skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same problem occurs for a Canadian with no college degree (but tons of freelance dev experience) wishing to move to SV. Anyone here know a good way to get around that?

Some details: I took two years of university so far, but ran out of money to keep going. I'm now living month-to-month (averaging about "feed myself and pay rent for a room") doing severely underpaid web-app development (think ELance rates.) Apparently my skillset (Ruby, Erlang, systems-level/embedded C, Clojure, some Cocoa Touch experience) would be making me at least $100K/yr in SV, but nobody wants it up here in Vancouver; it's all ASP shops and C++ game-dev, and most of the gigs I do get end up being in PHP, even though it's not my forte.

I really don't want to spend however-many more years it would take to pay my way through school at this rate, struggling out in the software "hinterlands", when a better life is just one border-crossing away.

And technically, If I'm asking for a pony, I don't really want to get hired by a Microsoft or a Google and only work in the US for them; I want to go to the US because I want to participate in SV startup culture, which both includes working for a startup, and starting my own. It seems like that possibility is just locked out for anyone but permanent residents of the US, though.
Why Real Businesses Don’t Charge $5/month: Part 2
It's odd that no one's mentioned it yet, but this reminds me most of Meteor.

How does this compare to, say, Meteor?
You misunderstand CGN deployments - there are still different address spaces on either side of the customer router. It's just now both of them are private/non routable prefixes, or in some cases the telco side is done using six. There's no briding and UPNP will never work - once you are on CGN data paths have to be set up from the customer side.
British TV license = no ads. Cable/satellite = I'm paying $40 a month and getting ads interrupting what I'm watching every 5 minutes.

Also, have you seen British television? The quality of the original programming far surpasses most of the networks we have in the U.S., and is easily on par with premium channels like HBO.
This is exactly what they should have done. Instead, they tied everything into their clunky UI.

The built-in Plex stuff is cool, but suffers all the same problems as the rest of the TV. People are better off with a dumb display + Apple TV.
> end users aren't hitting SSRS' interface directly

They'll hit the rendered output though. Which in HTML4.0's case is horrid (at least in 2008).
Redis-router - redis sharding api/library
> Bitcoin isn't backed by anything.

True; in a sense, its a formalized potlatch system in which the publicly-demonstrated destruction of wealth (energy and wear-and-tear on hardware, demonstrated via computation proofs) is rewarded instead of with informal social regard, with concrete exchangeable tokens.
Dr. Who--does Amazon Prime update more frequently than Netflix?
I saw it as a business opportunity for him, but I thought it would be a much smaller business.
I misunderstood you. I thought you were talking about the broadcasters, not Aereo. But yeah, companies built business models on court rulings (e.g. Sony VCR's).
Good for both, free publicity!
Agreed. A lot of people seem to be mentioning Toronto (never been) but can anyone comment on the tech/startup scene in Vancouver (loved it but it seems very small)?
I used to know Bryan Farney quite well; we were partners in the same IP litigation firm. (I haven't been in touch with him in probably 15 years.)

Do not underestimate Bryan. He's a brilliant and highly competent lawyer, a seasoned litigator, and a very focused individual. He knows the tech industry from the inside; in one incarnation, he was general counsel at Micron Technology. IIRC correctly, after that he was a partner in Brobeck's Austin office before that firm imploded. Personally Bryan is indeed a nice guy, but by no stretch of the imagination is he a pushover.
So you victimise people who mostly don't have any choice which browser they use, and lose their business. Good going...
I've been using spamgourmet.com for years. It's saved me 100,000's of spam emails.
Here's The Search Engine We Really Want To See Google (Or Bing) Build
Interesting. Mine seems to make a few blocking HTTP calls (seemingly for things like on-demand and app store listings).
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You can use it for an external ram drive though.
It's a happy medium between user friendliness and a UI that gets out of your way like xmonad. You only need two shortcuts to use Unity effectively. Super+w to switch windows and Super+s to switch screens.
I think they mean save hours of work for every developer.
Thanks for the advice. Making something public which feels imperfect takes some getting used to. I guess nothing will ever truly feel complete, though.
How an MIT Team Raised over 14x Their Kickstarter Goal
Great visualisation.
Except I'm not looking for sympathy. And your assertion that a CS degree prepares you for real life programming is almost laughable. Plenty of people work in areas that are only peripherally related to their majors without detriment to their trade. Your comparison of web dev to being a doctor tells me your understanding of the trade isn't all that clear.
IE6 wasn't garbage when it came out. It generally got good reviews. Mostly, people adopted it because it was better than Netscape.
Only if you don't intend to leave the country at all. Once you cross the border, even if it's a short weekend trip, you would have to apply for a new E-3 visa again.
"Ramp up" is not "start".

It's when they will be producing it in a streamlined way in large volumes.

Nothing stops them from producing a small run for something like the Map Pro.
It would be sad if this were taken to be a failure of low prices vs discounts. There are plenty of other reasons why JCP is still failing. There's a lot of inertia to its existing reputation and customer base, for starters.

I think the more obvious problem is they're a low-margin business at a time where being low-margin is difficult unless you're the biggest guy with the lowest operating costs.
Again, if you embed non-SSL content into a SSL website, you are obviously doing something wrong.

Regex in CSS can be used to guess page content. Also CSS can load SVG which may include JavaScript.
I have not read any more than the intro linked, but I am kind of "concerned" by the big claims

Behind the scenes, Hoodie takes care of account creation,
email validation and all the boring backend tasks you have
to think of.

yeah, but how. You still need to do account creation, even if you are storing the hoodie-account-object locally in some fashion.

Am I being dense, or is this like a nice client framework that still needs to talk AJAX to the backend, so still needs to allow oAuth, so still needs to change code if the API changes, and so on.

"We just want to make apps, and add billing by Monday" is a bit worrying as a goal to me...

edit: oh, so this stubs out the server side at the client ?
It seems like the same amount of work to keep backbone models in synch with the server as it does to keep hoodie? What do I gain?
How self-destructing electronics will transform medicine, war, and more
Thanks for the info! I have been looking at redactor for nwzPaper, but I will take a look at snap editor now. Currently using jwysiwyg and the format stripping is garbage. It's super light and the license doesn't cause us any problems, so I have stayed with it until I can commit to a better LT solution.

Daniel
Tin-Can: text messages without the internet
Horseshit.

It's time for manufacturers to get their heads out of their asses, cede this space to those who are best at it, and make "dumb" devices like they did 5 years ago.

Every year they persist in this effort will be a disservice to everybody who buys their products.

Yes, I own one of these "smart" TVs, and I'm still bitter about my purchase.

Edit: when I said "horseshit", it was because I inferred that you were saying Apple should make Apple-branded TV hardware, not just Apple TV boxes that plug into TVs. If my inference was bad, then.. well you should be more clear. ;)
Listening to the Big Bang – in high fidelity (audio)
JSON doesn't really support datatypes. So not really useful for sending data to someone else. Even simple things such as float vs. double will be a challenge. Not to mention dates or locations.

Pity you haven't gotten to like it. It's being tested on a lot of stuff, some sticks some doesn't.

And OWL has a number of subsets for whatever complexity you feel like enjoying.
This has existed for years: http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/

And your email isn't stored but rather encrypted and the ciphertext passed via the url.
Can you provide an example of a diesel that is pushing 100 MPG?
Whatever happened to "developers! developers! developers!"? *

(*) famous Steve Balmer quote
Having worked for the US government, trying to collect trade and production data from other governments and private entities, I always assumed this was the case when I received PDFs. Interestingly, interest groups were always eager to give you the data in whatever format you requested...
And more generally, Intel just isn't interested in equipping anything with much bandwidth except in the high-end server market. Their current mainstream consumer/low-end server/workstation platform has 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes direct from the CPU (but only 16 are enabled for the consumer chips), and 4 PCIe 2.0 lanes (20Gbps total) for the chipset and all the other peripherals to share. A single one of these new Thunderbolt ports could monopolize all of the peripheral device bandwidth available through Intel's current CPU socket. Copying a file from one SSD to another SSD uses more than half the available bandwidth. It used to be that a desktop system had the advantage of being upgradeable and expandable, but now you often need to get a new CPU+motherboard in order for new peripherals to run at full speed.
I'm guessing you pre-ordered from BFL? They seem a little too scammy for my taste, but if you paid with CC, hopefully you at least have fraud protection. They actually just posted something the other day (https://forums.butterflylabs.com/showwiki.php?title=FAQ:Get+...) that shows a rough estimation of how much you can theoretically make with each of their rigs at different difficulty levels. I'm of the opinion that once ASICs really get going, the difficulty is going to skyrocket. It's great for the manufacturer, because they can sell more of the units because people need to keep up. I wouldn't be surprised if we hit 50x current difficulty by the end of 2013.
Fair question.

One that immediately pops to mind is this:

http://vimeo.com/36579366
It's time to start calling these things what they are: monitors.

Nobody would touch a monitor with a 30-second startup time. Retailers should start listing startup as another statistic in the product info, along with screen size and the number of inputs.
Hint: Local testing/loading of html files might require a local server then, since file:// is then used for resources, too, and this is rather problematic.
http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01eHy-6e8CKpz-d...

k is your id and c is the ciphertext the key is stored on their server.
Run this NeXTStep dock on OSX alongside Dock.app (German, translate)
1) Are you sure that MAC is actually coming from that one flash that netgear's programming? The real datasheet for the AR7161 isn't public as far as I can tell, but very few SoCs require the end user of the SoC to write their own firmware to provide their own MAC. That type of thing is usually stamped in at the SoC factory. Commonly, it's on a ROM or other OTP memory somewhere, but without the datasheet, I can't tell for sure. And the process which programs that information in is likely separate from the process which programs netgear's firmware in. If you've signed the requisite NDAs and have access to the datasheets, then you may know more, but I still don't think that's a common setup and I doubt netgear would write their firmware assuming that setup.

2) Even if we lived in a world where netgear was doing all this for MAC addresses on SoCs anyway often in computing the question isn't why something isn't done now, but why it was done that way the first time someone wrote it. Build systems, factory processes and other legacy cruft build around a certain way of doing things and often those ways become the way even if new technology makes other ways more simple later.
There are tons of TVs that are doing it right. Apple doesn't need to "show everyone how it's done". This particular example is of one manufacturer messing up one product line.
Not All Mentors are Created Equal
hood.ie has a different approach. Meteor brings backend logic to the frontend. hood.ie tries to hide the backend entirely and provide an API that feels natural for the frontend environment.

The JavaScript API is what we care about most. We do currently have the hood.ie backend implemented in Node/CouchDB, but it could be everything, really. The frontend developer doesn't care.
> British TV license = no ads.

The British TV licence pays for BBC TV, and BBC Radio, (Now including the World Service, which used to be funded from the Foreign Office department of government) and the BBC Website stuff.

It's amazing.

There are some quirks, though. Buying the licence allows you to watch or record tv broadcasts.

So, it's possible for a person to never ever use any BBC services but still need a TV Licence.

And it's also possible for a person to listen to BBC Radio all day every day, and to heavily use the website, and to watch BBC programmes using the catch up service, but not need to buy a licence.

And a lot of people (mostly women) were in prison because they did not pay the fines they got for not having a tv licence. Prison's probably not the right solution for that problem.
I'm a Unix developer and would love to have a play, a little bit disheartening to see that the installation instructions are OS X exclusive.
Not only are even smart people sometimes wrong about stuff, they're wrong about when they're wrong about stuff.
I use the CLI exclusively and rely heavily on the interactive commands: git add -p, git reset -p, git checkout -p.
From a security perspective it certainly should be.
I'd love to read some research on why consumers are so infatuated with discounts/sales. We've all had friends/spouses boast about buying things on sale; it doesn't make sense to me but it does to most people. I'm very curious about the psychology behind this.
We love Meteor though :)
I stopped using the word 'hipster' when it became mainstream.
>It's time for manufacturers to get their heads out of their asses, cede this space to those who are best at it, and make "dumb" devices like they did 5 years ago.

They aren't going to do that. And you can't rely on set-top boxes (which themselves are largely terrible), media centers and game consoles to pick up the slack, since, as the OP points out, you still have a pile of manure at startup, while changing inputs etc.

You really do need someone like Apple to create a hardware/software product that shows everyone how to do it properly.
Inflation is just sign that the supply of money printed by government and blown up by banks is higher than actual demand for the means of exchange (which is probably correlated with growth of economy).

Inflation isn't very bad if it's predictable. I can be made sort of predictable by hand-managing the supply to match the actual growth of economy but the process is very fuzzy.

I'm not sure if inflation is good though. I think that the fact that you have to give your money away to the bank just to keep your saving from deteriorating is horrible.

Deflation is sort of bad because people start to save money and reduce inessential purchases. They also have higher standard for considering investment to be good.

I think that economy build on currency so solid as bitcoins will be somewhat different than what we have now. I think it will be much less volatile than current situation and that it will much better reflect the development of humanity.
I don't have a smart tv per se, but my TV does have a USB port, ostensibly to play back video, music, and pictures or something, all three of which it pretty much completely fails at if anything is the least bit atypical. Though it does mostly work with the pictures. I'm not sure why they even bothered.

Of course it wasn't even a smart TV and it took me ages to figure out that I needed to enable 'gaming' mode to make it display my PC's output over HDMI without zooming or making the colors really bizarre.

Count me in the camp who wants TVs to be more like monitors. In fact, if you could get a 40 or 42 inch monitor for the same price as my TV, I'd have gotten the monitor. However, a decent TV is often a half or a third of the price of an equivalently sized monitor, even at the same resolution.

Presumably TV IPS (or S-PVA, or PLS, etc.) panels are somehow cheaper than monitor IPS (or S-PVA, or PLS, etc.) panels? (Or maybe TV demand is higher enough volume for there to be meaningful economy of scale difference?)
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Well I think the lesson here is don't embark on an ambitious radical strategy without first doing some testing/sampling.
Vote for Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures on Steam Greenlight
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=136246834
You'll have to explain why local servers are problematic. More like file:// is.
Every time my wife drags me into JCPenney, I ask myself the following question: What is this company about?

- Brand recognition (status)? Nope.

- Low Prices? Nope.

- Quality (higher than) products? Nope.

- Cutting edge fashion? Nope.

- Fashion for average folk? Nope.

They are simply without a defined aim. And that's why their business lacks. Retail is still alive and kicking, but not for companies who still live in the days of The Brady Bunch.
I believe this has been default on IE (and maybe even Chrome?) for quite some time.
>There are tons of TVs that are doing it right.

Like .... ?
While I'd normally agree that shareholders can't be trusted to make sound long-term strategy decisions, in this case Johnson demolished JCP's financials over the past few quarters.
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Sigh. I wish no government forces their citizens into a single OS. We should be able to choose what we want to run. Just because something is open-source doesn't mean it won't carry the dreadful effects of a monopoly.
1. what if that idiot messes with gmail’s web console?

2. Security handling is purely server-side. You can’t fake your way without using a proper auth-channel.
I don't see what is that sad (or even American) about it. Rationally, yes, discounts are not better for consumers than low prices. But humans aren't rational creatures, and nothing done by JC Penney is going to change that.

After all, isn't not accounting for customers' irrationality in your business also irrational?
can be used to switch to and launch apps but not hide them. builtin clock. I find the whole look, hidability, alignment and operation to be more power-user-friendly. Rearrange like tiles, adjust transparency.

There is also
http://www.khwbn.de/MultiCubeDock/index.html
To be fair, isn't Libre is also pretty terrible at handling more basic formats like csvs?

I still have yet to find a good workaround for the "numbers as text" issue aside from switching to tsvs.
The stuff I'm working on doesn't use interface builder at all. Nor storyboards. When I start a new project I'll take a look - I was actually advised to ignore the tools and go all code all the time (and lots of images). And it’s worked out - but this is certainly a downside.
It's unfortunately endemic to the whole industry. My "smart" TV is a Vizio.

Really I wish TV manufacturers would offer "monitors" (screens without TV tuners). If one manufacturer goes this way, people who only want a screen for e.g. their Roku might buy that one instead.
Planet Money had a relevant/good discussion about the fallout from JC Penney's coupon-less strategy on one of their recent podcasts:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/03/08/173829409/episode-...
I wasn't that wrong then. ;)
I think chasing the discounts may be part of the excitement of shopping for some people. Someone was explaining how Kohl's does things, and it is completely insane, like there is an optimal one-hour window for buying certain things when the Power Hours and Door Busters and various other promotions combine with your double Kohl's Cash to get your Docker's socks for 85% off if you give them an email address.
Isn't Disney a big reason why copyright is always being extended before it would expire?
On refrigerators: Hmmm, maybe. Given the amount of food the average person wastes, some kind of inventory helper is a seriously good idea. I just don't want it to tweet, ever.
Samsung are just as bad. I've got the premium 8000 model. It can share its screen to a mobile device. Except it can't because Samsung don't include this feature on iPhone for whatever reason. So they are penalising me, who bought Samsung premium. Next time I won't repeat this mistake. I'll go for a simpler screen and an Apple TV.
i am pretty sure you'll find it described in "thinking, fast and slow" by daniel kahneman - http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/... (i imagine that the "fast heuristic" is to make immediate, local comparisons, which discounts favour; recognising persistently low prices means more reflection and long-term memory; people use fast heuristics rather than slow logic most of the time).

it's a very good book. i just gave a friend a copy today (if anyone in santiago is looking for a spanish language copy it's sold out in all the shops but bazuca.cl still have it in stock - i guess no-one thinks of buying books there!)
Not all that complicated and follows a simple set of rules?
Too late. Roku's already done it.
In the last days of Chumby we were doing a lot of work with "Smart TV" platforms from Insignia[BestBuy]/Tivo, LG, Samsung, Vizio, etc, and this problem is (or was as of a year ago) pervasive among almost all the "Smart TV" platforms we developed for. It seemed ludicrous to me that they thought it was okay for your TV to have a 30 second to 2 minute bootup time.

The Samsung TV we had was the only one actually smart enough to be able to turn on and function as a dumb TV nearly instantly prior to the "Smart TV" functionality booting up. Based on various comments here it seems like not every Samsung TV does this, but the one I had access to (I forget the model number) did do this, which was very nice compared to all the others. On the down side, the Samsung's remote control was downright horrific to use and had these oddly modal states where it expected you to type lots of things in using a T9-style keypad despite the unit also having a qwerty keyboard (which only worked in some modes/apps) on the backside.

Developing apps for these things was enough to get me to decide I'd never buy a "Smart TV" as a consumer. It makes way more sense to get a good "Dumb TV" and enhance it via set-top boxes like consoles (The Wii U is quite a nice media player, if slower than it should be), or Roku or such. Not only is the out of the box experience way better this way, but you can much more easily upgrade the set-top box with new features every one or two years whereas there's very little reason to get a new TV less than once every 5-10 years.
It could use delimiters on "Coins in circulation."
> yeah, but how.

Hoodie comes with a backend that does all that stuff that can only be sensibly done server-side for you.

> edit: oh, so this stubs out the server side at the client ? It seems like the same amount of work to keep backbone models in synch with the server as it does to keep hoodie? What do I gain?

@gr2m can you take this one?