skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The site is a lot of fun, but I suspect there is a major novelty effect in play here. Once the excitement of being a DJ wanes, many individuals will prefer sites that grant them more granular control of their playlist, especially once copyright restrictions and intrusive advertising comes into play. The turntable guys are definitely on to something great here, but how long can it last?
But the noobs guide really isn't a strategy as much as a shotgun blast.

It's an exhaustive guide, but probably too long and uninspired to follow through with.
all correspondence? Not just legal correspondence?
If you haven't seen Startup dot com (the movie, not website), that's a good place to start.
Maybe (I'm not a huge fan of regulation in general, but I can see some use for it here), but that doesn't mean the concept is any different. If you need permission to do something, the process for obtaining that permission should be clear enough that you can know whether you will be approved before you request it. This is doubly true when the entity granting said permission is a government and the permission is necessary to conduct business.

I'm not saying some sort of licence shouldn't be required - just that you should be able to figure out whether it will be approved or denied before you apply for it.
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I agree. If you don't have time to read this and you're starting off then you might want to figure out another career path. This article is great because it truly is a large task list that you can use. A handful of them are a little out there for the average person/startup, but overall I think this is a great list to start with.
its not the redesign that bugs me, I use it on Xbox anyways. Its the service interruptions that have plagued it recently.
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That's an old saw, but can you prove it? Can you prove a correlation between per student funding and student scores, graduation rates, or some other measure? Can you even prove that schools have reduced per student funding over the last years?
Yeah, I'm getting pretty tired of Netflix streamed movies' video suddenly freezing, as the audio just marches on, oblivious to its left behind partner. Is it silverlight, or bandwidth, or something else? Don't know.

I've never had a problem with Amazon streaming rentals (on flash, on Linux).

I can almost say the same of YouTube streaming rentals (on flash, on Linux), except the last three movies I watched there suddenly stopped, reporting that they had played the entire movie when only N minutes had actually elapsed. Happens two or three times per movie.
Seconded. One of my all-time favorite documentaries.
I thought most AWS IP addresses were blocked by most admins. Does any one have experience scraping using Amazon.
"However, I think it is folly to believe that all government expenditures are prudent."

Agreed; however, for things such as schools and roads and a police-force, this is part of how they earn their money, so when you say no to sales taxes, you're not only saying no to all of its abuses, but you're saying no to the things that actually need it.

The problem isn't with the taxes, the problem is with where the taxes go; and if we don't like where taxes are going, then we need to vote with the mind to change it, and petition our elected officials to change their spending practices.

Will it work? Probably not, sadly, and I don't know where that leaves us.
I would recommend a user curated feature to that marks 'overlaps' as duplicates that then get sent to some human to moderate. Similar to user curated spam or inappropriate material.
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Good point - I forgot it was a "noob guide" - I was looking for something new to put in the arsenal, but there wasn't anything I haven't considered or tried in there.
Looks like they just disabled invites again.
If anyone still has an invite I'd like to try it out. Jerrytap (at) gmail.com
Though well written, I think the article misses an important point. Microsoft designed Direct3D with games in mind and the culture surrounding OpenGL gave priority to productivity applications for engineering and design as is appropriate for something that was developed by Silicon Graphics.

The characterization of Microsoft being disorganized because they were working on OpenGL at the same time as Direct3D is a direct result of misunderstanding this difference. Microsoft had to address to entirely different markets: gamers for whom high frame rates were much more important than fidelity and engineers for whom accurate rendering was important (Even today, high end graphics cards for Windows workstations run OpenGL.)

[http://www.nvidia.com/object/autocad_pd_perf_drivers.html]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_engine#Reducing_3D_comple...]

3dLabs involvement with the development of improvements to OpenGL is symptomatic of OpenGL's emphasis on fidelity in rendering and the legacy of SGI from whence it evolved. The slow pace was perfectly acceptable to a group of serious people who care about standards and don't care about games.

3dLabs is also an example of the distinct segmentation of the consumer and engineering market for graphic cards in the PC market. The second PC I inherited in my first CAD job had was a 386 with an Nth Engine B752 - you could have built a kickass gaming system for the price of the card alone but it wouldn't put much of a dent in the price of an Iris.

[http://www.thecomputerarchive.com/archive/Displays/Video%20C...

Keep in mind that back in the 1990's all sorts of consumer grade graphic card craziness was going on in Windows boxes - e.g. VESA local bus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_Local_Bus] and the volume of new Windows machines was exploding and many of them were running graphically intensive games.
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Why is bandwidth pricing higher in Asia despite bandwidth rates there being among the highest in the world?
do you only get one chance to invite? my "send invites" in the bottom right corner disappeared.
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Google has told me (and other users of the now deprecated AJAX Search API) to switch to their paid Custom Search API.

The new API is missing some features that were in the old API, which is unfortunate. And, also unfortunate, the most accurate Google results (Local, Web, Image, etc.) come from scraping in ways like this article describes. Hopefully, Google will address these issues in its Custom Search API. If they don't many people will still continue to scrape.
No it seems like they are doing A/B testing. You might now be seeing a "Send feedback" button right? Just add people to you circles and they'll be invited.
Like what? (Seriously; more people getting interested in programming, candidates after Khan's video's somehow "slipping through" the interview process for a Jr position? Or, (where I can see your point), setting up bad practices?))
I still think we're crossing a line where innovation is going to cost more/slow down - like it has for a lot of technologies before the internet (see airplanes). Regulation is one of the two reasons I think this happens (complexity being the other one).
I just wrote about this recently, although with more focus on Microsoft's mistakes post DirectX 9.0:

http://altdevblogaday.com/author/gavan-woolery/

:)
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It is really cool that Sal is trying to do everything himself, but this method does not scale. There is no way he can create the breadth, and more importantly, the depth, needed to cover all the topics a student will learn. As long as Sal continues to produce all the content himself, I believe the Khan Academy will be relegated to complementary and supplementary content.
Yes, its obvious that he hasn't written a lot of production code. Again, so what?. That's not in any way an early warning that he isn't capable of teaching basic programming skills to others.
Complexity.

The law isn't complex for the sake of it. The law is complex because the world is complex (cf. essential and accidental complexity). A single person is complex and hard to model reliably -- sure, you can get the first 90% right, but that's not enough. Then you scale that up to pairs of people, people in families, people in businesses and so on.

Law tries hard, very hard, to boil this intractably vast variety down into general, abstract systems. But corner cases frequently arise that don't quite fit the current rules. The rules need to extended by analogy, or broken, or turned inside out, or ignored, or not ... in order to make it work. Every once in a while enough of these little oddities accumulate that a new generality can be perceived.

But, like any model, the first 90% is easy. Everything else is recursively more difficult as you go into sub-sub-sub-sub categories where millions of dollars or people's lives and freedom can turn on a tiny distinction that only humans could, currently, tease out.

I did not come to think of law this way while studying law. It was when I began writing software that I realised how complex the world really is. How difficult it is to change established, complex systems.

The computer is a useful brute, but not too bright. Explaining all those corner cases, all those once-in-a-turquoise-moon exceptions in nauseating detail, is a useful lesson in humility.
Ask HN: Which other similar to HN communities are you a member of?
Now if only Google App Engine would follow suit...oh wait they raised prices =/
http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/education-spending...

Looks like there is a correlation between test scores and funding, but it's not statistically significant.

According to a review of over 400 studies, "there is not a strong or consistent relationship between student performance and school resources, at least after variations in family input are taken into account," according to a paper published in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

This chart, http://www.heritage.org/static/reportimages/796DF8C7C231CFFE..., would seem to suggest while per-student education spending has doubled between 1970 and 2005, scores haven't really improved.

Do you have any evidence that increasing funding will improve results?
Turntable is like Pandora with the music taste of a human. I get new music that is not only good, but unique and varied. People love sharing music with others, and Turntable lets them do that in full glory. I love it, and it has replaced Pandora for me. Go to turntable, receive a good song, put it in my Mog.com queue for infinite listening, repeat.
I interviewed 60 people less than 24 hours after they attempted suicide. AMA
Glad to see the addition of the HTML5 input types. The lack of support in ie9 held back using them for me.
For those who don't know, this is rtm's (YC partner Robert T. Morris) father. My condolences to him.
Your question answers itself.

I really don't know how much more to add, but I'll try.

Transit (bandwidth) costs more there because:

1) Networks peer much less openly.
2) This is mostly due to the presence of state-run monopoly telcos.
3) That's why BW costs more.
4) Therefore, it costs more for AMZN to get transit in Asia.
5) This is why it costs more for AWS customers to use bandwidth.
6) This is why it costs more for you.
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I usually sword fight in the hallway with coworkers while riding on office chairs.
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We have a pretty big e-commerce scraping project, and we don't really run into many problems regarding blacklisted ip's. There are a few sites who we get consistent bans from, but with elastic ip's it's pretty much a non-issue. I have yet to see a site that ban's all amazon ip's.
That should be a separate front page news.
The great thing about distributed caches is that static resources can still be made available even if the source is down.

In fact dynamic resources can be served as well using the stale-if-error Cache-Control header. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5861#section-4
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Remember when people started slamming him for oversimplifying history, or getting other minor facts wrong on non-programming subjects? Everyone on HN just said "it's free, it's interesting, and who cares as long as students get the basic idea?"

Now that he's making minor mistakes on programming, HNers are upset he's not a software engineering expert.
The api site lists this as the correct url for dojo 1.6:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/dojo/1.6.0/dojo/dojo.xd...

and this one appears to be working currently.
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I hope Braintree can now afford an across-the-board price cut. Without that, the market remains wide open for new entrants.
But the Google Custom Search API is a different thing. It's a search based on a set of sites. What's important is to have an API to search for the "whole" indexed Internet, and Google is the most advanced search engine in town. If you play with more complex queries you quickly note the difference between Google and Bing, Yahoo or Blekko.
From the site: Where interesting people say: "Ask me anything."

You know the author is interesting, because there's a giant photo of them in a dress cut down to their navel, right above the questions about interviewing dozens of attempted suicides.
Some of the most interesting work is only hinted at in the blog. IE 10 PP2 now leads on EcmaScript standards conformance.

IE 10 only fails 7 tests compared to 200 for Firefox 5 out of a total of 10000 tests.

I don't use Opera, but according to this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript Opera lags the other browser and fails 3000 tests. Does anyone have Opera and willing to run the conformance test here: http://test262.ecmascript.org/
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It's more expensive per mbps in USA compared to Asia [0].

[0] http://www.billshrink.com/blog/5787/internet-penetration-cos...

Edit: I'm assuming the data transfer rates apply to data leaving the data center in Japan -> Any computer, not USA region -> Japanese computer.
http://cei.org/news-releases/extending-unemployment-benefits...

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=428343#

http://youngilkim.webs.com/Kim_2009.pdf

https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi...
Perhaps Google+ killed Google CDN?
I haven't had any real problems with Netflix except:

1. The PSN outage severed my streaming for a while, and
2. Their redesigns are a bit annoying and seem recently to be counterproductive. Particularly on the PS3, I find the most recent rendition to be much more awkward than the previous.

I haven't experienced any outage problems that I could attribute to Netflix, though.
I'm a UK national working in NYC- it happened by complete change (a recruiter after I posted my CV on Monster), so it does happen, but no, it's not easy.

There are rumblings about changes to visas that will make it easier for startup entrepreneurs to come to the US, which is quite exciting. Right now I can only work for my employer, so I can't start up any little side projects.
This is big. It makes it a lot cheaper for a busy site to keep an up to date mirror at Amazon on standby for use in emergencies.
Y Combinator has what, three times the companies it did two years ago? I am not surprised if PG is insanely busy.
i would like an invite too @gmail.com, here in mx its hard to get in so early
I just got an invite tonight - a very slick system. Does anyone know if it is a GWT app?

I still miss Wave. I was not 100% enthusiastic about Wave's UI, but writing robots for Wave was fun and I was looking at it as being a good platform to write for.

Google+ does not look like a platform for 3rd party developers.
Triumph of the Nerds is interesting, though your significant other is not likely to think so (unless they're a hacker as well)

http://bit.ly/mmVlhF
It is annoying when it happens and you're on something like Heroku.
This looks like it's going to be a good one: http://thestartupkids.com/
The problem with this is that there is no such dinghy in real life. Immigration is hard (try it sometime), and there's no guarantee that there will be anywhere better to go.
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Used to haunt Wickedfire a lot. Not so much recently though. Not sure if AskMetafilter counts, but I've been there for years and love the community.
Google+ Invitation System Shut Down Due To 'Insane Demand'
Is that really true? More than twice as much meat as, say, the Australians, Germans and Argentinians?

update: According to http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02/m... your implausible-sounding numbers are wrong. In fact US meat consumption (at least as of 2002) is in line with the other agriculturally-rich Western countries, and well behind Denmark and New Zealand. (Australia is missing from the statistics.)
Condolences to rtm.
In HK, I pay around $22/m (USD) for 100mbps. I can download from steam or apple at 5-6+ MB/s. I can download torrents at 10MB/sec. However, when I download overseas (which is most of the time), I might get 200KB/sec (unless it's from a serious player in CA).

The point? The high speed you hear about in Asia is a half truth. When you consider that some of the Internet doesn't exist here (Netflix, ...), high latency (for gaming) and geo-locked content (Kindle, ...), it's even less than a half truth.

Anyways, where NA has poor last-mile infrastructure, Asia has poor intercontinental infrastructure. It's currently a scarce resource, thus prices are high.
You mean pimply and with a bad attitude :)
Please do enlighten us: what is the correct clothing to wear on a website when you discuss attempted suicides? Should we make sure to stick to earth tones so that we respect the solemnity of the topic, or do we want to add some bright colors in to make sure no gets even sadder? This is one area where I sure wouldn't want to make a misstep. What's your opinion vis a vis a pipe for added gravitas? I think it might go too far. Maybe when you're done with suicide-related topics, you could compose a manual for other scenarios, so that we can be sure to never again offend your sense of fashion.

tl;dr, cut the fucking body policing, jackass.
I've actually found the opposite. The people working at the smaller crossings seemed bored out of their minds, so they went crazy when we arrived.
They terminated affiliates in Illinois quite some time ago, for the same reason. I believe they've also done this in other states.

I'm not sure why the California legislature thought they were going to be special in this respect.
This has been criticized as inaccurate but it's the #2 best made-for-tv movie (after "the day after")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xflXMZL2stU
I heard Joel's movie was interesting...
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I hate Facebook, so I resisted joining the TurnTable.fm beta. I've had a FB account for years, but I don't use it. Just squatting my name. I certainly refuse to tie my account to anything else. However, I made an exception with this site, to try it out.

Man, was I surprised. It's everything I despise. It's hip. It's about music. It's about popularity. It's social. It's cute. It's flash-based. And yet, damn it, I am having so much fun with it. Even in rooms built around specific web communities that therefore cause music to run anywhere from techno to hip-hop, to 80s music, to Smell Yo Dick to . . . yes . . . tracks from Steve Martin's banjo performances.

I've participated in multi-hour long "songs with a space theme" mixes. I've participated in 90s night. I've participated in bouts of idiocy where we just try to drive a room full of people (and ourselves) nuts playing the most obnoxious songs.

And it's just a damn good time. The best part is that even if someone plays something I don't care for, at least I know it's something a human being who likes the song chose as opposed to the automation of every radio station on earth.

Over time, I hope they improve how you build your playlist. Maybe given you the option to have multiple lists and a better way to search and organize them. Maybe improve the chat function. Make the interface better (it's just so tiny and limited, right now). Maybe move to HTML5 or something other than Flash. Add some hotkeys, instead of mouse-only.

Over time, there will be just a handful of very targeted rooms and then lots of tiny rooms build around communities that have less musical coherence. I think it's bound to get better over time. If not, the next person to come along will surely improve upon it. Either way, it's clever and it's kind of hard to imagine nobody did this before now.

Oh . . . and I'm sure they'll be bought by Facebook, anyway. Great way to keep eyeballs on your controlled content.
If you've got any meaningful experience with Python, you should be following at least the spirit of the PEPs. I don't think that's unreasonable for Sal to do.

The dude's got so much knowledge on such a large breadth of topics. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't know or care what a PEP was.
amazing visuals. it renders me incapable of judging the content.
A new kind of “universal” memory chip
I'm waiting for this one. Looks interesting!
Complex numbers have never been so intuitive to me
Agreed on the social aspect. My response to anything relating to "social music" has always been "I listen to music for me - I don't want social anything. I don't care what you're listening to and I don't care if you think what I'm listening to is cool. I have zero social interest in music".

And then they figured out a clever new/old way for music to be social in a very natural, obvious, useful way.
The live feed is pretty cool.
Oh, and one more thing, you're fired.
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I have currently run out - no more Send Invites link. As soon as it appears I will get to the remaining ones. Do update if you get it from elsewhere.
So I suppose lastly, I'd be distrustful as a rule of most people who claim to generate value through soft, rather than hard means.

I'm sympathetic to you, because I'm the "hard" science guy. When I studied CS, it was about hard science, because there generally weren't consumer facing jobs to be had.

But now most of the successful apps, and the ones talked about on HN aren't technically difficult. The reason things like the Thiel fund even are on the radar is because most apps, whether mobile or web, could be coded up by a modestly bright 13 year-old. Seriously. The part that separates great from forgotten is the UX and design.

There was once a popular saying that went something like, "Well he's no rocket scientist". I think its fair to say that we'll likely not hear people say, "Well he's no computer programmer". In fact if anything quite the opposite -- "Anyone can learn it... it's like programming".
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That's not talking about transit -- that's talking about consumer Internet connections, which are surprisingly cheap despite the same monopoly infrastructure but largely due to government price controls.

That monopoly infrastructure, however, is what keeps outside providers from making inroads -- you don't see anyone but SingTel in Singapore, for instance. Or anyone besides Malaysia Telecom in Malaysia, or NTT / KDDI / etc. in Japan.