skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also thought about writing an app like this a while back. Having the user describe their mood with colors would also be a good way of describing mood. Perhaps look into how psychologists evaluate moods and mood disorders. I'll download it and good luck!
I don't think the increasing separation from each other has anything to do with the technology itself, but with the way the technology is being used.

So you might feel more comfortable reading a book, which is a simple form of technology, rather than giving yourself an immersive experience, because it's more easily accessible.

Chit-chatting on the bus with girls for me is the ultimate rush, the hell with phones. I use a phone because it's useful, and I'm smart enough to not put it in the way of my social interactions.

If you're the kind of person that hides from social interactions behind a phone, then you will hide regardless of the phone.

The video is very well done, and it shows the creepy side of the technology, so I don't see why you're scared of it. The guy is obviously a freak for wanting to control the girl - forget the technology, the guy is a psycho even without the sight thingy.
$10 In-N-Out delivery to anywhere in SF
I see your Pete Rodriguez and I raise you a LMFAO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr6kCPj8
"I use a service called Vyprvpn which is $14.99 a month. I get it as part of a bundle with a subscription to Giganews. That’s how I connect with a VPN to the UK. And you can too."

So the author ended up paying to watch the Olympics. Illegally, instead of legally, I would add.
I agree as far as the delay goes, but I think they're handling the spoilers badly. A lot of people are annoyed that they went to http://www.nbcolympics.com/ to find a broadcast schedule, or watched the NBC News before the Olympic broadcast, and were told the results of stuff that hadn't aired yet.

An option could be to double down on the tape delay, and uniformly embargo results until the airing: pretend that when something airs on NBC is when it really happens, at least for NBC-property purposes.
Apparently the results of today's 400M Men's swimming individual medley were the lede for NBC Nightly News tonight... before NBC has even aired the race. Just when you thought they couldn't make things worse....
That model no longer works in the modern age. Simply put, there is demand for viewing coverage of the olympics that is not being met, thus they are leaving money on the table. Unfortunately for them and for their potential customers they are constraining themselves to a business model that is obsolete. They are doing the equivalent of covering the olympics via newspaper in a television era.

They need to provide live streaming coverage of a wide variety of events, whether for free (with ads) or for a fee. That's the minimum bar these days, if they can't meet that bar people will just get their olympics coverage some other way (such as pirated bbc coverage) and NBC will still have lost out on a massive amount of potential revenue. And in the meantime they will have tarnished their brand as well.
I've read that happiness has some specific conditions and that it comes into being when those conditions are fulfilled.

Snippet from an article:

> What is happiness indeed? What is the law of happiness?

> Once we live without hunger, without loneliness and with bright mind; those kinds of minds exist, that is happiness. In order to live without hunger, loneliness and darkness, we ourselves should make those conditions.

Complete (and free!) article there:

http://www.members.tripod.com/tathagata2000/happiness_and_pe...
Answer: Get a cable TV subscription. If you don't want to "pirate," or be in a "grey area," then do what the license rights holder wants you to do and pony up. I pay for Frontier FiOS TV and can watch whatever events I want as part of my subscription. In many areas, the local cable company will have you installed in a day or two and you can go month-to-month. Comcast in Seattle is offering $29.99/month for the first 6 months, no contract, and that includes msnbc, CNBC, and Bravo.

To answer the point of "NBC pays the government," they do: for broadcast spectrum only. All the other channels with Olympics content are not covered by that payment.
It's parallel in the same sense that any POSIX program is: Node pays a higher cost than real parallel VMs in serialization across IPC boundaries, not being able to take advantage of atomic CPU operations on shared data structures, etc. At least it did last time I looked. Maybe they're doing some shm-style magic/semaphore stuff now. Still going to pay the context switch cost.
This doesn't include state and city levels, where most of the education spending happens.
Well, if you insist on reverting back to a browser that will never have any security updates ever again, here are some useful tips for preventing it updating itself:
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/931530#answer-349...
Great question. Unfortunately, it's not easy to do DNS queries from within today's browsers. However, all modern browsers already support [1] cross-origin XMLHttpRequests and the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header [2].

Thus a fixed URI like /.well-known/oauth.json would allow us to potentially do everything from service discovery to authorized requests from within client-side JavaScript apps without the need for server-side proxying or interpretation.

[1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=cors

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/http_access_control
The problem is a patent may be worth so much because it is so trivial that doing anything else is silly.

Apple should never have been granted a patent for slide-to-unlock, that's a trivial consequence of using a touchscreen UI.
This exact same thing happened to me today!

I'm in Germany, so I put the Olympics on TV. But I don't yet speak German, so after an hour I wanted to watch them in English.

I went to the NBC web site, but they geolocate your IP and only stream to US people. Fine, I'm used to this crap (lots of Youtube videos are blocked in Germany too) so I just fired up my proxy and tried again. This time I got through, only to find that they're asking me to log in to a cable provider first! What the hell!

After scouring the internet I found a huge list of Olympics streaming broadcasters. Turns out the BBC is broadcasting online too. So I try them--same thing, blocked outside of the UK! But this time I don't have a proxy in the UK, so I gave up and watched the damn thing in German.

I get the theory of having to go through a cable provider login to get the US Olympics. But what if you're a taxpaying UK citizen abroad for a while? You've paid your tax--but you still can't access the stream!

Wasn't the internet supposed to break through barriers like space and location? In the year 2012 am I seriously being denied an English-language broadcast of a global event just because my laptop is currently in Germany?

Sure I can jump through even more hoops and figure out a UK-based VPN or some crap. But the point is I shouldn't have to do this! We're in 2012 people! Why even have the internet if we're just going to lock up information according to where you live?
My advice would be to get in the habit of making an accomplishment every day. Little success every day, not matter what it is, will get you out of the rut.

I am reading 2% of War and Peace every day. Made it to 75% by now, and every day that I read the book I have something to look back to. Contemplative reading has second order effects as well - I feel I can concentrate better, which is very helpful given that the internet has taught our minds to jump all over the place like a monkey. I set aside an hour in the evening and do nothing but read.

Try it. If nothing else you will have read a great book. And then you will become acquainted with one of the books key characters l'Russe Bezuhoff, who seems to have had all of the same doubts that you do, only exactly 200 years earlier. :)
Thanks for the feedback, that's a good point and something I've become aware of while using the app too.

Regarding knowing whether you're using the same scale day after day, how about a relative scale? E.g. rather than giving an absolute "score" of how you're feeling, you say whether you feel better, worse or the same as yesterday?
More importantly, it'll make these utilities easier to write.
Well then, you really aren't getting the best of both worlds, are you. Might as well by an iPad.
Is EFNet down?
I'm having trouble reaching efnet.net and irc.efnet.net, even though I'm using 10 (ten) different hosts, reseding 7 countries (with 4 ISP's per country), and -EVERYTHING- says EFNet is down (and yes, I made a simple C++ program for checking that and YES I've used well-known libs & packet-sniffers for confirmation), question for all of your YC users: Is EFNet down? I've never seen EFNet's HTTP/S + IRC down until this day.

So what's going on?
It's pretty hard, actually, and I'm not all the way there yet. Much harder than learning the technical skills to actually become great, and I think I know more programmers that're held back by inability to work on teams than by lack of programming skill.

Largely, it's about taking a leap of faith and trusting that you can still do great things even when they're not solely your great things. Who are you more likely to have heard of, Paul Buchheit (one of many who worked on GMail) or Fredrik Lundh (sole developer of PIL)? Tim Berners-Lee (one of many who developed the web) or Daniel Veillard (almost sole developer of libxml)?

It can also help to just think of it as an experiment - "Okay, I am reasonably financially secure for now, what happens if I stop caring so much about glory and start looking at the world around me? Will I become a complete slacker and end up doing nothing, or will I end up becoming even more successful?" And then just try it - you have relatively little to lose, after all - and see what the results are. It's also quite possible that for some people, giving up their ambition really does leave them with nothing and they sit around and play video games all day, and those people should probably stick with their hunt for glory. For me, though, I found that when I cared less about how successful I could be, I started becoming curious about what else was going on around me, and that gave me more information for better decisions, and that made me more successful anyway.
There are too many people making too much money in the US for it to be handed off to public TV.
The relative scale is a really interesting idea! I'd love to give that a try!
This.

I have been dealing with Samsung half-phone half-MP3 players for a while now, and they all choose the next track randomly. I pine for the days when I used to have an iPod that could run Rockbox, so that the "back" and "forward" functions worked in the shuffled playlist. Sometimes I mean "rewind to start" and I accidentally tap the button twice to say "seek to last track." That takes me to a random track and then the original is no longer available as "next". So irritating.

And this randomness-is-too-random crap does happen. I'll put on a list of songs to sing along to, only a few hundred songs, and often after half an hour or an hour I'll be repeating songs which I've already sung. Sometimes they'll be two-in-a-row or separated by only one, two, or three different songs.

(The other great thing about Rockbox was that I had access to folders which automatically acted like playlists. We've had debates about this back and forth around HN, I know, but suffice it to say that it's really nice to have an "Audiobooks" folder where you can download individual book folders. Otherwise you often have to make sure that you don't get bizarre interleaved numberings, chapter 01 from book X followed by chapter 01 from book Y. In Samsung, this is actually governed by the Title of the ID3 tag of the MP3, which can be even worse.
My side projects look like gifts to me, I feel uncomfortable to sell them.

Maybe this isn't the entrepreneur way but I feel bonded with most of the lines of code I write. I think I could sell two side projects of mine (http://tomato.es and http://drawbang.com) profitably but I use them to experiment and I really like to see them grow naturally, they're like little plants growing in a big forest.
The Nike Running app has something similar to what the op is talking about. I use this after I've been for a run, it's quite useful.
Show HN: Use Illustrator Drawings Directly in your Mobile Apps
It's different because via Apple's model, you are holding the bookstore in your hands. There isn't an option to go to a different bookstore down the street, or order a book from a website that will send it to you in the mail. I'm thinking about the "ideal" (to Apple) world in which schools just expect content to be consumed this way (text books are a huge and important market), and it's disgusting.

And yes, you are right. I am admittedly ignorant to the nuances and history of publishing, and am thus probably neglecting to look at this from different angles.
Is there a radio broadcast you can listen to for sound whilst watching the images from Telemundo. I've heard of people doing this to choose a superior radio commentary whilst watching sport on TV in the UK.
On the contrary, I think proper concurrency constructs, including threads, do improve the clarity of programs. Part of the problem in reasoning about threads is a lack of useful primitives. Multithreaded programming in Java? For me, at least, it's tough. In Erlang? Trivial. In Clojure, if you're willing to deal with the slowness of the STM, it can be beautifully simple.
iRobot and Willow Garage Debate Closed vs. Open Source
Where are you located? I'd love to beta this and provide feedback? Would you be interested in this... I am a product manager, IT background and other things... I alos have an amazing Designer I could hook you up with...

I'd like to help.

Let me know. My email is in profile.
Yep, we are in 2012, yet just because some things are possible (like access to TV from every source across the globe), doesn't mean to say those things are permissible.
I think the fact that you're thinking about how to guide your kids through their early years indicates that you're going to do well at it. Sometimes you won't give enough detail and sometimes too much but overall, they'll hear the parts they need at the time.

A funny anecdote - I taught my daughter the principles (not the mechanics) of trigonometry and the unit circle when she was in 6th grade. Simply because she asked. When she was taking trig in 10th grade, she said "remember when you told me about ...".
I miss journalism. How is this a monopoly? Just because I buy a meal doesn't mean I have a monopoly over eating. Can we now construct arguments with cuss words?
You Are Where You Deserve To Be........ Here's Why
In support of your point, I remember a time not so long ago when phones ringing in movie theaters were not unheard of. That hasn't happened to me in recent memory, and I go to the movies a lot.
Well, I quickly went through all of the default preference panes and here are all the Advanced buttons:

Security & Privacy
(Displays - Calibrate has an "expert mode")
Mail, Contacts & Calendars - for manual mail accounts
Network - big advanced section
Bluetooth
(Zoom in Accessibility has "More Options...")

So there's a few of them, but I wouldn't say lots.
Right. She published it as a guest post, but it wasn't written by her. She didn't "write about something she had little knowledge about"
There's a difference between believing someone's honesty and trusting someone's interpretation. I believe she's being honest; that she is telling the truth as she sees it. But I would like to judge for myself what Apple said.
Drat - this story is just a tad premature. A brand new release of pathod will be out next week, including a publicly accessible pathod instance, pathoc (pathod's evil client-side equivalent), and a huge range of other improvements and bugfixes.
AT&T now has the Galaxy S3 in Red White and Blue
At DoD, 6 IT projects, $8 billion over budget
Fair enough. Still seems weird to effectively copy/paste a webpage rather than just linking to it, no?
The smart thing to do would be to put a download link next to each video.
That's a long list. I kind of want to run the whole thing just to see what happens...
FFS Maxwell wasn't the giant. That was Faraday.
Maxwell just came along and turned Faraday's
work into Greek squiggles and now everyone says
what a genius he was, when it was Faraday who
did the real work.

Oh, and Faraday had a real, useful job, and his
discoveries were part of that. It was the norm
for science to be useful all the way back to
when it started, which was with Archimedes
- who was very applied, building siege engines
to defend Sicily against the Roman Navy.

This curiosity-driven "pure" research stuff was
restricted to rich people being "gentleman scientists"
until the 1940s, when governments decided to fund
everything under the sun in case some scientist might
come up with a way of very quickly killing large
numbers of Germans/Russians.

We have that to thank for the "citations are king",
"publish or perish" and "postdoc purgatory" nonsense
that is producing so many bad papers today, and I wish
science could go back to being useful like it was in
the first place.
Just a thought- NBC is a for-profit company. Because of that they are able to pay hundreds of millions for the rights to cover the Olympics. Because of that, they want the largest viewership. That occurs during primetime. If the tv industry is so "disruptable" as many keep saying, why hasn't it happened? Clearly people want the ability to watch as much shit, wherever, whenever they can, preferably for free. Apparently the problem is that unlike most internet sites, television requires an actual business model.

The fact that this guy is literally asking people on an internet blog not to watch what will inevitably be viewed by tens of millions of people kind of does more to prove this point than anything I can say here could.
A big Satellite TV distributor once accidently transmitted Italian pornography onto the sets of Saudi Televisions, so I doubt it was the first lesbian kiss seen on TV.
I wrote a script that solves the problem:
https://github.com/DaNmarner/ExtractMailRSS

For direct download:
https://github.com/DaNmarner/ExtractMailRSS/zipball/master
I started work on pathod to improve the testing of mitmproxy (http://mitmproxy.org). It's since become a very capable Swiss army knife with many creative uses. I now routinely use it in pen tests (it's great for exploit delivery), and pathoc has become quite a capable tool for simple fuzzing and stress testing. I'm working on the next release docs as we speak, and I'll try to document a range of different use cases there.
I don't think I am underestimating it. AFAIK the most popular PC game of all time was The Sims 2. It sold 20 million copies according to Wikipedia. How on earth can there be hundreds of millions of hardcore Windows gamers (remember, we're talking about people who would switch from Windows to Linux for the games) when the best-selling game of all time didn't even come close to that number? If only a couple million people bought Portal 2, why would hundreds (or even tens) of millions abandon Windows just because Valve started concentrating on Linux?

Let's say all 20 million Sims 2 buyers have decided to abandon Windows for Linux. That means Linux on the desktop is now about half as popular as Mac OS X rather than ~20% as popular. Microsoft wouldn't be happy about that, but they're hardly going to throw up their hands and stop making Windows.
There's plenty I wouldn't want. God forbid this alone:

# Trackpad: map bottom right corner to right-click
This is an incredibly clever little tool to promote TaskRabbit for a specific task.
Confirming: OS X Leopard and Mountain Lion have received Unix certification:
http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3591.htm

That doesn't make the commands themselves "Unix commands", which would AFAIU, be described under the "Commands and Utilities" portion of the standard:
http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/cxm4.htm

The document containing these standards is not freely available online, but may be purchased: https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/jsp/publications/Publicatio...

Wikipedia lists a set of IEEE utilities which is pretty brief, and contains a number of largely obsolete standards (SCCS anyone?), comprising of 161 commands:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_utilities
I'm not sure that really is the case. Nokia, Sony Ericcson, Palm and MS had touchscreen handhelds for years before the iPhone. Either that should have generated clear prior art or there are other options that aren't silly. If Apple came up with something new that really makes all the old ways seem silly maybe it really is a valuable technology that they can charge high prices for.

If the Apple patent is shown to be invalid they won't get anything and Samsung won't have to work around it but whatever the situation there is no value in comparing prices between FRAND and non FRAND patents.

I don't recall any of the tech giants including Google and Samsung campaigning to get rid of whole categories of patents of for other major reforms. I would like patent reform but The law as it exists should be enforced.

Edit: Note that in this and my earlier post I am not commenting on the validity of either sides patents or what exactly the damages or license fees for either should be BUT that there is little value making a comparison between FRAND committed prices and those for any non FRAND prices.
That's not a monopoly. That's exclusivity. NBC had to bid against other major networks for the rights to cover the Olympics.
Movies that Inspire
Will have to check the TV Licensing info again to be sure we're allowed to watch this; works for me but had to disable ad-blocking to allow the video stream to play (after an interstitial).
I don't think that helps me... :)

It's not about ego for me, at least I like to think it's not. I have a persistent worry that other people will screw up my great ideas, and I will spend more effort convincing them of superiority of my ingenious designs than I will ever get back. The anxiety is mostly unfounded, but it's there nonetheless. I suppose I am far too deeply convinced that my ideas are best ever. :)
I fail to see how there's no option to go to a different bookstore: can't you order the book from Amazon from the same iPad?
You could offer to pay ~£8k in licence fees for life time access to UK TV. Of course, if you watch and don't pay, you will live in fear of a prison sentence. Luckily, extradition from the US to the UK is less likely than the reverse, so you needn't lose as much sleep as eg Garry McKinnon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon)
"Back when there weren't many people, or infrastructure"

What time frame are you thinking of here? I'm not sure it is accurate - there was plenty of infrastructure and people in post WW2 Western US.
Hi rrbrambley, yes you're correct and thanks to the mod who changed the title.

When I found out that the average donation from the people who donated was ~7$, I was pretty surprised because like you said, most people are hesitant to even pay $0.99 for a high quality app.

In my opinion, ads makes the quality of the app suffer and it gives me a negative perception of the app. There will be some people who are willing to pay to remove the ads, but if you think about the use case for InstaWifi, the # of minutes spent _in_ the app is not that high so its not worthwhile to put ads anyway. I think ads only work on apps that are extremely popular with high # of downloads. Otherwise, in general, I recommend against ads.
Perhaps it is the nature of intelligence itself, or just the nature
of computer science, but our profession seems to have a higher
than average rate of bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses.

Citation needed.
For the winter Olympics, I had a VPS provisioned with a Toronto-based provider: setup Apache w/ a password protected mod_proxy. Voila, I could watch live curling and luge in the office. Total cost was less than $30 USD.