skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Flash Media Server 4 will have RTMFP when it is released. red5 should offer support soon after that.
Actually, it's a bit more complex than that. You would have to reverse the direction the read device travels through time and then read the write device when they intercept. Reversing the direction multiple times can make multiple reads at different states of the write device.

Sounds feasible, if you have enough strange matter lying around.
This author does not understand topic sentences:

First, many seem to have received little writing instruction in high school. I initially noticed this as an undergraduate English major at Yale, where I helped peers revise their papers. I saw it again in graduate school at Tufts, where I taught freshman writing classes. And it has also struck me at Babson, where, for the past two years, I have instructed first-year students.

Maybe in informal academic writing, there's a special kind of topic sentence whose purpose is to introduce an opportunity for promiscuous name-dropping. I.e. in an essay on insomnia, one might write: "I usually wake up late. It's because I go to parties at Noam Chomsky's house, or on Richard Dawkins' yacht, or..."
As someone who has studied P2P, none of this make sense to me. If I remember correctly, the Bittorrent protocol tries to maintain only a handful of connections at any given time. Parallel browser downloaders are capable of opening more connections.

Also, I don't see how the discovery process would stress a network. I would expect the actual download to place much more load on the server. For instance, I could be wrong, but I think a bittorrent client only needs to contact a tracker to discover other peers. Every iteration after, the client will try exactly one new peer. That hardly sounds stressful at all!

The last point you make is the only one I agree with. You've offered your users more theoretical bandwidth than you can actually deliver, which is common practice. Whether they are trying to use that bandwidth watching youtube videos or downloading with a P2P client, they will be using more bandwidth than you can handle.
> A lesson I once learned from a mentor: attention to detail in the little things often demonstrates attention to detail in the big things.

That's why Van Halen's concert contracts say "No brown MMs".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Halen#Contract_riders
Chrome targeted IE, but it turns out that Firefox is the weaker browser in terms of user "loyalty." Even though Firefox is a better browser, many of IE's users are there because they don't know the difference and don't care, hence they are immune to the attraction of features and design. More of Firefox's users do know the difference, however.

It might be nice if there was one fewer rendering engine. Then again, if Microsoft keeps being its good old self, there may be some benefit from strength in numbers.
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What's the standard mapping?
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You make a lot of good points, but I don't think academia has ever been THE bastion of free thinking. It has produced free thinkers, and at times it may have been at variance with the prevalent thought in society at large, but my reading of the history of academia all the way back to the late middle ages is that it very much enforces its own political correctness (which does change over time).
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I just meant to be offering constructive feedback. The tutorial was useful for me. It's certainly way better than the tutorial I had before you wrote it! It's pretty impressive for an hour of work.
this is awesome! i now have a GOOD cloud storage candidate for backups of my blu-ray movies that doesn't cost more than the cost of a new blu-ray disc.
And the more permanent and public the context, the more relevant that attention to detail is as an indicator.

A few days ago, I was stopped at a red light behind a landscaping company's truck. They'd had one of those vehicle wraps applied to the body of the truck, turning the whole thing into a billboard for their company. The graphics and copy on the truck wrap contained several spelling errors, uncapitalized sentences, a bulleted list in which the bullets were not vertically aligned, and visible JPEG artifacts.

Now imagine what your lawn might look like if you hired this company.

In more white-collar contexts, poor grammar, spelling, or writing style might also work as a broader indicator of intelligence and education: I'd presume that being able to write effectively is fairly well correlated with being well-read.
Yeh, I probably didnt explain myself well..

> Parallel browser downloaders are capable of opening more connections

This is mostly what I was referring to. Light P2P users are not a problem - it's the heavy users that cause impact. We had a guy who was torrenting 1000's of files; essentially flooding the network with connections.
How to Find Free Rhetorical Essay
A rhetorical essay is a tough writing task as it requires critical thinking. But with the right direction on how it is done, you will be able to submit an essay which clearly conveys your analysis of the character or subject described by the author.
I don't think this is any closer to reality than it was 2 days ago. The setting shown in the screenshots are not in the latest beta build I installed on the 3GS. Other developers confirmed that it's not in their build either. I have yet to hear someone say they have it.
Call me crazy, but maybe the PC is easier to develop for.

Not crazy, but maybe confused. Wouldn't market share be a better explanation? The profit motive is the primary motivation to develop for any platform. It easily trumps ease of development.
I wouldn't say Craig is working hard to make the free product good. I absolutely hate the fact that I have to use craigslist for apartment search. It is terrible (but simple, yes) and Craig has made a conscious decision to keep it that way.
A lot of you are probably familiar with the book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation ", http://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuati.... If you are not, it is worth a look!
Same crazy world where GM had to receive government support in order not to fail.

There is no mercy for those who make things the market doesn't want.
It is, in some ways, a small things, but I'm really looking forward to the integrated Kindle book store in the android app. As far as I understand, Apple wants a 30% cut of in-app purchases, which caused Amazon to not add an integrated book store in the iPhone Kindle app. I think little things like this can add up to a lot of convenience over time and over many apps.
Hope not.

I fear most for OpenSolaris. It's harder to fork than VirtualBox and far bigger.
What could an iAd look like (incl. sourcode)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-facebook. I think it's just as much of a case of silicon snake oil as the rest of the silly social networking sites out there. Facebook hasn't made my life better, it basically became a place where my annoying extended family started spamming me once I had finally blocked all of their email addresses, so that I wouldn't receive their mass forwarded emails about jesus sitting on your shoulder while speeding. Yay.
When Apple does cross-platform, they're not really that good at it. Google and the FOSS community is fantastic at it, and Adobe is middling.

For some value of 'fantastic' which is close to meh. In general, the FOSS stuff that has zero-effort portability isn't the prettiest, especially when evaluated in terms of the native platform they're running on. The prettiest FOSS software is far from zero-effort portability.

(Yes, this includes my own beloved Smalltalks.)
The Money doesn't Matter Myth
XML is more complex than it needs to be, but this article is just ridiculous. XMPP isn't complicated because it uses XML, it's complicated because it's a modern IM protocol. If anything, using XML makes implementing an XMPP library significantly easier than if it had its own wire format.

A better comparison than RSS v. XMPP is RSS v. Atom. And in this comparison, RSS is by far the loser. It's incredibly difficult to write an RSS parser which can handle even a small fraction of the RSS published today, mostly because the standard is absolute garbage. In contrast, an Atom parser can be knocked out in an afternoon.

I'd be happy with a "reduced set" of XML, which excludes stuff like DTDs, named entities, and references. I've never seen these features put to any significant use in real life. But most of XML is quite sane (if a bit verbose).
Well, I would like to see Chrome-like private browsing in Firefox. I don't like the whole shutdown the browser to go in to private mode thing. I often use private browsing mode in Chrome to log in to the same site with multiple accounts. For example, when my wife to log in to GMail while I'm still logged in. Hopefully this is on their radar. I also like how every text box in Chrome is resizable. Not sure if those things really warrant a fork.

I also in principle like Chrome's process per tab idea. But in practice, I've never actually found myself killing off an individual tab. Usually when I have browser problems, it's in Windows and it's an I/O issue that tends to make the whole OS unresponsive.
Exactly, I had one of the best discussions about race, class, and privilege I've ever had on Facebook.

But not all conversations need hardcore gravitas to be valuable. There's actually a lot of information in a "cool stuff" RT. It says that the person read your status, and liked it enough to share, that tells you a lot about where your tastes align, which has been a facet of friendship as long as humans have been making friends.
Mark Twain complained about this long ago. As a previous commenter said: it's not so much that people are not able to write now, it's that they can publish their bad writing. We have metrics in schools to track how well our kids can write. We can blog about how poorly our co-workers write. It's more visible than it ever has been.

At the end of the day, every communication with your employer is an opportunity. If you can't communicate well, you will be less likely to get what you want out of those interactions. On the other hand, if you're able to write well and communicate clearly, you're going to get what you want far more often.
A court did not find them guilty of doing just that. A court found them guilty of knowingly profiting from copyright infringement. If I sell off my grandfather's estate, which I know to include a fake Rolex, I would also have knowingly profited from copyright infringement, but I don't think you would say that an estate sale is also equivalent to The Pirate Bay.
The competition between firefox and chrome is friendly competition. They're both opensource browsers that follow web standards so we aren't losing much by chrome gaining market share at the expense of firefox.

If it were losing ground to internet explorer that would have been another issue though. As a result I don't really see the need for a fork of firefox. All they need to do is just focus of making a great browser. We're all fighting on the same side.
It's either irony or sarcasm. Your pick.
The first problem you run into is call by value. As a function the args to if would be evaluated before the function call. You could force the user to quote the branches to the if call to get around it but the special form is less error prone.
"Unfortunately, the development of those standards has been incredibly slow and political"

I think this is a critical point. It appears that most large software companies participate in standards bodies, simply to look out for their own interests.
Is this a round-about way of saying that you're against 'gay marriage' because you feel that marriage/civil unions shouldn't be a legal/government matter (i.e. only handled by the religious organizations, etc)?
A field trip to the Internet Archive
Ask HN: Who's going to Maker Faire?
Show of hands: Who's going to Maker Faire?

I'm flying cross-country for it and bringing my 13-year-old daughter.
It may matter a lot for some data... When you send a binary file, would you like all of the zeros stripped? Your insignificant data from one perspective is possiblely significant from another perspective.
I remember that. I'm glad they ditched it. On a side note, once WC3 came out, the marine/firebat/zergling/hydralisk models made me thing SC2 was imminent on the WC3 engine. Guess they didn't, and just went for a new engine entirely.
In today's world, you don't have to be specific, so much as aimed at the worst offenders. No one is sinless, but there is an order of magnitude difference between the least guilty and the most.

My hate isn't trendy. It's born of experience. One day, I was tracing down some process eating up cycles after I installed an Adobe suite to read PDFs. Lo and behold, it's a VB script process in the background to promote some sort of integration marketdroid crap with MS Office.

I stop using Adobe, and my PDF reading is faster and my machine has more cycles I can use.
Bradford cross who does machine learning work at flightcaster addresses this question in the following post:

http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2010/3/12/learning-about-m...
How long till someone comes up with a Skype clone on flash?
IAC doesn't own about.com. It's owned by The New York Times Company.
I thought most of the time sexual harassment happened because the aggressor basically wants the victim to sexually submit (i.e. have sex). It might not lead to a more direct, "have sex with me if you want to get promoted," but I see little point in harassment for the sake of harassment.
It's not a patent troll when a competitor goes after you with patents they acquired doing R&D for real products. The patents sound like they shouldn't have been issued, but that's a different problem.

A troll has no real business other than acquiring patents and suing companies (or arranging for them to be sued).
Because for the longest time there was nothing both better and standardized. I've dealt with xml many times and hate it but It's better than maintaining your own proprietary DTL.
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Facebook's Privacy policy. Amazing timeline
Hmm, started with a vanity search and got totally irrelevant results. Then tried vanity searches with friends names. Again, bad results. Putting the names in quotes seems to do a better job, so the problem doesn't seem to be coverage. Makes it seem like they may not be doing a very good pagerank-like calculation.
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Wanted to see if this might be of interest to share with your readers.<p>To promote a silent auction for KidRobot Munny characters (Munny exhibit here: http://munnyexhibit.com/) created by the world’s leading industrial designers. Breakfast NY created a novel device that showcases developer experimentation at its finest by turning the iPad into a remote controller of a mini blimp equipped with a “blimp cam” that leverages the built-in accelerometer. Whenever the blimp’s camera hovered over a person, the iPad software transformed their faces into those of the Munny characters. The feed was displayed on a big screen for all to see.<p>The iPad app was built in 2-3 days by one person using Appcelerator’s Titanium 1.2 mobile SDK and relied heavily on the newly added TCPSocket. They mostly used basic UI components such as buttons and textfields. However, the TCPSocket API together with the accelerometer for basic right and left navigation is what makes the core functionality with the app. Breakfast NY communicated from the iPad app to the blimp via a laptop running a tcp-to-serial bridge and the laptop speaks to the blimp via an xbee chip (serial).<p>For the video, they used a webcontrol in which they are drawing the video (motion jpeg) using server push. They found that using this technique over quicktime stream had a considerable benefit in terms of lag (only 100-200 milliseconds).
Facebook launches "fast and free" mobile site.
Even back in the '80s neglecting to kill the pylon was a grave error.
Fun Police! You're under arrest for public display of humor.
I weep for a society where our fear of being accused of social harassment will outweigh our desire for social interaction, no matter how awkward or inept.
It is name-dropping to an extent, but it is somewhat relevant. A lot of people would expect freshman students at prestigious schools to have a decent grasp of the English language.
British Computer Society wants your votes on the greatest Information Pioneers
Amazon sells technology that they developed for their own use. I wonder what data they store in RRS? Tracking information? User calculated preferences on products?
Ask HN: We're moving to the valley for 3 months and need help
Here's what may seem a crazy idea:

We're moving to the bay area for 3 months (starting in August) to work on a new idea, take in the California air and see a few old friends. Back when I lived in California, I was staying at the Techcrunch HQ in Atherton. Now, however, I'm bringing the rest of the guys along and we need suggestions as to:

1) Where to stay. It's tough finding a place to rent for 3 months that isn't crazy expensive (we don't need the swimming pools or tennis courts, even if we like to have fun). Should we just stick to lurking Craigslist, or does anyone have little secret housing gems in the bay?

2) How to finance it. We have a pretty exciting idea and we're building an MVP. The people we talked to are interested in putting in money, but we wanted to be creative with funding our stint in the valley - we don't want to spend investor money in housing (should we? meh). We have an existing product that will help finance this, but we'd like to do something creative. Any thoughts?

I guess this is it for now. We're doing this for the idea first, the experience second, the fun third. Would love to hear your suggestions, questions and thoughts.
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I, of course, voting for Turing.
I kind-of thought that was what a patent-troll did these days: get as many wide-ranging patents as possible, no matter whether they should've been granted, and use them to either batter the competition (i.e. with license fees or unending court battles) or getting your "cut" with little actual effort... ?
path-based.
It's pointless looking at patent titles (or abstracts), You have to examine the claims.

Even there, you can't just look at claim 1, because the standard approach is to begin by claiming overbroadly, and then narrowing the claims, so that usually claim 1 wouldn't be expected to hold up, but one of the later ones. Which later ones, you don't know because of the uncertainties of litigation: it's hard to predict what a court will find. As in negotiating, why not ask for as much as possible?

It's a little bit like the dubious criminal defence I didn't kill him, and if I did it was an accident.

btw typo: in "for infringing the following patent", patent should be "patents". That confused me.

Gee I sound like a patent advocate/apologist. It's just that I love inventions.

EDIT I'm not arguing for these particular patents, but against how they're being assessed.
Not if it's on tax-payers' money, I wouldn't.
As said in the article, we've been here before. iPhone tethering was in the last beta, too. It never saw release.

AT&T promised tethering by last fall. I find it strange that they're such close business partners with Apple, considering how woefully they under-deliver on their promises, when Apple's MO is basically the exact opposite. The AT&T/Apple relationship has been a black mark on my perception of the company, and I've been an Apple evangelist for 12 years.
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>I thought most of the time sexual harassment happened because the aggressor basically wants the victim to sexually submit (i.e. have sex).

Sexual harassment is harassment - behaviour intended to intimidate, disturb, offend, threaten someone - that uses sexuality as a vector. It's extraordinarily naive to assume sexual harassment isn't taking place if the aggressor's goal is not to elicit submission to sex itself.
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Mozilla Corporation employs 200+ people, but the community contribution, measured in commits, is substantial. But what you say about management is true. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand does. Communication between the corporation and the foundation is very poor.
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Patent trolls have traditionally been groups whose only (or just main) business/source of income comes from buying up patents and suing over them.

Today people tend to apply 'patent troll' to situations where they feel that the plaintiff is 'trolling' the defendant through the use of patent law. This is applied more-so when the patents are thought to be invalid or the business reasons for filing suit are deemed to be anti-competitive.
This seems uncharacteristic of Shermer. He, of course, is not the only one. In fact, most debate, and AGW debate in particular, has this character: the proponent claims overwhelming evidence, but shows none. It's like playing poker with someone who wants to claim the winnings without showing you their hand.

I would prefer to see more "How I was convinced..." type of stuff. I've seen more of that on the side of the skeptics/deniers, probably because they are the underdog, and so more likely to be forthcoming. It doesn't make them right, but it does coerce them into being better proponents.
XML Schema is hilariously painful but it at least exists and is in fairly common use. JSON Schema is still an Internet-Draft that almost nobody seems to be aware of, so JSON-based systems are still at the "garbage in, garbage out" level and will only get worse with maintenance.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zyp-json-schema-02
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Path-based. Subdomains are treated as separate domains.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503079
Tell me there's no implicit bias here:

Facebook looks set to simplify its privacy settings whereas Google has downplayed privacy fears of its own.

Never mind the details of the Google part of the story. Never mind that the whole wi-fi fiasco was blown out of proportions and that the one who came out the worst was really Google. The important thing media wants us to focus on the idea that Google is the new evil.
There's a compelling argument that government should get out of the marriage business altogether and give gay and straight couples "civil unions" alike.

If, as some people claim, marriage is a sacred institution, why is the state involved at all? Who would be OK with having to go to the courthouse to get a baptism license?

For people who object, choosing to attend a church that doesn't perform gay marriages will be no different from choosing a church that wouldn't perform anything else. Churches aren't regulated. (note: this is almost a "let the market decide" argument)

I do not, however, support the rights of fellating bats to have civil unions, because bats are creepy.
I'm somewhat disappointed that it isn't. I can think of good reasons for a service in which data cannot be erased. If it could only be read on-site but written over the network, it might be advertised using copy similar to this page.