skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTW it's not just the hardware on the Kinect that's so great...the computer vision component is simply incredible and Andrew Blake's team at MS Research Cambridge deserves the kudos on that.

They're solving a very tough problem and doing it really well.

Anecdotally, as I was interviewing for various academic positions this year, everyone had a few Kinect projects they were working on. This thing has really sparked an enormous resurgence of interest in stereo/3d-related vision research!
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I was reviewing some old posts here at Inspired, and thought I would rehash a post my fellow author David Murton wrote back in May about How to Choose a Proper Internet Hosting Service. I wanted to quick add my two cents…
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Oh yes, he received oodles of options and all kinds of perks. However, he never went to work for any of them, despite all the plying and feting.
Just to weigh in since I wrote the original blog entry. I wasn't suggesting my own earnings were capped.

I was merely situating a story where I did not have academic support to move forward with a project that was relevant to the real world.

The earning cap statement has more to do with the relationship between professors and the companies that hire students from their schools. This becomes even more problematic since many firms do not hire candidates without specific academic pedigree.

Also, there were many cases where students preferred to do what the professor thought was most insightful compared to pursuing their own interest, since they wanted to secure their professor's recommendation.

This post was not a complaint about my situation. It's pointing out a harmful circumstance that could occur.
>Some people, I'm sure, pirate because they can't afford things (though how did they get an iOS device?).

I bought a new smartphone last week. I can afford to, but it does not obligate me to piss away money on apps (I don't pirate them either). I can not emphasize how significantly higher the cost:value ratio of my phone and service is compared to that of some bullshit apps. How does that saying go, "linux is only free if your time is worthless"?, well, dicking around with apps on your phone is only cheap if your time is worthless.

If someone can manage to afford an iphone, it can simultaneously be a good decision and worth it for them and to still have a long way to go before their next most intelligent purchase is pricy glitter for their phone.
hahahahahhaahahahahahah!!

I sent this to a colleague for a read, who in then... sent it to the CIO. Whom replied, "this guy sums it up well, I'm going to distribute it and then we'll talk about it at the round table."

The outcome of this is going to be... hilarious!
> If you have to reboot your router frequently, you
> should replace it

You are assuming that people will only ever use these devices on networks that they control.
Is it possible they're contractually obligated not to discuss licensing specifics with the public?
Project managers: what's your job like?
I'm curious about your experiences with project management. I know many of us are working on start-ups, and blog posts crop up from time to time the explain precisely the problems that people have faced along the way. However, I'm interested in considering the issues from an operations standpoint, with emphasis placed on agile v. sequential development. I'm also very interested in hearing about how anyone has successfully (or unsuccessfully) managed distributed development teams: for those of you who have outsourced labor, your input would be especially useful. I've developed a pretty lengthy survey that brings this into better focus, which you may find at http://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHdpVEJIRTUzNmlreVgyTEszekk5UlE6MQ

I don't expect you to answer any of the questions, but I do hope that it could spark some pretty interesting discussion. Of course, you're welcome (and invited!) to complete the survey if you have the time.
I replaced the exceptions from the functional F# code with mutable flags and while loops - and its speed improved from being 6 times slower than OCaml, to being 5 times slower.

I also replaced the sort with a fold... and there was no speed improvement (the lists are so small it made no difference).

Oh well, what can you do? :-)
Adding a single small feature doesn't take up that much space, but what differentiates this small feature from another? Why not add that one, too? Therefore only features that provide significant value exist.
It's a bit of hyperbole on his part, but yeah, I think he likes seeing how something ought to be done, and doesn't enjoy sitting down and actually pecking at the keys to make it happen. I can understand that.

Speaking of dot coms and Linuxcare and such, much as I don't care for working with PHP, Rasmus is a really smart, friendly and nice guy who is well worth talking with even if his language is not 'hip'.
Well for one thing, every single click on any link or feature involved some huge, slow round-trip from their server, seemingly revealing it to be just a web UI front end accessing some god-awful API. I'm talking about a 5sec+ spinner on every click. It is absolutely unusable, and I uninstalled it the day after I noticed all of this. Before this I was using their Android app all the time. In the intervening days I have disabled my account as well.
General Motors comes to mind.
While the envolve plugin is extremely interesting, the HN implementation would probably be far more useful if you scraped the HN username for logged-in users and displayed it. Anonymity seems to kill the utility of chat. For those that wish to participate anonymously, you can always offer the option to opt out.

Using jQuery, this should be trivial:

$(".pagetop").children('a[href*="user?id="]').attr("href").split('=')[1];
> They want the device to work when they turn it on.

If there is a collision, then this doesn't 'just work' when the user turns it on. Just sayin'. From the user's perspective the device should never fail, in any situation, for any reason... ever. Users don't care about trade-offs because they don't want to trade anything off, they want it all, 5 minutes ago.
I'd like to check that out. Can you point me to it or email me (check profile for address).
Actually, I'd prefer you buy and iPhone and an iPad and put their app on each.
I am not sure that applies. Introverts and extroverts tend to stand out in groups of people and with people they don't know. We are talking about a team that you should be very close to.
My use case is very similar and, as such, I agree with you. Unfortunately, given unlimited plans, heavy usage like ours tends to be subsidised by people who aren't anywhere near the average usage but still pay the same amount. I'm generally in favour of such subsidies (even for services where I'm an underutiliser), but I don't believe this to be a popular opinion since it's "unfair".
Pretty cool implications for helpdesks (login page of an enterprise application), website design reviews, discussions of news articles, and so much more. I really like it.
To the benefit of all, I assure you.. http://blog.cloudflare.com/58611873
It looks like this app was both automatically classified and manually verified by a person as violating the terms, and I trust that there wouldn't be a double failure in that regard.

I'm hesitant to speculate at all since, as you hint, this could quickly devolve into an unproductive he-said / she-said squabble.
That's how successful the Freemium/Facebook model has been, and describes perfectly where investors think the market is going.
Can you imagine embedding this by Google on any search results page, so we can discuss "hotel las vegas" queries with other participants in real time, luckily with hotel agents answering questions as well? And now SEO would be used to find the most intensive chat topics. Neat!
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>Since it is clear you live at your parents house

Not really. You don't have to be in the same physical location for streaming. I don't live with my parents and use their login for streaming too.
Do you have any examples of other vendors using the last assigned address as a default?
that's a bogus comparison: if you replace windows with BSD you aren't running windows anymore. if you replace google's maps app with one from openstreetmaps you are still running android.
If you want to add it to your own website you can do so by just cutting & pasting some javascript. Check it out: http://www.envolve.com
"I don't understand why people keep making these kinds of languages over and over" -- TJ makes lots of things, from web frameworks to template engines and css DSLs, to see him make a language makes me think: "ooh, TJ made a new toy!"

As far as does the world need it? That is a hard question to answer. Will it achieve mass adoption? My money is on no -- another question is: How long will TJ keep at it?
In the video, they explain it as embracing the conception of the letters as being 3d objects. The added weight in the lower parts would intuitively anchor that letter in that orientation. Perhaps a 'j' should be tilted due to its asymmetry.

As for my $.02, I think the mix-ups often occur in real-time due to proximity. Making the symbols distinct would perhaps lessen the likelihood that the brain will try to identify those conceptual objects as a unity when they are near one another.
Because that would simply be untrue. My subscription price is unchanged.
I had a friend in community college that was 26. He was a roadie until 24 or so and then got his life on track - so in my head you are relatively way, way ahead. Maybe it's not what you want, but you might consider going to community college with the intent to transfer to a four-year.
it's not "our culture", it's "language".
Well, sure, but the problem is that the Apple device user doesn't suffer from the negative consequences of the non-standard action. Other users do.

Of course people are going to like devices that allow them to cut in line if there is a little bit of space.
We have a full API for doing single sign on. Bug PG and maybe we'll get it up on HN for all to see with account integration.
If you don't own the copyright to a photo, you can't put it under Creative Commons.
Death by Over Friending
I've often thought captchas were doing it wrong.

Even my pre-school self could solve the Sesame Street "one of these things is not like the other".

There are so many sets with an odd-one-out that would only be easily determinable by a human over a computer.
warning: dont visit the nextweb.com with an ipad, they use some horrible horrible swipe/touch/die suckware, go to the source instead http://www.studiostudio.nl/en/project-dyslexie/
got it. Thanks for answering my question.
Where did all the comments go? Hivemind devops alert: nginx sucks at ssl
> Rewarding Jobs: A jobs site that only posts jobs with a more altruistic slant...

I think http://www.idealist.org/ already fills this niche
Thanks! Not yet, but we're adding features as fast as our little fingers can type...
That's fine -- they offer a free level of service too.
You can't do that. Though it seems like the sites are composed, they are in fact just embedded viewports (iframe). The only way to scrape username, at the moment, is to turn that app into a plugin/bookmarklet, or at least bootstrap from one.

EDIT: Or API/embedded script, but that of course requires the cooperation of site's owner.
It is unscientific. A more comprehensive study would analyze each device in a variety of well-defined scenarios, but in the interest of time I just took a few captures and put a couple under the microscope. I hope I didn't come across as trying to directly compare the tablet's ~11.8s startup on a fresh network to the Mac's ~0.03s startup on a known network. I know that the Mac is faster than my other devices via subjective observation, so I was mostly just interested in comparing the differences in the packets during this process.
Mind: a simple, beautiful meditation timer.
http://xkcd.com/915/
His core argument is that their use falls under "fair use", so there is still no need to remove the photos.
I had a holy s&% moment. I have seen this sort of tech before, but this is just a perfect implementation. It could become my default way to browse social sites. Hello social shopping.

Edit: Holy S$^, Holy S*$^.
http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/
Really? Sources tell me that they copy each DVD and drop it back in the mail the same day, yet these sources report no apparent delay in receiving the next DVD. This is on a 1 DVD subscription, btw.
The current implementation uses an iframe and so they can't read the data out of the iframe (same-origin policy).

This would require injecting javascript on to news.ycombinator.com. It wouldn't be so bad, but it would require user interaction to do that. If it requires user interaction then it'll be less used.

Granted, they could make an extension which does that -- but now you have to download something just to use chat. That's a big barrier to entry.
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Rather than asking why the mac is so fast, the correct question is "why the hell is dhcpcd so slow?". There's a full second before it does anything.
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I can set my Canon to take a picture after a 10 second delay, so that I don't have to be in the presence of my camera to take a picture. Canon does not own the image, simply because it activated the triggering mechanism.
The floating tweet/like box is atrocious. Otherwise, kind of neat.
Your skepticism is well-reasoned and fair.

All I'm saying is, Netflix's actions today would seem to point to Pachter being correct.
I second this KL. I was thinking, I want these guys to super succeed.
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Is there a particular reason you went with short polling over sockets? I see your building on jetty at the moment, which is pretty tried and tested I guess, but pushing a huge volume of json objects around over the http.
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Movies have already been disappearing from Netflix's streaming service, so I'm sure licensing issues are at least part of the reason for raising the prices.
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My point is that a lot of engineers I know (irrespective of being introverted or extroverted) would not be comfortable with such a harassing approach. Unless the author used 'look me in the eye' metaphorically as 'be frank with me'.
They just doubled my subscription price, for the exact same content. So, I would pay another $8 for streaming content that is mostly old, and often mediocre. It's like having TBS streaming to your PC. On top of that, their encoding is often lousy, and there's no separate way to report it.
Microsoft Vulnerability in Bluetooth Stack Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Ah yes, the Apple solution: just buy a new one. Because that's always an option for everyone, on every network they use.
I was thinking about this the other day - with netbooks, tablets and smartphones running Android showing no signs of slowing down; Android really does seem to be "the dream come true" in terms of "Is this the year of the Linux desktop" kind of dream.

It's kind of exciting and also kind of scary. I'm not a fan of the Android development stack at all, and this comes from someone who's been championing Android over iOS for the past several years. I think overwhelmingly it's probably a good thing, I just won't be dabbling too much.
That's a good change, but that's not my point. My point is that things don't automatically become unprivate because there's a share button. Somebody has to make the decision to share these things, and they still have the ability to do so without a convenient button. The point is that users should still maintain good sense about what they post.
For some reason I thought they would actually overlay this onto a map, and that sounded bizarre and cool. Guess not though.
Haha. Yes, yes it is.
This is going to be awesome. I can't think of a more developer-friendly platform than Twilio!
> 1. Simple mathematical question

Best CAPTCHA ever: http://random.irb.hr/signup.php
Cool - I saw that DISKDRV car driving around Seattle last Saturday, I think. In fact, it wasn't far from the Ikea where picture was probably taken.
We were thinking maybe we'd remove it if someone retweets us : )
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Agreed, and I've piled on here: http://bit.ly/plxCb1. Or have we both been trolled?
Probably the best Theodore Roosevelt quote ever
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What problem does that solve?
To be clear: 200M uniques over the last 30 days. 10% of the Internet's visitors. Definitely not 10% of the Internet's traffic.
I have a few sites only getting about 1k visitors a month and #1 does reduce the spam a bit, but I still get 2-3 submissions a day, and I would not say these are targeted at all, just mass spam bots.
Soft Switching Fails at Scale
It wouldn't leave a vacuum, as the air on the outside of the fan would rush in to replace it. I think the point is that (if this works), the boundary layer itself will also be moving instead of sitting there stagnant.
there are dreams and there are nightmares.
Question: How old are you? I'm 23 and after entering the social gaming industry as a developer, the numbers are actually incredibly surprising. I'm talking like... several hundred thousand buckaroos a day from a single game, all from the same market of middle aged stay-at-home/desk-job women.
And also his second book "Being Geek". It's a career guide for technical people.
So you're saying that if a business prices their product too high, you should steal it instead and that this is ok because they didn't follow lean business principles?
If I write code at work, do I own the copyright?
I agree with most of the points you made, however, as ccarpenterg just said, it's a sharedtalk for beautiful people, people who are introverted or not confident about their physical appearances might not be willing to video chat with strangers. In the first case you mentioned, were user willing to exchange skype names before or after they had the text chat? The reason I am asking is because text chat might make a very big difference in building the initial trust between users.
What did I say that called for downvoting?
done. I shall wait quietly by my email box for an invite.

taps foot
"A platform controlled by a single vendor and locked down by hardware vendors != the Linux desktop "dream come true""

http://twitter.com/#!/segphault/status/90546480737296384
I'm going to say no. I'm dyslexic and dysgraphic and I deal with it, but it's only after many years of practice and by doing most of my writing on a keyboard. (I'm still not so good with written numbers.)

The best way I've heard it explained is that the word CAT doesn't look like a cat. A quick google search found this. http://dyslexiavictoria.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/dyslexic-pr...

"Also the alphabet is a type of abstract concept that Dyslexics have a frustrating time trying to learn because unless the letters are part of a word they don’t mean anything other than sounds. Dyslexics need concrete real images that can be connected to symbols such as words and numerals. “C – A – T” are sounds but do not bring up any images of real things. The word “CAT” however can be imagined."

Showing a kid the wrong spelling will only confuse them. (Writing was already confusing.) I was told growing up that my mind was trying really hard to find a cat in the letters, it flipped them around, held them upside down, put them on top of each other, and nothing looks like a cat. You don't actually see anything move (common question) but I used to stare at words trying to make sense of them. I don't know enough about cognition to tell you actually how it works.

I think if you can short circuit some of these wasted cycles it might help dyslexic kids pick up on what reading and writing actually is a bit faster. I'd give the font a try but they're using some sort of vector JS based font rendering (Cufon) and I don't know how to get that back to a ttf. But I doubt it would have much of an effect on myself anyway as I've learned how to read and write a long time ago.

Just my 2c
Is Keynesian economics alive?
Much less than the 1+ billion techcrunch reported.
Crittercism rides the growing mobile app services boom
> It's absolutely true that only the copyright holder can issue a takedown and its also true that you can't assign copyright to a lawyer for the purposes of suing people.

Neither of these statements is true.
A cease and desist letter is not a DMCA takedown notice.
Proprietary in the computer sense is generally taken to mean closed source or at least not made available to competitors or others. There's nothing to stop any other systems offering this kind of quick start DHCP service.
Yeah, sorry about that. Fixed.
That's not really comparable. You yourself would hold copyright under those circumstances.
I think that you're wrong because, basically, if that 'steal an IP address' scenario happens, it means that the DHCP server has in some way broken its promises. That _happens_ in production environments, but I'd much rather clients use behavior like this, that assumes that a DHCP server will keep its promises about things like lease length, than assume the worst about the DHCP server. The clients should first assume that the server will keep its promises, and only on evidence that it hasn't, seek alternatives.
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There are a lot of dreams out there for Linux. One of those dreams is an easy to use tablet that's fast, has a lot of apps and is easy to use. That dream has been realised.