skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that if you're ignoring your kid and watching a lot of TV the problem is that you're ignoring your kid.

If you're watching more than about an hour of TV per day as a new parent then you either have a staff of people caring for your kid or you're slacking off.

If you don't converse with the child's other parent or others in the household b/c the TV is the center of everyone's attention, then you have a relationship problem or dysfunctional family situation.

This anti-TV meme is mostly luddite fearmongering intended to get joe and jane sixpack to stop vegging out in front of the TV and start being engaged as parents.

Sure, having disengaged parents or parents that don't interact verbally will create an impoverished environment for a kid, but it's not the fault of the glowing box anymore than it would be the fault of the chess board if the parents gazed silently at the board for hours at a time and ignored the little one.
I did something really similar than this and only told my close friends about it because I didn't want everyone doing it and running the fun for us.

For the record my adword fu isn't as good as this person and I spent a little over 20$ to max out my free space.
Dropbox is written is Python correct? Would it be faster/more efficient/smaller footprint if it was written in C++?

I just have this (likely) wrong perception about Python from the original BitTorrent vs uTorrent.
No TV is so 1990. Really, today 'No TV' would be easy to achieve while still overdosing on Youtube, netflix and so on.

Computers screens are more often than not the delivery vector for your daily dose of passive consumption. And it's not just the desktop machines either, it's the iPads and the phones that happily join in.

Even not having a TV no longer means that you are immunized against this, and being without internet access is far worse than not having cable.

For one the internet is far more addictive in many ways (think minecraft, the various role playing games and social websites) and besides that it has so many legitimate uses that one could easily burn up a whole day without ever leaving the comfy chair in front of the big tft in consumptive mode without so much as a glance at the television.
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I think one lesson of the Dropbox story is that you can build a company around a feature of minimal product if you have a savvy team and crisp execution.
I answer my own question. Towards the final of the press release:

The MSRP for MOTOACTV 8G is $249 and $299 for 16G. Motorola SF700 and Motorola SF500 sports headphones are sold separately and will be $149 and $99 MSRP respectively.
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Meebo is Hiring an Experienced Data Engineer. http://www.meebo.com/jobs/openings/data/
I didn't' realize the referrer (and querystring param) was sent cross domain over SSL. So as long as you are utilizing SSL everything should remain the same.
Ask HN: IRC Channels
One of the reasons I love reading HN is the quality of its discussions :) Can someone suggest me some good IRC channels related of this sort , say programming , hacking
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Starting a business sorts the men with big balls from the boys and fakers. you lost. get over it and get a job. point is you tried and didn't have enough big balls to make it work. at least you now know what it really takes.
I think you might be paraphrasing what the books say. What they usually say is that arrays and pointers are equivalent - which is true. It's easy to read that as saying that arrays and pointers are identical, but that's not true at all.

Just to make it confusing though, you can't pass an array by value to a function. It gets automatically converted to a pointer. Arrays are unique in the C language in this sense, and it contributes to the illusion that arrays and pointers are the same thing. (Try passing an array by reference, though, and all becomes clear.)
Also:

https://twitter.com/#!/jeresig/status/126330178984087553

Stopped visting them cold turkey to see how my behaviour
would change. Want to cut out Facebook and Twitter as well,
if possible.
Ugh—glad I'm in no way responsible for a potentially interesting discussion devolving into Yet Another Internet Dickwaving Match. Thanks for the downvotes, btw. /s

If you want to interpret my decision to describe my admittedly statistically insignificant experience (which is directly related to the topic at hand) as an attempt to flaunt any sort of status, that's your own business.

It isn't really your business to reinterpret the details of my personal life incorrectly to support your argument.

I'm not "saying essentially" that parents (in particular the parents reading this right now) "should" do anything. As has already been addressed in the comments:

1. HN readers (parents or not) are not the target for this recommendation. (What else is new?)
2. Bad parents, or those who are inclined to make bad decisions as parents, might benefit more from advice along the lines of "You stop watching TV, and please get your shit together; alternately, don't have kids," rather than "No TV under n."
3. It's highly likely that the recommendations are intentionally rigid in order to have the strongest impact on those potentially bad parents.

As it pertains to the messaging surrounding the AAP guidelines as reported by the NYT, a lot of it comes across as FUD, to me. For instance, "Secondhand TV" is just a ridiculous thing to say.

Again, I'm not telling anyone do do anything. I am saying that while I don't intend to ignore this study, it's also far from the only data point I'll be taking into consideration as I conduct my own life.

As it turns out, I'm usually the guy mocking people for disregarding science in favor of catchy anecdotal "evidence," "conventional wisdom," or semi-plausible, hippy-dippy alternatives. If my hypothetical future wife wants to play Baby Einstein or Mozart through her uterine wall for our hypothetical future fetus/infant, I'm going to have some questions about why we're doing that, or at least why we're not playing Ryuichi Sakamoto or The Doors instead.

I would find plopping my (fingers crossed) future child down in front of a TV for extended periods unacceptable, regardless of what's playing. I also have some experience which indicates that not all screen viewing is detrimental, and I'll be taking that into account, whether or not it's a statistically defensible position.

Ultimately, I'd hand an iPad (another one of those dangerous screens) running NodeBeat to my one-year-old without a second's hesitation, and I don't really give a shit what the AAP has to say about that.

(edit: Okay, maybe at least a second's hesitation, but moreso for the physical safety of the child and the iPad, not due to concerns about hindering the development of the child's mind. The development of the child's mind is exactly why I would want him/her playing with NodeBeat, etc.)
If you're interested in even more detail and discussion on pointers vs arrays, the book Expert C Programming by Peter van der Linden has several really good chapters on the subject. Plus, the whole book is a really great read.
Python Help
I need to finish this program by tomorrow and I've spent DAYS trying to understand it, and the instructor isn't particularly helpful. I understand the things like sockets and threads but I don't know how to put these together to make such a program. I've gotten some progress but I don't even know if it's right.

Please help me out, I don't know who else to turn to!

here is the program description:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/julian/index.php?page=Networked%20Connect4

it's pretty vague too :(
If we could turn pedantry into electrical power, geeks on the internet could power the planet forever.

The takeaway summed the point up nicely although everyone's arguing over sizeof(int). Sure, there are cases when sizeof(int) is not 4 but that's not the point of the exercise. If you solved believing it was 8, you'd still be correct in my opinion.

I'm reminded of so many great articles with comments like "it's you're and not your"
Zenobia's comment makes me ask this question which is slightly off topic: When employers hire open source talent, and they're vetting applicants, how closely do they look at say, for a lack of a better word, an applicant's online footprint? Are they concerned if the applicant is active in specific organizations, forums, etc. If yes, which ones?
It's a touchscreen watch with GPS fitness tracker software, MP3 player that analyzes which songs you work out hardest to, and bluetooth headphones that monitor your heart rate through your ear (no more chest straps). Very cool.
Yes, unfortunately you don't get access to the desktop application unless you sign up for a premium plan. Also, the file size limits for upload are lower unless you are a premium user. So maybe don't bother, if Dropbox works for you in the free version.
"Legal tender" is a matter of fact, not perspective.

The USD dollar is not going to plummet because the economy "flops". (We've tried that.) In the end, what we consider a "flop" is really just a very small adjustment in growth rates, generally temporary. It's painful, but it has relatively little effect on overall economic productivity.

At the end of the day, people have to pay taxes in USD. They have to pay their rent or mortgage in USD. They're only going to be interested in bitcoin if they can dependably convert it back into USD at a moment's notice, and there isn't large amounts of volatility in the exchange rate. That only happens if you've linked the value of the currencies.

Otherwise, you're asking people to do currency speculation, which not only isn't advisable, it generally isn't possible, since they have an ongoing stream of income and spending to match, not a huge pool of cash that they're holding onto. There may be some short term arbitrage as prices move up or down, but it will still end up being largely neutral to them, since only a small % of their annual income will be in bitcoins at any one moment.
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It's all there in the story, just read it :-)
This isn't really the place for this. Try stackoverflow.com, or one of their Python sites. (python.stackexchange.com, if it exists)
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Thanks a lot!
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I haven't yet looked into the code generating this site, but correct me if i'm wrong but isn't a higher FPS largely useless if your monitor cannot display it?

In other words, the code at http://www.nerds-central.com/Linear-Scan-Test.html looks like this code is using the antiquated setTimeout() method of determining frame rate.

A better way to do it, at least for chrome and firefox users, is to use the newer requestAnimationFrame() function: http://paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-an... This allows for the browser to notify the script when its ready to display a new frame, resulting in more efficient animation execution.

Using FPS for benchmarking is good, but suffers from the same shortcomings as glxgears.
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My kids were on tv-diet for about 5 years and it was overall very positive experience. There're several things here:

a. TV (and other one-way information sources) is really bad for babies/toddlers who need two-way interaction with the world.

b. for older kids(~4y+) replacing regular TV channels with dedicated documentary/learning videos in reasonable quantities is beneficial.

I'm quite curious on how virtual interactions(ipad/etc) affect child development, any research links?
"it's about the fact that kids watching a screen aren't ... learning how to communiate (sic)"

Does sign language count as communication? Because my son learns signs from occasional DVD watching and then applies them in the proper contexts - sometimes without any reinforcement from his parents or anyone else.

Pretty sure that qualifies as learning how to communicate.
I hate sites that highlight search keywords. I am sorry that this broke your feature, but overall glad that no site will be able to do it anymore.
That might make sense if cars were not designed like armour. Kill the pedestrian or scratch your car?
Thanks for the reply jxiong. I think that many startups would be delighted to strike such a deal. Internships are the traditional way to go about this and some might even pay something little. In return, you get exposure and an early peak at how things work in a startup. In my company all of our interns end up leaving with very fond memories of their experience here. If I were you, I would find a company you are interested in and contact them to see if they have any internship positions. You never know until you ask. Make it clear that you are not looking for a paid position, just the experience.

So, what online resources do you use to learn more about startups? Do you find those resources useful?
And here's how I got 32GB for about $1 http://blog.ryankearney.com/2011/05/how-to-quickly-reach-you...
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Google App Engine to support SSL for custom domains
I installed it but it never seems to know who I am. I have entered contact information 3 times now but it keeps saying "Who are you?".

It also Crunches my calendar for about 30seconds every time I launch it. If that is the expected behaviour I will not be using it long term.

Other than that - I want to play with it, it looks really nice.
Wouldn't this be better on Stack Exchange?

Also, there's a dive into python mirrored somewhere. try .ep.io
> will already include a licensed copy of Windows 8

Even if the first thing you do is to disable the damn thing and install your favorite OS. If it's already hard to buy some computers without Windows, this may make it completely impossible.
May be google make an incentive for users to sign-in for increasing Google+ usage.

May be they are pushing Adwords channel by saying: "look you can arrange your campaigns in keyword level."

It's interesting to see this decision while they are improving Google Analytics very much lately. Maybe they will monetize by subscription model.
Any idea, is it AMOLED+, as on the GS2? (Or, have they dropped the + designation as all post GS2's will be AMOLED+)?
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When did you run the ads? They may have just gotten more expensive over time. I ran these a while ago, but only blogged about it recently.
i'm not sure reading more twitter and facebook is something to be proud of.
Well, what I meant was content in the sense that grown-up material and commercials. I don't think watching news on TV with your one year old will have the same effect as watching Barney.
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"Restricted Boot" is a perfectly good name for a BIOS replacement that would only allow you to install pre-authorized OSes. "iGroan/iBad/Swindle" is immature playground nonsense.

As for not wanting to turn my post into an RMS rant but doing so anyways, I felt it was germane to the submission. You're free to disagree, but there's nothing inconsistent about having reservations about something you're doing.
I have a few rules in life. One is to never turn down a $100m+ acquisition offer from Steve Jobs. (Unless my percentage/net would have been too small of course. Which then gets back to the rule that ideally you never want to take outside investors or lose majority equity/control.)
Start-up Stimulus: I will trade future payments for startup funding now.
Following up, the site uses "setTimeout(function, 0)" which is akin to an unencumbered while() loop. Great if you want raw power but pointless if you cannot use it (in this case, to display unique data).

Perhaps Chromium 16 has tied sites that incorrectly use setTimeout() for animations to this newer method: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/requesta...
What would you ask Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf has graciously agreed to answer Slashdot readers' inquiries about the past and future of this little thing called the Internet, and his role in it thus far.
The first chunk of those slides talk about library hijacking. Say, you define your own version of malloc, make sure the application links to your version of malloc, and play your tricks from there. Process isolation has not been violated.

The last five slides seem to be doing this: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/DAIZOVI/BHUS...

Slide 4 is the difference: OSX is BSD running on top of Mach. So these techniques use the Mach layer to get around basic process protection. This is terribly insecure.
Get back to me when Dell includes the certificate I use to sign the Linux kernels I compile here.

This only allows other companies that offer proprietary OSs that run on x86 PCs to try to persuade OEMs to include their certificates in the trusted certificate list. It's great news for... mostly nobody.
#startups on freenode has been the un-official HN channel for about 3 years now.
Although I agree that the price difference is staggering, the important metric to measure these phones by is depreciation. If the iPhone user can sell that iPhone for a few hundred dollars at the end of those two years (I certainly have), then the cost of using the phone isn't that high. On the Android side I'm pretty sure depreciation is quite fast.

Additionally, the figures pointed out in this article are totals of the Voice&Data plans tied to the iPhones by AT&T. These are costs of a minimum iPhone service as deemed by AT&T, and not a cost of the iPhone itself.
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I think the issue is still.. the only company offering data + voice for an iphone without a plan is t-mobile and then still its only edge. So for people saying its 300 offset ( for what reason I don't know why) .. some of the comments stated productivity.. edge only would skew the scales the other way.
It's an uphill fight: http://www.gamingmath.com/new-games.html

Is your game super-fun, as well as being super-configurable? If so, maybe pitch it to Zynga or Pop-cap or some other company that's well established in the casual gaming space. Sure, they might rip it off, but it's likely cheaper and easier for them to buy it/hire you. I see you wisely make the site unavailable to US residents to avoid falling foul of gambling laws, so I can't guess what sort of games these are. But although there is money in running a casino, there's also a lot of money in recreation, with fewer worries about suddenly finding your assets frozen because some criminal once put $50 through your online casino.
Do you hate using Google search results too?

Search keywords in these results are highlighted.

If your goal is to hide your intent from web sites you visit - you can just turn off URL Referrer in your browser.
HTTPS = more overhead than HTTP, so this is going to increase network traffic everywhere that uses Google that has people logged in for Gmail, which is just about everywhere to some extent. It will be minor, but could still have a detrimental effect.
Most of the concepts you've learned still apply. For web, you will still use HTML, CSS, JS on the front end.

You will have to learn the language and the particular quirks of the framework you choose.

Also keep in mind that Ruby and Python are inherently slow (~20x slower than C#). It's rarely a problem, unless your app does a lot of calculations. Most web apps I've dealt with were DB or I/O bottlenecked.

Start with creating your own project from scratch. And not some "hello world" bullshit, but an actual useful app.
What a coincidence: I wanted something like this and created a similar, albeit much simpler, plugin[1]. I've been trying to work around a bug (an event wasn't triggered when the completion menu is visible) for a long time and finally found a solution today when searching through GitHub. The project I found the solution in was FuzzyFinder. So I implemented a fix, but got curious about the plugin itself (I've used it before, but it was quite buggy back when). So I searched YouTube for some videos, and the one I watched was the one the OP made :)

[1] https://github.com/strange/pyxis-vim
I would talk to a copyright lawyer to see what can be done there too. Many of the recent table games in casinos are copyrighted, e.g Let It Ride, 3 card poker etc. You may be able to copyright enough of the game to help fend off the big guys from ripping you off.

IANAL
Yeah I guess :) But GS paid the money back now, I'm not sure how much preferred stock the USA still owns in GS.
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Apple and Android, the slow pall bearers to RIM's eventual demise
Definitely agree on the auditing tool - but I'd take it further, and make it a a full-blown feature. Provide the teacher's higher-ups with it (so they can inspect, if needed) and provide it to parents as well, so they can see what the messages are.

Maybe event take it one step further and encourage parents to sign up with it as well, so they know what type of messages their kids are getting that their child's teacher considers important enough to send using this medium (perhaps include an email-delivery option for these ones).

The basic product is one-to-many double-blind logged communication; don't make it about the exact mechanics of how the conversation is delivered, make it about the logged/safety aspect of it. SMS, email, voice-drop, robo-call, AIM-bot, etc. are all communication media that could benefit from this approach.
I work at their HQ, and the site is not accessible by any computers on its network. I used my phone to post this question an reply.
It is simply another tool to help increase communication between teachers and students, I can't dream up of a situation where phones would be required to be used in a classroom.

With that in mind it might be worth it to enable a feature that will allow teachers to also send an email to students who desire it, as to allow students who don't have phones to be included as they can access the internet at school (if they don't have the internet or a computer at home).
http://db.tt/9SYbw1C

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What was the point of that?

HN and Reddit are so much more useful than Twitter and Facebook.

And while NYT is not horrible, it's like limiting your worldview from the whole world to one local newspaper.
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Make The Call Now. Video prompts users to call and prevent abuse in progress.
We surveyed 50 teachers before launching (inspired by the customer discovery/validation processes). 100% of them agreed that texting students puts their job at risk. 50% of them text students anyway to remind them of stuff, and co-ordinate with them.

Our main value add, is to eliminate this 'creepy factor' and give teachers a way to communicate with students that doesn't risk their jobs.
That's such a small amount it wouldn't be newsworthy.
One weekend, four upgrades
Exactly. The main point it to mitigate the risk. How can we make this clearer?
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one, that's absolutely ridiculous, if you match up all the improvements to both hardware and software between the N1 and the NP. being unimpressed makes you sound like a whiny bitch.

two, according to GigaOM, there is a LED notification: http://gigaom.com/mobile/nexus-prime-specifications-image-le...
I heard that from AIG, but I don't remember hearing that about GS?
They should also include a human transcription as comparison. Even when people talk to each other, often some sentences need to be repeated before they are understood.
Their profits have to come from somewhere, and a lot of those profits come from their trading activity in the markets, and for them to extract money from that, then the other participants in that market (myself, and "society") have to be losing it.