skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No no no. I don't care about their motives.

...but...

it's hypocritical for Apple to talk about supporting open standards for flash-like functionality, because they don't care about open standards

See what I mean? You're saying it's hypocritical "because they don't care", not "because they don't do". That's why it was confusing.

But I think it's a bit off to think that the potential for hypocrisy is confined to the specific context of any particular comment.

If not for the fact that you're changing the meaning by ignoring the context, I'd agree, but you are. It is not "off" to consider things actually said in light of things actually done. What you've done here is add an additional statement that wasn't actually stated, i.e. turning "We support X." into "We support X and Y.", and then say it's hypocritical because they don't actually support Y. Perhaps this is clearer with the more specific original quote: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1292218

If a gay person says, 'I support marriage rights for gay people but not for lesbians' -- is that not hypocritical?

A statement alone can't be hypocritical. Without knowing the action (or in absence of action some other indicator of true belief) there is no way to be sure either way. Just specifying does not make it hypocritical.

Word: "I support marriage rights for some homosexuals but not others."
Deed: Support marriage rights for some homosexuals but not others.
Hypocritical: No.

Word: "I support marriage rights for some homosexuals but not others."
Deed: Support marriage rights no homosexuals.
Hypocritical: Yes.

Word: "I support marriage rights for all homosexuals."
Deed: Support marriage rights for some homosexuals but not others.
Hypocritical: Yes.
Bummer. Doesn't look like open source.
Sweet, but no demo yet: http://blog.dextrose.com/en/2010/04/09/dextrose-startet-aves...
The meme has been around a lot longer than a decade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil Calling the meme "peak oil" is (I think) relatively more recent. As early as the Kennedy administration the U.S. government implemented "conservation" efforts which put a lot of wild-catters out of business, thus hastening a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Right now they're paying most of the cost of each new iPhone, and under-charging for the data plans too. That's great for customers and great for Apple, and bad for the networks.

Provider-wise an influx of new iPhone customers sounds like one of those good problems to have. Word is you'll be able to get a Verizon plan on the next iPhone, Verizon doesn't seem to be shying away from it.
when it peaked at $200 in 2007 the P/E was about 40. The company has grown a great deal since and the stock has a long way to go just in terms of post-recession P/E inflation, if that ever happens. meanwhile they continue to dominate. the only thing I'm worried about is another market collapse, but that's not specific to apple.

I get the feeling that the WSJ only understands products in terms of feature lists. it's like they are frustrated because all they can attribute apple's success to is "it's a hipster/yuppie fad". they just don't get it. It's the kind of analysis that I'd imagine someone who reads a lot of Ayn Rand to come up with.
I think to work a facebook ad can't be trying to directly see something. Providing a link to a game or a fan page or anything the person wants to do I think would be the way to succeed. I've seen figures before for a direct sell type campaign, they were horrible, the cpc was a lot higher than the usual long tail adwords stuff and the ctr was a lot lower.

I think if nothing else brand advertisers and facebook app advertisers would keep them going, I can see how it would be cheaper continuing to shove something like coke in our faces on facebook than TV ads.
Same idea in Cassandra: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#reads_slower_writes
I see. So it's basically "how to manipulate Hacker News readers by using a hyped up headline"?
I recently had an epiphany about JS too. I think Crockford's evangelizing and the maturing of libraries (especially jQuery) has awoken many to the fact "JS is what we got to program the client". (I just met someone today at the jQuery conference from FreshBooks.)
That's an excellent example that you seem to have been able to access quite readily - impressive, +1. And I do agree that you can't just look at P/E ratio.

But the key difference is ...based on one breakthrough tech product...

Apple has a much more firm footing in people's digital lives - and more brand loyalty - than Motorola could have ever hoped to have.
right, but should we be working on their API functions?

you've moved before; gotta keep moving

ps : much respect
I used to drive a cab in the city a couple years ago and the bikers situation on Market street during rush hour was pretty chaotic from that perspective as well :P
I think that is probably the last optimization you want to do. Reducing the size of the response, recompressing images, gzip encoding, good browser cache headers, server side caching, etc. will yeld better results.
I prefer the term infovore
why open source? it seems like the developer deserves to make some money out of it.
I owe my programming career to this movie. I saw it when I was young, right after I had started learning BASIC, and immediately decided I wanted to learn everything I could about telephony, networks, and AI.
"4. Steve Jobs's ego"

This is Apple's main asset. It doesn't belong on a list of Apple's weaknesses.
Stanford's Robot Car
Thats one of the more innovative Tetris oriented games I've seen in a few years. I was surprised how smooth it works in the browser, even though I've seen a few of the other cool things folks are doing with HTML5 these days. Good stuff.
Are they really all that dominant, though? As I see it, they have 3 major product lines: the Macintosh, the iPod, and the iPhone (perhaps the iPad will join that soon). They have massive brand loyalty among a certain segment of the population, but a good number of people don't give a rats ass about them. I'm typing this on a Macbook Pro, but I honestly regret that purchase (I wish I'd gotten a System76 Pangolin instead). I've got a iPod Nano sitting unopened in a box, an unused gift from my employer. I couldn't live without my N1, but have never felt the need for an iPhone.
Wikibollocks: The Shirky Rules
Facebook is well aware of this, that's why they're experimenting with payment platforms and credits as a form of making money.
I upvoted you because the post you were responding to was truly bananas and I'm not sure why you were getting down voted.
"Mostly??"
They give the blog a bit of charm, its nice
I don't see the point in avoiding Netflix's DRM here. It's just on the content stream between Netflix's servers and Netflix's client software. Furthermore, once the stream has arrived at whatever device you're using to play the movie, Netflix then helpfully strips the DRM and decodes the stream to whatever output you want. I can play movies from Netflix on my computer or on my Wii and either will happily use a large variety of unprotected outputs (VGA, S-Video, etc.)
I'm testing with Firefox, and if I set a cookie domain to "example.com", I get ".example.com" anyway. If I set a cookie domain to null, Firefox does set it as "example.com" and not ".example.com". Requests for a file from "static.example.com" do not include the cookie from "example.com".
Managing the Millenials: Managers Are Key to Retaining Talent
There's some oddities in the WP timeline. Nov 1, 1920 goes to jail. Spends 3.5 years in jail. Released and then "almost immediately" indicted by the state. Challenges indictment, it goes to Supreme Court, settled on Mar 27, 1922. How could he spend 3.5 years in jail between those dates when there aren't 3.5 years between those dates?
Recalling older versions of sendmail literally sent a shiver down my spine, we had something akin to a voodoo ritual whenever we needed to change some configuration.
Obama avoids use of 'genocide' again in marking Armenian commemoration
ItsTrending Shows Popular Facebook Shared Items
Bad encodes, 1/2 the reason for the "magic" script we both developed
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=134078

Output: http://i43.tinypic.com/2qd4wvk.png
I bet as soon as you attempt to implement a DOM manipulation standard for Python you'd introduce all the same cross-browser incompatibilities as Java has. Also, in many ways Javascript is superior to Python. Closures are the only examples I know of off the top of my head.
:)

Could be, although I don't think gravity was lower. Maybe if the earth was turning much faster though......
Awesome! Having the iPad show up as a share is great and definitely a step in the right direction. Having all files available to all your devices as the default (and with browser synch) is the holy grail imho.
The Facebook Funnel called the ‘Like’ button
Would having an optional version of the iPhone with a keyboard (or an optional addon, even third party) make Apple more money? If the answer isn't no, then the author's point has some merit, even if you prefer a slimmer device without a keyboard.

Quick question: with all the third-party devices and addons that Apple permits via its proprietary iPhone/iPod/iPad connector, is there one that provides a mini physical keyboard? If not, do we know if Apple is intentionally preventing it (via API's or licensing)?
Admittedly I didn't read it all, but it looks like Python with syntactic sugar...
Having commands pipe JSON to each other could be rather cool

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell
Double-edged sword.
Yet it's amazing how there is another end of the spectrum where people are hired to cost their competitors. Just the other day, I learned that apparently "Mesothelioma" is one of the more expensive AdWords that easily goes around $40!
public/private is the most pointless distinction ever invented. Enforced privacy makes reuse nearly impossible.

That said, I don't really think Javascript is all that special. Prototype OO sucks.
Phones are the direction for iPod/mp3 player innovation. Once battery life and storage size reach a certain point, there's no reason to carry a dedicated device.
It's missing a lesson: don't use McAfee
Laptop Battery,Laptop Batteries,Notebook Battery
The nerd scene is pretty much all of high school for me.
Very cool. Was just playing this and my wife walked in and said "Cool, I want to play that!".

>>>As an aside, I love that this isn't flash, but it makes my CPU & fans go just as nuts as if it was.
I don't know what you mean exactly by programming knowledge, but if you are talking about languages, then pick a core language of your choice and master it. Then, dabble in a few useful frameworks in that language for later. As a side note, js seems to be such a language to keep in mind for the next decade or so, at the very least :-p

As about technologies, they will come and go, so master your fundamentals first, everything else will make sense or at least you know where to look for help when sh*t hits the fan!

Again, I think mastery is helpful. If you can do something really, really well, you can do some interesting things. See this: http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/01/23/beyond-passion-the-sci...
It's not video, it's film that has been converted to video.

Moving Pictures have been around since the late 1800's. The first Sci-Fi film was made in 1902 actually -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbGd_240ynk
Le voyage dans la Lune, Méliès, 1902
The answer is Iraq:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/03/17/how_iraqi_o...
09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0.

Also, fuck the "Blu-Ray Association". There's nothing they can do to prevent free authoring tools, and physical media will be obsolete in another 5 years anyway.
It's fungible until it becomes strategic.
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Did you know they were Pumas without looking? Do you know any sports teams that wear Puma? Do any of your friends have Puma clothing? If you answered yes to any of these then the advertising has worked IMO.

Puma TV ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRweijN6-IQ
Any sort of analytics that could be drawn from this?
Fisker Automotive closes $529 million loan with U.S. Energy Dept
Interesting article here, keep it up!
Xauth Overload
Welcome to social media.
Not only is it impressive technically, but the circular Tetris game is extremely fun and well executed!
I like Shirky's writing very much, he is fluent and brings great perspective and ideas, not to mention great soundbites, but i will admit that the problems presented in this counter article make sense.

It seems digital media analysis and the media studies derived from them share this mild case of schizophrenia, or put another way a case of academic attention deficit disorder, the nature of the commentary is similar to the environment in which it is conceived.

I probably muddled what i was trying to say, but when you actually slog through a scholarly work (of say historical analysis) that presents an exhaustive attention to details, and reference you are struck by a wholly different kind of academic style, one that seems increasingly old school and unfashionable, which is very sad.

This mode still exist in the hard sciences, but in certain humanities it is viewed with suspicion, even disdain, at least that is my anecdotal observation.

It can be summed up as brilliant ideas, that fall apart due to lack of rigor in research.
Perhaps this is wishful thinking, but I'd say a good reason to be cautious about Apple right now is the growing discontent that they're creating amongst "alpha geeks" (http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/AlphaGeek.html).

I get the opinion from the swarm of recent Apple-related articles here on Hacker News that Apple-loyalty is down and that a large number of alpha geeks are, at the very least, prepped for competing devices to sway them away if they haven't left Apple already.
I've completed a simular "conversion" myself recently.

After reading "JavaScript: The Good Parts" and with the arrival of things like Node.js I have come over from being a staunch "C as a first language" programmer to learning to not only accept JavaScript, but to embrace it, and the power that comes from becoming proficient in the only programming language understood by both the web browser and server.
"In fact, I am trying to migrate as much of my communications applications (twitter, mail, social web) to the iPad and leave my computer for actual, productive work."

+1 on that. At home, I basically use my iPad to do all my consumption and "light" communication. For development and highly intensive typing, I'll switch over to my laptop.

When I'm relaxing on a weekend, I find that the iPad is about 80% of my computer time. This has been a huge shift.

On the other hand, I haven't been able to effectively use the iPad at meetings. I had thought maybe I could take notes on it, but it just doesn't flow as well as when I'm typing on real keyboard. However, it does rock for demos.
It will also be interesting to see what happens to the peak oil fear-mongering when some of the new US shale gas reserves start coming on line. It turns out that there is a hell of a lot more natural gas available than anyone ever suspected (or at least thought we could get our hands on) and these new techniques have not really been applied outside of the US yet; the geopolitical consequences of potentially large shale gas deposits in Poland could be quite significant.

Natural gas is a very good substitute for most uses of crude oil. Not as good for plastics, but for just about every other purpose it is far better than oil. If oil actually does start to get as scarce as the peak oil proponents suggest I think that the first alternative you are going to see take over is natural gas.
he's not actually touching the data, just using the facebook "recommendations" plugin here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/recomm...
NASA Celebrates 20 Years of Hubble [pictures++]
Edit (on second thought): They are probably using canvas and not other trickery, then yeah, current versions of IE are pretty screwed.

Original post:

Since I am not involved in the project, I can't know for sure. But it is presented at a jQuery conference and, really, the main reason why anyone would use jQuery (or any similar intermediate layer written in JavaScript) is to get around cross-platform issues easily. That said, I'm pretty sure that at this stage it probably does not work in IE but I did not see any functionality in the video that suggests that it would not work in IE with a bit of effort put into it before launch.

It probably performs like a dog, though. :-)

On the flipside (and another cool project): FreeCiv (http://www.freeciv.net/) did not seem to be bothered with getting native IE functionality in place (it requires Chrome Frame).
Scala compiler does self-tail calls so in theory Java compiler should be able to do it. But IIUC doing tail calls between functions is not possible (or at least not worth the effort) on the JVM.
Why buy dropbox when it is cheaper and easier to just fix some of the problems with the existing MobileMe service? Stealing a page from dropbox and similar services, Apple should just make a basic MobileMe account free and let you buy additional services as needed. The service is already integrated into the desktop OS, it is partially integrated into the iPhone OS, and if they just added some polish and back-end resources they would have a decent start towards cutting off Google encroachment into their platform.
Is SEO Dead?
ok, well, i'd like them to have loud speakers
and the ability to transfer music p2p
As Mark says, "work fast and don't be afraid to break things."
Nope, this has nothing to do with multicast, sadly. My current solution is to just get off EC2 and run the crawler locally.

I have a DHT-layer ping utility, and observed that the failing node could not ping some peers that the successful node (crawling the other network) could, so I hypothesize that either EC2 or the file-sharing network was doing some rate limiting. The puzzling thing is that the local scanner has been running for hours without showing any signs of failure.
I was considering it as an open question not a yes/no. If they say yes you ask them how. That way they are demonstrating their knowledge rather than claiming it.

Like if you wanted to find out if people know that bacon flavour crisps are vegetarian you'd ask something like "do any crisps contain meat or animal products?" and be prepared with follow on questions. So if the response is "no" you go back with "not even BBQ beef or bacon flavour?". If they answer "yes" you ask "out of these, which are suitable for vegetarians: ..." or somesuch.
Cannons to the Planets
Life's a constant struggle against stimulus.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1270343
Aliens may exist but contact would hurt humans: Hawking
Check out the video on the wall playing at 2m35s; it's an HTML5 <video> transformed with CSS3!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol3qQ4CEUTo#t=2m32s
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This is odd, I'm sure that there are solid examples of a perfectly good product or service failing because it was too ahead-of-its time, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment. Ugh.

Anyway, the point I was getting at is that timing does matter, and that DropBox was, in addition to being well-executed, was also well-timed. And that given enough time, eventually, someone else would have come along and executed well once the market was ready for it.
This can't be emphasized enough. It's not enough that you have some technical wizard who is making everything happen at your startup. You have to make sure that the magic becomes a permanent asset, or you are going to get knocked back to the starting line when mr wizard leaves or when it's time to grow the team.

How to do this depends on the particular kind of work being done, but generally speaking you want maintainable code with lots of tests, and records of the valuable knowledge gained in the process.

It's not easy to get this out of most developers, particularly if you are not a developer yourself. If you ignore it, chances are very good it's not being done at all.
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Beautiful, simple design. Nice job.
Review my startup: HelloFax, the easiest faxing service on the web
www.hellofax.com

There are some huge online faxing players, like eFax, but we're trying to emphasize usability in a way that none of the other players are doing.

1. If you were making the ideal / online faxing startup, what would you do?

2. A different business model?
-The standard model is users pay a monthly X dollars for Y faxes, usually around $10 for 400 faxes. But, these players lose out on lower volume customers who don't want to pay monthly rates
-Skype-style pre-charge with the option of a monthly rate for those who want a unique fax number. 20 cents a page. But, if a user spends $10 in one month, we give him/her a few hundred free pages for that month.
-What do you think?

3. What features would it take to get you or people you know to use it?
-We're thinking about different "killer features" we could use to pull people in.

If you want to test hellofax, it comes with 3 pages automatically. But, ping me at joseph@hellofax.com and I'll give you more credit.

I really, really appreciate feedback. Thanks for reading.
>MAKE A CAR PEOPLE WANT TO BUY.
>
>Maybe I'm naive,

Well, I think that's naive. It's not enough to make something that people want to buy. There is always a number of people wanting to buy a given car, but that number depends also on the car's price.

Of course, GM cannot simply lower the prices if their cost per unit is still high in comparison to the competition. And they probably cannot lower the cost while keeping ridiculous agreements with the autoworkers' union.

For comparison, as the article says, GM has been making in Asia and South America. In particular, GM is very profitable in Brazil.
I use onesuite.com to receive faxes. They charge $1 per month and forward received faxes by email. There is no per fax fee.

The thing they are missing is a way to send faxes. I usually go to Kinko's and spend a dollar a page to send. I guess if I used it more I'd think about optimizing.
When GE has a policy of firing 10% of the employee every year, why do you think employee should stay loyal?
The greatest human disease on the Internet is pride. It infects every corner and can culminate in the decline of great communities. Ally Sheedy can't hear you.
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Well if they're using RaphaelJS or at least duplicating some of its functionality, then it should default back to VML for IE. I have no idea what VML is really capable of though.
It's really scary to think about the consequence of this... Google may become irrelevant in <1 year...
After reading tons of comments from people with varying viewpoints, I still can't comprehend how someone could say this to their employee:

"... Good luck being employee 4,367 at a dying company....Horribly disappointed in you."

I don't care if the employee only sent out an email without a face-to-face conversation or resigned in person and then sent an email for documentation purposes. I don't care if the employee was horrible, mean-tempered, or terrible at programming. I don't care if he was core to the entire startup, without whom the company is bound to fail. None of it matters. His email was very polite and I can absolutely see myself in his shoes. Sure he called his next opportunity "amazing" but so what? In next paragraph he commends his ex-coworkers/teams and thanks everyone. What else could he have said in a resignation email?

I just can't believe someone in CEO-level position replied to a resignation email like this. Not every email should be treated the same. "Hey I'm sick today, can't make it to work" or "Sorry! I haven't fixed the bug yet" are very different from "This isn’t an easy email to write..." As a manager, you do not treat those emails lightly or brush them off as good riddance.