skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a little discussion at http://physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=2666411 where someone going by the name "Vanadium 50", apparently a moderator there, says:

"You're seeing some bad, bad reporting here. [...] I don't have access to the latest Hawkins paper, but what he does not do is look at a particular feature (e.g. a SN light curve) and show it does not appear more slowly in distant QSO's, but he lumps together all optical variations, does a Fourier transform and shows that the ensemble appears independent of distance. This is a much more complicated measurement, and it is much more difficult to interpret easily. [...] Any sort of one line conclusion like "QSOs don't exhibit time dilation" is oversimplistic."

This, plus my impression that every time I've seen a PhysOrg link on HN it's been sensationalized at best, inclines me to wait for more detailed information from more obviously-reliable sources before jumping to any conclusions.
Apple Removes 'Rate on Delete' for Apps in iPhone 4
the IDE isn't fantastic, but Flex is actually one of the nicer UI frameworks. This could get really interesting for developing "thick" clients.
http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/area-hollow.php

The navigation is in the top right...it's pretty badly designed. The charts themselves are very customizable though, so you can mimic almost any nice chart you've seen by tweaking.
Anecdotally at least I use an alternative non Adobe compiler to generate my SWF games. So for me the reach of the Flash player, and by extension the SWF format, is the most important thing.

I consider the development tools to be poor if you're primarily writing code (and this includes Flex), but they seem great for editing simple animations visually.
Earlier brief article by the same author: http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-4357/553/2/L97/fulltext . I don't know what's new in his latest; it seems to be qualitatively similar.
My guess: they get out of the office together and go do something fun?
> Yes, but a self-obsessed jerk who created truly great work.

That is certainly a popular notion. Funny how other good authors are also prolific authors.
Part of what makes Hacker News work is that it's a benign dictatorship. Sites that have curators work better than sites that don't. So there's some truth to what you're saying.

But many of the top posters on this site have no evident desire to work for (or, in my case, even be particularly respectful towards) Paul Graham. So I think you've missed the mark, too.
The U.S. society goes further, discouraging patients from getting tested or seeking surgical treatment. Rather, it continues to promote drug treatments used to alleviate symptoms, which include corticosteroids, chemotherapy agents and pain medication.

I can see not seeking surgical treatment, but getting tested does no harm, helps investigate this avenue of treatment, and gives the patient more information. And recommending pharmaceuticals... well, I've got a knee-jerk reaction to that.
If Joel Spolsky cut ties with Business of Software, it too might die. But most of the people who contribute there don't want to work for Fog Creek.
Event listeners would be much easier too. You can just add them to svg child nodes instead of doing your own logic on a canvas.
There's a lot of good stuff here--notably the (finally) decent support for literal sets, arrays, and maps in JSON style... but most importantly, closures! I am so sick and tired of creating one-off anonymous classes just to pass a function around. Unfortunately you can only use them with final variables. Ah, well...

http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/closures

http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/closures
Looks like officially, it's officially the same as ours. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/biz/international-busines...

As for when/if Armegeddon will hit, everything will be good, until it's not. It will be a non-linear event. Something will happen, somewhere, that will cause a cascade of fast moving events, and then you're in a bread line.

You're standing on the edge of a cliff, in a high wind. Sure, you're still fine now, and you may be fine forever. But when you stand on cliffs in high wind, things can happen. I could throw a rock at you. Greece could get bailed out, leading to me-too bail out demands from other countries, leading to euro devaluation, leading to ... Who knows? It's too early for anybody to be getting cocky that it's all over.
This article seems to make the claim that rewriting the work of others is somehow not plagiarism. Interesting.
They should have done it for the benefit of who? They had fantastic success locking everyone into the swf format. Sold a ton of very highly priced software. Got acquired by Adobe, probably in no small part due to this lock in.

I'm completely in favour of web openness, and I'm personally stung by the SWF monopoly, but I find the assertion that Macromedia should have given up a huge part of their business advantage just to help general web openness ridiculous.
Fritos and YouTube, no. Chicken McNuggets and Call of Duty, yes:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships...
Fortune Favors the Brave
tptacek mentioned http://instiki.org which has all your features. It's a good wiki if you're happy with a Ruby solution, and Markdown/Textile formatting is native.

A PHP-solution is PmWiki, and getting Markdown support via plugin is outlined here: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/MarkdownMarkupExtension
I think it will be helpful if you could point out why you have a problem with that statement and why that statement alone negates the whole article.

This is not the first time that everyone is screaming about the doom and gloom of US economy and its standing in the world, it happens once in almost every decade. While I don't agree with the author's choice of hyperbolic words but I don't see any reason why USA can't get back to its way of dominating the world economy.

I am not an economist so I could be wrong. But I also know that economic predictions by some of the best economists in the world has been as good your local whether channel guy. So when they all cry about how US is going down in flames, it makes be a little happy knowing that how often they are wrong about everything.
I don't think you can call these antipatterns. It's just a classic example of writing one language in another language. Ironically though, the author happens to use a closure in the examples 3C and 3D. Har har.

While closures and objects have something in common (both can, for example, store state) they're of quite different mindsets. And you can't easily mix mindsets because such mindsets are the terms in which the programmer thinks in. Try writing a program both in Java-mindset and in Haskell-mindset in the same source file of Java, Haskell, or C.

There's code where using objects instead of closures would look abhorring and there's code where using closures would look totally out of the place. There's also a related koan that was just referred on HN a few days ago.
USA is bankrupt! Listen to Peter Schiff, check his predictions and how well they almost all came true. Now it's time for the final one. Dollar collapse! This whole crisis will make Great Depression look like walk in the park. Expect riots like in Greece. No doubt about it!
I think they go play kickball if I remember correctly from their interview w JL.
(a) Apple was never in my recollection a huge gravitational force for engineering talent. Google was, almost from day one. I don't see what's changed.

(b) There are high-profile people who have taken positions at Apple recently.
Flash isn't bitmap-based though. SVG is more like Flash in so many more ways that would make the implementation easier and better (scalability, for example).
It looks to me like this only exports animation, which I can certainly see how it might be useful, but isn't really that exciting. The menu they ran the export from is all JSFL scripts (a way of automating operations in the Flash IDE to a certain extent) so they're probably just analysing the timeline and exporting the shape and animation data as JS.

I don't expect to see any kind of Actionscript combined export any time soon though, performance is too much of a hurdle in the near future.
"an impressive array" is quite different from being able to go somewhere and know it will just be there. Also, you don't have to worry about storing everything in your limited space, and there is also a cultural aspect. TechShop is the maker equivalent of a Gym. You could also buy a decent set of freeweights for the cost of a gym membership.
MIT researchers harness viruses to split water
"mustaches on Monday"

What about those of us who have a mustache every day?
For all the talk about the "Great Recession", most of the statistics I've seen show that the recession of the early 1980s was as bad if not worse. So it does seem as if this downturn has been somewhat oversold, perhaps because the drama surrounding it was on a scale not seen since the 1930s. That seems reason enough to predict that the recovery will be faster than many people are expecting. The real question is more long-term. Will the structural problems that created the crisis be addressed or will the foundation continue to rot?
Even 360s are terrible the higher up you get in the company. Big Big Boss (BBB) will not fire Big Boss (BB) no matter how many subordinates say BB is bad because in many cases BB is doing BBB's dirty work.

In flatter corporate structures, it's very likely that BB is the founder/owner/board member and so they're not going to go no matter what the feedback is.

In those situations: kiss ass or quit.
That statement alone doesn't negate the article. That statement alone IS the whole article. The rest of the article has no substance. Read it again if you don't believe me.

As for me picking apart those data points, it wouldn't be interesting. Even if you agree that all is golden here in Eden, you hopefully are aware of the argument of those who say it's not. For me to state it again is boring. If you really don't know, get googling!
How to Overclock CPUs and RAM
This is only true if you have

a) a cure for cancer
b) a solution for world peace

For any other idea, there's execution.
> However, I also think Apple is doing the right thing by banning "meta-platforms" from the App store.

But didn't Apple also ban writing apps in, say, Haskell and all other non-C-family languages that compile to machine code? Writing in a language like that is no more a "meta-platform" than Objective-C itself is.
1.) The Dow Jones industrial average, hovering near 11,000, is up 70 percent in the past year - Low volume trading (most people have already bailed out of stock market), mainly between JPM and GS computers (look at how much C and BA comprises of the trading volume).

2.) Auto sales in the first quarter were up 16 percent from 2009. - Off 50% lows in 2008. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pMscxxELHEg/S410LoDr97I/AAAAAAAAHp.... That's on top of massive deals from Toyota and the rest.

3.) The economy added 162,000 jobs in March, including 17,000 in manufacturing. - 200,000 of those jobs were from Census.

4.) The dollar has gained strength - Because it is the reserve currency, it will be the last to fall. All currency races to the bottom

Mainstream medias are for propagandas. Look elsewhere for real informations (calculatedriskblog.com, zerohedge.com, mish's, etc)
Hmmm, your prose comes off sarcastic, but your username implies you're serious... Ahh, a 4 minute old account.

Why was it worth it to go to that effort?
Dev phone works fine as a personal phone from what I've read if your network is supported.
I have been using this myself, as an alternative to a customer's project that has too many features that I don't need.
Were Confederate soldiers terrorists?
I'll comment on them :)

Seriously I don't mean to be doom and gloom here but his points aren't all that valid.

The Dow is up 70% but it was down even more. We fell from 14,093 and are only up to 10,997. Beyond that stocks are really just the combined value of U.S. Corporations.
No one was claiming corporations were over valued 3 years ago. So the drop in stock values was really an over reaction based on the rest of the economy and values going back up is really just a correction of that over reaction not a sign of growth.

The jobs numbers are deceiving. Half were temporary work (Census or Farm related) which we're going to lose at the end of the year. Broad unemployment actually ticked up .1% in March.

The Dollar's value is increasing again but that's after a significant drop late last year. The dollar is still 6% lower than it was last year at this time.

American car company sales were actually below estimates. Toyota was the company that showed major growth (41%) and that was largely because they offered downright crazy incentives to draw in sales after their recent technical troubles

There are also factors they omitted...

Personal Bankruptcies were up 35% last month (the highest increase since the law was changed in 2005)

Earnings fell last month by $.02

Plus health care costs (and taxes for health care) are going to go up in the near term. That's not an argument for or against health care in that even Democrats admit they're pursuing a long term goal and that there will be some pain in the short term in order to do that. But that pain is going to hurt the economy by giving people less money to spend
We’re in a great global depression, and it’s only the beginning. Many countries are about to default (Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Japan, US, England, etc), and there are overcapacity/overprinting everywhere. The baby boomer generation, which constitutes the bulk of consumer segment, is retiring. Automation/computers are reducing jobs permanently.

My point? Build your business to be lean, and get ready for 15+ years of rough waters ahead.
"USA can't get back to its way of dominating the world economy."

Maybe becauze USA is financed by the China, Japan & Saudis. And they have their own problems so buying of US bonds right now is falling like a stone. When the rest of the world will stop throwing money on bankrupted USA then it's done. Technically speaking many US states have much worst fiscal situation that Greece. But Greece can't print money like USA, thats why to SHTF are coming earlier. But printing money never was a real solution to problems. If it was then Zimbabwe would be super power.

Go on youtube and find "Peter Schiff was right". There you have an economist who exactly predicted what happend. He even predicted the response of the US politcal class too this problems.
Why the U.S. recovery will be bigger, faster, and stronger than expected
the "gravitational sink" argument makes no sense. you could have said the same thing about microsoft 10 years ago, but look at what a difference 10 years has made.

silicon valley and the technology industry is a desert of shifting sand dunes. i remember telling my old man the same thing about microsoft, but he just told me to wait and see. he's an economist, and much smarter than me.
1. All user data captured by an application must be
for the sole use of that application only (like
the Facebook app for example). The use of location
based data for targeted advertising is strictly
prohibited

2. You may only send user data to a third party which
is specific to the services/functionality of your
application and also only if the user has given
consent. Example: User updates status on Twitter,
presses a “Send” button to confirm sending of said
tweet.

3. Sending device data to any third party for
analysis is now strictly prohibited. Think mobile
analysis services such as AdMob here. Presumably
you can send this to yourself as the developer
though.

1 & 2 are pretty reasonable. 3 makes sense given iAd.
Errr...:

The DJIA might be in a bubble ... look at the history of it after the 1929 crash, it doesn't just go straight down.

Things were perceived to be very bad in 1Q09 ... a small increase in auto sales a year later means little.

A snapshot of one month's job gains isn't worth much. From vague memory, please correct, we've got something like an overhand of 6-8 million workers reflected in U-6 who are trying to get back to U-3 (the unemployment rate that everyone reports, that's currently at 9.7%). The economy has to add something like 1.8 million jobs every year just to keep even with the new entrants in the job force. If my memory of that figure is correct, if we maintained the March rate we'd continue to just stay afloat, without decreasing any of the unemployment figures. ADDED: I forgot about the once in a decade Census jobs boom.

The dollar can do well as a safe haven if things are not so good elsewhere. Greece/the Eurozone, the tottering U.K., Iran (and all the oil it ships) ... bad news abroad is good news for us.

Although ... just how big is the world's appetite for US government debt?

Anyway, it's very thin gruel to be saying we're in a serious recovery, at best I'd say it looks like an L.
Startups review by you http://web2nation.posterous.com/
Simple as that, I noticed that Techcrunch's hasn't been writing about startup launches for who knows when, so I created a posterous for anyone who had just launched a webapp, mobile app or anything interesting to send over your own review of what it's all about.

The posterous site is set to anyone can post but is miderated, so to submit your startups, web apps, mobile apps launches just send your review to post@web2nation.posterous.com.
Ask HN: Could you help me improve my site?
http://debate-zone.com

Any design/UX or features tips would be great.

I just want to make sure there's no blatant bugs before my ad runs on reddit Thursday.

Some background: Built with Ruby on Rails 2.1 (upgraded to 2.3, I think), basically added small features over the course of 6 months, and I've tried to keep a minimalistic design.

Thanks.
Not that large - most iPhone devs are poor and value there time less than money. But I think if you move away from "library" towards "I will solve your problem around X so you don't even have to think about it" there will be more people like me willing to pay. I didn't write my own analytics because I enjoy doing it - I needed the data but I didn't want to give up all my data to admob/mobclix etc to party on, and I wanted data to be high-granular.

Here is one guy selling stuff: http://www.drobnik.com/touch/ I planning to buy his calendar control because Apple can't be arsed to give me theirs and I don't want to spend weeks writing my own.
Good article from Nov. 20, 2009.
Astrology betting big on Social Networking booster
Quick question: should I remove the small Google ad so early-adopters aren't scared off, and then place it back in later?
Flash is vector based for the most part, but a few versions back they added objects that deal with bitmaps the traditional way, it works pretty well. But on the other hand, why bother with the vector stage at all? The image will have to be rasterised before being displayed anyway, so what difference does it make whether you have a bitmap surface you can draw bezier curves on, or a vector environment that ends up as a bitmap?

An aside, bizzarely I find it's often faster to redraw some graphics "vector style" (calling the lineTo/bezierCurveTo etc methods again) on canvas than it is to use drawImage and use a cached version of the same graphics.
I found the answer in http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/FXG+1.0+Spe.... The HTML5 Canvas support is just a Javascript-based interpreter for these FXG files, as you can see when they zoom in on the source code in the video.:

"When initial work on an XML-based graphics interchange format began, the natural first thought was to use SVG. However, there are key differences between SVG and Flash Player's graphics capabilities. These include core differences in SVG and Flash's rendering model with regards to filters, transforms and text. Additionally, the interchange format needed to be able to support future Flash Player features, which would not necessarily map to SVG features. As such, the decision was made to go with a new interchange format, FXG, instead of having a non-standard implementation of SVG. FXG does borrow from SVG whenever possible.

"It is important to note that this specification follows much of the SVG specification format organization as well as copying related concept prose. The SVG specification is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/.
I am a developer who had been working on such a cross-distro installation system. www.autopackage.org. You wouldn't believe the issues we had encountered. There were technical challenges but they pale in comparison to the resistance we got from distro makers and veteran users. The resistance arguments boil down to (from what I can remember):

- Cross-distro installation is only useful for closed source software.

- apt/yum/$DISTRO_SPECIFIC_PACKAGING_TOOL is the ultimate packaging tool, everything else is evil and can break the system.

- Different distros should be regarded as entirely different operating systems and hence shouldn't need to be compatible.

Until the community accepts the notion of a cross-distro installation system, things look very bleak indeed.
In that one, G. van Rossum drops in to make a suggestion in the comments ...

Both posts are worth the time.

P.S.
some people do not realize that a sizeable part of the core Python developers were/are C++ coders who wanted some sanity (or so I gathered about 8 years ago, when facing the same problem ;-).
Let's see how April goes. If April stands on March figures and then May gets even better figures (another spike) it will be safe that some sort of _migration_ is happening and not just the usual market evolution
Nope, but I didn't expect the Soviet Union to collapse either.
Users who aren't tech savvy don't install their own operating systems. Unless you're going to set everything up for them, you shouldn't be recommending Ubuntu to people who aren't tech savvy in the first place.
Ask HN: Is there a "dead" links page for HN?
Is there a page on HN that has all the killed threads listed in one place?
My head just exploded.
Well, I have admitted to selfish motivation. If Apple did an about-face and encouraged flash development I would like it too because I could better reach my target customers. In that sense I like clarity of any kind over uncertainty that was there a week ago.

I guess my point really is that as circumstances change I will find best way to use them to my advantage by changing what and how I do things. People who can't change some/any of that will obviously suffer, but I don't see why I should care about them.

The only bad things are when they change too fast, so I appreciate warning shots so I can maneuver out of the way in time. This time Apple gave us two months after a hard warning, and if they stay consistent with timing I'm fine with that too.
Well I'm on my Mac right now and I can't get my Epson printer to work. Last time I wasted 30 minutes on it, so ever since that time I boot up Linux every time I want to print something.

Ditto for scanning. I can't find good scanning software for OS X that doesn't suck or costs a lot of money. (Image Capture is too primitive, I want something like XSane) So I boot Linux every time I want to scan something.
I lived through the late '70s-early '80s recession and this one is very different in nature and which stage of the game we're in. It's more like the early '70s or maybe earlier than that (I forget just when LBJ dragged down the economy).

(Not that they were equal in magnitude, just that I think we're at an early part of what's going to be a many years process ... and that we're not going in the right direction yet.)