skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once had a experience with a colleague. She would continually come to me to parse XMLs and give it to her in some format like a csv which she could open it in Microsoft excel for some report generation purposes.

It started to happen pretty frequently and would consume a great deal of my time- It was reaching a stage where I had to stop my work to do her's. After a time she would just show up at my desk with her laptop, I had to write the code while she chatted with some one on her mobile. One afternoon I had, had enough and I asked her why she couldn't do it herself. She then mentioned she only knew C and C++. Then I asked why couldn't she parse the XMLs in C or C++? After a few questions back and forth, she understood I wasn't going to her homework after all.

She shed enough tears to convince our project manager, that I wasn't a good team player and I was the reason why the productivity in the project was falling down.

Thankfully one afternoon our clients had her removed from the project when I was on leave, and they made her write programs in a war room while the whole team was watching her screen on a projector.
That's not 250k in profit is it? How many employees do you have?
NYPD handing out fliers to tell iPhone owners to update to iOS7
Some responses say SteamOS is not open source, in the press release, it says "Users can alter or replace any part of the software or hardware they want." So I'm guessing if not open-source, the user would download a disk image, then go in and change the configuration, install media-center front-end software, etc, after the fact?

Regardless, I'm very interested, but just curious how easy and flexible it will be.
The pixar short http://www.pixar.com/short_films/Theatrical-Shorts/The-Blue-... is a good example...
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see also http://www.stereomood.com/mood/it's%20raining
...sell?

I kid, but the flavor is indeed a bit bubbly.
I assume he is implying that games coming to SteamOS should be able to run on any desktop linux that supports the Steam client.
Yes but it's virtually the same core software stack as on the desktop. So the linux distros get a huge leg up in that arena.
Can you sideload games that aren't on Steam?
Thanks! We're on Heroku, and we're cranking those babies up right now.
GMO risk

Taleb: "Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs. Top-down modifications to the system (through GMOs) are categorically and statistically different from bottom up ones (regular farming, progressive tinkering with crops, etc.) To borrow from Rupert Read, there is no comparison between the tinkering of selective breeding and the top-down engineering of taking a gene from a fish and putting it into a tomato. Saying that such a product is natural misses the statistical process by which things become “natural”.

What people miss is that the modification of crops impacts everyone and exports the error from the local to the global. I do not wish to pay —or have my descendants pay — for errors by executives of Monsanto. We should exert the precautionary principle there —our non-naive version — simply because we would discover errors after considerable damage."

http://blog.longnow.org/02013/07/08/the-artangel-longplayer-...
There's latency for pings and latency for sending moves to a multiplayer server, those are going to be low on the LAN. Then there's user experienced latency for sending high frame rate HD graphics to another machine every frame and the input back from that other machine. That is not going to be without hiccups, even on a LAN.

In reality, most consoles are hooked up by WiFi nowadays which will make things even worse. Android manufacturers have struggled with smooth display mirroring over WiFi for a long time and the only time I've seen it work good enough for gaming is WiFi Direct connections via Miracast or wired connections via MHL.
if you have already moved to Mac, why bother?

Because there is no Surface Pro 2 equivalent that will run OSX. And by "run OSX" I mean "made by Apple" because there's no other way to run it.

And I doubt very much that the Pro 2 can do Linux well - can any tablets? I'd be interested to know the state of Linux touch interfaces/drivers.
Yikes - thanks Paul! Adding more dynos now...
You're actually agreeing with the parent, who stated the problem as 'two different tablets, with the same name, which can not run each others' software'.
> knife-solo starts from the host.

Huh? You run `knife solo cook example.com` on your local machine. It then sshs in and runs what it needs to. (Granted, it runs everything via chef-solo, but the user experience is running a command locally.)
This effectively gives traditional desktop OEMs a relatively cheap and easy entry into the living room, and a new category of product to sell effectively and compete against Xbox, PS4, and the mobile OSs who will be trying to gain entry into the living room soon.
Tonnes of AAA titles are 'available' on FreeBSD - the PS3. Publishers won't be bringing their games to Linux, they'll be bringing them to SteamOS.
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This is basically a similar approach Android took for phones. It leverages off Linux while replacing user facing pieces to give the user a simplified and consistent environment that they expect.

However as with Android, that isn't enough to get it to take off. Android had huge traction problems to start with until they managed to get the big device makers to train users and market the devices. SteamOS is going to have the same rough and long launch period, but the ultimate payoff is very big as the tech is all there and it's just a matter of getting the big game publishers to join up.

As with mobiles and Google, if anybody can succeed in the gaming industry, it's Steam. So I definitely wouldn't write this one off, I think it will take off in a few years time if they can get the big players - both software and hardware - to join up.
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You could sign up to the iTunes and Amazon affiliate programs and then link to where users can purchase the songs. The nice thing with Amazon is once users click through to Amazon from your site they are cookied and you will get a commission from whatever they buy. They could come in on a 0.99 download but they end up buying some underwear and a book and you get a cut of it.
Doubt it - most of the benefits - like sane drivers, optimizations and so on will trickle down.

And I think steam box will be set of requirements.
Yes, but that's an expensive option compared to ARM-based devices. I mean, you can get a pretty good Android-based ARM device with a spiffy remote for like $80. You'll be spending 5X that much for a decent X86+Windows solution.

That's why WinRT opens up a new market for them. A WinRT device for light gaming, photos, video-chat, etc. for your TV would be nifty.
Fairfax offers $4.7B deal to buy BlackBerry
Assuming the owner of the prior art is open to this, which may or may not be true.
If sexist means it differentiates between the sexes, then of course. I really don't find this disparaging of women. But since we're both men (I think), it probably would be easier to get a women opinion.
The guy sleeping inside a garbage bag... why?!!
Are you assuming that every successful/wealthy businessperson retains and consults with counsel before taking action? That's quite an assumption and one that, in my personal experience at least, is not warranted.

You can read the SEC's rules on general solicitation. They're fairly clear, and they pertain to a company's ability to solicit investment publicly. As such, even if what Tim is doing as an investor in the company (and not a representative of the company itself) is permissible, I don't see how it relates to the new rules, which makes the mention of them in his post all the more odd.
Fairfax strikes $4.7-billion deal to buy BlackBerry
Your first two issues are addressed in Windows 8.1
Buying/selling? Renting? How long did it take to get into it, and what did you do previously if different?
Valve cannot magically produce a homogeneous experience across all Linux distributions. They need some degree of consistency in the environment in order for users to have a reasonable experience. It isn't their job to prop up every two-bit distribution.
it would have to be one where the NSA armed goons can't walk into a room full of servers and tell the admin: "Do what we tell you or else."

Essentially, we're going back to computers in the house doing everything, since the network can't be trusted, and encryption can't be trusted.
3840x2160 is Ultra HD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution#Monitors
It's fine when the functionality actually requires JavaScript. The trouble being discussed is when displaying plaintext requires JavaScript for no particularly good reason.
In the stock market, probability theory is (mis)used to model the typical random behavior of the market, as Nassim Taleb as seen many times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17866646

frequentist probability seems like an okay tool for the stock market, but these who knows if the motion of stocks are correctly separated into "drift" and "noise" by Ito processes or whatever model they choose

Rare events - "risk" - can and will occur if we leave a process running sufficiently long, and sooner than we predict. This is Taleb's "Black Swan".

Game-theoretic strategies seem better here, playing stocks off each other accounting for the "black swan" as much as we can.
Passive income? Online?

details ...?
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It's relatively significant for a nitpick, "The 128 GB version has approximately 85 GB free hard disk space." per http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-gb/support/storage-files...

That's probably a combination of OS and the doublespeak/marketing definition of gigabyte though.
Agreed. I would imagine they will continue trying to support major linux distros such as Ubuntu, but it's not plausible for them to make sure it work on other Linux distro. Interested 3rd parties though will probably try to keep most things ported to other Linux distros though.
I was interviewed at the launch of the 5S, the interviewer noted that Samsung runs commercials making fun of people waiting in line for the latest Apple whatever. I noted that Samsung WISHED they had people waiting in line for their products.
That's not exactly true. I'm the founder of Wefunder, so I know a fair bit about this.

The 15 day waiting period for Form D is a proposed rule that has never been voted on. The law of the land - right now - does not require it. That's why we have 25 or so companies on Wefunder fundraising today.

I wrote a blog article explaining this all in excruciating detail at: https://wefunder.com/post/37-what-founders-need-to-know-abou...
You do realise there is a massively expanding market for tablets don't you? That tablet PC's are actively cannibalising the laptop market?
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I don't see any reason why they would not. In fact, since they make money off the number of games sold, better graphics on all distros == more players == more $$.

Unless they want to advertise the "only Linux which runs games best!!!". But that seems unlikely
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Thanks for your insightful comment. It is as you described, dependent on situation. For me, I will perform this last project as best I can and leave for new challenges, its only about 3 months left. My plan is to bring up these issues in a diplomatic way on next retrospective, let them know money and time is wasted and ways it can be improved, for example our "standup meetings" every morning inspired by scrum are all more than 30-minutes long, a suggestion would be to just impose the 5-minute rule for a start. I dont know, Im up in the project right now, Ill think more when it settles down towards the end.
BlackBerry Enters into Letter of Intent with Consortium led by Fairfax Financial
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I would say that a lot of people are there already. A lot of developers are switching to linux as desktop os. Except the games everything in the toolchain works better there and windows tools work fine.

And the IT guys have long been the core of the PC gaming scene.

So ... it was not a chicken and egg problem but a demand that needed answering.
Even if this never gets majority traction compared to consoles, I suspect it will be worth it for Valve. Ever since Microsoft tried to cut them off with the Windows Store, Valve has been working to have an independent platform. Having alternative platforms gives Valve room to maneuver.
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I've always been a little skeptical of the value of commercial support with proprietary development tools relative to community support with established, popular open source development tools. Is the average time between discovering a problem and identifying a good solution shorter? It would be hard to design a good study for this, but every programmer I've talked to with professional experience in both types of environment has told me that paid support was not an advantage for them.
You can run Steam on Ubuntu today, if that's what it comes down to. This is for manufacturers.
Crank science time!

What I think he is doing, he is basically taking his philosophical musings, finds concepts from very high level mathematics that seem corresponding, buries it all under a mountain of formalism introduced for no particular reason and then... does absolutely nothing with it. He will plug in some numbers or show some trivial (except for the mountain of formalism) inequality as a supposed mathematical "proof" of his revelations. I don't think he himself understands the mathematics he attempts to write about.

If you would like, for a change, to look at a "probability in the real world" book that would make any actual sense, and by someone who has used probability theory successfully in practice, have a look at "The Art of Probability" by Richard Hamming, the inventor of coding theory. He treats things like robustness of models to violation of assumptions that are not often found in other books, and he uses only calculus, although as opposed to Mr Taleb he actually is able to do derivations.
On-screen keyboard for "not on a table" scenarios. Compromise? Yes. But acceptable compromise? Probably; how many people do "productive" input-oriented work that isn't on a table?
Not repeatable in that specific case, but have you thought about doing the same thing for other high-profile figures (either in finance or elsewhere)? You might be able to leverage your experience and success to get them to agree to a similar sort of thing...
Derek, you're missing out on an extra ~7%!

Sign up for Amazon's affiliate program and use your own affiliate links on your links to amazon.

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Also, as commented below - I posted the first of these recurring income threads almost two years ago - I'm now compiling some stats, data and insights [1] for myself so that I can learn how to boost my numbers closer to yours :)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6432851
I think this represents the majority of HN user's attempts at monetization.
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I don't like that Valve says that SteamOS is "freely licensable". They must know by now that the word "free" often means "libre" in the GNU/Linux community, but they've made no indication of what the license terms will actually be.
Since Friday, my 5s has prompted me for a password with this message more times than TouchID has worked succesfully.
There are a number of significant features here. Decent modules for a 0.1 version
It's not a bubble, it's vertical integration! :)
I've never had good luck with streaming a game, even on a local, wired connection. There's just way too much input lag.
I just completed a project at an organization-owned datacenter where we wasted 4 months on needless BS to deploy about 12 servers.

My team's time is easily worth $500-600/hr, so we easily wasted $300k. So the fact that my internal datacenter provider can give me a VM that costs 20% of what EC2 charges or disk that is more performant at a similar cost is interesting trivia, but isn't saving money.
Thanks for the informative post. Are you aware of any non-proprietary tools for doing procedural generation of data-centers?

I'm imagining a generate-and-test cycle given estimates for the various component prices.
Customer service is absolutely part of the commitment. It's a huge part of why we've had such phenomenal growth and have so many fantastic clients. We are absolutely intent on delivering that for years to come and wouldn't consider anything that would degrade our service. More on that in my response above.
Social measures (Swedish social safety nets) which help a the Free market and capitalists (profit by making games); Ayn Rand lovers would probably implode from the cognitive dissonance.

I read Atlas Shrugged (painfully) and kept being bothered by the simplistic ideals put forth. Your argument seems to me to be the perfect counter-example to her deluded ideals.

Thanks!
yes, incremental innovation is still innovation.

The fetishization of "big bang innovation" is really bizzare. Especially considering most of HN's startups are not really big bang innovation.
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I'd love to learn more. But I still assert that patents are pretty fundamental to the current working of the health industry, even if not fundamental to health itself (Which I think we both agree, patents are not).
Holy smokes. That is a fairly complete set of modules / boards.
Website looks great. I'm sure the crowdfunding niche will explode even more in the next couple of years.

That said, does anyone else think this will just feed into existing/new bubble?

Title III in particularly will bring in a flood of dumb money. What a beacon for #startupbros everywhere.
I've been asking for years why someone just doesn't make a XBMC-like os for gaming on commodity PC hardware. Glad to see it finally happening. I'm very excited for this. My son who is 11 will be too
Not a huge mistake at all but shouldn't the email address box say "No card details required" instead of "require" http://bryan.cx/7OXv/K6kIrX0S
Ouch, Argentina...

An argentinian here, currently living in Spain and polyglot of 5 languages. Well, first, it will be complicated because argentinians speaks with a lot of slang, but in front of you they will not.

The best way is by try/error. I started to speak italian in 15 days doing this, knowing that my mother language is a romance one, like Spanish, learning a new one was piece of cake, but coming from an american, things can be a little different, specially when pronouncing the vocals and some other letters but with the time and able to hear, I beat you can even speak some of the slang.

I've meet many americans in Buenos Aires and so far I've remember, most of them learnt a good spanish base with slang. Funny, but they loved.

If you go to Spain, you will find the spanish language isn't so singed as the argentinian, also the spaniards doesn't have so much slang so the language is plain boring.
BlackBerry to be acquired by a group led by Fairfax Financial
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Seems like Gmail, Drive, and parts of AppEngine are having a very bad day.

I notice that emails are late to arrive and Apps on AppEngine having trouble to access the BlobStore (which explains why drive also has issues)
Blackberry sold
BlackBerry enters into letter of intent with consortium led by Fairfax Financial. Thoughts?
Or email lists!
One would hope that, in the future, a $100 investment doesn't cost the startup $25. ;)
Because a small fraction of people buy it, and a smaller fraction of purchasers turn it on.

I've bought (and given away) four iPads with Verizon LTE. Exactly 0 people activated it.

This is old data, but in line with newer data I've seen WRT iPad activation rates: http://tabletquest.com/2011/02/disappointing-apple-ipad-3g-a...
I'm making $200/mo on average from one iPhone app. It took me a month to build it a year ago and sales have remained stable, except for one $800 month when I got featured in a popular newsletter. I'm currently polishing up an iPad version and will experiment with increasing the price when it goes Universal.
Correct - and the 20% carry is on any profit, not on the investment itself.
I can confirm our service is having issues right now with delayed inbound emails. We are Google Apps for Business users, non edu/gov. Not all users are effected just specific domains within the account.
Steam seems to install Linux games in such a way that it'll run on any Linux distro. I know Steam works on Arch-based systems, openSUSE, Ubuntu-based systems, and likely more...

Also, from the sound of the announcement, Valve plans on keeping the OS bits open, so I see no reason they'd break compatibility with other Linux versions (and it wouldn't be in their interest since Linux is becoming more and more significant).
"The Art of Probability" by Richard Hamming, the inventor of coding theory

The same guy who brought us The Art of Doing Science and Engineering?

Welp, time to order another book.
That would turn their most vocal supporters into enemies, destroy their plans to make Linux a viable gamming plataform (and Valve needs Linux to be viable, for keeping MS from destrying them), assure that nobody ever uses their new SteamOS (people that don't care are already doing similar stuff with Windows), and alienate everybody that is selling specialized Steam hardware.

Unless they get a MS-like world domination, the chances of that happening are near enough 0 that you'd better care about other problems.
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"EXACT same thing as you're saying"

You've got to be careful when you say things like that, because they're trivial to refute.

The whole point of a backdoor is to be obfuscated and hard to find. So it would be very likely that you would not find one even if one were present. Your example is simply a Microsoft not bothering to do something that's perfectly researchable.

We don't have any _proof_ that Dual EC DRBG is defeatable to the NSA. By your logic we should still be using it happily until we have that proof and until then any caution is simply "FUD".

So if that's "FUD", then I've got news for you: the security world is very sensibly built upon FUD.
Causation vs correlation
Likely, but do you have a source for that?
Fairfax group offering US$4.7 billion for BlackBerry
not just hardware, it might also lead to game developers forcing people to use steam to get/play their games which otherwise would have been free.
Fairfax, buying Blackberry for 4.7 billion.
Thanks for your encouragement, I put up an email form if you're interested in reading more about this: http://theoreticalblog.launchrock.com
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Ha, the first thing I searched for on this thread was "raspberry". I just got mine last week. However, there's no way in the world that thing will be able to run modern games.
Just looked up a real "sed" example in linux vs linux.

DigitalOcean ships VM that don't have an admin group. So when I tried DO, I added:

grep -q 'admin' /etc/group || groupadd admin

Or, for changing the sshd port:

sed -i -r 's/^#?Port [0-9]*/Port '"$PORT"'/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Works great on all platforms... regardless of the default sshd_config.