skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a ton of really interesting and cool stuff that was done in wavelet research years ago which got patented and hasn't really seen the light of day in the way it should.

If the patents hadn't existed I'm sure we'd now have much better widely available voice recognition, image recognition, and related data processing software than we do now.
Precisely the reverse is true. People installed Flash to play games and use artist / restaurant 'websites' made by new-media-douchebags.

Flash video took off because of the enormous install base, and the ability to control presentation.
I wonder how long until the dev channel features 5.0 builds :)
It really is a problem. Right now we're at a moment in HN history in which is possible to get a submission on the FP by dumb luck, but it's better to have a couple friends take a look and vote right away (not endorsing spamming--just saying that drawing attention to your submission during that critical few minute window makes a big difference).

As HN grows, however, this will change: it will be absolutely required for you to get your friends to upvote in that critical window to have any chance of hitting the FP. That's not a good road to go down, so I think it's definitely time to adjust the way it works.
Maybe an optional two column layout for members with upcoming on the right. Maybe a smaller font...
I find this hard to believe.

A google answers query from 2005 puts Flash penetration at 98.2% (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/561724.html)

The article introducing the groundbreaking sIFR library from 2004 cites the reasoning for using Flash as high penetration (http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr).

Macromedia in the year 2000 puts their penetration rate at ~90% (http://web.archive.org/web/20001109224100/http://www.macrome...)

There is simply no evidence that points to video causing Flash to become a standard plugin.
Ah, but these are long-term short-term gimmicks.

The first two, Energy independence and Cut Spending in a simplistic way, have been gimmicks since at least President Jimmy Carter in the late '70s. Modernize Infrastructure is also old, but I can't remember when it became a big ongoing theme like the first two.
URL Shortening Frenzy Comes with Security Risks
You have to look at the WASL specifically and filter on other criteria from there. For example, a bar chart of 10th grade scores comparing low/non-low incomes:

http://reportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/waslTrend.aspx?year=&gr...
The author posits that hardcore gamers are against the inclusion of an easy mode entirely, not just that they are unwilling to play these modes.
I'm on 64bit Linux here, and as long as I used the Adobe Flash plugin, it regularly crashed (in various ways, most of the time just the flash subsystem).

I know there is a 64bit version now, but I got genuinely fed up with them, so I deleted the plugin and use swfdec for youtube and just don't care about the rest. Can't say that I'm bugged much, my browsing experience actually improved.

The main reason I boycott flash is still, that it is by no means sustainable and it inhibits the progress of the web a lot (get the feeling of a hamster in a hamster wheel, solving the same damn problems over and over again). It must simply die.
This is on the frontpage of HN?
By focusing only on the older fans and locking out the young ones, comics severely wounded itself. By focusing only on the skilled players and locking out the inexperienced ones, pinball killed itself.

Videogames are lucky. They can have it both ways - easier difficulties as a low barrier to entry, and harder difficulties to entertain and challenge the veteran players. This is a great advantage of videogames, and it should be thoroughly embraced.

s/videogames/your_platform|business_model|etc
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I tried the Chrome beta for OS X yesterday, and deleted it once I noticed that there was no way to edit bookmarks.
Hacker builds tracking system to nab Tor pedophiles
Could you please list a couple or recommend one out of experience? Thank you.
You're wrong. 64-bit Intel means more performance as the cpu has more registers, and 64-bit apps on Mac OS X runs in a more secure runtime environment.
Hope loads of people with the means to do so can sponsor hungry developers to attended via scholarship tickets.
the link doesn't follow through. i've posted what is perhaps the correct link at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075925
Video was barely emerging back when Flash began, ala RealPlayer and the like. Flash itself didn't even begin getting good video functionality till the 6th version (Flash MX) from memory.
Poll: Do you ask friends to upvote your submissions?
Related to this thread about needing links to appear on the Home page instead of just the New page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075816
Yes, I ask friends to upvote my submissions
No, I submit links without assistance
Nokia N900 Runs Android?
I definitely agree about the speed things are going down on the new page. We got a post for the review of our website (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075533) and it was out of the page in less than a hour.

I think that a better way to handle it would be to allow users to whitelist/blacklist users, and set up a separate "incoming" section, sorted by recency. Users that you already know, you put on the whitelist and all of their links stay on the page. Blacklisted users never go to the "incoming" section.

You could also put "degrees of trust" on the whitelist and have links from users that are on the whitelist of your whitelisted users.
Making applications scalable with Load Balancing [2006]
I've created a poll to find out how common it is to ask friends to upvote submissions. If it really is common behavior, then maybe something does need to be done about this.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075931
Easy mode isn't for the hardcore gamers...
That would make firefox inconsistent for different users that don't have the codec installed and it would make it look bad. Imagine passing a link to a friend that is not able to read it because of lack of codec, he'd blame it on firefox. So, that's not moral either.
> Investors like Cunningham fell the fastest.

One man's investor is another man's parasite.
This is a case of "You had to be there." The assignment was pretty brutal, meant to weed out those who really shouldn't be in the class. In the aftermath those that were left got a pretty good laugh from Johnny. I still smile every time I see it, but it really is an inside joke.

If you ever get the opportunity to take a class with Jeff Erickson teaching you should take it, regardless of subject matter.
i wish the big stories would get removed sooner so that more content could filter in. maybe it could just be personal: stories i've seen already are removed.

either way, i feel like stories get big and hang around even though they're getting more and more upvotes simply for being on the front page. when i page down it's just the big stories from a couple days ago that i already read.

if more new content filtered in that would be better.

also, categories, or some way to filter the stories would be hot. again, i want to see more content.

i do look at new, but the problem is that the step down is from 50+ comments to 0 comments, lots of filtering to no filtering.

i don't want to read unfiltered, uncommented articles anymore than the next person, nor do i want good new articles to be bombed by a lack of views or the first vote being negative.

perhaps we can develop a small group of people dedicated to the task, either for extra or separate karma, or simply to be part of a group doing a good job. the IBM bug-finding black suits comes to minds. this could also be a good task for n00bs to grow their karma faster, though i suspect we'd also have to work in more experienced folks in order to pass on appropriate hacker news culture.
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This is actually pretty thoughtful: the thrust of the piece is about status signaling, and how easy mode diminishes the status of the people who beat the game when it was hard. He compares it to climbing Everest, which "hardcore" mountaineers claim is being cheapened by making it safer and more accessible to less experienced climbers.

Something which should be good if the ostensible reasons for participation are true (e.g. games have an easy mode so more people can enjoy them, or fewer die on Everest so more people can appreciate its splendor), in reality are seen as bad because the ostensible reasons are false, and we're just signaling.

In that case, making that signal easier to broadcast (I beat megaman or climbed Everest), cheapens the signal of those who have invested in sending that signal before it was cheap to send.
Weird, it lets me type the number directly into the text box.
It's true that LogSearch is similar, but we focus on cloud, analytics, ease-of-use and scalability -- each of which we'ce heard Splunk lacks.
Upcoming should be a function of recent votes. Frontpage order can then be a fx of votes (+), recent votes (+), and time decay (-). This has the benefit of creating the desired functionality without altering the interface.
Using HAProxy to make SSH and SSL available on the same port
Bill Gates: Chinese censorship is "very limited"
If the alleged pedophile is savvy enough to use Tor, won't he be running his web traffic over SSL, rendering this sort of attack useless?
Here are a few I listen to:

The Command Line Podcast: http://thecommandline.net/category/podcast/

Hacker Medley: http://hackermedley.org/

Software Engineering Radio: http://www.se-radio.net/

FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/FLOSS
Ask HN: Review my app again? Short domain name search
>Ibrahim, however, told AmLaw that Conan might have som wiggle-room. “Conan will tweak his characters so they are clearly distinguishable, although the underlying concept is the same, because NBC can’t prevent him from going out and making a living by creating competing characters,” Ibrahim says.

They can't prevent it using only basic IP law but they can prevent it by contract. If the exit agreement includes a non-compete clause for example.
The amount of effort to implement a new Flash player is huge. Epic, even. Considering how fast Adobe is adding new features to Flash, trying to clone it would be like getting on a treadmill whose speed is controlled by your competitor.
I've been a huge fan of the 'hot or not' style quick voting for a while now. So much so, that my friend and I included it in a little test project we did a while back: http://beta.popularo.com/

The goal was to circulate new content to all users and at the same time reduce the chances of gaming the system (we were frustrated by the digg "power user" submissions).

Needless to say, it sits dormant now but we're both glad reddit and digg have implemented similar features.
It would be no different than the situation with Flash. Not supporting it at all makes the situation worse--you pass the link to a friend and there's no way to view it.

Because of IE there will be rollback support to Flash for the foreseeable future, so the likely result is that FireFox users will miss out on the benefits of the <video> tag. Stupid.
I worked at a company called Pica9, generating PDFs on the fly. Another company has the patent on that, so we had to spend a considerable amount of effort working around it, making sub-optimal choices at easy decision point in order to make it legal.
Unless you've got a solution for the underlying problem that it is profitable to distract people, this is going to happen no matter what people do. Removing Flash from the list of ways which they are able to do that means that they have to work that much harder, rather than you having to work that much harder to conserve your attention by blocking it. Make the bastards chase you.
No; the question asks what things would have existed. This is a concept people use all the time in everyday life without provoking ontological crises. E.g. if you say "he would have scored a touchdown if that last defender hadn't tackled him," everyone knows exactly what you mean. You can never be 100% certain about things that would have happened, so you qualify your conclusions, but it's not the case that you can't reasonably talk about such things.

I can't believe I just had to write that. This is why forums are such a time sink. If you were watching a football game with your friends and someone said "he would have scored if that guy hadn't tackled him" and you replied "how can you talk about touchdowns that don't exist?" everyone else would just roll their eyes and not invite you over anymore. But here in the world of text these subtly graduated social cues don't exist; all you can do is reply with more text. I wonder if there is some kind of solution to that.
Yes I think that's right. If all cells exist 2 possibilities for the generation counter is not enough, but 3 possibilities is. For example this rule works:

01 -- the 0 is behind
12 -- the 1 is behind
20 -- the 2 is behind

If you have non existing cells the generation counter needs to be able to go arbitrarily large (which is why it does in my program):

000 888
1 7
2 6
3 5
4444444

Lets go back to the situation where all cells exist.

In the game of life cells can only have 2 states (live or dead). In the asynchronous version they have 6 states: 2 for dead/alive * 3 for the generation counter. You could view the asynchronous version as another cellular automaton (with more possible states and different update rules).

I think you can write a procedure that takes the rules of a synchronous cellular automaton and returns a new cellular automaton that is the asynchronous version of the original.

So you could structure the program like this:

1) A function to convert an automaton to its asynchronous version

2) An asynchronous cellular automaton simulator. Instead of updating all cells in sync it updates randomly.

Edit: it's not hard actually. If the original has n states then the new one has 3n^2 states. The update rules are straightforward, but you get a huge number of them. E.g. for the game of life the original automaton has 2^9 rules (one for every possible 3x3 grid), and the asynchronous version has 12^9 rules.
Of course this is how version numbers are supposed to be used:

* You recommend users to upgrade? Major version
* You improved something without the need for everyone to update? Minor version
* You improved something that you want to get to early adopters? +0.0.1

Unfortunately there is a kind of inflation of version numbers. It seems that almost all products get stuck around 2.3.2. This is unnecessary. Version number is the best tool you have for communicating with your customers / users. Unfortunately it has been hijacked over the years to talk about compatibility. A Major release usually introduces breaking changes and a minor release doesn't. Security updates complicate the matter further, they are often dot-dot releases.
It's worth mentioning that there are two classes of this game:

1) I get 47 of my closest friends to mindlessly vote it up in some kind of vote exchange black market.

2) I get one or perhaps two close friends who have read the submission and genuinely like it to vote up so that my submission has a chance to stand on its own merit.

#1 is bad, and makes HN cheap. #2 though is a rational response to a broken system.

I think the right approach to #1 is to algorithmically detect and squash it. The right approach to #2 is to figure out why it's even necessary to do that, and change the system such that it's no longer necessary at all.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11447?ref=rss
That's what I was hoping, and that's how I'd structure it if I insisted on including a "low income" group when everything else was racially divided.

I hope that the authors did it as you described. Would I be flabbergasted if they pulled some shaky crap? No, probably not, but to quote Mulder's poster, I want to believe.
I think it is a major reason. I'm currently designing
a project that I intend to use flash as the frontend for.
Its only a desktop app, but the flex builder tools seem
so easy to work with that I've decided to make it web based.
Open to alternative suggestions.
That's a very valuable distinction. Thanks for pointing that out.
I really like the new setup. It's much less confusing than it was before.

I've used it every few days since you first announced it here - it's pretty fun to play around with.

I don't know how feasible it is to do this, but instead of prefix and suffix, I would really like to be able to use wildcards in my search. For example, say I'm looking for a domain that starts with the word "dog" and ends with "cat" or "cats"; I would like to be able to search "dog*cat?" instead of 2 boxes over 2 searches (one for the "cat" suffix and one for the "cats" suffix).
Why do high-end prostitutes make so much money?
Agreed, something like this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=919917
I don't think it works like that. From what I've observed, it depends far more on the state of the current front page stories. At night, when most of the stories are older, a single upvote on a New story an hour old can put it on the front page. In the daytime, you usually need that first upvote in 15 minutes or so.

But it's not a set time or point scale, it's based on what's currently on the front page, how old those stories are, and how many points they have.

The one thing I do agree with is that after a certain timeframe, I do wish even the most popular stories decayed more quickly.
I've submitted 18 articles, and 9 have made it to the homepage (http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ironkeith). I am certainly not a power user, and I don't have a circle of friends who quickly upvote my submissions to game the system. So far as I can tell, people use the new page, and interesting articles make the home page.

That said, I also think it's really important to ensure that the title you submit is properly phrased. The articles that have received the most votes have inevitably been the ones I put some time into rewording to appeal to HN users.
It's working in the dev release, though not so well.
There's the FAT32/vfat issue that caused Linus to take out the write support for long filenames. Not helpful, but I wouldn't call it impeding innovation.
If you use the dev channel release there is a bare bones bookmark manager.

http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
There's a lot of h.264 to buy, from a lot of owners, and not very many of them would dream of selling.

Besides, Apple has been a member of MPEG-LA for a long time, and has 1 patent in the h.264 pool: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=VNKRAAAAEBAJ&dq=7...
"App Usage Analytics From Apple Campus Reveals Tablet Details"
Do you think that your former employer (Achronix) would be pleased to hear that you are looking to disclose "specifics of designing these circuits" on a public message board?
It is important to know how to prove theorems. However, I don't think the correct way to do it is to say "Here's some vague hints, now try to guess what we're talking about by playing with these blocks". The way I was taught, which I found pretty effective, was that we'd be given an theorem, then in some cases (not all, or we'd never get anywhere) prove that statement. When you hand over the theorem and then make the student prove it, he applies and synthesizes previous theorems to explain the new one.
Apple Tablet 'Isn't Going To Cost Anywhere Near $1,000'
Moore is headed to a massive government paycheck if he keeps it up. "Catching pedophiles" is the best business plan; the name practically funds itself.
This is an intriguing approach but you need to watch out for unintended consequences.

If patent licensing carries with it x risk in addition to the benefits, and suddenly that risk becomes 2x or 5x or 10x (depending on how one quantifies the risk of forfeiture of the cumulative royalties, plus associated penalty), I would think this have an adverse effect on the patent licensing market in causing the licensing parties to increase the royalty rates to help offset the heightened risks.

Don't know how this might affect the troll market for licensing but it might have this unintended impact on legitimate licensing deals of all types (ones that have nothing to do with the dubious patents found at the margins).
okay, what's the current best web solution for vector animation besides Flash?
Apache Buildr
Yeah. There's also a difference when it comes to what you're posting. If I post Random Link To an Article I Found Online, I don't bother asking any of my friends to upvote. If I post Ask HN: Review My Startup That Will Make Me Millions, I really want to make sure that gets seen so I get plenty of insight, so I'll either ask 1 or 2 of my friends to or tweet the link to the HN discussion, knowing that only 3 or 4 of my followers even have HN accounts that they've used enough for their votes to count, so I'm not gaming the system to a ridiculous degree.
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No worries. FWIW, I've worked for an ISP, and now offer (really cheap) domain mail hosting services too. So, yeah.

That said: my point wasn't so much that Rackspace is a bad hosting company, but rather that the original question was looking for a solution that would offer really close to zero downtime for their customers, and given that, "put it all on Rackspace" isn't a viable answer.
I wonder if someone at Apple just collects all these tablet day-dreams, polishes the ideas a bit and then patents them.

This could be a crowd-sourcing business model in itself.
Out of curiosity, can you be more specific on what scalability, analytics, and ease-of-use improvements LogSearch offers vs. Splunk in particular? We use Splunk internally and have not found it to be significantly lacking in these areas but are always open to alternatives. Additionally, what is the advantage of relegating log management to a cloud application? Typically log data is relatively sensitive; do you provide assurances that the data won't be misused, lost, repurposed, etc.?
Setup your own hackers club.
Two words:

Veblen Good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
Eek ~8-0

Gotta side with the OP on this one, thanks for the link. It's not the math that's at fault so much as the total orientation towards grinding out the answer with a calculator, vs writing it. Oh dear :-/
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Did NOT need to see Scoble shirtless
Customer Development Update (and why I'm sticking with 1-on-1 talks)
Industries Apple's Tablet Could Shake Up
I'm sorry, you've got that totally backwards. The way Windows handles 64-bit is decidedly disappointing: it's a whole separate version (no upgrades!) that has two copies of everything.

Apple has pulled it off beautifully: one version of the whole OS, Universal Binaries for everything, uses whatever kernel is most appropriate because it can run 64-bit processes on a 32-bit kernel, everything just works.
Your site is getting caught in Safari's suspected malware filter. There's a out-of-place link to "Best Philadelphia Wedding Photographers" in the footer which might be related.
Canvas. Or SVG. Those are the iPhone-friendly solutions.

For IE compatibility, experiment with Raphael: http://raphaeljs.com/
The "Good Enough" Formula for Segmenting an Existing Market
I think this model, properly handled, benefits new authors as much as it benefits publishers. Instead of spending their days splicing cables or selling insurance, they have a "day job" that furthers their careers.
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So long as you apply for an API key, I'm pretty certain you're good to go. This is precisely the type of thing they want the service to be used for.
IT Project Communication and the NASA Launch Process
What do they mean by "Ruby support"?
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