skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would think it's the same kind of people who bought the Wii. I'm planning to pick up a Kinect, and I also stood in line at 3AM to buy a Wii that first Christmas (the first dedicated video game machine I'd owned since the Atari 2600).

But, so far, the games for Kinect look dull. I'm waiting for the equivalent of Resident Evil 4 on the Wii, which is one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences I've had in ages. Sports and fitness and dance games are fun, and I have bought some of those kinds of games on the Wii, but I don't really feel they justify adding more junk to my house. Hell, if they'd come out with another credible RE title, or some other really high quality shooter, I'd buy it. But, the Wii hardware just isn't up to spec for modern games.

So, yeah, I agree with you. I don't think Kinect is hard core gamers, just like hard core gamers didn't necessarily buy Wii.
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arabist.net has a NYC-based IP address, looks like it's hosted on squarespace. I don't want to get all conspiracy-theorist, but is it possible that SS got pressured into shutting it down?
Thanks for answering, follow up question: What makes an application stand out, or conversely, what does an average application look like?
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Renesys' network sensors showed that Egypt's four primary Internet providers — Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr — and all went dark at 12:34 a.m.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5heO3VMhFHp...

Frightening.
When I can't maintain proper form, I consider that failure.
It's pretty dull even before studying philosophy.
I accidentally closed a tab in chrome one day and all my text I've entered in a form was lost - so I thought. But chrome offered me to restore the tab - including the text in the form! I was very surprised and happy with this behavior. Now I am less afraid to use keyboard shortcuts, because I know that chrome will handle this allright (doesn't work always, I know).
Yeah, in that way Chrome actually does offer an undo of sorts.
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I love the work coming out of that lab! Everyone on DIYDrones said that the kinect wouldn't work on a small quadrocopter and then BAM only a week later we get a video proving them wrong. Very impressive!
Nice reply, thank you.
> the only practical application is manipulating it

Or improve it?
> What I would like to know is how the other half got wealthy.

I know people who are typical labourers (both white and blue collars) who saved money and invested and got pretty wealthy like that.

And of course, there're more blatant ways to gamble.
Great idea. Impressed. Introduce the ability for me to request more pages via email? I can see me using this to read more in my lunch hour.
This looks like an amazing opportunity to start a company and hire talented young people.
Anyone can translate?
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We have to stop the evil enemy from posting false information to wikipedia and evil comments to your blog. :D
Android's programming model is also completely different to iOS's, taking a reusable component approach which, in my opinion, is much better.
Actually, the statements in the image you posted are all outside of functions, and thus in the global context, so the statement that they are equivalent is true.
I'm not convinced about 'connected TVs' but I agree that thinking of it as an Xbox peripheral is definitely not the best plan.
The product was already live in Sydney before they raised money. They quickly expanded to other cities after raising.
We love stuff like this--thanks for the specifics!
And they should. It's easy to turn a WSDL into an exhibit for a contract, because it is a description of an API that can be converted to human readable and machine readable formats. There is no equivalent for REST, and most REST services have a loose interpretation of what it means to be "RESTful". Try doing serious, paid-availability integration with REST and watch the managers tear out their hair and the lawyers weep.
It's a pretty good model if your strength is in execution (i.e. you have a good team and can launch and grow something quickly). If you are more passionate about innovation and coming up with new things, you might not find this model fulfilling.
Let's give the US the root servers AND a killswitch.
http://translate.google.com/#ja|en|%E7%A7%81%E3%81%AF%E3%81%...

Japanese to English translation

I have to use your Facebook
WagJag in Canada has done this - they have a partnership with Metroland it seems, which owns The Toronto Star among a TON of free papers in smaller areas. Now I don't know this for sure but I'm 99% certain that they use their personal sales agents for the newspapers (who already have contacts with the local business) and use them to sell the group buying. I'm sure they also get advertising credits for the $$ they have held back from their deals too.
There are a couple of mobile versions[1][2] , which look really good on most mobile devices. You could use those.

[1] http://icombinator.net
[2] http://ihackernews.com
Usually when inventors take off on flights of fancy regarding the implications of their inventions, they embarrass themselves. Witness Dean Kamen and his goofy little scooter.

Tesla is a whole different thing. Its not only fascinating to read how many things he foresaw, but also some of the things he predicted that still haven't happened and might. He was good at predicting both how devices would work and how they would effect society almost to the point where you start to wonder if he didn't invent that time machine after all and managed to keep it a secret.
I think you're generally right.

If you can dominate a market in Australia you may end up being just as good a business as if you are one of ten players in the US market. Spreets was first to market in Australia, but unfortunately many others popped up very quickly so no one really owns the space.
Google is honestly just terrible at UI design -- I'm not even an apple fanatic and it's still blatantly obvious.
I'm curious. What are your concerns about connected TVs?
If your software tries to anticipate that you might want to not-close when you told it to close, you end up with the opposite complaint: it takes too long for anything to happen.

I'd be willing to bet that there would be far more complaints that your program takes a minute longer to shut down than that they told it to quit when they didn't want it to quit. I'm a huge believer in software that people can use, and love trying to make things totally foolproof for as many people as possible, but I also believe that to truly be useful on a computer you must learn some of the ground rules. Like anywhere else in life. The trick then becomes teaching your users without them realizing or fighting it, not trying to predict the inherently un-predictable (ie, the immediate whims of anyone and everyone).
It'll scale down just fine. Tablet size devices will see the new launcher layout. Phones will most likely see the current (Gingerbread) launcher layout. Check these screenshots of the Honeycomb SDK booting into a Nexus1 size emulator: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10942783&...
One of my successful businessman friends told me the same thing years ago. Me being a hopeless optimist, I told him that sounds boring and not very creative. Now 2 years into my own company I see it as a economic reality.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/ & http://www.technologyreview.com/web/
You Are Doing It Wrong.

Anybody that tries to interface with a SOAP interface by writing envelopes by hand is wasting their time and half-implementing the (long, terrible, complicated, blah blah) spec.

Find a good toolkit. Yes, the protocol is way over engineered but good tools can and do abstract that all from you. For instance, PHP's standard library lets you plug in a WSDL URL and consume SOAP services in two lines of code. (And because it is a good toolkit, it lets you spit out all traffic with one debug flag, unlike whatever terrible thing the author of this article is using.)

Most of what people complain about in these comments would be moot with good tools. You would probably complain about REST if you didn't have curl or Firebug and had to telnet all your test calls--that's equivalent to what most people here seem to be doing.
The problem is that particular w3schools page does not indicate that, they simply state that they are the same, without even slightly mentioning that it's because they are not in a function. My article shows off this difference. In short the page is misleading, because it doesn't state that the two are only interchangeable in those two examples, but not in in every situation.
We're monitoring the performance of our beta users apps and will figure out a reasonable estimate of what to expect before we begin charging. In terms of processing power we're currently aiming at performance roughly equivalent of 1/2 EC2 CU.

The prices are for the time the application instance is live rather than compute time.
You couldn't pass a minimum wage law in Victorian Britain that would raise the Victorians' living standards to that of today. Labor simply wasn't productive enough to sustain living standards like ours. People were poor because society as a whole was poor.

All a minimum wage law does is allow a society to shift its chosen point on an unemployment/wage tradeoff curve. However, increases in labor productivity shift that curve outward (this is usually because of technological progress and capital investment). It is because capitalism has shifted the curve outwards over time that we are so much more wealthy, not because minimum wage laws have slightly shifted our position along the curve.

If labor productivity weren't near as high as it is, then you could pass all the laws and regulations in the world and it wouldn't make us as rich as we are now. Anti-capitalists fundamentally misunderstand the process of wealth creation.

I suggest you also look up my comments on the ill-argued anti-libertarian "Victorian England" blogpost that I am assuming you are referencing from when it was submitted here.
It's a pity that schools teach more about Edison than Tesla. Tesla was a genius, just as much if not more so than Edison.
There's another version :

http://translate.google.com/#auto|ja|WE%20REALLY%20HATE%20TH...

which translates back to : Our company is really using Facebook.
I really don't want this to come across as rude, as maybe I have missed something but this sounds like you've set pricing before you actually know what you're going to have to spend on hosting yourself?

Happy to hear how I've missed something :-)
I assume they're acquiring them to put some sort of "limit your kid's usage of Farmville" type deal?
It could be a trace of the Human Stack as well (i.e. steps to reproduce).

They're both a list of steps taken to get to a point in the system.
Interesting. Do it all in CSS3 and HTML5 and you will exalted by HN forever ;)
I loved that movie (it's on Netflix for those who have it). Gave it 5 stars.
Hahahahahh that is awesome. Go Hipmunk!
I recently swapped from Win7 to Ubuntu. I will never switch back.
Apple is trying to sell more iPads. Why would they make them easier to share when people want them so badly?
His "World System" pretty much describes a large part of the tech world today to me...

1. The inter-connection of the existing telegraph exchanges or offices all over the world

2. The establishment of a secret and non-interferable government telegraph services

3. The inter-connection of all the present telephone exchanges or offices on the Globe

4. The universal distribution of general news, by telegraph or telephone, in connection with the Press

5. The establishment of such a "World System" of intelligence transmission for exclusive private use

6. The inter-connecting and operation of all stock tickers of the world

7. The establishment of the World-System of musical distribution, etc.

8. The universal registration of time by inexpensive clocks indicating the hour with astronomical precision and requiring no attention whatever

9. The world transmission of typed or hand-written characters, letters, checks, etc.

10. The establishment of a universal marine service enabling the navigators of all ships to steer perfectly without compass, to determine the exact location, hour and speed, to prevent collisions and disasters

11. The inauguration of a system of world-printing on land and sea

12. The world reproduction of photographic pictures and all kinds of record
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SOAP in visual studio might be a pain, but its really not that difficult when working in PHP:

http://php.net/manual/en/book.soap.php

I've implemented both servers and clients using SOAP with low to no hassles.

Bad implementation != bad spec
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This was posted a few days ago, probably related:

"sourceforge entry point seems still active."

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jan/424

http://extraexploit.blogspot.com/2011/01/sourceforge-entry-p...
A good SOAP library lets you plug in a WSDL and returns an API object with all the methods of the webservice. There is literally no equivalent capability for REST. You shouldn't be doing any of the things you describe by hand.

You are vastly oversimplifying when you say "with REST you just have to figure out a URL". Try integrating with a service that takes only custom HTTP verbs with multipart/form-data but because there's no standard way to send an array in HTTP you have to append some parameter multiple times but in the right order. There's some vague attempt at using OAuth for authentication, but it doesn't work with any of the libraries you are used to. Oh, and the service returns a 503 some of the time, which (according to the rambling hacked up docs for this API) means you should retry your request in 10 seconds. No, it's not always trivial.
I'd like to comment on this too because I've always disliked the term "raped" in common discourse.

I don't dislike it because its impolite, or because its offensive to others.

Rather, its because it conjures up an image in my mind that is too strong for the context it is used. Lost a game of foosball? You were "raped". Getting a raw deal from your ISP? You were "raped".

Unlike murder, 'rape' is more commonly used non-euphemistically. At least at my university, everytime you would go to the bathroom you'd see an anti-rape poster. When you got back from summer vacation, you'd be handed a 'rape whistle'. We also had patrols specifically to prevent 'rape'--not mugging, not murder, but rape.

Because of that when someone says "raped" I think of the actual graphic act. However the term 'murdered' in my mind is far disassociated from the actual act.

Question, and perhaps unrelated, why do highschool football teams have pep-talks where the coach tells them to "murder" the other team. Why aren't they extorted to "rape" the other team instead?
Agreed: I rarely heard much of him at all until my undergrad E&M courses at UCLA. Shame.
It's this lack of discoverability that kills SOAP

I thought it was discoverability which was SOAP's strong point, while ad-hoc solutions like REST which have the bonus of being much more lightweight/terse, lacks this feature.

As for non-standard query-format, with a good toolkit you point to the WSDL and you are done, all your RPC-calls pregenerated for you.

I know SOAP has some issues, that it's a verbose line-format and that recent WS*-additions add complexity faster than you can say "oh shit", but at its root, SOAP really isn't hard to work with if you have a decent toolkit.

If you are hand-rolling your SOAP-layer, you might as well start invoking your database trough telnet and handrolled protocol-code. It makes as much sense.
"...create a nation of people who typically: [....] have learned, through the media’s culture of blame-mongering, that the key to solving public and private issues is to find the right people to hate"

It's funny that someone could write that as part of a scathing critique of consumerist culture and yet not see the irony of it.

There are things that are a lot worse than materialistic, shallow, consumerist culture. Specifically a moralistic, prudish, puritanical culture which is at every point so very concerned with what is the best for everyone else. At least consumerist culture is easy enough to escape and ignore.
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Please consider bch's comment [1]. Unless you want to write quite a bit more, I believe you should actually go back to '1991' in your text. While most think that vim is indeed 'vi improved', there is a fair consensus that vim is not vi.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2149367
I, too, like that Netflix is giving out this kind of information, but let's remember that in the USA many people have two or even just one choice.

It's even worse: I live in Tucson, and I have two "choices:" Qwest DSL, with a max download speed of 1.5 mb/sec, or Comcast cable, which offers 1.5, 7, or 12. In other words, I have one real choice.
Berea is another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berea_College

My brother looked at it - was quite attractive but didn't have his specific field of interest.
Just yesterday, I checked out the latest version of Spim (9.0, now with Qt GUI!) from Sourceforge svn. Now I can audit the source, or just hope that attackers just wouldn't bother installing backdoors in such a minority program. I think I'll do the latter.
What's not reusable in iOS? For simpler apps you can just take the same views you use for iPhone and pass them to be managed by UISplitViewController on iPad, and basically that's it.
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Because to have armed men shooting the place up, it actually takes loyal people, a functioning hierarchy, guns, and a lot of planning. However, if suitable infrastructure is in place, theoretically spoken, even a lone tyrant could push a button and make it happen. That's the danger...

Also, an 'internet switch' could selectively filter, it could allow the communication of one faction but not the other.
Well, how about the one that preserved knowledge through the dark ages then?
Well, now there's an interesting fact I don't know.
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It's called MediaSync http://www.mediasynconline.com/ and it is pretty good, I've used it a number of times
True, but I think the fun thing is when you use CSS to seperate presentation from content you will end up in CSS hell. I know websites like csszengarden are telling you this is the power of CSS. And it is, but ask yourself: how many times did you change the layout of a website with CSS only? Probably not a single time.
They were testing this system for a long time. It's nice to see it finally roll out. Coincidentally, it looks like Apple will implement NFC (RFID?) in the next-generation iPhone 5 and iPad 2. It's starting to look like 2011 could really become the year that mobile payments start to take off. It's about time.
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I read "social scam" in the HN entry. I only realised it was "social cam" when I actually clicked on the link (after I read a few of the top-ranked comments).
Over the short term, yes. But Iran has a history of revolutions: IIRC, a revolution in 1920s brought down an old monarchy, the Shahs went back and forth for a while (sometimes with US aid), and the "Islamic" revolution of 1979 that most Americans are used to. In other words, Iran is due for another revolution, which is one of the stronger arguments against bombing the country (and which we might have to do anyway, though I, like all sane people, hope not: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/08/the-poin... ).
How familiar are you with how the Internet works? If you read any recent DS papers you'd notice that Tier-1 ASes follow a power law distribution. You'd only have to shut down a handful of peering ASes to cripple BGP routing in the US.
Problem is, that by disallowing those smaller players, you are preventing them from getting bigger because they would need to be able to index sites to actually become good enough to attract visitors.

Also, when disallowing a spider you can be sure that you won't get ANY visitors from them, as you are not in their index to start with.

I mean: if I disallow any bot but Googlebot, I will have 100% Google referrals by design.

I can understand that in an emergency situation you might want to block some bots, but blocking all of them because they are currently small feels a) a bit unfair due to not giving them the chance to grow and b) shortsighted due to never knowing if they might be getting big enough or the visitors they deliver might be better ad-clickers
Yes. And Rippetoe wants you to always maintain proper form on all reps, or at least he doesn't want you to plan to fail one rep out of your set.

Though I don't know which is regime better, yet. By default I follow Rippetoe when in doubt, because he's generally a sane guy and knows more than me.
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Sounds exciting but a little scary. Have you used it?
Firefox has a similar feature: Ctrl-Shift-T (on Windows/Linux -- probably Cmd-Shift-T on Mac) will open the last-closed tab. It works multiple times.
I can't claim to be an expert, but I visited Japan last year and found that you can get away with eating very cheaply if you want to. Lawson 100 yen shops, Za Watami and Watamin Chi FTW! We found this awesome Tonkatsu place (it was a chain, I forget the name) in Kyoto where you could get a great feed for an average price.

Plus if you're willing to be a little more adventurous and get off the beaten track, there's always some cool little hole in the wall where you can find interesting food at reasonable prices.

And the service in Japan - pretty much regardless of what price you're paying - is amazing... you have to experience it to believe it. I came home and was in culture shock for a couple of weeks whenever I went into a restaurant or retail store.

Likewise accommodation (at least the kind used by travellers) was also average to cheap if you were willing to do a little research before hand (http://travel.rakuten.co.jp/en/ was what I used mostly). However if what I was told by people living there is anything to go by, longer term accommodation can get pretty expensive.

But you can also spend as much as you want if you're looking for luxury food, hotels, ryokans, whatever.

This held pretty much true for us all the way from Tokyo to Kagoshima.
I think that it adds value to the conversation, because one of the reasons why the link is featured here is to discuss the branding.
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Well, of course on HN the answer will be overwhelmingly "no". What is interesting (to me) is the rationale behind the few "yes" answers: might be instructive. Anyone care to expound? Thanks!
Yes. And some people may take steroids, so they get strong without needing much proper stimulus.
Thanks for the link, but these points you highlighted set off a lot of bogosity alarms. To wit:

>allegations of Chechen links with Al Qaeda

Well, since Al Qaeda is a made up name what do they mean with this? Are they calling any Islamic group that provides financial aid to groups that are implicated in terrorist activities "Al Qaeda"?

>is influenced by the fact that no Chechens were captured by the US forces in Afghanistan

"Terrorists" captured in the first probes into Afghanistan were, in all likelihood, not terrorists at all. Locals were paid to brings some terrorists so they brought some people and said they were terrorists.

The biggest "evidence" this site seems to have is that some Islamic charity groups gave money to the Chechen rebels. Isn't it just as likely that an Islamic group would give money to help out another Islamic group they see as being oppressed? Assuming that their only possible intention could be to finance terrorism is quite a leap.
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