skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much money a car manufacturer could bring in by turning their entire vehicle output as wi-fi spots for a mesh network. I know there are tel-co's in my area that want customers but cannot buy-out the fibre network from competitors. As they're already cellular providers a wi-fi mesh network with 3G internet could enable them access to an entire city.

It could be simple to establish, simply offer everyone with a warranty free in-vehicle wi-fi when they bring it in for anything. With every warrantied vehicle required to return for an oil change within 3-6 months, you can turn tens of thousands of cars into a wi-fi mesh. This could turn dense-urban areas into mesh networks very rapidly, with a maximum of 6 months till a dense network is developed.

Heck add a processor, ram and a SSD to the wi-fi device and you could sell your car network's processing power for use as a supercomputer for data crunching purposes. The potential is massive and could provide major innovation and income opportunities that vehicle manufacturers have never thought of.
Yes, and the vast majority of web apps boil down to forms with some flashy bits added. I'm not saying the flashy bits aren't nice, but you should build your forms in such a way that they still work without Javascript.

Like I said, Google Maps is my yardstick - anything less complicated than that should be built to work without Javascript. It might work slightly different and be a little less pretty, but there's no reason it can't work.
I feel this is extremely relevant to startups. Most startups have no "end"- at least Duke Nukem had a goal ("release"). With startups, they really just go on forever. No startup will ever be finished, and it is far too easy to just keep toiling away with no real goal.

If startups had a set end date where the developers moved on, I would argue that we'd have more useful projects coming out of the Bay Area.
During the experiment of not displaying points on comments, was the voting less volatile, with smaller voting swings? If it was, then hiding the points until a few minutes or hours after the comment is posted (i.e. until the volatility becomes reasonable) could replicate the effect. If not, then maybe the voting swings are inherent as a statistical property of any sufficiently large community, in which case you may want to display a confidence interval of the voting score instead of the score itself.
If you look up "effectively" in the dictionary, it means "in such a manner as to achieve a desired result". The author highlights the desired result of requiring the user to click on the poster before buffering is allowed to begin. He currently cannot achieve the result he desires. The title makes sense to me.
To be fair this does describe something genuinely interesting (the custom data transfer format). It’s not the fact that it’s about a particular film that made me link to it, but the technology limitations that were overcome.
And IBM's technology (Eclipse). And Apple's technology (webkit). Heck, they'd be remiss not to use some Microsoft tech. :)
You have to have to pre-define 'ready' with your team to be able to know when to ship.
Slightly related: the HTML5 'Audio' element is also effectively unusable.

I was building choreographi.es (http://choreographi.es) a while back and was using the JPlayer plugin for JQuery, which attempts to use HTML5 audio and then falls back on Flash for platforms which don't support it.

The gist of my app was that I needed to match movements _exactly_ to specific offsets in the music. Between Safari and Firefox, Firefox was dead on, while Safari randomly appeared to skew as it started playing from different points in the music, just enough to be significant. I'd imagine it was some bug in counting sampling rate. In the end I had to crack open the JPlayer code and force Flash all the time.

TL;DR Moral of the story? It's hard to expect implementation to be perfect for a not-yet-finished standard, but until then, someone (you/me/us?) needs to make the equivalent of a community quirksmode combined with automatic bug submission to the relevant engine so we can get on with our lives.
I'm sure one of the many lawyers who lurk can elaborate but I'm pretty sure that limited liability doesn't shield managers who commit criminal acts.
Sure.
But with a DEV_SYD_DB03, UAT_MEL_APP07, PROD_BNE_DB01 kind of scheme, I've got much more information at a glance than you do.
I felt like crying. What a terribly, terribly sad tale. :(
I thought the end was clever.
Money is not wealth. Things that people want is wealth. If your company paid you $1, it's presumably because you gave them something that they want more than $1, most likely your labor.
Anything like this that will run in a linux windows manager?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen says he didn't return to the company after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's in 1983. Surely you and gp didn't mean that MS stopped being one of the best companies in 1983?
Oh for goodness sake.

Let people express their emotions how they want to. It's not for anyone to tell someone else that their emotions aren't real, that their expression isn't real or that they shouldn't be allowed to communicate publically about it.

The guy comes across as a jerk, to be honest.
How do you measure that?
Lots of new features for wolfram alpha
This shouldn't shock anyone. It has long been the position of the RC Church that property rights are secondary compared to the right to live.
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Yup. And then you are forced to move the physical location of the server to some remote data center. But because your infrastructure is tightly coupled to the specific machine name you can't change it, so now the name is misleading.
Look! Support for functional programming and pure functions: http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/ComputationalScience.ht...
The top 20% aren't benefitting from everyone else's system, they are benefiting by the lack of rules and control from others (essentially freedom) and their own ingenuity.

In other words, the top 20% aren't benefiting at the sacrifice of any one else... they are creating new wealth. And, it's frankly none anyone else's concern, in general, how much wealth they choose to create for themselves.

Consider if you would, yourself living on your own remote property. Suppose you have an excellent system of agriculture and infrastructure that you engineered yourself... which is immensely productive. Now suppose another individual migrates to that location and you then create rules b/w you and said person to respect each other's property. All the sudden, are you benefiting from your new society's system of rules and his agreement not to harm to you? No; you are benefitting from you own ingenuity and labor, as you were before he arrived. You are profiting from your own freedom and the use of your own mind, as you did before.
How would a rating agency? The options traders have money on the line; the rating agency is betting its reputation--which means it can exploit mispricings in the reputational marketplace by doing a bad job and hiring good PR people and lobbyists. This is the purest, most cynical way to explain ratings agencies in general.
Google Chrome - Linux - Can't Render Gmail
Hey guys, I just noticed that Chromium on linux has a problem rendering the navigation pane. Basically I can't get to anything other than the first screen (inbox) or a search. The entire left navigation bar's entries are not working. Not true for firefox.

I just like the irony of it all.

Strangely enough if switching to html view, then standard view it starts working, until you reload the page thats when it screws up again.
That's easily countered by launching as early as possible.
The tragic part is that our schooling system often punishes the creative, rich writing the author advocates. The good teachers may recognize it and reward it, but the bad teachers will just take points off because you are "missing an introductory paragraph."

This is why standardized writing tests hold a special place in my bitter heart - they codify the fear of deviation and require you to spew mediocre crap - as long as it's mediocre crap spelled correctly with a topic sentence in each paragraph.
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It's not the video and audio aspects of flash he is concerned about, it's the automatic loading and playing of content with flash that is annoying. Audio and video that doesn't load until you ask for it is perfectly acceptable.
Startups eventually run out of money. It sounds like the Duke Nukem Forever team basically had the same problem; it's just that their money lasted 12 years.
I wholly disagree with 'progressive' taxing. Taxing should be like voting, everyone gets the same whether they want it or not.

Problems arising from taxation shouldn't be solved by complicating the taxation process, they should be resolved after taxation. If you take 10% of everyone's wages then the top 20% will be paying 80% of the nations income tax. Distribution to people below the poverty line can be implemented (as in most countries it is) after taxation.

I get one vote, I should be getting one tax, just like everyone else.
Four legs good, two legs bad. Or the other way round.
Let my words not be misrepresented as a simplistic call for people to shoplift. The observation that shoplifting is the best option that some people are left with is a grim indictment of who we are. Rather, this is a call for our society no longer to treat its most vulnerable people with indifference and contempt.
Time or scope. Pick one.
Eponysterical *

* Entertainingly ironic, given the poster's username
Sure, you can launch. But then what? You still have nothing but time. You can set milestones, and releases. However, since there will never be a "shipped" or "finished" product, many startups end up having no direction.

After all, they have forever to get it right.
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It's a useful skill to be able to write well in that situation.

I guess I'm of a class of people who disagree with this assertion. My counter-assertion is that all contrived writing is a waste of time, both for the writer and a reader.

Early in school, I had a tendency to procrastinate such assignments. What I found useful from these experiences was recognizing the fundamental distastefulness early and giving myself permission simply not to do it. One always has a choice.
I don't like it. I don't like going on a manhunt for no good reason.

Are they ex-employees who must be punished dearly?

Are they thiefs? Alleged thiefs? Being hassled by the company?
I definitely think so. I remember reading an Gabe Newell interview in a 1999 PC Gamer magazine about this. Newell stated that, after the excellent critical acclaim of Half-Life, that he wasn't eager to begin Half-Life 2, because, "our fans will expect it to be the best game ever." Alas, six years later, Newell and Valve was able to deliver a worthy sequel. The Duke crowd certainly had the same problem, but perhaps lacked the managerial skills and vision necessary of such a project.
"I'm not sure which obvious ones he's failing to consider."

Soup kitchen?
Where would you imagine they would go? They'll either burnout of the industry entirely, or go to work in a similar role elsewhere or become self-employed via freelancing or their own startups.
I've made this case to my wife, and she won't have it. The problem with this of course--you can't be 100% ethical without starving. Sorry plants.
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Reminds me of another deeply troubled project out of the Dallas-area FPS community circa 1999: John Romero and ION Storm's development of "Daikatana," as described by this excellent Dallas Observer article: http://www.dallasobserver.com/1999-01-14/news/stormy-weather...
Go ahead an put your (fake) money where your mouth is :)

http://home.inklingmarkets.com/markets/24465
What do you think about all those developers who, as the article says, spent a decade working on a project and now have nothing to show for it?

Do you think they really have nothing to show for it? Do they take a part of the blame?

I mean, they still have a decade of experience in 3D game development and, as it seems, working with some of the newest technologies out there.

Would you consider hiring them, or would you rather hire someone who spent a decade working for someone who was a better leader than Broussard and actually finished some projects?
Google Maps is of course less interactive and shiny but still works fine without js. I'm dismayed that we don't routinely expect all web developers to be similarly talented and thorough.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&output=ht...
In the US: "In 2000, the top 25 percent of all taxpaying filers paid a whopping 83.6 percent of all income taxes. By 2005, they paid 85.6 percent of all taxes. So in spite of tax rate cuts for the well-off, the share of taxes paid by the well-off has risen." http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/columnists/s... - The irony is that tax cuts for the rich under the Bush Administration made taxation more progressive as it grew the overall tax base.

More here: http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2007/10/top-1-pay-mo... "The new data shows that the top-earning 25% of taxpayers (AGI over $62,068) earned 67.5% of the nation's income, but they paid more than four out of every five dollars collected by the federal income tax (86%). The top 1% of taxpayers (AGI over $364,657) earned approximately 21.2% of the nation's income (as defined by AGI), yet paid 39.4% of all federal income taxes. That means the top 1% of tax returns paid about the same amount of federal individual income taxes as the bottom 95% of tax returns."
It's not exactly suggesting that the Irish eat their children, but it's an interesting take nonetheless.
And, then, how is starving ethical to yourself?
We are developing in PHP for the cloud.

With operating systems iterating to supporting tons of processor cores and unbelievable amounts of memory and blade servers becoming more and more popular, it looks like the Cloud as we know it is going to grow exponentially from where it is now.

RedHat says RHEL 5.4 AS supports an unlimited amount of processor sockets.
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/advanced/
You wrote:

Sarbox has driven up audit costs for startups as well.

That's exactly what legislators and regulators in DC never seem to understand. Every politician repeats bromides about the small businesses and how they're the engine of growth in this country. And then they make it impossible to be a small business by raising barriers to entry through fee after fee and regulation after regulation. Big companies don't care, because they would rather pay the government than face competition.

From the article:

Larger firms lobbied for passage of the act,
figuring they could absorb the costs that would
hobble smaller competitors - which is just what happened.

This is what happens with every major piece of economic regulation going back to the New Deal. Well-intentioned legislators regulators aim to constrain big business, but end up choking small business.
FlashBlock handles that nicely in FF. Nothing is loaded until you click on it.
I noticed that too, but wasn't sure if I should bring it up.
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It forced me to confront my unquestioning love for creating computer games and made me realise that making games can be fun, but can also be as much as a drag and grind as programming anything else. There is always plenty of meat for the grinder (read shiny-eyed students) coming into the industry to justify low wages and many of my co-workers were burnt out.

So I listened to my wife and moved backed home to New Zealand. I worked in a variety of other positions and decided that I'm not going to be satisfied in any particular 9-5 job for long. The next chapter is being written right now as I continue in my current 9-5 while spending all my free time working on Gridspy (http://gridspy.co.nz) which is the startup that will eventually set me free.

When I say free, I mean it will still be a lot of work, but I will be in control of my destiny. I'll decide what features to work on when, which technology to use and if we will have free lunches and soda. Hopefully I'll manage to democratise the process enough that everyone can enjoy themselves just as much as we grow.
The auto play isn't a requirement for using flash. What makes you think that the people doing auto loading and playing with flash won't do it with HTML5 tags? People can write annoying crap on any platform.
But for the example of the recently released prisoner he cites, I'm not sure which obvious ones he's failing to consider.

Begging and dying would seem to both be more morally acceptable than stealing.
I like it. It's actually very close to what I did with sawfish back in the day. Being a vim guy myself, I bound left/down/up/right to hjkl. I may steal some of your ideas as I experiment with my SizeUp bindings though.
Feature creep is never a good thing.
Good Lord, that's beautiful. I always want to do some kind of Processing-based UI.

After half an hour wasted, I ended up with a pretty decent smiley face.
I don't like it either. Doing this without any context is creepy and a little un-nerving. People would probably go to some length for $1000.
Sure. Check out http://www.bu.edu/maps. I agree that any "content" site should work, but as I use more and more web applications, I tend to rely on niceties of JavaScript more and more. Yes, it is a security concern, but keeping your browser up to date is not that hard. For the rest: AdBlock Plus solves my problems.
Part of our psychology as humans needs a deadline then. I shall go forth and create by Friday then!
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The amazing thing about it is that it is an 'answers engine'. Unlike web search engines, it does not try to return relevant web pages to a particular search term. It treats your query as a question and attempt to compute an answer. Its internal databases are already massive. It is a much higher bar to say 'we want to get the answer'.

More intriguing in a recent interview with David Cohen from New Scientist Stephen Wolfram claims to have found a model which describes the universe using cellular automata (even containing something that looks like general relativity).

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Interestingly, a while ago I had an application where JavaScript was added later on in the game. The result was that we could split into two apps: a rich fast glitzy one and a basic one suitable for mobile devices.
Wow, color me corrected. What an impressive example to set.
It's a shame more companies don't operate this way. There is such a lure toward empire building in the corporate world that it's difficult for people to see the downsides of the maga-corporation model of organization.
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Ask HN: Why did you choose Ubuntu?
We chose RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.3 for our development server because it is cost effective (cheap) and is supported by RedHat plus it is a supported operating system for our Dell server. It also has stable RPM’s, errata, ect.

Since a lot of you use UBUNTU I was wondering, why you chose to go with UBUNTU. What particular features appealed to you to make you choose this particular Operating System?

What was your thought process behind the selection, and are you happy with it?
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It's a lot more rational than rational than paroling an experienced criminal back into society without the most basic means of economic support.

While in prison, convicts typically work but the costs of their incarceration are set against their earnings, such that the amount they make is trivial, basically equivalent to pocket money for a child. Now while I don't think anyone should expect to go to prison for financial gain, society has an interest in motivating a convicted criminal to act within the law after their release. For petty and less serious crimes, providing some sort of economic incentive and organizational assistance following release from prison is probably more likely to reduce recidivism.

I mean, in prison you have a roof over your head and a few meals every day - your physical basic survival is assured. In the case described in the sermon, a newly-released prisoner is then put into a position of trying to reintegrate into society with the equivalent of about 2 days' pay at minimum wage, which is not at all adequate to ensure basic physical survival, especially in winter. No matter how sincere a prisoner's remorse and intention of reform, putting them into a drastically worse economic situation immediately after release massively increases the temptation to crime - either for its immediate gain, or as a deliberate strategy to get sent back to prison and the surety of a bed/ roof/ meal.
Sheer hubris. They had a certain sense of humor, they had Duke, and they had a knack for creative physics ideas that affected gameplay, like Duke 3D's cameras, mirrors, and shrink-ray. They could have made a really fun game that was a year behind on the graphics and physics engines. But they wanted to be the best at everything.
Well, one assumes that an HR person that reads HN might be enough...
In the game industry the standard metric is "titles shipped" - you will see this as minimum requirements for various job postings. Not having enough titles shipped on your belt is deadly. It's hard to get people to even look at your resume.
This article doesn't go very far towards rationalizing its thesis with the fact that some vegetable matter is actively, aggressively designed to be eaten. The balance of reproduction and survival is different between plants and animals.
"I think you are grossly underestimating how difficult it was to build a ship capable of traveling for a few days, landing at islands with no source of food or fresh water, and returning safely home 1300 years ago."

If I am, so what? That is completely irrelevant to the point that space is inhospitable to human life and drastically different than setting sail to risky and unknown, far-away destinations on the earth. Nobody is going to get space-ship wrecked on an asteroid. They would be dead.

"The only difference is that early sea explorers were able to realize economic benefits incrementally."

That is far from the "only" difference and this statement is delusional if you actually believe it. I think that you've been reading too much science fiction.
"All whales are meat-eaters. They feed on the flesh of other animals, even if these are very small and strained from the water, as are krill." -- Steve Parker, Whales and Dolphins (Sierra Club, 1994) p. 28.

Yep, we might as well get used to the idea that while plants are autotrophs,

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

all of us heterotrophs

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

have to eat something, so we may as well eat what helps us be healthy and live according to our adaptations and place in nature.
Real post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1008802

Oops! I learned 2 things:

1. I should have copy pasted the url instead of typing it.
2. The blog software needs a 404 page.

Thank you for alerting me to this.
The same is true of Team Fortress 2, which took Valve ten years and multiple from-scratch rewrites but was eventually released to wild success.

It's like the DNF story rewritten to have a happy ending.
The amount of money already invested on Twitter requires it to be out-of-the-charts wildly profitable.

How does Facebook compare in this regard?
My guess is that they're friends of the company who volunteered for this.