skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I want is high budget professionally executed video entertainment in my home for free. Is that so hard?
If you sell it in a site like Flippa, it'll be go for at most $1200, but more likely $800-$1000. That depends on how long you've had that revenue for. If it's 3+ years, then upwards of $1200 is more likely. Otherwise, less than $1000.

Risks are:
Reddit is your lone traffic source
Adsense can be banned anytime by Google.

Also, the # of users, posts, comments means absolutely nothing to a seller. Just monthly recurring revenue :)
I always wondered why Wave was not intergrested with Usenet as could of brought usenet into the modern World interface/interaction wise. Beyond that it reminded me of many Web 2.0 Nortel project, great technicaly but pushing the resource boundaries of the time. Hence had its sluggish moments, as in on a fat pipe was great, but consumer pipes was meh.

Still, it moves on.
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Unless they only write good custom drivers for hardware they know will be used in Steam machines. Don't know of any reason why they'd do that, though... I'm hopeful :)

Finally. The year of the Linux desktop is upon us!
Neat to see Bremerton mentioned here on HN!

While I never lived there myself, back when my parents were newlyweds my dad transferred when he was working (for NASSCO I think) up to Washington and my parents lived there for about 5 years and my dad worked as a welder in the shipyards (my two older sisters were born there before my parents moved back down to Southern California...my mom couldn't take the cold :-).
In addition, I think that they are definitely going to be a billion-dollar company and will probably be very popular in South Africa where they have roots, but to ask why people don't know or care about them as much as Amazon, to name the example, seems... well, obvious. I order stuff from Amazon twice a week! I've only ever heard of this company due to its Riot shares. I can see why a South African wouldn't see Amazon as very interesting, though... do you get 2 day shipping out there?
that'd actually be awesome. your email isn't in your profile, could you shoot me one at mine?
All that being said, I hope that this is helpful to you

I'm not the OP, but WRT point number one, what in your mind would qualify as better copy, and better a better call to action, and logo?
Most of the major Bitcoin mining pools also mine Namecoin. The current Namecoin hashrate is around 60% of the Bitcoin hashrate. http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/hashrate-btc-nmc.html
With the double dialog approach the first dialog could repeatedly nag. They'd have to know to accept the first dialog and decline the second, and even then the first dialog would have to be explicitly programmed to stop nagging if the permissions are denied. For example, Google Maps on iOS tells me I've denied it location access every single time I open it.
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I expect that Comcast will try and get their $100/home if you are interested in TV or not. The price will just shift and you will pay more for internet. Saving money by dropping the TV portion is a fallacy and at best temporary.

I don't pay for cable TV, but I am fully aware that I only get with that because I have an account I can borrow to watch subscriber-only content.
Here's what I did to promote beets (http://beets.radbox.org) over a long period of time (3ish years) before it became "popular":

- Post to domain-specific forums where I thought people would be interested. That includes stuff like /r/python on and /r/music in my case, as well as the user forums for music-streaming systems.

- Build community. IRC, mailing lists, close collaborations on GitHub. Encourage people to become GitHub collaborators early to solidify their commitment to the project.

- Keep trying to delight the users I have. Other people's endorsements on Twitter, HN, etc. consistently work better than my own.

- Screencast. On YouTube so it's easily shareable.

- Patience. Relentlessly make the project better. This is far away the best thing you can do; over the months and years, people will notice.
If the author is reading this, thank you very much - I've always wanted to experiment with C, but never had a project to use it on. Writing a Lisp interpreter (compiler?) is not one that occurred to me, but it definitely interests me.

Cheers for your hard work. :)
...and if you actually read the article you'd see that the distance involved is completely inessential to his purpose. Also, you don't know him or how many bagels he's hauling around. I can guarantee you that I can find a balance between any given person and some number of bagels such that physical exertion happens in a "measly" 1.6 miles.
Specific comment:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/224ntd/unreal_engin...
Maybe we're not getting the whole story, and perhaps this was as much an internal political struggle as an external protest against his Prop 8 contribution?

Eich has often been abrasive when commenting on HN to the point of personally insulting some posters here, perhaps he made political enemies inside Mozilla as well, and they used this external protest as a convenient excuse to make life very difficult for him inside Mozilla such that he felt it better to leave.

I personally, even though I've had disagreements with him, and even though I don't support his views on gay marriage, am saddened by him leaving Mozilla. He is the Steve Jobs or Larry Page of Mozilla, the passionate defender of the organization and its goals. Is there someone of equal standing who can visibly lead the community at Mozilla?

Someone needs to fight for the Web, I don't think his personal contribution to Prop 8 merits complete ostracism from the other good work he has done.
Curious are you physically located in California? I know that lot of states are starting to claim you a "nexus" if you take a trip through them or do any sort of business with them. It's a real problem if every state you touch tries to claim your business and the taxes.
When a smoke detector starts falsely making noise in the middle of the night, you have to get out of bed, turn on a light, get a chair, or maybe a stepladder... and maybe that stepladder is on another level, so you have to carry it up a flight of stairs and try not to bang the walls... it's a huge irritation.

Similarly, when there's one in the kitchen and it goes off constantly every time you make toast, it's a major ongoing annoyance.

Many people will respond to these situations by removing the batteries, covering the speaker with tape, or other things that lessen the functionality of the device in the event of an actual emergency.

Therefore, a properly-functioning wave-to-disarm feature (and other irritation-mitigation mechanisms) are not just conveniences; they literally save lives.
Russia's MPs "who wants to buy gas has to buy rubles or freeze to death"
The buy-side is buying liquidity. The sell-side is selling it. That's basically what the terms mean.

It's not particularly meaningful to say that the market exists "for" the buy-side. The real estate market exists for the real estate buy-side, too. But it takes 5 months to sell a house, because nobody is selling liquidity; instead, you have to work through an ineffectual sell-side agent who takes tens of thousands of dollars out of your hide for the privilege.
First, I'll preface this that I'm an engineer for a smoke alarm company, so I may be a bit biased. The simple answer is that the rules forbid a smoke alarm feature like you (and many others) would like. Fortunately, if you switch to a photoelectric alarm in a proper location, you should not get false alarms from cooking.

Now here's the long answer:
Essentially all smoke alarms in the United States are tested and listed to UL217, which has specific requirements and restrictions for smoke alarms. UL217, Section 7 discusses alarm silencing means. Among many other things, it says

"It is not prohibited that each single and multiple station smoke alarm be provided with an automatically resettable alarm silencing means that has a fixed or variable time setting which desensitizes the alarm for a maximum of 15 minutes. Alarm silencing shall not disable the smoke alarm. Sensitivity shall not be reduced to more than 4 percent per foot of obscuration."

So we're only allowed to slightly desensitize the alarm for up to 15 minutes; never disable it.

Fortunately, the whole problem is moot if you switch to a photoelectric alarm (around $25) instead of an ionization alarm (<$10). Ionization alarms will false alarm from cooking byproducts far too quickly; photoelectric alarm generally do not. You also should not place a smoke alarm in the kitchen (this is a perfect location for heat alarms).

While ionization alarms will go off far too quickly from cooking, they also fail to response to slow smoldering fires. There are many videos of rooms and test boxes filled with smoke that fail to trigger an ionization alarm, while the photoelectric alarm is working fine. Some states have even outlawed ionization alarms.

Buy a decent photoelectric alarm with a 10-year battery, like the ones made by First Alert or Kidde, and you probably won't have to worry about your smoke alarms for 10 years. That's even better than Nest that needs to be thrown away after 7 years.

I don't work for any of the companies mentioned above either...
Except that it's an off-the-shelf Xbox One. Any of his friends could have hypothetically found the vulnerability.
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This is MSYS (not 2). The web presence of MSYS/MinGW has always been poorly designed. Hopefully it will get better with MSYS2.

I've installed it recently using info from:
http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/

It has a port of pacman (!) from Arch Linux for package managing. It feels so much better than mingw-get (package manager used for MSYS/MinGW).
This is How 8 Entrepreneurs Came Up With Their Game Changing Startup Idea
Are there any other cool stories you guys can think of?
Leetchi started in 2010, I think it's time for them to leave the space for other promising startups in the charts. They had their momentum already.

Agree with arnauddri, Capitaine Train is way more promising than KelBillet.
I've had good luck with Facebook ads. I think the targeting is key. If you target people who are already familiar with your brand, it helps a lot. You can target, for example people who already "Like" your page. And you can target their friends as well. Facebook also has a feature that lets you serve ads to people by their e-mail address.

If you stick with those, you're pretty much guaranteed to be targeting real people, and not bots or fraudsters.

Also, learn to use the Facebook Power Editor, as you get a lot more control over how your posts appear, how your ads work, etc.
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This is OP, I'd admit there could be more data, what isn't shown here is the larger spend I did previously (but was not measured as "scientifically" which produced similar results). I'm doing a new campaign now, targeting only Desktop with a larger spend and will report back the results.
I'm curious why you care? Seems like it has good basic traction (700 stars), so there are people out there. And you're getting feedback (good). Why push it faster than it wants to go? What do you hope to achieve by that? Integrate the feedback, add your features that you want to add, iterate and repeat. It will get big or it won't.

A lot of those "wildly popular" open source projects have been around for years if not decades. It takes time for things to filter into the brains of other folks.
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> so that when a buyer crosses the spread in Chicago at the same time as a seller crosses the spread in New York, the HFTer can arbitrage the transactions with the foreknowledge that both trades will clear immediately.

Can you explain this in more detail? How does the HFT know that someone is crossing the spread? How is the HFT able to transact with two market-crossing orders after the fact? What financial instrument is being traded in Chicago and NY?
I believe the implication was that by reducing the barriers to entry for piracy, the "old" market will feel much higher pressure to reconsider their market and delivery models.

The market shift will probably go Large Network Channel(now) > Multi Indie Production Shops(near future) > Large Distribution Houses supporting Indie Shops(future).

If that makes since at all. I see the directors and creators having a much higher controlling interest in Movies and Series in the future, but who knows.
it's nice to see that the world is moving backward instead of moving forward in 2014...
biking 1.6 miles isn't going to get anyone fit.
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It still blows me away that Time Warner, Comcast, and others have failed to take advantage of their existing relationships with networks to rollout their own Netflix style of service. Nowadays, most of the content is already digitized, so building a VOD style of offering would only be a matter of setting up the infrastructure/team to manage it.

Surely these massive companies have the resources?

I don't subscribe to cable primarily because it's too expensive and also because I'm never around to watch what I want to when it's on.
Do namecoins have to be renewed or are we going to have old good domain names infinitely unavailable because someone forgot their key ?
'with source code they could examine' you seemed to have skipped over?
Samsung claims a graphene breakthough – which may be huge for future wearables
What's your relationship with California? Do you have an office there? Do you have employees that live in California?
That's my point. Today, if you deny a permission, you don't expect to be asked about it again. However, if this pattern of using your own dialog before the iOS dialog takes hold, I could see it being abused. The developer could continue to show their dialog as often as they'd like. Only if you said yes, would they proceed to show you the iOS dialog.

It kind of reminds me of the story I read somewhere where app developers were showing their own dialog asking you to rate their app. Only if you chose a high rating would they actually forward you to the respective app store to actually leave a review/rating. If you gave a poor rating, they would simply "eat" the response without sending you to the store.
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Google's Nest suspends sales of faulty smoke alarm, offers refunds
One definition I have heard is "multiple trades per day", but likely the common definition, for the liquidity-providing definition, is "multiple trades per millisecond".
After I got married, and my wife observed my sleep apnea, I did a sleep study. My apnea was infrequent/mild enough that the doctor considered CPAP unnecessarily invasive/expensive.

She told me to take a sock, put a tennis ball in it, safety pin it to the back of a t-shirt, and sleep in that.
What do you mean by "this pattern"? The article lists several iterations.

With the double dialog approach, you definitely have a point. Google Maps on iOS nags me every time I open it to give it location permissions.

However, tying it to an explicit action like the end of the article means it only appears when the user tries to do something that obviously requires that permission. There's no unprompted nagging involved.
I have my portfolio of "solid" investments - now I'm looking to grab the brass ring. I have no trouble parking my money for years before a liquidity event but I'm definitely looking to see a sizable return on investment.
If more students and their families in major cities understood the benefits of learning in high school and were able and motivated to pursue them -- that is, if being knowledgeable were a badge of honor -- would schools be more likely to respond to them, with an ultimate result of higher graduation rates?
They have to be updated around every 36,000 blocks (about 250 days), or else you relinquish the name. It can be just a "touch" update, no need to change the information.
Any specific reason to not allow a navigation app to have location access? Without the current location, you'd have to enter the current location manually.
To quote te_chris:

"On most articles like this it just feels like a bunch of doe-eyed, aspirational men who really want to be rich one day, so don't want to spoil the fun for their future selves."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7257140
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hey, try wechat.com (for the product mentioned by parent)

tencent is the corporate conglomerate and owns QQ, weibo, wechat and others.

QQ has been around for a bit and would be analogous to yahoo (social network, chat, news, email). QQ.com reflects this.

wechat is the new product they are trying to push to the global market.
mingw and MinGW-w64 are not the same thing, so that URL would be less than useful.

MSYS2 is firmly in the MinGW-w64 camp. The schism happened when GCC was ported to 64bit Windows and we've not looked back since (much; working together is always to be preferred but sometimes that is not possible).

We're investigating why sourceforge will not let me update our description.
I totally see your point. There's no way I could diversify my $75k enough to sufficiently offset the risk associated with investing it. A few people have mentioned investing clubs or syndicates -- this seems like an interesting way to break in.
the click and drag dilation is introduced in later puzzles
* Over how much time are the load metrics computed? For how long do they have to go above 85% to trigger a scale?

=> all metrics are computed in the more appropriate interval for each, and we improve this continuously. Main metrics are computed each 15 seconds today. We take the up scaling decision quickly, and we downscale less quickly, but this is very reactive.

* Do you compute the average load across all scalers? Or some percentile?

=> Across scaler and only one, we try to avoid false positive by an infinite loop ;-) (and it works) I never remind a customer unhappy of this feature.

* Can these parameters be tuned ? Can the load and the scaling decisions be seen (a part from the bill?)

=> you can manage how many you want to spent, it's important. But you can discuss with support to tune all of this.

* Assuming other bottlenecks (like IO), you won't notice high CPU or RAM load, but you would notice a spike in response time. Do you allow, or have any plans, to include other metrics in the scaler or to allow customers to export custom metrics?

=> Many metrics are watch, I/O included. And we will add an API to get metrics in the future

* Do you allow to spawn long running background processes. If yes, how does it interact with the CPU load based scaling?

=> Yes you can do it

* Can the user add placement constraints when deploying an app in multiple DCs ? Can the scalers themselves span multiple DCs in the same region. If not do you plan offering access to configuring loadbalancers to serve traffic to multiple app instances serving as a single logical app?

=> Yep, all of this is in the task list for future region.
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There won't be "known hardware" for steam machines[0]. They will allow AMD and Nvidia video cards with no specifics about which cards will be allowed.

[0] http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown
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with the traffic this cat is getting now for running a crap campaign on FB i think ill do a bogus writeup on how bad my campaign was put together and put it in HN too :/
Agreed, though they did the dilation interface idea basically for the third puzzle, and it didn't feel significantly better. I would like to see maybe the math for the current transformation, as it would make it feel more like a puzzle that I could solve and work out an elegant solution to, rather than a guess and check thing where I eventually get it after some ugly combination of steps.
You should post that as a real article rather than just a comment. It's going to get notice here, but it might be nice to see on the main page as well.
Thank you all for the great advice. I think the cash out of the 401K idea is really a reaction to how miserable my current position is. The culture is terrible and I want out, now. So I'm going to use my vacation time to send out a ton of resumes, practice some coding puzzles, and hack away on some code that I can provide as polished, well thought out work.

I did apply for a job at Twitter months back, but failed miserably at the two 45 minute online "coding to solve a puzzle" interviews. I was nervous, and also was opposed to that style of interviewing, and it did not do well.

I realize I need to get over it, and just accept that some shops may interview that way. It may let me know that it may not be the place for me, or open a door to a good opportunity.

The number one thing for me is culture. That the culture works for me. For any company that I am seriously considering, I will request working on a small project with the team before I accept any offer. If I had done that for my current position, I would have never come on board.
Very intuitive. People just need a context for permissions to make sense. I feel like this is similar to anything online. Don't ask for something right away until someone understands what the benefit of doing so entails. These rules hold true in sales, pitching, etc.
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Er, why are we looking at reference on US copyright law here? The State of Vatican City is not a US jurisdiction, and it has its own copyright law (which incorporates, to the extent that it is not preempted by the special laws promulgated by the Vatican, the copyright law of Italy.)
Sorry, you're right. After reading the article, the double dialog approach was the one which stuck in my mind as having a potential for abuse. The example at the end, the on demand dialog, is what I would prefer that all applications do. Unfortunately I do not believe it is possible on Android.
ok, we will do it
From what I've gathered it was humans doing the clicking, of the like of wow gold farmers and captcha resolvers.

But you're right the strategy is not to raise suspicion is to click the targeted ads and like buttons among other random ads and likes.

If I was to learn that facebook was paying those click farms to do the clicking I wouldn't be much surprised.
When I moved out on my own in 2010, I didn't get any kind of TV service. I didn't need it, had rather my money go to other things, and traditionally it only functioned as background noise since I was usually on the computer or game console. I heard about netflix at some point and signed up so I could watch a few movies (through the mail). I became aware they had this streaming thing (such a foreign concept at the time to stream full length seasons of shows).. and well, Netflix was good enough for me. I've now added on Basic Cable not really for the TV, but for weather and news
I had a sleep study done. Initially, it was done as response to high concentration of hemoglobin and low testosterone. I had been really tired for so long I didn't even realize how bad it was until I had my first night of sleep using a CPAP. The only way I could cope would be to drink caffeine continuously at work just to be able to focus, even sitting while at work was too much, I just wanted to lay down.
Stopping managers exploit fresh graduates with intimidation and tough tasks?
My manager is politically planning lots of games against me and neither is he letting me go.He is very senior guy in his 50s and used up all my weekend effort and used to work 12 hour workdays.Am not worried about next job ,but am rather saddened by the fact that there are a lot of people still held under such managers ; pinned down by intimidation and they are young fresh graduates!What do we do about such people?