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In short, if you don't define and maintain a specific focus then people can and will start posting videos of pratfalls and pictures of kittens. Some focus is needed, and the question is how narrowly to define that.

I would like to see HN stay focused on things of interest to hackers, nerds, and geeks, as opposed to things that are of wider interest. There are plenty of places that cater to other interests, and few that are specific to "us".

Honestly, I think this place would be awful
if it only had the focus you intend.

"Intend" is the wrong word, but I hear what you say. That's your opinion, and you are entitled to hold it. If there was no focus here then I'd go elsewhere, and that's also fine. I'd just try to find, or found, another site that does have more of the focus I'd like to see.
Samsung reportedly plans to stop selling LCD displays to Apple
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"For ports, it comes with one USB 3.0 one USB 2.0 port, and an HDMI port."

I'm seriously considering getting this just to watch video on my TV. The key question for me is whether it supports espn3/watchespn. I see Chrome support listed, but not sure if it only works on x86.
Can it do anything at all when Google bans your account?
This has worked for me. By dropping cable for netflix and hulu....I end up spending more time usefully.
Very nice UI. This one is hilarious:

http://quotab.ly/792/solitaire-for-kindle-vol-1
Actually, it did because she lost all her books and she isn't able to get them back.
There is no "find time". There is only "make time".
Sometime i hate being in the backyard of EEUU
really cool and nice. I will just add that you can use Amazon Associates to tag the links to the books and earn a few dollars out of it.
That's some fast turn around you have for fixes, thanks! Now time to change the password.
In my experience, the "it just takes" path of development will lead to a user experience that breaks down fairly quickly in many content management systems.

The overall layout of a page becomes hidden behind layers of indirection in the CMS (e.g. you edit the hero here, and then go there to select it for the homepage, but the content for blocks on the next row of the homepage are maintained somewhere else entirely).

As an agency, it's not that strange to offer 'marketing services' which includes doing the content and layout for key pages of the client's website (like author's example of the iPhone 5 section on apple.com). It can be more cost effective to have a front-end developer update these pages if and when they change, compared to developing a complex CMS to handle constantly evolving page layouts.
Just out of curiosity: how do you use it while traveling? Without network connectivity the thing is basically unusable right?

Just looking at 2-year 3G plans with at least 1GB data limit and no bandwidth restrictions, the value proposition of a Chromebook is not so great anymore. For the price of the 3G plan alone I could almost buy a new MacBook Air.
Quit your job and go part-time freelance if your significant other has health insurance. You'll probably make more than you did working full-time. Use the rest of your time for projects/startups.
My employer is kind enough to let me work on open source projects on paid company time if they are loosely connected to work. However, I tend to actually use more of my own time at home (mostly on weekends) than I do at the office.
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There is a Metro media player via Xbox Music and Xbox Video, of which there is no desktop counterpart in RT just Metro versions.
_Red Plenty_ was great, although it's not quite what I had expected. Anyway, anyone even remotely interested in central planning must read Cosma Shalizi's http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiza...

(I'd say that's much more interesting than the Chile stuff, but that's just me.)
Microsoft might have a problem. But I think it's not huge as many people think it is. Microsoft made a a choice, to change, to evolve. And so they did, if because of the fear of change they would never advance other companies would have stepped over. I see people complaining about no start button. what a big deal, Macs don't have a start button but I have never seen someone complaining. People will learn, I have no doubt, and in some years we will wonder we did we used to have a start button. Let's see what this new OS has really to offer to the mass before judging. Let's not be irrationally afraid of change.
You need to keep the technical architecture of the pet projects as simple as possible.

From what I can see (myself included), there's more tendency to make pet projects more technically complicated than needed (usually because they're thought of as an opportunity for technical experiment & also less responsibility if things break), and these complexity will make project context switching much, much more painful, which will lead to less time of meaningful developing.
My 1.5 to 2 hour commute is a great time for me to get on my laptop and get work done on my side project. With up to 4 hours a day to dedicate to other things while on the bus, I can get far more done than I could once I got home.
The 3G price of this Chromebook ($330) is surprising. I don't think it costs even $50 to add a 3G chip to a device these days, and for that $80 they could've added an LTE chip.

This might surprise you, but this Chromebook uses a battery that is almost 3x smaller than that of the new iPad - 4,000 mAh vs 11,500 mAh. The difference in battery life between the two is not that large, though (6.5h vs 9h), because the iPad has a much higher resolution, and that takes its toll on the battery.

But even then this Chromebook has a surprisingly small battery - as small as a 7" tablet basically. In fact the Nexus 7 has a 4,300 mAh battery. I understand Google needed to push the price to $250, but I find it hard to believe they couldn't at least push it to 10h with a slightly bigger battery. Are batteries really that expensive?
This is very true. I used to work in a call centre for a large company which had all manor of silly policies.

Since we were on the "front line" we were usually the ones informing the customers of these policies. We were usually given very limited information about the hows/whys of these policies so when the customers started getting annoyed and asking questions all we could reply with was "I don't know, that is just our policy" and "I don't have the authority to do that".

Looking back on it I'm guessing we were kept in the dark on purpose since after a couple of minutes about 90% of the customers would just give up and accept it. Some asked to speak to a manager but of course we were instructed never to put a manager on the line and always to claim that the manager was unavailable or to just transfer the call to another agent who would give the same answer.

If they had given us more information about these policies then we would have ended up spending hours in discussion with the customer which is of course what the call centre managers specifically didn't want.
Bill Gates on Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Surface (video)
Plygrnd.es creating an app to help parents discover nearby playgrounds
Not bad at all, but then again a IMOD display would be better: its in color and it has much faster refresh rates so it can play video and use touch UIs just like in any LCD.

It has some downsides compared to regular screens but it looks even better than eInk and has similar advantages like low energy use.
I feel the same way as you! We were in the midst of doing all these things but decided to hold off to see what others thought of it first. Thanks for the feedback!
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Streaming only what you actually want to watch is a great way to limit the time you spend watching things, especially with Netflix as there is never anything you want to watch on it.
Organization is just via collections.json, there are programs available to edit it (e.g. "create collection from folder")
As others have said, if you have a zillion projects, you don't get time to focus on your projects. First, finish the one..

But, when you say a zillion projects, you automatically reminded me of how I use to be. My mind is like a buzzing bee, always having ideas. So I've got some more advice for you:

Look at what you HAVE to launch for pet project #1. The smaller details and functionalities can be added later on in v2 or whatever. I always had issues not being able to complete projects, because I was keep on coming up with "cool new additions that I insisted I needed to add". Don't, it will only delay you more and more, and you'll never launch.

Focus.

Relax.

Build v1.

Write down your ideas if you spontaneously come up with a new one for later, and brainstorm before you start working on v2 again. Then, repeat above steps. Or, start a v1 of another project. But working on multiple things at the same time isn't productive.

Different people like different approaches, but this one worked for me after getting very frustrated with myself.
Nicely done. Simple neat idea and the execution is perfect. :)
The other replies, directly discussing overfitting, are spot on. However, I did want to point out explicitly that the stated assumption of representative sample data can be a fundamental challenge, not to be taken lightly.
OP's article reminds me of Molineux's critique of the Venus Project: "Marxism with robots"
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I work on one project at a time. Every night my wife goes to bed at 10. I go to bed at 11. That is my time during the week. On the weekends my son sleeps from 11->1 or 2. So I get a couple of hours in there too (sometimes).

I go to the gym during lunchtime. Unfortunately that is easier or harder depending on where you work.

I think one of the best pieces of advice that is being repeated here is to have just one project at a time. I think this is golden, if you are pressed for time then more than one will kill you.
Try to carve out a few hours during your real job to work on it. Build a little momentum, and then when you get home you'll be more inclined to reach for the laptop instead of the remote.
Without the seed aspect I'd imagine. I could be wrong though but seems kinda pointless/risky for the company to actually seed.
Google banned how many accounts, in total? Do we have any numbers or statistics?

I can't put the threat in context without knowing its prevalence.
Does anything else like this currently exist? If so, I can't think of it off the top of my head.
Back before quitting my job to work on one my projects full-time, I used to wake up an hour early and getting work done in the morning. I'm not a morning person by any stretch, but I found I was a lot more productive right when I first woke up than coming home after 8+ hours coding at work. As a secondary benefit, I found that starting off my day by creating something of value that I cared about energized me and tended to put me in a better mood for the rest of the day.
I can absolutely agree that the story is very disturbing, however I also believe that it is an Amazon's right as a private company to do whatever the hell it wants with products an services it provides. The problem is not that it can or cannot legally wipe out the contents of its devices, the problem is that there's not enough competition yet. If Amazon was in a very harsh competition with any another company for ebook market (which I believe it currently isn't) a story like this would undoubtedly drive a substantial amount of customers to competitors. What Amazon currently does, it enjoys a temporary situation in which it is a market leader. Since ebooks is not exactly a very regulated industry, I don't think it's too long before we actually have a serious competition.
Perhaps, allow me to offer a counter argument. I claim that if the only criteria a voter uses in voting is "I like how your part of the government is working", vote the incumbent. If they don't like how its going, vote someone else. Very simple, no research, no time wasted at all. And absolutely effective.

The reason its effective is because elections in the US are very bias sensitive, the very small margins of victory for one candidate or another means that a small change in voter sympathy can change the outcome of the election. Further, by creating a selection criteria of 'like' / 'don't like' in the voter input, you set up a genetic algorithm for evolving government.

There a probably a couple of dozen 'evolution simulators' available on the web. They all work in the same way, they take a population of organisms, they exist for a while in an environment, and then they 'reproduce' with a selection bias. Over a few generations the selection bias results in a population that demonstrates the characteristic that the selection bias is targeted toward. The basic mechanism is that organisms that align with the selection bias 'win' (and thus reproduce) and those that don't align 'die.'

That algorithm doesn't care what the 'lifeform' is, and it always works. That is part of the reason it annoys folks who favor an intelligent design theory of evolution.

Elections are the 'reproduction' cycle of politicians. Their 'survival' depends on them managing the bias in their favor which they have a limited amount of power to do. If the current non-voting block of citizens jumped into the game and voted 'like'/'do not like' it would force government to 'evolve' a set of politicians that were doing a good job as defined by the people who vote.

Clearly this doesn't work when the government is rigging the elections (as Russia was accused of doing to counter unexpected voter turnout) but it certainly does in a fair election.
Italian Prosecutors Target Scientists Who Failed To Predict the Future
If you're only going to use DRM-free files why does it even matter? The capacity's only 3GB, you're not going to have data there that isn't backed up anywhere else.

If you're really paranoid you can always load a custom firmware. The Kindle is popular enough that there's a very active scene around developing them (I believe the main one is called duodem?)
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This schedule is admirable for a single person but would clearly not work the OP. This gives him no time at all with his wife or kids.
Ask HN: Worthwhile/badly needed open source projects?
I remember reading (years ago) a list of what someone thought were projects that were badly needed. It stood out because "PDF Viewer" was high on the list because at the time there weren't great choices on many mobile platforms or all OSes.

In your opinions, if someone wanted to spend time on free/open source work that may not be glamorous but would really be a benefit to the world at large, what should that person consider?
Microsoft has clearly decided that "Windows" is now the new Metro UI. The old stuff is there for backwards-compat and pro/business market reasons, but the future is Metro. Now, you may not like that decision, but I think that's where they're going.

Given that, it doesn't make sense to call them two different things since their only differentiating factor is whether they run "old"-style apps.
I too have a wife and two children and often feel the same as parent. The choice to get married (at 18) and have kids (first one at 20) was actually quite deliberate. We talked about whether we wanted to live it up now and do all the serious stuff like having kids later in life ... or get the kids out of the way then while we have energy and save our "golden years" for traveling the world, or generally doing whatever we want.

So I'll be 40 when my youngest turns 18 ... just in time for my mid-life crisis :P But in all seriousness, 11 years in (I'm 31, and my daughter is 11) and I'm still happy with our decision. I'll let you know in 9 years how that turns out ;)
Definitely agree. A few simple changes and you can make it really easy/fun to go through lots and lots of quotes :)
It would be nice to see one output example in the app screenshots gallery
I've ordered one, at least part in curiousity, because I think the device probably fits a lot better into my work life than a tablet, and I want to see how it actually runs.

It'll probably be too slow, and the battery life won't be quite enough for a full days work, but it's probably got around 30-40% of the functionality of a Macbook air at 25% of the price (for the same weight).

I won't be using it all day every day, but it'll certainly be coming on the next few trips with me.
99% of the Webstore apps should work, if that's what you fear. Only the NaCl apps aren't working right now, but a fix should arrive by the end of the year, when they finish implementing PNaCl in Chrome.
I too find it difficult to find things on Netflix to watch, but I can get lost in video podcasts for far too long. There is a lot of great programming suitable to my tastes there.
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Hah, wait until you have a baby! You'll love the free time you have currently.

Now, seriously, I don't have large blocks of free time anymore. So I had to change tactics. In the morning, I wake up first, so I start boiling water for the coffe, turn on the PC and check emails/facebook on my phone. My wife wakes up, we eat, dress up our baby, and she leaves with him. Every other day I have 20 minutes of free time, that I use to code or play games. Then I read books on my commute, when she's breastfeeding I read documentation, new technologies, my rss, and late at night while she is taking a bath, I have 30 minutes of coding or gaming.

And that's it. The New Reality. 30, 50 minutes, interwoven with 5 minutes throught the day. But no worries... the life of a husband and a father is what I want. It's a matter of priorities.
I have struggled with the same issue for so very long that I have, just this week actually, negotiated with my employer to move to a 3 day work week. 2 full days are now going to be dedicated to my start up. So maybe this is an option for you too?

Here are a few things I took into consideration when making this move:

1. My employers current codes of conduct contract prevented me from earning income elsewhere. Moving to 3 days a week allows me to both get clients and keep my current work relationship intact.

2. The last 30% of my income was taxed at the highest rate (Canadian tax). When I took the time to do the math, surprisingly it wasn't all that big of a hit (at least it's not for me).

3. Doing this removes any complications around code-ownership, copyrights or product rights.

Just another option to consider for those who are really serious about their start up, but can't find the time or money otherwise.
i don't use rss to follow people, i use it to follow output from particular publications and blogs i'm interested in. i don't think i'd gain any usefulness by displaying an avatar pic, i'm just trying to stay up to date on the happenings in the various affinity networks i'm part of or peripherally interested in.
Our goal wasn't simply to say "Your site is broke", but to help inform you of global issues that could be affecting that answer (especially in todays world with AnyCast-DNS, CDNs, and global cloud hosting). And to further educate the site owner as to where the problem may lie.
I read this as "Non-fiction API" and got really excited. Alas, I guess I'll just have to keep [building](https://gitenberg.github.com) that myself.
There are a few services like this out there, but they use the "old rails" (e.g Paypal, ACH, etc), and they charge fees per batch, as well as per transaction. So yes, there are similar things, but all of them are wildly more expensive...
:) as you can see, I didn't have time to go through all the quotes I scraped. We ended up with over 300,000 quotes and chose to use the top 1000 to start. What I find even funnier is that this was highlighted on the kindle by 980 people!
I am Chilean and there is a minor correction to the article:

"He attempted to phone the general of the Air Force and the new commander-in-chief General Pinochet, but they declined to answer" Pinochet was not the commander in chief of the Air Force, but of the military. The Air force was part of the Junta, and as such supported their leader Pinochet.

Otherwise excellent article.
Im in exactly the same situation. 29, 2 kids, wife. Full time job. No time to work on my ideas. I feel like I am just working to pay the bills and keep afloat. I try and pull a late night coding after all are in bed but i get super tired and know I will be wasted for work the next day. I dont know how much longer I can go on without creating something of my own to put out into the world.
I've never understood why fb didn't jump on the photo-sharing aspect of their platform. I got off fb years ago, but when I was on, that was the single biggest thing anyone did, post/share photos.
Is it just me, or does this seem like a lot of work just to avoid having assets be inconsistent for "some number of milliseconds"?
It's very hard with a full-time job, family and 3 kids. I treat it like how busy parents treat going to the gym. You have 2 options really.

1 - Wait until they go to sleep. Usually 10pm.
Con: Most of the time you are really tired by then. Most likely won't happen.

2 - Wake up really early. 5am.

Doing either of these means you need to sacrifice entertainment. I rarely have time for TV or video games anymore. Be warned single devs!
>>I envy single people in that regard, they can work until their eyes drop out of their head.

Single guy here, and no sorry we can't work until our eyes drop out of our heads. I think working long hours is just a result of training to that over the years, bit by bit and it just comes by practice. I have done that as a student and a good enough part of my working career.

But its not something that someone could do forever. I mean to say the only reason after all these years I can thing of is 'money'. If its not worth the money, I don't even bother. I am not ashamed or afraid to admit that. I am going close to 30's for heaven's sake. Soon there will be family, expenses and what not. I don't like working like a cubicle bound wage slave my whole life. No easy way to get out of all this without working hard.

I just wish I could work on something interesting projects in my spare time, and make some money out of it.

So no, being single or married doesn't make a difference. Although I know having a baby in the home does become demanding, I've had that experience before with my sisters kids.
Even so I usually get shunned by that opinion, I honestly believe that Chile is one of the examples where American interventionism has worked. Sure, there are a lot of question marks about the methods, but the long time effects are astonishing.

This is even more amazing taking into consideration its geographical location and the situation of its neighboring countries. Friedman should get another Noble Prize just for being one of the few economists, who were given this fascinating opportunity of putting his economic views at work - and providing evidence that it does.

Something like Startup Chile gives me hope that this spirit of unconventionalism stays relevant even today.
With email? Not that I can think of.

But with regular payments? Yes, most UK banks offer batch payment facilities to business customers in the form of a CSV interface.

It's how a lot of wages are processed. The wage/accounting tool produces a batch payment file, and the bank just processes it.
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Keep in mind the 3G model comes with 100MB/mo data for 2 years; you're paying for the service too. I'd theorize that not being LTE is a way of keeping that bundled service as cheap as possible.