skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a stupid study.

If asked whether I wanted to talk about someone else for 4 cents (the maximum they offered) or myself for free I would choose to talk about myself not because I enjoy talking about myself but because I don't want 4 pennies in my pocket.

Pennies are shitty and I would guess a lot of people would see pennies as a penalty.
Interesting hypothetical.

Lets take a recent blockbuster. The first Twilight movie made $392,616,625 in the box office, $194,881,773 in DVD sales for a total of $587,498,398 (almost 600M - pretty good rake)

In your $5 they'd have to sell 117,499,679 of those $5 streams in order to make that equivalent revenue (so roughly one in every 60 people in the world need to buy a stream).

For more fun take the last Twilight Movie (Eclipse) which was a bigger draw ($826,423,724 total revenue). Then you'd have to sell 165M streams to get to those numbers.

Considering the $5 stream scenario could be shared across a family - I honestly am not sure your assumption that a studio could make more money is correct. The real X-Factor here is the cut the various distribution chains take.

I'm not sure your price point is right, but would you perhaps pay $20 for the same stream?

EDIT: Also I don't think the 4-weeks after theatrical release is going to work I don't think theaters are going to show your movie if you're going to kneecap them 4 weeks out.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Saga_(film_series)...
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Last time I checked, which was awhile ago, Blackberry was the only non-pager that could guarantee delivery within a known time-frame. You can't run server alerts over SMS, since it might take an hour (I've heard of a 12 hour delay around New Year's), or it might not be delivered at all.
I'm aware of no microcontroller work in the modern world that is done solely in machine code. Again, you have a counterexample?
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No pricing = No interest

s/Company Menu/Pricing Menu/g
chrome is doing the same here (chrome 18/linux)
What I love about Nevada doing it is the tie-in with tourism. If it becomes a staple of that city, you expose people from all over the country to it in relatively short order.
I think that's a reality that DVD retailers need to embrace sooner rather than later.
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I purposely don't use it so I can get a feel for a website, and so I can learn from how other people design.
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When you put the definition of _MxStringBuffer into the *.c file you can "access the internals". The advantage of forward declaration is encapsulation.
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I used it to search door a flight from LA to Rhode Island. The date list went from April -> August...alphabetically? April is done and the drop down only included April and August.
> anti-camcording technologies [http://torrentfreak.com/movie-spy-cameras-attack-the-dying-a...]

This is largely off-topic but I was wondering if there are any other popular anti-camcording technologies?

Also could a large IR lamp facing the viewers (or aimed at screen) be used to disrupt the usage of camcorders? This will be additionally beneficial as a large part of the world requires heating solutions during significant part of the year.
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If you use a mapped reducible twice, does that evaluate the function on each element twice?
How did they not touch on a lack of confidence being a reason for bragging? I've noticed when people tend to brag, sometimes it's because they're compensating for other issues. I'm not a psychologist nor have I done any lab studies on this, but I'm sure many of you can agree.

Edit - Isn't bragging generally self-praise, not just talking about yourself? Saying "I'm the worlds greatest programmer and these are some programs I've written" and "I like pizza with pepperoni" are two entirely different things. None the less, both do trigger a rewarding response in your brain. Just questioning the semantics of the article.
> That's kind of a strange sentiment, especially considering IE6 is basically extinct in the wild (unless you are targeting users of pirated copies of Windows in China)...

Incorrect, at least in the UK. If you believe the general stats that are pushed (hint: don't) then that would be the case, but we test on a client-by-client basis for many large sites and there are still a decent number of people using IE6, enough to justify a few thousand on making a site IE6-capable.

> Also, I think many people these days have better things to do with their lives than f--k around hacking in circles in CSS to get things working for IE6...

I can't wait for IE6 to die, but for most of our clients 2% of users would easily pay off any cost for us to handle IE6. For now, we follow the Yahoo baseline (http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/tutorials/gbs/) at minimum and make sure that our sites work in IE6.
I think OP defines non-traditional in this instance as software companies.

While I believe there's room for other companies to develop self-driving navigation systems, I think the Android example is pretty apt.

It's interesting to think about when self-driving cars will actually be in stores. By then, all navigation systems will meet strict safety guidelines and some standardised tests.

If all self-drivers are equally safe, the AI's driving style will become a differentiating factor. It seems to me like Google has an advantage in this type of development, although the future can certainly prove me wrong.
Two thoughts:

Cars are far-and-away the biggest killer of people in my age group. I sincerely hope that we are not going for true parity, and they will not end up driving like we do.

Using a couple stereoscopic pictures to get the lay of the land is a very, very error-prone process. Humans have to make do with it because we have very limited sensory equipment available to us. Computers can and should make use of the vastly superior technologies that they have at their disposal. One of the main points to this whole enterprise is to make better, safer cars by replacing the primary point of failure behind most collisions. Deliberately crippling the system in an effort to slavishly imitate the thing it's supposed to replace would be completely missing the point.
Is anyone else slightly surprised that:

(a) this is public info online, and;
(b) it's apparently public because, of all things, HIPPA?
It's open again.

I'd like to see an increasing threshold for closing once reopened. Something along the lines of if reopened once, 10 close votes required... if reopened twice, 20 close votes required.
There is a lot of danger in defining yourself in terms of what you DON'T do.

For example, I don't know what your company DOES do, but I know you have devoted time and energy to taking a pissing-match stance against a browser.

This is not new, for many years there are many sites that block IE or serve IE users special pages that say "let me help you get a better browser in a highly-condescending, smug, and self-righteous way". You are not inventing anything by putting in this browser blocking.

Anyway, not my problem really.
This will go nicely with Storm.
Eduardo Saverin (of Facebook fame) is also on that list. Also in Singapore, I think. I wonder -- what their reasons are other than the US tax burden?
So, looks like he's in Singapore now: http://sivers.org/singapore
Ask HN: How would you grade programmers?
Prompted by many discussions and comments I've seen recently about what makes a programmer greater than the average I thought I'd ask you clever people how would you come up with some standard ability test to give something like an IQ for programmers?

Of course there are reasons why this might be a bad idea but I think the thought experiment might be instructive.
I think you have to go to 17" or something to get WUXGA from them.

It pains me that there's no good way to assemble or upgrade laptops to one's liking. It's pretty much take it or leave it.
Does anyone know why?

Tax purposes, political protest, or what?

Also: it's funny that the government misspells the acronym of their own law, HIPAA.
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From your train of thought (starting with cam quality) I suspect you had it in mind, but you forgot the biggest reason in your list:

> Piracy has far more effect on DVD sales. This is for 4 reasons. The price of DVD's, the inconvenience of going out and getting the DVD, the bullshit adverts and unskipable junk before the film and the menu which takes 20 seconds to display before you can press PLAY.

You forgot to mention your main point about quality! The moment the DVD is released, the DVD is available to pirates for their dvdrips.

whereas you don't get a copy of the theater reel to play with just by buying a theater ticket, leading to the cam-rips you referred to. so, purely for that reason given that pirates distribute high-quality rips once they're available, you would expect this effect on DVD-sales to figure prominently in your list. (I'm sure you had it in mind but just forgot).
I find it more interesting that this publication of names is part of HIPPA. I really wish each piece of legislation was restricted to small units of scope.
"that's what the 20s, for the smartest people, are actually about: watching people in power fuck up so you know what not to do when you're in charge. Eventually, you'll be in a position to do things properly. It might take a while."

I like this. That is exactly how I feel and it's great to read/hear about it outside of my head. :-)
I think the course was at the right difficulty considering that it was an on-line course targeted towards an audience with different backgrounds and skill levels. In fact, in the forums there were a few people complaining about it being too difficult. Plus a course that is not targeted towards full time students can't really have the same effort levels as one that it is. If the course turns out to be too easy for you, maybe it wasn't designed for you.
> Meh. I'm sure his comment was well-intentioned

I'm surprised about the possibility of misunderstanding.

BTW, the code is 'open source' and copyrighted: I have found no license to use it freely.
"You don't need a TV license if you only play videogames..."

The auditors can't do anything if you aren't using an aerial. I've lived at a house without a connection to the aerial, where the TV was only used for DVDs (and video cassettes). We never had trouble, but no one I know who's been warned for not having a licence (when they didn't have a connection) has been punished.

"Blind people surely benefit from television, and have a severe handicap, and that's the point."

Blind people surely benefit from food, and have a severe handicap. I'm not sure what's different here?

What is the specific benefit of television that can't be garnered from other sources? Especially given that the blind can play TV audio through a hi-fi system for free.
OT, but I'm pretty impressed at that site's design, considering it's a .gov property.
> Every time, Mozilla devs claim all the bad bugs will be
> fixed in the next version.

Wait a second. Did we say this anywhere this time? Read tfa; does it claim to have fixed "all the bad bugs", or even all the memory leaks?

The headline to this article says that. Sure. But Mozilla did not.
$20/£12.20 was for the 3D version (where you can borrow glasses - do you have to buy yours?). I checked, and in smaller towns the price seems to be $17.50. The 2D version (which isn't available everywhere) is only $16/£10. That's actually not much more expensive than the UWest London prices reported by mseebach.
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Ask HN: How Important is Spelling and Grammar?
How Important is Spelling and Grammar?

I have recently spotted spelling and grammar mistakes on well established websites. One was an error message received when typing in the incorrect username. Another was within the product, describing how to use that part of functionality.

Should we be concerned? Does it matter?

From a customer perspective, it may just damper the user experience but not the end of the world.

From a coding perspective, does this hint of a more serious problem? What tools are available to reduce these mistakes hitting the front/back end?

Edit - Changed title grammar (irony).
There is a second part on it. How will cars behave when they are driving along a crowded street in a place where people crosses anywhere and changing directions and intentions very fast. I don't think there will be dangers to pedestrian. But it's going to be a tought problem avoiding false emergency breaking. Once more you have to rely on visual contact to know what are the real intentions of people. Crossing, waiting for the car to pass, simply unaware of the car coming, going to pick something that fell at the border of the street but no intention to cross.
Not an easy task!

Also it is strange they are not working on a kind of transponder, that could be used between nearby cars to coordinate maneuvers(maybe I missed it on this article, but I think I read about somebody was developing it) . It will be usefull once robocars are more common.
Um, to be honest, if you saw it in 2D I wouldn't bother going again. FWIW, I enjoy a 3D movie but I don't think anything here was ground breaking or epic. There were a couple of good 'that piece of whatever is coming straight at me' moments, but nothing major.

That said, if you're a fan of 3D, haven't seen it and are deciding whether to see it in 3D or 2D, I'd still recommend it with the silly glasses.
Wake Up Call is something I've been working on for a little while. This is my attempt at seeing if there is any demand. The premise is simple; waking up sucks. Making sure you get out of bed sucks even more.

I want to make sure you get out of bed. I plan on accomplishing that by annoying you with various challenge/response mechanisms. You won't know what to expect until the lovely voice on the other end demands you comply!
As far as I'm aware, a lot of the safety critical certification requires the entire stack to be certified, in which case the OS (which would probably be a hard-realtime OS) would be certified too.

Probably part of the $100M price tag is a hefty license fee to use said OS.
A cursory glance at Wikipedia suggests his middle initial is P. The middle name listed on the register is Luis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Saverin
> ps2: How cool would it be to have a REPL console like the one in RubyMotion on the Xcode console?

You can!

Every time it comes up, I'm going to repeat this suggestion: Use Nu[1] as a REPL for iOS[2] and OS X[3].

[1] http://programming.nu

[2] http://groups.google.com/group/programming-nu/browse_thread/...

[3] https://github.com/timburks/nu/blob/master/nu/console.nu
It actually turned out to be only SDK versions older than 1.4, which account for fewer than 500 add-ons (including only about 100 that are "fully reviewed" and are displayed in search results): http://bugzil.la/751466

And not all of those 500 add-ons will be affected, since it only affects add-ons using specific APIs from those old SDKs. And if the cause of that leak is fixed soon, then only users of Firefox Nightly builds will ever have been affected.
> I still wish that the course would try to cater for the stronger
> students as well, so that completing it with a high grade would give
> a real sense of accomplishment.

Maybe the problem is that you were taking the course as a way to cultivate a sense of accomplishment? Isn't the most important measure the effectiveness with which it helped you develop the concepts and skills the course was targeting?
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I spent a few years using type hierarchies intensely in the early 00s and found the experience excruciatingly bad. The crystalline structure of your types quickly shatters on the shoals of reality and you are left taping the pieces together. After a particularly bad experience I generally stopped writing OO beyond simple structs.

Around 2010 I started reading rpg's writings on Lisp and software development; that opened my thoughts to a different thought process of how to design software with objects that I haven't really finished working out.

I do agree with you: the C++ modality of inheritance doesn't really work in many cases. It's a tool, but a tool that works badly often. I think a more CLOS or Haskellian viewpoint will yield better results in the long run.
There is a relatively new (a month old) FAQ section named What Stack Overflow is Not[1]. I believe lots of new and old questions are being closed and deleted based on this list.

For your example, a "what is best..." question would be closed under "Stack Overflow is not a Recommendation Engine".

[1]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/128548/151459
I'm not sure exactly why this happens, but it does use a lot more memory than you'd expect. Right now, I have 13 Chrome tabs open, Mail.app, a Terminal session, Colloquy, and TextWrangler running but with no documents, but it has 1.14 GB wired (as in, can't swap) and 1.66 GB active. That's a total of 2.80 GB memory in use.

But also, it takes a while to swap (upon which it beachballs all over the place), and it's not very intelligent about when to swap.

It's a 2.00 GHz quad-core machine, so I have plenty of CPU power. It's just that when I get working on more than one or two things at once, switching between them swaps everything to heck.
And the new sdk versions usually coincide with the release of a new device.
Per wiki Chomsky is a 'linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and activist.'

I'm not sure how any of these qualify the man as someone to be listened on the topics of economics or manufacturing.

asset rather than selling it because it fears an uprising of the working class is just about the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard.

It does tell us that Chomsky has an especially stupid view of the world.
Pensive?
> Whenever I see a third party tool I ask myself: how quickly it will be updated to the last SDK version? ... What will I tell to the client? “Oh look, we have to wait one week for technical reasons”. For every project I have taken on I have never had the guts to run such a risk.

Forget the rest of the article, this sums up why it's not for you.
> People who write insecure code, when the language makes it just as easy to write secure code, are to blame for insecure code

We're not discussing who's to blame, we're discussing whether there's anything to assign blame for.
I don't think you're mature enough to handle a startup.

There, I said it.

Startups aren't shangrilas devoid of problems you saw at a bigco. In fact, they amplify those problems in a small team. And you're going to be dysfunctional going forward dealing, accepting, and working around those problems.

Yourself.

Without HR, perfs, buses, or fridges full of Odawalla to soothe your pain. Maybe even without steady pay and health coverage. So yes, grip those cat meme pics tight, often it'll be your only distraction from being inside a fire.

Check your attitude first. Get that it's not you joining a startup it's equal parts a startup joining you. You decide where to cut the red tape--then deal with the political fallout of seeing the same 4 or 5 people every day. You decide when and where the crisis mode starts--then deal with the project failures. You decide the level of technical incompetence and smothering bureaucracy--then deal with the dilution.

Also get that YCombinator isn't just a vetting tool but rather a homework club. Passing out notes from upperclassmen and tips from product to launch to marketing to even... when to hire and not hire people that don't get it.

Be do go out and keep working. Find intelligent people working on problems you find interesting in a company that you can be proud of. Those are the real criteria, not labels, you'll need to worry about.

It'll take awhile though, and you're going to need a couple stumbles and wrong turns to figure out where that is.

Best.
Why not just do relational programming - prolog or sql. The lisp weenies still don't get it.
I agree that single dispatch seems to be a pretty obvious problem with most oop languages, if you have a method that has two different types as parameters, on which do it belong? Take a pick and hold your breath... or do some unwieldy manager class :) Smalltalk and Lisp seems (zealously) loved by many, and it's easy to like the simple elegance of languages like that.

For me they always felt wee bit too messy and academically oriented. I want a language that reads more like a book and less like a formula, perhaps that's just me :)
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I'd think that if you registered a user and submit the session w/ the user cookie you'd probably never hit the interstitial
Great write up, although not all the points are strictly speaking valid (epecially the one regarding future ios versions; since all the pre-release iOS firmwares are available for developers, there are chances RubyMotion will be updated in a timely fashion).

My take on this is the following: using RubyMotion, overhead will be tremedous - while debugging, you will need to make sure and double check that it's you who screwed things up and not RubyMotion's author(s). This alone is a major downside of the whole thing.
Glasses cost about 80p per person. You also pay extra for the privilege of seeing something in 3D, but prices for everything are generally cheaper outside of London.
I don't think anyone cares so much which languages you use as long as everything is certified. Since certification costs a ton of money, people would generally use languages which already have certified compilers, runtimes, libraries, tools, OSes etc as it would be cheaper than getting a different language toolchain certified. This seems to mean C and maybe still some Ada.
well said!

Regarding "On job interviews, don't discuss the negative experiences or the bad employer. At all. Bad job experiences are too common to deserve the "silent shame" stigma, but nonetheless, a job interview is just not the place for that. Keep the conversation positive and focused on the future." . I see this very often when I interview people and when it happens I usually stop the interview not too long afterwards.
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That's one to add to the quiver. Nice.
I believe pirating does affect ticket sales but really only for the lower budget/less anticipated movies. I tend to bucket all the movies I want to watch into 3 categories: go the movies, dollar theater, and download. The less I truly want to see the movie the lower down the bucket list it goes.

So yeah a movie like the Avengers which for me and probably most others will definitely be in the top bucket won't be affected much by pirating. Can't say the same for say Madagascar 3.
I doubt there's a single soul outside the film industry who gives the slightest damn about whether the actors are at the first showing of a film in their country/continent/whatever.
I'm not a supporter of Lisp myself, but still interested in what they don't get.
Agree. Most CFP also only provide an email address (not a form), so he can spam it to death as well ...