skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flash can load MP3s from remote domains, but it cannot read certain metadata (eg. ID3 tags, waveform/eq/spectrum data) unless granted permissions via a crossdomain.xml policy file. For hosting, the SWF should be on the same domain as the HTML document or JS-Flash communication will be restricted (or, use the cross-domain version of the SWF.)
Yeah. I think that a high desk plus a comfortable stool with arm rests would be perfect, and also cheap. If you really wanted to go crazy, you could probably hack apart an office chair to attach the top to a high stool base.

I think I like this so much because adjusting a whole desk full of stuff, without lots of physical strain and/or jerking around your monitors and such, requires a lot more engineering than a simple desk. Whereas humans are already built to change positions and postures. So which one of these things should do the adjusting?

Thanks for improving this discussion for me. :)
Well they think that because that is meant to be their role, it's not their fault that industry at some point imposed a lot of artificial degree barriers so people that don't want to be at university need to be there to stand a chance.

I think in software dev the trend is going the right way, you see a lot of degree helpful but not required. There is a lot of benefit in the degree but there are many paths to a goal and they should be objectively compared in hiring.
Or you could just spend it on a second AMD machine. Intel certainly leads on raw power but that's certainly not the only consideration...is the Intel brand worth 3x the price after you normalize for performance? I think AMD will sell a ton of these.
Then again, glancing at the front page, there are still interesting things. Perhaps I just have less time to read it all and this is a compromise.
I love haml/sass, but am I the only one that thinks the brackets in scss is an ugly step backwards? On that note, is sass staying around or is it going to be deprecated in favor of scss?
Hell hath no fury like a Hacker scorned.
Take a look at the permanent portfolio.

http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2008/12/22/permanent-portfolio-...
http://crawlingroad.com/blog/tag/permanent-portfolio/
"NPR, based on Wilson’s other panel comments, is creating what sounds like a multi-platform strategy: creating a back-end system that can feed to any platform. All smart news organizations are trying to move this way."

Which sounds like, you know, the Internet.

Rather than being so anxious to make and place some device-specific application, companies should be focused on created Web-based access to their goods and services. It makes it much harder for anyone to lock them out or try to call the tune.
What do you think that boilerplate code is made of? Closures of course. You simply can't make large scale software using just closures.
PS3 Slim model 2100A - 45nm RSX GPU = 15% power saving
jwz posted recently that someone loaned him a key so he could test his own app (daliclock) on his phone. So, I'm guessing no.
First Apple, Now PDA Inventor Slaps HTC With Another Lawsuit
Apart from the Apple stories, the lists look pretty similar to me.
So the maximum is "50 years in jail". The man is now 22 years old (younger at the time of the "crime"). The duration of Palin's campaign was no more than a few weeks. Even the duration of the resulting presidency would be no more than 8 years. Imagine putting a man in jail for more than twice his lifespan, over what is essentially a stupid prank. Just what "damage" could have been done to society, to justify the same maximum prison time as a serial killer?
It's not. The $99 gets you a code signing certificate which let's you install apps on the device. Jailbreaking circumvents this, and allows your device run any app.
Ah, so the investor would have to look up the definition of a synthetic CDO and know how Wall Street actually operates. They have to know that Goldman isn't serious about ACA being an independent third party.

Well, perhaps most investors out there really are that sophisticated. But Bear Sterns decided the deal Paulson proposed didn't meet their ethical standards. It couldn't have been completely uncontroversial.
2009 - old story is old. Flagged.

Edit: it's not that I don't like the story, which I do. It's that we already discussed it here when it came out in 2009.
Original landing pages of Mint.com
The power consumption of two AMD machines over their lifespans, compared to that one Intel machine, might be an issue though I've not run any calculations.
Screencast on Clojure protocols by Stuart Halloway
Expression/structure can be copyrighted, but that's also not the whole story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Tel...

If this document merely lists the keywords in ascending/descending order of popularity, it is unlikely that the author's expression is creative enough to warrant copyright.
A Life Without Fear
Maybe the answer is more aggressive pruning, I don't know what it's like in America but in Australia someone can probably spend 5 or 6 years barely trying before they would get kicked out.
Not deprecated. Both SASS and SCSS are both fully supported.

SCSS is primarily intended to lower the barrier to entry for many existing CSS experts who want additional functionality.
However SASS and SCSS work interchangeably and purely a preference. I'm personally using both, SASS on my own stuff, and SCSS whenever I'm working with a non-ruby designer.
> You know, Apple shouldn't be thinking about approving this, they should be thinking about buying it and making it a default.

Pretty much sums it up for me.
I thought the first one was better than the second one.

Overall I've found Dilbert to be very hit and miss over time. There are some real gems out there but there's also quite a few which miss the mark.

Of course, Scott Adams has been at this for years and having to come up with a new joke each day for that length of time would be rather challenging.
Give http://tropo.com a try. It also does voice, IM and Twitter along with SMS.
Haha awesome! One of the, very few, days that one of my posts was in the top 3. Thanks, you just made my day.
I even feel like upvoting some of the comments.

Edit: doesn't work btw
Does anyone know if there's a similar online app for editing audio directly? i.e., import a wave file, apply effects like reverse, flanging, etc.?
"People are much more readily accepting of spending x million dollars to build a new stadium than to build a new research facility."

Really? It appears to me anecdotally that the run-up in tuition has been accompanied by a run-up in university building programs. My alma mater, a large state-related research school with a big sports program, is nearly unrecognizable ten years after I graduated, with a new IS building, a new science building, a new business school building, and a new law school building.
Tell HN: Markupslicer - Slice your HTML/CSS markup into Ruby on Rails templates.
Or loads of "geeks" who know barely more than a layman about astrophysics.
I'm assuming you mention interest-free for religious reasons. If that's the case, there are mutual funds designed to comply specifically with various religious requirements (meaning the only invest in appropriate companies and revenue streams, etc) that you may want to look into. I don't know any names off the top of my head, but sometimes they go by "virtue funds."
There's no Dilbert canon at all. Adams even draws Dilbert's mouth now and then.
How To Access Blocked or restricted websites at school, offices.....
50 years is just the total of statutory maxima for the 4 different crimes he is charged with. News and the prosecution will usually go for the biggest mumber in sight, for shock value. I doubt he will get more than a few years at most, partly because he did not attempt to enrich himself.
Well based on experience, talking to past users and being with everyday normal people in general, I know how many people confuse the term 'Google' with 'Browser'. Also, the 'e' button with 'Internet'. Someone also posted a neat video a few days back on HN.

"Which browser you use?" -- "Google".
Take a portion and buy actual physical gold and silver.
VIDEO: Calacanis discusses job hopping pros & cons
In this video at the 1:34 mark I talk about the job hopping issue, loyalty, etc.
I bought 4 books all at different prices using this promo. Got 50% off each one.
Attended the conference.

The speakers were great (Aardvark, Blank himself, DropBox , McClure moderating Slideshare's CEO and two Chens - come to mind), and the attendees top-notch . Eric did an amazing job.

However, SLLconf had such a back-to-back agenda there was too little time to ask questions and talk with the mentors. I'm used to unconferences like BarCamp I guess, or maybe I'm just saying there wasn't enough time.
Don't know, it is the first time I experience this, to be honest. Do APIs really change that much? I have experience with new features being added, which you'd preferably use in your future projects.

I am not super-complaining, just saying I see a reason for complaints. Especially since the update seems to make thinks more complicated without any real benefit.
Supports ERB and HAML for now, vote on site for more formats. Free and kinda fun. Go play with demo project and tell us how was it.
I think those were drafts. The Dilbert strips are created using some computer illustration software (Adams even has his own private font that he uses for lettering the strip). So changing the punchlines to something funny wouldn't have taken too much effort.

Apart from coming up with the funny punchline, that is.
Javascript anonymous functions – Helephant.com
Don't worry about it. I sometimes write eye-grabbing, too-good-to-believe headlines by accident too.
Sometimes I feel like PG is speaking another language
What spot in the video is that specific topic?
The twitpocalypse came and went, and developers updated there apps to use 64-bit ids for tweets. It was a necessary growing pain that the API had to go through. This is no different.
Save water by enjoying the company of attractive strangers.
The Schizophrenic Programmer
In my experience most professors think that college is for funding their research.
Are we due for an ESR comeback?
2 Blog Only Dilbert Cartoons on the Lost iPhone
These are all excellent questions to ask a financial advisor. Go to your bank and tell them you have 100k to invest, and you'll get all the answers you need. They'll set you up with a financial advisor who can help you map out a personal investment plan that meets your needs.
Take a look at Myna:

http://aviary.com/tools/myna
That's really great to hear. It sounded like SaSS was going to fall by the wayside from some blog posts I read.
How Flirtomatic made it into the top 10 mobile Internet sites in the UK
The difference in price between the two processors is basically equal to the rest of the components in a decent system. Intel is going to have to drastically cut their prices down soon. More and more, it's the GPU that bounds the system, CPUs have long ago surpassed the needs of most users...and I'm not just talking about people who only use office and email.
Out of some odd synchronization, I read this comment while Last.FM was playing some old folk crooner delimiting his life over a music-less backdrop.
Introducing @extend in Sass3 for easy CSS selector inheritance
All of this has basically already happened except for the part where the teams pay players market rates, so you can see where the universities would be reluctant to change anything.
College is also a great time to figure out what you don't want to do. While some people already know that they want to be a Pediatrist at 16-17 when they are researching college, others might think they want to be a (insert career) but they have limited experience actually interacting with that field.

Some of the smartest people I've known going to the Ivy league schools seemed to change what they wanted to do while there, or got their degree and then did something completely different- realizing that they enjoyed learning about the subject but didn't want to work in the field. It isn't that they didn't have initiative, but figuring out your entire life at 17 and researching/meeting every professor for every college that you're applying to is both time consuming and expensive.
I love the idea of Ludumdare. It forces developers to think about shipping rather than perfection.
Misspelled words, geocities website, "I developed this using VC++ 6.0", and the code is highly unportable and does not save the stack so it's borderline useless.

Not to diminish the author, who probably has good potential, but I don't think this article is really of HN quality.
Wish my DB systems course even covered this stuff. It's an interesting take on it, however in practice Cassandra does have a strong consistency guarantee when you don't have a network partition, so I think the point he tries to make about C v A tradeoffs is weaker in light of this.
Jesus, people, please stop downvoting. I disagree a bit with pw0n's basic philosophy, but he put some time into his comment. Discuss, debate, and look to clarify instead of just flicking the arrow. I mean, hell, I asked him to respond and he did and clarified what he thought.

That said...

> The problem is that nearly everything that is produced has to be filtered through large corporations; in most of these, major decisions are often made by filthy, uncultured pig-like creatures who hate creativity

Hasn't this always been the way, everywhere? The high art of the Renaissance was mostly financed by the Medici, who were... well I wouldn't call them uncultured pig-like creatures, but they were definitely businessmen/statesmen/power-first, love-and-good-feelings second type people. Lots of such people finance art throughout history - the Catholic Church, for instance, has been pretty barbaric at various times, but also commissioned a lot of history's greatest art. The Tokugawa Shogunate financed much of the art from 1600 to 1850 in Japan, the various dynasties in China, and so on.

> we'd have to move to a different socioeconomic model than the corporate-dominated mess we have now, in which parasites who don't actually do anything have almost all of the power, and the truly creative are almost always treated as pawns.

Isn't the internet doing just that? I think more decentralization is the answer, with services like Amazon, Youtube, cheap hosting, etc. letting artists connect directly with people. I tend to think rule by large government is no better than rule by large corporation, and potentially much worse - the Soviet Union isn't exactly known for its beauty and high culture... but you know what, I'm often guilty of doing too much talking and not enough listening in discussions like this. How do you think we could stimulate the arts in the States?
It was already posted on HN :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=857671
I think you're missing the point by a wide margin. Determining the difference between two articles and ordering supplies are two very common tasks -- if people with a college degree lack the ability to do them, we really are in trouble.

If they were testing something that was obviously very college-centric but not a commonplace in a regular job -- say, integral calculus -- I would agree with you. However, if someone graduated with a degree in physics and they couldn't do calculus, I would say there was a problem also. It sounds like they just tested the bare minimum of skills.
Elements of a Game Engine
Devices running OS X handle this completely differently (with a client-client communication mode) and can gracefully handle disconnects. Older iPods used disk mode for syncing where filesystem corruption can be problematic if you unexpectedly disconnect.
Let me walk a mile in Apple's shoes: If they approve this app consisting of what appear to be a couple of cups connected by networking string, what happens if 10,000 people buy it and some future iPhone or iTunes revision breaks the app.

Does everybody blame themselves for buying the app? Or do they complain about the iPhone?
Old, but more relevant than your comment. This was not deserving of a down-vote and in fact, I'm glad someone posted this old article, because I have been bookmarking studies and observations on this topic lately for research I am doing.

EDIT: Sorry, that first line was an unnecessary jab. Based on your Karma and interaction, you add a lot of value to the community, so please continue to support that value, not filter it.
Jason Calacanis
VIDEO --- 1:34 in I talk about the job hopping issue
I read so much and retain so little. Everything new pushes out something old. Jason Calcanis might be a dick. I'm still working on my conclusion about that.
Macbook Pro helps Core i7 hit 100 Degrees Celsius
Amazing... this is like Reason/Rebirth in your browser.
I'm sure you're aware - but you don't need to plug the iPhone/Touch in to update Podcasts - those are available over the air.
Hedging Your Cloud Bets with JDO
Yes please. Just for software and genes.
The author has a great series on How JavaScript Objects Work:

http://helephant.com/2008/08/how-javascript-objects-work/
I actually found it pretty interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9DUK_4fbg#t=1h34m22s
Their ebook daily deal RSS feed is nice too. They have a different one day deal on an ebook for $9.99 almost every day: http://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/ebookdealoftheday
Does the findings in this article surprise anyone? No? Good. I'm not a hippy, but let's get over this b.s. "War on Drugs" and begin to use our common sense when dealing with social issues and impeding on natural rights.
The article is missing the elephant in the room - the 6 core Phenoms are intended to compete against quad core i7s. Nehalem multithreading gives an incredible boost for multithreaded apps, usually 50%+ even for heavy tasks like rendering.

On top of that, Intel is way ahead in the IPC game. I don't know what the lay of the land is currently, but back when it was a choice between 45nm Phenom X4 and 45nm Core i7 9x0 chips, in some circumstances a Core i7 thread performed the same as a Phenom core.

Relevent Anandtech article:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2978/amd-s-12-core-magny-cours...

Which shows a 12 core, 2.2ghz Magny Cours chip being beaten by a 6 core 2.93ghz Xeon (the server equivilant of the 980X).
"The problem is that nearly everything that is produced has to be filtered through large corporations"

No, it doesn't.

"major decisions are often made by filthy, uncultured pig-like creatures who hate creativity"

Completely meaningless invective.

"In the US, to be creative requires that you fight against the larger society, and succeed in spite of it rather than with its assistance."

Isn't this a good thing? Easy, struggle-less art is boring and complacent.

"Our artistic successes exist because we have a large population and (for other reasons) draw ambitious people from all over the world"

Which "(for other reasons)" draw creative people here? I'm sure it's got nothing to do with the incentives for successful creativity in the US.

"parasites who don't actually do anything have almost all of the power, and the truly creative are almost always treated as pawns"

No-evidence polemic, and not even entertaining polemic at that.
All Twitter apps? Certainly not mine because I, like most, actually read the big notice that was on the api wiki for most of '09 saying basic auth would disappear soon.
Terence McKenna: Science Was Founded by an Angel
Unfortunately common sense is often electoral suicide.
I would be interested in learning what developers here think about investing in cloud technology. Do you have any interest in going deep into cloud based APIs for better scalability or would you rather not take operational environment into considering during development? If the former, then which vendor(s) are you seriously considering?
It is mindsets like his that destroy and stagnate langauges, and fill them with bloat to support outdated legacy code.

I don't see why anyone should be truly content with a platform or environment that refuses to evolve, progress will obviously cause breaking changes, but in the far majority of cases, the resulting fix will improve the existing application.

If someone is too lazy to take the chance to improve an application of their own, then they truly don't care about it in the first place, but then again if they are statisfied with the stagnation of their entire platofrm and environment, it makes sense that they would be statisfied with the stagnation of their own programs as well.

Software evolves, poor programmers complain and resist, good programmers go with the flow, but great programmers embrace this.
Exactly. I've often thought at Ikea that I wish I could just live in one of their showrooms.

The real irony here is that half of these poor layouts were architects/builders/remodelers trying to be smart and fit as many people into a space as possible and make it so that people would fit into less space. However, due to them doing a really poor job at this when these places were built (or redone) then you end up needing more square footage to live than you would if it was properly laid out.

I'm totally happy living in less than 350sq/ft, yet I end up looking at apartments closer to 600sq/ft generally due to poor layouts.
I think I give some reasonable perspective on the overall issue at the 1:34 minutes mark in this YouTube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9DUK_4fbg

While the email was obviously a mistake on my part (I would take it back it I could), it was a personal message from me to an employee who I was very disappointed in. It was real--perhaps too real--and it is based on my passion for young people and their potential. Nothing more.

There's a ton of backstory, but I don't want to make this anything more than what it is: a personal issue between a startup founder and a kid with a lot of potential who left to do something else.

Rock on HN
Kaching.com is pretty cool, allows you to get 100% transparency on the track record and day-to-day moves of different successful investors. You could put a portion of it following an investor whose strategy aligns with your goals.

Why no interest? If you put a portion of the money in tax-free municipal bonds (which technically pay you interest) it'd be a good place for generating a decent yield while keepng your balance relatively safe.

There's always an annuity too, which is where you pay a lump-sum for a guaranteed income for life, which is dependent on a bunch of factors (your age, current interest rates, type of annuity, etc.)

good luck!
I consider my athletic experience in college (on a varsity team which definitely did not make money or prestige for the school) to be one of the best and most educational parts of college. Do your really think there are many programs which lose money and are doing harm to the students or the university?

I see basically two types of programs: a handful which exist solely to drive money and prestige to the university (big-time football, basketball, etc.) without regard to the tiny number of students participating, and the vast majority which are mostly focused on their primary purpose, providing a great experience for the athletes themselves.

I don't see many programs which are sucking a bunch of money away from research for nothing.
I don't think this is an issue that's solvable by changes in funding. If someone in our society wants a college education, it should be provided for them. I think the bigger issue is that people feel they have to go to college to get anywhere.

The solution is for society to quit placing such a high value on am arbitrary piece of paper.