skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How many people do you know who have an iPad but not a PC (or a Mac)?

Here's an edge case -- my parents' apartment community. This is a 2-building apartment complex (with about a dozen condo units in the front) with about 500ish total residents. When my folks sold their home a few years ago and moved in, no one else on their floor (two buildings, three floors each) owned a computer, and many never had owned one in the past. My parents today are still on the younger side of the spectrum (57 and 63), so we're talking about a population whose kids went off to college or moved out in 1992 or earlier.

However, there was a desire amongst people they met to own one as they were aware of what could be done, they just didn't want to deal with the hassle. My mother (a textbook technophobe) showed folks her Kindle, and people in the community felt that was easy enough to deal with (especially when getting to a library in the sticks can be a hassle). As a result, my parents helped get folks set up with 3G Kindles. My parents bought themselves iPad 2s about 18 months ago. My father, unlike my mother, was comfortable around computers, but his computer/iPad usage shifted to 10/90% after about 3 months. My mother was initially more 70/30, but is now more along the lines of 20/80. As of right now, they have no intention of replacing their computer with another one. Moreover, my mother who was always paranoid of someone "messing up" the family computer 15-20 years ago is eminently comfortable with her iPad. An even weirder outcome is she apparently follows Apple product news a bit, as do one or two of her aged 55-65 friends.

The new thing? The septuagenarians and octogenarians are now getting iPads. They're buying an Airport Express, calling Comcast to get internet access, and the iPad is the first computer they've ever owned. And they're pretty chuffed about it. And using them. Significantly. Do you have any idea how fantastic the idea of HD FaceTime is to grandparents who almost never get to see their grandkids (and that they'll use it every chance they get)? When I mentioned LetterPress to my mom, the next time I talked to her she mentioned how big a hit it was at her community.

I think to date my parents have set up a dozen other residents with Kindles and about another dozen so far with iPads + internet access. This number will continue to grow.
Ouya is $100, a Steambox is ~$300, and the next gen consoles may be $400+.
Well, aside from the fact that I'm on IE9, there is a typo in the text.
Military justice is not the same as civilian justice -one's rights are curtailed. Thst's not to say your assertion is incorrect, rather, it might give the impression one might have rights akin to that a civilian --that, I understand, would be incorrect.
It seems like the number of times and frequency someone views your profile would be an obvious ranking factor, but there's no way to know for sure how Facebook actually sorts this list of IDs.
I actually agree with you. honestly I was surprised pg even responded to my first comment! I was like a dog who caught a car: I didn't know what to do with it. so I went meta (probably unsuccessfully) to see if he would respond again. I think I flubbed it, but than again you responded, so who knows? I guess ill find out tomorrow when I wake up and check. really, I'm not good at this.
Fair enough with respect to NDAs in your case, but they don't really apply in mine. As for it missing features of a fully-fledged DVCS, meh. What you're talking about is basically a glorified TODO list, which in most cases you'll be the only one updating. Furthermore, you'll usually be updating it from one place at a time. On the rare occasions I get a conflict, it's usually a simple matter to resolve. I do use Mercurial for managing other stuff like environment configs and program settings though.
I'm interested to see how this is going to work when you start throwing other games into the mix. With Minecraft, updates are fairly straightforward. With some other games (CSS, TF2, etc) the update process is pretty complicated. You've got to either roll your own updater, or have a unique steam account per server. Then you've got to run the updater, and hope it doesn't crash midway through or hang indefinitely. Once you update a server, you then need to check that all the plugins installed aren't breaking the server (or need updates themselves).

It's pretty straightforward to run thousands of stock servers, the difficulty comes in when you've got thousands of different combinations.

Edit: I'm also noticing DayZ on that page. They're perhaps the most commercial hosting unfriendly game I've ever encountered. Good luck getting instance IDs from them.
I pay for and use MOG and their recommendations are pretty good. Certainly this could be the case that "everything sucks I am going to execute better than everyone" but it's a sexy problem (not a schlep) and everyone seems to be working on it.
Source:
https://github.com/mjg59/shim

The issue is getting binaries you build signed, I guess (i.e.: Debian can't build Shim and get a signed binary at the end, so having source isn't important to them; however if you want to contribute fixes, etc, then presumably you can develop on a machine with your own certificate installed and then RedHat can pay to get a new Shim build signed by Microsoft).
Almost seems like Paypal is making an effort to transfer that cost from their books to sellers.
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Wrote this for fun: an App Engine site to let people store, search, and share quotes from DRM-free ebooks that they upload.

http://www.epubhost.com/

Written in Python, code here:
http://github.com/rezendi/epubhub

Whole bunch of stuff I'd like to do, eg extend support to DRM-free Kindle books (yes, they do exist!), cache books locally via HTML5 for mobile reading, share quotes to FB/Twitter, etc.

Hopefully useful as an example of an App Engine site written in Python that includes use of background tasks, the BigTable datastore, Google's full-text Search API, etc.

I did make a cursory check for existing libraries and didn't find anything that quite seemed to fit (other than TweePy), but I expect there are several that I could and should have used...

Note that only Creative Commons and Public Domain books are publicly available (and I'm the only one who verifies what's CC and PD) in order to avoid rights violations.

I'm sure there are bugs, too, and notifications of such would be welcome.
Yes, I can see that being an issue, and as a seller, you would want to somehow document what was actually shipped, otherwise the buyer could indeed ship back a bogus item.

But to not even raise the question of a return at all? That doesn't make sense to me.
ITU Believes Secret Media Strategy Key To Avoiding SOPA/ACTA Fate
Do I need to go to the Starbucks across town for the initial setup only or for every subsequent time too? Why does using an anonymous IP matter if I'm using Tor? If things can be easily traced back to the originating IP, don't cameras in the coffee shop matter?
Something is beyond wrong if a verbal "not as described" lets them keep the object. That's such an obvious scam/abuse there should be a legal issue with it, if paypal is not pursuing actual proof. They are acting in bad faith because their contract/terms of service is not even plausibly verifiable. The CC company requires an affadivit to issue a refund; if Visa gets wind of this guy with 5 refunds to the same card/provider/etc (thats 5 perjured affadavits) it should be a verifiable problem with paperwork. Paypal should be in the business of verifying this; not denying it. Its so basic as to be beyond belief. Apologies for preaching to the choir.
What can happen to our planet that would make it less hospitable than Mars or deep space? Most of the threats (global warming, asteroid strike, etc) still leave Earth with a usable atmospheric pressure and breathable oxygen, they just affect food supply (there is no food on Mars), or other things that still leave you better off than facing the vacuum of space.

I remember reading a story when I was a kid, about a future society that moved underground to get away from unfavorable planet conditions. The description was remarkably like what I'd picture as a large scale off-planet settlement -- everyone living in a rather confined space, and kids only knowing about what Earth was like from reading books and watching old movies.
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> There are no free lunches, and this is no exception. That encryption requires quite a lot of computation, which isn’t free.

No, all my computrons will go to waist! Sillyness aside, if your not paying a hosting provider for CPU cycles, you are not going to be affected by turning on SSL. If you are paying for CPU cycles, optimization of the sites own code is the way to go, like programming the site in C instead of php.

Every time I hear people talking about enabling encryption, I hear people talk about performance as if we still had 4k ram, and some single digit MGHz cpu, and that extra overhead of computation will ruin your day. Today, even the embedded devices won't be affected by it.

There are edge cases which does still cause problems. SSL servers demanded entropy and embedded device can easy run out of it. Thats not a computation problem per say, but still something to take into consideration if you put a SSL webbserver into a minicam, light bulb or something similar of small size. There is also an issue if you are a supplier of very small single files like an javascript library. HTTPS can sometimes impact caching, and the handshake will increase the size of data initially sent with an average under 5 kB. The handshake will also increase the number of round-trips required. Neither are computations, but still considerations in regard to SSL.

But please, for any future discussing about encryption. Can we please stop talking about the computational overhead of encryption.
This is a man who purposely sent a double to the mexican border to get arrested.

Impossible to really know if he is guilty or not but this is one crazy story.
I did install the .deb, but when launching the client I get a message that I am not invited to the beta yet and that I cannot use this - then closes. Any work-around ?
Did you do any FPS comparison ? What graphic card are you using? I would be interested to know more about your experience.
Microsoft took over in the office suite realm in the transition from DOS to Windows. Plenty of folks said 1-2-3 and Word Perfect were not going anywhere. I do wonder if anyone is going to exploit the mouse/keyboard to touch transition?
Correct, they took a round from August Capital and supposedly just banked it.
Yeah, I think Packs is confusing because it's not immediately clear what it means to end-user. And I totally agree with your idea on how these should be grouped and marketed, and can probably get some great traffic with a little SEM/SEO.

What's also interesting to me is like Chomp, where Apple and Google dropped the ball on discovery, this service will be useful because a lot of hardware+software products also have 3rd party apps such as ROKU.
I can only hope this UEFI issue backfires against Windows, in favor of Linux. For example manufacturers could be forced to create "Linux machines" that sell separately from the Windows ones, and even promote them with a message like "You can use Linux, or you can install Windows on your machine later, if you want, while you can't install Linux on a Windows 8 machine." They might have to do this anyway if Windows 8 doesn't take off, and Microsoft even starts charging them more for it.

That would be similar to Apple's message that you can install Windows on their hardware, but you can't install Mac OS X on other hardware, so then why not buy a Mac and get the best of both worlds?
I think you mean a man who says he sent a double to the mexican border to get arrested.
I've been scammed selling on eBay and will probably never sell there again, but if I did I'd want a cheat sheet of scam countermeasures. Here's a start based on the OP's safety checklist (points 3 through 5), comments in this thread, and my own experience.

1) Try not to sell on eBay. Perhaps Craigslist or another marketplace will work instead. Unfortunately, people in low population density areas are kind of screwed without an online marketplace.

2) Block all buyers from countries other than your own. In massive markets like the US, gaining a few more potential buyers is not worth the increased risk of fraud or loss during shipment. Perhaps in smaller countries this rule won't work as well.

3) Only sell to people with significant positive feedback.

4) Only ship to CONFIRMED Paypal addresses.

5) Require Signature Confirmation for items over $250.

6) Don't accept PayPal; require money orders for payment. This might scare off potential buyers. However, it has the benefit of taking PayPal and credit card chargeback schemes completely off the table.

7) Don't ship General Delivery.
> Even if this were all true, why would Vice post the data including his address?

Same reason everyone else posts images with EXIF geolocation data from their iphone in them -- they don't think about it, they never knew or forgot that the iPhone added this to photos.
FYI (everyone): US Post Office offers a money order verification system to avoid bogus transactions like these. I've gone so far as to choose a meeting location around the corner from a post office location and insist on a money order from that location.

https://www.usps.com/shop/accepting-money-orders.htm
more than that, it appears to just be a copy of ex.fm (http://ex.fm) - i can't see much of a difference
For many purposes, using Hyper-V which is included in Windows 8 Pro, would be adequate.

Purchasing a non-logo system is another alternative alternative for use cases where virtualization offers inadequate performance. There are plenty of compatible machines in the logistical pipeline.

The issue which this article asserts effects a small number of use cases currently - persons purchasing new consumer oriented PC who want to run Linux.
And he can use this on his heavily monitored work computer through the day without arousing suspicions?

Step 1 is for him to develop an official need for untraceable email with covert agents.

Step 2 is to use that for the affair as well. (Which under the hood could be something like the above.)
There are several sites for music discovery (Boss.dj, Earbits, Beastmode.fm, ex.fm, We Are Hunted to name a few)

Agreed there are a lot of holes in the music discovery experience, I've yet to see a solution that really nails it
"The issue is getting binaries you build signed"

How is the shim binary signed?

"Debian can't build Shim and get a signed binary at the end"

Why can the shim's author sign his own binary, but Debian can't sign theirs?
If you don't have a mobile site yet, don't refuse to show me the desktop site, rendering your site unusable.

Unless you're using flash or html5 APIs not optimized for mobile, you have no excuse.
SOPA/ACTA/PIPA etc are wildly unpopular. The January 18th 2012 "web blackout" was supposedly one of the biggest anti-legislation turnouts in the USA, where we typically don't have street rallies against legislation. Europeans did rally in the streets against ACTA.

So why does the ITU think it can do a hidden backroom deal? Why does the US Trade Representative think he can slip the Trans-Pacific Partnership past people? These treaties and legislation have fairly good "against" arguments. Why do these bureaucrats think that it's a good thing to impose this kind of regime? Laws do not persuade just because they threaten, as the Roman Seneca once wrote.
Well, a few days ago he testified about the conditions of his incarceration in a pre-trial hearing: http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/1202/Heari...
I've said the same thing for a couple of years. Their Oodle marketplace is anemic, despite having the ability to combat fraud issues in a way eBay, Craigslist, etc will never be able to.

So bizarre to me they don't move into in a serious way. ecommerce
Every UX designer should be forced to watch this clip daily.
He's had due process for awhile: http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/1202/Heari...
Just also tell them, "Item not as described".
It would be nice if we could import our iTunes artists as followers.
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congrats. I like this trend of being able to ship physical things with a click of a button. it's the new "cloud"
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The something happened to me like two years ago.
Has anyone made a generic Dropbox<->S3 bucket sync client yet?
To be explicitly precise, Wells Fargo will not honor a 'stop payment' on a check which has settled. The settlement date is not the same as the 'hold' date, they may release funds prior to the settlement date if you are a good customer, with the understanding that if the check is subsequently refused by the originating bank, or is shown to be invalid, the deposit will be reversed.

The most common scam that trips people up is the 'over amount' check where a "cashiers check" for more than the amount purchased is sent with the instructions to deposit the whole thing and just send back another check with the overage. When the check finally 'bounces' the check sent has already settled and you're out the amount of the overage (and possibly the item).

In this way writing a check is exactly the same as handing the person cash, once both banks agree the funds from one is in the other and the accounts are all updated, assuming it wasn't in error, and the other party doesn't have special privileges (there is an exemption that governments can pull back funds) the only way to reverse that transaction is a lawsuit. Well at least according the commercial banker who handles my business account at Wells Fargo.
It only looks like a hack until you understand Bash arrays.
The 70s went to space. The 80s shifted right.
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Instead of using Hushmail, he should use a mail service that is hosted in tor-space/hidden service. Eliminate the temptation to not use tor to get to open-internet email by making that difficult.

Also, change the ethernet/hardware address everytime you connect to an open wi-fi hotspot.
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Yeah, I'd be skeptical of what's essentially investment advice from Henry Blodget.
Out of curiosity, how do you find out about these sites?
Up until now the only one I knew about was Indie-specific (Mixest) and Grooveshark
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Very impressed with this and love the concept. One suggestion: I think this just screams mobile app. I want this on my iPhone and think being able to cache playlists and listen to them while I'm on the go would be incredible.
I haven't tried AppleTV's Airplay, but I think it just mirrors your desktop correct? So theoretically you could just run Steam's Big Picture Mode off of a Mac and use AirPlay to stream it to your TV?
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It could also be a double-bluff - by looking clumsy, he sends attention to this place where he's not.
>It's been a while since I was in high school, but aren't students still required to write long-form reports?

This is a tangent, but I'm a grad student in English lit at the University of Arizona, and, based on what I've seen, the answer is often "no;" a lot of students say they've never had to write anything longer than two or three pages before taking Intro to Comp.

Some, to be sure, have done substantive writing, but that appears to be the norm.

A lot of 18-year-old freshmen also appear to be MUCH more proficient at typing on phones and tablets than I am, which definitely gives me a bit of culture shock, and reminds me of the typing proficiency I have that many of my own professors appear not to.
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I'm guessing they figured there'd be other much more advanced and capable space probes overtaking the Voyagers well before the power got this low…
This is awesome read! Thanks
Sideprojects are usually about learning new things + following your passion.

I absolutely LOVE music. Its like air to me. I dont go more than 10 minutse without a song on my stereo or headphones. I also absolutely love to code, and constantly want to find new ways to get excited about learning how to code.

I think a passion for music correlates w/ the coder mentality pretty frequently. Thats why you see so many efforts aligned with that trend if you ask me.
It's sent!
> ctlr + l is your new best friend.

I use xterm (goes to check before I make an ass out of myself) and I'm utterly shocked this works. Amazing. Ctrl-l does indeed work.
> Honestly, I don't see how it alienates anyone unless you're actually against the vendor.

So, I have nothing against the MacBook Air (in fact, I love it, and am typing this comment on one: this is my favorite computer I have ever owned, by far); however, I know a lot of my friends do (believing Apple machines to be the anti-thesis of computers, etc.), and they are the kinds of people who might be in the market for useful software.

I guess you can say "those people are closed-minded: I don't want them using my software", but with that attitude you very rapidly realize you wouldn't want to sell to anyone (often including yourself, once you really approach the problem of avoiding closed-mindedness with an open mind ;P). To me, an abstract device would work just as well.
i couldn't read this diagonally let alone going through and around me only device that's isn't apple is xbox in the living room. bollocks.
alias ll='ls -halv'
Apple was there just a few days ago. Market is not perfect and far from rational.
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So excited about PyCon, last year was fantastic. I always make sure to mention it on these threads because you guys bust your ass to make it happen and I just want to thank you again. :-)
Yes, and they need expansion certainly. I get artist genres through EchoNest and plan to expand my genres to match theirs.
Are you saying his example doesn't work, or that it can't be extended to your two examples? Because when working on a file it works fine -- just not through a pipe (which both your examples are).

seq 1 20 >file.txt
(head -5; tail -5) <file.txt
Cynical-me thinks "economic rationalism and the decline of cold war dick-size-competition".

I hope I'm wrong…
Thanks! Just a small hack, but it took like 30 minutes :)
Being terse in this post bc I'm working atm and don't have much time.

a) Link either doesn't exist on main page or isn't immediately apparent enough.

b) Consider this page - http://www.boostclassifieds.com.au. Today is the first time I've seen it - visually it looks horrible and potentially untrustworthy. If I may say so, your site looks freakin' incredible. But on their site, the first thing my eyes land on is a gigantic list of categories. It takes me FIVE seconds to find the link to "turbos and superchargers" and one click later I'm where I want to be, looking at what I want to buy. Which I guarantee I'm doing right now - in fact I've spotted a couple of GT280RS that look pretty good to me.

I had to navigate through so much shit to find the search page and look for turbos on your site that I didn't actually want to bother.
This is live listening across an entire session, plus live instant sharing when you find one you like. You follow their every song, through playlists or different pages, and it's in sync to the second.
But is that 95%? I mean, my wife likes the tablet too, but she's not using it to put her powerpoint slides together (which she is doing as we speak).
The ARM chips available in DIP packages are microcontrollers that you are more likely to see in a toy or gadget than a general purpose or multimedia computer. In embedded systems where they are used, you probably can't swap them out for another part anyway because of code changes needed, different pinouts, etc.