skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that there are plenty of MonoTouch users out there, and the work required to keep the project up to date doesn't seem huge. iPad support took them 24 hours to implement. I don't think likelihood of stagnation is significant.
That is incorrect.

They used place that restriction on those accessing the .swf spec, but that restriction has been lifted. I'd have to check, but I think it's been several years now, but it's certainly been more than a year.
Watching the person's movements and mannerisms is a very important part of trust.
Grooveshark is always looking for clever music lovers to add to our quirky culture. We're based in Gainesville, FL. See http://grooveshark.com/jobs for details or feel free to hit me up directly - chris@grooveshark.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium
Imagine that my religion believes I'll go to hell if I read silly comments — you would have condemned me!

This game can turn into an infinite recursion.
Okay. Could you clarify more what happens if there are existing affiliate codes? Does Posterous only get an affiliate fee if there is no existing affiliate code?
What happens to Russians who retire?
Ask HN: Seattle Area Hackers Group?
I'm looking for a group of programmers that get together (pref on weekends) and hang out to toss around ideas or hack code. I'm not so much interested in "Interest Groups" or "User Groups". Talks aren't so much important to me as people who just like to hang out.

Anyone know of anything like that in the Seattle? The closest I've found is seattle.rb but they generally have their hacker lounges on Tuesdays which is a no go for me.
(it works for me)

I've checked Chrome Developer Tools. It does its magic via click event, installing vl_mC function as a listener.
It looks like IE7 and Safari 3 are the next IE6.

They're both blocking CSS3 tables, WAI-ARIA, postMessage, Web Storage, CORS, and appCache. (Opera 10.1 shares the blame on a few of those too.)

IE7 is the furthest behind by far. I'd root for IE8 adoption, except that it's not much better. :(
We'll have to see if/how he uses it. He could simply have patented it to prevent anyone else from doing so and abusing it.
A key point to keep in mind in this whole debate it mentioned here. There's an assumption on Apple's part that these new platforms are so infant that they're certainly going to be doing major transformations over the next few years. That sort of lends a bit more credence to the demand for control.
I doubt it. Bilski will be decided by SCOTUS in exactly the same way they "decided" Eldred... by punting it back to a very well-bribed Congress.

And that won't even be the wrong decision, really. There is no constitutional basis for a ruling on software and/or business-method patentability, one way or the other. It's clear that Congress is supposed to make those calls.
I agree that is what he is saying, but as far as I can tell, that is crap. What is so magical about native apis? If a middleware application calls an api and it changes, it breaks, but the same is true for a native application.
Other language implementations starting with SB were Stony Brook Pascal (back in the DOS days). It used to be one of the best Pascal implementations.
Afterwards all the submarine patents are gone, and we can prove it...

Well, no, only the submarine patents from MPEG-LA signatories are gone.
Books make people happy. Helping people make their own books make them even happier. Helping people be happy is happy.

Blurb.com is hiring. We're a print-on-demand publisher in San Francisco. The work is fun and the people are great.

Rails (and non-dev jobs): http://www.blurb.com/join_us
I use Zune Pass too and I've been generally satisfied with it. It's a lot better now than it used to be, almost to the point where I could probably ditch my Rhapsody subscription but Rhapsody proves pretty useful and has been venerable for ages now. I never could get into lala and I'm glad I didn't after this move.
Most of them don't, but Clearlooks works.
Will you be staying in the Bay Area?
I would agree if Apple had an uncrippled "iPad Pro", but they don't. The future of computing is mobile, and Apple's position is that if you want that, you have to sacrifice control of your own hardware. If that becomes the norm from all hardware providers, it will be very bad for freedom and innovation.
To confirm for yourself:

1. Go to this post (the result of a Google search for Posterous and Amazon) - http://adeb.posterous.com/ubuntu-one-music-store-vs-amazon

2. Fire up a browser extension/add-on to monitor HTTP requests like HTTP Fox or HTTP Watch.

3. Click the link "here" at the end of the line: 1 install the rpm/deb from here

You can clearly see a request to:

http://api.viglink.com/api/click?key=8eb8c964d427e97a1567cec....
Before I moved back to the US, I was working at youDevise in London, and it was great. Financial services startup. Awesome people.

http://www.youdevise.com/careers
A bit cheating to use such a heavy ball, but cool anyway.
Kurrently - a real time search engine for Facebook and Twitter
I'd love to hear from you guys on how I can improve the site.
Pretty much every government that has been in power in the UK hates the BBC because they can't control it.
Apple's App Store policies are constantly evolving so who knows? Maybe they'll purge abandoned apps at some point for exactly the same reason.
I don't think he did it consciously.
That proposal doesn't work with HTML's "don't break the web" design principles - http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/

Those tags don't degrade gracefully in existing browsers. Paste this into your address bar to see what I mean:

data:text/html,<html><body><#person>me</><.person>you</></body></html>
Actually, 0.97 testicle, 1.0 breast.

http://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/sex_ratio.html
Didn't LiveJournal do this recently?
الدرس التاني (الكتابة بالجلتر) - منتدى إمبراطورية العقول
A word of warning, this client is apparently only for Android phones running version 2.1 and above of the software. For older Android phones, Twitter suggests using the standard mobile site.

Wow. That leaves quite a lot of us Android users out in the cold.

My counter suggestion is Twidroid, which oddly isn't mentioned at all in the article.

http://twidroid.com/
"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation."

Just wondering, is this how you respond in real life when others give you constructive feedback?
(I'm one of the reddit guys) ;)
that is down right sad, how does a country like the US end up like that? i would love to see stats like this for europe or places like china
As a New Hampshire resident I appreciate this link, but I think it's applicable to hackers in all states...
An author of a native application can update the app himself. An author of an app which is dependent on middleware must wait until the middleware is updated.
While everything in this article is factually correct, it maybe gives a different impression than it should. Time dilation is of course a long held tenet of special and general relativity. Can we call that time travel into the future? I'm not really sure. In a way I guess it is (how is it practically different from placing yourself into a separate bubble of spacetime?). Of course, actually achieving this in a practical sense is pretty much impossible considering the energies involved.

As for time travel into the past... pretty much no. That would have a bunch of really disturbing consequences, including traveling faster than the speed of light and violating the second law of thermodynamics.

Of course, this just a former physics minor on stupid macro affects. When you get down to the quantum particle level the game probably changes considerably.
Maybe I'm biased. I wear glasses and have a 'bad' eye and a 'good' one. Also I can't see those stereoscopic pictures etc. It's lost on me unless it's made really obvious, which is what they've done in the movies I've seen in 3D - which ruins it.
Absolutely not. I think as a rule of thumb, people should present the most credible sources they can find.
People don't mention this enough, but the reason people build abstractions is to not bet the farm on a platform. Apple paints it like the platform makers are ONLY freeloaders that leverage their platform while also diluting it. While in many cases this is true, many small shops build tools to make it so that they can more cost effectively target more than one platform. Android/iPhone being a common grouping, Windows/OS X another, and in games it's XBox360/Playstation3.

And in my opinion, Apple is a monopoly or on it's way. But I almost don't care they've done so much to improve mobile quality they deserve to reap much of the benefit.
Thank you for the heads-up. Just added *.viglink.com to the AdBlock list.
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1308014

In the item referenced there they have not only the video, but also an article.
WebGL is mentioned on that page. I'm not sure if it was updated since you looked.

"Conclusion: Not ready*. Waiting for Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4, Opera 10.5 to expire"
Ask HN: Who's hiring outside US?
Anyone willing to hire remote?
From drivingmenuts comment:

Copied the link and pasted into the address bar in Safari - no change. However if I right-click, and choose Open Link in New Window, it briefly flashes over to VigLink.
Or resubmit every month, so the posts don't go stale.
According to that article LiveJournal was (is?) overwriting existing affiliate links with their own. According to their co-founder, Posterous is only affiliating links that aren't already affiliated (ref: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1309604).
They get pension, which is funded from the taxes they presumably paid while they were working (if they were not working, they will still get some). Just like it is in other countries, I suppose.
SB Nation is hiring Ruby/Rails developers: http://www.sbnation.com/jobs/developer

We're based in Washington DC (in sweet offices in Dupont Circle) but are open to remote people.

We don't have a job description up for this yet, but we're also looking for a strong agile project manager. If you're interested, send email to: jobs at sbnation dot com

Here are some of the people you'd be working with: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mlovitt/4507488493/in/set-72157...
10 US Cities Facing a Double Whammy of Default Risks
Hacker's life in Tallinn, Estonia, Epilogue.
That's pretty much the deal. Only URLs that don't yet include affiliate info gets re-written.

There are a couple of companies in this space, viglink, skimlinks, etc. They all operate on the basis that they sign up to every affiliate scheme and they become the single publisher with which the merchants have a relationship (or more likely, the merchants use a marketplace that puts all merchants together so that they can be found).

For any affiliate program that viglink/skimlinks is signed up to, should someone click through from your site a 45 to 60 day cookie is usually set by the affiliate provider to show who the last publisher is that made the referral. Should a subsequent purchase be made viglink/skimlinks is credited with the sale and receives the 3.5% > 15% affiliate payment.

Catches (there are some)...

1) The cookie. Only the last web site to set a cookie gets the affiliate reward. In this case it means other sites actually providing value and setting affiliate click-thrus are going to get their cookie hijacked by posterous using viglink. So this hurts niche sites that really rely on the affiliate schemes.

2) The fee. Viglink and SkimLinks both deduct a 25% fee for this service. That's pretty damn high. They are VERY profitable.

The benefits...

1) As a publisher you get 75% of the money that is currently left on the table.

2) You didn't have to sign up to every damn affiliate scheme... actually you'd be declined anyway as whilst a merchant will deal with the big boys they tend to only like smaller guys who stay in their knowledge domain (if you don't run an insurance content site, you don't get the insurance affiliate scheme).

Basically viglink and skimlinks are simplifying the whole affiliate thing by doing for the publishers exactly what the merchants already had in places like Commission Junction... which is to provide a one-stop-shop.

So... merchants get found via CJ, AffiliateWindow, etc... and publishers get signed up to all merchants via Viglink, SkimLinks, etc.

What has ultimately happened is that now there are 2 intermediaries between the publisher and the merchant, both of whom take a slice.

I don't blame posterous for doing this, it is just money left on the table. But the cookie hijack will hurt smaller sites for whom the affiliate scheme revenue is a bloodline.
If you have no children, you generally don't retire. Or, well, you can try to live on government/municipal pension (my wild guess is $30-$100/month range covers the 95% of the population). You will be very poor, but it's doable. Bear in mind that the vast majority of senior russian citizens have some place to live (I mean, they don't have to rent or something; renting is for young and ambitious).
Might start with these: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Seattle

We started a pdxhackathon night by telling all the local user groups about it, and a few of us meeting up at a bar every week. Worked great, and now we have 10+ people every Thursday who get together. Another one sprang up across town a few weeks ago as well. :)
I don't really see a problem with this as it does not strip off existing affiliate codes, it only adds them if they are not present. I mean, Firefox makes millions off of Google searches and nobody seems to complain about that.
Whoops, sorry. That was an inadvertent dup.
I have seen Flash crash a few times on Windows too...
In general a mortgage is a pro, it's going to cost you but in the long run you've got a good chance of breaking even or even profiting.

Robert Shiller, the Yale economist who pretty much invented modern techniques for housing market valuations (the Case-Shiller index), analyzed this question in his book Irrational Exuberance. Based on a centuries worth of housing data, he concluded that the return on investment for housing was very low, on the order of 0.4% per year (you could do worse than read http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/renting-makes-more-financi... ).

Look, if the price to rent ratio in your area is suitably small (taking into account property taxes, transaction fees, insurance) AND if you can commit to being in that area for at least 5 years AND if you have either surplus time or money to spend on maintenance and improvements, then switching from renting to owning might be a good idea. The trouble is that buying a house means buying two goods bundled together: an investment and shelter. Homeowners often sink most of their wealth into the investment part. But housing makes an awful investment for most people: transaction costs are enormous, they can't diversify, and market liquidity tends to be very low just when you need to sell. It would be a disaster if people decided to sink most of their wealth into a single undiversified stock, but people do that all the time with housing.

Many people end up buying a house even though that decision doesn't make sense because we have a cultural expectation that you're not really a serious adult until you've bought a house.

I know my parents bought their house for 75,000GBP and sold it for 250,000GBP in the space of 15 years, because of their mortgage agreement they were paying low rates for the longest of times.

Making major financial decisions based on anecdote rather than data often ends poorly.

It's worth noting that a $1000 mortgage is a shitload better than $1000 in rent.

This is just not true. It depends. If you think you might be moving somewhere else in the next few years to get a better job, than paying rent will probably be much smarter.
I'm thinking about trying this, despite having a relationship/family. I think the right approach is to set expectations appropriately--and to spend at least some of your "off" time with the family to make up for the long days "on". At least that's my theory.
If you own any stocks/futures related to seafood I'd be getting rid of them right about now.

The pollution impact of all this is going to be off the charts.
If you're gonna get all bent out of shape about your "original content" staying "original", host the blog yourself...
Absolutely. What's wrong with a business having a revenue model? Better this than advertising or a crippled free version.
Just wanted to say that I've met most of the folks at Airbnb and they are all unbelievably awesome. Seriously check them out, they're doing some amazing things.
The limitations to what you can do with App Engine are largely technical rather than largely the result of contractual obligations. That's why everyone is in a tiff about App Store.
If you're such a fan of the guy, you should probably learn to spell his name right ;-)

It's "Eric Ries" not "Eric Reis".
And student loans.
I like this very much. Much better than the HTC twitter app. Didn't get a chance to try twidroid or seesmic though, as I just got my incredible today.

I wonder if since this is by twitter, it doesn't affect your API limits.
The OP says that using right-click to copy a link to google.com gives instead a link like:

http: // api.viglink.com/api/click?key=8eb8c964d...

But I am not experiencing that with a right-click in either Safari/Mac OR FF/Mac. He mentions Safari not being a problem. I find that FF/Mac isn't either.

EDIT: Any chance that they have disarmed this after getting all the bad press (at least on HN)?
Sigh. I'm pretty sure I could add lock free queues to C without changing the syntax.

lockfree_enqueue(queue, whatnot);
whatnot = lockfree_dequeue(queue);

Looks just like all the rest of my C code. The part of me that wants to learn lisp dies a little every time I read one of these "look how awesome lisp is" comments because I'm afraid I'll end up spouting such nonsense.
Facebook is hiring http://www.facebook.com/careers.

Why Join?

Startup culture - This will be the closest thing you can get to a startup environment without going on an all-ramen diet. We move fast and avoid the bs.

Work on something people use - Users upload a Flickr worth of photos every month. Life is too short to work on something nobody is going to use.

Plus you get to change the way the world communicates and shares.

talent@facebook.com
This isn't anything that uncommon. It doesn't strip off a existing affiliate link either (last i checked) so I dont really get the outrage. The firefox reference quoted earlier seems pretty similar.
"I watched stand up commedians on tv and analyzed why some jokes worked and some didn't."

That's what they do, after all. As much as people protest that you can't dissect a joke, comedians and humor writers pull on gloves and end up elbow-deep in the things to improve their craft.
Interesting, a few people have mentioned this place to me recently. I shall investigate.
It really has been an education watching all the Apple shills stumbling over each other in their rush to defend this transparently absurd claim. Nobody has shown more reckless disregard for backward compatibility than Apple in the modern Jobs era. The idea that they'd let the discomfort of any number of Mono or Flash developers hold back their plans is ludicrous in light of their breakneck pace of incompatible change.

The loads of shovelware in the app store put the lie to the quality claim so let's just focus on what's right in front of our faces. This is all about raising the barrier to writing cross-platform apps and locking down Apple's control in the emerging mobile computing market. The dishonesty with which this naked power grab is sweetened has a positively Soviet flavor.
Looking at the code, the hooks are DOM listeners that intercept the click to do the redirect. They don't modify the anchor tag, so there's no reason anyone should see them on mouseover or right-click-copy.
China famously (among economists) has the highest national savings rate in the world - about 40-50% of GDP, compared to 10-15% for the US, 20% for Europe, and 25% for Japan. China has very different cultural expectations related to saving and spending.

On the other hand, the US spends a higher percentage of GDP on education than most countries, which is a different form of investment in the future.
Just installed it. The background animation is a nice touch, although there's a bit of choppiness at first. It can be disabled if it's an issue, so I don't see it being a problem. I've been using Seesmic for the last few months and like it, and there aren't any options I feel I'm missing with this, and it definitely seems easier to access lists, trending topics, and profiles.

I'm wondering what an official Twitter client is going to mean for third party clients like Seesmic and Twidroid. My guess is that it will just coexist with them, just like twitter.com exists with all of the desktop apps and Brizzly, etc.
I'm possibly interested in a Scala users group.

(Translation: I'm thinking of moving back to SD, we'll see in a couple of weeks.)

I guess that means count me in as a "maybe", which might be good enough to kick things off.
Right. The report just seems a bit off. A day after the acquisition, an unnamed source goes to Techcrunch before anyone else? Even if the source does exist, no guarantees they're not lying, deliberately misinforming, or misinformed themselves. (I wouldn't be surprised if HP was trying to light a bit of a fire under Microsoft, or really just gauge potential market reaction à la $999 iPad.)

I'm also somewhat peeved by the title of this submission of HN; no "Rumour:", no "Source:", no "Techcrunch:", just a statement of fact.

I haven't seen any non-TC confirmation of this story yet.

edit: saw a Business Insider piece which basically said "they might do it". No attribution.
Don't get me wrong, "database as a service" seems cool and all, but ... inventing the future? Don't you have to be a rockstar or a ninja to do that?
Yes it seems to be human nature to kill the goose that lays the golden egg, unfortunately.

I remember even reading about a company that years ago cut back everyone to 30 hours per week (with 3/4 pay) due to a recession at that time. They discovered that everyone was more productive at 30 hours and happier as well. Once the recession ended and the company was on more solid ground, they went back to 40 hours. Go figure.

37 signals doesn't keep office hours and I'm sure there are others out there. Just gotta keep looking.
People still use earthlink.net email addresses?
Would you mind saying a bit more? They're showing up at my uni. in a couple weeks, would be interested in knowing a bit about them. Specifically, are there opportunities to deploy my elite computational statistics-fu? ;)
This is great since I use both Heroku and MongoDB. Pardon the self-plug, but I wrote an article a few months ago about using Heroku with external MongoDB servers: http://www.developer.com/lang/rubyrails/article.php/3860616/...

Last year I tried to talk a customer into using Heroku for a medium size web deployment. They didn't go for it, and so we spent a fair bit of money setting up Elastic Load Balancing, EC2s, etc. Unless you expect a zillion users, it just does not make sense to spend the effort on custom deployments. Same positive comment for using high quality VPS hosting where you can expect your hosting company to do frequent incremental backups, proactively repair RAIDs, get VPS instances back on line quickly after hardware failures, etc.

It is a lot of fun setting up servers but the question is whether that is worth being pulled away from application development. Anyway, good news re: MongoHQ being an add-on product.
"MonoTouch is not in the same boat as Flash’s iPhone compiler, as it’s not a cross-platform framework."

Did Gruber read Section 3.3.1? It says: "Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine"[...]

Section 3.3.1 does not talk about frameworks, it's about programming languages.
That's very unlikely to be true these days, almost all frameworks are designed to be extensible.