skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd wager that even people who flip burgers want autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Anyone with half a brain would want those things. Well any male at any rate. ;)

Smart people also like money to a certain degree, because the more money you get the shorter amount of time you have to be someone's bitch. So it's all 4.
> I'm more interested in how Adobe is a competitor to Apple (in a Windows-vs-Mac way).

In four words: "Developers, developers, developers, developers."

Adobe's Flash is a platform for writing applications. Apple's Cocoa is a platform for writing applications. If developers were to all switch to Flash overnight, Adobe would control the application market. If Adobe didn't feel like supporting multi-tasking, no application would support multi-tasking because the Flash runtime wouldn't support it. Apple would lose control of its destiny.

Make no mistake, Adobe and Apple are competitors, and I expect Apple to fight this one to the death. Why? I quote the old adage: "Why do rabbits run faster than foxes? Because the rabbit is running for his life, while the fox is only running for his supper."

Adobe has not bet the company on Flash, but Apple has bet the company on iPhone.
I don't think you have dueling anecdotes, just observation of the existence of red weasels and blue weasels. Until someone starts claiming that most weasels are some color, or that certain colored weasels tend to occur in certain kinds of environments, there's no need to fund extensive studies ;)
Anyone can post to the ArXiv. So now wait a few weeks. One test: does his algorithm work for bipartite graphs? Another test: his algorithm uses real numbers. This is sketchy, as real numbers can't actually be represented in a computer.

The paper is pretty poorly written for two reasons: English is clearly not this guy's first language (no crime there, as it is said that the language of science is "heavily accented english") but he is also using a little too much handwaving for my comfort. This is a pretty math-heavy result, and this is not an airtight proof in any sense.

Basically: I agree with everything you said about it not being compelling enough for me to spend more time with it.

Fun fact so that I'll say more than "I agree": if GI is in P, the the polynomial hierarchy collapses to a level that I forget, and if GI is NPC it collapses to a PI_2! Neat!
But fixing this wouldn't affect Windows or OS X, and middle-click pasting is the convention in Linux. I hate when I use Windows and inevitably realize yet again I can't do it. (Also, highlighted text sends to a different clipboard than ctrl+c.)
High quality apps that make lots of $ is not enough. The clause isn't about quality. You need to not be competing in a strategically important area to Apple, and the $ amount must exceed Apple's estimation of its opportunity costs of letting you proceed and potentially not doing something else.

What I think this clause indicates is that Apple believes competition at the API and language level is strategically important. Otherwise it wouldn't have been worded the way it is.

What I personally believe is that Apple wants to do a Microsoft the way MS did back in the 90s. Apple wants to lock developers in by forcing them to rely on Apple APIs, and not get creative with the language to evade those APIs.
The people behind phpBB don't decide who can and, more importantly, who can't build a forum in case it doesn't flourish. They just put the software out there.

If anyone feels like building a Q&A site for free without having to go through an approval procedure they can also check out http://www.qhub.com
All of the browsers I have installed, besides Opera, do this.

Safari
FireFox
Camino
Chrome
My point was that Apple should do it. They've been shipping JIT in JavascriptCore on ARM for a year now.
The Pleasant Surprise of Lucid Lynx
Cyanogen banned from DroidForums.net for calling out another dev for stealing
>> When people start realizing how to easily pirate their Android apps, I predict Apple will be the clear winner here.

> You could've said the same thing about Windows apps.

Precisely! Except the easier it is to pirate Windows software, the more valuable Windows becomes (at no loss to Microsoft). Handset manufacturers, on the other hand, are trying to make a profit by taking a cut of the app sales. The more iPhone apps are sold, the more money Apple makes. Their bottom line is negatively affected every time someone opts to pirate instead of buying. Not so with Microsoft.
How to find cheap gas using game theory
Bar game - place the last coaster
Gaming gift card bonuses
I am still unsure as to whether or not I like this.

One of the first things I do when I get to a page that requires my credit card information or any kind of username/password login information that can lead to a compromise of accounts that hold personal information is look at the address bar for the https:// in the URL.
Yes, I have, and I run an OpenSolaris machine at home as my file server.

The issue I have with OpenSolaris is that if you stick to their /release PKG tree you don't get any security updates what so ever, if you however track the /dev PKG tree you get experimental updates, that may or may not break functionality you need.
Yep. It's not bad. I cloned the [experimental git repository](http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/repositories/git/pkgsr...) to `/usr/pkgsrc` and was able to install most packages I tried. They seem to lag behind current versions quite a bit and some pieces of software I rely on for work weren't packaged (redis, mongo, etc.).

I used it for a few months but eventually switched over to homebrew because it's a nice simple system and packages most of the stuff I need.

You have to run a case-insensitive filesystem with pkgsrc (I was anyway) and, like macports, it does not use system libraries so pretty much everything needs to be rebuilt under `/usr/pkg`.

It was worth experimenting with. I might check back on it when I get my new MBP. They have [a lot of packages](http://pkgsrc.se/).
If I remember correctly, isn't this how the iPad does it? I don't have one so I can't check.
Having outbound access from the PHP user blocked is not always possible due to client needs to interact with remote services or API's (Flickr, Google, Twitter). Generally those run under a different user (yay FastCGI) but still can leave holes exposed that may not be easy to fix.

If having no wget installed removes one or two possibilities for an exploit it is a win in my book.
Ask HN: Open-source PDF Viewer for my Website?
If you know a really good one, please take a second to drop a name here.
Without knowing your business, or the environment you are in, it is difficult to really make a recommendation here.

I would recommend picking-up the book Crossing the Chasm or Inside the Tornado, both by Geoffrey A. Moore, if you haven't already looked at them.

You mention that you've gained pretty good traction both and you're getting close to mazimizing the 'in-between market'. I suspect you are saying that you aren't finding as many premium stand-alone customers, and aren't finding yourself jumping up to the enterprise purchaser level.

Is that correct?

By the sounds of things, you've got the premium product in the stand-alone purchase, and with the right marketing, maybe you could be the defacto purchase in that market.

At the dollar ranges you are talking about, are businesses really cost sensitive? If your product is truly that much better than competitors, you should be able to up sell the extra $50.
Neat introduction to git, but it suggests using the "git commit -a -m" option, which is not only (edit: partially) redundant with the "git add ." command it recommends using beforehand, but actually interferes if you're trying to make a more selective commit.
Will it have pictures?
Inside Apple's automatic graphics switching
And if you finish the challenges, there's also programmingpraxis.com
Apple doesn't have a quantity problem, they have a quality problem.

You don't have to respect anything, but not at a certain point it's like being pissed that you can't say fuck in an ad on television. These guys paid a lot of money to build an audience (of extremely high demographic value, mind you), and a platform for you to talk to it on and make money from it directly, sorry but you have to follow their rules.
Do you know about Florida foreclosures ?
How will people know what you want if you don't tell them?? Also I think a lot of companies won't pay up unless they feel they need to. Only a select few awesome companies seem to break this mold.
Ask HN: Need Advice for a Literary Magazine
A few friends and I plan on writing a literary magazine which focuses on philosophy. We don't want to put adds into it but at the same time need to find a way to cover the publishing costs. Do any of you have suggestions?

Any kind of advice on the magazine itself would also be greatly appreciated. We've been trying to learn as much as possible from links on design and writing posted to HN.
I find it very hard to imagine an interface that will replace the spring controlled hardware knob that controls the volume of sound coming out of my computer, and I have seen and used a stupefying amount of gadgets that enable me to control sound.

Consider that the passion of musicians to produce their music has led to eons of refinement in interface and design, A material technology which the hi tech world with its planned obsolescence paradigm does not often appreciate.

All innovation is welcome and exciting, few things in the world of a musician brings more joy then a discovery of a new sound, or a new technique he can learn.

but you know? that guitar interface? it just works.

...
Of course the touch screen is exciting for musicians...
check out Amit Pitaru/Zach Gage bring Sonic Wire Sculptor. its fun
If you are going to branch every day as you begin your work, rebasing is a useful alternative to merging when you complete your task. You get the benefits of separation and the optionality of throwing away your branch if you choose, but you also keep the commit logs a bit easier to follow.

Worth considering :)
'Particularly dubious are the standard rules for creating and protecting website passwords, Herley found. For example, users are admonished to change passwords regularly, but redoing them is not an effective preventive step against online infiltration unless the cyber attacker (or evil colleague) who steals your sign-in sequence waits to employ it until after you’ve switched to a new one, Herley wrote. That’s about as likely as a crook lifting a house key and then waiting until the lock is changed before sticking it in the door.'

I stopped reading right about there...
That sounds like one of the largest projects undertaken in Go so far. I'm excited to see how it turns out - please keep us posted in golang-nuts! :-)
I'm interested to hear more about this, particularly:

- what does it do? Serve HTTP requests? Does it persist state in a database? If so, what kind?

- how is it deployed? Running on a VPS somewhere?
As you have said, it is practically impossible to use vectors without mutating their contents with (vector-set! ...), but purely list-based Scheme is actually quite easy to write without resorting to some variant of (set! ...). When practicing on the early problems on Project Euler, vectors and mutation were language features I simply didn't need for some time, so I didn't learn them until later. The building and traversal of lists through recursion got me at least 80% of most problems I solved. Maybe the standard Scheme libraries just do a good job of making mutation operations look like something one needs to avoid whenever possible.
I've did a small application called "go runner" - instead of writing Makefile to run the .go application - it's kind of smart and does it for you - just type "go something" and it would compile (if needed) and run it, if "something.go" requies other .go modules it would compiled them too.

It's basically using the Go's own libraries to parse the given .go file, and detect what additional files needed to be compiled.

http://github.com/malkia/go-runner

But that won't compile with latest Go. I've stopped using Go, as I got busy with other things, but might come back at it.
On one now and you're exactly right. Seems like the best of both worlds.
To be precise, it's devoted to an example where software didn't sell itself. Maybe it was just bad and nobody wanted to tell their friends about it.
This is by far the best summary of how to present to an investor I have ever seen.
an absolute must read.
This math works fine for musical artists, and I think it's perfectly fine for them, but has anyone figured out how to make movies this way besides upfront donations?
I did question 1 in Wolfram Alpha (spoiler alert): http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+3n+for+n%3D1..333+%...

Started on problem 2, but it got hard...

None the less - I was quite impressed that Alpha could handle questions that hard.
It's not exactly the same but http://Magnatune.com splits 50/50 with the artists.
There is also significant psychological research linking depression with an external locus of control. (For example, Benassi, et al; 1988)

Personally, having sweated a high-paying job for "the man" for a few years and feeling increasingly burdened by it, I was a bit surprised by the number of upvotes for comments about money being the most important factor. I would happily take a pay cut for an opportunity to develop expertise and to take control over my work. (Which, in a sense, is what entrepreneurship purports to offer -- along with high blood pressure.)
Correct. I remember 28k being the norm around then.
Hey, that's where I stopped too!
Please Make the iPhone Weather Application Location Aware
Neat trick! Unfortunately, in the U.S. it's less interesting -- by the time you've gotten off the highway you are usually committed to the 2 or 3 signs within line of sight of the offramp.
MapReduce — a two-page explanation for laymen [pdf]
Like Usenet, Google Groups, or Reddit, just get one nice name and let everybody open their groups and compete for traffic.

Then you get millions of visitors and then you monetize it as you please.

The time is ripe to replace google groups.
iPad bug interfering with Princeton's network
I would caution against writing off touch screens so readily. Take a look at the Misa Digital Guitar (http://www.youtube.com/misadigital), for example.
As an aside, theres some really beautiful results in graph theory that are only nicely expressible if you use linear algebra (aka spectral graph theory).

That being said, there are several problems with the paper:
1) it seems to implicitly assuming (without realizing it) that any two graphs it is considering at k-regular for some unspecified k. This is barely more general than assuming that graphs are planar, so itd be easy to have pretty reasonable algorithm for such a case (i'm pretty sure there are bunches in the research literature).

Also, it doesn't really seem to be addressing integrality of the linear programs, which i think is kinda key when using linear programs for combinatorics!
Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger
The -a switch for the commit command will only add changes from all files listed in the index. "git add ." will add changed files that are in the index and those that are not. So they are not redundant commands.
To add to this, consider the number of online flash games there are. By the same logic the author is using, the best mobile gaming platform would be a laptop/netbook.

This of course completely ignores the quality of these games and the advantages that dedicated gaming platforms like the DS and PSP have.
1) The quality argument has been shown to be utter hogwash. Simply untrue, utterly devoid of rational backing. Read the Ars link I posted for details.

2) All of these companies and developers have been following the rules only to just now have them changed on them for utterly shitty reasons.

3) Apple isn't enforcing their own rules. Lots of apps break the rules yet are allowed on the store. Their rules, at this point, amount to: we're gonna let you in if we like you. That's a pretty crummy rule; hope your business plan doesn't depend on it.

4) You're missing half the perspective. Apple should be grateful to the developers who have worked their asses off and bent over backwards to satisfy Apple's various restrictions to fill their store with lots of software. If Apple treats them poorly, they'll find developers choosing other platforms.
I know it's not OSS, but scribd.com is a really useful service. They have a decently powerful API that lets you upload the doc and let them handle hosting, rendering, metadata, etc.

I'm not sure if this will work for you, but sites like drop.io seem to use it pretty well.
Sony to release 'affordable' 35mm digital camera to kill RED & Panasonic
MacBook Pro Core i7 unboxing and preview
I get what your saying, but you're looking at it from a purely economic point of view. Actually, when I started reading your post I thought to myself, "seems like this guy just finished his chapter on Perfect Competition".

Even though there are benefits and differences to high capital vs low capital requirement markets, you have to look at the human aspect of it. There are failures on both sides, and probably a higher failure rate for web startups. But the main difference is that regular people have the opportunity to actually strike it rich. High capital requirements tend to mean you need social connections to people with money. In society, this means political, industry, venture capital, and business connections. If you're the wrong race, sex, religion, or just don't fit the profile of someone who tends to be able to have access to money, you won't get it.

Low capital requirement markets means anyone can play; everything is more competitive, all products are higher quality. The discriminator is the market, and thats fair for all. If you take these into consideration, than you see low capital requirement markets are in fact a blessing, regardless of the economic returns of high capital markets. They are two completely different beasts.
EComm 2010 -- the only telecom conf worth attending
what if i want to use gopher? I can't possibly use gopher with this!
:-(
Eh... The original Google paper is more readable than this (for laymen i.e.)
> It wasn't the existence of the internet that changed the creator:consumer ratio for the better. It was the use of the internet as such. And that use exploded thanks to any number of consumption-focused technologies along the way.

The use of the internet is deeply intertwined with its form -- television could never, even if we worked incredibly hard at it, have been used in the same way. The message is the medium, and the form of the technology we adapt does, in fact, matter significantly.

Example: we would absolutely not be having this little debate if we only had iPads. :)

(And not to start a side debate, but I'm deeply sceptical of the app store being all that revolutionary; almost everything I've seen is a usability-tweaked version of software that already existed on the desktop or web. Further, it is absolutely against ideals of decentralization when it comes to the creation of software!)
Chrome still displays https://, and these days you should be looking for the company name anyway. See http://chromium.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=-277348...
.. or rather "well going-to-do Google"!
This is hilarious:

"Until a fix is provided by Apple, OIT recommends not connecting your iPad device to the campus network as it is likely it will malfunction."
...disallowing anyone to own property in New York that they don't live in at least 6 months plus 1 day...

Near as I can tell, this would drive up the price of rentals quite significantly. Any landlord would need to factor the risk of getting caught being a landlord into your rent.

I like your second idea of punishing people who are not part of my tribe.

By the way, a more realistic way to lower rent prices would be to end rent control. One could also move the projects out to distant brooklyn/queens, and rent the projects out at market rates.
so, what, exactly does a company look for in a recruiter? do they care if you can find good people? or are they looking more for someone to sell the job to a potential employee? Both? neither?
Most landlords will not rent to you if you don't make 40x monthly rent, but it is not a legal requirement.
as you said, it's not only the camera. With a TV of film camera, you need a production crew, whereas you can get away with just 2 other person with a 5dmkii setup. Apart from staff expenses, this also means you get jobs done faster, or you can get more takes.

Post-production also is cheaper with the 5dmkii.
That would be competing with xbox360 and ps3, which do everything that the apple TV is doing and much much more.

I don't think it likely Apple will pay any attention to the AppleTV platform, its a dud.
The sensor on the 5D is huge. Here's a graphic with most of the current video camera sensor sizes: http://rebelsguide.com/dl/sensorSizes_06_cheatSheet.png A bigger sensor means that it can operate well at very low light levels.

Also note that at $2500 this is by far the cheapest option for shooting feature quality films. There are some issues with audio, so you will have to record it using an external recorder, but with a nice mount, this is an amazing camera.
the latest firmware from canon also gave the same movie-oriented features (24p, manual AGC, picture settings etc.)
Another aspect is that expensive startups require more planning and careful attention to profit and business strategy. If you're investing $500k, you will spend more time figuring out what you are going to be selling and how it's going to work out. I think that is planning that a lot of dot com startups could really use. "Minimal possible product" often winds up being quite underwhelming these days.
Realising the best from your team
might be good for hn, I guess? I think the problem with voting on HN (and in general) is that people downvote things they disagree with rather than just spam and trolls, and they use upvoting to mean "I agree" rather than to mean "well written" or "you are contributing to the conversation".

of course, this gets into a deeper discussion... many people /want/ to only talk with people who agree with them. For most people, the 'groupthink' that results from voting moderation systems /improves their experience/

The original article is suggesting paid moderators. Personally, I think PG coming on here and setting social expectations (he dressed me down, once.) probably has more to do with hn being a tolerable place than anything else. Paid or not, having a 'community owner' who can designate things as unacceptable, either by having a large amount of social capital (as pg does) or by having access to the banhammer as a paid moderator would, I think, is more important than anything else when it comes to maintaining an online community.
Problem - if a new game shows up, it doesn't provide a fresh new leaderboard for the achiever to climb.
I've seen great videos taken without a follow-focus or a rig, for instance http://vimeo.com/5000009

you need to shorten the strap and hold the camera at arm's length (so you get 4 points of contact, instead of the usual 2).