skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Hulu, Netflix and Amazon all produce original content and are perfectly positioned to disrupt them as their distribution volume increases.

Uhh, as a Hulu subscriber, I'll just let you know: If I only had "Hulu" content to pick from, I'd cancel my subscription immediately. It's not great stuff, barely worth paying for and CERTAINLY not worth both paying for and sitting through the same 4 advertisements over-and-over-and-over again for.

Basically, I don't care who owns Hulu, but if Hulu isn't getting next-day network television + back catalogs, then I'm not going to subscribe. That's what I want it for, and I imagine I'm not the only one.
I would argue though that social isn't about "you" - its about "them", your friends, your social network. Currently I'm not sure it its possible to "friend" or "circle" someone on any Yahoo page (excluding now tumblr), and "sharing" on Yahoo is just a series of exit links to every other social network. That must make Marissa mad.
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Eliminating feature redundancy of a tablet computer (comments)
As many people have found, tablets and smartphones are practically same devices, except for larger screens on tablet.

Me and one more person from BCIT decided to put a dent into tablet market share by designing what we call a "wireless touchscreen". It works as an additional display for your smartphone, that connects to it wirelessly by miracast and HID protocol.

http://tellusyouridea.strutta.com/entry/2610977 (please vote for our entry! You can vote every 24 hours)

We do expect that it will become a nice niche product for people who are not ready to pay for two expensive devices that overlap each other's functionality.

Technical details that I we disclose so far:
>We use the most power efficient chip combination that we found for this task. BCM's people pledged that power saving features of their chip are the best on the market and that the chip can work unamplified on distances less than 3 metres.
>Combined latency of WiFi chip and SoC with decoder is estimated to be 14 ms, which is less than one frame on 60hz
>We will use an awesome display that will become sourceable this year. It is not gonna push on somehow meaningless DPIs, but will provide an class leading dynamic range (real contrast) and colour reproduction (10 bit internal enhancement circuit).
>We will use upcoming hid-i2c touch controller from Synaptics with latest and greatest touch features
>Both hid and miracast drivers are present on android 4.2+ devices and 4.1+ for some samsung devices.
>Secret killer features. We are keeping them secret because of SSC contest terms.
What makes you think that Yahoo didn't look into this?

This would be the first thing anyone acquiring Hulu would look at.
Perhaps the compiler wasn't relied upon to provide "short circuit" boolean eval? This code will compile that way no matter if it's available in the compiler or not.

Honestly for the sake of being more robust, I'd add if(a != nil) after the first test of b.

if(b != nil)
if(a != nil)
if ...
Your statement erroneously associates financial success with happiness. Provably untrue.
Eliminating feature redundancy of a tablet computer
Your take-home pay should be somewhere in the $2500/mo range. That leaves you with about $600,after paying your rent and parents mortgage, for everything else in life (utilities, cellphone, ect). That's not likely enough to save up for the things you mention.

Food: As cheap or expensive as you want. Typical lunch in the city will run $10-$15. Buy cheap groceries and bring a lunch every day.

Commute: Depends on where in NJ you are. Hopefully you are close to PATH, if not you will likely take a NJ Transit train/bus.

Reference: I am an iOS Engineer, working in Manhattan, living in Brooklyn. Have been here 5.5 yrs.
I personally have never put a semicolon after a condition and being mainly a C# developer I have written a lot of them. Is this really something that happens more than once or twice in a lifetime?
I think you should get a job at McDonalds. Then when you come home at night, crack open a beer and watch TV/drink until you fall asleep. Repeat each day until you're very old.
Did you come up with 50K? because that is very low salary for NYC. Tell them you need more.
> it's the only thing that has a serious chance of ending the dominance of proprietary platforms.

That has never been the end goal for HTTP or even the WWW. Furthermore, we have proprietary web platforms today: just look at Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc. It's in fact MORE fragmented than the OS market is right now.

I mean, think about it: if you were trying to design a portable OS-as-a-service, would you REALLY be using a stateless protocol like HTTP for it? We've done a pretty good job of hacking together ways to maintain state over multiple requests, but the fact of the matter is that it's 100% garbage overhead that wouldn't exist at all if we just used a stateful protocol in the first place!
> To be fair the DEK-Info IV should be different for each key generated, so rainbow tables and other common precomputation attacks are pretty much out of the question.

That's valid; however, when you can compute 33.1B MD5 hashes a second, who needs rainbow tables? http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=43

Six and seven digit passphrases are easily brute-forced.
How long does it usually take, before the new version is up on Google's CDN?

https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.0/jquery.m...
Quick everybody, let's all trade this strategy immediately! We'll be rich!

Meh. There are a million of these things, and they all backtest great. It's not really meaningful going forward though.
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Troll? So now people that honestly want to help others and offer advice are trolls? He wrote the article because his introspection lead/is leading to a better life for himself. Is sharing that with other people such a bad thing?
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The only thing I use it for is saving entries on selected RSS feeds to Pocket. That way I can read them on my phone when I'm away from 3G/wifi (on the tube, in the gym, in a lift etc).
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To expand on your comment "rare diseases are actually quite common", I was struck by this in the article:

More than 7,000 such diseases exist, afflicting a total of 25 million to 30 million Americans

That's almost 10% of Americans! I suppose this shouldn't have been surprising given the Birthday Paradox [1], but the ~1/10 statistic puts things into perspective for me.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
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So get the numbers, then leave. Get their address too. Snail mail will soon be hip again.
How do you plan to arrange that?

Be specific.
>>If you truly understand the OpenGL programmable pipeline you understand graphics programming in general and should have to spend little time picking up a new API. Just like how you should be able to learn a new programming language with ease if you have enough experience.

This is very true. However, I rather not spend anytime on this if I don't have to. What you are underestimating though are the quirkiness of the new API that could waste you hours and hours. i.e. Some graphics rendering may not look quite right because some unexpected limitations, etc. etc. Finding work-arounds for all those tiny quirks can be time consuming Time that you'd rather spend on the product itself.
An auto-indenter could easily detect the idiom if hit backspace after the auto-indent it produced after the first 'if'.

Once you have your two ifs at the same indent, the indenter can use that info to keep them at the same indentation level. It could even assume you mean (a&&b) vs (!a&&!b) and not the three-way (a&&b), (a&&!b), (!a) when you follow it with an else block (I think that would be the best heuristic)

Implementing this will get a bit hairy, but if you are writing an auto-indenter for C, you should be used to that.

So, all you would have to do is hit one extra backspace to signal your intent.

Alternatively, one could type

if(a) if(b) {

To signal that one wants

if(a)
if(b) {

Same number of keystrokes, and, IMO, that space is slightly easier to type than the return it replaces.
@d--b - your posts are auto-killed and appear [dead]
this is sweet!
I wonder if there's a market for several smaller "social" networks centered around a single focus?

I was in college when facebook was expanding through universities. It was great, and the experience and content on facebook mirrored college life.

When it expanded beyond college and added the news feed, I found myself using it less. College-me was not the person I was for my grandma. I didn't care about the political views of my parents' friend who I hadn't seen in 10 years.

And it wasn't just me - Every now and then I log in to facebook to see what old classmates have been up to, and a lot of them have become inactive like myself.

The article mentions teens liking instagram more - its has a purpose centered around photos, and that it.

Writing this, I kind of miss old facebook and its limited uses.
The harmful or harmless wifi debate is back
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I wonder if that's the look that "folders" are going to have in iOS 7 then? I think that'd look pretty nice.
Having started a family a year ago, I wonder what kind of capital is necessary to start a family is? For diapers? Or do people really want to save up for college when they have barely left college themselves?

Until age 3, a child doesn't even need a dedicated room, so basically any apt suitable for 2 people will do.

Disclaimer: I'm in Austria, maybe it's easier here.
int ret;

ret = 0;

Why?
Because those who would sign up with them would be 1 geek with an ip address and 200 scammers who didn't want to pay 10 bucks for a domain.

I imagine I would have trouble renting a car with cash, even though it would allow more customers.
hello hn, this is cody from scroll kit. I want to respond to a few things.

1.) I had no plans to write a post about nytimes legal after their initial email. I simply complied with their demand and wrote them that I had taken down the video. Their next email, where they told me to remove all references to the Times from our site was pretty absurd and thought they should be called out for it. If you’re willing to take the risk, it’s a good idea for everyone to call out a big company sending overreaching legal requests. I can only imagine how many other startups don’t challenge their demands and are bullied into complying.

2.) The biggest misunderstanding here seems to be that we're somehow undervaluing the creative struggle, and the reporting/creation of assets, it took to arrive at "Snow Fall." This doesn't make much sense to me, it's a replica which by definition means the pieces are already there, we're just coming to it with entirely different code.

A big point to make is that it didn't take the Times hundreds of hours to make "Snow Fall", it took them thousands of hours. It's safe to say they spent, at least, a hundred + hours on JUST the assemblage of their content onto the page. It's that process that we have dedicated ourselves to improving. Which, for a lot of news orgs who don't have the resources of the Times, makes it possible for them to be able to experiment with these kinds of stories.

Another way of phrasing our tagline could have been something like:

We spent thousands of hours hand-coding scroll kit so you can make a replica of “Snow Fall,” in one hour.
facebook as CRM? I wonder if you could could build an app that did that...
I think that this is not a risk (between the PBKDF2 salt and the IV of the underlying cipher). IANAprofessionalcryptographer, however.
If you're debugging though, presumably there's something you don't understand, so a debugger should be more granular than what you normally deal with since reading wasn't enough. In many ways they are, since you can check other things in scope (or any parent scope) which is not always visible in source (e.g. a callback has multiple stack entries outside the code that defined it, even if inline).
I think this point isn't made enough. Everyone wants to "make a dent in the universe" and excelling for the simple sake of excelling is almost looked down upon. There's something to be said about the enjoying the process - getting enjoyment out of working to be better. Money is just one of many measurements of "better". I want to make money because I enjoy climbing the god damned mountain.
First tip: If you can get in via PATH from NJ for get the car, that's going to cost too much. Honestly living in NYC is pretty expensive and while $50k sounds like something, after taxes it isn't. Also if you're thinking local education that's going to cost a great deal unless you are going someplace like CUNY. By the way here is some quick math:

Figure if you take out say 40% for your taxes that's $20k, so you're really making $30k.

$30k per year is only $2,500 per month.

If you're giving your father $1.5k and paying $400 on rent that gives you a mere $600 to live on per month,

Keep in mind that chances are that you'll commute in so that will cost. Also keep in mind that food costs more in NYC too. Keep in mind you'll need to pay for utilities at home. So that's going to be hard.
Very cool and ambitious.

I expect the price point and lack of the streamlined Amazon checkout for US backers is going to hurt this one.
"Most people want to go on dates with people who are attractive, and self-improvement is often an anti-pattern for that."

I don't see the contradiction. I'm fairly obsessed with self-improvement and my body and health are a big part of that. I'm certainly more attractive now than I was 5 years ago, for example.
Yeah Hulu-specific content is not that great. The main reason I watch it is for specific TV shows that I want to watch after they air on cable. I canceled my cable two years ago and I haven't looked back since.
Hi! This is the Market Economics Fairy! If people are buying your product faster than you can make it, it means your prices are currently set too low! There's no point in keeping the price low to stimulate demand when you can't yet increase your supply! Temporarily raise the price until you can gear up manufacturing! That way the people who need your product the most can get it right away! And you can invest more in manufacturing to satisfy more future customers! This will lead to a lovely Pareto optimal outcome with everyone living happily ever after!

(I write this with some reluctance, because this product sounds very cool and useful and yet the prices are probably set too high for the nonprofit I work for - but the more you charge now, the sooner you can scale your volume and lower your prices later, right?)
Is Yahoo insane in going on a buying spree like this?
Yahoo! some months back could barely stand on its feet. Now they are buying successful companies and the internet users have no idea on what they intend to do with them.
What's in Soylent?
Investing in tech stocks
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Thanks Lennon! Would love to get any user-feedback from you too :) jay@doublerobotics.com
I'm not a designer, and especially not one with skills in color taste...but what would be the point of this? I mean, this splash of color is helpful for the Facebook and Twitter apps, which feature streams that can be mistaken for each other and also for the times in which I've opened an in-app browser window.

But for Apple's core apps, such as the Map app, it's pretty clear that I'm in the Map app and not in Messages. Furthermore, Facebook and Twitter have about 3-4 years of color-branding experience on their side...in that, I automatically recognize their respective shades of blue as belonging to them.

In addition, this color-splash for core apps seem to add a few negative consequences:

1. It couples colors to apps in a way that may be detrimental for the operating experience in general...for example, if I've been "trained" to think that "green" means "Message" app...that causes a bit of a disjoint for third-party messaging apps that do not use green.

2. Will "danger" buttons (such as "Delete") no longer be red, in the case that one of the core apps has red as its splash color?

3. Will the use of color be so critical in distinguishing the core apps that color blind users will operate at a disadvantage?
If you don't care about changing the world or creating a great company or building stuff, you probably shouldn't be an entrepreneur.

But if you're going to pick a fake motivation for your pitch deck, "I just want to build stuff" is pretty lame. Do people really say that when it isn't even true?
His passion is admirable, but his vision for himself and his site seems a little grandiose. He might have world-changing ambition but Silk Road is not a world-changing idea. BitCoin attacks the status quo at its center - our entire system of finance, which forms the nucleus of a credit-driven economy, depends on having a currency that is issued and regulated from a central authority. BitCoin is a blow to state power at its core. Silk Road is just a store, or bazaar, that takes BitCoin.
The advertising stream? I've never seen Hulu but there would be a lot of chances to show ads on it I'd imagine.

And yahoo is a company with alot of add inventory!
On the risk of sounding like a libertarian, there is no scenario in which it is good idea to use violence against a government. They will win, it is their own game. The way to change a government is political action, not use of force.
"Facebook is the living dead: the most popular, least relevant social network where teenagers and adults alike gather out of fear of missing out on things that don't even make them happy."

Best description of Facebook I've ever read.
sitting through the same 4 advertisements over-and-over-and-over again for

What is it I don't understand about the online video business that causes this to happen? They can't get enough advertisements from their partners to allow them to be less repetitive? Advertisers don't want to provide variety? (Maybe advertisers specifically want the monotony? Surely not, else they'd follow the same scheme on network TV.) The endless repetition sucks to watch and it makes the whole thing seem amateurish.
Wow....I feel like I am watching a brilliant game of chess. Marissa Mayer is increasingly showing her genius.

It is clear that she understands that Yahoo is a New Media company. They serve assets to many eyeballs and monetize those assets.

It seems that in her case, their main goal is grab up as much quality inventory as she can, and monetize the hell out of it.

As their media inventory gets bigger, economies of scale start to kick in. Nike may not want to just advertise on Yahoo & Flickr, but they would be damned if they turn away the potential to reach audiences in Yahoo, Flickr, Tumblr, and now possibly Hulu. Plus I imagine that the more inventory they hold, is the more they can package that inventory to increase the unit price for all properties.

Holy crap....this is brilliant and yet so obvious. Why have other CEOs not grasped this and executed on it the way Mayer is.

I think this is the one of the few cases, in Corporate America, where going on an M&A spree makes the most sense.

Another thing is the more properties she buys, and the better deals she does is the easier it is to buy other deals. Startups loved being bought by Google because YouTube was bought by Google. The same thing is starting to happen. Yahoo! bought Tumblr, so other companies are going to feel comfortable being bought by Yahoo! and that will create more deal flow, resulting in more deals.

Hrmmm...I wonder how much cash Yahoo has on their balance sheet - either way, I am sure they can raise a ton of money to do more deals.

WoW....just WOW!!!!
Yeah, I saw that. I think it's misguided. The amount of time spent on arguing about style far exceeds the time savings of the changes you propose. People can get used to different formats quite easily, but time spent arguing about and maintaining formats can never be recovered.

Also, your formatter looks pretty brain-dead. clang-format formats all of those cases (in C++) as in your green examples with Google style turned on. Even the Eclipse formatter should do a better job than what you've posted with the appropriate settings. When I advocate an auto-formatter, it doesn't make sense for you to respond with a blog post talking about a formatter seemingly designed to make everything worse.
No, no, no. That's not what I meant, sorry if it wasn't clear.

The point isn't that they're buying Hulu for its original programming. It's that if they want to become a major player in the original content space, they'll need a huge user base to start with. For that, they need licensed content.

In other words, my thesis is that TV networks can be disrupted by someone else making original content and distributing it over the web, but the disruptor will need a big number of users to make this possible. It's much easier to get that big user base with licensed content.

Whether it makes sense for Yahoo to be in the studio and production business is another question!
Answer: yes

The shelf life of a tech company is 7 years. After that, it simply loses a "cool factor"
Thanks for sharing. I know YC invested in Watsi (https://watsi.org/) but this is more of what I was looking for.
Ask HN:  What is your favorite 'Frozen Pizza?'
We are looking to add a new product to the Grovara.com catalog - looking for a US Manufactured Frozen Pizza Product - what do you think?
Its available all over Central America
Aw! Tokbox is only as good as the applications people build with it. Thanks for using us.
None of the existing auto formatters that I'm aware of do this.
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I wonder if the patent thing works as a positive signal to a normal prospective "investor".

Working in software just has me take a big gulp when I read the section about a patent here.
The company Yahoo! itself have no prospects, its search and email are not doing well. 7 years of hulu?
Tazer proof clothing aren't that hard to make, fortunately :) Funny how that works out.
Seems the new CEO is hard at work
Usually 24 hours, no longer.
It is always the worst developers who fixate on arbitrary rules because they never developed the ability to read code. Go practice reading code, that's the only way to get better at it.
They were probably right on the money considering Yahoo's reputation.
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True (currently, I see no reason this is a necessary step), but that suggests you could perform trivial expansion of lines like `if (a.what() && b == c && (d == f || d < 5))` into multiple lines like you see in this article, and then use the exact same hack to get those pseudo-lines into the final stages, and into your debugger. You could even explode each piece into extra variables, so you can see the results of `a.what()` without re-evaluating it.

Honestly, even if you had to hit an 'expand this statement' button in your debugger to see `if x() && y()` spread into:

x_val = x()
if x_val
y_val = y()
if y_val
...

it would completely remove the necessity to write strange things to get around this limitation. Why do we have compilers and a huge variety of languages if not to stop writing strange things unnecessarily?
House of Cards is great though.
By integer I mean machine word. Those do exist.

I suppose we can get philosophical and say that there is no such thing as a machine word, that when you operate on the memory using different instructions, or jump into the memory, or whatever, this "machine word" becomes something else... But IMO this is a pointless exercise. The fixed-size machine word is a reality in the machines we're talking about. (How that gets translated into a higher level language like C will vary from machine to machine, compiler to compiler, but the analogy still stands and I do not believe it is meaningful to argue such points unless engaged in purposeful misinterpretation.)