skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BitTorrent will usually always work for downloads no matter what. It's the seeding that doesn't work too well with home routers that doesn't have the correct port forwarding or Upnp setup.

It's a hybrid between BT and S3. The S3 will keep feeding the data down if there are peers or not, but if there are peers already watching, then it will utilize them as well.

I don't think this will work well for YouTube where there are millions of small videos, but for large Video distribution like NetFlix and Hulu, would be perfect.
I hate online chat. Hate it hate it hate it. Sitting there waiting for someone to type back at you, it's totally stupid. I'll never use this Google Wave. Email is good enough for me. And nothing can replace a good old phone call.
Representations are different ways of looking at the model.

Let's say you have a book. The ideas are the model and they can be adapted into various representations such as the book, a magazine excerpt, a movie, a musical, etc.

I think he means that the people who have trouble with design are those who focus on solving the problem that the representation demonstrates rather than solving the underlying problem (which is in the form of the model). So the solutions are specific and brittle rather than general and adaptable. Or something like that...
garbage robot capacity: 1 garbage bag

therefore, at any given time, there should be 100's of robots roaming the streets, visiting various addresses (and then plopping the bags in convenient piles for the real garbage truck to retrieve)

homework for Italian hackers:
create your own "robot parade" by war-dialing 100's of robot garbage pickup calls at carefully selected times and locations
If there is not enough schedule pressure on the Real Programmer, he tends to make things more challenging by working on some small but interesting part of the problem for the first nine weeks, then finishing the rest in the last week, in two or three 50-hour marathons. This not only impresses the hell out of his manager, who was despairing of ever getting the project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation.

Wow, some things never change ;-)
The entire Flickr Shape files released in to the public domain
:)Its really an amazing article. However the argument that says entropy is related to news channels doesnt go under my throat
It'd be a violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics? What sort of energy does he expect to extract from the water? Is he going to split it back into H2O and then burn the hydrogen? That just results in the same amount of H2O that you had to begin with (assuming 100% efficiency). The only way a car could run purely on water is to get the H to bond with something more chemically reactive than Oxygen, and that's just not possible since you're just running on water.

Look at the periodic table. There is just ONE element more electrochemically negative than Oxygen, and it's Fluorine. So unless he's planning to make a car that runs on water and Fluorine, it's not possible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronegativity

The one other alternative is fusion, and I'm sorry bud, but it ain't happening in a car anytime soon.
To play the devil's advocate, why should the authors be paid in perpetuity for a job that they did only once?

If a sculptor demanded to be paid every time that someone looked at his sculpture, people would think he was slightly crazy. Generally, when people create something, they are paid for the act of creation, and not for the use of what they created. I don't see why this can't be the case for, say, music as well?

Ok, I admit I don't have a viable proposal for a business model at the moment, but the assumption that creators should be paid per use of their creation, instead of for the act of creation itself, seems flawed to me.
Why our 'amazing' science fiction future fizzled
Some of Kurt Godel's most famous works are his 2 incompleteness theorems, which state the inherent limitations of all but the most trivial formal systems for arithmetic of mathematical interest.

Which basically means that there are things that just can't be computed but are quite obvious for us humans.
You can't implement a flick-scroll type interface without immediate feedback. A delay of 1 second or even an large fraction of a second makes this untenable.

My point is not a Kindle replacement being a netbook. It's about being interactive. 1 second screen refreshes cripple interactivity.

When I use text search to find things in electronic references, I find myself doing one find, quickly perusing the results, then often doing another refined search and perusing those results. Adding 1 second to each input is going to add something like a half-minute to each search session. That's death.
Isn't the price a little high? You are a first time author, and its not even printed, wouldn't it have made more sense to start the first book at something cheap like $9.99? What made you pick your price point?
I still think my favorite "hackers of old" story is The Story of Mel: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
A UK startup brings Light, low-cost e-reader.
I don't have an Arrington problem. I will probably never meet him. I could care less if he's a jerk.

What I have is a future-of-trade-journalism problem. Specifically:

* There's no apparent separation of editorial and reporting at TC.

* There's no apparent rules about sourcing and attribution at TC.

* There's no corrections policy at TC.

Long story short, it's a blog. But people like us, acting en masse, have imbued it with many times the power of a real trade press outlet. Of course TC can get more done more cheaply than ZD. They don't play by the same rules.
I'm really not following that - can you clarify please?

I'm not sure which concepts your words refer to e.g. what is it in "how it all worked"? which models do you mean in "I don't build models until" (in the article, models are mental models, and it uses the term representations for their representation in code or notation.
Online Security: White House Establishes New Cyber Czar Position
Yahoo Meme (Twitter knockoff)
It's the content stupid.
Lasers are making solar cells competitive
The Future of Manufacturing, GM, and American Workers (Part I)
"Não tem tempo nem paciência pra blogar?
Então o Meme foi feito sob medida pra você. Aguarde."

translates to

"Do not have time nor patience for blogging?
So Meme is tailored for you. Wait."
I bet that Google's existence actually reduces the total CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. If someone searches for a business's address and uses Google maps to find an efficient route that saves 1/2 mile of driving, the supposed allocated environmental cost is easily made up for. What if I search for a way to fix my DVD player and avoid buying a new one? How much carbon did that save?

I agree with everybody that these stats are absurd. But, even if they were somehow meaningful, the point that information access allows people to consume less must be taken into account.
This is the second time I saw this on HN (previous one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632146). People tend to dump techcrunch, nytimes like bots & also I noticed people submitting links found on sites on HN. Most the time they are just crap. The danger here is people getting blind to Good content or good content easily going down the drain.

Time to go & listen "same thing over & over again - Flobots" http://tinysong.com/YTh
Does the entire relevant age group in Sweden apply to university, or do only some students who complete secondary schooling apply for further schooling? The base acceptance rate for any one university is the number of students who are admitted divided by the number who applied. (In the United States, that number is just above 7 percent at some of the most highly desired universities, which receive almost 30,000 applications but admit only just more than 2,000 students.) Some universities in the United States have a base acceptance rate above 90 percent, so on that basis I suppose one could claim that university schooling is "universal" (that is, universally available) here too. More than 500 schools of higher education in the United States have explicit policies of open admission, meaning that they will admit ALL applicants without any requirements beforehand (except possibly completion of high school or residence in the state where the college is located).

What exactly does it mean for higher schooling to be both universal and free?
Have you not used flick-scroll? I definitely have a palpable sense of being in the middle, or at the end. Cover-flow gives me the same sort of sense.

Perhaps this is not going to be as good as a real, physical book. But if you can find a workable analogue, this is a practical way of carrying a whole reference library with you at all times. That your interface is not as good is a workable trade-off for availability. You can always return to your desk or your library for intensive work sessions.

Having wireless or mobile broadband to do searches is often not an adequate substitute for this. Often, the references one needs are not available for free because they are too esoteric or specific. I these cases, it's much better to be able to collect together specific references to carry with you. (Or otherwise make easily available.)

An improved interface would still give you no physical memories, relative locational memory, "what size was the book" memories, or the kind of 1000ft view skimming can give you.

Flick-scroll and cover-flow are attractive precisely because they tweak the our sense of manipulating the physical. I can imagine an interface that can utilize relative locational memory and the book's size. In fact, I think I've seen writeups of people's research on alternative desktop interfaces that are like this.
Why YouTube Can’t Cost $1.65M a Day
??? Sorry I can't follow anymore. So thinking about possibilities is inappropriate? Doctors are never allowed to enjoy their job? (I am not a doctor, but it would be a similar situation)
By your math, every dual-core 64-bit Intel CPU would actually be a 128-bit processor, a quad-core would equate to a 256-bit system, and the Cell would be a very studly 1088-bit chip (64-bit PPE + 8x128-bit SPEs).

That's why the Atari Jaguar is 64-bit. DO THE MATH.
I don't think the future really has fizzled. Did anyone predict that I could be talking with people around the globe who share my interests, instantaneously, without leaving my bedroom? Or that I could find information on nearly any topic just by typing a couple words into a search box?

Heck, I'd much rather have cars, with their noise and pollution and gas-guzzling, than horses with their shit.

I think the problem is that we quickly become habituated to any real increases in standard of living and think they're no longer remarkable anymore. It's more a problem with human brains than with technology. I'd be pretty pissed off if I lost my computer, Internet, cell phone, car, dishwasher, and cushy job where I type code into a computer all day instead of having to do actual physical labor. They don't really register as amazing achievements on a day-to-day basis, but when you look at 1964 and what you'd have to give up to live back then, they look pretty darn good.
Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding: I thought your comment was about the technology itself.
It might be a helpful and fun read for someone dealing with hearing voices, too.

The diversity of comments here (as well as the referenced Wikipedia articles) indicate the situation could require a more complex and long-term strategy than simply "run to doctor; do what doctor says." (Even though talking with experts is almost certainly part of the right course.) In that case, discussing "fun reads" with relevant perspectives is part of coping.
Golf - A client side, accessible javascript web framework
Maybe you are just exhausted?
"Seeing you type" is the same thing as talking - only introverts don't like other people seeing their thoughts, while extroverts prefer it. The thing is, extroverts comprise the majority of the population. Also, while seeing you type may not be preferred in conversation, it will be preferred in a document collaboration environment.

The robot thing is not inane because it is part of the distributed/federated document editing, and it has media elements attached to it rather than just text. In IRC, you only talk to people for the most part, so bots in IRC are centered around facilitating that purpose. With Wave, you talk, work, and plan with data that can take any form - a much broader scope that allows robots to do much more than just 'user logged in, user logged out'.

The reason why I think it is a strong alternative to project collaboration tools is because of 'see as you type' and its robot capabilities. Yes, it has a nice document model, but that isn't the key feature for me.
Well, I'm not really a first-time author. I have 450 pages of a JavaScript book I wrote for O'Reilly, just sitting on my hard drive. But (long story short) they are blowhards so I canceled on them.

Furthermore, I'm pretty famous for my teaching skillz. My blog has 7000 readers. My Scriptaculous cheat sheet, for example, has been downloaded about 500k times.

I can't tell you how many big important people in the Rails community have come up to me and told me that they have my ActiveRecord cheat sheet hanging in their cube. (Or did.)

I gave a 3-hour tutorial at OSCON on JavaScript and I've given normal-length talks on Prototype there as well.

And my coauthor, my husband, wrote the Script.aculo.us framework and is one of the top 10 people in the world for this very topic.

Why would I charge $10 for a 150 page book? :)

Plus the DOM Monster tool, which will save our customers hours of work.

Many geeks undercharge because they don't know what creates value. I do know what creates value, and I do it - I write so anyone can understand, I make people laugh, I format the book in a beautiful and screen-friendly way, I make excellent diagrams, and I am incredibly picky about quality.

All those things, and the content is in-depth and detailed to a degree you cannot find anywhere else.

I don't undercharge. :) I could have easily charged more.

And what I'm really interested in, a few steps down the line, is teaching others to do this. I think that the stranglehold book publishers have is an illusory one. I think that there are tons of people right here on HN who could make good money and help people, rather than dreaming of writing a paper book where they get 10% of the discounted price at Amazon.
People think that military and homeland security networks would be better secured than almost any private network... at least as well as, say, a bank. They are't. They're less secure than many university networks.

If there's an opportunity for the administration to improve "cybersecurity" (and you'll know they've gotten serious when they stop using that term), it's in coming up with a coherent plan to manage and secure all the different, crappy, parochial IP networks run by DHS and DOD.

There's no other government-scale opportunity.

Could the government act as a tie-breaker to aid adoption of sane security standards across industry and DOD? There are no sane security standards to choose from. What's on the menu today is the product of decades of vendor manipulation and psuedo-academic handwaving.

Could the government fund better research into security? The government already plows hundreds of millions into this objective, and yet virtually all meaningful security research --- from protocols to cryptosystems to programming environments --- is cradle-to-grave private industry. The academic research that matters to security is nuts-and-bolts math and CS. Let's keep writing those grants. But industry looks at overtly "infosec" government research and laughs.

Could the government equip the armed services to sabotage the IT infrastructure of an adversary? Yes. The available evidence suggests that they already have. But there are, on the outside, low tens of thousands of people with the expertise and focus to make a difference here. The majority command compensation far in excess of what DOD will pay. Only a small minority are willing to participate in work like this, not just for ethical reasons but because it's a poor career move. My utterly unqualified guess here is that we have all the "cyber-warfighting" capability we're prepared to utilize, and that any attempt for the government to amplify that capability with money and programs is just pushing on a string.

The government needs to fix government IT. Of course, it won't; it'll delegate make-work projects to Lockheed and SAIC and talk about the problem in terms of dollars spent and czars minted. Which is fine. Regardless of what Obama says, this is not one of our major strategic problems today.
Ok - makes sense. Definitely a win for the middle man - they earn interest on OPM until the payout period.
Wouldn't Amazon just come out with a reader that worked on these new netbooks?

They already have an iPhone app... So I don't think it's too big of a leap to think they may extend to other markets as demand rises.
Apple should crack this space while it still has a lock on cover-flow. That alone could give them a key advantage.

Also, if you don't limit yourself to the primary use-case of the Kindle, you don't need the resources of the Amazon bookstore to back it up. A better form-factor for people to take information that they collate will have a lot of users. I can think of a variety of such uses for myself. I would be able to carry my entire library of sheet music with me for reference. I would be able to have an entire library of programming language manuals with me, whether or not I was online.

There are lots of kinds of books other than paperbacks. Kindle is oriented towards one specific use case.
Clickable: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/steve-jobs
I didn't mean to imply that C and C++ were from a bygone era. Even Fortran is still used today, (though of course C and C++ are still in very wide use).

I just meant to draw a parallel about those who learned to program after the era of mainframes and terminals, on operating systems like Unix, Windows, and Mac OS but before the Web really became a true platform and how they would feel about web programmers. I included Pascal because it was discussed in the article extensively.
Obama's address on the subject today allocated an entire graf to saying that monitoring private networks was not part of their strategy. He said it in a way that didn't leave a lot of room for interpretation. I think the privacy concerns about this effort are scaremongering.
A "getter" is just a synonym for something that's a noun.
I disagree entirely. Who would have thought that the blackberry or iPhone would ever be possible back in the late 70's... I can get traffic information overlayed on a route from anywhere to anywhere by foot, car, train, bus, I can instantly talk or type messages to anyone on the planet, I can look up any piece of the worlds collective knowledge instantly all while walking down the street with a cup of coffee in the other hand...

The present is pretty darn amazing to me.
"Did anyone predict that I could be talking with people around the globe who share my interests, instantaneously, without leaving my bedroom?"

They had tablet PC's and the equivalent of internet blogs and forums in "Ender's Game," so I assume other authors had similar ideas.
Ask YC: Anyone at WWDC this year?
Anyone going to be at WWDC this year? We should plan a small meet and/or get some beers afterwards.
Erm, I was talking about the web-end. I didn't realize there was a separate protocol for it but in any case, XMPP is heavy because it uses XML (which is also somewhat junk).
This is what I could find quickly: http://www.mdc.hr/tehnicki/en/07-velikani.htm
Money as Debt [video]
An Inconvenient Talk: Dave Hughes’s guide to the end of the fossil fuel age
The arc one is also less powerful, because it uses different function invocations for different types of events.

Actually, that would make it more powerful. You can use polymorphism.

It's also likely more people will understand the python+pygame version. More people do currently understand the python version... hardly anyone uses Arc.

Missing the point. Conciseness is not best measured by eyes familiar with the language/library. It's best evaluated from the POV of the uninitiated. I have to parse and run a model to understand your first version. Your second version is as easily understandable as the Arc example in one way, but it's got a lot more pollution and an enforced higher line count.

I am answering as someone not well versed in either Python or Arc. (Actually a little more familiar with Python.)
You _do_ have a point, but by your reasoning, the business model for most web apps is also flawed. Is e.g. 37signals' business model flawed? Should they not be able to charge for use?
In an effort to not make her validate her own rep :D, I'll chime in and say she has a lot of street cred on this topic, and her price is fair.

I'm not even deep in the Javascript/Ruby/Interface communities (where she's most known, and I'm a Linux sysadmin more into hypervisors), and I've heard of her, her work, and some of the things she's created. (http://twistori.com/ for example.)

When/if I'm ever ready to dive deep into a topic she writes about, I'd definitely buy/attend something she produced. Not only is she knowledgeable, but she's just a really solid, clear communicator, things that don't always go hand-in-hand :(

Thanks for the blog post, ahoyhere. Lots of lessons to apply for people in many industries.
Amount of outbound data? If you're sharing a video, the outgoing stream should be equal to the incoming stream (you're downloading from one place and uploading somewhere else simultaneously). On average, peers must upload exactly as much as they download.
Got any good resources for doing marketing in your spare time?
I'm starting on Monday as an intern/reporter at a well established international (print and web) science magazine and am wrestling with these questions right now. I'd love to try (or at least promote) some crazy ideas, if any body has any suggestions.

I think, for example, that magazines should also be (web) tv channels. Vaynerchuk's wine library seems like an interesting model, I wonder, can it work for science?

Also, are there any podcasts that are economically viable?

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated; DM me at Twitter if you want to get in touch (@mainsequence)
Most web apps are hosted on infrastructure that costs money to maintain, and can't be easily be duplicated. When you pay for that, you're not paying for a product, you're paying for a service. It's analogous the difference between buying a lawn mower (where you're paying the company for a one-time act of producing a lawn mower), or paying someone to come by every week and cut your grass.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of the software-as-a-service model, but there is a difference.
The eyes on the thing remind me of the robots from Disney's "The Black Hole." (Those were probably given big, highly visible eyes in order to be more appealing.)

http://zomgablog.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/robot_vincent.j...
>They're less secure than many university networks.

If you've worked in/with IT at any university with a decent sized CS/Engineering program (and maybe even those without one), this is because students will try most tricks out there to prod and test university systems. It's like a 24*7 pen test for free. I wonder how that compares to security audits at govt/military networks.
Theorists reveal path to true muonium
Much noise is made in general about NSA's advanced security capabilities. Does the NSA have any sort of mandate to help with govt. wide infosecurity? If they do (as they seem to[1]), why are they doing a crappy job? Stretched too thin? How does their own security compare with that of the govt. at large?

[1] from nsa.gov : The NSA/CSS core missions are to protect U.S. national security systems and to produce foreign signals intelligence information.