skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I desperately want a thin client "device" I can hook up to my tv / stereo to stream in music and movies from my network storage downstairs. If this can do it with nice to use software then I'll definitely but it if it saves me a couple hundred bucks compared to a mac mini.
Linux source tree contains COPYING file which says that GPL viral nature does not extend beyond kernel/userspace boundary:
http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.4/COPYING

So, Linux kernel is basically under LGPL: it's OK to take it, bundle with some proprietary closed-source userspace code, and include it in binary form to some TV set top box, router, or other hardware appliance. As long as source code for the kernel is provided for free download on hardware vendor's website, GPL is not violated, Linus' exception for GPL works and viral nature of GPL does not extend to userspace subsystem, which can be kept close-sourced.

Do I understand it right? Any opposing opinions?
How many google ads do you see on your phone? How many google ads would you see if they were in your HUD glasses?
I prefer to subtract 100 $ and get a zotac zbox or acer veriton that may even run as a server if I want to. They also are "fast, compact home or office device[s] [that can be] Set up [...] the way you want with multiple USB ports and versatile display options."
Yeah, palm rejection is better than anything else because they simply don't register iPad touch events when the pen's pressure sensor is activated.

The underlying tech is that the pen is an ultrasound transmitter and the attachment has stereo microphones. It's then just a matter of basic trigonometry to get the position much more accurately than the iPad can detect a finger.
Correct. I shared this thought because I believed that the realisation that most websites are simply database frontends was an unique, interesting and somewhat liberating thought.

I apologize if it feels like I'm stating the obvious, but it was a startling realisation to me.

I always kept each site/company in their separate boxes, when in fact they all do rather similar things, with different branding.
I think that it serves you right. We all know Apple and it's values/philosophy/principles. You, like all Apple clients are asking for it and you should be grateful when you're getting it!
They don't use the iPad touch events when the pen is on the surface, so there's no issue with this whatsoever.
OK , as music lover (mostly as listener ) i developed weird abstract product that collect music recommendations from your Facebook friends and groups into private database , and in real time and let you play it ( you tube streaming )
its GUI sucks and its desktop app. but from programmer point of view it is doing its job and there are few weird people that like it :
http://www.tunesamp.com/
hu .. and i very open to suggestion how to develop it or which direction to take it
They made that decision back when people expected to reboot at least daily, and "shutdown at night" was still current advice. It could have gone either way, I guess.
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Are you sure? I always thought OS X would just go through the installed .pkg packages and check for new versions on Apples Servers, which would make it easy to have a sense of the tasks done and ahead.

The 10.5.3 Update also has a release note about the progress bar:

"Improves the accuracy of the Software Update progress bar indicator."

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1141?viewlocale=en_US&loca...
This looks like it breaches Twitters rules of the road. Specifically items 1.D and 2.4.B.

https://dev.twitter.com/terms/api-terms
This is a good comment. Google Glass is technologically amazing, but the demo video was incredibly distracting. You only want augmented reality when you want it. You don't want random notifications and messages from other people cropping up and making you walk into a lamppost.

On the other hand, if they can lick the distraction problem or even make the tool something that improves focus (say by reminding you unobtrusively of what you need to get done that day) it could be very cool in subsequent iterations. I don't think the product manager is thinking about minomizing distraction though.
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Semi-related note:

On its own, the title is ambiguous.

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/deceptively.html

I'm also not sure why "deceptively fast" is in quotes because it's not contained in the linked post.
Oh no, I get you, and it sucks.
there's not really a war at all, is there?

ARM are completely dominant in this market.
Yeah I noticed that too. Plus when I looked (followed the links), the only Chromebooks on Amazon UK were Acer versions with Atom CPUs.
I think part of the judgement involved in going after Kim was in trying to find someone who didn't fit a nice cuddly image that was easy to defend. What they didn't apparently factor in was that perhaps he might be bright and better than them at playing games.
Intriguing. Have you or someone you know actually used this setup?
I assumed everyone knew this. It's pretty obvious in the Clock app, for example.
Selenium is capable of doing this and has a Ruby driver (library from which it can be controller).

http://selenium-client.rubyforge.org/
A back of the envelope worst case would be assume they are off by 50 MPH and it takes 10 minutes to fall 10,000 feet at 17feet per second. That seems like 5 miles in the worst case. But, the parachutes don't instantly slow the thing to 15-18 MPH and the wind does not instantly get it to match wind speed and normally it's not dropping into a steady 50 MPH wind from 10,000 feet to sea level.
I think your point about the hardware is a good one. All these "small pc equivalent" boxes seem to be overpriced to me, especially the arm-based ones that are essentially competing with smart phones.

From the software side, it's a whole different animal. ChromeOS is intended to be very different from Android. I don't think you can compare some of the features like verified boot or integrated cloud services. Also, you can install apps on android as you like with the flick of a setting. ChromeOS doesn't have installed apps in the sense that they reside on the device. Apps are websites in ChromeOS, no difference. I'm pretty sure "installing an app" and "bookmarking a website" are the same thing in ChromeOS.
I think you're about right. I'm 35, and remember many times as a youngster being stuck at traffic lights behind stank-ass Mercedes diesel cars. It's been a long time since I've seen/smelled one of those though.
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Why does a computer (a physical general computation device) need, require or trust keys from Microsoft (one singular software vendor) in the first place?

If this isn't defined as monopoly-abuse, I don't know what is.
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One similar anecdote I really like is what happened with diesel cars. You used to have to wait when starting the engine for it to ‘warm up’ and drivers obviously didn’t like that. Now you don’t have the wait. They actually hadn’t reduced the warm up time.
What happens now is the warm up starts when you unlock the door, not when you try to start the engine! So by the time you go to start the engine it’s already done – to the driver there is no warmup time.
@fructose, we are still working on LINQ and more LINQ features will be ready for C# to java conversion in coming months.
Yes, Apple shows that showing specs is not necessary: http://www.apple.com/macmini/ </sarcasm>

If specs help sell the things, by all means Google should include them. Whether they are "relevant" or not.

Also note that the info that it is _not_ an Intel Atom CPU is highly relevant IMO, because the Atom is slow as molasses.
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Ribbon is just stealing screen estate.
Right, but I am talking programs written by hobbyists on Mac, Amiga, ST, and so on.
It would be much more interesting to see what they try to reverse in speeches. I know that various news and media outlets (including the Daily Show) highlight this from time-to-time, but unless you've watched all of their speeches, I don't know of any way to easily see what politicians have said over time and how their views have changed, evolved, or reversed.
Can you provide any base for this assertion?

That's not working well in Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, etc.
The end of Megaupload has already happened, well before the trial. Maybe that was the plan all along.
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ARM are completely dominant .. currently. If Intel does manage to execute on their roadmap, then I wouldn't be so sure.
It reminds me "HP Invent" motto. One thing that Mark Hurd made very clear during his tenure was that "invent", at that point, was less than "sell" (or "market", maybe). Hurd's point was that people were spending too much time on the lab and less time talking to customers. "If innovation is fuel, selling it is oxygen".
Was Stephen Fincher really the best example of politicians deleting tweets that they could find? If only there were examples more significant than Stephen Fincher's ruminations on bad TV. Maybe something like a politician named Anthony Dong who tweeted a photo of his dong and resigned from the senate as a result?

If there were examples like that, maybe we'd really be able to see what this service is useful for. Oh well, too bad nothing like that ever happened.

[edit: just noticed all their examples of bad tweets come from one party. Strange. Is the other party immune to bad tweets?]
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At least it informs that it's not an ARM processor, so it should be a magnitude faster (more like a PC than a phone).
It's hardly news. In fact I switched from MS Office to StarOffice 5 in 2000 precisely because of never ending problems with documents. I even had trouble with doc files that one of my colleague made on the very same version (MS Office 2000) running on the same OS (Win98SE), apparently because we had different default printers.
Yeah, the four freedoms. Viva la revolution.

That four freedom shit is just like Animal Farm. It's hilarious.

LoseThos is public domain.

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Torrent Freak always strikes me as very well written.. Is there a similarly well written source which supports the "other side" of the copyright story?
You should also realise that HN is run by Sheldon Coopers with the assistance of Ayn Rand, so don't expect any favours.
You really don't need to warm up by actively doing something. Just like salivating your breathing and hart rate can increase in preparation for strenuous activity's.
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>out of the box it won't do HDMI or VGA (without buying an adapter separately that is)

Some DVI ports can send VGA signals, in which case it would just be a matter of getting a cable with DVI pins on one end and VGA pins on the other.

In other words, the DVI spec contains a VGA-compatible part and an HDMI-like part so that a single DVI port can send VGA signals or HDMI-like "DVI-D" (DVI digital) signals.

Moreover, DVI-HDMI cables are common although some DVI ports cannot provide audio to go along with the video and others cannot speak the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection protocol.
We have this conversation on HN every single time.

Two apps with the same name is a problem.
FYI, GitHub uses it extensively in their source browser: https://github.com/blog/760-the-tree-slider
I'm working on the marketing/traction strategy for my second startup.
Lack of marketing was the reason of the fall of my first startup... so I don't want to get burn a second time. I'll share some stuff on HN in a few weeks :)
So when the pen touches the surface they deactivate touch input? What is when the app crashes? "did you try turning it off and on again?"
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it's not linux's exception. It's just clarifying what the GPL already says. Yes, you can bundle the gpl kernel with all sorts of non-free userspace applications.
He should have recycled the Red Bull can and just filled up a bottle of water from the tap in his apartment.
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Soo, it's an Asus Eee Box without a real OS? Sad..
AppleTV + XBMC? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4iEl3BqhUI
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It is in his biography where it appears. Though it is not talked about a lot.
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Looks useful, but please don't routinely redirect iPad users to the mobile version of your site. Typically any site that works on desktop Safari will work just fine on the iPad. It will almost certainly work much better than a mobile layout that's optimized for a 3" screen.
But Apple's page doesn't give nearly as much focus to the tech specs as Google's does. Most of the page "above the fold" is given over to a description of what it can do and the details they do give are more about relative improvements (2x faster, etc.) than raw numbers. The specs are available and it's clear where to see them but they're not the first thing the eye is drawn to.
If this is the US's response to people relocating outside US borders for their business because of asinine US privacy and copyright-laws, I don't think it will play out to their advantage in the end.

The one lesson learned here from everyone involved is: Whatever you do, do not involve US companies in your business.
"Someone asked me recently how to do something she thought was going to be difficult ... and I suggested she pretend that she was someone who could do it. Not pretend to do it, but pretend she was someone who could."

A trait of pretty much all the people I know who society would view as "very successful" is they seem to do this automatically all the time. Their confidence gets them into higher profile situations where there is opportunity to succeed and once there their mindset maximizes their chances of doing so.

A trait of the few people I know who I'd describe as "exceptionally bright" is they don't do this because they are too aware of their limitations.

People who fit into both groups I think are rare ... and quite something.
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So this boy is from Dresden, Germany, but I cannot find any german articles on this topic. Strange?!
There is a language called LiveCode (http://www.runrev.com ) that is the spiritual successor to HyperCard. It uses a modern day xTalk language, it has network and database access and it cross compiles to Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android. Oh and it has a special engine that works like PHP, you can build websites by mixing HTML and xTalk.

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I think he's agreeing with the parent...
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Two things:

1) I miss HyperCard!

2) This seems to have been influenced by HyperCard: http://www.citia.com (Disclosure: I am not connected to them at all).
Well, it's still pretty useless for predicting how long the update will take in 10.7.4.
It's interesting that in the US, the country which has attempted to push this legislation on everyone else, that Obama declined to reject it because "it was an internationally binding agreement" before almost anyone else has voted on it or ratified it.

Hopefully this is the beginning of an end in the US-led international abuse of copyright law.

Copyright law needs to reform and it needs to get back to its roots. It needs to get back to being limited and it needs to get back to being a temporary monopoly.

The public domain, the one thing which copyright law was actually created to ensure, is dying before our very eyes and noone seems willing to save it.
Perhaps they should change the emphasis. But IMHO they should change it in the way that maximizes conversions.

What I took offense at was the suggestion that the specs are irrelevant and by consequence should not be shown _at all_.

(Also note that on my screen, the "fold" is below the Core i5/i7, Radeon HD and Thunderbolt blurbs. Meanwhile even above that, it emphasises "2x faster processors", "Thunderbolt I/O", "upgradeable memory", as well as physical size and software.)
Indeed.. Why would I buy this instead of, for example, a MUCH cheaper Android set top? (as in, four times cheaper).

Does it do anything different?

I'm in tech and I don't know anything about Chrome OS, and I wouldn't buy even if I had disposable income (and I do want a media player/home theater PC someday). Heck, I could probably buy an equivalent Windows-based HTPC for a similar price.

See http://s.dealextreme.com/search/android+set+top or alibaba prices.

Edit: once again, why the downvote? Also, I showed it to my coworkers, one of them was quite receptive to the Chromebox.
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Very true. Idk how that slipped my mind. Maybe i'll add in an argument to skip detection of an iPad. Thanks for bringing that up. =)
And I am fairly sure the daily Volvic has a bigger negative environmental impact.
Yeah, and does it have internal storage... if so how much, and how much is free user space... if not, how do i add storage, usb?

I like how the specifications tab just gives us 2 pictures. Really, that's the specifications?

Now I know there was a /sarc comment aboce about Apple and sepcs... but even mobile phone websites have better specs than this!

Seriously Google, your average user is not going to give a sh!t about this at moment and only those more tech savvy will likely but this right now!
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Is there a human filter on this stuff?

I ask because, say a politician posts and then deletes something embarrassing on a personal level but which isn't particularly relevant to their political stance.

They are human beings too and I don't feel there's much to gain by being a dick and re-posting this sort of thing on an automated basis. It will just get their backs up and make them a lot more wary about what they post in future. Net loss for transparency on political issues.

This is something traditional journalists are good at -- knowing when to break a story and when to show a bit of discretion in order to earn people's trust and avoid unnecessarily putting people on the defensive.
Finding good Perl devs is easy. Use perl reddit, blogs.perl.org, jobs.perl.org and ask people for their CPAN account. The hard part i found is finding perl developers that are willing to work for the salary of an intern, or for companies that think CVS is the bee's knees.
Or you can look at it the other way that they're people who make mistakes but we somehow want them to magically be perfect human beings.

And then you can look on something like this as a bit weird and creepy, the digital equivalent to the ultra nerd you come across at gaming night who just has to correct you about constantly because he hasn't learnt basic social skills.
I have an opposite example. My father built a cryptography software in the 80's. Some of his clients complained that the app felt too simple and cheap for the price they were paying. So my father added a timer so the app would wait a few seconds pretending it's working. Just so the whole process would take longer. No one ever complained about the app feeling cheap again.

Which reminds me of the incredibly bloated software by Adobe and Autodesk. When compared to Blender.org which opens and runs dozens of times faster on hundreds times less memory. For a full featured product. I can't count how many times I've heard that blender feels worse than maya only because it's faster and free.
It's still not good enough for me, though it is a million times better.

"Go fast". The set top Androids are also pretty fast. Also, as someone said, who reboots these days? (though it's a selling point for a media player replacement)

"Stream HD movies without a hitch", ok, that's a selling point, though my cheap Android phone does well enough on "good enough" quality, so I'd expect the Android set top boxes or equivalents to do just as well.

"Go straight online to creating, sharing and enjoying. Chrome devices come with built-in apps for editing photos, creating documents and presentations, and video chat, so you can get everyday tasks done right out of the box."

Ok, though the Android boxes do that too.

"Google+ Hangouts. You can also integrate multiple chat accounts with apps like imo or eBuddy. "

Not a selling point for me (what is a Hangout?)

Edit: I tried explaining myself. Why the downvote instead of a rebuttal? (I can accept those)
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Since we're talking about Wikipedia, let me direct you to an article that may be helpful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_solution_fallacy

;-)
"a pawn" is an overestimation here! In chess a pawn has a chance to become something more and with a much greater role. In Apple's enclosure there are no pawns, just cattle. They pull the yoke and maybe grazing something until Apple decides otherwise.
Not even my parents would want to use this. No Skype.
Right, sorry I forgot this was a civil case. This is definitely enough for a civil case.
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Yeah, but my Linux systems always start way faster than my Windows systems - even though I hardly use the Windows ones and haven't installed much.
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> Wanting to protect your children does not excuse censorship.

If we're not using principles to protect people, what are they for?
I am also from the same very famous IT bellwether, Most of the employees dont even have admin rights enabled on their machice, so one can forget about installing their fav compiler.

I felt as though i am a idiot. I went on to learning ruby,Obj C and made myself a mobile developer, now i can sleep well, feeling worthy of having a brain.

There are only a handful of people who can be called as programmers in these indian IT companies, rest of them are just code monkeys.

And thanks to Kamaal for he is the one who introduced me to HN :) and congrant to you on moving on.
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Andersen is a great example, as is Feltron!