skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the lack of responsiveness/feedback makes the touchscreen kindles especially frustrating - my page turning error rate was probably >10%, between accidental brushes, double turns, and other mishaps. Really got in the way of getting lost in the book. Plus, I love the tactile feedback of the buttons they used on the old ones.

If you want an old one, looks like good quality ones are going for ~$60-80 on Amazon, and it's pretty easy to sell a Kindle via the fulfilled by Amazon seller program - just set a price slightly below others offering Prime, ship off your Kindle and other old electronics, and they send you money when your stuff sells.
But that App just adds redirects to your /etc/hosts file... Its pretty easy to replicate that behavior on Linux. I like OS X as much as the next guy, but that particular feature isn't really unique.
Just to clarify, are you asking if there is a way to search through the sources attached to notes?
The Odin project – A free web development curriculum by the people
3,410,682 (from reddit.com/about) is the number of logged in accounts yesterday, not last month.
I do understand that. We'd be talking about programs built in the 95-98 era however, and the majority would not be in current use. The biggest exception would be enterprise, though if they're upgrading to a recently released Windows version they'd (hopefully!) be using more modern software too.

At the end of the day, we're still only guessing at Microsoft's rationale. Esoteric compatibility issues seem lower down the list from issues like breaking away from the Windows 8 name (which has accumulated negative association in the public view).

Until Microsoft says for sure, it's just a bit silly to make the claim as fact.
The live streaming of the BT sounds like a very interesting feature. One that could lead to possible improvements to those sites hosting videos behind thousands of ads.
Animating CSS Gradients, Using Only CSS
Xiaomi Confronts Counterfeits as Fake Products Eat into Sales
Like, umm, Amazon's AppStream? [1] There's a process that involves, approximately, running an installer on a virtual Windows desktop, after which you can stream an app to a Windows or Mac desktop or laptop. Or to a Chromebook (!!). You can even stream to an Android or iOS device, but without a physical keyboard or mouse you can't DO much with apps. [2]

And considering how much work we've done to cut down on latency, I wouldn't expect the Steam streaming app running over a generic VPN connection to even come close in performance -- the VPN is almost certainly going to run over TCP, while AppStream will run over UDP, meaning in any but the best network environments AppStream will clobber a VPN connection for latency.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/appstream/

[2] Disclaimer: I work on AppStream for Amazon, but my opinions are my own and don't represent Amazon. I'm just commenting as someone who has a lot of experience playing with the product.
Automated System for Improving RSS Feeds Data Quality [pdf]
41 Years of Music Industry Change, in 41 Seconds
Please bear in mind this is second hand information (I worked at several VFX places, and by the nature of the short term contracts people move around internationally a lot. I also worked at a software vendor (not autodesk, so no direct interest in replacing marionette))

There were/are two big things that are against you if you develop in house animation software(or any software for that matter):

1) The training gap. People are most efficient with the software they are used to. Maya has been the defacto standard in animation for pretty much 7 years (if not more).

2) the R&D cost. VFX is constantly moving. (Possibly much more than normal web software) With the increase in CPU/GPU power you are able to do much more. Take hair for example, In monsters inc, Sulley has something like a million hairs. (monsters U its 5million +) You need to control that hair system some how. There are people that groom digital hairs for a living. Its a constant battle between cheating, simulation and feedback.

The hair system alone could swallow a team of Five for a year, but then you'll be negleting the other systems that need bug fixes, improvements and R&D magic.

Having an outside company, who has the resources to have many teams work on each individual part, along with a UX designer to either make it work more fluidly(or just put annoying transitions in the way.) and most importantly of all, a team of QA, bugfixers and Tech support.

You're right, custom tools give you an edge, Take katana from sony: it allowed an artist to work on an entire city scape (Billions of objects) on a single computer, in 2006 (it was developed for one of the spiderman films) Something no other system could do.

Another example is of course renderman.

But these are only the successful ones. Many custom tools are built, atrophy and die. Sometimes taking the company with them.

But like the rest of IT the march of commoditisation is in VFX as well. Most software can be bought off the shelf (maya, modo, nuke, Premier, renderman, arnold) Its also almost possible to render in the cloud (although its crushingly expensive, and slower.)
Approaches to the Intelligent Subject Search [pdf]
Against VNC there is no comparison. SplashTop is smooth and fast and uses way less bandwidth.

A better comparison would be against Steam's own streaming, which I haven't tried.
Oh, that's pretty nice. OCaml really gets namespacing problems out your way.
So it's selling for about a dollar it seems.

It might be a good purchase if the account was active before this. You know, for "marketing".
> The justification notion, I would argue that the typical user may not notice it as much as the hardcore reader.

The fact of the matter is it impacts all readers, whether they recognize it or not, and there is a reason the printing industry generally doesn't do it.
Is Clean Code Less Code?
Also: Look at Amazon's AppStream. It sets you up with Windows app streaming automatically.

(Disclosure: I work on AppStream at AWS.)
> means we have to be innovative in areas other than technology such as marketing, sales, and support. And if we cannot keep customers happy, another company can eventually come in and compete with us by offering better service and/or lower prices.

Building a company is hard enough even if things are "simple" in that someone pays for a good or service. It becomes much harder if you have to innovate in multiple ways.

That is why it is so difficult to do open source companies.
> I'm sure people would be up in arms if "America builds Creationist museum" was a headline

Why would they be up in arms, it's a solid fact:

http://www.creationevidence.org/
"What's the motivation to work on a potentially big idea rather than something you personally find great interest in"

The two aren't contradictory. All the academic folk I know work on ideas that they find interesting. And some of those things are big ideas.

The difference is that there isn't a short-term economic benefit attached to the vast majority of those ideas.
CloudFlare 3 - Fast.ly 1

PHP 3 - Python 1 :-(

GoDaddy 2 :-((

(well, I guess you can tell what PL I prefer)
> Don't even get me started on founders vesting their shares.

As an average Joe angel (not blessed with any inherited wealth), I personally think it's fair ask to ask founders to vest a "majority" of their shares. IMHO, if angels take 10% for a company in its infancy and leave founders with 90% vested equity, there is simply too much risk if one of the founders decides to leave! Especially so when the business itself hasn't really been properly built.
Thanks jamesrom for the graph.

Here is a website for /r/thebutton stats

http://button.cstevens.me/

Here's a google doc of current record holders:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v7RV0R9Q133W2QAJSAEq...

Raw data:

http://hookrace.net/thebutton.txt
You don't. Neither does anyone doing it manually, this is part of the game.
The leadership principles mentioned in this post: http://www.amazon.com/Values-Careers-Homepage/b?node=2393650...
Getting started with dynamic data (reactive extension for collections)
Ridiculous. I'm wondering how large was the budget and who got the largest stake of it for spitting all this useless errors (_nb_ it's still better than failing silently)
i heard a (possibly apocryphal) explanation of that acqusition that had something do with a forgotten invoice on Twitter's part.
Hey its useful to me. I am looking for a new phone in around that price range. This is the first I have heard of an Ubuntu phone being available, and useful to get an opinion from others even if it does seem negative.
Ah I see it now (at least one stalled connection, but I guess that's how it works)
When I'm going to sleep at reasonable time I wake up within 5 minutes of 06:00 no matter if I set the alarm or not.

When I'm not having enough sleep I wake up after alarm goes off, and usually it's already beeping for a few good minutes, before it wakes me. And I do notice immediately that it's after the alarm.

So I doubt waking before alarm is an ilussion.
At least until this treatment comes to market, there has been nothing you could do to change your colorblindness. Therefore it seems to me pretty natural that to have a positive outlook on life you would come to see it in as positive a light as possible. In fact, it's a common psychological mechanism to come to terms with elements of your life that cannot be changed, and to see yourself as better off for them.[1]

There are certainly positive aspects to colorblindness, just as there are to deafness, autism, and numerous other disabilities - even if it's simply that it makes you more compassionate toward people with disabilities, or even people in general. And as far as handicaps go, if it indeed is one, it's certainly less impactful than most. Is it a handicap though? I would say a handicap is something that prevents you from doing things that the majority of the population can do, in a way that impacts your quality of life. For me, if tulips looked like the right picture in the article[2], my quality of life would be impacted to some extent, even if the day to day events of life wouldn't much change. What if I've never experienced those colors though? Am I still missing out?

It may seem like an academic question; after all, if you don't feel like you're missing out and choose not to pursue treatment if/when it becomes available, certainly it doesn't hurt anyone else. But it can become an issue when you consider that the best time to administer such a treatment may be in infant-hood. I've certainly read about deaf people refusing to give cochlear implants to their deaf children because they don't believe that the child is missing out on anything of value, and/or that the advantages of deafness and the deaf community outweigh the disadvantages. Having normal hearing, I certainly would not have wanted my parents to make such a choice. (Although perhaps if I were deaf I would feel differently.)

Anyway, it's probably obvious which way my opinion goes, but mostly I think it's a discussion worth having.

[1] Dan Gilbert's book Stumbling on Happiness is a good read on this and related topics.
[2] http://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/fl...
But it wasn't totally unexpected, the rumour mill has been running for months.
because it's not America as whole who got together to do it, it's a couple people who live in the country who do it. At least that's how I see it.

"America rejects Bush, elects Clinton" makes sense because it's talking about something the country as a whole did. But saying "America builds the creationist museum" can be read as "this was built with a non-minimal amount of popular support, is representative of how americans see things as a whole, and should be placed on the index card describing the country and its people"
Sales of sites / domains
Something feels wrong about this article; I can't quite put my finger on what it is. It's like a lot of pop-psych claims are being thrown out there with nothing to back them up. I think I'll wait for more Amazon reviews before picking up this book, if at all.

His previous book sounds interesting though. This just smells too much like a PR piece I think.
Easier just to ignore it completely, why should I waste my time on overriding their stupidity? Actually Google seem to be dropping them down the ranks, as I rarely see a Quora link now.
> when country fairs hold competitions to see who can guess
> the weight of a cow, the guesses tend to cluster around the
> correct answer

Do they really? I've seen this a bunch of times, but never seen a citation ... and even if it's true, it strikes me that guesses at the weight of a cow at a country fair are likely to be expert guesses. I wonder how well a New York crowd would do at the same thing?

Another thing that strikes me about the wisdom of crowds are the most convincing examples are ones where the guessers are basically guessing-what-other-people-will-guess. That's the essence of markets
I think it's mostly the latter, and not so much that the knowledge frontier is rising.

The whole "publish-or-perish" game, the difficulty to get a foot in the door at all levels, etc.
Looks good! I have a suggestion and a question:

Suggestion: Make the description field for notes optional. I think in most cases the title should be pretty much self explanatory (for me at least)

Question: Is there any kind of server-side encryption? Just to keep eventually sensitive notes secret in case of a server breach? Better yet, some kind of client-side encryption would be good on a folder level. Everything should then get encrypted/decrypted on client side (yes I got really paranoid during the last months, and I'm not putting anything that is even remotely sensitive on any server that I have no control of.)

I guess some people might use this to document their server/network infrastructure, and (god beware) they might even put sensitive passwords there. Maybe you could sell then this kind of encryption as a "pro" feature ;)
Can AppStream use GPU acceleration? Does it support custom apps?

Edit: sorry for not reading the info - the answer is yes, one of the use cases listed is CAD.

https://aws.amazon.com/appstream/use-cases/

Looks like it's not supported in Sydney which kills it for me. Any hints as to when that might be coming?
https://archive.today/P6BhP
I don't think that re-enacting the mother of all demos can be done, the whole power of it was the fact that it was something that nobody had seen before. In a world where functional computer mice are found in household garbage, where interactive screens are found on every desk the people that haven't seen the original are going to be underwhelmed and those that have seen (or even experienced, what I wouldn't give to have been there) the original are going to be upset by any embellishment or 'artistic license'.

What would a modern day 40 years into the future 'mother of all demos' look like?
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I haven't really kept up with Waterloo's new requirements, but this definitely wasn't the case when I was accepted to their Computer Engineering program 6 years ago with mid 80s average with no advanced placement type courses except 2 IB certificate courses (CE was my first choice so I have no idea how SE or ME requirements would compare). They definitely do take extra-curricular stuff into account as well since some of my friends who had averages in the low 90s ish were rejected from the same program.

It's hard for me to believe they've since added a hard cutoff of 95+. It's next to impossible to get grades like that unless your highschool is handing them out like hotcakes at the eventual expense of their own reputation.

That said, the university application process is by no means a stress-free experience for students up here. Getting rejected from Waterloo would have been a huge blow to me at the time because I really wanted to experience their mandatory co-op program and understood the value it would bring to my professional career over the lackluster alternatives at other universities.
Well, the PP (the ones in power now) has been getting increasingly nationalist. In Europe, this is generally the kind of policies that the "new right" has.

This is actually the watered down version of the bill...
"The Kindle completely ignores CSS and JavaScript"

As someone who started using web browsers before CSS was adopted and when client-side scripting was a new and adventurous thing (and it was far from settled that JS was the winning language), this is really refreshing to read. Somehow it made me really happy. An acknowledgement that web pages are (or at least were) marked-up documents. A reminder of gentler times.
> The pressure sensitive buttons previously mentioned by the author are on both sides of the Voyage.

Yes, but they're a total usability disaster. The author's description of them is spot on, I've disabled them because they're just too painful to use.
Russia’s Internet censor reminds citizens that some memes are illegal
My grand father was a railroad electrician for many decades, and I always found it fascinating that he was able to get by despite his colour blindness. Apart from the wires, he had to ensure that he interpreted the red and green signal lights correctly to avoid disaster.
Would be cool if such an protocol was included in the Linux kernel. Testing websites would be simpler you would have a p2p network address interface. You could build your own family social network without sharing data to central companies though requires native browser support too.
Many people don't realize that 37Signals / Basecamp is a multi-billion dollar business. https://medium.com/@hungrycharles/basecamp-the-small-bootstr...
This looks nice.

The "Relevant to" dropdown should be sorted alphabetically, and in my opinion, default to "General".

I also don't see why description shouldn't be allowed to be left blank.

I added a tag to a note, but if I search for that tag, there are no results.

I think "favourite notes" and "favourite folders" should be given higher priority than the rather meaningless statistics on the dashboard.
Herdwick Shepherd: The life that has transfixed 45,000 people
I've tipped taxi drivers in Tokyo before and they're pretty appreciative, so maybe they just got used to foreign tourists tipping them and put up with it.
I didn't know about this. Which games?
Awesome, any good public channels ? Everyone join "hackernews" channel ^_^
I see it a bit differently : why spend time learning a weird way of updating text in a file when that activity isn't the most time consuming one by far ( and there are many more important other things to learn).
People I think all these "cheater traps" are unimportant, because there's actually no "significant advantage" to using a robot. It isn't going to make you more likely to beat human players, only allow you to stay on there longer at lower cost to you.

This is because two things: 1) the userbase size, and 2) the userbase behaviour.

Because the userbase is so large, there's always going to be some people on there, meaning even with a robot you always have some competition.

So the only thing a robot will allow you to do is potentially have better reaction times than a human, however, this is also invalid when you consider that it's likely people are not trying "hit" a particular countdown number they're "aiming for" but rather simply pressing the button when their "threshold" for waiting any longer is exceeded.

Wit enough people this is probably well modelled by a random process, with clicks coming essentially randomly over time with some weighting to increase the closer you get to zero. So even a "reflex reaction" is not going to outbeat a horde of random clickers. The robot is really only competing with itself, how fast can it check and how fast can it click after determining the person it's working for's risk/reward utility threshold has been crossed?

So having a robot to play for you is not going to allow you to cheat, only to spend your time dong something more constructive for humanity than clicking a button :)

Maybe I'm missing something here, and I still don't see a way to cheat that actually has significant chance of beating others ! :)
There's no truth to the idea that it is considered offensive in anyway.
For a more optimistic outlook may I suggest spending a little time reading http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/?
Looks awesome! A few suggestions:

1. Preview markdown result (get inspiration from GitHub).

2. Where do I add more "relevant to"? The ones you have are grossly inadequate. Possibly just make that a text field.

3. Use a code editor for the markdown editor, or even just change the font to monospace for now.
Mobile gaming ad startup PocketAd selected for GSFIndia accelerator program 2015
Presidential campaigns have most definitely gone very high-tech. The Obama campaign was run by some really smart guys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Reed) using lots of services on AWS. Check out their infrastructure diagram (heads-up its 60MB).

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14405212/AWSOFA-Print-27...

Finally, here is a great tech talk video by the Obama for America tech team lead by CTO Harper Reed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1tJAT7ioEg
On their public site? It's also written in such an amateurish style anyway...
He wanted to make sure it was really chmoded.
Probably not. $0.50-$1/hour, absolutely.
Sadly, there are still plenty of real servers that badly secured.
> If it were a community that was growing, it would be less of an issue, but everyone involved seems to be old-school Solaris geeks who just want to keep working on what they know.

This is anecdotal data vs. anecdotal data, but I'm pretty sure the Illumos community is growing, and at an appreciable pace.

I hang out in several Illumos related IRC channels, and all of them have been gaining users over the past few years. I personally am a "recent" convert, inasmuch as I had limited exposure to Solaris, and did not make the jump to it (or rather Illumos-based) being a preferred distribution until the days of SmartOS and OmniOS.

Many coworkers of mine that have had little or no exposure to Sun/Oracle Solaris are now converts to SmartOS/OmniOS.

As far as company backing, besides Joyent, they also have Delphix, Nexenta, and Lucera. It's not like Joyent is the sole light in the darkness here.

I also don't really get the feeling that it is fragmented - you have two main distributions used by the largest groups of people in SmartOS and OmniOS, but even within those and the other open source versions/proprietary appliances, there's quite a bit of coordination and work to improve illumos on the whole. I don't think anyone in the community is unaware of the fact that the whole thing is smaller, and that they need to need to work together to keep things healthy.
If you’re going to eliminate ethics as a consideration (and you are, by advocating domainsquatting) there were a wealth of other opportunities out there. Spammers, for example, made a lot of money for a while. DoubleClick cashed out for US$3B, which makes “well into 8 figures” sound pretty small. Maybe you could run literal extortion rackets, the kind where you threaten people with violence, but it’s hard to know how much money the biggest people made in that business: was it US$1M or US$10B? Or you could go lower and found a patent troll, or a law firm catering to patent trolls.
Using instagram to spy your neighbors
There's also libtcod[0], a library to help creating roguelikes. There are bindings in a lot of languages (Common Lisp, Nimrod, Lua, Go, D...) and it's a real pleasure to use!
I used to work on a Python roguelike, and I can't recommend this lib enough.

[0] http://roguecentral.org/doryen/libtcod/
The problem here might be that those startups, at the time they got acquired, were not perceived any more as startups.
Maybe that’s only because they lacked the contributions you would have made?