skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Er, Google just controls the Chrome and Android ports of WebKit, not the Mac, Windows, or iPhone ports. They all have their own media frameworks which are separate; the Mac and Windows Safari ports use QuickTime, and thus support whatever codecs QuickTime supports (so, you can install a Theora plugin, and presumably VP8 once it's released), while Chrome uses a modified version of ffmpeg, and I'm not sure what the iPhone or Android ports use.
I hate saying this, but I am having the opposite issue. It is not responsive at all; I tried clicking on any of the links and it just hangs.

Are the intermediate servers being slashdotted or something, I wonder? I'll give it a shot again later on this week I guess.
IPad jailbroken Who is desperate?
Apple’s iPad Brings Easy Reading to the Blind
Well they know every page everyone visits and everything they click on, etc. What does the privacy policy say?
Not on purpose. ;)
HTML5 History is the Future
What Apple TOS 4.1.1 will look like (satire)
A new buzzword?
I like to think that when I am rich and successful I'll wear jeans and T-shirts fulltime.
The Eclipse Mangrove SOA Modeling Framework
Acquia starting OS vs. Proprietary battle with Jive
Diets For Efficient Weight Loss
Not exactly. You select the tone of each of your interactions to drive the story flow, e.g. "You whisper to Character A" or "You yell at Character A".
It doesn't scroll to the top of the page when you tap the status bar. Hate when apps neglect to do that.
what about encrypted/secured pages?
Did you post this when it came up on HuffPost Business?
Which isn't part of office. (At least - it's not part of the version of Office that most people have)
For the forseable future, I think we can consider Wave a great sieve for innovation. It encourages plugins, which Google can pick and choose from to move into their other properties.
I'm in a very similar situation. Doing some freelance programming while working on my app(startup hopefully). I'm in Mexico City though. If you're ever in town we should get together and share some stories!
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I was reading some advice from one of the Forbes 400 and he said something like: 'Start off trying for singles. Then go for doubles and triples.'
Great footnote. I'm undecided if I should tackle Clojure or Erlang next. Each one is excellent and interesting in its own way.

> A lot of writeups repeat a "nine nines", ie 99.9999999% reliability claim for Erlang-based Ericsson telephone switches owned by British Telecoms. This works out to 31 milliseconds of downtime per year, which hovers near the edge of measurability, not to say plausibility. I was present at a talk Armstrong gave in early 2010 during which he was asked about this. There was a little foot shuffling as he qualified it: it was actually 6 or so seconds of downtime in one device during a code update. Since BT had X devices over Y years, they calculated it as 31ms of average downtime per device per year. Or something like that. Either way it's an impressive feat.
Do people really search Twitter enough to make this their cash cow? (Assuming they refrain from putting ads in the normal timeline, and just have them on search.)

The last paragraph implies that that's what they're doing, but it seems that searches are infrequent enough that it'll be hard for this to make them real profits.

Plus, if people dislike the ads at all, at least one client (probably many), will be "the ad-free client", and many people will start searching through that/those clients.
Will this change with quantum computing and entanglement?

You can't avoid it by using electrons instead of street urchins. It's impossible for an event happening in one place (eg data changing inside one computer or process) to affect any other place (eg other computers or processes) until the information has had time to travel between them.
Making life twice as easy
I certainly hope not. Although there is, there really shouldn't be a stigma against people using dating websites.
It looks like you can scroll to the top by tapping the red title bar.
While I'm happy that people will get to see Opera on the iPhone, I don't like to see people "rejoicing" to see the app approved; it shows that we are accepting the idea of a company acting as gatekeeper to their platform. I recognize that there is likely to be a competing open versus closed philosophy for some time, with room in the market for both, but I don't like seeing this sort of approval process as being accepted as the norm.
I would recommend networking within a local programming user group (Python, Ruby, Cocoa, etc). Introduce yourself at a meeting or on the mailing list letting people know just a little about your background and that you're looking for a side project and would be interested in getting in touch with anyone who knows of an opportunity.
USA: it's in the app store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id3637...
What's wrong with Internet dating? You can find people that actually share similar interests instead of being stuck with whoever is working at Starbucks when you want coffee?
my point was to show a way to avoid this, and going out to meet peoples in real life is a way to do that.
Some sort of breakdown would have made it more intresting but otherwise its pretty subjective.
Clojure and its approach to concurrency (Video)
They were a solely Mac and then iPhone shop until they branched out to Windows support for their IDE just last year. Recently they also announced using unity on Android, PS3, XBOX360 and more to come. They already supported exports to desktop (Mac and PC), web player (all browsers) and widgets.

I imagine that their recent news about cross platform can't have helped their favor. But many flash devs bought a Mac and started doing iPhone dev simply for Unity 3D.

I am a game developer and bought a Macbook Pro just to use Unity 3d before when it was a Mac only IDE. I also bought an iMac later and many touches and iPhones. Unity might be solely responsible for making me a Mac user to start since 2006-7 (intel based and being nix rooted with the best nix GUI ever as well maybe). Sad that Apple doesn't see that much. Many, many, many game devs bought a Mac solely based on Unity.
The rise of digital signage
... and a study a while back showed that, if you simply don't show that image, a large majority of users don't notice. For this reason, the whole "sitekey" phenomenon strikes me as a waste of time.
Shyness: You May Have It
There is a sample video of On2 on this page:
http://video.golem.de/audio-video/2857/on2-vergleich-h.264-u...
Text basically says that those are crops of FullHD movies.. keep in mind that this movie is from On2, so its validity is at least questionable ;)
No, I actually mean W-8. A W-9 is for US residents; a W-8 is for non-residents subject to withholding.
It's kind of funny how having false publicity for it now has probably amped up expectations enough that Google would look bad if they didn't follow through.
what's up with

- erlang: R14 and somehting like Memory management threads

http://groups.google.com/group/ceug/browse_frm/thread/28375b...

- scala: lots: Akka, scalaz, lift threads, STM, Bagwell's data structures

- clojure: special purpose mutability: transients will be old hat, Hickey's working on "cells", (lately he's been coding reify/deftype/defrecord)

- F#: lots, I haven't been tracking, and i just saw the cheapest Vis studio 2010 is $800(?!)

- haskell (GHC) CHP's, STM, lots other stuff

(Suppose i oughter blog about)
I put rails docs on my Internet pad. Thought I would share
Selective enforcement.
Their solution is well-defined but depends on undefined behavior. My understanding is that the casting is simply to prevent the compiler from optimizing out the check.

if((uintptr_t)buf+len < (uintptr_t)buf)

might fail to give the expected result if the address space is segmented.
Maybe I'm overly accustomed to the "feel" of Apple's native apps, since there's just something about the app that just doesn't "feel" good to use.

The zooming-in and out is a big downside, as I often tweak in or out from what Safari gives me as a default when I double-tap.

The scrolling deceleration brakes to a halt sooner than native apps. Again, maybe I'm just being fickle, but if the physics don't match the native feel, then it just doesn't feel right.

Don't understand why they created their own form of copy/paste.

The zoomed-out small fonts are completely illegible. I can't even make out header or subheader text, or titles of articles.

Startup time, at least for me, was about 3 seconds, compared to immediately for Safari. I just have the 3G, and I'm sure it would be much faster on the 3Gs.

When going from vertical to horizontal view, the page does not resize. I have to reload the page for it to fit to the full width.

Despite the innovations that I was very excited for, it's the little things, the details, that will keep me from using this app. To me, good execution is in the details. Some of the things above, for me, are simply musts. An example would be a car that must feel good to sit in, have sharp steering control, easy-to-reach controls and a solid-feeling gearbox. Extra-cool features without this are non-starters. These are the things Safari gives me which Opera lacks.
Opera Mini Download Now in US iTunes Store
Just downloaded on my first gen iPhone to see how much faster it is than Safari over Edge and wifi.

Will report back.

Post your results along with generation of hardware below as well.
Every time you index an array in C you're adding an integer to a pointer.
No, we're not. If you read the linked advisory, you'll see it's only hypothetical. They don't cite a single example in the wild.

gcc did something unexpected. Film at 11.
They should have called this "Some of the most expensive nighborhoods in NYC".

I completely agree with the list, but Murray Hill and Park Slope are OBVIOUSLY livable, and happen to be way expensive
YouTube runs h.264 for iPad and iPhone connections.
Averages are easily skewed by a small number of large values...

I suspect if median were used instead this would vanish... you might even be able to prove this (assuming you could eliminate the social misconceptions).
Yeah; it doesn't currently implement Python's C API.
This is a great idea. I can't tell much from the image you provided about how the code samples are distinguished from the rest of the text. Usually you want code samples in a slightly different font - say a monospaced font - from the rest of your text. And then there's the problem of line wrapping in code samples - in an indentation-sensitive language like Python, that could be more of a problem but even in cases where it doesn't mislead the reader about the way the language works, it could be unsightly. Perhaps you haven't gotten that far yet or someone else will improve upon it and contribute the patches back to you. Great start, though. I was resolute about not getting an iPad but this is the first really good argument I've seen in its favor.
Why Microsoft’s Kin Could Be Huge
Do you have a partner yet?
I know some friends who are looking for designers in mexico city, let you work remotely and pay fair salaries.
I might also be able to find some angel funding for you.
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I'm not sure that's true actually. The vast majority of users I've seen find a client and stick with it. While power users will probably get annoyed by the ads and find a new one, I suspect an average user will learn to cope, or simply stop using the service.
Geeking out with Lisp Flavoured Erlang
What an inspiring talk. Thank you for sharing this.
Erlang Pattern: The Router
I'd garner that approvals for an application are drastically different then government approvals. At least stringent government requirements are there for a reason.
It seems like the Internet has killed the reference book format for a lot of programming subjects. Now okay, it's also killed the market, and that's not coming back, but the format can still be useful. Especially for the iPad, which in my opinion is a lot better suited for reference books than the traditional e-ink readers.
Often those peoples' needs are to have no-strings-attached-sex with rich, young, beautiful women.

There is a lot more demand than supply in that direction, so scams predominate.
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Nitrogen, Riak, and 1000 lines of Erlang
I see. In light of this information, I retract my comment and upvote yours instead. :-)
A service fail over and take over system for Erlang/OTP
Road testing blog directories to build a personalized newspaper
I was thinking you were going to refer to .Net linking with Office, which seems to be something different from the COM automation, and more complicated than I've ever been interested in.

That, however, looks pretty darn cool. On the odd occasion I've used Python/COM/Excel together, I've really wished for a Python shell inside Excel to do things like:

for cell in Range('a1:a10'):
cell.Value = cell.Value.split('-')[0]

or whatever. I don't know if Pyinex will quite do that, but thanks for the link!
Thanks for the great response.

I would love to work for a great startup, but unfortunately we don't have much of that here. I'm hoping that even with a moderate success, I can inspire others to actually starting something.

I've been trying to bring friends to work with me and cofounders but they either don't want to or they lack the passion.

So yes, I'm going to continue with the freelance work and I'll hopefully only pull this trick once.
Good points. Given enough data it could do a decent job at normalizing lows & highs, enough to be useful anyway.

It would be interesting to see a proximity sensor in the iPad. I'm not sure what the range of those is. The accelerometer might be sensitive enough to detect when it's being held up as it's going to move a little bit in your hand.
NOSQL + Transaction = Mnesia?
My guess is that they're being cautious, and rolling out ads somewhere they think won't lead to a big backlash. They're already profitable with just the search-feed deals with Google and Microsoft, so they can afford to take it slowly, I think.
Who will predict the winner of Eurovision?
I have to say this is a brilliant idea. Currently, smart readers (like me!) have more allegiance to particular writers and journalists that they know are good than a newspaper or a magazine. So it makes complete sense for good writers to strike out on their own and not be tied down to the capital intensive and debt ridden newspapers.

And of course this is better than the usual blogging platform, because if they can establish themselves as having quality content they can eventually get more money or even provide a subscription model for some of their more popular journalists.

I see one problem however. The major thing that hounds all newspapers is libel suits and the like. It is not clear whether this type of service is responsible for the stuff written by its member journalists. However, all those statements about how they have editors and control their content editorially can certainly be used by some clever lawyer to say that the company is liable for any damages committed by any of its journalists.
Perhaps I'm just missing something, but Neofonie doesn't appear to have any prior experience in desktop software or hardware design. (Their current products appear to be focused in online services - and few of them are even end-user services.) It's certainly possible that they'll manage to pull something interesting off here, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Downloaded it for the Find in Page feature and uninstalled pretty much immediately - I thought it would be serious competition for my Find In Page plugin for Safari and finally deliver this functionality in a native way.

Instead, over 60% of the screen is permanently covered by the toolbar at the top and the keypad at the bottom. No way to scroll either while in the Find in Page mode. No way to step backwards throught search results either - next button only. What were you guys thinking?! Find in Page could have been a killer feature for you over Safari, and it falls way short.

In addition, the app does not feel Cocoa Touch-like - UI elements look faked and the feel is different. Sorry, I had much higher expectations for days waiting for the release, and it just did not deliver iPhone-like experience. Better luck in the next version, I guess. BTW, love Opera on the desktop!

PS: almost forgot - PDF is not supported at all and is delegated to Safari instead!
Where do you live that $30 pm will take you that far?
One night out in my town costs more than that.
I would love it if shake-to-undo undid this. Hate when I tap it accidentally.
Its not only languages, but data structures that need to change. C.f. this video (http://vimeo.com/6624203) from ICFP '09
If you run top while you're there you can see Safari and WebKitPlugin (I'm on Mac OS 10.6) start churning away in the %CPU column, even while you're doing nothing but reading a page.
Why won't Gnumeric save CSV?
Okay, this doesn't make sense. The latest-generation iPod Touch comes with full VoiceOver support. Sure, it doesn't have iBooks until 4.0 comes out, but what other possible advantage could an iPad have over the current iPod Touch for the visually impaired?
Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads
Having done a lot of Erlang I am toying with Clojure at the moment. So far it is looking like a tool I will pull out for "big data" tasks, but I am having a real hard time resisting the urge to drop back into Erlang for big concurrency tasks. Right now my take on the two languages is that Clojure's sweet spot is as a more elegant way to take advantage of Java's SMP advantages but Erlang still wins for systems distributed across a large number of nodes (in this case it is OTP providing the win and not anything specific in Erlang that Clojure lacks, but this framework is still the best and most battle-tested thing out there for many-node systems...)
Don't forget the pocket inversion rule. You can only carry around so much stuff, so the stuff tends to be multi purpose. Swiss army knives and tricorders and such.
Damn, it's right there isn't it? Thank you.
Not the same MSDN subscription - no development licenses for Office, many server products, etc. See e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/subscriptionsc...

But yes, still insane.
I'd take issue using the term "real life" in this context.

By extension you're saying that anything that happens in a computer is "not in real life," even though the things that happen in computers have consequences in reality just like anything else.

The stigma needs to dissolve. When someone asks me "where did you meet your girlfriend," I'm not going to reply "not in real life," because that just doesn't fit a consistent definition of "real life." Especially in today's world. I also wouldn't say "I don't work in real life."

And your "point" is moot. How does meeting women in "real life" protect a person from scams? It would seem a golddigger's target demographic is the same as discussed in this article.
The Next Empire
The German maker of a new tablet PC is setting out to rival Apple's iPad with the promise of even more technology such as a bigger screen, a webcam and USB ports.

Like you rival Ferrari by building the Homer Simpson car.

shakes head
"Assymetric Feedback":  Why people are cynical and what can be done about it
It doesn't really make many (any?) specific predictions

Certainly thats not true is it? I agree that it doesn't make predictions that we can test like we do in physics (if I drop a ball from this height it will take this long to hit the ground, etc...) but it does make predictions. It predicts how we'll see fossil records change over time, etc...

As far as I know (and I'm not horribly well read on the subject) all of these types of predictions have held up.
But when they go to hospital and need treatment suddenly science is a-ok

I find this statement to be disingenuous. I would be hard pressed to believe that (most) creationists are against science in general or think that science itself is generally wrong. In fact, they seem to try to make scientific type arguments, and I'd suspect that most IDers believe that the arguments are in fact good science.
Full Details On Twitter’s Long-Awaited Ad Platform: Promoted Tweets
I know! But I have not been able to find a cofounder. I've yet to find somebody with the correct combination of a skill set and passion.
Firefox (on Windows 7) only uses 1% CPU while idling.
Twitter's Business Model - Promoted Tweets
This is what I love about Hacker News. I think it is one of those rare few places where one voices his/her opinion and gets back an amazing, intelligent, well thought through response. As I have not been in the business in the 1990s I can only rely on records of people who saw it first hand. I enjoyed your post so much, because it is a very thorough explanation for an issue I heard only very onesided opinions so far.
This is a major problem. Without even being able to read the article titles, there is literally nothing you can scan to decide where you want to look, what you want to click, or even just what you want to zoom in on. I can make out the Sheraton logo though? Maybe Opera takes a cut of banner ad clicks and wants those to be the only things we can read without zooming in?
"On-topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Digital power and its discontents
"The dreams of network utopians vs. the realists. Is the Internet is a medium of emancipation and of revolutionor a tool of control and repression? Did Twitter and Facebook have stoke the flames of rebellion in Iran, or did they help the authorities unmask the rebels?"
Downloaded in Canada.
backup link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jpJKXrjBOe...
Google’s Top Innovators On The Cloud, Net Neutrality, And More
Which equivalent are you speaking of?
Well, except that Firefox already has a non-patent-encumbered format they've put a lot of effort into. Apple/Nokia refused to implement the previous non-patent-encumbered format, why would they change their mind for this one?

I'm not sure Google ever actually stated on-the-record why they refused to add Theora support to YouTube, but 'cost to re-encode all that video' has been widely cited, and I don't see why re-encoding with VP8 would be particularly cheaper than re-encoding with Theora.
For those that want to test for Opera Mini without the iphone: http://www.opera.com/mobile/demo/

Also, don't forget to add the user agents: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/designing-with-opera-mini...
Even Opera on the desktop doesn't work so hot with Gmail.
Christensen also points out that disruptive technologies often start out the opposite of expensive. They target some low-margin market that is being over-served by existing technology. Then they grow to eat the high-margin competitors from below. There are tons and tons of examples: PCs, low-cost airlines, Linux servers, web applications.

Disruptive technologies are often seen as low-end, not-really-good-enough solutions until they suddenly are everywhere and you realize that you have become Digital, US Airways, Sun Microsystems, or Microsoft.

The disruptive technology can be cheap or expensive. One expensive thing that is ripe for disruption is mobile bandwidth. Someone with a lot of capital should build a large network of cell towers and then sell the bandwidth to random startups. That would put a stop to 20 cent text messages. (Maybe this will do it: http://www.businessweek.com/idg/2010-03-30/4g-satellite-comp...)

The author of this piece seems to use "disruptive" in the sense of "revolutionary change", but that's not really how Christensen uses it.
Liberaltarianism and social security