skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yay, for once I idly click on some obscure thing and it turns out to be an above-average post! That doesn't happen nearly often enough. Anyway, this one makes at least two distinct and interesting points:

1. Users click on a site's "About" link way more than you'd expect. (That certainly matches what I do as a user; it's the first thing I look for if I'm at all interested in a company or a blog.)

2. What Facebook and Twitter really are are "human spam filters for near real-time information". (This is a more controversial point, but an insightful one.)

Edit: you should fix the typo ("though nobody") and perhaps also come up with a better title so people other than a few straggling procrastinators take notice.
what's the shortcut to play the video on the page?
Same reason why Ycombinator is Ycombinator. Here, sony knows who they want to work with.
My first problem with scratch was that it was client based and the "player" is java based. It absolutely needs to be web (not flash or java) based. I actually had a good portion of a jquery/drag and drop code editor written a few years ago when I was stuck at a 9-5 programming gig. I am going to dig it back up as the time seems right to move forward with it.
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Professors work. A lot. Maybe not the ancient tenured ones, and not all of them, but the majority. It is far from a 40-hour job. And in the hard sciences/engineering/computer science, they could definitely be making more money in industry.
Check out Ecoute. A gorgeous UI "designed to be minimal, small and pretty so it doesn't take a lot of space on your screen. Just what you need to play your library."

http://ecouteapp.com/
Well since iAds can be made with html5, I'm pretty sure we'll soon see cookie-cutter templates that will make generic ads a breeze.
It does still use the "type to narrow" system. If it gets one match, it automatically selects that link. Also, as you type, it filters to only links that have your search term in them, and adjusts the numbering as well.
No, it won't. That's what jazzyb was getting at I believe. VLC will play anything, but it's not a music library.
How does this detect if there are already key-events set for a web-application such as gMail?
Also, as I mentioned in my (redundant) comment further up, if your choices are narrowed down to one link, it's auto selected.
Wonderful post. I'm looking forward to an enlightening discussion about this.

I was disappointed by the end, however, because it suggested that downvoting was a way of managing trolls. I think downvoting means different things to different people: some downvote to merely show disagreement, for example. So a downvoted comment on Hacker News does not necessarily mean that it is likely a troll comment. Therefore, downvotes can't achieve the necessary shared awareness.

(I will disagree with myself and note that comments that have been voted all the way down to -4 tend to be trollish, so maybe it works to an extent.)
Has anyone managed to get the whisker/stacked editor/browser working in pharo?
"Thoughts on shipping the tablet:
We’re really delighted by Chrome pickup rate. In terms of Tablets. Last year with Chrome OS we said we are working to have a netbook in the fall."

I am willing to misinterpret netbook as an internet device that operates like a book. In other words, where is that mythical Android tablet from Google?
"If copying isn't theft then I suppose you won't mind if I copy and turn in your term paper before you do (thus making your paper worth less). After all, you still have your term paper right?"

I suppose I should take heart that those condone copying/stealing others creations must have some conscience left. Otherwise they wouldn't have to resort to such weak rationalizations as this.
Hulu’s flatlining, and the networks are ready to innovate
My understanding was that apple could remove an app remotely at any time. Is this true?
I guess you guys don't have any music in open formats. My collection is mostly FLAC.
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It crashes a lot, but it's usable. Some apps don't work, since they explicitly look for version 3.X (Such as AirVideo)

Of course, no apps background properly currently, but it's useful for testing.

I'm using it on my primary iPhone, but I carry a backup phone in case I actually need to get stuff done ;)
"damn thing looks and works great"

If this is the case, don't worry so much. If your app uses a well-understood (by you), proven (by others) software stack and you've been testing well enough, your worries may be for naught.

Some folks around here recommend tools like pingdom. Get something like that if it helps you enjoy a break with your friends.

Good luck!
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From my friend, HN'er, and recent ex-Ning'er rjurney (works at LinkedIn) :

http://twitter.com/rjurney/status/12236580762
When it comes to getting money, assume "not vague" to mean "cheque cashed, not bounced".
Ok, it's working from home, must be a firewall or shared IP thing at work... odd.
Since the airflow through the engines is blocked or restricted causing the engines to flame out, it seems amazing that the engines could be restarted at all in those two previous incidents. They really were "miraculous escapes".
Sadly I completely agree with this. Slow, clunky, and I feel like my phone took about a 50% haircut on speed. . .
Ask HN: What do you guys think about this term sheet?
My company got a term sheet today, and it contains pretty much every 'bad' VC practice I've read about - double dipping, full ratchet anti-dilution, milestones, about half of the valuation we were asking for, micro-control by preferred shareholders over many operational decisions- and I realize this is probably just the start of a negotiation process but I'm also thinking, heck, we've been bootstrapping for so long now, we might be able to get over the hump ourselves.

I don't have a lot of advisers to talk to who've gone through something like this, so I was kind of hoping for some comments on my situation.

Thanks!
The macs I use daily are admittedly old, G4s, but it's the same problem. When something like winamp runs so very well on old PCs you have to wonder if playing music really needs all that overhead.
The eff wrote an essay on how to deal with music piracy.

They basically said that although artists need to be fairly compensated that piracy is not going to disappear. They also think that government interference should be minimized and that fans will always be better at distribution.

Their suggestion is voluntary collective licensing. Basically artists join licensing organizations and fans pay money to the organization to get the right to legally download music. Artists don't have to join, but non-member artists would be faced with the tough task of collecting money from infringing fans.

They also suggest compulsory licensing for property that owners refuse to license at any cost. They note that the government has done this in other cases. Compulsory licensing was enforced with radio, internet radio, cable/satellite tv, and player pianos.

Links:

http://www.eff.org/wp/better-way-forward-voluntary-collectiv...

http://www.eff.org/pages/making-p2p-legal

Overall the suggestions seem reasonable from my point of view.
Ummm... why? Why is it more awkward/clunky than with any other set of windows? Also, why so negative? If you don't like it, use the old way; it isn't like they removed that.
How to Writing A Good Term Paper
Writing a good term paper is just like painting a blank canvas with new and innovative ideas that can hook the viewers, while they admire the artistic skills involved in the specified task.
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You raise an important point. About a year ago, on a community website I run [1], I implemented a group moderation system like the one I described in this essay and it worked pretty much as described.

However, there are certainly some cases of people voting against comments on the basis of disagreement rather than comment quality - which goes against the comment voting guidelines [2].

This issue does occasionally come up among regular commenters. Interestingly, simply pointing out that someone was downvoted for expressing an opinion that was unpopular rather than illegitimate seems at least partially to reverse the effect (unlike HN, users can change their vote after making it).

Again, this seems to suggest that as community moderation becomes internalized as an important value, it becomes more effective at preserving quality discussion.

[1] http://raisethehammer.org/

[2] http://raisethehammer.org/article/874/
What they should do is actually get rid of the ad after you "explore it", so it does not take up vital screen space.
Actually these two methods are basically the same. As the AMS article states "the steady-state temperature distribution of some region in space is described by a harmonic function." If you look at the method of relaxation described in the ams article, "move across the grid and replace the value of the function at a point by the average of adjacent points," it's the same as the method described in the Wolfire article, "set each voxel's heat to a weighted average of its neighbors' heat."
I enjoyed the slide about interactivity (online) vs. emotion (tv) because Steve is really in a position to KNOW what he's talking about here:

Apple spends hundreds of millions on TV and I can't think of a more effective emotional TV campaign than the "there's an app for that" of late for iPhone.

This is another visionary product, IMO, and demands a singular platform - that's been one of the ongoing problems for CPM online is the breadth of formats - aggregators have done a good job standardizing some of the formats but nothing like this.
should i revise to iphones don't kill people?
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(I saw I got voted down and should explain)

I think the odds of failure at 50-80%, including my own company, and having a bunch of ready ways to re-deploy those people into other projects is good for EVERYONE -- the engineers can move to the most successful projects. If I worked on something for a year or two and it flopped, I'd love to go work at a startup I'd been following the whole time, rather than trying to find a regular job.

I think SFBA in general is basically an incubator/accelerator, if you've been involved in one startup even as an engineer. Formal accelerators help a lot more in places where most of the people who want to do a startup have NOT yet worked for one. College would be the best example.
All product demo videos should include a confused baby.
My take on Twitter owning the ecosystem
Another instance of their "clever"ness?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=just-how-sm...
dd-wrt maybe?
Their original stuff is just fantastic. I wish they'd do more original work. My favorite: Always in the Season:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il-OFaFzHQM
I find it pretty funny that you 'countered' Chang's opinion with the official state-run propaganda rags of Beijing. Those sources will never admit anything negative about China.
Check out 15:08 in the video. Sid Meier: best dressed man in video games?
And don't forget a contact Email if you want press. Phone numbers are great too (perhaps consider one of those Google Voice widgets if you are hesitant to put your number on the web). Oh, and if you don't want your logo butchered it's always good to have a ri-res version available somewhere.
The Taiwan Relations Act is not really binding on the U.S. since we shifted recognition. Not that there won't be strong Congressional pressure on the president to act on behalf of Taiwan. But there is no official military alliance between the U.S. and the ROC.
Unless of course you use common sense in which case you would have realized it before even visiting the site.
Perhaps may I suggest using QuickSilver or google quick search box with iTunes? QuickSilver lets you add global keyboard shortcuts and oodles of quick access to iTunes without ever going to iTunes.
The shortcuts don't seem to work in GMAIL
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these (I know, there were no dwarves in Beowulf, but it's still mythical).
THe app store gets a little wonky and one time the phone would not charge or power down the usual way. I had to hard reset it by going into settings - reset - reset network settings. Other then that no major issues.

I only have one iPhone, but I do have iTouch I use to test our app on.
My first CS course in college was Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. It was quite a thrill when we finally got our hand-written Scheme interpreter to run itself and give us a REPL prompt. Turtles all the way down.
The nature of that ideology makes it possible for you(or anyone) to make a distribution with closed drivers and even sell it, if the driver developers allow that.
No one is protecting the keys to the Linux kingdom, you could be one of those merciless tyrants if you really want to.
Thanks! Ping me, email in profile!
Thanks - a good find.

P.S: Love the profile blurb about being lost :-)
I never would have thought of making that parallel. Maybe because Windows PCs don't have the limited interaction/input options of a touchscreen phone, nor the limited system resources, making this an apples to oranges comparison?

Also, like others have said, if Microsoft did this, it probably wouldn't be a bad thing. Apple's not going to lose the Windows iPod/iPhone market, so they would capitulate, and we would likely end up with a much better Windows version of iTunes. Awesome.
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Change my credit card can believe in? You betcha
There's support, albiet indirectly, for flac in iTunes via Fluke.
http://blowintopieces.com/fluke/
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i really really really want dropbox to print to this. it would be nice to print from a phone or a browser, without having to open the actual file.
When I show up on a landing page, and there's no info about what the website/company actually (sin number one), I immediately look for an about page, and if I can't find one, I'm gone.
Fantastic. And make sure you take the time to give yourself some credit and submit your posts too, so that people discover what you've written...
I too am looking for a good discussion.

I think down votes are enough for shared awareness. It's not the perfect system because you can get downvoted simply for disagreeing with the community at large. However, being downvoted for having a different opinion isn't heavily stigmatized on HN. I rarely see a -4 rating on a comment that isn't trollish, off topic, or a joke that backfired.

Most social interaction has this kind of fuzziness. It works most of the time which is good enough.
Reached out to him, he emailed within minutes. Awesome.
Made some design changes (upgrades?)

What do you think now?
They actually don't beat analysts estimate.

Some analysts were way too bullish:

'April 15 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. reported first-quarter profit that fell short of some analysts’ estimates after it increased spending to enter new markets and maintain its lead in online search advertising.

The company’s first-quarter performance failed to meet expectations lifted when Intel Corp., a barometer of technology spending, forecast a surge in sales and record profit margins.'

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601010&sid=a3lW...
The bathroom thing is hilarious.

Seriously Classic.
I would expect Apple to adopt the same business model they use elsewhere. Lower volume, higher price. I doubt they want to compete head-to-head with AdMob selling low value ads to diet pill web sites and punch the monkey scams. More likely they'll have a short list of exclusive deals for mobile advertising mostly with Fortune 500 companies. Apple could have had AdMob if they wanted them. I get the feeling they were never fully committed to the idea of becoming a dumb ad aggregator and that's ultimately why they passed on AdMob. If we want to get really cynical maybe Apple never had any interest in AdMob. They simply wanted to provoke Google into making what looks like an anti-competitive acquisition. They know Google, like Microsoft, has the war chest to buy first and think later. Did Google really need AdMob? It seems to me Google could have murdered AdMob in-house with the leverage they already have with AdSense/AdWords. Maybe Apple's plan from the start was to go the premium route and just wanted to distract Google with what appeared to be a more direct threat.
Love this movie :)

Sadly I don't think it was released outside of the US. I wanted to buy a legit copy only its not available in Australia. Stupid dvd zoning. I had to get a US copy shipped here, rip it and strip of the zone encoding just to be able to watch it on a dvd player. Talk about making it hard for people to give you money.
I think the question will be whether it's ethical to start a game that commonly ends in mass starvation, riots inspired by the rotting corpses of one's closest friends, and sometimes even running out of booze.
Is there a good writeup anywhere about how those compare? Which should I try out first?
An email only has sufficient information to gauge the future value of some startup if that email has been sent back in time from the future. Preferably it is still smoking and glowing blue and placed in your hands directly by Christopher Lloyd himself.
A recruiter from Ning contacted me on either Tuesday or Wednesday. Although obviously my situation doesn't compare to yours, it sure is nice of the company to keep trying to hire when the upper echelons knew damn well they were going to lay a ton of people off.
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Something like pingdom is exactly what I was looking for. I'm loosely familiar with such services, but never given one a shot myself - so I really don't know which ones are considered the best.
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The whole documentary and Apple's approach to design can be summed up in this one sentence Ive makes: "..that's quite obsessive isn't it?"
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Of course not - that's exactly the point. They can be relied on to parrot the official line exactly.

So if the official sources are saying that increasing domestic demand in China is a priority, then it probably reflects official policy.

(There may be exceptions to this, but exceptions demand some evidence and I don't see _any_ evidence at all in the original post)
Common sense? That's being challenged everyday by news you read on this site.

Reading the comments on this page would lead you to think that many believe the headline.
I was hoping for someone who actually tries to sleep somewhere different every night. Reminds me of a friend who tries to never order the same thing twice at any restaurant. Doesn't take too long before that becomes difficult, but any time he goes to a restaurant that has something he hasn't tried, he orders that. I was always impressed with that approach to life.
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I'm not sure if this is true, but I was told that it was because Cadabra sounds too much like "cadaver".
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Check the option; you can disable some site. If I remember well, disabling gmail is given in example. And, Gmail already has some kind of vim shortcut.. you might want to disable them if you like the chrome version better.
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Awesome, finally a place I get to tell you guys about when I banished iTunes from my house, in a fit of rage.

Who's dumbass idea was it to put rounded corners on the iTunes window when it is maximized? What a wonderful feature, being able to close the window BEHIND iTunes, jackasses. I don't actually look for the close button, Apple, I just push my mouse forward and right, then click.

So, I push my mouse forward and right then click, then see a pop-up asking to "save changes to my document." In a split, reactionary, second I decided not to save the changes to what I thought was iTunes, not my fucking WORK.

I uninstalled iTunes from all my computers, then bought Media Monkey.
You're right, though I think the implementations differ in that Wolfire uses skeletons made of bones (line segments) and Pixar uses a polygonal cage mesh as the skeleton. It is quite possible that if you view the cage mesh as the 3D extrusion of a Wolfire-style skeleton, the results are exactly equivalent, but I'd have to think about it more.

OT: what are the pros/cons of the two character modeling approaches (cage vs. skeleton)?
No one knew anything until this morning. If the change of CEO a month ago is any indication, my own manager probably didn't find out until late last night.

The entire recruiting team was laid off today, for what it's worth.
iTunes for Mac is only adequate for music (a.k.a. yesterday's use case), and plenty of other players work very well for music too. In comparison, most people still don't have hard disks big enough to fit their entire movie collections, which is today's new use case for iTunes, and the only current way to push movies onto new-gen Apple devices.

I have an iPhone and enjoy it, but I've only played a movie on it once or twice in the time I've owned it for this reason. This is true of most people I know with iPhones, and it will similarly be true for iPads. It's a glaring problem that Apple's doesn't seem interested in solving; they'd rather you re-purchase every DVD as a movie from their store, and then be locked in to their platform or else lose your content.
Yes, but they never have, even for apps they've removed from the store for violating their ToS. And for what it's worth, they've stated that they will only do that in case an actively malicious app somehow ends up on the store in the first place.
I'm another one of the 69 people laid off today -- I lasted a little longer, 4 months.

My condolences to you jemfinch, btw, and anyone else from Ning lurking on Hacker News. Not the best day for any of us.

For those who might be recruiting, I am also looking for new opportunities, especially in the Seattle area. I see myself as very much a generalist, both in the sense of technologies and languages -- and being able to pick up new ones quickly--, and in the sense of being able to act as other parts of an engineering staff (sysadmin, qa, etc.) when called upon. If you want more details, feel free to contact me -- details in profile.
The Linode Library may be of interest to you as well:
http://library.linode.com/
Why would you put FLACs on a portable device without transcoding them first? Do you have TBs of room on your player? (My collection is currently 300GB of average-quality MP3s, and growing...)
> Of course, they can take all the hate from developers because the mindless Apple legions will still love them.

So true.
Is it really possible to have people vote on quality?

I've noticed most people don't understand how to be objective. Worse still is unless you are familiar with excellence you will be very poor at judging it. Perhaps this is because of differing measures of excellence people use or the result of ignorance.

I think a system that accepts fuzziness in measurement would be better than one that tries to be exact.
Allow people to install rejected apps, just make it tiny bit more difficult.

I'd argue they already have. Jailbreaking the iPhone is trivial enough that anyone can do so if they desire rejected or non-AppStore applications.
Yes they are the same, but the harmonic function formulation seems a bit more more appealing because it focuses on the end result as opposed to the process.
Looks like they spent none of their $120MM on that UI. That is rediculous, these VC's must be wildly out of touch.