skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on your use case. I have a DVI->HDMI cable I lug around in my bag to hook my laptop up to HDTV displays at offices, etc.
Still a long way to go, but the content is getting better. Here is a recent article from StatSheet: http://bosoxball.com/boston-red-sox/game-recap/red-sox-defea...
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"who were fed up with things like taxation without representation tarred and feathered people, destroyed large amounts of cargo, and violently overthrew their government."

I make a pretty good living and I don't like the new jobs program and taxes that Obama is proposing. If I acted like Anonymous in response to this, would you think it was okay too?
There is variance within the libertarian community and this confuses a lot of people. The many viewpoints are united by a respect for contract law and property rights. The main split is down to people who believe these two things are an ethical imperative and those who believe them to be pragmatically optimal. Many believe in a jumbled mix of the two. That is, they are a little shaky on the differences between normative and positive statements, and thus have difficulty clarifying their position.
I've been logging in and out for the past 3 days and I don't see any new design change.

Update: I can only see the new changes from Firefox.
I've been working on this on weekends for a while now; it's now stable enough for some early adopting... Please report any bugs and feel free to ask questions. You can also contact me at andrew@parti.cl. Thanks.
Resume writers
If there were no reliable resume writers online, many employees would struggle with organizing appealing documents!
There are different HDMI versions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Definition_Multimedia_Inte...
Free version works just fine.
I'll pipe up with one thing nobody seems to be emphasizing. A lot depends on how good Dart turns out to be. Suppose it turns out so good that we get all four of the following:

1. No worse a user experience in any browser;
2. A much better user experience in Chrome;
3. A much better developer experience;
4. A much better server-side platform than V8.

If we get all that, standards or not, I will be jumping for joy. If Dart is that good, it will become standard, either de jure or de facto as alternatives fall by the wayside.

Of the four, #1 (a good enough Dart->JS) seems problematic. #2 may be bad for other browser vendors, but if it's good for users and programmers, why should I care? I see no virtue in a lowest common denominator. #3 and #4 are hardly objectionable. Only those who like them need bother.

I don't know how likely this win-win-win-win is, but here's why I'm indulging in the hope. These guys have been gods of fast dynamic VMs since Strongtalk. If Dart is their chance to build what they always wanted, but this time with 20 years of experience to draw on and the institutional support of a Google behind them... well, we have the chance of something insanely great. Greatness sets its own standard.

Comparisons to VBScript and Flash only kick in if what they come out with is lacklustre.
Don't you think that a data stream is a special case of this kind f stream that just happens to have a bunch f idiosyncratic names in it's API? It's not like these streams are a completely different idea.
Don't forget to review Dan Pink's talk on motivation:

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

Having said that my personal favorites are unlimited free books a la Matasano, and flexible work environment (working from office or remotely are interchangeable), and flexible vacation policy (several recent HN posts on this).

Completely distributed teams like SpiderOak are pretty awesome, so set up your company to work like that as the default, and have an office people can work/meet in when they want or need, but connect to the servers the same way whether in or out of the office (a universal API, so to speak).

Let me work when I'm most productive, be it 6am to 3 in the afternoon, or noon to midnight, or whatever. Trust in my incentive to care about the company's success (and by extension my own cashflow). I don't even mind a pager in setups like that, as long as it's used for emergencies only and not abused.
There was a similar type of NYT article written about StatSheet last November that had the right amount of skepticism and optimism: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28digi.html

Automating long-form narrative content is a relatively new concept. It's not perfect (yet) so I appreciate the skeptics.
I was wondering why a newspaper would so positively cover a company trying to outsource reporters' jobs to machines. "In Case You're Wondering, A Real PR Person Wrote This Column."
Yes, and Emacs can also emulate ... Vim.

=> VIPER mode.
I'm really glad to see someone discussing the actual mechanics of how they program. We need more arguing about which mechanics are the best and less arguing about which tools are the best. I'm sure the top 1% of programmers are the top 1% because of their awesome mechanics, not their awesome tools.

In my experience the quality of your debugging facilities determines a lot of how important it is to program by accretion. If you are getting really high quality tracebacks when there is a bug, it tends to be safer to add a lot of code at a time.

For me the Holy Grail has always been for my program to run on the first go without any bugs. I have achieved this for small Python scripts. To write conceptually correct code on the first go requires a much higher level of mental engagement, but it is far more satisfying than working by trial and error. (I guess it is probably all right to have trivial bugs like a forgotten import statement or a misfired library call.)
Nuclear fusion 'will work' (auto-starting audio)
It's hard to escape reimplementing streams after reading SICP, because Lazy evaluation is the red pill:

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/02/haskell-ruby-and-infinit...
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Ahead with node and V8
One of the most awful forensic engagements (that didn't involve the threat of bodily harm) I ever worked was for a company who called me in to image the drives for an entire video production department.

Apparently, they discovered that one of their employees, in his spare time, had used one of the editing stations to edit video for his church. When they disciplined him about it, he stated that "everyone else was doing the same thing", which made them panic and decide to treat the whole department as a forensic incident.

I can't think of a more innocuous use of resources than "editing church video in my spare time", but they were all freaked out about it. You'd be surprised what companies worry about.

I had the envious task of imaging ~ 35 workstations (and 2 big-ass RAID arrays) in the middle of the night before employees were supposed to be back in the office the next morning.
Nobody Cares About a Few Million Nanoseconds
Hypnosis
A noticed a lot of people mentioning Synergy, but if you're running nothing but Windows PC's then I highly recommend Input Director ( http://www.inputdirector.com/ ). It's much easier to configure than Synergy and is a lot smoother.
My company had an official holiday -- Company Founding Day -- adjacent to a national holiday every year, turning a 3 day weekend into a 4 day weekend, and required anyone wanting to work on Company Founding Day to get signed permission from the CEO. (Of a 1,000+ employee megacorp.) When customers/vendors complained about a particular employee's inavailability for their needs, everyone could just say "Sir, I'm sorry, there is nothing I can do. It is Company Founding Day."

That costs rounding error next to an employee. Fog Creek-style catered lunches are rather substantially more expensive, but having done them, I think the social benefits to them are pretty awesome. (Company-sponsored dinner, on the other hand, would scare the heck out of me.)
for more info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
> How much of it is marketing for the kinds of books this guy writes

Not to mention his $500/yr newsletter.

I'm with him on the gloom and doom, though. I'm in cash.
Or just use oh-my-zsh with the fish theme and get all of this (and more) straight away.
find a partner to work with. many people can't work on their own and need somebody to work with and spur on etc.

don't stress about it - happens to everybody
How will the new GAE pricing affect you? So far we've been hearing some pretty disheartening stories.
I just wanted to bring attention to fruits as they're not commonly considered treats.
It is a pretty strange situation, where a bunch of people are somehow fixated on "hyperinflation" and deficits for political reasons, but economists on both sides of the political spectrum are surprisingly in agreement that that's crap. Perhaps they're wrong, but I'm more confident in the predictions of a moderate conservative with solid macroeconomic understanding, like Greg Mankiw, than I am in the predictions of people like Lew Rockwell, who have been consistently wrong for 25 years now with the same, self-serving predictions (http://hyperinflatingyet.com/shame.html).

Maybe this time they're right, even though they were wrong in 1985, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, ...; but I doubt it.
There are no magic bullets here. Becoming a great programmer takes a LOT of time and effort. It's fun and rewarding, but not exactly easy. :-)
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incredible review, they just covered about EVERY GODDAMN ASPECT. hell, they even took out the motherboard! i am impressed.

from now on i will only read reviews from anandtech.com
Hmm. For another data point, http://historio.us, which has about 3k active users, costs $30/mo to run. I'm sure costs wouldn't scale completely linearly with users, but there you go.
Those are great, here are a couple more i find very useful:

# Search for partial matches in bash history
# so $ <C-p> goes to the previous command but
# $ s<C-p> searches through history entries that start with s
"\C-p":history-search-backward
"\C-n":history-search-forward

# add a trailing '/' when tab completing a symlink
set mark-symlinked-directories on
If you are truly banging your head against a wall getting some distance can help. I'm just a stubborn mofo and can't relax if I have series ongoing bugs. They haunt and torture me -- so I prefer to terminate them before moving on to something else.
Page One [1] is a browser extension that automatically redirects you to the single-page version of articles on popular news sites, including NYT. Works great for me.

[1] http://globalmoxie.com/blog/page-one-safari-chrome-extension...
It doesn't matter whether the market is right or not. What matters is that the market is. Politicians routinely forget that. Communism's core failure was ignoring the irrepressible nature of market forces. The same applies to our system of capitalism.

And libertarians routinely forget that the unwashed masses actually want social programs and regulations, and they hate seeing people get rich off of "the market" by doing things that seem abusive. They want public services like police, fire, ambulances and schools. They want to have some assurance that when BigCo tries to get anti-competitive and monopolistic someone will step in, and they want to know that if the CEO shorts his own stock in anticipation of bad news that nobody else knows about he will be punished for it rather than profit. Libertarians may not want any of this because of their philosophical and economic leanings, but most other people do...

Why is it that the free market is such an immense force that we should uncritically accept that it is unchangeable, yet the desire of millions of people to control it, regulate it, or otherwise make it work for everyone instead of only the richest of the direct participants is somehow negotiable?

I understand that you're saying that nothing we can do will change the markets, all I'm saying is that it's just as possible that nothing we can do will make people happy about the way they function uninhibited, so maybe there's a good reason we've ended up somewhere in the middle.
Yuna is really unusual. Uncompromising design. 100% geometrical shapes and nothing else, it deserves respect.
In pre-civilization, how would they have known that someone had cancer?
I don't know how to be more clear. I'm not talking about the technical difficulties by themselves, out of context. The technical difficulties are formidable -- but not insuperable for Google with its many engineers.

I'm saying that in context of market realities, the other browsers won't use shared Google-source as the "implementation is the specification" for NaCl/Pepper, and no one can write a real NaCl/Pepper spec by which any browser could implement an independent and interoperable workalike in less than decades.

So why try if the OSes can do their own non-interoperating workalikes? (And they are already doing this, from what I hear.) If safe native code on the web is mainly for plugins, there's no problem. Plugins are OS-specific today and likely to remain so, safety or no.

Moving the Web VM to a more abstract level... hmm, sounds like JS as better compiler target over time. See also https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/.
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I think he meant"only now".
> I have to be honest that continuing to shun the search button confuses me. Not just because not having it means we can’t run kwaak3 and get to console without lots of work, but because not having it made me realize how much I use it. Thankfully almost everywhere that I’d use the search button there’s a contextual shortcut - menu, then search. It’s just an added button press in the occasional spot, which can be alien if you’re used to having that button.

You can actually hold the menu button and it will function as the search button instead.

> The TouchWiz task manager also is snappy and has some nice - kill everything - buttons to free up all RAM.

This really bothers me. There is absolutely no need for such a thing and Samsung is basically advertising the misleading idea that you need to "kill apps".
The product pictures for this one are great too.
Is this strategy really working that well for them? I have all four of these back-to-back:

"More Items to Consider" "Related to Items You've Viewed" "Inspired by Your Browsing History" "Additional Items to Explore"

Then at the end, "Continue Shopping: Customers Who Bought Items in Your Recent History Also Bought" They must move a lot of product this way. I don't know that it makes for a very effective homepage, because of the overwhelming clutter, but I must be wrong because they've been sticking with this for years.
Ask HN: Is there a HN for trading?
I remember a HN member launched a social news site for trading news, viz., indices, stocks, FX, etc.

Otherwise, any links to trading and trading news communities?
The "Nobody" in the title is a link-baity exaggeration. There are programmers for whom a few million nano-seconds do matter.

Certainly they matter for high-frequency traders. They certainly can matter when they're embedded deep inside heavily looped code. Hell, there are times when it they even matter for me! And when they're in heavily used libraries, you simply don't know.

So he weasels out of it at the end by saying OK, it doesn't matter 97% of the time (which is a remarkably accurate figure (He claims Knuth said it, Knuth attributes it to Tony Hoare, who in turn disclaims it)).

But while the detail of the sentiments might be true, the title is a lie.

The real lesson is to understand about these things, and deal with them in their due priority. Don't sell me short my assuming I'm too stupid to understand.
I understood my employer's concerns. I hold no ill will for those answers. But I do think that, with the appropriate legwork, those suggestions can give rise to exactly what the OP is asking for.

There's a good chance that the company has access to hardware/software of various types that his employees don't. And there's a chance his employees would like to use it. Would it be covered by insurance if something went wrong? Definitely something to check on. But that phone call is likely free for him, and a potential higher premium may not be too much higher. It's just an idea to consider.

And things like hosting a PC game for people can be very safe. Certainly no less safe than installing a web browser on a PC. It just takes a little legwork to make sure it's trustworthy (like any software you install) and finding a game people like. I suggest it because I find it analogous to going to the driving range. "It's Friday afternoon and there aren't any vital issues. Let's get in a couple of rounds of XYZ and head out."
They may be trying to burn down inventory before releasing the "iPad" Kindle before the holidays.
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I'm interested to hear from the community which data-driven applications - think QuickBooks rather than Twitter - you think are the most well designed. Not only aesthetics, but particularly well thought out input or analysis workflows, thoughtful visualizations, etc.
Depending on the documentary, you can often include segments of news footage for the purpose of commentary, especially if your commentary is on the news commentary itself (e.g. criticizing CNN's coverage). That's one of the main purposes of fair use, since otherwise CNN would be able to veto critical commentary of its broadcasts.

See, e.g., the Daily Show, which does not license the news footage it shows.
Good question :o(

When it was first announced it seemed terrible - the estimate for even the unused development site was significant. But then I tracked that down to some dumb coding of my own (a much-too-frequent cron-job). With that fixed, the site is pretty efficient (which is by design - it's supposed to scale well, after all). So I'm hoping it will work out OK. This is very much (I think) the kind of site that should work well on GAE - there's a lot of scope for caching.

And this is one motivation for posting here - I want to see how well it handles higher traffic. Hopefully from that I can work out what a decent amount to charge would be (originally I was hoping for as low as a dollar a month a feed, but the changes may push that higher - perhaps significantly so).
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Why we don't need Gigabit networks yet
$2k for 15000 users. <wrong>Each user is worth $7.50/month to you. But, they only pay once to sign up.</wrong> Each user is worth 13 cents.

So, it seems that the users paying for the archival service($25/yr) are the one's keeping the lights on at your bookmarking service. 1000 such users would bring in $25K. Basically you need 7% of your users(15000) to break even today.

Each user is worth $2000/15000 ~= 13 cents

My Question:

1. Is it easy to get recurring paying users?

2. In the long run(for any paying web service) what % of the user base do you think will be such users ? [Is 20% the max ? or 30 % ?]

EDIT: Fixed my cost per user
Same thing that happened with coverage of the Internet back in the 90's. And even if it wasn't fairly obvious what would happen back then to newspapers it certainly was a few years later when it was already happening.

Reporters are usually liberal. And they come from a time where newspapers were profitable and could be idealistic and still make money. They could answer to a higher standard because they didn't have to worry about losing their jobs for money reasons.

As far as right now the ship is going down but they still don't view the threat.
I love his reviews and technical articles. You have to be a hardcore geek to read them, but if your are ...
I will have to look into that. Thanks for the response. Does anybody know how to rip videos from various websites, though? I feel like it is definitely possible. I use a program called JDownloader which can rip videos from Youtube, MegaUpload, and various other "streaming only" sites. Somehow the program is able to extract the URL of the video file(s) and download them directly. This program however does not support any of the news sites (including CNN).

At this point I am mostly curious about the theory. I am curious how a hacker would go about finding the URL and download the files themselves. I looked at Youtube source code and examined it with a HTTP debugger and can't seem to figure out the URL of where the video is stored but I know it is possible because the JDownloader program does it. I am sure that I, along with many here, would be able to benefit from knowing how to download from various "streaming only" video websites.
I'd say it's pretty reasonable to worry about. In fact I'd say a crisis is an absolute certainty. The question is just how bad it will be. A few things to consider...

Borrowing - When people discuss the Debt (National and Private) they focus on the wrong thing which is "How are we going to pay this back?". That's an issue but the bigger issue is why we needed it. Borrowing is a wealth transfer from the future to the present. You're saying "I'm going to take this money from my future and use it now". So our economic growth in the last decade has been built on taking money from the future and combining it with our present output. So the real debt problem is we need to borrow to maintain the standard of living we've grown accustomed to and we can't borrow forever.

Unrealistic Expectations - One of the results of the above borrowing is we've seen spectacular growth in the stock market. From 1971 to 1986 the Dow increased from 874 to 1912. From 1986 to 2001 the Dow increased from 1912 to 9811 (and that was off a high of over 10,000). Housing prices from 1896 to 1996 remained relatively the same (http://nyti.ms/TxoI4) but then increased 100% between 1996 and 2006. So the asset value increases a whole generation has come to expect aren't normal and were driven by borrowing (look at the national debt increase for these same periods). In other words it isn't realistic to, for example, think a 401k will fully finance your retirement because stock values shouldn't grow that significantly.

Crash Fallout - This is a simple one. As valuations fall so do people's perceived savings. People who thought they had a $300,000 house and $1 million in their 401(k) find they now have a $100,000 house and $200k in their 401(k). So they stop spending on luxuries for a long, long time to restore their savings.

Demographic Shift - If you ever get the chance there's a very short audio book by a guy named Harry Dent called "The Great Debt Crisis" that's worth reading (Its $23 on Audible). He studies spending patterns of people by age. The argument he makes is we're at the end of a spending boom. People spend money from their early 20s until their kids graduate from college. Then they start to save. We're at the point where all the children of the Baby Boomers are graduating or are about to graduate college. At that point the Baby Boomers spending will drop dramatically. This is a problem because the Baby Boomers had far fewer children. So we're going to see a major fall from that.

These four factors (along with other more minor ones) make me think we're going to see a major drop in the next decade.
Editing of local files "behind the back" of the P4 server is not that bad. When you reconnect to the server, just ask your P4 client to "synchronize offline changes" (in P4V, I think) or just checkout your entire clientspec and ask your P4 client to revert unchanged files. I'm sure these operations could be easily scripted, too.

Clearly not ideal, but workable. I'm surprised Perforce has not created offline changelists (like git or Mercurial's Patch Queue). The feature could probably be implemented entirely in P4 client code. Perforce has implement server-assisted "shelving" of changelists, but I don't find that as helpful as local branches or changelists would be.