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Ha! The site isn't loading. So much for Azure. Gee, I hope this thing doesn't, like, you know, require a 24/7 net connection. http://i.imgur.com/9ycXs5y.png
XMPP is extensible. Why didn't Google work on it, instead of creating a separate thing?
That's why we have zoning, so tanners can go tan hides and residential areas remain for residing.

It's like y'all are trying to reinvent practices long derived from observation and common sense. If you don't like a property's zoning, then don't buy it or go through the process to change the zoning.
> What's more, as a resident (and especially if I were an owner) I wouldn't want my building being a de facto hotel. An endless stream of people coming and going, having building keys and so on.

I can understand your desire to have things this way, but as an individual, I see no reason why you would want to force this rule on everyone in your city. If you don't want your neighbors renting their place out, go live in an apartment complex that doesn't allow tenants to do this. If you don't want your tenants doing this, then make it against the terms of your rental agreement.

What business licensing really does is foster a kind of local monopoly, often as a favor to the existing businesses. It's anti-competitive, by making it very difficult to start a business. Most people are completely unaware of these very real motives behind local licensing laws.
Do you still have to pay for xbox live to watch netflix which you're already paying for?
Some moderator probably downvoted it.
What, uh, is missing from the One that you would expect out of a gaming console?
What search engine did that person use? Altavista, maybe, if it still exists? all the others have silly names: Google, Bing, Dogpile, Blekko, Ask Jeeves, ...
Sold my xbox last year, installed windows 7 on bootcamp, got steam, got 50 games at <$5 each and a $20 xbox controller. No more console restrictions for me ever again. Recommended.
Thanks for letting me know! Probably something to do with the fact that I'm using background images for those two and image_tags for the rest. Looking into it now!
Maybe they're applying some clever algorithm like this one here:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/
I'm a little confused here. Is this an official Apple-run IRC channel and Branes is an Apple employee?
It is definitely telling that it took them 30 minutes into a 60 minute presentation to talk about games, then another 10 to talk about a non-sports game. Yes, they're saying they're going to talk more about games at E3, but a reveal is a "put your best foot forward" type of event, and Microsoft seems to be going for a "games are an afterthought" type of approach.

Compared to the PS4's continuation of Sony's "games first" philosophy and Nintendo's "we're sorry core gamers!" philosophy with the Wii U (that's not working out so hot right now, given how lukewarm core game developers are to it), it may be a risk that pans out for Microsoft, but it's a bit unfortunate: gaming—and not just sports gaming—has made gains into mainstream culture over the past decade, and it doesn't seem like it really needed to be brushed aside in order to "win" this generation's console war.
I can wait; this hasn't really been a thing for over a decade. It is usually 3rd-party driver related, and none of the OSes are immune.
Yeah I can't criticize too much on streaming, other than that it worked fine until half way through and then wouldn't reconnect after that. There's a lot of factors that can affect that. Considering it happened from both my phone over LTE and laptop via wifi at home, 2 data points can triangulate in a certain direction.

Your bar is too low. Expect more from product releases. Was this launch better than the PS4 launch? Absolutely. Was it great, not at all.

I will never introduce a product that doesn't do what its being sold to do until I can stand in front of 100 people and show it working.
i hope one day mixpanel will offer some manner of connector to enable this functionality. we'd love to do this.
Honestly, if this can run Steam's Big Picture (in Windows, I guess), I'm sold.

Watching Dota 2 using the in-game client on a TV would be great.
>On the other hand - what's preventing you from GAMING on your PC?

Exclusives.
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they wouldn't understand how our mascot is an eagle, but is actually an immortal skeleton. i mean, i don't even understand it.
Personally, as a gamer, the native replay system is the most exciting thing I've seen out of this generation. So many times I've been playing a game with my brother over Xbox Live and something awesome happens, and afterwards we're kind of like, "Man, I wish this game had a record button like Halo so we could watch that over and over again." And now they all will.
If you mean Kickstarter, then you didn't purchase; you simply made a pledge to back the project. You can always cancel your pledge.
You can't argue it both ways. He either still has power over what the suits come up with for revenue, and thus hasn't actually abdicated any responsibilities at all (just given some biz dev guys a little more autonomy) or he has given up those responsibilities and the day the suits press forward with an experience-damaging move he doesn't like, he will discover he doesn't actually have full control over his product's features/experience.

e.g. if they say "tumblr's going freemium" the follow-on questions of "how do we differentiate the experience of free vs paid and how do we communicate the value of the upgrade?" are experience questions that need to be answered and designed in a holistic and considered manner. [1]

[1] And that's why I say those modes are absolutely part of 'features and experience'. Flickr just switched between two fairly-similar freemium models and we power-geeks had a hundreds of comments debate over whether the experience/value jived with the offering and/or was communicated cleanly.
"You are having a heart attack. Call 911."
I used to think the same thing, but really most SMD soldering isn't that difficult with some practice and a nice fine point soldering iron. Check out Dave Jone's videos at the EEVBlog, he has some great ones on SMD soldering like http://www.eevblog.com/2011/07/18/eevblog-186-soldering-tuto...

Also just because an Arduino board is built with SMD or very small components doesn't mean a user has to do the same thing. This board has the same headers for input/output as any other Arduino so you can attach existing shields, put on a protoboard, or just plug wires in directly. I don't see how the Yun does anything to shun newbies.
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Push can scale. Ask Urban Airship. It is hard though and while polling is generally easier it has its own set of scaling problems.
1) There was nothing wrong with google credit card processing. 2) the value prop you just wrote was not the value prop google had for checkout. They were clear checkout was to compete with paypal.

wallet fits your value prop.. that came 5 years later
I've noticed when the discussion is of low quality stories tend to fall faster. So yeah, you're probably right.
The average consumer? Of course. They want as few fiddly bits as possible. They want their stuff to just work.
I think the OP could email pg and he'd add them to the block list.
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And that's about right. The problem with all the failed "convergent" entertainment platforms out there (seriously, the market is littered with their carcasses at this point) isn't technical, it's delivery.

Some consumers want games, and they're willing to buy a console to get them. Some consumers want laptops, or tablets, etc... And these markets self-select for those willing and able to do the installation.

But everyone wants TV. And they want it to just work, and be hand-delivered to their home and installed by a professional who then hands them a remote and walks out. Until "convergent" platforms get to this level of integration (e.g. being installed by Comcast per above), they aren't going to out-compete the cable providers.

And the corrolary is that until the convergent platforms get to this level of integration, they'll always be, at best, the quirky, weird cousins of "real" TV. They'll never quite work right, and will always be chasing features or jumping over annoying compatibility hurdles.

That's a lesson that tech people don't seem to get, because we're happy to hook up an extra box to our TV, or buy a netflix subscription, or download a torrent. But that's not what the market wants. The market wants to pay $100/month to Comcast to not worry about that stuff.
Sales are sales and conversions are conversions.

Conversions = sales / visitors (which is a % rate)
I've got three Beaglebone Blacks and they are more powerful but not yet as well supported. The web based UI is really neat, would love to have a reliable Debian build (either Ubuntu or Wheezy, both currently suffer from a deadlock in the mmcq part of the MMC driver) The ability to add WiFi on the native stack is insanely hard (you can do it by going through the Gnome session but for an embedded system? That is a bit cumbersome, and building something that has to use dbus to talk to a daemon that is running a graphic widget on a headless system, it kind of rubs me the wrong way)

That said, I expect over time I expect the Black to do really well, and the Arduino Due. Many people could learn a lot by looking at what Arduino does well.
Disclosure only works when the customer has a real ability to assess the risk they're accepting. Most folks aren't even aware of the fire codes for hotels versus residences, or why they exist. (In particular, the extra danger in fleeing a fire in an unfamiliar building.) Once you have money changing hands, it's a business, and isn't comparable to having houseguests over for the night - the motives are profit-based.
I'm a part-time photographer and I shoot portraits frequently. I learned pretty early on that it's almost impossible to make a living at. But, I really enjoy the creative outlet and it gets me away from coding all day.

At first, I charged a low per-session fee and tried to make money selling prints and digital rights on a per-image basis. But really, I don't like that model at all (neither did my customers) so now I charge a higher session fee and personal use rights to the images are included, in full resolution.

Most people don't realize how much time is spent in post-production. I spend hours re-touching. Not to mention, the time it takes to learn things like off-camera lighting and the cost of the gear associated. But, I'm not complaining, it's fun to learn.

I don't really profit from photography but it does cover some of the cost of my gear and it's just plain fun to do. Trying to make a living with photography would be extremely difficult, but clearly some people are able to pull it off.
I guess that's one way of dealing with the problem...
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In retrospective: neither the long working hours, nor the uncertainty / lack of job safety were an issue. The biggest pains were the hiring process and coping with different opinions about how to approach various tasks/problems (when you're used to doing everything yourself).
> I live in San Francisco, where airbnb is legal (as far as I know)

Its generally not (its illegal in San Francisco to rent a unit for less than thirty days in a residential building with more than four units.) New York and San Francisco are the two US locations that I've seen the most news coverage for AirBnB's legal issues in.

> yet my property owner explicitly prohibits "short term subleasing," effectively banning airbnb rentals. No law or government action required, no criminals made, no taxpayer-funded enforcement, and no problem.

All contracts, and especially lease agreements where the ultimate enforcement action is eviction, depend very much on law, government action, and taxpayer-funded enforcement action.
Yeah, it's a fairly straightforward process. The top bearing isn't actually a bearing at all, but a simple piece of flat steel that basically just holds the top spindle of the blower in place. When you take the fan apart, you'll see what I mean. It's lubricated by some cotton infused with some pretty thin lubricant, and over time, that lubricant/cotton combo loses its lubricity. Mine was starting to make noise, so I took it apart and slathered wheel bearing grease on that contact point, and it's been going for six months now with no problems.
Okay, so I'm not alone on this. Trying to wring every last penny out of your customer with inflated prices just so you can brag about it on guest blog posts isn't cool.

For those who do want to maxprice your product and jack your customers, at least don't go saying you care about the startup community. Actions speak louder than words.
You can also access the links using digits ex.[https://api.github.com/users/6/events/public], so I could see someone running easily mining each page for email addresses and names for their recruiting bot… pretty interesting stuff.
It seems pretty obvious that they want to replace your Roku (easy - nobody owns Roku content) and your AppleTV (harder, iTunes lock in) and everything else in the ecosystem.

The desire to be the "one" box people have in their living room is pretty clear. I'm not sure how this will interop with common devices like AV receivers (HDMI issues?) but it will obviously need to play nice to capture the mid-to-high-end of the market.
But it's still memory consuming. Every time when I start the Chrome. My memory usage is hiking quickly
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And I was https://storm.canonical.com/
"This page cannot be found"...
Then they want an Apple TV or a Roku. My wife's grandma can and does use an Apple TV to watch Netflix. There's no way in hell she could ever navigate the UI disaster that is the XBox 360.
"The xbox will be the next water cooler" That lady has no idea how correct she is. It seems that they focused on entertainment also they got more suits to present a product, using every buzz word in the dictionary. I really enjoyed how they were distancing them selves from Microsoft the whole time, I only recalled they said Microsoft at most 5 times. "Team xbox" "Here at xbox"
coops, great writeup!! Can you share some tips for load testing features that are going to incur lots of writes (e.g., likes) that can't be tested in dark test.
One of the solutions to this issue, often mentioned in discussions about automation on HN, is basic income. Ie, as automation progressively makes human labor superflous to sustain the economy, a portion of the value generated by the economy is used to provide a small monthly allowance to everyone:

"Basic income has many social, political and economic advantages, but the one pertinent to this article is that it balances power in the labour market. It eliminates desperation as a reason to work, and everyone that wants a job will find a job. It can replace much workplace regulations as well. Minimum wage, maximum hours, rules for layoffs, and so on. The level of $7k-$10k is designed specifically (though guesstimated) as a target that balances exactly the bargaining power (between employers and employees) in the low skill labour market."

"Basic income is providing cash to all citizens. If the amount is in the range of $7k to $10k, it can be paid out of existing tax levels by replacing other social services, and making the benefit taxable so that high income earning citizens pay back a larger portion than poorer citizens. Basic income can also be paid in part or instead through money printing."

http://www.naturalfinance.net/2013/02/nearly-all-of-us-suppo...
http://www.naturalfinance.net/2012/06/imperative-need-for-so...
I guess that's fair. My impulses in writing are generally selfish, though – I write mostly to resolve questions or annoyances in my mind. But secondarily, yes, as an exercise to test my knack for persuasion, so your feedback on being interesting is well taken.

I positively relish your rhetorical style, by the way.
The most interesting thing I noticed is the change from the RGB + IR depth camera setup found in Kinect 1 to a single 1080p 30fps RGB camera using time-of-flight for depth imaging.

Microsoft made some really cool advancements in body tracking and recognition with the original Kinect, and it seems they are still pushing the boundaries of 3D imaging with cheap hardware.
It is trivial to filter out the bots IMO. You can also correlate system logs with application logs.
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It's common to make inclusion into the tribe a difficult or expensive thing to do, so that you can more easily differentiate outsiders who may be a drain on your tribe's finite resources.

If you're curious about questions like this, Pinker's "How the Mind Works" is a very reasonable and readable take on evolutionary psychology.
You could argue that this question has been discussed before, and that that is the reason why there are laws against noxious businesses in populated areas. If you want to operate that tannery of yours you had better have a good case and make it.

If it's just your right against theirs, that is the short path to "direct action", and you cannot have that in a civilized society.

You could also argue that you have the right to operate that tannery of yours but choose not to exercise it out of consideration of the people who will suffer from the stench. That would be the aristocratic viewpoint, argued eloquently by Ernst Jünger in the "Ledge at Masirah".

Either way, there is such a thing of society, and anyone arguing cleanly has to take that into account.
It looks like an 80-column terminal. Why does an 80-column terminal not fit in a reasonable-sized window? I suppose this is a sub-problem of everyone's weird need to change the basic font size (to larger or smaller) instead of picking a decent medium.

Oh speaking of zoom, ctrl-minus doesn't work for me. If it's possible to fix that, you might want to. For now I feel glad I already added a zoom slider to my browser's toolbar.
Do you have an API? I work on a photo aggregation and backup service called Woven (http://woventheapp.com) and it'd be nice to hook it up.
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Absolutely. Live by the sword, etc. And I feel the same applies to me. I heard many candid responses. Didn't agree with all of them. Learned from some.

Which is the way it's supposed to work.
> For the purpose of feminizing men so that they are more passive and they fit better into your ideals of who people should be? So to fit men who want to be themselves into your little cult of civility?

Grow up.

> The point is to appeal to your group, not to appeal to all of society.

The point is your group is flawed, and that flaw legitimately keeps newcomers out and cause well-intentioned contributors to leave. There's absolutely no reason why the community should have the stance "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

Competition is only going to make you better. Taking the time to help someone will also help you. Having the support of your peers for being courteous does far more for you in the long-run than intimidating them into submission does. But I guess that's "feminizing men" vs. holding them accountable as not only adults but as advocates and respectable members of the community.
They're supposed to. How many do you think actually are?
> It's actually very important. AirBNB opens up a renting forum to the world, which creates a bigger population of users

This magnifies the scope of the potential problem with arm-length short-term rentals of people unfamiliar with the property and its circumstances which laws restricting such rentals were meant to address; if anything it magnifies rather than reduces the need for the regulations.
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What does it offer over Selenium Webdriver? Yeah, the API is not terribly pythonic, but it's battle tested and stable, works across almost all browsers and there's always wrappers like Splinter (http://splinter.cobrateam.info/) if you prefer a more pythonic interface.
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I'd posit that the very existence of exclusives is one of the things that defines this as a gaming console through and through, if no longer first and foremost.
No one can down-vote posts, but posts that require attention (moderator related?) can be flagged to indicate that the link is to something that is outright bad (spam, inflamatory content, false information etc) and if it gets flagged by a lot of people it falls down the front page.

There's probably something else I don't know about the ranking algorithm though.
No, he's just a little troll op that thinks he knows things.
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Author states that Silicon Valley corporate structures are more egalitarian when measured against traditional firms. Author attributes this to a more progressive, 'stakeholder' culture in SV.

Question: human capital is disproportionately more important to building value in the tech sector than it is in the broader economy (think mines, manufacturing etc). Isn't it more likely that a more equitable equity split is a pre-requisite for success in SV as opposed to being a consequence of it?
You should add a "whoami" command because thats the basic unix command to determine who the user is. Then you can put some information about yourself there. Also, instead of having to type "help" to get the available commands you should print those out whenever you encounter an unknown command (since there are so few commands anyways). Good job though, it looks good!
I think the GP is expressing concern that the unification strategy may detract from the set of options he would otherwise have were it a dedicated gaming system.
Yeah, man. Why did this stupid developer call her newest release "Program 2"?! It’s her third release, after all, she already released Program 1.0 and Program 1.1.

To want to call the iPhone 5 iPhone 6 is so insane, I cannot fathom how anyone could come up with this crazy idea.
Xbox One will not be backwards compatible with Xbox 360 games.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4350662/new-xbox-has-no-ba...
Expletives were uncalled for, judging by your comment history you can do much better than that.
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Also check out the Spark Core (disclaimer: a classmate started this). It hits the $39 price point and combines a 72 MHz Cortex M3 and wifi.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sparkdevices/spark-core-...
If you work in California, you might want to check out the laws on workplace harassment. Here's a not-bad summary: http://www.ehow.com/list_6006205_california-workplace-harass...

If one employee repeatedly causes offense or discomfort to another, especially on the basis of protected categories like race, religion, or sexual preference, and the management is aware of the offense but doesn't do anything about it, the company is opening itself to a lawsuit.

If management became aware of the remarks above, and they were within a workplace context (the above ones were out of the workplace), management would have to do something. They are making crude sexual references and could reasonably be regarded as offensive.

It does not matter if you think it is ridiculous, although it would be smart to reflect that the reason we have these laws is because, historically, there has been real and pervasive harassment.
I choose the "German" flag. Does it mean that I should type in German or others' messages are translated to German? It's not at all clear from the wording: "Choose your username and language to start chatting with the world"...
What if I want to type in English but read others' messages in German?
Beautiful Chris. Thanks for the hard work, I am proud to be a backer of light table.

If any of y'all wanna use light table to work more directly on defeating cancer, we are looking for more hackers at Ion Torrent http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/the-gene-machine...