skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this sounds more like industry FUD. People are able to get there daily sustenance from gruel. Yes it may not fit your definition of food, but this is a first world complaint. There are millions of people around the world starving, that this technique could help.
Well, sure, but that gets expanded into 'COLOUR' when you do a LIST
This will allow us to provide more real-time data to users without having to worry about going over our limit. Thanks, Linode!
i may be mistaken, but it's my understanding that TrueCrypt is not actually fully open source.
I would of guessed they tried to replicate chicken. Since almost all meats are usually described as "it tastes like chicken" this would be the initial benchmark.
I used a standing desk with eye level dual monitors on clamp-on arms for 45 days this summer. I felt like a check-in person at an airline. I found it uncomfortable in my lower legs but I think it was better for my spine and hip alignment. Since I have gone back to the chair I am more productive.

See occupational hazards of standing at work: http://www.hazards.org/standing/index.htm
The progress is being made by the Obama Administration; they now allow funded founders with a board who can terminate their employment to qualify for 'work visa certification' and become eligible for H1-B and EB-2 visas.

We're still working on the legislature to push a full Startup Visa through.

Because the administration 'clarified' existing rules, another administration (or even the same Administration re: the Neufeld memo) can reverse these changes, again locking out foreign founders. It'll take legislative action to provide the certainty for founders to be able to invest the necessary time to growing their companies here.

I always say, there's no cap on success in the startup world; if you have traction, funding will follow. We just want to add more ingredients into the frothy startup community.
I have been critical of Netflix in the past for the quality of their streaming material. Honestly, I like Netflix most because if I see a Starz movie on my cable box I know I can watch it later on Netflix. I dont have Starz.

What I do have though is HBO. I pay for it in my cable bill, but they also let me stream 100% of their content using HBO GO. I admit HBO GO has a long way to go and isn't the online video store, but for quality shows to stream it is hard to beat.

This seems like a big blow for netflix; I thought the streaming material was consistently getting better, this will make it worse.
Does the MIUI rom alter the stock Android UI in any significant way?

How do they achieve better performance than other roms? Better drivers or just more tuning?
This sounds like a dream job.

That said, no matter how much you stress that candidates don't need to master all these skills on day one, I can't help but feel overwhelmed by your requirements. I feel like people with the combination of skills you are looking for might be quite rare (expertise both in web development AND system programming AND security).

Case in hand: I'm a passionate developer with an expertise in Java web development / Javascript (who dabbled a little with Clojure / Scala). I love my craft and keep improving, but I haven't yet gotten around and/or felt the need to learn about Ruby / Python / Objective C / NOSQL and all the system / network programming (assembly, C, kernel drivers, hardware debugging...). Sure, I'd love to do all that stuff, and security fascinates me, but I feel like it'd take YEARS to learn and master all these skills (more if I also want to stay current with the JVM-related stuff).

Would Matasano have any use of a guy like me with expert-knowledge in a relatively specific field (web development and the JVM), but who wants to learn about all the other stuff? Or should I learn about these skills on the side and apply in a few years once I've improved my system programming and read K&R? ;)

Another example could be a python web-app developer who is interested in security, but never really did any systems programming.

[I wasn't sure whether I should comment on HN or send you an e-mail, but I think the answer might interest other people]
My intention was to show loops and jumps... YMMV
I would love to hear any feedback you have on the site-- thanks!
Assuming Flash provides fairly clean access to the underlying hardware, performance should be as good as you can expect given the intermediate abstraction layer.

On a side note, it would be nice if Unity produced iOS apps that could be extended as easily using Obj-C / CocoaTouch the way it looks like you can work with native AS3 code.
Seems to me there is going to be a growing demand for greater accountability in CAs. Does the protocol support requiring a certificate to be signed by two (or more) trusted CAs? Then even if one CA is hacked or spoofed into signing a bogus certificate, hopefully the other one hasn't been.
When did Techcrunch ever have objectivity? When did they ever claim to?
Yeah but can you play the Xbox standing up? I always find that I need to rest my forearms on my thighs / chair-arms for optimal fragging comfort.
Just tack on "ly". In this case he would name the app "Flintly"
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Thanks benologist. With some of these services, we save so much time, it feels like we hired someone.
Vesting is usually quarterly. If someone gets fired at 4 years minus a day, that's still 15 quarters.

An equity "cliff" that is more than 6 months is an unfair and unreasonable term.
Yup, it's shocking how much content providers fail to provide content.

I love Amazon Prime and I've been considering getting a Netflix sub as well.
I wasn't under the impression this was 1> Pre-boot or 2> Actually the whole disk or 3> Functional and TRIMtastic with SSDs 4> Allowing central, on site management of backup keys

Do you have anything to show that it's comparable to say, PGP's offering?
There are other tangible skills a computer scientist should have, other than programming. The ability to demostrate graph properties, solve computability and complexity problems, explain and develop algorithms are all things that don't require programming at all. Some of my best teachers at college are not great because of their programming skills, but because they are great at other areas of CS.
Also, it's worth mentioning Unity has a graphical profiler, which you can connect to a build running on iOS/web/standalone: http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Manual/Profiler.htm...

I'm not sure if that's possible on Flash or not, but if so it'd be easier to bring your performance up to the platform limitations...
They don't bother me either. The torrent sites always have content available minutes after broadcasts conclude. Hours for 1080p.

Shocking how much the content providers fail to provide content.
Seems like more die than doodle.. HTTP 500's.
Currently, news in video format suck big time. I prefer text format (including web sites) a million times over, and the reasons are many: I can absorb the news at my own speed (which might be faster, or slower, or on repeat, etc), I don't get hypnotized by messages addressed to my reptilian brain (such as bright colors, the newsperson's gestures and tone and facial expression, glitzy sounds, etc), and so on.

But maybe this will change in the future. For now, text mode is much less biased.
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Thanks everyone and thanks for the great feedback. There was a temporary problem with someone trying to ruin the fun for everyone but it was soon rectified.
I'm assuming most people here have Netflix and do not have cable. Here is Starz' dilemma: Let's take all cable subscribers and consider them potential Starz customers. They can A. Pay $15/month to get Starz or B. Pay $8/month to get Netflix + Starz. They would all choose B.
Now let's take all the non-cable subscribers and call them potential Starz customers. Starz technically wants to keep this too, but they would lose out on all the customers in the 1st scenario, which make them more money. Thus, their unfortunate decision.

As consumers, we need to wage war against cable companies by not subscribing. Unfortunately, this is difficult to do considering quality sports programming is dominantly viewed via cable and the like.
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SO, know anyone in China we could talk to about this? I suspect the trick is to find a way to create a curved touch-sensitive surface. I'm tempted to do a render and setup a Kickstarter for this, but I'd like to make sure that someone makes the basic parts before I start "taking orders". Surely there are some folks on here who can at least tell me who to talk to?
I do have a big TV, but it's mostly for games and Netflix, via a PS3. Oh, and there's also a PC next to it, browsing the Internet on a large screen is awesome. :)

So that's it, it's just a big screen.
As soon as I can get any NFL game via the internet, I'm done with any sat/cable service. I have directv for NFL sunday ticket which comes with the rest of their service so I have everything else.

When the NFL gets their act together and I can get nfl.tv the way I can get mlb.tv, I'm gone from directv and just getting everything via the net.
Yes, see my other comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2951386
Labels are starting to collect money outside of record sales. It's becoming much more common for artists to be signed to "360-degree deals", which is what the record companies came up with when album sales started to drop off. They take a cut of everything the artist does - merch, shows, etc.
I'm not sure that will work — it certainly doesn't seem to be solving the problem that thaumaturgy brought up. Although it spells out a concrete limit, it does not give any kind of assurance that it's (probably) enough. Lots of companies use that kind of language to make a plan sound reasonable when it isn't. For example, I don't tether or anything and don't watch a lot of video, but I'm still way above the tiny data plan that AT&T says is enough for 95% of its customers. Like, are we counting customers who don't even have smartphones?

I'd rather just "unlimited (note: OK, you can't actually download the whole Internet)" or something like that if you want to get really picky. It conveys the right message while still providing needed information to slower readers.
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Torchwood can be found on iPlayer, since it's BBC. My BluRay player/PVR has an iPlayer 'app', and will even do streaming HD. It's great.

Netflix in the UK have a hard time competing with iPlayer, and the BBC's content generally. The main reason people pay for TV content of any kind here is sports.
I get most of my news for free via the net on Al-jazeera on livestream.
I think it's neat! At the very least, its easier to parse at a glance.
Ask HN: Does anyone know a good supplier of curved touchscreens?
I'm interested in building at least one (and possibly more if there's interest) "Forever Globes". While my first thought was a half-silvered curved touchscreen large enough to contain a projector inside, I am now wondering if someone doesn't make curved touchscreen LCD panels? Idea is that such a globe could continually update to reflect changing political boundaries, weather, and other "fun" stuff. Anyone here with some good contacts in the Taiwan/China sector (or should I be talking to Corning)?
I am confused why you brought class into this discussion

Are you kidding? Your entire rant was classist and bigoted. Theoretical physicists, garbage men, football fans, NASCAR fans, etc. You are the one who believes these activities split along intelligence lines, not me.

I am not the one suggesting we put dullards in a virtual cellar

Really? Because I certainly said nothing of the sort.

but block ESPNs because smart people shouldn't be exposed to sports

There you go again. Reread what you wrote. You have twice indicated that "jocks" and sports fans are inherently stupid. Why? And why are you holding it against me, when you yourself made that assertion?

You suggested that content be associated with IQ. but have not put forth any explanation towards what such a result might look like.

So, what, before making a comment, I'm required to research it myself? Maybe I need to build out an entire website, just so that you won't attack me. Is that how it works? Given that this is on a website for entrepreneurs, where unusual ideas are supposed to be valued, that's pretty sad.

You clearly have a chip on your shoulder about something, and I'm no longer interested in battling your onslaught of projection.
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I've been using Linode for over a year, and I must say their service is the best I've seen. Their customer support is also off the charts brilliant. I think this is truly wonderful.
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That is awesome! We hope to create a Hall of Fame site to go along with after the competition.
If this is their plan I think they're smart to simply want more money from Netflix now that viewership has increased. However, this wasn't the impression I got from the Starz executive's quote. What I got was that they felt their internet streaming deal with Netflix was cannibalizing their cable business model. I agree with the original comment's guess that most of the people who cut the chord are not going back, defeating their plan to get these customers to subscribe to their cable channel.
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After the competition we plan on adding this and other requested features like a better drawing tool and ipad support.
I think that there is sufficient hatred for cable and satellite TV that people who are on the instant streaming only plan will pay for a DVD plan as well. Currently I am on streaming only but would rather pay for a DVD plan than for cable. It's much cheaper this way.

I think an unintended consequence of this is that Netflix ends up making more money.
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This is an excellent point. In the process of doing research I came across these ideas. The difficult part is it's easy to find and disassemble split "ergonomic" keyboards with staggered keys. But I can't find a straight keyboard that uses two separate control boards, and I don't think I'm going to be able to make my own control boards anytime soon...
The preferred terminology is "unmetered" which typically means that you're sharing something like a 100Mbps pipe with other users and you accept the inherent bandwidth and latency issues that comes with that kind of setup.

If you want guaranteed bandwidth that costs extra and will definitely be metered, either for a fixed pipe size or per GB.
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Victim of our own success! We had no idea how popular this would be come. We expected a few hundred drawings and we already have over 3000!

I restarted the node service and it should be back now.
Not to get off-topic, but why did you buy an Apple TV instead of a Roku (or do you have both)?
I have an Optimus LG V. While the way it came from the box sounds familiar, I have to say that rooting the phone and installing the Bumblebee Rom has made it incredibly reliable and reasonably responsive (being able to overclock to 850 helps). I replaced my dying Nexus One with this, and I can't say I've missed much (other than a real version of flash, but I have a tablet for that stuff).
Eclipse is pretty nice, but none of that is particularly unique to it anymore (and it often does feel just a little clunky - I've started moving to IntelliJ mostly for that reason).

It does get a bad rap that's not really well-deserved, though.
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If you think of companies to add, let me know. I can write another post later with a list from Hacker News.
I think he may mean searching by type, not searching for the type of something. Hoogle does this for Haskell and it's a fantastic tool. Let's say I want to find if an element is in a list but I don't know the name of the function to do that. It should have a signature like [a]->a->Bool (take a list of a's and one a, and return true or false). Well, here it is:

http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=%5Ba%5D+-%3E+a+-%3E+Bo...
I agree with you. Not that there's any way to control this, but I think it's always best to be the 3rd or 4th most advanced programmer on a team. You want to be good enough to get decent projects, but it's always good to have at least two people better than you. I say two because if there's only one "mentor", you'll absorb her biases.

Startup and large company programming jobs are very different. In large companies, being a good programmer is about knowing the tech stack and knowing how to maintain and leverage the code. In startups, new development is more important. I think the better way to go is the reverse of what you described: start at a big company for the learning experience (and seeing, in legacy horrors, what not to do) and then do a startup having learned those lessons. There certainly are lessons about engineering that are hard to learn except in a mature, already-scaled company.
Is there a way to take advantage of it though? They charge for both out bound traffic and storage. So unless your just pumping data in to a remote /dev/null they are going to make it up eventually either because you are storing it or because you are pushing it back out. I guess it would make a pretty nice back up server though, only pay for bandwidth when you need to restore.
Maybe you have to be an old fart... I was here for this last time, but then I remembered that 'last time' was 1981.

This still looks like the most important thing of any kind for three decades to those of us who came out of the cheap home computer wave of the early 80s. (Me, I'm even closer to the Raspberry Pi heritage since I got my CS O-Level in 1987 with an IRC-alike network chat app for BBC LANs.)

So try not to cock it up, eh? :D
MatthewPhillips - To answer your question I purchased an Apple TV (the original one) a while ago so I could rent movies from iTunes and play them on my TV. I also liked streaming my music to my surround sound system on my TV. I never used the Apple TV to store content though, as it was originally purposed to do.

I actually just purchased a Roku the other day and connected it to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. Prior to that I was using my Xbox for these services (not Amazon). Roku is pretty cool but very buggy and slow to load. I am not as impressed as I thought I would be.
Scala is pretty much the opposite of a dynamic language...
1. Get that content online, now, in a convenient form that is cost competitive with Netflix and Hulu or at least Amazon Video on Demand.

I think this is the way you're going to see most of these networks going. Particularly subscription supported services like Starz/HBO/Showtime. These services are actually already the least tied to the traditional cable model since they're pure subscription without ad revenues. They, frankly, would likely really prefer to stream you content via IP and not have to pay a distributor (cable operator or Netflix) their cut. They have to go about it slowly and carefully however. Right now while us internet masses may be clamoring for streamed content they aren't going to risk their primary revenue methods (cable) until they can rely on their secondary revenue streams.

HBO-Go is the start of this, right now its very closely tied to the cable operators. But its a step in the right direction.
Proper Kobe Beef falls into that category (and it's non-kobe counter part Wagyu).

People take this and make burgers out of it, not because it makes a good burger (it doesn't), but because it is expensive. (See Vegas)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_beef
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagy%C5%AB

You can think of it as the Scotch or Champagne of the beef world, a geographic locality owning a market in the high end, and the external imitators.
Beef is a case where there are some very obvious things(texture, fattyness, chewyness etc) that make eye fillet a much more pleasant eating experience than other cuts of meat and there's a lot less of it per animal. If you can pull that off you can make the general case of decent meat much more affordable.

Of course, there'll always be Wagyu and Kobe, but that's a much smaller market than just the high end of normal meat.
A little more shoeleather would serve TC well.
I used it for a while. Indentation would always break in really awkward ways.
Interesting paper. This is a big problem that I only see solved when public dollars start to pour again in research as opposed to the corporate sponsorships that have replaced them and demand applied science and quick profits in return for their investments.
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I'm sure they have actual data that strongly points to Netflix cutting into their margins. They could have asked for more money, but that would probably mean longer agreements, pushing them out to 2015 or 2016, by which time I'm sure they'll want to have a more direct customer relationship.

Only a small fraction of Netflix subscribers are cord cutters. They will undoubtedly see a benefit (short term) of this move. Long term internet TV is going to be a lot like cable TV is today. There won't be aggregator services. Starz will have it's own "app" on all of these boxes that you subscribe to outside of Netflix. NBC will probably have their own as well. CBS will be one of the last holdouts, their audience is old enough that the internet is having a softer affect.

Us early adopters have had it really good for the last few years, surely you didn't think it was going to continue? Surely you didn't think you'd be getting a large and continually growing catalog of movies (many of which are fairly recent) for only $8 a month forever? Like it or not but businesses like Starz hold all of the cards.
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What I would like to see is Unity being able to export to HTML5. In principle this should be possible using Emscripten/Mandreel/etc. Performance should be comparable to Flash on modern browsers (unless they have some special optimizations for the Flash VM they are working on with Adobe).

One issue is the lack of multithreading with shared state in JavaScript. I'm not sure if Flash supports that? In any case I assume something like Unity should be able to be ported to such a platform (you can still do multithreading using workers, but you must use message passing).

Anyone know if they are working on that?
Looks really nice and simple. Would've been great to have for Node Knockout.
'Fishing many larger fish is becoming unsustainable.'

IT IS unsustainable. Many fisheries have already collapsed with many more collapses looming on the horizon.
I keep expecting to hear any day now that Adobe has purchased Unity. Their ideas behind content creation and authoring are really in line with each other, and 3D content creation is sorely lacking in the Adobe lineup.
What's the downside to the customer of just spelling out the actual limits?

Lots of customers have no idea, and most of the time it doesn't matter. It's a friction that just isn't needed for most customers.

Abusive uploading behavior isn't a line, it's a grey area. If you are paying for 30 servers, then the line is in a different place to if you are paying for one.
At places selling textbooks to schools, not to university students.
I use it for the content; the other boxes don't offer as much variety. I think the PS3 probably comes the closest though. I wish they would offer a cheaper streaming only device.