skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft probably wants to continue with the razors & razorblades model of the XBox. So, maybe it wants to extract a toll from 3rd parties who produce products for the platform. No different really than the iPhone.

I don't necessarily agree with DMCA restrictions on reverse engineering, but I do support Microsoft's right to sell a closed platform.
Yes yes... I remember... masters, submasters, scenes, cues... I was the sound guy. My console was like a 3rd of the size with a quarter of the buttons. My manual was less than a 10th the size as the lighting one.

But I got more cables hanging out the back. So it will matches up.
he also pioneered perhaps projection mapping
##C on Freenode.

I accept no blame for your impending suicide.
I see one obvious potential for improvement. My word was 'treatise' and I asked for prefixes, and I got things like:

hurttreatise.com

but that's not a very good domain name because it's ambiguous when spoken whether both words are fully spelled. I think you should be avoiding duplicate letters at word boundaries.
Apple mostly uses Sun machines. I was surprised to learn this, but they tend towards a conservative, heavyweight server infrastructure.
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Totally agree. Trying to get a hold of someone, then assuming permission when they don't respond isn't ok. I'd be pissed to...
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First, I don't see what you consider the difference between bribery and campaign donation. Is it only a matter of amount? I did say full disclosure, so everyone knows the funding source.

Right now the corporations, unions, and political parties have ways of spending large sums of money, but the individual doesn't. I don't see how allowing individuals changes the possibility of influence peddling. Do you not believe that a Congressman is currently capable of refusing to take a call from an important union boss?

"Numerous small-dollar donations, on the other hand, tend to reflect actual democratic interest in a candidate" - maybe. Funding wise the Republicans go more that way than the Democrats (strange, but disclosures sometimes tell a weird story).
How are you looking up domain names?
I believe you're wrong about the nature of DirectTV's countermeasures, although we may be in a semantic tar pit here. The measures DirectTV took to stop the emulators were very, very technical; they involve encryption at the level of HDL.
My first thought was imagine the perspective on the world two people with a communication link between brains would have. It really provides an interesting prospect for the arts or sciences. These girls are naturally going to see and experience the world far different than the rest of us. Their unique experience could be very valuable to humanity, only time will tell.
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I'm impressed by the quality of the results.

I don't know why you've made it rely on javascript though. It would have been so easy to make it degrade gracefully... Surely no more than half an hours work?
I could see it now:

Porn industry adapts open source Kinect drivers into new, immersible adult entertainment experience. Act in one of your favorite movies and get "intimate" with your favorite porn stars.
You know, 42 feet per gallon sounds pretty terrible, but I'd say moving 5.5 million pounds of equipment 42 feet with one gallon of gas is pretty damn impressive.
Fortunately, some of us are professionals who happen to work in universities :)
1 product vs 1 + 37 related/upsell products Amazon suggests to you. What might seem obvious to us might be voodoo science to this site's primary market.
For what it is worth I'm pretty sure Land of Lisp author Conrad Barski is an HN user as well. I think we talked at an HN meetup (but I don't know his id offhand).

If you are reading this Conrad, congrats! The book looks great and seems very well received.

I'm curious, does a "slashdotting" create a noticeable blip in traffic or book sales anymore?
Ask HN: Is it possible to get hacked while playing an online PC video game?
My friend wants to play games like Modern Warfare 2 on the family PC but his parents won't let him. His dad is really skeptical. He thinks that if his son plays an online video game, the other players could be able with some software to hack the computer. Clearly, this is prejudice. A player can only get his IP address, but my friend got Windows 7 so the firewall should prevent any attacks.

Anyways, his dad won't be convinced unless it's written clearly by a reliable source that there's no danger.

So folks, please explain whether his dad is right or wrong of thinking other people could hack his computer while his son plays Modern Warface 2.

Thanks
I think most geeks like the research process. Joe Average, though, just wants someone to tell him what to buy. I think this site is utterly brilliant - cashing in on "The Paradox of Choice" (http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...) is a rock-solid idea.
This is clearly not plagiarism. At no point did the translator take credit for the original work. There is a definition for plagiarism; it involves taking credit for someone else's original work.

Zed would probably have done better by simply quoting the license and asking him to take it down (because of copywrite infringement) instead of incorrectly accusing him of plagiarism (which implies he was doing the translation in bad faith).
It must suck to have your everyday online activities tracked, and your character traits debated at length by strangers.

Look at the title of this HN post, pure celebrity drama-bait.
Shhh! It's our turn to complain! ;)
It's not just that they ignore such questions, such questions don't mean anything to them yet.

Something else I thought about was the supposed tendency of identical twins to have have a pseudo-dialect between each other. Perhaps these two don't communicate with the outside world as much because they're too busy communicating, silently, with each other.
Someone here had a good way to do this (sorry, my google-fu is not strong enough to find the link):

"What language do you use?"

".Net"

"Oh, OK"
It's worth bearing in mind that people who buy mid-range are also more likely to solidly review a working product than people who buy a high-end product; if I buy high end, I'm going to be a lot pickier, and likely more critical of the product. I wouldn't say it's necessarily an apples-to-apples comparison.
These are all great points, and I really do respect your opinion here.

1) I think that the problem is that you've created a competition, and that as a result, people would vote against each other. You're probably correct that people do typically vote for candidates without self interest, but I think that the problem is you've pitted people against each other. If I've entered a race, I already think that I am the best option, and will take action to help my success. This is almost like the prisoners dilemna, in that voters almost assume that others will act in self interest, and as a result do the same. I think maybe you just have a more optimistic view of how people will act in this case than I do.

2) I don't think we should dismiss people from voting for any reason, or say that a lower voter turnout would be a good thing because it's focusing on the people who actually "care". I think that in some ways giving people party lines is a good thing in some ways because it allows them to vote without necessarily needing to do research into a candidate. If I personally identify myself as a liberal, I don't have to do much research before voting democrat, and in fact, researching candidates is probably only going to strengthen my opinion of them both. I'm by no means saying this is an ideal situation, and it is certainly one of the main problems with a partied system. But I think if you make voting something thats only available to those with enough time to research it then I think you run the risk of misrepresenting an extremely large portion of the country, ending up with something chosen by an "elite" and I almost feel that this is a worse option than having people vote from their gut.

3) I think this is way off base. I can think of some pretty outstanding members of our society who choose a path for ethical and moral reasons outside of financial gain. Teachers are a great example. They are educated citizens working for the benefit of society, but some of them sure as hell don't make 40k. Should we exclude people like this because they chose a path that didn't give them the most money? Having a high paying job doesn't necessarily mean that you're educated, or a frugal person for that matter.

As I hinted at above, I guess I don't mind the party line voting. I don't mind the labeling it provides because, as I said, I think it encourages voter turnout. If you're given two candidates, and you have to choose between them, without labeling them as liberal or democrat, is a person significantly more likely to choose a different candidate than they would have with the label? If hypothetically Sarah Palin ran against Obama, and we didn't label them as democrat and republican, would voters choose a different candidate than if we had?

Again, I really do appreciate your response, and I'm sorry if I seem combative, I just like the debate.
Sure, there could be a legitimate reason, but given Latin America's history, I would not blame the Costa Ricans for being suspicious.
I recently talked with a co-founder of a company that sold to enterprises. He and his co-founder are in our peer group, and I asked him that very question. How does a young entrepreneur sell to enterprises? And, he said two things:

1.) Lower the barrier of entry for enterprises to test your product. Understand what their inhibitions are:

a.) Productivity costs caused by implementing new software that could require training and infrastructure investments.

b.) Fear that your startup could go out of business in a year, and they're left with this unsupported, buggy software.

c.) Disapproval from shareholders that they are taking a risk with this unproven company.

Then, create a solution to tackle those concerns, and sell them the benefits (typically ROI) that your product will bring.

2.) And, this young entrepreneur also recommended to have experienced people on your team, whether advisors, investors or employees, to give you credibility.

Two sales techniques I heard not too long ago:

Identify decision makers. If you can't reach them, then go through gatekeepers - like a personal assistant.

Avoid talking about technology. Most likely, the person you're speaking with isn't technical. Instead, give them a brief pitch about why you're product will give them a competitive advantage in their market.

And, remember an enterprises care only about two things:
i. Making Profit
ii. Managing Costs

Make sure your product fits in one of those categories.
Have a look at this company it might be a lot cheaper http://www.xe.com/fx/
You can't just remove an arbitrary portion of the brain and still survive. There are bits of your brain that aren't duplicated, can't be bisected, and are absolutely necessary for survival.

So while it's an interesting question, it's impossible in practice (even if we had the capability of "reattaching" a portion of the brain).
Trend Micro cries "antitrust" over Microsoft Security Essentials
They support Linux because of the graphics companies that use Linux. They're all on RHEL, not Ubuntu.
Well you could say how is "YTinstant.com" different than typing <query> in Youtube and clicking the first result?. I would tell you since YTinstant launched I can count how many times I visited YT. Removing noise is a business.
DNS first, if there's no DNS record, I do a whois query. The work is spread over a pool of 6 servers, which run the lookups in parallel.
I don't see the point of answering this, given that I am just a random person on the Internet and thus not a reliable source. Also, I don't think you can address irrational concerns with reason.

As for whether popular games have remotely exploitable vulnerabilities (such as, oh, a buffer overflow in custom map loading), I doubt that it's any more dangerous than running a Web browser.
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could be possible that these two may lead to insights into how something like that may be possible
As linked elsewhere: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1739890

Copy & paste probably won't make a useful Ruby book.

"Seems like everyone is so sensitive about the sanctity of their ideas."

That's the pain of dealing with other human beings as if they are human beings and not just web sites or github repositories.
It's rumored that it costs $150 for Microsoft to make a Kinect.

http://www.develop-online.net/news/35198/Source-pins-Kinect-...
chances are that the person doing your incorporation will be some poor paralegal with no connections, or some new lawyer fresh out of law school.
Cool, combine this with canvg and render SVG for lame browsers on server. We can render YUI, jQuiery, canvas, SVG (possibly with some adjustments) in node.
Because your kernel is general-purpose and has been tuned with certain balance between latency, throughput, and memory usage (memory management takes memory!) If your application deals with things < 4kb in size, has different performance needs &c, then it may achieve higher performance than just leaving everything up to the kernel.
You don't understand how much you don't understand about copyright.
I think they share sensory perception, it was mentioned that tickling one will make the other laugh, and a few other things. If one imagines something, though, I'm not sure if the other receives it. Could possibly be that sensory input is doubled, but we don't know about generating thoughts.

Also - what would it be like to see from two sets of eyes?!
I was inspired by the Offer HN trend and I thought it would be cool to have a place where people could go to offer their services to the community and ask for help with their projects. The site is pretty basic now and I'm sure it's missing something, but I welcome your feedback and ideas!
It's not just about choosing to read the more charitable interpretation. The second reading requires more context than the first one. If you aren't aware of the additional facts you mention, it's very difficult to read the comment in a positive way.
"How dare that person care more than I think he should."
Frankly, the older I get, the more respect I have for the guy.

A lot of folks would have responded with a lawyer or at least a legal nastygram. Zed didn't even mention the law, just asked (asked!) the guy to take it down, and took the time to refute and explain all the guy's misconceptions.
The Evolutionary Origin Of Laughter
> I have lots of customers with X-Serves in render farms (different batch FX, transcoding, etc)

And their render farms will not stop working tomorrow will they?

> really Mac Pro or Mac mini won't cut it.

Power-wise, mac pros are strictly superior to xserves at equivalent prices fwiw. Though they're not rackable (which is probably the main issue) and do have the issue of no redundant power supply.
I have one of these! I met Kevin at The Last HOPE a couple years back, and he was handing these out. It's pretty much the most fantastic business card I've ever seen.
Bizarre?? Sorry to keep chaining replies, but it got me thinking... what happens when one sleeps and the other is awake? You could try that! Presumably the asleep one can't 'listen in'. Just tell the awake one to think of something when the other awakes (but dont say anything about it), and then ask the other!

Hell, what happens when one dreams while the other is awake! INCEPTION.
:horror face: It's so not ready!

Also, the temp web version should be up soon.
They'd have to roll their own mixpanel though, right? I think unless those big companies are in the analytics space full time already, they'd have a damn difficult time convincing their managers of make v buy.

Plus, presumably some of the small companies already using Mixpanel will be big-company-worrying medium companies in due course.

On a related note, what has attracted us to Mixpanel so far is that is is very generic - I've not come across a case yet that can't be made to work with the event triggers. Mind you, I've not used it live - just read the docs - so I may be speaking out of my cloaca ;)
Everything you write on the internet is publicly available and connected to you. All your tweets, all your Facebook status updates, all your forum posts from a pseudonym, all your 4chan posts as anonymous, and yes, even your email.

Learn this. Internalize this. Embrace this.

Because even in the few cases where that statement isn't correct, in a short enough amount of time and with a very small number of security mistakes and lapses in judgement, it will be correct.
Posts like that are why I admire Zed. He just went through mini-hell getting an unauthorized copy of his work taken down. He could very well have said "F-U guys" and taken his ball and gone home. Instead he writes a lengthy post to help anyone write a book along the same vein as his.
Farewell HNTrends
I got a warning that I'd asked for Hacker Favors but that I was being sent to something identifying itself as *.heroku.com (forgotten the spelling, sorry)

Just thought you'd like to know that some configuration somewhere need to be sorted.
And he didn't even involve a lawyer, so he's already doing the guy a favor.
This is great. Thanks for asking this question, because I am finding these recommendations to be a resource, too.
I agree. Clear writing, which can be read on its own without an outside context, also requires more effort.
I actually thought you'd see this.
I'm surprised that no one has yet compared this to hunch.com. While Hunch is kind of an arbitrary question platform, it seems especially suited to product selection.

http://hunch.com/netbooks/
Now if I could only get some vmware <-> ec2 direct compatibility up in here ... proprietary conversion tools = fail.
Sort of. MIDI led to MIDI Show Control, which used the same hardware, but eventually that evolved into DMX which is now the industry standard. Same basic concept, but the hardware and firmware have drifted a good bit apart.

7-bit values are still the norm for MIDI, DMX uses 8 bit values and extra bits for flow control, and requires a correspondingly higher bandwidth, so it's not very backwards compatible by now - that is, you could easily write a translator to drive older equipment, but you'd have to make so many compromises that you'd be better off writing something from scratch on the simpler platform.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Show_Control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX512
I think your first point here is excellent, but do we really need to care about what some random (as far as I can tell) Twitter user thinks about Zed? On the Internet you can find a negative comment about anyone by someone, somewhere.
Not only that, but it seems very strange not to be aware of the tradition of bluntness from engineering types, and to interpret it negatively.
How many times have you written a nice and polite words when the fruit of your passionate labor has been taken without your consent and dealt with in a way that you consider inappropriate ?

I've once had, and I can fully understand Zed, maybe, did experience a certain emotion in it.

If I were to deal with a similar situation coldly without a drama and emotion, I'd simply spend $6 (or how much the registered mail costs?), sent a DMCA takedown notice, and be done with it.

In any case - the real drama and theatre happens in the comments to the original communication.

Some guy made a mistake. Zed has asked to take it down. He took it down. The fact whether Zed has asked it with a twist or not, is o(1) compared to the quality of the subsequent comments on that page. That part is a real shame, in my opinion.

(edit: re-reading your comment, maybe I have misunderstood it - re. the fact that the done-with matters are promoted on HN "for the sake of drama" - well, as soon as we all remain civil and try to not step over each others' toes, I do not think it is a problem - and is actually a good case study. As soon as noone starts to throw tomatoes into some folk who happened to make an honest mistake and quickly corrected it.)
> been the 2nd poorest country in latinamerica shouldn't they be more concerned about making it up for the people rather than invading another people's land?

That's not how politics works. Invading another country is a good way to keep the people from noticing how badly the govt is doing.
I'm with you on the research process.
I find that what appeals to most users doesn't appeal to me, which means that even customer reviews have to be carefully read to determine what was actually positive and negative. In NYC, for instance, I never trust people who say the staff were rude - staff are typically rude if you're rude to them.

Regarding preferneces, read Gladwell's essay - The ketchup conundrum -http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_09_06_a_ketchup.html. It discusses Prego's tomato sauce and highlights something these guys are missing - the concept of customer segmentation. Different people have different preferences. Since when was a one size fits all universally appealing?

Still, I can imagine this being the lazy buyer's dream, I suppose.
PS, if anyone knows a solution to the file access speed issue (not just the filesystem of the guest, but also what ever you share with it from the host) please tell me. Parallels, VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox all have this issue and it drives me mad sometimes!
Thanks for the warning! Do you happen to be using Chrome on OSX? Heroku says the SNI-SSL service causes warnings in that browser, and the other SSL services that don't are way more expensive. But with all the worry about Firesheep I figured any SSL was better than nothing.
You are just as vulnerable playing an online game as you are browsing the internet.

The bottom line is, you are using applications that may or may not have vulnerabilities in them, which may or may not be caught by antivirus, firewalls and other sorts of preventative measures.

The only difference is that you stand a greater risk of being targeted while playing/chatting online than when you are simply browsing the web; but the bottom line is, if you (not you, but a communal, global style "you") are paranoid about something happening to your computer while online, simply remove the computer from the internet - that's the most secure way of keeping your computer hack free.
Parent actually agrees with you, they're just saying that it would be PC forces that push back on Zed taking this tone, and kudos to him for not succumbing.
Conrad is http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=drcode

His post announcing the book is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836935
Wind-powered cars sail directly into the wind. Yes. Really.
There's a chapter on memory management* in Hanson's _C Interfaces and Implementations_ (http://sites.google.com/site/cinterfacesimplementations/), which is one of the better advanced C books I've read.

* Mostly, arena-based allocators.

Paul Wilson's "Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques" (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.47.2...) is an excellent overview, as is Jones and Lins's _Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management_.
I would have thought so. Hashes aren't so special as to warrant all that attention.
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I didn't mean to imply that I disagree with Zed. I have read about a couple of his skirmishes and he does seem to be usually right.

What I wanted to get across is that I respect the guy. He always starts out civil: "Sir, I warn you not to advance any further.", but when his counterparty fails to acknowledge the warning proceeds to tear them a new one.

As somebody once said about a former boss: "You may think he's an asshole, but you can't say hes wrong."

I also think that Zed just likes to beat people at their own game in a manner of: "So... You wanna play dirty? Ok let's play dirty. I'm gonna rip the eyes out of your head and piss into your dead skull!" :)