skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because a lot of the Chinese coming here are part (or aspire to be) of the ruling class & don't want to openly challenge the status-quo?
Satirical marketing idea: Gordon Brown's wishlist
As a former-programmer-now-a-manager, I can say that NoSQL sounds really interesting ... but if I can't figure out a way to show that it adds value, then the whole team is screwed.

SQL is hard but if technology was meant to be easy, anybody could do our job. Some new things make things better. Some new things are just new.
This is complete nonsense.

Read this instead: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-Jun...

Straight from the horses mouth, that is the state of HTML5 video and why we got there. The posted article is built on the idea that HTML5 requires H.264 when that is not the case at all. The spec does not specify a codec for use on the video tag, just as it doesn't for the img tag.

More importantly, the authors claim "we can cut to the chase and try to get the HTML5 spec fixed--in which case the commercial vendors would have to fix their implementations in order to be considered compliant." is bogus as well. The spec is a delicate balance. If something is spec'd out, but major vendors are not going to implement it, then you have accomplished nothing by putting it in the spec, and in fact, the spec actually harmful at that point because people will believe it is implemented correctly. The spec is only useful insofar as it is a set of things that all the players can agree to implement.

I do recommend reading through the email I linked to, in it Ian Hixie, by responding to emails he received, lays out a lot of the thinking that guided the making of the spec.
Google and the perils of optimization by proxy in social systems
Android is a platform, iPhoneOS is a platform. Android is an open ecosystem, iPhoneOS is a vertically integrated, proprietary ecosystem.

FTFY
A lively discussion, but most seem to miss the fact that the spec did require Theora (though not exclusively, just as a baseline to ensure interoperability) and Apple, with a little help from Nokia, had it removed from the spec because they refused to implement it.

So if Apple aren't the right people to complain to, I don't know who is. (Probably if Microsoft had implemented Theora then it would have been added back to the spec, as Apple would have been in a clear minority then, so complain to them too).
"He lives peacefully in Tibet". Romantic wishful thinking. There's no peaceful Tibet anymore.
I can only agree with everyone else - fantastic idea. Good luck.
To see the next screen you could use the Whitehouse's Zip code: 20500
In recent years Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and SAP between them have spent more than $15 billion on buying software firms specialising in data management and analytics.

That's huge. Does that sound right?
W3C is in no way, shape or form "allowing H.264 to infiltrate its way". The HTML5 spec does not require or endorse h.264 or any other codec. Opera's, and Mozilla's I believe, attempt to sneak a codec requirement in the spec (Theora) was shot down, and rightly so, because it falls outside of the scope of HTML5, just as the encoding of image files displayed through the img tag is outside of its scope.
It'd be interesting to throw some Erlang into those benchmarks.
Ahh, I see. That wasn't clear from your post. If they've denied you what was clearly promised, as they appear to, then it's charge-back time.
The default tor gateways have been blocked, you need a tor bridge. A faster solution is to set up a server outside the mainland and set up an ssh tunnel or a VPN server on it.
One imagines there are many flash applications that are not reliant on hover events, in the same manner that there are many HTML webpages that did not.
Sprout robot
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Brilliant. Hope you'll expand the service across the world.
a so-called "search engine" -- can be decentralized, too :-)
You only need two: 自由. What was the third?
It's futile to expect others to adhere to your moral standards (here: truthfulness) when they think you should clean up your own act first.
The Real Story Behind Twitter's Ridiculous Follow Bug
I think you could throw Google's name on the list there as well. Ian Hixie says:

>Google ships both H.264 and Theora support in Chrome; YouTube only
>supports H.264, and is unlikely to use Theora until the codec improves
>substantially from its current quality-per-bit.[1]

If the most popular video destination on the web continues to use H.264, then Theora adoption is a little less meaningful. (but still meaningful)

[1]: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-Jun...
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/02/22/flash-player-con...

FTA: Flash Player Mouse Events on Touch Screen Devices-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj1hiLnIp_g
The working group tasked with creating HTML5 has a charter that defines what are they supposed to work on and deliver. The codec of the content served through the video tag is outside of the scope defined in said charter. Apple, among others, have argued only that. What Microsoft could have done might have had impact on the outcome of h.264 vs. Theora, but it would not have changed the HTML5 specification.
you've never seen a jQuery hover menu?
Different plants?

As to the climates - if you cover California, Arizona, Alaska, Nevada, Ohio, Maine then I would assume you would have most of the worlds climate types covered.

If I was running it - I would do exactly what you suggest though.. Make this awesome for the places you have data. (But if you have a tool that says my climate is the same as zipcode XXXXX (just 6 months out) - then I'd love the australian version)
Very informative, Thanks.
As a closet pragmatist I've always felt that "existence" is not a binary quality, but fuzzy. Things like 0, 1, 2 and 256 have a "strong existence", whereas 38476532 has a very weak existence. You can relate this to saying that the strength of existence is inversely proportional to the size of the turing machine required to compute it.

In this way, infinity of any form doesn't actually exist.

Add to the mix the axiom of infinity and it then does exist, but we're close to the constructivist's world.

However, having said that, there's a lot that I do that relies, underneath, on having the more usual model. Allowing the declaration of the existence of all elements of 2^S for any set S is just too useful not to explore. That's the world I usually inhabit.

However, it's not clear that getting into those discussions will, in any way, help people to understand the more "regular" viewpoints and reasoning. Encouraging people's intuition can be good, but sometimes it simply prevents them from reasoning clearly.

And perhaps that's the most easily defensible aspect of the usual idea (within mathematics) of infinity. Dealing with it forces you not to take things for granted, and to reason carefully about properties. Discovering that 1+aleph_0 = aleph_0 = aleph_0+1 from first principles is useful. Then finding that 1+omega != omega+1 is useful.

Mathematical logic and reasoning is so useful, we need places to exercise it. This is one, there are others.

But personally, I like the idea that there are different sizes of infinity, and the resulting implications such as the Banach-Tarski theorem, the existence of uncomputables, and the tension between Zorn's Lemma and the well-ordering principle.

Although mostly it doesn't really matter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_identity

lots of schools have a VIS (visual identity system)
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I like how among those he has stuff like "make fire" :)
You should look at SMEStorage.com. They expose Amazon S3 in a variety of ways and have lots of different tools, including Linux and Mac Virtual Drives.
Mozilla spills plan for, yes, Firefox 4
ASk:do you know Advanced Google Search tips and tricks
http://ansblog.com/2010/01/advanced-google-search-tips-and-tricks/
The source code of the benchmark programs seem to be lacking.

Based on my experience with comet node.js scales really well and uses a lot less memory than Java based solutions (I have rewritten a system from JBoss Netty and our node.js solution uses around 10x less memory and a little more CPU - - and this is on 100.000+ active connections). I have also looked at Jetty's comet solution and was generally unimpressed by its memory usage and memory usage is really critical for comet applications [source: http://amix.dk/blog/post/19490#Plurk-Instant-conversations-u... ].
Not sure why you're being downvoted, I read this as a really smart prank on OP. It actually just made my day.
Totally agree with you that it makes a lot of sense for this kind of startup to focus on one country/region first. I do wish that startups would at least mention somewhere that they are aware of this. Something like "Sorry, US only for now" in the HN message, or a "I'm not in the US!" link on the frontpage with a message for international users, even if that message is simply that the company will focus on US customers only.
Ask HN:do you know Twitter Crashed many times?
http://bit.ly/9UUIJd
That doesn't surprise me at all. I don't know if it counts, but the Sun deal was around $9.2 billion, wasn't it?
The link is good, but you repeat the highly misleading claim that video shouldn't specify a codec because img tag doesn't specify an image format.

If that's the case then why did Hixie spec an interoperable codec in the first place? I think the answer is obvious when you count the number and quality of competing, royalty-free image formats that uphold the basic principles of the web versus the number and quality of competing, royalty-free video codecs.

Claiming that not specifying a codec will lead to anything other than a de-facto standard of the non-royalty free H.264 is ridiculously, shockingly disingenuous. It's just shady lawyering to claim that pushing for a codec, that by its very nature can't be in the spec, and having its rivals removed from the spec, is anything other than the equivalent of having it in the spec.
The Story of the Approval of my Final Dissertation
I read through the website which was on the top of search engine results and decided to get help from them. I asked for the help from the guys, and they promised to help me with my dissertation.
I thought it was really interesting that Slava from RethinkDB mentioned in his recent O'Reilly talk that the Semantic Web is something that people don't really care about.

I was shocked; I think it's everything.

The Semantic Web is the big nut. Just because we don't have a way to crack it yet, doesn't diminish it in terms of its importance. This video helps to hint at why that is and what's at stake.
Dice Pays Up To $9 Million To Acquire Worldwideworker
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Well, you can, but organizations tend to not have the unlimited amounts of money required to do that :)
er, is that a serious comment or sarcasm?
Makes me wonder if a propensity to lie and an ability with math are negatively correlated.
Embarrassing videos from the Norwegian IT industry
Nah, trying to get a wide collection to keep me busy over the commute.

Data security or spamming would be good, as would social media, or even podcasts covering consumer gadgets. Anything really.
Yep, I had a bunch of different usernames and with the help of a couple friends I browbeat and Steve, made up the majority of the early submissions to reddit. There's nothing sadder than visiting a reddit with no content (or stale content). This only lasted for a few weeks, though, thankfully. The moment neither Steve nor I needed to make a submission was the day we realized we may not have entirely wasted our summer :)
No. You misunderstood my verbiage. Rather, that Adobe has had more than decade to refine their algorithms and data structures so asking comparable performance from, ahem, far less than a decade's worth of engineering development is rather short-sided.
I get this "PerformancePress" is proprietary software?

Good for you to have it.
I don't really mind Youtube (or Apple Keynotes, Quicktime Movie Trailers etc.) not using royalty-free codecs that much. If every web decision was made through the lens of "is this image format suitable for Flickr", or "is this text encoding suitable for Wikipedia" then you'd end up with a very strange kind of web. Youtube seems to be regularly predicted to kill the internet as a whole anyway due to its size and popularity, with or without Theora.

If anyone is going to make extra work for themselves by using multiple codecs, or be subject to licence fees then it should be the giants of the web, not folk uploading videos of their cats to their blog (a demographic for whom Theora is a perfectly good solution if it was supported by Apple and Microsoft).
> - Many users put their hometowns so that they're visible when you zoom out really far (you see the suburbs of Salt Lake City & L.A. before you see SLC & L.A.)

The data for USA was imported from the US government, the TIGER data. One problem with rendering a map is the importance of cities. Both (say) San Francisco and San Jose are close to each other, and you only have room to show one. Which do you show? The largest population? Larger GDP? Larger cultural influence (how do you measure that?), etc. It's a 'hard problem'.

> - It's incomplete in many places
Yes, it's a work in progress, made by voluneteers. However it has come so far in a few years.

> - It doesn't even give you directions
There are other OSM-based services that give directions. One I used is CloudMade (http://maps.cloudmade.com/). Some of the people who started OSM founded CloudMade.
I read about this in another recent story: http://news.cnet.com/2009-1023-225712.html&st.ne.fd.gif....
You should have done that before signing the contract. Then it's baked into the contract. My point is to get everything in writing before you sign things.
I never said that the spec should not specify a video codec, I was just trying to set the record straight. In fact, I didn't claim anything about the spec at all, I just summarized some of Hixie's points. If you aren't satisfied with what I wrote, I recommend reading Hixie's words. Please let me know if I misrepresented him. And, I disagree that not having it in the spec is the equivalent of having it in the spec. The problem is that the spec is useless when, as Hixie puts it, it becomes fiction. Mandating either Theora or H.264 in the spec would have been useless because either Firefox/Opera would be violating the spec or Safari/IE would be. So the only option left to them was to leave it out of the spec, something that Hixie was not happy about but seems like the right thing to do. If a codec comes along that all the vendors can agree to implement, then it is likely that will go into the spec, but until then it will remain blank.
Wikipedia's getting a new look
I agree with you. But even so, wouldn't a lot of people (everyone using firefox/Opera) then be unable to use youtube? When you have such an amazingly high profile site that is incompatible with major browsers, isn't that a bad thing? I guess you just fall back on flash.
I can't speak for anyone else. But for me, I truly started getting happy when I started "Reveling in Simplicity" Not in a superficial way, not in the "minimal is cool" way. But in the I really don't need much to be happy way.

I've moved a LOT. I was in the military. And once I got out, I has a string of businesses I started all over the US. And I use to carry these boxes of "STUFF" with me. My wife too. We had all this crap, that was soooooo important to us. But half the time we never even bothered to unpack it. Finally, we both came to our senses, and sold, gave, or threw most of it away.

I hear people talk about "Golden Handcuffs" I know what you mean. I had them. But you know what, I was able to shake them too. So maybe they're not handcuffs. Just decorations. That we like so much we won't take them off. But we can.

My family is great now. We live on so much less. And our quality of life is through the roof! If my family was a startup, we would have so much runway our competitors would be shaking in their boots. And just like a startup, that gives you a lot of freedom to experiment.

I love to experiment.

Simplicity is the key to happiness. At least that's my opinion. Sorry for the rant in the comments. Didn't mean for it to go on so long.
How could I modify or add some new functionality to IPhoneOS kernel?
I agree with Hixie that putting it in the spec is pointless if Apple and Microsoft are going to go against the spec.

I disagree that just by forcing the spec to be changed from requiring Theora that Apple and Microsoft now get off the hook for their actions.

You said, repeating an often made claim, The spec does not specify a codec for use on the video tag, just as it doesn't for the img tag. Which is factually correct now, after Apple refused to implement the spec as it was and Hixie edited the spec to reflect reality. Hixie claims he will add a codec back, once one is found suitable, which means both royalty-free and implemented by the big players.

You appear to have done it by accident, but you'll find comments elsewhere in the thread that make the argument that he has no right to specify any codec in HTML5, whether Theora or a future royalty-free codec, and make the parallel to the img tag not specifying an image format. This is clearly not Hixie's position, and I don't think it generally holds any water.
Why would Google care about this? The ad uses Google's results and strips ads and cookie data, meaning they are taking from Google and giving nothing in return. Further, they use an unsupported method to scrape Google.

I can see the social value of anonymizing searches but Google shouldn't bear any blame for product changes that break derivative, unsupported third party products.

As a product manager, it's a nightmare when you're afraid to change (or retire an older version of) a successful product because some third party was using it in a unsupported way.
At the moment the focus seems to be mainly educational and artistic. It looks like they're struggling getting more research type projects going but there is certainly a lot of potential in the community which I hope will lead to good things.

You may already be aware of it but if you're interested in biology/medicine you might want to take a look at http://hackermed.com/ as well which kyro is trying to get going. Only just started so users and content are lacking but again hopefully good things will come from it.
$15bn actually sounds conservative to me (I'm in the business intelligence space).

Yep, check out http://www.bi-verdict.com/fileadmin/FreeAnalyses/consolidati...

EDIT: And that table doesn't even include IBM's billion-dollar SPSS grab.
Yelp Security Hole Puts Facebook User Data At Risk
Both Warren and Detroit are 'cities' in the US, so both are tagged "place=city", i.e. both at the same level. The map rendered can't draw both, so it can't decide which to show, so it picks one. It's hard to come up with a good way to rank the hierachies of cities.
how would praying help?
Ah - damn. It'd be great to have this in the UK.
The real advantage of named parameters is the ability to have optional parameters as well. Which means that instead of:

var c = new X(3, "blue", null, null, null, null, false, true, null, 1, null);

(which, sadly, is an all too common implementation pattern), you can have:

var c = new X(foo: 3, bar: "blue", baz: false, quux: true, wibble: 1);

Which seems quite a bit better.

Another advantage of named/optional parameters is that you can use them in the construction of immutable objects, whereas you don't get that advantage if you use settable properties.
You're not the first or last, I know I used scripts like this in the past (smaller scale). There were even services built around it back a while ago... the names elude me but they offered 10 or 20 new followers per day based on keyword. It was a good way to add relevant people as you used it.

FYI: twitter did fix this problem somewhat. After 2000 following you need to have a ratio within 10%. So following 2001 (or was it 2002) requires 1800 followers. This strategy only works for the first 2000. Presumably, he's got to clean up quite a few times before breaking past this, an easier solution would be drop it down to 1000 or even 500, something no normal person would add in a day (but even I have found cases where I add more than this in a day legitimately - within a small niche I do business, to add everyone relevant it's around 700-900 I think).

Finally, how do you find the traffic quality? From what I've seen it's crap. I've pushed ~1 million clicks in the last 2 months or so and it's pretty worthless in my experience. I think are a lot of bots and stat services just hitting it, definitely not real traffic.
Moblin: The 'Almost there' GUI for Netbooks
I agree about this. After I read "The Game" and "Rules of The Game" by Neil Strauss (which are about being a pick-up artist) I took away the lesson that the hardest part (at least for me) was walking up to strangers and talking to them. It was amazingly liberating to do it, however. What I do is ask them some question that they could plausibly answer as a way to starting a conversation. I have had very, very, very few bad reactions.
Since I grew up in the 80s and 90s I've always enjoyed using 90210 -- ahh for the days of bad hair and even worse acting! ;)

This looks like an awesome idea. I would absolutely be interested if I was in the US! (no chance of it coming to Belgium, is there, huh? :( )
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1644/what-good-technology...
Wouldn't it be smarter to use a couple million of that to create a seed fund for aspiring technologies?
I just don't think people will be willing to add the semantic data. Instead of the semantic web, I think we will see more and more services that can extract information automatically.

For example, if you tweet or blog about a place, it seems doable to automatically realize that it is a place. You don't have to tweet "Going to <semantic:place>Joe's Bar</semantic:place>". From knowing your default location, a clever computer could recognise "Joe's Bar" as a place, because your city has a place called "Joe's Bar".

I think there are already examples of this cropping up here and there (and Yahoo has a service for places you can use).
Do you have intellisense in your eyes? A line of code with a handful of named parameters reveals its intentions (and possibly also its correctness) for more readily than a line of code with a laundry list of parameters that you need to mouseover then do a bit of mental juggling to line up which value lines up with which parameter. In doing so you've likely interrupted and degraded your reading of the code and you've definitely degraded your ability to readily spot the difference between correct and incorrect code.
Why not do both? The major disadvantage with the seed fund approach is that you have no idea what you'll get out of it or how long it will take. If you but SPSS, it might cost you more, but you know exactly what you're getting and when you'll be getting it, which is a huge advantage if you feel you're in a hurry.
Agree. The illustrations are nice but the logo could use improvement!
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Wow, simply amazing, very well done to the author! I'm not sure where I could use this - to take the slightly cruel point of another commenter, if Geocities were in use today I think their users would be all over this - but it's a very neat effect, and I'm sure someone will find a snazzy user interface use for it!
Microsoft’s Project Natal to Launch in October
Any idea if it is online somewhere? The actual show, I mean?

Also, how did it pan out, did they achieve greater happiness for that village? I liked their "seeding" approach.
Is no-one else impressed by how much computing power is being demonstrated in a handheld device with this?

Or do we all just take it for granted today?

It's not using any server-side assistance like Opera Mini does, is it?

100% processed on the phone - fantastic.