skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're doing exactly what you're doing (check us out @ http://zuupy.com), minus the "we have tons of data on which to leverage" part. Launch that feature as a separate widget product, and we'll be direct competitors.

Great job on the feature, by the way. I've used it multiple times myself, so far so good.
Children are amazing. If you want to refocus your world, talk to one for half an hour.

Wait! Not like that, you'll get arrested.
I couldn't agree more. I checked out the directv sample at the Sony booth last CES and both football and soccer looked amazing. Sports will be a massive driver.

I can see 3d TVs starting their life in man caves all over the world. I'm not sure they'll move out of the cave up to the living room, but who knows once people get used to them.

I also think there'll be a lot of improvement on the eyewear situation.
I didn't understand children when I was one, so I doubt I'd understand them now.
Integrate iTunes, MobileMe and Ping with iLife
I've read several patents that could point toward something like this happening. What might stand in the way? Would this fit with Apple as you understand them?
The EINTR error can be raised at any time for any reason, so essentially every I/O operation on a Unix system must be prepared to handle this error properly. Surprisingly to some, this includes the C standard library functions such as fread(), fwrite(), and so on.

I think the editors of C99 and POSIX would be surprised by this too. Any non-buggy fread or fwrite should retry on EINTR.
I hear you but I think it depends on the situation. Headphones can be annoying but it sounds so much better. You don't wear them at a party but there are still plenty of situations where you do.
Just because everyone says it does not mean that "we care about privacy" is a meaningless statement. It is a statement of conviction and demonstrates respect and care for its users. We can only imagine why this statement was deleted. On the one hand, Google's privacy policy says "we care about privacy" yet, on the other hand, certain aspects of Google's present business practices and future business plans as well as certain statements of Google's CEO could be construed to suggest the opposite. Probably Google's lawyers recommended removing this statement to avoid having users hold Google to account for possible contradictions between its privacy policy and its business practices.
Incredibly frustrating that all the figures were thumbnails that are illegible and don't link to a higher-resolution version---and then the text doesn't even fully explain them. Does anyone know which country he's talking about for Fig. 3?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11178043

I'm skeptical just like this reporter, but at the same time, I would really like to see 3D more widely available.
What I don't--- OMG PONIES!

In all seriousness, it may be a trained assistance pet for the blind.
Even if they do ease in scrobbling their "social network" will be crippled by the fact that your Winamp buddy, or Rdio friend, or Linux pal doesn't use iTunes. For Ping to succeed they're going to have to convince users that their platform is dedicated to social music, not enhancing the itunes purchasing experience. So unless iTunes gets every music listener in the world, or darn close to everyone, to use iTunes instead of however they currently listen to music, then their social functionality is going to always be less useful than a platform independent service. A social network gains value with more users (in general), so if iTunes is restricting the flow of potential users it's just going to hurt them.

iTunes could satisfy the iTunes user market. But unless clusters of friends all use iTunes, a decentralized service will be more useful. And i'm not sure if being an itunes user means more of your friends use itunes (to any level of significancy). So chances are most people will have a bunch of friends who can't participate.
When I was a child I wanted to be an adult. Now that I'm an adult I still want to be an adult. Go figure.
I truly believe that debt by itself can destroy relationships. You speak as a person who has the prospect of actually paying it off. What if your partner coming into the relationship has a lifetime debt that cannot be paid off at you and your partner's forseeable income level far into the future, until your 80 and 90's? Would you want to be paying debt for your entire life?

For someone who has the ability to make 80k a year, debt seems like something that can be managed away. If you have no hackerly skills, and work at minimum wage (like a large number of north americans these days) - what hope do you have of maintaining a relationship that is purely controlled by a debt collector?
Are you really finding it that hard to fill the position, or do you need more than one? Looking over your posts you mentioned looking for an entry-level dev about 300 days ago...

Curious whether this is an indication of scarcity of developers in the greater Philly area or not.
Horns, claws and the bottom line
My Toshiba Satellite Pro has a Celeron 497 MHz processor which Intel produced in 1999. It has been used almost daily since then, upgraded to XP but with the same 10 gig HD.

I still follow 1500 stocks with Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS (please, no codger jokes). I use a Python script to download daily Yahoo stock data and Lotus reads the resulting CSV data. Any changes to my stocks are written to a python database by Lotus also. As a wag said, if it works, don't fix it.
The psychosis assistance-parrot sounds farcical, but the explanation is utterly logical.
For me personally, some of the not-being-that-excited-ness is that I grew up reading sci-fi and cyberpunk, and basically always assumed these things were possible and likely, just a matter of implementation details. A device that can translate any language at a button-push? Sure, I heard about it when I was eight. A device you carry around that instantly connects to some sort of communication network? Yeah, I've probably read about a dozen takes on those. Etc.

Weirdly, actually having it doesn't seem to make a huge difference to me. The idea of something like a smartphone was pretty exciting when I read about it in the 1980s, and it was interesting to follow early PDA forays like the Newton. But now that they exist and work well, I haven't even gotten around to buying one yet; by the time reality caught up, it wasn't that exciting anymore.
> None of those are contradictory to the idea of control consistency throughout iTunes

Of course not. That's how iTunes already works, and iTunes is already consistent.

However, those things are contrary to your suggestion: "it makes more sense to have the control buttons apply to items independent of where you're browsing".

Look, it's clear you haven't really thought things through. You just need to learn how iTunes works. (You also need to learn how to reply to the correct comment)

It's very easy: The playback controls "always" apply to the playlist you are viewing. If you want to get back to the currently-playing playlist, click the little back-arrow in the right-hand side of the main display. You can't get more consistent than that.

You can also click the "Now Playing" window and that will also give you controls for the current playlist.

It's very easy.
The musical licensing environment is a nightmare, and these sites I suspect weren't licensing the lyrics.

Metrolyrics.com has licensing rights to a huge volume of lyrics, give them a try.
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Earlier this year, a friend of mine (Alex) was part of the Wired "Disappear" contest that was tied in with the Repomen movie. She had to disappear for a month, all while doing one or two mandated tasks from Loneshark Games to give some clues to the people hunting her and three other "runners" down. With all the photos and videos the runners had taken during the course of the hunt, it would have made for a really fascinating read, but the writer left before the feature was finished, and the whole thing was boiled down to a rather lame blog post instead.

http://cs.condenastdigital.com/cs/wordpress/repomen/?p=2124

I've bugged her to write down her experience in some form, she traveled all over the country on a limited budget, and we pulled some pretty smooth tricks on the people chasing her (by the time one guy figured out I was a mole, none of the other hunters trusted him, and thought HE was the one leaking info to the runners), but she never got around to that.

Alex managed to elude people quite well, using me and one other friend as her sole contacts during the ordeal. I think we did a smashing job eluding everyone, and it was a really fascinating experience, even just from my position as the guy gathering and relaying intelligence and information. The other guy who beat the hunters was ex-Army, said we'd do well in the CIA, heh.

Anyhow, I guess what I'm really posting about is that even when you're forced to reveal aspects of your whereabouts online, it's not that hard to disappear. The hard part is not going crazy during the process. At first you're too paranoid, but if you get too comfortable, you'll start to give away clues to your past, and that will ultimately be your undoing. "Never look back" is so much harder than most people realize, especially in the long term.

I would love to believe that in the future, people are given more leeway for the way they behaved in their youth, given the way the internet never forgets. Everyone makes mistakes, but so many people are documenting each other now, things like that aren't forgotten the way they used to be.

The idea of completely shedding an old identity is pretty absurd, a short-term workaround at best.
I got an HTC Incredible which is about on par with an iPhone (in between the 3g and the 4g), and it still seems like magic when I use it.
This article uses the phrase "maintaining state", but it's really talking about controlling the visibility of instance variables, and on a higher level using interfaces to provide loosely-coupled contracts for the behavior of classes. Using the same ideas within classes to "shield" instance variables from internal code is a good practice.

While the examples are in Ruby, this is the kind of design philosophy that is typically applied to Java development. Perhaps there's some hope for Ruby after all. :)
Smarter conversations: “how do i want to change the way i talk to people?”
I let myself get scared a little, as I should with any good peak oil story, and then went looking for an Achilles' Heel.

"Some might also wonder why a shortage of oil should automatically trigger a collapse. It turns out that, in an industrialized economy, a drop in oil consumption precipitates a proportional drop in overall economic activity. Oil is the feedstock used to make the vast majority of transportation fuels -- which are used to move products and deliver services throughout the economy. In the US in particular, there is a very strong correlation between GDP and motor vehicle miles traveled. Thus, the US economy can be said to run on oil, in a rather direct and immediate way: less oil implies a smaller economy. At what point does the economy shrink so much that it can no longer meet its own maintenance requirements? In order to continue functioning, all sorts of infrastructure, plant and equipment must be maintained and replaced in a timely manner, or it stops functioning. Once that point is reached, economic activity becomes constrained not just by the availability of transportation fuels, but also by the availability of serviceable equipment. At some point the economy shrinks so much as to invalidate the financial assumptions on which it is based, making it impossible to continue importing oil on credit. Once that point is reached, the amount of transportation fuels available is no longer limited just by the availability of oil, but also constrained by the inability to finance oil imports."

This is the part which attempts to convince the reader that a simple recession/stagnation cannot occur.

Unfortunately, it vastly underestimates our resourcefulness and runs on the fallacy of the USA only ever being capable of transportation with petroleum, or of a collapse so swift and sudden(from full consumption to zero in a matter of months; an unlikely event, between price hikes, austerity measures, the application of strategic reserves, opening of existing private stocks, etc.) that no response can be made. If it ever becomes too costly to run petroleum-based freighters, we can still revive coal and sail technology. That alone will ensure the survival of ocean-bound transportation(and hence a lot of import-export dependencies). Overland, goods in the USA are transported through the most cost-effective freight system in the world; trucks are "last mile" haulers in most situations. Our existing rail and electric systems can revert to coal for some time to come, although nobody likes the ecological costs involved in coal. And this even leaves open the possibility of refrigerated transit, just not necessarily at present-day schedules.

So the remaining energy problems, as I see them, are in petro-agriculture dependency and infrastructure(primarily in housing stock). Difficult? Yes. Impossible? No. People will die as a result of pretty much any peak oil scenario. A full collapse, though, requires both an overnight cratering of production, and an awful lot of faith in people to do exactly the wrong things.
Hah, definitely not a surprise that Justin.tv is sponsoring it.
Your link just got me on the free trial... gonna try it out on my droid and see if it's better than Pandora, and maybe I'll subscribe.

edit: bleh, $5 extra just for mobile? Nevermind.
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"Leave a missed call" was so popular in South Africa that the networks implemented "Send a call me", where you send a GSM code with the target person's phone number and the network sends that person an sms message from your number with the text "please call me", your number, and an advertisement.
Normally sending messages attracts a charge per SMS but a "please call me" is free, advertiser supported and limited in how many one can send per day.
> Would you want to be paying debt for your entire life?

For the love of my life? I'd work 3 jobs and work overtime.
Because most people enjoy practicing Starcraft, but few enjoy practicing the piano.
Plus, it came with a level editor! Oh, the hours I wasted with BUILD.EXE...
Ping is from Apple and so should be awesome. </sarcasm>
Ah, that’s were I read about guide horses! Thanks for the reminder. As soon as I saw the photo in the submission the term “guide horse” just popped into my mind but I couldn’t figure out why I knew that term. Now I know.
The deciding factor with the iPad was that it was made by Apple. I'm sure that if Apple were to make a 3D TV, it would sell like crazy.
> The instant gratification provided by being able to have almost any question answered immediately is a tiny pony.

Apart from reference questions (like dictionary meanings, map look up, programming syntax, wikipedia), we are an awfully long way from this.
> are not interested in practical solutions

but it's us stinky hippies that bang on the loudest and for the longest about sustainable transport solutions, renewable energy and sustainable population. (~>_aside form nuclear energy_<~) where do you draw that stereotype from?

edit: emphasis
I would view that as the digital equivalent of trespassing.

As far as how I'd view it if people "pirated" software that I'd worked on? Well... I'd view it about the same as I did when I last found a copy of said software being shared: it's copyright infringement, not theft.
When Your Friends Have Money but You Don’t
Xpra is screen for X applications
Really? Is there that much ire? Why don't they get over it and dev for android?
Flat Screen TV Installation in Orange County
Some people like to be installed the Home Theaters at home or office. Before you decide to install the Home Theater Installation in Los Angeles, make sure that you choose the right service providers.
I think like many other nascent entertainment technologies, the first really profitable use cases for this could be porn and gaming.
I think that the Linksys WRTG was what sounded the death-knell for lots of old hardware. It used to be the case that the oldest, cheapest box you had ended up as a router/firewall and since the thing never really needed to hit disk it would probably keep running until the PCBs turned to dust. I used to routinely use old 486 and first-gen Pentiums as cheap gateway boxes but now I will just flash a new bit of firmware into a wireless base station and toss the old hardware.
I do my FreeBSD testing on a 10 year old box.
True, but the benefits of having personal, portable music outweigh the annoyance of having to wear headphones. And as you said, you don't wear them in social situations, which is exactly what will be required with 3D tv. It is in effect like having a party and making everyone wear headphones.

Sure, it might sound better, but is it worth the hassle?
Google's HTML/CSS 3D Buckyball
Or perhaps an intern team would be more appropriate. Either way.
It was a 2.5D engine, but there were a lot of hacks put in to make it feel more 3D.

For instance you couldn't do proper floors above floors, but there were some rendering tricks you could use to do bridges.

It also supported slanted floors, which helps level designers more than you realize. Also there were invisible teleports to fake a real 3d layout.

But the most important part was that the level designers were very good at using those tricks to hide the limits of the engine.
Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush 
Great Documentary about the release of the Mozilla Code to the Open Source community.
You can still do a 4-pool rush: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rTCRg9_7Hw
Interestingly enough, they did it with "pure" HTML/CSS, plus 2 images for the nodes & connections.

I was a bit surprised that they didn't use canvas, which seems to be all the rage these days. I'm assuming this implementation, however, works on IE.
LSD: cultural revolution and medical advances
When asked why he was able to design the circuitry and build the Apple computer before anybody else, Steve Wozniak said, "It’s probably because I did more LSD than they did."
my vote for new term:

comm

that's how I think of my iPhone. It's my comm unit. Cross between a Star Trek communicator, tricorder and portable Spock science console. We just need to add phaser.
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I love how prefixing a statement with 'I'm sorry' has been transformed into meaning the exact opposite...
Apple can do no wrong..You folks don't know to appreciate what they did
To use your comparison to the iPad I think current 3D technologies/implementations are comparable to the clunky oversized Windows tablets that failed. They had the right form factor but were missing some important bits (software, battery life, price) to make them really compelling. Someone will come up with a great enhancement to film in the future that leap frogs today's gimmicky 3D effects and it will be very successful. I think maybe VR glasses could make a comeback now that we have very tiny high resolution displays and advanced types of motion tracking. I don't think we're that far away from an amateurish holodeck sort of experience. A gyro tracks your head movements and a camera tracks your body movements. The VR glasses wrap around your entire field of vision with highly detailed multi-channel headphones. It would be very immersive. You couldn't reach out and touch something of course but you might get a really strong sense of being in a 3D space.
stendahl peak oil romanticism at its best
Ah. I don't believe mrshoe was talking about Bill Gates remaining CEO of MS. He was suggesting that Gates should have managed more like Jobs back when he was CEO.
Pelé as a Comedian
It's cool how prefixing a statement with 'I love' has been transformed into meaning the exact opposite...
Netflix Polls BitTorrent Habits of Leaving Customers
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It was an illumination that goes on inside: in ten minutes I lived a thousand years. - George Harrison
That should count. In that case I know of an old 1986 BMW ECU that I used for testing, in my days as an engineer at Bosch. I suppose it still exists there, since they still need to support old vehicles for their diagnostic devices.
I have a Prius. I also support massive expansion of nuclear energy, just like Stewart Brand (of the Whole Earth catalog) and David McKay (British physicist). Caring for the environment doesn't mean forgetting physics. In addition, if we're talking TCO, many more people have been killed in oil wars than nuclear disasters...
The interaction between children and adults in our culture is weird nowadays.

I was at the zoo with my girlfriend in the reptile section. A little boy was staring into the same tank that we were, his mom was maybe ten feet away. You know how reptiles are, they are always hiding behind some rock or branch or just blending in nefariously. So I ask the boy, "Do you see the snake?" It felt awkward to ignore another human being crowding around the glass with us and I figured I would give him a chance to feel good by showing off his superior reptile-spotting ability.

He seemed shocked that an adult he didn't know would talk to him. There's something weird about that being weird.
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Postcards are usually anything but depressing
Post cards were a common way to communicate in the past, check out some of the most depressing postcards in history.
Seconded. That is what the multi purpose, networked portable device is mostly used for. Communication.
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Econtalk had an episode about carbon shortage recently. It turns out that synthetic fuels manufactured from coal become economical far before petroleum is totally gone. And there are other more expensive technologies that come into play when the coal is gone.

All the while, renewable energy is getting cheaper by the year.

Here's the link. It is a fascinating podcast, though it wanders a bit near the end:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/08/laughlin_on_the.htm...