skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that my interest in their content has waned as a function of design delivery decisions they've made - specifically in their RSS feeds and their igoogle widget. This has led me to a certain fascination with their ux experiments - some of them are very interesting but not immediately profitable (I.e. their use of data driven reporting in article specific interactive tools & their google stories experiments ) while others like their Netflix most watched lists seems like paid & placed content. This skimmer in particular seems like something they'd develop for a portable experience but I can't tell for what device.

All that is a roundabout way of saying in my mind there are two parts to the new business of news - what gets produced and how it's delivered. Services like daylife have taken a stab at the delivery equation & places like the guardian have applied interesting approaches to developing editorial with tech - but the economist in print is still the best subway read for me right now and the only one I subscribe to. I expect that to change.
The discussion I've seen surrounding the issue is mostly centered around the user (browser) and video quality. The thing that most stuck out to me from the post, buried in the end, was the (potential) restrictions that could be placed on creating h.264 content and publishing it on the web. I think that this is the biggest relevant issue I've seen yet with h.264. Apparently these issues are still potential and still under wraps, but I would not be in favor of effective restrictions on including the <video> tag in a website.
Ah, but are they bulletproof?
Trolling on HN has unexpected side effects, if I were you I'd be a bit more careful.

This isn't reddit. Not by a long shot.
You're right to say that Citizen United does not change how we view campaign finance as protected speech for humans. I definitely was wrong and unclear on that point, but I respectfully disagree about the implications of the Citizens United ruling: my point is that this ruling sets the stage for allowing undue power to corporations, both non-profit and for-profit. Corporations are not living beings with unalienable rights, so we should not have worried that limiting their speech would have implications for us human beings. For Scalia being such a conservative reader of the law, he certainly took a highly judicial activist position in this ruling.

excerpted from the article: In vivid contrast, the majority overruled a 19-year-old precedent (Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce) that had lambasted the corporation, when it entered the political arena, because of ”the corrosive and distorting effects of immense aggregations of wealth that are accumulated with the help of the corporate form and that have little or no correlation to the public’s suport for the corporation’s political ideas.”

The problem with treating corporations as if they have a "right" to free speech and freedom of association is that they have a disproportionate amount of influence arising from their sheer size and aggregated wealth. We have other mechanisms to ensure that size and wealth do not override the voices of the small and poor in elections (look at how the Senate is constructed versus the House or how we have the electoral college to ensure that wealthier coastal states do not decide presidential elections).

And also, the fact that we grant any rights to corporations at all arises from a court stenographer's foot-note that later opened up loopholes for clever (although might I add shortsighted) lawyers in subsequent cases that eventually snowballed into granting rights to this nebulous entity. As Justice Stevens noted in his dissent to the Citizens United ruling, "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it.” And yet, we worried that limiting the financial power of corporations will potentially infringe upon OUR (human) 1st Amendment rights. That is the problem for me. We created the corporate entity like a machine to serve our purposes; it does not exist with unalienable rights as we human beings do.

Who donates the most to campaigns, 501(3)(c) non-profits and charities or Fortune 1000 corporations whose explicit purpose is to generate profits for stakeholders?
Heh, I wanted to post a comment pointing out that anyone who likes this article should definitely read Accelerando... Great book, thanks for writing it! :-)
Here's that Nook piece for future reference:
http://blog.fsck.com/2010/01/dont-buy-a-nook.html
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071138
Sorry, to disappoint but this is standard within the military-industrial complex. If you have dealt much with DoD and their contractors, you would notice a lot of waste and a lot of scamming going on.

There was a story a while ago about some contractor in Afghanistan charging the military $100 for a 15 pound load of laundry. That happens because the guys at the Pentagon are the same guys running the defense contracting companies.
I've once seen this amazing little demo of electronic 'fireflies' that self synchronized after an initial period of instability.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Synchronizing-Fireflies/
I really am not familiar with this man, but comments about his unwillingness to compromise and questioning his sanity make me think of this quote:

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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Did it work? Do you use it?
It's another form of privatizing privilege and socializing cost. A corporation is granted privileges of personhood, but spared the liabilities. A corporation can't be imprisoned, and it's very difficult and expensive to criminally prosecute its executives (its brain?) and impossible to do the same to its shareholders (its body). (It's also difficult to seek civil remedies; if you are not of comparable size, they can often effectively spend you into the ground or, financially, keep you from even starting.)

There's a reason we lock people away, other than to prevent them repeating a crime: It's a form of punishment and control that -- for most -- exceeds financial penalties. Corporations are, as an entity, immune from this. And the bulk of the people who enable their activities are, as well.

In light of this, I see no problem with a reasoned limitation of their privileges. They do not exist as living beings (I initially used the word "corporeal", but I imagine that would confuse some or my intended meaning be deliberately mis-interpreted in counter-argument); they are not granted the same privileges.

(For those who don't make the connection: The "socialization" of cost means the costs incurred when corporations engage in criminal behavior. This might be be seen to include the prevalence of such behavior, as a result of a lack of effective controls against it.)
It just came back to live results:S
Company store and inter-personnel transactions. (IE gambling)
Actually the site seems to indicate that whatever analysis they do will be made available for free:

"After a night's data is collected, it is automatically uploaded to our servers, analyzed, and made available on the WakeMate Analytics platform."

This implies that the analysis is made available, and no mention of a charge usually implies it's made available for free.
Any patent holder with relevant patents can stop redistribution of a software, regardless of license ... GPL or not.
Apparently HN is refusing to let me reply to you. So I'm doing it here.

The point of saying X.org/Linux is that I could form some ridiculous argument that would require a completely different naming convention. Why don't we call all cars Benz/Cars since Karl Benz holds much of the work that makes cars go? Or all helicopters Da Vinci/Helicopters? Because it's silliness.

Calling something GNU/Linux is silly nonsense RMS designed so he could get his beard stroked. If you notice he's never suggested the following:

-Linux (powered by GNU)

-Linux-GNU

-Linux/GNU

-Linux - With GNU utilities

-Linux - powered by GNU and Xfree86/X.org and the Mozilla foundation.

-Linux/GNU/Xfree86|X.org/Mozilla

- etc.

He's suggested only GNU/Linux. Notice GNU is in front (to remind us all how wonderful GNU is) and the '/' indicates it's interchangeable. Like "do you want ham and/or cheese on your sandwich?". Only GNU != Linux, the two are not interchangeable. The GNU Hurd is a failure. But I bet I could cobble together a GNU free Linux distro for the most part today, even rewriting most of the utilities in a couple weeks, and probably completely in a couple of years once LLVM gets up and going.

He wanted to co-opt the relative success that Linux became by formulating an argument such that the only resolution in his mind was to call it GNU/Linux. And instead of building his own system, he built a bunch of the crap for a completed system, then spent the rest of his years dwelling in Emacs and emailing himself wget harvests of websites because for "personal reasons".

Really, outside of maybe the compiler toolchain (which is looking to have a short lifespan in the face of LLVM and associated front ends like Clang, are any of the utilities that hard to replicate? (quick answer no, I had to build most of the GNU toolkit from scratch for a single OS course assignment in my undergrad, including a shell, everybody had to do that, it's pretty easy). I'm sorry, but a few dozen utilities like 'ls' and 'cat' don't allow somebody to co-opt somebody else's hard work.
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> Most of the time I do not have an Internet connection.

He should get it then and join us all in the 21st century.
Fully agree. I was disgusted when I learned of the pre-fetching defaults. This reminds me to check whether my custom settings to disable pre-fetch have "stuck" through the most recent updates (Firefox).
If you're pooling enough people's resources to make a machine that big, you're probably going to get enough independent tasks to make good use of it too.
You're missing the point. why does he have such limited connectivity?
I will personally buy a Yeelong netbook and install Windows on it just so RMS has no computer to use at all if that's how he swings.
Everybody's selfish, but Mozilla is also short-sighted ... they cannot and will not be able to have an influence on the defacto standards for codecs if they aren't popular enough.

This was the right time to really push for HTML5 and standards ... to push Flash/Silverlight/Quicktime out of the way. Safari, Chrome, Opera and Firefox combined have enough market-share to do that.

But no ... they take the same stance as Linux distros, all proprietary stuff is evil, ban it all. Unfortunately, while they have a point (H264 is not safe) ... they'll just lose users to Chrome or Safari.
That's because despite his dogged persistence on the FSF GNU bit, he really doesn't care about Freedom.
http://blog.ted.com/2006/09/happiness_exper.php
I love the youtube links at the bottom... they point to... youtube.
History repeats itself:

http://reocities.com/researchtriangle/7650/datalink.html
sipdroid only supports ulaw, which doesn't work too well. Although I like their interface better, it seems like they should support speex over ulaw. SipAgent supports speex and has generally better incoming call quality, but with a crappier interface. Also, instead of using sipgate, you can get a free number from ipkall as well. I hooked up the ipkall number to google voice so that I can send/receive calls from the same android device.
try a better sound codec. I got lots of clipping using ulaw, but it's crystal clear on speex.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=3235
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ILLIAC, an early clockless cpu design
malevolent beings trying to overload your optical pathways

That's what happens when your brain becomes a tragedy of the commons.

Some friends and I dreamed up the table of contents of the "Geocities Web Design Handbook," but I think it would apply to Japanese commercial web sites and streets as well.

Part I. Basics
Chapter 1. Rational thought: your enemy.
Chapter 2. Serenity, comprehension, and other bad design smells.
Part II. Basic applications
Chapter 3. Maximizing information density using randomly sourced content.
Chapter 4. Total coverage: cross-browser design techniques to banish white space.
Part III. Advanced techniques
Chapter 5. The BLINK tag: sissy crutch.
Chapter 6. DOSing the visual cortex: advanced techniques to overwhelm and disorient.
The little things add up to big things. A big source of personal happiness for me is to leverage our unusual work schedule so that my wife and I can take walks together in daylight in our neighborhood and enjoy uninterrupted conversation. The kids are older now, so they can be left alone long enough for us to do that.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/montgomery-2
It's been posted many, many times: http://searchyc.com/git+magic

Most recent a few days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1064027
Possibly. Yukihiro Matsumoto created Ruby which has an essential simplicity even if it can be used in cryptic ways...
Making stuff.

Repairing stuff.

Kids.

Learning.

(I've found that you need to know a thing 10x as good to teach it as compared to simply using or applying it, so teaching would make me very happy indeed but I don't know much well enough to be able to effectively teach it).
I'm not sure of the etiquette but: tact should be tack, it's an old nautical reference. Only mentioned since you used it twice.
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In the magical world of programming, you are god (or at least a god), assuming you are a programmer. Programming involves creating something from nothing; what could be more god-like than that?

So I guess such a religion would involve self-worship?
I've seen several people write about Matz's design principles for Ruby, but I can't find what the man himself wrote. I'd love to read that if someone with better google-fu can dig it up.
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Not including an option for Symbian is going to screw up their figures, at least for non-US respondents. Symbian phone users are either going to pick "non-smartphone", which is misleading, or more likely skip the survey, which means a hefty response bias. I've sent them an email to this effect; you might want to as well.

Edit: I checked again and the form now has a Symbian option.
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I tried it for about 3 months once. It made no noticeable difference.

Piracetam worked much better for me. However, nothing has worked better for me than a decent diet and making sure to drink enough water a day (and getting the appropriate amount of sleep).
This could make big screen HD video-conferencing\telepresence available for cheap in the living room.
I'm not sure I agree with his point. And even if I do agree, wouldn't you say this points out a problem in the language being used? Of course, pretty much all languages have the same problem.

It seems to me that not enough thought has gone into how programming languages should handle dependency management. I think it could be done much better, although I must admit that I have no idea how.
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Nice save facebook
Their actions come from their values

Newsflash: everybody's do. That doesn't automatically excuse them from doing stupid things in the name of those values. This is why again and again I keep pointing to the fact that I am criticizing their actions and not their values. You keep assuming that the values that Mozilla espouses can lead to one and only one possible course of action and that that is automatically the right one. I am saying that this is not so, and I'm pointing to the fact that users are being harmed and no good is coming of it as a sign that it wasn't the right choice.

how would you qualify apple by not supporting theora in safari?

The difference is that with Safari you can install Theora on your system (http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/) and it works just fine in <video> and everywhere else (and yes, it works on Wikipedia.) Apple simply doesn't ship Theora which is a much more benign way of "not supporting" something than disabling it altogether. Mozilla, on the other hand, has specifically chosen to prevent users from using anything other than Theora in conjunction with <video>, and not because it's not possible to do it any other way.
Sad story but not at all unexpected.
I've found that interesting too. And I definitely agree with the website design, though I've seen faaaar worse than those, even in relatively popular websites. They seem to like putting everything in boxes, and loading the page with 100+ boxes of some sort. It has its uses, but definitely overload inducing.

That said, a huge amount of the buildings in Japan are somehow different from others (different shape, color splashes, wall art), and there's a lot of random green spaces (usually with a shrine of some sort) in even the densest / most businessey areas. There are, of course, the standard looks like your map example, and cheap apartment housing that's the same everywhere in the world, but I've yet to see that amount of diversity anywhere else as the rule, rather than the exception.
Science fiction fandom snobbery.
You might be right as a matter of policy (I don't think so, but it's a debatable point), but as a Constitutional issue it's pretty clear to me and the majority of the Supremes that the right of groups of people who happen to speak through a corporation is strongly protected by the First Amendment.

Or, let's say, take your position to an extreme: that would entail forbidding the New York Times Corporation from publishing on politics. I'll note that they are the plaintiffs in two important First Amendment cases, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan) and New York Times Co. v. United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_St...), the first defined modern era libel case law and the second was WRT the Pentagon Papers.

Or does the provision for freedom of the press somehow carve out an exception for these "immense aggregations of wealth" (well, before the decline and fall of the MSM really got started).

As for donations, both 501 (c) (3) non-profits and companies are explicitly forbidden from donating to campaigns, they have to have individuals do it through a PAC.
What will this enable people to do?
I've not debugged Lua but I am familiar with it's integration into C. I imagine debugging Lua+C is no harder than debugging Matlab+C. You load up the REPL in GDB and set your C breakpoints in GDB and your Lua breakpoints in Lua. After control leaves your C function and goes back into the REPL's guts just hit 'continue' to return to the REPL command line. It's more laborious but still straightforward. The only thing you really can't do is step from the high level language to the low one but you can set the proper breakpoint in GDB right before the call so it's more or less the same.

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Edit: sorry not sure if you were talking about Lua or a C-based Scheme, though I imagine it's the same.
The best answer to this I've seen is here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9s5k3/iama_i_am_a_high...

The entire thread is gold, by the way.
Today is January 22nd. Tiffany called me back about an hour ago and told me that Melanie Doty, Barnes & Noble's Vice President of Customer Care had instructed her to tell me that, despite repeated assurances to the contrary, Barnes & Noble wasn't going to be able to honor their promise to me because their computers showed that my order had been cancelled.
Hey Zyvex, it's 2010. How's my diamondoid nanoassembly coming along?
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To play hacked games, like on the xbox 360. Wondering if you'll have to copy the downloaded game onto a blue-ray or if its enough to copy it onto the harddrive.
Not shure anyway if I'll hack mine, apparently a lot of people ran into a lot of trouble hacking their xbox (got banned from online gaming etc.)
Mozilla makes $80 million a year. That's not huge enough?
Whatever they wish to, within the limits of the PS3 hardware.

While the PS3 supports linux, it is run under a hypervisor which restricts its access to the RSX 'Reality Synthesizer,' the graphics processing unit (GPU). The Wikipedia entry also notes that "support for the "Other OS" install option was removed by Sony in the PS3 Slim."

References:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_the_PlayStation_3

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSX_Reality_Synthesizer
The new design is gorgeous, yes. No one is calling it ugly. But ugh, it is quite unusable.
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Taking away his vanity url was, or should have been, a deliberate action.

I cannot believe that there would be enough trademark complaints that someone doesn't check the persons name before taking away a vanity url and sending such a message.

And if techcrunch had not gotten involved I cannot see them giving the same response to any person.
Run Linux on their PS3 with full graphics acceleration..

No, just kidding, most will play cracked games.
If you're going to be carrying your machine onto buses or trains regularly, the Brompton is in a whole other league compared to even the most compact of it's rivals. It's a proper bike with few major compromises (only the poor gear range really) but folds down to a very neat, compact package.

If you just need something that is easy to store, or to take as luggage on an aeroplane, a Dahon would be a better choice - they fold into a much larger and clumsier package than the Brompton, but are cheaper, lighter and faster. The Brompton is perfectly capable of covering long distances but is far from ideal, especially on poor roads or in hilly areas.

$1000 might seem a lot for a bicycle, but as an everyday mode of transport it is extremely good value. A good quality bicycle will last for decades, requiring only modest maintenance. New brake blocks every 1500 miles, new tyres every 3000 and a chain and rear sprocket after 6-8000 miles add up to a mere two cents per mile. Quality machines like the Brompton hold their value extremely well, with used machines barely depreciating at all after the initial drop from new.

The Brompton is absolutely the perfect means of travel in London, not least because even the top-of-the-range model costs less than an Annual Travelcard for public transport.
Mencken being the elitist he was, probably never saw the "great masses" in finer detail. American or otherwise, to him they were nothing but a bulk; a gray, disgusting pile of intellectual and material poverty.

Him and Buckley have elevated crypto-fascist snobbery to a new level.
Although I mostly agree with you, what are some examples of economies that suffered as a result of overpopulation? China and India seem to be doing fine. I mean, it seems obvious that the wave has to break but I just don't think we've seen it happen yet so it's hard to predict. (Not a history buff so maybe I'm missing something obvious.)
Exactly so. George Brandes was orders of magnitude more famous than Nietzsche in the 1890s. There are countless such examples.
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