skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC on the Apple the floppies were normally S6D1 and S6D2 (if you had two), unless you installed your floppy controller card in a slot other than Slot 6, which was the norm.
OT, but I haven't seen any rumors of a new generation of consoles. This generation has lasted a lot longer than the previous, and I wouldn't be surprised to see at least another year or two out of them. The addition of the new motion controls (Kinect and PS Move, although I haven't heard really anything about the latter) make it seem even less likely that they'll push for a new console yet.

Edit: I also wouldn't be surprised if these motion control addons are research for the next console generation. I've heard of people thinking of Kinect as the next generation of XBox somewhat, and it does kind of make some sense. I don't think we'll reach a stage where motion controls are integral to most games, because even in this generation with the SixAxis on the PS3, most all of the uses of it were one of gimmicks (Mirror's Edge: Use the SixAxis to balance, or just use a control stick. Uncharted: Use the SixAxis to adjust grenade arc...or again, just use a control stick. Ratchet and Clank: Use the SixAxis for two minigames).
On Not Hiring
Offering? I think the comparison would have to be they just make all of the water taste like "mint" and talk about how great it is (though it sucks for cooking.)
Google's Search Algorithm Has Been Ruined, Time To Move Back To Curation
I would guess that it works the same as tethering. (Well, it is tethering, only via Wi-Fi and not Bluetooth or a cable.)

Carriers can turn tethering on and off so I also wouldn’t expect this to work with every carrier. It has been possible to circumvent these carrier preferences in the past, though. I just don’t know whether that’s still possible and whether that will be possible in the future.
I think the most likely outcome of sending a player off is that his team would lose. A huge disincentive to dangerous play. After an opponent was sent off, the potential loss of the significant advantage an extra player affords would be a strong disincentive regarding dangerous play.

But to put it in perspective, it is extremely rare for a player to be ejected under the current rules which allow replacement. The penalties typically associated with dangerous play are purely tactical - 15 yards or less (1/2 the distance to the goal line).
I believe advertising companies can do better than this - I remember a friend telling me where he worked they had 200 employees and a turnover of about $300 million.
Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It
> downloading files, streaming music and watching videos should be done on your home broadband. You know, those things that people bought their shiny new iPhone or Android handset specifically to do.

I am one of these people and I do not download files, stream music or watch videos on the iPhone. I do use it extensively including the Internet browsing over 3G and never had my monthly usage go over few hundred megs.

Being a busy adult I also suspect that I am actually in the majority here. Just sayin'
Ask HN: Presentation on giving presentations?
I'm pretty sure I saw this on HN but my search-fu is weak today. It was a presentation (on slideshare I think) on how to give presentations. It emphasised bold use of images and colour, and minimal use of text. If anyone has any idea which one I'm talking about, I'd appreciate a link very much :)
'Tethering' is device-specific. If it can be disabled on your device it's only because your device has been made to the specifications of the network.

In theory the network could use packet inspection to determine if the data was originating from a desktop OS instead of a smartphone OS, but in practice no one does this. The network doesn't see any difference between bits requested by your phone's browser and bits requested by your computer's browser using your phone's connection.
That benefit is also a risk though if your data in the cloud isn't encrypted. Also if most company data is stored in a highly centralised way in cloud server farms then this becomes a very conspicuous target for "cyber warfare".
The UK still uses imperial units a lot, too.
Where did floppy disks come from, Daddy?

I'm old enough to remember the 8" floppy disk that was invented by IBM to ... wait for it ... boot System 360! I think they had CE (customer engineer, i.e., repair guy) diagnostics, firmware, etc. on them, as the little bit I actually saw one being used, it was during maintenance.
i have been using grasshopper[1] for some project & it already allows having function is translations.
it was nice to see a fw in a young ecosystem like node.js which can already handle this :)

[1]https://github.com/virtuo/grasshopper
Does that mean you still have a Commodore 64? (Seems like everyone upgraded -- I mean, 64 freaking K!!!). Course you only got to use 49K of it, but still!
In my experience, fully localizing a piece of software tends to lead to one of the most complex and fragile parts of its build system (especially if its documentation is localized too), often takes an appreciable amount of its total build time, tends to bloat its installation size by double or more, and leads to problems of inertia. The last inhibits eg, minor changes to a string, since any such change is making extra work for N translators (in my cases, N can be as high as 50).

Also, it requires hard decisions, like should this language that has falled 20% out of date be disabled, or is it better for the program to startle the user with English 20% of the time? (Which 20%?)

And finally, after all this work and pain, technical computer users will complain that they prefer the English version because their native language has clumsy terms for computing terms, or the translation to their native language is not idiomatic enough, or whatever. And you as the coordinator can't begin to judge translation quality unless you're fluent in N languages.

I've been lucky to have very skilled people handling the translation coordination in some free software projects I've been involved in, and localization has still had most of these elements of pain in most of them.

(Or if you prefer a proper rant: http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/on_localization_and_prog... )
Windows Azure Web, Worker, and CGI Roles – How They Work
This is a write up I’ve put together of how the roles in Windows Azure work. As far as I know, this is all correct – but if there are any Windows Azure Team Members out there that wouldn’t mind providing some feedback about specifics or adding to the details I have here – please do add comments! :)

Windows 2008 and Hyper-V

Windows Azure is built on top of Windows 2008 & Hyper-V. Hyper-V provides virtualization to the various instance types and allocation of resources to those instances. Windows 2008 provides the core operating system functionality for those systems and the Windows Azure Platform Roles and Storage.

The hypervisor that a Hyper-V installation implements does a few unique things compared to many of the other virtualization offerings in the industry. Xen (The Open Source Virtualization Software that Amazon Web Services use) & VMWare both use a shared resource model for utilization of physical resources within a system. This allows for more virtualized instances to be started per physical machine, but can sometimes allow hardware contention. On the other hand Hyper-V pins a particular amount of resources to a virtualized instance, which decreases the number of instances allowed on a physical machine. This enables Hyper-V to prevent hardware contention though. Both designs have their plusses and minuses and in cloud computing these design choices are rarely evident. The context however is important to know when working with high end computing within the cloud.

Windows Azure Fabric Controller

The Windows Azure Fabric Controller is kind of the magic glue that holds all the pieces of Windows Azure together. The Azure Fabric Controller automates all of the load balancing, switches, networking, and other networking configuration. Usually within an IaaS environment you’d have to setup the load balancer, static IP address, internal DNS that would allow for connection and routing by the external DNS, the switch configurations, configuring the DMZ, and a host of other configuration & ongoing maintenance is needed. With the Windows Azure Platform and the Fabric Controller, all of that... (read more in full article)
I'm fluent in English and Spanish. Yes, GT's English -> Spanish output is better than gibberish and you can often get the gist despite the glaring errors, especially if you know both languages.

But my point was, don't you think there's a bit of cognitive dissonance to somebody using machine translation because they don't speak a language very well, yet confidently asserting that the translations are good?
i have been using grasshopper [1] for some project & it already allows having function is translations.
it was nice to see a framework in a young ecosystem like node.js which can already handle this :)

[1]https://github.com/virtuo/grasshopper
Show HN: Fun new web game/app to learn bartending
To teach myself Python and GAE, I recently made a new web game/app to help people learn how to bartend. I'm pretty happy with the results, and it was tons of fun to make. I currently can't make any changes to the app, as it is an entry in Mozilla's GameOn 2010 challenge (gaming.mozillalabs.com).

Any and all comments and suggestions would be appreciated though!
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This looks like a dupe:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2060994&utm_source=t...
>"caused by the nature of the game"

Officiating can change the nature of the game uniformly at all levels. PeeWees aren't going to get the technology...nor team doctors and access to independent neurologists for that matter.
You conceded your argument but received more upvotes than the other person. Uh?
Definitely. I understand the business reason they want to encroach past what people actually want.

When I attended Google I/O last year we got given a free HTC EVO. Fantastic hardware, but the thing was so laden in Sprint crap I felt dirty just holding it.

It was like going back in time to the days where you got an ISP and they gave you a CD with a version of Netscape that included their own toolbar, and all their crappy bookmarks etc etc

Imagine if your electric company charged extra if you wanted to plug in a certain device to your home electric supply... Oh you want to plug in an xbox?? You'll have to purchase our special xbox electriciy plan for extra or we won't allow it to work.

They provide electric, we pay for what we use. The same should hold for data providers... We pay based on what we use. How we use it is none of their business.
>"every mention of "unlimited" in their advertisements or contracts will have a footnote saying that it is actually capped"

So you are saying it's OK because they correct it in the footnotes?

By that logic they could also offer "500 minutes & 500 texts... Footnote: actually, it's capped at 10".

What I don't understand is how they can advertise with a word with a crystal clear meaning like unlimited and then totally go against that just because they include a footnote that contradicts their main content.

If you are allowed to contradict your self in the footnotes surely there'd be all kinds of strange adverts:

"X petrol provides unlimited mpg....actually just 35mpg"
"Y chocolate with zero fat...actually, 98g of fat per 100g"
"Z magazine with unlimited pages...really only 10"

I thought advertisements were not allowed to be misleading, and a can't see how claiming unlimited but then capping is not misleading.

There must be some legal precedent or loophole somewhere that permits this "unlimited" fakery or surely they would have been stopped by now.
مشاهدة مباراة قطر والصين
In my view, the last major legal cloud that hangs over Facebook is the appeal by ConnectU and the Winklevoss brothers of a federal court decision upholding a settlement between them and FB of their claims that Mr. Zuckerberg had allegedly stolen their ideas to form the company. With that settlement in place, those parties received what many considered a windfall ($20M cash and 1.2 shares of FB stock, originally valued at $45M and now estimated to be worth $150M). Should it be set aside, however, the settlement value of such claims today would be astronomical. Why? Because these claims (unlike those of Mr. Ceglia, who filed a claim nearly seven years after the fact claiming an "84% stake in Facebook") were timely brought and have overhung every round of financing that FB has done from the beginning. In other words, existing FB shareholders have at all times been aware, in making their investment, of the risk that they could potentially lose everything should ConnectU prevail in its claims to own the FB IP. That is a devastating outcome for FB shareholders, of course, but the claimants here (unlike Mr. Ceglia) cannot be accused of laches or foot-dragging in ways that make the timing of their claims inequitable and therefore unenforceable. Thus, should they get this settlement set aside, FB would be faced with years of future litigation during which a serious question mark would hang over the entire value of its company. Hence, no IPO; hence, a far higher cost of any financing down the road. The stakes are high in this case.

The ConnectU parties have sought to set the settlement aside on the grounds that FB and Mr. Zuckerberg committed "securities fraud" in inducing them to accept stock in the company whose value they allegedly overstated at the time it was offered to them in settlement of their case (see this press account which caused a frenzy at HN some 7 months ago, http://venturebeat.com/2010/05/19/facebook-connectu-securiti... and my comment on it here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1362379).

As I argued before, the securities-fraud claim was extremely artificial for several reasons but mainly because it is wildly outrageous, by lawsuit standards, that a party should be held to comply with such laws in a confidential mediation context.

It now seems that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is inclined to that view as well. This news account is based only on the views publicly expressed by the judges during the course of oral argument and anything is possible, of course. But this doesn't appear to be going ConnectU's way at this point and, barring a significant change of heart by the panel from that indicated by its comments, FB would appear to have this one safely in hand.
There is a lot of FUD flying around over this issue. Hopefully I can dispel some of it.

Firstly, it's a fair usage policy, not a hard limit. You don't get charged for over-use with a FUP. With my contract (which is with Orange), if I go over the FUP a little bit, nothing happens. If I take the piss then they will ask me to upgrade to a larger data package, or use less, or lose it.

Secondly, the "T-Mobile says no videos or downloads on your mobile" idea isn't entirely correct. If you hit the 500MB limit in a month, your internet continues to work on your phone! However, streaming video and other data heavy activities will not work once you are past the limit.

Lastly, it's really, really hard to use 3GB of data on a mobile phone. I have 3G watchdog installed on my Droid and the only time I've come close to 500MB is when I was tethering. 500MB doesn't sound like a lot these days, but on a mobile phone it really is plenty. My usage over the last 6 complete months is as follows: 295, 316, 388, 166, 407, 211 (all figures in megabytes) and I use my phone pretty heavily. YMMV of course.

However, I would understand anyone being upset by these changes. I hope Ofcom finds in the consumers' favour and the change is repealed, or people are allowed to get out of their contracts early with no penalty. The way T-Mobile has handled this, from the "announcement" (or lack thereof), to telling people what their smartphones are and aren't for, is a lesson in how not to do things.
Maze Generation: Recursive Division
Did that all the time for the Apple //e disks. Since most of the media at the time was for 360K disks for IBM compatibles but since the Apple format was 143K the vast majority of the time it worked.

In fact if I dug around in the box under my desk I could probably find the special puncher, and a couple unused ribbons for the old daisy wheel printer, etc.
World IPv6 Day: firing up the engines on the new Internet protocol
The Puzzling Evolution of Guns Versus Bows
>mobile devices plugged in most of the time

DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Report Finds Parental Monitoring Software May Carry Privacy and Liability Risks
Rackspace Cloud Adds Akamai as Content Delivery Partner
Only in the US, to my knowledge.
This reminds me of http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/01/09/... in that here we have a person who successfully called big extreme things (PayPal, Facebook, rising oil prices, the economic collapse) but yet has, in aggregate, lost almost 2/3 of his investors money with his predictions.
Nevermind, I did eventually stumble upon it! It's "Steal this presentation" by jessedee. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/jessedee/steal-this-presentation-5... HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939272
Makes sense.

But in a slightly different domain, my broadband provider advertises "Unlimited XMbps broadband" but throttles after 1.5Gb. That's clearly not "Unlimited XMb/s" That's "1.5Gb XMb/s broadband with unlimited 300Kbps broadband". Yeah I know broadband speed is a big grey area, and they have all these getout clauses like service conditions etc etc, but when it comes right down to it the whole thing just feels like a advertising con.
Citizen Kubrick
Google fan boys can try and rationalize this decision all they want, but a few things are known.

1. Most people saw this announcement as 'business' decision by Google

2. This was not a decision driven by what is best for the average computer/online user

3. Yay, Flash video! :(
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As much as google can seem pretty sinister these days, it's reassuring that their strategy for implementing a video decoder is "hire the dev on the leading open source project for a year."
Agreed. Why is everyone assuming Google will convert all YouTube to WebM?

That would be the main attack on Apple, not removing support for HTML5 h264 in Chrome (flash is the easy backup here). There's a motive for Google to convert YouTube to WebM to screw Apple, but it doesn't seem likely.
The singularity is coming!
Another telling point (and an easy way to identify Apple fanbois) is that this isn't a complaint about proprietary plugin usage. This is a complaint about Flash. And that's where the sour grapes are. Anything that fanbois want to say about the inclusion of Flash in Chrome can be said about Java Applets, but there hasn't been the merest hint of a peep about Google's relationship with Oracle.
World IPv6 Day: Solving the IP Address Chicken-and-Egg Challenge
I don't give a shit what other programmers think. Sure, I learn from them, but never in the context of reviewing the code I wrote.

Can you elaborate on this a little? On the surface, it sounds like ego getting in the way of learning and closing your mind to good mentors. On the other hand, you might also have had a helping hand in inventing Lisp or something, and I am your young whippersnapper that you won't be listening to because you have already written my algorithms better before I learned to crawl. The context helps, since I am far from convinced this is a good attitude for programmers (especially my coworkers) to adopt.
You're dreaming if you think Apple is going to add WebM hardware decoding support to iPhones.

You're dreaming if you think Apple could ignore WebM if it became the de facto web video standard. It all depends if WebM becomes that popular.
Proud to be an Indian
Another useful presentation on giving presentations is http://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/.

It is somewhat idiosyncratic, but it is good advice.
1. that's totally projecting. Read what they wrote, not what you think they mean. But if you really want to play that game, same can be said for Apple's decision to drop flash.

2. And dropping flash was good for average users?

3. Regardless of how much we all hate flash, flash video wasn't dead to begin with, or even dying yet. Sorry to pierce the reality distortion field.
Awesome post. Sure wish some of that easy VC money existed in Canada. But maybe 3 years from now another bubble will pop and Canada will again fail to notice anything happened.
Run? Probably one. Help advise and the like? Maybe a couple others. You aren't really hedging your bets as much as you are dividing your efforts.

Note, if you can get something started, (possibly also funded,) and operating largely without your intercession, then iterating on that model quickly can be completely awesome. But get something going first and don't try twelve things simultaneously - been burned by that one myself.
My older brother, when learning assembly, needed a memory address to write to on the hard disk of my Dad's business computer. Sadly he chose the first one as he hadn't discovered the File Allocation Table at that point. My Dad wasn't best pleased, even though technically the data was still on the disk!
If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

- Fred Wilson (@fredwilson)

http://startupquote.com/post/2713963643
It's important to note that the Nasuni product (I am employee) makes cloud storage behave very much like local storage. We're not a "cloud storage" company so much as a gateway to enable companies to securely use cloud storage and have it behave like a local NAS.
Is "confirmed" really the right word to use when its one anonymous source?
Not knowing anything else about the situation, I tend to side with him. It's probably not that the people he talked to are morons; it's more likely that they just don't care about anything not immediately in front of them. In a large corporation this wouldn't surprise me, but in a startup it does.

I'm sitting here in a large (US$4bn sales) corp doing a job I didn't initially interview for. I told my interviewer that the job they wanted me for didn't sound like what I wanted to do and my interests were elsewhere. Instead of just blowing me off like those guys did, he sent me to interview with a different team that was a much better fit. That's giving a shit!

Apathy kills.
It looks to me like Google plan to accept patches: http://www.webmproject.org/code/contribute/submitting-patche.... But maybe I'm mistaken. Are you saying they aren't accepting patches or just that they haven't yet?
Fun with Wolfram Alpha
Curating the Curators: Consumption on the Social Web, For an Audience of 1
Very nice news! Seems Apple taking competition seriously this time.
FCC's Net Neutrality-ISP blocking port 80,25
"Under the FCC rules, an ISP would not be able to pick and choose apps or service to block in order to improve network performance."

I assume that under this law they now have to open port 80, and 25. Hopefully, now I can run my own web server since I am paying $50 a month for service.
Just because it is a physical product doesn't make it any less protected. So, yes, I am seriously comparing them. If that's all you have to add I can't believe you wasted your time writing that.
I suspect it's greatly increased, but even with similar numbers of phones out, I also suspect iOS devs pull in more money

The majority of iOS devs make little to nothing, documented countless times. Of course when you hear the rare success story it is presented as a norm, which paradoxically leads to a gold rush that really ensures that no one gets rich (and quick!).

And the same is entirely true for Android. While the user base has grown dramatically, the number of applications have exploded as well so there's significantly more competition.