skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We found that the prompt after a failed Square swipe is poorly worded. It says something like: try again, only faster - but it should say: try again,
at a different speed since swiping the card more slowly
often worked when trying faster did not work.
My thought is that no matter what the next generation of gaming platform looks like (Steam Box, PS4, XBox 720, etc.) the network is going to be the weak link. If cable/satellite/telephone companies don't get their head out of their ass we wont be able to take advantage of all this functionality. Sure, downloading games and updates in the background sounds cool, until your 10MB DSL bogs down and your game drops to 5fps. :(

This is another area where Google will blow the doors off of the competition. Or at least get them to upgrade their offerings so that we can actually use these gaming boxes like they are supposed to be used. Yea, right. Oh well, I guess that the Kansas City folks will be happy anyway.
I recently wrote PAWK (https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk) in order to give me Python at the command line. It's exactly what you think it is: Python AWK.

It's served me well so far.
My PC has gone through three GPUs in the period that I've owned my 360. Each of those GPUs cost more than the 360...now add the cost of the rest of the PC.

The PC-master-race notion of upgradability is utterly detached from the mainstream gaming public who have neither the interest, patience or financial ability to run that gauntlet.
> I was passed over for a job because I didn't list HTML as a language I know.

to be fair, if that was the reason they passed over you, it might've been a blessing in disguise because i suspect that place wouldn't have been a very pleasant place to work!
Well trying to access Onlive from Japan has been a bittersweet experience.
Mic capture and narration is different.
PS2 wasn't powerful enough to emulate a Playstation. The PS2 had a PS1 CPU that could run PS1 games, but normally served as an I/O processor.
Mike Moritz, Chairman, Sequoia Capital [video]
Yeah, the Xbox360 hardware is unreliable at best. I never used my first Xbox360 for long hours nor in extreme conditions and yet in less than one year after purchase it did the RROD thing. It was one of the first models, so this may have improved, but this does not leave a very good image of the product.
How about just stop growing shitty tomatoes? Fuck.

The tomatoes I eat taste great, because I don't buy tomatoes grown by ignorant assholes who don't understand how plants work.
I've had good luck using Calibre[1] to convert EPUB to MOBI for use on Kindle. In particular, I had a subscription to the digital edition of "Analog" from B&N for a couple of years, and Calibre got all of those issues nicely onto my new Kindle Paperwhite. ("Analog", at least from B&N, does not have DRM).

[1] http://calibre-ebook.com
NASA Sees Monster Sunspot Growing Fast, Solar Storms Possible
What Is Love?
I mean, spec-wise, the Ouya doesn't compare with the PS4 - 2gb ram to 8gb right off the bat.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5254877
One more thing. This also means I cannot replay all my PS3 games in disk form (thanks Sony!!) and probably that I have to pay AGAIN to play them on Gaikai (or that it will be part of a subscription fee). That clearly shows how little they think of their costumers.
Being an Estonian citizen and all I know that I'm very lucky to have born in Estonia. Blazing fast internet speed comparing to U.S (according to a few U.S friends, not some giant stats machine) and free WiFi in nearly all of the bars, clubs, pubs, coffee shops, restaurants, malls there are. At least in the capital city that is.

That being said, tech might be top-notch, but the economy is sinking. Sure, they raised the minimum wage to 350 EUR / month, but all it really did was increase the number of "officially poor" and since living cost is catching up with Finland (not in houses or apartments as of yet, but pretty much everything else) the ~400 EUR most people get for paychecks around here is not for living, it's for suffering.

So perhaps a better thing to do would be to just fall behind in the tech field a bit (a bit, not die) and actually do whatever the hell is needed to provide companies with enough income to pay decent salaries. I have no idea how the entire "money making" system works and I'm sure it's complicated as hell, but if they have money to make Estonia a tech country that has a ton of poor people who are struggling to collect enough money to get the hell out of here then maybe they should instead invest that money in people - and in return get people invest in the country itself.
Reddit still, strangely, quizzically, confusingly, maddeningly does not monetize on outbound links.

Here: http://www.reddit.com/r/shutupandtakemymoney

Or Here: http://www.reddit.com/r/buyitforlife

Every single link to amazon etc. via reddit should be earning them money via viglink or their own program.
Westlaw's T&C contains this wonderful gem....

Subscriber Agreement and this Order Form will automatically renew for consecutive 12-month periods ("Renewal Term"), and the Monthly WestlawPRO Charges for the Renewal Term will increase 7% per year unless either party gives written notice of cancellation to the other party at least 30 days in advance of any Renewal Term
I would argue that if a "law" is not fully in the public domain, it is formally unconstitutionally vague. If the information within is legally a secret, something I cannot acquire without pursuing a commercial arrangement with a private party on a voluntary basis, then the courts cannot reasonably expect me to understand that information, and the legislature has failed to bind me to obey those rules in the eyes of the due process clause of the Constitution.

I don't see it as requiring a special prohibition of "copyrighting laws", it stems directly from the fact that 'not public domain' is a variably mitigated example of 'secret'.
54:33
Welcome to every console since the PS2/XBOX generation. Your comment is about as useful as saying "oh, so it's just a computer?"
I know that feeling about drawing getting your mind out of the inner dialog. Meditation is probably the same.
Whatever Happened to the Phone Phreaks?
You want your money back or for someone to get off your lawn?
Tesla posts loss
Don't see anything there about 73-element boosters.
From Peter Thiels startup class
http://blakemasters.com/post/22405055017/peter-thiels-cs183-...
"A software engineer at Oracle with 4-6 years experiences gets a $105k salary and an $8k bonus. But a sales manager with 4-6 years experiences gets $112k and a $103k bonus. The situation is very much the same at Google, which claims to be extremely engineering driven; at a $96k base, $86k in commissions, and a $40k bonus, Google salespeople earn quite a bit more than their engineering counterparts."

A real "Business Guy" can bring tremendous value to a team & many company's pay them more because products don't sell them selves, you need to create a distribution channel.
See also Sherry Turkle[1], Nicholas Carr[2], etc.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Alone-Together-Expect-Technology-Other...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp...
If you'd read the post to the end, you'd know. He explained it pretty clearly.
The amount of ideas my wife, her sister, and many other women in their lives get from Pinterest is amazing. It's a household name now in our family. From birthday gifts to children's crafts, I'd venture to guess
at least 1 idea every 1-2 days.

There's something there in terms of monetization. I'm just not sure what yet.
That is clever! Also you may want to ask the bidder to put down a deposit of earnest money so you know they are serious about their offer. If you like, you can post it on classifieds site HouseOfNothing and I will bulk post it to many other websites through Digi-Go ad submission service to give your ad more exposure.
The Chicken & The Egg – why it doesn’t matter which came first
Then we could build it into Unicode!
Aha, when I first posted my comment a few days ago the site didn't seem to have that feature of putting the hex colors in the URL. It's perfect now, you can share links. Exactly what I wanted!
New Dart Streams API
That article is useless without pictures. If people liked old apples better, why didn't growers just switch back?

Maybe people just happened to like other varieries that entered the market.
Isn't it a good idea to remove the license plate number from the photos? We do that here in US.
For Computer Science:

A-tier: MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, CMU (in no particular order)
I actually couldn't really get into Metroid. I'm a 3rd generation military brat that ended up joining the Army so I think the theme of Contra appealed more to me. In the grand scheme of things, I agree Metroid was more influential, but I just didn't like it.

I can't believe I forgot to mention Tetris though.
Yeah, the secondary processor thing sounds odd to me. Couldn't they reserve one core for background processing? I doubt games will use all 8 cores anyway.
Why Drag It Out?
Not everyone experiences bullying, or at least not beyond one time. Once the bully realizes you fight back, he'll look for easier prey. It's quite conceivable that people won't even remember the episode if they fought the bully off.
Another science-fiction series about dolphins is David Brin's Uplift books. Humans use genetic engineering to "uplift" dolphins' and chimpanzees' intelligence. Then they all fly around in water-filled spaceships "manned" by dolphin crews. :D
Is it just me, or has the worrisome rise in incivility here begun to taper off somewhat?

Edit: if I'm right about that, then actual incivility has tapered off just as the reputation of HN for being mean and uncivil has escalated.

This whole thread is Meta Carnaval so one gets to indulge whatever meta commenting tendencies one normally ought to repress!
Hey K, have you ever considered working with children?

You know, the ones who'd prefer not to play outside with the other kids?

Whilst at uni I worked part time in various capacities as a tutor or educational assistant. One school in particular was very accommodating to students with different needs. And not just the kids who couldnt read, but the kids who wanted to read all day.

I think you'd have something to contribute in that space.
I am not pleased with engineering for taste without regard for the corresponding nutrients that our taste evolved to detect.
Curious as to the price point. Could make a good cheap computer if cracked...
How to Effectively Scale _____ Hat SEO to the Moon
It's amazing how similar they are to humans in many respects.
I know it's a terrible note.... but I can't tell if that black person with the google glass on the photo is a man or a woman.

I really can't tell.
Did a quick check and nothing is hacked. It's just a static page served up by a rack app on heroku so it's unlikely it would ever be hacked. One other comment mentions the site being flagged so I imagine there is something that certain filters don't like. IIRC Site Advisor uses bots to flag sites. In the essay I cuss a lot, mention Las Vegas and mention drugs so I imagine it's a combination of 1. bots not liking the things I mentioned and 2. it's a recently registered domain.
A kernel resident network stack works well when you're running multiple user-space applications on your machine and need some sort of fairness guarantees across all those applications' network usage. For dedicated servers running a single high performance network app, moving network processing (and indeed all I/O, e.g. Flash storage) to user-space is close to being a standard practice now, at least in the server appliance marketplace.

Wish cloud providers like EC2 and others would get into the act. As a bonus, they could provide a user-space network stack as libraries so the client apps don't really need to know much below the socket interface (perhaps with some extra setsockopt options etc.) It could actually be a big differentiator for whichever cloud provider pulls it off.
money isn't everything. you don't need a trust fund to pay for an education. a 'good' parent spends time with their kids. that's all a kid really wants. i know plenty of friends making 6 digits and double income parents, so much money but no time for timmy. its so sad. conversely my hippy friend makes mostly nothing and spends every waking day with his kid.
If you write a will with a lawyer, it doesn't get cancelled when the lawyer dies.
It is. Highly intelligent, playful, social, strategic, sexual, and with bursts of aggression.
I was with you right up until you wrote this:

"Do a thought experiment. Say we don't have Google, or its clones like Bing, etc. And say we don't have a replacement"

You must be a very different knowledge work than I am. Every 3-5 minutes I'm typically typing something into the my URL bar to get the appropriate page on the internet to solve my questions. Google has become an extension of my mind - I guarantee you that AltaVist/AskJeeves/Excite/Yahoo never provided me that kind of ability.

Aside from that nit, I'm totally enjoying your general theme about putting Google's contributions in context though.
Do you have any idea what you are talking about?

Your savings account is held by a Delaware corporation. Oh no!
I shamelessly enjoyed this.
then we could take the next step(s) and build a translator!
New OWASP Chapter
Lisp Flavored Erlang (LFE) Quick Start guide
It's not cheap to make sibyls because you have to get people to trust you and there's no easy way to do that.

There are simple ways to gather lists of likely independent servers. For example, agencies you trust could publish such lists. You could pick three such lists and only trust organizations that appear on two of them.

And if you betray that trust, it will nearly always be easily detectable in an automated way. At that point, everyone will stop trusting you and you'll be back at zero. By contrast, if you accumulate 51% of the mining power, there's no easy way for people to take that away from you and make you start over.
"it would be a complete mindfuck if we found other intelligent life in space, where before there were mainly only stars, rocks, and interesting formations of liquid and gas somewhere in between. It would change everything."

Given that the Milky Way alone has at least 100 billion planets (17 billion which are Earthlike)[1], it would actually be a far greater shock for there not to be intelligent life in space.

[1] http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-01/billions-and-b...
That's funny, it always felt to me like it was "Startup News" for a lot longer than 6 months. If I had to guess and couldn't look it up, I would have said 1-2 years. Interesting how powerful first impressions can be.
The point that breaks the triangle(rectangle?) is if you add whether or not she is interested on you.
It is positioned to compete with other payment systems. As for scalability, it uses data structures specifically designed for rapid synchronization. But you're absolutely right that scaling it to thousands of transactions per second will be a challenge.
Because 3D is soooo 1st decade of the 21st century..
Toosell blog | How to Replace a PSP Laser
Vanguard will tell you exactly how to allocate: in the retirement 20xx fund for the year you want cash.
When the PS3 was announced it had a hefty feature set, some of which did not happen on launch, or ever.

Things that didn't happen: Two HDMI ports, three ethernet ports, and six USB ports.

Backwards PS2 compatability, multiple card reader formats, and SACD support were all dropped later on. Ones that do support SACDs still no longer support digital surround output.

I love my PS3, but Sony seems to have quite a history of over-promising and under-delivering with these announcements, and then cutting features that they launched with down the line as well.
Commercial Cyberspying, Theft Promise Rich Payoff
Enterprise company? Ha. Just try dealing with three different decade-old JVM versions once. You'll pray for bundler.
I once saw a tomato tasting booth at a farmer's market with some 25 different varietals, and I'm sure there are hundreds of others just waiting to be grown. We don't need to science the solution.
There are people who want to promote it that way, but that doesn't include the people who designed and built it. Check out http://ripple.com/
I'm not totally sure on this, but AIUI XRP is a new currency and Ripple is a system that can trade any currency including XRP, BTC, USD, etc.
Oh, guess I had more important things to do with my time.
While pdf.js is a cool project, the last paragraph sounds too biased. Despite being open source / in native javascript, Firefox is still late to the party in terms of viewing pdf in a browser. Coming up with a better solution TWO YEARS later than the competitor doesn't seem that impressive.
I ran digital/social marketing for a major import car brand for two years up until Q4 of last year. We built something like this but, it was killed internally by an executive. It is a great idea and my studies say it will raise sales price on cars by 5-8% because of the "fear of losing out" principal.
(Writing this as I take a break from working on my startup at the Hacker Dojo...)

Ben/Pinterest are probably the most well-known ex-residents of the Hacker Dojo. It is an awesome place to work, and there lots of promising startups that have set up shop here.

Speaking of hiring engineers, the 2013 Hacker Fair is coming up: http://www.hackerdojo.com/HackerFair3
I know tenured professors who don't apply for grants, and therefore don't have any money to pay students, but they still get paid a salary by the department. They can do whatever they want (research, or not), modulo teaching responsibilities. Some profs actually do very good research, without students. It's a reasonable way to go, once you have tenure.

Problem is, you can't take that route to get tenure in the first place, unless you're an absolute genius.
I think that we'll eventually reach the threshold where devices of all sizes have true "retina" quality screens, along with GPUs powerful enough to back them up, but that won't happen in the next generation of consoles, and even if it did, there is still one astronomical hurdle we have to jump in order to level the playing field.

Even at it's best, controlling a 3d game with a touch screen is a horrifyingly awful experience. It's so bad that I haven't made it out of the first level of any of the games I've tried. Not because I can't clear the content, but instead because doing so is such an awkward experience, that I'd rather go back to playing angry birds or read HN. As someone who spent his teen years playing GoldenEye, TF Classic, Q3A and Counter-Strike for 12-16 hours at a time, I find it quite an accomplishment when someone manages to make a FPS that I can't stand to play for more than 5 minutes.

I think that it's possible that we'll eventually have a level playing field on all platforms, but I don't think capacitive touch screens are going to be the innovation that makes it a reality.
The main "docs" page [1] and the previous HN discussion [2] are
a bit more useful than the install instructions linked to this
submission. Also on the "docs" page is a video from 2011, but
I haven't watched it yet (still downloading).

[1] http://lfe.github.com/docs.html

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=286288
If you consider the sheer number of hours I tend to spend on my dissertation work compared to the stipend I get, I'm paid criminally less than minimum wage. But you're not given the leeway to focus "exclusively" on a single research contribution in a focused manner in other higher-paying options.

Even if you're not taking out a loan in the monetary sense, you're taking out a loan from your long term earnings, one that has little chance of being repaid, to put your mental assets/skills to a non-remunerable task, and get a certification that you did so. The problem is that the option to continue doing this (tenure-track academic jobs) are limited and (naturally) highly contested.

However, you make a good point--there's an underlying and insidious opportunity cost that is often unknowingly sacrificed: that of atrophying skill sets. It's easy for a PhD to be a hugely insular experience, if you let it, and if you take the easy way out and don't stretch your engineering skills (speaking in terms of CS here, since that's what I know), you're in for a rude awakening if you determine that academia is not for you. If you're not careful, you'll get good at writing papers, but might actually get /worse/ at writing portable, readable, and maintainable code. And as brilliant as your papers may be, if you can't ship good code, you're going to have trouble in industry.

The good thing, again at least for CS students like me, is that the "fun and enriching" environment of academia means a lot of opportunity for starting companies, creating libraries/frameworks, working on side projects, and doing contract work, so there's no reason you have to atrophy. Which is something that, sadly, the visions of the tenure-track academic job are engineered to beat out of you.
Great! I hope it works for me, I will be writing a blog post about it on my site at http://cvanderlinden.com once it's all finished!
The lifetime limit is equal to 400 years of gifting ?!
What's amazing about the silver fox domestication experiment was that it used ONE selection criteria - flight distance (the distance a human can approach an animal before it runs away) to do selective breeding. After tens of generations, the foxes were domesticated and most of the traits of a domesticated animals such as cuteness came along as side effects.

It was a great experiment showing a simple selection rule can generate complex evolution result.
Craigslist, facebook, twitter, usedvictoria, and auto trader. No stats yet. I will post on my blog at http://cvanderlinden.com with the results of this experiment.
I agree completely... The ones that are ripened in the grocery store are bland and waxy tasting. I really miss the garden I grew up with in the '70s. There's no comparison to vine ripened tomatoes ( not to be confused with Vine Ripe brand, of course).

I don't know if you are talking about the same ones or not, but the Campari tomatoes that Costco sells are about the only store bought tomato I can stand... They're kind of like a giant cherry tomato.
"Kotaku added that there's also a headphone jack but it's unclear whether this will end up on the final product."

Can someone explain to me why this even requires thought from Sony? A headphone port costs like 5p each when mass producing them surely? You get a lot of value added for that 5p. Is this to simplified? Can someone who knows more about factory production elaborate?
Ahh, good times. Thanks for the flashback :)
> only a tiny minority here actually code

I don't think that's true at all. I would guess that the majority of HN users can code, and that many of them - certainly not a "tiny minority" - do on a regular basis. If HN polls are at all accurate, they seem to bear out that conclusion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1544581 (admittedly, old)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3785277 (less than a year old, and shows a majority have learned CS)

These are in line with what I've generally seen of the HN community.
I don't think it's a big deal. Not much theft, and otherwise what can people do with my licence plate? I drive around with it in public vision all day.
Stripe is working on an interesting business problem. Engineers like to work on interesting business problems (and rarely do they get a chance to do so). That's pretty much it.
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