skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OneBigScreen.com - watch videos with friends, family & fiance ;)
OneBigScreen.com - a video lounge for people to watch videos with friends and family. It's specially made for people who are in long-distance relationships ;) <LOL>.

Folks at HackerHome started to hack on 5th October (Saturday morning) 10 AM. Roberto, Ram S and Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu were in one team and wanted to solve a problem that Roberto was facing.

Roberto was finding his long-distance relationship to be really hard. For him, gone were those days where we watched movies and TV shows together. Ram is also in a similar kind of situation. His friends & family are in the other side of the globe.

We wanted to solve this small problem. That's how everything started off initially.

Later when we were thinking about the possibilities of such a platform, we soon realized we are working on a very good problem. With a little sleep we survived Saturday night. Vic at HackerHome was a great host. There was a constantly supply of Homemade beer, Homemade marshmallow, Barbecue, Bollywood music, HackerHome's Biryani & fun.

The entire Sunday was busy with coding.

It was around the mid-night of Sunday, we made the service live to public for consumption. From Idea to beta live under 40 hrs.

Try it out. It's in Beta and it's live.
onebigscreen.com - the video lounge for your friends, family and fiancé ;)
This is true. The reactor work is very low priority, and the LLNL's reactor project "LIFE" has more fairy dust than I prefer. However, fusion and other NIF experiments are important.
I think it's great that Fox employs tiny journalists. They're just as intelligent and capable as other newspeople.
Yes, but the present article says that he has not done that for the present book (see the experiment on Princeton students).

I have a feeling that he had some good ideas that he put forth in his first few books; now he's just trying to use his name to sell more books. Which is not something that he denies. So fucking smart...Imagine that there was no law for punishing stealing. You catch a thief, and he admits immediately that he was stealing. Then what do you do?
Sort of Spotify for written content.

Wouldn't this end up leaving even more money on the table? Spotify pays artists based on their share of total plays.

Say two sites (X and Y) join up to offer a $10/month pass for unlimited access to both sites, with the say pay scheme as Spotify. Site X has 3 times as many articles/videos as Site Y. If every user reads/watches 100% of Site Y's content, Site X may still receive an equal or larger share of the payouts even though users consumed a much lower percentage of it.
I've used this, very useful!
Functional Fusion Reacters! Strategic Functional Warheads! Functional Containment Disasters[1]!

This is fun.

[1] This is tongue in cheek.
can anyone say, gorilla arm?
Drugs are a canary in the coal mine. If you lack the ability to share drugs over a medium without surveillance, then you know that you lack the ability to share information over a medium without surveillance. If you can't say "mail me three marijuanas please" without somebody listening in, then you can't say anything without somebody listening in.

There is no such thing as a system that provides privacy only for legal activities. Therefore if you want to fight for the freedom and ability to share information without surveillance, then you must design systems that can, incidentally or otherwise, be used to share drugs (and you must fight attempts to surveil existing systems.)
That's one thing I like about Danish money; the 500 kr note (~$90) and 200 kr note (~$35) are both common and regularly used. Makes it much more convenient to use cash for things like groceries or restaurants without having to carry around a thick wallet full of wads of $20s. Sure, many people use cards too, but you don't have to if you prefer cash.
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as with other people, there is a tendency to confuse their journalists and their talk show hosts. Separating the two in your head allows you to watch the appropriate shows on each channel without screaming at the set, or dismissing what is being said from misconception.
Ageism is never good. However, it perhaps helps to explain his or her mentality. Conflating law with ethics is probably more likely in younger people given the dynamics of authority, or so it seems to me.

There's obviously no shortage of people of all ages who are prone to equating [an authority that commands obedience] with [an authority of subjective moral validity]. As any struggle for freedom and liberation movement throughout history will attest, the dynamics of law vs. ethics are often in deep conflict. Time after time, subservient people who "just follow orders" obey cruelty. Heroes resist and are sacrificed. I digress.

In the context of the drug war and voluntary interactions among consenting people, [illegal] markets are the logical way to maintain liberation and resistance to [legal] tyranny.
I've always wondered what incentive counterfeiters even have for trying to copy these new bills. I have several $100 bills from around 20 years ago that I keep in a safe as an emergency reserve and they're still legal tender as far as I know. Why wouldn't counterfeiters just continue to counterfeit the older bills?
perhaps someone has posted it, but I don't see it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subst

Gotta really stupid-long base path? alias it.
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Thanks! I'm not sure if the law would cover in-app purchases by themselves. However, you should be able to sell your used app which could probably include all the in-app purchases.

I don't know if the law requires a mechanism for transfer as much as it requires the software maker not to prevent transfers. So the process could be manual (via email), as long as a process exists. But a mechanism in the software or marketplace would make everyone's lives easier.
You should post both scripts unaltered to stack overflow for the LULZ.
Another fun one: the Line Number variable in Visual Studio's debugger is 16-bit. In huge generated files, you can't step through code beyond line 65535.
It was fun developing the MVP for https://lawyermatch.me on top of Meteor. Would I recommend meteor in its current form (v0.6.5 or so) for a large production website? No, but neither do the core meteor devs. Would I use it again for a quick prototype? Absolutely, especially if you are already planning to use mongo, node, handlebars, or the other core meteor technologies.

I saw one of the core devs speak in Chicago a week or two ago, and the main feeling I came away with was that the Meteor team has a well planned roadmap of features, solid funding, and a plan for generating revenue, all of which will hopefully mean Meteor isn't going anywhere.

Edit - I think this article hits on some of Meteor's strengths re: ease of development, but some of the features Meteor uses to accomplish this turn into gotchas later. For example, the autopublish and insecure packages are awesome for a 5 minute demo but for anything further they should be removed. Without them, devs are back to thinking about queries and what clients receive what data, permissions, etc. These are very important things obviously but it might be a little misleading for someone using Meteor for the first time.
If you get around replacing chrome OS with linux and reflashing the firmware with uboot, you'll lose GPU acceleration (3D and 2D). ARM is pretty shitty about releasing specs for their GPUs, so the Chromebook GPU (Mali T604) remains unused.
Let's A/B Test that !
Fiat currencies (which bitcoin is in one sense) are largely rooted in psychology. Recall this story: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake...
So to be clear, do you oppose this because of what it facilitates, or do you oppose it because of what the author indents it to facilitate?

If the author gave it all of the same properties and abilities, claimed that he intended it to share knitting patterns, named it "Yarn Road", and never mentioned a single thing about drugs, would it bother you?
As other posters have said it's UNC, however if you're interested in other weirdness around files in Windows, checkout NTFS streams.
I spotted that during my analysis of the texts. It's a hell of a thing to say, really.

Direct link, with datestamp: https://www.rossulbricht.org/srforum/messages/20130920-1909-...
The prototype hardware running Glass is not ideal for AR but it appears to be technically possible and obviously very useful.

http://www.slashgear.com/google-glass-augmented-reality-gets...

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-02/video-nano-...

Below would be the goal. The story is slightly cynical but the AR games and even pictures on the walls are very cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJKwHAvR4uI
The application is asking for a Academic and Career plan upto 4000 words? How important is to meet this word limit?
The 'shortcut' thing came from Win95, which ran on the VFAT filesystem.
And it creates several entirely new issues. Bitcoin for physical goods is usually safe as you can always claim it is a barter, but Bitcoin for online transactions if you are based in the US could turn in to a Mt. Gox like issues.

If you are small, your risk can be small. But if you are looking to be the next big thing or raise capital this would be a "risk" not a "solution" in most VCs eyes.
He admits it rather openly that its not a rigorous method. So the question really is: is it even slightly rigorous? To which I would say, yes, its ok.
If I have to start a new project, the initial code and MVP would be rails, just to show off, but since I've been dealing with Erlang, I must say that baby is too sexy to say no. It would be between Earlang or either Go...
This is very interesting.

The language he's using suggests he suffered at least at some point from psychosis in a certain degree, most certainly caused by the level of stress he was experiencing on a daily basis and perhaps even by the potential 'substances' he may have been sampling (pure speculation though).

Unfortunately we'll most likely never know if once he starts levelling to a normal state, he starts regretting those planned hits, regardless of whether they actually happened or not. There was some speculation that the person(s) he contracted were actually FBI.
I'll tell you what - people are starting to get confused because they're talking about back-end client and front-end server. The browser is getting to be a thicker and thicker client, and more and more decoupled from a server (or servers) that expose(s) a completely application-agnostic API to some object store (or stores.) People hit webpages that run applications on the client that allow it to interface with those object stores in some specific manner through APIs.

We might need a change in terminology.
That path looks like it's growing exponentially.
This is particularly true outside the US. In much of Asia, banks (and anyone else who might accept dollars) strongly prefer crisp, new US bills, and heavily scrutinize or reject old bills.
I don't think you're thinking this through. Using "he" as the neuter is not assuming the subject is masculine. It's reusing "he" for another purpose. It's one word with two meanings. It's fine if you don't want to use it, but it's not inappropriate or sexist when others do.
I've thought that for years. But not only has nobody done it, I've never seen any of the publishers even try. I thought it would have happened by now.

I'm wondering why not. Spotify did it for music. Netflix does it for some movies/TV. Why are periodicals not?

Heck, if airlines can band together in FF mile "alliances", why can't newspapers do the same? It would be a good way to start -- subscribe to NYT and get Washington Post + 20 other city newspapers.
I don't know - but I suspect some reasonably equitable scheme could be figured.
I'd assume the video recording is more battery-intensive than the processing. Also, if you offload the processing to the smartphone, then it'll be necessary for Glass to be connected to your phone, which means wifi and/or bluetooth, which only drains the battery more.
I'm not offended at all.

However, I do think that posting this is most unexcellent. You're expecting the community to give to you (by visiting your website and giving you attention), and are giving nothing in return.

A better dynamic would be to give, expecting nothing in return, for example by writing and submitting a blog post about some things you have learned about PR while building your startup. If what you offer is of high quality, people will have no problem giving back to you (for example by trying out your service if they need it).

Do you think HN would be better or worse if everyone posted 3 liners to promote their startup?
The development of fission technology seems like a fine case to consider. I doubt we are more paranoid and militaristic now than we were during the height of the cold war. Maybe we are, but I really don't see it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Build_You
Very cool! The Reddit results don't seem accurate after throwing in one of my sites that have been posted on Reddit a few times. The rest was interesting and enlightening. Thanks!
If this is the display tech I saw over a year ago at OSCON, they were visually fine. When I pushed the MS rep on the booth for info about pricing and it was in the 5 digit range I politely moved on without getting more info. They looked good very close at finger touch range, but don't know the pixel density.
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Supposedly he lived in Bondi (Australia) for a while when he was building it[1].

I'm pretty sure he wasn't relying on his physical location to protect him.

[1] http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/ross-william-ulbri...
Given the right amount of cash, yes. If I'd need to go undercover, my bets would be either Yugoslavia or the communist states in South America. Julian Assange actually managed to outbid the USA in the open (but I'm not sure if one can call his current situation a win)
I'm not sure that this would be a problem though because the scenario would be for an American citizen that is forming a company in the EU. So the US bitcoin laws should be bypassed and you'd just be dealing with EU laws regarding Bitcoin, since your company is based in the EU.
Your wording implies you're already aware of this, but I'll say it anyways:

Survivor Bias.

The criminals that do all of the obvious smart things are much less likely to get arrested. The ones that do get arrested, are disproportionately the ones that did something not-smart. The the larger the quantity and (not-)quality of their mis-steps, the more likely they are to be the one you read about for being arrested.

Living in SF seems like a fairly reasonable mistake--it's simple confidence that you won't be caught.
http://www.sharedcount.com/ has a couple less services, but much snappier results.
Sloppy Silicon Valley techies find their style
I've been learning programming for about a year and Meteor was the first Javascript framework that I used. I found it remarkable how quickly and easily I was able to get something up and running, given that I had relatively little experience with Javascript (I read most but not all of Eloquent Javascript).

I used it to make an online multiplayer Go board where you can see your opponent moving the pieces, for the purpose of teaching games: https://github.com/muraiki/senseinogoban Being able to make something like this as a beginning programmer was really exciting! Since I'm pretty new to programming I don't know if the code is that great but it might give some ideas to people who are interested in using Meteor in a graphical way (as opposed to something like a To Do list).
This is wonderful news, go NIF !
Do they plan on letting anyone know what the benefits of signing up are, or what they do with our email address?
Except that it will if anyone actually tried to do this.
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What about the language he's using suggests that he suffered from psychosis?
I think that all depends on how many bitcoins. Lawyers aren't stupid. If he offered a multiple of their standard fee, paid in bitcoins at the current exchange, I doubt he would have any difficulties. (There are already plenty of successful lawyers out there defending wealthy clients on drug trafficking charges, and they obviously have a pretty good idea where their fees are ultimately coming from.)
Nah - use whatever tools you enjoy. This assignment doesn't look particularly numerically-demanding, and it looks like Ruby handles it fine.
I used to do a lot of scientific programming in ruby. I got around the slowness of the interpreter by generating C code on the fly. You don't have to give up Ruby as the DSL and utility language. It's the best of both worlds, if you can invest the time to set up the code generating machinery.

As I posted on the coderwall discussion: If you are working with continuous systems (ODEs) or hybrid systems (ODEs plus discrete state transitions and dynamic dataflow networks), then you might be interested in RedShift. For example, here's a simulation of a simple thermostat controller: https://github.com/vjoel/redshift/blob/master/examples/therm.... (I am the author of RedShift. You can find my RubyConf 2009 presentation on the confreaks site.)
They have a bunch of people in the background using them apparently, not just the hosts. Do those people actually do work, or are they just 'extras'? Are they actually even there, or is looped footage of them bluescreened in?

Seems like an awful job if they are actually real, having to sit at a desk with a tv camera pointed at your back the entire time...
What... the... I thought the non-essential government services were shut down right now.
I defy anyone to notice the difference.

Perhaps the intention was noble, but the enforcement is, by my experience, piss-poor.

If anything, I think telemarketers use the DNC list as source of numbers to call; maybe having the site down is for the better.
Lots of things beat coal on a price/kW basis once you account for the massive externalized costs of coal: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/tallying-coals-hid....

Coal isn't cheap, it just has the desirable property that more than half its costs can be easily externalized rather than being paid by the people who use the power.
He's not justifying Franklin's slaveholding, he's justifying Franklin as a person. It's silly to discount everything great Franklin did because he held a position on slavery that was no worse than the prevalent opinion of the time.

Most of the "bad" people in history (e.g. Hitler, Pol Pot) acted worse than the standards of their time. Nobody's justifying them or their actions with this logic.
Miscellaneous comments:

1. Like 'iamthephpguy', I found the site design a bit out of keeping with what I imagined the positioning to be (I could be imagining wrongly!). The graphic design gives a sort of school-age learning vibe, but the copy gives more of an adult-professional vibe. What's the target audience?

2. I like the basic pitch, though. If the price is actually possible to sustain while keeping up quality, $15 for 45 minutes of a professional's time is quite attractive.

3. The site gives the feeling of a general-purpose tutoring market. I'm not sure this is the best way to go, versus picking a more targeted niche, like language tutoring. I could be wrong, but I think the pitch you have here, experienced South American teachers tutoring you for $15/session, is stronger than an open-ended tutoring-on-any-subject pitch. Especially because general platform sites can have a tendency to end up feeling like a ghost town, if only some categories have real activity.
If we have fusion in 30 years instead of 60 years, we have colonization of the solar system happening in our lifetimes. We'd have the economic rationale for removing all military engagement in the middle east. We have 30*380 billion on petro cost savings here in the U.S: http://www.fuelfreedom.org/the-real-foreign-oil-problem/oil-... God knows how much CO2 we remove from the atmosphere. 100 billion sounds cheap to me.
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The FBI is not shut down right now.
This is not actually true. I just tried it.
I giggled at this, but a serious question for those in the know: is computer simulation a significant factor in the development of fusion experiments, and can it be distributed (a la SETI@Home, Folding@Home, et al)?
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On the other hand, a point could be made that it's totalitarian regimes where governments are afraid of their citizens (those in fear of losing their powers, especially illegitimately obtained, start suppressing freedoms and surveilling everyone).
Very neat idea. Maybe you can convince some of the registrars to make this a choice instead of the standard domain parking pages.
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What do you mean "can't use 6"? Perl 6 is using 6...
"but it is not the integrity of a scholar of psychology like Christopher Chabris."

Separate issue and point is that a sure way to make a name for yourself (I mean he may be well know in his circles or your circles but I've never ever heard of him) is to take on someone of much greater fame.

For example, let me give you the path here:

I participate in HN

"tokenadult" is well respected on HN.

I respect what "tokenadult" says. So do others his comment is at the top.

tokenadult called Chris Chabris "a scholar of psychology"

I decided to do some more checking on Chris Chabris and found out he graduated from and also did some teaching at Harvard.

I wouldn't know any of this if Chris hadn't written the critique of Malcolm Gladwell. Which caught my eye because it was about Gladwell

Disclosure: I've dealt with Malcolm Gladwell in business. [1]

[1] Points to anyone who can see if this is really a disclosure or actually presented for another purpose.
Which one is the journalist? Baier? Wallace? haha
Sounds like a lot like the old Readability (except with a hard paywall instead of donation model). I liked Readability idea in concept, but it didn't exactly take off.
That's very nice, congratulations. Isn't there a way to work around the risk of chargebacks? Requiring an "insurance" deposit and passing charges on to your customers, or holding payment for some amount of time?
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Hey Minimax! Er... yes. In fact not only Crunchbase but Angel.co too manage almost the same data. Our purpose is to be more visually appealing and help startups be discoverable, like in StumbleUpon. Anyway, this MVP is helping us to confirm if users find our approach nicer than CB and Angel List. Thanks for your opinion!
Obligatory Nikola Tesla pitching VCs video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zngK13FMgXM&noredirect=1
OPSEC, it's hard.
I didn't build this by the way. I just came across it.
Ask HN: Anyone want to buy subsonicsoftware.com? $1000 off for HN'ers
Hi,

I've decided to sell the domain I would have used if I had pursued contracting the development of mobile apps. I don't believe I'll do this so I want to sell the domain.

It's registered for 10 years on Gandi with free SSL. & I have a nice logo that I'll throw in with it if you like.

I'm selling it on Namebox.io, you can search for it there, I have it listed for $5000, but I'll give HN readers $1000 off if you mention you came from this post.

The discount is a limited time offer- say a month or so, so act now!

Thanks

-c
It comes down to energy. Fusion would dramatically decrease energy costs, which would in turn drive costs of almost everything else down and allow us to do things that had been only a dream before such as fusion propulsion. So run your cost/benefit analysis again with that in mind.

This is even before we get into ecology - most modern energy sources are highly pollutant (oil/coal). How much better off will planetary ecology will be if fusion comes online 10 years earlier?