skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not arguing this at all, that would be 'relicensing' AFAIK. My post was about changing the text of the AGPL itself. And my entire post was that I read that first clause and then thought, "WTF? Can I even make a funny blog post?" and then it became a funny blog post (to me) about me wondering if I could make a funny blog post.

Granted, that's not the first time this conversation has included the (to me) specifier so I may be in the minority on the amusement on this one.
I am, too, and I also suffer from a similar situation. :-)
Don't have any special insight into flash but I do know that there certainly seem to be issues with playing flash on my mac (with any browser) vs PC. I'm guessing it has to do with GPU vs CPU issues but whenever I play a video (via flash) my laptop fans go on full blast (probably because the CPU is in overdrive). Quicktime video never seems to have this problem.

Flash also tends to have playback and interaction issues.
I have my iPhone syncing with my google contacts, google calendar and gmail. It's very easy to do and probably the top link if you google it.
It's probably good to be able to standardize on something to test both Java and Clojure code. I have to wonder how much Clojure you can cover from JRuby, though, since you have to go to extra lengths to make all of your Clojure fns exposed in generated classes. The clojure.test package is pretty good in my experience (up there with Rspec, but it feels lighter).
I think my brain just exploded from all that complexity :)

Why should Apple think hard and work hard in order to solve a really hard problem they have no particular interest in solving?

Maybe there is an elegant solution out there to make all or nearly all existing Flash apps work, but it won’t be easy and I don’t see Apple investing much in technology they clearly think is dying. They normally never do.
"Now computer literacy is widespread enough, and basic programming tools have gotten easy enough to use, that the ability "to write a program" is no longer in short supply, and with the Internet at our fingertips we all have the combined output of the whole world's supply of programming talent available to us, not just programmers in our own city, state or country."

Methinks that the author doesn't understand the difference between data and information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data#Meaning_of_data.2C_informa...
I don't think the author is aware of Adobe's Slider framework which addresses the most basic needs (mobile device gestures). Beyond that, many of us are fully aware of the challenges of multitouch & gesture and are experimenting with variable-input interfaces (mouse, gesture, multitouch, and button/arrow based remotes).
how does x.org and x.com have 1 letter domains but b.org and z.org etc are unavailable domains?
yet the FDA manages to regulate drugs for safety, regardless of the fact that dropping 10 tons of even the safest drug on your head results in a really nasty headache.
But there is a difference between “not a nice experience but works” and “doesn’t work at all”. And it’s an important one.
Felix is one of my favorite bloggers, but he's not your typical pajama clad amateur. He's paid by Reuters, and his career path looks much closer to a traditional journalist/analyst, who happens to write for the web. He works in an office, and actually picks up the phone to investigate stories. If he is the model for the future, it's one where reporters still rule the roost, once they get over themselves and figure out the internet.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Salmon
If programmers are in short supply become one and make tons of money. If they are over-supplied become an entrepreneur, hire lots of cheap programmers and change the world.

Think positively.
Wow, way to jump to conclusions about my parenting abilities there. Just to put your mind at ease that my kid's not wasting her life away on the internet, we'd finished up an art project we'd been doing together and I was browsing HN while waiting for her to get out of the shower so we could watch Doctor Who. She came back in the room just as I was playing the video and came over to see what I was doing. She's very interested in learning HTML/CSS and wanted to watch. This was after spending several hours today outside playing with the neighbor kids, before, that is, she came in to do her chores (put away the clean dishes, put her laundry away, help gather up the trash) and have dinner, wherein she ate her vegetables without complaint. After Doctor Who, she read for a bit and went to bed. Tomorrow will be playing with the cousins and visiting the grandparents. She's a very smart, happy, well-behaved kid living a quite balanced and normal life. I'm very proud of her.
Actually, Flash supports both multitouch and gestures which are separate from mouse events, thus it's possible they may work concurrently (i.e. in the same app with common mouse input).
I would use it to localize my iPhone apps. I currently use OneHourTranslation and they are pricey at $0.07/word. Make it half that and I will switch.

Extra points:

* have the translators know about iPhone and the app,
so that they have context
* support for incremental translation (so that terms
stay consistent as you add features)
* automatically validate .strings file format on submission.
Facilitated communication has been shown a long time ago to be a scam. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3439467496200920717&...
I will agree that the author has done a good job pointing out that many current Flash apps may have problems on the iPad. Many of those would be addressed if the blockade was lifted, but certainly not all.
I Like this idea. If you were looking for a target audience you should also include students learning statistics. In college you get to use some of the software but this would be more ideal, hopefully working cross platform. When I took statistics it was a pain running windows on my Mac just for statistics software.
I don't think so. Aren't rhetorical questions devices intended to reinforce a point whose nobody shoukd answer? Do we even need an answer regarding the access of a plugin to the hardware card?

See? that's a rhetorical question. Or isn't it?
Because they were registered before IANA reserved all available single-letter domains in 1993.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_doma...
In 2002, she was charged with assault after punching a woman in the head at an International House of Pancakes in Peabody, Mass. The woman had taken the last booster seat, and, according to the police report, Dr. Bishop demanded it for one of her children, shouting, “I am Dr. Amy Bishop!”

Wow. Just wow. Beating someone over a booster seat at Ihop. Sounds like a first class nutbar.
The only difference is you're allowed to see for yourself and decide for yourself if it works well enough - if it's not in Flash anyway. Simply dismissing everything on the grounds that some things won't work is silly.
really? that's usually not on the list (of countries that are more business friendly than the US.)
Barefoot Obsession
I'm guessing jrockaway was trying to refer to tiling window managers (e.g. xmonad) , only without being too obvious about it. ;)
People whom are not creative and can't adapt to change will get left behind as change happens. The rest will be fine. You only have to be able to run faster than X% of the competition, and most of those people you are outrunning hate what they are doing anyways.
Creativity and mental disorders may stem from a similar genetic predisposition. For example, it may help if one can see the world in two ways (bipolar disorder).
Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton may have had Asperger syndrome too, although they could be just isolative and difficult.
John Forbes Nash, a founder of game theory, who won 1994 Nobel Prize in economics had a history of Schizophrenia
I think this is the point where node is getting a bit silly.

It's a wonderful tool with a clear purpose: simple high performance network servers that usually tie together a bunch of different servers behind them. If they are trying to turn Node into something else they are going to hit a brick wall.

The proposal acknowledges that the current JS/V8 cannot really deliver on the original promise that all IO should be async. This is mainly because of awkward syntax in JS. The awkward syntax comes from the lack of native futures.

There are two ways forward: Change JS and add native futures to Node or supply blocking IO libraries to the users and move the complexity of async vs blocking to the programmers.
If that's the path they chose, what will distinguish Node from high performance network libraries in other languages, such as EventMachine and Twisted? Node has it's reputation for speed precisely because it doesn't offer any blocking operations.

Personally I think the focus should be on crafting transparent futures into the JS language that Node uses.
Take the IO language as an example: http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/git/checkout/Io/docs/IoGuide.h...
Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business
I work with open source technology in my job all the time, and I don't think there's any danger of someone freely implementing the custom systems we need to support our clients' needs. Just because everyone knows how a wrench works doesn't mean my mechanic is fixing my car for free.
> Most of the critics of Searle's argument fail to respond directly to his points. This is actually not all that surprising in that most of the critics are scientists and Searle's argument is philosophical, but it means that doing a point by point critique of the argument is unlikely to be very useful.

Well now, that says something about philosophy's relevance to science.

> Many people consider the concept of gender inseparable from its fleshly and biological origin and nature.

And many people don't. The argument is just philosophical, what's the big deal?
I like the incremental translation idea. I worry about all my translations breaking when we do a big update and change stuff.

If you could get set up with translators you liked, and the site facilitated long term relationships, that would be really powerful. The site would need some sort of specialized, versioned CMS.
Wow, I didn't actually expect anyone to comment on this. This was my first post to hacker news and I really appreciate the time you all have taken to comment.
Hot water cleans better your hair and skin. Cold water activates your blood circulation.
Manic-depressive illness was often misdiagnosed as schizophrenia in the United States in the era when Nash was hospitalized. He subsequent course of illness is more like manic-depressive illness than like schizophrenia. If I remember correctly, the author of the acclaimed biography of Nash acknowledges that he may have been misdiagnosed.
I've never met him, but I know he just quit his job
The number of members isn't as instructive as the number of man hours that went into the development of the product.

Plants Vs. Zombies (an 'amazing' indie game) apparently took 12 man years of development (and probably at > 40 hr / weeks). That's a lot more effort than most albums, that's for sure. Even if a band takes a few years to put an album together, there's not spending 40/hrs a week in the recording studio for two years.

AAA games have hundreds of man years of development.

When you start talking about long, uninterrupted development cycles, it's very difficult to do that without external funding. A small band can go on tour and play gigs while working on their album - or even have a day job to pay the bills. If you have a day job while working on a game, you're not going to finish (anything non-trivial).
Well, given that this would be a hosted service, the revenue model would be the redirect service and not name scraping. I have no interest in scraping names and think that that is completely unethical behavior.

However, to further address your concerns, email addresses could be stored in such a way that the provider does not match or log any email transactions and acts strictly as a forward only model.

Domains getting blocked is a fact of life and is something that will have to be managed. However, I hear you on potential abuse and part of the service would have to be ways to address that. I'm no fan of spammers and my primary interest in this is to manage the rapidly increasing insight that companies such as GOOG and MSFT have into their users by way of providing "free" services. Google Buzz and Latitude honestly creep the heck out of me.

Wrt to spam filters, you can easily add the "to" addresses inside gmail as approved addresses so that should not be too much of an issue.
Thanks for the advice! Great thoughts and ideas. I do have a couple product businesses and some are growing slowly.
having a few files and folders visible on my desktop is a useful feature. i don't want to cover all of them.
As long as computer programming courses in school are as inadequate as they currently are in most of the world, many people with aptitude will not be exposed to it in a compelling fashion and thus most will not choose it as a career. If that is the case, demand for professionally developed software will likely outstrip supply for the foreseeable future.
Thanks for the thoughts.

I guess my real question is what niche to pursue? What will be the next big thing? What can I pursue that will be ahead of the curve?
Cool site, dead simple. You might want to make the services page more friendly, though. I know 3 languages, so you're expecting me to enter 6 combinations by hand, one by one? Why not just let me state which languages I know, and generate all combinations? Then allow editing of rates for all of them on one page.
Well, it would be sort of like spamgourmet except these would be ongoing honeypots. Most of these sites use a standard set of signals to try to identify you

i.e.
- cookies
- IP address
- physical address
- telephone number
- ssn
- email address
- name
- dob

This would be just one of the ways in counteracting such intrusive tracking behavior.
The AP Is Using Twitter To Send People To Facebook. Wait. What?
Institutional problems can be as hard to fix as technical problems. Whats going on at Adobe might be both types of problems.

(Not to say Apple has an institutional problem, but, speaking in general.)
Nielsen publishes a fair amount of ecommerce conversion data. For example:
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/nov-e-commerce-...

I'd suggest digging around in the archives there to see if you can find some newer stats.

Your verticals are pretty specific, so it may be tough to get exact numbers for those categories. Perhaps you can find data for verticals with similar average order sizes as the product categories you are targeting. That wouldn't be perfect but would probably be directionally correct.

Good luck!
Interesting, I didn't know that. I've always preferred the same.
Programmers regularly create jobs for themselves everytime they write code because the code they write create bugs.

If they write practically 100% bug-free code, it is probably because the program is small or they did it so slow and methodical. Which mean, a whole bunch of other stuff not getting coded.

Trust me, there's enough programming jobs for everyone for the forseeable future.
Why minority students don't graduate from college
Look: Safari optimization is optional. All unoptimized webpages work. You might have to scroll a bit more than is comfortable, but in general everything works just fine.

Comparing that situation to Flash seems odd.

(If you prefer features to execution as your comment seems to suggest don’t ever – ever – buy any Apple products. Apple doesn’t think like you do.)
The Great California Wine Mystery
This would also explain why they're really pushing for such a large user base.
Such constant extreme unfounded evangelism for Apple is making it very difficult to extract any true insight from John Gruber's "articles".
No, I would expect the software to know what is a Flash element and what isn't. I would also expect the software to make it easy for the user to know one from the other and see the behavior is different.
Paul Erdos: An Infinity of Problems
Daring Fireball – Money Machine?
Thank you for trying to protect us mere human beings from ourselves.
Could you clarify how the problem is hard to fix under Linux? If you set swappiness to 0, does it still swap out application pages?
This seems ridiculous to me, it's almost as if the thought of using say... some sort of User-Agent to identify and differentiate the experience of the software is just well too simple to consider?
This is offtopic: can you buy an Android phone, remove the vendor-supplied version of Android and install a fresh, straight-from-SVN version of the OS instead? If an Android phone allows that kind of flexibility, I'll really consider spending some cash on a smartphone as opposed to another cheap-ass J2ME phone.
It's got nothing to do with the windowing environment. I maximize a separate window on each monitor so I can see as much of each file as I can. Until I get a monitor as big as a wall, I want everything maximized.
A user would still have to understand why trying to grab+drag to scroll would work on one part of a page but inexplicably not on another part (eg, a Flash ad).

Most likely it would be a crap shoot between pages that took the iPhone/iPad into account, and those that would confusingly not work.
One fundamentally wrong thing he says is that programmers don't want competition.

This just isn't true. Competition is often good for the companies, not just the customers. Competition makes you innovative, and competition is often a great way to do R&D without spending money.
Forget about performance, but look at how this guy struggles to pop balloons in this vid

http://gizmodo.com/5476500/htc-desire-rom-puts-flash-on-your...
EZ-CSS - Yet another CSS framework.
Is there some reason adobe can't use OpenCL to accelerate video decoding?
Exo Research CTO still does not understand how OS file caching works in Windows
never trust any Brazilian financial institution, they are lazy, bureaucratic and profit driven. whenever I need something "odd" from those institutions I spend about 4 or 5 days on phone calls and in-site meetings.
Verticals don't have conversion rates. Specific funnels on specific sites do.

According to Nielsen, Proflowers has a 42.8% conversion rate and 1800flowers.com 20.8%. That's two sites selling identical products.

MarysAwesomeHandBuiltFlowerShop.com probably converts around 0%.
The only thing that seems odd is you justify a browser for the same reason you dismiss a plugin - there will be cases where Flash works fine or well enough so by your logic there should be a FlashPlayer, but there will be cases where it won't so then there shouldn't be a browser. Adobe themselves could largely ensure most Flash works just by catering specifically to the iPhone environment and automatically bridging the interface differences, as Apple did with Safari.

And it doesn't necessarily have to be a browser. There are apps that sell well and there are apps that don't, so should they just close the app store? Of course not.
Google's Citytours Crash
It this search in the search box and it crashed.

"pleasant ca"

Error: Failed to load and parse template

java.io.FileNotFoundException: File name: default_err.cs
Paths searched: [ '/base/data/home/apps/glabs20-citytours/7.338930504429096102/templates', '/base/data/home/apps/glabs20-citytours/7.338930504429096102/templates' ]
I actually hide the dock in OS X; it just clutters things up. I do pretty much everything through Quicksilver, or just Finder/Terminal when I need to go poking around.

In fact, I've gotten so used to doing it that way that I now use Gnome Do and Colibri as well (yes, I alternate among all three OSes on a near-daily basis... sigh).
Postal money orders are much more secure if you're sending money within the US. I understand they can be a bit dodgy too though internationally, depending on the professionalism of the national postal service.
There's a business opportunity here.

You reckon? I have to admit I didn't even think of that. I wouldn't have thought people would pay for screenshots, but then again I didn't think people would pay to send emails, either. This was part of a value added service, sadly it never really got off the ground.

Shall I send you an email telling you more about what was envisaged? Maybe we can cooperate.
Ok, I made the comment in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1138840, that "it's surprising that the CTO of a company specialized on system performance doesn't know how OS cache memory works." It turns out that he really has no clue.

To the people who said the Windows source code is needed to understand how it works, hogwash. The file caching in Linux has been doing it this way for years. Windows does it for years as well. It's fairly standard OS caching technique.
You're never going to scientifically prove a philosophical stance, it would be circular. Philosophy is the foundation of science, not the other way around. My view is unprovable just like his, people have to pick the one that seems right to them.
jqplot looks great. Thanks for the suggestion!
Maybe you're not supposed to be taking these projects from start to finish. In a lot of companies, the programmer isn't the guy that does the UI web design, but the project isn't finished without both. It's OK that the programmer never finishes the project, he took the job because that's the role he wants, not to be a jack of all trades.
Thoughts On Freebie Trading
I read an interesting article about freebie trading and how it is "The Internets Biggest Scam." From what I can tell, it does sound like a scam and it also sounds dishonest (having only this article to base my opinion on).

What are your opinions on the subject? Is there a legitimate form of Freebie trading? Is there anyone doing it who is not ripping people or companies off? Furthermore, what is freebie trading exactly?

This topic also interests me because I have been using TrialPay as a payment alternative on one of my sites for about 2 years (Google "free tie"). Basically TrialPay pays me for a product that I give to my customer for free if my customer participates in a trial or discounted offer from TrialPay affiliates (Netflix, Gap, etc.). I've never had any customers report a problem with them and I've used them myself to get free stuff for trying offers. Just recently I got a free pizza for trying Netflix through TrialPay.

Is that considered freebie trading? Thanks in advance for your comments.

Here is a link to the article "The Internet's Biggest Scam" on ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/Business/TheBigMoney/big-internet-scam/story?id=9801482
Irate Foxconn workers set fire to factory
Not 10 minutes ago I just finished reading "The Blind Watchmaker" and then you posted this article and the people who did this research are not one mile from where I live. What are the chances of that happening?
This is what I always wondered about. I mean, flash is designed to operate in a keyboard/mouse environment. How would it's event model map to a multitouch model? I suspect that it could be done, but it would be awkward at best. Also, the biggest argument for flash on the iPhone/ipad has been the large amount of games already available. Well, most (if not all) expect a keyboard and mouse. There is no way they would be able to work unaltered.
Naw, I am just a mere human being who just happens to be self-aware of his limitation at this time.

I deceive myself if I think I am not vulnerable to the confirmation bias.
"... I think they actually make an attempt to do so when you delete (not deactivate) your account. ..."

Facebook has repeatedly removed services [0] that allowed you to remove all traces of your account via the API ~ http://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+suicide

[0] Cnet, Rafe Needleman, "Facebook cuts off Suicide Machine access" http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-10424683-250.html
Avoid the perils of coder customers
Thanks for the feedback algorias. I'll definitely give it some thought.