skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in a place that's hilly and the towers are far away. Maybe I'd get something with a 75 foot tower, maybe.

For me it's ivi.tv
Oracle already had the lowest reputation possible. Sonatype had no reputation before the incident, and now they have a bad one. So I think Sonatype loses, because the way consultants like Sonatype get hired is quite different than how Oracle products get bought.

Oh well, at least it's fun to be an egomaniac that destroys communities...
Actually Firefox 4 Beta is not slower, it starts up faster than prevous versions of firefox. It has faster rendering and javascript engine. And it is especially more responsive. Just try it.
It's actually not acceptable to admire the "fuck everyone-ness" of a remorseless killer. In my book, at least. It's not like she's admiring him for being a good piano player. YMMV, I guess.
I'm curious how this item got 10 upvotes, yet the link submitted doesn't even work.
same here. fortunatelly remembered the title exactly to google it then find it in HN
Thanks, I'm glad you took our comments to heart :)

Two questions:

1. What exactly is the purpose of the cardboard tube? I'm guessing the key point is that it's non-conductive, but would the same coil work without the cardboard? (not very knowledgable about antennae I admit)

2. How the hell does that connector even work? It looks so marvelously out of place ... does this mean the wire mesh around the normal coaxial cables is just shielding and doesn't actually do anything? If so, how come you don't need shielding?

Those were the two main questions that popped to mind, obviously I don't know anything about this stuff and I could probably look it up somewhere. But maybe someone here can provide a human-to-human good enough explanation.
Jeopardy Schmeopardy - IBM's next machine should play poker.
oh shoot--hmm , HN doesn't allow links from the page. So you're going to have to paste it in the bar or if the link works, click this: http://view.io
Ubermedia's UberCurrent Twitter Client Really is "Twitter for Everyone"
If you own the infrastructure you get to charge rent
> I guess when Amazon pulls the iOS app, I can break the DRM on the books I buy from them and read them on Stanza.

Nobody can blame Amazon from pulling the iOS app. I'd be shocked if they don't. Apple is literally requesting all of Amazon's margins. I guess you can do whatever your ethics permit, but my takeaway is that perhaps you shouldn't be buying devices from such tyrannical manufacturers.

The Honeycomb tablets cannot come soon enough...
Sure, natural talent helps, but you need natural talent + 10k hours to get world class performance. There's no shortcut, unless you count being in the right place at the right time and having no competition.
This is a serious amount of dedication to facial hair. Great product video too!
Yeah. Modern Coke doesn't taste like my soft-focus sunlit memories of being six and having a big glass bottle of the stuff while wandering around the cavernous warehouse of the Contemporary Arts Center, but now that I've switched to small-bottler colas that're actually made with cane sugar, I get that taste-triggered Proustian nostalgia flashback on a pretty regular basis.
Yeah, good point - I would lump that in as being the same thing. They usually get companies like General Dynamics to do this type of thing. Point is, it wasn't amateurs or "basement patriots," and it cost a lot.
FWIW, I'd encourage you to still take a deeper look at AMQP, just because it includes features you may not know you need. While I can't pretend to know anything about your scaling challenges or the intimate details of how messaging is utilized, I can say that there are the lessons of deep experience with messaging baked into AMQP. You may have (or perhaps you already have) to implement some of these features in the future. I know that I gave AMQP the cold shoulder for a while, only to finally come around and find out it solved many of the frustrations we were facing.
And the vast majority of the comments are along the lines of "I wish this was on Netflix".
i am sure that hacker-news users are savvy enough to check each site one-by-one, but blacklist-sharing in general can be detrimental if they get distributed to mainstream users.

imagine if these lists get to be 100-domains long... some users are simply going to take the shortcut and apply-all. the due-diligence required to cull a good list takes time. the very fact that this post is getting upvoted is because even hacker-news users are looking for shortcuts.

blacklists introduce a new problem: SEOs distributing such lists that include lots of weak sites (to make the list look credible) along with their competitor's domain snuck in.
That's a perfectly valid approach, and one I have no problem with, but I did get the impression they also want to build a successful business, rather than just keep food on the table (which is why they killed the prior product, which they also loved working on, apparently).

My point is merely that I don't think they really learned all the lessons they could have learned from these experiences. I'm almost certain they undervalued their label printing business, for instance. Certainly they should have started charging for the service earlier.

And, I also think that they're maybe underestimating the value of listening when the market speaks.

But, by all means, people should work on stuff they love. There's no way a small, bootstrapped, startup can possibly weather the hardships in the beginning, when money is tight, rewards are few, and everything takes longer than expected, without having a real passion for the work they're doing.
If you are smack in a city where the signals are literally washing over you I guess just a wire will work.

The coathanger antenna works best for me though, I'm too far away from most stations for just a wire.

Your design might work best for VHF stations while the coathanger method is best for UHF

Canada still has analog stations?
Agree w/ Abinoda - I think the one feature I would like is extreme search-ability (check out Remember the Milk). Since I have quite a few tasks, of varying importance, due dates, milestones, and across features it's hard to literally figure out what I should be working on.

I think Remember the Milk has a decent solution for search, but obviously it's not nearly as complete as Basecamp.
Take a closer look at this:

>> and neither HTML5 nor CSS3 is a standard,

If Microsoft are referring to HTML5, Mozilla should be allowed too.
Surely this is just going to encourage people to pirate these books? Seems like another case of DRM punishing the good guys.
Have you used Firefox 4, and if so, do you have things in particular that are slow?
Agree with andymoe. Don't let your current emotional state dictate your decision. Take time to think about it, talk it over with your wife, etc.

My best advice is to try and get something going while you currently have a job (you said you have time to learn right? why not use this time to build something?)

I once reached out to Seth Godin for advice on whether I should try and get a job in tech or just run with the startup idea I had on my own. He told me to quit and start immediately. In retrospect I'm really glad I didn't go with his advice since I would have felt completely lost and unprepared after the initial rush of doing my own thing. Instead, I've worked on side projects in my spare time, and eventually one idea clicked and the company is taking off (feel very fortunate).

Go with your gut, but also make sure you feel in control of your life and have options. Stick it out, save money, and if you do quit, you will be more comfortable supporting your decision as well as your family.
What about incumbent subscription services? For example, Hulu requires you to be paying $8/mo to view their shows on an iPhone or iPad. Since a subscription is required, MUST they be required to Apple's subscription service, or can they just not do anything until you sign up elsewhere?
You can reference the dimensions to something everyone knows too, like an SD card or ipod nano (not something everyone knows, but it's a good way to convert potential ipod nano watch buyers if it's smaller and better looking, which it does seem to be, even compared to the Metalic tiktok variant).
"But Apple appears to be within its legal rights to prevent a jailbroken device from decrypting DRM content, and it may actually be obligated to do so in its agreements with publishers."

Then why does the Kindle app work on Android and Jailbroken iOS devices? Or Netflix on said iOS devices? I understand the need to keep security in check, but the way Apple tries to lock people out of their phones, even though it is entirely legal now, just seems backwards.

*I am an Android supporter and have a Google Nexus One, for the specific reason I could unlock it officially.
Heres plans for an antenna I built. http://www.tvantennaplans.com/

I like the simplicity and potential of your design though. I want to try an array of tubes and wiring, and see how well that works.
Apple’s Big Subscription Bet: Brilliant, Brazen, Or Batsh*t Crazy?
Verizon CTO: we don't 'need' the Nokia-Microsoft partnership
Just chirping in:

In Slovenia I'm paying 20 euro a month for 20/20 unshaped, uncensored and uncapped FTTH. There are Gbps lines, but that costs something like 200 euro a month, which is completely unacceptable.
Not slow, just breaky. Now, 3.6.13, which I use the majority of the time, is both.
The only reason the first one worked was because it was novel. Nobody is going to be talking about this one, therefore it won't get the views, therefore it won't be worth spending any money on.
Thanks for giving more context actually - this totally makes sense.
I don't really see the point of having a watch nowadays. I usually just look at my phone for the time. This watch seems to do some of the stuff a standard smartphone does, but is more limited. At this point in my life, I'm trying to do what I can to limit the number of various gadgets I carry around on my person. I would rather have a small little device that does everything pretty well, than 50 devices I have to lug around that do everything perfect.

In a sense its similar to using your computer instead of a television. You can access more interesting internet videos online, and usually don't have to watch commercials because of ad blocking software. You can play video games on your computer instead of using a console. Your computer could hook up to a projector or HD Television as needed. You can read books on your computer. You can call people on your computer. You can IM/Email/Facebook on your computer. I think the future will be far fewer devices that can do a whole lot more. This watch seems like a step into the past.
Will Android lead to a race to the bottom?
> iBooks is currently not very successful as an alternative. because unlike iTunes, Apple has established competitors who execute very well in this space.

Furthermore, Apple is demonstrating a very real tendency to retroactively fuck people over. I'd be pretty worried about my book collection if it were in Apple's hands and I stopped paying Caesar.
Is Apple Getting Too Greedy?
I admittedly don't have a Hotmail address, but I don't understand the connection between using a Hotmail.com email address for one's contact info and "using the most efficient tools for each task". What are some of the inefficiencies of Hotmail that, say, Gmail addresses?
I didn't think of that but it's a good idea: charge $5 for the app (or whatever). People who have already bought it don't lose anything, people who do buy the app don't cost Amazon any money.

Or maybe Amazon's margin is over 30% and they just won't care.
Mmmmm... Slurm
Apple provides a content distribution platform connected to a network of millions of devices, of course they're going to take a cut of revenue generated on their network
> No-one who is actually developing web sites can use all the bleeding edge stuff the day it's released anyway,

... mostly because it's not supported in IE. If it was, people would use it.
Sure: http://i.imgur.com/jOiWI.jpg
A Whole Lotta Automata (with Clojure)
Even with hardware acceleration in IE9 and Firefox 4 enabled, Firefox 4 is still faster than IE9:

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/460/
> * An iPad without Kindle is slightly worse than a shtty microsoft win7 tablet IMO.

Assuming, of course, that the only thing people do with their iPads is read.

(Personally, I can't make myself read for very long on an iPad anyway. I do fine on Kindle DX and Sony Reader. I would do best on a folding two screen eInk device the size of the tall Sony Reader, that opened to reveal two facing pages.)
I'm glad that all the technical books I purchase come DRM-free. Articles like this remind me why DRM should be avoided.
original title doesn't show the exclamations, you know: scope and citing :)
but it means that people are quite divided about what the company should do with its future, which is not a position any company wants to be in.
I like your comment overall, though I don't find Linus' C++ rants all that useful. Also, no, you can't implement a GC in C++. (Which in turn makes its operator overloading and exception handling defective and throws reflection out the window.)

http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/heap.html#fqa-16.26

"C++ does not feel pain. It can't be reasoned with. Starting a fight is a big mistake. If you want to use C++, you must learn to love it the way it is, in particular, manage your memory manually."
Search trends: a clue to 2011 Oscar winners?
XP came out in 2001. According to Apple, Safari 5 requires OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard), released in 2007. Microsoft actually has a pretty good track record when it comes to supporting older versions of its operating systems. Just a bad record getting everyone to upgrade to newer versions.
Electric Garbage Trucks Hit The Paris Streets
That's just completely untrue. PC gaming worldwide is much bigger than console gaming, and even in the US traditional PC games are bigger than any single console.

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/newzoo_2010spend.jpg

One reason is that AFAIK in Europe and most of the developing world, retail PC games are much cheaper than console games. (Here it's US $15 vs $55-60)

Also, Portal 2 is now up for preorder on Steam.

edit: of course, with digital distribution you also get a much larger cut [1] (so you don't need to sell as many copies as you do on a console to get the same amount of money).

For me, the biggest plus with digital distribution is that you get access to niche genres. I'd never imagine finding games like Reccetear or Super Meat Boy in a local store, but they're available on Steam. It's the same deal with music: outside of popular bands like Massive Attack and The Beatles, I've never been able to find any music I like in a local store. More generally, this is one of the reasons I fervently believe the Internet is the most important human invention since fire: if you take the time to explore your options, you need no longer be tied down to mainstream preferences.

[1] http://www.mcvuk.com/features/808/OPINION-Retail-vs-Steam
Not really, because Apple has never paid dividends.
Leaving off the top cryptographers from a list of security researchers seems a bit disingenuous. However, including cryptographers might make Colin's argument trivially obvious, since so many of the top crypographers come from mathematics backgrounds. Therefore, I'll just add Rolf Rolles to your list, and note that he does come from a mathematics background.
One key point that ryancarson points out in his post (http://thinkvitamin.com/web-industry/why-you-should-fight-ap...) is this:

".. publishers may no longer provide links in their apps (to a web site, for example) which allow the customer to purchase content or subscriptions outside of the app."

I sort of understand why Apple has this language, in addition to the same-or-better pricing clause. Otherwise, a publisher could effectively circumvent Apple's 30% cut by offering subscriptions at a much cheaper price off the platform and link to the sign-up form from within the app. To prevent these crafty workarounds, Apple needs rules.

Unfortunately, SaaS web app developers who create companion iOS apps become collateral damage in Apple's efforts to grab profit from content publishers' subscription revenues. Apple could and should keep the same-or-better pricing constraint and remove the in-app link restriction.
Oh, you misunderstood me - I used to be on just like you, for 10 years or so, before I quit. I must've written tens (hundreds?) of thousands of LOCs in C++, but I was gradually getting sick of it and eventually almost stopped completely.

I still code, but it's not what I do for living, and incidentally, I do enjoy using Python (and also Scheme)!
Gotcha. The vulnerability I thought of could be applied to Vigenere but in a roundabout sort of way.
Are Hackerspaces Going Viral? (Video)
> Today these machines can send millions of emails, portscan servers or participate in DDOS attacks and the user has very little if any noticeable performance hit.

Unless the downstream vs upstream economics of the Internet backbone become severely asymmetric, technological advances that lower the price of bandwidth will benefit everyone equally. Once you get down to the subscriber line level (e.g. ADSL) you do see asymmetries but biased towards downstream, which speaks against your argument.
There are some things that a 426 square mile country can do that a 3,717,813 square mile country really can't. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_outlying_...)

I suppose we can hope for better coverage in the highest population density areas, but even there the US population is just much more spread out than most of the civilized world.
I got the same plans via Make and have been using mine for 2+ years. It works awesome. Before dtv I could get 1-2 stations of mostly fuzz. Now I get 7 channels in full HD.

http://www.82smugglers.com/gallery/projects/p1020110.jpg.htm...

Tried some shielding on the back and it did not make any difference.
LibreOffice at FOSDEM
Exactly. My dad is a chemist and he mentioned this to me: it's not hard to 'reverse engineer' the formula. You can iterate until the results of the spectrometer from the original coke and your invented formula are close enough.

Good luck with trying to sell and distribute at competing prices with The Coca Cola company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coca_Cola_Company#Lobbying)
Which jobs were made obsolete?

The data is insufficiently granular to determine that. But as you can see, production has more or less completely recovered: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/GDP
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/INDPRO

Employment has not recovered comparably: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/PAYEMS

This means we are producing more now than ever before, and doing it with fewer people. This tells us that many of the people who were laid off are obsolete.

Now, as for Krugman's chart, it's somewhat tangential. Krugman as arguing (misleadingly, BTW) against the recalculation hypothesis, which proposes that we have a recession because the economy misallocated people into the wrong sectors. His chart is misleading since it focuses on an irrelevant ratio of two other irrelevant ratios. To determine if the recession is sectorial, one must look at employment [1].

If we do this, we find that construction employment is down 27% (from Jan 2008 to Jan 2011). Information services employment (I think this includes IT) is down 11%. Finance is down 8%, as is Retail. Durable goods manufacturing is down 22%.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/USFIRE http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/USCONS http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/USINFO http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/USTRADE.txt http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/DMANEMP

This clearly shows some sectors hit much harder than others, contrary to Krugman's claims. But Krugman's claims are tangential to the main point anyway.

[1] Unemployment is a skewed indicator because it excludes people not seeking work and people who find work in other sectors. I.e., a construction worker who finds a new job in retail lowers both the unemployment rate in construction (smaller numerator) and the unemployment rate in retail (bigger denominator). As the employment numbers show, this is a rather large set of people.
Isn't that the equivalent of saying "because people can't drive, no one is allowed to have a sports car"?
one major problem is HTML forms doesn't have a way to generate these.
Actually XHTML has been abandoned, this is because in the standard it says if the browser finds a syntax error it should give an error and not render the rest of the page.

Pretty much all browservendors and webdevelopers think this was a bad idea to begin with.
This behavior is a great example of why I'm unlikely to ever buy another Apple device.

On the bright side, once my Nano dies, I'll finally be able to drop iTunes for good!
I don't know...that part sounded like a hacked-up, half-implementation of scribe: https://github.com/facebook/scribe/wiki

I'd be interested in hearing if they tried to use Scribe for the same task and found it wanting, or if there's some other story.
> Which is it? Or is it a combination of all factors creating some "perfect storm" of awful service and slow speed?

Enough regulation (and entrenched interests/semi-monopolies) to make new entry in the field prohibitive, but not enough to force incumbents into e.g. line-sharing and local loop unbundling, compounded by incumbents holding great sway over politicians and (directly or indirectly) over those supposed to oversee them.

The geographical claims are cute, but they're either excuses or convenient misdirections:

* I hear americans go "states states states" all the time. Several states have european densities yet don't seem to have the service. Some big cities are in the ballpark's of HK's densities yet are nowhere near its quality/price ratio (New York City actually has a higher population density than HK)

* Alternatively, if the claim is federal equality across the land, the claim is invalidated by the terrible service in rural areas where speeds (at the same insane price as in more urban zones) are in ranges which have not been seen in a decade in western europe, when it doesn't get to dialup (in 2008, 10% of american adults were using dialup, and it seems this number grew with the recession to escape the high costs of DSL and cable; by comparison, in France in Q4 2008 dialup was about 5% and falling)
It's the NIMBYs. No one wants their property torn up to install the stuff. Same for the wireless providers. People get pissed when a large cell phone tower is placed anywhere near their home.

I pay $45 for 25/5 FIOS and never have a problem streaming Netflix in HD to my TiVo. That's over 802.11G wireless too.
Wow, the author is pretty clueless about C++:
"Objective-C users never call "dealloc" themselves; whereas C++ users have to call this all the time."

If you ever call delete in C++, you're doing it wrong. I have a large project where I never call new or delete even once. Whereas my Objective-C has plenty of release and retain calls.

Frankly, I'm tired of the endless C++ bashing. Yes, it's a complex language. Yes, it has bad parts that you shouldn't use. But it has strengths that make it ideal for certain high-performance applications. (And before anyone brings up C, profile qsort and std::sort and then shut up).

Use the right tool for the job, and stop being religious about language choice. If you look far enough, you'll find there's something to complain about in every language: http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/28939697453
Can you elaborate on the economics involved, please? Sounds interesting.
So, again, it's a matter of trusting your source. Just like with word of mouth.