skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enthusiasm and honesty go a long way. The most important trait to exhibit would be confidence. Luckily, creating confidence is easy, you just fake it until it catches on. Sure, you can read more in-depth articles about "finding things you like about yourself" and "positive mantras", but if you just go out intending to appear confident, you will in fact become confident. I pay a lot of attention to the way that people speak. If you stutter and say "um" or "uh" a lot, you will sound unimpressive regardless of the topic.

The other comments in this thread have the books nailed down. "How to win friends and influence people" and "Influence" are largely considered the best books on the topic. I'm very interested in body language which is very related. If you force yourself to stand confidently, you'll feel it as well the others around you. I found "What Every BODY is Saying" a lot of fun although it's not quite as full of information.
Apple against the world
It might be that Google Wave thing.
/Flash did not obtain its dominance by coming installed with IE./

That's exactly how Flash won its dominance. It was installed by the PC manufacturers (HP, Apple, Dell, &c) into IE5 and IE6 until it had overwhelming market presence.

Adding video support later on cemented the position, but it was strippers and steaks (for HP, Dell, Apple, &c execs) that won Flash its position.
Facebook in talks to add a "panic button"
HTML5 vs. Flash / Open Letter To Adobe
What does it do with encrypted pages and logins?
Any idea if there's any advantage to using Fluid in OSX over this approach? Always happy to have one less application installed, and I'm finding myself in Chrome more often than Safari these days.
Your analogy of meditation being like riding into the woods is great. Its only flaw, however, is in the assertion that both meditation and psychedelic experience arrive at the same mental state. Minus that, likening meditation to progressive, incremental bicycle trips into the forest is accurate and sets a person up wonderfully to begin the discipline.

Psychedelic drugs provide an experience of absorption like a trance. When one is absorbed in such a state, it's the first direct experience of a sense of self that is immaterial (but finite). Buddhist meditation (samadhi or "right concentration" in the Noble Eightfold Path) goes very far beyond that and into very different states of consciousness.

Gil Fronsdal is a Stanford Ph.D who teaches clearly, logically, and in stepwise progression. You can learn here:

http://www.audiodharma.org/talks-intromed.html

If you're interested in empirical studies of samadhi, Dr. James Austin published a book called "Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness" from MIT press.

I hope this helps alleviate your panic and brings you clarity and harmony of mind.
You honestly can't blame Adobe for wanting to bring suit. After all, if they win, they might get Flash on the iPhone; if they lose, they end up essentially no worse off than they are now. I'd like to see how this plays out just for curiosity's sake, myself.
/animosity between google and apple enough to stifle development?/

Worse, will it keep us all under Microsoft's thumb?
Also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1221668
Could someone explain how switching between apps looks instant.... how is that done if the app is not running in the background?
Considering the amount of bandwidth Google spends on streaming YouTube content, this move is far from altruistic. The more viewers adopt a bandwidth-superior format, the less terabytes of data to stream, the less the cost of running YouTube.

While I'm not arguing with the "less bandwidth is good" argument, I think it's a very common misconception that the amount of bandwidth YouTube uses is a significant financial strain on Google.

For example, on the YouTube blog Google have said:

The truth is that all our infrastructure is built from scratch, which means models that use standard industry pricing are too high when it comes to bandwidth and similar costs. We are at a point where growth is definitely good for our bottom line, not bad.
http://ytbizblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/youtube-myth-busting.h...

Wired wrote a piece where they interviewed a network analyst who thinks Google's bandwidth bill is close to zero:

"I think Google’s transit costs are close to zero," said Craig Labovitz, the chief scientist for Arbor Networks and a longtime internet researcher. Arbor Networks, which sells network monitoring equipment used by about 70 percent of the net’s ISPs, likely knows more about the net’s ebbs and flows than anyone outside of the National Security Agency.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/youtube-bandwidth/
Agree with much of what you've said. I think opera have nailed the tab switching UI, its so much quicker to use then safari.

Couple of things I dont like

- They've implemented their own copy/paste controls. I guess this is nessesary due to the 'long click' for opening new tabs etc, but its kind of annoying.

- Not really Opera's fault but because of the new useragent, alot of sites deliver the 'normal' mobile version of their site instead of the iphone version I'm used to (usually much prettier).
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In short: don't add an integer to a pointer and expect reliable results.

Seriously? In 2010? We're still adding pointers to integers instead of working with actual data structures?
That very page has been updated, saying Opera Mini has been approved.

"Status update: Opera Mini for iPhone was officially approved by Apple on April 12 at 20:56:00 UTC"
So Opera Mini for rapid access to the read-only web, Safari for deep access to the read/write web.

Having the right tool for the job: why "duplication of functionality" is a good thing.
I hear where you're coming from here.

At True/Slant, Contributors are absolutely central to what we are. I'm not sure if it's just nomenclature - and perhaps the differences between our "contribs" and NewsTilt's "clients" will be more apparent once you've launched. I can say, though, that we work our asses off for our contributors.

When we design, it's with Contribs in front-of-mind. When we build new tools and features, their interactions are foremost. We recruit each of them personally and provide advertising, distribution, SEO and other services on top of a dead-simple self-publishing platform.

As I said, (above and in another comment below), our offerings are going to be different from one another as we're different teams with different sets of goals and experience. I'm very interested in what NewsTilt is bringing to the game - we both seem interested in keeping journalism thriving.

Congrats on your launch, on your backing from YC and for your pre-launch piece on TechCrunch. All the best to you and your team.
Well, I guess everyone is hoping that if the outcry is severe enough, Apple will take it out of the agreement. We can be pretty certain that if there is no backlash, the clause will definitely stay.
Play "Colossal Cave Adventure" via Voice Commands
A friend of mine has put this site up - it's the old Colossal Cave Adventure driven via speech recognition. I tried it over Skype and it worked fairly well - interesting concept.
Facebook had previously said it would not install a "panic button" on its
main pages for users to report suspected paedophiles ... Mr Gamble said
he could not understand why Facebook would not agree to adopt the button
on every page as it was a free way to "help save some children".

Yeah, because a "tell the cops this user is a paedophile" button on every page sounds totally reasonable. Perhaps it'll look nice alongside "report user as terrorist" and "accuse user of dealing drugs" buttons.
On proggit, we just found that even techical, internet savvy users can be suckered in by this.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bpy7h/think_you...

1 in 5 attempted to sign in. The results are hardly scientific, but the comments are full of users who were fooled.
You should totally charge more. Your portfolio is impressive!
What I love about this story is that it demonstrates the grit and determination of a guy to get his dream alive despite having no financial cushion to do it from.

I actually get sick and tired of hearing the mantras of "don't take funding, its best to bootstrap" from people who have so much money it doesn't even enter their thoughts that people like this guy are scraping just to get by.

I think there are issues with using freelance work to cover a startup - but if it is the only option you got then you take it.

I certainly bet he'll worker harder then the many founders I have known who's company was essentially floated from Daddy's money or the trust fund, etc.
/the ban on interpreters is very much aimed at options that allow an end user to download and run scripts/

That's why 3.3.2 used to prohibit only apps that download and run scripts. Now it prohibits apps that download or run scripts. So that should take care of those folks polluting the iPhone with the Lua.
Plus bonus points for new Thriller version. Next time do also some dancing please :-)
What is the value proposition of YourAM?
Well he was my hero growing up so this is at least relevant to me.

Just to put in perspective, Gagarin was _the_ superhero of every boy in ex-Soviet Union. It wasn't someone like Brittney Spears or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a real human being who flew into space. If you can discard all the communist propaganda and other party bullshit, it is pretty cool to have a real cosmonaut as your hero growing up instead of a fictional character or just an actor.
Good rule of thumb: drugs are bad. Don't mess with them.

Exceptions: some aren't so bad, like caffeine or aspirin or wine. But always use in moderation.
Definitely, the accompaniment was a great idea. Also, who doesn't like zombies?
As long as your definition is consistent, I rather doubt it matters, for this purpose, whether acquaintances are included.
(Odd, in all the HTML5 video debates on HN, I hadn't heard that argument from Theora supporters before.) Most of the hardware decoders in smartphones are programmable DSPs; e.g. TI's OMAP3 family. But there still are plenty of chips out there that use fixed-function h.264 decoders, e.g. TI's DaVinci family. The fixed-function ones are smaller, cheaper, and probably lower power.
holy sh*t. that's amazing.
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What are plans for iPad version? Would love tabs for the browser.
This is just a roundabout way to brag to the world that your ex-girlfriend has resorted to Internet dating, isn't it?
I grew up in Kiev, and went to a primary school named for Yuri Gagarin. In most ways, it didn't really matter (any more than the eponym of any elementary school does); but for what it's worth, yeah, it was pretty cool to once in a while reflect on the grandness of space travel, and to have your school named for a cosmonaut rather than, say, a politician.
I don't think anyone is arguing that this is not a good short-term business decision for apple.

What everyone is furious about is the complete lack of respect for the platform's developers.

Yes, Apple has every right to do that if they want, and developers have every right to get furious about it too.
Looks like google fixed this one.
Beautify MySpace with Flash banner
This article will be introduce a way to beautify your MySpace website. It is make a cool Flash banner and upload to the top of MySpace.
This is well done, though I was also befuddled at first by the spinners on hover.

See also:

http://www.colorschemegenerator.com/index-black.htm

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/ - Generate a palette from an image
It's pretty easy to explain actually. There's a few "hubs" that have a large number of friends (since it's a power-law, the number of hubs will be relatively large) and that, in aggregate, are connected to everyone.

On the other hand, "normal joes" despite only having a few friends are also likely to be connected to these hubs thus biasing their own averages.

As a simple example, consider websites. The websites you link to likely have more links pointing to them than your site does, since everybody links to the likes of CNN, google, etc and "nobody" (comparatively) links to you.

You can get a better (and more rigorous) explanation here: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0209450
Well, it seems like Google can easily add the codec support to WebKit, in which case it would be hard for Apple not to support it -- they'd have to explicitly disable that code. That seems unlikely given that Apple has really been pushing HTML5 forward, and it's no work from them for a cool feature.

Obviously getting Microsoft to add codec support is another issue altogether, but it seems plausible that it could be done. Since Google would own all of the IP, they can sign some patent contract with Microsoft promising that yes, this really is open, and no, they won't ever sue Microsoft over implementing the standard. If that were the case it would make the VP8 codec the most promising among the alternatives for Microsoft, since it would be free and its IP status would be certain and guaranteed. It seems like the question hinges on whether or not Microsoft plans to add <video> support at all, and since they've made vague claims supporting HTML5 and these new fangled web standards, it seems plausible that some version of Internet Explorer could support the codec in the future (even if it takes them a while).
> users' freedom to get information where they like

As far as I can tell users already had that freedom without Reddit. In fact, as a link aggregator, the most Reddit could be said to have added was a directory of that freedom. Such directories were already well and alive on sites like Digg and Slashdot (in different forms, to be sure). It's hard to see what about that is disruptive.

But, whatever, it's just a slogan.
You don't respect any women at all because some of them like to have sex, and can sometimes be convinced to have sex with men who flirt well? And there are no other reasons to respect any women? I can't imagine writing off an entire gender.
I have been paid by Eric as well.
German tablet PC sets out to rival Apple's iPad
H1b financial requirements as a startup company
We're a startup company, seed funded, post users, pre revenue. We want to hire a H1B visa employee currently at another company in the US. meets all the requirements of a special occupation. any advice on what we need in the bank to get approved as an H1B sponsor?
Working with TextMate: April 2010 Edition
Then again, as the OP has stated, some of the most disruptive technologies (such as Google and the iPod) did not set out to be disruptive. Their disruptiveness was merely a side effect of executing really well on incremental improvement. As for having changing the world as a goal, no disrespect intended to the Reddit guys, but it hasn't disrupted or changed the world of anyone I know who isn't in tech. By way of comparison, Hacker News itself has changed my world way more than Reddit.

Going off on a tangent, how often do people really want the world changed? Every time, or even one percent of the time, an ambitious startup is founded seems a tad excessive to me.
On2 has press claiming that VP8 is "40% less complex" than H.264, which presumably means that it can be decoded more efficiently than H.264 by some benchmark or another. There's probably some sort of marketing spin to this, but if it's true that VP8 is as efficient or more so than H.264, then Google opening up the IP to write VP8 decodes would probably mean that a lot of hardware vendors would start writing support for it.
They solved this problem by completely removing editing of CSS.
No, I don't think thats what he meant.

Your earlier comment seemed to indicate (and I believe you have clarified it below in this thread) that if there's a valid business case for Rails doing something, then maybe that business case is valid for the iPhone OS as well.

I don't believe that comparison holds because

a) refusal to add new features is not the same as tightening the terms of service.

The equivalent would be to release a new version of rails that prevented (by technical or legal means) using any 3rd party ruby packages that are not approved by dhh.

b) Even if dhh did something like this, one could clone rails and be on their way. So the effects of this new policy are somewhat mitigated by the fact that the code is Free.
When hovered, then clicked in Opera:

opera:illegal-url-24

Error!

Invalid URL

The URL http://www.youtube.com⁄bad-site.com/something_else contains characters that are not valid in the location they are found.

The reason for their presence may be a mistyped URL, but the URL may also be an attempt to trick you into visiting a Web site which you might mistake for a site you trust.
This author is really good at analogies.
They killed "shake the baby", they didn't kill iFart. You try figuring out where to draw the line. But there is no doubt that they are culling apps for their content; "weeding" so to speak.

With 3.3.1 Apple is trying to control the overal UX. They can't reject bad music from the iTunes Store, but they can enforce basic encoding standards, so the music doesn't sound like crap for reasons other than the artistic content.

When they removed the "sexy" apps they were using a rule that could be made specific and enforced consistently. The picked adult content because of the peculiar standards that humans (and especially Americans) have when it comes to sex.

Or maybe it's really difficult to phrase a definition for "college humor".
I guess it'll only take time to see which one of us is right. Still, I assert that anyone with half a brain will realize that Unity3D will be unaffected by this move.
I thought this was going to be about the Alice online store:

http://alice.com/
Broadband change agent: Senator Scott Ludlam
Basically, if there's a group of people out there with one friend, chances are you're not that friend.
I did (ugh). -14 ... well, I'm determined to change what I can of my life (no, I'm not going to wear a wig :P )

(handy link in case you have no idea what we're talking about: http://roissy.wordpress.com/dating-market-value-test-for-men... )
Their solution is not undefined. After casting to uintptr_t, the value is an unsigned integer which has well-defined overflow behavior. The casting itself is okay too because uintptr_t is guaranteed to be able to hold a pointer.
Can VLC decode VP8? Is there a sample video anywhere that I could download?
Cassandra + Python "models" implementation
Dean Kamen's Touching Speech on New Arms for Amputees
Twitter: How To (Auto) Gain Followers & Influence Others (No One)
You are totally right, it had been a while since I had looked into this. I was confusing (blending together?) pyinex and IronPython. You are right, IronPython (and tons of other languages) all have access to the .Net libs, but pyinex is what I was thinking of. Apparently, though, it is not fully developed yet.

http://code.google.com/p/pyinex/
An implementation of Python in Common Lisp

Does that mean it only supports pure Python libraries?
No, it doesn’t really support JS. The very minimal JS support it has is implemented in an interesting fashion as well.

In any case, the software on the phone never sees any javascript code, only the proxy does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini
Deepika & Ranbir for Star Magazine April 2010 issue
Deepika and Ranbir the topic still continue and now yet another question pop-ups with the news that Is Deepika in Romance with Siddharth Mallya.
Did you read the full article? Doesn't seem like it, since "it requires a designer who's execution is better than average" is exactly what it says. And not just that, it also defines the criteria for using metaphors and textures.
I have used fusioncharts and found it to be pretty awesome. http://www.fusioncharts.com/
Atlassian: An update on our security breach
Coffee Inhalers turn out to be disappointing
It says: "To find your average reading time all you need is taking a two minute test reading into one of the texts in the app and you’re set."
"... Firstly, we made a big error. For this we are, of course, extremely sorry. The legacy customer database, with passwords stored in plain text, was a liability. Even though it wasn't active, it should have been deleted. There's no logical explanation for why it wasn't, other than as we moved off one project, and on to the next one, we dropped the ball and screwed up. ..."

Plain text for passwords fast, but not good.
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Enough to pay their wages for 1 year, or 2-3x that number to be comfortable.

Check prevailing wages here:
http://www.flcdatacenter.com/
". . . It's close to deadline. Something evil's lurking in the code. . . ."

I now have a theme song for my coding.
Adobe Flash used to control YouTube, and look where that ended up.
If you double-tap in Safari on iPhone, it will snap to columns which is useful when you want to read an article on a site and avoid the sidebar ads and navigation.
Does anyone know how Opera makes money from this version? Surely the bandwidth and computational costs of processing, compressing and sending out webpages would exceed revenue from Google search, right?
In my experience the best way to juggle freelancing and a startup is a to have at least one person who is only doing work on the startup. Additional people can split their time between the startup and freelancing but you need one person who is 100% dedicated to the startup. That of course means you need 2 or more people involved.

Enforce this to the point where the person/people doing freelance work don't discuss it while the dedicated startup person is in the room.

This ensures the startup is always moving ahead no matter how much freelance work is happening and that you have at least one person whose headspace isn't cluttered with freelance billing, deadlines etc. Even just knowing about a freelance project that is behind schedule or about a difficult client is a drain on the startup so keep it contained.
Clojure: Converting a Custom Collection to a Sequence
I use Justin.tv to stream my dachshunds while I'm at work. Same idea, different species: http://daswiener.com It works great, currently running the stream from a Linux host.
"If you get specific enough, everything is in a category of its own without any competition."

Of course. The problem the parent is describing is that the smartphone market, the person on the street with an iPhone, who doesn't have a clue what "objective see" is, has his/her own specific criteria for buying a phone, and so far they seem to line up with Apple's criteria pretty well.

Android can compete on features, price, openness, open-source, goat-teleport-count, or any other metric they can find. It won't be "real competition", in this sense, until ordinary people find reasons to actually buy it in large numbers.
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It is kind of amazing they did this, and the fact they didn't fix it when they could, speaks of negligence. I appreciate the honesty and the "No Bullshit" stance.

Still you have to wonder, Atlassian is building organizational communication tools, they are also using them their own development and business process, It gives pause when you consider the software they develop to actually do the job the are claiming it helps to achieve.

Isn't the whole point of this type of software, is to help stuff like that not happen by enhancing organizational communication?
So, should Steve Jobs respond, "Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition..."? I think the author ruined his letter at that point.
I've ran VS 2008 on my almost-six-year-old laptop (P-M Banias 1.4 GHz, 1 GB DDR 333, 80 GB 5400 rpm) and I would not hesitate to call the experience "comfortable". What are the specs on your netbook -- is it really that much worse?