skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure it'd be more about keeping people engaged in the game while they're away from their computers. Dealing with two separate codebases is nothing new to Zynga.
If only it was that simple to take a well beaten idea (selling stuff) and re-position it with a recently successful platform (posterous) and hope for its succeeding on the back of the platform.

I am actually amazed by so many people praising it, comparing it to MVP, and debating on the pricing model, but are failing to see if there are any real takers in the fundamental idea (selling stuff)??

Sorry, but I just do not see any innovation here that may warrant its decent traction.
Extremely beautiful UI. Great work!
Microcontrollers (e.g., the Atmel AVR chip line which is the basis of the Arduino open source hardware platform) are often modified Harvard architectures, where the instructions are read from flash and SRAM is used for volatile stack/heap memory.

There is a lot of activity in this area which has been dubbed "physical computing". See e.g. O'Reilly's Make quarterly and Sparkfun, which apparently does > $10 million in sales annually from selling electronics components and kits to hobbyists. I'm eagerly awaiting my first Arduino starter kit from them! ;)
I think he never really addresses the issue of why the reaction was so strong.

In my mind, it's two things: first, it retrospectively changed the rules. Facebook gave us one "contract" at the start and then after people were sufficiently invested in the platform, it changed the rules when it was very hard for them to leave. People see this as a breaking of the core pact of trust that you have with an online service when you sign up. We instinctively react to punish a company that does that, because our whole digital lives rely on the integrity of companies not to do such things.

The second thing is that the changes seem deliberately targeted to take advantage of people who are technologically "vulnerable" - those whose understanding of technology is limited. The people being exploited here are your mother, your children, your friends without great technological sophistication. These are the people who will be totally incapable of understanding and revising their settings. Most likely many of them are right now publishing photos and other content for the whole world to see without any idea they are doing that. This comes across as outright evil to me which is where much of my angst against Facebook comes from.
> In cases where a monopoly was given to them is because ISPs demanded it

Sweet, we can just demand things from the gov't? Who knew? BRB, need to stock up on unicorns...
Mark Cuban: What Business Is Wall Street In?
I'm an example of that. Started school a year earlier, but could start at 3rd grade (didn't because of emotional development worries etc). Everything was easy, nothing required any heavy work. Until I started university. Now everything is at reasonably high level, but I'm not used to studying. But still, I can get by on low grades, so that's what I'm doing. No one will look at them anyway.
Part of what annoys me about Facebook is that it assumes I mean all information I share to be shared with everyone -- either everyone on my friends list, or everyone on the whole Internet. There seems to be no conception of stuff I want to share only with a specific circle of friends.

In this article's terminology, Facebook only understands "public public" and "friends public". What about "family public", "coworkers public", or "inner circle public"? It seems to me it would be a far more useful service if it allowed for finer granularity in those choices, rather than pushing toward a ubiquitous "public public" only.
Data that's today inconceivable to transmit usually comes from science. this data is usually being sent via HDD. i don't think it fits the home.

The data from/to the home would be cameras and video streams. i don't know any other sensor technology that generates massive amounts of data and being used in the home.

Maybe some sort of GPU cloud , if the bandwidth is good enough. but usually bandwidth costs more than computing so it would make more sense to gather the GPU units closely.

Omni-video sounds interesting , could you please tell more about the experience ?
Send up that "secret" military remote control space shuttle and fix it?

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
Ouch - Australia's NBN Pricing - Paying by the GB
Laziness in Clojure
How about this statistic:

Apple could pay, today and in cash, over 13% of Greece's debt.

Astonishing, isn't it? :)
The reference link is here: http://www.exetel.com.au/residential-fibre-pricing.php
$50/month PLUS $0.75/GB. No included data. On a 100M link that's going to get real expensive real fast.
Is your site down?
Ask HN: What does your home media storage solution look like?
I am married with a two year old and one on the way. I have a DSLR camera + HDV Sony Camera. My jpegs are easily 1MB from the DSLR and each tape run off of the HDV is about 15 - 30GB.

Capturing every moment has been important to us, but I am quickly running out of space - at an unsustainable rate.

My setup is thus:

My main rig has about 2TB of storage - Windows 7 box.
My wife's main machine (iMac) has about 500GB of storage
1 Macbook Pro
1 Windows Laptop (nothing spectacular)

I have a Windows Home Server that backs up the windows machines (3.5TB approx.) and also doubles as storing 'duplicate/raided' back ups of photos and videos. I use the WHS as a shared server (for photos and videos), that both the iMac + W7 machine use to access the main repository.

The truth is that I have been meaning to convert all the raw iMovie project files to some 'smaller' size and resolution single video flat files (like .mov or .avi or something) and delete the larger iMovie project files to free up some space. Haven't gotten around to doing that yet though. Do you think this is a good idea?

Do you have any suggestions on how I can maintain a relatively high quality versions of my memories - doesn't have to be extremely high quality (as I said, I am saving my images as a 1MB jpeg, not the multi-MB RAW files). I am looking for something similar with the video.

Also, any ideas on how to manage the backups of everything. So not only do I want to have a central repository that all my network connected devices can connect to (e.g. including my ps3 for the videos), but I want to have backups of those.

Right now my WHS server does a backup of the Windows machines just wonderfully, as does Time Machine for the Mac Machines - but that doesn't include backing up the main bulky files (the videos - I put the pics on my main rig first before moving them to the server, so those get backed up) stored on the WHS server.

Also, how do I handle backing up the large videos offsite? I use Mozy for my machine and the wife's machine + plus dropbox for the really important files (documents mainly). How do I do remote for the videos in a sustainable/affordable way?

Sorry...I know this is long, just wanted to paint as accurate a picture as I can.

Thanks.
Phase 1) Take pictures of random guitar gear I want to sell.

Phase 2) Put the gear on crapmania.com.

Phase 3) ....

Phase 4) Profit!
Very few parts of guns require high-end machining and materials (barrels, specifically, are difficult/expensive). These are also not particularly highly controlled -- the barrel for a rifle can easily be repurposed as the barrel for a machine gun.

(A badly made barrel could be totally usable for a combat weapon; it just wouldn't last for 100 years and put a bullet into a palm sized group at 500m)

Receivers are historically the one part of a firearm which are considered to be "the firearm", and are not subject to particularly high stresses, especially on the AR-15 design. They can be machined by relatively incompetent people from aluminum, or made from plastic (Cav Arms sold these commercially for a while).

Guns just aren't that hard to make. The hardest parts of firearms to produce clandestinely are powder and primers, since that's more a chemistry problem than anything else. I'm not sure what the state of the art is in homemade smokeless powder, but black powder would be possible to make on your own (if a bit dangerous).
I don't always agree with the torrent freaks, but I do believe that if you've already purchased it once then you have the right to steal a jail-broken copy.
Most such urls are autobanned.
Following the link to Yoda Conditions, I found this gem which I think is almost as good:

"Isn't 'Yoda Programming' where you never handle exceptions? Because, you know, there is no 'try'"
> Despite their high levels of curiosity and hunger for learning, many of these children lag when it comes to writing. “For these children, psychomotor development doesn't develop at the same pace,” says co-researcher Cassandre Bélanger-Legault. “This is sometimes at the root of academic failure.”

I found this bit new and interesting. Does anyone know about any more research or info on this topic (psychomotor)?
You could make everything on a gun out of plastic (commonly done), except for the parts subject to the detonation and bullet (chamber, barrel). Those COULD be made from ceramic. A plastic projectile would also be possible (it'd need to be pretty dense; not sure how best to do that -- it would still look like a bullet on an x-ray, unless inside something else, in which case you might as well do lead inside a form-fitting lead case, inside another object)
Toy Story 3 website as seen on an iPad
Humans have physically limited sensory bandwidth. Your ears, eyes, nose, etc. can't process more than a limited amount.

So higher bandwidth can help move some processing about and make different architectures possible, but they can't make the experience much richer.
Does this email-centric interface mean lamson 1.0 is around the corner? :)
Advance notice of another enabled-by-default option to disable in privacy settings.

Edit: To clarify, I signed up for facebook in 2004 because it offered simple social planning and sharing. Today, I think FB's photo and event apps are very well executed.

Everything else is just fluff. Fluff that, if not disabled, can spread information about you without your knowledge.
Use lazy evaluation and avoid iterating over an infinite set.
What Are You Pretending Not to Know, Mr. Zuckerberg?
Get Your Tron On -- Space Paranoids in Flash
I'd rather the government accept medicines with centuries of empirical evidence than lab-synthesised chemicals which have been pushed rapidly through official process using cherry-picked clinical trials and promises of lucrative paid positions for soon-to-be-ex-FDA officials.
Is the microwave myth still going strong here?
In a Stanford CS project-heavy class, the projects are usually 50% or more of your final grade, and those are pretty tough to do without some understanding of the material. In a problem set class, the exams are typically 50% or more. For example, in CS103 (learning the basics like proofs, induction, graph theory, set theory, a little complexity, etc.) your grade is 45% psets and 55% exams; in 154 (in-depth complexity), it's 40/60. In 248 (3d graphics) it's 90% projects, 10% exam. So even if you get a TA who helps a little too much on psets, you won't get better than a B without understanding the material.
Worrying elements about her: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/08...
I went to the OmniMax theatre at a sort of Technology park in Singapore (about 20 years ago!). I actually haven't seen one anywhere else; the closest is iMax. Anyway, it was a huge hemisphere, enough to cover a large cinema's worth of people. The seats were tilted back by about 45 degrees.

Because my peripheral vision was covered, when the camera tilted, it actually felt like everything was tilting. The movie I saw was taken from a plane, and so this happened whenever it banked. The bandwidth needed was massive - IIRC, they used seven 35mm cameras, and superposed them with seven projectors. The sound was via speakers placed at various locations behind the hemisphere.

I've seen a couple of iMax movies (with an extremely large, though flat screen), and the effect doesn't occur. It's a lot more expensive to make a hemispherical cinema, I think. However, I recall a youtube video of a guy doing it within a simple tent (compensating for the corners not being spherical by distorting the image projected).

BTW: you make a nice point about considering sensors in the home, but also consider what sensors it would be great to have, perhaps using yet-to-be invented technology. eg. a sensor that could register the exact 3D contents of a room; or brain activity; or all your sensory input nerves (brain in a tank anyone?); downloadable objects (auto-milling machines - but probably don't require massive bandwidth, unless it was ridiculously high-resolution, say approaching molecular levels - effectively, matter transmission). An interesting constraint is that lag will probably prevent interesting real-time applications.

There maybe hybrid applications, eg to progressively download massive hires textures in a MMORPG or sandbox game or games like the videodisk-based Dragon's Lair (I think the limit here is that they are so expensive for artists to produce in the first place - perhaps the breakthrough needed is a way for amateurs to generate excellent/interesting textures? Perhaps consumer HD cameras will do this). Maybe motion capture, as in project natal (but I think the bandwidth needed is pretty low... again the problem is latency).
I strongly disagree with your recommendations for Campbell and Robbins (and I assume you mean John Robbins, not Tim Robbins). Like most nutritionists, they do agree on eliminating refined carbohydrates and processed foods from your diet. But these two specifically argue that saturated fats are unhealthy and low-fat diets are optimal, the exact opposite of the thesis of the study and article.

Robbins is a dietary extremist and his books make Quackwatch's list of non-recommended books that "promote misinformation, espouse unscientific theories, and/or contain unsubstantiated advice" [1]. The National Council Against Health Fraud even had a critical blurb towards his television program about Diet For a New America in their '91 newsletter [2].

While I find Campbell's actual research in the china studies important, the book infers much more than the studies showed, not to mention a lack of supporting follow-up studies that control for the most common criticisms (genetics, rates of exercise, comparisons with mostly meat-eating populations without diseases of civilization, etc.). I have a real issue with taking descriptive information from data and turning it into prescriptive advice before accumulating sound evidence. For a good critique, the always awesome SkepDoc Harriet Hall posted a review on the Science-Based Medicine blog (which I highly recommend) [3], although the comments get bogged down about her linking to a similar criticism by the Weston Price foundation.

Oddly enough, as a lifelong vegetarian myself, I find myself wanting to agree with these authors and recommending them to others. But it's disheartening these authors feel the need to fortify their ethical choices with shoddy scientific inferences. Yes, following their recommendations will almost certainly lead to better health, but only because those recommendations merely happen to correlate well with a healthier than average diet, not because their assumed causations about optimal health are necessarily correct.

However, I do agree with your recommendation for Pollan.

[1] http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/nonrecbooks.ht...

[2] http://www.ncahf.org/nl/1991/9-10.html

[3] http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=385
I went through an EE program (took a bunch of CS courses too), and graduated in 2003. I didn't have a laptop through the entire thing.

A computer, sure. I had one in my dorm room. Laptops were nice, but not essential. I certainly hope that hasn't changed in the past seven years... it would be pretty sad if so.

(Then again, I also didn't have a cell phone during college, and now I have no idea how I got along without one.)

edit: To my recollection, when I was in college, the people who had laptops in class did email, wasted time on Slashdot, or played games. Seems like it was more of a distraction than it was useful.
This is nothing new, but they appear to have packaged the offering to an audience not served by their competitors, though the quote about it being appealling to car geeks is suspect to me. Assuming they are having successful sales, this could be a good example of taking a well-defined product, targetting a completely different audience, and cutting out/focusing on features that will resonate with this audience.

For reference, take a look at the leading OBD-II iPhone app Rev (http://www.devtoaster.com/products/rev/). I've actually owned and enjoyed this app for the past 2 years. It pretty much does everything. Anything you can do through the OBD-II port, you can do, and customize completely to how you need it. It also does the CEL lights, which is pretty standard. But selling to auto enthusiasts, this app focuses on the performance features.

No car geek would ever recommend GoPoint over Rev, but for someone that's interested in environmental impact and fuel economy, GoPoint's simplicity and price clearly wins.
Facebook is planning to tax them 30%. If they leave and lose less than 30% of their customers, they will make money. Do you really think that 1 in 3 paying FV players will leave because they have to type in a new URL to play? They're already willing to type in their credit card information, and that process is much longer.
Interesting point, but the thing about eyes is that they can look in unpredicted directions, so you need much more data available than just what the eye can process.

This wouldn't be true if we didn't have lag (then we could just stream the right images for where the eye was looking). But our eyes are extremely sensitive to lag - even done 100% locally, it's difficult to be fast enough (or used to be).

To compensate, we can download a whole environment, and track the eyes locally.
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It doesn't require binary representation at all. You can write down all the numbers in any base and the argument still holds.
Yeah, the modern foundations espousing his ideals do promote junk science like homeopathy. But some of his original research is still interesting. Consider reading some of Stephan Guyenet's blog posts about that research (http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/) (grain of salt implied, like with any prescriptive nutritional advice).
On the other hand, it might only take one bad experience (say an ex responding to a picture) for them to never use Facebook again. And then the word will spread. The techies are leaving the ship now, my guess is that in two or three years Oprah will delete her account on live TV.
So does Mercurial - Matt Mackall explained vulnerabilities (or lack thereof) in using SHA-1

http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2009-April/025526.htm...
I live in Sweden. Unless there is some simplifying EU framework, I guess that Sweden is not that high on the list (which is understandable).
How my Dissertation Got Approved? - A Story of a PhD Student
While I was doing my PhD course work, I was assigned by the university to submit a dissertation proposal for the approval of final dissertation writing. I submitted a research proposal to my supervisor, but it didn’t get approved. I got de-motivated and started to find help from internet.
I never said it is useless as an indicator of future income. I said it might be useless as an indicator of one's knowledge and skills, and knowledge and skills are what education is supposed to be about.

If you measure success by one's income, which is a good and clearly defined though still arbitrary indicator, I see no reason whatsoever to expect it would depend on IQ. People with high IQ are often less competitive and often question the need to maximize their income, which is obviously detrimental to such income.
Facebook Board Member’s Facebook Account Breached
I think the name might just work great because of that tongue-in-cheek.
FWIW, the "latitude and longitude, but also your altitude, heading, and speed" is the standard set of GPS data.

Also, some of the relevant Javascript is here: http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/z3RA8/hash/273u6o5s.js
I completely agree with you. It has become a cat and mouse game with facebook where they try to expose all personal information while the user (some users) try to prevent them from doing this through the constant changes in default setttings. The unfortunate thing is that most users don't even realize how much of their information is exposed. They whine and bitch about interface changes not realizing that it is part of constant privacy changes designed to help facebook pawn their information.

I understand they want to make money but they seem to be quite underhanded about how they use (or mis-use) their users' information.
Awesome, I was wishing there was something like this for a while, but didn't know what format would be good. This looks perfect.
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Programming Dojo
To be succinct: Obv not.
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Yes, clearly. I just find it interesting that in his original diagonal argument proof he chose the decimal representation.
Do spiders eat bed bugs? I wonder if introducing once-native spiders (or some other natural predator) into the buildings' maintenance areas would help control the population.
Ask HN: Anyone use Sputnik to run a WISP?
I have a friend who lives in a small town deep in Baja Mexico. He is getting a high end vsat and some ubiquity powerstation gear to create a wireless network over the town and I'm trying to help him find billing software.

The little bit of research I did had me looking at chillispot, wifidog, etc. but Sputnik seems like the solution with the most minimal tech support requirements (perfect for my friend).

Anyone use this service or are there better products to check out?
Three of his stories read by Arthur C. Clarke
After a brief foray with "DoubleSpace" back in the MS DOS 6.0 days, I vowed not to try such nonsense again for fear of data loss, so I hadn't got around to trying FileVault yet. I only mentioned it because no-one else had and it seems to be an overlooked part of OS X.

That said, encrypted disk images work great on OS X. I'd also suspect there's an interesting way to auto-mount/symlink USB drives into useful places so you have to carry it around with you for anything private to work.
Pretty awesome that it's opensource.
Thoughts:

It will make or break depending on how well people can find the stuff being sold so they can buy it.

$1 sounds expensive -- maybe for the beginning have it be $1 if the stuff actually sells, in order to build up a user base.
You point it. The algorithm I implemented is memory intensive and I used the texture map storage. It is the backprojection of tomographic reconstruction. Computation is very light.

I expect that video encoding has the same pattern. One of the critical aspect to benefit from GPU parallelism is the amount of state information each thread has to maintain. It has to be kept to a minimum because this space is limited. If they need more space the number of active threads is reduced to match the requirement.