skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's quite true, I hadn't thought of the individual achievements in the game. It will be interesting to see how strong that investment would be for users.
>How does this have 18 votes in 16 minutes? At a time when the site is pretty quiet? That is very suspicious.

I'm sure it's nothing nefarious. But a good number of people who use this site have strong affinity for YC startups either because they're YC alums or just they're people who really like YC startups and feel like part of the YC community due to being members on this site and having watched YC grow.

I would guess that a subset of said people will basically upvote anything about a YC startup. And launches are especially prone to this treatment because people think that users of this site will find any YC launch interesting (which many users will).
It seems like the majority of things people use Flash for, then, could be replaced with a cross-browser plug-in that exposes a unified API for accessing resources outside the browser (i.e. webcams, microphones, whatever Air does, etc.) from Javascript, and is updated by some process quicker than a web standards committee—a "Cool New Thing engine" of sorts. If it allowed browsers to override its features with their own, each feature could "graduate" from the plug-in's codebase when it became implemented natively by all browsers.
That's ok. I read it through somewhat bleary eyes as 'glandular' (as in fever)
There is a difference I think in how people use evolution in the English language sense:

"evolution can refer to any sort of progressive development"

whereas in the biological sense you are right.

Since this is not about biology I figure we can safely assume that a 'progressive development' is meant and the article linked very much supports that.

The word 'devolution' is probably not used properly here, but I tried to indicate that I don't think this is 'progress', but rather the opposite.
FTFA: 'Temporarily disabling the outputs will “enable a new business model” that wouldn’t develop in the absence of such anti-piracy protection, the Federal Communications Commission said today in an order.'

That seems like an awfully specious reason. If Hollywood could make my TV screen dimmer unless I signed up for a special service, that would open a new business model as well.
Is there anything that Facebook doesn't consider "public information" anymore?
Yep. Confirmed. Command line example:

Take the Base64 string from this line in the headers:

X-Facebook: from zuckmail ([OTguMTgzLjI0Ny4yMTg=])

$ ruby -rbase64 -e "puts Base64::decode64('NzQuMTI1Ljk1LjEwNA==')"
74.125.95.104
you got beaten by two minutes:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1329223

Funny thing, the titles are identical!
I've had employees at the Starbucks inside Barnes & Noble get annoyed at me for only ordering a tall drip coffee, since it drives down their average transaction size, this being the metric on which they're being judged.

I tend to respond to upselling attempts with silence and a blank stare.
Forgiving yourself eases procrastination
I'm confused; what does Virgin America upsell you on?

I let them talk me into paying an extra sixty dollars for First Class one time, cuz it was only sixty dollars. Worth it as a one-time experience, but for a one-hour flight the comfier chair barely made a difference.
My personal favourite would be to have 10 or so official sub HNs and not to allow people to create their own.

My list would include Entrepreneurship, Tech Web, Tech Other
not as effective as categories for stories.
Sometimes I'm more interested in knowing the thought process of PG and YC about why they decided to invest in such idea. What they see this as a business opportunity? Or technology opportunity? Or just big market opportunity? What is it that made PG and YC to invest in this?

And this is just out of curiosity - to learn what they have seen that I'm missing and cannot see.
Because you already mentioned the difference:

HTML is all about a standard for everyone.

Implementing new features on your own is not much different from what Adobe does.
For example: Let's say Firefox implements an API for Webcams. Will MS implement the exact same API in IE? Unlikely. First of all, the have Silverlight (i am supposing that Silverlight can access the Webcam as well, but don't know for sure). MS wants to push Silverlight and defend IE marketshare. With MS blocking this feature, it essentially means that noone will use it because every website is developed with the first requirement "Has to reach the vast majority of users", which in the end means "IE support".
They would eventually develop an own API, which turns out to be incompatible to Firefox' API if pressure is high enough.

Now, if you have the thought "but if MS/Apple/Google/Mozilla/Opera would agree on that new API", that's what the standardization process is all about.
I thought I saw this just a few days ago, so I googled. This was posted here 6 days ago but got only five upvotes and one comment. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1310127
I now believe this video is likely a viral marketing attempt by Hi-Tec which has their logo appear a few subtle times in the video, on their caps and then when they stop to show the sneakers (trainers).
Note: I havent experimented with this yet.

Are we sure this is the ip address of the user and not just the ip address of one of facebook's servers?

If it is a user's address... is that a problem? This seems like very easy to obtain online information... for example, by sending an email to the person im trying to talk with via facebook...
FYI, bebo is dead in Europe, its Facebook all the way. (I think I heard AOL announced they were shutting Bebo down anyway.)
Here is a good post if you are looking to get started. There isn't really a 'best' program or a shortcut, just go with what you feel most comfortable with and start exploring datasets (census, BLS, data.gov, Guardian UK are all good sources) to get a feel for what is most intuitive.
Knowing Polish and learning Russian had me do a couple of double-takes on days of the week. We call Sunday "niedziela" and the week "tydzień". I guess identifying Sunday with the week makes some sense, and one of the languages just switched it around at some point.

I always thought of "niedziela" as coming from "nie dzielić" / "не делить" / "no dividing/separating", though it doesn't really make sense as name for the day.
In Italian it's pretty much the same:

* Domenica (From Latin: dies dominicus -> Lord's day)

* Lunedì (Luna -> Moon)

* Martedì (Marte -> Mars)

* Mercoledì (Mercurio -> Mercury)

* Giovedì (Giove -> Jupiter)

* Venerdì (Venere -> Venus)

* Sabato (Sabbath)
I did actually mean "the standardization process", I was just differentiating from the part of HTML5 that's about, well, HTML. This is more of a feature that belongs in the DOM exposed to ECMAScript, which the HTML5 movement seems to be all about pushing forward the standards for as well.
I can't help but notice the lack of YouTube ads. Are they being stripped out or something?
Hmm, perhaps. I hadn't considered the language barrier, but it's a good point. I guess the thought that a great work has to drop its science fiction "disguise" to gain respect raised my hackles. Hopefully the more charitable view is correct.
Thanks very much for the feedback! We'll investigate all of these. Opera support has become a high priority fix for us.
Let's play this out.

Say Zynga actually has the cajones to leave Facebook and run their game from farmville.com

As soon as Zynga leaves, this creates a huge void that hundreds of other game developers will rush to fill. These smaller developers will probably have smaller payrolls and be fine with the 30% cut Facebook is taking.
I've always heard dimensions being referred to as "timelike" or "spacelike", similar in vein (though not in concept) to the difference between "flat" and "rolled up" dimensions.
So to get rid of the Flash plugin you are proposing a new plugin which is not a HTML standard. Who is supposed to write such a plugin and how would it differ from Flash, then?

Chrome Frame comes to my mind, this covers IE6,7,8 but not Firefox. May be a good candidate, but Chrome Frame has been around for a while now, and i haven't heard of web sites using it. Chrome Frame could lead the way to "one standard implementation of HTML5" which could at least eliminate some of the major pain (performance and cross browser differences). It's a nice thought, but somehow i have my doubts about Chrome Frame becoming that popular. Too much politics in the browser war. Also, many enterprises don't allow users to install that, which in turn makes it a no go for most web sites.
If you're new to that area then I'd suggest to start out with puppet instead. It has the cleaner architecture and better documentation.
Perl 1-liner: http://bit.ly/cNHkzQ
Every other day I see facebook and privacy in the same sentence..
How about, "Whose hardware? FCC lets Hollywood disable the jacks on 'your' TV equipment."

(Not sure they're disabling "TV outputs" as Businessweek puts it, as most TV's don't have video out.)
When viewing flash slides, the scrolling is annoying. I prefer to hit right and get the next page. Can't this be simulated in HTML5?
What if you've got the wrong god? Then you're just as screwed as the atheists.
Use a webmail service which doesn't purposefully append this information to headers and your machine's IP never surfaces. Gmail is one, I believe.
“This action is an important victory for consumers who will now have far greater access to see recent high-definition movies in their homes,”

Tell you what else, you give me $5, I'll give you $2 and we'll celebrate the "victory" of the money you just got.
Okay, this is getting out of hand. And by this, I mean everyone crying wolf at Facebook. I'm none to pleased about the way the site is going these days either, but IP addresses = "public information"? Did someone forget how email headers work?
I pursued this idea with randomwalker for about 6 months before realizing there's absolutely no business value here. My advice to Nowmov: choose another market before it's too late. We did, and it's been going much better for us. Fortunately, we didn't come across a strong celebrity endorsement like Ashton Kutcher's, so there was little cost to switching gears.

The problem with video recommendations is content ownership. YouTube has a monopoly on user-generated content so they immediately became our number one risk. Our business was henceforth bound to their ToS. Shortly after we switched gears, the Totlol debacle surfaced on Hacker News, confirming our suspicions that the risk was too great for a business to tolerate.

The main obstacle with the YouTube ToS is that they don't allow advertising on pages where the video content is the focal point of the page. Nowmov clearly focuses on videos, so the 'get-big-and-strike-it-rich' model is not an option for them. Moving beyond YouTube -- say, using licensed content -- cripples their product, because there simply isn't enough content to create a compelling recommendation engine. Even Hulu, being backed by industry giants, is bleeding content providers.

I can't emphasize this enough: this is a cool product, but not a good business. We had cool algorithms that provided fantastic recommendations and kept users on our alpha site for an average of 13 minutes before adding any type of social features. "Pandora for videos" was dead simple to pitch, too. I wish NowMov the best of luck and I hope they can succeed where we failed. The world needs a product like this.
I can. I was heavily into the Dune and C&C/Red Alert series and never got on with Warcraft or Starcraft at all. All the fantasy elements, I think.. :-)
I'm suggesting, I think, that Adobe drop the current "target" of their flash plug-in as a client-side embedded viewing frame for a special filetype that's actually an executable running in a proprietary VM, and just make it into said plug-in, basically a support framework for browsers. Expose everything that's currently exposed to Actionscript to Javascript instead, in other words.

It's not something that Adobe would ever want to do—but it might be something they eventually will be forced into, after they realize no one is really using Flash all that much any more.
Thanks, I'll check them out.
Can you name one recommendation service that is an 11-figure business? The only company I can think of whose core business is mostly recommendation is Pandora, and they're not even that large; nine figures at best.
The new business model this enables is for-pay bittorrent and VPN sites. Because getting movies from random people on the Internet by hopping through multiple servers in multiple countries actually ends up being a better user experience than just buying it at the store.

If only I was joking...
If everyone avoided saying things that could possibly insult other people, society would not progress and minds would never change.
I've tried using searchyc; google with keyword or title and site:news.ycombinator.com is faster and the output is easier to work with.
Can someone write a GUI in Visual Basic to track these IPs
please?
That's true of any company; it's a matter of reaching scale in the first place.
> They got multiple job offers from amazing companies

You mean like yahoo! ;) ?
Looks pretty nice in the new viewer: http://www.scribd.com/documents/31059967/An-introduction-to-...

aside: Born and raised in Tucson - kudos for starting-up there!
Wikipedia Distributing Child Porn, Co-Founder Tells FBI
If we pretend that there are two parties, equal in all respects, except that party A eats baby boys and party B eats baby girls, that would be a tough choice to make. I can't decide which is worse. I'd be wrestling with the choice up to the very moment of voting. Afterward, too.

That's a contrived example, of course. But for many people, no party will be satisfying, and the choices to be made will not be obvious. If your opinions happen to align almost entirely, or even mostly, with a party, good for you, but for the rest of us, the choices are difficult and vexing, even if you have a long time to think them over. And, indeed, even after several elections (I've seen them while living in three countries), I'm still not sure whom I would have preferred to see win, and not for a lack of paying attention, but because each of the choices, realistic and un-, came with a complex set of tradeoffs.
I think I start to see where that sudden push to go digital came from.
It's the user (I tested with 2 friends to verify). Here's a scenario we talked about in my house: Once potential problem: friends-of-friends. A friend-of-friend comments on something your mutual friend put out, you then comment, the first friend (whom you don't know) can use this trick to ballpark your location.
Sure thing; the view mode switcher is in the middle of the toolbar at the bottom. Select slideshow mode from there and you're set.
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Cool. Maybe now I'll actually be able to log in and view a document?

Because I never have been able to before.
I assume youve never been to a store where theyve said something like minimum $10 charge for credit card ?
Not that I disagree, but this is from the company that bought us the "Mighty Mouse".
Looks like this will be awesome once the compatibility issues are fixed. Right now it's a no-go on iPad. Works well on Mac Safari and Mac FF latest versions.

I wonder if it has dependencies on mouse-overs that are killing it for iPad right now?
That confirms that it's a IP address, not that it's his.
There wasn't any grooves. My brake pads are still good. Only the rotors were bad.
>The good news is that smart and effective actions are possible

I'm not sure how relevant this is but my impression is that many or most environmentalists oppose both nuclear power and research into geo-engineering.
People's lives are more like soap operas than anyone realizes
It allows some basic location tracking. The real world impact is minimal and easily obtained through other methods. If your friends or family want to track your location it's time to reconsider your relationships with them in my opinion.
Can anyone explain what they mean by "disabling outputs"? Perhaps I'm just not computing this right at the moment, but what exactly is this article saying is being done?
>There is no way that braking full force will cause it to take longer to slow down unless your tires skid.

That's exactly what happened. Because of the way the rotors were worn my brakes would only catch on every few inches of rotor surface which would cause the tires to hop across the road. It was like braking on patchy ice.

>What does "skipped 1/4 of the way" mean?

I was 1/4 of the way into the intersection by the time I stopped.

>What does "50% of the rotor surface was gone in large patches" mean? Have you ever seen a brake rotor? Are you implying you had big holes in your rotor? The rotor does not have a special surface, it's just bare metal. The only way the surface could be gone is if you have a hole in it.

I don't know much about cars so I don't know how to describe it in the correct terms. I saw the rotors, on both of them 50% of the surface was smooth and gray and 50% of it was pitted and black. The pitted sections were lower than the smooth sections so I don't think the brake pads would actually grab on them.
If you reassign foo.bar in in code in module x, then later access foo.bar from module y, it will be the value assigned in X.

In the general case, yes. Unfortunately, due to some quirks in the module loader, assigning bar right inside foo might not yield the expected result, though.

This is actually one of the python warts that annoys me the most.
It wouldn't matter if they did, there's always going to be another that that they coulda/shoulda/woulda done that Adobe, MS, Unity etc will do first.

Another area where HTML5 is really weak is games, at the forefront is some great examples (http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/ seems to be popular) but they're really only admirable because they're "not Flash" - consumers only care about the result, and the result is sub-par for modern casual gaming - http://www.kongregate.com/games/IriySoft/cursed-treasure-don....

HTML5/JS/CSS is obviously going to do a lot more than the previous, current antique standards and it's going to be equivalent or even better than Flash in some cases. And if Flash/Silverlight/etc stopped developing right now that might still be true next year.
Does anyone know of a site that tracks all of these privacy problems (and potential problems) with Facebook? Following up and keeping track is the best way to keep FB accountable, and I'm sure a lot of media people would use such a site.
Yes, that's the new IE8 version. This article is double out of date, both the original (2007) post and the update.
will do after i finish my logowriter script

LEFT 90
UP 90

move turtle move!
I just did this on an email about a comment on my wall post by someone at a nonprofit. Sure enough, it came up with not just an IP, but a subdomain listing that nonprofit's domain name.

Yes, it works.
The author says that the page disregards user font size choices, but when I zoom in using Firefox it makes the text larger. So, no usability issue, perhaps I am using too new of a browser?
So let me get this straight. The world-economy runs inside a virtual machine, the equivalent of second life, with autonomous agents making automatic decisions based on a set of rules that their creators once programmed into them?

And at the same time poker-bots are banned?
> so I decided to try out the proposal that appeared the most interesting: the Samsung+BBC proposal (A124), which claims compression improvements of around 40%.

At first I read this and couldn't believe it. A 40% improvement! Wow!

But reading the rest of the article, it's disappointing to see that it's not a practical %40...

Makes me wonder if GPUs could be used to do the encode and speed it up enough to make it practical (maybe within a few generations of GPUs..). After all, you have to aim for where computers will be by the time this becomes a standard, not where they are now.
It's work in progress. We had one in there, but it wasn't reliable enough.
Cornetto - Dilo con leet
Spain's economy finally puts recession behind it
"It's also sloppy and overgrown. Most people don't need all the extra stuff it does. Certainly not at the expense of security."

The problem is that everyone needs a different 20% customized. This is what Joel Spolsky basically argues in Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth: http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html . He's talking about desktop software, but you can see the same essential thing in blogging software; I'm using Wordpress for Grant Writing Confidential at http://blog.seliger.com chiefly because it has everything I want and is easy to use.

The extra stuff I use includes themes and a couple of plugins, like one for generating an XML sitemap and another for cacheing. I know that blogging platform X probably has the particular set of features I need -- until I find something that it can't do.
Because we rank videos based on twitter mentions, we're pretty time-zone dependent. Currently it's brazil o'clock. Smoothing that out is on the to-do list.

The rec engine doesn't tailor the playlist yet - currently we're just using it to collect data.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who found the (shortened) version almost incomprehensible.
We drop everything that isn't embeddable without ads.
This guy is not above-board:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100428/1153439220.shtml
It's a step by step process :)
Channels should be working. You should get a box to the left of the player with a list. They're grabbed from the trending topics on twitter. I'll look into it.
...Many recent assaults on climate science and, more disturbingly, on climate scientists by climate change deniers are typically driven by special interests or dogma...

Applied generally, this is called discounting the competition -- whatever he says he has his own reasons for saying it.

Applied specifically, this is called an ad hominem attack - we do not need to listen to him because his is some bad label.

Sure, there are cases where the competition is lying and the man is paid off by the industry. But the point is that if you can't reason out their arguments for yourself -- if you need somebody labeling people before you ever hear them -- then either the subject is not worthy -- or you aren't.
You hand it to them, the screen auto-rotates, and they freak out for a second and think they broke something.

That hasn't been my experience when passing the iPad around at family events. It's usually "Ooh, that's a useful idea." I hate the rotating myself but the orientation lock fixes that. The iPhone is worse because it doesn't have one.

You can pick up a TV remote, twirl it around, and run your finger over some buttons without triggering anything.

Humans are smart. You can't pick up a glass of lemonade, a mug of coffee, a donut, a cat or a vase without understanding how they respond. People are quick to learn how to handle items without being "stressed," though almost any novel item will cause a little initially. There are plenty of folks throwing 2 ton boxes of metal with incredibly delicate controls down roads at 70mph right now without incident.

That the iPad has a different usage profile to the Kindle has little to say on how "peaceful" or "low stress" it is for someone who is realistically going to use it. This 99 year old woman doesn't seem to be having any problems - http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/22/99-year-old-loves-her-first-c.... People are more concerned about things like it being next to useless in sunlight, how delicate it feels, or how the screen is made of glass.
Anything Zuck writes. Their code.
I'm skeptical about Chrome Frame's adoption. It sounds like just a way to trick IE users into using Chrome.

If they wanted the benefits of Chrome, why not just run Chrome in the first place?