skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I think this is a principle problem. Any company that can put together a flash alternative toolchain half as good as Adobe's flash production toolchain is liable to make quite a bit of money."

I very much agree. HTML/CSS tooling in general is very poor today. Even something as simple as creating a cross-browser compatible semantic html + css website in a designer is very much lacking today, a lot of hand crafting is still necessary to achieve even moderately good results (e.g. efficient/performance friendly coding, search friendliness, consistent behavior and appearance across all popular browsers, aesthetically appealing result). And that doesn't even begin to touch a lot of the complicated process problems that html/css designing faces. For example, it'd be nice to be able to code design at a higher level than css in a language that gave you compile time warnings and errors, integrated into a build system that spit out verbose, commented inline css (to avoid caching issues) for debug/testing builds and minified, external, versioned css for production builds. And that's just a tiny corner of the whole tooling issue.

Today tooling for web design is perhaps at the level of software engineering tooling in the early 70s. When web dev tooling finally catches up a lot of things will change and almost certainly a lot of people will have made a lot of money in providing that tooling.
"When you are doing stuff that can not stand the light of day it is probably best not to use technology that you do not fully understand."

Unfortunately, plenty of "good guys" like whistleblowers and human rights advocates that need anonymity for very good reasons are probably not going to understand the technology behind it very well, with very few exceptions.

Some techies understand it, of course... but probably not "fully", as very very few people are well versed in technology from the lowest hardware level to understanding networking details to being qualified to do crypto algorithm analysis, etc.

At some point, most people just have to trust the technology and what other people they respect tell them about it if they're going to use it at all.
Fair question. I'm running couchdb for a new project, and Lucene is the 'blessed' search backend for that.

However, (at least via couchdb) Lucene needs a whole JVM of its own, and I'm planning to run this on a VPS with pretty tight resources. A couple of MB in the same JVM as my site is a whole lot more appealing, and has the additional advantage of using native data-structures directly.
Andrew's really taking off with Mixergy! On his page - right-hand side, there's a listing of all the archived shows.
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Lucene's just a toolkit, it'll run in the same JVM that you're running clojure in, and while it can be memory-intensive if you're running a lot of searches over a big index, it's probably not any more memory intensive than what you're doing -- they've done a bunch of iterations already.

Maybe you were thinking of Solr? That's the REST service that wraps Lucene but you can use the Lucene API from within your app just as easily if that fits your use case.
FLAC's standard container format is not Ogg. You can put FLAC in an Ogg container, but it's rather uncommon and the FLAC FAQ recommends against it. (Not because it will mess anything up, but rather because it is pointless.)

FLAC's container format supports arbitrary seekpoints, but it seems many encoders do not add them. Add them and a seek is a constant-time operation.
Most people do not have the ears (most people over the age of 12, sorry) to tell an MP3 from a playback directly from the master.

Most people don't have the speakers to reproduce the sound. (iBuds just don't cut it.) Maybe it's because I'm a musician, but with a decent pair of cans, I can definitely tell the difference between an MP3 and lossless format. It mostly shows up in the lows and highs (ie: bass and cymbals).
It's easy, you hide your crypto in innocent-looking communication.

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

Will governments ban photo-sharing sites? Probably not. So your encrypted messages can still be distributed.

Also, banning cryptography will mean that online banking, VPN access, ssh, remote desktop, etc., etc. will no longer be possible. So I doubt this will ever happen.
It happens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiglers_law_of_eponymy
Processing. It's simple, requires very little setup, and most importantly it's FUN. You can give other people the things you made, and it works very easily with cool stuff on your computer. (webcam, sound) You can do animations and make simple games really easily. Spend a few evenings playing with it and I think you'll agree.
Answered on my blog, since it got lengthy and I wanted to do pretty formatting.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/25/followup-questions-for-s...
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This is true but mostly an abuse of copyright protections in my opinion.

Look at how Westlaw gained private control over the dissemination of public legal decisions through standardizing and copyrighting their presentation of those decisions.

I happy see people lose at putting up copyright gates of this sort, whatever legal right they might have.
Nice. The "law" got the rough shape of the distribution, but (unless you have a very small filesystem) these numbers are statistically significantly different.

Your files must have been made up! ...or you have a nice demonstration of how people shouldn't do too careful calculations with Benford's law. "30.1%" — 3 significant figures, really?
No worries - I definitely appreciate feedback. Glad you're enjoying jQuery :)
Yes but we're not talking about a typical love marriage, are we? Those are things that could be put in a prenuptial agreement. Then to social taboo goes away, "she's his wife."

Or rather, how about high dollar matchmaking services instead?
If you are watching video constantly, then this is a concern. If your phone is mostly sitting in your pocket waiting for the GSM signal to wake it up, then it's irrelevant.

(And, I have a portable device that plays arbitrary video formats just fine on a rather-big 5" screen for a whole transatlantic flight; 7-8 hours. So the current technology is more than adequate, H.264 or not.)
couchdb-lucene, which is what I was looking at, does require its own JVM. I didn't think to look at using Lucene directly.

On the other hand, I'm quite happy with how this turned out, it's one less dependency, and it's been fun to write.
I do agree with most of what you said, but re: buy side and sell side:

"1. The “math” involved in corporate finance is A JOKE. As in, it’s addition / subtraction and maybe multiplication sometimes if things get really fancy.

Finance is 99% about social skills, networking, and making people like you… and 1% about technical skills." - Ex-investment banker, http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/getting-a-finance-job-...
I really wish he would do another printing. I've read the PDF but I'd love a physical copy without paying the outrageous prices they're listed for on used book sites (Amazon, eBay, etc).
I think that many of the Ask YC or Tell HN posts tend to get more votes more easily, so the weighting makes sense even good posts of that sort. I noticed this in the source while we were asking for advice, but we still got a lot more spotlight with the Ask HN tag than when we tried to do similar things with blog posts. The weighting makes sense to me.
there was no marketing team

Horsepuckey. They just didn't call themselves one.

You don't apologize for making good stuff. Why apologize for promoting it?
A 'lorem ipsum' for images.
Uhhh... you know that ten years ago was the height of the tech bubble, when anyone could sell a completely worthless startup for $100M, right?
I'd say Python too. It was the first language I ever tried and it was very rewarding in terms of what I could do at such an early level. But I was a couple of years older and very much into technology already. But I stand by Python.
Or people like me who just want to get to the content and don't care about the fancy effects?
Having just gotten the new Tony Hawk game as a gift, I was wondering to myself if I would ever play on any setting other than "casual". I'm not a huge gamer, so I kind of doubt I will, except possibly to see what the difference is.

Also, I just ordered a small fries from McDonald's when I was there last week.
Lisp:

(loop for i from 1 to 10 collect i)

Ruby:

[1..10].collect { |x| x }

But anyway, it turns out that people are not born with an inherent ability to parse infix operators. Infix is just as arbitrary as prefix or postfix. Anyone, even a kid, will figure the syntax out either way.

(Infix leads to confusing bugs, like "why doesn't 'foo < bar < baz' work?" Prefix eliminates this ambiguity.)
This is not a girl story, or a math story, or even a teacher story. This is a union story, because unions make it impossible to reliably guarantee that American public school teachers demonstrate confident mastery of second grade math.

Regular assistance from math coaches might diminish math anxiety among elementary school teachers, she suggests.

Spiffy, we can spend more money on professional development (and pay union members to offer it, and pay union members to attend it) so that people with graduate degrees can bone up on their second grade math.
Yeah, kudos for writing it, it's always good to write something like that and learn. If you find further needs, I'd really recommend looking at the "thin wrapper around lucene" approach, they've been banging on this problem for a decade and have a lot of lessons learned in their codebase.
Look at this whacky self-help website-flipping guy...
I browsed to my blog which has a frame breaker - http://alicious.com/2009/remove-digg-bar-from-website/ - and it broke out... had forgotten I had the frame breaker until then.
Nope, because although Dublin Bus provided the data, the author did the work of compiling it into a database.
If you are anything like me, just substitute "data" for "content" and we're on the same page.

I think lots of people don't actually want to make their content/data easily available to others.
SEO 101
nice, because you are obviously not in it for the advertising revenue

Just because you link to your blog doesn't mean you are getting ad revenue (ex, my blog has no ads).

I personally feel that Ask HN posts are weaker because they are transient. To Ask HN is to have a discussion that lasts maybe a day with a small number of (relatively) like-minded people. A blog post will be more visible for "longer" (I don't recall any Ask HN posts showing up on Google, so their lifespan is basically their front page time), and represents a stronger commitment to the point made. Not all blogs have comments, but generally they do, and are open to a wider audience than HN.
To add to this, I'd recommend a particular free book for learning programming through game writing: http://inventwithpython.com/chapters/
You probably haven't read that one. On Lisp is an advanced book describing the use of macros.
Good, now if google would only take this idea and apply it to their search. I want full text search on page contents not on the epic tag cloud or other random junk in the sidebar.
A very compassionate and thoughtful article on this problem was published by the American Mathematical Society:

http://www.ams.org/notices/200502/fea-kenschaft.pdf
Not to be too nit-picky, but "priveleges" should be spelled "privileges."
One would hardly think the author of farty farty could stoop so low...

also: look at the time of day on this screenshot: http://www.dublinbusapp.com/dbmaps/Dublin_Bus_Maps.html
I thought I would submit this link, given all the advanced SEO discussed as of late on HN. I'm not a marketer and it took some reading to get the gist of what SEO is about.

Other great HN discussions on SEO:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1073357

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1073723

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1074659
OK, Mr. PickyPants, I went and fixed my usage. Happy now? :-)

(Thanks for the nudge.)
Isn't it econ-101 demand and supply?

It simply shows that the demand overwhelms the supply of people who are both willing and capable of doing the job.
Simply awesome. I must have used every single domain name search app there is and this is by far the best
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To corroborate this, it has not been our experience that Splunk doesn't scale. We have a ~40GB/day environment and according to support can scale that to ~100GB/day on a single quad-core server with SAN back-end, license permitting. The lag between reception and indexing is negligible; we actually have some developers looking at their own debug logs in it.

Unfortunately, I don't work in a TB/day environment (though that would be fun), so I can't comment on that directly, but our experience with Splunk has been positive at this scale and I see no reason so far why a distributed installation with multiple 100GB/day nodes would change that. The only customer complaints we have are basically that long-term searches don't return instantly, and that's primarily a factor of I/O speed and can be resolved by setting up summary indexing (which requires forethought about what data you're interested in... therefore, it very rarely happens in my organization).
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Counter argument, I grabbed Rainbow Six Vegas 2 when it was on sale on Steam. I play that on "Realistic" because it's so hard. I normally don't like hard games, but in this case it really changes the feel of the game itself, beyond just making it harder.
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Thanks Patrick!
This is pretty awesome for front-end developers. Nice work.
Good stuff. I watched this live and Seth delivers some really good points. The most profound and useful statement in the interview from Godin for me was "Do the work."

I'll report back with a full review once I've read through the book.
I think this proves enough about the complexity (from Lift tutorial, how you create a new project):

mvn archetype:generate -U \
-DarchetypeGroupId=net.liftweb \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=lift-archetype-blank \
-DarchetypeVersion=1.0 \
-DremoteRepositories=http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases \
-DgroupId=demo.helloworld \
-DartifactId=helloworld \
-Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT

The whole Java world is full of that kind of crap that makes it impossible to do anything in a simple way from memory only. (I'm a Django person myself and also like Rails.)
Have an axe to grind, don't you? It's too late to get into a debate, but suffice to say that everything you're bringing up are concepts you carried into the article and were not mentioned, even tangentially, there.
I'd say factor is to forth what clojure is to scheme: a modernized version (with a larger footprint).
When will it be available on the googleapis servers?
Prediction: It'll be called the Newton.
"efforts like mine would reduce the number of sites using Flash and eventually eliminate non-standard technologies like Flash from the web."

This is just totally stupid. No, no a bunch of opinionated tech snobs not installing flash is never going to impact the market enough to impact the language. The fact is that the new flash VM is actually very good and delivers a sophisticated UI framework that is actually very pleasant to work with. There is a movement to merge AS3 with actionscript as well. The reality is that we're all just writing distributed applications with increasingly thick clients.
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Robots are people too.
A hairshirt and a whip, possibly, or sackcloth and ashes. At least a good talking to.

Seriously, by the time he's in college programming will likely be near the bottom of the list of skills in demand. While programming has provided many a good job for several generations, another field such as biotech or nanotech would be better for the next generation.
http://dummyimage.com/1x8000000

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 94371840 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 64000000 bytes) in /home/kingkool68/dummyimage.com/code.php on line 18

Opps... Sorry.

Curiously http://dummyimage.com/8000000x1 works

And should have option to set RGB of image.
I chose Tumblr over Posterous because of the elegant templates and the art/music tastes, so I agree here. If Posterous compares itself to Gmail for blogging, then Tumblr is like a public Evernote for scrapbooking. I'm not using it to promote my own ideas or build my professional "brand". Posterous seems as though it's trying to cater both to the computer illiterate and the time-crunched techie/professional who lives and dies by email to organize life a la GTD. For example, Tumblr has a quotations format separate from the text post option, more useful to me than the Google analytics tool that Posterous offers.

The downside is that Tumblr does have a greater share of Livejournal/teen angst, but I've carved out my niche of grad students, graphic designers, and classical music aficionados who upload great performances. The fact that TED Chris and John Maeda (President of RISD) use Posterous is tempting, but also makes it more businesslike.

I have yet to understand why I would want to email posts other than videos, as it's not particularly onerous to use bookmarklets. And Posting within Tumblr means my tags autocomplete, whereas Posterous has you write tags in your email subject line. Posting videos to Posterous is easier though, as Tumblr requires videos first to be hosted on Vimeo. Posterous might have another advantage as it is more useful to coordinate updates to a multitude of other sites, including Tumblr. But I screen different content on Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, and Tumblr, so I actually don't want the same things posting on all my sites.
Author might not want to distribute arial.ttf for reasons of copyright violation.
I'm a game designer now, but I definitely wasn't back then; instead, I got my start playing with scripting in RPG Maker. Kids, I think, don't want to make new engines or mechanics; they mostly just want to create content to use with their favorite pre-existing mechanics.

It didn't really ground me much into the why or how of what the game engine was doing, though; today, I'd recommend playing with a genre-specific game framework written in LÖVE—not least because learning Lua will actually count toward your resume in the games industry, and because it's easy to distribute on multiple platforms with no fuss.
Lenna is the lorem ipsum for images (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Lenna.png). For a bit of history, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
Yup. Startup time is the only downside. Being able to drop to Java for speed or libraries is totally awesome.
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I was hoping for Lenna.
Maybe I should have been more forward thinking in the terminology :D. Not sure I want to go into speaking about the cloud and moving all our services away from local processing. : )
Dunno, he seems nothing special.

I've interviewed lots of CS PHDs who couldn't code anything. He must be one of those. Look at all those overly theoretical-sounding papers.

Oh, he can get loads of data from the web and make some fancy calculations. But can he make any money off that? Reminds me of Erik Naggum's take on lisp fanboys babbling about inverting large matrices...

He's got no sense of design either. Well, at least he can make his own HTML page by hand.
I can't speak about Mahalo, but I have to say that I've become a big Jason Calacanis fan because of the podcast: http://thisweekinstartups.com/

He can be annoying at times, but I love the way he tells it like it is. Every episode, entrepreneurs call in and he helps us by dishing out no BS advice. Good advice. The kind you need to hear when you are too close to the problem to understand what to do. He doesn't patronize (well maybe just a little), but instead, he seems genuinely interested in helping other entrepreneurs.

Yes, his self promotion can get tiring, but hey, the guy is a marketing genius that we can all learn from. Check out the podcast.
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Not really, Lenna is more like the Utah teapot of images.
Make him a language: let me elaborate. Use Python or Ruby and write a library of functions that he can call in particular ways that will make a "game." Let him learn how they work, and let him dive into the source code and figure it out and eventually make his own functions and classes and ... etc.

Discovery is the most rewarding part of learning to program, and having fast payoffs is always nice to keep a kid interested. Worked for me (I started with Logo around his age, but Python/Ruby is way better.)
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Anecdote: A few years back I wrote a Flash 8 piece for a relatively large ad campaign. The code ran fine on everything except OSX/Safari. Not only did it run poorly, but it had the strangest behavior: it ran poorly the first time you visited the site with Safari, but if you reloaded the site, everything ran fine.

I bought a Mac mini to try to debug the problem, but without dev tools I was at a loss. After sharing my frustration amongst my circle of friends, a guy that did a lot of OSX work decided to take a look with some debugging tools.

From what I recall, he discovered that Flash was making a perfectly valid call to an API method that should have been deprecated. The bug report was filed with both companies and I can only hope that one of them paid attention. The hack to get it to work on OSX/Safari wasn't pretty.
Unless you want to use windows update, or activex content, or integrate with windows explorer, or...
http://dummyimage.com/640x-481

http://dummyimage.com/640x-1e37

Warning: imagecreate() [function.imagecreate]: Invalid image dimensions in /home/kingkool68/dummyimage.com/code.php
Doesn't handle negative parameters. Otherwise, it looks pretty cool
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Unless I flubbed the numbers, the thing runs out of batteries after about 20 minutes (at 140 MPH). That's a lot less strainful than, say, archaeological excavation.
You know the basic theory behind Five Whys, how a failure isn't a one-off event but it is the symptom of a process failure? And how that process failure is a symptom of another process failure, etc etc?

Why can't our girls learn math? Because they are modeled that girls aren't good at math.

Why are they modeled that girls aren't good at math? Because their teachers have "math anxiety". Here endeth all politically correct investigation of this topic, continue at thy own peril.

Why do their teachers have math anxiety? Because their teachers are incompetent at elementary mathematical skills. See the article referenced by tokenadult, replete with examples of things like a K-6 faculty without a single person who could calculate the area of a rectangle.

Why are their teachers incompetent at math? Because the schools hire and retain people who are incompetent at math.

Why do the schools hire people who are incompetent at math? Because the schools have no hiring process which would weed out people are incompetent at math from the hiring pool, such as a simple test of second grade math.

Whj do the schools have no simple tests of second grade math? TRICK QUESTION! Schools do have simple tests of second grade math. They are just prevented from actually administering them or using them to make hiring decisions, by union pressure.

http://www.nea.org/home/18018.htm

Quote: Five Reasons to Oppose the 'Highly Qualified Effective Teacher' Mandate: ... It measures teacher performance mainly through use the use of standardized test scores... It contains harsh penalties that limit employment options for teachers... This proposal will likely exacerbate the teacher shortage problems we already face in [subjects like math].