skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$150 seems expensive. It would be better if you create a service based on kwolla that allows users to easily setup their own social network. You host the social network for them, and charge a monthly fee like $9.00 starter and premium $39 etc. The thing is that most average users don't like to setup and config servers, thats why email services and blogging services are so popular.

Hackers are usually the early adopters and they are the ones that will recommend your product to mainstream users, but the thing is that hackers don't like paying for software. Hackers don't like licenses. I think its a good idea to make kwolla open source, so that users can host it themselves for free or pay you to host it for them and provide support.

Making it open source also helps you develop a community around the product. You get users contributing code, fixing bugs, writing documentation, beta testing new features etc. With open source you also get viral distribution, lots of goodwill and free marketing. This is similar to Automattic's business model with Wordpress and Wordpress.com.
http://incanter.org/downloads/fjclj.pdf

Slides of "From Concurrency to Parallelism: an illustrated guide to multi-core parallelism in Clojure" by David Liebke at the first Clojure Conj. Video will eventually be up at clojure.blip.tv
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looks pretty good, man! i took one of your promo codes and gave you a five-star rating.

i think the in-game graphics are great, but your icon for this app and your other ones leave a lot to be desired. they should be more full and colorful.
Interesting article, though its assumption that since an IT administrator could look at your email it cannot be considered privileged is a bit worrisome. It basically means nothing done electronically can be counted as privileged.

Why are phone conversations privileged? If the phone company was so inclined, it could (and has) hook up a listening device and listen to whatever they wanted, just like an IT administrator could hook up his email program to point to your mailbox (or packet sniff or use some other method).

Fortunately, from the skimming I did, it doesn't look like there's case law on the matter, just an assumption that emails can't qualify as privileged. Note that most IT administrators could get any private keys you use at work by logging into your machine and copying them off and he could get your passwords by hooking up a keylogger. By the standard promulgated in the article, a defendant could then be forced to offer any passphrase for anything. We know that at least isn't considered the rule yet, let's hope it never becomes such.
Thanks. Have you tried it with WebMatrix?
Probably editing error, but their terms page (https://appharbor.com/page/terms) skips over section 4.1.
The recipient further agrees that -->it<-- will not copy, reproduce, or distribute this email in whole or in part.
sounds pretty bubble-icious to me ...
I wonder how big a problem this is.
Might be something people can look at.
Ties in with what I am passionate about, security
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Huffington Post Writer And Google-ITA deal opponent has Microsoft ties
I don't think you understood my point. I agree with you up to a point. No programmer I have ever met has felt that any significant codebase they are working on is perfect. At some point you have to say that it's good enough and move onto new features or new projects.
I haven't yet - I have ASP.NET MVC3 RTM up and running on it though: http://geekyreads.com/
And 2x bigger than that on the iPad please :)
No, git doesn't have a secondary check: http://progit.org/book/ch6-1.html § A SHORT NOTE ABOUT SHA-1
I really like the look and feel of the game, kudos! I am, however, struggling to manage two players at once. Is it meant to be played by two people on a single keyboard? Are any of the levels single-player?
I like it. Performs well and it's entertaining. Although I must admit I have some difficulty getting my right and left hand to accurately control both characters at the same time. That's not so much an issue with the game as it is with my lacking motor control though.
I didn't even know that shipped already (MVC 3 RTM)! I thought HN was supposed to keep me up to date on stuff like that! :-)
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Yeah, it's meant to be a two-player game. It's really tough to play alone! We're looking into networked play, though we can't modify the live site while the Game On judging is in progress.
Solid UI and simple concept. Great job!
It should be noted that his Twitter account (http://twitter.com/danchodanchev) was last updated 20 October 2010.
It's fixed, thanks!
The ultimate log format (lab 10, item 4) is superb!
That would put FB on par with McDonalds or around the 80th largest corp in terms of market cap. That said, however overvalued I may feel it is, I don't think its going to head in a downward direction for at least a year. At least FB is a little more fun to hype than Gold.
From what's visible in the second photo, things look fairly legit (albeit shoddy) if the power feed is coming through the wall at the center of the image and the transformer is on the left below the ledge and the wires to/from it are going down through the hole and the wires heading out of the frame to the left are simply a splice between the feed line and the leads on the transformer.

Now if he cracked open the transformer and found a transmitter hidden inside - then it might get interesting...
Yet another reason to use duckduckgo
Huh? Why would CakeCentral.com pages 302 redirect to Beerby.com?
I'm currently on T-Mobile pay monthly and have EDGE, which is enough to use with Google Maps. When I need faster service, there's often WiFi, or I can fire up my Clear mobile WiFi hotspot, which also doubles as my home internet.
Codecs have come and gone all the time. Your best bet for the web as late as 2007 was transcoding to VP6. How could anyone invest in a toolchain that can't support any codec other than H.264, knowing such a poor design wouldn't have been viable just a few years before? Did they think the industry wouldn't agree on any improvements, ever?
This essentially turns "make" inside out. The makefile lists the dependencies and then has minimal glue to run the build command based on the dependencies. Instead, redo has the build commands invoke helper-tools to specify the dependencies.

Overall, I quite like it. One downside of the current design that I see as being somewhat hard to fix is that it doesn't handle build commands with multiple outputs. There are klugey workarounds, but they require either lying to redo about the true dependencies (which always fills me with dread), or making parallel build unreliable.
So how do you short facebook?
Maybe Apple will make me eat my words, but...

As a current iPad owner, I'm really not that fussed agout iPad 2. Two cameras and an SD slot? A screen that is better that the current one, which already seems more than fine for me?

Feels very much like creAting a new version for the sake of having a new version to sell, not because it will be significantly better.
I think my point is that the cost of integrating the work of many into a small business are going to drop.

I believe (and am probably alone in this belief :-)) that there is still an inherent tax advantage to having everything in one entity that probably outweighs the disadvantages of coordinating a large group.

A group of 100 members trades internally without paying taxes on these transactions, but everything between independents has some tax effects for at least one side.

If this advantage were removed by some kind of tax reform, I suspect corporations would be smaller on average.

Getting back to the entrepreneur, even if there are many standard-izable things in a process, there are costs to outsourcing those things. Automation of physical logistics may greatly reduce these costs, making it possible to focus on just the unique value one can add and be rewarded.
Your comment basically says "But, we already have all this expensive stuff for H.264! We spent a lot of time and money buying it and figuring out how to make it all work! I don't like this new thing."

While your expensive super-duper video authoring toolchain does not now support WebM, if Google has its way, it one day will and you'll encode WebM/VP8 just like you encode H.264 today.

The lack of scriptability seems to stem from using tools that are hard to script. ffmpeg is just fine for most people that are going to be using the <video> tag. If your tools are hard to script, you may want to ask the vendor for better tools.

You're right that support for WebM is not as wide as is support for H.264. The theory is that it soon will be.

Nobody is forcing you to convert your H.264 videos today. If you want to wait until support is more widespread, then that's just fine. Chrome is not some devastating loss for the <video> tag here, its userbase is relatively minor.

Also, do you have any merit behind your statement that VP8 is a step backward? I'm aware of Dark_Shikari's post on the matter. I don't think it definitively shows that VP8 < H.264. Do you have anything else? Some sources have claimed VP8 is much better.
Oh, it's not limited to the GDR. Switzerland in the eighties had the "Fichenaffäre" when it came out that the Swiss federal police did surveillance, and kept records on, about 10% of the population.

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

The Stasi is a fascinating example because the fall of the GDR was quick enough that they couldn't destroy most of the existing files and evidence and we have a relatively clear picture of what happened there. For the Swiss files from the 80s, an official archive exists but access to actual data is relatively difficult. If other democratically elected governments practice Stasi-style surveillance, it would be extremely hard to find out (and would, arguably be the bottom of an iceberg ranging from regular law enforcement to espionage and counter-espionage, to proactive intelligence gathering to find likely terrorists, to proactive intelligence gathering on random citizens who are not terrorists but may have rented a car from a suspected terrorist's relative).
Old Spice Guy was a pretty striking ad series. I don't know that it resonated with me, but it sure is memorable!
YouTube Quietly Launches Live Beta With New Partners
IE 5.5 had a lot of this with behaviors. IE 6 built on it further. Firefox push a lot of similar concepts with XUL. These ideas aren't especially new. There are a lot of subtlties that make this stuf really tricky.

For details on behaviors see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531079(v=vs.85).as....
what law states entrepreneurs are smart? Not to be a downer, but you've probably only heard of the successful ones. I'm sure there are plenty more who aren't successful. Smart is a consequential call, isn't it?
This is a delight!

There's only one more thing this needs to be perfect. I'd love to be able to calibrate it to me, by aiming for the bullseye 10 times and telling it what I hit. That way, it could assess my expertise, and suggest what I should personally be aiming for.
It needs an open source solution or a solution you can buy and run on your own servers, because most of us doing .NET are doing it for corporations and on their own private servers.
Goldman Sachs did it... so they must be right..

There are many reasons Goldman Sachs did the deal. If Facebook goes public and chooses GS as the financial institution to do the paperwork, that's one reason.

In addition, if they believe speculation will drive Facebook stocks up after the IPO, then it's a good investment. Overall at 70billion valuation, Facebook has a P/E of 170 ~ ish. So earning 1 million dollar will drive the valuation of Facebook to 170 million. Let's try to use some common sense in this. Either Facebook start to monetize like crazy, like earn 10 billion profit next year, 10x of what it was this year, or the valuation has a problem?
That can be handled entirely as a separate process that creates the dependencies that redo then uses. Separation of concerns argues that here's no need to tie them together.

In fact, they have an example of using gcc to generate header-file dependencies for C. A command-line tool that ran a command and spat out what files it accessed (via strace, dynamic library imposition, or even crazier methods like interpreting the binary) would hook into this system fairly seamlessly.
The right kind of advertising is pretty awesome, because it provides value for me. Right now, Stack Overflow and Amazon have the best ads out there, IMO. SO took a while to get decent ads too.

I watched some stuff on Hulu the other day. Fancy cars, teeth whitening commercials, drugs I don't ever anticipate using, and other useless stuff to me was marketed at me. That's just not a good ad model I think. I would love to see some really new and interesting products - not Another Car|Soda|Beer commercial.
I'm talking about video delivered via the web.

Genuinely curious: What video are you talking about here that is delivered to your iOS device via the web? Are you referring to Netflix and iTunes? Or something else?
you provided more condemnation than analysis. In my reading of the Book, He reached out to people as an educator and provided guidance about a path that offers help to people that followed other ways. Do you see the irony in your quote?
Beautiful!

I'm still need to get my eyeglass prescription redone, but I can put it off a little longer now.
How is this an advantage? Whether or not I can commit locally does not make much difference to migrate my changes into a central repository for other developers to see...
"Which begs the question as to why anyone would use Facebook when it is essentially AOL done right?"

I'm often taken aback when I hear/read these kind of comments. It shows the gulf between most web users and a minority of techies.
If you work for a technology company and they make you use a 5 year old computer...time to go work somewhere else.
Does anyone have information on doing something like this wirelessly? Provided your sensor has its own power source, couldn't you use the fm receiver built into a lot of phones to receive data from an external sensor?
> "But, we already have all this expensive stuff for H.264! We spent a lot of time and money buying it and figuring out how to make it all work!"

You cast this as if investment and legacy are irrelevant quibbles, when in fact they're commercial considerations of the kind that are pretty relevant when you want to do something like establish the video tag.

> While your expensive super-duper video authoring toolchain does not now support WebM, if Google has its way, it one day will and you'll encode WebM/VP8 just like you encode H.264 today.

This is a big assumption, and right now the only reason you would do it so you can serve ... well, virtually nothing. One day soon, three browsers in HTML5. You're certainly not reaching anyone new. By contrast, h.264 is well beyond the tipping point, lets you reach all-new mobile audiences, and has a huge installed base, and a toolchain that runs from home-level to corporation.

The drive for HTML5 video depends entirely on making it fit as closely as possible to the path of least resistance that is Flash Player. A decision like this makes HTML5 more expensive and more complicated for people to support, which simply means they won't.

> Some sources have claimed VP8 is much better.

Cite.
It is trivial in Mercurial to back out the last commit: hg rollback

I use it all the time to fix typos, add a file I forgot to add, or whatever. Once you push, it is more difficult, but I try not to push my code until it works. I also commit only tested chunks of code, so that is the "unit of work" I aim for.

The equivalent in git is something stupid, I have to look it up every time: git reset --soft HEAD^

That's intuitive!
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It's not the actual codec that matters. It's that if you have one given codec end-to-end throughout your entire workflow and it lets you drive everything from broadcast to mobile phone, why would you then support an oddball outlier without any proven technical advantage and with no new audience?

Of course you can plug in another transcoder on the end of the output chain, but why not just serve the h264 holdouts yet more Flash and keep your existing archive and workflow untouched?
Tradesmen provide their own tools if they are independently employed. If they are employed directly through a big firm, the firm often buys all their equipment for them, including a loaner truck and cell phone.
The hugely important point, completely overlooked by the article, is: is the text in monospace or not? If it's monospace, two spaces typically looks better. That's why old-fashioned typewriter people use two spaces.

If it's typeset, the number of spaces really should be taken care of by the justification system (as in TeX) and the point of the article is moot.

Aside, this is the article at which I vowed to no longer read Manjoo. The S/N is too low.
Sorry, the analysis seemed rather clear. Offering people a chance to fight arena-style fights against their fellows is rather unscrupulous to say the least. Do you defend doing this?

Taking down the site and apologizing seems like a pretty clear guidance to ending the problem. What else would you suggest?

Does your reading of the bible or religious texts support sites like 'cubeduel'?

The point is also don't judge unless you want to expose yourself to judgment. I don't mind being judged for condemning this 'cubeduel'. Who wants to judged for supporting it?

One has an obligation to speak out against despicable acts. Do you think this is something other than that?
Doesn't quite work for me on Chrome. The fonts are too small. Works great on Safari though.
Aw you missed the best part

"Modern historians suspect the two were dyslexic."
Ok, so you only get cash if there is another round of investment, BUT, you can only convert your equities to cash in the event of another investment.

Doesn't your note specify a payment schedule or is it just lumpsum upon expiry of the note?
Yes -- I want this too!

I actually don't think it would be very hard to get a first version which does the job well...

- Auth: Registration (with email verification, and OpenID/OAuth), Login, Logout

- DB: Users, Feeds, ...

- Feed crawler

- Mail sending: Instantly or digests (configurable intervals), properly setup email server or proxy

- Simple web-interface that gets out of the way. It's a simple job, after all.

- ?

If enough people want something like this and vote this post up, I would give it a shot over the weekend and put the code up for everyone to improve/fork/whatever.
That's good :) I'm playing with Javascript gaming/coding at the moment, so this is very educational. Thanks.

Some single player gaming would be great, although huddling round the keyboard is very (very) social :-)
Create a contract that allows you to do the following:

1. Buy Shares for $x from person A

2. Immediately share sells of Facebook

3. If the price of facebook drops below $x, rebuy for $y

4. Transfer new shares to person A

The tricky part is #3 on what conditions do you have to rebuy shares when $y > %x.
Which version/channel of Chrome is that? I'd like to have a look at fixing it.

Also, please list your extensions.
What's the gaming algo you are using to decide who to duel against whom? I'm assuming your not simply randomly displaying pairs from the same company N number of times? Do winners get pitted for more duels then losers?
Sony, Victor to launch 3-D video cameras (The Daily Yomiuri)
No, but the WebM license includes a perpetual, royalty-free patent license: http://www.webmproject.org/license/additional/

The patent license is irrevocable unless you file a suit against VP8 users claiming that VP8 violates your own patents. (This is a common clause for open-source patent grants; basically it means that Google can still use its patents "defensively" as a deterrent against other patent suits, but it can't use them in an "offensive" first-strike.)
One piece of evidence of not-that-good ideas post-ConnectU is http://guestofaguest.com/ which is published by Cameron W.
"So, does YouTube have someone sit there and manually check every video to see if quality would be a little better if the bitrate was tweaked"

Of course they don't and no one expects them too. Have you seen the videos on youtube? The quality is wildly variable, with the mean-quality being shit.

For many other content — music vids, doccos, tv-shows, movies — quality is important.

"If you publish several hundred videos on your own and you've carefully tweaked and created an encoding profile for each one and you want to use the same care when transitioning to WebM, then I recognize that that will be pretty time-consuming for you. "

Which is precisely why so many people aren't interested in WebM.

"However, I sincerely doubt that's a very common case,"

You’re making assumptions. It may be very few people or it may be a lot. How confident are you when you say it's not very common? How did you come to this conclusion?
I've got the stable build: 8.0.552.237.
After disabling my extensions and re-enabling them one by one, I think vimium is causing the problem.
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Sadly it's just a dream to create something in the DOM and make it private, if we ever get there, we will go to mashup heaven.

The ability to limit the scope of a script tag would be desired too. Something like:

<script>
var notsoglobalobject = {};
</script>
<script global-object="notsoglobalobject" src="yourevilscript.js"></script>

But stuff like these are both hard to design and hard to make real standards.
For anyone wondering, this is "N" by Metanet software[1] (remember the developer name, as the game is impossible to Google). There's a paid version on XBLA, personally I prefer keyboard controls.

[1]: http://www.metanetsoftware.com/
Same, lol. Everytime I see an article on HN, Reddit, or elsewhere saying 'Study shows... [fill in the blank]', I think that.

The MSM doesn't seem to grok that if a single, non-corroborated 'study' shows something, it's effectively noise, not news.
This sounds very much like Mozilla's XBL ("XML Binding Language"), currently being standardized by the W3C: http://www.w3.org/TR/xbl/
What's the Difference Between ":before" and "::before"?
A man walks into a bar. He is an alcoholic and it's destroying his family.
Unshortened url: http://alpha.beepl.com/question/why-should-i-choose-git-over...

Just stop using shortened URLs on hacker news.
Lets make the Objective-C Koans a reality.
Does he have a record of schizophrenia? And how far back does that record extend?
Obama administration ends high-tech border fence
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I couldn't reproduce what you describe, but I'm on dev 10.0.634.0. Tried with Vimium too.
Another great way to reach your boss is to fund a Cisco Professor of E-Democracy just like Cisco actually do, right?
It may as well be a trillion dollars for all the sense that valuation makes.
Teens seem to like it.
what did i just witness?
Convince a banker to write an over-the-counter put option on private equity? Though the banker will presumably want a really low strike price to justify the risk at any premium.
Yeah, agreed. I've seen bathroom and bedroom wiring all like this through Eastern Europe and South East Asia. Not the usual super clean lines and junction boxes like in regulation constrained countries. The transformer looks like a halogen step down transformer providing 11.5V at almost 5 amps. That's a crazy amount of juice for a bug. Which would operate on the 3V or less range and have a current draw in the milliamp range.

Also there is no way to corroborate if this letter is in good faith. This could be anyone sending this letter. It could be complete fabrication designed to send a "hes gone crazy" message.

I find this whole situation suspicious.
Create a second account, turn on [showdead] in its profile, and view the submission in that browser session.
No, it's definitely a he.
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