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Valve’s Gabe Newell: VR could “turn out to be a complete failure”
Despite the optimism expressed on the face of our own Sebastian Anthony here, Valve's Gabe Newell has pretty measured outlook for the technology.With Valve investing so much time, effort, and money...
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Go 1.8 Released
Introduction to Go 1.8 The latest Go release, version 1.8, arrives six months after Go 1.7. Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. There are two minor...
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R for Excel Users
About Gordon: Gordon Shotwell does law and data science things. This post originally appeared on his blog.IntroductionLike most people, I first learned to work with numbers through an Excel...
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Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial (https://www.railstutorial.org/) is a great example of this.It'll run you through building a twitter clone and introduce you to git, heroku, a bit of CSS/HTML, and even...
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If you're looking for an easy move abroad, move here
For many expats, finding new friends can ease the often overwhelming task of adjusting to a new life abroad. But with huge variances in local culture and language capabilities, some places can...
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Attacking the Windows Nvidia Driver
Posted by Oliver ChangModern graphic drivers are complicated and provide a large promising attack surface for EoPs and sandbox escapes from processes that have access to the GPU (e.g. the Chrome GPU...
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I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you
A public domain image of a US Customs and Border Patrol agent in an airport.A few months ago I wrote about how you can encrypt your entire life in less than an hour. Well, all the security in the world...
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Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS
README.mdawless is a fast, powerful and easy-to-use command line interface (CLI) to manage Amazon Web Services.Twitter | Wikiawless has been created with the idea to:run frequent actions easily by...
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CockroachDB beta-20161013
CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database, loosely patterned after Google Spanner and designed for semi-synchronous networks. It speaks the PostgreSQL wire protocol, supports a reasonable dialect of...
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YC Annual Letter 2017
Dear YC Community:In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual letter to the YC community with an update on our progress.Our mission is to enable the most innovation of...
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Rigging elections with integer linear programming
No, this isn’t a post about politics, sorry, it’s just a post about voting theory.As you might have noticed (and if not, this is the post announcing it), I have a book out! It’s called Voting by...
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What makes the perfect office?
In 1923, the father of modern architecture, Le Corbusier, was commissioned by a French industrialist to design some homes for workers in his factory near Bordeaux. Le Corbusier duly delivered...
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Flexport is hiring our first VP of Marketing
Legal*Customs brokerage services are provided by Flexport’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Flexport LLC, a licensed customs brokerage with a national permit.*International ocean freight forwarding services...
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“Old” Food Reduces Lifespan
What causes aging? “Scientists have been thinking about this question for centuries,” says Harvard professor of medicine Vadim Gladyshev. It sounds almost simple, but in fact it’s thorny and...
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Three Qualities Nordic Founders Lack
Nordic founders are amazing with their exceptional craftsmanship, building a good team and culture, and their logical reasoning. But what I lack most about Nordic founders is ambition, conviction, and...
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Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto, penned clearly in response to accusations leveled at the social network in the wake of the bitter U.S. election campaign, is a scary, dystopian document....
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API Monitoring: Up Is Not Enough (2014)
12Feb/14This is a guest blog post from John Sheehan is the CEO of Runscope which provides web service API debugging and testing tools for app developers.It’s rare to build an application these days...
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Robots Rule at Swiss Factories as Strong Franc and Wages Bite
In the shadows of the Alps, Swiss companies are confronting a new reality: They won’t be adding manufacturing jobs in the country anytime soon -- not for humans, anyway.Faced with an unsinkable franc...
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Reasonable Person Principle
Support and Administration School of Computer Science Support Staff Everyone will be reasonable. Everyone expects everyone else to be reasonable. No one is special. Do not be offended if someone...
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