skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why won't Apple want WebKit everywhere? The value of a html rendering engine is proportional to the number of clients running it (especially in 2003 when the project was announced). The fact that WebKit has become large enough that it can't be ignored (thanks to multiple vendors using it in their browsers) is a huge boon for Apple.

LLVM, Clang, Darwin, libdispatch and many others are all liberally-licensed open source projects that Apple leads. More contributions are listed at http://www.apple.com/opensource/.

This isn't because Apple cares about software freedom, it's a simple calculation: these are components of the system that need to be high quality, but don't differentiate the product. If using and contributing to open source software makes the systems programming simpler, the business case has been made.
Sort of helps to explain why political discourse seems doomed to stick on such a low level. Simple ideas will always have an edge over complicated ones, and so politicians who communicate with simple ideas and hold simple ideologies will always have an edge. It wouldn't be such a terrible thing if only the world weren't so damned complicated.
If you are young and don't have a family, having your employer cook you healthy meals is probably a net time-saver, even if you do work 9am - 7pm.

Unfortunately, maintaining that work schedule means I'd have to continue to not have a family.
The app store can easily co-exist in conjunction with "unverified" apps. Hell, Apple could even say "well, first uninstall any unverified apps, then come back for support."

That's not really in Apple's interest, though is it?

a) A device the user can't ruin associated with your brand.

b) A device the user can ruin associated with your brand.

Which would you pick in their position?
They released blocks.
Facebook readies Hyper-PHP
More info surfaces on the Facebook rewrite of PHP.
>What is needed is clear and concise law that does not bog down the process and micromanage what should be left open for interpretation.

I don't think that works.

In a legal system based on precedent the more that is left open to interpretation the more big cases one needs to decide what the locus of the law is.

Then it's not a case of getting your lawyer to read the law in order to understand the majority of what's allowed but instead they can only know a minority of the law from the statute and have to infer the majority from the caselaw.

When the law is drafted perhaps a book of usecases should be created such that those that draft the law can agree on a list of common uses and whether those things are intended to be allowed or not.
wow, nappy hacker. The joys of cut and paste. I admire your zeal, but the truth is the product is too intrusive. I too would just say no!
Google Chrome 4 now natively supports Greasemonkey user scripts
And among the people I talk to most prefer to live in Seattle. Is it representative of the people at large? Your generalization is completely unwarranted, at best you could derive that "among buyers of X most prefer one-time payment".
Lower prices don't affect my bottom line, they affect the publisher's bottom line. If it means more volume, I make more money. (You could argue that allowing the publisher less profit means there will be fewer books of lower quality, but that is already the case for programming books. There is already no money to be made.)
Then maybe we'd have a fast and stable implementation of it with things like built in accessibility.
And Oranges (2006)
A year without flying: a Skype family album
Counterexample: High-codepoint text in HTML or XML 1.0 vocabularies.
Yeah I'm just dying for karma.

I'm generalizing a lot here, I know there are people who work on Flash stuff and aren't huge dicks about it. When I read most comments in support of Flash, they're usually something like, "Flash gives me the tools to deliver the experience we want to deliver, nothing else that exists right now allows us to do this, etc." Which is probably true. And I don't want your experience. When something is Flash, I can't do shit about it. It runs in an opaque box in my browser, controlled by some other company that makes shitty products. It devours cpu, trashes browsers that don't isolate the plugin into its own process, and can do shady things with cookies.

Flash has two uses now: ads and video playback.

A "rich media experience" site is almost always just a big ad for something. And you use Flash in the ad because there's not much content there. If there was content, you could just put it up as HTML. Instead you need to dress it up in glitz and parade it around with sound effects and junk.

"It's what consumers want! This is the real world. This is what sells products. People love dazzling moving sparkly things!"

Yeah? http://www.apple.com/ipad/design/

It's an HTML page. With images. And text. It scrolls vertically. It's a pure distillation of the web.
Sous vide Supreme Review: How To Cook From The Inside Out
Tim Berners-Lee
He notified my by mail that he published my CV. As you can imagine, I was not very happy - and he removed it onto my request.

Even though I think this is a nice idea, publishing the data and even providing a .zip containing all files seems reckless to me.
Atlas looks promising.

Just as a side note, though... The introduction video uses Flash.
The key error this author makes is in the title, with the word "moving". The title suggests that the general velocity of web technologies isn't towards open standards, particularly HTML5. The content of the post seems to be a mere apologetic for Flash as the status quo, arguing that at the moment HTML5 cannot do what Flash can. That is evidently true, just as it is also evidently true that the internet is moving towards HTML5.

All of the major players but Adobe are making big steps towards HTML5 as the standard for rich internet media. Even Microsoft are being forced to tag along. We simply have to answer one question - which technology is improving at a greater rate, Flash or HTML5? Basic arithmetic will tell us the rest.

Flash is a dead technology walking. The forces that want it dead are faster, smarter and better resourced than Adobe.

A previous poster said 'HTML 5 is not so much a "Flash killer" as it is simply "one less reason to have to use Flash".'. Like any open technology, HTML5 is one reason after another, with more reasons presenting themselves at a near-exponential rate.
I've been cooking SV for about a year now, not with the super-expensive SVS appliance, but with a PID controller from Auber Instruments (~$120) and a $50 rice cooker.

Want to see something funny? Check out Amazon's recommendations on the bottom-of-the-line Black and Decker rice cooker:

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker-RC880-Steamer-Stainless/d...

I'm not going to waste much time talking about this stuff if nobody cares (I have a LOT to say about it), except to sum it up as: this is at least as important as the microwave oven. Every house in the world will have this capability in 50 years.
Just do what the library tells you to do to check passwords and trust me that bcrypt hashes already have nonces built into them.
Not totally unlike, then, to the "prawn incident" in P.G.Wodehouse stories - I believe he teased his readers a few times about it, but never came across ...

P.S. in my corner of Europe, there was a newspaper reprinting C&H until a couple of years ago ...
Dell Launches Their Dell Mini 5 Tablet PC Prototype
Google Email Uploader Now Available for Mac
Remember: you need vision alignment, a co-founder who watches your back and who you completely trust.

And even if you do trust them completely, make sure you have legal documents in place which protect your interests. Just because you completely trust them today doesn't mean that they won't wake up one day several years down the road and decide to screw you. Trust me on this...
I would assume that for most people, the experience of search is easy and is working well. Otherwise I don't think it would continue to be #1. It sounds like you might be outside the norm.
Weave is only for Firefox & Fennec (it's a Mozilla project).

Weave synchronizes bookmarks & passwords like Xmarks, in addition to browsing history and open tabs.
"Psychologists have determined, for example, that shares in companies with easy-to-pronounce names do indeed significantly outperform those with hard-to-pronounce names."

A giant "citation needed" needs to be attached to this. A quick search came up with this: http://www.pnas.org/content/103/24/9369.full - pretty terrible. I hope such a breathless claim isn't actually being backed by such lame research.
CheddarGetter for Python/Django - easy recurring billing for web apps
I hesitate to call something like this an operating system but it's pretty cool.
Well, this was just scanning the public/ folders, the files in which are accessible to anyone that has (or, in this case, can guess) the link.

Now, if it's something you absolutely must keep private, you shouldn't even store it in the private parts of your dropbox folder, but for things where it's not a huge deal if it ends up public, Dropbox is reasonably safe assuming you're not stupid about it (strong password, etc).
Definitely up there. No doubt.

Interesting side note:
This NeXT Computer was used by Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first Web server. from Wikipedia.
"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary." William Wrigley Jr.

I think you need to distinguish between values conflicts, where you should have very high agreement, and disagreements over strategies or tactics to implement or sell your product.

If your co-founder can't make suggestions to improve what you are working on at least half the time I don't think you have a lot of synergy.

Michael Schrage studied a number of collaborative teams for his books "Shared Minds" and "Serious Play." He concluded that it was a shared focus on a problem that was larger than they could solve individually that encouraged collaboration. That does not mean that team members agree most of the time.
I had the same question; I don't know the answer yet, but I found a location for the answer http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bcrypt-paper.ps

The documentation for py-bcrypt ( http://www.mindrot.org/projects/py-bcrypt/) doesn't explain what happens, but shows use is very very easy.

EDIT: current guess is that searching for the salt that was used might be part of what makes it hard.
Making a better product is no guarantee in the slightest of it becoming a standard.

It is, as long as you align 'better' in the same way as your customers mean it. As SJ opened with "it would have to be better at this, that and the other. Netbooks aren't better at anything" and the audience cheered and laughed in support.

Head out into the ipad skeptisphere and anyone who had never seen one would be forgiven for thinking "Netbook" was the new name for the $6 million dollar man - better, stronger, faster. The digital ubermensch. Uberbuch. The livre-franca. Reality doesn't live up to it, Netbooks are what you get when you add too many ingredients to your food. The homer simpson car of computers.

Remind me, which side is the RDF supposed to affect?
I'm not sure that's true. I have heard far more about the value of "college" in general than about the value of specific colleges. Companies like the University of Phoenix exist to exploit this assumption.

Schools sell education plus connections plus guidance plus a diploma; the diploma is the most tangible thing they sell, so if you just sell the diploma you can cut your costs significantly. YC invests reputation and guidance and connections and money; someone who buys the same stake in exchange for nothing but money is obviously reducing the value--and valuation--of the company they buy into.

It's the entrepreneur's decision, and there are some good seed funding programs out there (Techstars has some great portfolio companies). But in many cases, the other programs are using seed companies' generally good reputation (thanks to YC) to make less valuable investments in the same group of companies.
Well, it's not hard to just go through the list of products Google offers, and subtract the ones that don't have a business model around them.

For example, Google Earth does some actual business business, and probably makes a bit of cash selling pro versions and geospatial servers and services (haven't looked at the 10-k to be honest). Orkut, Sites, Knol, Chat, Wave, Scholar, etc. does not.

Some things like SketchUp are designed as loss leaders like Search to provide content to things that might have a decent revenue stream like Google Earth (except most of the paying users are probably not using the Sketchup Data).

But other, more expensive things like Chrome and Android have a link to making money that's very tenuous at best.

And we also already know that Search Ads account for 99% of Google's revenue stream. Subtract that out and we have a very good idea of where Google's other offerings are.
It just seems to me that the spectacle of it would be undermined by the annoying amount of time spent picking stray bills off the floor.
So what exactly keeps someone from writing an open version of flash player? It couldn't be that hard could it?
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html - commoditize the browser, sell more devices.
The latter, because the freedom to develop would completely cement their position in the market. What they've done now is send several developers over to their competitor, Adobe being the obvious example.

Their gamble is that they will outsell their competitors despite this. Time will tell if they succeed. I suppose if they really start suffering they can always open their platform at a later date.
Making a better product is no guarantee in the slightest of it becoming a standard.

You have the wrong definition of "better". The definition that matters isn't what an engineer thinks is superior based on whatever an engineer thinks is important, the definition that matters is "will the customer select product A or B when buying a new widget".

What's needed isn't a competing product that is technically superior, it's a product that actual users will select instead of an iPad.
Stop the exploitation of journalists
Hilariously, the great open-source hope is Google's Android, but its best apps are designed—and tightly controlled—by Google, which has used its clout to roll over countless web-based companies in a manner just as Orwellian or Huxleyan or whoever it is we're invoking now as Apple or Microsoft. And even with the threat of the DMCA looming, the iPhone has been cracked over and over again. It's been a tinkerer's paradise.

That is an...uhh...interesting take on things.
just to clarify: the post was trying to highlight both subscriptions AND transactions, not vs. each other... they aren't mutually exclusive.

in fact, most likely a common model would be:
1) free for most users
2) low-cost txn for first paid use
3) convert initial txn users into frequent use / regular subscription later, but continue txnl model as well.

perhaps in mid-rant I failed to explain this clearly; possibly due to lack of sleep, or the cocaine-heroin speedball I shot up before getting on the redeye to NYC.

then again, maybe you guys just need to read that little part where I say "AND" between subscriptions & transactions, not just draw your conclusion from the headline... but I digress.
Mass transit is being cut, as is R&D, healthcare, and so forth. Joy of joys.
Client side is good when you are viewing new items and leave your window open for awhile. The script can run again and update "a few seconds ago" to "a half hour ago".
As far as I can tell, private folders are also subject to this URL leaking problem, but in a somewhat limited way.

If someone can grab the URL to your "recent changes" RSS feed (events.xml), they can watch every file change you make, and view any image you upload, without being logged in to your account.

If anyone from Dropbox wants to correct me on this, or wants more details, my contact info is in my profile.
More info on color names: colordictionary.info
And an app that can help add some objectivity to your color perception: colorcurious.com

Both made by a Russian guy :)
Apple didn't invent LLVM, but they certainly control it now that they employ all the core developers.
The "quotation" you've written appears nowhere in that article you've linked to. Trying to pass that off as an excerpt from the the article is not the most ethical way to make your case.

What the article did say in the heading titled Conclusions was this:

"Regular marathon running has a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular risk factor profile but the extent of calcified coronary plaque is underestimated from that risk factor profile"
I wonder what this says about the language gap? Are people heavily disinclined to agree or empathize with people and situations expressed to them in a language which is not their most fluent?
Are you acting as middleman ? In the sense, people are paying you money for products/services you don't own ? (An example would be online travel companies)

If that is the case, which gateway did you choose. From the gateways I spoke to this type of operation is difficult to get approved unless the final vendor itself has a merchant account. Was that the case in your startup?
The fact that they're #1 just means they're the best of the available options. It doesn't mean the experience is great, just better than what else is out there.
yes, that was the conclusion I was not-very-subtly suggesting.
> Trust me on this...

It sounds like there's a story behind this advice. Care to share?
I can't upvote you enough :)

The calculus works for me, as well, with a twist. I place very little intrinsic value on the paper book, myself, other than as a delivery mechanism. As you point out, however, since I can resell it, the market places non-zero value on some instances of paper books[1].

Since the value, for me, is entirely in the convenience of delivery, hardback books, by their bulkier, heavier nature, have less value than mass market paperbacks. I even wrinkle my nose at "trade" paperbacks[2]. The size of the current crop of e-readers fail to be no larger than a mass market paperback, even the silly extra-tall ones.

An electronic copy, to me, does have some intrinsic value in that it's searchable, but that's primarily interesting for the bulky tech reference titles you allude to.

Everything else is delivery. I'm only willing to pay the full $8 price when I'm desperate, having nothing with me to read, but a local bookstore having something I know I'd buy eventually anyway. It's something I try to avoid by thinking ahead. Otherwise, for a brand new book, the Costco $6ish is my limit, and that's typically only for the more popular releases. Otherwise, it's $2-$5 at the used bookstore or online.

In contrast, perhaps since I'm not an avid game-player, or, perhaps because I read for pleasure 2-3 slower than I could, I find the price per enjoyment-hour to be one that makes some sense. This leads to a desire for a subscription model, since, after all, I can only read one book at a time. It would allow me to try out a writer without forking over my time and the cost of a whole book. Moreover, I'd be happy to pay several times as much for a 1k+ page Pynchon tome as for a pulpy novella or something in between[3].

If such a system were to pay royalties based on usage, I would expect it to encourage writing that's a balance between being so light as to be skimmable and so involved as to be inaccessible. I believe this to be a desirable consequence, though I recognize the danger in, if I may abuse the term, engineering regression toward the mean.

[1] This is on the order of $1 per item, in trade, at my local used bookstore. It's often $0.

[2] though some can mostly fit in a pant pocket, especially the Canadian Costco cargo pants I favor

[3] all of which I enjoy, but I can't fathom paying full price for 150 pages consumable in one sitting.
You can keep encrypted data on dropbox http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/IncreasePrivacyAndSafe...

Am using TrueCrypt for private data in private folders
The point here is AVM2 is new, not "piled on" code like AVM1.

Pong: why should I assume they didn't payattention like somepeople are prone todo?
I think he's implying that your site won't have a password. You'll instead use one of these services for both auth and payment.
potatolicious argued that perhaps if we saw injustice, we'd move to correct things.

I'm arguing, simply, that the RIAAs lawsuits are chock full of injustice: a flawed core conceit (that IP addresses can identify individuals), lawbreaking (unlicensed PIs) and piles of collateral damage (file-sharing grandmothers?).

It's not that I think file-sharers should be able to violate copyright law. It's that I see no evidence that the public is particularly motivated by injustice to seek change.
> But no, "I need word" and thus Microsoft happily kept DOS/Win95 around for a long time.

Wrong example. The late 80s Word 4.0 for Mac was the template. I'd class it as one of the best programs ever, if a bit crashy on the 8 MHz 68k MacPlus ...

I'd say Lotus 123 and later Excel. Perhaps also DBase3.
That was exactly my thought as well. I don't own an iPhone, but I'm seriously considering a Nexus One, and I'm not sure the latter would even exist without the former.
Good tip .. I will keep that in mind in my search
It is, as long as you align 'better' in the same way as your customers mean it.

This is simply not true. There is a lot of weight behind de facto standards that is difficult to overcome. Apple themselves continually have to fight against this with people entrenched in the Microsoft stack of software. Word is still the dominate word processing system in the entire world. Many people have argued that word processor X or Y is superior over the years. And they might be right. But being better will not convert all those existing Word documents and corporate policies.

As for netbooks, no one is arguing for them at all. The only thing people really care about is being able to write and sell software for the iPad without needing Apple's approval.
C is a general-purpose programming language but I don't think anyone ever called it a "scripting" language... (besides "scripting" DSL's with C syntax in some games)
I personally enjoyed the articles bombastic formatting and snarky tone, but I'm not sure the author says much of anything. The fact is, Dave's second assertion (that e-commerce/subscriptions is the new default startup business model) isn't based on more than speculation. He makes this second assertion with great conviction ("Get Dem Bitches to PAY You, G.") and I almost want to believe him--until I remember that most of both the media and content industries are still fumbling with whether or not selling subscriptions /digital content is a worthwhile business endeavor.

Also, the idea that a service's success hinges on a user's ability to remember a password is preposterous. Seems as if it could be somewhat of an obstacle when a service is first launched (Dave's early Paypal), but come on. Passwords have become commonplace, and for the most part--especially when money's involved--people don't seem to forget them. They may have when e-commerce was in its absolute infancy, but with the rise of ebay, Paypal, online banking services the password has garnered undeniable legitimacy among the majority of people. I have no data to back this up, but this isn't too outrageous a claim. Right?

Maybe I'm looking at this from the wrong angle.
By putting content inside a Flash applet you isolate it from the web. It cannot be crawled. It cannot be deep linked to. It cannot be styled as the user prefers, rendering it inaccessible to disabled users.

Flash is not a web technology. It is anti-web. It may as well be a zipped .exe, served up over Gopher. The simple act of placing content within an SWF file is tantamount to secession in itself.
It is not so much hard as very tedious. The open source Flash clones look like they have caught up to Flash 7 or 8 so far.

http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/
http://www.gnashdev.org/
IPad/iPhone/iPod (iPOS) as Open Platform… Why Bother?