skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The primary argument against branching is the pain of merging later

Except that when I work on a feature branch on git, I constantly rebase on top of master to stay up to date and so I don't have to face a huge merge "later" but a few easy merges once in a while.
I didn't mean that they were the only people on the site, I meant that whatever the people on #startups are doing, they've been doing for a long time. Far from staging a coup, they're already an embedded power and have been a fundamental part of shaping the site into whatever it currently is.

Which I'm fine with. I've been much more disappointed with newbie contributions than anything I've noticed from the #startups crew. I don't want democracy here, I want quality.
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I really appreciate this article. I absolutely adore chickens, and understand that they are far more complex and intelligent than they are generally given credit for.
The exploited is detailed here:
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Jan/341

My favorite part comes at the end. The last step involves predicting where a specific BIOS handler lies in memory. It is a static address in all pre-Vista OS.

Starting in Vista, Windows introduced address space layout randomization to make hacks like this more difficult.

However:
"Unfortunately, this potentially useful exploit mitigation is trivial to defeat locally as unprivileged users can simply query the loaded module list via NtQuerySystemInformation()."

Whoops.
I've been arguing about this for years; my view is that people should actually learn and write JavaScript rather than demand the framework write it for them automatically. Refusing to learn a key technology of the web platform isn't an attitude I'd like to encourage.

Some samples of my reasoning and the times I've argued it with people:

http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/jul/02/django-and-ajax/

http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/jul/04/javascript-orm-and-...

http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/jul/17/helpers-scaffolding...
The last point seems to indicate he thinks less new home sales volume leads to lower prices on houses in general.

This makes no sense to me. I see that as a good thing for home prices. If less new homes are sold then more existing homes will sell which means more demand and rising home prices.

The fact that there is less new home sales is just a result of home builders starting fewer communities out of realization that there is too much inventory already.
end users trying to watch videos on the web don't care about flash. they aren't customers. they're using flash because it's pushed on them, so when it doesn't work, they're not going to exert any effort to make the software better beyond swearing at the crash dialog and re-opening their browser.

i watch episodes of the daily show on thedailyshow.com every other day or so, using safari on mac os 10.5.8 on a mac mini. just about every single time i watch an episode in full screen, exit full screen, and click on a different episode, safari will crash and the crash reporter comes up saying flash caused it. i click 'report' to report the bug, it looks like it does something, and then i re-open safari.

this guy says flash doesn't ship with any "known bugs", but what are "known bugs"?

If you are experiencing issues please report them directly to the Flash engineering team via the public bug database and the team will investigate and resolve each.

oh, so only bugs they know about in their public bug database, which requires 1) a user to know about it, 2) the user to seek it out, 3) the user to signup for an account, 4) and the user to login and file a formal bug, all while that user just saw a dialog that says his crash information was just sent to someone.

if that crash reporter from safari is not sending useful information over to adobe, then they need to work with apple to get that resolved.
My thought is usually this - if a person is interested enough in the type of money that ads bring that he clutters up his personal website, then this person must be pretty broke. And pretty broke people in the IT industry are usually not very smart people, because it's easy to make money in IT.

That's just my thought process, no personal offence intended.
Obviously "nothing but posts about balls" was an exaggeration, but I don't think it's an impossible scenario. When digg first started, it wasn't all that different from HN, and reddit was very similar. Today digg has the 12 lost photos of Christie Brinkley on the front page. No, the change won't take place over night, but it has happened other places, and I have no reason to doubt it could happen here.

As for conflating a community with a site, I fail to see the problem. This site does have a community, and I'd hate to see that community change dramatically. I suppose the community could just meet somewhere else if this site goes down the drain, but I'd much rather avoid an exodus if possible.

And I'm not conflating attention-seeking with profit-seeking, actually. You just presented an offer to all of HN (and the entire internet, really) that you'll get their post to the front page for the right dollar amount. Seems pretty profit-seeking to me. Were you kidding? Trying to get a rise out of us? Maybe, I don't know. But even if it was a joke, I didn't find it particularly funny, because that behavior has ruined sites before.
And if you swap out its copies of the ffmpeg libraries with unmolested ones, it supports every codec and container format under the sun!
Chances are a few (or probably even a lot of) temporary references aren't going to be that big a deal.
2006 (and later) Honda Civic Si's come with a limited slip differential, and are fairly affordable, from both a purchase and a maintenance perspective. While the LSD is mostly for traction under hard cornering, as accelerating out of a corner is a huge weak point of front-wheel-drive, it does work to increase traction in wintry or wet weather by distributing torque over both wheels.
I half agree. Yes, it's speculation absent access to banks' actual balance sheets. But we do know that a good many such homes are in foreclosure due to official filings, and that a high proportion of those have yet to be brought back to market, plus we can speculate that banks are generally sticking to their policy of not forgiving debt - although they may recover less than the outstanding loan value by selling the house, they don't want to set a precedent of wiping out (say) 25% of the debt on mortgages by mutual agreement, because then everybody will try to take advantage of it, even those who are not yet underwater.

Anecdotally, I've been househunting for a few months, and just in the last few weeks I've started getting calls from real estate agents to inform me that the asking price for property X or Y has dropped, and would I care to make an offer? I find this startling - I'm looking around the low end of the market (by San Francisco standards...it's still expensive here) and only a few months ago the typical attitude was 'at this price, everything goes fast - better increase your bid a little if you really want it'. Now I'm getting called at least once a week about 3-5% price cuts.

Some of this is doubtless due to the public perception that the first-time homebuyer's tax credit was expiring in November (in fact it was extended to April). But the ratio of new properties on sale to foreclosures has been < 1 for a while now. I think the increasing pain of the commercial real estate market is creating a glut of inventory for banks, which they are increasingly anxious to get off their books.
Is the iPad for dumb people?
Of course you don't care whose fault it is, you just want it fixed. That's why I pointed out that it's only in the best interest of consumers that the bugs get fixed.

It seems that neither Adobe nor Apple actually want to make a good experience for users, flash or otherwise, because independent of whose fault it is the problems are not getting addressed. I'm reminded of http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html, where Microsoft actually cared about the user experience enough to insert a massive kludge even though the bug wasn't their fault. And since the problems are not getting addressed, I'd be leery of using either Apple or Adobe products. Apple because they would rather destroy a product they don't like even though the users do, and Adobe because of the way they treat their products after release. Apple's defense is that they prefer the new and shiny vs the old and busted (which are subjective measurements). For years Apple was behind Flash, it was one of the reasons to use a Mac, at least for flash development. Apple was also behind Firewire for years, it was so much better than USB. Then all of a sudden it wasn't, much to the detriment of those people who had bought all that highend firewire hardware. Now, this usually ends up being good for the consumer, which is why Jobs has the reputation he does, and in Apple's defense, their standard MO of controlling the entire platform means they have to make the "hard" decisions about what they support, and it usually ends up being good all around, but the transition, when Jobs changes his mind, can be a real bitch.
PHP Login Script with Encryption.
At the national median price you'd be lucky to get a mobile home on a very tiny lot where I live in California. And a condominium is even more. I know elderly people with single family homes that are paid for, but the valuation is so high, that if their property taxes were based on current value, they'd take their entire social security or disability income.
These are people that worked and saved all of their lives.

Some low wage earners are forced to share apartments to avoid being homeless. Working full time at minimum wage is getting to where it isn't enough even for rent.

Conservatives complain about businesses covering any part of health care cost. Look at an area like Santa Barbara and you'll find businesses having trouble getting low-wage employees because they can't afford to live in the area?
Are they expected to live a dozen people to a house?
Yes you have a point. But otoh, the history of software has been one of more and more abstraction and code generation. This argument can be made (not saying you are making it) to say something like "People should actually learn and use Assembler than demand that their C compiler do it for them. Refusing to learn a key technology of Computing is not something that I'd like to encourage".

Many languages generate C code. Should everyone learn C because it is a foundational language? (and it is a foundational language). Do you insist all Django users learn C? Why not?

It is ok to have a choice of learning Javascript or not. Just like people have the choice to learn Assembler or have it generated for them. To learn C or have it generated for them.

And framework devs have the freedom to choose whether their framework supports javascript code generation or not. There aren't really any good or evil choices. Rails is cool. Django is, too (I prefer Django fwiw).
He does mention the tools and technology, he thinks Adobe will re-jig their tools to output to HTML5 and provides a link showing that this is the direction they are going with the next release http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/10/sneak_peek_ai_fl_dw_can...

I think he's spot on, especially with the time frame and the transition of resource from one platform to another. There are not enough HTML5 & Canvas developers currently to take over the current Flash workload, the transition will be slow enough that Flash devs will ramp up in the new skillset. Those flash devs doing interactive development today are likely to be the developers doing canvas work in the future.
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One of the best methods to improve your skills is use the Google Analytics method of evaluating before and after changes to your site. You should look into this type of evaluation, and you can be surprised to find that this will improve your customer response to your goals.

The idea is that you put up two pages simultaneously. You track the success of your goals based on incremental changes. The changes that result in more success are the ones you gravitate towards. Using this approach should help you understand what customers want or expect in order to reach the goal. (The goal is any achievable metric such as signing up for a free account or purchasing a product.)

Another method is to ask your customers and also observe your customers. Customers may think they want something, but when you observe them, you may learn otherwise. I have done this and learned quite a bit about the behavior of users.

You will also want to research trends and statistics if possible. People have researched design, and there are commonly accepted practices that can be used to enhance the performance of your site. However, you must be careful to stay up to date because these trends change as people 'fade out' commonly over used attention-getting solutions.
Hey Jacques,
I just read your post and as per my email, I sent you my article for feedback. I DO want to do a better job in writing stories that are useful to the HN community and this is why I reached out in the first place. It was never my intention to undermine any aspects of the community, if anything I asked you for your advice in honor of your position as a community leader. I have no problem nominating my own stories, but your nomination and feedback tells me if an article is a good resource for entrepreneurs and programmers. Thanks in any case for your initial email on trends. For those of you who do want to let me know what stories you'd like to see written in 2010, I'm grateful for your feedback.

Dana Oshiro
Gotcha. That's a pretty reasonable position to take.

Personally, I've written my own "let's see if xmlhttprequest exists, otherwise, do the thing ie needs" ajax handlers, I've written a bunch of SQL, and all that other fun foundational stuff. So I'm really glad that I can just not worry about that and use what's already written, because it's pretty much what I would write anyway. And my snarky reply to 'stfu, write your own' is "Why aren't you coding in machine code, then? Your compiler/interpreter is just hand holding!"

But if I didn't already know it, it'd be easy to cripple myself by never bothering to learn.

(Also, I've been writing my own javascript, even within rails, because I prefer jQuery to prototype.)
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Looking for great hackers: Java, Scala, Rails. Downtown Palo Alto CA. Lots of cool tech and a 5-minute commit-to-deploy cycle.
Flow control in a distributed system
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Startup-friendly office space in Mountain View
We have 8 modern cubicles in a shared office available for rent on a month-to-month basis. Rent the whole thing or individual cubes. Perfect for a small software group or company. Everything is heavily ethernet wired and we have a very underutilized beefy HP switch. Also included is comcast cable (pretty fast around here), coffee, fridge, conference room, alarm system.

It's at the corner of Rengstorff and Old Middlefield, in the "taqueria triangle", with three of the best taquerias on the peninsula right next door.

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Trulia.com in San Francisco is hiring engineers who know PHP, Java, or system administration.

http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qzZ9Vfwm
I wrote a lot about Spore when it launched. The sad part is the potential it offered will likely never be realized with Wright gone from EA.

It was the first game to aggressively try to marry bits and atoms. Bing Gordon wanted the creature creation tool to serve double duty as a way to make customized "Pokemon" style games offline. It was the first game designed to have the characters 3D printed.

http://replicatorinc.com/blog/2009/01/review-spore-sculptor-...

The metadata in a .png file could be used to recreate the design in the editor.

It was a terrible game, but probably the best entry level cad program I ever used. You could do just about anything.

http://replicatorinc.com/blog/2009/02/75-creative-uses-of-th...

It is the kind of launch only a big company could do successfully and unfortunately it didn't work out. I hope they would at least consider open sourcing the design tools. I agree with the general sentiment that the game was just terribly boring. Put the tech in the hands of someone who gets gameplay and there is still potential.
Vancouver is an exception because there isn't much land. They are choosing, as a city, to build up, not out. There are only a few roads out and if you've been stuck in the traffic on the 1 just outside the city, then you know it isn't convenient to live far from downtown. Commuting isn't fun and Vancouver has almost the best weather in Canada, definitely the best for a major city not on an island.

Even more, the hongkongese loved vancouver and chose it over many of the other options for post brit rule.

And I know some < 40er's with detached homes, so I suspect your hyperbole is a bit extreme and indicates a lack of real effort to communicate honestly or a lack of real understanding of the situation in vancouver.
Hi Kevin, hope you don't mind, I took one random listing from the website and put it on job4dev.

- The company page is located at http://job4dev.com/company/admob

- The listing I took is located at http://new.job4dev.com/jobs/708/admob-performance-engineer

Please feel free to add others.
Definitely check out Jason's OAF: http://openangelforum.com

We're also glad to intro good startups to angels: http://venturehacks.com/startuplist
Ask HN: Who is hiring Product Managers?
My technical friend wants to get into product management. What companies would be interested in hiring a green PM with a technical background?
The price of the same good (livable land amongst interesting opportunities and people) increased rapidly as the supply of money increased. What's worse is that the supply of money increased primarily for those people who wanted to blow it on a home spending bonanza. Now that the supply of money has dwindled, there's hardly any left in desirable areas at affordable prices for people who are not rich.

Suppose I wanted to buy land to build my own home, starting from a tent, in the bay area. Where would I go?
It's worth noting that this doesn't actually provide an immutable collection, it provides an immutable view of an existing one. If some other code has a reference to the underlying collection it can still be mutated. However this works well for the common case where you have a method which creates a local collection and returns the immutable view - in that case the collection is effectively immutable.
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We'll pay you a lot.
If you have some kind of medical condition that causes this them I'm really sorry but you did not exactly go out of your way to put that in to your post, so you are taking a chance at being misunderstood.

It looked like you were looking for a mechanical solution to something that in the majority of overweight people is simply caused by consuming too much. If you are not part of that majority then my apologies.

Feel free to threaten me at your convenience while you're anonymous, but be aware that I immediately add the slashdot 'C' to that 'A'.

If you want to talk tough and have it mean something add your username to your profile, at least then it looks like you're not just another bully.
I just joined the Bizo team three weeks ago. Great company, fantastic people (~15 total now), and, as Donnie said, we're growing very quickly.

Bonus points for foosball, ping pong, or GH/RB skills.
Fantastic work :)
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I think I know the answer that a market-economist or an American conservative would give to this; so I'd answer that answer by observing that, as a serious Catholic, I find this article's author to be closer to the truth than those who think that chickens only exist to benefit humans.

Aristotle discovered or taught (I'm favoring "discovered") that all creatures have an end for which they exist; the end of a chicken is to live the life of a happy, fulfilled chicken. Human beings have a right to distort that under certain circumstances (domestication, for example, is acceptable), but we must not sacrifice all other considerations for profit. Eating meat is acceptable, at least grudgingly; raising stock animals in cruel conditions to wring more money out of them is not. The American way of life _is_ negotiable, in contrast to what a certain US President said, and was not handed down on Mount Sinai. (Actually, everything handed down on Mount Sinai _also_ wasn't handed down on Mount Sinai, in the sense of being eternal and immutable -- or else Jesus Christ would hardly have run roughshod over the Third Commandment.)

There's something else I want to mention about chickens, but I'll put that in another post for ease of up/downvoting; in the meantime, I just wanted to emphasize that touchy-feely liberals aren't the only ones who believe that a chicken's happiness is worth something.
>This sounds a little bit like equivocation to me.

Are you sure you know what that word means?

>We've already ran this experiment. It was called the civil war

I don't think what happened to newspapers during the civil war is a very reliable guide to what would happen now to CNN.
The PubSub Framework: Using RSS Feeds in your App
Microsoft and the NSF enable research in the cloud.
I love Atlanta but the angel landscape here is quite different and has seen better times: http://techdrawl.com/sig-nificant-blas/
Patrick(patio11) released an opensource rails plugin to do the A/B testing. I haven't used it but he can probably chime in or you can look at his blog about his results.

http://www.bingocardcreator.com/abingo
Apple was the first computer manufacturer to adopt USB on a wide scale (for which they were ridiculed at the time). Firewire remains the better technology of the two, but it is accordingly more expensive to implement; Apple still supports it fully on their pro computers. I use plenty of "highend firewire hardware" on a daily basis with my brand new MBP without issue. What, exactly, are you referring to?