skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is awesome for Tesla and the people laid off in Fremont at Nummi. Good stuff.
I would say the iPad might actually be a better fit for geeks (that know how to use it) or people that don't actually use computers that much so they'll just adapt to anything.

Because the "average Joe" is actually a pretty strange beast:

* his email may be on servers that need weird configurations

* his web surfing includes powerful meme-sources such as youtube. In US, he might actually go to hulu or something similar. His bank might be very fond of some ActiveX thingy to allow online banking. He uses facebook and probably plays one of those flash games.

* his music isn't always legit or always bought via iTunes. How will he buy Amazon music and put it in his iPad without a laptop ?

* his videos might not always be h264

* his casual gaming is made by those facebook games I talked about.

Basically the fact that you still need iTunes to use (and upgrade for example) the iPad means it's not meant to be a computer replacement, but an add-on.
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In his own article about the alleged tailing by state department officials Adrian Chen said:

It seems a bit paranoia-tinged, but Wikileaks has good reason to be paranoid. They've already been labeled a security threat by the Pentagon, and if they do in fact have this air-strike video—and their past record suggests they do—there's no question that the U.S. is keeping a very close eye on them.

http://gawker.com/5502461/exclusive-secret+sharing-website-w...
You guys might like this autobiographical profile of Adrian's from 2001 when he went by the handle Magus: http://www.mattmazur.com/archive/aol-files/downloads/people/...

Quote: its amazing how many security guards will escort you up to the roof of a skyscraper if you only ask, or won't even stop you if you look like you know where you're going

This is taken from an archive of an AOL hacking website called AOL-Files.com that I ran back in 2000/2001. We had a section called AOL People where the site's visitors could submit profiles on themselves. The full list of profiles is here: http://www.mattmazur.com/archive/aol-files/downloads/people/

Mine, which is hilarious now, is here: http://www.mattmazur.com/archive/aol-files/downloads/people/.... So much for being an astronaut and not sitting in front of a computer all day...
We also have a semi-active Single Founders Braintrust going. Let me know if you want to join. Great place to discuss and get feedback on early stuff.
It gets worse really... I'm from a first world, priviledged country and a member of the visa waiver program which means it's actually easy for me to enter the US. I can't even imagine what it's like for citizens of many countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Waiver_Program
I'd like to clarify I was talking about the price of online video advertising, not the cost of google TV - I think that may have been confusing.
We have a Solo-Founders Braintrust going, just email me if you want to get invited in.
And some pretty hardcore engineers...
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I'm impressed with activism, particularly activists like Assange who get off their butts and do far more than I've ever done. Sure it's not perfect, and sure its hyperbolic. I think you're far, far more concerned about hyperbole than I am.

And if we need a better wikileaks, well that's an interesting point, clearly we need more, but better is hard, achievable, of course, but hard. And it costs a lot of safety, security, and mental peace for the individuals who take the plunge.

And how to do it without paranoia in all its forms. It's a stressful career. And simply shouting when someone's murdered is all great and all, but it's nice not to be murdered, imprisoned, or restricted from travel in the first place.
Are we sure that the CS term predates the biological term? I mean, we might not have really succeeded in creating (biological) artificial life in the 1950's, but someone was almost certainly trying.
Powers choose who to apply legislation to.
I didn't know there was such a thing as medication for Asperger's. Does anyone know what it might be?
If even one person at Facebook was threatened with violence for not taking down the pages, I think that it would be irresponsible and dumb to not meet those demands given the track record of SOME parts of the Muslim religion. The fact is I would be offended if Facebook didn't do this and I was an employee of Facebook.
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I know they removed a few of the Holocaust Denial groups and let others remain based on the content being posted on the board.

If it amounts to hate speech it's a violation of their TOS and gets pulled, so I'm curious what was actually being posted in the discourse that warranted this.
Email? If so, count me in.
Consider that compiling Boost gets them up to compilers like gcc and MSVC for the current standard of C++. There's still the upcoming C++0x standard that both gcc and MSVC have made big progress in supporting.

Also, something like OpenMP is light on the actual compiler support (compared to, say, handling Boost or some of the upcoming C++0x features). Most of the work goes into the runtime system. The expertise needed to build a good runtime system for OpenMP is different than the expertise to build a good C++ compiler. There's significant overlap, no doubt, but I doubt this development will "free up" anyone.
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Yes, of course. Maemo is a platform built on belief in giving users a choice.
Or, my preferred approach:

while :; do curl www.google.com; done
That's the rule as it stands. As it's interpreted, small breasts = appears underage for the most part.

The issue has been widely reported in the press as either a small breast ban or Australian demanding large breasts as indicated upstream.

From http://www.inquisitr.com/59633/australian-government-censor-...

"Fiona Patten from the Australian Sex Party (ASP) said she attended a ACB training session late last year where they showed examples of publications that had been Refused Classification due to the size of the woman’s breasts."

As to whether I'm having fun or not, the Australian Labor government has been behaving weirdly when it comes to censorship and personal freedom (net censorship, etc). I guess I'm lucky that I live overseas at the moment, but I do find the moral pandering (www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com) to be over the top.
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I have read this a few times now about Apple trying to get a low cost TV package for iTunes.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15121131?IADID=Search-www.merc...

I think until they can pull it off, AppleTV would remain crippled.
You must be with the U.S. Department of Education...
FYI, positions like yours are exactly why these groups get created.
Looks like it's crashing instead of flying...
Was one of the 2008 DreamIt companies too.
> Indeed if we genetically engineered a large animal to run on gasoline AND provided it with an ample supply of gasoline, it would move faster than anything else... as long as it had gasoline.

Do you think gasoline is magic? Gasoline has almost exactly the same energy content as fat. Tons of animals have access to fat.
Ask NowMov: YouTube Leanback announced, what's your game plan?
So, YouTube announced a new service called Lean Back today, which seems to directly compete with NowMov's vision.

Link: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/20/youchannel-youtube-leanback/

What's your game plan?
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I was seeing different WM-XServer interaction between the 32bit and 64bit distros of the same Ubuntu version (9.04)

In this case, use the 32-bit behavior and file a Ubuntu and/or GNOME bug against the 64-bit behavior. I'm running a 64-bit system, and there are definitely cases where it's a second-class architecture to some maintainers.

Out of curiosity, what's the behavior difference that you're observing?

Secondly, I'm hard pressed to actually get an objective answer on the question "what are the major distros/versions" without igniting some kind of flame war.

Ubuntu, Fedora, and SUSE are the primary desktop distros. Mandriva is popular in Europe. In my experience, they are almost identical in terms of running proprietary software. Arch is also popular, but due to its source-based nature is mostly for more techy users -- they probably won't mind a bit of work if your software doesn't work out of the box.

There's a decent list on < http://distrowatch.com/ >, sorted by popularity, in right sidebar.

Thirdly, how do we select distros/versions/etc without 1) the userbase crying foul for lack of support for their config; and 2) without subdividing an already small market for games?

Use the most recent (or most and second-most, if you've got free time). The market is small, but there's different levels of small; most Linux gamers are going to be close to the bleeding edge, to take advantage of driver improvements.

If you're in doubt, run a poll -- ask which distro, version, and graphics card vendor your customers use. Publish the results. This will serve the dual purpose of 1) letting you know what to support and 2) giving users an idea of what configurations are best tested.

And our experience is that Linux users are not more forgiving when the app in question has been paid for. Expectations are low when something is free but high when something is not. So we need that work to be justified.

Some users are never forgiving, whether they're in the right or not. However, potential customers will be influenced by how reasonable other user's complaints are. "I use Ubuntu 10.04 and your game crashes on startup" is a legitimate complaint; "I run a four-year old Slackware install, and audio doesn't work because I replaced ALSA with OSSv4" will just be ignored as a crank.
Just to clarify, the flash runtime only has two actionscript virtual machines: AVM and AVM2. AVM2 was a complete rewrite for actionscript 3 (AS3) and was introduced for Flash 9. The original AVM supports Flash 8 and below (AS1 and AS2).

Gnash never got around to supporting AVM2 (it's not at all trivial), which is why Lightspark is significant. That, along with better hardware acceleration which might actually help it outperform the official player!
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Yeah everyone is going to use it differently. I no longer download any media, as I got tired of collecting media and then losing it after hard drive crashes. Also everything I want to listen to or watch is online for streaming, minus latest movies. If I want one of them bad enough I'll bit torrent it.

Overall my Mac Mini connected to my LCD TV using a wireless mouse and keyboard (gyration handheld mouse) suits me via Firefox.
The GPL was devised as a way of turning Copyright against itself.
May I suggest an admin change the title to "Management guru [Eric Ries] on the lean startup philosophy" or something like that? I clicked through expecting someone other than the usual suspects talking about "lean startups" as was disappointed. WSJ readers may not, but I think most HN readers know who Eric Ries is. Their headline obscures information rather than providing it.
Yeah, count me in too.
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It's Prevayler all over again!

http://www.prevayler.org/

(Not really. Prevayler uses a log.)
I agree those are questionable circumstances and I do not know enough to rebut that particular article you gave. Perhaps there are other circumstances of him freaking out and it being harder to disprove than these examples and it also doesn't disprove this example from the more recent article.

This one sounds a lot more curious, and given the way Australia is acting I would not doubt these circumstances. The fact that a) Wikileaks is blocked in their country, b) passport was taken because of wear-and-tear (pretty drastic, and he doesn't lie about their reasoning), c) he received a letter that could have reasonably raised his "threat" level with the police. (And it appears the police do not facilitate checking passports at airports as far as I can tell - that is some other agency.)
And, to extend your silly analogy to its logical conclusion, imagine that as a result of that experience we declared a national day of "making sure black people know they can't push us around anymore".
While Verizon/Spring may have better coverage in certain areas, they are complete dicks.

As a Sprint rep, I resent that. You may have had a bad experience with somebody on the phone, but to generalize all Sprint (or Verizon for that matter) employees as dicks is not appropriate.
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Until there is any suggestion that Assange hasn't or won't be issued a new passport all the "Powers" have chosen to do is replace a worn passport and question someone at customs.
I've had this thought rolling around in my mind for awhile, not sure if anyone's tried it out, of a twitter-like message platform on the torrent protocol. Not that it would necessarily have to have such restrictive content-lengths, although fitting into a packet size might be a good plan...

Wouldn't it be cool if a message was only alive as long as it was seeded? And PK-encrypted ad-hoc distribution groups would be a cinch.

Gah, I gotta buck up and get myself acquainted with the protocol and figure out if this is just the inner dumbass talking :-)
Because, with the current proposed architecture (built on http), In order for your friends to access your content your server must be online, and most computers not dedicated as a server at the very least sleep periodically during such periods your information would be unavailable, thus the need for dedicated servers.
This would solve the problem when a submission will get 20 or 30 upvotes just because of an interesting title, then most of the next 100 people looking at it would not agree but it's already got enough votes to sit on the front page for quiet a few hours.
You don't need to ask. He has already told you that using proprietary software is against his ethics, because you have to give up on freedoms he values to do it.

The iPhone on the other hand denies freedoms that even more people care about.
Never heard of Feyeraband, but based on the three sentences in that article it seems the most right to me!
No negatives in adding subreddits that might not gain traction. Sometimes subreddits take a while to attract submitters.
This seems very conservative. Let's not worry about the poor US carriers getting so much business these days.

In the EU I have an unlimited 3G subscription for about 10 eur. It's probably capped in some way but always got the job done (albeit sometimes very slowly). Why should I worry that the data network is overloaded when the carrier here sells this thing. It's probably illegal to sell a service you know you cannot provide.
> That Facebook was squelching Facebook

I think you meant that 'facebook was squelching wikileaks' ?
I had an idea for handling this situation that exploited the replication functionality. Basically, you prepare for a transaction by migrating the primary copy of all the objects involved to the same node. One would have to avoid deadlocks by sorting and serializing transaction-prep migration blocks. So transactions never span multiple servers, but you get this by possibly dramatically slowing down the time it takes to prepare for such transactions. (With the idea that the application designer is encouraged to avoid such transactions.)
The field actually does typically call itself "synthetic biology," rather than "artificial life".
The super high quality stuff will take an extra minute or two to download, but you won't have to pay a licensing fee for it.

I'm not so sure about that. Yesterday's analysis seemed to predict some questionable usage of H.264 bits in the encoder.
Could this mean a step towards biological computers?
Religious fundamentalism, Muslim, Christian, or other, doesn't just offend us who are not devotees of what we can reasonably consider an artifact of prehistoric human evolution, it restricts us through the tyranny of the majority, not to mention often effects violent actions against people who only use speech to ostensibly "offend".

Examples of religion causing meaningful offense: Talk to your local gay marriage activist.
This isn't surprising, but is is disappointing -- and perfectly understandable, considering the devout wishes of the people at Facebook to avoid being killed by religious nuts. The real solution here is to decentralize to the point where Facebook (and similar entities) don't really have much say in the matter. I really hope something comes of Diaspora; until then, there are still plenty of non-Facebook places to post Mohammed pictures.
If you REALLY dedicate to pleasing ONLY yourself, you will end up pleasing a lot of people as well (and make money doing it).
"This was months before it shipped."

But it actually shipped. And in months, not years. Plus what they demo tends to match what they ship.

Whereas designers like me drooled over the demo videos of the Microsoft Courier dual screen tablet for what, a year? And it ended up never getting made. Drooled over the Crunchpad too and we all know how that went.
I am not saying that they are not important groups so you must be confused. I think they're important and speak a ton about what should be allowed - but Facebook isn't distributed, there are a group of people at Facebook that could be harmed physically and do not want to take such a risk.

That may be an excellent point for why Facebook (and similar services) need to be distributed to protect the Internet's free speech prerogative. It may be important to have free speech, but it also can be stupid to risk harm to innocent programmers, businessmen, and the like. Maybe as a whole if they decide they want to promote such a thing - fine, but they are not going against free speech if they don't want to take the risk of promoting that topic.
I'm not counting Apple out yet. We don't know what's happening behind the scenes with Apple TV. It wouldn't surprise me if they had something waiting in the wings. Apple has a pretty good track record of keeping a big project secret, announcing it and shipping it before their competitors have established any fortified position. If you were to combine together all these devices -- Apple TV, Roku, Popcorn Hour, etc there's a pretty big market there. No one has quite figured it out yet. An Apple TV Rev 2 running iPhone OS with an SDK running on cheap ARM hardware sold at a low margin could be hugely successful very quickly.
Probably not, but if people start disrespecting their wishes, and the code is all their own (that is, does not include other parties' GPL'd code), then they can simply change the license and get the same effect.
By apology time it is already to late, they would have lost the trust of many customers. I'm assuming they didn't just come up with these prices overnight.

I think the apology makes them look worse, like they never justified the prices in the first place. Keeping them may have lost customers but would have shown they were carefully chosen and justified prices. Now it just feels like they were trying to bleed there customers for as much as they could get.
It is very dangerous to equate "Everybody Draw Mohammed" with neo-nazi's and anti-semites. In the case of the neo-nazis, they consistently threaten to attack and kill innocent people. In the case of Islamic Fundamentalists, it is the ones who draw Mohammed who are being threatened. Facebook has every right to control the content on their site, and if this content were created out of irrational hatred, I would agree with their decision. But the context here is a group who are trying to manipulate their detractors by threat of force, and Facebook is allowing them to do it.
Agreed, I'm from the UK but have immigrated to Canada (I believe finger prints are only ever required by the police when performing a full criminal history check when applying for citizenship; there was no such mention of it during my PR application process) and the thought that a 5-hour drive can land me having to be finger printed just to visit is very barbaric. I've walked past police with machine guns in airports and that doesn't cross me nearly as unnerving as having to give my finger prints.

It's not that I'm worried for anything I've done, I have had police checks performed (twice from the UK) and I come up clean because I've never had a problem with the police and I've never committed a crime. What worries me is that our governments have data sharing policies, as soon as I'm finger printed entering the US I have little doubt that they've been entered into a database back in the UK as well.

I dislike the thought that someone will be capable of checking up on me behind my back. I can understand why the US would want it, even if it seems exceptionally barbaric, but it's that the UK and possibly Canadian or other governments will be checking up on if my fingerprints have appeared anywhere. Precisely because after the Madrid bombings an Oregon based lawyer was arrested on an 'incontrovertible match' by the FBI based on prints lifted and arrested him, however completely ignored the fact (for two weeks!) that he hadn't left the country - he matched because he was an Islamic convert and his wife was Egyptian born, his fingerprint never matched at all.

My figuring is that the longer my fingerprints stay out of any national or international registry, the less chance I have of being hassled during my lifetime because of a government screw up with the data.
More reason to hope facebook goes down in flames, and the sooner the better.
Considering this in combination with the recent announcement of libc++ (http://libcxx.llvm.org/), and the fact that the chair of the library working group for C++0x is on the team, I'd venture to guess that support for C++0x is probably a pretty high priority. (At least, probably higher than OpenMP.)
http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/05/20/the-new-free-speec...

This article basically sums up my thoughts on it. Yes, it's not nice to unfairly antagonize people. However, when it comes down to freedom of speech and being too worried about offending someone on their ridiculous standards, something has to be done. I'm all for living in peace and harmony with people, but I'll be damned if I'm going to censor myself like that or be threatened for drawing a picture. I'm fine if you want to follow whatever rules you feel your god or prophet would like you to uphold (as long as they don't lead you to harming someone else) and as long as you don't try to impose them on others. That's when a line is crossed.
> In the EU I have an unlimited 3G subscription for about 10 eur.

Where? I'm also in EU and I only get "unlimited 3.6Mbps 3G" for 21€/mo, but after the first gigabyte it get's downgraded to 64kbps...
I bet they could. Just look at what Google account the Android phone acting as a remote is logged into. It'd probably be easy enough to build some demographic information just analyzing the users e-mail and searches.
I fear the void Lala will leave is the lack of 99c (USD) streaming albums
Fair enough, I just thought you were talking past my main point...
Yes, corporate censorship based on shareholder considerations is still ethically acceptable to some people. People who question those ethics may be in the minority, but lock-step lassez faire is hardly a universal truth.