skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This design is explicitly not open source. From the linked page:

NO SCHEMATIC: Because YoYoDyne is taking considerable financial risk to produce an unproven DAC in relatively high volume, it’s not reasonable to have it be open source (see the previous ODAC articles). Once he’s hopefully recovered his investment, we plan to re-visit the open source question.

However, there are several other open source DACs available with plenty of documentation. One such example: http://www.amb.org/audio/gamma2/
I do not think there could have been any way to make the industry profitable on the open market. Subsidies from surrounding governments were much higher for their domestic coal than the UK was willing to pay for theirs. Cheaper easily mined coal imports from Australia, Russia, South Africa along with North Sea oil & gas flooded alternatives on to the market. The fact that the assets were privatized and sold off later, yet the UK coal industry remained mainly dead along with the "green movement" probably shows that the industry could not have survived on it's own without the subsidies.

Some view Thatcher destroyed the industry not only because it was unprofitable but also as an attack against the unions, supposedly going so far as to shutdown even profitable mines or those that had potential. Putting 180,000+ out of work is going to cause some outrage from those you are putting out of work & the surrounding communities that relied on those wages. Also some may view domestic energy production as a valuable asset to retain even if it is not market viable just due to energy security/independence concerns.

As far as the bank comparison, I think some people have a kinder view towards the plight of a coal miner working in dangerous conditions for not a lot of pay vs the plight of an executive banker raking in massive bonuses while tanking the economy.
I think the demise of RSS represents a failure of its promoters. They painted it as a service, when it should have been treated as a backend technology.

People want to know when certain websites they care about have new stuff. The fact that RSS can be used to achieve that is, and should have been treated as, completely irrelevant. Nobody except geeks like me care if they're transmitted through RSS, PubSubBubHub or carrier pigeons.

Likewise, I don' think most people care that the website has a "feed" and they need to get a "feeds reader" to be informed.

I think Firefox had the greatest opportunity to make it happen and they blew it. RSS should have been integrated with the bookmarks system, and I don't mean those awful "dynamic bookmarks" or whatever they were called.

When some page was bookmarked, the browser should save its RSS feed URL alongside (hidden!) and use it to alert people to updates to their sites, and provide an one-click way to open the new post(s) in a new tab (and an easy way to disable notifications from that site, certainly).

This would've made RSS useful for much more people and provide a great incentive for websites to provide good feeds. Unfortunately, it remained a geek tool, and so it'll die as such.
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Well I don't think they ever had the gall to do it to their pro market but they did void the warranty for some of their consumers when they installed linux.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/07/03/27/1753218/hp-dishonor...

As did other companies :
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/07/09/12/0011209/retailer-re...
I couldn't help think: "New? It's over 20 years old...". By this logic, we should still be giving Nirvana awards for "Nevermind".
is the entire Oracle argument, so far, that you can use Java, but can't cut and paste the APIs done by Oracle /Sun engineers? With what I've read, Google sure thought they needed a licensing agreement
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The malicious site could exploit some vulnerability in the software you're using though.
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I think it's a mistake to attribute RSS's decline to any sort of technical issue like "XML's decline". There's nothing technical about it, it is strictly social. RSS is a way to move content out of the walled garden, and they want you in their walled garden. That's it. That's the whole story. They are rejecting the very philosophical underpinnings of openness that were the reason for the creation of RSS in the first place.
"gofmt -w" actually rewrites the files. I'd love a Python formatter which applies the robotic parts of PEP-8 automatically so you could focus on the parts which require more thought.
I vaguely remember that parts of the GSM protocol were also described using ASN.1 (BER). I'm not sure how relevant this is for newer cellular network protocols, though. But if so, that makes it unlikely it will go away soon.
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Thanks for signing up. You are correct about importing and grouping. Both things that we aim to take care of soon.
Since it's been available, I've preferred Netvibes for RSS: there are already lots of great options outside Google Reader.
The About page generated in the demo video doesn't look modern or impressive in any other meaning. Would be great to see video with more advanced example.
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AMZN is up about a percent, which is not at all unusual and can hardly be attributed to them launching Marketplace. Hell, they were up that much yesterday.
Ask HN: How do companies like Capnix pay for their running costs?
Link: http://capnix.com/

I don't understand - these people claim they offer cPanel, fantastico-driven installs of Wordpress/joomla/phpbb/etc, SSH consoles, mail, FTP, ... for free.

Without enforcing ads on the hosted sites.

I must be missing something - how do these people survive? i.e. How do they pay for the costs of storage, traffic, cPanel licenses, etc ?
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Thanks, I think I see the answer now. Let me summarize to check:
There's a conceptual tree of all possible games, with a move at each node. You run some random games to completion, giving sequences of moves from the root (starting position) to a leaf (game over). Then, from the current move, you explore the best of the "next" moves more thoroughly - by doing the same thing again, starting from each of those "next" moves. The benefit of running random games to completion is it gives (some) long-range vision.

I wondered whether those (relatively) sparse "tracer bullets" actually find whole "good" sections of the tree - or whether it's just the specific leaf nodes it found that were good.
The answer is that, since it's being used to guide exploration, it must be good - there'd be no point using it as a heuristic otherwise. So, the existence of a win in a region of the tree is a partial predictor of other wins in that region.

I read up on the rules of Go after asking, and it makes sense: once you own some territory, you'll tend to keep it - so that if a sequence of moves leads to a win, all the prefixes of those moves will also be strong positions along the way.

So it's not brute force, but a predictive heuristic. Still kinda surprising that it works well. :-)
On a related note we put out a tech demo showing nodejs and socketio recently. http://www.webdigi.co.uk/fun/space/
It uses iPhone accelerometer to control the ship on your browser game!
You're right, but that's why I said images, not running instances. The former might not correlate exactly with the latter, but it's a pretty good indication that Ubuntu has a very large slice of the total market for servers.
You are treating the term "war" too literally. This is not about some secret conspiracy, but the lack of incentives (or maybe even existence of disincentives) to support open protocols in the era of walled gardens.

To refute your last point, the article explicitly mentions that that Twitter has functional RSS support, which was deliberately removed from the user interface and metadata, so it's not a matter of development or maintenance cost.
They use cheaper stock images on their site.
Sorry for confusion, I meant indeed a sync / async APIs. You could easily wrap sync function to give it an async API in order to chain with functions that had async APIs, but it's not really possible other way round (not in JS).
Did you run your debian with backports? That solved most problems for me, and restricted the changes to the packages themselves, without pulling in to many new dependencies.

Ubuntu LTS can have outdated packages, too, and no backports there, last time I've looked.
Partly - the Unix philosophy. Since you can swap out your window manager on X11, you can have your windows managed in any of a wide number of ways. If an application tries to manage subwindows on its own, there is a very good chance that it will do so differently than your global window manager. Assuming that there is a reason you picked the global WM that you did, it's rather disconcerting to be forced to use an inferior WM to manage Gimp's windows.

Add to that the multi-desktop, multi-monitor aspects (although detachable docking panes can help a lot with that).
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One of the cofounders will probably be the guy on the bicycle. He'll also the guy behind SurfExplorer (iPhone surf app). He's a pretty chill guy and always had great cookouts when he lived in San Diego.
When you have a marketplace of 600K sellers, the competition is fierce. Etsy tries hard to make them profitable by offering classes online and attempts to lower costs of supplies.

I hope they can find a way to pool the cost of materials to bring low cost overhead to sellers. That would make the industry explode.
The code doesn't actually work though, the very first example is broken:

function sum(a, b) { return a + b }
sum = promised(sum)

var a = defer() // make promise
var b = sum(a, 1)
var b = sum(b, 5)
console.log(b) // eventually prints => 17
a.resolve(11) // fulfill promise

Prints:

[object Object]15
I would never spend $80 on something from a vending machine! For tha amount of money, you really need to be able to properly see and even touch the thing your buying. Caveat emptor
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...and how is that different from

<a href="http://evilsite.com">microsoft.com</a>

?
I mainly was referring to JS where we don't have coroutines and there is no plans to have them either.
Display how many followers your company has on Twitter. Some of those followers are probably spammers - but it doesn't matter short-term.
I find that limiting line length to 80 characters causes some programmers to use overly terse variable names. This hurts code readability and can hide defects.
Verizon willing to shed spectrum to gain FCC approval for deal
Thank you very much. I didn't realize that string handling was changed so much in 1.9. This has got to be one of the best string encoding methods in any programming language to date.
As someone who is pretty much totally checked out of Facebook and logs in maybe once a month, this might actually get me to check out my timeline more. I love browsing it visually, awesome job!
I'm not sure about that, but they've said the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will get support for 5 years, and that's probably true for future LTS versions, too.
Null is not false (part three)
Great, I was wondering if they were going to repeat graphical probabilistic models since I missed it.
Your first example is easier for me to read, but only in the case that I don't care about the order of (x, y) points.

If I care that (3, 6) comes before (4, 4), I find it much easier to ascertain that from the form that uses indentation for nesting loops.
The article mentioned AutoESL, which compiles C, C++, or SystemC to Verilog/VHDL. This allows you to focus on the algorithmic, or behaviorial level. The advantages are plenty, but the main drawback is that it is one more level abstracted away from the hardware..
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https://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js is a good fallback which uses Flash Sockets. Whether you can use them or not really depends on your target user. I'd argue that for the general public you can use them; they'll be using IE with Flash, Firefox or Chrome. With the latter two you'll have native WebSocket support and with all three it's highly likely that all with have Flash installed. Things are trickier for corporate users where it depends on the corporate IT policy. As ever, there are edge cases.
How does Firefox removing RSS support fit in that justification? As far as I know, they don't have a walled garden.

Personally, I think RSS died of natural causes; it was never a threat to any walled gardens.
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Yeah, I agree. It was a quick demo I put together. I would do a more elaborative one using the HTML5 boilerplate.

BTW, the Punch's site (http://laktek.github.com/punch) is created using Punch itself (if it impresses you)
I now subscribe to most blogs on Twitter, and RSS is still part of that, its just that it is:

blogs -> rss -> rss2twitter gateway -> twitter -> me

So it has become a backend technology, and RSS has been given a better marketing term - 'following' (or 'subscribing'). It just isn't being directly consumed by users any more, which is why you don't need it as an icon in apps, but RSS is definitely still being consumed by other apps.

I found that the problem with most newsreaders wasn't the technology or terminology, but that they presented news items in an email view - ie. every item needs to be actioned, whereas the answer was a stream where you scan and interesting items were actions. The other problem was discovery. Nobody really worked out how to recommend other sources or feeds from within the reader applications.

Twitter kinda accidentally nailed both of those issues.
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That's not a problem at all. If it's worth it to do it, people will do it even if it takes 200 lines. If it's not, they won't bother. So, even with it being achievable as a "first-class" option in CSS4, I don't see any particular rise of this exploit happening.

It's like arguing that something is safer because it requires 10 lines of code instead of one to do the exploit. That's security by obscurity.
But.. but.. HN told me there's a war on RSS!
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll update "What is Punch" section with more elaboration.
That's funny. So he's getting funding from both Microsoft and Oracle now, and he says he will remain independent? Nice try, Florian.
HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows
Ask HN: What do you think of open vs closed ecosystems for smart phones?
I've been thinking a lot recently about open vs closed and I think it basically comes down to this:

Closed
- Users have more security (ex: recent reports state that Android users are being infected by trojans disguised fake Instagram apps)

link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/19/instagram_android_sms_trojan/

BUT developers can spend months building something essentially inside Apple's jail (and then we are still faced with the approval process)

Open
- Users can install any application they want, and apps have the ability to access the device's file structure, etc.

- Large amount of non-curated, unfiltered content
- Higher potential for social engineering attacks to get bad code on people's devices
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Facebook still has RSS feeds for pages but looks like the link got hidden when the pages got switched over to the new timeline layout. e.g. https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=305891199451158&#...
I guess the question is whether or not you're using a powerful window manager or not. Most window managers in linux support easy always-on-top and layers, so the multi-window UI really shines.
The listing of Linux images including EC2 charges is scary. I hope this isn't their long term plans. If so, we'll have to start coding our way out of their vendor lock-in.

You're sending the wrong vibes, Amazon.
You make some good points and I strongly agree we need to move away from the old fashioned factory worker mindset.
I watched a TED talk recently discussing that this is a symptom of the education system. Modern education is designed to create these so called 'factory workers' who switch on at 9am and off at 5pm. That kills the creative side of people, something that is vital for knowledge workers.
I think this is the talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_crea...
You just have to write function per operation that is it:

var auth = promised(function(user, data) {
var isAdmin = user.role === admin
return isAdmin ? render(open("yay.xml"), db.send(data.request))
: render(open("no_permissions.xml"), {})
})

var puser = getUser(data.session)
return auth(user, data)
Is there an alternative technology that is replacing RSS?

Is there any evidence that blogs are dropping RSS? I think one of RSS's major applications was for blogs to distribute their content. The examples given in this article, such as Twitter and Facebook are both apps that also have APIs available, so RSS in those cases are kind of redundant.

One could also make the argument that RSS is bad for the bottom line, as selling advertising, and generating revenue off of it is far more difficult than traditional websites.

The other big question is whether or not users are still using aggregators. If aggregator use is down, then that could suggest the decline of RSS or RSS like technology.

Finally, RSS probably still has a future in podcasting.
- you can move away the docks and have more screen estate for image editing;
- press TAB and the docks go away, you have even more screen estate;
- is easier when you work with more than one image at a time, for example using the clone tool you take samples from one image and move them to another or just when use one image as reference while drawing another.
Thnx m8.

It has potential for sure but as others say. Text is a challenge which we have tried to deal with a little bit.
you CAN do that, dock all the dialogs in one single window
The point in abstraction in this case is to add additional functionality.

The most obvious option, and something I thought might have become part of the WebSocket API, is auto-reconnection. To reconnect you need to create another WebSocket object and reattach all your event listeners. So, I'm convinced that the majority of people who use WebSockets will have to write their own custom code for this and will probably put it in their own little library which wraps around using WebSocket objects.

More info in the comment here: http://www.sitepoint.com/websockets-stable-and-ready-for-dev...
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By the time you're done porting your app to websockets, IE/Android will be ready, or at least close.
Sublime text 2 can do it no problem, back and forth, and has visual indicators of tab levels regardless if it's spaces or tabs, 2 columns, 4 columns or 8 columns.
Was the social aspect of Google Reader that good? I never used the social features; I just used RSS for its express purpose, to avoid having to click fifty bookmarks every day.
There is a difference between public common knowledge on "what is good programming practice" and a trick that teller came up with on his own time and made a point telling nobody about.
I disagree; I think that perspective is shortsighted because it only looks at the direct benefits.

Think of how much users have been benefiting from new and innovative webapps, which are a result of the competition between browsers. Now imagine where we would be if Windows was a walled garden and didn't allow competing applications, like Apple does with iOS.

Openness breeds competition. Competition is always good for the user.
Can't return? Don't care. Cancel payment with credit card processor. Problem solved.
So does this mean Hologram Jobs is inevitable at WWDC?
That's the exception that has some justification, I'm referring to the services that are no longer generating RSS that used to.
For more in this genre, see: http://www.screenr.com/xd0
You can already do that : you can choose to only display toolbox window, and then add tabs (like a layer tab) in the toolbox window.
Are their commercial versions of socket.io for C# available? When it comes to .NET people tend to go with signalR (which I think has WebSocket support but not within ISS - until Windows 8 server), SuperWebsocket or XSockets.
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Out of curiosity, I went looking to see if this data has translated into thinking about ship design:

http://66.180.169.221/pdf/2007symp09.pdf

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/PubServices/2005pdfs/Rosenthal.p...

http://www.ifremer.fr/web-com/molagnon/bv/Faulkner_w.pdf
Nice history of participating here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jrlatent
Unlocking our potential
Without making excuses - 'they' are a couple of people doing this on their own time/money. It's like complaining that Linus didn't invest in ramping up Linux to run on more platforms in 1991.

Yes they made some mistakes, not realising that they wouldn't be able to handle distribution and handing it off to Farnell/RS at the last minute = well you live and learn

Perhaps a silicon valley attitude company would have made a bigger splash, pre-sold the first 10,000 for $100 or done a kickstarter appeal to raise $1M and had an initial run of 100K units. Perhaps someone with west coast connections would have been able to get a few $M from someone at Google/Ebay/Facebook.

In my experience trying to get $M from charity foundations for something like this would take years and cost more in marketing than it cost to actually do it - ask the OLPC guys.

Funnily enough, their aim was to copy the success of the original BBC micro (= the UK equivalent to the Apple II). Back in the 80s when we actually made things - industry could get government loans to tool up to build products, now we just hand out trillions to banks.
> Twitter and Facebook are both apps that also have APIs available

I can't just import their API into an RSS reader with a single click.

On the other hand: I probably could, if I spent a few days reading up the documentation, writing up an app, testing it, and then deploying and hosting it, resulting in an RSS feed that (e.g.) Google Reader could process.

My fiance? No way.

On the gripping hand, my fiance doesn't care about RSS and doesn't use it. I'd argue that most twitter users probably don't, either. So there doesn't seem to be much loss.
Oracle's stack talks about all of the companies that DO "license java" for their HW. I assume that all of those companies are licensing the "JVM" but Google wrote their own VM instead of licensing the JVM? Which makes the contention from Oracle that the license is really for the API & the JVM and google's position is they would only need a license if they hadn't written their own VM?

I have no opinion on who's right, something better left to lawyers, I'm just trying to have a clear understanding of the positions of each of them.
The vending machine saves money on staffing at the expense of the customer being able to examine or ask questions about what they're purchasing. It would make sense actually to have an even better return policy than the brick and mortar stores to make up for this. Best Buy wants to have their cake and eat it too.
I have already fixed that, it was a typo, I meant following instead:

var deferred = defer() // make promise
var a = deferred.promise
var b = sum(a, 1)
var c = sum(b, 5)
console.log(c) // eventually prints => 17
deferred.resolve(11) // fulfill promise
They slap ads on all public facing websites. I've seen so many of these companies come and go. I wouldn't trust anything important on them.
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Avoiding caveat emptor is the appeal of the Best Buy brand. The author's point is that these machines hurt the company's image by making returns a hassle.