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I understand that this might be specific to me, but I'd actually rather have someone tell me:

"You're useless. For god's sake stop contributing until you get your sht together"

rather than:

“your skills don't seem to be quite at the level where we can accept your contributions; in particular, you don't understand X, Y, and Z very well and it shows in your code. I'm short on time, but if someone else has time to explain why that would be great.”

I don't have a good explanation why that is. Maybe it's because I feel some condescension in the second while the first one is just plain raw "I don't have time to deal with your sht. You're an adult: fix it and come back later".
The tannery thing is a bad example because its not a inherently illegal activity.

Renting out units under 30 days is plain and simple illegal as the laws are written.

With that, a much better example would be running a brothel. It is as cut and dry illegal as this is. Both have city laws saying "This is not allowed". The city certainly has more priority in enforcing one over the other mind you.

You can argue all day airbnbing your unit should not be illegal, but it currently is. Lots of people argue prostitution should be legal though as well, so best of luck.
Ya, I tried to implement rate limiting and failed, this was last night at 3am, so let me try again. If you code you might be able to beat me to it: https://github.com/Mashape/worldchat
Agreed- I will be very tempted to buy one if it handles live TV well. Right now I have a PC sat under my TV running Windows Media Center and it's awkward and showing it's age. I might buy a game too, who knows.

Alternately, I'd love to be able to put Linux on that box and make it a MythTV box. Sadly, my cable provider locks all their channels. For better or worse, MS are one of the few that could create a set top box that legally decrypts all these channels and has a great UI.
exactly what I was going to say. I'm always impressed when strtotime correctly parses whatever crazy way to express a date that comes to mind. i.e. "tomorrow - 3 hours"
Why is this comment so low?? We obviously need to introduce HN to more eagles :)
CMake is pretty horrifically inefficient at compiling WebKit. The makefiles it generates fork to call CMake (to do things like printf in color) far more than they fork to call the compiler. The ninja generator is better, but it has various issues with long command lines on WebKit currently (trunk CMake fixes some of these, but then it doesn't make some directories in the output directory).

Also, the CMakeLists syntax is pretty nasty IMO, but it feels like gyp, cmake and autotools are in some kind of syntax ugliness competition... (Maybe because nobody ever wants to work on a build system, so they'll just do this one little hack which inevitably grows tentacles).
Only for you, it gets filtered before going over the wire. Have fun :)
Won't this make discussion of the first Xbox horribly confusing and make the new product and original product show up together in search terms?
Honeybees Trained To Detect Bombs
The "slim" Xbox 360 made since ~summer 2010 is nice and quiet. I strongly agree that all previous versions were hatefully loud.
In my opinion the console seems designed to be sold by Comcast and other cable operators. Both the way it looks and the language in the presentation suggest that the Xbox is "entertainment first". I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft announces a partnership with cable companies where customers can purchase an Xbox One in lieu of a traditional DVR.
Such as ddg.gg?
Do you get pissed at iPhone reveals when they don't talk about making phone calls at all? Of course the gaming console can play games and the graphics will be better as well. The selling point is that it's not just another game console. It's a powerful PC in your living room, it'd be a waste if all it was doing was playing games.
I think the thought around One is that it is unifying a bunch of devices: DVD, Internet streaming device, games into one platform. I like it, its better than 720 or 1080 or Windows XBox or XBox 360 Premium or something so bad I can't even imagine it.
The fact that something is 'artificial' (i.e. a product of art, essentially) does not mean it is 'arbitrary' (i.e. just a product of freedom or authority -arbitrium-). Do not take social norms as 'arbitrary': they usually have deeper meanings than what we usually assume.

I am not saying you are obviously wrong. I complain about the 'arbitrary'.

In Western cultures, educated criticism is always enveloped in smoothness, and language is an important part of this envelope. This is not evolutionary, it is cultural and we do it because, in the long term, society has noticed that this is useful.

Academia is the classical example of this: one may hate his colleague in the same Department, and also his ideas, but one is not going to bully him linguistically in a paper. Because the time spent in explaining the insults is not worth it.

Unless one is a simple bully, obviously. But this is not the usual state of affairs.
Does the average consumer really want an expensive, gigantic box with huge blower fans to watch Netflix and Hulu - when an Apple TV, Roku, or any coffee grinder with an HDMI port does the job?
I edited the source of p9ports to add ctrl-click to work as left-click (so I could chord while on my macbook without mouse.) It's a relatively plain codebase (I could find my way, so it should be easy... I'm very far from being able to navigate a lot of C code easily unless I have written it myself) but the tilde tweak would be just too much :(

I feel your acme-pain. In some sense it is wonderful, but in many others is just a pain. I still use it (just to get the feeling) for occasional small coding and for plain ol' writing: I just added wwb (the writer's workbench, a set of command line tools to analyse text) to my usual tag line and use it to test my writing for the blog and some lengthy emails and the link. It's handy for that (not that I couldn't do it in emacs)
Chrome 27 Released, 5% faster on average
I think you have to abandon the premise that the XBox One is primarily a games console. That, and a whole host of other assumptions like watching "TV" on your television; who watches television anymore? Nobody I know even has cable.
Why cannot compare double values directly for equality?
Despite them being live streamed, the announcements aren't for us. They're for the press to write articles that these people will read.
While just a landing page, it is fully functional. You will most certainly get an invite when we launch :)

We're using Amazon AWS along with a stack of nginx, Python, and Go.

The largest expense with regulation is lawyers and CPA's, which vary widely based on who you use. We aren't skimping on the important parts though.

The trading engine is built from scratch, however it is modeled after the LMAX architecture[1] and takes a lot of inspiration from the same systems the NYSE and NASDAQ use. We're not trying to re-invent the wheel, just bring some high quality racing slicks to Bitcoin.

We are not listed as we are currently not taking any outside trades at the moment. Once we open up the platform we plan on being listed on as many sites as possible.

Appreciate the interest, hope I answered everything to your satisfaction!

edit: forgot the link!

[1] http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html
What do you consider big? $4 is a loss of 13.8% of the sales price. If you assume he already has some costs (his time to write the book is quite valuable), the loss in profit is even more.

A 13.8% loss in profit would sink many businesses.
There's a clearing price for hotel rooms in NYC based on the built number of hotel rooms. If everyone viewed airbnb and hotels as fundamentally interchangeable then the range of prices for airbnb units would be similar to the range of prices for hotel rooms at that time - but this would be lower than the current range of prices for hotel rooms, as the supply of available rooms will have increased.

Having said that, I think the airbnb market in NYC is reasonably close to clearing with the hotel market. Probably some listings for very nice apartments and also some for relatively mediocre apartments are underpriced, but the truth is that a night in a decent airbnb apartment is in general commensurate with the cost of a hotel room in the same neighborhood.

The catch, of course, is that there are many airbnb listings in places without hotel rooms at all - Harlem, the far Upper East Side, etc - and in those areas the airbnb prices appear low but of course we don't know the appropriate hotel room clearing price.

But to your basic point, I agree there's probably some discount right now for the general sense that airbnb is "weird" or "idiosyncratic" to the average traveller.
They chose this angle because the number of people watching who care about the ethics of biometric data capture are basically a rounding error on a marketing spreadsheet.
Nicely done... Also kudos for being a CT Native.
The original paper (and movies!) are available at http://crablab.gatech.edu/pages/publications/index.htm
maybe not alot of the hacker news readers .. but alot of regular people do use Adobe Reader ...
If their strategy is to unify the game console + internet streaming box + media player in one unit, this sounds like a perfectly sane marketing plan.
On the contrary this has a 400mhz MIPS-based processor with 32MB of RAM that runs a version of Linux--it definitely is a full-fledged computer, just with an Atmel AVR hanging off the serial port.
So this is a Windows-lite PC, cable box, Xbox video game system? It has hdmi in right?

I'm officially old because I do not find this interesting at all. My son will want it, so we will have it, but as a person who buys a lot of tech, I am not seeing the appeal.

I think it is the all-in-one, do-everything approach it Microsoft is taking with this that disinterests me. Why does every company want to be your everything now a days?
Or nintendo using Wii U for the Wii successor
First-gen 360 or the Xbox 360S? The first-gen made my apartment sound like a damn international airport, but the second-gen, while not whisper silent, is pretty quiet.
Sony stock price spikes up 9% after Microsoft's Xbox One presentation
Google engineers: We're trying to fix Android fragmentation
I qualify as a Linus defender, but I disagree with your "he's the boss and it's up to his contributors to leave" idea. The whole point of these discussions is to use reason to encourage problematic people to change themselves, rather than cutting those people off entirely, as you suggest.
The fan: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/xbox-one-development-...
Love your site!
I don't want "All-in-One". I want a GAMING console. Ugh.
He included exact numbers of conversions (sales).
Serial Entrepreneur Yaron Samid Talks About Spreading The Startup Wealth
You'd get no users, content or discussion. Just look at lobste.rs
Can somebody explain why HN's ranking algorithm has already pushed this submission to the second page? This seems inconsistent with its points, age and level of discussion relative to the articles ranked above. (I'm just asking out of curiosity and have no personal interest in having this post ranked higher or lower.)
For co-ops and buildings with HOAs, etc, they would most likely ban short term stays. Which is fine since such a situation is undesirable for other residents/owners.

But for free standing homes and other buildings for whatever reason choose to allow such a thing, there should be some sort of "bed and breakfast" type rules which govern semi/non-professional letting. Sort of like on Ebay how you can sell up to a certain dollar amount before you have to pay taxes like ordinary retail businesses.
That's basically what my personal website ended up being (my name in a 60pt font): http://www.petekeen.com
I can only assume that either you've been unlucky, or I've been lucky. Most of the videos I've purchased have been excellent and high quality. The videos are generally short and to the point. 5-10 minutes covering a specific topic. This also means I can move at my pace. Couple that with speeding up the video to get through certain parts faster, it's an wonderful choice.

Be careful you aren't looking at presentations in video format as an example of video for learning. It's not.
That's just from the business perspective. From the consumer perspective revenue does not matter at all.

The art of business is to make the greatest product you can without revenue _detracting_ from it.

The Steve Jobs mindset here is that if you just disregard the revenue all together and just focus on building the most absolute great product you can imagine people will use it and love it.

Making a revenue of that is not 'product' it is business, and it seems perfectly reasonable to hire a businessman for that (and not let him influence you too much, and try not to get fired for that like Steve did..).
Forcing? How did he do that?
And of course, it wouldn't censor dissent, it would just prevent new people from dissenting.

Unless you follow it up with a constant shifting of the line in the sand between the "acceptable community" and "unacceptable community", perhaps by deleting the accounts of anyone as old as, or newer than, anyone within the circle who voices an unpopular enough opinion.

Or have every thread be invite only, or set to only allow posts within a karmic threshold of the op's or higher.

Or just pre-emptively hellban all new accounts, and retroactively hellban accounts made after whatever the arbitrary "True Hacker News User" line is, just to be on the safe side.
No, just use jslinux.
If one is defending their writing as writing, then what else is there as far as the reader is concerned.

On the other hand if one is just kicking the dog, a blog might be more appropriate than HN given the scaffold of values Graham has said he wishes to establish. [Graham's opinions are interesting because they are enforceable].

That being said, the question of whether one should or should not work on Graham's scaffold is another question altogether about which diverse opinions share the common feature of uninterstingness.
I was most interested by their Live TV offering. But does anyone have any details on how they get the TV stream? One of the slides mentioned HDMI In/Out - does that mean it's going the GoogleTV route? I have a logitech revue - and I absolutely hate it.
The old Xbox is over a decade old. BTW, were you around when Apple gave the name for its new iPad?
... Then don't buy it? Nobody's putting a gun to your head and forcing you to buy it. Look at your options when everything comes out and then choose whatever meets your needs.
Is everything only about money?

Is it really ethical to try to get as much money out of your customers? If you are making a profit after all costs are considered, how much profit is too much?

The question is maybe not too important when applied to something like an e-book, but it becomes different when applied to something people think they cannot do without, like a college education or healthcare. In those situations we have seen vendors will gouge you for as much as they can get, which ends up being as much as you have.

We as a society need to rethink whether that should be considered acceptable behavior. I don't know if legislation is necessarily the right solution (I am inclined to think it is not) but at the very least people should feel shameful for being so greedy.
There is a fifth option, which is to construct through the democratic process a new set of civil rights and policies designed to confront and limit these new powers.

For example: we can seek to make it illegal for certain information to be tracked; we can require that any information collected be disclosed to the individual at risk of being tracked; we can expand fourth-amendment protections explicitly, forcing a warrant to be issued to collect any of the information made available through these systems, even if the data is stored on a corporate server (doing away with national security letters and administrative subpoenas, and prohibiting disclosure without a warrant); and we can impose criminal penalties on government and corporate officials that violate these rights.

And more: we can make exposure of all but the most sensitive government "secrets" mandatory by law, rather than relying on legally questionable whistle-blowing for disclosures; we can ensure that encryption technologies (and other self-protection techniques) always remain legal, and remove any requirement that backdoors be added to new communication technology; we can work to decentralize corporate power in telecom by aggressively enforcing anti-trust laws; we can improve transparency and oversight of telecom services by explicitly encouraging that high-speed data service be provided as a local public utility.

And we can reduce the incentive that exists at every level of law enforcement to undermine privacy and civil liberties (and in turn further centralize power) by making fewer things illegal--most importantly, drugs.
Consider that the people who have just the "hate" relationship with the name aren't sticking around.

I want to like DDG and I've switched to it from time to time, but the thing that always gets me is that I loathe the branding. I'm really, really sorry, about that and I appreciate what you're doing with DDG, and wish the branding didn't turn me off to a peculiar degree, but Google is such an easy choice and it doesn't get on my nerves.

I know that I'm an outlier in this, but I don't think it's altogether a completely impossible or uncommon reaction to be turned off by the name.
Wakari 1.0 released today
Sort of like explaining how the Multitap for PS2 works on the PS1, PSOne, and PS2, but not the PS2 (PSTwo). If you have the PS2, you need the Multitap for the PS2, because it's not compatible with the Multitap for the PS2.
There's a world outside the US. E.g. in most of Europe there are virtually no Netflix or Hulu-like services. Nearly everyone uses a Cable or DVB-T service.

A bit painful, considering that my ISP just announced to upgrade my connection from 120/10 MBit/s to 150/15. The bandwidth is there, but I guess it's hard to make licensing arrangements.
Somewhat off topic:

why does scripting.com want to load assets from localhost:

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src="http://127.0.0.1:5337/opmlEditor/comments/button?title=Hacker%20News%20is%20depressing&editorialDomain=comments.scripting.com">
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ahem http://i.imgur.com/3LnvN52.png?1
PS3 has had Netflix for a long time as well.
No word on backwards compatibility or used games yet?

Edit: No backwards compatibility[1].

Edit: Microsoft seems unsure about used games[1]:
"We are designing Xbox One to enable customers to trade in and resell games. We’ll have more details to share later."

Enable?

[1]: http://news.xbox.com/2013/05/qa
We use Mixpanel to send out transactional emails based on user actions (the ones that make sense to A/B test - welcome emails, inaction emails etc). A/B testing would be great, but it kind of feels like double work adding user event tracking code for Userfox too - maybe you could integrate analytics providers such as Mixpanel?
The 3 OS thing is very interesting. I can't wait for all the jokes saying how one Microsoft OS barley works yet alone 3 at the same time.
You're getting a gaming console, with the addition of a host of other features that ensure the console platform can reach market stability through sales and continue to provide content - including the games you want to play - over the multi-year span that a major investment in hardware requires of a company.

On the other hand - what's preventing you from GAMING on your PC?
Normally I'm against do-everything devices, but IMO this is a stroke of genius.

Everything about operating a TV today is pure pain. The centerpiece here is an obtuse, 100-button remote that no one fully knows how to use. You use this remote to get at the "mode switcher", which changes you from TV watching mode, to bluray watching mode, to gaming mode, to whatever else you do with your TV.

It's painful, not to mention a lot of people have receivers to handle the audio portion of this. It's like a really, really bad KVM.

The only way to eliminate that pain was to take over all of the above responsibilities, and MS just did that. With any luck this means you will basically never have to touch your TV's god-awful remote ever again, and the terms "Video 1", "Video 2", and "TV" will cease to have any meaning.
LJ by its nature encouraged writing

Wordpress does the same, which is why I primarily use it and not the innumerable alternatives.

I think the desire to do long-form writing, especially regularly, is a relatively rare one, which is why we see most people migrating to sites that mostly do images / sound bites / etc.

But the people who do do long-form writing will probably always be with us and probably always need tools appropriate to that genre. I don't know much about the history of LJ or why /how Wordpress supplanted it for long-form writers, but I do know that WP works pretty well for me, or at least well enough that I haven't seen any alternatives good enough to consider switching.
As long as it has Songsmith I'm in for at least one.

Songsmith video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kxqMpGAL3I

And this is not a troll comment (downvotes already happening)...we need more software that lets people play and have fun outside of a "game" environment.
Agreed. I can't get past those two contradictory statements. Even the assertion that the pricing model is at fault seems odd. The pricing model has nothing to do with it. It's merely the lack of a specific product: a physical book.
I'm tempted to post an ad for a non-existent wedding just to rile up some indignant photographers.

Edit: HA! Looks like I found one in this very thread! Use that downvote button, bitter dinosaur!
This is already available from some companies that use Mediaroom for their guide (mainly IPTV companies). In Canada, you can use an Xbox 360 instead of a cable box with Telus.
Printing works differently in different engines, so I want the designer to use her HTML / chrome skills to design templates, and then render the PDF with users data using the same engine. Command line HTML to PDF tool will work too, but it will require the designer to relearn engine quirks.
> "Microsoft also has new Kinect to share, and it includes a 1080p wide-angle camera that's designed to read your heartbeat while you exercise."

Wha? Through infrared? Or surface palpitations of your blood vessels?

(Via Verge's coverage: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4350918/xbox-one-microsoft...)
Yes, when they can take the place Apple TV and a Roku and play games on them. Plus, the interface is probably simpler for a lot of people. It is far easier to get to Netflix on the Wii than on the Apple TV, especially for my family members that are using it the first time. I assume this is similar.
The flockwithme and rulethejungle icons don't appear as links on my tablet which confused me a bit. The rest do.
It feels like you're creating this false dichotomy between worship and destruction.

The fact that some other people on the Internet may afford Dave Winer more respect than you think he deserves is not a problem that needs to be solved. Even if it were a problem that needed to be solved, the "I'm gonna take him down a peg" approach creates an entirely new, bigger problem.
It used to bug me but now I enjoy the social aspect of it. If my employer knowingly makes the environment I work in less productive (but more fun for me) I'm not going to complain.
They named it "the new iPad", changing its designation to just the platform/form factor. From now on, all new iPads will be "iPad". Microsoft could have done the same thing by just naming it the "Xbox".

But yeah it doesn't really matter. The original XBox is the "Batman Begins" of the XBox trilogy. The most rabid fans don't even know it exists.
Even in the US, even in areas with good enough broadband to stream all your content, people still care about broadcast television because of sports. MS's focus here with ESPN and the NFL is bang-on.