skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the Telstra 60GB plan up until they upgraded them about a month ago, because of the excess usage charge you would have to try and stop a safe distance from your cap, never getting the full 60GB, it would also lag behind on updating, although not as much, up to about 12 hours I think.

They also have a tendency to list some of your usage on the next day when it was used before midnight. Really annoying when your using your plan up on the last day, then some of that gets transferred to the next month.
Thank you. I think the reaction will be pretty good. It's the start of things to come as Boxee has the goal of being on all platforms. An interesting byproduct of the Boxee box is the remote that they will also sell separately.

They will also be releasing the code to the boxee box (http://blog.boxee.tv/2010/01/07/boxee-box-internals-revealed...) which is interesting since it runs on tegra 2 (which runs dual core ARM 9). I'm assuming that means they have ported Boxee to arm architecture, though I could be wrong there.
If you've reviewed the spam folder so closely you're certain you have no false positives, it may not be saving you any time. If you give it a more cursory review, then your claim is really, "I've never noticed a false positive."
Larrabee talk at Stanford by Tom Forsyth
One definition of "crazy code" is some monument of complexity that has accreted around a simple core.

Another definition, though, is something that approaches the problem at right angles, bypassing all kinds of incidental complexity. This is generally confusing at first glance, but is definitely worth the time it takes to understand.
Bookmarked. Makes a good example of why requirements are important even for something as seemingly simple as file copying.
There is actually more elegant binding for .NET called EmguCV. It has auto-dispose policy and follows more closely to the OpenCV development (a month behind the C lib). I don't know why there is no such thing like EmguCV for Java.
Ahh, the half-truths that sound so nice, people don't bother to look at the other half :) Hard work is necessary but not sufficient. Talent (or genetics, or natural inclination, or a good teacher that came along early on, whatever you want to call it) is another variable that's necessary but not sufficient.

When I was just starting out my friend and I both got the same computers. Our parents sent us to the same Sunday computer class to learn. We were both pretty bright. Except I quickly excelled at it, and he was stuck. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't catch up. What came naturally to me was an uphill battle for him. If he started out again today, there's no way he'd ever catch up to me, not in a million years.

He was far better at sports than me. During gym, he'd run circles around me while I barely stood there, gasping for breath. No matter how hard I worked, I could never outdo him. I suppose if I set out to practice my running full time every day of the week, I could (with huge effort) outdo all the lazy people that have the talent for it. But it's unlikely I'd ever outdo the talented people who work for it, and I certainly have no chance in hell to outrun Donovan Bailey, not in a million years.

Oh, and talent and hard work together are necessary but not sufficient. You could work 24/7 at hammering a mountain with a toothpick, and you could get really good at it, but you still won't get anywhere. You have to have enough sense and enough luck to stumble on the right thing (or to have enough sense and enough luck to stumble onto the method or process that will help you stumble onto the right thing).

It's not just hard work - that's a pipe dream. There are as many workaholics that toil for years and never see the light at the end of the tunnel as there are lazy talented people that never get anywhere. The truth is, you might never succeed at what you've set out to do despite being hard working and talented. In fact, the statistics are overwhelmingly against you. It's not empowering and it's not romantic to say that, but it's the truth.
I'm not convinced that computerworld is right about this. Generally, world-changing developments take such magazines by surprise.
I've been happy using Window Live SkyDrive. Has a smaller file size limit of 50MB, but gives you 25GB for free.
Absolutely. It will allow for a democratic platform where good content will win and not be cut off due to the decisions of a few. Now with that said, America loves crappy content like Jersey Shore. So, I try not to look at it as "good content", but content that people want to watch.
If you hold the home button and see a list of apps -- that's the history. Not related to currently running apps.

Furthermore, have a look at the Activity lifecycle: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#... If your app receives the onDestroy() event, there is no way it will ever recover to a running state.
4 pairs in 2 years? Are you chewing on the wires? Do you let your pets use them as toys? Do you regularly drench them in liquids (battery acid, maybe) ?

I can only conclude that you must work in the most hazardous of environments.

I've had pairs of Apple, Sennheiser, Shure, and Sony headphones over the last 10 years (ranging from $10 - $200 in price), and I can only think of maybe one pair that has died (an old pair of iPhone in-ears succumbed to sweat during long-distance running), and they've all seen well over 2 years of use each.
Design Crowdsourcing - Overhyped concept of 2009
Use Microsoft Shared View if you're using Windows. http://connect.microsoft.com/site94
I feel Wave could be a useful tool, but I think the UI is killing it right now. It's ugly, poorly organized (and hard to understand), and wastes a lot of screen space. I've also found it too slow to be comfortable--even on fast computer running Chrome.
The Grammar of Science
YouTube Wants Input for the Next Update
Efene appears to be purely(or almost so) an alternative syntax for Erlang, and includes an Efene-to-readable-Erlang translator.

Some people have internalized the syntax of Erlang, and there are certainly aspects of its syntax that I prefer to the C-style syntax(",", ";", and "." are not among that list). I don't regularly program Erlang, only very occasionally dabbling and writing a toy program in it, but every time I try to dabble, I'm frustrated a little by needing to look up again when to use which of ",;.". Efene seems intended(among other things) to eliminate that problem. On the other hand, I like Erlang's syntax for control structures and for function definitions and for tuples, which I doubt Efene preserves.
Mac users generally got along OK when Windows was the de facto standard on desktops (i.e. now). If the iPhone becomes the de facto standard, I suspect users of the next runner up platform or two will still get along OK.

I mean, I've never been big into any apple products in the past, but I've know a lot of people over the years who were very satisfied with their Macs.
Produce a 12"+ ARM laptop with Tegra2 and we're in business.
You have to click on the link at the bottom and log in. I hope some of you will join me in upvoting HTML5.
The Future of Social
Wow, that is usurious.
What's even more exciting is making things people want, and use day in day out.

Choosing the right tool for the job is better in the long run than choosing the one you'd enjoy the most.
How much can he lose? What kind of business would he need to register to limit his risk?
For ex, if this was an LLC, could he pay himself a sweet salary during the next few months, and then just declare the business bankrupt if he loses the suit?
7.0 Earthquake 10 miles from Port-Au-Prince Haiti
It's interesting to see that when you look at all of the pictures of Obama, mostly the same people show up.
This whole model of "go over and we'll make you sorry, sunshine" is terrible for innovation. It encourages tentative, cautious use of services that could be more valuable if they were used without fear of financial punishment.

If you must ration throughput, a much better model is one that drops its bandwidth after hitting a cap. Though nothing compares to actually upgrading your network so you don't have to grudgingly provision resources like some kind of Dickens villain.
template<typename Iterator>
void QuickSort(Iterator first, Iterator last)
{
std::sort(first, last);
} // C++ > C, need to #include <algorithm> and <iterator>
Why? Let's wait some time and Google is going to prioritize fresher content more. They should not have any problems with assigning dates to blog posts.

Actually, "Specific date range" is step in this direction.

Edit: The interesting point is that the writing is now have to be much more iterative than it was few years ago. Content is now nearly always "work in progress".
http://api.jquery.com/category/version/1.4/

Gotten from:
http://jquery14.com/pre-release-1/new-jquery-api-site
The problem with minority syntaxes always seems to be that if you don't know the real language you won't be able to read any of the existing code (especially in tutorials/books) out there.
I love the point that he makes.

At its worst extreme, people use the fact that "others are talented" to excuse their own mediocrity - which really just stems from their unwillingness to put in the time.
http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
That sounds corny, but… My grandmother has always said: "Don't say that you didn't have time, but only that you didn't take the time".

Every time I'm tempted to say that I didn't have the time, the reality is that I wasted my time doing something else. (like writing comments about my grandmother on Hacker News)
I agree that this is the way things are headed, and I will be all too happy to jump on this bandwagon. The only thing keeping me from cutting the cord (or ditching the dish, in my case) is live sporting events. I'm not a sports fanatic, but I like to be able to turn on a basketball or football game (or even baseball if it's a reeeeally slow day). My house is situated out of line-of-sight from the public TV broadcast towers and I would have a serious beer gut if I went to the local sports bar to watch, so I'm beholden to a TV subscription package.
Puyocon: Ball-shaped, squeezable input interface (videos)
Elie Seidman of Oyster.com: Lessons I've learned about entrepreneurship
Erik Naggum comp.lang.lisp archive
The article doesn't mention that $179 upfront plus $550 in termination fees would add up to $729 -- for a phone that only costs $530 unlocked.

Rather than shaking up the industry, Google's hybrid business model for the Nexus One is turning out to be worse than the traditional "the phone company owns you" system. That's quite an achievement.
Please post to rec.sport.squash or rec.sport.tennis - not hacker news.
While I don't particularly like Erlang syntax either, what I find with learning new languages is: the syntax bothers you the most at first because 1) you don't know anything about the language. 2) It's the most obvious and easy thing to pick on first.

After you get into it, I've found that syntax is usually the least of my grievances in a new language. It usually has to do with features missing from other languages.

Lately, I've been doing javascript a lot more, and at first, I didn't like typing "function() {" all the time (and still don't). But now, I find that javascript doesn't have method_missing (only FF implements non-standard __noSuchMethod__), nor can you override the subscript operator. Gah! So then a thing like typing "function() {" fades into the background.
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Eventually someone will realize the livestreaming sites are the way to do this. That's why I see it's a question of when, not if. Piracy/content online usually works in cycles something like:

1. Users post things pirated (live sports streams) because they cant get it from the producers.
2. Producers sue the service that enables this.
3. Producers realize that they should actually help enable this in a legal manner instead of preventing it.
4. Producers partner with the services and offer the content for a price or ad supported. Piracy still continues, but at a slower pace and the content producers are getting paid in some form at least.
Startup 'moodagent' has fun - 700k dl /~3weeks
And can you just give them a free license?
This reminds of me how Three Mobile in Australia drops back to Telstra when roaming. This is by default and the user is none the wiser (unless they had the knowledge to turn off roaming).

I think every person I know who has a Three phone used an amount of data in their first month whilst roaming and had a $100+ excess usage charge (often much higher).

I'm sure it's all spelled out to them upon purchasing, but it's not clear and your average user has no idea what roaming is.
How To Build A Low Cost SAN
Doesn't Safari for iPhone come with parental controls? That could be one difference right there.
He actually did mention using sleep, in a sort of "do as I say, not as I do" kind of way :)
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The program was first born has "Playlist DJ" for Nokia, but didn't get to be a success until it was reborn as an Iphone app called "moodagent" in December.
300k iPhone users downloaded in 3 weeks and about 400k Nokia users. The daily rate is about 20k dl.
The founders think they'll reach 10mio before 2010 ends.
Their business model is this : about 3$/user/year in ad income shown in a small window in the application. Besides founders Peter Berg Steffensen and Mikael Henderson the investors include the it-investor Morten Lund.

(if you can read the gibberish called Danish , the source is here : http://epn.dk/teknologi2/tele/article1945005.ece )
I'm not sure that's really true. There was a discussion on it here about 3 weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012986

I think there's a feedback loop of sorts, where people tend to enjoy things they're good at more, so they spend more time at them, so they get better at them, so they enjoy them more. This feedback loop gets started by what we normally think of as "talent" - inborn ability. But what if that talent is just the random chance that your first try happens to be the right way to perform that skill?

There're ways to interrupt the feedback loop too, which is why both talent and hard work seem to be necessary but not sufficient conditions. If you decide you really don't want to do something, you're not going to practice, even if you're good at it. Or if you decide you're going to keep trying approaches until you get over whatever block is holding you back, you can become talented at something even if you weren't initially successful at it.
Mea culpa, I didn't see that link. This article is not from the official Google blog. It adds screenshots of uploaded files and an interesting link to a rumored early description of the storage system, which makes me wonder where Google is heading with this storage system at only 1GB, since it's clear that others already offer much more storage.

Anyway, what is the usual habit for similar stories? should I delete this link to clean up HN?
Please don't editorialize titles (especially since the linked article has absolutely nothing to do with Zed Shaw).
Did not yet read the article. But responding to your comment, on the other hand one might say that Google is encouraging the consumer to think through the subsidized phone purchase model and perhaps nudging them to purchase outright (if/when one thinks it through).

If you don't like the product/service, the phone is unlocked. Sell it used, recouping hopefully a significant fraction of your investment, and move on.

I don't know whether this is practical nor corresponding to their intent, but it comes to mind. I'm also unfamiliar with the ease and thoroughness involved in a user wiping their phone of user data before resale.

EDIT: Read the article. They claim the Google $350 charge only applies when service is canceled within the first 120 days. Depending on the monthly fee, one would be better off just waiting out that period (ignoring the impact of possible unsatisfactory phone service during that time)? There is also an initial 14 day trial period.

I don't mean to be overly favorable towards Google. In particular, some of the support woes that have been surfacing are in line with my past experiences with them. If you aren't high profile, seeking support can be talking to a wall.

Also, The overall fees involved do seem excessive. The T-Mobile plust Google fees during the first 120 days seem like a double dip.
Your title has completely no bearing on the article.
You can be a candidate too. That's the the whole premise of democracy. Choose the right guy, and if the right guy ain't there you can step up.

Or you can keep whining and wait until someone else does it like the rest of us.
Justin.tv has been my go-to source for live sports for the last year. I've only watched a few matches total but the overall connection quality seems to have been on an upward trend since last years' BCS championship.
How your startup can sell to Fortune 500 companies
Augmented Reality Façade Shows Building's Real-Time Deets and Tweets
I edited Zed Shaw out of the title.
thanks for posting this. i found the video quite touching
Freedom isn't free. The 'civilized' society just doesn't arrive naturally. People who want a civilized society have to actively work to maintain it.

What do you think tax is for? It pays for the military which defends your civilized society, your schools to make sure the next guy you hire isn't an idiot, and your police so that it's less likely you get mugged.

When you pay tax you're actively working to maintain your civilized society, but it's not enough. A government can enforce and execute but at the lowest level it still needs people like you with ideas to operate.

You have the right to bitch about your goverent only after you have exhausted all recourse.

You're only entitled to what you work for, and that includes defending it.
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Carried Interest Taxes: Negative VC Defense is Not Affirmative
Learn a new programming language every month in 2010
In addition to SPreedly, check out cheddargetter.com and recurly.com.
Where I live (Los Angeles County) it's been in the upper 70s to lower 80s for the entire month of January. It's 74 degrees right now!
Where Have All The Good (Bostonian) Mentors Gone?
The Internet as Idea Accelerator/Collider
MVP App: Meeting Notes Online
I hear this all the time, but all I watch on cable is sports.
Unaffiliated, but I think it's awesome.
I couldn't find the quote, but I think it was Wayne Gretzky who said he'd take someone hard working over someone with talent + poor work ethic. Now hard working + talent = something to really watch for.

A few I did find:

“The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day,
that I never dog it.” – Wayne Gretzky

“It is one thing to be talented but if you do not work hard, it is worth nothing..."
– Wayne Gretzky

The last one might have been what I was remembering...
It's still not covered by the article, the 700k downloads is not in there.

What's wrong with the original article title ?
For $100 I'm assuming you didn't get mirroring, hot spare and off site backup for the 1.5TB of data. Storage is cheap, backups and redundancy is what you pay for.
There's a huge problem with this model. Right now it works because its a small enough percentage. But the problem is that the content providers would be losing a huge portion of their income w/o cable.

Right now your cable provider pays large percentage of your cable bill back to the networks. ESPN get's $3-4 dollars per sub a month. That's literally ~4 billion in revenues from subscriber fees. Even now HGTV and Food Network are getting pulled from Cablevision over an argument over pennies per month per subscriber (they're around 15-25 cents a sub ESPN gets the most in fees).

You can't just cut the cord and not pay fees the whole model for content breaks down.

You can still pay legally for content on services like Amazon and Vudu but I'm not sure you're going to end up saving that much money.

This leaves pirated content, livestreamed via something like Justin.tv or another service (and they have to be showing up in some attorneys' crosshairs) or bittorrent content.

I'm sure more and more people will be switching to the internet for their video transport layer, but its not as simple as most expect. I think right now is the heyday for internet content, but I think in the next two years you're going to see a serious crackdown on unauthorized streaming services (including boxee who likes to scrape websites for content)
Neat to see a startup that is extending its reach beyond just the Internet and iPhones - makes it possible to reach more people than just those with an Internet connection in the home.
Interesting but I don't see how he can conclude "[Amazon EC2 has] deep rooted scalabilty problems at their end". One of the downsides of cloud computing is that you don't really know what's going on with the lower layers.
Reia is pretty interesting because he does some interesting stuff like make objects out of Erlang processes.
Baseball already does this but that's because they're the only sport to hang onto all their internet streaming rights.

Most sports have internet streaming tied to their broadcast deals which prevents them from being fully streamed.

Slight edit for those who don't know. There are Over The Air HD antennas. If most of your sports content is on one of the big networks (football, some basketball and football) or on a local over the air channel these work pretty well. I have one plugged into my HDTV/Monitor at work and was able to get HD football on it pretty damn well.
...Google is encouraging the consumer to think through the subsidized phone purchase model...

No, because Google doesn't document these fees in an understandable way. It's the same old "it looks cheaper but it's actually more expensive" business model, but now it's much more expensive.
Not worth reading.
VMWare buys Zimbra from Yahoo
That is why I said "would". I based my calculations on estimates.

http://www.isuppli.com/News/Pages/New-iPhone-Carries-173-BOM...
Also an interesting point to note is the fact that all questions are valid and non of them are asking for too much detail. This leads me to think how complex our world has become.

Features being added to the API and to the file systems lead to an ever increasing complexity creating more and more opportunities for stuff to go wrong.

And yet, despite increasing complexity, we are still asked to write bug-free code and add even more complexity be it by stacking up abstractions or really add more features to the process itself.

How long until a single person can't know all the steps involved in copying a file any more?
Incidentally, not knowing what's going on with the lower levels is also the primary benefit of cloud computing.
Fair enough (meaning your comment). I'm not familiar with their documentation in this regard, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Huh, so that's why my plants keep dying.
Yes it does. http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/01/upload-and-store-your...
Indeed.

My comment was intended 80% just for humor!
"Write a file copy function" is suitable for basic vetting. The answer to his 3rd or 4th (whatever) question is, "Just write a basic file copy function, thanks."
"do" you know? "for" - it isnt much better. "While" I use the key words I understand "if" it is explicit.
Same goes for saying you're too old:

"it isn't that young people learn that much faster; it's just they have more time. When I would put time in, I made progress." - Dan Ingalls