'd highly recommend the site.

Oculuson PolyPassHash: Password storage scheme to prevent cracking passwords individually

"How hard is it to crack passwords stored using this technique?"
Suppose that three people have passwords that are each randomly chosen and 6 characters long. A typical laptop can crack those passwords in about 1 hour.

If you take the same passwords and protect them with PolyPassHash, every computer on the planet working together cannot crack the password in 1 hour. In fact, to search the key space, it would take every computer on the planet longer than the universe is estimated to have existed.

If it sounds too good - it probably is. Can anyone with a strong cryptography background explain if this idea has merit or if it is simply pixie dust.

Oculuson Virtual reality affects men and women differently

The title of the blog/article almost ruined the whole point trying to be made.

I read the entire article waiting for justification of a clearly provocative title. I got to the end, felt Danah Boyd didn't justify the title and felt the blog/article was weak. Only when I took a step away and thought about the it did I realize the reason I had such a bad taste in my mouth - it was the title. The article itself brings up a good point and one that should be explored by Oculus and others doing VR. I don't think anyone expected that men and women would react different to VR or the techniques we use to render VR worlds.

Oculuson Virtual reality affects men and women differently

Women and Men are Biologically Inclined to Experience VR Differently

Edit: Given shangxiao comment, maybe the title should have the original in brackets. Something along the lines of:

Women and Men are Biologically Inclined to Experience VR Differently (Orignal: Is the Oculus Rift sexist?)

Oculuson My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job

Wouldn't you end up being all sweaty by time you got to the ferry?

Oculuson Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

I'm not sure how I feel about this one.

On the one hand, Brendan Eich had some beliefs that were against Mozilla's core values, but on the other hand we just showed that when a mob on the Internet wants something - they get it. It's scary because this mob has global reach, unlimited power, but isn't always right.

Oculuson 0^0

A pretty interesting question(the value of 0^0), in a very understandable format for the layman (me).

Very nice blog post!

Oculuson Ask HN: Pick a language. What are some project ideas that show it off?

Node.js and Real-time.

WebSockets are a real blast to work with in Node.js. Some libraries to get you started:

SockJS - https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-node

ws - http://einaros.github.io/ws/

engine.io - https://github.com/LearnBoost/engine.io

Oculuson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Toronto/Kitchener or Remote

I'm a full stack web developer based in Toronto/Kitchener.

Skills: AngularJS, D3.js, Node.js, Express.js, Android, jQuery, pure Javascript, Photoshop, PostgreSQL, Nginx Experience: I've written RESTful APIs, survey Widgets, web applications, and Android apps. I also have experience with Arduino (maze solving car), 8085 Assembler, and C (both at a basic level). I'm always open to learning anything that gets the job done.

Past Projects:

OrgoShmorgo (Organic Molecule Visualizer - D3.js): http://emils.github.io/orgoShmorgo/

Gekko (Market Share Visualizer - AngularJS/D3.js): http://emils.github.io/gekko/

2048-Multiplayer (Real-time Multiplayer - SockJS/Node.js/PostgreSQL): http://emils.github.io/2048-multiplayer/

Portfolio: http://stolarsky.com

Github: https://github.com/EmilS

Email: emil.stolarsky@gmail.com

Oculuson Couple.me Releases Alice – An Artificial Intelligence

I agree with carlosdp, this is most likely April fools.

Side Note: Happy to see a Waterloo startup up on front page!

Oculuson Win $10,000 by creating a race car bot in haskell, scala or clojure

Emailed them and just got this:

> We just made a little change to the rules:

> "Team represents one country. At least one member of the team must be a citizen of this country."

Looking forward to competing now!

Oculuson Tesla Strikes Deal To Keep Dealerships In New York

Can someone with more knowledge of the (outdated) franchise law explain why Tesla can't/hasn't created their own dealerships (that officially aren't Tesla owned), but sell only Teslas?

Oculuson Show HN: HackerNews as default tab (chrome extension)

Is there a warning label for complete and permanent destruction of one's productivity?

Oculuson Show HN: Downtyme, Scheduling Freetime with Friends

At first sight - I thought the app lets you have someone cover your production environment while you go out with friends.

Oculuson Facebook’s $2B Oculus deal happened over the last five days

Yeah, I just like the name :)

Oculuson Facebook’s $2B Oculus deal happened over the last five days

Ironically, gathered from reading the initial reactions of early adopters, I think they just destroyed the chances of Oculus succeeding.

Oculuson Facebook acquires Oculus VR

Can someone please explain to me how you can just go on a spending spree and spend $21 Billion in under a month with no one going:

'Hey, umm guys, I know we really like the company, but lets have things cool down a bit after spend 19 billion.'

In the Whatsapp acquisition thread someone made a comment about FB thinking their stock valuation is overpriced. I'm curious to hear what the split (cash/stock) is. If it's stock heavy, I'm almost certain that person was right.

Oculuson CSS Diner

Took a while to understand what the game was asking for, but once I did it was a lot of fun! Will definitely recommend it to friends learning css.