skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, I bought Dark Souls not knowing it required a Microsoft game profile to save your game at all -- no local saves whatever. I wrote a (really bitchy) email to Steam and was promptly offered some sort of "special circumstance" refund.

Incidentally I didn't even follow through with it, though I never played the game even once...
The OS is based on Debian, according to [1] there is a GNOME desktop that you can use.

[1] http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1...
i think it's ridiculous that in order to get a prescription for a simple low-risk medication, i have to call my doctor, make an appointment, wait 45 minutes past when my appointment was supposed to be, and have a physical meeting with the doctor that consists of nothing but talking and takes all of 5 minutes. oh, and i have to pay way too much for it too. i should be able to do this over the phone or internet, and for less money.
I guess Hollywood started it.
http://repo.steampowered.com/download/SteamOSInstaller.zip is the CDN link
GAME CHANGING 2013 APP
Most disruptive, groundbreaking, intuitive, well-designed, innovative, and useful apps ever created.

http://drakeshake.com/
I generally trust the long-term stability/accessibility of libraries and archives more than I do something like Flickr. Even if it's not shut down, Flickr could well limit API access or do any number of other things.

IMO the U.S. Library of Congress does it right. They do actually have a Flickr page, for people who prefer that interface: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/

But there is also the canonical digital archive at: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
Speaking of the dubious benefits of government regulations, Mike Cadwell just had to shut down his casascius coins business after FinCEN sent him a cease and desist letter accusing him of unlicensed money transmission. Note that Mike never accepted U.S. dollars for his casascius coins, so the only premium he got for his coins was in exchange for his coin's design and metals. So people were sending hims Bitcoins and in return they got Bitcoins plus a pretty gold/silver/bronze coin, clearly marketed as non-legal tender.

How anyone could consider this money transmission is beyond me. It's sickening hyper-regulation. And even more sickening is that the FinCEN rep stood in front of congress not even a month ago and assured congress how careful FinCEN was to not stifle innovation with overregulation. Admittedly, casascius coins aren't high technology (although they're very attractive), but the fact that FinCEN was so quick to crack down here does not inspire confidence at all.
Maybe but I had a complete overview of what they sold within a couple of seconds...
We're bootstrapped and haven't taken any funding.

Thank you for the kind words. I'll share them with the team.
They people to use the CDN link and not steamstatic: http://repo.steampowered.com/download/SteamOSInstaller.zip
What logic is not
I confess to being facetious with my comment which is probably not cool because though I believe this whole preoccupation with carbon emissions to be a scam, the idea of wasting energy bothers me on a natural level, so that long before global warming I washed my hands with cold water.
We've just resulted to stacking enough foam pads on ours until I get a nice enough place to live to buy a decent bed setup. Apartment life is nice and cheap, but the nice expensive stuff is hard to justify. I bought a 50" plasma and a new laptop this month; the first new computer purchase since 2007, first new TV purchase since 2009 or so (shitty 32" lcd).
If my ceilings were taller, I would consider that.
This is fantastic, but I do have one small quibble.

> These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books
> digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images into
> the Public Domain.

The images were already in the public domain. Merely scanning a public-domain image is not a sufficiently transformative process to create a new work protected by copyright.

However, Microsoft was under no obligation to share the scanned images publicly, and it was generous of them to do so. But this is different to dedicating a work protected by copyright to tbe public domain, e.g. using the CC0 dedication [0]. To gift a work to the public domain, you must first hold the copyright of that work.

The distinction may seem pedantic to some, but it seems important to me.

[0] https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Maybe I look sufficiently sketchy for enhanced screening!
yet another sensationalist article about a game that's on its way out
Thanks everyone much appreciated
I don't believe that's the point she is making. Obviously the distributor should be compensated. I believe her point is will 3rd parties that are NOT green lit on steam still be downloadable similar to Android's install from unknown sources.

My initial thought would be they allow 3rd party / not affiliated with steam. They seem pretty open with everything about SteamOS and I would think it would only hurt their chances of adoption if they were to lock it down. Even if they do lock that down I'm sure someone would easily find a work around as it is Linux after all.
Agreed. Here in the U.S., we would probably be in a much better position if FinCEN hadn't decided Bitcoin is a currency earlier this year.
No problem. I had no idea why it mattered until I had to start taking advantage of this functionality myself...
What Medium Is
There's actually an open source project that does this (https://github.com/maxme/bitcoin-arbitrage). It's pretty much a simple version of how algorithmic trading works on Wall St.

The thing that really kills you is time lag, getting your money between exchanges. This means you can't have pure arbitrage (riskless), but rather statistical arbitrage.
It only gets worse from there.

When we exported a CSV of our transaction history there were entries missing. We knew this because each line has a running balance and it wasn't adding up with the line before it.

When we told our paypal account manager about this it triggered an investigation. They claimed they had never seen it before and they sounded very worried about it.

They then told us that they have multiple different databases with transaction histories and that they were not consistent. They said that they had investigated the problem and found that it affected only a small percentage of customers.

They then pointed us to another CSV export form that doesn't seem to be able to be accessed via the normal UI and were told that this one would give us correct results. Unfortunately we were unable to export an entire year at once with this form as it seems to have some kind of time limit.

We had to export our history in little chunks that would take hours each. We asked our paypal account manager to prepare the CSV for us after finding this out, but she refused.

Having a large number of transactions in paypal sucks very bad.

Compare this to Stripe that proactively emailed us saying that they had noticed that queries for filtered transaction sets were taking a very long time so they had done some optimizations and were asking us to see if it had improved.
Others might feel odd if you make a management change without notifying anyone.
steamdb.info is just looking at the valve distribution repo and getting their info from there.
> Kol-mo-go-rov

(I get it wrong too every other time)
Go on App Engine: tools, tests, and concurrency
He's saying that he doesn't have a problem with Valve in general or in other regards, just with this specific policy.
If they do not now they could, in the future, retroactively find you and tax you for gains on BTC since the ledger is public and traceable. If this really concerns you I suggest you read-up on Bitcoin Mixers / Tumblers - but be warned these services could be dubious and take your BTC for their own!
Report: NSA officials may consider amnesty for Snowden if leaks stop
Suggestion: It would be nice if there were better drawing tools. Like making continuous strokes rather than clicking every single cell.
Norway fails bitcoin test.
FYI, pg made a "Request for Startups" a couple of years ago, detailing problems he'd like startups to solve. You'd also know that those problems are fundable.

http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html
The problems I had with it were primarily related to build-quality I think. The 'i' key wore out after several months for example. I think these problems could likely be fixed by not skimping on the parts, but who knows.
Can somebody post screenshots if they got it running?
I am mostly interested in design. Their release announcements were amazing so I am curious what they pulled off.
steamstatic.com is a valve domain, look at its nameservers whois.net/whois/steamstatic.com
Those are actual bitcoins:

https://www.casascius.com/
Isn't this rather intuitive?
Selling TemplateMoz.com - anyone interested?
Hey guys, I'm selling a domain called TemplateMoz.com - it's an ideal name if you're wanting to get into the template selling business - let me know if it spikes your interest
Uh, that's never happened to me, nor anyone I know. And Steam Quality Control is good enough that games that bug-ridden will very very rarely make it through.
Local product search.

I really, really want to be able to search for what products are available on the high-street in any shop, based on a live stock-room database.

Imagine an application which could recommend what exactly you should do in order to obtain item X based on your location, the amount of time you had and how much money you wanted to spend.

E.g., "I'm at home and I need to pick up a pair of smart shoes. I have an hour, and £50 to spend. Where do I go?" - the application has two nearby places. Place A has smart shoes for £35, and it'll take you 30 minutes to get there, but place B Is only 10 minutes away but you'll have to spend £45 on the shoes. Trivial example, but that sounds pretty useful, no?

If anybody has a solution for this and wants to talk seriously about implementing it, get in touch with me.
All of that info is in the write up. It's not nicely laid out in a table but the read is a lot of fun.
wget -c will look for a partial file (so when it bombs out you can just start it again). Sometimes it makes sense to force a file name, that one looks like it will work fine.
I went through this. Spent a total of two weeks trying to get the game to work -- even went it and bought new hardware. I went out of my way to show record bench marking results. It's not my card, it's not my power supply, it's the buggy game.

2weeks of being jerked around by steam, doing every. Single. One. Of their suggestion AND logging that I did them. No result. The end result could be boiled down to "sucks for you. We don't give refund."

In the end, I ate the $60. I wasn't going to risk my entire game library over one game.

I must say though, the events certainly "raised my consciousness" to the fact that owning digital things is in a really crappy place right now. What other company do we allow the right to reach into our house and pull back things that we have rightfully purchased? It's really quite absurd.
guys, but you are all missing the point here.

with mainframe2 and other companies in the space (such as, khm, Amazon with their AppStream) software vendors get to deliver big old windows applications such as Photoshop, AutoCAD etc to a number of users who either don't have big windows workstations to run them, don't want to bother downloading and installing gigabytes of software, or don't want to pay many $$$ for a perpetual license when they only need to use the software few hours a month. Now they can all transition to SaaS ..

there was another company in the space that got my attention called OTOY. They made partnerships with Mozilla and AutoDesk to deliver AutoDesk tools in the browser, their demos also look pretty cool though I'm not sure what's their commercial offer gonna be, likely not the full stack like mainframe2 ..
Looks great, but the barrier to entry is high as myself and I'm sure others here have no experience with Haskell.

Have you thought to consider a hosted solution with an API? I'm sure plenty of people would be willing to pay for it on an API marketplace for instance.
The Pi will choke. It's LAN adapter is on the USB bus, and peak real-world throughput was something like 1-2Mbps.

Normally not a problem with prerendered video, because they have high compression ratios, but live streaming can't offer the same level of compression.
Before the NSA, There Was 'Patrolling the Ether'
Hard to not highlight items as I scroll down the page on my laptop. Almost nowhere to park my cursor to avoid this. Seems like not the most thought-through UX, at least off-mobile.
I've had this happen with me- I preordered Leviathan: Warships, and upon launch was completely unable to access multiplayer through their buggy account system. The publisher acknowledged my issue but declined to answer further support requests. Valve issued credit to my account in exchange for removing my game from the library within hours of asking for it.
This is about a year late to the "pinterest clone for shopping" party.

Referly pivoted into something similar before shutting down, and I think Fancy is the major player in the space.

Could be successful, but not terribly innovative.
Dogs eating fruits
Will SpaceX use this launch pad send people to space?
Seems like a valid complaint against Steam, but with not much to do with Steam OS. The whole point is that this OS is in some ways irreversibly open. No single company ever has the power to control the platform entirely- if Valve have bad policies, you at least have the option to install another marketplace.
My grandma wants to communicate with her family trough internet but dont know how to use a computer. Solve that for me.
You can use pandoc without needing to write any Haskell. This article is about pandoc (the library), but you can also get pandoc (the command line tool) and convert between common document formats.

In fact, I'm quite comfortable with Haskell and have never used pandoc as a library, I just use the tool.

Also, many Linux distros include pandoc in their repositories, so you can install it very easily.
Steam for windows allows you to launch non-steam games (or applications) from Steam by creating a shortcut(iirc you even get the steam overlay when you press shift+tab). I would be surprised if they removed this functionality from SteamOS.
The researcher interviewed in this article, Amanda Carrico, has three degrees in psychology.[1] I'm not sure why I should trust her to do a review of the microbiology literature.

[1] http://www.vanderbilt.edu/viee/profiles/amanda-carrico.php
That's mostly correct, in fact there was a lawsuit to determine who could call themselves Tesla's "Founders" and the outcome was that Eberhard, Musk, Tarpenning, JB Straubel, and Ian Wright all agreed to be Co-Founders. [1]

TeslaRumors has a much more descriptive version of events that summarizes how it all came about:

So in 2003, JB Straub phoned Musk and invited him to meet so that they could discuss space and electric car related interests.

[...]

During their lunch meeting, Straubel mentioned a company called AC propulsion that had developed a prototype electric sports car using a gasoline-powered kit car.

[...]

When Musk visited AC Propulsion, he not only was demo’d the car, he also got to drive it. He was impressed. He tried to for months to convince AC Propulsion to commercialize the electric vehicle and even asked them to make one for him, but they had no interest in doing so. Instead, Tom Gage, the president of AC Propulsion introduced Musk and Straubel to another team that shared the same interest so that they together they could increase their potential for success in commercializing an electric vehicle. The other team included Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning and Ian Wright.

[...]

Fortunately, one day Wright's neighbor, Martin Eberhard, started to chat about having just incorporated a electric car manufacturing company. Wright thought the idea was far-fetched but did the neighborly thing and offered to take a look at Eberhard’s business plan.

[...]

They joined forces that year and formed Tesla Motors Inc. Straubel became CTO, Eberhard became CEO, Marc Tarpenning became CFO, and Elon Musk became the Chairman and the Head of Product Design. Ian Wright became Tesla Motors’ first employee as VP of Vehicle Development. Musk provided the majority of funds for the startup with $7.5 million of his own personal cash in the first round of capital investment as well as contributing to subsequent rounds. [2]

1 - http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10357665-54.html

2 - http://teslarumors.com/HowTeslaBegan
BinaryPig: Scalable Static Binary Analysis Over Hadoop from Endgame
Powerline is almost there.
One Degree: Distributed Intelligence
I live in a more socialist country where health care and education are free, and where we have have a good balance between work and personal time and I hope it'll stay the same despite the international pressure. I don't know why "socialism" is such a bad word in the US. Probably propaganda from the rich to keep their privileges.

I had the chance to live in the US for a couple of years (it was a child dream of mine to do so) and now I have much more mixed feelings about its ideology. Overall, I think I have a better life in Europe.
Very different experience here while developing a Firefox add-on [1] with the Add-on SDK [2]: I think that the API is nice and well documented, the development environment - based on virtualenv - is very easy to set up (I work under Ubuntu), and AMO review times are in the order of weeks - not months.

[1] Google Plus Follower Stats for Firefox
[ https://github.com/vannitotaro/gpfs-firefox ]
[ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/google-plus-followe... ]

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/latest/
It stands to reason that if the bias against long term unemployed workers is strong enough there will exist a surplus of highly qualified workers who have been out of work for 6 months or more. Everything else being equal, the long term unemployed could be hired at lower than market wages for their skill level. A smart company could pick up qualified workers pretty cheaply by ignoring unemployment length right now.
> Projects where performance is critical are coded in C/C++ , not in java (databases)

HBase, Cassandra, VoltDB
Google Caught Funding Slew of Right-Wing Front Groups
Would you pay at least 20 dollars a month plus some data usage volume fee? If so I'll whip it up next week.

That said, pandoc is available as a binary on pretty much every major Linux distro on the planet.
What about the counter case of one statement needing more than one line?
You played Nether recently?

I haven't, that's how much it sucks.

I'm still hoping they pull it together but the last time I looked at it, it was atrocious.
Larry Page (Google CEO) just arrested by ICE
Autopager is amazing, I never have to click the next buttons anymore.
I'm skeptical that I share a significant interest in specific products with even my closest friends.
This is all about liability.
Discover the best (Nikon) products from your friends (and people I advertise with)
Hmm, that's too bad. I haven't found a use case myself for needing it on .net, but I can understand it's probably a pain for TypeSafe to maintain it for both the JVM and the CLR.
Preordered games somehow are cancelable. It's in the terms of service.
netcat piping to /dev/null on an RPI saturates the 100Mbit NIC on my RPI but with over 70% cpu load, on my non-scientifc tests.
3rded. Commodities have no regulations in my country. A currency would req piles of government approval to trade
DXT is extremely lightweight compression designed to be decompressed in parallel during the rendering process. 10mbps is plenty if you're using a video codec, and the Pi has hardware H.264 support.
Happened to me with Rome Total War II.
From RFC 1855, Netiquette Guidelines, Section 3.1.2, Mailing List Guidelines:

> If you ask a question, be sure to post a summary. When doing so, truly summarize rather than send a cumulation of the messages you receive.

http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.html#page-10
I think at one point in America's history, Long-Term-Unemployment(LTU) was a semi-decent indicator of a possible problem-employee because nobody was questioning "Is college worth it?". Back then, you were pretty assured that your degree(whatever it was) guaranteed you a job... so if you didn't have a job for a long time, then either you're a lady who became a mom or you're a man who messed up in life. But today, especially after 2008/9 real-estate mess, a bunch of totally legit people fell into LTU by no fault of their own... but the stigma still remains.

I also think this is more a problem for non-tech jobs. In today's world, if a software-engineer wanted to travel the world for 8 months I suspect she could easily get a job when she's done. She'd probably be getting recruiter-calls while on vacation.
I believe they won't delete your game library, however, they will lock you out of future purchases.
Show HN: smarter_console.js
Everlane for mattresses! Cool. The full-window image on the landing page looks like a rendering to me, which feels a little cheesy. Is it actually a real photo?
Why does it need to be a texture compression algorithm? Intel Quick Sync can encode H.264 with pretty low latency.
I have two accounts: my personal account and a work account. Until a few minutes ago, I had never signed in to my work account from my home computer.

I tried to "switch" to my new account, as you described. It took about 10 seconds, which was the time it took to load a new page and type out my credentials. Furthermore, as soon as I did that, I could instantly switch between accounts with two clicks and without having to log out of either account. What's the problem?
This almost seems like an unfortunate consequence on the "Innovator's Dilemma", whereby older workers compete on experience and qualifications, but are then deemed overqualified by employers. Much like how technology consistently outpaces market demand.

Rather, it seems like workers need to compete on a new trajectory and perhaps be re-educated. Although, I don't know if how system supports that very well.
He definitely considers himself a co-founder at least.

Part of the confusion might be that Tesla also produced a Founder Series of 20 - 30 cars for both the Roadster and Model S. Musk also has a large Founder badge on the back of his Model S (which has been shown in a few videos), I'm not sure if that is on all of the Founder Series cars or not.
Also, dont believe that just because lots of people are fed by the kind of farming that rmason talks about that the "older" ways are no viable. Supposedly the old ways were far more resource efficient in every variable except human time.
The ui of this is totally broken on mobile safari.
Thought the exact same thing. But kudos to Nikon and Ashton that I automatically associate both of them.
Site says "Free Shipping on all orders shipping within the Continental US", but will not let me select Alaska. Should say "Contiguous US" if this is intentional.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_United_States
Any word on controllers yet?
inb4:

- just remove them in production

- people have already written these

- I hate OP

- etc.

This is just a little util I wrote to make my life and my teams life easier and more resilient.

Use it, don't use it, fork it, pull and push it, etc.

Thanks!
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Yes it does. It's worth bringing up. If you go through the trouble of installing an OS whose existence is based on this policy, you should know if your rights as a consumer will be ignored.
Check out Docverter[1]. It's a host-your-own pandoc + html to PDF API. It doesn't support all of pandoc (for example, PDFs are generated using Flying Saucer instead of LateX), but it's an extremely useful subset

(disclaimer: I wrote docverter, it's open source)

[1]: http://www.docverter.com