skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He wasn't "singling out" Tescos. I'd like to know who these unsourced critics are. Looks to me like another example El Reg inserting a bit of misinformation in their reporting...
>its not changing anytime soon, and its not even Hulu's fault.

Of course it's Hulu's fault. Hulu's owned by NBC, FOX, and Disney. I am certain those three content providers could retain world-wide internet streaming rights for their shows and make them available in any number of countries.

As long as they make it impossible for the rest of the 6.4 billion people to watch their site, they're not only leaving money on the table, but they're encouraging people to pirate.
Or would have been, if genetic manipulation technology hadn't been invented.
More than one comment below mentioned the use of this device for 3D modelling. There are certainly scenarios when an artist could use LeapMotion, like sculpting and painting, but the actual modelling part is heavily keyboard-supported.

I image you'd need both hands to replace two mouse buttons and a scroller, and to me that seems to break the deal.
10" GoNote - The Touchscreen Android 4 Notebook
"we’re talking to our Dublin team about the future of that office and whether we can find a path to improve our profitability in Europe without having to close the operation."

Are there any PopCap employees here?

I can tell you how to improve your profitability in Europe: Try to sell your games there!

Popcap first announched that they would release some of their titles for Android in April 2009. When I asked them about what happended to this release in July 2009, they responded quickly and told me that "Peggle and Bejeweled Twist shouldn't be too far away".

In 2011, they actually released three of their games on Android: Bejeweled, Peggle and Plants vs Zombies. But get this: They did not release those games in Europe!

This is not an issue with content rights: All these games are available worldwide for Windows. There was no reason to restrict the games to any region. And they kept it this way until about a month or so.

In addition to this mess, the games were all really poor ports. Popcap also whitelisted only a very few handsets that the games would run on.

This makes me angry: Not offering anything for sale, and then complaining that your not selling anything.

http://blog.bookworm.at/2009/07/popcap-is-still-working-on-a...
Language settings aside, this guy also completely misses the point of how CDNs and localised data centres work, and why it's beneficial to serve localised content rather than constantly dragging Japanese traffic through American data centres.
Google provides those settings but it seems to randomly ignore them or at least I can't discern a pattern.
"At the end of the day, their job will only be transforming my thoughts into code."

Having joined a startup and worked with an outsourced team of Indian developers I can tell you this is an inefficient way to look at things.

You'll eventually end up paying higher rates for good devs to write good code and waste valuable time and money on those transforming your thoughts into code.
It'll be new to some people (it was new to me), and so it'll get upvoted. If everyone had already seen it, it wouldn't get upvoted. Don't see anything wrong with that.
The most important question is ofcourse, what do I have to do to be one of those common ancestors and have my dna be part of every human alive? Is it just having as many wives as possible like solomon and khan, or is there a better strategy?
E.g.: - How much can you really talk to your existing customers, or potential customers, to gather information before stepping over the line?

My tip on that would be to seek out the customers that are having the biggest problems / most pain. You'll find that they're really happy to talk for as long as you like to help solve those problems.

They're also the most forgiving when it comes to any marketing missteps you make - since you're helping with one of their big pain points.

I've found a tendency among some dev-oriented folk to treat the "important" customers - the ones that you need most - with kid gloves. In fact those customers tend to need you just as much as you need them, so are much more willing to talk, advise and forgive than the larger market.
How do you find your clients? I'd like to do pretty much the same, but I have a hard time finding clients.

I've been lurking on reddit/forhire and building up my network, but there hasn't been any big hits yet.
I recommend turning this into a landing page to collect email addresses of potential customers/users.
Glacier to EC2 traffic is free if your instance is in the same region as the Glacier endpoint and $0.01/GB otherwise.
Anyway, if there's any input set X for which bcrypt(X) can be inverted more efficiently than brute force,

Here is one:

[ (bcrypt x salt) | x <- dictionary, salt <- all_bcrypt_salts ]

Now I do think it's unlikely that range(md5) is a good domain on which to attack bcrypt, but I also recognize I'm not smart enough to be sure.
It is a solved problem - in 2003 model plance crossed Atlantic on autopilot. They even open-sources the software.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3145577.stm
"...while the CEO(non-technical) was reading blogs and plotting strategy for a yet non-existent product."
"...he would come up with strategic personal inputs to magically transform the product into a unicorn, without backing it with any arguments."

This is exactly why I will never again join a startup founded by a business guy with no technical background or willingness to learn.
You don't even have to cherry-pick. Use git reflog to find the topmost correct sha1 (or in the example, right after the rebase, HEAD@{4}), and then do

git checkout -b revovery
git reset --hard HEAD@{5} #(the checkout made HEAD change, hence +1)

or even faster:

git branch recovery -f HEAD@{4}

The key here is to understand that git commit objects include a reference to their parents, and that git merely constructs a branch's history by evaluating the ref to a sha1 and walking over objects recursively. So to recover we merely make something point at the topmost sha1.

Then, in the case of additional commits that came after the squash, you use git rebase --onto to replay the commits that came after the squash on top of the unsquashed commits, which would give us:

git checkout -b recovery
git rebase --onto last_sha1_before_squash squashed_commit_sha1 recovery

The checkout -b is just so that rebase will handily move that pointer for us (see man git-rebase)
while rebase will replay commits from squashed_commit_sha1's child up to the commit currently pointed at by recovery, over last_sha1_before_squash (again, see man page)
This strikes me as a mature approach to the issue. It's so common to be enchanted by the idea of working for a startup - especially if you're young - that you'll accept any type of deal, even if it sometimes means making so little money that you can't make ends meet.
Most browsers set the default Accept-Language header correctly. If some IT department screwed it up, it's not the reason to ignore the standards. My HTTP request data should be a priority over my IP address location. And Accept-Language is just that mechanism to set a preferred language for the response.

In all my travels I had to deal with language issues from Google. But it goes beyond that, as the vast majority of i18n'ed sites favor IP location over Accept-Language. I find this trend saddening.
T-Mobile Announces Truly Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data
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I got so fed up with browsers and their font issues. That I just use one now, that I can read easily at a good size. I override the author's choice everytime.
No offense but I'm not sure posting this on HN under your own name is the best approach. You are, after all, discussing intimate business details. Maybe you could get it anonymized?
Except that there is zero empirical evidence that the Bible figure "Jesus" actually existed...
I agree, Amazon Instant Video (free with Prime) is wonderful. The best bang for money, two birds one stone, but one thing I have noticed is that they hardly get new contents and yet they still expire the old ones. Its been 4 months and the "Recently Added" section remains untouched for both movies and shows.
Rather: should not be used in Chrome-only production code. The performance in Chrome doesn't seem too bad in comparison with other browsers.
I'd also like to know how the bill was so low (I'm the developer behind Arq). Is it perhaps because it's the first month's bill and you haven't had the 60GB on S3 for very long (not a full month)?
I think that you have confused mutation with gene in your initial assertion.

There is probably only a few percent of variation between all of your 2^100 ancestors genomes (the majority of whom will be related), so protein coding regions of your genome and your MRCA are actually likely to be very similar.

Now if that MRCA had a specific mutation, the chances of your inheriting that specific mutation are probably low, but depend on that mutations prevalence in the population as well as whether the mutation is deleterious or not.

100 generations is very few in terms of changes within the genetic make up of a population under normal circumstances.
CEO's join companies after they've been around for years to earn valuable sums of money for the skilled work and long hours they put in. It motivates them to turn around the company. It's not about the % they earn it's about the return they get.

You deserve just as much motivation as they do for the sacrifice you're making and asking less than 1/3 is wasting your time. The worst they can do is fire you so you can make more money. That's when you start your own clone if you didn't sign a non-compete contract. And if you did, work for what you deserve elsewhere until it ends and then invest all your newly earned savings into building the better product.
Books I really like I re-read many times. But for the most part I agree, probably 80% or more get read only once.

Reference type books I will use a lot, I still prefer paper books over reading on a screen for anything more than quick lookups.
WebCamMesh - fun little WebRTC / WebGL demo (requires Chrome)
Literary
Yahoo Mail one-ups Gmail with better calendar integration
I would really love international shipping for the tshirts.
Curiosity rover descent to Mars - hi-res "video"
No. Trackpad device may be close to keyboard, but Leap is covering your entire working space. I.e. keyboard actually may be completely unplugged and Leap could detect what are you typing.
Ubuntu, x86, unity / Moz Firefox 14.0.1 / Running at 1280x1024 (low rez).
So... does it run Android?
We don't have the right software. But if we had the right software, maybe current hardware would be plenty. There's no way to tell until we see the software.
Beyond the problem of not counting votes as contributions (the knights of /new should be rewarded), I feel this scheme has a major downside in using the Wilson lower bound: namely, it rewards quick comments.

It's well known that the number of votes a submission or comment gets is very time-sensitive, and the Wilson bounds are substantially affected by that number. This leads to little-seen content gaining their author very little influence, which may be purposeful but probably isn't.

A further little-mentioned complication is the existence of thresholded voting: some people distribute votes freely, while others manage their vote histories by limiting themselves to voting on exceptional content, and yet others use contextual voting, touching only misrated content. Given the dependence on voting, I feel this aspect has not been sufficiently investigated.
LibreOffice to tackle critical bugs with HardHacks program
The video is well edited to show things from certain angles and it never shows the thing flying for long becaus it's FAKE.
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I'm Japanese.

I'm customizing my Chrome's ominibox to use both google.com and google.co.jp. And I'm also configuring amazon, wikipedia, googlemap and so on the same way.
I think a useful metric will be the time-to-first-answer and rate of submitted answers. These will be the answers to badly-researched questions á la "How do I get all the buttons on this page?[jQuery]".

Unfortunately, that is a post-question signal, and won't be able to be used in the context of the competition.
To get the U.S. results (for eg.), run the query on google.com (google.com/ncr) and then append "&gl=us" to the URL. For eg. compare :

https://www.google.com/search?q=salem&gl=us

https://www.google.co.in/?q=salem&gl=in

See also : http://www.labnol.org/internet/search/how-to-see-google-resu...
If you have several children, and raise them to well-adjusted adults who have children of their own, the chances are already very good. Assuming your average descendant has more than one child, and inbreeding is negligible, the number of descendants increases exponentially by generation. So the probability that none of your descendants in a given generation breed falls off rapidly.

Of course, if you can father hundreds of children, that would also work. But you would probably run a much higher risk of being killed or imprisoned before you can spread your genes around much.
Dear Google, Please Force Developers To Follow Android Design Guidelines
Say hello to insanely simple tasks. #latestproject
Agreed. Let me add that a lot of us are living under severe data cap or overage regimes, for me and my parents it's 2 AT&T plain DSL lines, each with 150 GB/month free, go over that 2-3 times and you start paying $10/50 GB/month on a line.

So uploading as well as downloading would have to be throttled. But this sounds like a superb way to store all those pictures and movies of the grandchildren, especially for those who don't have a son with a LTO drive ^_^. All the other alternatives are lousy or a lot more expensive.
Have as many children as possible and encourage them all to breed prolifically.
I would easily pay $5-$10 extra for shipping.
This is an interesting comment. I take it for granted that the majority of readers are pretty comfortable doing that kind of thing. Is there any way of telling what the real distribution is?
I don't think the difference you're talking about is real. "Eve" is mitochondrial Eve, the most recent direct female-line ancestor-- the first human every woman can say was her mother's mother's mother's et cetera. There's a corresponding Y-chromosomal Adam; they probably lived 100-200,000 years ago, but not at the same time.

But of course if you're descended from her, you're descended from her parents, and her mate's parents too; nobody came from just one person. Each one out of our millions of common ancestors is an Adam or Eve by the popular definition: Every human being alive is descended from them. If they had not conceived, no one currently alive would exist. There was never a biblically singular Adam and Eve.
I'd sooner be called "janitor" and receive fair share than have a title and less.

But your point is depressingly common, especially with the Rocket Internet CEOs/co-founders who receive less than 5% for anything the Samwer Brothers try cloning.
Very nice. Some thoughts.

The old slideshow was amazingly annoying. You click, it slides by slowly but doesn't reveal the text. You wait some more until the text slowly fades in...nope not interesting. You click again.
I would still make the text fade in faster.

The new layout looks very nice. I would make the hover details appear faster as well, only a sliver of time after the play button appears.

The title in the hover-details should be more obviously clickable. Personally, I really don't like having to blindly mouse around until I stumble upon something clickable (even though it seems like the trendy thing to do).
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I joined my company as the first employee. I was the co-founder of other start-ups before joining my latest company and had hired "first employees" myself. So I understood the difference and knew what I was getting myself into. IMO, the choice depends on your personality, what you like to do, and where you are in your life.

There are two key factors that made me accept the first employee offer.

1. As a co-founder you will need to take part in some of the administrative part of the company. Even if another one of the founders is taking care of the operations, there will always be things like board meetings, financing, taxes, etc. As a co-founder it has always been my opinion that you need to be interested in the operations. It's your duty to be informed as a co-founder.

2. Family. When I accepted my position I was a point in my life where I had two small children and a wife that wanted to pursue her own career. As a first employee I had the opportunity to "request" that my office hours were 9 to 5. It's not that I worked only 8 hours but that I didn't feel obliged to be in the office first and be the last to leave. My family was more important to me then being a co-founder.

I'm currently the CTO of the company (360pi.com) I joined as the first employee. For me it was a great decision at the time. I spent more time with my wife and children, leaned a ton of new technologies, made lots of great friends and still got to live the life of a start-up.

I think each individual has to make their own decision and that there's no one clear answer...
Unlimited? There are limits all over the place:

- Signal quality.

- Phone performance.

- Network throughput.

A "truly unlimited" connection would have you downloading at ∞bps so I suggest both words in "truly unlimited" are slightly incorrect.

I think they mean unmetered.

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I'm getting hammered for "snark" but I'm being serious. If you let impossible phrases like "unlimited" stand in marketing, people get the wrong idea, products are wrongfully sold.

I'm only this angry with T-Mobile because they've had the audacity to stick "truly" in front of it.
Far fetched question in the headline? The answer is always no.

The author fails to take into account the most basic aspect of radio, and that is the majority of the people that listen to commercial radio are listening to it on traditional radio receivers.
Stop with the unlimited please. Give us a high limit.
The chances of what? They are still your distant relative, like everyone on earth. Someone from a different country is probably more distantly related, but unless they're a humanoid alien, they're still related to you.
In another sense, XML is strongly typed, in that it has a schema language (XML Schema - and DTDs are part of the XML spec itself).
Heh, I think I brought up this very point in HN, and it was pointed out that the burden had shifted to medical services now.
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There's no need for snark, I'm pretty sure everyone knows what they mean by this.

Unlimited as in, yes, unmetered. Not "unlimited", with a 2.5pt footnote somewhere that says "Actually 5 gigs/mo"
Could I replace my Comcast internet with this? Is there a way to buy a "modem" that will plug into my existing router via ethernet? Does anyone know?
Emacs under Clojure
Which printer manufacturer?
Rails Testing with Factory Girl
Am I the only one who feels that the tech community has robbed the word startup of its true defination. Nowadays its seems that the word startup means a tech or web "something"(dont want to use the word company).From a business POV a startup is anY thing( product or service) at infancy level created with the intention of generating revenue on a continuous basis. It does'nt matter if its small ,"scalable" or not,as long as the Intention is to make money from it and its still young (hence the use of the word START).

PS
I feel there should be a cut off date as to when you may be regarded as a startup. I see some companies being labelled as startup even though they are like 5 years old.
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The obvious answer seems to be that the cost of production needs to come down. I wonder how cheaply today's shows could be made if they didn't have the bureaucracy and bloat of the major content publishers behind them?
At the bottom of the webpage there's this link:

http://liliputing.com/2012/08/gonote-android-4-0-netbook-hea...

which suggests it will seek for $235. If that's really the price I'd buy one today for my son.
wow there are a lot of things i'd do on a budget but flying isn't one of them (i'm very risk averse by nature)!

It really is refreshing to see a non-web start-up mentioned here on hn. Well done to you guys and I hope the negotiations pan out for you.
I would imagine it would be expensive and require mostly-unobtainable materials as well as a high level of chemistry experience?
Maker's Note: This started off as a post-mortem on a weekend project (why did we make $X when I expected $Y) and I realized others might find it useful. Would welcome your feedback.
Lots of (R)s and TMs in this Intel TBB advertisement.
Given he started later - only in the Spring (he found them when they already existed and they launched in July so they must have made it quite a long way before he arrived) a lesser share seems reasonable especially as to make something someone will have needed to put up real cash in addition to free effort.

But you are right that he should push for a response.

The other thing that seems to be missing from all these founder/first employee discussions is the level of influence over business direction and strategy. Some people may not want these responsibilities but others would relish the involvement.
> More specifically, imagine the simplest case of a population of a constant size - say a million (the approximate size of the Holy Land at the time of Jesus).

The total human population was greater than 1 million.
No, it's not bad because it's not bad. Granted, it's not a detailed argument - but I'm not very concerned about a 3 year old feeling helpless and alone for up to 3 minutes.
Never mind a different country - if you married someone from a different species they're still related to you. The only difference is the number of generations you need to go back to find the common ancestor.
I don't think the author actually bothered to read the patent.

It's explicitly mentioned that the user receives the media stream e.g. radio or internet audio and then switches to a local media stream. The company he listed, Absolute Radio is doing the sending not receiving. So the patent doesn't even apply.

That said why on earth would Apple be at all interested in suing radio stations. It's completely and utterly illogical given how much they rely on content providers.
Yeah, the tooltips are nice, but perhaps there should be a cheatsheet of all the keyboard commands?
Disclaimer: I am not a math (or any other) teacher.
I am trained as a teacher however.

> Khan Academy is doing great stuff,

Putting some videos of poor quality (technically and from the teaching point) does not "great stuff" make. It may be helpful to some, though.

> and getting great results right now.

Care to qualify, what those "great results" are and how the greatness is determined?

I repeat myself: I am not a jealous teacher. I am just sad that KA is so overhyped and will have very little impact on education.

How many times should it be said: when the problem is not technology, you won't save it with technology.

And if someone wants invent effortless learning he then can start looking for philosopher's stone as well.
Are we actually celebrating them adding a link on the Mail page?

Also, this has nothing to do with Mayer - this was likely in the works long before her move was announced.
Agreed. Talk to mundane users. You will find out that many of them go to Facebook by typing "www.facebook.com" into Google's search bar.

People don't know the difference between the google search bar and the address bar.
Interesting, but with all that marketing, they fail to mention any advantages of actually having a touchscreen.
Does success really depends upon your attitude?