skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a weird mix of the worst of both worlds. It feels very much like a Web site (i.e. slow), yet I cannot do useful Web stuff, such as open links in new tabs so as to not lose my place when browsing around.

Very frustrating, so I don't use it.
I don't see an outlier - aside from a muslim cluster at the top left corner, the rest of the data looks quite random.
There's a company called PlayOn. They use DLNA to stream things like Netflix, Hulu, and your files to DLNA capable devices. DLNA is actually built into 8,000+ devices such as XBOX,PS3, and some of these snazzy new TVs. PlayON is installed on one computer and then streams the rest. Is anyone here well versed in DLNA?
How about just a list of actions you've taken and the results that you've gotten from them?

I think that it self would be revolutionary if the methods you describe are clearly and measurably effective.

I want to do the same for people with knee pain. Knee pain is a huge subject and there is some really good research on how to prevent it with proper exercise. I just dont see it disemminated well enough to the public.
Peter Thiel: The Optimistic Thought Experiment
Turn off the computer for a while, use analogies, and remember that children rely on different modes of thinking:

http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/07/corrupting-the-youth.html

http://csunplugged.org/

Also, please email me (in my profile). I'm working on something in this area, and I'd love to have some more kids to use as guinea pi-- er, research assistants.
Sarkozy is trying to change social opinion of "careers" and "work" in France to keep pace with other countries. France is a very old country which also makes it even harder to bring change. I think there are a lot of people in France who pick up the slack for others. Kind of like the Israel...

If there is a country we should imitate, I think it would be Israel. Now that's ambition, dedication, and of course, resilience. I think Tel Aviv has the highest concentration of tech startups in the world also.

Why would you think French people only work ten hours per week? My French roommate never understood sarcasm either. He also kept putting the damn eggs in the cupboard even after I told him he would get sick.
This is very interesting and I plan to do a piece on the wall in my apartment. I've previously done some Varini pieces in another apartment out of tape: http://www.varini.org/02indc/indgen.html

My favorite part is in the Mona Lisa: look at her left eye, close to the screen, noticing the slight variation in stroke size, and then quickly squint.
Future of screen technology
Do you know of any recorded instances of Creators sprouting out of nothing?

You're making an implicit assumption; something exists, therefore it was created by an intelligent being. If God exists, this has to apply to Him as well, otherwise it's equally acceptable to say that whatever there was before the Big Bang is "eternal."
I would say it is being in a state of constant expansion. Kinda hard when you live on earth. Its just so... finite.
"Hello, world" in Assembly.
The Hoover Institution is a think-tank, and we all know that think-tanks exist for the sole purpose of legitimizing ideologies that favor certain elites. Thiel may be a millionaire, but he's neither a deep thinker nor a great writer. His ideology is weak since it's not really an ideology, but rather a plan to maximize his wealth.
Pssst, the stylistic device in your comment is called hyperbole, the one in mine is called sarcasm.
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not sure if this is the right place to ask, but can I get an invite ?
See if my site is any good?
Hey,
Can anyone take a look at my website and see if it is good or not and what I need to do to improve it. Its rebelonlinebuying.vacau.com

Thanks!
Shoot me an email: kyle at forrst dot com.
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Wow the squinting really works well! It is like a magic eye, except I can actually see it!
The 10 hour a week I think is derived from the work schedule of French people which you mention in your previous post.

I don't think Israel's economy should be of any particular interest to the U.S, it's like a huge elephant trying to imitate a nimble rat. However, maybe if the U.S stopped giving away billions to Israel every year, it could put more of its own people to work.
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All stories fall off and get forgotten. Or receive negative comments for being "duplicates".
The CEO of Virgin America and I spoke briefly on the phone after he wrote the following email. The situation is still not resolved, but he is looking into the matter and plans to have a resolution by Tuesday evening.

We discussed that my situation was not the first incident of its kind, and I will leave it at that until the matter is resolved. For those travelers who feel that they have been mistreated by airline personnel, this incident will hopefully lead to less stressful flying experiences. - Adeo

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Dear Mr. Ressi—

I was sorry to hear of the incident aboard your flight to New York last night. Rest assured that I am directly involved sorting out how things went so badly as are senior members of my staff. We are currently waiting to interview the crew members that worked your flight and I would like to wait until afterward to respond to you directly. My best guess is that we should have this wrapped up in a few hours.

I would be happy to give you a call at that point if you would give me a convenient number and time. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss this before then, feel free to call me on my personal mobile at xxx-xxx-xxxx. If it goes to voicemail, I will get right back to you. I am traveling, so noise might be an issue.

Thanks

David
I have a website already where I have attempted to do that kind of thing. One of the first pages on it was a checklist. It grew out of an email that got the response of "Can I forward that to someone I know who has a child with CF?!!" I felt being able to share a link would be better than having people forward my emails all over the place. Unfortunately, the only people who seem able to benefit from the website mostly fall into one of two categories:

A) People who have pursued alternative remedies for a long time who therefore have some context for what I am talking about.

B) People with a fairly recently diagnosed child who have not yet been inculcated with the current thinking.

Also, I was extremely sick at one time and spent about a year at death's door. When someone is that sick and heavily medicated, learning new material can be very challenging. But games often were a godsend to keep me harmlessly occupied and also happen to be an excellent educational tool.

As for "measurably effective", although I do my best to provide links to supporting information, at this point in time people essentially have to take my word for it. I'm not interested in being Joan of Arc or some such (what with her being burned at the stake at the age of about 19). I don't want people to do this "on faith" because they believe in me. I am very painfully aware that people tend to divide up between folks who react like I am some hero/savior figure and folks who would like to put together a lynch mob. It's extremely important to me that people understand and what I am doing currently is insufficient to that task. It is imperative that I develop an educational tool so people aren't putting their lives in my hands on faith/belief in me personally and can, instead, effectively take their lives in their own hands. (As an aside: currently, such individuals routinely put their lives in the hands of others -- mostly doctors -- so that is a familiar model for them and I think it is part of the problem. So I don't think you can even achieve the goal by following such a path. Thus what would be the point, other than possibly ego gratification?) If I can't overcome that obstacle, I am willing to walk away (rather than be martyred, literally or figuratively) and go live a "normal life" now that I am well enough to do so for the first time in my life.

Thanks.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "treaty company"? I looked around but all I could find were mentions of US treaty companies set up in Thailand. Is there a similar thing for the US?
but the guy has an iPhone 4 instead of an android phone...
Some interesting ideas, but: http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue02/features/groeng1.gif
This would be a nice iPhone app

Of course, it would take NP-forever
I think it works well with some majors, definitely. To compete, they will need to offer more than simple lectures. Economic majors will have to have more behavioral experimentation and you can't compete with physics majors who have a freakin' laser beams to play around with.

Though, getting my degree in economics, I now think it would have been smarter to do it at home. The worst thing that hurt my grades was being too lazy to walk to class. Once I did work online, my grades went from Cs to As.
Thanks for mentioning it, and thanks to the OP for the thanks. ;)

Hackety is designed for people that are absolute beginners at the moment, and I plan on making more 'intermediate' and 'advanced' things later. We're still pre-1.0 for another few weeks, though, so there still might be a few small rough patches. Specifically, soon it'll just be one program, rather than downloading both Shoes and the hackety.shy.
You hit the nail on the head – if I was a betting man, I'd put as much money as I had on a 'surprise feature' of 4.2 being that you can use the Apple TV as a screen for outputting from an iOS device.

Why do I think this?
http://twitter.com/lllucas - Apple employee, apparently worked on Airplay (note the "happy airplay day!" tweet)
Joe Hewitt (of Facebook) tweets "If only iOS apps could use AirPlay to stream their own stuff to AppleTV." and then lllucas replies "what makes you think they can't? :-)"

Why might I be wrong? It doesn't necessarily make sense that an app could output arbitrary video data (namely, what we're all thinking of, 3D games) to an Apple TV unless there was something seriously cool going on behind the scenes, like using a H.264 encoder in hardware to compress the stream.

If that's happening, then I would think certain devices (such as the iPod touch 2G/3G, iPhone 3G) would be incompatible because there's no reason for them to have an H.264 encoder on their chipset since they don't have video cameras. This would be an odd thing for Apple/app devs to try to support, because now you have to worry about OS revisions + device capabilities, and Apple's been fairly good about coming down on the side of keeping things progressing in software even if the hardware is too slow for it in reality (see the iOS 4.0 on iPhone 3G debacle)

I think it's certain given those tweets that you'll be able to at least stream arbitrary H.264 content from your app to the Apple TV, but to be encoding whatever is on the screen in real time and also be putting load on the graphics processor...I'm not sure that would work.
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For a guide to hacking, the author knows surprisingly little about HTML formatting.
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Success is defined by the person.

Forgive me for being blunt, but this is an incredibly egotistical and snobbish statement to make.
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So good it has its own Wikipedia entry - it's not often that a one-show playlist has been the template for a whole genre. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Mix) Thanks for digging out the relevant links, mas I only had an incomplete copy of this.
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If I understand correctly, you're suggesting that users will verbally speak to the iPod while the podcast is playing. Wouldn't the most common spoken command be "skip ad"?

The concept of interactive audio programming is interesting, but it doesn't seem likely to become commonplace.
The actor who voiced Wheezy, Joe Ranft, died in a car accident in 2005. Cars and Corpse Bride were both dedicated to him.
Kudos to him and all.. but don't 15 yo's these days have better things to do than solve the Riemann hypothesis? Like, ant collections or something?
> "Sajeonogi," or "Knocked down four times, rising up five."

Is Korean really that much more efficient than English, or is that word a label?

The instructors started to teach her after 949 tries - 949 tries, of watching this poor woman fail! - then she did learn, and got it on the 11th try after that. Teaching her was frustrating to them, I think mainly because they weren't really teaching her about driving, but a subset of civil administration and technology concepts, such as "regulations" and "emergency light".

The tragedy is that she could not afford "Middle school", despite dreaming of it so painfully that taking the driving test daily became a joyous wish fulfillment of attending school... an attitude of which the stereotypical student is too invisibly wealthy to properly conceive.
This technology is actually pretty fast. Drawing images is so fundamental for browsers that it tends to be heavily optimized.

If your hardware runs well Google Maps, it will run well this engine (and also the other very similar one - Aves from Dextrose). Rendering wise, it's the same technology.

Most of heavy lifting is done by compiled code of the browser, JavaScript just sets few parameters (as opposed to canvas, where you "micromanage" rendering in relatively slow scripting language).

One screenful of map is about 80-100 images, though performance wise there is still quite a lot of breathing room.

I did some stress tests and my notebook can easily handle many hundreds individual image sprites (done as absolutely positioned DOM elements).

Now physics, this may be slow to do in JavaScript. But with a type of games that work well with image sprites (basically anything where building blocks are large), this will probably not make too big problems as you will not have that many interacting objects (at once together at screen) and also interaction will be optimizable.

The "killer app" will probably be tile based strategies or role-playing games (see current top Facebook apps), so physics / pathfinding / AI would only need to deal with discrete grids, not some costly pixel precise collision detection.
"but the best way to make a lot of money is to find a better or cheaper way to do something"

Nah, the best way is to prey on vice. Weight loss pills, get rich quick schemes, porn, 0 interest ARM loans, etc.
The first thing that came to mind when I read Wheezy was "The Jeffersons", and wondered if it was a "moving on up" reference. (Upon Googling I see that Louise's nickname was actually spelled "Weezie".)
Encryption in your iPhone application? Get ready for paperwork.
I've used a lot of DLNA devices and servers over the last few years. Most are "meh". They work, but most seem to have a user-interface reminiscent of Windows 3.1 especially when dealing with video. They typically have no photo or video metadata knowledge so you're limited to browsing through directories of files and selecting what your want by filename. Have your non-techie significant other try that. No movie-poster art, IMDB synopsis, etc. When you have a library of hundreds and hundreds of ripped DVDs, good luck.

And format support is spotty as well. There's often a mismatch between what the server will serve up and what the device will play back.

I have a Sony TV with most of what was shown here and I rarely, rarely use any of the Internet features. There's DLNA support built-in, but of the 800 or so videos I have being served up on my network, it refuses to even recognize any more than a dozen or so. Everything else is either ignored or causes an error. And the user-interface is completely divorced and separate from my set-top box. if I want to use the Internet features, I have to find the TV remote vs. the cable-box remote and then deal with a different user interface. The lack of transparent integration is a deal-breaker for many people. Switching back and forth between Internet video sources and "normal" sources has to be as seamless as changing channels. Google and Echostar are working together, so they may pull it off, at least for Echostar set-top boxes. Otherwise, without tight-integration, these efforts are going to be a flop.
If you need any of

* MKV support

* 1080p support

* Subtitles (.sub/.idx/.srt)

* Remote control

XBMC on a Gen 1 Apple TV with a Crystal HD card is pretty simple to get going, and has decent performance.

I've tried:

* Gen 1 XBox running XBMC (no 1080p on a Celeron)

* XBox 360 with WMC (flakey codec support, requires separate Windows PC, no subtitle support, remote control via Media Control is bad). Microsoft fluffed this one so bad. All the codec packs for it require you hacking your standalone host system to bits to get playback working.

* DLNA on my Sony Bravia to PlayOn. PlayOn sucks, to put it kindly. Still requires a seperate standalone PC.

In 2008, XBMC streaming over SMB directly from a NAS was the answer.

It still is, if you don't want to muck around for hours fiddling trying to get stuff going by following the cargo cultish forums that exist for video playback (blind leading the blind).
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Ask HN: Artistic Image Reconstruction Algorithms
A recent HN post (http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1663421) described a novel approach in which a source image was reduced to a series of points which was then passed to a TSP solver, whose output was an approximate visualization of the original image (http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/projects/tsp/).

I find such art mentally pleasing from a mathematics perspective as well as highly approachable by any viewer or aspiring artist (read as: myself). Art of this form is usually extremely simplistic and cheap material-wise, which is a bonus.

I've previously used projectors to create my own images similar to Felice Varini (http://www.varini.org/02indc/indgen.html), which was an immensely rewarding experience.

I've recently moved to a new apartment where I have a large quantity of bare walls. Being the type of person who can toil for hours on repetitive tasks, what other computational approaches towards recreating images can be used? What tools can aid in creating such images? (ex: dynamically adapting the view frustum of a projected image so as to not cause visual distortion against a wall [note: undesired in the Varini example!])
I have used couchdb in large systems and small systems. CouchDB is at the end of the day a DB use it as a DB don't embedded your webapp in it.
I doubt it was a serious suggestion. I discovered at a similar age that news reporters have a habit of taking remarks out of context.
If you work on a video game, you almost always have to do something like that. In fact you never rely on malloc/new/delete/free for a big portion of the code. And it's usually 3rd party libraries, or the sdk itself that goes and uses malloc/free (new/delete) directly.

Basically we do a statistic, and keep it over time - for a given level what object sizes there are, and what's their count, then we preallocate arrays with these sizes, or allocate them in big chunks (or instead of even allocating them, just increase a pointer a to buffer with the size).

Another example would be a CGI. Instead of having malloc/free just have one big block and just increase a pointer and pretend to be just allocating, no free. Then just exit the application, and obviously whatever memory was used is gone. (This is for short running CGI scripts).
Haven't found a job yet, just started looking last week and I have a few phone interviews set up.

If I get an offer I'll have to look at the consultant/analyst option and talk to a lawyer.

Thanks for the advice!
When Google puts one of it's services in the AdWords area, I have never seen one listed as anything but the first. And even if Google did bid for the top spot, they have inside access to the AdWords placement algorithm, which other advertisers have to guess at.
Are you a Successful Entprepreneur? What is Success, Anyway?
Apple TV is an experiment. They're trying to find a market fit, so to speak. If you're comparing anything Apple is doing to an existing product, you're looking at it the wrong way.
That sounded a lot more like over the top rhetoric as opposed to useful information.

> Don't use Hadoop MapReduce until you have a solid reason why xargs won't solve your problem

Really? How do these two even compare?
You say this, but isn't this exactly what cable is? Only instead of $10 it's $70+ a month? Maybe you won't, but lots of people will.
Why are all the fonts on that page rendered so badly?

It's artifacts all the way down.

(Chrome 7 on Windows 7)
This is a myth which society uses to let it sleep at night about them.

Perhaps, though one might say that about a lot of things. On the other hand, places with strictly enforced prohibition still manage to have sordid redlight districts, no matter how aggressively they criminalize women who ply this trade.

I'm not convinced you can coerce people into being good, especially in a trade that caters to such fundamental biological drives. The strictest places I can think of as far as personal morals are concerned are countries like Saudi Arabia, whose 'solution' to the exploitation of women is apparently to drape them with black fabric and severely restrict their autonomy...and which still has a significant human trafficking problem.
I came to make the same comment, though I do wish I could get a little more conversation out of those 15 guests, mainly because I tend to learn more from my writing when others tell me where I'm stupid.
They got Russia wrong. As usual.
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Thanks for the official link, I'd been using wikipedia which is slightly different.

If I get further with a company I'll be sure to contact a lawyer. Thanks for the advice.
And for CMU, a hypercard (!) stack with a map of the steam tunnels: http://www.city-net.com/~dmm/tunnels.html
Ask HN: Experiences with PayPal? Would you recommend or kill it with fire?
Hey HN,

I'm gradually working gathering a few diverse income sources (as side-projects), all of which pay me via PayPal.

As I'm sure we all have, I've heard all sorts of horror stories about PayPal, but I've only heard the strong negatives -- mainly account freezes due to a sudden spike in income that triggers PayPal's anti-fraud measures. I've also heard about delays in releasing money or getting the money out of PayPal.

So, I ask:

* What are your first/second-hand experiences using PayPal?
** And for your larger amounts of money (say, $500-$2000 a month)?
* Potential problems/things to watch out for?
* Any viable alternatives? (I know about WePay)
"Skip ad" would only be an option if the producers put that in there. Think of it like banners or audio iAds. You have to know it's there to skip it.

If Kevin Smith asks you if you want to hear him talk about product X, most people will say "yes".
Step 1, learn to elide almost everything except what you're actually teaching. This is surprisingly harder than it sounds and often involves saying things that are technically untrue.

Step 2, teach the things required to do tasks.

For a child, you should focus on things that they can understand the output of. Sound, animations, pictures. Turtle/logo is a fantastic platform in this regard.

For, well, everyone, you need to ensure that what you're teaching is what they're interested in. If they're not excited about moving a cursor around a canvas, then they won't learn anything.

You'll know you're teaching correctly when they start doing things on their own that you didn't expect.

Sean
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