skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. There is so much to hate about the DVD watching experience - the menus, unskippable ads/trailers, poor image quality, getting stuck on a scratch - I can't wait for them to disappear.

But, i'm guessing the DVD fans are actually arguing for the larger catalog, not for plastic discs.
If this is the first ARM-based Arduino, what was the Arduino chip based on that Google used at I/O for that accessory API thing? Was it a regular (but smaller) Arduino?
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At the time I found it somewhat interesting, but it's one of the books that really didn't stick with me. as I progressed reading through the centuries it was more interesting within the developments of its time and immediately succeeding era. Reading the philosophers I have read, it always struck me they encapsulated a certain essence of the era that followed their time. Probably post hoc selection has a lot to do with why they are still remembered. I think PG is right about most philosophy. I haven't read any at all in over a decade.
Since Verizon's LTE network is available in over 100 cities, I think that it would be a selling point for AT&T if their LTE devices were able to roam on other networks for faster data transfers. I am reasonably certain that AT&T has voice coverage in the urban markets currently covered by LTE.

There are probably several reasons why this is not the case, but I doubt lack of voice coverage is one of them. AT&T and T-Mobile both use GSM frequencies, but it is reasonably difficult to find phones that use the four frequency bands that they use for 3G coverage.
http://reddit.com/r/arduino
FSF speaks against patent and DRM provisions at TPP negotiators' meeting
Do startups work like this too?
Startup environment in India. What we can do to improve it? 
As a hacker, especially if you are from India, what problems and issues you see while starting up in India? How is the environment different from Silicon Valley? Why our society is lacking in entreprenurial spirit? Why there isn't any major prodcut innovations like google, facebook in India? what social and practical problems a startup face in India? Why there isn't a ycombinator like funding system in place?

What we can do to improve it? proto.in is one such nice initiative but what else can be done?
InfoQ Explores: REST
De-fragmented courrier service market?
I don't want a job at a firm where the HR department is free to dictate inflexible procedures to all and sundry. Requiring a Word document to make your internal workflow more comfortable for support personnel is bullshit. The workflow should be optimized for the comfort of candidates and hiring managers, everyone in between exists to serve those people.

To put it another way, you're talking about spending $20k+ on the job search itself, then $1-2 million on the employee across his tenure. Finding the right candidate is important. Don't treat me like a temp from ManPower.
Understanding Today’s Modern Malware
Looks great! One thing, Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10 the "Download for Free" button has an outline, I presume that was not intended :)
You can get trapped by a specialty, but there are ways to get out of that. Open source opens up a lot of doors there.

For two of my three post-college jobs I had no professional experience in the area that I was going into, but had a decent body of open source work (on projects that were being used already by my future employers) that established that I was a credible specialist.

If you're unemployed and looking for a job, it's not a huge gamble to roll the dice and try to learn a lot about an area you're interested in. Just do so realizing that you may have to repeat that process again at some point.

As a side-note, just because a specialization is seemingly on the way out doesn't mean that it's not lucrative. I remember when in college, in 1999, I was probably one of the youngest people in the world that knew COBOL. The offers that I was getting at the ripe age of 19 were $200k+ because everyone was terrified of Y2K stuff. Since then I've mostly worked as a C++ developer. While there's less new software being written in C++ today relative to a decade ago, it's still a very marketable skill precisely because the number of people that are good at it is smaller than the number of jobs available.
Affordable health care that doesn't include all of the advances in treatment (procedures, pharmaceuticals, technologies, etc.) that have come about in the past 36 years?

To give an example that affects most people in small ways: in 1975 I would be wearing heavy, uncomfortable glasses all day, and would fully expect to wear dentures after a certain age. Instead, my vision has been corrected to be perfect and I will almost certainly chew my last meal with my own teeth. My Dad had cataract surgery a couple of years ago: the new lenses are so great that he no longer even needs reading glasses. They had cataract surgery in 1975, but not with the kind of results my Dad experienced.

To give an example that affects a smaller number of people in a bigger way: since 1975, survival rates for many types of cancer have increased dramatically. Similar effects for heart disease.

I'm not trying to say that all of the increases in cost of health care are due to increased availability of treatment options, but it's almost certainly a big driver. Would you accept a health care plan that charges 1970s rates (in real dollars) but restricts you to 1970s medicine? If you are young and healthy, it might actually be a good deal, except for the dental plan.
I've found The Baroque Cycle to be an awful lot easier to get into through the Audible audiobook version - they are unabridged so it's not that!
It has everything to do with purchase history, which is the topic of the thread.
A Game of Clones
What were the "blah blah" bits for you?
Mitsubishi ~ Japan's biggest defence contractor website Hacked(infected)
Romantic Caribbean Vacation
Roll out an "Import my recommendations" API integrated with IMDB and Amazon and Qwikster and other rateable sites, and you might have no trouble. Otherwise this is a very serious regression.

The customer wants one interface to rule them all, not to care about the leaky parts within.

For the next trick, sawing the millions of babies in half...
that pdf example is really good, something eyecatching and not like 90% of those standart cv's.
probably a 'regular' Arduino, i.e. an 8-bit AVR microcontroller.

See http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardADK and http://www.amarino-toolkit.net/
True but if it's in the hands of HR then it's the responsibility of the hiring manager to communicate that Agile & Scrum are analogous.
Just until the day when it moves to the hardware level, where your hardware will refuse to run certain processes unless they are digitally signed. Good times.

See also "Intel Trusted Execution Technology": http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-trusted-execu...
Some perspective...
You're distorting my position anyway. I'm not stating that it is categorically unethical to eat living things, only that any enjoyment we get out of meat over vegetables isn't worth animal suffering. In no way does a weak position that plant suffering is possible make a strong case for animal suffering inadmissable to our eating choices. That's simply absurd.
How to Write an Essay on Man
Human kind involves, mainly, both the spices, which we call a man and a woman. As we are devoting this paper on writing an essay on man,
The app is basically a Facebook client, so I would not consider it scammy to put "for Facebook" into the name. Other apps are doing that as well, e.g. "Twitterrific for Twitter" [1].

There might be a trademark issue, but I didn't check the Facebook ToS.

[1] http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitterrific-for-twitter/id35...
Agreed, at scale the argument isn't as powerful. Some stay true, most don't. It's more of a technique to get started.
Gamers Unlock Protein Mystery That Baffled AIDS Researchers For Years
Interesting what a huge difference the category makes. In the US-music category it's enough to sell ~15 copies/day to enter the top 5.
It would be nice to see the SSD manufacturers get a clue about recovering data. Having the device fail catastrophically is nuts; it means that all of the carefully designed recovery schemes in the file system are basically worthless.

Yuck.
TED: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
Niall Ferguson draws a great analogy between iPhone apps and institutions that brings into light the course of our the world into the future.
Cars that get you the most bang for the buck
For me, LaTeX is the simplest way to make a decent-looking PDF with minimal fuss. It's no more work than putting up an HTML CV.
Which is barely a defense: Metro is the future of Windows applications and I doubt users will be very excited about their ability to install "traditional" apps.

I'm surprised that Microsoft beat Apple to locking down their desktop OS in the style of iOS, but in either case this is extremely disturbing.
That is essentially what they are. The merge algorithm merges your query with the query of the view and returns the result. However, if the query of the view returns a very large result set, it is much faster to pre-flight it, then select against it.
No, I'm saying that's the spirit of that sentence as I interpret it. Based on that I don't think you can conclude everyone deserves equal wealth.
To be 100%, you have to be willing to forego -anything else- for it. If your wife demands you take a vacation, but the One Thing demands you also, you don't wake the vacation. (And possibly lose the wife.)

With that in mind, how easy is 100% really? Very few of us have 1 over-riding thing that means more than any other thing, no matter what.

We're all capable of it. We're all capable of walling off the rest of the world and concentrating on 1 thing only. But most people don't want to. Most people want a life, not a fixation.
Brand Fail: qwikster as a domain name
My friend and I discussed this the other week before he launched his app. He had the same concerns.

I always try free ads if they have ads and I like them I go looking for the paid version. When there isn't one I get frustrated. If you're going to put ads, make sure you have a non-ad version.

What he ended up doing was releasing a paid version but ran a special promo where people could get it for free for a limited time. these initial free users will spread the word post reviews and will tell you if they think your price is too high.

Good luck on your launch.
Not quite but generally with start-ups the person you need to speak to is ridiculously busy so you will simply struggle to get 5 minutes of their time.
Let me get this straight, if I create an app using C++ / Metro interface / WinRT and compile it for x86, I still have to use the App Store to distribute it to PCs (not tablets / slates)?
More likely he'll wake up to find that Twitter has given away his handle.
Teachers also have one of the more powerful unions in the United States, at least in non industrial states. A lot of ire is targeted not so much at the teachers as at their union and its policies.
Fake and Funny Video on iPhone 5 Core Features
Never lost a hard drive (in ~ 15 laptops over 20 years). Not once.

I keep losing mechanicals (lid hinges) and other mechanicals, though.
Ah, yes. Cross-browser testing is one thing I was not able to do yet. If anybody is using IE, I apologize. Although the Bootstrap framework should do alright rendering in IE.
I wonder how this article has managed to get on the front page.

All the recipes can be summed up like this:

1) learn to do something on the laptop
2) ???
3) profit
TimThumb Vulnerability in a Nutshell
Wow! That is the first CV template I have ever seen that I don't hate and I spend quite a while looking for one. Thanks alot.
I agree with the other commenter, using LaTeX has nothing to do with impressing the reader with my (shallow) LaTeX skills, and everything to do with not having to deal with something like InDesign or whatever other painful WYSIWYG tool most people use for this kind of thing.
Meet Qwikster: Netflix Spins Off Discs-By-Mail from Streaming Video
Yes, you're right. I was implicitly assuming the startup never gets big enough that you have to become a real manager. Obviously in the unlikely event the startup turns out to be Google or Facebook, consensus may no longer work.
Your knowledge of web font usage is a bit out of date. @font-face allows use of custom fonts on the web, and works across all browsers[1].

As for your font rendering issues, either you need to turn ClearType on, or turn it off and on again and restart Chrome (it gets stuck sometimes). Or, you know, upgrade from XP.

[1] http://www.fontspring.com/blog/the-new-bulletproof-font-face...
Google Releases Chrome 14 Stable for Linux
... and some hiring managers would communicate that to HR, but honestly, to HR people it all sounds like R2D2 talking to the trash compactor. You got to imagine some key deciders reading your resume has no clue what any of it means, they don't want to know what it means, but they know when strange words have the same spelling.
Once upon a time, it was best practice to keep the swap file/partition (or log files, etc.) off of the SSD in order to keep the frequent writes from wearing out the SSD too quickly. Do you feel like this is outdated advice?
Apache at JavaOne 2011
Sacrificial Cow (Web Developer)
I used to keep my resume in TeX. I don't anymore. I just use a simple format in Word. PDF is fair, but most of the IT job market infrastructure is based around dealing with word docs & electronic copies so frankly the appearance isn't that important (other than basic legibility). I found it much easier to get work once I bit the bullet and move my resume into a word doc.
I don't quite understand this either/or "let's focus on the big thing" approach. I think most everybody agrees that the streaming business is growing much quicker and is the future. But as others have noted, the businesses are not independent from a user perspective, they form a synergy.

For example, when Motorola split into mobile/home and public safety/enterprise divisions, this made quite a bit of sense (and they were desperate anyway) because there was little overlap between those. To a lesser extent you can understand HPs spinning off the PC business to focus on printers, but in this case, although the underlying delivery mechanisms and business cases are very different both are DVDs!

Think of companies going the other way, consolidating information to create user synergy, i.e. Google adding tweets to search results.
It's too early to call the desktop-lockdown race between Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft may be locking down a broader class of apps with their Metro restrictions, but Apple already has their locked-down desktop store up and running.
Ask HN: How does a recent grad get started in the business side of a startup?
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"they were an effective hype machine for startups"

That's how I define crap!
I think they achieved that result despite the problems with the political system. Remember this was just a local election; while getting a seat in Berlin is obviously important, it's not exactly the national parliament. My guess is that people felt this election was unimportant enough that they could 'waste' a vote making a point.
Smart renters disrupting real estate - my newest project
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I think its a positive development, across the board. The ability to better combat malware (no plugins is part of this too) will generally make these platforms safer.

If you really must distribute an app that needs to go outside of these walls non-metro apps are perfectly fine. You can accomplish a lot of what Metro apps can do today outside of Metro (at least from a look and feel perspective). And as Apple has noted, there is the web too.

I personally like the fact that you now have a CHOICE of where you get your apps. A curated app store, the old wild west of native apps, or the web. Choice is good.
IOS warning to developers could signal imminent iPhone 5 launch
The problem I have with it is that it suggests a shift from customer focus to internal focus. That's certainly how they talk about it, and it's another kind of large-company error.

The happiest face I can put on this is that they've decided to focus on a specific kind of customer (the undemanding kind who will take whatever turns up on streaming) and kiss off the more discerning sort (who really valued the breadth of catalog, and didn't care as much about the medium). Which may or may not be a good business decision, but it's unsurprising that those customers are pretty cranky about it.
Still I endorse his efforts to prevent Justin Timberlake from starting an acting career.
The Lean Startup Ideology and Darwin
Even worse to me, they don't own @Qwikster and looking at the timeline of the person who has it now is just... scary.

This seems like an all around PR nightmare. Regardless of whether or not the name is terrible, why wouldn't they shore up their name on major social media players before making the announcement? Were they worried if they did this word may leak?
That sounds wrong to me. Pixel aliasing hints are part of the font design. Are you saying Apple doesn't honor them, or that this particular font doesn't have them? Both seem like killer bugs to me.
Specializing is a very good idea ... for some people. It does however have it's down sides. One of those is that you can end up quite restricted geographically. Ie, you specialize in industry A or technology B and want to live in city X or country Y and unfortunately those options are not compatible. People optimize for different things and I've deliberately stayed a generalist to enable me to move to wherever I want to live and have no problems finding employment.
I am a Netflix customer. I don't care what they do with their DVD collection. The only reason I occasionally ordered a DVD is because it was available in my subscription. Since the split, I've canceled my DVD service. I hate DVDs. I don't want to wait for them, I don't want to handle them, I don't want to remember to mail them back.

To me the split has zero impact on my perception of the value of the streaming service.

I looked at Amazon about 6 months ago, and there was no content of interest there that was not also on Netflix.
I really enjoyed the book. I recommend it. Even for people who use Lisp on a daily basis, it has a lot of good information.

The way it is presented is also very fun. This is one of the most fun to read books I own right now.
The easiest way to figure out why you pissed off a potential customer
I made some search to find TeX resumes in Github 4 months ago, to renew my resume.

Here you can download my archive: http://uploading.com/files/3c95c534/resumes.tar.gz

It contains pdf and tex versions of the resumes of following people; elizabrock, mikepark, pavpanchekha, rlipman, rpetti, stuhood

I hope that this archive may help you guys.
Parents who are home schooling are another great entry point for educational software. This approach also passes the same set of checks and balances as selling to teachers.
First NaCl App hits the Chrome Web Store - SodaSynth
Things got quite close by now: mandatory driver signing in 64bit Windows Vista & 7. You need to select extra boot option to be able to load unsigned driver. Like the venerable ext2fsd: driver for ext2 & ext3 FS [1]. It won't work for Joe the Average User.

Terrorists win, game over.

[1] http://www.ext2fsd.com/

EDIT:

it's a clever move, limititing that requirement only to 64bit Windows. No need for one-time big switchover; the balance towards 64bit will shift gradually over time and before people raise enough opposition it may be too late for independet driver development.

We already know security based on centralized Certification Authorities did not work well for securing HTTPS.
https://browserlab.adobe.com/en-us/index.html
Google APIs Client Library for Java: now with OAuth 2.0
Is there some reason you wouldn't just put it in a span and style that? Just because you CAN specifically target the 235th word in a text doesn't mean that you have to, or that you necessarily should.

I can think of a few instances where I could have used the ability to target a specific letter in the past, specifically as it relates to logotypes or branding, but none that involved targeting the 235th letter.
Replace your HDD with SSD
I think the author of the linked article is a whore as many "life teachers" are.
This is exactly my point. Teachers don't have purchasing authority for very much besides construction paper and glue sticks (and then, they're increasingly paying for that stuff out of their own pockets). You can't sell stuff to people who can't buy (even if they do happen to be the end users of your product).
Examining Musicians’ Revenue Streams in the New Digital Landscape
There is this G.B. Shaw quote at the end of chapter 21 of the TeXbook:

There is not in existence a page with a rule on it
that cannot be instantly and obviously improved
by taking the rule out.
Pre-Launch vs. Post-Launch
This is a perfect example of how much this will confuse customers. I'd meant to type @Qwikster in my post, but got their new name wrong.
New Patent Law Actually Makes Life Harder For Startups
If you use the search, you'll find that to delete your account, you need to email pg. I've done it before. He'll take care of it.
Because up until now, it's working just fine without large cash prizes, I guess.
Hey, I work on several of the networks you're promoting this service on. The implementation of crowd2 is definitely spammy, although I'm sure you've had the best intention at heart.

For points of reference, this violates Facebook's terms of service, Twitter's, and several of Google's, though not directly mentioned for Google+ I'd still err on the side of caution.

One of the things you can do to be more compliant is to offer an "opt out" option, or an alternative method (like a unique URL) that doesn't directly involve the social networks sharing plugins but still provide an effective gate. Just be aware that this will cause issues with at least three of these services. Can't speak for LinkedIn, but I'd assume it's probably the same deal.
Hulu Deal at Risk Even as Bids Pend
This 100% ideal is crap. You'll die alone and of heart disease by 50 if you do that.

A somewhat balanced life, heavily tilted towards your endeavor, is a much more likely to pan out over the course of time.

You don't hear about those stories as much, as they're not really noteworthy, but are a much more reasonable and common way companies are built. I'm not saying you live a 9-5 existence with full certainty, but "sacrifice everything" is just stupid as a life plan.
There's a lot of discussion while they're at the "big convention" (I forget the exact name for it), and at times it seemed to drag on a bit much for my tastes.
"I'm about to become a teacher. How can I be a good one?"

Also, be ready to put up with bullshit from parents, admins and other teachers who insist on the path of least resistance.
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The template is the Bootstrap template from Twitter. I mentioned in another comment that I would not have even started this project if it weren't for that. It made development so much easier.

It's built in PHP using a custom framework that I've developed over the years for fast development.
I was going to reply but you've done most of it for me. The big costs are going to be in the manufacturing and quality control post manufacturing.

Also, if your product contains anything to do with RF you are in a whole other world where you'll need certifications of various sorts and lots more testing.
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