skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The slanted lucite circle with the silicon ring on it. Apple Store has those also. Can't be long before we see someone selling that. Or something similar.
Maybe I'm not grokking your comment, but it seems to be saying that h.264 doesn't work well on mobile, which the various mobile webkit browsers would seems to contradict.

If instead you're saying that Ogg Theora is the future of Google, again I don't get it, since Google has defended their choice of h.264 for YouTube on technical/performance grounds several times.
I don't get it. The piece quotes Jobs as suggesting that Apple will exercise the same amount of censorship as a broadcast-TV network. The broadcast networks seem to be reasonably good at not allowing really extreme stuff without getting in trouble for first-amendment violations. (Controversies crop up every few years, like the recent one about abortion and the Super Bowl, but no one suggests that they pose an existential threat to the networks.) Why would this be any harder for Apple?

Given the failure to address this obvious question, I found the self-satisfied tone of the piece pretty obnoxious.

The question is, will it take all of Apple down with it?

The answer is, No, it won't.
Swayed by a pretty face
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He lost me at his extreme advocation for unit tests. I won't rehash the arguments against them here but the short story is that there is an additional burden in writing and maintaining them, and many of their benefits can be had through other means. I agree with the gist of the rest of his points, which were mostly about reducing complexity. Unfortunately, unit tests increase complexity. They aren't a free lunch.
Ask HN: A simple CMS for non-tech users?
I've been wondering, is there a simple CMS tool which could be used for basic Web sites for non-tech-savvy users?

I've been using Wordpress for such sites, but it has become a bit over-complex, with a lot of superfluous features which are quite confusing for non-techies.

Ideally, I'm looking for something that would have the following features:

a) Written in PHP and using SQLite database, for ease of deployment and portability.
b) Has basic content types: post, page and media (or images at least). Media must be simple and easy to place within the content.
c) Integrated contact form.
d) Simple and easily modified templating system, preferrably also in PHP.

Any ideas?
This is just another confusing, poorly written job posting.

The first section is titled "Position" which would make you think that it would be a description of the position being advertised. It's not. It reads like a list of requirements: "You have... You are... You are..." The second section actually makes sense, which is rare for a posting such as this. The third section is titled "Bonus Skills." I see a framework, an RDBMS, two languages, a technology, a skill, a service, another skill, specific knowledge, and a requirement. Nine bullet points: two actual skills.

Having experience with a language or a framework is not a skill, it is experience. Having knowledge of a language or framework is also not a skill. All the time companies take five minutes to write a job posting like this while perspective developers waste hours on resumes and cover letters. Most of the applications are thrown out because the company couldn't take a little bit longer to write a clearer job posting.
"While the easy problem looks at correlations between brain activity and different states of consciousness — something that the global workspace theory is beginning to elucidate — the elusive hard problem of how these patterns of electrical activity could ever give rise to our subjectivity may never be fully solved. Dr. Laureys’ correlation of DMN activity to patients in a coma or vegetative state starts to show how the electrical patterns of the brain relate to “conscious” and “pre-conscious” states according to the global workspace theory, but doesn’t really come close to accounting for the richness of our inner lives."

So, no.
I built something similar for a report generating project and only halfway through realized I was doing it "the nosql way".
Agreed. Clearly jobs which list a million required "skills" are useless. But ones that list no problems to fix are also bad IMO (this one lists "you are..." instead - which is worse).

At least give an idea of the problem domain being faced (scaling, for example)

All that will happen is you will get a load of people apply who aren't really suitable for what they had in mind...
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Confused. TV networks routinely reject advertisements for a variety of reasons.
Argument is undermined by the citation of the Xbox, a notoriously unreliable device, as a triumph for the reliability of closed systems.
Google's big enough to have multiple eggs in multiple baskets
I have not seen anything as simple as Wordpress. I am currently using it to create a website builder. It works pretty well.
My bad:

"Bing results should be appearing on the Yahoo! sites in the second half of 2010."

http://www.pandia.com/sew/1944-the-end-of-yahoo-search-bing-...
They could always come back and say, "while we certainly think you deserve a huge raise and I'd really love to give you one, we unfortunately can't for all kinds of complicated budget and HR reasons". I know I've had that happen to me.
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XSS Proof of concept. I've injected javascript into this page:

http://debate-zone.com/zones/15

Escape your inputs properly or suffer cookie stealing and session hijacking XSS attacks.
Another case of a zealot jumping on a phrase and taking it to the extreme. He demonstrates little experience of the advertising "reality" for a start.

This is getting boring now.

(speaking as a consumer editorialized ads are tentatively a good concept - keep the crud out please!)
Did we have to change the headline to fit in with the recent Apple theme on HN?

Actual title: "Google boosts open video by funding ARM Theora codec"

Also, while I'm criticizing the tile, 'schizophrenia' as a metaphor for being in two minds about something is both tasteless and inaccurate:

http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/5...
I'm skeptical of any argument that attempts to explain consciousness, because there is no clear definition of what people mean when they use the word consciousness.

I'm currently taking a class taught by Marvin Minksy at MIT known as Society of Mind (named after his book), in which he addresses consciousness as a suitcase word which people use to represent a million different things that we don't have words to properly explain. This makes sense to me.

I highly doubt there is or will ever be a single theory that correctly explains consciousness, but rather there will be lots of different reasons for why we experience different feelings and awareness's which sum to what we consider consciousness.
Canada makes that easy. Here you can only call yourself an engineer if you're actually an engineer because it's a protected term. (Like doctor.)

We don't have the ridiculousness of sanitation engineer and the like so if the job posting includes engineer in the title you can easily assume they expect a degree and a licence with a proper Canadian accreditation board.

And in case you were wondering, software engineering is only slightly different in that the majority of software engineers don't keep up their accreditation licence so usually when you see a Canadian software engineering posting they're looking for the degree but not necessarily the licence and will often accept non-engineers with a comp sci degree. It's rare that if the posting asks for software engineer that they'll accept someone without a degree. (Those positions are usually titled programmer, developer or programmer/analyst (which is the title you typically get from a CEGEP (kind of like community college in the US) degree.))
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Keep the ad, you can't make money if the ads aren't showing. Once you have some traffic however, you'll need to integrate your advertising better, as your CTR will be very low in it's current state.
Let's stay with your premise. Techshop is the maker equivalent of a centralized mainframe for developers. You could also buy a laptop for the cost of a membership.

My point is you need both. Home desktop (PC or machine shop) and access to equipment and resources you can't build or afford yourself. In the case of machine shops that means waterjets, plasma torches, cnc mills, etc. For developers it means inexpensive hardware borne of economies of scale and high quality open source software tools.

The reality is however, that the Techshop that opened in Beaverton, OR in 2009 has since closed.

In a sour economy you cancel the gym membership and buy a pair of running shoes.
The idea that iron buildup either causes or aggravates a bunch of other chronic diseases is one of those slightly-outside-the-mainstream theories that seems plausible to me and destined for increased acceptance.

Especially if you are of northern European descent, read up on 'hemochromatosis' -- and avoid 'iron-fortified' foods and vitamins unless medical testing shows a deficiency.
I could have put something on that page to steal your cookie contents. Would I have been able to do anything interesting with this interesting looking page as an admin user?

http://debate-zone.com/admin
This is purely design, but the site is lacking any sort of logo. In fact your page headline (and combining color scheme) almost makes the site look like one of those domain place-holder pages. I'd do up a quick logo, and then maybe hire someone to design you something better.
There's something about SEO like this that really bothers me. We should be designing and building websites for other human beings, not for robots and algorithms. However, search engines being the de facto way to find websites nowadays we'll continue down this slippery slope.
That is really how it should be. I don't want the alarm volume to be tied to the ringer volume.
This is great! I was not satisfied with any of the previous solutions.
Python-Webkit2png is the best solution - believe me I've been through them all, it's based off of Roland's script mentioned below and is on PyPI:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/webkit2png

http://github.com/AdamN/python-webkit2png

-Adam
H.264 isn't good for mobile, it's a brute force approach to better compression. At the same time it is the new de-facto standard so its natural deficiencies have been worked around by providing acceleration via DSP, GPU or video acceleration chips.
H.264 hardware decode acceleration has nothing to do with WebKit, Microsoft based mobile devices will not come with WebKit and yet they probably will play H.264. By the way Chrome supported Theora last time I used it.

Maybe this relates to On2 acquisition by Google (Theora is a derivation of On2 VP3) and has nothing to do about Apple or HTML5 altogether, sadly the Apple bashing or praising dichotomy does not let us think outside the box about the large tech world around us.

EDIT: I'm not sure if Zune can play H.264 videos or not, but I still think MS will make embedded devices with H.264 as the default video format as everyone else in the future.
But Apple does give you leeway. You can distribute up to 100 copies outside the App Store, and they're now adding the ability to distribute as many copies as you like to in-house users over WiFi:

http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/preview-iphone-os/

Such apps are not bound by 3.3.1.
What about arbitrary joins across a big (100M doc) database?
No, it does not make sense. Instead of trying to build a better service, Apple is just cutting the lifelines of competing services. That is the poster case of unfair competition.
I registered on this site so I could make this comment.

Anti-apple fanatics really need to their head out of their asses. Now I'm no fanboy, but anybody with half a brain can realize that the iAd platform will undoubtedly generate revenue - and probably lots of it.

The article claims that censorship will be iAd's downfall. Since when has censored advertising been the downfall (or even mild hinderance) for any company?

This author is very obnoxious... He needs to objectively assess the iAd platform. Perhaps then he'll realize that there is a gold mine worth of potential in iPhone advertising.
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Google AdSense seems to be doing OK.
python-webkit2png mentioned above does and it runs on xvfb which is extremely handy.
On your FAQ page you should include a link to your preferred method of contact where you ask people to hire you.
I like the double irony of a) how well that worked out for 'beleaguered' Apple the first time, and b) how many trace Apple's comeback amongst alpha-geeks as being down to Apple building on unix and its command line.
You have no first amendment rights against a private company (well, not in this case anyway).

>> Originally, the First Amendment only applied to the Congress. However, in the 20th century, the Supreme Court held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applies the First Amendment to each state, including any local government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_S...
I have heard repeatedly from multiple sources that the Census is only responsible for less than half that 200,000 so far, as they have not finished hiring. Therefore the other jobs are referred to as "permanent"...

http://www.texasinsider.org/?p=24813
A friend of mine got 2 bottles at Christmas. Which is special since you have to register for each bottle you buy and BewDog was only selling one per client. We just happened to have 2 friends in England before Christmas and they each bought him one.

The beer is fantastic.

It's flavourful and complex like a scotch. And you drink it like a scotch too since it's so heavy. If you're a fan of both beer and scotch you should definitely give this one a try. It's not the best beer and it's not the best scotch but it's so unique that it's an experience to drink.

The quote of "Since most drinkers don't check alcohol levels on the label like the expiration dates on a milk carton, some unsuspecting soul with too much money to spare could sip a little too much strong stuff." is just ridiculous. It was obviously written by someone who has never tried or even seen the stuff. Tactical Nuclear Penguin is like syrup. Imagine if Guinness was a few times as thick and heavy. It would be absolutely disgusting to try and chug. And no matter whether you read the label or not before you even sipped, just having it under your nose would tip you off immediately that there's a lot of alcohol in the drink.
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I can't help but think that some of those organizations don't want these people to get this treatment, because if MS is a solved problem there will no longer be any need for these societies.

It may sound paranoid, but the same think happened to Mothers against drunk drivers. They so alienated the founder that she is (or at least was) a lobbyist for a alcohol company.

It is very sad.
You're concentrating on what you want, but how about what I want? I think job ads should be a bit (a lot?) more descriptive about what the technologies used are and what the employee will be working on. I've always liked job postings which instead of listing requirements list things you'll learn, though I mostly see these kinds of things advertised for free software communities rather than companies.
H264 is the obvious choice to promote early adoption of HTML5 video but the long term goal should be multiple codecs with AAA support. I'm pretty sure Google understands that and others will follow as Theora proves itself.
Just a clarification: I'm looking for simple to use, not (only) simple to install.
Well statistically half your employees by definition are sub-par. The reasoning behind getting rid of the bottom 10% is that chances are the new hires you make are going to be on average better than the ones you fired.

The overall impact of the process should be that the average performance goes up every year.

Trying to change a D player into A player is much harder than just hiring an A player in the first place. Hence the fire/hire approach.

Of course the only way this works is if the people you hire are better than the people you just fired. Ideally firing the worst people improves the reputation of your company, so when you come around to hiring more better people want to work for you (the management consultancies like McK and BCG are good examples of this in practice) so you get better.

But if you can't hire replacements better than the people you fired, that's when you need to stop the practice.
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Exactly, and that conclusion could already be drawn after a few lines. Measurements on brain activity are never going to explain consciousness, because measurements on falling rocks don't explain gravity either.
A great one I found too was SimplyNoise.com

It allows you to select white, pink or brown noise, and select whether you want the noise to oscillate automatically or not. You can also download the sound file and listen to the looped track in iTunes.
Good point. I don't regret my time spent writing in Java. I think in many ways it improved on previous languages and clarified a lot of things that are pretty murky in C++ (like how objects have both a 'dynamic' and 'static' type). And it's nice to hear they're still innovating things.

It's just that small things add up. Take class members. In C++, all non-pointer class members are allocated together (like a struct). In Java, each non-array member is basically a pointer. That small little thing spread across say a UI/widget hierarchy adds up and creates a lot less memory locality, etc. Doesn't quite fold as nicely into the caching layers of the von Neumann model.

I totally agree with you about there being orders of magnitude more memory than the original machines that these languages were developed on. Actually, just googling 'ipad ram' (and filtering by last week -- man, I love that feature):

http://bit.ly/dioAjU

It looks like there's only 256MB or so. No idea why they didn't include more. That makes no sense to me. It's almost like they're squeezing VMs on purpose. Not sure if Jobs is that much of an evil genius, but yeah. I mean when you're paying $600 for a device made in bulk, RAM is cheap. Odd.
Glad to read my country is still making a valued contribution to the world. On another note, if you want to try a slightly more refined Scottish beer, try oak-aged Innis & Gunn: http://www.innisandgunn.com/index.htm I'm told it's a favourite of Gordon Ramsay. It's very nice!

(odd article to find on HN though)
If having James Gosling were so important for a company's success, then SUN wouldn't have the end it had. Truth is, the success of a tech company is the combination of good engineering and smart business practices -- and the second element is the most important to make money.
Good point. I think Flash developers will be more keen to use CS5's new export feature if there is a poor chance of reverse-engineering or modifying the exposed HTML5 code.

The FXG format basically describes the layout to pixel precision. Anyone using the HTML5 export would have to be willing to expose their layout secrets.
Oh yeah, just because someone uses emotional words such as "fucking bullshit" and "you pathetic bastards" he must be an asshole rather than a person trying to convey a point.
Yeah I pretty much ripped off Google in an attempt to make the site look clean. I don't know if I want to hire someone yet, but I'll make a few changes to the CSS in the next few minutes to see what happens. I have a nice logo that someone on Reddit made me, but I haven't put it up yet.

To anyone that views this site in the next 15 mins: come back later! mega css-reconstruction in progress.
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Thanks for testing this stuff out! That admin page is actually broken, I don't actually have a working admin page. As for the XSS stuff, I'm going to go fix that.
Jobs forgot about developer adoption in iAds calculation
Lies. The article says they decoded the genome, "paving the way" for a cure… some day. It's right in the title.
Good point, changed it.
Gitit rules; I don't know if it counts as simple, and it certainly doesn't count as "written in PHP/Python/Ruby/Java" -- are you sure you need that?:

"Gitit (http://gitit.net) is a wiki backed by a git or darcs filestore. Pages and uploaded files can be modified either directly via the VCS’s command-line tools or through the wiki’s web interface. Pandoc is used for markup processing, so pages may be written in (extended) markdown, reStructuredText, LaTeX, HTML, or literate Haskell, and exported in ten different formats, including LaTeX, ConTeXt, DocBook, RTF, OpenOffice ODT, and MediaWiki markup."
Dokuwiki and pmwiki are both very nice, hackable, lean wikis.

I have a question on this subject, though. For a wiki (not a blog post, etc), do you guys prefer WYSIWYG, markdown, textile, creole (http://wikicreole.org/), or something else?
How many times was Marion Jones tested? He had BALCO-type money that could help evade the current state of the art in testing.
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The majority of the functions that used to require a computer-to-iPhone sync can be done over the air now.
Something very similar to this has popped up recently in Manchester - http://www.fablabmanchester.org/

Unlike the one in the article, there's no subscription charge that I know of; it's free to use at certain times (with the caveat that you might not always be able to get onto the equipment you want to use) or you pay to reserve it at other times of the week. It's partly funded by local authorities and government and is in addition to another independent hacker space in the city centre, MadLab.

This might be old news in the US, but I was really impressed with it when I saw it. I'd never seen a 3D printer before!
The're terrible even at the bottom. The problem with 360 reviews is that writing reviews of your co-workers is excruciating, and the more inclined you are to be critical, the worse it is. It's essentially impossible to be honest without making people you have to work with every day unhappy, so I spend most of the time trying to think up nice things to say while not being completely dishonest. (And therefore I distrust the nice things they say about me.) I can't think of anything less likely to promote honest communication.
Are you users computer programmers? If not, I'd suggest avoiding the need to learn markup languages. There are WYSIWYG plugins for most wikis.
Please change title, it's bad.
Reading the article, they mapped the TB genome. There is no mention of curing TB.
I don't think that's true at all. Layers of abstraction can improve the quality of a product by letting the developer focus on polish, rather than fighting a lower-level language. We see vast quantities of applications written in high-level languages on high-level frameworks that behave marvelously.
http://dedawiki.dedasys.com does: Markdown, is written in Rails and is pretty simple to hack. It's available under the Apache license (BSD style, basically). It could use some work, but it does do what you asked, and is fairly simple to hack on if you need something more.
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WARNING: SF ISP WebPass is now blocking TPB
This is a heads-up to anyone in San Francisco / Oakland that is using or may be thinking of using WebPass for their ISP.

WebPass is currently blocking access to The Pirate Bay and who knows what else. Be warned.