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I'm right there with you. I have a DK1 and a Rift and I strongly regret purchasing the latter instead of a Vive.

It's frustrating to hear people just now complaining about Oculus abandoning niche markets.

xnxnon GitHub Status – Incident on 2019-03-12

I think this person is trying to make it sound scary.

Interview responses are monitored for tone and vocabulary everywhere. Insufficient enthusiasm is often a valid reason not to hire someone. It is appropriate to ask questions about diversity and feminism during an interview—those are core values of the company, the first bullet point on their Careers page, even. https://github.com/about/careers

xnxnon Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News

It absolutely is. Concern trolling means disingenuously expressing concern about an issue in order to undermine or derail genuine discussion, which you've done here, and your other remarks about "SJWs" lay bare your motives.

I'm asking you to knock it off and discuss in good faith next time.

xnxnon Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News

This is extremely obvious concern trolling. Please don't do that here.

xnxnon Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes

You know, I actually agree somewhat. I almost noted that I was having trouble finding more reliable sources, particularly concerning vegetarianism and veganism in the USA, but thought that would have completely torpedoed my argument. ;)

More seriously: the "environmental" claim rang hollow to me, so I set out in search of some facts, and I think what I found supports that intuition, but the burden of proof is not really mine. (I will retract my "it's animal ethics yo" statement—clearly a reach.)

xnxnon Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes

I don't think your premise is correct. The data I can find[1][2] suggests that vegetarians and vegans are principally concerned with animal ethics.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257659/

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/cm/lb/10062622/data/veganuary-infogra...

xnxnon A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

Gender is also not about genitalia, fwiw.

I see that the author of the edited comment got defensive about it and went on an irrelevant rant about singular they. Wish people like that would grow up a bit.

xnxnon Sample cloud-native application with microservices

True, true. That's a fairer way to formulate it. But like, it's supposed to be an extremely heavyweight architecture. The benefits of microservices are arguably only apparent when you have an ample team (or teams!) of competent full-time devs.

You're right they could have... beefed up the soda can, so to speak, but I don't blame the (presumably) DevRel folks who put this together for hand-waving it, "now imagine a mountain here".

xnxnon Sample cloud-native application with microservices

Man, this is a frustrating and shallow criticism. Obviously this is over-engineered. It's a demonstration of how these patterns would fit together in an application that required them.

xnxnon IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses

Your concern is, um, addressed in the article.

xnxnon Superpermutations

He's aware. https://twitter.com/gregeganSF/status/1032880814457901056

xnxnon Amazon is paying to tweet nice things about warehouse working conditions

Some folks use "bot" as a synonym for "sockpuppet". I wouldn't read into it too much

xnxnon YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)

According to Platonism, JSON has no spatiotemporal or causal properties (like a datetime format) and thus has existed and will exist eternally. All hail JSON.

xnxnon YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)

> Douglas Crockford originally specified the JSON format in the early 2000s

xnxnon Twitter meets TensorFlow

> Easy.

If you're spectating, maybe. Completely falls apart when you try to engage in dialogue on Twitter, which is what both Twitter, Inc. and I want.

Say I follow someone because I like what they say. And I want to discuss what they're saying, or to explore existing discussions. I'm going into this ready to have a thoughtful debate or two.

So I open the replies, and they're what I consider to be garbage: flamewars, reaction GIFs, propaganda, straight-up bad-faith trolling, and worse. But maybe there's some good in here somewhere?

Assume I'm a typical human with emotions and stuff. Do I:

A) Immediately close the thread! It's not worth it, and I have the ability and willpower to bow out.

B) Scroll through the replies, muting and blocking people. Maybe if I do this enough I'll have a nicer experience on the next thread I open. Wow there sure are a lot of these folks!

C) Take the bait. Someone is wrong on the internet.

You know already, but I'll tell you anyway. I, typical human, tend to rush headlong into option C), which wastes my time, makes me unhappy, and gives me a negative perception of the quality of discussions on Twitter. Twitter, Inc. doesn't want that either, but they've picked these replies to show me. Clearly they don't know what kind of thing I think is garbage. So what can they do?

It's not easy.

xnxnon Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem?

I've learned that search is very domain-specific and it's only "solved" if you can pin down what "relevant" means for your corpus of documents.

In terms of fundamentals, I'd suggest reading about tf-idf, which is the basis of Lucene (which powers Solr and Elasticsearch).

xnxnon Update on Async Rendering

The post says the UNSAFE_ versions will continue to work in V17

xnxnon Google Skaffold – Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

I use stern for multi-pod log tailing: https://github.com/wercker/stern

xnxnon Men Resist Green Behavior as Un-Manly

Gender-related topics are extremely contentious on HN.

xnxnon Men Resist Green Behavior as Un-Manly

These folks hold the relation "environmentalism == feminine == unacceptable" in their minds.

You could try to reinforce "environmentalism != feminine", and that's certainly easier. But there is still a great deal of wrongness in "feminine == unacceptable" and you choose to ignore it, even perpetuate it, by changing your tune to appease fragile men.

xnxnon Write your next Ethereum contract in Pyramid Scheme

http://grammarist.com/spelling/shoo-in/

xnxnon GitHub Community Forum

It's a watercooler, yeah.

xnxnon I hate telephones

Preach it.

Also, has call quality completely tanked in the last decade or is it just me?

xnxnon Show HN: EnvKey – securely manage API keys, credentials, and config

> just like vault

As a happy Vault user I'm curious about your thoughts here.

xnxnon Introducing Keybase Teams

"The very existence of subteams are hidden from all who aren't members of the subteam. Thus, if you wanted to create the team `lets_fire_bob.just_kidding_fire_bruce`, then Bruce would have no way of knowing his number is up."

(from https://keybase.io/docs/teams/design)

xnxnon Show HN: Spongedown

I liked this a lot. It was fun pasting some of my diagrams in to see how svgbob rendered them.

I think I still prefer a monospaced font in the SVG (but that's easy to do with CSS).

xnxnon Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost

The trailing "." signifies the end of the domain name, so your example domain would be unaffected.

xnxnon Ask HN: What is going on with AWS IAM?

https://phd.aws.amazon.com/phd/home

IAM operational issue

Increased Error Rates and Latencies

We are investigating increased error rates and latencies on IAM administrative APIs in US-EAST-1 Region. The IAM console and Create, Delete, List, Get, and Update API actions on IAM Users, Groups, Roles and Policies may be impacted. Other AWS services whose features require these actions will also be impacted. All existing authentications and authorizations are not impacted.

xnxnon Musical User Interfaces

I had a ton of fun playing with SoundStage: http://www.soundstagevr.com/

It's far from "full-featured, professional-quality", but it completely sold me on the viability of VR as a medium for audio production.

xnxnon Connecting Kubernetes services with linkerd

> Is there a way to filter to "official" repositories only, or tell Docker to only fetch from a whitelist of repositories (so that private ones can be included)?

In Kubernetes land, you can use the ImagePolicyWebhook admission controller. https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/admission-controllers/#imag...

I agree that Dockerfiles are awful.