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Oculuson Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup

Most corporations in the US are incorporated in Delaware. Whenever the question of incorporation arises, the answers is always in Delaware as a C-corp. PG's comment was a nod to that.

http://blakemasters.com/post/21742864570/peter-thiels-cs183-... (Look at point #2 - "You Should Be a Delaware C-corp")

Oculuson Show HN: Create a custom app coin on the Bitcoin blockchain

Misread the title to be "Create a Custom App on Bitcoin Blockchain". I've been dreaming up a framework which allows developers to create applications that use a single point of truth that's not centralized. With my limited understanding of the way Bitcoin works, it seems like a good system to model after.

Oculuson Stripe Fund Invests $500,000 in Baremetrics

Love how open Baremetrics is with all their information. Really awesome to see this become more common place in the community.

Oculuson PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB in New Round of Tests

As sad as it may be, with the use of schema-enforcing ORMs and the popularity of MongoDB, this will be a viable business in the near future.

Oculuson CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

Have big security vulnerabilities been cropping up more often recently or does it seem that way because I've started to pay attention?

Oculuson Caching at Scale

There's an incredibly interesting talk by Yao Yu (from Twitter's caching team) which discusses their use Redis of for caching: http://youtu.be/rP9EKvWt0zo

Oculuson Jury finds CBS infringes podcasting patent, awards $1.3M

The scariest part about these cases is with Trans-Pacific Partnership[1] they set a precedent for not only the United States, but a whole slew of other countries[2].

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership#Intel...

2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership#Membe...

Oculuson A JavaScript clone of Nu Pogodi, a Soviet hand-held game

A Soviet/Russian classic! I grew up in Canada, but was exposed to it by my parents.

Oculuson Show HN: Download your spotify music

Is this just copying the local temp files? That's what it looks like from a quick glance of the code.

Oculuson Show HN: Recently started working on an open source data grid editor in JS/HTML

Haven't looked at the code throughly, but from a quick glance looks like a grid I'd considering using in a personal project vs. the all the other crappy grids out there.

Oculuson Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto

Really interesting article until it gets into the Bitcoin talk. I feel like his passion towards Bitcoins seeped a little too much into the article towards the end.

Oculuson SWAT Team Detains Popular Gamer Who Was Live-Streaming ‘Counter-Strike’

Exactly. Techcrunch writes about interesting events sometimes, but boy do they have room for improvement when it comes to quality.

Oculuson Rudder: An etcd backed overlay network for containers

Only recently did I realize what a power house the team at CoreOS is. They're building some really cool shit. I can spend hours on their blog just right-clicking and searching on Google. Definitely a good way to learn tons about distributed computing and that whole subject area.

Oculuson Mozilla Unveils $33 Intex Cloud FX Smartphone

This is what Amazon should've done with their phone - make it stupid cheap.

Oculuson The Tesla Model S Is So Safe It Broke the Crash-Testing Gear (2013)

"with the battery mounted oh-so-low in the floor"

This reads like the marketer for Tesla wrote it and this is coming from a fanboy.

I'm not sure this model will work like it did with Youtube. You don't put Youtube on in the background/at a party while friends are over. You sit down and watch a video (hence you're willing to sit through an advertisement). Music streaming that is broken up by advertisements is why people dislike radio and are moving to online services.

The reason artists like Soundcloud is it gives a way to distribute music directly to the fans for free. Anything that gets in the way of that (e.g. ads) is a step in the wrong direction. Instead of attempting to monetize ears/eyes, I'd instead suggest for a premium subscription for artists that gives them enhanced tools to monitor/distribute/track/etc. their music on the platform.

Oculuson fork() can fail

every system programmer should own a copy

I'd argue every programmer. It's such a fundamental part of computers & operating systems that key concepts will come up again and again. Just the other day I wanted to learn about Docker/CoreOS/etcd only to realize that I have an embarrassingly lacking understanding of how UNIX works. I immediately went to the library to pick up this book and begin fixing a flaw of mine (even as a web developer).

Oculuson How Hacker News Posts Behave

This website has horrible usability. Visualizations look amazing, but too bad I wont be able to see them due to the un-usability of the site.

Oculuson Angular Restmod – Rails-inspired REST ORM

The README didn't do a good job (at least for me) of explaining what it offers over RESTangular. It just said some hand wavy things about ActiveRecord. What are the real benefits of Restmod over RESTangular?

Oculuson HTTPS as a ranking signal

I'm not sure I agree with this. I don't see a point in HTTPS for 100% static sites.

Oculuson Aptible (YC S14) Handles the Hard Parts of HIPAA Compliance

Out of curiosity, how hard is it to become HIPAA compliant?

Oculuson Houston man charged with child porn possession after Google cyber-tip

This is where the ethics around privacy get really difficult. On the one hand Google should respect everyone's privacy, but on the other the man is a child pornagrapher.

Oculuson Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour

Cool article for understanding the basics of a CDN. What sort of page load improvement can one get by adding geographically distributed servers?

Oculuson Rolling your own CDN for $25 in 1 hour

kind of unusual that this blog post is by the president of MaxCDN

It makes a lot of sense for the president of MaxCDN to make a blog post like this. Bob the developer decides to learn about how CDN's work and happens upon this blog post. Cool, Bob just built his own mini CDN network for fun. Now Bob understands that his CDN, though a fun weekend project, is definitely not production ready. What does Bob do when he needs a CDN he can put into production? He goes to the guys that established themselves as authorities on the topic: MaxCDN.

Content Marketing 101: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/02/09/why-i-dont-host-my-own-b...

Oculuson Black holes might end their lives by transforming into their exact opposite

The feeling I get from reading the article is the theory is highly speculative. Could be just this line: "‘loop quantum gravity’ — a theoretical attempt that has yet to find experimental support"

Oculuson Bitwage

It'd be more interesting to see how the built-in smart contracts in Bitcoin can be used to secure payments/work in the freelancer/client model.

Oculuson Source code for the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer

The entire source code was actually woven by wire into memory for the Apollo missions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P12r8DKHsak

Oculuson Livestream of Gaza Battle

The humming noise in the background is drones flying overhead.

Oculuson July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013)

They actually could've done it in 4 shake down missions. Apollo 10 was under fuelled for fear the team might attempt to land on the moon before Apollo 11 to achieve the record. They did everything except for the actual moon landing portion of the mission.

Oculuson Ask HN: MacBook Air for Web Development?

I primarily develop Node on OSX and have no issues with running multiple linux VM's on Vagrant. (2013 Air, 16GB RAM, i7 Haswell)