skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Berkeley we have the local Shattuck Cinemas. They are taking a different approach on movie viewing as well. They provide couches (literally) instead of seats.

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/mn/shattuck/shattuck_lovesac...

It's a wonderful way to watch a movie, and something that brings me out of the house and into the theater...
Thanks very much for the details, that give a much clearer idea about commutes.
>But that's the point. Sure, you can compile and run "Android", but is it the same as the OS that runs on a phone I buy from Verizon? Android phones sell with proprietary software that is most definitely not open.

Yes, the image of AOSP that I built for my Nexus is identical to the shipping image, minus the Verizon apps (Voicemail and My Verizon). I'm running CM9 now. Motorola/HTC/Samsung all have their custom overlays for skins, but that's not really the point. The stock ICS is a pleasure to use and is ages about Blur/Sense/TouchWiz in usability.
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Videogames: GamersWithJobs Conference Call: http://gamerswithjobs.com

Sports: Mike and Mike in the Morning Radio Podcast: http://espn.go.com/espnradio/show?showId=mikeandmike

All subscribable via iTunes.
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I noticed a bunch of people doing the math on a 100k/year salary for a 3br. Presumably, if you need a 3br it's because you have kids and need to give them each their own room.

Is everyone assuming the other partner won't help with anything financially? You can come pretty close to the 4-5k/month number for a 3br if your SO/partner is also making ~100k/year. If you're single with kids, or trying to have 1 stay at home 1 working, it'll be much harder, but it's entirely possible to afford if you have two people who are both working.
IANAL, but I think your #1 and #2 do apply most of the time for anything that can be seen in the public. Defamation of people's religions in a dis-respectful way is generally unlawful (though maybe not illegal). The act of giving someone the finger is generally regarded as a sign of violence.

You might have more liberal views than me, but I do think it's a violent gesture. I get the point you're trying to make, but I simply disagree that for this specific case, this should be something that is generally acceptable in a public social network with 13+ year olds on it.
I think Dropbox would already enable the collaborative edit and push thing you described with outside work friends, depending on how you define "collaboratively edit".

On top of that, it should be easy to build a web app to accomplish the same thing, plus some extra elegant features.

The question is, would you pay for it? ;)
> The licensing costs for VS.NET, MSQL, and related products are a rounding error compared to the cost of salary paid to a 3-7 man team.

Not for a pre-seed startup. In that common situation, software licensing costs can be by far the biggest cost you have.

> Using open-source tools to save a few dollars is a sure sign of incompetence, inexperience, and a soon-to-fail project.

Saving a few dollars in return for tools that are on average of similar quality - sometimes better, sometimes worse - is in no way like what you just described.
Well...if I were one of those sites, and I really believed that SOPA was an existential threat--which I think is a very reasonable position for any of those sites--then a day's loss of revenue is absolutely worth it, because the alternative is no, or greatly reduced, revenue. I'd take a known loss of ~1/365th (~.3%) of revenues over a probable loss of 100% of revenues any day of the week.
I don't know a single person that wants to look under their hood any more (though living in greater NYC area, I realize this is not representative of most communities). When I was in high school (mid 80s), everyone did. But even the grease monkeys aren't interested any more.

It's kind of like late 80's ricers versus today's German cars. I myself auto-crossed a Honda CRXsi. Today I'm just as into performance, but have other things to do with my time. I can honestly say I have not ever seen the engine of my car which Car & Driver recently named the Best Handling Car in America. It's a Boxster, and ... there is no hood to open. I'm okay with that.

That "sizable community" is dwindling fast, as computing becomes an appliance technology. Your opinion is disproportionately represented here because HN is much more like the late night parking lot full of ricers in San Bernardino than it's like an arbitrary quarter mile of LA's I-10 rush hour traffic.

// Note: iphone-dev's redsn0w[1] has an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 on everything but the iPhone 4s and iPad 2. And saurik's Cydia[2] is doing just fine, with plenty of souped up suspensions or new stereo systems if you want to get your hands dirty.

1. http://blog.iphone-dev.org/?0b08b320

2. http://cydia.saurik.com/
It's too late for sorry, GoDaddy. Take your medicine.
In terms of these sorts of developer oriented features, I'm much more excited to see Camlistore take off. Portable, better sync options, open source, support for any backend, etc. Just something to look at if this topic is interesting.

In fact, their semi-slogan is "your home directory for the web". Very privacy focused (an encryption layer for backends is in progress based on their issues log), since that seems to get buzz these days.

http://camlistore.org/
Purposeful consumption is different than impulse based consumption. Investigating ideas by reading specific books, articles, and reflecting on the idea is consumption at its finest IMO.

I'm trying to be more mindful about what I consume, but also more committed to finishing what I begin consuming. I try to eliminate the meta-think in your head constantly assessing whether the content is worth my time, instead fully committing to exploring the idea being espoused, even if its bullshit. Its much more mindful to dissect the bullshit rather than dismiss it as low thought.

The link-based architecture of the web contributes heavily to the way we bounce from idea to idea. I've been thinking about how to de-emphasize the constantly shifting focus of clicking on a new link to explore an idea (If you've ever got lost in a quora/wikipedia loop, you understand this phenomenon). What if we could anchor an origin (say, this HN page about "The Dangerous Effects of Reading"), and when we explored links from here, we started a new path on a map showing how deep we were surfing from the original page. If we return to this page, we start an adjacent path that we can explore again. At the end of our browsing session, we have an information map showing how different ideas linked to each other. It might provide a meaningful perspective to our browsing experience.
Why not use 3-d printers to make blanks for castings and molds, and maybe streamline building jigs? I don't know anything about the field, really, so there may be a simple and obvious answer, but I would be curious about it.
Poll: What Domain Registrar Do You Use?
With the whole SOPA debacle and Domain Transfer Day coming up, I'm interested in seeing who the HackerNews crowd uses for their domains.
NameCheap
NearlyFreeSpeech.net
Awesome, this feels like a very good idea. But you request full access to sign up? Why not just an app folder?
Meditating would be a very beneficial activity, but the over-active analytical mind would put it down as 'one of those things that would make me better' and never actually get around to doing it.
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TSA budget increases to nearly $8 BILLION for 2012
I don't think you could take your kids to Alamo unless it is a special event. It is 18+ only.
Camlistore looks really interesting
"One way around the proposed problem is to become much more educated about statistics"

Sounds like a plan. I feel dumb after reading that article.

Any ideas on where to start? I found some videos at Khan Academy [0], will those help me grasp the concepts discussed in this thread?

[0] http://www.khanacademy.org/video/statistics--the-average?pla...
This isn't quite true - data is streamed from the client through a pipeline made up of all of the replicas, as it's written. It's true you'll lose data if you crash in the middle of a block, _unless_ you call the sync() function which makes sure the data has been fully replicated to all of the nodes.
Hrrmmm... I take the path of least resistance on everything. Why take the path of increased resistance?

As long as you do not betray the long-term goal, the path of least resistance is absolutely the one to take. Always.

Keeping on-topic: To a Windows-experienced team, the path of least resistance is to stay on Windows, even with its baggage. Same can be said for every other platform: Ruby guys, stay with Ruby all things being equal, and so on.

PHP guy tasked with building a high-performance socket server? The path of least resistance given the goal is probably to switch to another platform for this project.

EDIT: About MS maximizing profit: By definition, that's what a business does. Which business does not maximize profits?
related: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/05/chase-your-reading.htm...
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I didn't say any of these things. He can keep his mouth open if he wants and he has every right to express his opinion. It's just a matter of judgement on which opinions to express, and "clearly" he misused his judgement here.

However, the point I'm making is, all things considered, I don't think he had much of an argument for this case, and it's more of just a cheap shot at G+ (he could have instead addressed it to all social networks instead of G+ too..). He kind of has a track record for these things though..
Both APIs are available and will continue to be available for the foreseeable future.

-Todd
Hopefully the threat is enough. If I'm Google I'm strategically going to leak out plans (memos, design mocks, etc) for a blackout to see if it makes a difference without actually having to do it. They just have to be ready to back it up if it's not enough.
Yeah, OK. Let me know when they OPPOSE making serious decisions that affect real people based on who needs the most sucking-up-to today.
In an email? Whatever.
GoDaddy's prior SOPA support isn't the only reason why people are leaving them.
that's really more of a spambot thing.
Easy to read Google+ Recap for this year
250 additional new scanners

12 additional new VIPR teams (in case a train gets hijacked and driven into a building?)

Number of terrorists caught by TSA for their hundred billion spent since 2001: ZERO
You know what? I'd like to see this done to every single politician. Air out all the closets. Let the whole world know exactly what we elect to office. Only once that's clear will we start to change and elect those who are actually worthy.
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Sure that certainly is one way of looking at it. When I said Bush - I did not mean literally Bush. I think we both made our points - so I give it a rest :)
right now it's crunchbase and angellist.
Actually, when you think about it like a Googler, you don't even need to lose 1/365th of your revenue. You only need to hit districts where those representatives are voting for SOPA. You can also hit people once, then resume normal business. Maybe do it for an hour or two at a time. You can feather out the carpet bombs.

[Edit] I meant targeting the reps that are voting for SOPA, not against it.
Culture only? What about the costs of scaling? Having chosen the .NET stack, can I just set up 15 more servers without paying for any additional licenses?
Did they convince you?
I don't think the Unix-Windows analogy is very apt, actually, as both have been revolutionary in different ways (by any measure). *nix has gone on to power much of the software on which the Internet runs. Windows powers much of the software user's directly interact with. By comparison, Apple/iOS and Android are competing more directly.

The author of the article is arguing that more revolutionary than being the first (or even the best) at something is subsequently making that innovation accessible to as many people as possible. This is something both Unix and Windows have achieved, Android is trying to achieve, but I'm not sure Apple is even interested in.

Perhaps a more apt analogy would be the invention of the automobile vs. the assembly line. True, the automobile was a genuine innovation, but the assembly line put the automobile within reach of everyone.

With this view in mind, it's okay that Apple wants to focus on pushing the envelope in what its car can do. Likewise, it's okay that Google wants to focus on making those or similar innovations accessible to as many as possible.
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I've experienced the UK train fun too. I've been toying with that idea, I'll update you if I do it.
It seems like an anachronism from the dot-com era when startup costs were much higher.

I'm not even sure how that justified the situation then. Unless founders were to bring their own money.

Do you mean that in the sense that it's now much easier for a programmer to build their own stuff, thus they might as well work for themselves rather than getting tiny equity for someone else?
Any chance for a FF version of this?
I can tell you why... most movies suck. Not only do they suck, but they suck expensively because they rely on production values to compensate for the lack of plot, premise, and acting. As I understand it, Woody Allen is a solid money making enterprise because he makes good films with good actors and good scripts, and which cost an order of magnitude less to produce than crappy films based on car chases, laser guns, and heavy-handed soundtracks.
These are trends and while important a bit misleading.

Yes HTML5 has seen 350,000% increase (yes, I typed that correctly) in job postings over the years, but it is still only in 0.3% of all job postings. Meanwhile C# is in ~1.6% and Java in ~3.3% of all postings.

Not saying you shouldn't get some HTML5, MongoDB, Android or iOS knowledge but these are hardly the "most looked for" skills.
> However, they made the breakthrough now and it does not look like there is any "real" OSS competitor left.

That is precisely why it is so significant that Android is also open source.

The bestseller "Android" tablet of this year is probably the Kindle Fire, that is completely divorced of Google. There have been consistent rumors that Amazon will step in with a few more tablet variants and a phone in the coming year. Facebook - Google's direct rival - was rumoured to be trying out an "Android" phone of their own.

All this is possible only because Android is open source.

It is fine to wish that Android is less loosely coupled from Google. Personally I think this is the only pragmatic choice. Android is not pure software, it is tightly integrated with hardware. Linux's achilles' heel for a long old time was device drivers. Android has mostly sidestepped this issue due to Google "owning" the project and working with the hardware vendors.

It would be nice to allow community input (commits, patches etc) into Android, but that I can understand why they don't right now. The thing is, anyone can create a more open fork that does this - and it wouldn't matter due to lack of hardware support.

The next best thing is to work downstream of the hardware, which is what Cyanogenmod and other teams have done. And they have been mighty successful at it too. When you see community teams boot Android on iPhones, Playbooks, Kindle Fires and so on, you are witnessing the benefit of having a free open source mobile OS.

Android may be the Linux variant that has succeeded in the mobile world, but that doesn't mean Android variants can't exist.

Mozilla is still working on Boot to Gecko, which borrows from Android for some of the hardware interface:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G

Needless to say, only possible because it is open source.
In the context of this post (startups):
- most of which are SaaS;
- mostly targeting SMB or Consumers (>95%?),
- most of those customers don't know what a language is.

I do appreciate the subtle clarification. Done enough enterprise sales/development cycles too, and a difference can be present :)
I hate SOPA, but I've got to wonder how much of this is actually driven by concern for the bottom line. Hollywood and Big Media are very happy to work with established, institutional partners. Indeed, the types of partnerships that'd be formed, backed up by federal force, would serve to drive off potential competitors.

Would it really damage advertising revenues that much? If the fear is that Google would be hit by large lawsuits from some twelve year old posting a music video on YouTube, or that Facebook would be liable for a link to it, I expect that media conglomerates would be happy to give de facto immunity, so long as Google or whoever is willing to put Viacom's commissars in charge of which content is allowed and which isn't.

Obviously it's good that Google is on the side of angels on this, but if it's actually in their best interest is a relevant angle for analysis. It also would tell us how hard they're actually willing to fight to block SOPA.
Can you check files out with DropBox, so you don't have two people working on a file (since presumably they don't have merge working for Word/Excel docs).
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You may! I listed them sequentially. I started kitesurfing 10 years ago. A business 5 years ago and I want to start a family at some point in the future.
Physical attraction? I'm lucky there. It doesn't affect me like most men. I don't go freaking nuts about it. Hot women are like art pieces... Great to look at. My girl? Great to be with. Much better.

If she asked me if a girl was hot, I'd answer. (And have.) I don't go around hollering about how beautiful women are, though. Stating the obvious has never been a fault of mine.
The reporter from TechCrunch refers to GoDaddy's "new CEO Warren Adelman", but according to CrunchBase, he's been in that position for over two and a half years:

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/warren-adelman
Doh. Joel added it. Thanks.
Google just doesn't behave like this. I've talked to many people that work there (and I will be one of them soon), and this is just not the culture. Google maintains webfonts because someone said, "hey, our products would be better if they didn't look like shit on certain machines". Someone else agreed and now they have their own fonts.

(Part of Android's look-and-feel is based on fonts, too, so it makes sense that if you're going to hire designers to make their phone OS look nice, some fonts are going to get designed along with that. Fonts, icons, backgrounds, and UI layout are all the same thing.)

Before this, Microsoft provided the standard web fonts. They made them very hard to install, and so Google stepped up to provide a standard set of fonts, free to use and modify. This isn't evil, it's just Google ensuring that people can use their products. Bad fonts means their sites look ugly, and ugly sites means users won't use them. That's the only motivation.
Glad to see that "downvote because I disagree" is alive and well on HN. Not.
So basically this company that makes a living by keeping up to date with trends in technology sees how the majority of their target audience is fed up with all the ridiculous intellectual property pissing contests and then decides to start one of their own. Sounds like I won't be visiting phonedog.com anymore.
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"imagine a world where an Apple product launch means access to a new fabber file. Everyone in the world with a fabber could download and print the new product ... at the same time. "

I can't imagine an Apple product that can be printed. Maybe you could print a plastic copy of the enclosure for the product, but what you'd have in your hand is a essentially a plastic design prototype. Which 3D printers are great for. But how would you print the PCB, copper traces, pcb components, battery, lcd display...etc.
I find it interesting that most attempts to support Google in this instances uses far more extreme examples to justify it.

I don't think anyone is insisting that there are no types of images that are so bad that it wouldn't be ok for Google to remove them. At least I haven't seen anyone claim so.

As long as that is the case, using examples that the vast majority would agree are worse than the one that was actually taken down just weakens your point dramatically.
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What i 'd like to know is what Tom is doing in that - now historic - profile photo.
Yeah. Just to clarify:

a) I'm claiming Congress is utterly irrelevant as it is today without outside intervention.

b) There's lots of dysfunction to go around, but I never meant to make blanket claims about anything but congress.

You're quite possibly right that my indignation is fresh and excessive after watching that talk :)
It'd be dead easy with PhantomJS. A script to do it would look something like:

---

p = new WebPage()

p.open "http://example.com/whatever", (status) ->
console.log "☆　LOAD STATUS: #{status}"
p.render "/Users/Shared/screenshot.png"

---

If you want to get fancy, you can code your script to render only a subregion of the page. Phantom can automate pretty much anything you can do yourself with a browser.

http://www.phantomjs.org
Question:

Imagine that you have a non-session-persisting load balancer in front of
a cluster of web servers (n >= 3). Since this load balancer doesn't
direct requests in any persistent fashion, a user making subsequent
requests may be directed to any of the servers available in the cluster
in a non-deterministic manner. In your application, you need to handle
image uploads from users, and as soon as the upload is finished, you
need to show the user their uploaded image. This creates a problem for
you because after an upload, the load balancer may direct the user to a
web server which does not have the users recently uploaded image
resulting in a 404 Not Found for the image request and a poor user
experience.

In the current system, an rsync process runs every 5 minutes and copies
uploaded images around to each server so that every server has every
file, eventually. This isn't a very optimal solution because users may
not see their uploaded images for up to 5 minutes depending on which
server they are connecting to for any given request and it forces every
server to have a copy of every image uploaded, which may not be the most
scalable solution.

Assuming you could not modify the load balancer, how would you redesign
or fix this system so that files are uploaded in a way that it doesn't
matter which server in a cluster a user connects to in order to be able
to satisfy a request for the file? There are many ways to solve this
problem. Please describe one or more ways and discuss the pros and cons
of your solution(s). If your solution is very simple (not a bad thing),
consider offering a couple alternate solutions so we have a strong
understanding of how you evaluate and approach problems.

-

My Response:

Basically that this was poor architecture and didn't make sense. They shouldn't be using their web servers as a file store. They didn't like that.
I just use Safari's Reading List.
I heard Google breaks into people's houses at night and steals any spare change the occupants have lying around. This makes sense because Google must maximize shareholder value, and spare change is money for the shareholders. Therefore, this accusation must be true.

Next week: proof why Google enriches uranium and sells it to terrorists trying to build a dirty bomb. One reason: they would get money from doing so! Man that's evil!
gotta second you on this one, namecheap is simple, plain and a huge breath of fresh air (when your just escaping the godaddy labyrinth)