skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice work.

A few comments:

I found that some NPC characters placed themselves in front of things I wanted to use (doors, computers etc.). Perhaps they should either have a minimum distance, or just be mobile so that they don't stay around for long.

A full screen map would be nice, with the areas that you have visited marked in gray. It would make the navigation a bit easier.
Does no one remember how Apache got its name? It's "a patchy web server."
from what I read, it wasn't the building codes that made the difference, but the soil type
I'll fix data validation errors ASAP, I tend to overlook those since QA-ing your own software is kind of challenging.

That pyramid referral is the best -- the full database is there for download, awesomeness. Thank you!
The author forgets that speed for huge, huge, huge sites is a very important factor for those that visit Facebook. If the first few pages load slowly for even one person, that may be them missing out on 3 more users/viewers (via word-of-mouth).

And they're not "rewriting" PHP. They are improving the speed of it by compiling it to a lower level. This is just citing HipHop as far as I can tell.
Is there any legal difference between using this license and releasing something under public domain?
where it counts.... to you. Not where it counts to me.

WebKit has an actually usable JavaScript profiler, the one in Firebug is useless. WebKit can debug into eval'd code, Firebug is terrible at it. Chrome's version of the inspector has a heap profiler, Firebug doesn't. Same goes for decent cookie and local storage viewing. WebKit's resource monitor is more intuitive. Etc.
I worked with an artist on the game. He also did most level design.

How do you gauge things like this? I mean, does coding the interpreter or items in the game count as level creation? What about prototype levels? We each made at least 5 testing levels to see how they worked and started that about 5 days ago.

Play testing with other people only occurred sporadically for the last few days of development. Getting feedback from sites like Hacker News is a kind of play testing. I'm still tweaking.

Programming is the big one of course. Unfortunately I can't really say how long I spent on it as it intermingles with things like level design and graphics. The levels themselves have a lot of custom code - I wasn't about to make a real level editor for such a short game. And, this being flixel, I wasn't using the Flash IDE to create this. It's mostly code, so I guess almost all the time not drawing, level editing, or making sounds was spent coding.

I got a buddy to make the music, but I made the sounds as they were needed using a synth :) I might have spent 2 hours tops.
"Once they get to a certain size though, they’ll pay if they don’t already. Apparently it works on a sliding scale."

That's an odd setup isn't it? So a startup gets the same data as Google, but Google has to pay millions and the startup gets it free? Is this "The price is what we think you can afford" model?
A really entertaining and insightful chat... I'm looking forward to more.
I watched this, and there is a ton of goodies in it, I wish I could re-watch it again. Can this be replayed some how ?
Please don't, Canadian banks might be safe for those investing in them but they are horrible to customers. Customer service in Canadian banks is non-existent. Having lived in Florida (from Quebec) for half a decade, I seriously prefer the small banks in Florida. Local banks don't exist in Canada so the big ones can get away with being open 4 hours a day, charging terrible fees, and more crappy practices that are due to lack of competition
HARO vs. PrManna (out of control lawyers)
Could you go into a bit of detail about the performance tweaks that you are referring to. If not can you point me to some articles that do so. Thanks.

I'm assuming you mean tweaking MySQL just for k/v store usage.
part 1/4: http://www.justin.tv/clip/c391df739e7bedf1

links to the rest are on justin.
To the extent that people want earthquake/tsunami insurance, building codes could just as well be administered by insurance companies. (A structure that doesn't meet the insurance company's code would be more expensive to insure.) Also, insurance companies, because they have an incentive to mitigate their risk, would likely be quicker to adapt codes to new technology and information. If an idea is good, it doesn't require government, that is, people don't have to be forced to adopt good ideas.
Good point. Those are all aspects of Firebug and Webkit that I don't use on a regular basis. It seems they each have a lot to learn from each other.
A proposal to make local elections work better
I'm no expert on this area, but from what I've seen ad revenues are nowhere near high enough to pay for decent journalism. If they were we wouldn't have the pay-wall debate.

Affiliate links tend to be a huge no-no because of conflicts of interest.

Publications generally only buy articles if they have first right of publication.

Suggesting someone can earn 30K-70K on the above basis seems over-optimistic to the point of being misleading.
If-by-whisky is the most entertaining fallacy. Amazing speech. :)
Curious if you have a reference for that?
<JOKE>

How nice of them: you focus on the content. We handle making money

</JOKE>
Yes, stuff like this!
All I'm saying is look at it as intellectual property and spend an appropriate amount of money to protect it.

It really depends on what kind of business you're operating.
Life Expectancy at Retirement (Chart)
In some countries there isn't a legal concept of public domain. I don't know much more than that but I think Germany may be one of them.
Yep.

But factors like distance of Epicenter from population centers? Depth of seismic disturbance? Geological nature of the soil? . . . to consider these things requires analysis and critical thought. That is asking way too much when a natural disaster is so recent in our collective memories. Especially one so easily capitalized on by news media.
They're talking about memcachedb here rather than memcached.

It's memcache but with berkeleydb underneath for persistence.

http://memcachedb.org/
I thought this happened two years ago? Or was that Picasa? Maybe there's someone in Google's M&A department that really likes companies with 6-letter names that start with P?
It's fairly common. After all, you can also think about it as you pay for how many users will be using it. Google has a lot more users than Collecta.
How many people are buying (not pirating) Photoshop to make basic changes to their photos? Maybe Photoshop Elements (if it still exists), but other than that I don't think this would really damage the Creative Suite all that much as they're quite different markets.

All the people I know who might use a web-based image editor have either been struggling along with Paint or pirated Photoshop at some point.
how would that work when most people here in chile don't have building insurance?

seriously. i live here.
Hacking your body:  Special Forces IamA on Reddit
Heh... but I really liked _feeling_ on par with whatever people are using/feeling inside BigCo.
I just was ranting to a friend about this exact problem before clicking this link.

This "using a background image to make your faux columns look like columns" business is bunk. To call it "hack-free" is lunacy.

Is there any other part of CSS that's so jacked up? (Other than all the stuff that's really IE's fault.) I find CSS to work fine in nearly every other way... always takes some trial and error since I don't code CSS every day, but it's sensible and in many ways seems elegant. But equal-height columns really need some love in CSS4 or something.

I'm switching to a table for the one part of my site that needs this. And I won't abide any grief for this "hack" since it's about 50x less hacky than what I'd have to do to make it work in a "non-hacky" way.
Your game has been saved, Huzzah!
It started as an experiment to apply what is described in the 4 Hour Work Week book, Muse Project chapter. I've learned about marketing and ebook publishing mostly by looking at how others did it. http://javascriptrocks.com/performance/ came out a little bit before mine so I was inspired by it a little.
This may be off topic, and may not. I think it has hacker content in that it is about hacking our own bodies, but I will happily submit to flagging. It is, no matter what, a very interesting look into the US armed forces, and to be honest, into the capabilities of the human body.
Aside from the "earth science" the article glosses over, there's always the trivial details like Chileans actually having the money to pay for buildings that meet these specs.

EDIT: And then there's the issue of emergency services, police, Chile not being a tiny island, etc.
Twitter Turns On the Stream for Big and Small Alike
adobe already has photoshop.com for web-based image editing, so i doubt picnik changing hands has any affect on them.
That's the bitterness that the top commenter here referred to. The journalists I know are largely resigned to being crapped on by whoever they work for. They create all the value (similar to a programmer at a startup run by biz-ev guys) while someone makes the money and then gives them a small piece of it. They're use to getting crapped on like this.

That said, they're really picky about who they let crap on them. Someone might let the HuffPo crap on them so they can share space with celebrities and get lots of hits on their story. Someone might let the NYTimes crap on them, because, it's the New York Times!

So if this startup's going to run the same game, they'll need to have a good reason for journalists to want to get crapped on by them.
5 so fare fyi.
That is true. However, you need to choose recreational activities carefully - hopefully ones that will further your goals. Also, choose activities that are non-addictive (and recognise the addictive elements in those you do choose) so you can remove them from your life when they are no longer useful.

I know that WoW is fun, or EVE online more so (for me) but I stay well clear because I know that way lies madness.

HN, Twitter and even Google Analytics are relaxing for me, and all borderline addictive. They also have benefits to my business.

Just make concious choices about how you relax and then you are on a good path.
Don't have a Honda, but I did use my laptop to tweak some engine fuel parameters on my Passat so it would run on 100% ethanol.
Seconding on the not-so-great color scheme. There is also a small bug on Chrome/Ubuntu; the pop-up that comes from scrolling over the upgrade link is transparent and the feedback link gets in the way of reading the text.
That particular one is more an economics issue. Long story short, it's because there are many types of components, each of which is made by a hodgepodge of OEMs and has to interoperate with other components made by any OEM at any time in the last 20 years. Your TV has to be able to accept your DVD player, Tivo, VCR, and maybe gaming console, all of which have to also be able to feed audio out to your receiver.

If all of your devices were made by one company this year, they probably would (and definitely could) have a universal connector. It would probably be HDMI.

That's untenable because of price. Most people already have most of those things, and replace them piecemeal over time. I've actually thought about a startup to make all in ones, but TVs with integrated VCRs and DVD players have historically been so poorly manufactured that they leave a bad image in people's minds. It would be like selling a microbrew in aluminum cans. It;s a superior vessel to what's out there in every way, but because every other beer in a tin can is swill, serious beer drinkers would assume yours was too.

And, by the way, if you buy a Palm Pre you don't have to plug it in. That's actually one of my favorite features of it.
I'm not a climatologist, but rising sea levels are not the only problem. They are simply the most commonly selected problem to cite, as 'submerged cities' strikes close to home, and is a classical apocalyptic (and thus greatly feared) event.

There are far more consequences than just that. For example, all the coral of the entire ocean would be dead or dying. Not that I expect you to care about coral; that is just one example.
Awesome -- we just dissected the vocal cords in anatomy lab last week
Does anyone know how Chilean building codes compare to San Francisco Bay Area codes?

Would the Bay Area have fared as well if it had suffered a 8.8 magnitude quake?
How do you conclude that the US has lower quality of life than Euro countries?

As far as I know, both healthcare and educational costs are included in PPP-adjusted GDP per capita. The US comes out on top of nearly all European nations (only Luxemborg, Norway, Jersey and Lichtenstein have higher PPP-adjusted GDP per capita than the US).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...

As for vacation time, you seem to assume Americans would rather have longer vacations and less money, but are somehow prevented from negotiating this with their employers. Do you have evidence of this? Note that if people prefer money to vacation, it would reduce their quality of life to give them more vacation but less money.
Thanks for listening everyone! I'm planning to make a copy of this available on http://ycombinator.posterous.com/, but it might not be till tomorrow since I've never done it before. Also, I'll hopefully iron out the technical difficulty that caused some audio problems on my end.
It's the thing that made you ask this question.
I love developing software. To me achievement is a happy customer.

Who cares if all memory of me is erased in 300 years. Hopefully I will have helped to advance some technology in that time.
I have quite a high IQ. When I was starting school, they though I had a learning disability. My parents sent me to be tested . Apparently I was one of the smartest kids that the tester had seen, but I was a bit disorganized and tended to overfocus (which would be diagnosed as mild ADHD these days ... when everyone has to have a frigging disorder). I don't know how high the score was, or how many kids he had tested, or whether all the other kids were genuinely low IQ ... who care about this stuff anyway?

My parents were smart enough to not tell me (until I was halfway through uni), because they knew I wasn't mature enough to know that the smartest thing you can do (especially when you are learning) is giving other people's intelligence the benefit of the doubt and try to learn from them.
See also : The Romantic WTF Public License

http://danslalune.posterous.com/the-romantic-wtf-public-lice...

It's even more free than the original since the license is released under itself. Released on Valentine's day by yours truly :-)
How Much?
Alien Star Clusters In Milky Way Galaxy
Thanks.

I've since updated the green guys to "giggle" before jumping at you. It should give you more time to kill them. The changes should be up in an hour or so (I've had too many views for instant-updates).
Your trust in people's rationality and long-term thinking is rather sweet, but history disagrees. Case in point: seat belts. Proven to be life-saving devices, but people just wouldn't wear them because "how dare you suggest I am a bad driver?!?"

As for insurance companies - between people simply doing without insurance because those meddlesome insurance companies have all those ridiculous requirements and insurers making a quick buck by competing on low requirements and going bankrupt when the quake hits, you'd be asking for government regulation pretty quickly.
D.J. Bernstein: The Good News Archive
ClickBank is ok, a little better the e-junkie, but e-junkie has digital delivery built-in, but still... we're very far from the nice UIs we usually take for granted in our community.
My dream setup would be Shopify + http://www.fetchapp.com/ but this is quite expensive for my low volume.
Do people think this is a good development? I mean, software is hard, and from that article it seems more and more functions that don't really have to be computer controlled are. It's one thing for engine control units or airbags, where you have to monitor real-time data at kHz frequencies for optimal function. But when the dome light or the trunk lid is controlled by a little computer, it seems it's going to be a lot harder to validate and a lot harder to fix (especially for diy people) if something doesn't work.
One way to prioritize information is by how much time it saves you. Knowing how to tie your shoes, or put clothes on, are very high priority - these are quick to learn (for a relatively developed brain) and save a lot of time (small amounts, but on a daily basis). The opportunity cost is very low, and the alternative's cost - that is, having to look up how to tie your shoes every day - is very high.

The basics of daily living, then, are all high priority. After that, what's what?
A PubSubHubbub hub for Twitter : let's prove them they need one
Pricing software
I'm using LuLu for print-on-demand copies of the book, just like I did before. I went with someone else to help with PDF sales.
That's why it's important to sell more than just an ebook. I included 2 full languages you can use in OSS, http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ started from the Ruby language included in the package. + screencast and more.
Also the book is amazingly good :p
But ya can't measure wealth directly, so....

GDP is useful for a purpose other than "fooling an ignorant population".
Sorry if I broke HN-etiquette, I'm rather new around here.

My impression is that "Ask HN" questions call for more nuanced interplay, while links are intellectual free-for-alls where it's assumed that everyone (including, if not especially the OP) comes armed for probing discussions.

Sincerely speaking - should that not be my expectation? Feel free to e-mail me as well (unlike stealthyc2010 my e-mail is listed).
"30 openings. ... while this isn't a paid position, we only earn money if you do. (So the 30K-70K is an estimate, not a concrete figure)."

Could be Mahalo or similar based on that text?
"I expect this strategy to produce invulnerable computer systems: restructure programs to put almost all code into extreme sandboxes; eliminate bugs in the small volume of remaining code. I won’t be satisfied until I’ve put the entire security industry out of work."
Do you worry about people pirating your eBook, or worse yet - infringing your copyright by taking the information in the eBook, and publishing it as their own? It seems that by going with a publishing agency, one would have a lot more legal protection in that regard?
The positive income elasticity of demand for variety
What do you mean by "most people"? Most buildings, most renters, most landlords, most owners...?

An average of 2 7.0 earthquakes in this small country each decade and buildings aren't insured?
She had audio troubles. She was having a hard time hearing them.
Physiological Evidence of Brain's Response to Inequality
Yes and no.

Here in Germany (and other countries) we do have a public domain ("gemeinfrei", "gemeinfreie Werke"), but it contains only works whose authors died at least 70 years ago. It is impossible for a living person to actively put their work into the public domain.

However, this is not as bureaucratic as it may sound. You can still sign off any exploitation rights ("Verwertungsrechte")! But there are other rights you cannot sign off, the author's moral rights ("Urheberpersönlichkeitsrechte").

In general, there are two flavours of copyright law in the world:

1) The copyright which centers around the act of copying or doing other things with the creative work. This is found in the USA and Great Britain.

2) The author's rights ("Urheberrecht", "droit d'auteur") which centers around the creators. This is found in Germany and France.
In most states they can expire too. http://www.consumersunion.org/pub/core_financial_services/00...
PyPy faster than Unladen Swallow according to benchmarks
I've heard ppl selling a lot more then I did in a lot less time. Self-publishing is probably less glamourous, but surely more profitable.
Google Buys Picnik Online Photo-Editing Site
I wonder though if the additional cost imposed by building code would actually be good for the local economy.

If it costs 2x as much to build a place, then that money is probably going (largely) back into the labor force. Yes, it would 'cost' more per building, but the long term effects would be high and the stimulus from the wages earned would also be significant.

The real problem is the initial investment. You need some stimulus to get developers building there to begin with otherwise you can't really kickstart the cycle.
Municipalities would miss out on a lot of traffic ticket money if laws made people wear seatbelts; not the best example.
You need a lot more than a little (or a lot of) stimulus money to fix Haiti.

If you've ever heard the expression "the tools to build the tools", that applies to institutions and economies as well.
Give us Flash's source code. That's the problem.
It is a problem, but I am having a hard time believing that perspective.

The OOS community can create a player. Since the SWF format is inherently open there is nothing really stopping anyone from making an awesome Flash plugin, yet no one has. Must me a reason for that.

Oh wait, there is a reason. Money. Time. Adobe invests millions into R&D every year. Money that is used to do test cases and audience dynamics. OSS community does not.

The problem is software patents. Not Adobe. Not OOS. And of course, not Flash. A root problem exists and Flash, like much software, is the result.
Four men charged in computerized online ticket scam
I've noticed in a few of these stories that the path the entrepreneur took wasn't optimal by their own standards (e.g. charging early), yet there is still success.

If you want success, should you follow what they did rather than what their advice says you should do?
Well done. Thank you. More please.
This is so freaking awesome! Right now, I've been using a custom `git review` command to enable code reviews of patches using rietveld http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/

Whilst rietveld is nice -- in that it makes it relatively painless for someone to upload a patch and have it reviewed -- it certainly isn't pretty and requires several additional steps to a normal git workflow.

I can see Git Compare Views totally changing the game. It's awesome as it is, but it would be super nice if they'd add 2 extra features.

(1) Support for comparing commits across forks of the same repository, e.g. http://github.com/<user>/<repo>/compare/[...;

Then anyone can come along; fork your project; make some changes in their fork; you can then review the changes; all the comments across the two repositories would be consolidated in the compare view, making it easy to see the evolution!

That is, by consolidating the comments, it can take the already decentralised and super collaborative nature of git and github to a whole new level.

(2) Provide an API for the information provided in the compare view. This will make it easy to integrate with other tools like issue trackers, buildbots, trybots, testswarms, &c.

All in all, I'm very impressed with the GitHub guys and their constant innovations — we need more teams like theirs!
And?

It's not the Patchy web server, it's "Apache". "Patch" or "Patchy" doesn't evoke "feather".
Morale?

Spunk?

Whatever you call the thing that fights back psychological depression?

I highly doubt he's talking about spirit(uality).
What can you expect in a startup job offer?
Got a verbal offer recently from a nearby (SF) tech startup that is looking to make it's first hires outside of the founders. I know all startups are different but I was wondering what a decent offer (salary/equity) would be at this early stage venture.
You may consider adding a tag line describing what the site is about. I couldn't really tell what I should do.

The tool tips where too long and I didn't read past a sentence or two.
That sounds a lot like the broken window fallacy.