skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All these Ouya doomsday articles are frustrating. The team behing Ouya is legit. The idea is reasonable. The iOS/Android-style development community is completely different from console. Wii showed that a brand new console can take off in a huge way with little marketing spend.
That's an externality; shareholders can sue the board of directors if they find out it is company policy to waste resources on it beyond its potential costs to the company: PR + legal liability + probability of causing new regulation * the cost of adhering to said regulation.

Sucks, but that's capitalism. However, there are a few states now which allow you to have some charitable clauses in your corporate charter.
For any game that I want to play for more than 15 minutes, I'd rather relax on my sofa with a proper controller and play it on a screen that is not on my lap requiring an uncomfortable neck position.
I'm not a criminal, I am a a pretty mundane guy actually, but of course we live in a society that every single one of us breaks some small law every day.

Which is why I stopped using Facebook.

I also stopped using Twitter to tweet. I still use it to follow news sources, I just don't actively tweet. I did that after the NYPD won a court case to see all the private messages you send on Twitter.

I also don't comment much at all on blogs, and social sites like this one or Reddit anymore. (I use to be a top 10 contributor over at Reddit. At least that is what some metric said a few years ago when someone listed the top ten most popular usernames. That account is deleted now)

I am slowly pulling out. I have a deep distrust of the current surveillance state in the United States. I remember reading a story about a guy who posted a quote from fight club on his Facebook status and a few hours later in the middle of the night the NYPD was busting in his door and he spent 3 years in legal limbo over it. (Might have been NJ police anyways, red flags)

You start piecing together these things, and you start to realize that your thoughts and ruminations about life, the universe, and the mundane, can be used against you at any moment and can completely strip you of your liberty and freedom, and any happiness you may have had.

I am gonna be completely honest, I am scared to express myself any longer on the Internet in any fashion. I don't trust it any longer. I don't trust the police, I don't trust the FBI, I don't trust the federal government, and I also don't trust, nor have faith, in the justice system in the United States.
Using a different definition of the word power doesn't make it any less literal.
It is several orders of magnitude easier to get random data: /dev/urandom.
I reread the article before posting.

I believe he only mentions getting permission to photograph. It seems that he took at as a permission to install an app that would photograph. Maybe there was something I missed. If so, show me a quote.
Indeed it does and is another case of "think of the children" without thinking of the adults.

Conversations of "what was that shit resturant you went to the other day" would probably get flagged as well once they replied with an address. Or indeed local phrased like "I'm hittting the bank first then we can meet up at the bar on 42nd street" were the term hitting is slang for nothing more than a harmless turn of phrase saying i'm going to the bank. Nothing sinister, though could easily be misinterpreted.

There are many others and also people have nicknames.

Still on the plus side, it will create alot of jobs were you get to read other people so called private conversations :|.
Just glanced through SDWebImage's source code. Think this is quite similar to AFNetworking's UIImageView category. My comment below should also apply here.

In the Parse framework, the equivalent class is PFImageView. We chose to design our API differently; from my experience, I believe the assignment of the web image to load and the actual download of the images should be two different steps. This is evident in UITableViewController. In tableView:objectForRowAtIndexPath:, the app developer should know which URL to load, but we should not load the images at this point. Although you CAN achieve the same goal via the other two libraries' API, I feel strongly the API becomes more intuitive to use when the two steps are broken apart.
> At 100k no one will bother to make a game just for the Ouya

Ouya is yet another Android variant. The amount of work porting isn't like porting from 2 completely different platforms like 360 to PS3 or iOS to Android. This is just from one Android device to another. Plus it's not like Android devs don't already have experience with dealing with Android fragmentation. There are also plenty of Android devs who don't get enough attention on the major app stores. For just a little more work in porting from one Android variant to another they can have a whole new venue.
Sortfolio has established itself as a market leader with a solid revenue model. Digg's revenue model is unclear and it is nowadays dwarfed by competition. That said, Betaworks knows what they're doing, so it's certainly got potential.
Making of a Realistic Dragon
I'm wondering how far this goes and how it affects other areas of life. So you've branded yourself with a new middle name that's either made up or a variation on your real one. So when you open a PayPal account do you still use the new name? You mention this helps when signing up for things that end with you getting mail. So if you get mail sent to your new name and it's something you paid for, maybe it's a subscription, maybe not, then I assume companies begin knowing you by the new name and it eventually gets into your credit report.

I never realized how easy it is to change your name in such an unofficial way but still have it almost be taken as if it were official. After all, when you sign up for a subscription you can call yourself anything you like but still put the name appearing on your credit card in the payment area as these are often two different things. So then who gets the credit? The cardholder version of you or the new name version?

I think this is really interesting and may have implications beyond just brand management. Or maybe I'm reading into it too much?
All the more reason to use encryption technology like Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr)! I've been working on an OTR-compatible iOS app called ChatSecure (https://chatsecure.org) that is capable of encrypting your Facebook chats (or any other XMPP service).
The First OctoGala
Do you consider SMS private communications? Your cellphone carrier is just as likely to eavesdrop on your SMS history as FB does your chats.
Well, I can give two answers to this.

(1) arXiv.org is amazingly successfully because people use it and love it. However, the low funding of arXiv.org also means that arXiv.org has missed many opportunities. Had we gotten 4x the funding we got, and spent it well, we might have come to dominate several more academic fields and we could have launched some awesome features.

(2) I think we could have solved the problem of "non-scientists" commenting, but there's also the problem that the physics community is very snarky. What if, say, a grad student writing his first paper gets a really nasty comment by one of the luminaries in the field? We didn't want to get involved in all the suffering that would have entailed.

You're totally right about the ineffectiveness of peer review and that was a subject that we talked about a lot. Some service for giving feedback to papers and evaluating their significance could have been a great help. Yet, a serious investigation of this could reveal that many of the assumptions about how science works may be wrong.

For instance, we found that by far, the papers on arXiv.org that are of most enduring interest are review papers. Like the U.S. patent system, scientific publishing fetishizes being the first to do something, not the first to do it right. Similarly, the idea of "reproduction" is core to what people say the scientific method is, but almost no scientific results are reproduced and many or most would not be reproducable if somebody tried.

Remember, despite peer review, the median scientific paper is wrong.
True! I wouldn't have considered a Hyundai until the last few years. Now they're high value.
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That they made the system hackable and open, however, means there's the possibility that the Ouya can use a smartphone or tablet as a controller in a similar fashion to the Wii U.

I think that the creativity from the side projects that come out of Ouya have more potential to be disruptive than the console itself.
I wish he'd left the security advice out.

The whole post was excellent, but all the useful points will now be overshadowed by the armchair quarterbacking about security by people who mostly don't understand that ALL security is a compromise, and it is as important to understand and make deliberate decisions about your security as it is to try to make a secure system in the first place.
I think he meant the friend called her pretending to be from FB, as a in phone prank.
To me it does seem more like a very cunning way to market there own products. Why dish out X amount on marketing when you can borg a startup into using your products.

Still it's an avenue that to many is a faustian deal, but it is still a option that many others will apprecieate - even if it does seem a way to promote bing and azure.
"Font-hinting becomes less necessary at 200 PPI and higher."

Umm, no. Font hinting is still important at 300 DPI, so it's also still important at 200 PPI.
Mahdi Yusuf: Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes
"I switch between programming languages quite a bit; I often wondered what happens when having to deal with the different syntaxes, does the syntax allow you to be more expressive or faster at coding in one language or another. I dont really know about that; but what I do know what keys are pressed when writing with different programming languages..."
According to CSS 2.1, px _should_ be defined in terms of an angle: http://inamidst.com/stuff/notes/csspx.
Keep on moving those goalposts.
The returns to academic funding are extremely high and if anything, MORE government money should be funding academic research. The strong funding for academic research is one of the principal reasons for the US' level of scientific and technological success.

For-profit business already have well-established funding channels, namely angel investors and venture capitalists. Government doesn't do a good job of investing in startups (Solyndra?) and should stay out of it.
I once made a joke on fb on a friend and posted "you smoke doobies" and he was so shit scared that he took it down. Lol
Someone should monitor Facebook for criminal activity.
Exactly, if anything if you are the initial product designer for a startup then in many respects you are that startup.
It is nice that there are more development boards cropping up. But in this case, it is not such as big deal as the Raspberry is.

What is a big deal is the price of their LCD modules. They are very cheap compared to what most development kits offer. It is strange that in this 'Retina' world, there are still crappy LCDs being sold by more than $200 (assembled monitors, no matter how small, costing many times that amount).

Granted, these lCDs only seem to work with ODROID-X. Anyone knows of a decent LCD module that will work with a Raspberry Pi and doesn't require sacrificing your firstborn? That's for mobile applications (like a carputer), otherwise I'd just hookup an old monitor.
agree - i see a lot of start ups putting haproxy behind nginx for load balancing but i have never figured out why they wouldnt just stick with nginx. does anyone have an example of how the configuration looks on github?
I have been running 10.8 for a around 2 weeks and the last two days both the trackpad and mouse simply stop registering on click, rebooting into safe mode then rebooting again is the only thing that fixes it, I don't even have any third party apps installed! That's a pretty major bug to have on year old hardware with your new release. It feels like QC is slipping. I may give Ubuntu 12.06 a shot via boot camp this weekend and see if I can get my work done with no loss in productivity. I use vim for my editor anyway so it's not like all that much will be different. (I won't miss the beach ball if this works out).
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Fake it til you make it:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/reddit-founders-made...
“Since when has buying a flight ticket meant giving your airline permission to start hunting for information about you on the Internet?”

What a joke. If your information is over the Internet, e.g. it's public, what privacy are you talking about? People really don't understand.
I also recommend the development roadmap:

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-development-roadma...
Neighborhood watch making difference in city neighborhood
I've been using vim for years and didn't know about :x. go figure.
You can get that behavior in iTerm2 by giving it a global hide/show hotkey and toggling non-Lion fullscreening on. The terminal appears everywhere whether you're in a fullscreen app or Mission Control.
Say I come up with a new power control loop for wireless devices. ... If I put it in a radio and sell it, someone can reverse-engineer the firmware and copy the design of the power control loop. Trade secrets won't protect me. ... Imagine the situation: I go up to Raytheon and say "I've got a great power control loop, I'll sell it to you for $50m." And they say "well, how does it work? We're not paying $50m without understanding what we're buying." And you say "well pay me first than I'll tell you!"

I think that this situation could be resolved with a careful NDA and later a license, but you've provided some compelling examples that I think are worth discussing. Perhaps the end of software patents comes with a new sort of hybrid of trade secret and license? The only way to keep things safe in the future appears to be keeping valuable things secret (ask any DRM provider). Even now, how would you enforce a patent against a competitor with a DoD contract, or abstractly with a military contract in another country? The invisibility of software complicates patent enforcement, but not trade secret or licensing.
Oh please...

"Ed is the standard text editor."

And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair.
It good for bootstrapping content, but how would that fetch users. If user come to your website, then he may stick around because finds lots of other fake user.

However, that wouldn't bring user who don't know that your website even exists.
For debugging of course.
I have never had a facebook account. Never have - never will.

I distrust everything they do. And while we like to think that other sites are not as bad, I was recently censored on Quora for asking about why a post was censored on Reddit.

They threw some "against policy" bullshit at me, and Marc Bodnick attempted to appear sympathetic and that his hands were tied and he didnt like the policy either - but it was a BS response.

They removed my question asking why the top LIBOR story on reddit was removed - I asked if Yishan Wong was directly responsible for such censorship etc...

After berating Marc for the BS excuse they stopped replying to me.

EVERY single thing you type online is viewed by the NSAs terrorbots.

Anyone that thinks anything is private online is fooling themselves.
I said a game just for the Ouya, you know an exclusive like say Uncharted for the PS3, not necessarily a big AAA game, but a game that's only available on the Ouya.
I like the idea of Gittip, and I have definitely thought about the problem of how society can encourage things that benefit it (i.e. open source software).

I had a bad experience with Gittip though. I tried to tip you. It said sign in with github, so I did. Then I go back. I tried to tip you again, and it said there was an error. Then I clicked "back with a credit card". And it says I need to sign in with github to add a credit card. But it already says I'm signed in as my user name in the upper right corner. So something is wrong.

Also I think it would be better to allow one-time payments too. I just wanted to try your system but I wasn't committed to making a recurring payment. I was going to cancel it after I tried it. I would have been fine with a one-time payment.
Pft. What rhetorical effect? `:x` is always the better choice. :P
Who wants to take over my web site?  It gets 200,000 visitors per month
I started a site many years ago which got popular really quick. I've been neglecting it terribly, the site is around 10 years old, all static HTML, with a cult following. It is in desperate need to be upgraded in design and functionality.

The content on the site is extremely viral, yet I don't take advantage of any social sharing, etc.

Revenue used to be $20k per month plus, with some months reaching $40k per month. Expenses are basically just hosting, which is around $300 per month.

Due to my neglect, traffic has fallen from a high of 1 million visitors per month, down to about 200,000 visitors right now. I only spend about 1-2 hours per week on the site upkeep, and update it only once per week.

The site still does about 4 to 5 million pageviews per month and generates around $5,000 per month - all Adsense revenue.

I have over 130,000 email subscribers who get a weekly update email.

So here's the deal: The site has huge potential, but I've lost the desire to work on it. I have a vision for it, I can see it as plain as day, and I know I can make it as successful as it once was, and even beyond that, but I really don't have the time or desire to make it happen by myself.

I don't want to sell the site because I know it has huge potential. And I don't want to outsource developers and manage them. I don't have the time or energy to oversee this.

So I'm looking for someone who can take the ball and run with it. Someone who is a great coder and loves to learn and test things. Someone who will basically take this site to the next level without me having to oversee everything.

I do have one requirement: This person has to be in the Bay Area, since that's where I live. I think it's important that we have face-to-face meetings as we grow this.

I'm willing to share profits with this person above and beyond what the site is currently making. I think this is a great opportunity for an ambitious hacker.

Let me know whatever questions you have.

Email me if you're interested, or leave a comment

Email:
q0wbg9s3g6hxfaq@jetable.org
Just a thought - some people go to a lot of effort to 'hide' who they are by ensuring their name does not turn up - or if it does its so mixed in with many result's that it would be hard from a casual review to determine this is the John or Jane Doe one is after - while others a lot of effort to make sure a search turns up the correct Mesers Doe.
Apple manufactures iPads in Brazil, price is unchanged [in Portuguese]
People only want to carry one phone, but dropping $99 on an Ouya isn't going to prevent me from also being able to buy other consoles or PC gaming hardware.

I'm thinking of buying one for the emulation alone.
I agree with your sentiments, and have also been frustrated by this. I don't have answers but can only offer apologies and rationalizations:

1) I think the smart phone mismash disaster was largely because of carrier's keeping phones lock down. Carrier's wanted a cut of every transaction so kept locking out features that could jeopardize their place as a gatekeeper and toll collector. Apple--high on success of iPod--had enough mojo to get AT&T to play ball. After Apple broke the carrier lock down the other carriers had to follow suit.

2) Finance is as much sales and marketing as any other business (perhaps even more). VC's want to buy a company and sell it for a profit (hopefully quickly). Once they see ABC startup being sold for $100 million, they'll start looking for the copycat DEF startup to buy a piece at $10 million that they can flip for $20 million. VCs have to look at the technical risk as well as the financial risk and arguably the financial risk trumps all.

E.g. say you handle all the technical risks, come up with a great company/product, but the VC finds out there is no market for them to sell your company. The financial risk trumped the technical risk. What does the VC do now? Hold onto the company for a few years and running it as a cash flow positive business until the market turns? That's what I'd personally do, but I'm not a VC.... and VC's aren't in the conglomerate business (running cash flow positive companies like Berkshire Hathaway, Danaher, etc).

Finally, I am encouraged by some posts like this from dshen that takes a somewhat contrarian view of VC/Angel: http://www.dshen.com/blogs/business/archives/the_case_for_ha... Some of the VCs/Angles he cites might be good to look into.
It's possible to completely bypass banks, yes. It would involve a physical cash to bitcoin exchange where you hand someone the money and they deposit the bitcoins at the address you specify.

Nothing stops shops from refusing bitcoin, but the same applies to USD.
I disagree for the following reason: I think of :w and :q as two concepts, and :x adds a third, which I personally feel adds some cognitive load, like I now have to differentiate between wanting to write, wanting to quit, and wanting to do both at the same time. With :wq it feels to me like I'm deliberately saying "let's write and then quit".

Muscle memory is not likely to kick in anyway because I almost always use :w and :q separately. I'm modifying the file in one tmux window and compiling/running it in another, so I keep the file open in vim. I don't want to replace :q with :x because I want to be alerted if I've made some changes that haven't been written yet, because that means I may have neglected to test them.
Even more reason to listen to him.
I'm a die-hard mac user, and even I can admit that their window management is atrociously bad. My only hope is that it was based on some stupid edict handed down by SJ, and now that he's out of the picture they'll finally get around to fixing it.
Wow, that is better (I didn't know about it, thanks).
best comment on here
whats the name of website?
The only time I type :wq is when it's by accident that my finger hits both keys at once. I hate it.
The parser is completely interchangeable, it would be a one line change to make this work (with just about any language you have a parser for).
Nope, her account got temporarily disabled within a short time of her posting that comment, got unlocked after a day or two (I'm not sure how long it took to become available). Sure, some friend could theoretically have found a way to get into her account, done the locking and unlocking but seems pretty far fetched.
I've found working with people to be a reasonable way of finding out whether their opinions are worth listening to...
This is something that is planned last I talked with Oscar. I'm sure he'd appreciate the feedback.
Reading High Performance MySQL as well. Loving it so far!
> While we can’t make any guarantees, acquisition is always a possibility.

I am not sure why this was made explicit? People shouldn't join their fund to get acquired by MS, they should aspire to build a long-standing business.
Ouch, thanks for reporting. :-(

Digging a bit ...
I'm not sure I'm smart enough to know what this comment means.
Learning find is a worthy investment.

find ./ -name "*.log" -size +2G -ctime +3 | xargs -P 8 gzip

Will find all log files over 2 gigs and older than 3 days. Then it will gzip them split across 8 parallel gzip processes.