skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This guy's argument is rather unconvincing. For instance:

Even if HBO wanted to offer direct-to-consumer subscriptions, there isn’t currently a payments and TV distribution service to build on top of, that’s popular and easy enough, with the right economics for content owners. Roku? Boxee? iOS + AirPlay? Samsung Smart TV? Xbox? Please. Compared to cable, these platforms are less popular, often harder to use, more fragmented, and have complicated or unfavorable billing systems. Maybe this will change as Apple, Microsoft, and Google go deeper into the living room. But right now, cable is still the safest bet.

Actually, iOS is popular enough, easy to use, has a very simple billing system in place, and is MUCH easier to use than cable.

Cable may be the "safest" bet, for the meek and unimaginative, but it's no longer the best.
How does Facebook guess results when you search for someone?
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I do wonder if HBO isn't saying one thing to please their cable provider customers and doing quite another to forward their own goals.
Thanks for the feedback! I have similar errors with divx in Chrome, my bet is on divx being finnicky :D
I often walk by this building https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Carnegie+Library+Waukegan,+Ct... which is the library he spent lots of time in as a youth.

Sadly, the building is now closed, but I do hear occasional rumblings of it being reopened.
This is the perfect illustration of how consumers are at the very tail end of the market. So many decisions have been made before consumers "vote with their dollars/feet" that they usually have little "choice." I put choice in quotes because big companies hate consumer choice and it is why they will always prefer to do business with a sigle entity that makes decisions on behalf of the consumer. For instance, the monopoly beverage contracts that every restaurant has with Coke or Pepsi. As a consumer, you don't really have a choice in what to drink at a (fast food) restaurant, as that decision has already been made for you.
It's not hard at all really, I've done it a few times. Since they've already designed for the Retina, shrinking to the 'old' display is peanuts.
No, I think we understand each other. I was replying to a comment about reading a patent to see if it was a "pure troll" which is impossible.
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I'm not cheap. I'd gladly pay way too much for an HBO show if I thought it was good enough. I just really, really hate broadcast media (channel numbers, time slots) and the band-aids that try to make it tolerable (DVRs).

There is no show that is so good that I will ever subscribe to cable or satellite for. I will not bring those hideous boxes into my home.
I get that augmented reality needs to be portable for most applications, I'm not so sure VR needs portable CPU power.

Other than that I agree with you.
Any password that I try works...
True ... the alternative is to stay where you are and actively look for problems. They're not limited to BigCo and if you have the entire breadth of human suffering in view, you're bound to find at least one idea that can be sold (for money ... not users) and excites you.
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Looks great, I can't seem to get it in my country though (I guess apple thinks I live in the Netherlands), is this US only?
Reading and contributing to HN is a better past time than watching TV. You can only code so many hours a day.
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I dont think we are going to see a single pop-up anytime soon on HN. (Quick edit: Site has minimal 'html/css only', _flat_ feel and pop-ups are a different breed.)
it doesn't work with the iPad (3) either...
I agree, I've tried several passwords and they match. If you're a Math person, please shed some light on the chances that this list covers the full space.
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Yes, I wrote this post because I've chatted with a few first-time founders who haven't experienced life at BigCo. As a result, they are creating solutions to problems nobody has. To me, it seemed obvious that you had to know BigCo from the inside before trying to sell them something.
" it just seems like it comes with so much i wont ever user - and could easily add via a mixin on a per project basis"

You could easily add the simple helpers in underscore too, they're not complex, but the idea is you use a library so you can work at a higher level of abstraction. Why write your own array intersection method? Why write your own camelcase function? Sugar opens a lot of doors that are just a little much effort to normally be bothered with (and underscore does too, but to a lesser degree).

"…start extending things that weren't built that way?"

It's ok to extend the prototypes, so long as a) you own the objects and b) you only extend the prototypes from a single module (e.g. sugar). c) Don't extend Object.prototype (unless you're really brave). http://blip.tv/jsconf/jsconf2011-andrew-dupont-everything-is...

The major risk is in collisions, and if you follow those rules you reduce the chance of this occurring to a minimum. If you're worried about for-loops, the way sugar handles extending the object prototype makes this a non-issue. http://sugarjs.com/native

Please actually use a tool before you condemn it.
Show me a single person on AirBnB who passes that requirement you quoted from the agreement!
Multi-select is much less usable unfortunately (no ctrl/shift click, no drag-click).
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Guessing you're using some webkit browser -- Chrome/Chromium/Safari? I'll check it out then -- thanks!
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ETA: "wireless" is very important. Even if the host CPU is just a few feet away, either it must be wireless or on the user. Getting tangled in wiring is really annoying. Trust me.
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> It's a bit unfair to pretend Russian case was somehow fundamentally different…

Can you elaborate on that? I'm not sure I follow.

Never the less, I would say the Russian front was different in that the Winters imparted severe contraints and challenges on the invading army. Another thing is Russia had the population numbers. They could afford to "throw" a generation at the Germans.
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The Evernote iPhone app also accesses the calendar - if you create a note from the app it puts the current active calendar event title in the note automatically although you as users can delete it again. In fact it's a cool feature
Mine was 5 characters, alpha and numeric, but no special characters. It was in there, prepended with 0's.

Whoops.

At the very least, it should have been longer.
I think more clearly it is a suggestion to find a problem that needs solving, and then solve that. This is solid advice.

Many people will 'dream up' a new product/idea/concept, fall in love with it, and then try to build a company out of it. This has a much much lower chance of success. (great for including in a work of fiction, less useful when you're trying to convince people they need something they never heard of before). So don't do that.

But it also works for life, the 'Just Landed' app is a good example of something that I do infrequently, FlightAware made better (you can watch as the plane comes in) and this could be even better. But you have to have to consciously make the step of stepping outside 'living' your life and look at like as a process to be improved.

Some people do this naturally, others have to work at it, and some never get it. Diego's advice to talk to people and find out their pain points (everyone loves to complain) is a good way of seeing the process outside of that actors implementing that process.
My name is Ralf Herbrich and I am an Engineer at Facebook. I work on large-scale probabilistic models for ranking - the "stuff" that is used to determine how likely a user is going to engage with a story or ad.

I have worked for over 10 years at Microsoft Research before on large-scale problems, for example, the TrueSkill ranking and matchmaking system used in Xbox Live and the Halo series as well as ranking systems in Bing. I can honestly say that the current projects I am working on are professionally the hardest I worked on so far and it is amazing how much gets done by a very small team of some of the brightest and most talented people in the industry.

I echo Andrei's comments that the interviews were very difficult. I got no specific C++ or PHP question but more general questions to translate algorithms into working code (being able to pick any language). This IS very important when you work here and everyone at Facebook carries a lot of responsibility so having a high bar is the right decision.
Having a track record really helps. If you've already put out something cool or remarkable into the world, and you have an audience, post a want ad. I'm just saying this because it's worked for me (although I'm not promoting anything so I'm not going to get into details).

Otherwise, you could go to developer meetups, hackathons and the like and get chummy with people. Personality counts bigtime, as does your perceived competence. Be direct with what you need, and if your idea is awesome and you can sell the dream, you'll be on your way.

Good luck with your project.
This is nice, but the main reason I gave up on Cassandra was the difficulty of operating it. It's a far cry from, say, MySQL in terms of devops-friendliness. Curious how much work is being done in that respect.
Are you thinking that the money would be distributed to the actual artists? What a crazy notion.
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Same here. This is what I see: https://skitch.com/sachitgupta/89nhj/just-landed-making-airp...
Use this: http://sandbox.self.li/bookmarklet-to-extension/
I had to leave my cozy Linux system and start using Word 2003 a few months before Office 2007 came out. Even after a few months of exposure to 2003, I had a much easier time navigating the ribbon than I did the menus.

My father, coming from Office 1997, hated the ribbon with a passion.
I guess for a sh-compatible version you could use fizsh (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fizsh/) but it doesn't seem as mature in other areas.
I actually removed LinkedIn app from my Android phone. I don't understand why a glorified web page viewer needs to be able to manage accounts on my phone?

In light of this, sharing my calendar details (and probably more) does not surprise me. Now it's gone from my iPhone as well.

Click on Permissions tab here to see a full list of permissions this app asks for on Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.linkedin.a...
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The man who knows he's not wise is in fact wise?

I actually agree to some degree. Though it could definitely said that it's easier(less time & struggle) for some to create great programs than it is for others.

My entire life as a programmer has been about consistent and constant improvement. A little bit of improvement every day, every project. Committing to the craft(reading, exploring new langs/tools) will definitely allow you to create better and better code as the years go by.
Substitute numbers for letters that look similar (for example, substitute “0″ for “o” or “3″ for “E”.

Am I correct in thinking that the amount of entropy added with cute tricks like this is essentially nil? Is this advice even remotely valid?

Never give your password to others or write it down.

I don't think the advice to never write your password down is very useful unless coupled with a better way to manage all of your passwords besides memorizing them (like a password manager).
I just generated a new random one in Lastpass and changed it. I switched to Lastpass and mostly generated passwords after the Gawker mess.
I don't think it's the same situation as somebody reselling goods you've sold wholesale. As other posters mention, running a commercial operation from a residential apartment brings with it a number of insurance concerns for the landlord, safety and security concerns for other tenants (which would also be the landlord's concern), and no doubt a host of other liability issues which I'm ignorant of because I'm not an NYC landlord.

If you were a landlord who was an AirBnB fan, you could certainly choose to not include clauses that specifically forbade this sort of activity. This guy chose to lease somebody else's property and then go ahead and use it in a manner that was expressly forbidden by his lease agreement to line his own pockets.

I have zero sympathy for him. He got slapped down for misusing somebody else's property and rightly so.
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Assuming LinkedIn used SHA1 unsalted passwords and will continue to do so, and many of us do not want to delete our LinkedIn accounts, what should be the minimum number of characters we should use in our new password? 15? 20? 100? (I know, 100 is probably higher than they allow)
No, that makes it less of a grey area, because Airbnb issues 1099s for the money it disburses, and Craigslist obviously can't do that.
The library is leveraging FFT Corban Brook's dsp.js FFT -- while it's not beat detection in the sense that it's able to tell a track is 140 BPM, you can specify a minimum threshold of a frequency's amplitude to register as a beat, and then that decays until the frequency's amplitude surpasses both the minimum and decay rate -- all configurable
Got a link to the file? I haven't been able to dig one up
Hi - what does

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do?

Thank you
> to the point of requiring rumuneration.

And that's the key. I have never met a landlord who demanded compensation from regular wear and tear. Not for the appliances, floors, walls, etc.

I wasn't talking about holes in walls. I was talking about the general wear and tear that the landlord would never be compensated for. In the end, he would have to replace appliances out of his own pocket at a faster rate, etc.
Our thoughts exactly.
What version/OS of chrome?
Ugh. No. This uses a multi-column natural key. I have a tendency to avoid synthetic keys when I can.
Fish does brace expansion, even for empty braces. In order to actually pass braces to xargs, do:

find . | xargs -I \{\} grep pat \{\}
Hmm, pretty underwhelming.

Great 3D: cool to be sure, but of limited use. Also, I think this is trying to head off Apple's equivalent announcement next week, which I expect to be even more eye-popping, but of the same limited-use.

Street View Stuff: yawn. A marked improvement of the architecture and/or interface would be more appreciated than just mapping more areas. Ski slopes? Whatever. I want automatic incorporation stitching of user images! Automatic occlusion removal where possible! Smoother navigation and transitions!

Offline download: good feature, but what's with the Android exclusive? Shouldn't this be an API feature? Can't you already do this with OpenMaps? Can't you probably do this already yourself?

Are you using data gathered from opt-in Android phones yet to try and better map traffic conditions?
Will incorporate volume and start/stop controls. However, a dubstep slider may not be an option
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Bashing Reddit on HN? SO BRAVE
I've never understood the hate for cowboy coders. A great cowboy coder can do the work of an entire team. It's so typical for people to cry that the cowboy causes work for others, but I've never seen it myself, and I expect the great many who claim it are just following the group-think they've had drilled into their heads.

If you inherit a program from some other maintainer, there is a learning curve no matter what. A good programmer quickly learns how it's put together and plays the field they're on.
Similar on Android; the widget behaves perfectly, which is ironically a poor experience on mobile.

Looks like it would be very nice on a desktop though!
I probably misunderstood what you said but, you want HBO to spend millions producing a show and then let you decide what to pay depending on your thoughts of the show?
Same here. I don't understand why anyone would use a video player other than youtube or vimeo for this type of thing
I am working on http://scorebookz.com

It's a sports team management site. Allows team captains/coaches to easily manage their schedules, stats, and players. I have a good number of teams using it, so it you know anybody who has a team send them a link.

I also just released my first iPhone app called Bullpen:

http://www.maxkpage.com/bullpen

Which is a pitch counter for baseball and softball pitching coaches.
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This is a classical problem for entrenched businesses. When you become the incumbent, you bear the incumbent's burden of risk. Any major shift you make risks the substantial business you've built. This is why most large businesses don't shift, but are replaced.

Dan's argument isn't that this is the "best" decision in a general sense, but attempts to point out the rationale behind HBO's firm stance against uncoupling HBO subscriptions from cable subscriptions.

There is one statement in this article that really explains the whole thing. At least to me:

> And its $1.2 billion in Q1 operating income represented 89% of Time Warner’s total.

[record scratch]

In order for HBO to walk away from what works, one would have to present a very, very compelling model for what will work in the future. I don't see anyone doing that.
It works exactly like it does in the browser, meaning, on iOS/Android it doesn't toggle the default OS action for select boxes. A real bummer considering it looks great.
Renaming your company is a paperwork-intensive process - you need to provide proof to Apple that the new name is registered as a company and owned by you.

Details: https://developer.apple.com/support/ios/account-management.h...

(Giving your app a new name is trivial, on the other hand, and can be done when submitting an update in iTunes Connect.)
Yeah I should have clarified, it's in the US app store only for now. Licensing all the international data is quite a bit more expensive, so we wanted to test demand before doing that. We'll also translate the app in the future.
The most important trait for me would be Passion.
Here's another interview by kotaku with more detail on the hacking process Carmack went through:

http://kotaku.com/5916210/carmack-being-carmack-a-dozen-minu...
Facebook rolls out new “low friction” mobile payments for developers
The large amount of profit may inspire attention, but it doesn't correlate with the extent of lease violation (to my mind).

The lease likely mentions guests generally, not charging for them. Which would mean CouchSurfing.org is just as problematic - and that the amount of profit is immaterial.
You should probably not automatically play audio. Or, if you must have audio, don't automatically play the video.
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Agreed on both counts. It would be trivial to add a handful of common replacements like the ones mentioned during a dictionary attack.

I also find at least a little bit hilarious that Linkedin is lecturing us on security best practices. The main reason you need a strong password (assuming lock outs are in place) is because this kind of thing happens.
Yeah no iPad support yet. For this app to work though you kind of need to have the device with you at all times to not miss the reminders to leave for the airport. For that reason, we thought iPhone was the way to go.
Could be a dupe password?
Is your password quite strong?
I had the same problem. I opened up multiple stories from Hacker News and had to click through each of the tabs find out where the music was coming from. Perhaps you could use some sort of javascript mouse event to detect actual user interaction with the opened tab before you start playing the music loop, and yes please make it clearer in your UI on how I can make it stop.

Overall, pretty cool concept/app.
It's important, but I don't think it's crucial. I've seen a couple programmers that are really good that do not have good memories. They always have apis and cheat sheets open in their browsers they are constantly referencing, along with frequent searches on google.
Here's the rub. You didn't buy the content, you bought their terms.
Which would be tantamount to open warfare in the minds of the cable companies. (Incumbents like to over react when revenue they feel entitlement over is at stake.)
So where is the list? I'd like to see whether I'm on it.
I find this meme a little tiresome. Even if you are paying, it doesn't mean your info will not be used to make money some other way. I'm sure paid users of LinkedIn were also having their data sent back to the servers.
Yeah I remember hunting that as well some time ago
Not yet, though I plan to. I mention why I've posted here instead of starting with a direct email in the beginning of the post. In short, I feel that an explanation is owed to their readership in general, not just to me, given the widespread and longstanding nature of their decision not to credit photographers by name.
Ah, the "Republican" argument: If regulation is so great, why hasn't it been perfect? Clearly the solution is less regulation.
There's a certain amount of complexity that comes with the territory when you move from a single-machine design to a cluster, but Cassandra does as much as possible to simplify things, starting with a fully-distributed "every node is the same" design. (As opposed to having master + router + config + slave nodes, for instance, each of which needs a different kind of troubleshooting.)

Additionally, DataStax makes the "DataStax Community" distribution of Cassandra available for free, including for production use, which includes the OpsCenter management and monitoring tool: http://www.datastax.com/products/community