skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cart before the horse. You want to bring the web to the ten foot user experience NOT the other way around.

The iPhone App model is successful because native applications make HTTP requests and custom render the results rather than just rendering HTML.

You need native applications in the living room because you need performance. You are competing with the XBox 360 and Sony PS3. An HTML web browser will not cut it.

Next up is input. Rendering HTML that works with mouse/keyboard, and multitouch, and remote/gamepad in the living room seems like it will have way too many compromises. Wordpress/WPTouch works because it focuses mainly on websites with content and not Apps in general.

Start backwards. There is a person sitting on a couch ten feet away from a display. His/her significant other is on the couch, too. What is this person holding in their hands? How is this input device communicating with the display? How does this display send network requests to a server?
Unbelieveable song  look what music this guy can do with his high tech mouth
Python could be improved a bit, just remove the damn underscore from it.

Everything else is love.
At Google I/O they held a press conference immediately following the Google TV announcement where I asked about bringing the 10 foot experience to the web. One of the project's lead PMs answered (as did Adobe's CEO, to a limited extent). See the video in this post: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/24/google-tv-and-optimizing-th...
Save My Life - help a fellow HN'er
any first hand experiences?
That's good - when did that happen?

Or are you talking about XDADevelopers?
Sure it may be possible they were blind to the kind of usage that would be incoming, but having already gone through the massive data use that iPhone users put their network through that seems somewhat silly.
Check out padmapper.com does a nice maps mashup of craigslist plus other sources. May still not work if the data in your city is too poor, but works great for me.
I think the benefit of people being able to record police officers in action far outweighs any disadvantages.

Beyond this, I am rather offended that it seems to be ok for any number of local governments, businesses, and who knows who else to record me as I go about my daily business out in the world, and then claim it's somehow not ok for me to do the same to the police, or anyone else, in a public setting.
Chicken-egg. Parcplace made a conscious decision to be a boutique secret weapon of the Fortune 500.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not poo-poohing the capability. Instead, consider it the warning of someone whose been down the road before.

The problems won't be technical -- they'll be social!
Chrome OS?
How much to raise is an intriguing question, especially if you're a first timer.

Mark Suster says to raise $100-250k in that case, http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/08/14/angel-funding-...

And Joshua Schachter (joshu on here) said that companies raising less than 500k are making a huge mistake (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1356345)

Wonder what people on HN who have raised an angel round recently think?
You're wrong on both counts. Even back in 2007, NIST deemed 1024-bit RSA too weak:

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-57/sp800-57-P...

And BitLocker's trusted boot path does defend against the evil maid attack:

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-do-i-miss...

Even if you want to make some semantic argument that this doesn't strictly fall under the mantle of "disk encryption", it still proves the point that FileVault is no substitute for BitLocker.
ctrl-shift-t to undo tab close action. If you closed two tabs, press this twice.
Best part of all this is if you are filming something and the police approach you, and don't give you an opportunity to turn off your camera, you are going to commit a crime whether you like it or not!
Sounds like they took a page from Microsoft's playbook. I guess they'd know best how well it works.
I have my desktop background set to rotate on Bing's pic of the day.
ctrl-shift-t to undo tab close action. It works as if control-z for tab closures. (not sure what is the keystroke for redo).
I guess you do not know very much about Python.
I like this look.
The advantage here is that pg is giving an advantage to high averages, not high point totals. So there's less incentive to be a reddit/digg style poweruser looking for one upvote on thousands of comments, and more incentive to say something truly insightful from time to time.
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Me: "it can't be using the stored energy in the propeller"

You: "Note that I didn't say it was. Sorry to get you off-script."

Wow -- you make a clear claim and then two posts later are denying you even said it. I'll refresh your memory: This is you claiming that the vehicle uses stored energy: "It is admittedly using stored energy - the propellers are spun by the wheels,"

You: "You rushed in to try to get a layman to give explicit parameters for disproving it."

Nope -- I merely asked what would convince you -- big difference.
Could you shed light on how well this vehicle would perform 'sailing into the wind' as it were? (Obviously with modifications to its transmission)
> When they will go for starting new business, will investors, partners and employees will trust these guys again that they will stay in that new business until it reaches to successful destination?

If it works out, this decision tells those folks that this founder will step aside to make them money.

Remember - no one but the founder and her mother cares whether the founder stays on board or makes money. Everyone else cares about whether they make money.

To put it another way, only two people invest to help {name} become the CEO of a successful company.

"we invest in people/team/market/idea/etc" always has an implied "to make us money" at the end. While unstated, that goal is the important part of the sentence - the stated part is just their plan for doing so.
I'm the OP, and it's my blog post. Posting this under an alias, but I've been on HN for a year, and I'm hoping that this community of brilliant hackers can help me get my life back.
I'm very sure he has the code he haven't really made to properly scale with more cores or processors. The fact that he doesn't write much about the code in the article suggests me that he doesn't really know how to make scalable processing -- for anything nontrivial it's not easy at all, and I'd personally be able to make it more optimal in C than in Java, simply because there's more that I don't directly control in Java.
I would expect the Droid and the Incredible to have at least 1 update in them, maybe more - they were/are both flagship Android phones and were sold to less-price-sensitive customers who will expect an up-to-date OS. It's the cheapskate-phones, as I mentioned, like the Eris, that I wouldn't expect to get updated.

I'm genuinely surprised, though, that the Eris has been updated.
What's hard to intuitively understand is that it's a positive feedback loop after reaching wind speed, rather than negative.

EDIT: Also that video is hilarious.
The kno wins just for the press pics:

http://www.engadget.com/photos/kno-press-pics/#3036339

Everyone's full of envy and all the guys run around in their underwear! Seriously wonder what they were thinking with those pictures.
Actually, anyone, private citizen or public employee, should have no expectation of privacy in a public place. The fact that police officers (and ticket sellers) are public servants just makes this whole affair more absurd.
> from the start we treated our own internal app developers as third party developers

I'm not exactly sure what this means. In the Android/iPhone world, I can see this as meaning no use of private APIs. That gives 3rd party app writers a more even footing in the AppStore at the cost of no API dogfooding whatsoever.
Sounds good, just added it. The script now offers white and black lists, where whitelisted users get an orange-highlighted username and blacklisted users get their comment text collapsed.
I've heard this from other studies, but this one seems less convincing. Couldn't just be "damn those scientists, they won't even give me cookies. My motivation for trying their task just dropped off a cliff"? At the very least, they could have checked by giving other participants money or no money for doing the task?
It was very nice of them to put this online.

But the audio quality is poor. It seems like when someone high profile (like MIT TechTV) goes to the effort of recording and posting video, they could spend a few more bucks and put a microphone on the speaker (or hook in to whatever audio system that handheld mic was hooked up to).

As a general rule, using the build in mic of a video camera at the back of a room will yield tolerable audio only in very rare conditions (a room that's "dead" acoustically, and a very quiet or nonexistent audience).
I was going to say that Python fixes in programming languages whatever Markdown fixes in other plain-text markup syntaxes. But thinking about it, you're right -- it fixes the tendency of other languages to invent special syntax to represent standard, frequently used concepts. Python follows the conventions you might use when sketching out an idea on a napkin, and takes each convention to its logical, parser-friendly conclusion.

There are few language features that would be hard to succinctly express in a line of pseudocode. ("If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.")

Result: straightforward, algorithmic code looks like pseudocode, and any code that uses special language features really pops out -- if you see an at-sign or double-underscores, you know something Python-specific is happening.
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(My comment is backed by fundamental ignorance.)

Have you tried university/research hospitals? I wonder if it would be worth researching/shopping for such a hospital and get them interested in and committed to finding out what ails you.
I know, gaining trust is a huge issue for me. Only Google can get away with doing billboards across highway :)
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Criminal profiling made easy
This. (or rather, self)

The answer to 'Why Python?' is a lot better than what you're going to get for Ruby, Scheme, or the continued use of Perl. At least PHP has its execution story going for it (immediate mode) even if the language sucks ass.

'Why Arc' doesn't even have a polite answer at all. There's a log in pg's eye, and he's here picking at motes.
Have you tried a psychologist?
There was someone on here about six months ago who posted about having terrible, varied medical symptoms similar to yours, and they tested positive for Lyme disease. The post title was something like "so what is wrong with ben?" or something like that.

I can't find it in Google now. Maybe YCombinator doesn't keep older text post submissions? Sadly the internet wayback machine doesn't have any entries for HN from Jul 1, 2008 onward, so I can't find it there either.

Anyway their story was so similar to yours that it makes me think you are either that member, or have the same thing he had.
"I decided to create a fake job listing..."

He, in turn, wasted serious applicants' time who took time to write good cover letters to reply to his fake job listing. I guess, researcher's dilemma.
Like most people here, I only have a very marginal knowledge of medicine; but these symptoms make me think endocrinology. (Caveat: I probably have some bias here, since I've had interesting endocrine issues.)

You mention hypothyroidism and having seem an endocrinologist; what tests did he/she do?
I can't help but I'm upvoting this in hopes that someone who can will read it.
Also try asking this in r/askreddit, besides having a generally larger userbase than of HN, I've noticed it also has more guys specializing in medical-related fields.
Clearwire seems to be trying. But massive infrastructure costs a lot of money, and Sprint, one of their primary sources of money, doesn't have it. Their other partners are dipping their toes in. We shall see what happens.
Why not pay the $175 to be free of the oppression forever? If you switch from AT&T 3G + tethering and use 5G a month, that will be $75 a month. Sprint will be $60. If you have more than 12 months left, the ETF pays for itself. And even if not, at least you don't have to deal with AT&T anymore.

(Although, in my experience, all phone companies are a pain to deal with. Luckily, I don't have problems very often.)
I bet they still have Batman Lego as well :( sob

(Batman Lego is incredibly rare. Expect to pay a few hundred $ per set at least). Lego lost the license to sell it, but they still sell the Lego Batman video game.
Running it in different cities skews the results - would have been better to run multiple trials in the same city.

I'm also not sure that counting applicants as a proportion of the unemployed in a city makes sense. I'm not unemployed, but I am looking for a new job. I also technically don't live in the city/district I work in.

That's not to say that those techniques won't work as filters, but the percentages quoted are basically just made-up numbers.
Weird.

I have some of the same symptoms as described here - long-term sleep problems (since I was 13, I'm now 23), nothing I do seems to help (exercise, diet, reading, cutting out internet at night etc). I'm fatigued constantly too - mentally only though, unlike the OP. It seems I've tried everything - doctors, antidepressants, lavender oil on the pillow, warm milk, you name it. I'm trying to get into web dev at the moment, and I've recently started a great new job, but when I come home in the evenings I'm so drained it's hard to muster up the energy. At previous jobs I'm sure they thought I was quite scatterbrained - but I'm actually a very focused, hard-working individual by nature, just extremely tired all the time.

I'm somewhat concerned for my new job too, as I worked extremely hard in college to land it, and it's quite cerebral in nature (detailed data analysis, root cause analysis) and obviously not sleeping right will have a major impact on this. Today, for example, I drank a giant can of Monster - got me through the afternoon nicely, but, obviously not a long term solution.

Physically, I'm ok, I don't have many of the more severe physical symptoms this unfortunate chap seems to have.

Just to let you guys know, any help you post here will be appreciated by more than one person!
Great post Jason. I updated mine to add some commentary / include the video+your post. I'm sure Adobe will make tools for this, but I'm hoping something comes out way sooner.
Yeah, I was about to mention that MSSQL has had this 'feature' for years. I've used it a lot for retrieving organizational structures from the typical parent-child table structure.

The best part of it, is that it is MUCH simpler than either trying to roll your own through cursors or dealing with it in whatever language outside the database.
You mention that less sleep makes you feel better, Have you tried Polyphasic sleep?

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/

I'm sure you have, but your initial positive reaction to a massive dose of Vitamin D made you much better. Have you investigated what further large doses would do? (under doctor supervision of course) I mean much larger than the initial prescription.
This is silly. What was it Paul Buchheit called advice? Limited life experience + overgeneralization or something like that? That's exactly what this is.

Platforms have their positives and negatives. What you should do depends on the unique combination of your goals and market forces. Broad, sweeping generalizations like this are sad because they miss the real point, which is that you should carefully consider potential future ramifications of building on a platform. Not that you shouldn't do it, but that you need to give serious thought about what success might mean.
My apologies if you've already heard of/have been tested for this, but what about Lupus? Severe fatigue is a very common symptom. While it's a very well known decease, it's rare so you may not have been tested for it (there's a simple antibodies test).

(I lost someone very close to me to Lupus two years ago -- severe fatigue, intolerance to hear were some of the main symptoms she experienced, even when she didn't have flare ups).
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That's weird. Please excuse me, I'd like to ask you a couple of questions that come to me :

Did you move in the past 18 years, or do you live in the same area?

You mentioned Vitamin D did help, for a short while. Did you try sunbathing instead? That's normally how we get vitamin D.

Are you fat, lean, thin? What ethnic group are you from? Do you know of any genetic peculiarities?

Did you test against various viral diseases? Have you ever had zona, herpes, etc. ?
Given that he developed Django, the framework that thankfully euthanized Zope, he's probably seen things us people wouldn't believe.
Great to hear some positive stuff on CompSci.

Seems like recently theres been a lot of news on why its not relevant or unnecessary - which isn't optimistic news for me since thats what I'm going to be studying at University later this year!
Yes I have. It was a bad experience. I kind of thought I'd be an "interesting case" of sorts for them, but I had to fight even harder to get anyone to listen to me. That's also how I ended up having a useless (and somewhat damaging) surgery.

However I do still feel that there must be some kind of advocate for such cases in big hospitals, but I've never been able to find one.
Not sure. I think these people might have been using old phones with lots of other stuff running.
What kind of job do you have? Does it involve sitting at a computer 8 hours a day? How many hours of exercise do you get per week?
But of course, 98% of AT&T's customers barely know what the Internets are. It's the 2% that do that will be punished.

Fortunately, these people also know that AT&T has competitors.
IANAD but several symptoms sound like possible fits for Huntington's Disease. However, given you've had these symptoms for 18 years, HD doesn't sound too likely.

HD could explain the fatigue, muscle tension, and reduced motor skills. However, it would likely also (but not always) be accompanied by other behavioral changes and cognitive changes.

You're also less likely due to age but i wouldn't rule it out on that basis from experience.

HD would not account for your numbness and dizziness.

Also curious if Wilson's Disease could be a more accurate fit. Fortunately, it's treatable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntingtons_disease
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilsons_disease
Does this handle <audio> playback too?

Proper handling of audio codecs and fallback, a playback widget, and perhaps loading an image into the video section, would suit my needs quiet well.

Maybe next weekend I'll try to add this myself.
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Sounds like Chronic Fatique Syndrome to me.

My advice: cut simple carbohydrates out of your diet completely (veggies and animal protein only) and start exercising as much as your fatigue allows you. Read this book too: http://www.amazon.com/Body-Science-Research-Program-Results/...
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What do you expect from a company whose logo is the frickin' Death Star?
The OP says he did about 9 months of psychotherapy.
I think that means he did try a psychologist.
Hence the dictum: Rags to rags in 3 generations.
Android at Google IO
Exactly. Just asking a question from the perspective of a !hacker. :)

I was aiming at the concept of the "cloud desktop", as kierank commented in the meantime.
From a UI standpoint, you pretty much pick an aspect ratio, and go to it. Sure, it'd be nice if all UI elements were homogenous across all TV apps, but it's not going to happen because there's no inherent standardization in the "platform."

What works for a 3-foot interface may also work for a 10-foot interface. On a phone screen, it's all about clickable areas accessible via fingertip. On a 50-inch screen using a Wiimote-like device, it's all about clickable areas accessible via pointer. With a directional remote, it's all about the UI element highlighting. Maybe someone is using a touchscreen remote, which then creates a hybrid 3-foot/10-foot UI.

I'm not sure I understand what you're advocating, other than standardized user interactions. Does this framework apply to all websites, effectively bringing "the web to TV," or does this only apply to "apps?" (similar to iPhone/iPad apps)

"If my tv tells me I've won two free iPod nanos, it will get thrown out the window." This is some serious pie-in-the-sky thinking. If you're designing these wonderful apps with this wonderful ad structure, who's going to run ads on a platform that lets users just toss the ads out easily?
Self-control only applies to situations where your rational mind overrules irrational impulses. If eating righting and exercising requires self-control, it is because your mind has a deep conviction that it's actually best for you to eat a lot and not exercise. You've figured out the right strategy, but your faith in it is as shallow as your rational mind. At deeper levels, you're still deluded. However, you can deepen your convictions through carefully examined and honestly felt experience. For example, through regular exercise, you can learn to associate exercise with the good feelings and good results it produces. (It's interesting how neatly this meshes with the Buddhist belief that harmful behavior arises from delusion, and that delusion is maintained not only by ignorance but by compulsive doubt of what one rationally knows to be true.)

Unfortunately, your false beliefs (exercise is pointless, exercise will make me feel bad, ordering a pizza will make me feel good, I'm not the kind of quality person who exercises and eats right anyway) start to come back when you stop exercising and eating right. I don't believe you can ever completely eradicate them. An addict is always an addict. For some reason, early-imprinted delusions are always more comfortable than our learned wisdom, and we tend to revert to them under stress. So the fight is never-ending, though happily it demands less self-discipline as time passes.
I've thought about a Lego-building robot made of Lego before, but mostly in the context of an illustration of why atomic assembly by nanobots is probably impossible.

I'm thinking specifically of the "sticky fingers" problem, which says that if something binds strongly enough to an atom to "pick it up" then it's going to be very difficult to get it to "drop" it again. I imagine you'd have the same problem with Lego... although at least with Lego you can usually pick a block up by its sides, which you can't do with atoms.
see for example:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...
A helpful way to understand sailing into the wind (for me at least) is to think of a stationary wind turbine producing eg. 2MW of power. Now if you were to mount that turbine on the roof of your electric car, that 2MW is more than enough to power the car at great speed in a windward direction. This seems to be the same concept except with a pure mechanical linkage.
Yes. 3 different ones. General verdict: you seem to have some depression, but not primary. They told me that anyone who is sick for a long period of time will almost certainly develop some kind of secondary depression.
Additional "variables" they are introducing are in fact algorithms acting on available data. A fortunate choice of an algorithm amounts to providing a good prior on the space of algorithms, which are used to estimate the Kolmogorov complexity of the data, or, in other words, explain it. As in the example with stocks, adequate algorithms can be more complex than just copy-paste usually used when doing compression/pattern recognition...
Have you tried regular -- three times a week, at least -- vigorous exercise?