skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about it this way. Let's say I'm trying to buy a pair of night vision goggles that could see through people's clothes. Well let's say I search google and I get spammed with night vision goggles of poor quality and that can't see through people's clothes. Theoretically speaking, if the manufacturer of a night vision goggle knew how perverted I was, they'd be willing to pay Google to get the right information in front of me. This is because they know with that key perfectly targeted information they can make a sale with me. I want to see through people's clothes, the manufacturer makes money off me. WIN WIN!

That is my definition of perfect targeting. And it also explains why Google wants to get more information out of us. Obviously more information means better targeting. But this better targeting also means better ads that are more relevant. Relevant doesn't mean ads close to what I want but not really what I want. Relevant means genuinely relevant. And I REALLY believe Google is trying to achieve that perfect genuine relevancy.

Sure Good search results are there, but there is still noise. Good search results still requires us wafting through the crap. But with paid well targeted ads, the right information has the potential to come to you by circumventing the things that cause the noise. Companies who know they have an advantage on pervert night vision goggles can pay for that highly targeted area and get the information to the right people.
As uneasy as I am about what the iPad might say about the future of personal computing, if it can deliver the death blow to Adobe Flash then I'm all for it.

However, I do have my doubts. This article compares the iPad's Flash problems to Firefox's early problems with sites that were designed specifically for IE, but that's really an apples-to-oranges (Apples to Orange Foxes?) comparison. Firefox succeeded despite early incompatibilities because it targeted power users--the kinds of folks who can live with recurrent web browsing glitches, who can recognize broken sites and don't mind alt-tabbing back to IE where necessary.

But the iPad's target demographic isn't the power user, it's the technological neophyte. iPad users may be less tolerant of things not "just working", and the iPad may therefore have a harder time of bridging that incompatibility gap than Firefox did.

(And while Firefox users always had the option to fall back to IE--using Firefox and using IE were not mutually exclusive choices--what's the fallback option for iPad users when the content they want is only available with Flash? Carry a laptop with them, too?)
Not true. They made massive optimizations to the JIT compiler as well as Actionscript. It still runs faster than js (even V8) for many pixel intensive operations. Just because the original idea of multimedia was from Macromedia, doesn't mean Adobe didn't innovate on top of it.
My wife has a modbook, and it is made of unmitigated awesome. It's a little heavy, and the display is a bit dim because of the glass screen cover... But it's awesome. And the price is very reasonable. The stylus works really well (and comes with several different types of tips, including a felt tip that feels just right...)

She bought it to do UX design work with it, and started on a webcomic with it because she just liked playing with it so much. ArtRage is awesome on it.
Thanks for the interest. Email replied!
Thats looks like a great opportunity, wish you were looking for marketing people
You should preload the 1-2 next pages (i.e. using an hidden iframe).
Crop: Andrew's Crop Circle Language
What I think every time I see the blue boxes screenshots:

http://gr.ayre.st/s/images/go_flash.png
I'm currently in my senior year at the University of Minnesota Duluth, finishing up my Computer Science degree. I really enjoy programming in general without an allegiance to any one particular language. The past two summers I've interned for IBM in Rochester MN. Right now, I'm looking for an entry level job in or around the Minneapolis area. I don't know if there's a big Minneapolis crowd on this site, but I thought I'd put myself out there if anyone is out there. My email is in my profile if anyone is interested.
TotalFinder - Tabs in Snow Leopard Finder
Spot on. And the question you have is quite similar to the question I have, but I'd phrase it differently;

Are low cognitive friction abstractions implicitly the exclusive domain of a locked down ecosystem? Or is it possible to have one's cake and eat it too?

I think it's very clear that it's much easier in a locked down ecosystem, I'm just not certain beyond that.
Currently looking for work in the Toronto area so that I can move back. Though I'm not looking for an internship, I'll throw my hat in since people seem to be pimping non-internship jobs too. Actual experience with Java/Groovy/Perl/C, non-work experience with Python/C++/PHP4/awk/etc. Very mild experience with Cocoa/ObjC/OpenGL. (Practically entry-level as I only have ~1 year of experience)

bsandrow@gmail.com
I can name at least nine; assuming jrockway is more familiar with PHP than I am (very likely), 10 is reasonable or even understated.

1) The term "scripting language"; meaningless, and usually just used as an insult (as in this case) rather than with any reasonable definition.

2) Browsers don't execute PHP

3) Not all scripting languages are executed based on line order.

4) PHP doesn't require values to be declared before they're used.

5) Not all compiled languages are compiled to a separate file.

6) Most modern compiled languages compile to byte-code, which is not more "executable" than the original source.

7) Compilers do have to read the program from beginning to end. This might just be my ignorance, but I've never heard of a random-access parser.

8) Being compiled doesn't necessarily make execution any faster.

9) The compiled file still has to be read entirely, before it can be executed. Depending on code size, sections of it may be read repeatedly.
- Python, Django and AppEngine for the server.

- JavaScript, JQuery and Google's Closure for the client.

- NGINX for the infrastructure if needed, for media hosting for example.
That's what I think of every time I see a page that has flash on it. It makes me wish I knew of an easy way to install a fake flash plugin into Chrome that intentionally crashes immediately.
You replied to a comment about backing assertions up with facts, with "yet there are no homeless there".

I do not live in San Diego, and "there" implies that neither do you. So let's look at facts before making points through assertion?

The top 5 hits for "homeless san diego" yields the following organizations:
http://www.sdrescue.org/ http://sdhomeless.org/ http://www.alphaproject.org/ http://www.rtfhsd.org/

And the latter two provide immediately accessible numbers. Alpha Project "is a nonprofit human services organization that serves over 2,000 men, women, and children each day." The Regional Taskforce for Homelessness in San Diego published a 2009 overview (PDF, http://www.rtfhsd.org/pdf/PITC09.pdf) indicating at least 7892 counted within the San Diego area, at least 4338 in San Diego City.

Those are facts, and they took one minute to acquire. If your point was that there were less per capita, I cannot argue with that as I do not have comps.
Thanks for the info!

Yeti is a small and simple ML-derived language for the JVM. I found it refreshingly simple (an afternoon with the tutorial and I felt comfortable with it, though I have yet to write anything "real" in it) and the "community" is quick to respond to queries (community is in quotes because theres only about five of us on the mailing list...).
I plan on using Yeti as the "formula" language in a spreadsheet type program :-)
I currently work in an open office, and I agree completely.
Ya I used to agree with you completely. I still do for the majority of pages out there.

I recently learned of a counter example. There is a locally owned sports bar and restaurant that has a very active group. Most of the members are fans of sports teams that are across country and the games play regularly at this bar. The owner is active in the group too and definitely encourages and responds to conversation. The other group I know that is relatively active has more or less the same characteristics. It's people who identify with the group but are otherwise disjoint - and this is the best way for them to casually communicate. I think it's safe to say this was the original intent of groups and pages. Celebrities and companies are just taking advantage it. Of course, I have a handful of pages on my facebook profile, so I guess I'm as guilty as anyone else. (I'm With COCO!)

EDIT: abusing -> taking advantage
Outside of right and wrong, Steve Jobs has a lot of attitude.
When Apple licensed the Mac OS and Mac ROMs to third parties, in '94, the first clones hit the market in '95.

The truth of the matter is, they did it too late, and when they did, their competition released Windows 95, and later Windows NT 4 ... which were seen as big improvements over their predecessors, and Mac OS 7 wasn't that great compared to Windows.

Practically, it was too little, too late, and it only lasted until 97.
And I call Apple's "Think different" mantra "bullshit".
I'm all for seeing Flash die a slow death. However, I wouldn't celebrate Apple for making the web more open: their AppStore is the worst proprietary/closed platform out there.
Ask HN: Feedback on an idea
So I'm planning out this website/app that takes in (content) submissions from the audience. Now, I want everything to be as simple and uncomplicated both for me and the users.

Here's the deal: I don't want spammers (who does?). I don't want to bother building an anti-spam system/adapting an existing one, as it will probably result in being more complicated than the site itself.

I also thought about approving submissions myself, but figured that, though it would be easy at first with few submissions, it would be a pain if it picks up, and I would probably end up building a submission management system which would, again, result in it being more complicated than the site itself.

Then, it occurred to me that I could set up a pay wall. Now, the motivation of those who submit is that they actually get something in return, something that can result a bit pricey elsewhere compared to what my pay wall would be: from cents to maybe $1+ if the site picks up.

I figured it would be a nice way of both preventing spammers and making some pocket change for a couple of beers every now and then. What do you think?
Surely apple will learn lots of good stuff from the iPad and one day bring that technology to the MacBook Pro (MacBook Pro Touch ??). Its got to be there in their roadmap somewhere.
One Aussie responded and changed the text to this. Does this seem good to you:

Gaia GPS DESCRIPTION
=================

Gaia GPS turns your iPhone into a fully-functional handheld GPS. Use Gaia GPS for hiking, biking, snowboarding, skiing, driving, running, sailing, and other outdoor activities.

- Record tracks, waypoints, and taking geo-tagged photos.

- View topographic and road maps. MyTopoo maps are available for US/Canada residents, and Cloudmade maps for all other worldwide locations.

- Downloadable maps for use when an internet connection is not available.

- Display speed, distance, and other navigational statistics.

- Search for nearby waypoints and place reports.

- Import and export GPX files by email, or via EveryTrail.com.

Please email us with any questions, bug reports, feature ideas, and other feedback at gaia@gaiagps.com. We prefer messages in English, but we can also read German and Spanish.

If you are a GPS enthusiast, we'd also be happy to add you to our beta test group. Beta testers preview and test new releases before they hit the App Store, and help guide the development of Gaia GPS.

_________________________________________
IMPORTANT FOR ALL IPOD TOUCH AND 1ST GENERATION IPHONE OWNERS

This application will not be fully functional on these devices. The GPS Recorder and compass will be inactive. You will be able to view maps and waypoints, but you cannot record tracks, photos, or waypoints. This app has also not been tested on 1st generation iPhones, and it will run slowly.

KEYWORDS =================
GPS, maps, topo, topo maps, offline maps, offline GPS, trails, hiking, running, biking, geocaching
Sigh. We geeks want a do-it-all tablet in the fevered imagination of our wet dreams.

Meanwhile, Apple has leapfrogged all of us, and made the iPad (and iPhone) so easy, that my toddler and my grandma can use it without a manual. Think! They can actually email, facebook, and freaking save someone's name with their telephone number without freaking out over some craptacular user interface that someone like me made in a lab somewhere.

Remember, we are not the iPad's target audience. The target audience is the guy that picks up a mouse and tries to speak into it.

Just don't think that Apple somehow failed you, because you did not get exactly what you wanted.
It's always surprised me that, given the number of artists Apple targets with their offerings, they have absolutely no offering like this that artists can use.

Here's a review of a similar workflow from 2002 by the Penny Arcade guys using a Windows tablet.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2002/11/27/

and here is their take on the desire of web artists to have a tablet from Apple right before the iPad came out.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/22/
Go buy a Kindle.
I live in Tokyo right now. Tried to setup a HN Tokyo GT, but that didn't work out :/

You can eat at McD's for 100 yen, maybe 350 yen for a happy meal. I used to get by on McDs during my ultra poor initial few months in Tokyo.

As for eating properly; I usually eat for about 1000 yen when I go out, as I know a lot of the decent / cheap places. However, step into any reasonable restaurant and you're likely to be hit with sticker shock. I don't think it is really possible to eat healthy for less than 2000 yen per person without having extensive local knowledge.

As for the deflation story..

Commodities and groceries cost more than they did 2 or 3 years ago. Cheese, for example, costs almost twice what it did when I first arrived in this country (2.5 years back). Living space is at a premium in Tokyo. The apartment renting scene is as shark-infested as ever. The monthly price was more or less the same as it was last few years, and they basically wanted 6 months pre-payment for anything built since 1980.

The Japanese media has been hyping deflation, but the only deflation I see is in salaries. Whether it is anime artists getting by on as little as 100,000 yen a month in Tokyo (!) or my girlfriend working 15 hours a day without overtime (for Proto corporation, the media conglomerate that did Goonet), it seems everyone "normal" is making less. (This might be quite different outside Tokyo, as most other prefectures have been losing population this entire time.)

As for myself? Oddly the economy is picking up for me.
(spanish)

NAME  - Gaia GPS

DESCRIPTION

=================

Gaia GPS convierte tu iPhone en un GPS portátil con todas sus funciones.

Utilice el Gaia GPS en montañismo, ciclismo, snowboarding, o al esquiar, conducir, correr, navegar y otras actividades al aire libre.

* Guarde rutas, puntos, y fotos geo-referenciadas.

* Vea mapas topográficos y de caminos. Utilice mapas MyTopoo en los Estados Unidos y Canadá, y mapas Cloudmade alrededor del mundo.

* Descargue mapas para cuando no tenga conexión a internet.

* Visualice la velocidad, distancia y otras estadísticas de navegación.

* Busque puntos cercanos e información sobre lugares.

* Importe y exporte archivos GPX por correo electrónico o a través de EveryTrail.com.

Por favor envíenos sus preguntas, reportes de fallos, ideas y otros comentarios a gaia@gaiagps.com  Escríbanos preferiblemente en inglés, o alternativamente en alemán y español.

Si es un entusiasta de GPS, nos gustaría agregarlo a nuestro grupo de prueba de software. Podrá tener acceso y probar las nuevas versiones antes de que estén disponibles en la App Store, y ayudar a guiar el desarrollo de Gaia GPS.

_________________________________________

IMPORTANTE – IPOD TOUCH Y IPHONES DE PRIMERA GENERACIÓN
Esta aplicación no funcionará en su totalidad en estos aparatos. La opción de guardar y la brújula del GPS estarán inactivas. Podrá ver mapas y puntos, pero no podrá grabar rutas, fotos o puntos. Esta aplicación no ha sido probada en los iPhones de primera generación, y se ejecutará lentamente.

KEYWORDS

GPS, mapas, topo, mapas topográficos, mapas sin conexión a internet, GPS sin conexión a internet, senderismo, montañismo, correr, ciclismo, geocaching.
I think the PC vs Console software sales showed us that you can make a lot more money, if you have nintendo style control.
Ultimately, what made Java on the iPhone irrelevant was the fact that the App Store was dominated by hobbyists and independent programmers. Java is not a hobbyist's language; it is the language that the non-technical corporate executives tell you to use. Objective-C and Cocoa were a fun enough environment that individuals were willing to learn how to use them in order to cash in on the iPhone App gold rush. The iPad will probably get more attention from corporate software developers, but it will also be getting a lot more attention from the hobbyists who are drooling over the possibilities of the big multitouch screen, and they are the ones who will be creating the truly innovative apps.

(Yes, there are now sound technical reasons to use Java in enterprise environments, but that's only because Sun's marketing got it into the corporations in the first place. Java was originally intended for embedded systems, and later for web browsers. It's completely failed on both platforms.)
Matt Cutts: Installing Android development environment on Ubuntu 9.04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQoA9Ul-YS0

You might think the scraping sound the floppy drive makes is due to it being in an attic for 15 years. No. They always sounded like that.

The program that runs (from the bootable floppy in the drive) is an introduction to Apple computers. Note how the whole thing is designed to relax the user by showing the Apple's similarity to a typewriter.
It's probably worth adding that I'm quite pleased with the internship offer I've been extended and that when I really would have appreciated it was during freshman/sophomore year when options were more limited.

I just think it'd probably help out the companies looking for interns (realistically, possible future hires) to get in early.
(german)

Gaia GPS

Gaia GPS verwandelt dein iPhone in ein voll funktionsfähiges GPS Gerät.

Nutze Gaia GPS beim Wandern, Radfahren, Snowboarden, Skifahren, Laufen, Segel und anderen Outdoor Aktivitäten.

* Erfassen von Routen, Wegpunkten und georeferenzierten Fotos.

* Anzeige von Topografie- und Straßen-Karten. MyTopoo-Karten in den USA/Kanada und Cloudmade im Rest der Welt.

* Download von Karten für die Nutzung ohne Internetverbindung

* Statistiken über Geschwindigkeit, Distanz und vielem mehr.

* Suche nach Wegpunkten und Berichten über deine Umgebung

* Import und Export von GPX Dateien, via Email oder mittels EveryTrail.com

Bitte schick uns Fragen, Fehler-Reports, Wünsche und andere Anregungen an gaia@gaiagps.com. Emails am besten auf Englisch. Deutsch und Spanisch würden wir auch noch schaffen.

Wenn du ein GPS-Fan bist, würden wir dich gerne in unsere 'beta test'-Gruppe einladen. Beta Tester sichten und testen neue Versionen bevor diese im App Store erscheinen und helfen damit die Entwicklung von Gaia GPS zu steuern.

_________________________________________
WICHTIG - IPOD TOUCH UND IPHONES DER ERSTEN GENERATION

Diese Anwendung ist auf diesen Geräten nicht voll funktionstüchtig. Der GPS Rekorder und Kompass wird inaktiv sein. Du kannst Landkarten und Wegpunkte ansehen, aber du kannst keine Wege, Fotos oder Wegpunkte aufzeichnen.

Diese Anwendung wurde zudem nicht auf iPhones der ersten Generation getestet und wird langsam laufen.

KEYWORDS

GPS, Landkarten, Topologie, Topolologie Karten, offline Karten, offline GPS, Wanderwege, Wandern, Laufen
They are different. Very much unlike HP or Dell. Not even remotely similar to Nokia or Samsung.

That motto is pretty content free, though. They are different, sure, but is that a good thing or a bad thing? Are they different in the right way or in the wrong way? That motto would also fit both Google and Microsoft without any problems. Those two are pretty unique.

So no, no bullshit, but rather devoid of much useful content.
> I mean, I'd love it if Chevy held a press conference and said they were going to sell Camaros for $10k. But it won't happen and I'm not going to get all indignant about it.

I think the analogy is wrong. Myself, and many of the people I know were expecting a scaled down Mac experience in a tablet form factor, price and feature competitive with netbooks (<=$500).

OSX already runs well on hacked netbooks, so the hardware is more or less ready, put on a better display that works at a higher rez, make it touch sensitive, squeeze it into a tablet form factor, mix in driver software to handle the various and obvious netbook/tablet widgets like a webcam and tilt sensors, charge $499 for it and voila! Instant win.

Instead we got the equivalent of people showing up to the Chevy Volt unveiling, and seeing a Segway that had been scaled up to seat 2 at the same price as a Malibu.
>the larger one Django immediately turned from 'enabler' in to 'straightjacket'.

Yeah, I've had a bit of enlightenment regarding that. I think the trick is to eventually treat it a bit like Philosophy.

Toss aside what you encounter to be a problem, take with you what is useful.

The signals backend and request object encapsulation has proven invaluable, combined with the corpus of snippets and tricks out there.

The templates are really starting to get on my nerves. Probably going to use Jinja2 outside of work here on out.

well, it's been a step-up from what I've experienced because of a perfect storm occurring from the power of combining generic views, quick-n-easy pagination, the ORM, and template inheritance. I've become incredibly productive in Django in spite of the annoyances.

In fact, you may want to check out "annoying django" for some hacks and neat features to deal with some painpoints.

This includes an AJAX view decorator to quickly pass json back and forth.
> It's a matter of how difficult a language's semantics, type-checking, logical structures, and faculties make it to traverse the spectrum towards bad code.

You mean a different kind of "bad code" than the comment to which you replied.

Ruby, Python, Haskell, Prolog, ML, CL -- none of these languages prevent malicious or inexperienced coders from choosing poor identifiers, violating encapsulation, abusing or ignoring language-specific idioms, or designing a big ball of mud.

> I mean, have you seen the number of operators in Perl?

That's Perl 6, not Perl 5, and it's out of date.
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Functional programming explained ... IRC-style
The word innovation has lost all meaning. Improving a JIT compiler in 2005 (or later), by itself, isn't innovation, it's catching up to the state of the art.

And saying Actionscript is faster than Javascript for pixel intensive operations is fairly meaningless, because that's not really dependent on the language, it's dependent on how those pixels get pushed to the screen.