skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi All, this is a conversation near and dear to my heart, as we've been working on building a Twitch competitor for nearly two years. We're very close to having a finished product, but as we've all seen with Own3d (and many other video platforms over the years); it's take a fair amount of capital to actually launch and sustain a viable business in this space.

We've thought long and hard about bootstrap launching, but we've decided that route simply doesn't allow us to offer the level of service we think you deserve.

To those who think that game streaming is a goldmine of cash, I can confidently say to you that it is not. It's a high-volume, low margin business at this point. There are a few who make some cash.

But most of that is a loss leader for another product. Like Riot Games - think their eSports division makes any net profit? Or do you think it's mostly an advertisement that drives players to LOL?

There IS opportunity here, and an opportunity that can be good for many, as opposed to the few, but it takes a lot more than just throwing up a pre-roll video ad in front of your livestream.

That's one reason we're working on some really innovative ways to help engage audiences and leverage expanded types of business models with your channels.

At any rate, happy to dive into the conversation further if anyone is interested.

We've also launched an online petition to help us get the attention of other venture cap and private equity investors; since this has been part of our battle for the last year.

If you really want to see another competitor in the space, help us prove the market to a generation of people (financiers) who do not understand game streaming at all.

http://www.change.org/petitions/vc-s-private-equity-and-ange...?

Thanks for your support!
Past Mach 10, a layer of plasma is formed on the leading surface of the aircraft, which RF cannot traverse. This is also why atmospheric reentry occurs in a blackout. There's a good explanation of the phenomenon here:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=piercing-th...
The End of a Dream: Couchsurfing's Fall
I thought they were announcing their IPO and a ticker symbol in a dramatic way. I was disappointed that it's just a conf.

DBX looks to be available as a ticker symbol and I hope it will make a good ticker symbol for them someday.
It's a mistake to use the "if it made business sense ... they would" line of thinking when interpreting the decision-making of any organization, especially large established ones.

As Marc Andreessen has noted:

"The behavior of any big company is largely inexplicable when viewed from the outside. I always laugh when someone says, "Microsoft is going to do X", or "Google is going to do Y", or "Yahoo is going to do Z". Odds are, nobody inside Microsoft, Google, or Yahoo knows what Microsoft, Google, or Yahoo is going to do in any given circumstance on any given issue.

...

"The inside of any big company is a very, very complex system consisting of many thousands of people, of whom at least hundreds and probably thousands are executives who think they have some level of decision-making authority. On any given issue, many people inside the company are going to get some kind of vote on what happens -- maybe 8 people, maybe 10, 15, 20, sometimes many more.

...

"You can count on there being a whole host of impinging forces that will affect the dynamic of decision-making on any issue at a big company.

...

"You can't possibly even identify all the factors that will come to bear on a big company's decision, much less try to understand them, much less try to influence them very much at all."

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4jwZiwL...
Original article: http://blog.bufferapp.com/the-science-of-colors-in-marketing...
> What I'm saying is - contrary to your point of view - that there were workers revolutions against communism and that there weren't workers revolutions against capitalism.

There is probably some strained definition of "workers revolution" for which this is true, but since it doesn't contradict anything I said, I am not sure what your basis is for the claim that it is contrary to my point of view, rather than a complete non-sequitur.

And, if it wasn't workers, who exactly is that drove the revolutionary change in western economic systems that led to late 19th Century capitalism being replaced, pretty much universally in the West by the mid-20th Century, with the modern "mixed" economy which adopts a wide range of socialist elements?
Bit early to become Twitter? :)
At this point in time, I would say yes. The start of a PhD teaches you a lot of useful research skills. However, the academic/research environment do not necessarily put them to good use.

This can lead people, such as myself, to investigate the value of a PhD itself and find that the career prospects, financial rewards, and even intellectual rewards, are difficult to align/justify.

I think that a reasonable conclusion is indeed that switching fields would generally be a good move, unless you know yourself to be an outstanding researcher within your field of expertise.
The AB test example where everything was kept the same except the color of the button should be taken with a grain of salt. Many elements on the page are green and there's almost no trace of red, so obviously changing the button color to red would instantly make it stand out more. That's an issue of contrast, not color preference.
Silvermont, Intel's Low Power Architecture
So, does each deletion result in a new commit? How can you just go ahead and delete things from source control hosting?
Algorithm problem: Isomorphic Trees
Anyone else find it funny that this "crypto-anarchist" is also a law student
Pixelmator is a bitmap graphics program (like Photoshop and Acorn), while Sketch is a vector graphics program (like Illustrator and Inkscape). Both have different uses.
I don't think it's too much to ask that if you go and use legal terms as if you're pitching a legal defense, that those terms are actually used correctly. Especially when the objection is about the form of a response and not the actual content.

You could certainly argue that rayiner hasn't provided justification with his comment, but unless you've been through MegaUpload's books you saying "BULLSHIT" has just as much (and as little) meaning as what rayiner said.
That's really not the same as going out of their way to hide the advertising from parents.
This is more of a hardware nit, but the iPhone is very annoying to hold in the hand. I expect Ive to step it up here and do something more like the curved edges of the Nexus 4, or even the less curved but still more comfortable HTC One.
And let competitors enter their market.
Designing the Future of the Intelligent Car: User Experience
Don't forget that in the early days, there were professional gamers but live-streaming was unknown. Players made money by winning tournaments and getting sponsors. The article mentions that. There weren't zero options before twitch - own3d was already mentioned - and there are options besides live-streaming.
I'm sure there will be a GUI way to switch the default but I tend to use environmental variables when I want to launch a program out of a non-default device

>Is it possible to use/set environment variables to change the default ALSA device?

>you can use ALSA_PCM_CARD or ALSA_CARD to set the default card, either by name or by number. If both are set, ALSA_PCM_CARD takes precedence. The device on the card can be set in the variable ALSA_PCM_DEVICE.

http://alsa.opensrc.org/FAQ026
The constant uncertainty. You are not given a check-list which says "Do these things and you graduate." You have to come up with that check list, and justify that check list to the people who will grant you your degree. And you have no real way of knowing just how hard - or even possible - that check list is until you start doing it. But, it also has to meet a minimum level of "hard" to be considered enough to earn the degree.

There is also the isolation factor. Many people do work in groups, and many people do work closely with their advisor. But, in the end, the student is expected to own some research themselves. That is the work that is the core of their thesis. Requiring the student to own some significant piece of work on their own contributes to the pressure people put on themselves, and the isolation they tend to feel.
Oh-my-zsh Godoc Package Completion Plugin
Anyone using github search as a replacement for the discontinued Google code search service?
This is awesome, but it unfortunately omits my current state, Hawaii, which offers an awesome dialect: Hawaiian Creole English [0].

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Pidgin
AI Time Machine (Essays, Patents)
it's quite fast actually, I'm very impressed. I think what I was trying to say is that it doesn't feel native at times, but it's difficult to articulate why. Maybe I'm just conditioned to use webapps differently, and pick up on cues like slightly lagging cursors and such.
Marketing Conference Guide 2013
In the South, iced tea is not carbonated. :) It is also very sweet, unless you ask for unsweet.

But yes, a Fanta or Sprite could be a coke. A Pepsi could be a coke.
The alternatives:

Sketch - http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch

Acorn - http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/

AnteType - http://antetype.com/

PixelMator - www.pixelmator.com

Unfortunately, none of them offers the blend of vector + raster tools that made Fireworks such a pleasure for web/UI design.

Most importantly, they are mac-only and there is no interoperability - they can't read from Fireworks PNGs, and there is no suitable format to export between any of them.
I haven't had a major problem with sound since probably KDE 3.4 timeframe or so.

But on the other hand I've kept about the same ALSA configuration the whole time. I don't know what it's like for the users using recent distros.
This is off topic, but do you think a competitor for Twitch TV would be good for the industry as a whole and grow the market in terms of professional video gamers and tournaments beyond what Twitch could do alone?
Yes, it really is. So many Linux users prefer OSS (Open Sound System) over ALSA because ALSA gives damn poor sound quality. Just search it and see how people gets disappointed with the sound quality of ALSA.
I can't answer your original question, but I can say that there does exist the word "cola" in English. This is the "correct" word for the sort of drink that both Coca Cola and Pepsi are.
Thanks for the heads up. That's pretty awful. I'm not going to stop using Dropbox over it, but it is upsetting to know so many people can't access my work posted there.
I don't know why it is generally enabled on "server" installations. That being said, the only time I've had a legit use of it was on a media server, running mediatomb, which uses avahi to do SSDP/mDNS/zeroconf/DNS-SD [1], and on the client running VLC (I think the "local network" options interface with avahi itself). Which actually ended up being quite nice. I usually disable it, and try to uninstall it completely, on other server installations.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_configuration_networking
I actually have a map for that bookmarked; here it is:

http://i.imgur.com/bGYaa.gif
You're making the assumption that this move will benefit Adobe.
Samsung's (Very) Early Attempts At Thought-Controlled Mobile Devices
There was a discussion on Shibboleths on HN a few days ago.

The wikipedia reading on the subject is fascinating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shibboleths#In_the_Unit...
KDE doesn't provide sound, just like KDE doesn't provide graphics drivers. I'm not sure why you feel sound support should be a function of the desktop environment.
This is an excellent point. One nitpick, though: your niece is a student, so I think that would end up being $20 a month.
This is good stuff, please update the list as you see fit, I will bookmark it as a reference. Please let me know if you cannot maintain it, so I know :) Thanks
Why would you need one? It's just media queries with the added use of a general css3 transition on the elements so the browser animates them when they transition to the new position/size.
Why People Won’t Buy Your Product Even Though It’s Awesome
This advertissement is for adults in my opinion, and more specifically for to move the adult donnors. Not more, not less. Is very ineffective, and probably very expensive also.

You are not reaching the childrens living in the country, nor the childrens locked at home, or at the boarding schools, neither the babies/very small childrens that can not read still, nor the alienated that don't even notice that they are abused or that think that they "merit to be slapped" because they are... "too bad, too silly, too stupid"... people are very good lying to ourselves

And even if you reach a desired target they probably don't call you, a perfect stranger.

An abused child is frequently intensively surveilled, most of the time they are keep in a controlled environment, at home or in a small group of related people. Rarely could access freely to a public telephone and I bet that this boy or girl will avoid carefully (fear, shame...) to look directly to the advertissement shown for a few weeks in a random street of a big city.

> You said school. Can you name a few more?

School is basic, as health services, you can also add libraries, and TV.

In Spain an abused child goes to an hospital sooner or later, and some injuries are very dificult to hide or fake to a professional. A physician can take a discrete look under the shirt of a child and he/she knows what to search for. Later they can send a silent alert to the appropriate channels if this is suspicious or simply call the police if there is some gross evidence.

If you want to tell a telephone number to the children, simply assure that this number is a the school, in a poster at the hall. Pretty simple, safe and cheap also.

If you want to be really twisted, put this number in some selected books in the school's library with an inked rubber stamp.

Ask the teachers to spoke about it in a delicate and sensitive way. They can provide a better, more focused and controlled message in a safe environment. A poster in a solitary street with this aggressor can' have the same benefits and could even put him/her at risk. The adult could even beat him, menace or manipulate him distorting the message in unpredictable ways

If you want to reach a target not in education you could use the TV channels for childrens. When we are trying to sell a toy, a film or a burguer to a child there is not a safe place where the parents can hide. You can also introduce this theme in programs like sesame street, in a subtile way and with an apropriately, positive and carefully expressed message.
It's just as well the first sentence was followed by a link to the second. As someone who didn't recognise the term "Creative Coding", I was just one click away from understanding.
The object keeps sliding on its background surface as long as at least one of its pixels is visible, unless it encounters a collision that cannot be resolved otherwise. Once that's no longer the case, it pops forward (keeping the same spot under your mouse) until it is.

There are 2 other videos where hopefully you can see this happening. Or, better yet, you can try it running it yourself on Windows or Mac.
What's the catch? Where can I read something about the limitations of Docker? Where will it leaking through that you're running in a shared container?

I can see some things; the containers will be sharing kernel resources (FS/IO buffers, kernel config etc) but is that all?
Simple vertical timeline with CSS [open source]
I like Sketch, but it has really poor performance on my MacBook Air. A file of comparable size is way smoother in Illustrator than it is in Sketch from my experience.
Inksckape has XAML export capabilities, depending on what kinds of files you're working on this could be useful.
These are cheesy, but I found this "what American accent are you?" to be interesting:
http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/american-accent-quiz.html

I don't know if this map had such a quiz - I was looking for one and couldn't find it. It's interesting to compare notes with the quiz if you work with people from across the US (what do you mean, "bag" doesn't rhyme with "vague"?)
Hacking Google's HVAC Systems
Because it conveys relevant information. If you were on version 7 and the new version is version 13, a message is conveyed that there have been several major iterations since your last upgrade. Numerical versioning schemes (in general) make it simple to know if you're on a current version, and if not, how far off you are.

Now consider trying to make similar determinations if you know you're running "Gingerbread" but the latest version is "Jelly Bean", or if you're on "Intrepid Ibex" and the latest version is "Raring Ringtail".

It's even worse on Ubuntu, where they've chosen a reasonable, useful numerical versioning system (year.month), but then obscure it with stupid codenames.

IMO it's also much more difficult to remember the codenames. I had to verify that Android 4.2 was still called Jelly Bean and though I knew the latest Ubuntu was 13.04, I had to look up its codename altogether.

The fact that these projects continue to have underlying "developer use only"-type numerical versions only further emphasizes the utility of these. The codenames feel like a poorly-conceived marketing thing. I don't think most people have trouble remembering a coupled software package with a version number, like "Windows 7". I don't think they often say, "Oh crap, I know I had version 4 of something ... was it Android or Windows?"
Quality trolling. A++, would read again.
I use this everyday. Nice plugin
Moving to an all-subscription software model
We were taught sine, cosine and tangent in the context of how they could be used to derive angles from other angles, not what they were and how they worked. They were presented as tools that could be used in particular ways that had to be memorized.

This has to be the worst things you could do to a student in a math class. In engineering they call it "plug and chug" -- students must plug numbers into a formula they've memorized and come up with an answer.

By the way, we learned trigonometry with the unit circle. If we forgot a formula, we'd just draw a little circle and derive it. I'm always grateful for that teacher.
Medical Equipment Donated to Developing Nations Usually Ends Up on the Junk Heap
I have no words to describe how useful is this addon. Many thanks to the developer ;)
The things you don't hear about on Top Gear. Do you think there's anywhere else I can go to read stuff like what you wrote?
Jackson: your solution is a bit too trusting. Too easy to do HTML injection of any sort: http://yugentext.com/adsfasdf
sure, we will :)
http://pastebin.com/37WFgSKv and http://pastebin.com/mjzvwiBF if anyone feels like browsing.
It's sad that so many software companies think it's a good idea to sell a "service" and not a tangible copy of bits and bytes.

It's less hassle to buy CS6 once and be done with it and upgrade when you want to, rather than keep renewing subscriptions and be faced with product changes you may not necessarily like or want.
Amazing! I made an account just to write this review. I have tried a lot of websites and a lot of add-ons and this has to be one of the best. It works in the background, it has a lot of options, has video and audio and runs great.
I would tell myself to stop being stupid and dreaming of being a rock star. Concentrate in your last year at school and make sure you get into a good University!
Comp Sci PhDs apply advanced geometry, 3D simulation to improving e-commerce
Out of plastic? No. It will either look like a gun, or it will be a gun. Not both.

For robberies "looks like a gun" is what is important, unless your goal is to actually murder as well. "looks like a gun" has been something you could always print and it has yet to become a problem for society.
Christian de Duve, Nobel-Winning Biochemist, Dies at 95 [Euthanasia]
simple and reliable,

Guys, no lie. This is the simplest, most convenient youtube downloader I have ever used.
This is a noble idea and drives at questions on business ethics.

Most businesses don't approach subscriptions this way. Some portion of revenue comes from people choosing a "set it and forget it" approach toward service subscriptions. Is it unearned revenue? The traditional take is the user has access to the premium product. If they don't use it, that's their problem. (i.e. a gym membership)

I think traditional MBA thinking is to optimize around revenue at any cost. However, I think this sort of behavior has made people, (especially young people), not trust businesses from banks to wireless carriers. I think businesses that optimize around revenue rather a relationship with their users are likely to lose them as soon as there is an alternative.

Clearly, it is in the best interests of the user to do this though, as a business you should also expect to drive more long term loyalty to the product.

I think the entry could make an argument that this will cause users to be more loyal to you or create longer lasting subscriptions. Without data or even anecdotal feedback that users are more likely to stay because of this choice, it sounds like you are something of a White Knight turning away money.

From a user perspective, I'm used to a use it or lose it subscription. So, if I am not charged, and then I all of a sudden am charged because I came back, I might get confused. Do you do customer education at the time of the subscription creation of this friendly charging policy? Do you notify the user by email when they are not being charged because of a lack of activity? (This might be a good way to actually get them back to the product, and possibly you have measurable data to support the value of this?)
The low-power position is really interesting, this is definitely something I have noticed myself doing and then trying to consciously stand up straighter to combat it.

I'd say sometimes I go too far the other direction and am way too casual when doing public speaking as a way to say "it's ok because I don't care what you think".
In the Future, When Robots do All Our Work, What of Capitalism?
The design of the page is actually not that bad. We like it :)
My SQL Bad Habits
It's really help me download video and audio files .
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The proof is in the pudding. Until we actually see something, the whole "what if" game is just sort of silly (although, I agree, a lot of fun).
Apple's Lightning connector is a big problem
Hmm.. funny, I'm from the South (albeit not the "deep south") and according to this quiz, my accent is "Northeast". I guess I shouldn't be surprised though: when I was a kid, my parents used to tell me things like "You talk funny, you sound like you're from up North" and "you talk too fast" and what-not. Not sure exactly how I wound up with a "northeast" accent.

Then again, most people I meet, who aren't from the South, say they think I have no noticeable accent at all, and guess that I'm from somewhere in the Midwest. Good grief.

Language is a funny old thing...

what do you mean, "bag" doesn't rhyme with "vague"?

Wait, where does "bag" rhyme with "vague"?
> In my experience, if Linux doesn't support a piece of hardware out of the box,
> you had better dump that hardware, because brother, that hardware won't
> be supported by anything.

In my experience, the hardware support/drivers, esp. video and wireless, is better in wintel front.

Sure, linux versions of those drivers usually give more power to user regarding configuration of device, but brother, I have never had to fiddle with driver configuration to get HW acceleration working for flash in windows. Just download and install video adapter drivers, install flashplayer, and it just works.