skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard of XBMC but I never saw the need for it as it seems to require all this ecosystem around it (storage for movies, computers for downloads, etc) so I might just as well use a laptop directly.

Has it reached a point where I can just install it on some hardware (which?) and leave it at my parents', connected to their TV?

General usecases I see: normal TV(maybe PiP, timeshift, record), youtube, local/remote photos, CD/DVD movie playback, ideally semi-automatic torrent download.
I use git on Windows all the time and have no problems with it after disabling the automatic crlf mangling. I am usually pretty confused why people act like Git doesn't work well on Windows. It works just as well for me; maybe a bit slower, but still definitely faster than other SCMs.
Definitely. As a hacktivist, I'm sure you're familiar with the dangers of browser plugins. I find that browsers allow this behaviour to be extremely unnerving.
Insurance Costs
We are building low voltage hardware with 250K in sales. All of the actual construction is outsourced. Currently we have no payroll, just sales and expenses. Our activities are design, box and ship. Our very basic insurance is over 6K a year. What are other folks paying for general liability insurance?
I love the way Google functions in respect to top management
I second this, you can install straight from an installer and get a Git command line, Git GUI and a plugin for VS. It really is almost a one click process.
That is an incredible concept. If only something similar came out soon I would be one of the first in line.
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It's just a media (photos/music/TV) player.

It's better than a laptop because it just sits under the TV, and you can get it on a box for about $100. Personally, my TV is hooked up to an amp, sits in front of the sofa, and is a much better experience than watching things on a laptop.

If you want timeshifting and recording then you want something like a Tivo (or MythTV if you want to do that yourself).
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You can post a reply here, I'll be watching. Also @evilchelu or @tzigla on twitter.
You might be surprised at the interest something like this could generate if more people saw it. I can imagine a lot of things that people might want to do with these images. Not just the obvious historical interest, but I can imagine even stranger things, like it showing up as prior art for some patent. Don't laugh. I forget which computer, but I remember reading about how someone brought out a (working!) computer from the early 80s as a demonstration at trial. Makes me think I should see if that 8088 of mine still works or not....

Anyhow, please put them on a photo sharing site somewhere and consider putting them on Flickr/Picasa/whatever and giving them a CC license. I was tempted to mirror them myself until I saw the 'Terms of use: no crawlers, no wget, no site copying, use of pictures and text only with permission. No excessive rss feed checking.' bit at the bottom.
I've been meditating daily in the Mindfulness (aka Insight) meditation style for about 6 years, and it's completely changed my life and my health.

I've written about this (with a focus on geeks like us) here:

http://hivelogic.com/articles/an-introduction-to-mindfulness...
http://hivelogic.com/articles/how-to-start-a-meditation-prac...
http://hivelogic.com/articles/meditation-gear

I hope this is useful to you.
Tiles.ice.org? I have nothing constructive to add except thank you for bringing back this concept. A few years ago I went back to ice.org to find out it had turned int a wasteland and was completely gutted.

Genuinely shocked to see this resurrected, can't wait to get into this again. Chewed up many a friday night during university. =)

Edit: one thing, any plan for a standard login / google account support or the likes? Kind of a shame that you can't register without facebook or twitter.
Nice idea. Will definitely look into automating this.
I tried to use the sandbox on the site, but didn't manage to draw anything. I think you should focus on the UI first (make it easier), next promote. If you promote a UI that's hard to use, a lot of people are just going to leave.

Ask a friend/family/anyone to try to use it, and observe them. Don't speak.
big business is protected by politicians

One might also say that politicians are protected by big business. The problem isn't one particular group, but that the system has been perverted so that this symbiosis is profitable for both groups.

why the heck does the USA continue to do welfare for the corn industry

Read up on public choice economics: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Public_choice...
Felicitari! :)

Apparently the good advices are already given, so I'm only left with supporting your initiative. I just wanted to say that, karma be damned :) (I know this is not reddit but hopefully I will be forgiven)
Hold on a minute, you think that asking for, let's say a public data retention policy is just a meme?
For a big company, "we take our end-user data privacy incredibly seriously..." is generally the mandatory first sentence in a 30 pages document. This is not just about ads.
I got through it easily.
I closed my eyes, counted the seconds elapsed in my head and opened my eyes every 10-15 seconds to see how close I ended up.
Mmm, I think you misunderstand cashflow. It's not how much money you make, it's how fast you get it.
Finding right target audiences is always the most important thing to do first. However, this another direction might help at the beginning. Basically drawing itself does not create a purpose. It is the purpose which drives to draw. So one approach is to ask artists to draw for charity events. I am sure collaborative drawing for charity can create very inspiring drawings and also get more attentions to your application. Wish you the best.
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It seems like a sound principle, in theory, to trade memory by programmer time. After all, one can buy a lot of RAM for the cost of a programmer's work day (even the expensive ECC RAM used on servers).

However, most people don't seem to be able to tell where that stops making sense, and the end result is software that's slow no matter how much memory you throw at it.

Anyone that has worked for any amount of time with "enterprise" software knows what I'm talking about.
Just put $50.00 on it. They had a recommended cpc of $1.40 - which seems really, really extravagant. What would you say is the norm? We are newbies at marketing.
I started at a company 2.5 years ago as a COBOL programmer and am now a Software Architect for the company. I would say that COBOL still runs a very large percentage of business systems (especially banking). Our system does even implement GUI and we are starting to use a form of MVC for new development.

While I think most companies that have COBOL systems want to get rid of them and move to a newer language, doing so is going to take a very long time. My company has wanted to move from COBOL to a higher language for over 5 years now and never been able to prove the business case. The language will be around, at least in maintenance if not development for at least another 20 years imho.

The big problem that companies are having is that the majority of COBOL programmers will retire in the next 5 years and new college grads don't have experience with it and don't want to learn it because it is considered "dead" by mainstream CS. That means those that actually know the language stand to make a very large amount of money in the coming years helping big banks convert their systems, when they have nowhere else to turn.
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Agreed, I hate GM scaremongers as well.

The suspect species of corn (and soy, for that matter) with genes to produce pesticides, however, might cross-pollinate. In that case, it's not only GM corn that's suspect, but all corn.

edit... I still don't think it's clear whether the problem is with the gene producing pesticide, or excessive external pesticide/herbicide use.
While Americans carry dogs around in handbags, Koreans eat them.

This is racist shock-talk aimed at Americans. Yes, this happens in Korea. My understanding is that some older people believe that by eating a dog, you gain the creature's vitality. I know that the majority of Koreans who live in the United States do not do this and their only involvement with the practice is to find such talk embarrassing. In many european countries, people also eat horses, which many Americans would find just as shocking. In parts of Louisiana, a lot of people will happily cook and eat just about any mammal.

Personally, I find this hypocritical, as many Americans happily (likely unknowingly) feed their family dog the processed meat of other dogs.

http://www.bukisa.com/articles/294021_is-there-dog-meat-in-d...
Let's say they spend not 6 but 1 billion dollars to make this work, over the next 3 years. That means they can spend 1000000000/365/3 = 1 million dollars a day on providing awesome deals, for 3 years.

Don't tell me that won't work.
What "unexciting i7 platform upgrade" is he talking about? SandyBridge is out but it is DUAL channel, not triple. So 16Gb, not 24...
Classic embrace and extend (or embrace and make cheaper).
I think you need to define dead. If you are saying it is dead in the sense that there is no new development being done on it and/or it is not in high use, then you are completely mistaken. I would say the best "dead" definition for it is: any company looking to implement a new system would not choose COBOL as their language. In that sense, it is technically dying, but definitely not dead.
My money is on schmidt saying "Shit, i'm 65, i'm worth billions, time to have some fun"
Shuccess happens: Study of an Artificial Cultural Market
Hit songs, books, and movies are many times more successful than average, suggesting that ‘‘the best’’ alternatives are qualitatively different from ‘‘the rest’’; yet experts routinely fail to predict which products will succeed. We investigated this paradox experimentally, by creating an artificial ‘‘music market’’ in which 14,341 participants downloaded previously unknown songs either with or without knowledge of previous participants’ choices. Increasing the strength of social influence increased both inequality and unpredictability of success. Success was also only partly determined by quality: The best songs rarely did poorly, and the worst rarely did well, but any other result was possible.<p>Wouldn't surprise me if the same were true for Web-iPhone apps. So besides quality, marketing, and early entry, one needs luck.
I guess no one has attempted to run the gaussian computational chemistry algorithms on molecules with more than tens of atoms.
Why do you get so frustrated? The guy was just giving the 'line number' thing as an example of something that can be easily automated and saves a lot of trouble. He wasn't flaming for some holy war, he wasn't saying jumping to line numbers is the most advanced thing.

And the comment about the iran/iraq war is simply disgusting. I don't understand why someone voted you up.
> way before that if you're thrashing those piddly L3 and L2 cache's.

And that's why knowing your hardware and your workload is important. I remember once we had a performance problem with a x86 server. Over lunch, the guy with the problem told me the working dataset was about 8 megs per batch or so. I told him to move the workload to an Itanium server we had for testing because I knew that server had 11 megs of L2 cache, besides being slightly faster per instruction than the Xeon that was running the workload. The throughput more than tripled.

It breaks my heart when people just assume more memory/GHz/cores is always faster.
We Believe A Lot, But Can Prove Little
what were you building that is not a (graphical I suppose) application nor a command line tool nor a library? (honest question)
One day, when I finally learn VHDL, I'll make a compact Symbolics-compatible Lisp Machine.

I have already done some research on what would be needed to build USB Symbolics/Space Cadet keyboards... Unfortunately, I doubt a keyboard without arrow keys would be very popular beyond a small group.
Thanks for the feedback.

We already did the user testing with 3 people. It was painful to watch, sigh. But that was two iterations away and we learned a lot since. Or so we thought.

Were you expecting to actually draw something while being on the site? This seems to be a common gotcha and thing we don't explain well yet.

Maybe we should make it clear that tzigla is not actually an editor. Or maybe we should just plug one in.
Of course, having to buy hardware isn't a huge problem, but it is just an example of a growing feeling that I've had with using a Microsoft stack - that you are completely dependent on the whims of one supplier and if they do something that causes you grief you really have no choice.
Find 'n talk
Probably Googles competitive advantage over Groupon is that they ought to be less reliant on direct salespeople than Groupon were because of their existing visibility and customer base and the vast number of external marketing/SEO/design businesses that will happily recommend their customers try Google promotions for a small commission.
Two effective techniques for preventing spam to your email addresses on the Web
The point was: people are incoherent in their dismissal of argument from authority. E.g. many (most?) in anti-GM movement also acknowledge anthropogenic global warming as true, obviously having no issue with IPCC authority on it.

Given enough controversial subjects people care for, no one is going to be knowledgeable in all of them. But people invoke "arguing from authority is a fallacy" only when they are not sided with the said authority.
Hi, nice idea. Had a few issues with usability however.

- Think you need to simplify the site, its a bit too cluttered to be easily approachable.

- Maybe i just missed it but on first arrival maybe have a simple 3 step instructions as to what the site is/users do. Using the word drawing so much gave me the impression there was a simple flash/canvas drawing tool. Perhaps make it clearer that you download the file then upload the new version.

- Would like non-social logins (some people like to be able to make a throw-away login).

- Also...on logout page "FIREFOX SUCKS ASS!" (guessing some unmoved place holder) seems a bit "odd".

Keep it up chap. :)
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I hope you have a low threshold for this addiction and you'll get the bug again.

Sorry, tzigla auth is not gonna happen. We can add other providers tho if people really hate both twitter and facebook.

ps: in the meantime, you could sign up with with: http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php

We have custom one click integration with them, they're our lovely shiny delicous first users.
Groupon doesn't have network effects to protect it.
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But you have to remember scale here. He is selling just over 5% of his stock. I think it is a good idea to follow the founders, so yes go sell your stock (or at least 5% of it).
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yes, was expecting that :)
Since you will still have your local computer running to actually use it, you have to add its electricity costs to the dev machine cloud hosting aswell. You actually also need to buy the local machine to do work anyway, so it doesnt save any money, but adds 300 USD to your current dev enviroment.
That said, i can get a plain old Vserver similar to an EC2 mini instance (i think its even more powerful) for 80 bucks a year and that would be running 24/7. If you dont need the benefits of EC2 which are scaling and such, there are much cheaper solutions.
Or: it's time to give back to the world. I wouldn't be surprised to see him pull a Gates.
I cannot take any site seriously that uses Kontera or any other "on-hover to trigger, click tiny close button to dismiss" in-text advertising (as used in the article posted).

Does anyone actually disagree that this is a horrible way to monetise your content?
The Language Switch (or how my brain seems to work when learning new languages)
Nice, but that first sentence (Lift is the most ...) is a little annoying and makes the rest of the site seem less credible.
Websites only build with future technics
Not easy on the Woopra site to find out plans or pricing.
...or you could just use gmail, and never have to worry about spam again ;)
XBMC still does not have a native supported Netflix app, so I don't see the point of comparing Google TV to something you have to violate your AppleTV's warranty to use.

If you're that hard up for XBMC... it runs on normal Linux too.
Phishing for CO2 emission certificates
Is it just me or does Google seem to be really bad at acquisitions and/or executing this sort of competitor-cloning operation? I don't know if they're below-average, but it seems that a year later, nothing you read about them doing has ever worked out. Except maybe Android.
I wonder why he makes a distinction between the MIME types application/xml and text/xml.

An XML document of the former type is parsed for the <?xml encoding="..." ?> tag, but the latter isn't?

I always thought that application/xml and text/xml could be used interchangeably. Is my assumption wrong or is his process flawed?
Do you mean "nail in the coffin" or "death knell".

Sorry to be the grammar Nazi, just trying to help.
The Skype plugin adds much less functionality to the browser than flash.
This probably has to be one of the least-controlled experiments I've ever seen published! It did the experiments at different labs with different non-GM feeds with what was likely different strains of mice. Also, sample sizes were rather small...

There's a chance that there are effects. However, this study proves nothing.
I'd really love to hear if you have some ideas about uncluttering it. We've iterated lots of versions till we got to this state.

The canvas drawing confusion seems to be quite spread. We'll definitely have to add something about it.

Oh wow, that's but is nasty.

Let me explain why you got that, you'll find it hard to believe, I promise :)

We use an iframe to upload the tiles directly to s3 and s3 redirects back to the site on success. However, in firefox 3.6, if you refresh the page with such an iframe present, it'll reload the last iframe src, even if the src is now about:blank, because you've just reloaded the page. So, in effect it'll hit the "tile just uploaded" page again. Which is a completely stupid thing to do.

Therefore, when we receive one of the s3 uploads, we also redirect to a page which expresses how we feel.

You might ask yourself why you saw it at sign out. Because we're idiots and the code that remembers the last page you saw to be able to redirect correctly after sign in/sign out remembers this request.

So, I'm guessing that you uploaded a tile, then hit signout immediately, amirighte?
You can actually request that x86 machines trap on unaligned accesses too, by setting the AC flag in EFLAGS (pushf; orl $(1<<18), (%esp); popf). Unfortunately, it's common for the C standard library implementation to rely on aligned accesses on x86, so this isn't really feasible.
Looks good, but terrible, terrible writing.
At which point, you have several thousand engineers. It's a problem that solves itself, as long as you have some kind of margins.
That's awesome, but be wary of your bandwidth rocketing up faster than you can afford to pay for it...
That's a clever tactics. I'll definitely laugh out loud if I find competitor's weakness and learn what works with their own money. However, competition is dynamic. Wining one battle is not wining a war. Would love to read your other creative tactics.
Gmail's spam filtering is not perfect either.

There's nothing wrong with a belt and braces approach.
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As always, I think the Microsoft tool integration is better. Not sure if that's the limiting factor though.
Ask PG/HN: Plings in titles ...
I've had a vague impression for a time that something like this has been happening, but now I've seen it for definite and for real. I submitted an item - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2127187 - putting plings in the title, and yet when I checked the submission, the plings had gone.

Then I edited the title, and the plings turned up.

Can someone cast any light on the processes here? Are the permitted characters in titles different in initial submissions as opposed to edits? If so, is this deliberate?

Thanks. I await answers with interest.
I use both Mixpanel and Woopra on my personal site. Mixpanel is awesome for tracking whenever users click on my site, and to be honest I haven't had much of a need for real-time analytics yet so I don't check my Woopra dashboard as often, but it is very comprehensive and good info to look at every once in a while. I like how you could tag visitors though. It seems like a decent free alternative to Chartbeat.
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And.. it's an "under construction" PPC link page already. 2 days!?
The point of understanding the fundamentals of DOM means being able to adapt when the library abstraction you are using leaks. We are not in a state where libraries have effectively or completely abstracted DOM and BOM, so sometimes seeing past the library is necessary.

With developers who can't tell the difference between jQuery and JavaScript + DOM, that is a barrier to being an effective developer.
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For anyone else wondering, a pling is a bang, or an exclamation mark.
This project also shows a bookmarklet that uses it: http://code.google.com/p/qrbookmarklet/

Works pretty well.
I'm not sure if you could call this a feature. But I see a lot of 'famous' people getting upvoted because people think they are important and should be upvoted. I think it would be interesting to have a feature that can turn of usernames above comments.
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"Death Nail" would also make a great name for a heavy metal band.
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What you're missing is that text/xml is specially handled (some might say, 'broken') by RFC 3023: http://annevankesteren.nl/2005/03/text-xml
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In fact, you are correct; argument from authority is not a fallacy. Those who think it is do not understand argument from authority. When the authority is relevant to the subject at hand the argument is relevant. It is appeal to misleading authority which is a fallacy (http://www.fallacyfiles.org/authorit.html).
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Using different fonts is easy. You just list the font that you want and the size. As for wrapping, in their code exchange, someone has implemented wrapping functionality.

Text objects are just like anything else in corona, you can rotate and animate them to your hearts content.
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Ditto for programming.
Ah - thank you. Sometimes it's easy to forget that terms one uses commonly are not, in fact, common.
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Wow that's a shitload of money, but he did a great work during the decade of being CEO.