skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note sure if they should. Coke Vs. Pepsi logos: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/coca-col...

Even in the revised edition Coca-Cola didn't change their logo much after a while.
64-bit flash was bumpy at first on Firefox/Linux but it's been stable for at least a year now. I gather it's still in beta? Either way, "apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree" works as you'd expect.
Things that have happened since Matthew Dempsky reported this crash bug, which Adobe has yet to release a fix for:

-Mozilla Firefox 3 had several alpha, beta, RC, and final releases, moving from late version 2 to version 3.6.

-Google Chrome was initially released and ported to Mac and Linux

-Safari evolved from version 3 to version 4

-Apple developed and released a new version of the iPhone, announced the iPad, and released a new version of Mac OS X

-Windows 7 was betad, improved and shipped

-Apple's market capitalization nearly doubled from 93 billion to 177 billion

-The entire global financial crisis came to a head, with multiple banks and other large firms either collapsing, being acquired for their assets alone, or being bailed out by national governments

-Barack Obama was elected president, sworn in, and served his entire first year of office

-Sarah Palin, then a surprise pick at running mate, made a series of media gaffes, resigned as governor of Alaska, and parlayed her fame into a television deal with Fox News
More proof that war is great for the economy.
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=programmer+OR+%22software+...
Totally offtopic. What did you use to annotate that image ?
Possibly if the app is really good this kind of advertising could generate a lot of word of mouth buzz around the app.
Linux.conf.au: Hackability for disability support devices
"his wouldn't be such a big issue if it weren't for the policy recommendations that would have us greatly change our way of life"

The whole point of implementing cap-and-trade is so that we don't have to significantly change our way of life:

http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/conor_clarke/2009/06/d...
Just speculating.

Assuming they have a sysadmin available 24/7 (which they should) 4 employees is hardly too much. Its just enough.

When your business is on the cloud with 60 servers, there should be at least one person available at all time, whether the server ever goes down or not.
This will not be easy to retrofit.

Studs are not typically designed to handle cantilever loads.

You would pull the stud right out of the wall. You'll at the very least need new (stiffer) studs. By the time you are done with the internal reconstructions (and if it's a load bearing wall, good luck), this will be very expensive.

An ordinary deck is far far cheaper. This is cool, but not practical.
A little on a tangent but I'd like to dispute the conception of MS Paint as something that can only create poor art. Take a look at the following:
http://www.drububu.com/tutorial/mspaint.html
Try saving.
The course notes show how a mathematician would figure out that the drag force on the cone was proportional to its area. A physicist could do it with much less work. In a dodgy approximation, the impulse on a body due to a fluid is proportional to the momentum of the fluid that hits it. If each cone falls with the same velocity, the momentum is proportional to the mass of fluid that hits it, which is proportional to the cone's area. Differentiating with respect to time, the drag force is proportional to area.
Oh huh. That is interesting, because I was always convinced I can never charge too little here when I need a lot of money to begin with to live in such an area. (Just the other day I found out my health insurance company was going to charge me $100/month more...almost making me consider getting a job instead or finishing school...)

> Here's the thing with project rates - I'm obsessive with clocking time. I clock everything, every second.

I am too ;) I use Billings or Harvest (depending on where I'm working) to time everything obsessively. I don't actually bill anyone based on purely the time, but it gives me a sense of how much time it took me to do certain things because if I end up spending way too much time hand-holding a client then something needs to change. DO NOT get into the habit of not clocking things like responding to client emails (other than like short one liner type things) and whatever, because you are right...it can be a huge time suck, and it's hard to estimate how much time that will end up taking. Whoever originally came up with the idea of quoting in excess of what you really think it is time and money wise was smart ;)

> But having Java and Perl skills are definitely more valuable than just PHP... And yes, having established, stable and valuable clients with big $$ over the long term certainly helps.

I don't even really know that much Perl...Java I learned in school, I'm trying to do more Cocoa/Mac/iPhone/(iPad?) stuff now that the iPhone has really kicked that off because I wasn't really doing anything with it since I had first played with cocoa/objc in like 2005-6...I know bits and pieces. I usually won't take on a job involving something I don't know much about, but my scattered knowledge does come in handy as I can be extremely flexible in getting things done the way people want them. So yeah, if PHP is your only skill, you should branch out if at least to be qualified for more jobs out there.

Established clients are far more important, and I'm sorry to hear that :( I'm trying to work on a startup right now, but it's hard because I have to pay my own bills, cofounder can't quit her job yet, and other such little things... But keeping up relationships, if only to have lunch and say hi, is a good thing to do with your best clients. It's a tough time for everyone right now and has been for a while, don't worry :)
Gstreamer plugins legal in USA?
"Also, is the 4 ops guys per 60 servers a non-shocking number?"

4 people is the bare minimum for realistic 24/7 support. Even if you just do "on call" support outside office hours, making sure someone (capable) is available every weekend and at o-dark-thirty every day is difficult with less than 4 people.

(Says a guy who spend too many years as part of a 2 or 3 person sysadmin team...)
Outflopped.com: StackExchange Meets Poker
LittleSnapper: http://www.realmacsoftware.com/littlesnapper/
The video in the post is actually a great ad, though I doubt that it will be the one aired tomorrow (if Google is even really airing an ad). It's super-cute (enough to be memorable among a sea of other ads), focuses exactly on what people like about Google, and for people who are really, really paying attention, it is a rebuttal to all the Bing TV ads from last year (without mentioning Bing!) because it shows how Google already has all the extra "decision engine" features.
Have to agree with you. I am based in India and yet, I myself wouldn't settle for anything less than $15 / hr. $2/hr in US is just crazy.
I see this more as a testament to the greatness of open source. Who cares who contributed more commits? What to take out of it is that open source prevails, even in a competitive environment — it makes me feel hopeful about things.
Android phones can play mp3s just fine. The built in mp3 player is "not fancy" but it gets the job done just fine. When you connect the phone to your computer via USB, it shows up as an external drive, so you can put songs onto it the same way you would put them onto a "thumb drive."
I have absolutely no artistic ability or desire to buy an iPad -- but put that on it and I might. Its like being a little kid again and discovering fingerpaint.
Does anyone else take a "sloppy first copy" approach to projects?
I will believe that graph is likely to contain something with any connection whatsoever to reality when shown an accurate representation of the economic situation in 2010 produced in 1970.
Can a king cobra see?
Am I the only one who thought "hey, mini skirt and transparent balocny floor...nicccceee"
isn't the whole "my hope for this post is $1.29 from adsense" against Google ToS? Kinda implies you want people clicking.
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This presupposes that you're selling the same hour in NYC and Bangalore. (i.e. that when you measure what is produced, it is equivalent.)

I do not live in either a $15/hr or $100/hr region, but I've managed people from both, and it has not been my experience that the hour sold is the same as the hour bought.
Here is an accurate economic representation of 2010 produced in 1956:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Hubbert_U...
Broderick enters "ZERO" instead of "0" for the number of players, which made me chuckle.

I suppose a more modern version of WOPR might simulate WoW.

Number of players?
ONE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FORTY TWO
Initializing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWjlCaIrQo
Not super surprising. I see Chrome ads on Hulu all the time. I wonder if those ads are a "test" to get some baseline ROI measurement, with an eye towards advertising on broadcast TV.
Ask HN: Actual chances of seeing the space shuttle from afar
I am in Atlanta, Georgia. I have fairly easy access to a high parking deck but it's an exceptionally cold night for Atlanta and I just wanted to confirm from a source I trust that my friends and I will actually be able to see something at 4:30ish.
wasn't exactly what I was aiming for, last time I posted I made 1.28 ;\
It's not foolproof, but I think one common way is for the static-content server to check for an appropriate authentication cookie. In Facebook's case, an additional complication is that they serve lots of the static content off Akamai, so any authentication would have to be coordinated.
Hah. Evil man.

But you have a point, and one I had to realize when I graduate from college right as the bubble burst and there was 0 work in the industry: If you can type >85wpm, you can easily make $12-14/hr starting out in an office temp position. It's not great money and the work is no fun, but it leaves you with open lunch breaks to read a book on programming and nights uncomplicated by deadlines. If software engineering doesn't pay for you, do something that does until you can land the job you want.
Last I looked, First Solar had an exclusive in the US with Solar City who in turn will only rent/lease you the panels; i.e. you can't buy them.
The Four Cs of JavaScript
I went through a roller coaster of feelings as I read each paragraph of your post. And then I took a deep breath and re-read it.

So, first - You're taking an unpopular position, suggesting that the future of everything isn't HTML5 - but you do so coherently.

But, the thing is, HTML5 isn't a replacement for thick binaries - I don't believe anyone has suggested that you are going to replace Excel, Photoshop, or AutoCad with an HTML5 App. But, with that said, not everyone needs all the power of those Thick Binaries - lots of people get by with Google Docs, Zimbra, Numbers, and other applications that are "good enough." (Please, before anyone tells me that these applications are competitors for their thick binaries - Tell me how many thousands of hours you've spent on them. Any Excel/Cad/Photoshop Jockey not only knows precisely how limited those applications are, but they also find their smaller competitors unuseable. )

I'm guessing 95% plus of the non-productivity application needs can be solved by HTML5 or it's close companions. What _is_ going to be replaced is Flash. Particularly with the iPad about to come out strong (Mossberg thought it would sell millions of units when priced at $999, with the entry at $779 - He didn't even hazard a guess at what Apple is going to be able to do with a $499 machine) - people who want to write cross platform WebApps are going to _master_ HTML5, particularly with Google and Apple both driving WebKit so hard - now you get Chromium + iPad in one fell swoop - pretty hard to ignore that target environment.

Re: 99% of machines - Probably pretty close to it. How many machines out there can't run a reasonably recent version of FireFox - I'll admit there is a lot of them, but most machines in the last five years probably can.
We did exactly this at SEOmoz - built an index that's primarily focused on link data. It's accessible through a free API - www.seomoz.org/api - up to 1 million calls a month free and more at fairly low rates. Our index isn't quite Google-sized. Our last crawl (updated once per month) was 65 billion URLs, which we estimate is between 50-65% of Google's main index.

I'm happy to answer any other questions you've got about it if you'd like. Feel free to email me (rand at seomoz dot org).
The solution to this is so fucking obvious that it pains me. Boxee is an application platform.

Hulu needs to just make a goddamn Boxee app the way Netflix has for many platforms. They get to control the experience. If some of their content deals don't allow it, just make a subset available.
I suppose it depends on the thing(s) being monitored though. I certainly do not want to have 4 people for my always-on development project. I am designing the system to be as fault tolerant and self-healing as possible so I do not have to have people (read: me) awakened at 3AM with alerts.

Maybe I'm insane or overly optimistic or both. Designing things to bend and not break is really difficult and time consuming. "Thanks Captain Obvious! You are so insightful!" No, I know, but I'm going through the cutting-of-teeth ritual now so these kinds of things are on my mind.
Funny 2010 Super Bowl eCard
Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options
The cookie slows down the things a bit. I've never had such problem but what about complete randomization of static URLs, so they are not easily findable?

If the leaks are the issue, one might want to change the names, or just filesystem symlinks, periodically.
> A study of 141 layoff announcements between 1979 and 1997 found negative stock returns to companies announcing layoffs, with larger and permanent layoffs leading to greater negative effects.

The simpler explanation is that companies in the worst straits are likely to make the deepest cuts when performing layoffs.
Yes it is. I highly recommend their products.
I am so reminded of this quote from Snow Crash:

"... once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani bricklayer would consider to be prosperity–y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else

music

movies

microcode (software)

high-speed pizza delivery"
The glass has to provide good insulation then. Also, I don't know for Boston, but in Quebec if there's nothing to stop mosquitoes it's essentially unusable...
That makes me wonder how much of everyday life is based on accidental placebo effect - item designs, behaviours, procedures.

One day, will someone notice that the vests have no obvious link to the tasks and promote removing hem for cost cutting?
The whole area of Scientific Publishing is in need of a major shift by disrupting current practices - and I am hoping when it does is a YC start-up.

While studying for my PhD, a pattern arose - any papers written before 1975 provided adequate details to reproduce results down to code or references to Technical Reports that provided this information.

What I would like to see.

(01) Any research that is publicly funded to make all publications, data and code freely available. (Not behind paywalls)

(02) All papers to have more than one version, version 2 being a good explanation of what the research is all about, results etc - without the jargon, in order for readers to better understand the subject and delve further into it, should they wish.

(03) A comments section

It is as if suddenly Scientists are afraid of standing up and support their theses. A more open policy on publishing - in detail - on the web can help them do so, they can crowd-source opinions and suggestions - really I don't see a downside to this.

Out of curiosity I spent over a week to find out the roots of experiments that determine the effect of CO2 on temperature, if the models took account of diffusion, which layer of the atmosphere is affected the greatest etc... So far I have not been very successful.
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author's conclusion: "far from complete"
'But, the thing is, HTML5 isn't a replacement for thick binaries'
If you have a look further up in this post people are suggesting this as far as I can see - e.g. 'It won't be long before all applications are written in HTML/CSS/JS.'

Why use a browser for content creation? Browsers are good for displaying text and graphics, but when it comes to creation sometime you're going to hit the wall - whether it's file size/memory limits/bandwidth limits.

What is the cut point for a browser app - There must be one. At the moment I'm editing and saving some movies I taped on my USB recorder to my PC, so I can watch them later. Will a browser ever be able to do this? it seems unlikely. My previous example about editing a large raw image - it seems unlikely a browser will do that. My day job is writing database apps, will a browser ever do that? seems unlikely, except for some of the front end stuff. So what are the things a browser can do? The more I think about it the smaller the class of applications is - whether it's using HTML 5, 6 or 112.

A browser app is good for
- little apps that aren't too resource intensive

- things that you'd like to access from multiple places (like email), but things like dropbox are way better for a large class - a web enabled native app

- reading web sites

- searching web sites

No matter which way you cut it, there is a class of applications that will never run on a browser. So the argument is where this cut point exists, not if it exists.

(and 99% of PC's could run this app if the people who owned those PC's could install an application called firefox, an application that is tuned for running this particular web enabled application that uses html 5 as it's file format)
Linus from http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2010/02/happy-camper.htm...:

I don't worry about out-of-tree development for odd devices too much. I wish we could merge android, but I also accept it likely being a few years away. We had similar out-of-tree issues with the SGI extreme scalability stuff, and it took quite a while before the standard kernel merged all of that.
The Obama administration internally believes that cap and trade will cost the average family $1761 USD/year: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/15/taking_liberties/ent... - and that's their estimate that's almost certain to be light ignoring the impact on industry itself.

Now what happens in actual implementation? Read
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/europes-cap-and-trade-m... and http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/csiro-bi...
Except IIRC this wasn't about security or stability; it was because they went 64-bit on everything and needed a way to have the 64-bit apps and 32-bit plugins interact sanely.
A thousand times no! I barely trust the distro people to not screw up the browser itself. The only reason to use a distro-packaged extension would be that it's more likely to be fucked in lockstep with the browser.

I'm sure you use CPAN, gems, hackage, etc. instead of the broken crap in nearly every distro's repositories -- why not use http://addons.mozilla.org while you're at it?
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Instead of working within the confines of native OSs Adobe has managed to dupe us into installing essentially an overlay OS with Flash/ActionScript/Air. They have a responsibility to manage it as such.

They have the same problems as Java. They develop a complete OS without regard to core OS code and hardware changes. It's irresponsible curating that no one is reporting on.

Forget fixing the bug. If we combine our resources and create a Flash killer that plays nice with native OSs, we won't have to care about Adobe's reckless development.
The third one should be called chaining rather than cascade and the fourth one 'curry' should be dropped (it is not really all that useful) the solo example mentioned is probably the only one in a public library.
Cool URI's don't change.

Slightly less cool URI's leave 301 redirects behind when they move.

At the web scale you can't expect every org publishing resources to keep them up indefinitely, you need to be able to deal with breakage.
screen only supports 16-bit Unicode, the Basic Multilingual Plane. Unicode is actually a 21-bit character set and although there's not many characters in the higher ("astral") planes yet, there's more added with each new revision.

I believe the major feature of tmux over screen is that it allows arbitrary layout of panes per window, rather than just horizontal divisions, although personally I switched because I'm just that nerdy about Unicode.

tmux was written by a guy who was very familiar with screen (in fact, it was written inside screen) and while there's no incredibly major differences, I think there's a number of small annoyances that have been filed off.
Compare it with this http://www.sumopaint.com/app/ and you realize HTML5 have a long way to go.

That is if you want to actually do work with it and not just play around.
I quite like Skitch, also good for that kind of thing.
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Hmm, the interface looks an awful lot like Pixelmator. Like, really, a lot.
I really do wonder how people don't make money on the internet. It's trivially easy to make it to mid six figures. I've personally found it extremely difficult to make it to 7/8.
I would think that there's a utility to screenshot a terminal window straight to HTML, colors and all.
CLisp on Nokia N900
Rumored Windows Phone 7 details
There are several different issues here. One is persistent access, which is what you seem to be referring to. Some others are metadata, along with persistent naming and location.

It's important to be able to name something uniquely and get some metadata about it, even if that thing can't be located and/or accessed. Some of the schemes discussed in the article are designed to address these issues.
Well, I think it's more that the mugtug developers have much more they can do - if that's what the want to do.

Don't say that HTML5 (canvas) has a long way to go. It does - but the basis for your argument is wrong. Don't compare two different projects - with different goals, and in different stages of development - and then say one is weaker based on its current phase of development.
Knowing that adobe uses this type of a development cycle, I have to agree more with Steve Jobs.
According to https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Value_noise (which cites this), this page actually describes value noise, not Perlin. I emailed the author, who told me he no longer has access to the site, so unfortunately, people will be fooled for years to come.
Nicholas Stern (of the stern review) is asking for 2% global gdp (!) based on findings of the IPCC report
It's basically the app they'd use for their official university app. News, maps, local attractions, events, degrees, and lots of information about the university itself.
That says to me that "We have several outstanding issues we need to resolve before we next ship". It doesn't say that they're leftover from previous versions.

And so I find myself defending Flash. Strange things are afoot.
SAP was founded by former IBM employees who weren't allowed to do the project inside of IBM.
Still peeved that your program must "not be a generic reader". They'll swing their weight around, or they wouldn't have that language in there.
couldn't they just solve it by serving up an image with a hash of the facebook uid as the filename?
He probably uses a flash blocker, like the rest of us.
Not to be persnickety, but there is an entire world of Rails developers who don't have the problems that Riak purports to solve. I'll be a multi-millionaire bingo tycoon long, long before I outgrow MySQL, given my app's needs. (Adjust appropriately if you're Facebook. I'm not Facebook.)