skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't the telecoms hitching a free ride? I mean we all upload our videos to YouTube and Google so graciously hosts them for us, but the telecoms get to charge fees to their customers who want to watch these videos. Google should ask for some compensation for providing the content the telecoms need in order to sell their services.

Here are some quotes that have been changed to reflect the same logic applied the other way:

“These guys [telecoms] are using the content and they don’t pay anybody.”

"Let’s see the development of digital society in terms of the winners and the victims. And today, there is a winner who are the telecoms. There are victims that are content providers, and to a certain extent, YouTube. We cannot accept this."

*Bolded items have been changed.

Honestly, that's the same logic being used in the opposite direction. I could do this with almost every quote in that story.
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For reference:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494066 42 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1003875 2 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495561 2 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=474588 1 comment

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=918637 0 comments
When is a valid opinion considered distasteful? They hardly mention ANY of the features that are new in CS5 and yet they are putting out a new product and hyping it up considerably (e.g. "In 3 short days, we will be launching what is arguably the most compelling release of Creative Suite to date. I don't want to spoil any surprises, but I feel this release is going to thrill designers and developers."). Maybe it will be great, but I've had buggy/dodgy experiences with all of the CS products through the years (non-hardware related), and pretty much all of them stay broken until they put out a major release.

For example, Dreamweaver has 0 FTP threading capability. Also in Dreamweaver, you cannot drag-and-drop files to upload to the remote site. Dreamweaver also has some trouble when you drag-and-drop files to the local site with putting it in the right folder. There are just a ton of things I "put up with" when I have no viable option but to use them.
This is useful because I thought about something similar: clustering text, and using my auto-summarization library to extract key bits and then stich things together.

Now, I am not going to try. Lesson learned.
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Guys... Even if you disagree (and you don't want to debate the issue and prefer to down-vote the comment) with Windows being a second-rate OS and that a SPARC port would not be a priority for Microsoft, you you have to agree that having all those shiny patents covering all kinds of stuff being auctioned off to trolls would impact everybody.

Not me, at least directly, because I live in Brazil and we have no such software patent nonsense, but tech business would be quite impossible where they are valid.
Seems unlikely. What trouble could an application translated from another language cause that a custom C++ / C program can not? Other than simple inefficiency of course.
Wrap this up in Adsense and you get Mahalo 2.0
Hello Peter, since you have one of the most widely read Ruby sites, I am not surprised that you showed up. Makes sense if you think abut how they implemented this. I agree with your comments.
Steve Jobs is not as optimistic:
http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/monotouch/2010-April/00187...
Wow, yeah. The first section is Merb ... ok. Then there's a ROR subsection of Merb. Um, what? And the first paragraph of the ROR subsection clearly was copied and pasted from some consultancy's "Our decicated RoR developers can create web 2.0 applications using latest Ruby on Rails web services." (Ok, not quite copied and pasted. They managed to work in a typo ("decicated").)

And then the paragraph immediately after that doesn't follow at all. It starts:

>When he [Brian Mastenbrook] was able to reproduce the glitch at Basecamp, he began to suspect that the flaw was inherent to Ruby on Rails, the popular Web framework used by both websites.

Did they do QA before launching this thing?
Thank you for this link. I had never seen it. This is an amazing quote that I wish he had said on Conan:

If you had a jetpack, you'd be like, "I have the shitiest jetpack. I can't believe I got this jetpack. Who's your service provider? Did they make the new one? Hate this thing, it sucks." Then we'd all sit there and talk about that.
Yes, and their development cycle for the CS products revolve around selling the next copy with features and fixes that should have been release freed or at least way less than $200 per product.

I think the HYPE in this post without any juicy details whatsoever is disheartening to me. I think that an OS that has a kernel that has tons and tons of hardware communication, software interaction, thread processing, APIs, and allows other software like CS to run is a bit more complicated. The price does not reflect that, despite both being great products.
I just tried your searches. Is their a word in English for third-party embarrassment?
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Yes, it is only this latest generation that takes things for granted.

I wonder if he wakes up every morning utterly flabbergasted that his home is comfortably warm, he has clean running water, and wild animals haven't tried to kill him in the night. Somehow I doubt it.
I just spent 36 minutes searching the transcripts, but I can't find the episode where he talked about this.

https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/?W4

However, I distinctly remember, and later confirmed, that Fog Creek only publishes the salaries at each scale, and not the profit sharing.
You sure you sat on the right size of Aeron? Sitting on one that isn't the right size can be uncomfortable.
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oh, this is a complete disaster :(
How does he know this? It seems like a MAJOR stretch to me. If they only want to increase quality of apps why aren't they more strict in the review process? Why have they allowed 60+ fart apps? To say all Flash/Unity/Appcelerator apps are of lower quality is silly. There will be low quality and high quality Flash apps submitted but that's the whole point of the review process.

From Apple's perspective

* (+) Hurts Flash and reduces Adobe CS CS5 sales

* (+) Requires devs to purchase Apple hardware

* (+) Requires devs to develop specifically for iPhone - no ports and no develop once, deploy anywhere

* (+/-) Reduces apps submitted (includes good and bad apps)

* (-) Hurts projects like Unity3D, Appcelerator, etc

* (-) Overall negative press from software developers (my opinion)

You can pick any one of these from above and write an entire blog article. I think the main reason for this decision is that it will hurt Adobe much more than it hurts Apple. Who cares if they lose a small number of developers?
The routine is funny. That said, without constant effort to appreciate it, everything is easily taken for granted. Give Cinderella a year or two after she married the prince, and she's probably a stuck up bitch who yells at the maid.
Say what you want about the article, but there's one really nice thing about his system: because there's a formula instead of negotiation, the good hackers who are often poor negotiators don't have to worry they have lower salary than the average or poor programmers who just happen to have better people skills or however you call it.
Oh... You mean IBM-branded SPARC servers?

That would overlap with their POWER lineup. It's unlikely they would keep SPARC because it would eat away their POWER market share.

Don't know if it would, in the end, be bad for IBM, but the managers at the POWER side would pocket smaller bonuses. They would never let that happen.
Legend says he sub-hired Woz for a fraction of what he was being paid.

At that time, games were "programmed" with hardware too, so, it would no qualify as a programming job.
I have little interest in CSS3 or buttons to be honest, but appreciate the love for the details here. The detailed breakdown made me smile.
I honestly don't know why people rave about the Aeron. I went to a store and sat in a few and wasn't impressed

I hear that from people from time to time. I'm sure it's body-specific - the Aeron probably works really well for some people and not for others.

I tried out a few chairs before settling on an Aeron, and it was my favorite of the bunch. Two years later, I still absolutely love it.

Best of all, I've now purchased 4 Aeron chairs (for myself and for my employees), and I've found all four in the $300-$500 range on Craigslist.
I would actually like to know if there is a real difference in performance between the apps compiled from flash and those written in objective-C ?
Have no fear. If you click "View web search results" you get back to the same classic cuil you know and love.
I suppose it's telling that it never occurred to me that they don't demand your code, or at least have that option....

ADDED: Evil Thought: if they want to audit your code in the future, requiring it to be in a strictly limited number of languages will allow that.

Not saying they will, not saying they've even thought about it ... just that "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_corrupts#.22Lord_Acton.27...) and that someday this limitation will add to Apple's temptations.
Doesn't work on IE8. Active state missing on Opera. It looks nice though.
So, I think the title should make it clear that this is Britain's Minister for Digital Britain. To my American eyes this read as if some random clergyman was confused.
This reminds me of TS Elliot's The Wasteland. We just don't get it yet.
http://www.writtenhumor.com/wasteland.html
"However what will kill the iPhone 4G is the free apps for ads idea."

That idea started 1.5 years ago. Now you get Google ads in your free apps. Now, as an option, you can have iAds or Google ads. So all Apple did is open an option (read choice) for developers already doing ads in apps.

Choice is now bad? Or is it good?
When it's called a Singleton.
As mentioned on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bo623/i_wrote_to_...), this may likely be a screw-up by a secretary, as the letter does make sense aside from this problem.
Not if the $800 chairs are substantially more comfortable. Keep in mind that the $800 chair will last several years, so the cost of giving a programmer such an expensive chair is miniscule relative to their salary. Joel Spolsky (a big fan of the Aeron) has written about this subject at length:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FieldGuidetoDeveloper...
Sorry for the inconvenience. I experienced no kinds of popups when reading the article (Firefox+Ubuntu). I would not have had submitted the article otherwise.
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A great, detailed description of how to make a button look 3d. I don't care so much about the CSS part, it actually explains how the "light" behaves to create the 3d impression.

I think I'll use this to recreate the same in Cocoa. Just yesterday I was going crazy trying to create a decent looking custom UIToolBar button which would work with tinting. This might be the ticket.
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I don't know what fog creek does. Usually some % of profits is reserved for distribution to employees. say, 10 dollars in profits. 10% to profit sharing, that dollar is divided among the employees, proportional to their salaries. The other 9 dollars go to other stuff, like growing the company, or distribution of profits to shareholders.

So, joel may make a lot of money, but i seriously doubt he's half, or even 10% of the profit sharing money. I also wouldn't count out the idea that some employees (other than Joel and Michael) have stock, so they get paid again when profits are distributed.

employees are rich. shareholders are wealthy.
Powerpoint seems to have worked out well for MS, no doubt it is the standard for presentation software. Alternate timelines would be incredibly educational if we could see them: if MS had purchased this instead of powerpoint would they still be the market leader? Or was inclusion with Word and Excel in the Office Suite the true reason they dominate this market today. I need a 'What If' machine....
Jesus people, it's a fucking joke, stop taking it so personally.
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I thought Joel promised us that he was retiring from writing.
I have not yet seen any even remotely official information source associating language/compiler/etc. restrictions with background processing, just a growing number of comments like yours claiming that there is multi-tasking magic (for which there is no available evidence or technical reason) and that said magic would fail in the face of alternate languages, compilers, etc.

Can you cite any references for your claims?
And how hard would it be for those code translators to remove these footprints or even offer the user the option of leaving them out? Doesn't this edict invite code translators to work harder at leaving no trace that the code was generated or translated? The bigger question too is, isn't this just another stupid rule that developers can find a workaround for anyway?
I get the point about Adobe, but Android?
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Doesn't it still boil down to the willingness of users to spend money on applications? The last research I saw still had the iPhone/iPod platform exceeding Android and the competitors hands down. Regardless, paid applications aren't everything and Palm can't out-Apple Apple, as you said. Why does Palm need to beat Apple/Android in the first place besides not going bankrupt?
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But they do! MERGE works in both SQL Server and Oracle.

See, this goes back to my point - people aren't learning their tools and then complain about perceived lack of functionality.

I suggest hitting stackoverflow with this type of questions in the future. That's what I always do when I wonder "can I do X with Y?".
It's actually an interview. And he's acting as a humorist, not a comedian. So I think the criticism is somewhat valid.
My professional web development career, boiled down to one piece of useless trivia:

http://cpedia.com/search?q=techiferous
I beg to differ. You could argue that the advances in technology since 1995 (while substantial, notably in IT) do not compare with the breakthroughs accomplished since 1810.

Although we do enjoy faster and more mobile access to internet and computing in general, most of the advances over the past 15 years are incremental improvements over technologies that already existed back then.

What breakthroughs comparable to the advent of e.g. the train, the plane or antibiotics occured over the last 15 years?
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They don't provide that, but it's not like there aren't plenty of companies that will provide all of those things. The main factor here is that with Flex or (almost) any other platform, you have the choice of how you want to go about selling and distributing your work.
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It's largely down to the Advertising Standards Agency refusing to do anything about the term "unlimited".

The problem is now that the term is completely meaningless. We found an Unlimited mobile data plan a few months back that had a 250mb a month 'fair usage' allowance. Total rubbish.

The next thing to watch for is "fibre optic broadband". The ASA don't see any problem with Virgin Media (a cable company) advertising their service as "fibre optic", despite the fact that the last leg is actually coax.

I've already had a couple of non-technical friends wonder what all the fuss is about "fibre optic", since they think they already have it.
I feel like my system is simpler. I pay people what they're worth to me (provided I can afford it). Even this system isn't perfect... given a specified experience/skill level, they may be worth more to me 2 months ago than they are now (or vice versa). But it makes it very easy to decide what everyone should get paid.

If they are worth X, but I can only pay Y (where Y < X), then I pay Y (and hope that they'll work for Y) until I can afford to pay them X. At that point, I raise their pay to X.

Also note that, if they are worth X, but you can only pay Y, this should only be a temporary situation. Because, if they are truly worth X, then once you hire them there should be no reason you cannot afford to pay them X eventually (since they are bringing that value to your organization).
That's actually good news. If iPhone SDK is a superset of Android capabilities and all of the glue/compatibility framework has to be on the Android side, then this further insulates users of the translation kit from punitive actions from Apple.

(The framework itself needs to be implemented carefully to avoid Apple's ire. Apple itself may want to implement it, as it would put their Obj-C toolset in the position as the original, and other platforms get the copy.)
The problem proposed is not duplicates (i.e. 3 of the same story from Daring Fireball) but multiple writers on the same topic. URL matching would fail to identify these.
I'm not quite sure if you're saying that technology has been progressing at a faster rate in the past 15 years than it has in the previous 200 (which I'd agree with) or that we've had greater progress in the past 15 years than we did in the previous 200 combined (which is absurd).
What a train wreck: http://cpedia.com/search?q=antonio+cangiano
If you look at the comments you'll see that the oldest one is from April of last year.
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Using translators it would be possible to create a sort of meta-platform that could compile to both iPhoneOS and Android. A clever developer could make an SDK that abstracted the differences in the platforms and made it easier for developers to support both platforms by using the same codebase for the same apps on either. By making it more difficult to support both at the same time, Apple may be hoping to keep more developers on only their platform and retain the edge that they have over Android.
You're just jealous that Paul Irish reads my blog. :)
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Oh don't get your panties all in a bunch. I take it as a personal statement not as a representative of YDN. I've sent a counter email to YDN that I wasn't really all that offended.
Is it "wrong" or is it just obnoxious and bad business?

Did Apple make some sort of promise not to pull this sort of nonsense? Such promises do exist, BTW. They are called Open Source licenses. (Not an Open Source zealot by any means!)

Lesson learned, time to move on. Make a note that Apple is capable of this. Protect yourself with platform diversification or with platform on a FOSS license. Move on and make something of value.
I really don't understand cuil. I feel really bad criticizing someone's hard work, but this company is not a one man operation; it's a team of smart, experienced people with tens of millions of dollars of venture capital. They must be aware of their reputation and that they are the butt of jokes for exactly the kind of stuff we are now seeing in cpedia. What is the strategy? Do they think they can just ride out having such a bad repuation while they try to perfect the service?
I see what you mean, and yes it would be nice. In essence what you advocate is a table type and a number of tables conforming to that type could be then passed into a function which operates over the parameter given what it knows about it by the type description. It's a very appealing idea and many times I wished it was possible.

My guess as to why it isn't possible is that in the database world there is an assumption that all records of the same type lie in one table, i.e. the table is the type. And if you look at it form theoretical relational theory point of view, that is so. Alas in practice we do have things like third-party components and we have to worry about lifetime (e.g. transient table-typed variables).

To be fair Oracle I think has something called "package" which allows writing reusable code. Don't know much about it, but supposedly that's what it does.

Also, MSSQL has notion of Table Type which can be used to declare variables. I actually implemented (a part of) it while I worked there. :)
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Or you could look on it as someone trying to pretend that's the case. No one knows for sure, maybe not even the poster.
There is a potential for misquoting people. Read the last line of the summary section here: http://cpedia.com/search?q=railsconf

Read literally, Paul Krill was the author of the entire article after the summary.

Because this content is pieced together by computers who have no idea of how the resulting piece reads as a whole, I wonder if there are hidden legal liabilities when words get stuffed into people's mouths or when the combinations of sections lead to false content (imagine one paragraph ending with "and found the following to be completely false:").

EDIT: Here's an article misquoting a lawyer. Not smart. ;) http://www.cpedia.com/wiki?q=palin#headline_31
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Oh the timing, if this had happened one month later, all sorts of crazy meaning would be assigned to it...
Flash could have made it easy to target iPhone and Android with very similar code bases.

Now, developing for one, doesn't making porting to the other so simple.

It forces small developers to ask: bigger market or open market?
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:)
Thanks for reminding me about dialing zeros... Forgot that artifact of pulse dialing.
You joke, but it's not that far:
http://cpedia.com/robots.txt — No disallow on /wiki

Except, maybe, that mahalo's "content" is far better scraped.
A different take:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJjUVIIYptE
LLVM should be ported to C to be future proofed. Anything other than C++ at the very least.
I would love to see you implementation. With this post I was trying to strike a balance between the 3D aspect and the CSS code to it. Glad you liked it.
I'm somewhat conflicted about the claim that there's no apps. It seems that the JooJoo was meant to be one of the first devices to think of the browser as the only necessary gateway to your apps. If we take the browser and web apps into consideration the JooJoo has access to thousands of apps.

I personally think it's wrong to suggest that a "native" app is the only form of app for a device. We were moving forward so nicely until the iPhone and iPad showed up. It feels that we're moving backwards, back into the land of the fat clients and desktop. Sad.