skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, House of Cards with Spacey is excellent. I started and liked it so much I finished watching all episodes in 2 days.
Its really good to see companies like HBO and Netflix giving the traditional TV media houses a run for their money. BTW, if you liked House of Cards, check out Game of Thrones.
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Working on that under blacklight would have been interesting. That's going to really freak someone out someday, if it never got painted over...
The bizarre campaign against Apple's Tim Cook
Totally. Obviously, San Francisco can't just become one huge apple store, but the fact remains that some high-end retail can do much better with real estate so that a high SQM price doesn't really affect them. The only question is: how much high-end retail does the market really need? And people have to eat also.
The Surprising Journey of a Programming Language from Rio
In the meantime what are small businesses to do? Oh, that's right, work with the big guys who are pushing this bill. While you may not like ebay's position this bill is typical of Congress, its name is the opposite its effect.

It is meant not to level any playing field but give the large established retailers even less competition. They have the volumes to handle to extra costs of the services and software required to handle the tax laws.
Magnetic logic makes for mutable chips
Me too. But my wife really likes it. It is right in her wheel house which makes me think this kind program is definitely geared to a specific audience in mind. I'm sure the production budget reflects that
I've added numbers for average salary figures. I think that should be preferred to anecdotes. A rockstar in college who makes 150k (notwithstanding that the max salary for CMU SCS in 2012 was 135k) straight out of college is probably capable of making just as much if not more if had they dropped out of college.

It remains that in the average case dropping out makes more financial sense.
Well, crap sorry. That's what I get for not reading. I really didn't think that part was going to be revisited.

I suppose I get frustrated when it is assumed anyone can get into a top tier university. That never seemed like a remote possibility for me or any of my friends in high school and we were all within the top 5% of our school.
The WP mention was a joke.

I do agree that the account thing is pushed too much in many cases.

My point was that having an ID has too many advantages to both the phone user and the OS company (not that those two sets of advantages have a bigger intersection...) that it's hard to see their presence/usage in smart phones not happening.
Beautiful. Well done!

Have you seen tweeting-athletes.com? Might be a good way to grab the twitter handles for additional sports.
Journals shouldn't publish papers without all the supporting data and computer code necessary to reproduce the result.

This seems obvious, but established academics have a vested interest in not sharing. Sharing data and code opens their work up to impeachment (as is seen here), and it gives others a jumping off point to extend their work.

Both of these side effects of sharing code and data are bad for the careers of successful academics, but good for literally everyone else in the world (including, ironically, these academics). It should be a no brainer, but then again, who referees these papers? The very people who have the most to lose by such a change.

It will take a lot of clamoring from the outside to bring about a world where scientific work is considered not legitimate without full documentation of the experiment performed.
then they certainly have a hand to play

Oh you card you.
My wish is NetBO = NetFlix + HBO - then I can forget about cable provider. But as others are pointing out - it would be bad for competition.
Not to discount your opinion, but I do want to mention that I'm also less than impressed by 50% or more of what comes out on cable, to say nothing of broadcast television. It's just the nature of the creative process (and also, let's face it, varying tastes). Launching a few bad shows will not cripple Netflix, as long as they have a number of good ones and get a good return on that investment.
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Years have gone by and the mention of "Fedex" and "API" in the same sentence still makes me cringe. What a horrible, horrible experience...
We'll Be Back Soon
There is a second Kickstarter to help cover the cost of purchasing the rights to additional footage ("Charles Schulz' TV specials, interview clips from Carson, 1930's newsreels and more"). It sounds like it's going to be very professionally done. Estimated delivery date is Dec 2013: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sequential/stripped-the-...
Internet Sales Tax Bill Gains Ground in Senate
I've battled with Netflix many times. Its Canadian content is a joke, compared to what's available in the US I can't imagine why anyone would stay with Netflix Canada for more than a month.

Yes I've tried various VPNs and it's far better but I don't like the layout they changed it since I had used it the first time.

The biggest problem is the bizarre customer service which seems to be very amateurish. I was billed twice per month somehow they got approval to bill my credit card again, same address same person - me, without me giving approval. And it was a battle to get the representative to understand that was a problem.

The representative said she couldn't refund multiple months but I asked how they could take multiple months but not refund it! After some arguing (very unprofessional) she agreed to refund two months.

I asked her to cancel my account and she asked me why! Jesus Christ why do you think! You bill me twice, no approval, you drag your feet to refund my money you took and then are surprised when I want to cancel my account.

The concept is great better than MythTV, torrent or anything I could get working but their billing and customer service absolutely sucks!
I had three days to find a cofounder. This is what I did
White House Endorses Internet Sales Tax...
It owes much more to Master of Orion and its sequel, with its races and customizable ship design. Homeworld's main innovation was the fully 3D battlefield, Stardrive is entirely 2D (not even psuedo 3D).

Not that that's a bad thing. The art is gorgeous and it has a great sense of humour. Worth a punt if you're even remotely a 4x fan IMO.
It would've been nice if that article compared revenue and profit numbers, rather than just how many subscribers each service had ...
"It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one." Alan Perlis, Epigram 7.
This post is a BS strawman argument and should not be voted up, let alone the top comment.
I would first of all argue that monetary value should not be the primary consideration of deciding to go to college. But fine, let's discuss money. The most glaring weakness of your argument is that it only considers the first few years. I will argue that, over the long haul of a several decades' career, college still pulls ahead financially because:

1. Those social connections? They actually have monetary value. Unless you already come from an extremely well connected background, it's very likely that knowing a few extra people in disparate fields can come in handy for your future career.

2. Without a college degree, you'll sooner or later hit a glass ceiling. I know, I know, it's superficial of people to prefer that guy with a masters degree for promotion to management. But they do it anyway.

3. Last but not least, in college you learn to learn. Most schools these days force you to take a range of classes from history to foreign languages. (Some of these can come in handy on their own, see Steve Jobs' experience with calligraphy.) Learning to adapt to entirely different fields will be quite nice when, ten years from now, that hot new computer skill that's netting you extra cash right now inevitably becomes obsolete.

Let's not mention the fact that there's a bit more to life than raw earning power; such considerations might seem a bit indecent to some of the folks here...
Man, so much hate for this device that the poster probably have never seen or used in person.

A douchebag will be a douchebag with or without Glass.

But in my book, douchebags are people who call other people douchebags for no good reason.
See what I said:

> the anywhere between $0-250k tuition you're spending on college (financial aid depending)

Internship pay does assume you get positions all three years.

The BigCos are at the top of the margin and are not representative of the average case.
Fair enough. What I meant is that a licensing model would be cool because it would offer the same tech in endless fashion applications, instead of forcing to wear a wire structure on your head. For the moment I'm afraid that in the beginning it will be what it is, and after some time there will possibly be some special designer editions for a bazillion dollars.
I'm not so sure. HBOGO is exclusively an add-on to the cable service. Its present quality is irrelevant to the post-cable world as it is completely incapable of gaining traction outside of the "cable bubble." It is basically a tree falling in a forest where nobody can hear it. In the far-off future when HBO gets with the times, who knows what Showtime and everyone else's offerings will look like?
I don't know how much this sort of thing is worth, but there hasn't been a homeworld game in almost a decade. Obviously THQ didn't think it was worth much (or else not enough to start a game with it or be worth selling before the bankruptcy made it necessary). I can see how someone might make the mistake.
I had to opportunity to work one time where the time I came in didn't really matter. I decided to sleep when I was tired and wake when I was refreshed. Over the next few months I started to slowly cycle around the clock as my sleep time shifted about a half hour to an hour later each day and thus did my wake up time. It was a bit strange, but once I got into the rhythm of it...I've never been as productive in my entire career.
I was looking at the BITE model of mind control [1] and I can see that a lot of social interactions in life can become cult-like, without the intention of making them such. For example, from early on, parents can be protective to the point where indivudial thinking is not really allowed. I have participated in sports and communities with similar dynamics. There should be some kind of level system for cults to identify their severity.

On the other hand, looking at the "symptoms" the model presents could be a lot like looking at health symptoms online - everything looks like cancer.

[1] http://www.freedomofmind.com/Info/BITE/bitemodel.php
I've been making the Android / iOS argument for over three years. Any forward projections are just opinion obviously.

I have a particular talent for spotting negative positions in stocks and trends in general. I'm not trying to prove that I do, take my word for whatever it's worth to you. In equities I've derived it from the Graham-Dodd-Buffett approach. I've found it exceptionally easy to spot when to short stocks by reversing the Graham Dodd approach (it works for spotting undervalued equities, and it works equally for spotting overvalued equities, I just happen to be good at that side of it).

On the technology side, if you understand Apple's business model, and you understand how technology markets work toward consolidation around standards, and then you apply the context of what Android is and its vendors / support / ecosystem (and whether it's of high enough quality to be good enough for that 80% to 90% of consumers, to rule ala Windows) - the rest is obvious, it lays out a momentum line that can't be stopped.

There are exceptionally painful consequences to Apple losing market share that very few are pricing into things. The mistake I see often is linear thinking on market share to profits; eg if Apple is making $30 billion on 20% market share, said people then think Apple could make $15 billion on 10% market share (when in fact there are numerous destructive penalties for falling below thresholds in the market, regarding developers / apps, music, media, consumer perception, negotiating position with suppliers, stock price falling and losing key employees and on and on).
Nice how every solution (except the bike-pump) business, involved abusing someone's trust or creating negative externalities (artificially extending lines, hijacking class time).

It's a good education, but a depressing one.
All of the major US sports (NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL) would be great.
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I feel like people are looking at this the wrong way. Of course you could make an extra 80k/yr by going to college than not, but I imagine if you're an amazing developer and you go to Stanford, you're basically set for life with the combination of prior coding skills, network and things you learned at Stanford, thinking about working an 80k/yr job would be laughable, right?
The result doesn't really surprise me - many operations are bound by the available bandwidth. There is even a compressor named Blosc [1] that speeds up operations by moving compressed data between memory and L1 cache and (de)compressing it there instead of moving the uncompressed data.

[1] http://blosc.pytables.org/
Tin-Can, a novelty name, a serious app.
That, and people can work from home. How does Facebook cut down on driving?
Ask HN: What is the most cost-effective videoconferencing setup?
Situation: Our startup has two offices and we occasionally need to have meetings between the two (with another one or two people from another location). Google Hangout would suffice if not for the audio situation -- you'd have to have everyone crowd around the mic for it to work properly and this doesn't work well (comfortably) if you have about 15 people in a room. We have projectors so visuals aren't really an issue.

Is there a solution such that someone could talk from any part of the conference room such that the people on the other side will hear it properly? Goal is for it to be reasonably priced and easy to set up? Perhaps < $1,000? (if a really great solution exists for a little more, that's okay)

If there's a reasonable external mic (+accessories) setup we can use with a laptop and Google Hangout, that would be fine as well.

Another attempt that failed was using Gotomeeting and dialing in on a Polycom Soundstation -- people had to be close to the SoundStation for it to work properly.
Some of your arguments are going against a straw man:

> do not go to college just to earn more money. You need to have better reasons than that.

> Now, that being said, the reasons I'm attending college instead of dropping out (I did take a year off to work at a YC startup): I value the unique social experience of college

Connections are overrated in SV. As a software engineer it is extremely easy to network, since everyone wants to have coffee with you (cough recruit cough). From my year at a YC startup, I made more valuable connections than I've made in college - angel investors (trying to recruit me for their portfolio companies), startup founders, etc. I still see these people, though I do have to make an effort to keep the connections warm. Friendships are a different matter; see the beginning of my post.

Steve Jobs dropped out of college and audited those calligraphy classes for fun as a non-student. So that's kind of a bad example, since if you really wanted to follow in his footsteps, you should drop out and then audit classes at Stanford or something.

Let me give you my experience with "learning to learn:" Most students at top-tier colleges do not really care to "learn to learn." Students are more concerned with taking easy classes to fulfill their requirements than actually learning about subjects they have no interest in. If anything, it is people who are self-taught who have truly learned how to adapt. Who is going to have more developed autodidactic skills? A college grad or someone who had to teach themselves for 4 years?
Basically this is a Klout for startups? BTW, Klout API might be useful in figuring out the social traction http://klout.com/s/developers/v2
Because it's a miserable experience, and a waste of time, and living in an actual city is a good way to rebel against your parents' pathological love of exurbs.
Oh but these people do have a good reason, the person is wearing something they don't approve of.
The cellphone means that young people don't have to "drive to the mall" to see if their friends are hanging out there. They can just call and find out where the party is...or just talk on the phone instead of face to face...or just use Facebook, etc.

Their communications are more efficient.
The same is true in Python - in single inheritance cases. (The rules for Python's method resolution order are more complex where multiple inheritance are involved[1].)

1. http://python-history.blogspot.com/2010/06/method-resolution...
No I'm not shooting from the hip, my opinions are rational and well informed. I've been doing this for a long time, it's part of what I do for a living.

The profit machine does not hold if you lose market share.

There are penalties in economics for falling below lines in market share, and they accelerate destructively the lower you go. It's not a linear calculation, it's a compounding one.

Apple can't negotiate the same way with telecom companies for the hyper rich subsidies if they're not as relevant in the market. They can't negotiate as tremendous of supplier deals if they aren't selling as many units. They can't keep developer interest if the scale isn't high enough. Their music network loses its moat effect if they're not the #1 music platform because Android overtakes it via streaming services or otherwise.

I could list one or two dozen other powerful follow-on effects to Apple losing market share in smart phones. It's a very costly situation indeed.
Discount rate is too high, salary growth rate is too low.
All of the reasons mentioned in the article play into this, but they missed a big one: young Americans tend to prefer access over ownership, and there just aren't any good ways to use a car. Zipcar is expensive, especially if you stay at your destination for any period of time.
My Mac app, CloudPull, closely resembles that description. It runs in the background on your Mac, backing up Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Google Reader. It performs backups every hour, and keeps snapshots for 90 days.

You can download CloudPull from:
http://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/

CloudPull is free for a single account. For $9.99, you can upgrade to get premium features including support for up to ten Google accounts.

John
probably based on Samsung's BS.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/08/apple-lifts-curtain-on-...

"Samsung, by comparison, revealed that it has sold 21.25 million smartphones in the US between June 2010 and June 2012, along with 1.4 million tablets. (Keep in mind that the smartphone number only included devices at issue in the trial, not Samsung's full lineup.) But even when you only look at Apple's data from those same quarters, the differences are stark—the company sold almost 63 million iPhones, 34 million iPads, and 25.3 million iPod touches during the same period. Even the weakest link of the iOS family—the iPod touch—is selling faster than a large chunk of Samsung's portfolio."

"Looks Like Samsung Pretty Much Lied About US Sales To The Public"
http://www.macgasm.net/2012/08/10/looks-like-samsung-pretty-...

"Confidential Apple, Samsung sales figures outed in court filing"
http://www.zdnet.com/confidential-apple-samsung-sales-figure...
Thats why they are testing the waters with HBO Nordic in the scandinavian countries (I reside in Denmark). My experience so far has been that HBO Nordic is compared to Netflix hitting more quality programming than netflix, but Netflix is quickly catching up (especially with House of Cards), and since netflix is monthly based, and HBO Nordic is 6months prepaid, and netflix has good solutions for mobile.
How you should react to knowledge gaps
Apple has $100b+ cash on hand. From a strategic perspective, Apple really needs to give a hard look at Netflix.
WWDC?
Edit: not wwdc, false alarm.
did I offend you, or am I not allowed to dislike how an electronic device looks like?
fair enough, i'll listen. skeptically. but i'll listen.
What about quantum computers?
Browser & OS plz
I don't think the idea is to gain traction, but to be ready to switch to a non-addon model when the bubble bursts. Espn and HBO have set themselves up with excellent apps and web services. Right now they are (frustratingly) only available to cable subscribers, but if at some point in the future we see a mass exodus from cable companies then all they need to do is add a way to pay them directly and they have a full, independent subscription service.
"HBO’s figure dates to the end of 2012, but it’s unlikely to have grown much in the first three months of 2013, owing as much to the cable TV industry’s stagnation as its own trouble signing up new subscribers."

I wonder how many people are like me and only pay for the months in which Game of Thrones is on (Q2 so far)?
This is pretty much why I will never develop a facebook app after having worked at a company that develops apps for facebook. The push fast and break shit mentality is terrible for APIs. It's too much work, and the Mobile space has more opportunities.

Just the thought of having an app inside of an iframe is silly to be honest. It's not the way products are meant to be experienced.

On iOS or Android, you are in someone else's ecosystem, but at least your app takes control of the entire user interface. You cannot have that much control over the customer experience in the context of a facebook frame.
Having watched both, well all three of Netflix's original series. I'd have to say House of Cards was the best, Hemlock was alright, a bit gruesome at times and Lilyhammer was... no comment.
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No. But it's different when you resort to name-calling just because of something a person wears or what a person looks like.

Call people douchebag for their actions.
TL;DR because they are too broke for gas, and don't have a job to drive to, anyway. And Facebook.
Great post. I agree that technical debt only applies to those who understand its significance. When learning, the feedback loop needs to be tighter. Experienced programmers are disciplined enough to determine the appropriate balance.
The "go to the mall to hangout" itch is at least partially scratched by online interactions with friends.
It gets better:

http://devimages.apple.com/

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Post is trolling. Gas dropped to under $2 a gallon in 2009? Fantasy. This whole article smells of viewbait.
>Connections are dramatically overrated. [...] From my year at a YC startup, I made more valuable (and warm) connections than I have ever made in college

Congrats on making it into YC. Yes, it's probably better than college for profitable connections. For most people, however, being admitted to college is a safer bet than YC.

I don't think Steve Jobs is a realistic model for the average person either. It was just a (side) example of how taking "fun" classes can sometimes turn out to be more profitable than an entirely mercenary course of study.

And I don't see which of my three arguments were against a straw man. Care to elaborate?

>Most students at top-tier colleges do not really care to "learn to learn."

I didn't say they cared to, but that they had to. When you work, the short-term pressure is to specialize - learn a subfield and learn it very well.
URL says maintenance, although I'm kinda surprised that a company on Apple's scale can't manage rolling restarts to present a zero-planned-downtime face to users/devs.
Yes, a miserable experience, often a waste of time (though I see a lot of traffic on HN about computer games...). I don't think that we boomers had a pathological love of the exurbs as such. But in many cases we moved there for perceived safety and for better public schools. In some cases I suppose because custody of the car keys gave us some more years of control.