skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that the algorithms are already being adjusted. My fear is that a bunch of politicians who are as clueless as most everyone else are going to try use this as yet another opportunity to grab the spotlight. Expect congressional hearings.
I doubt it. If my "job" was to crank out as many spam apps as possible, I would choose a tool that allows for the most efficient means (fast turnaround). Today, straight obj c would probably be my last choice.
By "upper class," are you referring to the rich? If so, you're noting that the rich are doing a good job at staying rich. That's unsurprising because they can take bigger risks without losing their shirts due to their wealth buffer.

In the recent Sunday Times Rich List (of the top 1000 richest people in the UK), 751 were "self-made" with only 249 having inherited their wealth. Most of the billionaires had humble beginnings. There is no defined "upper class" or level of wealth that's impossible for people born into the least economically beneficial situations to attain.
Love it for talks. It'd be cool to see this info aggregated for a Dave Mclure presentation.
Javascript API for WebGL (hardware accelerated 3D in the browser)
Considering VAT is included, and the exchange rate for Euro/USD is $1.27 per Euro, I think you guys are getting a good deal right now.

My friends in the UK are used to paying pretty much the equivalent price in pounds vs. dollars. So, for example, a $300 Nvidia GFX card usually costs 300 pounds sterling in the UK.

It's hard to believe you're complaining about the prices being as low as they are. Blame Greece if you think they should be lower.
Fastmail sale to Opera: the story from one of the owners
The "most important question" in consensus-building
If you want a quick look, check out http://www.sharedy.com/
you will see most of the links turning into embeds.

Also if you post a link there, say from youtube or funnyordie it will also turn into an embed.
In order:

1) your blog will have to use their URL structure, /post/:id/:slug . But who is really bugged by that? Seems a sane structure to me.

2) fact. If disqus comments are a showstopper for you, you've got to find a different service.

3) fact, but I see that as a positive, not a negative. Why in the world do you want your themes running native code?

4) Tumblr has static pages with arbitrary URLs. Here's a screenshot of the interface: http://img.skitch.com/20100507-edeg31uwc25t9hkumww2j9hk4b.jp...

Tumblr has a great bookmarklet, a good iphone app, a good community, reasonable uptime, and a good admin and customization interface. I don't recommend their group blogs, though I have several, but I highly recommend their service for one person.
It's pretty easy to crank out an iPhone app in Objective C.
Awesome! I am psyched for the interest ... we'll publish an explanation of the tech details next week.
I think you mean a veggie bowl? According to their online ordering app, peppers & onions are included. They charge extra for meat, but that wouldn't be a veggie bowl.
...and then, if your scheme works (which, as others have pointed out, would take a miracle, and a very carefully chosen market that's not handled the way most of the big ones are), both you and your friend go to jail for market manipulation, which would be rather simple to prove - there's almost no reason you would ever want to sell something way below the best bid, so you're without the usual excuses that market manipulators use to justify manipulative trades ("uh, my analysis showed that the 26.5 day moving average crossed the 100 day low, so I bought, but then I noticed that the pork bellies volatility was higher than usual, so I sold a few seconds later, because that's the way my strategy works...").
This is why it's important that Android gives you 24 hours to "return" any app you buy for a refund.
Could be a sign of a learning disorder or odd connectivity. I get that boshed up all the time. Sorry to have misled you Hugh.

Corrected the title, thanks for calling it out
See you there
Honestly, I'm not sure. Send me your Scribd username and I'll take a look.
In order to get that level of display control, they're doing some insane things under the hood with the HTML. It's a tag fiesta in there (understandably -- there's no other way to do it), and complex HTML can put some real demands on the processor -- but nothing compared to the same content in Flash.

In Safari scrolling that document is very smooth. So much better than the Flash Scribd. Kudos.
Comparing the size of the BP oil spill to various major cities
As I mentioned in my other comment, I give a thumbs up to Movable Type, particularly in regards to security. The only database access is done on the admin side. When you publish anything, it generates pure html pages. So only you access the database. Users only access html. There are no complexities between these two arrangements.

Movable Type takes just a little longer to set up than WordPress, but hey, many of us here are hackers right? Plus you can tweak the code to your heart's content.
Craigslist launches Craigslist TV
No server-side code allowed, but you can work all the jquery magic you want and they have a facility for static pages with arbitrary URLs. I'd probably not recommend selling it to a business, because, for example, here's how I'd do an image gallery:

1) upload the pics to flickr
2) use jquery to grab the pics
3) make a static page to display them

Also, because it's clear that their service is designed for single-person blogs, their group blogs have some annoyances that range from minor to severe.
This guy is jealous:

http://lagaffemegate.free.fr/marottes/images/monde04.jpg

What an amazing thing you are building, it's a pity burning man is a continent away or I would come just to see it play!
I used to be of a similar mindset, that tools/ideas/practices should possibly be avoided as they can sometimes have a negative affect on people who don't fully comprehend them (such as using design patterns when they're not applicable or where an alternative design would prove to be a better fit).

However, I've since come to believe that it's not the ideas that are harmful, it's the people that use them without comprehending them. If this is the case, avoiding a concept that would provide benefit is limiting yourself without any benefit as the people that would misuse them will probably find something else to screw up anyway.

Or, to put it more succinctly: "You can write Fortran in any language"
Freakonomics: Can Computers Replace Journalists?
Much better than their Flash interface. But completely broken in Firefox 3.0.x (under Red Hat; can't advance past the first page and there are no pictures) and the fonts are too big under Iceweasel 3.5.9 (under Debian). Until they stop requiring a log-in to download the original PDF so I can view the content in a decent viewer, I'm going to continue cursing every time I accidentally follow a link to scribd.
I agree that live broad/podcasts need a very strict schedule, but I don't think that they're not doing it because they haven't thought of it.

I think the problem is either they're not serious enough about their content or that unscripted, live shows are hard to lock down to a single length every week.

When online shows are scripted, filmed, and edited down to exactly 22 minutes, then scheduling will get much better.
Had me rolling. Great work. Somebody knows computer languages too well. :)
Comparison of HTML5 display and Flash on chrome + win7:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2601554/comparison.png
Full Version of Metropolis Found
llimllib, thanks for the reply. I can think of a number of reasons that you might want to have dynamic elements in your theme. I understand the concern over themes running code, but if you want things like breadcrumbs and your CMS doesn't come with them as a native function then you need to be able to run native code. Ideally, the CMS would include a wide and extensible array of native functions that themes could take advantage of, but tumblr certainly isn't that CMS.

Good to know about the pages.

One other issue is file uploads. Say I want to host my CV at domain.com/CV.pdf. I don't think I could do that with Tumblr. Is that too much to ask?
Watch HTML5 Video on Ubuntu 10.04
> No matter how many times you import foo

Just don't reload it.
> Do you really think that it's of benefit to society for some people to show up to work every day and take home Wal-Mart wages, instead of having real alternatives?

Given the prevalence of unemployment, yes Walmart jobs are better than at least one real alternative.
Or class - which strongly correlates with diet and smoking along with education, mental stimulation through your occupation, medical care, etc.
It's level of applicability (which I don't think is much to be honest) hasn't really change as Python (the language) has not changed all that much in that time. There's been a handful of syntactic changes (new keywords, exception handling, etc) and some additional protocols (such as with statement), but the fundamentals of the language have not change (dynamically, strongly typed language with first class functions/types).

Design pattern are conceptual implementation strategies and not components, therefore only fundamental language paradigm changes could (should?) make them no longer applicable for the most part.
Simply beyond ridiculous (H265 proposal testing)
Hacking Facebook
I practice this same technique at a local restaurant named Amigos in the mid-west. The condiments are free inside, but in the drive through they cost $0.50... it works about 75% of the time.
Shouldn't they be experts on both sides of all (or at least most) trades already?
I've probably spent over $200 on Mini DisplayPort Adapters alone.
Keynotes from Web 2.0 Expo
Can anyone suggest a good app/tricks to make infographics?
We store oil and we find more places to extract it. Furthermore, as consumption leads to higher prices, we will produce more efficient and productive ways to extract it.
Build your own CMS and have it generate static pages. Original texts are still stored in local database for editing. It rebuilds locally and uploads a 7zip archive of the modified files (eg article,rebuilt category index) via ssh and extracts. That's what I did, and for a moderate sized shitty blog like mine this works at no risk and minimal overhead.

Besides the pleasure of having used your own software you'll laughing when competitor sites that used cookie cutter software and are going into panic, and public relations damage control mode when the chinese and russians wiped their shit, stole their passwords and flooded enlarge your dick emails to half the world from their servers.
Static HTML files driven off a system like Jekyll or Webby, coupled with comments from Disqus would be significantly more secure. It's also much less convenient.
I think the best were:

Steve Blank talking about the history of silicon valley (it didn't start with silicon).

Hilary Mason talking about what Bit.ly knows based on all the links that are getting posted.

Tim O'Reilly talking about the Internet Operating System.
Is it rude to be too early for an interview?
Yes, it was for a veggie bowl. But i didn't bring the example up originally because I think the veggie bowl changed. This example was about 6 years ago when I believe those peppers and onions weren't included with the veggie bowl.
Don't you have anything better to do?
What are the liabilities should this thing catch a bunch of Burning Man hippies on fire?
> [...], so we'll see more of these "accidents" in the future.

No, we'll see less of these trades. Because the next guy will set up "buy everything at $ 0.02", so that the $ 0.01 guys don't get everything. Of course they anticipate each other, and will bid each other up to sensible prices.
No. Rich does not mean upper class, and upper class does not mean rich. The two factors are strongly correlated, but not the same thing.

The upper class is a tightly-connected group of people who work to consolidate power, social resources, and wealth within their own ranks. Most of them are parasites and a lot of them are criminals whose politics are regressive.

Most rich people are technically upper-middle class. In fact, if you weren't born upper-class, upper-middle is as high as you can go (your children and grandchildren have a shot, though).
This is really nice work guys. It's slightly disorienting to see HTML5 in real use. I kept looking for a scollbar until I realized it was just a regular web page; the scrollbar is my browser's scrollbar. (Though I think part of it was the positioning of the toolbar at the bottom; it looks like the page is split by the toolbar and it's not really.) The rendering in-browser is beautiful, and much more usable than a pdf viewer on my system.
The O3D API Blog: The future of O3D
IPad changes consumer expectations
Ask HN: Email marketing software started by ex-Plaxo employee?
There was recently a new email marketing software that was submitted on here that was created by an ex-Plaxo employee that allowed for customized emails to be sent while using templates. Anyone remember the name of this company?
Whee. Hopefully this will help accelerate WebGL-adoption even further and we can avoid getting locked in to yet another proprietry plugin, in the form of Unity.

I've a feeling that good tools and engines for WebGL-based are going to be needed though.
Sounds cool. When I visited your site I couldn't instantly figure out what you guys were doing, and I also couldn't see where to click for more information. I saw the three "Learn more..." links at the bottom but wanted something that was general, rather than targeting a specific group.

I just realized that the four small images below the splash are linked to what I was asking for. That doesn't seem obvious to me. Maybe I'm stupid, but maybe it's something to keep in mind.
Note the disclaimer on the back of Burning Man tickets:
http://www.erowid.org/culture/burningman/1998_burningman/ima...
I thought this was more interesting than the original linked article. I especially enjoyed the conclusion:

"What's funny is that no one probably ever notices...that's when you know you've done something right."
My biggest annoyance about the apple store is when an application is updated and adds advertisements or removes features, there is no way to revert the application or know that the update is bad. Apple provides no path to complain about this, either.
This is perhaps one of the most profound explanations I have ever read of what a hacker is and does. It describes how everything you may learn about technology is going to impact your's and everyone else's life in the coming years.

I like the point he made about politics. With electronic voting, technology has infiltrated the roots of democracy. It's high time we started taking Computer Aptitude tests for our high officials, perhaps make a Computer Security department in every countries Defense mechanism (this is much more important now that cyber attacks by different countries are coming to the surface.)

The other more subtle message is about leadership. His notion of If you don't like the news; go make some of your own is perhaps the most inspiring leadership quote I have ever read. His description of how every skill (hacker or not) is important in organizing such a campaign.

PS: Slightly off topic, if you wanna know what the other end of the spectrum for this type of an essay will be, try out what I was watching exactly before I read this -->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkLtXfsPqVQ
Well yes, arguably learning Esperanto and speaking it for any purpose is already a sincere form of prayer. :)

Python may not "need" these patterns, but python programmers might. At the minimum, I find it useful to know how design patterns from Java, Smalltalk, etc. are done in Python, especially if it gives me bragging rights that a pattern can be implemented in a fraction of the LoC needed for those other languages.
I the basic circuit componants are R, L, C and now M. I wonder, how one can build a transistor out of R,L,C ?
clickable link http://www.test.com
I didn't know that, thanks for the clarification.
I've been doing live video for over a decade and getting viewers never was the problem.

The biggest stumbling block for a long time was simply that you needed a piece of hardware, initially those were video capture cards hooked up to regular cameras.

Connectix with their 'quickcam' changed the world, and after being bought by Logitech they plastered the world with cheap cameras, USB made it fast and work more or less out of the box (initially we were busy more with supporting out users to get their hardware to work than anything else).

Integrated webcams were the next step, and nowadays it is probably harder to find a laptop without one than with, which leads to all kinds of funny issues for companies that have a 'no webcams' policy on their premises.

Mobile, the final frontier of live video is mostly hindered by the telcos and the phone manufacturers, using video formats that require real time transcoding before you can send them to a browser with a customized stream matching the speed of the consumer.
Avoid Wordpress...really? I can understand avoiding shared hosts because you have less control of the environment but going to an alternative blogging platform because it is more obscure than Wordpress seems to be a bad approach (and if you go with a vps solution you might have the headaches of maintaining a secure distro). This is like saying "you should use Linux or Mac because Windows gets attacked more".

Any piece of software that is popular (I saw a recent statistic that wordpress powers %10 of the top 1 million sites as ranked by Alexa) will be much more vulnerable to attack than less popular software. At the same time, you get a bigger community and all the goodies that come along with that popularity (more plug-ins, themes, etc...).

I don't think that getting rid of the software is the correct approach in this case. You need to approach it by assuming that your wordpress site will be attacked every day and you need to have a plan to remediate this. There is no perfect security unless you unplug your web server from the internet. For a one blogger site - one simple approach would be to:

1. Run something like open source tripwire (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/) on a nightly basis so you can get alerted if any wordpress files get changed (HN peoplez: anyone have a better tripwire-ish solution that is free?)

2. Run a nightly backup of your files and db and mail it to an external account (like a gmail account)

3. have a script that can reload your files and database quickly from your backups (obviously - this needs to be tested)

4. subscribe to the wordpress security list and to a blog like http://www.wpsecuritylock.com/blog/
Don't be so quick to judge that as a job or not. If the market didn't favor spam, there wouldn't be any.

Those two sentences don't add up. Spam is a free rider: it offloads most of its cost onto its audience. 'The market' might favor that, but I don't, so I'm going to continue to judge it.
Tai chi helps too.
Their employees will retire, to live forever on the free pizza and beer which every geek will gratefully buy them in exchange for compelling every single popular proprietary document format to support effort-free export to standard HTML.

Or, you know, they'll invent something else. It's a lot to ask of a business plan that it be good for twenty years.
This site have a lot great books like computational-intelligence-and-modern-heuristics etc
http://sciyo.com/
If the original owner of the copyrighted material (logos, design, etc.) issued a DMCA takedown request to Apple wouldn't they have to remove it, or also be culpable for the infringement? As it is, since they are reviewing all of the apps, are they not already partially responsible?
Why U.S. Entrepreneurs Should Compete On Price
The problem is a lack of thoroughly comprehending the ideas. This results in people over using design approaches in situations where they aren't necessarily applicable, or where alternatives would simply be better suited.

I don't think pointing someone who does not realize that the strategy pattern can be accomplished by passing around functions since they are first class objects at a dynamic language DP tutorial is going to do anything more than give them different ideas to misuse.
I agree that Wordpress gets attacked more, and has more vulnerabilities uncovered, because it is popular. Unfortunately, that isn't the only reason. It is the same worst-of-both-worlds combination that WinXP SP 1 was in 2003.
Hmm, seems fine for me with Chrome beta 5, but you might be right. I don't have FF installed right now to compare.
Venture Capital Must Start Over
I'm with you that NFC isn't necessarily a big improvement here, but the nice thing about it generally is that over time, replacing physical actions/keys becomes just a matter of writing software. (You can imagine it replacing stuff like Metrocards, car keys, house keys, etc. It already has in some places, as you probably know.)

Re FaceCash, it looks really interesting but the thing that kept me from paying $3 to sign up with my GMail account is that the site's missing a "how it works" blurb. How exactly do I get my money into the merchant's hands?
Would you mind emailing me screenshots of the issues you are seeing? We are trying to document all inconsistencies, and your help is much appreciated.

quin -at- scribd.com
How long until the "backstage tours" become part of the theme park itself? And then there'll have to be a backstage-backstage.
Must Watch TED Videos
So what's new here ?

We always knew if you travel really fast, time slows down for you, and people on Earth have aged faster.
We always knew time moves at a different rate depending on gravity, too. Its there in SH's Brief History.
Using BH's and WH's has been talked about for years, too.
Do you have an alternative you recommend?
Apart from the quantum foam wormholes, it's just describing almost century-old (wow!) results of special and general relativity. Nothing especially exciting if you know the tiniest amount of physics.
Is the startup community relying too much on fate? Connecting the outliers
The one thing a killer location-based service needs to be: fun
The Book of Body Language
Can't do much about the first (an alert system? but even then your content would have to be good enough to get people to stop what they're doing and watch your content)

As to the second, that could be a great problem for Justin TV to solve ;-)
Using the scroll wheel would be a nice touch:

window.addEventListener("DOMMouseScroll",onwheel,false);

function onwheel(event){
var delta = -event.detail/3;
if(delta>0){prevSlide();}
else if(delta<0){nextSlide();}
event.preventDefault();
event.returnValue = false;
}
The bugs that will give us free power while cleaning our sewage
Women blame BlackBerrys and iPhones for poor sex life
I'm working on hacking the startup process. I'm focused on the Boston area but I don't think the point in this essay is specific to Boston.
The article forgot to mention one important point. The option to install another OS on PS3 only disappears if the firmware is updated to the latest version. And to my knowledge, I see no reason why these computing farms should update. They need no PSN access and updates bring no new benefits to the installed OS.
New PS3 slim models are already missing that option out of the box.
Moving target APIs
if someone figures out a way (and that's rather easy) to induce mistakes and to profit from them, it will shortly become the prevalent form of trading

That sounds contrary to what Goldman Sachs is saying why they shouldn't be sued. They are using the "big boys" defense.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/21/politics/washingto...
I would rather have a society where people are paid unemployment, even indefinitely, than one where they work under Wal-Mart conditions for Wal-Mart wages-- a circumstance that would be considered slavery by most societies dating back to ancient Greece, although we're afraid to admit that this arrangement is such today.