skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The aspect ratio is jacked up, at least when played back on Chrome on OSX 10.7.1 It's like it is being shot in 16:9 and streamed in 4:3 without being cropped.

Also, your player seems to steal the keyboard in chrome and not give it back; presumably this is also a Chrome bug?
Sure, http://www.sics.se/~adam/lwip/ has a BSD socket API.
Just FYI, the I Do Foundation (a service where you can donate to charities that a wedding-couple list) charges 8%
https://www.idofoundation.org/

So your 9.5% is not that far off. When I did my donation to the charity my friends chose, it included a note about the 8% and told me that it's the general rate.

From their site:
"""

Charitable Gift Registry: The percentage listed on the I Do Foundation website for each store is the exact amount that will be donated to charity every time a guest purchases a gift through an I Do Foundation registry link. For example, a $100 purchase from Cooking.com generates $8 for charity. The I Do Foundation does not deduct any fees from these donations. When guests make online donations, an 8% fee is added to their donation. This fee covers the cost we incur from our credit card processing company. For example, when a guest donates $100, an $8 fee will be added.
"""
Google Custom Search (two page) with Adsense. http://www.wepolls.com/search?q=hacker%20news.
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Bandwidth back.
I guess it takes true grit to read through nine pages of that, which I unfortunately do not possess :-(

Somebody should make a business out of shrinking NYT articles.
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An interesting aspect is how much more slowely memory sizes have caught up. Today's laptops can crush a 90s supercomputer in GFlops, but are just now catching up to a mid-1990s Cray in main memory (4GB). I remember being fairly befuddled when I started college in 2000, and my CS dept's UltraSPARC servers were slower than my Pentium III in CPU, but had memory measured in a unit that I had only heard of being used for hard drive space.
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I said it specifically to include other countries than China.

I was living in Taiwan for a while, which uses the same Mandarin name for McD.

And in other asian countries McD is far more popular than Subway.
Going on a tangent, what are the primary reasons people incorporate in Delaware as opposed to say Nevada or Wyoming? Is it mainly because more lawyers nationwide are more familiar with Delaware laws?
I wouldn't be too sure. The low-end 13" MacBook Air has a 1.7Ghz dual-core i5 processor, 4GB RAM, a 128GB SSD, and a Thunderbolt port providing two bidirectional 10Gb/s channels.

From what I can find, an IBM S/390 from the early 1990s could have up to 6 processors and 6 vector coprocessors, up to 9GB of internal storage, and up to 256 fiber-optic links running at 10MB/s (for an total bandwidth of a Thunderbolt port plus a USB 2.0 port).

I don't really know how fast the CPU and RAM were in the IBM mainframe, but I'd suspect the Air's clock speeds are high enough to make up for only having two processors, and the Air's SSD would make it much faster for data sets that don't fit in RAM.

And as for the reliability advantage a mainframe is supposed to have: you could buy several MBAs per month to act as hot-spares for the price of renting the mainframe, and the MBA has a UPS built-in.
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More details:

https://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=http://w...
JavaScript is Not Web Assembly
Great timeline design, especially after you recognize how the color captions match the line colors. I would have preferred that the captions were consistently stacked in the same order as their lines though, give you both a color and a positional cue.
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Alternatively I could have a 1980s computer like a Tandy 100 or Z88 be able to type exactly the same notes in a class but have it run for 10x as long as it did on it's original 4AA batteries
You think foreign sales are that strong that they'd jack the price up that much and be profitable at it?

Also, I thought that Amazon actually lost some battles with the publishers, in terms of being able to set the prices they wanted, rather than what the publishers wanted.

Your 35% and 70% rates are certainly those that apply to the KDP - but do they apply to publishers like Wiley as well? They presumably have more bargaining power than someone self-publishing.
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Is this livestream only, or will it be available for viewing after the event?
What kind of device do you need? You'll have to give more details to get a useful answer.

Get in touch with some people whose electronics products got funded on Kickstarter. Also have a look on http://www.quirky.com.
Oh, typo.

http://jessbogart.4ormat.com/selected-pages

"Gretel jumped on her big brothers bed,"

s/brothers/brother's/
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That's awesome -- and not an example of the thinking I find problematic.
Indeed you get a pretty sweet deal, and I know a few that do.

But the R&D benefits aren't only for startups, most big companies try to fit all they can under CIR ("Crédit d'impôt recherche"—research tax exemption).
is a hierarchy all that different from a key value store?
No its about trying to pay less tax. It will cost more in fees etc.
FTA: They've sold out the public, who they're supposed to represent.

People keep saying this like its an opinion. This is the central fact of modern day politicians and government bureaucrats. Lets stop fucking talking about it. Lets get a voter measure on the ballot to criminalize it.
Which website are you trying to view that does not get rendered as expected on IE10? Which CSS/HTML feature you expected that is lacking?

I see a lot of such unqualified general opinions here on HN that rant against a particular product/technology without any specificity. It will genuinely help to give a speciic and concrete feedback otherwise its just noise.
I don't agree with all of the items listed, but I think JSONKit is a really nice piece of work. What would you use instead? I know there is native support for JSON handling in iOS 5, but 1) I don't know how that stacks up against JSONKit performancewise (if anyone has benchmarks, that would be excellent) - but JSONKit really flies, especially when directly handling raw bytes instead of an NSString and 2) It will take quite some time before iOS 5 is the de-facto standard. FWIW I used to use SBJSON and switched over to JSONKit and have not looked back.
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Imagine trying to run a company that has 535 people on the board of directors, none of whom has equity in the company, but many of whom have de facto equity in your suppliers.

Maybe NASA should be spun off.
Top 5 Reasons to incorporate your startup in Delaware
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Delaware law is very favorable to the corp.

As an aside: Nevada used to be a big flag to the IRS, since it was one of the few states (the only?) that did not data share with the feds.
As an experienced windows user, I too feel that the experience was interesting. the metro UI is so inviting to touch that it feels odd navigating it with mouse. Nothing I could not get used to but it feels like a little bump in the road for sure.
check this out! -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2997975
Depends on your margins. Companies like Enigma (used them, happy, not affiliated in any way) can do turnkey manufacturing and take away the supply chain/procurement headaches. OTOH, if you can handle procurement and manufacturing internally, or co-ordinate multiple vendors and do final assembly in house, you can save cash (if everything goes perfectly).

Enigma: http://www.enigmacorp.com/ was good to me, YMMV.

I have tried to go the in-house route as well, and got KILLED on procurement. Without existing relationships, I had multi-month leadtimes on a lot of parts. Again, YMMV.
For two pages google cse is more than enough, I would even think you don't even need a search box.
I was thinking more than just a poll but also providing a way to compare the various solutions available.
Note: $2K is about $750 too high. (Hell, I think the whole thing is way high for what is a cut and paste exercise to a junior lawyer. I think this industry is ripe for a startup to make a boilerplate, perhaps open-source.)
Amazing article from our friend @startuplwayer!
For Windows there is Dokan, a library similar to FUSE in Linux. There is an implementation of SSHFS for windows which works pretty well. http://dokan-dev.net/en
well if anyone googles his name, this will probably come up, right? I hope most people would be smart enough to do that before buying his services.
Yeah, it's the height now, but the name derives from the width of an "m", half an em is an "en" (as in em-dash or en-dash)
The US doesnt have any double tax treaties. If you are Brazil resident, but have US income you may well be double taxed if you are employed in the US. If you are not Brazil resident then Brazil wont tax you. Only the US taxes non resident citizens I think.
INoobs: What is a CMS (Content Management System)? 
If you are thinking about becoming a web developer, or have been shopping around for one, lately you have no doubt come across the term CMS again and again.
If you strictly limit the creative activities there are to ones that involve typing. I'll bet the iPad is way better at making music, drawing, photo and film editing, etc, etc.
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I am a bit curious about it's performance characteristics (e.g. number of node.js instances launched, method of load balancing, etc). Do you experience any problems with GC?
I actually like it. I mean, it is being shown at 70 pixels wide in that post and it looks fine.
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Small sensor that can record some measurements than plug into a computer USB port to upload those measurements. Doesn't really need to be super precise or anything, price is the major constraint here.

I will contact some kickstarted folks, good idea there.

thanks.
With all the diffusion of their shares in the secondary markets they are on the way to reach 500 private shareholder limit and be forced by SEC to make the same kind of disclosures as a public company.

If anything the IPO timing is probably affected by their ability to stay under this magic 500 number.
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Hey Colin,

I'm by no means an expert but I'm always happy to help out where I can.

I've dropped you an e-mail with a screenshot of a 5 min mockup I made using a free template and the existing info from your current site.

You're welcome to have it, if it's of use to you.

It's nothing fantastic but it's neat and a step in the right direction.

Hope it helps!

Any issues, shoot me an e-mail at helen842000 at gmail.com
Thankfully, every keyboard in the last ten years does NOT come with such extraneous buttons.
I don't think so. The lawyer helped us a lot with incorporation, TOS, Stock options, so we spent U$2k. This is not directly related to incorporation, but we did some of this stuff in the same pack.
Will clarify on the next post.
Modestly valuable; but only supports the basic latin character set and a few miscellaneous keys on top of that. I'd be much more impressed if it were extensible to support multiple character sets and could work with them seamlessly.

I know that's not really the problem this little tool is trying to solve; but I suppose my point is that there are much more interesting / difficult problems with regard to keyboard input that I'd rather see libraries for than basic key handling.
The flesh color doesn't help either.
This is my first real blog post, so tell me what you think!
Sometimes they are software buttons, but they are there.

Yes, nobody uses those, because it's extremelly non-trivial due to the problem I outlined.
While I completely agree, C++ is both useful and popular, so these to-JS languages will continue to proliferate.

The critical issue, as you identified, is debugging -- whichever language solves this will probably win the space.
Great explanation. The pricing for an upcoming Kindle version of a PDF ebook is something I'm struggling with. My current thinking:

Kindle version: ~$10

PDF ebook + Kindle version + supplements (sold from my site): ~$24

The Kindle version is great for portability, but doesn't have the clean formatting, etc. you get from the PDF. I'm considering offering a coupon to Kindle users to get a discount for the "deluxe" version (essentially, less the cost of the Kindle version).

All this because Amazon has forementioned crazy royalty scheme.
How many sites with <script> X installed is amazing! Very cool feature.
Spoke too soon, looks like they have already reached 500 according to the article.

In that case hard to see how much value would be in staying "private" given the same disclosures and the liquidity in the secondary markets.
I think anyone who thinks this should take a good long, long look at ClojureScript.

* You don't have to refresh the browser to develop, this is single largest productivity boost I've experienced in my 6 years as a JS developer.

* You can fully leverage JS prototypal inheritance (even on natives) because of ubiquitous namespacing

* You have access to macros - you can build the very features that people have been talking / debating about for years today

Unlike CoffeeScript (which I like and use), ClojureScript does lets you write correct code you would never write by hand.
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Exactly. We started to work on our startup about 15 months ago and we still don't have a publicly launchable version. But we made a prototype and have 80+ test users. That kind of interaction with our users makes things easier and helps us to stay motivated.
Here is the reg on public companies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_Fair_Disclosure

For privately held companies there is no equivalent afaik.

Especially critical is the time of transition from a privately held company to a public one (IPO). And that's good stuff. The basic idea is that everybody has access to all the information at the same time.

The big issue would be if a blog or some other communication wrote 'you should buy this stock' knowing it is a lemon and unloading by someone with a hand in the creation of the blog.

That's why it is good practice to fully disclose that you have a position in the companies you write about, because if you do not it may be that afterwards, long after you thought it mattered you could still be hit with a violation depending on what he stock did after you published.
Nice, it'd be fun to try hooking up a PIC controller to a Websocket. Maybe I'll try that next!
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Predictable legal environment that reduces frivolous litigation is really the biggest factor.
Good choice on positioning the shell to the right-top -- it indicates growth and positivity.

Not sure if flatness was intended but: http://imgur.com/fAaMl

I recommend clarifying deep propositions:

"Solid as a shell?"
"RGB streams floating inside" -- is this a logo for a painting program?

I recommend using reference photos of a shell, or finding a real shell and studying it.
I realize that HN doesn't represent the general population, but $6k/month puts you ahead of 70% of Americans. Relatively speaking, that's a very high income, not just for a college student.
Great! Thanks for sharing...
Small, quick with an ok keyboard and amazing battery life. It worked fine for the day. It was sort of the spiritual successor to the TRS-80 Model 100. There are some videos on youtube that give a feel for the interface better than I can write.
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Do not sell anything on eBay! There is a new type of scam going around were a buyer wins an item, receives it, switches it with a fake or random item and sends it back. Since eBay only considers the delivery of a package without inspection and they favor buyers in arbitration, sellers get ripped off while the scammer gets their money back plus gets to keep the item. SELLER BEWARE!
> You don't have to refresh the browser to develop, this is single largest productivity boost I've experienced in my 6 years as a JS developer.

How does it work?
This is a stupid debate over language. What people mean when they say Javascript is web assembly is that Javascript is a compilation target, which is completely true.
good link: about the only things I disagree with are points 4 and 5.

1) I could be wrong but I believe Delaware is more expensive in fees compared to either Nevada and Wyoming.

2) It's not that hard to find corporate officer names in either Delaware or Nevada. I feel that this point is false.
I never said they weren't.
I haven't checked the others, but Mog requires me to login with Facebook to get free music. Is there anyway I can do that without signing into Facebook?

They should at least offer other alternatives like Twitter and Google. Grooveshark does it.
Read that part again. He's not claiming that $6k/month is an amazing salary (although, as I pointed out below, it is more than 70% of Americans make). When he says "a prestigious item on the resume" I'm reading that as something like taking a job at Google, which would look impressive to many potential employers.
project != startup; hacker != entrepreneur; desire != drive;

Some people should drop off. The road is long and it's best to find out who's willing to endure it up front. In my 20's I knew a lot of people who wanted to "do big things" and I learned the hard way that most people just want to look like they're doing big things. Less talk, more walk.
Ideally I think in house would be the approach I'd take. The device in question isn't particularly complicated and the components don't exactly have to be top of the line. I have no experience working with vendors though.
I agree with the Nevada statement.
I don't think your points disagree with his eventual point, which is that JavaScript is the C of the web.
If I understood you correctly, I don't believe either Nevada or Wyoming have state income tax. Though in the case of Nevada, given its state deficit, this may or may not change in the future.
Re-download Lion from the Mac App Store. You'll find it under the "Purchases" section. Everything in that section can be re-downloaded and reinstalled for free.
ClojureScript supports a feature called Browser REPL. The compiler REPL compiles your code to JS and sends it to the browser for evaluation which sends the result back. This means you can develop w/o restarting the browser or ever leaving your source file while incrementally developing your project.

At the moment it works best in Emacs, but people are starting to add support for other development environments.

After developing JS this way going back is simply painful.
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I couldn't agree more.

The cost (time, money, etc) of setting up their own website and processing their own transactions is obviously prohibitive, as most nonprofits don't accept online donations.

Lots of nonprofits also know exactly what percentages of their revenue go towards administration and marketing, so they're likely to have a good comparison point for how much it costs them to receive donations by other means.
In that order of ideas your nickname should be: "currentlynoonespecial"
True. A lot of people are probably better off not living the startup life.
Discrete GPUs are here to stay
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Since PG has changed the way that the jobs section works, it seems like the same few companies keep posting the same ad over and over again. I hope that this is successful in helping them to hire, but it seems like this is somewhat redundant. Maybe there is a better way to do this?
I wonder if the author would be surprised by how many language compilers have targeted C for their output.
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Absolutely. I never heard anyone actually say “blah is to JS as C is to Assembly” nor did i take them to mean that when they said "Javascript is web assembly"
Hmmm, I'm using Splinter (http://splinter.cobrateam.info/) to do tests. It lets you automate browser actions and much more, like execute javascript, find elements returned via AJAX, interact with forms, links and more... it has drivers for chrome, firefox... You shold to test it :)
From the article the developer admits that in the first instance, he was a bit silly and shouldn't have used their radio.

But for your first point, he's charging for a product. Something that can pick up internet radio streams. How is this different from a manufacturer of radio equipment charging to purchase their device.

It would seem to me that including the ability to listen radio streams other than those of the CBC would mitigate any legal issues (though I fear he'd have to start again with a new app submitted to the app store, rather than an update to thsi one) and pre-load that with his beloved CBC stations as "suggested content".
I love that they worked this in there.
The list of predicted advertising trends from PG:

1) Tablets are important (apple is taking over the world), lots of potential for advertising innovation given technology like touch and gestures

2) All data will live in the cloud

3) More stuff happens peer-to-peer (Airbnb vs hotels)

4) There will be a lot more startups; you'll need to begin working with startups while they're small

5) Facebook is a big deal, sort of like iOS; they haven't tried to start making money yet. wait for the growth group for finance.

6) More companies are moving into the software business (how do I start a software company in the ad business?)

7) It will be possible to target ads very precisely. what would a super precise ad look like? assume you knew everything about the person, what ad would you give them? think about it that way.

8) Measurement is going to become more important. google makes a lot of its decisions using data.

9) Creative will fuse with generated; games are like branched movies. ads could be transformed similarly (executing a function where the user is an argument)

Summary: in the future, think of the world where more stuff is known about more people.
Nice intro to Railo open source server
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That's because the reason they've been giving to the press "that they want to keep employees hungry" is not really the real reason. With the Google+ launch, they probably think that the market will undervalue them now if they make it public.