skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But many people feel the same way about, for example, physical exercise: they don’t enjoy doing it and find it to be very hard work when they try. But it would be strange indeed to say that you can’t “do” exercise. You may not want to do it. You may be unwilling to invest the time and effort into doing it. But you aren’t incapable of doing it. And the same is true, in my experience, in mathematics.

The way physical exercise is often presented to people, it's no surprise they give up on it. A lot of gimmicky exercise programs and contraptions designed to take money from you in exchange for no visible results.

And even time tested exercise programs like P90X won't teach you the fundamentals. You'll spend a lot of time doing crunches which is the least effective and most time consuming way of working abs.

The same is certainly true for math and when people say they can't do any moderately complex math, they're saying "fuck you" to the establishment that wasted their time while teaching them nothing. They also do just fine without complex math, just like most people who never exercise.
http://delvarworld.github.io/blog/2013/03/16/just-use-sublim...

I would love to take credit for having read that prior to using the word archaic. I didn't. I formed my own opinion. I just happened to find that blog post a few minutes ago while searching on Sublime Text 2. The fact that he expresses my thoughts much more elegantly than me fills me with envy.

But he's correct.
To summarize:

1. Remove your entire desktop environment,

2. Install just a window manager,

3. Now you don't have any program handling your sound, you just removed it, remember? (see (1) for reference),

4. Post on HN: "Yes, sound is still a problem."
I think part of the problem here is that window managers and desktop environments are being conflated.

Desktop environments are sometimes set up to handle sound or networking.

I agree that it's not a good design, but I don't think it's as ridiculous for a desktop environment to handle these things as it is for a window manager to do so.
Game idea: Number of grammatically correct sentences times the amount of connected users = points.
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I think we should take a step back for a second and remember that before Twitch it was largely impossible to turn video game skills into a paying career. Now many top players are able to finance their lives while still concentrating on their game. There are of course kinks that need to be worked out, but now you at least have one option, before you had zero.
So, the unique selling point is that they own "everybody's memories" ("Blade Runner" reference)

Remember that failed Terms of Service agreement as mentioned in the article; the one that allowed Instagram to own everyone's photos? (Memories.)

It went like this:

"...Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising revenue. To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you...."

Do you realize the "stock-photo" potential Facebook would have had by selling limited rights to say a photo of Johnny Depp smoking a Gauloise cigarette, or Gwen Stefani in high school drinking a diet coke?

Maybe that was the "instagram" business model as seen by Facebook?
While competition is always good, this piece seems rather one sided, where's Twitch's comments? It sounds like someone got banned from Twitch for doing something wrong.

Some examples I've seen lately:

-twitch streamer pretending to be paralyzed asking for donations and getting his account banned when he was caught walking on his stream.

-twitch user asking his viewers to DDoS someone he thinks is trying to DDoS him.

-various twitch users showing porn on their streams.

All of these users have gotten banned while the one asking for a DDoS got a one month ban.
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Well yeah, I get the whole 240p on twitch (I'm a little bit better - like 480p or something). I'm talking about how when I would be in the US or Korea even the lowest bitrate option refused to play past slideshow speed. It's also the only one my friends in other countries actively complain to me about (since I'm the "computer guy" for them).

And yeah own3d had nice performance but it's understandably simpler to get good performance when you're not paying any of your contracts.

As for your last comment, I've gone back to GOM since their video quality has gotten better over time.

In relation to the article, yes it would be great if either Twitch beefed up their performance and had a clear way to contest ToS violations, but there have been quite a few competitors to Twitch and all of them have given me far more reasons to actively distrust them than to trust them over Twitch. I don't stream video games but if I did I couldn't see myself on any competitor right now.

Maybe Google could try their hand at something like that? They obviously can do live streaming decently well (although Youtube's speed has decreased for me greatly in the last few months).
He is an industrial designer by training (I read the title and said to myself "of course - he's an industrial designer"). Physical products are what industrial designers generally do. Foam cutting and printing machines are a common tool of the trade.

There are, however, few organizations which strongly value industrial design enough to employ a serious team of them. Young industrial design graduates have a very hard time finding work in the field.
The Footnotes..
1. Yes, I know about the LG Prada That’s why I said “nobody used” as opposed to “none existed”
2. And the end of skeumorphism does not mean flat design; things like gradients and shadows have their place

I did read the footnotes, that doesnt mean the statement was invalid, so there author is treating iPhone as a synonym for smart phone, or there was somehow another iPhone before the first iPhone.
Isn't it possible that the state department plagiarised Wikipedia?
I get what the author is trying to say but this post is all over the place. The conclusion does not have much to do with the ideas presented.

I agree, it's shallow to think that under Ive all we'll see is a reskin. A visual update along the lines of OSX's evolving window styles might be part of it, and perhaps the first step, but I would guess that by iOS8 we'll see big new ideas that make the OS even more intuitive.

iOS has developed a lot of cruft as new features and preferences were grafted onto the original release. Settings are a hierarchical mess and many of the default apps have inconsistent mental models that need to be reevaluated.

By advancing the touch-based UI, iOS brought a more analog (or hardware-like) type of interaction to software. I don't think that fact has been explored deeply enough, and I expect Jony Ive will bring those insights to the revamp.

Although iOS also has advances to make in inter-app communication and other areas, I expect Ive to be particularly interested in challenging the high-level HCI problems that are appearing as mobile OSs become more complex. He'll be a force for the much needed intuitiveness that has been eroded from iOS.
The courses are generally called Visual Communication Design and tend to have a wider remit than older GD programs. Most of the stuff up this thread is spot on.
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etherpad-lite is node.js and socket.io
Very Nice & Simple, a few subtle things going on and only has 717.5kB page size. Nicely done, I'll dig around for a bit but probably will not be attending.
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God I hope it's not called Timeline

;)
They don't consider Emacs Lisp as a Lisp !? Writing a(nother) cool plugin for emacs should be worth at least some praise.
own3d.tv was a good competitor and they failed to be profitable
I dunno, I think iPad owners are probably willing to make the tradeoff, and you can get an iPad keyboard fairly easily.

I've often wondered how much I'd use a tablet vs a PC, and since realized that I'd use the two things for completely different things (normally); PC for work, tablet for screwing around. I'm not the average user really, but I think thats not too weird of a stretch to assume other people do the same things. I know lots of people do work on tablets, I am just not one of them. Get me a tablet with a serial port and maybe we can start getting somewhere, but until then I'm stuck lugging a laptop/ultrabook around.
Too bad this aint: http://etherpad.org
dbx is a company and a noise reduction format. It competed w/ Dolby. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbx_(noise_reduction)
I don't have it in the context of an escalation, but if they can get the database to make a new stored procedure,

http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1263/accessing-the-win...

then they can usually do a very large amount of things
I think the server should return a 2XX code for multiple deletes. Idempotency is not restricted to the server, and responding with a 4XX in response to delete #2 means that the action is not idempotent from the client perspective, because the repeated action produces a different result.

If delete is considered idempotent despite changing the status code for repeated calls, then we must consider the status codes to be irrelevant to idempotency, which seems like completely wrong.

response.status = rand(); // is this really idempotent?
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Hey, I also played with this idea a while ago in tinycassette.com. I added soundcloud support too. I do not have the search feature yet, but I also made a chrome extension to control the player within the browser. Give it a look, we should partner :P
It's official: the US records all of our telephone calls, emails, and SMS's
Yeah, this is rough for us. We want perfect global service and don't have it. There are issues in many locales, mostly because of last-mile delivery.

We're doubling EU capacity now, because every time we add capacity we grow until it's all used up. Which is no compensation to you, I realize, but that's what's going on.

(I'm the CEO of Twitch)
I got started designing websites using FW MX 2004 before I graduated to writing CSS first. The ability to mockup designs and then use the slice export feature was great fun. I love Fireworks.
Yes, I think so, but I'll look into it and get back to you.
Their direct competitors are Porsche and Ferrari, not Ford and Toyota. They're GOOD.
Aston Martin engineers good cars for their production volume. Since they are more or less in the same production volume as where tesla wants to be in the medium term, I would say his experience will bring a lot to Tesla. It was probably one of the best pick-ups they could have made.
Gun corporations exploit dim bulbs for profit. It's the harsh truth, friend.
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Thanks men, was looking for something like this!

Btw, maybe add a play button to playlist. It took me a few songs to figure out you could double click songs in the playlist.
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Same here! Off-topic - Which Scheme dialect are you using to practice the SICP? I'm using Racket!
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My thoughts exactly. Why not both?
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Except for the part where own3d was a terrible entity to do business with as a streamer (routinely late on payouts, etc).
Most data AREN'T big.
As a user, I prefer knowing that if an app is in the background, unless it's VOIP or Satnav it's not doing anything. We've seen what happened when apps can do what they want - they will abuse system resources. As a developer, I can appreciate the need for limits on the notification system for the sake of scale.

Oh and and inter-app communications channel you're after is it? http://audiob.us
Meh, doesn't seem worth paying $350 just find out about new Dropbox products when it'll probably be on Hacker News the same day they make the announcement anyway. :)
And I enjoy PDFs on my Retina iPad. Much better than other text representations, almost sharp as on the paper, the screen format matches the paper format, it's easy to move the whole PDF to iBooks for later reading. Perfect.
Mixed thoughts on this. I'm primarily a developer, and maybe once every couple of months I need to dive in to do some graphics work or pick apart a PSD from a designer I've worked with.

I paid $700 for Photoshop CS3 on Windows back in 2007, and in 2010 I paid $200 to upgrade to CS5 and switch my license over to Mac. I'll have been using it for 6 years at a total cost of $900, or $12.50/mo. Assuming I don't upgrade for another 2 years, that's $9.38/mo.

With this new system, I'd be paying nearly twice as much without getting all that much more value. Of course I can keep using CS5 for several more years, but my next upgrade becomes a $240/yr decision instead of a $200/3yr decision. It's unlikely that I would pay for it unless no other software can read new PSDs.

Now, Photoshop with rolling updates for $10/mo? I would heavily consider it, although it seems awkward that if I cancel, I'd have to go re-install CS5.
It kind of shows that it's not really about anonymity (I interpret it as that anyway). When there are enough amount of connected users it really favors destructive edits.

And we are (mostly) anonymous here on hacker news as well but comments are mostly well behaved.

And yes, some people are probably partly twelve year olds inside.
Thats pretty nifty too. Would love to meet up if you're in the Bay Area =).
"good" is a very murky term here. They are certainly more high-tech, but are they as simple? As reliable? As easy to service?

You really need to define "good" in this context.
Tesla also recruited Henrik Fisker from Aston Martin. Those who don't know of Fisker, he went on to found his own company after a couple of years at Tesla(http://www.fiskerautomotive.com/).

Looks like Aston Martin have some serious talent working on those machines.
Should be, there was a similar kind of app online for a while at jukeboxfor.me. There you only played music from youtube, no video.
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There were other services before twitch. Before it was shut down, Own3d tv provided a decent income for a few streamers.
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This is really cool! good job
Are you suggesting that using a company's hosted product should be a right?
So the million plus citizens of the US who use guns in 2.5 million legitimate self-defense incidents per year are "dim bulbs"?

While you're taking a utilitarian vs. moral approach to this, its reminiscent of this definition which continues the theme of my last reply:

"Gun Control: the theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound."

Or in mirror this variant I like on an old saying, "God created men and women, and Samuel Colt made them equal."

And it should go without saying that no friend of mine would call me a "dim bulb." Patronizing, I'd say, which continues the theme, per Wiktionary, the etymology is: "Old English patron (reborrowed from Latin patronus, derived from Latin pater (“father”)) +‎ -ize (“(verb ending)”)."
What does clicking on the video names do? I mean, other than toggling the existence of a gray bar above the name.
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A single genome, true. But what if you wanted to compare 100,000 genomes of people with heart disease to find common genes for heart disease? Now you are at ~72 TB which I would consider big data. As far as I am aware, enough human genomes have not been sequenced to do that. But it is coming (I hope).
> What we tried at App Ninja was to work a normal six day week, 12 hours a day.

Is this normal in the US?

(Note: I'm not cynical, I'm European - I really don't know anything about the culture you guys have over there)
As an Aussie who is living in Phoenix and has lived in Kentucky I've really enjoyed the variety of dialects I've run into so far.

I'm not sure if it is due to coming from a culture which pulls in media from all over the english speaking world or just a personal "gift" but I really don't find any accent difficult to understand.

Where as I've found that occassionally people I've met in the US have a hard time understanding me (and more so my Aussie wife, who speaks faster and quieter than me), and also mention that they have trouble understanding other dialects from around America.
A-a-and you are correct.
Can you comment on how you handle the fact that PAYG could be open to abuse with customers running up large bills with API usage and then not paying them ?

I understand that if you're Amazon you can chase them down, but I'm assuming most small startups wouldn't have the manpower to do this.
Huh, interesting. I'm not very familiar with any of the BSDs, thanks!
> measuring or copying

That was redundant :)
Swipe one way to like, the other to dislike? I do not like that. I'm used to navigating forward and back using those gestures.

Also, and I know I'm being nitpicky, but there's an empty button on the top right of your mockup.
The thing with Own3d was that for the most part its streaming service simply did not match that of Twitch. The layout and mobile support was a bit better (streams that used Own3d were far more convenient to access since they played from the browser), but the quality was lacking. Twitch, on the other hand, has focused on what matters: the stream quality. Now that there layout has been updated, they would have smoked own3d even more IMO.
TSLA is up on the news - have a look at the end of today's graph: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATSLA&ei=vSGIUe...
That would be good... I wonder if it's possible to remove the video entirely, as opposed to just hiding it - would be really useful when I listen to music on Youtube on battery power on my laptop!
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> Development must be in LISP (typically Common Lisp, Clojure or Scheme) or English.

Shouldn't that be and English?

Further down:

> All Entries must be coded in LISP, typically this is Common Lisp, Clojure or Scheme. The determination of exactly what is a LISP is up to the discretion of the Judges. Haskell, Erlang and Smalltalk are not LISPs and will be disqualified.

> All Entries must be in English unless otherwise specified.
At the very bottom of the page:

June 1: signup
June 24: development begins
Sept 30: contest ends
Oct 7: winners announced

So, signup period is June 1 to June 24.. I guess
You're right - we need to improve in all these areas. We're interviewing 2-3 people a week right now to keep scaling things out as fast as we can.

At this point our only options are to grow slower and focus on reliability. Or keep up with demand, and have there be a few rough edges.
From the FAQ:

Q: Can I use language X?

A: If it is Common Lisp, Clojure, ClojureScript, Scheme or any recognized dialect of Lisp, then yes. If it smells like a LISP and contains the word 'lisp', then probably.
Thank you mods!
You can double-click to play a video. You can also click and drag to rearrange the playlist! This will automatically update the address bar so you can then share the rearranged playlist.
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I've been running openSuSE desktops for years. When pulse became standard, I made a practice of ripping it out (rpm -e...). I've happily had plain ALSA sound with sound from multiple apps at once. No, I don't know the details - only that it works. YMMV.
There are proper keyboards for the ipad (this is being typed on a logitech ultrathin keyboard ipad cover)

I haven't tried the surface version of office, but the web versions of office definitely lack features compared to the desktop versions (for example, array formulae)
Audio only Youtube player is against the Youtube terms of service. You have to display the video at a certain minimum size.

A friend of mine made something similar to this, but audio only, and - if I remember correctly - got a cease and desist. (Or, at least, he got some kind of "you're in breach of terms of service, cut it out" message, which freaked him out and prompted him to take the project offline).
the soundslice example might be a bit flawed. It's fast for a canvas app but not even close to "native magic" on my pc using chrome.

I feel like some sort of html luddite, but am I the only one who preferred flash/actionscript3 to canvas/javascript? I get that the web should be open, but beyond the idealism the flash drawing tools were much better. I feel that the criticisms currently levied against flash will come up again with html/js/canvas/svg as apps get more complex.
I get the same thing as dubcanada in Chrome 27 on Windows 8.
With JIT compilation, asm.js, tracing, it is hard to argue against. A long fought browser war really brought out the maximum capabilities of the JavaScript engine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_engine#Performance_e...

asm.js promises speed 2x slower than native code. For interpreted code, that is amazing.
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well, it's only a problem because sound was never done the linux way. i.e it was never done with choice in mind.

so yes, linux is about choice. sound implementations are not. so they give every linux user hell.
Prior to the existence of Twitch there were at least a couple thousand people playing video games professionally. Most of these players played FPS, RTS, or MOBA (not that the term existed at the time) games competitively. I believe they still do, and that they are still not dependent on Twitch for their income.
Flash video typically uses hardware decoding.
The power comes from:

a) fitting perfectly in the business model of Mozilla Corp.

b) the voluminous and unwavering support they can expect from their fan base.
Live streaming of games. Many people are making hundreds of thousands / millions of dollars without Twitch, using Youtube.
The human bandwidth for advertising is disappearing