skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also been useful to keep up with the dozen or so potential co-founders I've gotten to know and enjoy the company of. They're all working on their own projects, but there's always the possibility of a collaboration. In particular, if one of us suddenly finds traction the other may end up joining him.
Http://psctube.com/
Adobe Photoshop CS5 - Puppet Warp
Yeah, the Atari comparison is ridiculous-- it's comparing the defending closed system with an older and MORE closed system.

Let's change it to, "Imagine a 13 year old in 1995 who could produce&sell his own internet game/app on the web." and see how the comparison flies. Because I can imagine that just fine.

I see the benefits
features that are generally good for you

- Less data about you collected by Google.

How pretentious of you.

Edit:

1 : characterized by pretension: as
a : making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value or standing)
b : expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature
I think that point of the 'whining' is less "where and how do I get my apps onto my phone" and more along the lines of "why does Apple get to choose what I'm 'allowed' to install on my phone?" Arguing that people that hate the AppStore are 'whiners' because the AppStore eliminates distribution headaches for developers is sort of missing the point.
Can you give some examples of how other languages handle null?
I'm not demeaning the actual work of Sam Kaplan, I applaud it, but I think argument from cute kid tinkering should only work once for each child in question.. (see video below) please find another 13 year old poster child whose love of technology and entrepreneurship has been kindled by apple's closed ecosystem.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1377966471&play=1

also, does this kid have parents with marketing backgrounds or what? :)

all I'm saying is, maybe Sam Kaplan isn't the average kid on the block consuming apple products?
Game consoles are less dangerous than iPads because consoles are not replacements for a computer. If someone has a console and a PC they still have some freedom, but if someone only has an iPad, an iPhone, and a console they're totally walled in.
Many companies get bought for their products or assets. Some get bought for their customers. Only very few get bought exclusively to hire people. I do follow other industries as well and this is definately unusual.
A Designer in Support of Design Contests
Please look for 'Stupid in America' show on YouTube and watch it. It will seriously change your opinion about public schools.

I'm aware of the documentary, and as usual, it completely misses the point. I'm intimately familiar with the inner workings of America's public and private schools (both the best and the worst on both sides). For the past several years I've had daily exposure to pretty much all angles of this issue. I suspect you've simply watched a 45 minute Youtube video and liked how microfoundations sounded when it was taught to you in school. I could write for hours on the horrors of private school vouchers alone (did you know when they tried it in Arizona, 3/4ths of the money ended up going to students who were already in private schools? [1]). And lets not even get into the fact that private schools actually don't perform that much better than public schools [2] when you account for the diversity in public schools. Considering that private schools mostly teach to a homogeneous student body, they should be blowing the public schools out of the water. They're actually not that much cheaper either, when you consider that private schools don't need to spend nearly as much money on special education programs and psychological therapy [3]. If I was a school admin I could post the most impressive numbers in the country if I'm allowed to skim from the cream of the crop, but public schools by law are not allowed to do so. However, I suspect at this point expending any more energy on this issue wasted effort since you seem dead set in your ways.

[1] http://www.gregpalast.com/no-childs-behind-left/

[2] http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006461

[3] http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2007/10/private-school-tuition-1...
i didn't get it at first, the raw link helps
http://github.com/denied/denied/raw/master/deny.py
Not being facetious, just trying to find out if this site is for me: all the summarized articles so far have zero technical content (ie stuff on Python, Javascript, memcached, hardcore bit-on-bit action, etc). Is this intentional and indicative of hnsummary's content in the future?

Now this is me being facetious: should the answer to the above be yes, I find both hnsummary's name and its tagline of "Just the stuff worth reading from Hacker News" to be presumptuous at best, misleading and condescending at worst.
if __name__ == '__main__':
run()

Am I the only one who thinks that this is just plain horrible? It's incomprehensible voodoo.
Pcubee - 3d display io
405k. That's not my idea of "micro".
in my opinion, subversion fails to properly support many features it claims to support. when people find that some things do not work as advertised by design, people naturally get pissed.

for example, subversion claims to do path-based authorization. we found that it only works when not using repository-wide branches/tags. when one wants to assign different rights to different users on different parts of a project, and also wants to tag the whole project, the policy file needs to be adjusted accordingly for the new branch.

so the best way to do it is to hold these parts on separate repositories, which breaks subversion's main selling point over cvs. so one defines svn:externals, which in turn needs to be updated for every branch/tag with revision numbers.

and this is a just minor annoyance in the whole stinking pile of mess that is branching/merging in subversion.
Counterpoints:

1. Redistribution of resources: Only so much of the wealth created by natural resources is reasonable to privatize

2. Redistribution of jobs: Some factory and service jobs are great and or pay well...but not many. Layoffs are sometimes a necessary step, but they are also a redistribution of wealth

3. Profiteering: Providing low value while acting as a gatekeeper is the source of much wealth. We generally must live with that disparity, but this is a well known redistribution and one that is recognized for it's negative effects on economies

4. Redistribution of power: We can argue all we want about whether Bush was a great president, or whether the American Senate is a beneficial institution, but like it or not they are both clearly getting that power from their hereditary wealth

5. Redistribution of equality: This follows on from power. Why is the Senate mostly men? Why are American presidents all men so far? Why are most senior business leaders men? White? Straight? Root causes please. It's called a patriarchy, and we must tax wealth to bring some balance and help fix some of the ills caused, as well as to reduce the ability to purchase too much inequality (I'm a white male).
Well, I guess I was silly in thinking that I was paying income taxes that far exceed FICA, etc.

Why do questions of how much ratio people are paying, or social engineer (i.e., giving incentives for certain behavior) always come up in tax debates?

I should have to pay for the services I get. If I have 2x as much property, then maybe I should pay twice as much in tax, since the government is protecting twice as much. But when people talk about the fact that the tax you pay amounts to X% of your income, well, so what? And even worse, when they talk about the need to tax, say, cigarettes in order to discourage smoking, well, the point of the government is not to tax first, and find places to spend it later...
Not only does it not show my LinkedIn profile, but doesn't show: My Google, Blogger, Tumblr, Stack Overflow, or Facebook profiles.

Google does all those except Twitter and Tumbler (Stack Overflow is on the second page, sadly).

Search: "Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene"

I'm certainly not an important person but this is a very specific search.

Edit: HA! It actually shows one of my LinkedIn "friends" 30 listings down. Awesome.
This looks really similar to Bottle. http://github.com/defnull/bottle

I haven't looked at the source, and the documentation is nonexistent, but the example app and the routing look really close. See http://bottle.paws.de/ also.

Edit: Made comment a little less harsh :)
Congrats again, Sam!

One thing that I'd love to see your guys' hands on is the notion of 'ownership' of FB photos -- this is something that was definitely in the DNA of Divvyshot, and it would be really interesting to see FB explore some models of shared/group ownership of content.
This is commonly used in python modules which can also be run by command line.

http://effbot.org/pyfaq/tutor-what-is-if-name-main-for.htm

I do agree though, it would be better to remove the if statement altogether since it's unlikely to be imported as a module.
Wow, somehow I missed all that drama when it happened (other than hearing about the macbook bribe). Thanks for the links.
Don't repeat yourself to computers. DO repeat yourself to people. http://breckyunits.com/with_computers_dont_repeat_yourself_w...
Not as pretty as Sinatra's example page, but I like the home page for the project! Great name too.
This is probably done by matching against the UA string, so you can probably spoof it. Anybody know for sure?

Edit: See comment below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1237161
I put Linux on my nephews and mother's desktop. They have had a malware free responsive computing experience ever since.
People buying forever stamps are for getting cashback rebate on credit cards. They then sell them on EBay to re-cycle the cashes.
Are non programmer-HN readers welcome?
Twitter releases Elephant-bird
Another word for closed platform is no virus? So closed windows is more virus proof than open Linux?
Depends on how you count it. The Congressional Budget Office says that on the whole FICA is progressive because people who have earned lower wages over their life get more back as a percentage of their earnings.

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=531: For the first dollar of average lifetime income, you get a Social Security benefit of $0.90. At higher incomes, a $1 increase in average lifetime income adds only $0.15 to annual benefits.
Our Software powers the media playback in that museum (www.videro.com). So during the building phase I was able to attend one of the tests of that tornado (since I worked on site). It was really pretty impressive.
If the majority of iPhone users are satisfied with the current arrangement, what would be the incentive for Apple to open up the venue for other App Stores? I can't see benefit to Apple from doing so, aside from a theoretical, "more geeks will like us because they can have more control over the distribution of their software."

Would I like to be able to use more crazy, non-standard , non-Apple-approved software on my iPhone? Hell yes! If I were Apple, would I allow others to distribute software for my device? Hell no!

If I had created both the device(s) and application market, I certainly wouldn't let other people compete with me in my own business -- that's just foolish, especially since the current business model works, and works well. Appeasing a minority of highly technical users doesn't make sense in this market.

Besides, how is Apple's model different from what set-top console makers (Nintendo, Sony, Sega, ...) have done for years? $99 is cheap for a console development kit; since you must have Mac to run it, it'd be about $700 total for a development kit + Mac Mini -- and that's still inexpensive in the console devkit market. It's a unique niche, and I'm more than happy to pay to play in it.
Sorry, I accidentally voted that down (the arrows are not very iPhone friendly), but yes, all of the above!
...tainted a bit by tax cuts?
>but let's not turn them into more than what they are

Speak for yourself. I happen to agree with Cory and am sure I am not alone.
Also, Java 7 will have native support for dynamic typing.
At the moment, everyone upvotes anything containing the word 'iPad'. So boring. I think editorial control usually works far better than voting up/down by users. Democracy absolutely sucks.
I think this is supposed to be a April's fools joke.

- github user created in April's 1st (http://github.com/denied)

- contact is an email link to Armin Ronacher (http://github.com/mitsuhiko), who actually published the denied code in github

- code basically just uses jinja2 and werkzeug, which are a template language and a web framework, respectively, which Armin works on

So... yeah.
Yep, even if they have to buy a Mac ($600 for a Mac Mini), that's still cheap. I'm glad my parents spent money on my "software habit," which has given me a lifelong valuable skill. I'd do the same for my kids in an instant.
I thought this was going to be about designing navigation for a website. I read through the whole article waiting for them to tell me how their studies showed users were more likely to click on links at the bottom of a landing page than at the top, because they didn't have to "Travel" back upwards to click on it. Funny how we sometimes make assumptions about what where we think an article is going.

It was still interesting, it just wasn't what I was expecting :-)
Oddly, I actually learned some stuff from reading this, 'cause it made me look up Shenzhen and Jony Ive.
Google Maps in 3d
We want to warn people. It's like this: Imagine that Apple sold cars, and wanted to sell you a car for $20,000 that you couldn't fix, had no radio or any luxury packages whatsoever.

Then some mechanic told you that you can get a nice customizable, fixable VW for the same price with the best luxury package.

Would you buy the Apple cause it was automatic and you didn't want to learn how to drive a manual?
Thanks techiferous, though looking at my comment I can understand why it would rub some the wrong way - will try to be more diplomatic in the future.
agreed, that's pretty much my only frustration with facebook photos. the resolution is horrible. i can understand not storing the full resolution, but 600x450 or so is just WAY too small.
May I ask if you are actually married?
I'd like to sync certain directories on my harddrive with FB photos so I don't have to go through the current Java applet-based upload photos process.
What is it with Flash?
So, as almost everyone has heard, and if you haven't heard Adobe's Flash is now going to be integrated into Google Chrome.

Don't get me wrong, I respect Google, but I think that Flash is about the dumbest thing in the world. It is unnecessary and slow, especially for older machines. I could get into more depth of why Flash is dumb and HTML5 is very capable of handling videos in Youtube. Yes, you won't be able to play Adventure Quest (the best flash game), but that game is terrible. The iPad won't have Flash, because Apple is smart.

My whole point of this post is because I respect Linux based companies a lot more than Apple, and I came across this. http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.30/#rnusers.epiphany

It looks like an almost unknown browser is going to become my new main browser.
They need to fix the performance problems. I've had problems viewing pictures on several occasions. It feels sluggish at times. This is understandable though, seeing as they are the largest photo storage site on the internet.
Re-Ask HN: Industries, Niches ripe for profit?
Here is another one from more than a year ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=475736.
Saying it's a cheap knockoff is harsh.

Every new framework copies something from existing ones. Setting routes with a decorator seems pretty obvious if you've seen Sinatra, and the templating language is more inspired by Django than anything else.
"A study in the Netherlands of car drivers, for example, found that drivers' perceptions of how long their trip would take by public transportation tended to "deviate substantially from real travel times." Whether this was because car drivers didn't know, or because they don't want to know, is an open question. Car drivers will often describe themselves as "car dependent," even when the designation isn't objectively true; they are instead rationalizing their chosen course of action."

Hence the annoying difficulty of implementing good public transit after your country is already full of motorists. Americans can't conceive of a modern lifestyle without automobiles, therefore public transit is an afterthought in most American cities.
As it was said already, higher does not mean higher productivity. In fact often lower productivity.
Another point : inequality in any society is a bad thing.
People live shorter lives, more crime e.tc., in short more misery. There is a new book, called "the spirit level"
talking about the issue.
So concentration of money in hands of not many creates unwanted side-effect: concentration of power. If you are a middle class person you should be really upset, when power to make decision, to influence future is being transferred from you to upper class.
On the other hand, he is contributing both a news filter and summaries. Perhaps there is value in the summaries, even if the filter mirrored the front page directly (sort of like Slashdot?).
You’re right, I suffer acute debilitating “BDS”. I don’t know how I manage to even breathe in between heaving and laughing when I try to read stupid self-righteous columns by Chuck Krauthammer and John Fund.

> these laws are used more often to silence unpopular speech than to protect anyone from any real harm.

You’re clearly right. The US has no history of intimidation or violence against racial or religious groups, women, gays, etc. Hate speech laws are actually about scary government types “silencing” our god-given redneck right to shout obscenities at poor brown people.

Angry white men: oh why does the world heap so much injustice on their heads.
Improving JavaScript debugging
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. Not to crap on anyone's parade, but Sam Odio's comment above, "It ultimately came down to the decision that we could touch more people's lives at Facebook," rings extremely hollow to me. I can think of about 1000 better ways to touch peoples' lives, if that is really your aim, and none of them involve web apps or startups. Again, I am absolutely not trying to detract here. These guys had a smart idea, worked their asses off, and were justly rewarded. But can't we just admit already that we are capitalists? This ubiquitous tendency in the startup crowd to hide the profit motive behind a wall of lofty ideals is just silly.
Congratulations! And for the record, photo sharing can do good in the world. Just think of people collaborating on a disaster with photos, helping to know the extent of the disaster and the help that is needed. Of course, they would need to take photos intermittently so they might actually help, but I think photo sharing is definitely something that can improve the world around us!
Stop trying to measure innovation and be a hero
The iPad and iPhone are more closed,
more hostile to tinkerers, more hostile
to adventurous users, than most other
similar devices. This is a bad thing.

This would be a bad thing if it were true. It is not.
Before iPhone I was not even considering coding something for mobile device. When iPhone SDK came out I was not only considering, I did want to do it. Even more so with iPad.

Open Source software has made dramatic improvements
in the landscape for kids learning technology today.
Apple is fighting those improvements, and they should
be called out for that bad behavior.

What a bullshit. First, Apple adds a lot to open source.
Remember, what phone had useable web browser before iPhone? Right…
What's the most popular engine for mobile devices? Correct, WebKit.
We talk about those web apps for mobile devices today, where they became first available?
Where did those nice CSS transforms, transitions and animations first appear?
Would you care to go and see who are the editors http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-2d-transforms/, http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-transitions/, http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-animations/
Evil Apple.
I guess their work on WebKit, LLVM, Grand Central Dispatch (libdispatch), OpenCL, etc.
is somehow "fighting the improvements" made by OSS? Really?

Apple is behaving in ways that are bad for developers,
and bad for kids who might become hackers.

Yes. Like including free X-Code with every single copy of OS X. You don't even have to download it:
it is there on the DVD. That sure does something horrible for developers and kids who might become
hackers.

People, I understand that some of you may not like Apple for one reason or other, but please,
stop talking nonsense.
http://lifehacker.com/5508260/how-to-use-gmails-attractive-n...
WildTangent was shady enough that I would have liked someone else to write this article. :)
Ask HN: How to automatically monitor keywords (eg. Java, DBA...) on job sites?
If I look through IT/programming jobs posted on a service such as s1jobs.com, I'll start to notice patterns like lots of companies looking for J2EE programmers, not so many looking for Haskell programmers, and so on. I want to quantify these patterns. How could I implement some sort of script to crawl part of the site daily, count the occurrences of repeated words (obvious shortcut would be to discard any word not beginning with a capital letter, and then any other words that are non-helpful like simply 'The' or 'A' or 'Candidates'), so that I can see what skills are most in demand?
"As long as I'm up-voted then I'll keep doing it."

I'm not sure this is a good trigger. I think you should keep doing it as long as you like doing it, regardless of upvotes.

I would think your server logs would be enough of an indicator of interest.
From Fabulous Freemium to Destroying Facebook with Salmon
I already use keyword bookmarks in Safari/Firefox for that, where I don't have to go through another search engine before (and can use "wiki" instead of "!wikipedia").

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart+keywords
Have we even seen widespread adoption of Java 6 yet?
Werkzeug had an example with the same semantics (decorator for URL rules and returning strings and response objects from functions) for a long time. But neither did Werkzeug come up with that, the original idea was TurboGears which did it that way. So by that logic, bottle is a cheap knockoff.

However, I do have to point out that denied is a joke which should be pretty obvious from reading the source and watching the screencast (and quite frankly, just by looking at the website in detail).
Well, the run() function was intended to be a very bad example of API. Because there is that magical application object you never see that run magically picks up.

There is another example of really bad API in denied: there is a template render function internally (you have to read the code behind the code to see that) which magically accepts both filenames for templates and template source strings. And there are a couple of more examples of really, really bad ideas in that code.
In my experience Apple has pretty high quality refurb processes (replacing excessively scratches chassis, etc) - so while it might not be brand new you might end up with something better than what you started with.

That said, given some of the probable porno use cases of the iPad...
IPad FCC Teardown
> Something important and valuable is indeed being lost as Apple shifts to this model of computing. But it’s a trade-off, because something new that is important and valuable has been gained.

Why should it have to be a trade-off? Because Steve Jobs said so? With Chrome OS, there's a dev mode where you can do/install everything you want and get into console mode. And Android is totally open source too. So as much as Apple wants us to believe there's a necessity in restricting, the truth is that there is absolutely not, it's an artificial restriction.