skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I own both a PS3 and a 360 and had those same use cases. Then I bought a Roku on whim at Costco one day. As a result, I've used the PS3 once in the last year, I haven't used the 360 at all.

I bought both of those consoles when they were new and collected a bunch of $60 games that I "don't really play". For several years now, the vast majority of gaming I do comes via games bought for a steep discount to console prices on Steam.

I stopped buying DVD/BDs when I realized how few of them I'd actually watch repeatedly. These days, a single $4 stream of a new release on Amazon is the norm.

I think it says something that a person like myself, who could previously be counted on to buy each new generation of console is unmoved by Xbox One.

At the same time, I expect the more mainstream customer might be just fine playing games and watching movies on the smartphone/tablet they almost surely already own.

I don't think this is a bad idea, but I do think it might be too late.
Those are profits in absolute terms. I suspect the author is arguing that relative to the size of the company, wage ratios are important. I would argue he is mistaking consequence for cause. Companies with egalitarian wage ratios can afford (read 'need') equitable wage ratios precisely because of the nature of their business (think software firms with barriers to entry, high margins that are dense with human capital vs a company) vs (a chemicals company, that produces a fungible good and can only compete on price - business is characterized by low margins and a greater proportion of unskilled labor - ie more wage equality would put you out of business)
The 2-second “Rule”
Immigration reform may spur software robotics
tab completion and some new commands coming shortly! thanks everyone for all the awesome suggestions!
This was an advertised feature during the keynote, so yes.
You're still going have a layer of terrible user interface where you're picking through all the kitchen-junk-drawer full of items that Microsoft has packed into this device. It won't be labeled "Video 1, Aux 1", true, but you'll still have to pick through every time you want to use the system. Probably end up being more of an interface problem, actually.

Power on, wait, skip special offers from Microsoft, no I don't want to update the console today, click to make anti-virus warnings go away, okay, now I can pick whether I want to play games or watch TV, TV, live TV or internet, internet, now pick the Netflix channel, and start watching! Hurray!

Yeah, that's so much better than picking "Video 2" and using the Netflix box.
I imagine Kickstarter turned them down because of potential liability if something goes wrong. Replacing food with chemicals makes sense to scientists and engineers, but I imagine this has the potential to be lawsuit-heavy for the average people out there (my back aches, must be the Soylent).

Edit: specifically, these two guidelines:

- Projects cannot offer financial, medical, or health advice.

- No tobacco, drugs, and drug paraphernalia; energy food and drinks; or nutritional supplements.
if i recall correctly, likes were pretty dark-testable, since we didn't make them visible until we released them. so we were able to use a methodology similar to the infinite-scroll dark test--X% of items viewed by client in the app triggered a like on that item. we then cleaned up all the likes shortly before releasing the feature.
Probably detritus recycled from earlier failed attempts at software like "Radio". I have a feeling that one of the origins of the palpable bitterness in Winer's writings, noticed by so many of the commenters here, is the round dismissal of a series of these projects over the past couple of decades.
Affirmative action is good, but it's used as a cover for racism
The non-responsive design doesn't fit on my netbook's small screen. Likewise for my phone.
It also doesn't work on my netbook running FreeBSD & Xombrero browser. It just loads a duplicate of the next open tab when I type "help" at the prompt.
No on screen feedback of text entered.

It does work on my Android phone.

Other than that, I like it. I've always wanted to do something similar.

Nice work!
The market has lots of choices right now. Yet the market is paying $100 for that hot garbage.

Clearly you don't like the situation (neither do I), but hurling profanities at anonymous strangers on the internet won't change that fact. Neither will yet another failed media box.
TIL Frühstücksfleisch is german for "SPAM"

good job shutting that fellow down. Very cool little app.

edit:

well...maybe some kind of rate limit might help.
Paint your walls with ideas
They could, but selling online is more than just collecting payments. There's order management, CRM, analytics, etc, which I think bring a lot of value to a seller.

Most sellers don't have the time or resources to pull all of that off in addition to having to focus on sales & marketing and product development.
The commercial for Songsmith was one of the worst things I'd ever seen: http://youtu.be/3oGFogwcx-E

I really wish your comment hadn't reminded me of it :)
"friction" in other words a barrier to entry to get filter those seeking the low hanging fruit.

Thanks for the book suggestion I've been looking for something along those lines..
Honestly? I don't really know why anyone bothers to do launch events like this any more. Post a bunch of images, videos and some bullet points about the product somewhere. Done.
And without requiring paying $50/year as well.
Oh and don't forget it phoning home to report on what you're watching/doing
The Original Xbox and Xbox 360 used different processors as well.

IIRC, Microsoft allowed/encouraged publishers to re-compile, and release a patch via XBL which let people play the original games on the new system.
Don't encode entities on the server side if you are using handlebars, it will do that for you (that's the point of using {{}} it will make all user input "safe").
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>I really enjoyed how they were distancing them selves from Microsoft the whole time

I don't think there was any need to be alienated from the brand Microsoft (No recent Microsoft PR blunders I could recall). Its just that Xbox has become a brand of its own. The addition of Microsoft is now unnecessary. You can also notice this very easily among techies, there are a lot who hate Microsoft but love their Xbox.
"As a vegetarian, I don't like how you priced your hotdogs" should not weigh too heavily on any of the hotdog makers in the room. This comes up quite a bit here, for example when people who do not own businesses opine that $200 a month for a Business plan of SaasFoo shocks the conscience.
With a statement like that, you're going against decades of experience which says polling doesn't scale. Constant connection setup and teardown is incredibly expensive.

RAM is cheap.
As a rule, never comment on something beyond persons control: age, gender, color, nationality, family name, are all off-limits. There are exceptions to the rule, but just following this rule will make a huge difference in how you appear while only losing ability to comment on 1-2% of the content when the persons immutable traits are actually relevant. It's a great tradeoff and a huge win for your image and your peers.
I still have my doubts, on more than one front, but that was definitely an interesting and worthwhile read. I haven't been part of the Tumblr community -- rather just seeing individual items when they are cited elsewhere -- so this provides a bit of perspective especially as to its genesis.
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So, it's merely derivative?
I've been following the Soylent articles since they were posted and have been pretty interested in it. Definitely going to have to give thought to backing this.
So because there is dependence on some monopolistic entity for contract disputes (there really shouldn't be), then that gives justification for that entity to intrude on voluntary actions? Seems like a logical fallacy to me. How about we let people transact peacefully and deal with the problems on a case-by-case basis instead of lumping everyone under the same law that allows no room for exploration.
Judging from comments on HN the valley does sound quite libertarian but not the kind that register and vote Republican. It seems more intellectual and based in logic while Republicans are more about dogma and scoring political points.

I think deciding half the nation eschews logic and intellect in favor of dogma and 'political points' is an extremely unfortunate move. People are not the pastiches you see on TV and HuffPo.

(I vote Democrat.)
No, being impolite does not come with the profession, this is an easy excuse which sidesteps the problem.

The difference between:
"You cannot use a pointer without previous initialization becuase it may lead to corrupt memory, or some other error".

and

"Nobody with a fking idea of C would dereference a pointer as you have done"

is politeness. And the first one helps, the second one just offends. Both are right, but one is more useful than the other.

Especially in public discussions.

Being polite requires, as any other virtue, habit. And usually, acquiring it requires effort. But we, all of we, expect it from all of us.
How useful is codecademy?
I'm wondering if codecademy is that useful, because after all, they only teach you the principles of coding and not the actual coding you would use to build product with. I.e. they only learn you how to loop, but not how to do it in a SQL/no-SQL db, and therefor, a kickstart to a little project could stay off the runway while that is where you learn the most. I would like to have your opinions on this, please add to your comments if you use(d) the service or not.
In that case I would say that I initially need at least 32GB. That's about 3600 photographs from my last 2 trips or so. I need to go over all those but I can't let them rest around while I do so.
Can you please point to the source of this information, if any. I would like to read more.
I think I prefer the system where each voter has one vote to spend on whatever they please, without having to justify their desires to others...
For comparison: MSFT's stock price is relatively flat after the presentation.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AMSFT
www.soylent.me doesn't work.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.soylent.me
no, use this. https://github.com/mattspitz/completeme
I hope you enjoy it! It'd be interesting to hear how you get on.

If you decide you don't like soylent there are a bunch of other products from other more mainstream manufacturers.

Fortisip and Ensure are the two brands I'm most familiar with, but there are others. Fortisip do wide range of different style products (shake, juice, yoghurt, and 'savory'.) But it's an acquired taste.

I'm not sure why they have two trailing slashes. (https://www.nutricia.co.uk/fortisip//)

(http://ensure.com/)
Tech Cycle:

1. Small groups of dedicated technologists create a large step forward in technology. Generally becoming wealthy.

2. People following money all pile in. Pretenders abound; both founders and investors.

3. It becomes impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff. How do you tell the difference between someone who is legitimately experienced and someone who's skill is putting on appearances?

4. Big crash as the pretenders fail to produce similar results. All the crazy money leaves the technology sector. "Who needs an online pet store anyway?"

5. The only people who are left are small groups of people dedicated to technology regardless of the headlines. (return to step one)
Still doesn't answer how this is much different than just another kind of diet shake.
You have to pay for Live if you are just using your ISP to hit netflix?
>Nowadays everybody takes links you can vote on as a "duh" feature and wonder what the big deal behind Reddit is, but when it came out in 2005, it was very much a "Why has nobody thought of this before?

It had been thought of before, and done before. The late 90s had tons of sites like that. When reddit came out in 2005, it was very much a "what is so special about slashdot clone #437?".
Sure, people use it, but the vast majority of Xbox gamers hate the advertising-laden clustermug the dashboard has become. Guess who buys $600 consoles at launch?
Off-topic: Why do outbound links on Medium.com have a scary-looking Redirect Notice?
Book review : Sky Train
Bigger typically means quieter.
Yep. Awesome, eh?

I own a 360 but I don't use it anymore.
Show HN: Using public humiliation to keep you from being late
It is still around! Except for the fact 90% of my friends have abandoned it for less-featured platforms, it works great.
Indeed- I have drifted to 80% video 20% gaming. And the ability to watch live TV from within the console is a big win for my family. On my newer Samsung series 8 changing inputs is needlessly time consuming.
Both oil companies and big banks compensate their skilled employees very well. It's not hard to make six-figures straight out of an MS as a petroleum engineer or geologist; you can do $200K/year with 5-10 years experience. And banks, of course, are legendary for their comp structures: you could be doing $80K salary + $160K bonus straight out of college and making half a mil or more 5-10 years out.

It's the roughnecks, construction crews, and bank tellers that don't make big money. Of course, those tend to be the numerical majority of employees because they're relatively cheap.

It's the same thing at Google - engineers can get paid $250K/year, but book scanners get paid $10/hour.
Neat. I'm curious how you learned compilers. Books? On the job?
> For starters, almost all of them recognize that their industry itself arose out of government funding (see ARPANET), and some of the most celebrated achievements of the digital culture (open source software, Wikipedia) involve commons-based collaboration with no conventional definition of private property whatsoever. It’s precisely because we lack a new vocabulary to describe this worldview that we end up lumping the tech sector together in the libertarian camp.

I'm pretty sure that's just a form of socialism.

> There’s a real estate crisis in Silicon Valley because the companies in the region are much more generous in the way they share the wealth, not less.

Don't forget the fact that no town/city wants to build (or make it easier for developers to build) high density housing despite that it is desperately needed to keep up with housing demand.
This is awesome.

You probably know a very good friend of mine....he is originally from Jamaica and played Soccer for Emory too. Not too sure if I want to call out his name on this public forum.

Either way...this site looks nice. Very clever REPL - especially for someone that just started coding. You are off to a good start!
I was surprised, even in the context of something as frankly incoherent as this rant, to hear someone talk about "discourse" on Twitter. Especially someone who recently [0] described Twitter as "grunting and snorting".

[0] http://thenextweb.com/eu/2011/04/13/dave-winer-twitter-is-mo...
There's no controversy in Minnesota, where "Gray Duck" is universally accepted. ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_duck,_goose
Anatoly is too modest to say it, but he deserves credit for being the author of memcached as people know it today. Which isn't to say Brad stole the credit or anything like that, but rather to note most successful projects involve more than one person.
"Since I moved to California and the Bay Area, I have to say I've encountered more smarmyness and arrogance than in Houston Texas."

I'd describe it more as snobbishness and cliqueyness, but same basic idea. Silicon Valley is great if you're working on something trendy, but it can be surprisingly unfriendly if you're just trying to make cool stuff.
There is a meaningful difference between the terms "conversion" and a "conversion rate". A conversion is an action, be it a sale or otherwise. Marketers and ad serving platforms do not use the terms interchangeably, just like clicks and click-thru-rate are not interchangeable.
Little "l" libertarianism has always had a tense relationship with the Republican party. Certain parts of the libertarian philosophy are certainly incorporated within the conservative philosophy espoused by many Republicans, but the GOP has always been a large tent party (like the Democrats) which includes numerous groups that believe many different things that often disagree with each other.

But attempting to have a nuanced discussion of politics in this country is as pointless as it is impossible.
The fundamental error of this piece is that it assumes that if you vote Democratic, you're by definition not a one-percenter.

But this is just wrong. There are lots of one-percenters who vote Democratic. They just mostly feel more strongly about cultural-liberalism issues than they do about economic ones. But when it comes to economic issues, these folks still tend to lean rightward; they overestimate the degree of social mobility the economy makes possible today, they support "ownership society" initiatives like 401(K)s and health vouchers over social insurance programs, and so forth. These folks aren't found just in tech, they're also quite common in the entertainment industry and other "new economy"/"information economy" sectors. (The derogatory term for them used to be "limousine liberals"; rich people who were totally down with helping the poor, as long as doing so didn't cut into their personal bottom line.)

So you have billionaires on both sides. American politics, in fact, has mostly become a battle between billionaires. On one side you have billionaires who care about social liberalism, on the other you have billionaires who care about economic liberalism. But they're all billionaires, so issues that don't affect billionaires personally (like the minimum wage, or how to pay for retirement, or the unemployment rate, or affordable housing) just don't get included in the debate. As far as the political system is concerned, they're non-issues. They don't exist.

There used to be institutions that brought these issues into the discussion anyway, like political parties and labor unions. But those have mostly atrophied over the last 50 years, so we have a system where whether the capital gains tax rate is low enough (a question that billionaires of all stripes care deeply about) is continuously and loudly debated, while whether the minimum wage is high enough is hardly ever discussed.
N20 is a rather potent drug and 3 atoms, although plenty of people would consider pure oxygen as the simplest useful drug.
Can Tweets Predict the Vote?
I got one actual person out of my three reps, the other two dumping me to a voicemail that said only "that mailbox is full."
Maybe, if they're right. If they're wrong, the second one is a lot better than the first.
Anyone ever heard of the kickstarter clone they are using?
http://www.crowdhoster.com/

it seems to just be a implementation of Selfstarter with a backend to process payments, but at the same time they boast "Free to use"... how can a payment processing be free?
I knew this was coming as soon as Lockitron started the trend with their "SelfStarter" site: https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter
I'm pretty sure there's no data to back up that assertion. MSFT takes the dashboard UX very seriously and it is very data driven. If you see content there, it is because people want to see it and use it.

I'm also not sure the Xbox One is a console as much as it is a mix of Apple TV/gaming console/bluray player.
If we had settings where you could remove the branding, would that help? Note we have some already: https://duckduckgo.com/settings/
It's a diet shake where the seller goes "you know what, fuck it, I don't recommend that you eat a balanced diet, and I do recommend you replace all your meals with this shake"
Comparison of MSFT and SNE:

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
I think he did a good job at making the distinction. Not sure if you got the jist of it, but he clearly states that despite the heavy libertarian leaning culture, SV overwhelmingly voted for Democrats the last few elections, indicating they were not on board with the Republican platform.

My take on it is that SV is 'liberaltarian', in that they prefer small, efficient, decentralized organizational structures, but that they also recognize the need for social welfare as a stabilizing force. Additionally, I would guess most of them are turned off by the conservatism side of the Republican party (pro-religion, pro-drug controls, etc), and as such tend to vote for democrats based on the 'lesser of two evils' decision making process. This pretty much describes my views, and I would imagine a lot of others in SV.
Didn't slashdot have you vote on the comments and not the stories, and the stories were still picked by editors? I think that was what was new about Reddit and Digg...they were just user-submitted stories and nothing else.
Thanks! There is definitely a chance you pick the wrong ones up front, but I think the knowledge you would gain in those two months to lead you to that conclusion is not time wasted, but likely time well spent :)
I got curious about this statement: 2 million people are killed annually by smoke inhalation from indoor cooking stoves alone. This is just wrong enough to be misleading, since that figure actually includes heating, not just cooking. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs292/en/ So soylent wouldn't help in the cases where indoor pollution is caused by heating.
That should really depend on the contracts and negotiations between property owners, tenants, etc. Maybe you don't mind living next to that "eyesore" because it's much cheaper and you can afford private schooling for your children. Everything is a cost/benefit, and people may be willing to sacrifice one thing for another, so have a little empathy.
>Soylent is perfectly balanced and optimized for your body and lifestyle, meaning it automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus and cognition.

Citation needed. I'm a big fan of n=1, but making these kinds of claims supported by anecdote and then asking for money based on those claims is ridiculous.
I'd prefer sticking to one service specially since I'd end up paying. Flickr/500px seems to be what I will like better but I explained above why I am afraid of going with Flickr. I know anything about 500px though.

Yeah, my preference would be an online gallery hosted service with a reliable backup if such a thing exists!
It's a pity no one on the team has any experience in a relevant field, and the "Is it safe?" answer is absurd. You could say the same thing to deem cigarettes safe.
It was known that it would have a different processor architecture, however historically backwards compatibility was a given if you had any entrenchment worth preserving. Usually it is achieved in whatever way is necessary: a secondary modern-process, lower-power PowerPC coprocessor chip for older games, or a real-time binary rewriting system, etc.

I am surprised that Microsoft would throw the lead their 360 has amassed.

I don't want to juggle multiple systems in the entertainment setup. If I switch to either a PS4 or a Xbox One, either leaves me out in the cold with my old "investment". So any advantage the One had in that regard is gone. It isn't a huge deal at all, but is factored in or not.
Sorry about that. DNS record pointing to http://campaign.soylent.me is caching. Should be live now.
It seemed Google Circles could be an improvement on this, and the original paper discussing it suggested as much, but the implementation leaves much to be desired. Shouldn't the Friends circle have more information shared than the Acquaintances circle? Close Friends might even require double mutual confirmation.

(Missed schmozz's comment below, I link we are trying to say somethig similar. Google Plus's major failing is discoverability.)
Posthaven launches fast, beautiful image galleries