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$10 a month buys me root on a server capable of running real-world applications. Scaling $10 a month for a Python terminal vs. $10 a month for a fully configurable operating system is a tough pill to swallow.

If it were $10 a year then maybe we're talking? I mean, I personally wouldn't pay for it, but it certainly changes the mechanics.
Pretty sure they were making a joke about the appearance of bodily fluid stains under a black light.
The main advantage was access to the ACM digital library where a large number of computer science related papers are found. I don't know if this is still included in the student account or is extra.
What evidence do you have to support your claim? As far as I can tell Instagram was a cool idea/product that got lots of users. I am unable to see a moneymaking opportunity from any angle from the current iteration of the product.

In addition, if they wanted to build a large independent business why would the sell out so early?
I'm sure they're handy, but just crashingly inelegant.
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Why shouldn't anyone be able to download the game some indie studio bet the farm on and is selling DRM-free for $20, and play it for free?

There's a difference between sharing culture and outright ripping people off; if you think this should be prohibited, you aren't really categorically against copyright, only its current implementation.
1.5 million lines of code. 0 tests.
Rob Malda recently moved to the WaPo where he will be the Chief Strategist and Editor-at-Large working for WaPo Labs.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/03/05/202206/rob-malda-cmd...

So this potentially places the founder of Slashdot heading the Digg Team at the Washington Post.

Make of that what you will. (I'll note it is 2012, and there could be another MySpace acquisition in the works.)
Unless of course it's C++

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From the highlights in the article this appears to be very similar to an MIT student's project from a few years back...

http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/midas.html
'disrupt' is an internal thing. There's a try/catch somewhere that's failing, but he catches the error and adds it to JSLINT.errors as if it were a problem with YOUR code.
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"MIDAS" from MIT is 7+ years older, and significantly more impressive -- http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/midas.html . CRTs give this kind of set-up much more credibility.
There is no fiasco in count(*), it is THE general behavior of any MVCC database. Try the same with MySQL InnoDB, you get the same result (or worse).
MySQL MyISAM DB gets the result fast because it is non-trasactional.
To get approximate count very quickly on Pg, you can use
-- select reltuples from pg_class where relname='<table_name>';
There are really only 3 current mastering targets:

Digital: where the audio is received in a digital format and converted by the listener.

Vinyl: where the audio is etched into a flat disc, inscribed in a modulated spiral groove.

Analog Radio: where a carrier signal has its frequency or amplitude modulated by the input signal and has its power increased to transmission levels.

Digital includes, CD-audio (red-book), lossless compressed audio, lossy compressed audio, satellite radio, "HD radio", DVD-audio, SA-CD, or anything where the digital to analog converter is at the listener's end.

Vinyl includes...well mono/stereo/quadrophonic phonograph records.

and Analog radio pretty much exclusively includes FM radio.

I have omitted analog magnetic tape since we don't really use audio cassettes or 8-tracks any more.

Also note: even though the radio station may receive a digital file, a mastering engineer may have been asked to tailor that file for being broadcast over FM which could lead to different treatment of the frequency balance, stereo field, and whatever else the engineer felt necessary.
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Sure, but I can download and run PuTTY directly from its download page faster than I can log in to my Google account on any machine where the credentials aren't already saved.

The Chrome extension could be nice for preconfigured "many-to-many" single-sign on from/to a number of hosts with a (hopefully encrypted) RSA key, however.
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all there is on that organizer.org redirect page is google analytics - it appears that this was used to track clicks. looks benign.
Free market zealots have been saying for decades that tying health insurance to employment is a horrible system. They would also point out that universal health insurance is not the only alternative.
The author lists file size as a reason for choosing Spine - but even with the Underscore.js dependency the difference is only ~3k and even less if gzip'd. Some people have ascii logos in their source[0] that are larger than that.

[0]: http://girlfriendnyc.com
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I honestly can't comprehend how he plans on doing his job without the internet. He's a tech-reporter for crying out loud! Relying on magazines & phone calls only to do that job in 2012 seems near impossible.
I started using http://plug.dj the past few weeks and I'm liking it much more than turntable. For one, it's international and you can stream/watch YouTube videos and play SoundCloud in the room. There's also an option to import your Turntable playlist.
Maybe against the spirit, but not against the terms. As icebraining says, the FSF themselves say so.
Yeah, I was under the impression that it would be illegal also, but apparently the FCC hasn't concluded whether it should be allowed.

MagicJack was planning to offer similar functionality in the past:

"YMAX [makers of MagicJack] says it doesn’t need permission to use the carriers’ operating frequencies in the home and that it’s protected under Part 15 of FCC regulation. This stipulation allows a device to operate without a license if it uses very low power, and doesn’t cause interference."

"In 2007, the CTIA requested the FCC regulate in-home wireless network signal boosters. The CTIA believes it should be illegal to boost any signal without the consent of the spectrum licensee. This contentious issue is still being debated, and YMAX is likely watching very closely for any signs of a decision."

http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/magicjack-cell...
Sure, but shouldn't you try to diagnose the problem, instead of medicating yourself daily for phantom diseases you probably don't have?
On Windows and *nix--well Ubuntu at least--you can drag a browser tab into a new window and then Alt-Tab between them. Is there no equivalent on a Mac?
Note also that the behavior changed in Python 3: exec is now a function, and changes to locals made through exec won't show up in the original scope.
Home automation seems to be all-or-nothing today. I can buy a relay switch with keyfob activation for $20 at Home Depot, or I can call my local Control4 rep to come automate my mansion. The in-between seems non-existent. My finished basement has recessed lighting controlled by four or five different switches, all of which are in the basement. When it's time to go to bed, one of us has to trudge down to the basement and start flipping switches. It would make me happy to just have a nighttime kill switch -- I don't need the house to sense my presence and start turning on my favorite music. Might be nice, but I'm not willing to spend $10K on home automation to make it happen.

I started reading about Zigbee and thought, "Hey, I'll just install Zigbee-controlled switches in the same boxes where my analog ones are today. Then, I'll use some automation appliance (like OpenRemote) to implement "turn off all basement lights" via a phone app" I got confused when trying to figure out what I would need to buy, which stuff could actually talk to other stuff, etc. and gave up.

I'd love to see a start-up sell semi-DIY kits for people like me. I'm fine with replacing switches, plugging in network devices, etc., but I really don't have the time to pick out appropriate hardware and make it all work together.
Correct...doesn't seem to work for me. This is in chromium, which, unless something has changed, appears to have problems: http://askubuntu.com/questions/91789/why-is-nacl-disabled-fo...

Downloading the official chrome build works.

Thanks.
Agreed, and it was significantly more difficult to put together 7 years ago. This one is very, very similar.
Actually, I've gotten 3G coverage in the remotest parts of Thailand, places that only got electricity this year. I had more trouble staying connected in small towns and such in the US!
Best line of the article:

It strikes me how bizarre this is. To a SXSW audience, Turntable is already past its prime, even though during last year's conference, the product didn't yet exist.

At least they understand the issue that Turntable was too much work if you want to participate and tricky to find a room for listening.
I've been reading up on home automation for a few weeks now, and, interestingly enough, in one article by Microsoft (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/homeos/) they go into detail about how users were a bit adversed to automated a large portion of their life (Slide 13 here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/homeos/brushccw...).

No doubt what Derek Low did was super awesome, but he only hit the tip of the iceberg on what users 'want' (Slide 11). Sadly, while they loved creating scenes (modes), they weren't compelled to drop additional funds for it.

If he wants to continue pursuing this for his degree, I'm sure someone like Nest will try to scoop him up in a heartbeat.

As a side note, that automated blinds system was uncomfortably loud.
WREK is just about the best radio there is. It's not weird for the sake of being weird. It's intentionally eclectic and far-reaching, sure, but the point is to broaden horizons. As much for the DJs themselves to broaden their horizons as the audience.

Disclaimer- former WREK DJ. :-)
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Yep. Looks like the number at the end of the URL denotes where the user is being tracked from. There are several links that all function the same way: organizer.org/webby8.htm, organizer.org/webby2.htm, organizer.org/webby3.htm, organizer.org/webby4.htm, organizer.org/webby5.htm, organizer.org/webby6.htm etc
Well that's interesting. You imply some collusion between AL and the Webby awards. I wonder what the official Webby awards folks will say. Maybe the whole thing was 'fixed' -- and they went dark to just set it to the outcome they wanted? Sounds like the simplest explanation. Anyway, good detective work. Will be interesting to hear how things pan out.
As a groom myself, I'll echo the problem statement. Definitely a space that needs some innovation, but other than pretty designs, not sure this really rethinks a wedding website much. Still seeing a lot of links, for example. I applaud the effort and hope to see more on this in the future, though once I'm married, I'll never have the need to build one again. Maybe as a guest, though...
You can imagine something like this:

{
/* if IE */
browser: "IE"
/* else */
browser: "standard"
/* endif */
}

Pretty terrible and still possible (but admittedly harder) without comments.
This is fantastic. As a college student I can absolutely attest that this is one of the coolest dorms I've ever seen and completely wish my dorm was as cool as this. Might be a project for next year.
It's like watching a train-wreck in slow motion. It's a pity that this stock couldn't be shorted due to the lack of people willing to lend their holdings.
What a great, detailed interview. I have a ton of respect for Bunnie. His work on Chumby is miles beyond some of the other "open" projects like Raspberry Pi.

His take on Kickstarter is wonderfully honest and refreshing as well:

"Customers are sold on a vision, buy-in early on, and you have to deliver on that vision; in crowdsourcing your money, you’ve also crowdsourced your board of directors."
I didn't know Aura was making such progress until my buddy got it on his CR48. I'm tempted to remove Ubuntu and reinstall crOS to use it longer, but I also still really appreciate my full Ubuntu environment.

If I recall correctly, Aura also serves as a real proper full window manager and already has support for Wayland too!
I'd recommend looking into Digi's (digi.com) kits. ~$500 (I think) for their ConnectPort X4, a temp/humid/light sensor and SmartPlug. The X4 might be overkill, and you could get by with an X2 for cheaper.

If you know any Python, or willing to learn it, they've got some examples in the Eclipse-based IDE.

Edit: Here's the link to their kits (http://www.digi.com/products/wireless-routers-gateways/kits/)
Maybe the redirect is meant to launder the traffic and make the real source impossible to track? Organizer.org seems to be parked with made-for-google content relating to different types of "organizers". It's also possible that he was trying to pump up that domain's Google juice a bit by hopefully getting links from that made to be viral video, or that it was simply the domain he had easiest access to for putting up a redirect for traffic tracking.
To be honest, after a few months of quasi mentoring (As I have been less active in creating something) I can tell you this.

100% of founders have no idea.
I got annoyed when I got into a disagreement with a moderator and was kicked out of a room repeatedly.

I am not sure how many others had a similar experience but I just left the site after that. It made the site feel unwelcoming.
It's fairly common to annotate that data. While every entry in my postgresql.conf file is documented someplace, it'd be an absolute nightmare if defaults couldn't be commented inline or if I couldn't relay why a value is set to a particular value by adding a comment.

Note in this case, nothing would be transmitted over the wire. JSON is just being used as a convenient format. Even still, it can be handy to exchange annotated data over the wire.
I don't think a new UI is enough to make Chromebooks suddenly matter. I got one at a conference and ended up giving it to a friend because the build quality and specs were terrible - it looked and felt and ran crap without even taking into consideration how different they are to use.
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Ah yeah, I guess this would handle tracking of the original source if the link happened to spread.
Public/private key authentication seems a bit spotty. From the FAQ,

> Can I connect using a public key pair or certificate?
Sorry, not yet.

I successfully authenticated with a private key,

debug1: read PEM private key done: type DSA
debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).

However, authentication agent forwarding (ssh -A) did not work,

Permission denied (publickey).

Also notable is that this app does not have access to the OS X Keychain, so I have to type in my lengthy passphrase before authenticating.
> simply hold data so there shouldn't need to be any comments.

How does that follow? Usually "data", 5.23423, needs commenting more than most. What the hell is that? Why 5 decimal places?

Also comments in config files are for many things; when file was created, change history, by whom, who to contact with problems, warnings not to edit as it's managed via chef/puppet.
> Written in pure Vimscript

I'm so sorry :P

In all seriousness, this looks like a good contender to Command-T judging by a cursory glance through the README. I'll have to give it a shot.
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Oh no, I'm not implying collusion. I was just saying that only the Webby Awards have the original voting time data, and that if AL's explanation was truthful, I would be impressed that they pulled that off successfully. Sorry if those two things got mashed together.
Perhaps the trailing octothorpe (#) threw off the HN functionality that does this. Noteworthy.
Searched my name... Got my website

:(
Of course. But I usually have a few open browser windows (each containing 5-10 related tabs). If Gmail was also a window, I would have to press Cmd-` (Mac's shortcut for switching between different windows of a single app) multiple times.

But to be honest that's not how I actually do my stuff. I use QuickSilver[1] and when I want to go to Mail.app, I just press Cmd-Space, then 'M' or 'Ma' (because Mail.app begins with M) and press return. It takes less than 0.4 seconds (QS is wicked fast) and is much more convenient than a tab in my browser. Not to mention that a native app is usually way faster and more responsive (I have a ridiculously slow internet connection).

[1]: http://qsapp.com
I don't think the business model is quite as horrible as some make it out to be, but it certainly doesn't seem to warrant a $6+ billion valuation for Groupon and doesn't really bode well for some of its competitors. I see two major problems Groupon is facing:

1) Limited long-term market

A lot of companies have had negative or even disastrous results from using Groupon. It is clear that it isn't a good option for a lot of businesses, as it can be very costly and a lot of the customers don't return. I see two viable long-term markets for the sort of deals Groupon offers: 1) High-margin businesses where most of the expenses are related to advertising, and 2) brand new businesses with a big enough marketing budget to take a one-time hit to get their name out. This is still a pretty big potential market, but I don't think it is big enough.

2) Almost zero barrier to entry

Despite being called a "tech" company, Groupon appears to have very little interesting technology, and there is almost no barrier to becoming a competitor. More worrisome than the national competitors (ie, Google, Amazon, and LivingSocial) are the local competitors, such as TV stations, newspapers, universities, etc.. They already have established relationships with local businesses and almost certainly have lower sales costs, plus they often don't need the margins that Groupon does and can offer merchants better deals.

I see Groupon dying from fighting with a thousand other fish over a pond that is a lot smaller than originally thought. National competitors like Amazon and Google that can use other aspects of their business to lower acquisition costs and/or increase the revenue per deal might have a shot at doing well in the long term.

I can tell you one thing - as a Google shareholder, I'm really glad they ended up not spending $5 billion on Groupon.
TPB is my first stop. I've always used private music trackers, but never found much need for it with video (quality is less important and I don't want to deal with seed requirements).
That sounds pretty interesting. The video was rather funny too. I'd throw in some money, but after a failed start up adventure I'm rather broke at the moment so my "good job" will have to suffice.
"un-solvable reason is"

This is actually completely solvable, if it was something lots of people wanted to do it could be trivially built into any browser.

It could be built into FF globally with an extremely simple plugin.
Thanks -- I updated the post with a note about Py3k.
Optimize for the common path (editing code) and not the exception "on occasion, need to edit with raw vim."

It might make sense for a consultant admin who is managing dozens of systems and 100's of boxes. But for a developer not crafting and utilizing the best tool chain possible is just a waste.
What the fuck has Occupy done?
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The Dual SIM Smartphones market is growing day-by-day because of new generation love more more phones.
Incredibly dense storage for incredibly large areas (10km^3), the ability to generate arbitrary levels of detail for terrain from the source data on the fly, and the ability to "patch" any level of detail with artist-supplied data.
I'm pretty impressed that something of this complexity can be implemented entirely in C. People complain about the lack of tools for building higher level abstractions in C but this shows that with the right code discipline it can scale quite high.
Yes. It's Cmd-` (~ without holding down shift. and it works in all apps, not just browsers). But there are more benefits to a native app than a browser tab (for me at least): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3912689
I know this isn't a MySQL versus PostgreSQL thread, but I was bitten by MySQL today...

The issue: I ran a SELECT with a WHERE against a column that is an "int(11)", but I meant to run it against another column that is "varchar(255)". Something like:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE wrong_column = "1abcdefghijk";

Somehow MySQL cast a "varchar(255)" to an "int(11)" with a value "1" without telling me. WTF? My result set was approximately 1M rows. I expected 1 row, so knew the result was wrong... But what if I had expected more than 1 row? Then the bizarre results from MySQL would have appeared to make sense.
I agree, especially about the Atom processor
This computer is mid priced. Other laptops in that price range use real CPUs.
You think having a terminal in a browser is amazing because it will let you run browser applications in a terminal?
I'm Canadian. When they had to cut out international traffic they lost me, and all my friends. I loved this service, so much, but unfortunately using a proxy was just too much work for a little music.

Best of luck to the Turntable team. I hope Chasen comes around, the service has a lot of great potential.
I never understood how so many people can say that government-provided health care is necessarily problematic when there are a whole bunch of real-world counterexamples sitting over in Europe, not to mention one directly north of the US.
Apparently it does have a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T).
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Watch The Avengers camera work is by Seamus McGarvey which is edited by Jeffrey Ford and Lisa Lassek. The movie is distributed by Walt Disney Pictures under Marvel Studios which is due to be launch in the big screen on the 11th of April, 2012 for international opening and in the United States on the 4th of May, 2012.
The average Y Combinator company is worth $45.2M
Also, Asprain and related drugs kill ~40,000 people a year so I don't know it the pain relief is worth it. http://adjusthealth.info/health-news/89-40000-deaths-in-usa-...
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Comments about removing comments thus far seem to miss the point. By removing comments, he greatly simplified the parser. Since he was sure to be criticized for this design choice in the direction of simplicity, it was a brave decision! Had there been enough radical simplifiers on the XML committee, we might not have needed JSON. Wait... Committee? Never mind.
It's always been virtually impossible to borrow the stock in order to short it; the float is small and the cost of borrow is extremely high.
I would add that CACM isn't what it used to be. Nobody's fault, just the result of an expanding field of study. Back in the day, many classic papers would appear in CACM. Nowadays, they'd more likely appear in a SIG publication.
"Too much work," is correct. I used turntable for about a month. It was fun. Then it became tedious.

After reading this article, I logged on. It has changed. I suppose the users are less diverse now. It is hard to quantify. When it first started the rooms were very diverse. Today(or right now), it looks like dubstep is the main genre of music.

The music snobs have left.
Not impressive at all. Its ridiculously simple automation at Berkeley! I am sure some 14 year old kid in india can do this.
- No machine learning,
- No face recognition
- No Gesture sensing
- Only lights and curtains..please

This shouldn't be here.
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Technically, my first programming language was C++, and I really don't love it. ;) But that might not count: I actually started with a markup language, HTML, which I use daily.

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Many people pop OTC drugs like candy. Ibuprofen is often over-used by people with chronic back pain or other inflammatory issues. They aren't addicts -- just people trying to get through the day.

The problem is, it is a rough drug on your kidneys and has potential cardiac side effects.