skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can state it simply. My laptop dual-boots into Linux Mint 14 and Windows 8. Both systems recognized the soundcard without any hassle. If I pick a random YouTube video (so not anything ultra fancy), the Windows 8 sound is phenomenal and Linux Mint sound is passable. And I'm not talking sound on the level of "The Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment"[1], I'm talking the quality of a Bose against airline freebie headsets.

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/the-great-mp3-bitra...
And that many choices are not documented in an accessible way. Even default choices. People complaining that desktop Linux is full of bugs and does not work. I think it works pretty well now, but the lack of man pages for anything desktop related is just sad. I'd like to understand how this works so that I'm able to fix it. But I can't easily I have to resort to wild googling, joining others in forums trying to decipher what these daemons are doing. This discourages to fix and understand things. At least for me.

Just some random examples from my Ubuntu Desktop (these are running by default as far as I know)

$ man dconf-service
No manual entry for dconf-service

$ man at-spi-dbus-launcher
No manual entry for at-spi-dbus-launcher

$ man console-kit-daemon
No manual entry for console-kit-daemon
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
>> And I say this as a Linux user who doesn't use PulseAudio...

PulseAudio works great in Linux? We can switch easily between a headset mic, web cam mic, builtin mic, etc. I think this is still problematic on Windows.
It's my understanding that the income of top professional players in some segments (fighting games, for example) has largely shifted to non-prize sources in the past few years. Being a top player will get you sponsorships and notoriety which can be leveraged into other projects like online shows, consulting jobs, etc. Sponsorships at minimum include travel expenses, but often will pay for full-time living expenses.

Twitch is a not-insignificant part of it, along with youtube etc. The companies that sponsor players use the hype to get eyeballs on their own sponsors' ads.

I am sorry to admit I don't have any sources for this information. It's mostly hearsay, so take it with a grain of salt.
This is a great post, I am currently battling/thinking about many of these same things as I work towards launching my own product. I agree, so far my approach to sales has sucked.
I doubt this was ever intended. There's screenshots of Facebook back when it was TheFaceBook.com, and it has maintained the same scheme ever since.
THANK YOU. I was thinking to myself "Wow they even took the examples straight off of Buffer's website".

Shame on this company for blatantly stealing content without attribution.

EDIT: Before I feel foolish, there is a disclaimer at the bottom that says "Reprinted with permission from Buffer", so I might've overreacted a tad. I'll leave my original comment intact as a monument to my shame.
Actually, Porsche has been #2 in reliability (J.D. Power Vehicle Dependability Survey) for two years running (behind Toyota's Lexus brand), #4 in 2011, and was the leader in 2010.

However, to be perfectly fair, your average Porsche sees far fewer miles per year than a bread-and-butter mid-size sedan.
HTTP Signatures – Internet Draft
Like it or not, Google is merely reflecting the obvious reality that most .io domains are not specific to the tiny island territory.
That particular feature is pure eye-candy =)
But surely nothing has really changed over the last 15 years. Processing power, storage, and bandwidth all get larger, but so do the images. Wavelets must be a great technology if you want to fit a HD video on a CD and play it with an expensive machine. I am not arguing against compression. But you have to admit that Jpeg2000 has been the next big thing for a long time. Surely it is cheaper to just use h264 and have more storage?
There was a script for latex which took two versions of latex files and compiled them to a pdf with changebar's
Be Succinct.
It would've been mutually recursive if Lisp (language) stood for something else which referenced Lisp (contest). But it doesn't, so you probably discovered a new type of recursive acronyms.

Hurd is an example of mutually recursive acronym:

"The GNU Hurd project is named with a mutually recursive acronym: "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons", and "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth.""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym
I was wondering if the map would capture the Alaska Mat-Su Valley/Minnesota connection. Back in Fall 2008, people started asking me why I, being from Minnesota, talked like Sarah Palin, doncha know. I was amused to discover an article that October which explained that the US Government had relocated a bunch of Minnesotans to Alaska in the 1930s[1] as part of a government relief program, eh.

edit: regarding that American accent quiz elsewhere in the thread[2], I score a 93% 'north central' accent: "North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2008/10/wha...

[2] http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/american-accent-quiz.html
Ubuntu has won the Desktop and Server Linux wars so the article is no longer valid. RedHat doesn't even care about Desktop Linux or consumers using Linux.
This is another fun map: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7wbbZeG9jwI/S1uUPYQCImI/AAAAAAAAAF...
Intel announces Atom processor redesign, code-named Silvermont
It definitely comes down to the educational issue. I'm a mechanical engineer and have gotten pretty good with "math tricks" (e.g. 103x7 is difficult, but I can compute 100x7+3*7 much easier and know to rewrite the problem to be done in my head).

A trick like that should be pretty simple to figure out, but grade school math is taught in such a rigid fashion that students (who later become full grown adults) don't think to try it. Think about the last time you went to dinner with friends. How many calculators did it take to figure out the bill? Here in New Jersey, tax is 7% and 18% gratuity is pretty standard. Add up your meal and add 25% which you should be able to do in your head since you just need to divide by 4. Yet, last time I went out to dinner, the lawyer, accountant, and two physical therapists (i.e. 3 years of grad school) all pulled out their iPhones and then looked at me with confusion when I tried to explain the 25% solution. I'm not sure they need to be able to do the math in their heads (part of my job involves doing quick math in my head, so I have more practice), but the logic behind it shouldn't confuse them.

I often hear people talk about the need for high school classes that teach people how to balance a checkbook and other questionably useful skills. If you have to teach someone to balance a checkbook, you've already failed them. You've missed the part of education that should teach and develop the logic to make the checkbook lesson take 1 minute.
It's weird they are killing this product because the existence of products like Sketch make it clear that there is a demand and a gap in the market for a good vector/raster tool for web design.
You're right, I was going off a review of the Beaglebone where they said you couldn't do 1080p TV like on the RasPI. Clearly incorrect. :)
“I'm not going to justify $50 per month for [hobby usage at home], [...] A $700 upgrade every three years comes to $20/month.”

“upgrading from CS4 to CS6 [...] A few hundred dollars every few years”

As you use Photoshop, Illustrator, and AfterEffects, that means you probably have the Production Premium or Master Collection bundle. Upgrades for those bundles did not come cheap.

Adobe releases a new major version of CS every year, and has done so since CS3. CS4 is 5 years old. If Adobe kept its perpetual upgrade plans, you would have to first upgrade to CS6 to be able to upgrade to this year’s version (‘CS7’) – having to buy two upgrades would’ve cost way more than $700. Instead, Adobe gives users of CS3 or newer a discount to Creative Cloud, all Adobe apps for $30 a month.
Ask them to read/convey ideas from PG's 'What You'll Wish You'd known' essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html.
It really is a gem, especially for high-schoolers.
probably dmix
>>Wait, where does "bag" rhyme with "vague"?

Wisconsin/Minnesota
If you're interested in this, you might also be interested in the Atlas of American English by William Labov, et al (some information about it can be found here: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html). Brilliant guy.
Towelliee makes around 7-8k/month according to an AMA he did a few month ago and it has quite a bit of insight there.

He's shown that you don't have to be top gamer skill wise to make a lot of money. He's decent at games, but he isn't any sort of 'Pro' at any sort of game he plays:

http://www.reddit.com/comments/tufo9/i_am_a_twitchtv_partner...

http://www.twitch.tv/towelliee
No Hawaii. Again.
The Sublime Cluelessness of Throwing Lavish Great Gatsby Parties
NASA - Setting foot on Mars by 2030
This website needs a re-design bad!
Hybrid electric flying car
The Future Of Mobile [SLIDE DECK]
This was an entertaining talk from CCC in 2011 on desktop Linux. 'datenwolf' was the speaker, and he starts talking about sound in Linux here. [1]

He's quickly interrupted by the maintainer of PulseAudio, and this interruption continues throughout the talk.

My takeaway was that if there was still this amount of confusion and misunderstanding in the community, my frustrating experiences with sound in desktop Ubuntu was not atypical of dekstop Linux users.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTdUmlGxVo0#t=11m
Being rejected repeatedly is disheartening for sure. However, 10 rejections is actually not that many, nor is two months a very long job search. Many companies have a pretty narrow idea of what a good candidate is - e.g. "5 years experience with X" or "agrees with the lead engineer about most things" or "can solve this tricky puzzle". I'm a very good developer and have a degree from a top school but faced many rejections early in my career (more than 10 I'm sure).
This is really well done & solves a pain point that I mostly never realized even existed. This is my default youtube client now.

That being said here are some improvements that you might want to consider:

1. I almost dismissed this as another thing that I'll never use until I found that search bar on the top right. You want to make sure it's visible at first glance.

2. Allow me to drag the volume slider.

3. The button next to the cross/remove is not very intuitive. Took a good 10 seconds before realizing I could drag it. Make tooltip available everywhere.

4. The default video width can be bigger.

5. If a video from the search result is playing, change its play button to a pause so I know that when I scan that list.

6. If there is one thing I'd want to carry from youtube here is recommendations. Sometimes I might not know what to search for. So have a tabbed view between search results & recommendations.

7. You'll probably come to this anyway but I'd like to create an account so I can save my playlists.

Best of luck.

Edit: PS: Just realized I could use a next/previous button.
I wonder how often companies are actually charged with this though? How would they get proof that you had an old pirate version of PS on a PC in the office somewhere, it's not like adobe has the right to come in and start rummaging around.
How many of us are (rightly / wrongly) doing what we are doing in order to chase the ghost of Jay Gatsby?
Secret Sensors in Google Glass
The risk, I suspect, is considerably LOWER than having a password guessed by a brute-forcing script on the Internet.

Thievery isn't typically a frequently recurring operation, and when it occurs, the user is apt to notice.
I always thought "Big Data" referred to the industry, similar to the terms "Big Pharma" and "Big Tobacco": i.e., very large firms with very large budgets that focus on data science/storage, pharmaceuticals, or cancer sticks.

Using "Big Data" as a noun to refer to actual data sets offends my grammatical senses.
Well said!

If there's no question that auto-canceling subscriptions are in the best interest of the user then I feel like it's case closed.

As for customer education about the policy (repeating myself from my other comment) we do have it in large print -- "If you stop using Beeminder, we automatically stop charging you. We only want your money if you're actively getting value from Beeminder!" -- but you're definitely right that we should email the user when the auto-canceling happens. I think that could generate a ton of goodwill and bring them back, as you say.
If phone surveys are "of no scientific value", you ought to tell the Department of Justice they're wasting taxpayer money: http://bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245

According to Wikipedia according to the Department of Justice, 26% of rapes are by strangers, which doesn't fit my definition of the inverse of "almost all".

And while most guns may be technically owned by men, that hardly matters if they're available for the women in the household to use in self-defense.

And again with the profit; can you not understand that the vast majority of us just don't give a damn that the firearms industry makes a healthy profit? This is an argument that has weight with gun grabbers, not gun owners.
Google Analytics: Real-Time Conversion Report
I really think it was the NeXT engineer's tech demos showing that they could run Openstep on different processors and also that they could complete the 'Blue Box' in time.
Senate passes Internet sales tax bill amid opposition from conservatives
I can't upvote this enough. At least put the cutsie name in the goddamn uname -a result. Drives me bonkers having to look that shit up.
Before that, there was the Newton, Palm, and various clones. And for thousands of years prior, the abacus had a touch interface.
Obviously he wasn't upgrading every release.
Russian researchers find more evidence that lightning is caused by cosmic rays
It's genuinely refreshing to have a senator who isn't embarrassed to admit that his newest legislative proposal is inspired by the plot of a Hollywood thriller.
Minor nitpick:

So, I'm reading your article, digesting the information, and generally nodding along with what's being said. About 2/3 the way through the page, a static top navbar peeks its head down to remind me I'm on Framebase.

Now, the banner at the top of the page says, I'm on Framebase. The logo at the top of the article says, I'm on Framebase. So, why is it necessary to have a navbar pop out of nowhere to remind me that hey, angersock, you're on Framebase?

You don't even have any links on it--it just comes out of nowhere unbidden. If you insist on having it, why not just always have it at the beginning of the page--why must it pop out and annoy me in the middle of your article?
This is a side-project. I made it for me and my friends and anyone who appreciates the limited scope of what it does - quickly look up videos, create playlists, share them and bookmark them.
I wouldn't bet on it soon. It was designed as a Mac app from the ground up. Porting to Windows would be a pretty big endeavor not much smaller than building the app in the first place, and they're currently doing pretty well as the big fish in the Mac pond.
Yes, but I think he's saying that they shouldn't be separate. At least not in the sense that someone wires it up and _then_ makes it pretty.
"…prior to Jobs’s return to Apple, design was what happened at the end of the engineering process. Post-Jobs, engineering became a component of the design process. This shift made all the difference in the world." — http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/walter_isaacson_steve_jobs
He makes a lot more now, especially since he went to LoL and gets even more viewers. You can get somewhat of an idea as to how the system works from this post: http://www.destiny.gg/n/own3d-tv-a-beginners-guide-to-being-...

His contract with Twitch is NOT the same, of course, but it's similar, especially on value. These streamers also make money from donations, so keep that in mind. I've heard that some donations were as high as 10k, which is insane. Not all streamers get that much. I've also heard that one popular streamer showed his Paypal account on stream and had upwards of 90k. Speculation, I know, but I don't think it's far fetched. You can also go on certain streams and read off the donations that they post, add it up, and extrapolate to a month's salary. Just from donations!

The LoL streamers earn A LOT of money from streaming. A team may get 30K viewers PER MEMBER. TSM did this for a while. Their members would barely focus on team practice, they'd stream most of the day to upwards of 20k+ viewers. TSM also does an online invitational tournament which also gets a ton of viewers.

Simply put, the market is growing and a lot of that growth is coming from Twitch. They have a ton of power now and it's scary. Sure, if Twitch went away, e-Sports would still be around because that part of the industry is built around tournament and sponsorship money. What would happen, though, is a lot of people would lose their jobs and e-Sports would be destabilized for quite a while. Not that Twitch will go away suddenly, but they have way too much power and I would not be surprised if they started abusing it even more.

Twitch has an agenda now. Talk to any Admin and you'll know this. Their agenda is to appear professional. Thus, anything deemed unprofessional is going to get you in trouble. This means, essentially, that any non-gaming content is barred completely. Streamers will usually take breaks from their games (they play for 6+ hours in one sitting) by watching stuff on stream or just talking and relaxing with the viewers. This is NOT allowed, technically. Some streamers get away with it but I've seen others get reprimanded in the chat for not showing gaming content. It's only going to get worse.
Emacs and tmux
I'm not sure if my ears are just bad, but I notice very few differences at all, not even Texas or California. I've lived in Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, and Los Angeles, and I've very rarely run into people who sounded like they had an identifiable regional accent in any of them. If you go to rural areas it changes—West Texas has some Texas accents—but suburban Houston sounded very close to suburban Chicago to me, except for a few lexical differences like "pop" vs. "coke".
Twitch is definitely doing something right. Non-mainstream sports should definitely see what Twitch has done with the gaming world and try to do the same with their perspective sports. ESPN does a great job covering the mainstream sports, and they have yet to capture the secondary sports market. Seems like an opportunity for someone to do.
A Forgotten Pioneer of Vaccines
Luke...
>Electrics. Ahhhh, never a good thing on Astons!!

Nonsense, and it's also why this hire makes so much sense. In addition to the engine, underneath the hood is an incredibly powerful electromagnet that's an extraordinary example of their engineering prowess.

It's the opposite polarity of the ones installed in each dealership's service garage, which is why they always end up back at their service department.
Well, consider that if an attacker has physical access to your computer there's a pretty good chance you are screwed even if your password isn't written on a sticky note under the keyboard.
Minor suggestion is to have another table for services that have a current elevated status so it's easy to see at a glance.

Otherwise, looks good.
For what it's worth, Ubuntu versions are always Adjectivated Animals (with the adjective and the animal name always starting with the same letter), and ever since 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake), they've been sorted alphabetically, incrementing the first letter with every release. So even without any further information, you can easily work out that Raring Ringtail is 9 releases ahead of Intrepid Ibex.
It's utter idiocy if they don't do this.

'nuff said.
Maybe you are applying to the wrong places? I work in Silicon Valley and without naming names I can say I know there are places that will settle for very mediocre technical talent because it is so hard to get people right now. Avoid the well known, "hot" companies, and the start ups. Look for big companies in hot job markets.
Now if only I could live stream myself watching movies... Or coding... :)
Whereas I'm old fashioned enough to think that the right way to handle things is to buy some software that meets your requirements and use it for as long as it meets those requirements and not give a damn that the company would like you to upgrade to a version that does little new that you want.
Absolutely. Quality issues aside, they're spectacular cars and very emotional experiences. Watch this video and tell me it doesn't get your blood pumping ;)

http://www.astonmartin.com/cars/vanquish/video#1
Putting aside the fact that articles on Business Insider are extremely sensationalized, what about Youtube or Ustream? It really wouldn't take much for Youtube to implement the rest of the features Twitch has.
Ask HN: What do you think of programming contests?
I've noticed a completely contrasting opinion on this topic. Some of the programmers know love participating in Topcoder/ACM kind of contests and then there are others who think it's a complete of waste of time/energy.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Is there any better way you think these contests can be conducted?

Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders of hackerrank and working on broadening the aspects of programming contests.
I'm bullish on Brian, his team and Coinbase as a product.

Given the recent high-profile flameouts, I'd rather see people disappointed they can't use all aspects of the service today than none of them down the road.

Bitcoin is still early and I don't think that the market of products and services is outpacing the company.
When speaking about reasons not to log, I have one: What about performance?

If your software is a computer game, for example, you might have dozens of items, characters, and particle effects being tracked by the game engine at a rate of ~60 Hz. That's ~2000 log lines per second, or 160 KB / sec. Steam says I've played 200 hours of Civ5. Where are we going to put 115 GB of logs?

Not to mention the string formatting and I/O of that much logging potentially leading to unacceptable lag.
I got the impression that Paint.NET was abandoned.
Wolfgang 'datenwolf' Draxinger later, in true Bender-style, started his own audio system [1]. The creator of JACK had some comments [2]. They also went head to head in a thread on phoronix around that time.

[1] http://klang.eudyptula.org
[2] https://community.ardour.org/pd_on_klang
I love my JERKER (the predecessor) so much, with its multiple attachments. Had to get it off Kijiji.