skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use tab groups for arranging my tabs in groups, the shortcut Ctrl+` can be used for cycling through tab groups. This along with the other shortcuts mentioned make dealing with lots of tabs a lot less painful.
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1) This is wicked cool.

2) The feat itself is impressive. Sucks they have to "sell" it with the malaria application. I guess science has almost always been like that.
Am I the only one who doesn't much like the word "mentor"? It makes me imagine kind of a superior/inferior relation, as if the best people aren't the ones who starting the startups. Shouldn't the very best people be the ones in the startups?

mentor:

- an experienced person in a company, college, or school who trains and counsels new employees or students.

- advise or train (someone, esp. a younger colleague).

The word has very clear, strong connotations.

So what is being said here? That founders can't be experienced serial entrepreneurs? That older people should be training younger people? It's a very strange word to choose, and I think it impacts how people perceive their roles.
Some more links explaining events around that time and how independence was reached, it wasn't an easy journey:

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9OncWnJU8c

These are just a few reasons why Lithuania and Baltic states have huge support for Ukraine regarding current events!
Yeah, well, in the case of Game of Thrones, it's quite an important work of art and it's priced out of reach for the vast majority of the public. Owning an important work of art could be argued to be a bit like having a monopoly on a utility. That might not sound compelling, but there the case for copyright protections isn't that compelling either. Copyright is supposed to be a beneficial exchange, where the public accept restrictions on their freedoms in order to encourage the creation of art. If the art created isn't being disseminated to the public, then what's the point? There's nothing moral about artificially propping up one particular business model.
I don't agree on the face-to-face part.
Remote work does not predetermine bad communication. It IS correlated because most of people that do attempt it do it in this outsourcing style.
If you have a company-wide remote-first culture your communication can be as good if not better than traditional arrangements.
Can thoughts exist without words(code)?
For the most part, the "audio" stream of what I would consider my consciousness reads as words. Excluding the visual stream, I usually hear a voice in my head (usually Peter Griffin) orating whatever bs is going on in my thoughts at the time.

Question: What did our consciousness "talk" like before we had a firm grasp of a spoken language?

For example:

Can an infant that hasn't learned a language yet talk to his/herself?

If so, how would that stream of information be "tokenized"?

If you can tokenize this stream, and if higher level languages (like English) can presumably be built on top of it, does that make this the "assembly" language common to all spoken languages?

[P.S. No clue how we would know, just fun to think about :) ]
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It's a phased launch. Even though it's a responsive design website, we are launching it by routing mobile and tablet traffic to it first, to make sure everything works properly. There will be an opt-in mechanism on the existing desktop site later today.
my Bravia works fine for iplayer some one needs to light a fire under ITV and get there on demand service to actually work and be roll it out on to smart TV's.
Something tells me you've never visited the inside of a prison. What both your 'idea' and the Popcorn app share is a surprising level of centralization for what is a highly illegal service. The fact that you have servers trawling the known services where warez groups dump their material means you go to jail. There's no if or but about it.
'conceptually similar to Threes' should have been 'stolen from Threes'
They're already happy to send out unencrypted streams to iOS users. But as with too many tech companies, if you're not using Apple you're a second class citizen.
Blundering into the One Definition Rule
Attempting to pay for a service is not just as much piracy as using bittorent is.

Pirating content != Ignoring region restrictions, otherwise buying a film on holiday and then watching it on a region unlocked dvd player would be piracy and it clearly isn't.

It is breach of contract, but that does not by itself constitute piracy just because it is to do with media.
Sometimes I need to check time on my phone. And I carry laptop from work, I never actually used in cinema.

Anyway 'movies from internet' just provide better services. And in most countries in Europe it is actually legal.
It's not really intended as an "evangelist" post. It's just describing some details that makes a big difference to me in my day-to-day work. I guess it's more of a "hey, fellow Clojure programmer, don't you agree that these details really put the icing on the cake?" kind of post.

Maybe the other post I posted the same day would give newcomers a better impression of what using Clojure is like in practice (lots more code, more in-depth): http://cjohansen.no/building-static-sites-in-clojure-with-st...
Is anyone using Shen yet? The only problem, and I am a passive lurker in circles in HN, Reddit, and elsewhere it has been mentioned, is an Ocamlesque license policy. People have said this will get them nowhere. It is understood they, from the outside view, want a single language implementation, not just a standard. But everyone I see says they will not touch it with a ten foot pole for this reason.

Also ironically, this real implementation of Lisp necessitates being built on "lesser" or not "real lisps" for us commoners, like SBCL and CLisp. It also has hosts on Ruby, Python, and this even lesser lisp called "Scheme" (rest assured, this is a joke and not a troll).

http://shenlanguage.org/Download/download.html

That being said I find it very interesting. Its licensing, even just the word if you read through, sounds very aggressive and weird.

Has anyone here used Shen yet?
That's pretty funny! Well done!
Agree completely on all points. I've also seen the large disconnect between people who say they practice Agile and those who have actually spent time to learn it.

Regarding the Agile manifesto. It seems like it's a relic of the past and perhaps that's why it's not included directly in the Scrum Rulebook. I haven't gotten any practical use out of it, and it seems to only confuse people who do not take a minute to interpret the wording at more than a superficial level.
http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/17r570/is_there_... is a possible source of thoughts?
As linked in the about section:
the original print visualization artwork by James Cheshire:
http://spatial.ly/2013/09/population-lines/
Luckily BBC only have to care about British citizens. I don't know how they do mobile streaming but it clearly works on at least some mobile devices. Native app for that?
I only really use iPlayer from a computer.

> I don't bother to install Flash on my desktop, I just use Chrome when I need it.

Most people don't know, care or understand what flash is. They want something that works and don't really care if it isn't as secure as something else or use slightly more resources. HN is not really representative for the public at large.
> If JS had classes(like ES6),nobody would create all these complicated frameworks to build them.

Having classes does not solve the meta-programming issue, which is what most frameworks additionally provide. Look at the Java world for an example that classes don't prevent the proliferation of frameworks.
It's interesting that the iPlayer team are so open about some things but so quiet about others.
I don't expect ETAs I'm just interested to know the differences between PS4 and Xbox One app development.
Because it's fun and challenging.
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> Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only

Yes, well. It's not like the publically financed television stations of EUrope have FUCKING MORAL OBLIGATION to help the free movement of people throughout Europe by making the programs that connect them with their home country and that they paid for available to them. And the BBC is _by far_ not the worst offender here.

I mean, even YLE, which should be happy that anybody outside of Finland wants to participate in the madness that is the Finnish language, blocks me based on my IP!

Of course, I am well aware that I am a German citizen and thus not paying into the BBC financing. This is of course an insourmountable obstacle, today in 2014.

It's not like there was any possible way to track which countries the programmes are watched from and then install some transfer payment systems between the publically financed broadcasters of the different countries.

Admittedly, our public broadcasters here in Germany have an annual budget of only 7.5 Billion Euros, so this is impossible to finance.

Man, I'm frustrated about this. Why is the media world so broken? Who runs a television station and then makes a significant effort to _keep_ people from watching it, even though them doing so has no or negligible impact on their budget?
Show HN: Adding logic to a JSON file creates a dynamic web app
When does game get over?
I mean is there some threshold number of moves?
Apple wants Samsung to pay $40 per device for only 5 software patents
I think the article is overly focused on small, pragmatic syntax issues without explaining how the underlying language and runtime have _enabled_ them.

It might be interesting to discuss _why_ keywords or maps or sets can work as functions, by implementing the IFn interface. Perhaps explain why homoiconicity and macros enable things like thread-first and -last, and talk about how we can implement our own reader literals.
It is also somewhat questionable to ask someone to prove a negative.

This isn't true at all. The negative is also often seen in the form of a null hypothesis. "There's someone in the fridge". "No, there isn't". Here is a case where we can prove a negative. Some negatives by their nature can't be proven, but as a blanket statement it's false.

You yourself mentioned that benchmarks were worse - this is proof of the negative, and you could have cited those benchmarks in your argument.
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Study: Smartphones are making us bad parents – The Mommy Files
monetize?
Facebook rolls out new UI for some
See if you are being updated. I'm on Chrome running Mac.
I was talking about a specific hardware player, but in general any additional signal processing has the potential to add artefacts.

To hear these sorts of things, listen for reverb tails on drum hits, high frequency percussion like cymbals, high-hats, solo human voice (we're quite good at hearing unnatural artefacts in voices) - that sort of thing. Beware it has to be good quality source material to start with though!
Cell phone addiction may kill parent-child bond
The Future of Umbraco
Might be fair to add a "seeding allowed" option for those in countries not yet 5 miles into the MPAA's butt, or behind a VPN.
kind of preaching to the choir, no?

i mean, there are more open source games that use OpenGL than DirectX, and are already cross platform as a result. similarly, i would imagine if a AAA game studio wanted to do such a thing, they would roll their own (or just use GL in the first place).

perhaps i'm being too cynical (but this is hacker news..)
Where's this two-hands requirement coming from?
Any way of enforcing HTTPS and login/password auth?
I would love to be able to use this on a set of public servers...
Why? There is proof to the contrary. The Eurovision Song Contest has been streamed via a decentralized peer-to-peer protocol (albeit proprietary) for some years now.

And the BBC is involved with that. So what is different here?

Furthermore, if they were to lose the ridiculous DRM requirements for programs (programmes?) which are already paid for, they could even use the actual Bittorrent protocol itself.
Ask HN: What software services would you recommend to an indie game dev?
I'm working on a motion controlled fencing game (http://chrisswordguy.itch.io/fencing-sim)

Besides game development, I have a big interest in startup web development, and thought this would be an interesting opportunity to try out a lot of cheap/free services catering to small businesses.

Currently I'm using:
Asana, to coordinate team members, which is pretty nice but too email-naggy by default for my tastes.

Mail Chimp, to make pretty emails after fiddling with them for too long.

itch.io, which makes it super easy to host your game on its service, but is a bit limited feature wise, and doesn't generate as much exposure as larger/more exclusive markets do.

I'm curious what other services would be cool to experiment with. Some of my more pressing needs are:
- Finding visual/audio artists, especially 3d modelers, to work with without a lot of upfront payment.
- Doing less work to keep on top of social media stuff in my field (motion control/VR)
- Meeting people who could be really helpful for the game's development, especially journalists.
- Marketing, especially market research.
What is scary about this?
I think it useful for the writers relationship with their audience to treat the online thing at arms length. It doesn't make the piece more interesting, but it helps accomplish the writers goal of getting it read.
why would they roll their own if there's a battle-tested steam-os-compatible library with a BSD(-ish) license?
Well, there is no such simple interoperability with java from haskell, that's for sure. But otherwise…

user> (:key nil)
nil

Mmmm, I'm not certain I particularly want this

user> (nil :key)
CompilerException java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can't call nil

RUN!
Don't get hung up on the "green" characteristics of just the active component. You have to look at the whole picture, including packaging and manufacturing. It's not like the choice is between melting a little sand or an old bottle and digging a big hole in the ground to extract copper.

- There's a lot of plastic involved, for either medium

- optical stuff is pretty exacting to manufacture. It's easily possible that it's more energy-intensive to refine the materials, make the lasers, draw the fibers and so on than it is to make the copper equivalent
Do iOS/Android natively support subtitles on video streams? If so, there's really no excuse for it.
Ask HN: How to be a "Homo Universalis" by 2020?
One of my motivations for asking this is personal: I am 25 years old and I would like to have my knowledge and skillset expanded, in a variety of fields and subjects, by the time I reach 30. But I am not sure about where to start from (eg: study history or focus on sciences?).

Another motivation is discussion's sake: Which fields do you consider important for one to have a solid knowledge at? Are subjects like history and arts as important as ones like science? Which characteristics are going to define the sharp mind of the next decade?
Considering China sent ships into the suspected area others are in I tend to discount the idea they would have RADAR logs of it flying beyond that point. They have no reason to lie about this one unless we have an incident similar to the Russian shoot down of KAL 007
I’m sorry: are you arguing that travelling is piracy?

The upside is that we are getting closer to what piracy actually is (taking a boat by means violence) as opposed to the over-dramatised and legally void attempt by the MPAA to call unlicensed use of media something else; the downside is that you fail to notice that the idea of jurisdiction isn’t really nearly as plain as what most “hurr-Heer-Merica!” lawyers and military hawks like to thing.
"BSD(-ish) license"

In fact, it's MIT: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
No, no, no, Skynet has woken up and is attacking the human economy.
No need for formatting; you can easily get superscripts and subscripts in plain text. See Unicode’s Superscripts and Subscripts Block¹.

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The iPlayer is pretty great and has gone from strength to strength.

Things for me that I'd like to see (as I can see some of the devs on here)

1. Content - I see no reason why the BBC doesn't put all of it's content on the iPlayer.

2. Timelimit - Abandon the 7 day window time limit, it simply doesn't fit with our modern lives, Netflix has proved that.

3. Ability to log in using my TV Licence as an ID, that way I could stream content from another country (on holiday for example, or a business trip).

Great work though guys, thank you.
This is interesting. I'm an Italian native speaker. Sometimes GPS voices have a very marked accent (usually from Milan). To me it ends up sounding parodic rather than soothing (I'm from Rome).
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Best strategy (for me) seems to be to play it like tetris. Never ever use the up key and create a row at the bottom where everything collapses into it.

This sort of clicked towards, oooh I don't know about 1:30am this morning.
>"There are no ads..."

>" The Pirate Bay has made the same defense"

The Pirate Bay certainly makes money from ads, without adblock the site is choked with nsfw ads everywhere (not that you should browse TPB in work!)
Sure, but the same is true of every high-density medium. You have to either accept data storage is a dynamic process of repeated copying, or else do it the old-fashioned way and store your data on acid-free paper.

(Well, unless you want to use one of the exotic technologies that etch your data on metal plates or whatever; but in practice, paper is a lot cheaper.)
> Australian Internet is very limited in terms of speed and bandwidth, the average Internet connection in a lot of the heavily populated parts of Australia is still slow and unreliable ADSL, not fibre like the rest of the developed world.

Curse our shortsighted government. http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/the-rise-and-fall-...
> I've tried most video (and audio) editing tools

I would love you to expand on that if you can.

I am currently settled on kdenlive, which is reasonably stable and features non-linear editing with a number of standard effects (I consider things like fading, zooming, speeding, blue screen to be pretty standard), although it has some rough edges, especially around sound editing (which forces me to use Audacity on the side).

I notably use it on a Mac as well; it is clearly superior to iMovie, although it is clearly inferior to Premiere and Final Cut.

However, I haven't tested the competition for a while…
Best practices in Front/Backend Team Communication in Startups
Even if there was a slow decompression to 13,500 ft cabin altitude, almost no one would be unconscious. Hypoxia begins to set in as early as 5000 ft, but oxygen isn't even required in aircraft until you spend more than 30 minutes about 12,500 ft. Above 15,000 ft the average time of useful consciousness is still 30+ minutes.
You certainly have a point. Remote work doesn't have to have bad communication but there are barriers to communicating and if the organization is not set up to properly handle the barriers it can cause issues.

Outsourcing to a different country in a different time zone with entirely different management styles is asking for communication trouble.

A company built on remote work from the start seems to be more likely to succeed with remote work than one who has adopted it kind of ad hoc.
A new way for developers to work
Portuguese living in Germany having the same issues to watch some TV series because, of rights not being usable outside Portugal.

Not to mention how I really hate GEMA here.
11mb/s is roughly 100mbits, you don't need $170 fibre for that.
For the illustrations, I used Paper53 and PowerPoint...I'm good at ppt but really have no talent whatsoever in drawing...it's Paper53 doing all the works...if you look at our drawings, they're really just lines and rectangles...I'd say give it a try yourself first...
Some of the time this will be an obligation based on content rights - e.g. the BBC only have bought the rights to show Premier League highlights or the Olympics in the UK, where as in the US NBC or ESPN might have bought those rights.

Other times, this will be due to the British government not wanting to be seen to be undercutting commercial providers in other countries (there's enough pressure on the government in how the BBC is run from commercial providers in the UK).

What's more frustrating is when the BBC produces content (e.g. via BBC Worldwide or BBC Foreign Service) which isn't available in the UK. Fortunately that's fairly rare.
I agree that blender is not the most straightforward bit of software, however I don't find it has a lack of features.
I feel like one of the reasons YC isn't bullshit is that they do less. Companies don't work out of YC, there isn't the strange emphasis on "networking" that you see in most incubators. Put simply, by offering less shit they exclude opportunities for bullshit.
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This is huge, really huge for anyone who write DirectX games and want to make them run on OSX/Linux.
This is basically what a part of Wine do, am I wrong?
That's interesting. Do you know why content providers are OK for content to go to iOS without DRM (beyond client certificate checks) but not to Android or the desktop?
I'm confused. In what sense is correctness not pragmatic?

Also, have you used lenses yet? Heterogenous hierarchical data in Haskell is quite easy now.
yeah it looks like some ideas were the Mental Rotation concept ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_rotation ) (which is an example of non-linguistic thought) . What interests me most is finding that "assembly language" if such exists
I would like to "test this software for unlimited time", if you know what I mean. How do I install it in Ubuntu? I have downloaded the package and tried to run it through the usual software installer, but it didn't work. Then I went to their FAQ page but couldn't find any clues about it.
Documenting author in source code: graffiti or attribution?
Is this what the Google city-state looks like?
Creating a game that you, the creator, can't stop playing is the sign of a pretty good game. It's like "eat your own dog food", but with crack.
Wine is a bit different, I'm not 100% sure but it's more like a reimplementation of native calls than anything.

But yeah, this is awesome. As a side note, developers who want to make games run on OSX and Linux should just stop targeting DirectX. This is good for already-existing games and port them over, but in 2014 if you're still writing games in DirectX, you're most likely doing it wrong.
Chromecast support please! Thank you.
I doubt the latter idea would be compatible with the arcane terms of being a "public service broadcaster".
Indeed not.

However I don't feel that particular pain point because I can currently access iPlayer directly from my Sony smart TV, my Sony Blu-Ray player and my Virgin Media Tivo box. I can also use AirPlay to send from my iPad.

Sadly, apart from the iPad, seeking is real pain. Want to pop back to re-watch something in the last minute? Bad luck - you're skipped back about 20 minutes.
Hi, Steeve!

Thank you for this awesome project. Can't wait to see it running on my RPi. =)