skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I LOL'd at that domain once I saw it.

Don't forget the dash, kids....
Well I wasn't saying it wasn't feasible - just contrary to all my experience. Also, there is probably the issue that we define what classes as enterprise differently.

I'm not sure what you mean when you talk about a paradigm shift though - Are you talking about simply building things quickly? or another shift that is making this possible?
Neat, but I don't remember the last time I looked at HTML and said "gee, I sure wish I had this in PDF".
I think PG refers to the way that the bleeding edge is now adopting. It is now that these folks determine how most people will watch "TV" in 10-20 years. It doesn't really matter how TV tries to keep its wheel rolling until then, they'll stay rolling anyway thanks to sheer momentum. Also, watching stuff on internet is only beginning the change at this time. It's often even more inconvenient than tv if it's only tv that you're watching. But this will change in time as the "internet power users" is slowly growing into a majority.

Although, it might not take more than a few years when you stream or download tv shows to your cellphone over broadband wifi, then simply plug your phone into a dumb HD television screen terminal and start watching whatever you have on your phone.
There would be no Pirate Bay without "pirated" movies and TV shows.

You are probably right, but the prosecution didn't have any admissible evidence to this effect.

Similarly, gun manufacturers are not liable for murders committed with their guns; even though they train people how to use them to kill others. Providing the public with tools that can be used to commit crimes is not a crime. That is what this trial is about.

Finally, it has not been proven in court that redistributing TV shows on BitTorrent is illegal, and it certainly hasn't been shown that telling people where to get said shows is illegal.
Why? That would just confuse people.
Ok, in fact, what you're saying is irrelevant. I'm explicitly not talking about whether the prosecution is justified. I'm questioning whether this journalist is justified in portraying the makeup of Pirate Bay torrents as controversial. The Pirate Bay exists almost entirely to further copyright violation.

Maybe that shouldn't be illegal, or even unlawful. I don't care. But don't tell me The Pirate Bay is mostly there to move Ubuntu.
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If we can just start from a place that is honest about what The Pirate Bay is doing, I don't care what conclusion we reach.
An even smaller one:

[3] Or a phone that is actually computer.

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[3] Or a phone that is actually a computer.
GAE is just a tool, so using it is more like buying a Fender guitar.
You're right. I've met many Chinese people who think the way to wealth is to get a cushy government position with some kind of power over others so you can get bribes or to be a purchaser for a company due to a similar reason.
On a pretty similar note - If you're on (most) unix-based systems you can use the special devices "/dev/random" and "/dev/urandom".

These are special devices that gather entropy across the whole system. Random takes input and may block, urandom doesn't require input and won't block (but doesn't necessarily have the same level of entropy).
What is the percentage of torrents that point to materials illegal to distribute? (it is not a rhetorical question, a justified guess would suffice)

Otherwise, my answer is:

- http://google.com
- http://news.ycombinator.com (enable showdead in the profile)
I might pay for a good grad school dating site
It seems to just be a nicer front end to this service:
http://web2pdf.freepdfconvert.com

This service seems to be totally accessible using GET, so it would be easy to embed this in a Firefox extension or better yet, just create a bookmark that uses the %s replacement feature.

http://web2pdf.freepdfconvert.com/HTMLtoPDFMaster.aspx?cURL=...
Google Analytics doesn't let you separate iPhone from Mac Safari, unless you specifically choose to look at Browser/OS pairs, in which case you get "Firefox / Linux", "Firefox / Windows", ... "Safari / Macintosh", "Safari / iPhone", etc.
I'm in the same position as Hexstream, but I'm saving up for a new machine. I was in your position until just this past year when I purchased an HD-capable video camera. Along with my previous audio work, I'm hurting for processing power. Add to that the desire to run multiple instances of virtual machines for application testing and things get really sad.

However, for most day-to-day operations my Dell purchased back in 2003 has served me wonderfully, and should continue to do so.
This probably isn't true for tennis, but it probably is true for a lot of things. So you may have a pretty good reading on the mentality of the networks here.

I'm not sure they're quite that sophisticated, though. I think they're reasoning is more along the lines of "I own that, I decide how and when it will be viewed!" Kind of a total war mentality, where they're even willing to shoot themselves in the foot to defend copyright.

I don't know much about copyright law, but this behavior does seem to run counter to the spirit of the law, which is to encourage the creation and dissemination of content by granting a "temporary" monopoly for the creator. In theory, this would expand the amount of content available to the public. But what I constantly encounter is the use of copyright to restrict access to content by limiting what I can view, see, hear, or read - as well as attacking the technologies that promote the dissemination of content because they are used (extensively, I admit) for copyright violation.

It's all gone so wrong. Because congress has shown a willingness to grant extensions to copyrights that were set to expire, and the supreme court has decided that copyrights with repeated extensions don't qualify as copyrights in perpetuity, it's hard to believe that the monopoly is temporary. For all practical purposes, it's permanent - and the copyright cartel is more than willing to use them to shut down the tech factor.

I do agree with PG that there's no turning back the tide. The computer will defeat the TV. But the temporary delay can be a real pain in the ass.
http://www.xhtml2pdf.com/ is a really good library if you're looking for an out-of-the-box library. Pandoc is also worth a look if you know Haskell or don't mind command line calls.
Images for Games
I have an idea to build a blackberry game based on some tech I recently implemented on another project. It uses SVG to create interactive web pages that work on Blackberries, mobile phones... pretty much everything except things like the iphone. (no comment)

So the problem is where do i go to get graphics for characters. I need space ships, aliens, space marines that kind of thing. But I have no idea where to look. Anybody have any ideas? Anybody want to help? Obviously I can't draw and have no budget yet so professional help is probably out of the question.
Re the Mini - that was my experience, too - I'm more than willing to get out the screw drivers to do my own RAM upgrades, but when I need a putty knife just to open the box, I start to get squeamish.
I wouldn't be surprised if you're right, but this may carry the risk that it would reinforce the perception that Apple is all Steve Jobs and they can't innovate without him.
Almost as good as 1234567890 day! :)
Which Moore's Law? The one about the cost of a fab increasing pretty much in proportion to feature size shrinks implies that we'd eventually spend the world's GDP on a single plant. It's hard to see how that wouldn't be affected by a recession.
Rare, but I've saved a web page as PDF: the hours of my local library. I keep a printout at my fridge, and the PDF file itself is handy when I'm not online but too lazy/engaged to head to the fridge. I could have saved the page as Web Page Complete, but there's no sense saving the Javascript and Flash junk.
This doesn't matter though. If the majority/all of the most popular torrents on that site are illegal then the most popular use of the site is for illegal torrents. If most of their users go there to download illegal torrents, then that is the actual function of the site -- to share illegal downloads. It doesn't matter if that was originally intended to be so or not.
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I live in Boulder, and I'm looking for a new dentist. I know which one I won't be checking out.
What technology do you want to use? I think that you can use openX or Adify.
I thought it was a 4% increase on the marginal rate, which is currently 35%. I was also under the impression that the top rate only applied to salary over 349k, not 250k. So if you're on less than that there will be no change, and over that you will be paying 4 cents more per dollar, which desn't sound that bad to me, but then again I won't be paying it!
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Sony Ericsson W705 has integrated 3.15 MP of camera and have image resolution, Walkman 3.0 player for your every time entertainment and it will never let you feel mind-numbing with its different equalizer Shake control Sense Me TrackID music recognition.
and yet despite seeing the horrors of national socialism, Einstein still supported socialism.
http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einstein.php
Lawrence Lessig Answers Your Questions on Copyright, Corruption, and Congress
I could not find any quotes in the ABC story that unambiguously indicate the taxpayers think they would net more after-tax money with a lower income. The closest is the initial Louisiana attorney, but even there it's clear the main motivation is resentment -- and the "give it all away" comment is hyperbole.

Meanwhile, the tax accountant quoted on page 2 allows that it's possible a discontinuity with regard to deductions could create a situation where you would net more by reducing your income. The tax code is gigantic and buggy; it's not out of the question that a few taxpayers, in certain narrow situations, sometimes face marginal rates over 100%.

In any case, my point is not with an overly-literal interpretation of the ABC story. It's that this parade of commentators throwing around words like 'idiot' -- starting with Chait at the TNR piece and continuing here -- are the real know-nothings.

This taxpayer behavior is not idiotic; it's evolved human behavior, in the presence of perceived unfairness, that may serve long-term survival strategies.
I do not know the Swedish law either, but let's take it to an extreme:

If someone were to run a site called Assassin Bay, where clients could post .target files specifying jobs and hit men could accept those jobs, I'm sure that the site would be taken down within hours and the site owner would go to prison. Even in Sweden.

EDIT: To allow for the possibility that the Assassin Bay also has legal traffic, replace .target with .ad files. Then assume generously that advertisements for legal jobs make for 80% of the traffic and 20% are hits. The argument I made would still hold.
Cocoa apps: File -> Print -> Save As PDF. Probably scriptable with AppleScript/osascript, though I haven't tried.
Why not build one (a startup) around iTunes' video podcast library?

Allow podcasters to opt-in to a web interface to video podcasts–integrate mid/pre-roll ads and split the revenue with the content providers. Allow viewers to set their favorite channels and be notified when new episodes are available.

For the "friendly set of content providers", help them create a workflow that gets the content to you as easily as possible.

What are the best lawyers required if you're working directly with the content creators? (assuming they don't already have existing contracts)
AFAIK, the display mirroring limitation hasn't existed since the switch to Intel. MacTracker indicates that every Intel iMac so far has supported extending the display in addition to mirroring.
From the original article:

>Schatsky said that the incentive to get under $250,000 may be more so if the tax plan outlines that an individual who goes over a prescribed limit would face a reduced value of their itemized deductions.

>"If the value of all your itemized deductions goes from a 33 percent level to a 28 percent level than there would be a reason for people to do dramatic things to reduce their incomes," said Schatsky.

This is coming from "Gary Schatsky, a financial adviser and the president of N.Y.-based Objectiveadvice.com". As such, he presumably has a clue about taxation matters, so I hesitate to call him out on this, but... surely no government would ever enact such a scheme; they would bracket the deductions in a similar way to the income, rather than having a magic barrier of $250k, in order to avoid a situation where people have an incentive to earn less. To me this seems common sense, but at the same time, I'm not a financial adviser -- does anyone have any input on this?
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Very interesting. Sounds much like Typogridphy:

http://csswizardry.com/typogridphy/

I've been experimenting with that as well as the 960 grid CSS sets. Really quite handy
Thoughts On DEMO 2009
I have to say that watching the video of the original presentation gives a stronger impression than reading the transcript. Here's the video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415
> If 'throwing the money at a group of un-corruptible, "really smart" people' was an actual option, would Detroit be in the state that it's in?

Answering my own question....
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090301/O...
I wonder what software they're using underneath, there's no useful metadata in the produced PDFs.

PrinceXML has some of the best stuff in this space, targeted towards companies having the native versions of their documents be The Web, with the print version produced from that. No bullshit about 'neutral' source formats, no astronaut architecture. They share a CTO with Opera, but I don't think they share any code. -- http://www.princexml.com/overview/

It's written in Mercury -- A pure, statically type-checked Prolog with functional features -- http://ftp.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au/information/features.html
I'd like to know about the technology on the back end. Judging by the output, it looks like someone just did a "Print to PDF" on OS X and then ran it through Acrobat Pro for the OCR.
It's a double edged sword. On the one hand, you know what APIs they've committed to and won't change.

On the other hand, often you want to extend more then they would "allow". And because you're wrapping their APIs, when those APIs change, you should only have to change your code in the one place where you overloaded them.

There's a lot of bad things said about JFC/Swing, I won't repeat them here, but it did allow you to extend almost everything.

And as a side note, GridBagLayout is powerful and elegant, despite what some people say: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLaxbFKAcc
This is great. The more of these seed camps the better, in my opinion.
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So basically the offer is tuition for some dubiously useful courses in exchange for options on your future company.

ACT NOW!
The whole concept of not investing until after graduation has some merit...but I see 3 problems with this:

a) this guy has no pedigree...all he has going for him is that VC rating site

b) He has no practical experience, when he had a VC rating website, what did he learn about pitching to investors?

c) As a fresh startup...do you really want to start out with ties to someone who has negative relations with pretty much all VCs?

It just seems like he is an opportunist who is jumping on a bandwagon,
the PDF Download firefox extension (mostly made to keep firefox from trying to open Adobe Reader within a tab because a very slow program within a fairly slow program is unbearable) has for awhile had a "save this page as PDF" option accessible from its address bar icon.

Not sure how the quality compares, but it's certainly more convenient. (I've also never, ever used it because who wants HTML documents in a larger, less-portable form?)
Live television is nearly non-existent online.

I wish I could post the graph of unique visitors that the founders of Justin.TV sent me. But while their actual numbers are presumably secret, I will say that I have never seen a steeper graph of a one-year period from any YC-funded startup. And I have seen some steep graphs now.
Sorry, I wrote this one in vi. I was in the middle of writing it when Jessica had George. When I restarted working on it recently, I didn't bother importing it into Etherpad because I thought it was already nearly done. (Wrong there, as usual.)
No need for the OCR. It’s already a PDF with text, no image.
Just because it's older doesn't mean that it should be the standard.

"Standards organizations" are there for a reason, so that issues like this wouldn't be so egregrious. Microsoft has had a while to fix it, and 8 years later far too many people are still using an old deprecated browser.
http://www.turbosquid.com is a good place. There are plenty of royalty-free 3D models available that you and render down to a 2D bitmap.

The http://www.gamedev.net forums might be able to help you focus your search further.

Regarding the iphone: I'm sure the canvas tag works, and I believe there's more than one Javascript canvas->SVG layer floating around.
Six Sigma Black Belt vs Scrum Master ... a battle to the deathmarch.
I also am not sure if the guy running NYC seed is willing to take any chances. Last I heard they had not invested in anyone.
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Are you sure it will be compatible with time machine?
Einstein lived through Nazi Germany. His soul saw a lot of action.
It's slick, but does anyone else see the irony in the fact that they're not only running banner ads on the Readability site itself, but also (subtly) in the sites they're stripping the ads from?

It's worth pointing out that, like it or not, we're not really entitled to escape banner advertising.
$100k/year would not be overpaying a highly talented designer.
Interesting note, for those of you uninterested in karma or user names, the bookmarklet will hide both. You'll still have your voting arrows and the comment text; you just won't know what everyone else thought of the comment (aside from their placement relative to each other).

It's pretty neat to go on a big thread and hit the bookmarklet. e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=501696
This article is 100% politics.

I'm not saying it's a bad or good article, I'm just saying it's politics, this is HN, and I've flagged it.
Not necessarily. Maybe the lawyer values her time at $100/hr. Say she bills $150/hr to her clients. Then, before she reaches $250,000 she makes $105/hr (roughly). But for each extra hour worked after she has made $250,000 in a year, she only earns $80/hr. At that rate, she may prefer to spend time doing other things.
I really don't think that the story was implying that TPB is mostly used for legal downloading. It was just saying that the prosecution has not shown a lot of evidence that TPB is mostly used for piracy.

I believe that the founders of TPB have a philosophical problem with copyright, and created TPB to actively support piracy. But that belief is not legal proof that the TPB's main purpose is to support privacy. And that's all the prosecution presented, a belief. They didn't do any kind of site survey of the legality of the torrents.

Peter Sunde is the only one to provide any kind of stats. Now I would be interested in knowing how he got his stats (he definitely didn't use the Top 100 in the survey selection), but the prosecution didn't rebut it with any kind of statistics of their own.

It's kind of like if a DA decided to prosecute Mick Jagger for drug use, but didn't look for any drugs or do any drug tests. Mick Jagger has been convicted for drug use and has admitted to using drugs, and I would believe that he still does. But that belief should not be the basis for a conviction sentence.

And I am convinced that TPB can be used legally, for example downloading linux distros. So one of the major questions is whether TPB has the legal responsibility to police itself and respond to requests to remove user submitted files. And any verdict would have big implications for website owners.

So to sum it up, I believe that most people use the TPB to break the law. But the site was created with a good understanding of local copyright law. And so the most anyone could say is that it is in a legal grey zone.
It's not entirely their fault - unlike previous Intel CPUs Nehalem has integrated memory controller. Thus if there is no second CPU there is no easy way to hook up the extra RAM.
How is understanding of the tax code is a transferrable skill to dentistry?
Does that preserve the css, too? In windows, "Print as PDF" does not.. I've actually been looking for something like this for a long time.
This is great. I've been looking for a way to print to pdf, preserve css styling, and keep text searchable for a while now. A bookmarklet for this service would really put the icing on the cake, though.
The problem is that intent is considered in court cases. So while the intent seems obvious, the founders of The Pirate Bay are not stupid enough to say anything that has a good chance of showing in court that one of their major goals was to enable users to pirate copyrighted material.
I don't know, but it may very well correlate:

http://www.ratemds.com/filecache/doctor-ratings.jsp?did=2075...

=)
Hmm, I thought the lawsuits were profitable and the purpose was not to go to trial but generate settlements as quickly as possible.
"surely no government would ever enact such a scheme"

The UK actually had a 105% tax bracket back in the middle of the 20th century. Governments implement no end of stupid ideas.

I suppose there are marginal cases where your deductions at $250,001 are smaller than at $249,999, but I suspect the number needing drastic action are very few. That's why those better off than us hire accountants: to hide money under different rocks from last year.
"...the difference between a 320GB vs 120GB HDD and 2GB vs 1GB RAM is not worth €200!"

I thought the same thing, but it turns out the cheaper one only has 128MB for video, the more expensive one has 256MB.
For the poor man's version, just check Alexa:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/justin.tv
If it is true that they help you monitor your identity and credit score and on top of that help you strategize ways to better position yourself not only credit wise but also mortgage wise, I could see the benefit in remaining subscribed.

As a home owner and someone who has been through more than one refinance process it is nice to work with an organization that is not beholden to the other side of the equation - the lenders. This model is incentivized to more favorably aligned with my interests.
Actually there was research on oil rigs team leaders published in Harvard Business Review which demonstrated that by selecting less aggressive team leaders (ones who were less macho but more likely to listen and try to understand) they were able to reduce accidents several times over and improve production. I can dig out the issue for you if you want to read it.

I claim that righteous anger only feels good, but is really inferior to constructive if non-sexy working through the issues.

Of course limits of the study applicability need to be scrutinized - what applies to people who are already members of one team may not apply to strangers and you may have to yell and stomp your feet :) at the latter to reach the desired effect.
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> surely no government would ever enact such a scheme

Heh. I would not put ANYTHING into the "surely they wouldn't" category when it comes to government....
I like this a lot. It's sort of a bookmarklet for people who like to read "Printer Friendly" pages. Unless there's pagination, of course.
Actually, we do. That's why we have (backup) generators and UPS.