skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ok, cheers.

I've still got quite a lot of credits in my zoneedit account :/
My nephew got it for Christmas. I was bowled over by it. Surprised at how unfit I am, my arms hurt for two days after the Boxing game in the Sports bundle!

I heard that were issues with it but it worked fine for us, in a couple of different rooms with adults and kids of 6 and 7 :)

Very very cool to be able to manipulate an interface at a distance and considering that this is v1.0 then I think it is safe to assume that Microsoft will iron out any glitches and improve it as the iterate through the versions.

I'm a Linux and Mac guy but I gotta say that Kinect is superb and they deserve every credit for being innovative here.
I completely agree. I dont think not having com.au domain is that big a bottleneck. I would think that even grouponaustralia.com can work very well. Groupon already is geo targeting based on ip, so should not be that hard for them to get Australian market under way.
Agreed - not only do I find "DEAD BEEF" as a rather gross concept, but there are technical flaws, as you point out. I personally prefer the simple, form-matches-function 0x0000DEAD. Yup, that pointer's dead baby!
"Running your own Apache Server"

What is this the 90s? Considering how many better alternatives that are available on the cloud advising someone new to programming to set up their own server is a waste of time. That energy would be better spent learning something interesting. A better idea would be to write your own simple CMS for your blog. That would be a better exercise and a better demo of your development skills than setting up an Apache server which just shows that that you can follow a long series of tedious steps rather than actual coding.
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At the very least, only registered users?
Adobe and Macromedia are important partners in this segment.

It also mentions a partnership with Canal+, which turns out to be from 2001.

I think this page could use an update, and doesn't really shed much light on Opera's revenue.
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It would probably help guys get better at getting women. PUA is a whole movement out there.
One of the nicest variations on this urban legend that I'm aware of:

A woman walks in to the studio of Yves St. Laurent:

"Oh Yves, you must help me, I have to go to a ball and I need a hat that's both original and chique..."

Yves sets the lady down on a stool and proceeds to drape ribbons around her head.

After about 20 minutes of this he pronounces the result done.

The woman asks for the bill and is presented with a 2500 Francs invoice.

"What is this? You charge me 2500 Francs for this?"

Without a word Yves St. Laurent unwinds the ribbons and stuffs them in a small plastic bag which he hands to her.

"The ribbons my dear, you can have for free".
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Correct. I was addressing the commenter saying that uploading them legally and streaming to many is no different than a bar. My whole point was that a bar licenses the music.

Purchasing music under a personal license doesn't allow one to broadcast or perform the work, so the justification is off.

And it's actually considered the same thing for web streaming — it doesn't have all that much to do with copies. By law webcasting falls under a performance so webcasters are on the hook for both publishing and performance royalties. (Radio gets a waiver on performance royalties and only pays publishing. So the composers get paid, but not necessarily the performers.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_radio#US_royalty_contr...
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Seems really unlikely since the problems it solves are not nearly so universal as those of the iPod, iPhone, or Mac.
Seems like an interesting idea. I also wonder why the max contents of a JSON object is 1400 bytes, that seems kind of limiting. UDP can do 65,507b of content...
Makes me wonder how much of that is due to people being over-reliant on IDEs for their day-to-day chores.

Akin to people no longer knowing how to find their way without a navigator in their cars.
I think the point is that Kinect is only part of the package. Nintendo delivered the full thing with the Wii: a friendly, non-gaming-related name and brand, accessibility with the Wii Remote from the first minute you turn it on, a low price point, what they call "bridge" games (games designed to get hardcore and casual playing together, like Mario Kart - unsurprisingly, Mario Kart outsold and continues to outsell games like Wii Fit), etc. Kinect just provides casual games and a UI for those games.

There needs to be more, and hopefully Microsoft will grow in that direction. Obviously their decision right now was to spur the growth and sales of the Xbox brand for the next few years by releasing Kinect as an addon instead of a separate device, but there was a lot of wisdom in Nintendo's move away from the "Nintendo" people associate with 80's videogames and Super Mario.
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The spotlight interface is still inferior to the searching mechanisms in tracker. The technology underneath is the same technology but generations ahead, but the delivery is poor adn the result is far less useful. Unless Apple rebuilds their GUI this will be permanent because search is bolted onto finder, whereas it's close to the design ideas of tracker.

Tracker is much more rapid to navigate around than any other GUI I've used. I find haiku workspaces far more fluid to use.

Some disadvantages opver OSX is that OSX is really unix, whereas Haiku just presents as it. Most people won't care about this, but if you were porting unix utils yourself you'd probably be aware of it.

BeOS/Haiku use C++ as the primary development language. This will be offputting to some. I'd expect the APIs are easy enough to wrap and that the haiku community will produce first-class python wrappers or similar. They've had them in the past.

> suggesting that it's going to have any effect on 'the
> world' is pretty silly.

There are some cool apps around that were originally developed for haiku, and then moved to other platforms. We might see some more of this.
It's not always as simple as registering a domain name on GoDaddy or a local registrar though.

To register a .com.au domain name, you're required to have an Australian Business Number (i.e. incorporate locally). It's easy to get one, but how many other international domain names do you want to register that require extra work?
Q2: No. The mechanical royalties have already been paid based on the number of CDs pressed, which is a known quantity and likely negotiated in bulk anyway. This doesn't change (and neither does copyright ownership) when someone receives a CD, nor when that person sells it, which is what was decided here.

Making copies would imply further use of the mechanical right mentioned above, and is then illegal due to non-payment of further royalties based on the number of further copies made. The mechanical right is compulsory with a rate set by law, and so in exchange for the other powers of copyright going to the owner(s), any of us little people are allowed to pay money to start our own K-Tel empire. Currently this is ~US$0.02/min (~$1.50 per CD).
Might be cleaner to separate headers and contents. I.e. {"h": {"ring": 43723}, "c": {"see": ["5.6.7.8:23456","11.22.33.44:11223"]}}. Get h for headers, c for commands, s for signals and d for data. Gets you a clean separation, no faux namespacing.
What's wrong with using au.groupon.com?
> Read the licence on your cd's. You're NOT allowed to do this without explicit permission.

The courts didn't seem to think much of license stickers on CDs.

https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2011/01/04-0

That said, there are provisions in copyright law that govern public public performance that they can rely upon, without needing their license stickers to be valid.
Couldn't agree more. Apple doesn't own apple.co.uk so they just use apple.com/uk and use geoip to make apple.com
(by default, can override country) redirect.

I don't know how australians perceive it but in the uk people wouldn't care or read anything into it if it was
a .co.uk or a .com

Launching a completely different brand seems unnecessary and sub-optimal.
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For MS to capitalise on the Kinetic's success they need to start releasing good official drivers for Windows soon so they can channel the wave of developer activity onto their main platform. At the moment it seems like you are better off using Linux or Mac with the hacked drivers. I don't think there is time to wait for some 'kinect integrated' version of windows but they could also start working on that. It will be interesting to see if they are if they are nimble enough to react to an unexpected level of success like this.
If Groupon is heavily localised, what benefit is there to consumer if it's the official Groupon, the fake Groupon or another clone that's offering the deal, other than the clones not being a "brand name"?

I'm assuming that any Groupon clones would be able to sell to businesses just as well as the real Groupon.
I do INDEED think Kinect could be Microsoft's iPod. I tried the kinect at my friends house the other day, and it already kicks nintendo's Wii ass totally.
And Microsoft's choice to leave it open for 3rd party hacking, I think, is going to get a bigger crowd by letting people make more use of it.
... and FreeBSD.
I gave Drupal 7 a fair shot for a site I had to build quickly for my dad during the xmas holidays. I've a background in PHP and it was fairly easy to get shit up and running easily but then I gave up when I had to install tons of plugins to get image upload working. Supposedly they've integrated the file/image classes into the core for 7 but I didn't manage to get the stuff working fast enough, so I tried wordpress instead and although less powerful it at least could publish pages (wysiwyg) and handle image uploads without tons of configuration and plugins (and plugin dependencies).

I suppose that like for all open source projects documentation is lagging but it'd be a lot easier to adopt Drupal if the image stuff had just worked out of the box.
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We don't need more servers, we need more people.

See here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/efpn0/reddit_...
I'm starting to wonder if anyone's even bothering to read what I'm writing. You've pointed out yet another example of a project which does not require a postal form, supporting my position. Requiring a disclaimer for works for hire isn't even comparable.

Edit: now that I've had my morning cup of tea, I've properly read that link - SQLite doesn't even require any form of contributor agreement, so all you're pointing out is that they require a company to agree that work done on their time is free to be contributed by the employee. That isn't the same thing at all.
This changes only affect a small percentage of users that need to run single Redis instances with datasets that are larger than the computer memory.

Our default back end is to run as an in memory DB, and most of the design and goals are related to this mode. But I think that most of the value of Redis is its data model, and I bet it will survive Redis itself, so the idea is, let's look to alternatives that make this data model working well with data sets bigger than RAM.

Our old solution was VM, but we found it is not ideal, does not work well with the Redis in-memory back end persistence ideas (that are instead working well without VM). What to do then? Keep trying with the wrong solution? :) I guess not, open source also means that if the cure for a disease is not good enough we put things into the trash and try again and again, as the sole goal should be the progress of the technology we are trying to put in the hand of users.

So we have a new model now, and will test how it works in practice. What we said is: for write heavy applications where performances matter, use Redis as an in-memory DB. It works well, it's well tested, and we can count many happy users.

But if the Redis data model solves your problems, and you have a read-heavy application with tons of data, we are going to provide an alternative that could work well.
Ask HN: Thoughts on my pending file uploading site...(w pic)
http://www.nerrot.com/ue.png

This post is simple I working on a file uploading site I call uploadegg, want your insightful criticism & thoughts on the first draft.

Again if your just going to say it looks gay...a bum down the street could tell me that with me not knowing why he's even insinuating those ideas...tell me why and be detailed. I didn't say you had to compliment me, but tell me why you think what you think. It's my decision as an intelligent human to entertain your thought or accept it.

You guys still rock :D
Domain squatters may not be OK, but identical business models are just another legitimate challenge (business models can't be patented). They need boots on the ground and it may not be possible for Groupon to physically get there before the competition. Either way, it's good for the end user, who will go from zero to several choices practically over night. It also prevents Groupon from becoming a monopoly.
think this is how you add a link....fingers crossed:

http://www.nerrot.com/ue.png
I've given it a lot of thought, and I don't think Minecraft would be so easy to pick up and play if in weren't so 'blocky'. At least not without some really good design. The size of the blocks in Minecraft really lend themselves to being able to put together things that approximate real life structures, while maintaining a sufficient level of simplicity.

This simplicity makes reasoning and manipulating the game world less challenging, resulting in the game being more accessible to a wide variety of players.
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Who did you learn from in 2010?
If you honestly think there's a way they could plausibly have made it harder, start by naming a project which has a higher barrier to entry.
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You can even have groupon.com/australia/...

For example, when you go to www.apple.com.au it redirects you to www.apple.com/au and no one thinks anything of it.

So this is either silly, or it is about more than the domain name, and more about the trademark in use locally.
That would be it then. Oh wait, they bought PGP. Great, now my crypto's screwed.
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> I'm sorry, but that's what I meant. I'd be more alarmed than enticed to discover that the current implementation of datasets-larger-than-RAM for my chosen database was considered "flakey", and was going to be swapped out for a green-field approach in the next release.

As Redis is mainly an in-memory DB, currently larger datasets than RAM were not our first goal, and there was even the idea to drop support at all for this use case. I think that what matters for most users is that the default mode of operations is working great, and that for an alternative mode of operations developers are not dogmatic and don't fear to drop what is not optimal to replace it with something better. In many other contexts this would be regarded as bad marketing and not done at all, but I try to follow a scientific way to make progresses, and I tend to accept that I and the other developers are not perfect and need to make mistakes and improve the design again and again ;)

I like Redis data model and I think this is our biggest value, and we need to find different underlaying implementations for different use cases, and keep trying to provide more speed, better durability, better replication, and so forth, ad libitum.
Would the various "markets" inter-operate? Does the device sold with operator firmware have access to the Amazon Android Market?
I'd like to add a quirk to that requirement. You have to be able to build something large and ship it (and maintain it). Anybody can continue to build and build and build and you end up with a really large codebase that's bloated/duplicated/buggy and that never work in production.
I guess that's no way to backup server configuration/setup, a lot part of my effort comes from reinstall the server, configuring the mySQL, ROR, etc. Possible to automatic backup those too?
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I just style the CSS of my spreadshirt shop ( http://appaarel.spreadshirt.com/ ) I have yet to upload the logo and footer details yet.

Do give me some feedback.
Well, of course. And if you think about it further, all user-facing software is, in fact, an illusion. Smoke and mirrors all the time. Apple just pushes the illusionist work even further than what most software developers (who are themselves illusionists, whether they realize it or not) consider as being "real". But it works, users prefer that.

Not only that, but I'm convinced that users are actually more efficient when perceived responsiveness is added: for instance, most users will not start thinking about what to do next on an app until they are seeing the app interface; presenting then with a non-interacting screenshot as soon as possible actually makes the overall interaction more efficient. But the ultimate is what the guys making PCalc discovered ( http://www.dragthing.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-make-your-iphon... ): you can put a non-interactive screengrab in such a way that even though it is a dumb image, touches will actually be recorded and have their effect as soon as the actual interface is set up; users can actually interact very soon. Now that's badass.

(however, most animation stuff doesn't fall in the category of perceived responsiveness, as most often, for instance for transitions, the end result must be ready before the animation begins; also, "undocumented nature"? Apple's obsession with perceived responsiveness is well-known).
Australians are pretty apt to type <business>.com.au - it'd be a risky trading environment when that address belonged to one of your competitors and seemed legitimate.
Thanks for your response. Perhaps I should have put a little more thought before asking. What I meant to ask was "Can Hello XX be done away in replies to friends?"

Sometimes the conversation just moves faster when you do without it. Of course in formal emails, it's a requirement.
Exactly! That's what I must have meant.
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I don't know about Australian registrars but I found a Japanese registrar that allows you to register a .jp domain (and other Japanese TLDs) without having a local business address/number there which would normally be required. I'm willing to bet other ones like this exist for other markets.
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Breaking off on a tangent here, but for some reason, I cannot get any of the features on the website to work. The added songs don't play (No Song Found), the change URL function breaks the site. When I click on the URL below Share your Playlist, a new tab opens up with a new playlist URL. (I'm on Chrome 8/Ubuntu Maverick)

Design-wise, I would probably not black out the album cover to show the name of the album/artist, but just make it transparent
Asus is coming out with their own version of the Kinect made by the same people who engineered part of the Kinect for Microsoft. So Kinect won't be the only game in town.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/03/primesense-and-asus-team-...
Shotwell and Compiz's Screenshot plugin can help with his screenshot woes. But honestly, for the things you're evaluating Linux to be capable of... it's been quite capable for a while. Now with new software focusing on usability, I suggest that there are now enough nice pieces of software to create a very usable experience for someone who finds a Mac interface easy to pickup, my current setup is a no brainer for them. It has a familiar dock that looks sharper than apple's own dock and not tacky and hacked up. Cardapio has given me a main menu that is more capable and sanely organized than the Start Menu without being a folder full of shortcuts.

tl;dr Linux has /been/ capable. Ubuntu and other OSS community software has made it usably capable.
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"Reason 2 : Goldman has likely earned the lead book runner slot in any initial public offering."

When Microsoft valued Facebook at 15 billion, it was the same thing : they paid 240 million for 1.6% of the company AND running ads on Facebook (while excluding Google) AND some other things we may not know.

But people just said 1.6% for 240 million = 15 billion without taking other parts of the deal into account.
> You have to be able to say with a straight face that you couldn't reasonably have known the material was infringing a priori to be eligible.

Copyright infringement is a matter of permission. I'm not sure that it's even possible, a priori, to say that certain material is infringing, unless you have personal knowledge of who uploaded it and who is authorized to. You can usually make a good guess; but it's just a guess.

This even more complicated thanks to the fact that the record labels have authorized marketing agents to release "unauthorized" releases, even ones marked as leaks, via independent channels. They've even have had to un-DMCA them when their own legal departments took them down.

Proof of that statement can be found in the court filings for the Viacom v. YouTube case, incidentally. Lest you think that this was just the assertion of YouTube's lawyers, I will point you further to the fact that Viacom's own lawyers were forced to agree to remove their claims of infringement after it was proven that Viacom itself had uploaded those particular files.

And that? That happened twice. That's after Viacom's own expensive lawyers (allegedly) performed due diligence.

In short, I would like to point out that while you can have a pretty good idea what content is and is not authorized, there are many good reasons, based on actual events, that could give a person a reasonable doubt about whether something might be authorized, especially if there's no DMCA complaint. I can give you a long list incidents if you like, just from memory.

My point is that even the rights holder might not know if they've authorized it, and they're the only people who can be expected to know who all they've authorized.
I really like C# and I like the Android platform. Funny enough, I was hoping something like this would be available a few days back. And here it is.
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Then it's just bad logic. Not(Forall x : P(x)) does not contradict (Exists x : P(x)).
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Hehe, I goofed on the 'Yours truly' :)

In replies if it is the first reply I usually include it, if it is the second or later reply in a series of emails usually it gets omitted unless I don't know the person very well.

For instance, even though I've been working with my bookkeeper/tax advisor for 15 years I still will be very formal in almost all of my emails with him. But with my brother it can be 'hey how is it going?' on the first email I send to him in a week.

It all depends on circumstances and what you feel comfortable with.