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Yes, I remember that though his ownership might be ~30%, his voting counts for >50%.

That's actually a very interesting point. I know Mark Zuckerberg owned a really big chunk (~30%) of FB when they IPO'd. Anyone with insight know if the norm is closer to Zuckerberg or Levie?

Oculuson Ask HN: How can I get a job in the tech industry out of high school?

The best thing about the tech industry is all it takes to prove your competence is a computer and an internet connection (which means your in luck). Now the trick to getting hired and forgoing all the university/degree requirements is to prove yourself with projects. Start coding. Not dilly-dallying, but coding all the time. Code to learn and post all your projects on Github. It's good to explore, but try to focus on completing 1 or 2 projects that you're proud of.

You'll not only be building your skills this way, but you'll also have something to talk about at interviews.

Oculuson Paramilitary police: Cops or soldiers?

No one in large organizations wants to leave their budget unspent so they can get more of it the following year. It's actually a culture in enterprise/government organizations to blow what's left of one's budget before the end of the year. I think this is the culture that brought us from $100m to $6 billion.

Oculuson Java can finally join strings

Could've used joins in Java a couple weeks ago when I was doing the CCC (Canadian qualifier for IOI)!

Oculuson Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey

My biggest fear is once dictatorships/governments become aware of the ability to sidestep their bans, they'll begin blocking websites such as torproject.org. Keep in mind this traffic spike is because people who don't normally use Tor, started using it (i.e. they downloaded it). At that point I think we'll begin to see an arms race between the public and government which might finally bring us to decentralization of the Internet - or complete censorship.

Oculuson Veterans theory on missing MH370 goes viral

I've just been reading the threads and haven't found anything that conclusively debunks this theory. From what I understand, this theory is just as likely as the hijacking one (both have holes that don't quite fit given the current evidence).

Oculuson Is Npm worth $2.6MM?

> Npm has a huge number of customers

> VC has good reason to expect a useful amount of income

I'm going to be pedantic, but within reason: users != customers. I know you mentioned that they have yet to attempt to monetize, but until they try we can't make accurate predictions on their level of revenue. I think the author is trying to say VC's aren't trying to play a game of make believe when it comes to future revenue, but rather are making the investment in the community.

Oculuson College Notebook by Isaac Newton

This reminds me of a blog I read by Stephen Wolfram discussing his viewing of Leibniz's notes.

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/05/dropping-in-on-gottfr...

Oculuson Tamil Nadu state departments asked to switch over to open source software

Aside from the city of Munich, are their any other governments that are using Linux as their main operating system?

Oculuson Pending Comments

It just hit me the reason the page is blank is my karma is lower than 1000.

Oculuson It Is Time For Basic Income

>>It is the most efficient possible form of wealth redistribution because there is no bureaucratic overhead needed. More money reaches the poor directly.

Unfortunately, the exact opposite will occur with an entirely new three letter agency being responsible for the distribution.

Oculuson HN Plays 2048

My understanding is the issue is not in the protocols, but in the implementation of the libraries themselves.

Oculuson HN Plays 2048

Great podcast about using Websockets (including Socket.io) in Node: http://nodeup.com/fortytwo

Oculuson HN Plays 2048

There's a memory leak that only got fixed in 0.10.22 I believe. Erin Hammer and the whole Node Black Friday team really publicized it when it was biting them[1]. I'm not sure if the leak was present in 0.6 and given that you rely on older modules the cost/benefit of switching is probably too high.

You're the first person I've heard that was able to run vanilla Socket.io at such scale. I know Trello and some other shops use Socket.io, but they've forked & changed it to something that looks nothing like the original[2].

1 - http://www.joyent.com/blog/walmart-node-js-memory-leak

2 - http://nodeup.com/fortytwo

Oculuson HN Plays 2048

Took a look at your code and noticed you're using Socket.io. Don't use Socket.io for anything over double digit concurrent users. It's well known to be horrible at scaling. If you want something that's better at scaling I'd suggest SockJS[1].

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

Oculuson Ask HN: Best OSS Projects for Beginning Contributors

Code Combat (YC W14) is a game that teaches people to program. It's been entirely open sourced and the devs/community make it extremely simple for new comers to contribute. I strongly recommend you check them out!

https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat

Oculuson Scientists May Get Best View Yet of a Black Hole in Action

Is there a kind of black hole which is so massive that not even that radiation can escape, or do all black holes emit some kind of radiation? (In fact, do they emit radiation proportional to their size?)

Also armchair physicist here - my understanding is that since information can never be destroyed, Blackholes must emit something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox

Oculuson Malaysian Official Says Missing Plane Hijacked

"Radar signals recorded by the Malaysian military appear to show the airliner climbing to 45,000 feet (about 13,700 meters), higher than a Boeing 777's approved limit, soon after it disappeared from civilian radar, and making a sharp turn to the west. The radar track then shows the plane descending unevenly to an altitude of 23,000 feet (7,000 meters), below normal cruising levels, before rising again"

Sounds to me like a possible fight/commotion in the cockpit was the cause of the plane to fly in such a weird pattern.

Potential Scenario:

- Fight in cockpit results in the plane flying unexpectedly high ("above approved limit")

- Hijackers obtain control, turn off transponder and turn to their target location

- Unexperienced pilot (possibly learned how to only fly smaller planes) makes an "unevenly" descent to lower altitudes as he knows the plane is above its approved limit

- Rise again could be a second fight in the cockpit? Not sure on how to explain this one.

The rising and falling in altitudes makes me suspect this wasn't pilot suicide.

Oculuson Goodbye Popcorn Time

I don't think this was Popcorn's choice. I'd be willing to bet their hand is being forced here.

Oculuson Wow signal

Reminds me of the scene in Contact when they realize that the signal is a video of Adolf Hitler making an address.

Oculuson 2048 – multiplayer

This was the original plan, but I expanded it. I should be able to add it in the near future.

Oculuson 2048 – multiplayer

Hey author here! Sorry for the buggyness, this is my first stab at realtime. I can confirm that everybody you're playing is a real person. I wasn't sure how to simulate latency for testing so that could be the source of the issues. I also have a mix of server/client msgs being sent, but plan on moving it all to the server except for moves.

You can find the repo at https://github.com/EmilS/2048-multiplayer, PR's are welcome! :)

Oculuson Show HN: Kriegspiel

Any insight on what's killing your server? I've been recently looking into socket.io's issues with scaling.

Oculuson Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carrying Over 200

Can't begin to imagine how horrible it must be to be the one informing next of kin of what just happened.

Oculuson Show HN: My current App Store Featured Game was written entirely in Scheme

I think you meant to comment on this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7360011

Oculuson Romain Brasier's 404 page

I think the 404 needs its own 404 (Front page on HN does that to you) :)

Oculuson Sprint sued by Feds for fraudulent cellphone tapping overcharge

Let me get this straight:

Step 1: Start by completely ignoring civil liberties and forcing telecommunication companies to hand over data on their users. Bonus points for giving an NSL so users aren't aware of their breach of privacy.

Step 2: Allow said companies to bill for providing the data. This makes sure they keep quite and don't speak up to the things the government is doing because lets be honest, what sort of businessman is going to complain about thick margins?

Step 3: Repeat steps 1 & 2 until there is a leak and the world finds out about everything that's been going on.

Step 4: Wait for the repercussions of step 3 to blow over. Now that everyone knows what's going on, no use in quieting down the companies by paying them off so let's sue them for charging too much.

How do they have the balls to do this kind of shit? Makes me want to vomit.

Oculuson App-pocalypse Now

I find it interesting that Ghost, the blogging platform underneath Coding Horror, can't handle HN Front Page. The text on the webpage is blank for me.

Oculuson The Housing Market With Nowhere to Go but Up

From my limited understanding, I take that this is the issue in SF. There is a lot of regulation issues with building denser housing thus the shortage in supply.