skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a TV but I am not using it to watch cable broadcast. I have cable but just because it came in a stupid bundle with the internet. So the TV is there but it is used to watch Netflix, Youtube, Amazon and Hulu videos. It is used for games, skype (there is a camera attached to it), also used to browse pictures (since it has a better resolution and color profile than my laptop).

And I have noticed the same effect in respect to commercials. I cannot stand watching them and refuse to watch anything that suddenly interrupts and starts showing commercials (so I stopped using Hulu eventually as well because of it). Extended family members think I am crazy for being so "fussy" and I think they are crazy for putting up with annoying commercials.
I pick Perl, but couldn't find a SockJS server implementation in that language. I could find one for socket.io though.
+1. Even if there is perfect trust with a platform vendor, that doesn't mean they won't come under new management tomorrow that rewrites the rules. That's a scary proposition for the backbone of one's business, since porting to a new platform is almost as much work as writing it in the first place.

I can't say I never use closed libraries/platforms/APIs, but when possible, I always choose the option that has a community fork, or some other escape route.
It's always amazed me that a company's outlook can look bad even though they're profit/revenue is growing, just because said growth isn't as big as it was in the past.

I can sort of see why from an economics perspective, the stock price is based on profit growth projections and if those projections don't hold up the price will naturally drop.

But it still seems crazy that we continually expect and pressure our public companies into growing their profit at a rate higher than it was previously growing, otherwise they aren't hitting performance expectations. I'm sure someone with more economics knowledge can explain it in a way that makes sense, but to me that seems like a logical fallacy. We expect what amounts to continual exponential growth.

Edit: Typos
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Chomp, chomp: Apple eats Aussie start-up for $US50m
I'd still rather pay for GMail instead of seeing ads.

You can; it costs $50/year, though: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/features.html
Don't forget Avatar (which has an upcoming sequel show) and the new My Little Pony.
I have another comment on this thread with an idea for future work (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3631097). I'd be curious to know if leveraging background pages for containing the Backbone instance would be a clean way to handle persistence (of the entire app, not just data).

Have you ever looked at something like this?
The only difference is the magnet in the drivers as far as sound is concerned, but more importantly the 7506 has a 'pro' very long coiled cable while the V6 has a shorter, straight cable.

From what I understand, the V600 is not in the same league, but you should check that at Head-Fi.
Forget to turn off the stove before you leave for holiday? Your house might burn down.

This is the best example I've read so far. If you own expensive stuff, you have to be careful. That's life. If you're not careful, don't buy a $100,000 electric car. Buy a $750 used pickup truck or something. That way, if you break it, you'll be able to afford the replacement.
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This is perfect, I've been wanting something like this for a while but have been too busy to build it myself. Any chance you'll throw it up on GitHub so we can see the source?
Bad defaults is one of my favorite user incentive tricks. Can't get users to upload their photo? Give them a super ugly picture as the default. They'll change it immediately out of disgust
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This just in: People in our industry can be highly over-opinionated, overly critical of things they disagree with, and completely hyperbolic when it comes to rhetoric.

If people actually think Rails VS Node is an apples to apples situation, then the real problem is that they see the world as full of hammers.

These are all different tools for different purposes. See them as such, use them as such. You wouldn't drill a screw into the wall with a level, you wouldn't hammer a nail in with a plunger, and you damn sure wouldn't try to tighten a nut with a chisel.

BTW, this overabundance of Node love is fairly new to this week. Last few weeks, we saw a deluge of "Node is the worst thing that ever happened" posts. Let that be a lesson. REST hate also seems to be a new topic this week (Although it's not really "REST" they're hating on, just how people are using it in a half-assed or improper implementation - but I digress).

Don't listen to the hype, and don't listen to the doom and gloom. Research, find out what will work for you, and run with it; But don't be afraid to change course when you have to. Theres no shame in admitting you made the wrong choice, so long as you can fix it down the road.
>"Expect more ads as Facebook tries to meet revenue projections."

As I've commented here before, I access Facebook in its own VM. The past couple of days, I have noticed a significant uptick in the number of ads displayed. However, the odds of my clicking one is no higher - just because I accepted a friend request this week from a politically conservative person who I went to high school with decades ago; it doesn't mean I want to buy a USS Ronald Regan hat.
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If you can afford a $100,000 car, you are not going to leave it parked at the airport for a month. Tesla does not make cars for people that need a utility vehicle, they make toys for rich people. Some day, this technology will be mass market and the batteries will be more forgiving. Today is not that day.
SalesForce is public and has P/E of 9500. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CRM

The reason they don't miss earnings is that the expectation is so low. It doesn't matter, they're the 'cloud'.
Some advertisers are getting much better results with Facebook ads than with Google AdWords -- for instance, see http://jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com/2012/01/is...

(Money quote from that link: "...according to a friend in retailing, the average Facebook woman updates her relationship status to 'Engaged' within two hours of the guy actually proposing…so Facebook sells that relationship status information to retailers who have bridal registries. As my pal told me, 'We’ve been looking for this for fifty years.'")
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Kim Possible: Disney Channel
Sponguebob Square Pants: I think Nickelodeon
Teen Titans: I forget, probably Cartoon Network.

Honestly, the only way I'd ever go back to cable is if I had an a la carte system; and then I'd take Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, G4, Discovery Channel and their affiliates. I don't want/need the rest...

(also, haven't paid for cable in > 2 years. Netflix, Redbox, Vudu are my friends)
I listen mostly to NPR. Occasionally (pledge drives, reruns, shows I don't care for) I will turn to traditional radio to fill the void while driving (older car with no MP3 interface). It's amazing to me how many commercials they have! They feel interminable and it feels like at least half the channels have commercials playing at any given time. It really makes me appreciate KQED (local NPR station) and is the reason I support them.

Fortunately, I'm seeing more and more cars support USB interfaces. Now I can just load up a USB stick (they are so cheap) with my music and old episodes of This American Life and I'm good to go for hundreds of miles.
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Here's a nice graphical rendition of what can happen. The undervoltage situations are not driven by current travelling outside the cell, they can happen even if the cell voltage drops by self-discharge.

http://www.mpoweruk.com/lithium_failures.htm
Can you dedicate a compartment of your bad to the headphones? My Koss KSC75 have pretty flimsy cords, but I shove them in a small zipped pocket of my bag and they're fine.
Just like Engadget...
Seems like token not available any more
What would you call a P/E ratio over 9500?
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CRM

Both the stock and the P/E ratio has been growing for years.
I had the same thought, further, this quote from the article stood out to me as challenging the author's premise, rather than supporting it: "and the company still hasn't developed a mobile platform that supports advertisements." Surely this is evidence that they haven't even come close to fully developing all of their possible revenue streams.

> "note: ads are not the only way FB can make money"

Facebook still has at least one massive hand to play, and they tipped it in the documents outlining their agreements with Zynga. Those documents stated that if Zynga created a first party site to host their games, Facebook would be the ones to provide ads for the pages. If they were to roll out an AdSense competitor which uses personal data rather than contextual to place ads on publisher sites it could be a huge win.
TL;DR version: Drop box disassociates state from the machine, this means you don't care about the hardware and it can be commoditized. (more)

I suppose they weren't around for diskless workstations. But diskless workstations weren't around for 3G and now 4G/LTE network access.

Its an interesting trend, but as anyone who has tried to use their android phone to navigate when there is no network service, well they just can't. The network may not really be the computer (old Sun joke) but you can make it uncomfortably necessary.

You also put more of your productivity into the hands of the network provider, and that is never good. Sure when the network is pervasive and can't be monopolized by a single provider it will be a huge disruption, until then its like walking by a sleeping lion carrying uncooked steak.
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Thanks for the clarification. It's great to hear that scripting will reduce the need to create new commands. I'm sure some people have been getting slightly annoyed with the rapid proliferation of Redis commands, which already number well over 100. Can't remember them all!
TV is outdated, but so are a lot of more important things: cars/transportation, government, "economics", agriculture, manufacturing, infrastructure, humans, natural language.
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That's what I liked about the story. Halfway through I thought I had it all figured out. "Oh, so this person we assume to be Douglas is actually going to be a computer in the end. Got it."

But then I was completely wrong.
For the latter issue (and possibly slightly helping the first issue as well), switch your TV to 'game' mode. This is a low-latency mode that eliminates certain image processing in order to reduce the lag between signal and display. That should allow you to change channels faster.
It is okay, but the CGI explosions aren't as good as in the new movies (they properly wasn't even CGI then).
Based off what I've seen, the best solution seems to be to pick up the headphones you want, then get one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00029MTMQ/
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How should I know any of that? I'm still busy designing NUBE's logo! Although, if we were to have lunch at a place which was cognizant enough of our needs to provide copious napkins, I would guess that one way to accomplish the goals of which you speak, would be to accrete, around the Earth, a solid shell consisting of asteroids, with plenty of space between the planet and the shell. The planet's surface would be heated due to a combination of the heat which escapes the core, and through the use of nuclear energy, in some fashion, because both of those sources would be trapped by the shell. The shell would obviously protect from space debris, and less obviously, due to its thickness and density, it would protect from the radiation likely to be encountered in deep space.

AsteroidShell = 3For1Deal!
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>TV is only broken if the customers (advertisers) start to lose their ability to manipulate a lot of people into buying things.

That's exactly what's happening, though. Most adults don't sit through commercials any more. The percentage of people who don't get their shows through the internet and don't skip over commercials with a DVR is something like 33%. I'd bet my last dollar that demographic skews elderly in a major way, too.
Those sites aren't using Rails (edit: too heavily) either, which was the basis of comparison in the article.

Github/Twitter are massive with millions of visitors... they need to minimize every millisecond. It's not just about choosing the best developer-friendly or cleanest option.

Performance is #1.

That's not the case for the average smaller apps.

Frameworks like Backbone.js and Ember are growing very quicky and every open example app I've seen uses client-side templating.
The essence of trade mark law is that similar products should have different names, so that consumers can distinguish between them. Calling a photo gallery application "Photos" is great until the next trader wants to build a photo gallery application.
If you don't think it's compressed, you're kidding yourself
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"You can either choose to write a server that is a mix of JSON API and rendered HTML, with conditionals all about trying to figure out the right thing to render, or you can pull all of that logic out into a stand-alone JavaScript application, with better responsiveness to boot."

You get better responsiveness if you send down pre-rendered html for the first page load. This means you still need the conditionals, or suffer on responsiveness.
This gets close to the mark. But I feel like chiming in with my two cents on why I drop $10/mo on Dropbox.

It changed the way I work with files. And it's all the client.

Before Dropbox my options for sharing a file with someone were all cumbersome:

- CD/DVD/Hard Drive/USB Stick. Unless they're not within 10 miles of me, then it's a total non starter.

- Email it. Except if it was too large, it would cause a litany of problems with mail servers.

- Toss is up on an FTP. Clunky. FTP is an awful protocol.

- Any of a dozen file sharing websites that I've never particularity trusted, and some of which require the person receiving the file to follow some directions or have an account. No. Just no. The portals for uploading are clunky.

Then Dropbox happened.

- Public folders? Genius. Doesn't change my workflow at all, just slap it in to the folder and copy a link that I can share with anyone. No accounts required on the other end.

- Shared folders? Changed how I work forever. Not only do I get an affiliate bump every time I get someone on the plan, but then it makes the process for THEM sending ME a file brain dead simple. I have the luxury of having access to an FTP account and knowing how to use it. Some of my clients and friends do not. Nor do I expect them to, or even want them to. FTP sucks.

Just today I went over five iterations of a design in real time with a friend, and all he had to do was stick a JPG in a folder. He didn't even have to tell me, I got a notification and everything. Awesome!

- Photos folder? Now I can just drop pics from my SD card and shoot an email to Mom. No clunky website, uploading, naming, organizing, configuring, and then finally sending. Just photos, copy to Dropbox folder, send her a link, done. Moms happy. I'm happy.

Do you notice a theme between those three things? They all get the hell out of my way. Every other offering on the planet wants to ask me things and do things and make the cloud storage process cumbersome and heavy. Dropbox, I move files in to a folder and it takes care of shit. It allows anyone -- regardless of experience level -- to leverage the power of a basic version control and synchronization system without lifting a finger.

THAT is the secret. Not that it's cloud. Not that it's hip. Not right place or time. Not hardware/software disassociation philosophic nonsense. It works. And it doesn't get in your way to get that work done. I don't even have any USB sticks anymore, and I don't care. Why go to the trouble of plugging in a device when I could just copy it to a folder?
I really wanted to like Hulu. I even paid for Hulu Plus so I could watch it on my PS3 and get access to the larger library. But on my PS3, Hulu streaming was flakey. And then the commercials. The commercials ended it. After watching on Netflix, I just couldn't deal with Hulu's commercials. They're nearly as grating as cable TV, and for some strange reason they always seemed to be inserted 5 seconds away from where the content was written for them to be inserted: music, COMMERCIAL, finish music, fade through black.

I would happily pay for Hulu Plus Plus, where the extra plus means I pay more and they turn off the commercials. But I'm unwilling to pay for Hulu Plus at all.
I work in Xbox, regular employee developers still have private offices, contractors (which I am) don't.
You missed the round of 'apps that are local on your machine and the data is local on your machine so you better have a backup'. That is the part we are escaping from now.
I paid for Directivo for 10+ years, long before HDTV. $100+/month.

Now, I have a Samsung 55" LED with a beautiful picture that I bought online for cheap. I plugged an older Macbook Pro into it via hdmi. Couch Potato, Sick Beard, $7/month lifetime unlimited usenet account from a thanksgiving special, mplayer extended to play it all. I haven't seen a commercial in years. As the author says, if it isn't online, I don't watch it.

TV isn't broken, cable companies are.
This really rubs me the wrong way and I just revoked access to my Github account for Coderwall. You are adding content that appears to be added by me, but that I did not authorize you to add to my profile. Not cool.
The only "why" that I've been able to surmise is for people using PHP to scrape/interpret content from existing webpages. But I only make that assumption looking at the itches that Jani (the lead behind the PHP v8js) has been scratching recently: http://pecl.php.net/~jani/patches/
The question you have to ask is how they are making money. If it costs 2 dollars to make a dollar in revenue, then you are actually losing money.

There's no guarantee that they will continue to make money if they tone down their spend (for example, reducing ad spend), which is why the revenue / profit quality matters.
nice one, let's see
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I came here to say just this. I've had similar experiences, and have loaned my 7506's out to sound engineers on the road when their cans broke.
As pro audio gear, they're also designed to be repairable. Having spent a few dollars on replacement ear pads, I have a pair of 7506's that have lasted 10 years.
This sounds stupid but I always thought there weren't commercials for channels that you actually pay for? That the advertisements were to compensate for channels that didn't cost anything?

I haven't really watched tv since the mid 90's and never in the USA so I might miss something obvious here. But where I lived, regular channels were broadcast nationally over the air and they had commercials. I always thought the popularity of cable/satellite subscription was based on you getting rid of the commercials, not paying for seeing more commercials on more channels?
The use of headphones implies I'm listening to something while working, which most of the cases is actually very disruptive to me. I like my $1 earplugs which allow me to work and learn in perfect quiet and focus on the task at hand.
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I guessed the ending as soon as he entered the tank but this story still creeped me out :(
same here, removed my account as well. Trying to be too cute.
It's up to the owner not to be an idiot

Actually no, the common wisdom is that you should expect your users to be idiots when developing a product.
This still seems like a much easier method to tunnel arbitrary data and perfect for malware tbh. Just open a socket and go. I don't see any mechanism to prevent an infected site (the majority of malware passes this way) from pushing JS, opening a socket and going to town.
This is a neat, light-weight, approach we're using to unit-testing our Chrome extension at Attachments.me.
From everything I've seen, Tesla's been pretty up front as far as what the battery needs, and what sorts of behaviors to expect.

As to your other thought, some of us do not want to ghettoize ourselves. Some of us have friends in areas that are, unfortunately, difficult to reach via public transportation. Living locally would mean disconnecting from a great number of people that I care about quite deeply.
My V6 has a coiled cable; it looks like the one pictured at http://media.headphone.com/productphotos/large/0020550006_52...
No, it won't. Game mode reduces latency on the order of 2-3 frames, so a 0.1sec or less. The issue is that the tuner has to consume a complete data frame before it can start displaying, since it needs to get a keyframe for the codec to start working.
I think that the quality of art is subjective. I would rather have art that many people want enough to fund directly than the art preferred by a few bureaucrats.
Hmm, perhaps the visual treatment could be better as these are only suggestions and do not show up on your profile.
I know what you are referring to, but I would say no. Not like that at all.

The ideal climate control interface should never even have to be looked at. It should just know what to do with your heating/cooling equipment to make your house comfortable.

A ideal TV interface should help you do a lot of things, and ideally be fast in the process.

(The article was down while I was writing this comment, but cable equipment and TVs drive me nuts.)
I believe the problem (or at least one of them) with early fuel injection was that the injectors would overheat if they didn't have have the fuel passing through them to cool the solenoid. Newer cars won't even attempt to fire the injector if a high enough fuel pressure isn't sensed.
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Where can I find the most up-to-date information on my domain's name servers?
Really? You were completely OK with the telepathic brain-computer interface and went off the rails when the sensory deprivation was too good?
this story seems a bit manufactured. i get that the kid makes the whole thing more endearing and maybe more poignant, but the writing seems inauthentic and intentionally crafted to drive home the obvious point (a point that every tech-savvy person in our modern world already agrees with)
> 1280x720x24x60 = 1.3 Gbps

So your argument is that compression doesn't exist? Do you also listen to 128kb WAV files and argue that they are equivalent to 128kb MP3s?

> Why people think they can see full 720p worth of information is beyond me.

From a distance of about 8 feet on a TV about 50 inches in size, the difference between 720p and 1080p is visible to a person with 20/20 vision. The eye cannot perceive 720p worth of pixels at once, but in the small spot the center of a person's vision is on, pixel density matters a lot.
> Many web applications are now foregoing client-side templating and are back to doing it on the server. GitHub is a great example of this, and Twitter is going this route too.

They had client side templating, and they switched back to server-side? Got any links for that, I'd love to read them (seriously, not snarkily).
I agree with you. But now that you mention it, it seems like utility vehicles get used more often. Rich toys often stay in the garage with the other rich toys.