skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The current federal wiretapping is nothing compared to what Herbert Hoover did as director of the FBI. Yes, the NSA has a dossier on most Americans, collected using computer programs. Herbert Hoover did the same thing, without the advantages of computer automation.

You're confusing Herbert Hoover (the 31st President) with J Edgar Hoover, the infamous creator of the FBI in 1935.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

However, I do challenge your point that the US is "freer", as there are dozens if not hundreds of Hoover-wannabes in government and powerful companies around the country and globe, and who now have computer automation and societal indoctrination from the brain-children of many forever wars (ie, war on terror, war on drugs, etc).
My suggestions:

1- Ditch youtube

2- Start transcoding both into one video instead of two like it is now, so when I seek I have both timed up
correctly

3- Use your own video player (goes with #1)

4- Modify homepage to be more "imgur" like- Move the browse button off of the "get started" page to the homepage.

5- Get a video ad network in place (many to choose from- integration takes about a hour) and start profiting from embeds

I know the argument on using youtube. Its easy, its free, they have a ad program you get a cut of. Its still worth it to roll your own if you get this to take off- You want to be "the easiest way to share your replay"
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This has never been about the law or justice, it is all about politics, lobbying and money.
I just watched the pirated BBC broadcast. I felt like something was missing, and then I figured it out. The stupid thing is that Americans are forced to watch the Olympics with 20 minutes of commercials per hour, while the rest of the world gets to watch it nearly commercial free. Why does the US citizen pay for the entire Olympics through the annoyance of commercials?
What's the difference between Tmux and iTerm2?
I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.
I'm curious: how do the bandwidth costs of streaming 1 video file compare with the ad revenue from said 1 video stream?
I've seen heroin addicts say that caffeine withrawal is worse than the one caused by opiates.

The headaches are unimaginable. The energy levels are lower than being hung-over.

Short-term memory works in a state siimiliar to that when you have 70% packet loss in multiplayer video games. Everything is annoying and you just want to disintegrate people.
Sounds like something out of Parks and Recreation, only weirder.

Well... truth is stranger than fiction.
Thank you for such a detailed response. It's particularly timely as I'm trying to figure out how to introduce my kids to mathematics.

Granted that there is a lot wrong with the current system, I'm curious what you think about the specific criticisms levelled against Khan in the OP's article. Is there any merit in the charge that he introduces the equality operator without enough explanation? Or that there ought to be more discussion in his lessons about the meaning of the decimal point?
Another article referencing 'Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the Internet' - expect better from Techcrunch.

Internet != World Wide Web
How is nationalist propaganda specific to the US?
A kind of sinking feeling seems to be telling me that the books lost that battle.
Mistake?

For Facebook investors perhaps. But not for Zuckerberg. He gamed the IPO system like a champ, extracting far more hard cash from investors and financial institutions than he should have been able to based on the fundamentals of his company.

Consider. Here's this company that is nominally a "publicly traded corporation" that still has over 50% of the stock in one person's hands, Zuck. And it's sitting on a pile of many billions of dollars of cold hard cash (representing well over a decade of potential accumulated profits at present levels). All of the early investors and employees have cashed out to the tune of millions or even billions per person. Meanwhile, Facebook is using its corporate cash hoard to buy up competitors and fill out the empire.

They played this game remarkably. They played the banks, they played the financial analysts, they played the investors. They've got theirs and they are far more secure of a company than they were before the IPO.
I like this idea, but I'd probably opt for reading the stats out of memory instead of OCRing them. You'd get more data (since you don't need to have only one specific tab open), it'd be more accurate, and it might even be easier.

If anyone is unfamiliar with reading process memory in Windows and wants to do this, I have a fairly simple example reading from SC2 at https://github.com/gibybo/S2GS-Extractor
I want my desktop to look like, but not be Windows 98. I don't like the MS registry, or anything else MS for that matter, Debian With a desktop environment that enforces the desktop metaphor is a sensible alternative...

It would not be that easy to write a long email, let alone an article on a tablet or tablet-like computer interface.
I am a citizen of Team GB and feel your pain. NBC are idiots.
This is a survey by the NHES, a government organization - do you think there is some reason for selection bias?

Here is the survey's remark on their estimation methodology:

"When applied to survey data, weights allow for the generation
of national estimates from a sample of respondents. They also
adjust for characteristics of the survey design, nonresponse,
and noncoverage. However, biases may exist in the data if
weighting procedures have not adequately adjusted for these
issues. A large-scale bias study was conducted in conjunction
with the 2007 data collection. Readers interested in the
findings of the bias study, as well as detailed information on
NHES survey methods, weighting, and response rates, can
refer to the Data File User’s Manuals published online at
http://nces.ed.gov/nhes ."
Actually, as documented in Ignition!, a great deal of rocket science is, in fact, chemistry — and although the oxidizers are not usually organic, the fuels are.
I've worked at plenty of places that were better analogised as "Participant" than "Breakthough" or "Best-Of-Show".
The BBC is not free, in the UK everyone with a TV has to pay a yearly fee for it, you get ads because you don't pay the fee.
I understand your uncertainty, however I encourage you to search twitter for people who have pledged their support (we have highlighted a handful on join.app.net). I think you'll be pleasantly surprised!
There were certainly teething problems but every week it got better and tighter. The nReduce guys have been a participant in the program as well as guides. If you were willing to put up with some rough areas in week one you were rewarded as they improved and refined the system in later weeks.

It's by no means perfect. There are startups at all levels so sometimes you feel like other groups are slacking when really they are just in a different place (or are actually slacking).

There is no penalty for failure. (penalty is the wrong word but you wouldn't want to wash out of YC--pg has anyone?) groups would just fall off.

I tweeted the other day that the monthly demo day was too frequent and I think that is true. I think they should have 2-3 a year. In the end, inclusion into 'physical' incubators/funding/press will be the measure of nReduce's success and TOO much exposure may be a bad thing.

The ui is crude but improving. Angel list was a mailing list at first wasn't it? Hard to criticize nReduce for the ui when their model is still being flushed out.

Anyway, it's been helpful for loads of groups and I see a place for it in a: nReduce -> physical incubator / angel list sort of place. HN is the same thing--a community of like minded folks who tend to help each other. nReduce is just trying to organize the process a bit...
Money doesn't mean quality. Often it means the reverse.
Using 16-bit images won't save any memory, and may actually use more memory. The iOS graphics pipeline requires 32-bit images for rendering, so all other types of images are converted to a 32-bit texture.

If you are trying to optimize memory consumption, you need to measure memory consumption! You can't just change some code and assume your memory consumption has gone down.
I like Derby over Meteor, without question. But Derby is still sorely lacking in server-side logic, particularly auth, which is what drove my Derby project to a halt. What non-trivial apps can one build without any private or authenticated data whatsoever?

Supposedly these features are coming, and I sincerely hope that derby matures into a real-world tool. The RacerJS tech is amazing, and the library is fun to work with.
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It's awesome that App.net is trying to build something new, but I think the Hacker News market is somewhat saturated considering how many articles have been on the front page lately. If people haven't donated by now, I don't think a few screenshots will sway their opinion that much. I'd guess that turning your effort towards other avenues would be a better use of time.
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There was a mistake in the article. The additional investment was from SV Angel and Yuri Milner, not Y Combinator. We apologize for the confusion, and the mistake has been corrected.
Yes, but that diff is completely non-technical.

So don't discount anything yet...
It's not distant at all... why is providing a forum for users to make bytes/information available to each other categorically more villainous than showing a little ankle? Only your cultural perspective makes a Sharia infraction less severe than vague IP transgressions.
Would editing the parent to say 'having sex with another man,' which is a capital offense, really change the substance of the argument?
How much is the fee? I suspect if given the choice between fee or commercials, many would choose the fee. Sadly that choice doesn't exist here (in the US) :/
The specific analogy aside, the fact is that the U.S. government is basically saying that no matter who you are, or where you are, if you violate American law you'll be brought to American justice, even if they have to drag you to America against your will first. If any other country in the world did this, there would be complete public outrage.

From my point of view, American copyright and patent laws are very, very wrong. They largely miss their intended purposes. What's more, apparently even non-Americans on the other side of the world are at risk of being the target of these legal shenanigans.

I cannot stress how RIDICULOUS I think this whole affair is.

It's as if the prosecutors figure that Megaupload operates on the Internet, therefore it's operating in America and is subject to American law... is this another example of people who do not understand how the Internet works making major decisions about the Internet and it's future?
I have never drunk a cup of coffe in my life. I don't care for the taste. I was just now considering forcing myself to drink it because of it's supposed good effects. Guess I won't
Tennis fans regularly suffer this same nonsense from NBC every year with the French Open and Wimbledon[^1]. I can't see them changing anytime soon.

Relatedly, their whole cable TV package requirements for online streaming is also very annoying. It requires having a package with both CNBC and MSNBC to get access. I still actually have a cable TV package, but my provider does not offer MSNBC on any of their packages so I'm out of luck.

Thankfully, there's the Yankees/Red Sox this weekend so I'll watch that instead.

[^1]: Thankfully ESPN bought the rights to Wimbledon starting this year. Maybe they (or parent, Disney) could do the same with the Olympics once the rights are up for grabs again.
Presumably the BBC outbid other British channels in a competitive bidding process. I suspect that broadcasters in the rest of the world know that 20 minutes of commercials per hour is unacceptable, so they don't bid as much as our networks. EDIT: The only source I could find indicates that the BBC paid about $100 million for broadcast rights to these games. That's 1/10th of what NBC paid, or about 1/2 of the American fees on a per capita basis.
congrats jon and team for big W!
How is my argument absurd? I fail to see how writing code with early exits and having a basic understanding of process memory space, which I've demonstrated on the basis of things people, that don't have CS degrees, have said and done at my work absurd?

What I don't get is why so many people stereotype college as useless because they think you're in a lecture hall scribbling down whatever the professor says and that's it. How such a notion came to be and how people seem to forget exercises, labs, and class projects is very much beyond me.
So glad to see my tax dollars working for things like this. Like another user here said "this has never been about justice, the law" or what's right - it's all about lobbying, politics and $$$$

The sham organizations that are the RIAA/MPAA are so heavily vested in the government, they'll try anything and everything to create a controlled Internet/sharing system of "content" - which in and of itself is the vaguest definition of all time. All this SOPA/PIPA crap will never pass, we will always find a way for a free Internet.

Total waste of time, a government making up bullshit laws along the way for something that will not only have zero effect on content sharing, but will actually increase it after angering tons of people.

It's truly ridiculous when resources, energy and tax payer dollars can be spent on more important issues that our country needs help with. All these politicians in this country are a f-ing disgrace.
Haha. Yeah, I actually had never heard of the font til I read that article but liked it so went with it! (my gf says its cliched and I should change so I may).

Glad you are liking ThetaBoard. It's gonna be good. Email me at support@thetaboard.com and I'll upgrade you to a premium account for free.
Meteor's team is also more impressive.
Thank you for the detailed write-up. I'll definitely consider joining the program!
Sure, of course, and the "n" is a nReduce isn't really an n. Stands for "Eta Reduction". http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Eta_conversion

But names are just names. We tried to have a bit of fun with ours.
You can easily implement one of node.js's existing solutions.
Ask HN: If you had unlimited talent and money, what startup would you do?
Marketing Yourself as a Programmer
They should look into adding an affiliate program. There are a lot of travel sites that could integrate that into their content.
I certainly was measuring memory consumption. Many of these images are offscreen in paging scroll views (per the blog post), or stuck in caches.
Key phrase being "U.S. companies in China". Not "U.S. companies who don't operate in China".
Well, companies such as Google need to start buying broadcast rights and put it all on the 'net. I am sure they can make far more money online than NBC ever pulls out of their advertisers. For one thing, these days lots of people DVR shows not just for convenience but to skip the commercials. I sure do. I'd rather watch something 30 to 45 minutes after the fact than have to endure the obtrusive commercials.
I just graduated from a private school with a CS degree. Went there on a full boat with only subsidized Stafford loans to cover the cost of my room.

I am now getting into foss since I failed to get in on any of my internships / summer of code last summer, since my piece of paper is effectively worthless. I do have project experience (a course scheduler in C# for .net, a tower defense game in swing, wizard design for a seismometer program the school contracts) but employers don't care about that, especially the projects the school contracted on that I can't show the source to.

So yeah, I've been job hunting for ~4 months (some nice folks on HN even gave me some phone interviews, but it never got past that) and the lack of job experience drives away a vast 99% of employers. I have a good gigabyte and around a million lines or more of assignment and project code I could throw at them, they are just not interested :P
Per [1] the fee appears to be £145.50 a year, or roughly $229.10 USD according to Wolfram Alpha.

[1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/whoweare/licen...
Also some people, such as myself, metabolize caffeine at a slower rate due to genetics. SNP rs762551
Also, back when iPods had platter harddrives, if it predetermines the whole shuffle order in advance, the iPod can load the few next songs into memory and not have to spin the harddrive up as often. Saved a lot of battery.
£145.50 (US$228) per year. About £0.40 (US$0.65) per day.

Excellent value in my opinion.
This might be overkill as it expires all your fragment caches as well
The Three Branches of the U.S. Government
Yes, that's globbing, but I was wondering what the OP meant by argument expansion. It could be just globbing, or include globbing but extend to variable expansion, braces, command substitution... It's hard to put a case that having the shell do these things is the right way to do it without understanding the OP's point clearly.
>Am I missing something that makes this an ethical thing to do?

Because America.
How does the replay conversion work? o_0
First I'd ever heard of App.net was Siracusa's "Hypercritical" podcast last night. This post on HN reminded me to check it out. I added my support. Just wish someone would do something like this for Path (and all the other web services that I love, but don't want to become the "product")

It's times like this that I realize how much I take HN for granted. Great service. No Ads. Fantastic Community.
our treatment of them will be repeated to their friends, who...

Conversely: the message behind the incredibly popular "bum's rush" technique of flushing sub-optimal candidates seems to be "aww, you sucked so bad, most likely your friends all suck, too -- so we might as well deter them from applying, also."
As far as I've read, Megaupload didn't have any U.S. assets. It was all in Hong Kong and Australia.

You don't see the U.S. going into foreign countries (on different continents even) and dragging back people and their assets to charge under American law, do you?

If a drug cartel is running it's operation in a country where it's not illegal to do so and something like this happened, then I would STILL be complaining about this.
From a sheet I used to keep:

Caffeine:

Stimulant/Vasoconstrictor/dopaminergic

half-life: ~5 hours

Fat + water soluble

Ideal dosage < 200mg; 50-100mg per day

Benefits: boosts working memory, reduces re-uptake and increases production of dopamine, improves alertness, attention span, memory retrieval, acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.

Downside: increased blood pressure and sustained high levels of heart rate, adesonine reuptake inhibitor and mildly addictive through dopaminegic pathways, acetylcholinesterase inhibitor.

Synergistic with: theanine, sulbutiamine

Possibly: antioxidant effect+, MAO A and B inhibitor+ , protective vs Parkinson's+, damaging to hippocampus- , damaging to short term retrieval of unrelated tasks-

Decision: Minimize usage to less than weekly.
You should not give someone water if they have washed their salt out, at least not on its own..
Had they used bitcoin, would the government had any power to do this?
Which hasn't been news for years in the first place.

Way to go, Forbes.
Yes, the downloads appear to contain just .a files and other related stuff, not source code of Sparrow itself or of the dependent libraries.
Welcome to the police state.
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free
That's a whole lot less than paying for cable to get ESPN
Realtime by bitly: An Internet attention ranking engine
Startups, when should I start applying for jobs?
I am going into my senior year of college in upstate New York and looking to land a job with a startup in the City. Should I start contacting them early on e.g. October or is it better to wait until I'm closer to graduation?
In the case of Surface I expect a lot of frustration trying to use a standard windows app on a small touchscreen. And if you are going to connect the device to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse, you might as well have a small desktop PC

So don't buy the x86 version. The ARM version doesn't have the desktop, so there's no complaining about how you foolishly installed non-touch apps and now you can't use them easily.
I de-caffinate for about 2 to 3 months per year. It's 2 weeks of hell followed by refreshment.

I also abstain from alcohol for 4-5 months per year in order to keep myself a cheap drunk.

Obviously, those two time groupings never overlap.
Some thoughts on your user base.

1. Individuals who want to share replays with friends.

2. Professional teams who want a scalable way of taking video of their players' games and hosting them on their sites.

3. Tournaments that want to host all their games in video format (don't want to distribute replays) but have scalability problems in doing so. They may be tentative about uploading such replays to your site, so a more formal partnership might work better.

4. Individuals who want to "watch replays" on mobile platforms.

5. Individuals who want to "watch replays" on machines that can't handle sc2 (or people who don't own a copy of SC2).

The need for replay watching is somewhat diminished compared to the days of Broodwar, when there was a dearth of videos of games available (nowadays, youtube videos of games are just everywhere). Where you might find success, is with groups who are really keen on watching replays of games that are one of those one in a million kind of games that weren't broadcast for a tournament. (I remember there was one such game -- Sea vs Savior -- during Blizzcon 2008 that was only played backstage and was basically never shown to the public)
Does anyone know what ended up happening to BitTorrent Live (live.bittorrent.com)?

Creating a swarm of video streamers would've been a good technology fit for filling this role, from what I read about the protocol awhile back.
The state of "freedom" is in constant flux. In comparison to say, 1930, the world is pretty free right now.

Just because things seem pretty sane now in comparison to historical insanity doesn't mean we should accept corruption, extra-judicial executions, torture, mass murder, and internal spying operations.

Unfortunately that's what we've received. And because its been accepted (in the US, as indicated by record fundraising from both major parties) I fully expect more of it, with ever waning discrimination.
In many countries (including the United Kingdom) the amount of commercials that can be broadcasted per hour on terrestrial broadcast is limited by law or other regulations. The UK is special in that the biggest broadcasters (BBC, ITV, Channel 4) are all publicly owned.

Edit: as others have pointed out, ITV is not publicly owned, but Channel 4 (and obviously BBC) are.
In Germany it’s €215.76 per year, so about $266. Similar, but I can’t help and feel that value for money is worse here. There is some real cool stuff the BBC does that just does not exist in Germany.

But it seems that the Olympics will get pretty great coverage, also on the web. (There were, e.g., streams with and without commentary available tonight.)
I'm still waiting for major fast food companies to start making their own ordering apps like this. No having to explain complicated orders through an intercom. No having to wait in long drive through lines.
I believe the BBC gets it by default being the state broadcaster.
Details? My understanding is that derby functions are able to run both on the client and the server, and have access to all data. When I last looked at it (it's been almost a year, if not more), there was no way to use Derby's features without being highly promiscuous with data.
If Google put the Olympics online with its own commercials (I assume that's how they would monetize it?), why would you stop watching your commercial-free DVR recording in favor of Google's broadcast?
Good companies still stand out. And the founders of good companies don't usually intend to start cargo-cults.