skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very hip visualization, reminiscent of integer notation (c=0, c#=1, d=2, etc) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_notation

Music educators are slowly finding ways to catch up traditional pedagogy with the ever-expanding technologies.

some color coating would even help younger players.

fantastic work
I am a veteran of both places. Here is what you need to know.

- NYC is 30% more expensive than Silicon Valley / SF

- you don't need a car in SF but you probably do in SV

- you might need a car if you live in the inconvenient neighborhoods of SF.

- the bay area is sort of automatically healthy, you have to work hard to be unhealthy

- NYC is automatically unhealthy, you have to work hard to be healthy

- the weather is better in California

- the women are better in NYC

- if you are decent looking and have a job, you can get a date in NYC

- you can be good looking and rich in SV/SF and still never get a date

- there are better options for outdoors activities in California

- anything besides outdoors activities is more convenient in NYC.

- hedge funds / finance can be more interesting than a dumb startup and will certainly pay more

- working for a dumb startup is bad for your career

- you can get trapped in a startup career spiral in SF/SV where you never make any money, even if you're a great programmer

- you'll eventually make decent coin in NYC even if you're only an average programmer

- there are interesting people in NYC with varied careers ranging from UN analyst to fashion designer

- in SF/SV there are tech industry people and weirdos

- counterintuitively, even though NYC is more money
oriented, the programmers often have very interesting outside interests. the meetup scene in NYC is intellectual, there's math, machine learning, functional programming, etc

- in SF/SV most of your fellow programmers will only claim road cycling and guitar hero as interests. the meetup scene is usually about source control or social media tweeting

I could go on and on. Thinking about where the best place is to build your startup is kind of silly. You want to think about what you want to build, and build it. You can always move later if needed. These lists are also dumb, although it was fun to write. Really the only way you can decide where to live is to experience places yourself.
The problem is poorly phrased. As you point out, it has nothing to do with bots or humans. There's still benefit to inhibiting rings of users (real or otherwise) that frequently vote together. Maybe some kind of diminishing returns?
I trust that you are a vegetarian.
dont vote down the truth just because you're a member of said gender.
6waves Poker di Facebook
So much damned money that someone apparently bought the rights to the ancient word "corruption" and prevents people from using it. It's bad for business.
I think you guys are underestimating the consumers. Ads are supposed to be entertaining, just like tv shows and movies. They're supposed to blur the line between real and fake. At the end of the day, it will be up to the viewer if they'll believe it or not. If you point out that it's fake from the start, it kinda defeats the purpose of ads.
This one is my favorite, for obvious reasons: http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=oDUyz8lGw58&feature=relat...
Partly because every implementation of HTML5 drag and drop has a lot of bugs. Partly because the API is terrible. And partly because the reach is still pretty terrible compared to things like flash.

http://www.alertdebugging.com/2009/08/16/on-html-5-drag-and-...
"Ships fitted with AIS shall maintain AIS in operation at all times except where international agreements, rules or standards provide for the protection of navigational information."

From "The December 2002 amendments" http://www.imo.org/Conventions/contents.asp?topic_id=257&... (about 2/3 of the way down)
Short book review: Delivering Happiness
Screenshots of PRManna running locally on my dev box on March 5th, 2009 (note the TipJoy widget):

http://img.skitch.com/20100227-bfr884xr63ffm3ducic3t2qq7r.jp...

I have no idea when it changed (and I can't find a screenshot of how it was before), but I submitted a request to HARO about six weeks ago and it looked nothing like it does today, so at some point in the last couple months they launched the current redesign.

EDIT: Until very recently, HARO looked like this (url says December 2009):

http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/img/2009/12/1214haro.j...

Maybe I should sue them...perhaps they somehow saw my screenshots and decided to copy them! :)
The experience when you're trying to upload a dozen or a hundred photos is obviously different. The current reality of multi file uploads is still pretty poor in the browser (though the new Facebook photo uploader looks pretty slick).
> Israel is much smaller and they've tried much harder and they can't prevent them so the U.S. stands very little chance.

Actually, Israel has mostly prevented them. They still get rockets shot at them (which they probably could stop if they didn't have any ethical constraints), but suicide bombings have mostly stopped, and not for lack of attempts.
I think many of your criticisms apply to current Javascript UIs also. I have seen so many UI quirks, even in the stuff you'd think would work right like YUI/JQuery UI. However, its saving grace is its composable nature.

The biggest problem with Flash in my mind, and what will seal its doom, is that monolithic mentality that you should have a whole site that is only a flash program. That's wrong and throws away a large part of makes the web great. If you aren't building stuff out of the dhtml/dom substrate, if you're not basing architectural decisions on REST, you are doing it wrong.
No but of course that has nothing to do with it.
The key point I'm making is as an advertiser, there is no way for me to know that you saw those 10 ads on TV - hence the need for 3rd party measurement. On the web, I have a direct line of sight to you - hence why introduce a 3rd party?
get at it now folks, mixergy has a paywall after a video is a week old!
They're encrypted with keys that your computer knows, or your computer wouldn't be able to read it. It's not too difficult to find that key and decrypt the information. Once you do that, it's just a matter of figuring out the way the info is sent. This would be pretty easy once the key is taken out.
If HARO wasn't an original idea, why did he credit them with giving him the idea? Getting lawyers involved is a dick move, but he really set himself up for it to happen.
Explained: Linear and nonlinear systems
Great article, but it beats around the elephant in the room. Most people learn to program to get something done, not just for the sake of it. That's what the "killer app" argument amounts to - a "killer app" does something easy to grasp that you can't in your current language of choice (remember the original RoR screen casts?).

So while there's nothing wrong with "only learning to program when it'll clearly let you get more things done", Lisp isn't for those people, since "building beautiful abstractions" isn't worth the extra effort over learning PHP or Ruby.

Also, I have no what the author means by people's "aversion to math" in relation to boolean algebra and graph theory, of all things. Both graph theory and algebra are subsets of math.
A good IP lawyer might help: I use http://www.aplegal.com, Stevan Lieberman there knows what he's doing.
Just the general idea of connecting reporters and sources. That's all. Before HARO, I had never thought about the problem at all. But HARO is hardly a new idea at all, it's just that's where I first encountered it.
Ubuntu also inherits Debian's wonky RubyGems approach.

http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html
For the record, Verizon got sued by AT&T for the commercials that made the direct comparison. They just have the money and clout that they can afford to be dragged through what both parties know is a meritless lawsuit.
Oh, ok. So it takes making predictions to quality as real science.

Here's a real prediction, with actual confirming evidence: giving someone with a high MADRS score an SSRI will reduce their score.

That's beyond seeing and naming depression, it's beyond recording patients' reactions to SSRIs, it's beyond spotting patterns in their reactions, it's even beyond making falsifiable theories about its mechanism of action. It's making predictions which are confirmed on a statistically significant basis.

Does this mean you think psychiatry has the same epistemological standing as physics?
I see, that makes sense to me now.
hey there - sorry the post wasnt mine. if you signed up I'll send a beta invite out tonight. anyone else that is interested please simply join the mailist. thanks in advance.
Also in my top UI books shelf: Jenifer Tidwell's "Designing Interfaces". It's about patterns that show up in UI and when it's appropriate to use them. I browse it whenever I find myself with a UI issue that I'm not sure how to deal with.
Well, technically you can and it doesn't look too hard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42qcvlftmcM

But it seems apple is not officially selling those batteries, which makes my gears grind. I don't want to walk to an apple store or send my laptop away just to have the batter swapped.
I'd like to file a bug report on your hello world. (Using webkit nightly on OSX 10.6.2)

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t146/epochcoyote/8950ccb4...
Startup idea: Travel website predicting flight upgrade availability.
Sorry, still just a warning:

$ sbcl
This is SBCL 1.0.18.debian, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
* (defun foo (x) (declare (type array x)) (car x))
; in: LAMBDA NIL
; (CAR X)
;
; note: deleting unreachable code
;
; caught WARNING:
; Asserted type LIST conflicts with derived type (VALUES ARRAY &OPTIONAL).
; See also:
; The SBCL Manual, Node "Handling of Types"
;
; compilation unit finished
; caught 1 WARNING condition
; printed 1 note

FOO
Funny, I always thought the best ways to fight climate change, if it exists, were to use less and make what is left more efficient. That is why I don't see it as a bad thing- in a world with limited resources and billions of poor people, increased efficiency and decreased consumption seems like a good thing.
"We're going to update one of our dependencies - it's just a minor dot release"
It's also true of Paypal, which has spun off tons of companies (Youtube, Facebook(angels), RockYou, etc.).
Some (or even most) potential terrorist attacks can be prevent. But not all.
But it works properly in Firefox.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t146/epochcoyote/8528ac1e...
I could speculate wildly. Zombie films play on fear of death/disease, and the fear of someone you know trying to kill you -- or you having to kill them. I don't see anything peculiarly American about those themes though; I'd imagine they're pretty universal.

Zombies also represent the fear of something that looks almost human, but is not, and which outnumber you. That resonates with xenophobia (we're outnumbered, they're not human, and they work for $3 a day!) or pure selfish narcissism (I am the only "real" person, everyone else is an automaton / homunculus.)

There are also market forces at play - you can shoot dozens of them in the head and still get a "teen" rating for your movie or video game.

I'd love to hear other theories.

EDIT: Thought of another one. The "zombie apocalypse" shows the breakdown of civilization, and makes us realize that it's only goodwill that keeps society running. Our picture windows, screen doors, and windshields are only "polite" barriers that anyone could break through in an instant if they discarded civilized values. Maybe we (America) fear the end of empire, and are obsessed with what it might look like?
> Glad to see there is a prettier way of doing it in Haskell!

Most Haskellers would write it a little differently from Don: 'main = print $ sum [1..n]'. The '..' is syntactic sugar over 'enumFromTo'.
I mentioned him for just the general idea of connecting reporters and sources. That's all. Before HARO, I had never thought about the problem at all. But HARO is hardly a new idea at all, it's just that's where I first encountered it.
Flash can hang around, there isn't anything better yet to do some of those things. Except desktop applications. They'll typically be faster-running too, though granted they'll work on a smaller set of platforms.

I think the "death to Flash" cry is primarily a "death to ubiquitous Flash" cry. It's useful in a couple niche areas, but it's used everywhere instead of just those niches, and 99% of the time it's used so much / so poorly, it'd be better if it didn't exist.
Is New York Angels a Pay-to-Play Scheme?
"What if I told you that you can do anything you want. You don’t have to follow convention anymore. You don’t have to do things the way they told you to in school. You can do anything."

What a lie. I can't do squat because flash either is either a POS on my platform (OS X & 64 bit linux) or nonexistant (blackberry and iphone).
New machine learning challenges/prizes
Unlike the Netflix challenge, there'll be prizes for 2nd, 3rd and 4th places...
..."Turns out that’s not totally true, but within the realm of Actionscript there are, without a doubt, more possibilities, and more opportunities to innovate. This is why I learned Actionscript."
I fully understand that. It was intended to be an analogy.

Let me try again.

A decade ago, clueless sysadmins put unpatched servers directly on the Internet with no firewall protecting ports that didn't need to be exposed, with no hardening, no patching, etc. An hour later, after their shiny new server got rooted, the clueless sysadmins stood there with the classic deer-headlights look, wondering what just happened.

Today, with OS's that have reasonable default configs on as-shipped, and with firewalls the norm, it's the application developers that are clueless id10t's standing around with the deer-headlights look.
Why Flash-based websites are usually a bad idea
That is because no one is in Somalia receiving the information and sharing it on this network.

The parent has a valid point. If AIS (Automtic Identification System) is being broadcasted by ships that traverse the area around Somalia, pirates could indeed decode these transmissions using a simple VHF radio and free associated software, and literally have a map of detailed locations of all broadcasting ships within about 25-50 miles of the receiver (VHF is typically line of sight)
Grooveshark bypasses Apple, goes to Cydia
You can care a lot about animal welfare and still eat meat -- witness Temple Grandin, who optimizes meat plants to minimize animal stress [1]:

"We owe it to the animals to give them decent living conditions and a painless death. People are often confused by the paradox of my work, but to my practical, scientific mind it makes sense to provide a painless death for the cattle I love. ... Often I get asked if I am a vegetarian. I eat meat, because I believe that a totally vegan diet, in which all animal products are eliminated, is unnatural." [2]

[1] http://www.grandin.com/

[2] http://www.spinninglobe.net/cowlady.htm
Stuff like this leaves me with mixed feelings. Yes, it's nice to see real innovation in FLOSS software. On the other hand, I have to ask:

(1) If you have a laptop running Linux, can you use suspend/hibernate/etc., with the same confidence that Win & Mac users do?

(2) Can you quickly, reliably set your laptop to display on a projector?

(3) Can you reliably connect any old device (think: iPod), and expect it to Just Work?

In my experience, the answers are (1) depends on the laptop [and maybe the phase of the moon], (2) no, unless you know about, install, and set up disper, which, for some reason, is not a standard part of any major distro [that I know of], and (3) be real.

And then I have to ask:

(4) Why is so much effort going into new desktop UI directions, when the basic stuff still desperately needs work?

So, yes, UI innovation is cool. But other things would be cooler.
You, sir, win at teh internets.
Hello norld!
In what universe is privatised health coverage humane?
I don't know anything about the websites here, but I wouldn't necessarily assume that you have "stepped in it" by using his name.

Yes, using his name in any way that implies he endorsed your site or is somehow affiliated with it will get you in trouble because such use essentially would seek to capitalize on someone's reputation for your own commercial exploitation (with actors, etc., this is called a "right of publicity" and you get into big trouble if you run afoul of that particular doctrine).

That said, if your use of his name did not state or imply that he approved or endorsed your site, or imply affiliation between him and the site, you may not have quite the problem you assume you have from use of the name. Check with a good lawyer to discuss in detail.

Though the details you give are sketchy, what I read between the lines is this: this guy has a nice little cash stream going from this; you might threaten it with a superior offering; he can't possibly beat you competitively; ergo, he will try to position things to try force you to let him grab your superior site for his own benefit or else face the alternative of having to pay many thousands in legal fees to defend against his claims. That is what I mainly infer from the claim that you supposedly violated his rights by allegedly misappropriating his "idea" (this sounds frivolous on its face, as most ideas that are out in public are not protectable unless they are connected with an enforceable patent). Why do I infer this? Because, if he succeeds in causing you to cave, the normal remedy for resolving the theft of an idea is for you to assign over to him the fruit of your work embodying that idea (that is, your site).

I know this sounds awful and it may not be true (again, I don't know any details). But all the surface indicators would seem to point that way. If this is the true picture, then your strategy will likely be to figure out a way to persevere in spite of the legal harassment until you gain commercial viability as an enterprise. You need to explore such issues in detail with your lawyer. The good news is that there probably is a workable path for you on this if the claims lack merit - it is one thing to be hit with a legal claim that exposes you to true substantial liabilities but quite another to have to fend off one that is lacking in merit (usually much, much easier to deal with the latter because the big threat lies solely in its nuisance value).
Hello norld! in Safari, Hello World! in Firefox
I take a shower every day.
Does anyone have any advice on whether he should delete the blog post to avoid any additional potential liability? I'm thinking about how Conan couldn't talk about his contractual discussions with NBC and imagine something similar applies in the case of legal action - but IANAL so I don't know.

Good luck with this, Ryan. This really sucks. FWIW, I thought your version was a great approach when I read about it first and significantly distinct from HARO.
Noracle
If Michael Jordan inspired me to play basketball, does that mean that Michael Jordan invented basketball?
Stars orbiting our galaxy's supermassive black hole (from 15 yrs of real data)
Apple Stacks The Deck Against Amazon's Kindle App
I used this tool: http://discogscounter.getfreehosting.co.uk/js-noalnum.php via @jeresig
Sales of PC games, which are dead-easy to steal, dropped off sharply at right around the dawn of the Internet. Meanwhile, the market for console games, which have a much higher barrier to entry to pirate, is booming:

http://origin.arstechnica.com/news.media/video-game-sales-1....

Rightly or not, PC game makers have it in their heads that piracy is killing their business. I can see it both ways: On one hand, I find it hard to believe that not even a small fraction of computer game pirates would purchase more games if they couldn't easily steal them. But I also wonder if declining PC sales aren't just a byproduct of the "serious" gamers' shift towards preferring console games.

Regardless, the market for PC game sales has flatlined, and Ubisoft is trying desperately to jumpstart it by enacting a system that makes piracy significantly more difficult, at least for a little while. I'm sure they'll use the 3-4 months of nearly-zero piracy rates as a yardstick with which to measure the potential of the industry sans piracy. It will be interesting to see if you're right.
> The biggest problem with Flash in my mind, and what will seal its doom, is that monolithic mentality that you should have a whole site that is only a flash program

That what RIA is all about. If you really hates Flash only, write your text in HTML and transfer it to Flash using javascript. It's best for both search engines and non-Flash browsers.
What if I want to go but can't but still made some mashup thingie and want to show it off?
N.B. The parent comment is a seemingly obscure movie reference,* but is surprisingly Google-able.

*The movie itself is not obscure at all.
What you say may be right --- but I guess you deserve the 0 points for your unwarranted smugness.
> all browser conventions go out the window: bookmarks, the back button, and deep linking.

Most of the ajax in the wild is no better than that. Instead of saying Flash breaks everything, why don't we think about the good n' old browsing behavior model. Does it suit our Web 2.0 world well?
of course you can't play on Blizzard's servers...but you can still play on emulation servers.

And WoW is a web only game. Non-web games don't suffer from that.
Well, it's rather contextual. If you tell me so-and-so is passionate about women, I am inclined to assume he or she has many temporary passions for many different women. If you tell me they're passionate about women's issues, I am inclined to think this is a matter of conscience that is likely to last a lifetime.

But just to be clear, if I was thinking passionate about making money in the business of software, I'd say that :-)
Show HN: my story generator using answer-set programming
I'd prefer

main = print . sum $ [1..n]

But that's almost the same.
Steam said that when companies cut prices in half sales went up hundreds to thousands of percent. That's in dollars, not volume either. Sure some of the increased sales come from people who don't want to pass up the deal, but still, the numbers are compelling.
Yeah behavioral separation, using four div to create a round corner, and empty div to clear:both.

The Apple vs Flash thing, what I concern most is not Flash sucks or not, but if you are another normal developer and release something Flash-like, say Unity3D, does webkit has a proper interface to program on and will Apple approve it?
> "We owe it to the animals to give them decent living conditions"

The problem being that places where this is true are few and far between, even among 'organic' farms.

For example: Legally, 'free-range' chickens are only required to have 15 minutes of time out of their ridiculously small cages per day. And they are still packed so close together that farmers burn off their beaks so that they don't peck each other to death (which is mainly a symptom of over-crowding and less of a chicken's temperament). Is this treating the animal with respect (even if you are going to eat it) or is this treating the animal as another cog in the machine of industry (in this case the food production industry); reducing it from a living being into just a material or a resource?
It's a little late for that, isn't it? Our politicians are concerned with image, vanity, and self-service much more than the substance of anything that actually gets passed.
Opera 10.50 out for Mac, impressive performance and more