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Even if Blockbuster management had done everything right in the stores, the stores would still be dead. The entire video rental store industry is gone in the US.
Parsing JSON Response Right in HTTP Client (Java)
This is the one thing I really noticed. After listening to some of the morning shows, where one person is always getting teased and used as a doormat for everybody's jokes.

You could tell these two truly had a special friendship and it clearly came through in how they interacted with each other. There were no malicious stabs or cheap shots, it was all lighthearted fun and jesting.

He will be missed. Definitely end of a radio era.
Uber Has Started Lunch Delivery with UberFRESH
I've been on the numbered waitlist for Seattle for 6 months or so, it hasn't budged. Meh.
I think it's much stranger to question spending $500 on one of the most important tools of pretty much every office worker. My goodness.
The physics of mosh pits
Your question is really confused. The top 1% hold a lot of wealth but not all that much purchasing power. Everyone else has relatively speaking a lot of purchasing power even if the wealth is less.

In other words, there is one guy with $1mm in the bank and 99 people that make $50k per year. Which is more important to you if you make and sell stuff?

The guy with $1mm in the bank could theoretically buy $1mm worth of your stuff but after that he'd be out of money. The 99 people who make $50k a year collectively could buy just under $5mm of stuff EVERY YEAR. So while the guy with $1mm has more power from any one instant to another, everyone else has a lot more power over any longer time-scale.
I think this is a great idea!! I would really love to see book suggestions from HN users, it is always very interesting and valuable to me.

Here's the best books that I've read in the past few months:

> Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale

I remember disliking the movie, but the book is brilliant and hilarious. Autobiography of one of the boldest, horniest, and most brilliant con artists.

> Ghost In The Wires by Kevin Mitnick

On the same topic, autobiography of a great hacker. Extremely clever and awesome. I bet people here will love it.

> Zero to One by Peter Thiel

Very intelligent and inspiring book about startups and new technologies. A lot of new and great ideas, I've enjoyed it a lot.

> iWoz

Autobiography of Steve Wozniak. Also wonderful and super positive and inspiring story.

> Trust me, I'm lying.

Book about how modern social media is being manipulated. Short and interesting. Makes you think differently about what you read on the internet.

> On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins

Theory of how human mind works. Must read for everyone who is into AI, but also a great book for everyone else.
Eat Pray Lob – Building a Culture of Health and Wellness
huge fan, can't wait for traffic camera support across the US which is one of the biggest impediments on our 4th Amendment rights in our country's young history.
Whether we are on the cusp really depends on what we mean by "natural language understanding" specifically. What about Watson? It seems to "understand" quite a bit of natural language just fine and can answer interesting questions posed in same. If that doesn't count as "understanding", I'd like to know what does? It probably can't do extended reasoning based on its "understanding", but that would seem to me to be moving the goal posts.

I doubt that a sufficiently well-defined notion of natural language understanding that does not specifically include strong artificial intelligence in its definition would require strong AI. Constructing such a definition is left as an exercise to the reader.

Thinking that strong AI is required for natural language understanding may end up being similar to how it was once thought that beating humans at chess would require advanced AI. Brute forse can do wonderful things, as can weak AI.
What is 3D sound in this context? At the end of the day you've got however many channel to work with, and that's it. You can do lots of fancy phase trickery to make things sound like they're going up and down on the Z axis, but it's still delivered in stereo or 5.1 or whatever.

When I think of 3D sound I think of stuff like ircam spat[0] but that just outputs normal audio like anything else.

[0] http://www.fluxhome.com/products/plug_ins/ircam_spat-v3
$40/hr @ 30-40/hr work week. I live in a low-cost country. Tempted to move to Silicon Valley though. I live with the constant battle of wanting to live in the USA or in my home country.
Look awesome! How do you deal with copyrights ? For example, the images or the data associated with you display ?
Armchair astrophysicist here: any way that these clocks could be used to detect evidence of gravitational waves? Seems like it would be a good use case for increasingly sensitive clocks.
It can get weird. I remember when the export list was significantly expanded for high-bit crypto (2000? 2001?), and France was still on the no-go list - not because the US prohibited export as such, but because France prohibited import (except through authorized channels). Israel may be in the same camp.
The Factory-to-Table Food Movement
Malls Fill Vacant Stores with Server Rooms
I work at http://Akvo.org

A bunch can be found at: http://opengovhub.org

Others:

https://okfn.org

http://www.aidinfo.org

There are many more, but these are a start.
Remember, this uses Azure: if you're in Western Europe, pick 'Northern Europe' and not 'Western Europe' for better locality. See http://www.robblackwell.org.uk/2011/04/12/azure-northern-eur...
Huh. And here we just had one open up near me, doing great too. They rent videos, make pizza, sell pop. One-stop shopping! Lots of folks I know use it.
Russian Memorial to Steve Jobs Dismantled After Tim Cook Comes Out
RIP. Listened to the show since I was a kid and it was always great.
Pocket is officially ready with Material Design
HelloSign (YC W11) Is Hiring DevOps and Software Engineers
You forgot the social network effects. Your socially isolated from the developer community in Stockton. Most people I know who have moved from Stockton are far happier in the bay area than Stockton itself. You have no real future living there, and anybody who has potential has long moved out. Live at close to the martinez bart station if you really want to move out.
Looking for users to help me Beta test a Google Analytics App
I was wondering why this guy's github account sounded familiar - he's the yasnippet guy (if you're an emacs user, it's worth checking out yasnippet). Good stuff:

https://github.com/capitaomorte/yasnippet
Beets has great documentation:

http://beets.readthedocs.org/
Why Let Resources Idle? Aggressive Cloning of Jobs with Dolly
On the living part: My folks live in Concord and their next door neighbor just moved into assisted living at 95. Her house sold within a week for 700k to a young couple. It's a 3 bed 1 bath single story in Concord with drainage problems, mind you. Lets do the math here shall we: What is the mortgage and taxes(thanks prop13) on a place like? Well, at 4.05%, good credit, and 15% down, it's 2857.80/month just on the loan, then we have taxes at about 729.16/month and ancillary insurance and repair will round us up to about 4k/month (48k/year) on just housing for a 3 bed 1 bath. Since spending about 1/3 of your income on housing is normal, you'd need about 150k/year as a couple to afford the house next to my folk's. You simply cannot get a job out in Concord for that salary, so you need 2 working people at ~75k, which is just out of Concord's range for a young person. The only place you are going to find salary at that price is in the South Bay or the City. So now you have to ride Bart or 680 for an hour each way, putting you at at least 10 hour days. Oh, and the closer you get to SF or the further south you go, the more the houses cost. You can't win.

Mind you, they live next to my folks who pay about 120.00/month for the house since my Dad was a GI and got the house for 70k in the 70's. Same Levit-town style house, 40 fold cost difference. Neighbors with completely different lives.

And they say there isn't a bubble?
Not being able to access localhost makes this much less useful than it could be. Does anyone know of any good tools to temporarily tunnel localhost onto a public URL?
> Tom and Ray haven't done the show live for two years; Car Talk has been airing archives of old shows. Berman says Ray would like to continue doing that, as a tribute to his brother.

Soo… Apparently the show as you all have known it for the last two years will be unaffected. Alternately, the show died two years ago and you never noticed.

EDIT: I thought that this news meant the show was ending and was surprised to read that actually the show would not change. So I thought I’d highlight this fact that the show would not change. There was no offense intended.
Why are they demoing this 'ergonomic' desk, with such an unergonomic monitor configuration? If you don't raise the monitor up, and keep the keyboard level down to keep the right angles you'll be asking for pain.

The point isn't just to stand, but it's to stand and have proper form, otherwise you're just asking for pain.

You need something like http://www.ergodesktop.com/content/kangaroo-pro to actually have ergonomic angles!
Yeah, this is true. That show was never actually about cars.
Not about purchasing power. About the value of money. That's not gonna change by fooling with 1% of the availability.

The reason so many are unemployed, after all, is that it takes fewer people to sustain a given 'standard of living', right? So now, with our free market, those unemployed drop into poverty since their bank account of imaginary points goes to zero.

Put points back into those bank accounts, and what happens? Those small tallys are not going to affect what the big folks are doing with all those trillions.
Palo Alto Hardware Meetup
Hi all,

I'm aiming to create a chill hardware/engineering/science-based meetup here in Palo Alto. The one based in SF is wildly successful - but always full / have to take the Caltrain to get there. Hoping to get local startups/Stanford on board as sponsors - going to be a place to discuss, drink, etc.

Link: http://www.meetup.com/Palo-Alto-Hardware-Meetup/
Is Ember really the right path forward? Or simply a stepping stone to a better (yet to be discovered) solution?

Specifically, I remember first picking up Rails and how productive I could be in that environment. I haven't felt the same happen with Ember. Instead it continues to feel like more work, as I have to build a client side domain model, as well as a server side model, and often have to think carefully where the logic should be placed.

Don't get me wrong, Ember is a step in the right direction, and there is a lot to love about it, but at the same time it feels like a local maximum and that there is a better paradigm to be discovered (Meteor perhaps?)

So, for those past the initial Ember hurdles, is Ember fulfilling its promises for you with your projects? Do you disagree with me and see Ember as the right long term approach for rich web applications?
As a concept this is a good idea and can be applied to righting other "wrongs".

For example there have always been companies that will audit utility bills for companies (and possibly individuals) but they are not widely known to the general public.

If you make it easy for people they would almost certainly take a snap of their utility bill and let someone else do the work in exchange for a cut of the refund.

For one thing the company doing the work knows the lay of the land. They know exactly what to look for and aren't going to spin their wheels. They don't have to spend time learning.

But there is another dynamic going on here as well. Similar in a way to why people do garage sales when the net revenue in many cases doesn't exceed the effort. The reason is they'd rather get $2.00 or even .50c for something rather than throwing it out. It's not about the money in other words. (Likewise you'd rather give away for free to someone rather than throwing out because to your brain that feels like karma..)

With this type of service better that someone takes up your cause and allows you to feel that you did something rather than feel like a, for lack of a better way to put it, a schmuck who did nothing.

I can see a wide range of possibilities for these "justice" or even "advocate" as a service ideas.
makes sense... weren't they MIT grads?
I guess the problem is that it's not discoverable.

I think you are absolutely right. While the reflection is available (and the documentation, in general, is not at all bad), discoverability is still weak.
Mass ‘smart city’ experiment lights up Copenhagen suburb
Were you looking at google & co or a startup? Usually your bonus & stock compensation is around %40 of your total compensation. Startup stock is non-liquid, and therefore unusable.
Umm, you can't just say that. In your estimation, what was the reason for this frustrating decision?
Funny to see it here today. I had posted about this yesterday on the discussion on Allan Cox's Fuzix's.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8549744

I think most people did not catch on the reference and downvoted it.

Alan Cox's profile pic not only resembles him but is also the QR code for his website. Interestingly enough QArt is by another well known Cox.
I had a similar transparent huge pages issues some time back -- the symptoms were incomprehensible spikes in CPU usage sometimes. Apparently this had something to do with memory allocation pressure when my Python processes restarted. However I thought these were perhaps weird power throttling issues which meant CPU was performing at a lower performance (explaining why a normal startup took 1 cpu minute instead of 0:10 seconds).

I should have spotted this by looking at the split between user and system CPU: when the THP problem happened SYS% spiked, but I was looking at a dozen processes pegged at 100% CPU.

I eventually tracked this down via "perf top" which lets you see what everything on the system is doing: both kernel and user space symbols are tracked. I saw significant kernel-space work in an odd memory-related symbol and found someone else with the same problem.
Yeah. Although dynamic arrays would need that.
The Tyranny of the Present
A radio icon; a fixture of my weekends growing up. Rest in peace.
As far as I can tell, Redbox targets a different consumer base from Netflix's. The majority of Redbox machines are placed outside of Safeways, Walgreens, Walmarts, 7-Elevens, and so forth. The sort of customer who rents DVDs from these machines is likely to be of lower socioeconomic status than your typical Netflix subscriber. He or she may not have a cable subscription, may not have high-speed internet access [1], and may deem Netflix's monthly fee to be too expensive. He or she could be a working-class parent, a college student on a tight budget, or maybe a reasonably affluent professional who, for one reason or another, doesn't consume enough entertainment to find Netflix worthwhile. On top of this base, you have a small proportion of ad hoc Redbox usage from people who happen to stop by, see a movie they can't get on Netflix, and check it out. And you have a very small proportion of film buffs who prefer the AV quality of physical media, like Blu-Ray.

Time will tell how long this strategy will work for Redbox. In their favor: their 36,000 kiosks are placed directly in the footpath of hundreds of millions of shoppers every week. (Walmart alone sees over 100M shoppers per week in the US, and 3,700 Walmart stores have Redbox kiosks). Working against them: broadband penetration, Netflix, Amazon, and the steady transition away from physical media.

[1] About a quarter of US households do not have high-speed broadband. That number will shrink over time, obviously, but perhaps not as quickly as we like to think it will.
Two Git Accounts on One Computer
Pretty cool, but a Fourier transform is overkill! Many commercial hand-held tuners use a cool trick that works exceptionally well: zero-crossing.

While far less accurate than your implementation, it can still help nail the note (I've written an implementation in awk before... disgusting, but worked!). Simply look at the raw data, and see when it crosses over from negative to positive (or vice-versa). Count the number of crossings in some interval, and now you have the frequency. Usually a little input fuzzing is required, but it works exceptionally well.

Regardless, nice job.
If you translate your entire comment to the non-browser development arena, it seems totally nuts. Should everyone have a full development toolchain on the 12" laptop they use to check email and read the news? I have four C compilers, three versions of Python, two Fortran compilers (and a partridge in a pear tree) on my laptop for my day-to-day development activities. Should we stuff all that in a browser? That's obviously extreme, but the point is that insisting on shipping a full developer environment to normal users just serves to limit that developer environment; at some point developers are going to want some crazy stuff that's just unreasonable to force everyone to download. By all means, leave basic debugging stuff in every browser but don't limit the tools pros can use to just that.
Ditto on advice: I'm in the same boat and I have a virtual assistant check with me daily to make sure I'm on target as well. I noticed I'm fairly socially accountable to others (but have a severe disrespect for personal timelines) so the way to make it work for me is to basically somehow involve another person checkling in on all the priorities I make.
isn't scala just a haskell wannabe?
"If your bug works specifically under GNU/Linux, don’t worry about it. If it works specifically under x86, no problem. If it only works on BeOS R5 on a dual G3 box when all four MIDI ports are active, then no."

I had Dr. Craver as both a professor and project advisor last year, and his brilliance and sense of humor are second to none.
Have you seen ngrok.com?
Regardless of the PR angle I found it valuable and it got me thinking of a few similar ideas.

Also I don't think this compares to the "suits are making a comeback" at all in the sense that it's at least a new and unique idea ... it's not a rehash used strictly to manipulate the public.
The premise here is that Silicon Valley "works". What do you mean by "works"?

If you mean creating artificial wealth for a small group of already-rich folk, yes, it works. If you mean transforming one of the most naturally advantaged landscapes on earth into a traffic-choked sea of concrete where people do little more than work at creating new ways to buy and sell stuff, yes, it works. If you mean polluting what was once the most democratic communications vehicle available with social drivel and advertising, it works.

If you mean creating innovations that truly improve humanity, the Valley extremely inefficient. If you mean demonstrating that humans don't need a pleasant natural environment to survive, the Valley is on the right track.

The one thing the Valley works very well at is self-congratulation, especially among the wealthy.
On a packed street, have something to debit it in your pocket. You'll probably be within that distance of enough wallets to get enough to be worthwhile…
Send Alex Gordon Home?
His name precluded him from his first career choice of copy editing.
Meteor Explosion Milky Way Time Lapse. By: Wes Eisenhauer
I didn't say that live/work lofts were created from industrial space. I said I live in an older, non-industrial property in SOMA, and that there are/were many examples of same. And while the live/work legislation was a compromise to allow rezoning of industrial space, that is not the same thing as saying that live/work lofts replaced only industrial spaces. That's not true.

Two seconds of google:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PAGE-ONE-Loft-War-Raging-...

"At Shift Media Inc., a small but prosperous firm on Bryant Street in the Mission, half a dozen employees work in a high-tech bunker developing Web sites for some of the nation's biggest companies. Another 20 businesses with 50 more workers share the building....Late last year, a new owner bought all the buildings on the block. The tenants in one were evicted so that it could be converted to lofts."

My point is -- and always was -- that the "build up" mantra was heeded in the late 90s, and developers used the new leniency not to build housing for artists and low-income people, but to build offices and luxury housing. This will happen again.
Yes -- a tall desk and a tall chair to match it. Then you should have no need to adjust either unless you somehow become wheelchair-bound by an injury.

It also gives you the option of leaning halfway on/halfway off the stool with one foot on the floor (to avoid the awkward pelvic tilt that a lot of office chairs cause).
A New Weekly Blog Series on DevOps
This is awesome but the pictures of the rover with the penguin chick on it got me wandering. Do animals, in this case penguins specifically, have their own version of the Uncanny Valley [0]? For an animal that does I'd imagine that this could actually have a measurable negative impact on their mood. Based on the information in the article it sounds like the penguins were OK with these rovers running around. But I wonder if they'd be even calmer if they looked just a tab bit more, or less, like another penguin to them.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Word2markdown – Convert Word to Markdown, with Images and Math
> everybody in the region is still alive and kicking.

That's kind of the point of why not to destroy them.
"I wrote this for the FT, but it's behind a paywall. Since I wrote it, I feel like it﻿﻿'s probably ok for me to post it here.﻿"

Well legally it's either ok and the contract (written or otherwise) allows you to post a copy or it doesn't.
I'll add:

Don't break accessibility. Hijacking scrolling can easily confuse screenreaders, spiders, old browsers, etc. Especially when you start doing tricks with hiding content in weird ways, etc, etc.
Facebook down?
People in Ireland - facebook down?
Because a gay man succeeded Steve Jobs at Apple then Jobs memorial must come down? That makes absolutely no sense at all to me. I wonder if Putin has also banned the music of Tchaikovsky as well?
Facebook down in UK
Fear and Creativity
sorry for the late response. It is working now! Thanks for the fast support
Stephen Pinker's Bad Grammar
"The show's been off the air for a while, so his death shouldn't bother you".

That's how this comes off. By the way, many people are completely aware that they've been off the air, and still find this saddening. In your attempt to be clever or somehow revealing a secret, you've come off as arrogant and insensitive.
The Contrarian (Sociopathic) Mindset
That is eavesdropping a transaction, not soliciting one. Plus every NFC transaction generates a new token. Even if you record it as the transaction takes place, that information cannot be used again.
FTA: "A network of clocks in space might be used to detect gravitational waves from black holes and exploding stars."
It seems like it’d be beneficial to many web publishers if browser users couldn’t easily access underlying resources, and those companies could incentivize popular vendors to go in that direction (and every decent browser auto-updates, of course). Suddenly bypassing Flickr’s spaceball becomes too complicated for regular user.

On the other hand, no one would bother with that in a world where non-mobile computers are increasingly becoming developer-only machines, so this is probably just mild paranoia.
I think that the point is that it is the new status-symbol.

In my experience (not Silicon Valley), status symbols in the form of material possessions have taken a back seat to status symbols in the form of fitness and "experiential materialism" (frequent travelling, exotic and varied experiences).
The only real/ergonomic solutions are these:

http://www.ergotron.com/portals/0/html/exploreWorkFitAll/mat...

I use the WorkFit-C for about 10 years now and I can tell you: With this one, the standing desk discussion is over!