skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's see, Amazon's purchase-HD-video-for-$1 is still a better deal and there are no compelling features over Google TV which will allow me to use whatever distribution channels I want for my content. It allows any Android (or any, period) device to act as a remote through an open protocol. You can install any app. And if you want you can watch "amateur content" that is too good for Jobs. (His sentiment, not mine).

They may have launched first, but I'm way more excited about what Google is not going to launch, but truly enable.
" ... I know there's a creator"

When I see a creator, I have to ask where did that creator come from?

How is this not turtles all the way down?
You've misunderstood me.

Take any of the phenomenon described, say "organisms that reproduce at 121 degrees" Send samples out, samples are reheated, other independent scientists verify this cause and effect.

Sure, the entire set of wild claims would take a heckuva lot of verification. But any one of the claims? Dead simple. Why don't we have independent verification of dead simple things? Probably because there is no verification to be had, sadly.
David Allen's thoughts on Gmail's Priority Inbox
Indeed, the military is one of the most studied, analyzed and questioned branches of the government (speaking as a former military man). I remember the time I read the GAO report on the Patriot Missle System, it was a huge eye opener for me. The government is much more transparent than we give it credit for, we just have to be willing to put the time in.
It's already there. There's a Buy Ticket button on concert mentions.
>Perhaps she found out you're a hitman.

It was the moustache wasn't it .. can't believe she saw through it.
Killer feature for me--if you made this thing automatically extract the text from talks, I would be willing to pay for it. I love talks but hate having to wait through the whole thing to get all the information.
It's the "panspermia angle" that's "rejected by the scientific community at large", whereas the other findings (i.e. lack of DNA) are "yet to be verified". One step at a time: they may not be able to show extraterrestrial origin, but they have experimental evidence of reproduction at high heat, and an apparent lack of genetic material. If nothing else, those points are _extremely_ interesting.
> While many spores on Earth can survive that kind of extreme heat, none have yet been discovered that can reproduce in those conditions, much less require it to begin reproducing.

Much less than none?
Righto. I had a working implementation that could expand 'x to (quote a) and '(1 2 3) to (quote (1 2 3)), but the case of expanding '''a to (quote (quote (quote a))) stumped me. I realize that ' is a special form like any other... except I haven't figured out how to implement any other special forms either :)
If you like to receive incoming calls, yes. You can get 1-2 days standby on an iPhone. Good luck getting anywhere close with that combination.
Thanks for the tips. It's probably time for me to stop messing around and start reading the Lambda Papers in earnest...
YC's preferences on companies that they would like to invest their time and money in doesn't necessarily equal "the best way" for all entrepreneurs under all situations and circumstances.

That is certainly true. We would never claim otherwise. YC invests in startups, and only a tiny fraction of the millions of small companies in the US are startups. Nearly all are service businesses whose prospects for growth are minimal.

Startup founders are a very small subset of entrepreneurs.
I found this article quite interesting...

http://www.slate.com/id/2250793/pagenum/all

It covers the history of tuning systems and how many different definitions there are of 'in tune'.
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> isn't that seriously afoul of SEC rules?

Which rules?? Public traded companies often give out something called guidance, which tells investors what range they think their profits and revenues, and by extension, stock price will be in the coming quarters.
Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe
IPhone set to replace the stethoscope
I remember they took their time to add DivX support though. A couple of years maybe. And they still haven't released web browsing, which i'd find useful
Successful Attack Against a Quantum Cryptography System
IOS 4.1 with HDR built-in comes as a shock to HDR app developers
Another easy way to get a level playing field is to ssh to a server and use 'screen' with two clients attached, it's comparable to the 'tmux' program but I think it is a bit more widely known, chances are you already have it installed.
What if this was a way to attack the games consoles?
Eg - what if you're playing a game on your iphone/itouch, and it's streaming it live to your iTV. Basically, your iphone/itouch has then become a touch-screen game controller, and the itv has replaced your wii/xbox/ps3 ... It's totally feasible by the sounds of it.
For a VPS/dedicated where you're manually operating the server and database, #3 is generally given.

I run a couple of small boxes on Slicehost http://slicehost.com/ and their management interface allows you to bring up new boxes / close down boxes as you need, manage your DNS records, and etc.

If you require shell support, they do have an API to their management interface http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2008/3/26/announcing-the-s... — I've played with it just once, in Python, and found it to be extremely accessible.

The couple times I've needed support, I got resolved within less than an hour. Generally, I find that I can resolve minor issues within their management interface (reboot an instance, get shell access via browser if you have broken SSHD, etc.).
wow, that's nice. Exactly what I was looking for.
"The only lifeforms that occur or Earth without DNA, according to another commentor, are proteins known as 'prions', best known on Earth as the cause of Mad Cow Disease."

I was not aware that prions were considered a lifeform.
Now, how about a progressive consumption tax? Impossible to implement, but perfect for the situation you just described.
It turns out that there is really no such thing as a "perfectly tuned piano". Something is always a little dissonant. Different tunings can move this dissonance around, but (on a standard 12-notes-per-octave keyboard) they cannot eliminate it.

Here is a nice article from Slate about all this:

http://www.slate.com/id/2250793/

(EDIT: GMTA, it seems.)
Where that sounds like a good idea, I think the reality would be grossly unfair. First of all, what's an income? Is it just money I earn? What about interest (paid and earned), capital gains (money I don't actually have, but earned) or government benefits? You're already making exceptions defining income.

Second, there's the practical matter of people/business who operate on extremely thin profit margins and if you could even practically tax them.

I think in reality a flat tax has great benefits to the wealthy but gets progressively more burdensome as you get poorer. After all, the more money you have, the more money you can make, thus making the "flat tax" exacerbate the gap between rich and poor.
Additionally, for $5 per box, you can store 3 backup images of the whole machine — and have two of them operate on a schedule (i.e., one image updates daily at a certain time, another one updates weekly at a certain time, and you can store another one manually before a large migration or upgrade if you want).

This has saved my ass before.
"It was science that said the earth was flat until it was proven otherwise."

Pythagoras (570-495BC) had a belief in a spherical earth along with a number of other Greeks in the same era.

The book of Isaiah was written no earlier than the 8th century BC.

These two date ranges and regions are quite close to one another. Your claim seems a bit off the mark.
Pianos are tuned to an equal-tempered scale-- essentially (and, of course, over-simply) you "spread out" the "out-of-tuneness" that results from the fact that the Western 12-tone chromatic scale doesn't fit inside a perfect system of frequency ratios. See here for lots of math that I don't understand at all:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament

As a side (historical) note, one of the earliest champions of Equal Temperament (or Well-Temperament) was Bach, who wrote The Well Tempered Clavier as a kind of advertisement for this tuning system. Prior to systematized equal temperament, it was impossible for an instrument to play in all 24 keys without being re-tuned. On a Well-Tempered instrument, you can play straight through all 24-keys without stopping to be retuned.

Singers (and brass players, and any other instrument that allows for fine, sinlge-cent level tuning) often use a different system called Just Intonation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_intonation

Just Intonation is "more in tune" than Equal-temperament, but it is not noticeable by most people. I teach music for a living and have a degree in music theory and I have a very difficult time telling the difference.

EDIT: Yes, I did oversimplify by conflating equal temperament and well-temperament, but in the modern debate, they do tend to get lumped together.
Sounds about right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
Google Wave open source next steps: "Wave in a Box"
I'm a complete amateur but have come across different scales, different tuning intervals and such - http://www.midicode.com/tunings/temperament.shtml this gives an almost understandable rendition of what's happening.
Hold up, did Google just make a roundabout dick joke?
Replace "much less" with "let alone".
It depends on the definition of 'life' you're using. There's lots of disagreement on what the definition should be exactly.
Well the PS3 is sort of marketed as a home entertainment device. "It does everything" and the fact that it supports blu-ray are evidence of that.
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> Odeo struggled for five of the seven months I was there. I think it was pretty clear we were a bit lost and the board was very kind about it, i.e. they knew they weren't going to come up with the the innovation that was going to turn into a big success.

Humorous considering Twitter was launched by Odeo (though I'm not sure how the IP ended up, I know there was a clever spin off fairly quickly). When were you there?
Twitter Blog: The Evolving Ecosystem
If I recall correctly this was properly debunked as false. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala from the article "The color was found to be due to the presence of a large amount of spores of a lichen-forming alga belonging to the genus Trentepohlia"
Bonus question: Which Senator who became a President voted for it?

(Cheet sheet: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_c...)
And then there is always the risk that someone will make a smartaleck suggestion to the effect of "write me a personal check".

(Of course, tonight I'm the one tempted to make such a suggestion. :-/)
I really agree with robertg's comment, but I would also make the suggestion to include TED talks.
> If she is a reasonably attractive woman-- defined as not bathing in smallpox-- then all that she gets, all day, is practice appraising men and filtering through their words.

Whether or not they get a lot of practice, I've known a good number who filtered and came up with the straight-up wrong answer every time.
Maybe replace the Wii, but it's going to need a lot more power and dedication to game playing people if it wants to target Xbox or PS3.
"In a sense, this publication is verification..."

I don't think that Dr. Louis gets to verify his own work.
s/much less/to say nothing of/

It's a common colloquialism that we use in that part of the world.
It involves a fast 'burst' of ad spend, to drive as many installs as possible in as short a time as possible.

This is because the goal is to get onto a 'top free' or 'top paid' list (for your category or overall) and those are based on a short-term rolling average of units downloaded.

In other words, it's to your advantage to spend your marketing budget all at once, instead of gradually.

Yes, it works, if the budget's high enough and your app's appealing enough for the ad creative to actually drive installs. It can also backfire spectacularly.
There really is nobody arguing that prions are alive. Unlike viruses, for which there is at least a vigorous debate, prions just don't cut it, lacking virtually all of the features that we associate with life.

I can't believe that this news article is quoting from commenters on the technologyreview arxiv blog.
Say you're already in a screen session on host A and SSH from inside that session to host B. You want to run multiple commands on host B, but you don't want to start a nested screen session.
I have several websites (at least two of which are routinely referred to be other people as "blogs" and I have begun actually adding blogs to them). I seriously doubt you would be interested in any of them. I'm thinking it might be a good idea for you to give a broad definition of what kind of blogs you are hoping to hear about. With 60k uniques a day (last I heard), simply being a member here doesn't guarantee one is necessarily a "hacker".

(I know a little html, xhtml, and css but I don't think of myself as a "hacker" nor is writing code part of my dayjob. I imagine most members here would laugh me off the forum if I referred to myself as a "hacker" or posted a list of my websites in this discussion as suggested "hacker blogs" or some such. ;-) )
I was very much hoping for something like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1575928 and I'm really happy they chose to open source it rather than to let it rust on a shelf somewhere.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.. In response to your questions.. I think Skype (or any IM client) could definitely use the real estate of the iPad to make multiple conversations useful. Sure.. video conferencing is a non-starter, but Skype does voice and text and could do it nicely with a native iPad app.

The app approval process is fairly terrifying, and I'd buy that it might be a reason higher-overhead projects on the iPad aren't being built.. That's the sort of aspect I was interested in getting folks' opinions on.
As this data shows, while smart phone clients are important, there are even more people who use the mobile Twitter web site and/or SMS. We've been seeing strong growth in both of these areas.

i'm amazed that sms usage is not only higher than smartphone apps, but that it's actually growing. i wonder what kind of usage patterns these sms users have compared to smartphone/desktop app users. how many users do they follow and how many messages do they average per day?
Some older pitch correction devices, like the Lexicon PCM-81, aren't that great at snapping the pitch on their own (or can't do it at all), and need a keyboard playing the correct notes.
>He says the cells - inert at room temperature - begin to reproduce at 121C. ... While many spores on Earth can survive that kind of extreme heat, none have yet been discovered that can reproduce in those conditions, much less require it to begin reproducing.

Right, except there is a word for those organisms, some of which do thrive at those temperatures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthermophile

(Specifically, organisms are known that grow at up to 122 deg Celsius.) Did this newspaper do any actual research before making those claims?
Availability is a security property too.

The article isn't really saying there's a security problem in OAuth alone, but that there's a security problem in the overall system consisting of OAuth, Twitter's mandating use of it in a way it wasn't intended, and Twitter's presumed policy of disabling "compromised" keys.
He was not able to come up with his planned legacy of a unified field theory, so instead he attempts to be a modern Copernicus. If you don't believe me, read the intro to "On the Shoulders of Giants." The man is obsessed with the legacy of great minds of science and does not want to be second to Einstein in his legacy. He is not coming up with anything new here. Scientifically speaking, the universe could have been created by any number of things. There is nothing to go on but theory and incomplete observations of our universe, and he thinks he's figured it all out. Can he explain why everything works the way it does?

I had really, truly hoped he would have the legacy he'd hoped for, but this... this is just crap, and he knows it. I knew he was off his rocker when he asked Yahoo Answers, "How can the human race survive the next hundred years?"
I totally agree. When I land on a new site that has nothing but a search box, my mind goes blank. The recent links are nice, but I think more real estate devoted to really compelling, well-liked content would be really helpful for new people trying to 'get' it.
I'll second this. I was under the impression that it was spores of a decidedly earthbound variety. I wish it were little extraterrestrial organisms but t does not look to be the case.
Which surprises me given those comments.

He himself admits not to be a messaging expert.
Maybe crowd-rated "spoiler" comments. A succinct paragraph on the core point of the talk would be huge for me with some of this kind of content.
Dammit. I keep resisting the lure of the iPad, but when jwz weighs in...

Must. Wait. For. Next. Version.

You know, the smaller one with the front facing camera. So my kids can do FaceTime with their grandparents.

Or the one with a (dare I hope) retina display. I guess that's probably a few versions out.
As I think you're alluding, "much less" is idiomatic English, and is used correctly in the article. Basically, it means "certainly not."

"Let alone" is also idiomatic English so might not clarify things if the parent was unfamiliar with "much less."
If you don't distribute portions of the software, then you don't need to worry about AGPL vs GPL vs whatever. Copyright licenses only apply when you perform some action which requires copyright permissions.

Based on your post, I'm guessing the AGPL'd code simply listens on a socket, and doesn't send itself to the client. If this is true, then you don't need to do anything special to comply with it.
It's an instant-on appliance with a real web browser and real mail reader on a real screen.

I guess that's the selling point right there.
It's not a computer that requires booting and starting up system services and logging in. It's an appliance you can immediately turn on and start using.
"Today Louis, Wickramasinghe and others publish some extraordinary claims about these red cells. They say that the cells clearly reproduce at a temperature of 121 degrees C."

They published it on 1 Sep. 2010. Give them some time.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25699/
I wouldn't be surprised if the Cardiff group spent six months on the research and three years getting the paper accepted.

Agreed, it would have been nice if the Dr. Louis had sent samples to any lab that would take them, but instead he sent them to just one lab.

Besides a possible lack of labs volunteering, perhaps he was motivated to retain as much credit for what he felt would be an important discovery.

In any case, I still would like to see some other facilities step forward and attempt to verify the work.
What's worse, a 2048-point FFT is only accurate to 22Hz at a 44100Hz sample rate (1024 bins equally spaced across the entire frequency range from 0Hz to 22050Hz, each bin about 22Hz wide). The closest bins should be centered at 215.332Hz and 236.865Hz, so maybe Audacity is using some kind of interpolation/extrapolation to identify a peak at 216Hz, but I wouldn't trust it without a higher resolution. It's not hard to switch to 65536, but then you're taking more time data into account, and the note in question probably wasn't 1.5 seconds long.
Sigh, I planned on schooling the system of the system by creating an infographic like this and posting it to Digg/Reddit/HN. I spent all day in chem hall sketching it out and preparing it for the weekend surge.

While we may realize this part of the spam game, there's always going to be new schemes to replace this one. The morals and ethics of SEO are always being pushed and bent to get a page #1 in Google for a keyword. I admired some of the infographics and even have a few saved (music/movies/picking a lock). There are much dirtier ways than this to get backlinks and attention. I would actually toss this in the grayhat area, because at least its providing some thought invoking content.
In this case, the record label and by extension the employees of the record label lost out on their share of the $1 you should arguably have spent on the track. (assuming an itunes download at approximately market price).

The year was 1998, and there was no iTunes. My only other alternative was to buy the full CD at $12-17. As a poor college student, I could only afford to buy maybe 3 CD's a year, and Fastball's album would not have been one of them. I would therefore never have heard the song (or paid for it) and never would have gone to the Viper room.
While he's got the ratios right, he's got a tolerance for bad printing that I don't share. VGA for 4 x 6? Maybe if you thought your 110 Instamatic made good enlargements (in those days, 4 x 6 was a premium print). That's newspaper resolution. Double up the dimensions (1.2 MP) and 4 x 6 is just acceptable to my eyes (and it didn't used to be when printer dithering algos weren't what they are today).
The whole concept of remotely distinguishing "malicious clients" from "perfectly cromulent clients" is quite DRM-like. It's analgous to the problem of distinguishing authorised video screens from unauthorised video duplicators.
That is precisely the reason I love my iPad. (iPhone too when on the go)
After examining the cube it precalculates an optimal (least moves) solution using Kociemba's algorithm, specifically it uses Cube Explorer by Herbert Kociemba.
A particularly well-known example of live use is the Billy Joel Super Bowl XLI national anthem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8smRRyoYGc

The main problem with auto-tuning live is that you're just trading the pitch control for everything else - intonation, vibrato, etc. Exposing that "robot sound" ends up being another way to screw up your performance, and so there's no way to cheat. You still need to be an excellent singer to get close to the studio-perfected sound.

(If you're in the studio, of course, you can do overdubs, and you can use the more sophisticated Auto-Tune competitor Melodyne, which uses batch processing to allow smoother and more detailed corrections including pitch, rhythm and timbre, and in the most recent versions, chord manipulations.)
Why aren't they rewriting something similar to Wave instead of just OSSing Wave as-is? Is there secret sauce that they want to sit on for some reason?
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Any plan for IE support?
I think you're talking about an iPhone 4. :)
Speculation: Google Wave is implemented with heavy use of Google's internal libraries.
What's bubble up?
Agreed, it would have been a great shame to let all that work go to waste. I can't help but think that the protocol will really flourish once companies can self-host, and once the entire stack is available to tinker with.