skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were using Flash IDE and wrote the game on the timeline, it would take the same amount or fewer lines, since a good third or more of the code is graphics and anim-related stuff that would be done entirely in the tool.

As the other guys are saying, if we're talking about a bigger game, libraries and frameworks can provide substantial savings since they help you build consistent behavior across the whole app. But you can build those for Flash, too. I'm building one. It lets you iterate over the assets while the game runs and then ship a preloader by running a different compile script; it has user setting abstractions for keyboard, mouse, and sound, it has bitmapped font support, an entity model, some limited-but-growing tilemap and spritesheet abilities, pathfinding...in the next few days I'm planning to build out a menu system that I can reuse or customize for every game.

In any case, these things are considerably more game-specific, and they provide an LOC savings that matters even on "weekend projects" - everyone likes to have user settings, everyone likes having a sprite sheet pipeline, etc. But you don't get that from a web framework used as a game platform, which is what this is.
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Maybe I am a minority, but my eyes don't hurt...as a programmer, I am used to a computer screen. But it's true that i don't read for long periods of time, usually 1-2 hours, max 3. But reading 2 hours on my netbook is not a problem for me.
From a rough glance at the screenshots, they do seem to have improved. But if they haven't, all you really have to do is copy the fonts from Windows 7 to the newly installed Ubuntu distro, really just a minute-long task.
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Not that I agree with him but this article kind of murdered his quote. He was replying to the fact that Jobs had implied that Flash was responsible for the majority of Mac crashes.

I think jobs just meant that Flash simply crashed a lot on Macs but he seemed to infer that Flash actually caused the OS to crash. If Flash is causing the OS to crash then yes there is a problem as you'd hope a program residing in the user space wouldn't crash the kernel.
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Posterous silently changes all external links to affiliate links
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you don't necessarily have to duplicate code blocks all the time since you can declare a definition for multiple styles:

.uno {
color: green;
font-size: 18px;
text-align: center;
}
.dos {
color: green;
font-size: 18px;
}

can become

.uno, .dos {
color: green;
font-size: 18px;
}
.uno {
text-align: center;
}

also, as others have pointed out, nesting is kind of there in the form of a hierarchy. child elements will get parent styles for most properties.
Since you asked, my guess is psychology. If it was at the top, then most people wouldn't bother reading the comment, as they already know the conclusion.

TLDR is useful for and needed by those who are skimming.
Easy there. (This isn't actually a youtube comment thread!)

This is just a visual metaphor for standard mutiplicaton process. They are fundamentally the same thing. I personally think the way in the video has the potential to help children assimilate the process faster and/or better than otherwise.
Talk to customers, current and potential.
I disagree. One of the main benefits of CSS compilers like Sass and Less is that they can innovate at their own pace, without worrying about any browser compatibility headaches.
Unless you didn't have enough to choose from; that is, you were drastically deficient in quantity.
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I asked on the Theora mailing list their thoughts on SJ's answer and this is what I got from one of the dev:

> (...) A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other “open source” codecs now.
>

I think that's great news... If the "industry" finally compiles a list
of patents that they think theora voilates we can:

1. find prior art.
2. work around the possible valid patents.

Afterwards all the submarine patents are gone, and we can prove it...
From the article: "'It’s the hard question I want to answer,' he says. 'What creates consciousness?'"

This isn't just rhetoric: he's talking about a major area of philosophy of consciousness called the hard problem or hard question -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness -- and if they answer that via the medium of masturbation I'll be tickled pink.
Using Ubuntu is much like the OS X experience: things just work, little wasted time. OS X wins a bit with apps like TexShop and OmniGraffle while Linux wins a bit with easier package maintenance.

I hate to admit this but I will: it took me about 20 hours to get Windows 7 set up with everything that I need for development and writing. Not bad once it is set up, but what a time-killing overhead expense. Now, I want to not drop my Windows/Ubuntu laptop: nice having a Windows machine available, but I hope to not have to spend the setup time again for many years.
Patent challenge looming for open-source codecs?
Second drilling rig overturns in Louisiana
How multitasking puts you behind schedule
Itunes is plenty profitable, though.
If Jobs had said "We strongly believe that you should be able to develop on the iPad and iPhone using all open standards pertaining to the web," you would have a point. Your logic is all twisty.

"We only want to support open standards" does not imply "we want to support all open standards."
Interestingly, Chris Eppstein, my co-developer on Sass, agrees with you that CSS needs abstraction. However, he concludes that Sass is a good language for expressing that abstraction: http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2009/09/20/why-styleshe...
Actually, theora devs have been asking for the patent pool for a long time so they can work around patents once and for all http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1309412

So this is excellent news for Theora, as it could be an end to the "submarine patent" FUD.
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I think the FSF has misrepresented Steve Job's response. It sounds very much like the line "We have legal assurances from the only publicly claimed patent holders that Ogg Theora can be used both commercially and noncommercially, in any software, by anyone, without royalty." is about to be proved untrue.
What is the highest rated link ever on HN?
I noticed that the post by Steve Jobs had over 900 points and close to 500 comments. Wondering if there is anyway to get the all time top posts?
Interesting and pretty thorough discussion. Might need updating after 7 years, and not sure I agree with all of it, but it's all worth thinking about.

FWIW, the author of the piece has been around in tech forever: he was one of the co-founders of Autodesk, and wrote large parts of the original AutoCAD.
That probably means the people tracking parents do not give a sh^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H break much of a sweat, know what I mean?
Twitter for Android is released
Wow, I'm sorry, did cross hatching molest you as a child or something?

But please explain to a child the difference between abstract rules and directly derivable properties of distributivity of multiplication over addition. See how much of a difference there is to a first grader between "It's a fundamental property of mathematics" and "Because I said so."

>But this line thing... this is a trick.

Yes, yes it is. And seeing as all any one has said is it's a elegant (under certain circumstances) trick, why are you so hostile. No one here has proposed replacing the k-12 math curriculum with happy fun line counting time.

EDIT: okay the sibling post may have said something that could possibly be construed as supporting the addition of this to the standard curriculum. Still not advocating replacement.
Someone asked for similar reasons yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1306124

And in that thread someone else posted this list: http://top.searchyc.com/submissions_by_points

From which it looks like that Jobs-on-Flash post is now the 2nd-most-upvoted of all time, after the Google "new approach to China" post.
I have been using this bookmarklet at least for last six months. The only thing is that sometimes people just adds articles without changing their titles which results in unrelated words like '| Weird | News' in the title.
Freelancer.com (http://www.freelancer.com/) in Sydney Australia is hiring. We are the 500th biggest site in the world and growing quickly. Lots of interesting work. We need both front end and back end engineers.
Why Is Twitter More Popular With Black People Than White People?
Every single submission for euraeka.com is just a passthrough for the actual article.
They commit less crime, or at least less violent crime. The evidence is unambiguous. They have fewer behavioral problems in school, they measure lower on biological correlates of aggression (serum testosterone/DHT and cortical norepinephrine), and, perhaps most importantly, they are less likely to be victims (most murders are committed against people of similar socioeconomic status to the perpetrator).
Quick summary of the article:

Doctor: We want to find ways to increase pleasure in people’s lives

Woman Subject: "Science needs my climax!"

Woman Subject: "I try to remain calm as a vision of dangerous flying dildos passes through my mind."

running through fMRI brain scan as woman subject tries to self-stimulate to orgasm

Doctor: "One of the biggest conundrums of the orgasm turns out to be a nagging question for all mankind: The orgasm activates the same part of the brain — the anterior cingulate cortex and the insula — as pain."

"What creates consciousness?"

"How does the brain create the mind?"
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TrueFit http://truefitcorp.com/ is looking for a Statistics/Machine Learning guru to help transform online commerce in MA (Woburn).
Axolotl (San Jose, CA, USA) is hiring more developers to work on health information exchange and clinical messaging applications. We need both generalists as well as specialists in release engineering and BI. Technology is a wide mix of stuff, mostly oriented around web applications and Java EE.

http://www.axolotl.com/careers.html
Azim Premji: India's Bill Gates
VP6-encoded Flash video doesn't run on the iPhone, so that's not what he was referring to.

I believe Jobs is talking about comparing two videos on the iPhone, with hardware accelerated video lasting 10 hours and non-accelerated video lasting 5 hours. You may not notice if you're not paying attention to battery while you watch video.

To the sibling comment here, I'm not referring to profiles. I'm referring to the fact that various implementations of H.264 encoders produce content that, depending on the implementation, may or may not be accelerated by the iPhone's PowerVR SGX 535.

One can produce a pair of H.264 encoded in .mp4 container movies, encoded from the same mpeg2ts original, one of which can use hardware acceleration, and the other of which cannot.

(I haven't had the chance to check yet if Adobe's 'Gala' responds the same way to such files on the desktop Macs Gala supports.)
Yes, I believe it does.
How do publishers and authors feel about this? Is Amazon giving away the sizzle or the steak?

For some deeper books this might impel me to make a purchase. For collections of shallow platitudes (e.g. my predilection for self-help books) the "top highlights" view is all I'll need.

Here's an example of a book I considered buying but didn't - The Talent Code. Now I've got the high notes in a free, easily digestable format: http://kindle.amazon.com/work/talent-code-greatness-born-gro...

Edit: And here are the highlights from Hackers and Painters: http://kindle.amazon.com/work/hackers-painters-big-ideas-com...
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Are you saying that a typical Flash app would be smaller, or a typical iPhone app would be larger?
"While the 68-year-old Komisaruk has been witness to more than 200 live-action orgasms in his lab..."

Boring?
From what I gathered it does, which whilst is technically a debt it shouldn't be classified nearly the same as an outstanding balance on a credit card.

That's like treating a fresh steak the same as a can of corned beef. Yes it's beef, but one will last a few hours sat on the counter and the other will last god only knows how long (I've yet to see a can with a best before date).

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. 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.

Right now is the ideal time for mortgages when the banks are offering lower rates, but the house values have little choice but to go up from now, giving you a major boost to your equity at the reevaluation and possibly giving you a rate drop due to the added collateral with no effort.

Edit: It's worth noting that a $1000 mortgage is a shitload better than $1000 in rent.
Groovy. Where is CSS getting stored? I took a quick look at the source and saw from YQL so mebbe that's where?
iPhone supports High profile just fine.
That's excellent. It's got a zen like simplicity that fits exactly the desires of the author/owner.
To verybody that is complainin about privacy: You have the choice, to turn off/on, popular highlights, backup or not your anotations, etc. They are clearly marked on the "Settings".
I've used it for over two years.
To be fair, my first computer was an Apple II and I have a large collection of Apples, from II clones to about a dozen Macs and a Newton (also a couple RS/6000, Suns, one PA-RISC, two Amigas and one 8-bit Atari). I still use my PowerPC iMac, but mostly to sync my iPod.

My wife has a Macbook. I tried to use Macs for work, but I prefer a more traditional Unix desktop, one with X and select-and-middle-click goodness.

We are a multi-platform household here ;-) I even have Windows on a VM.
Heroku adds MongoDB support through MongoHQ add-on
Sarah Palin E-Mail Hacker Found Guilty of Cover-up
I find it pretty disappointing that the original survey put up some statistics like this without bothering to control for age or education level. You can get a lot of press for essentially saying nothing substantive these days...
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True. An infographic is bad, if the information it contains is more easily perceived in text form. Which is the case here.
Original source:
http://www.visualeconomics.com/the-american-familys-financia...
For those curious about the origin of the name, this is fork of CMU CL. CMU is a university located in Pittsburgh, a city with a history as a steel town.
I didn't like the buttons at first, but decided to stick with them anyway. Took me all of 10 minutes to get used to them. Most of the time I Alt-F4 anyway, so it's really not a big deal.
Incorrect use of apostrophe as well.
On implementing webhooks
The URL of the CSS file and the contents are POST'ed as a key/val pair back to a endpoint you specify in the configuration.

You'll need to setup a listener on your server to process the request and save the contents to file.
If you have an iPad, check out http://touch.sproutcore.com/ and http://touch.sproutcore.com/hedwig/
The HTML5/JavaScript layer is already working very well, and Apple is investing time and effort to making it better. (Learned about those demo apps at the most recent JSConf in D.C.)
"house values have little choice but to go up"

[citation needed]
How Google will ruin everything
Twitter’s own Android Twitter Client (Yes, It’s Here)
Information Architect I presume. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_architecture)
Your legal document has an error. You cannot arbitrarily decide to pay your members (LLC partners) as 1099 contractors. You must follow IRS rules. From reading the rest of the description of your plan, IRS rules will be contrary to your 1099/contractor classification.
ECMA's a good choice, considering web developers should already be familiar with it, and (I think it's safe to say) it's a far better language than PHP.

A different language running on a different backend means making a clean break with all your old code. But anyone developing PHP has already made a decision to not make a clean break, otherwise he'd be using rails, node.js, django, clojure, catalyst, you name it.

What I'd like (and maybe I'll have to write if it doesn't already exist) is an ECMAScript-to-PHP5 compiler. Targeting the JVM is fine I suppose, but targeting mod_php5.c would mean PHP developers could dip their toes in more easily.
Good, now let's meet the Median American Family.
All this sounds reasonable.

Though given how huge proportion of all crimes goes unsolved (even violent crimes are just about 45% "cleared" [1]), it also makes sense that ones who got caught will be on average less smart than ones who got away, thus skewing statistics in a major way.

[1] http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/offenses/clearances/index.ht...
I believe this is a content-free presentation. It seems obvious that many of the facts presented are meaningless or are not provided in a proper context.

"$117,951 average debt" includes home mortgage. The poster states 95k of this is in mortgage and 2.2k in credit cards, but not where the other 20k is located.

"25% of people have no savings", while over 25% of the population is children.

"40% of working Americans are not saving for retirement", taking into account that working Americans include those between 18 and 35, I would say that is in line with expectation. We are not told if this counts those with pension funds payments from their employer.

"24% workers who have postponed their retirement age in the past year," which population is this a sample of? Are they only counting those whose retirement is imminent?
I don't know which would be larger/smaller -- I'm saying that the size of a Hello World App is irrelevant.
Hm, my MBP pretty much shuts down completely when sleeping. No running fans. If the fans kept on spinning I would probably turn off my computer, too.
nice! always enjoy your presentations!
Well, I'm not as torn as the author. They are altering the original content of the author, even if the result is the same.

Imagine that someone's religion believes that you go to hell if you use affiliate links... posterous would have condemned them! (dramatizing works)
The language is leaving you behind on that one.
They seem to think the United Kingdom is called "England".
Bootup needs to act like a grown up.

1. Don't intake companies until financing is in the bank.
2. Have agreements for all intake companies before they start. A term sheet is not binding, and frankly, should only be used to reflect the business points in the agreement. Don't rely on it.
3. Recognize that they are dealing with unsophisticated entrepreneurs. Don't try to bullshit them with big words like "capital call." Help them help themselves.
4. Get more people on the board that understand investing. The principals are nice guys, but they are not bankable in the investing world. They need two more people like Boris Wertz on the board, not hide behind some bullshit advisory board.
5. The principals should take finance lessons.
Yes, MonoTouch is keeping up to date with Apple’s native APIs today, but what happens three, four, five years from now if MonoTouch stops keeping up and hundreds (or thousands) of popular iPhone OS apps are dependent upon it? That’s the scenario Apple wants to avoid.

I for one have a couple of applications currently on the iTunes store that I haven't updated in a year, and have no short-term plans to update. Provided they continue to run on upcoming iPhone operating systems, how would these "100% pure Objective-C iPhone SDK" programs be any different for the iPhone app ecology than writing a C# program using outdated SDK bindings?
Hear hear. Also, these statistics are nowhere near the average income tax statistics I saw when I finished my tax returns on Turbo Tax this year. The average income is much, much higher as are some of the other categories (capital gains, etc). I guess there's a big difference between the tax-filing average American family and the overall average?
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Contact the creators of Paint.Net and ask them how they've fared. Their site is here:

http://www.getpaint.net/
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Edit: It's worth noting that a $1000 mortgage is a shitload better than $1000 in rent.

Not necessarily, as there is a marginal utility involved with owning a home versus renting that this statement does not account for. For instance in a rental there is no lawn maintenance required, no responsibility for repairs or upgrades to either major appliances nor infrastructure, rental incurs decreased liability, and the availability by location and public features is often greater.

I am a home-owner, but the belief that rental payments are a waste of capitol is a myth.
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I agree the "average debt" is a silly, but I assumed "25% have no savings at all" (note: it does not say "25% of people") meant "25% of working Americans," a continuation of the line item right above it.
Miso - http://gomiso.com - The second screen that makes watching TV more fun.

We have an amazing team, but we're changing the game with Miso, and we need more talent to make it happen.

We're looking to hire:

- iPhone/iPad wizards

- Front-end web heads

- Server-side web devs

- Better yet: a killer developer who can wear all these hats and more.

Current technology stack: Objective-C / Cocoa Touch on the iPhone/iPad, HTML5 / CSS3 / JS / jQuery on the web, Ruby / Rails / MySQL on the backend. We constantly evaluate other technologies to incorporate where they make sense.

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Send your info to jobs@gomiso.com .
Very cool but not as informative as it might appear in some ways. From what I can gather (by Googling a bit to find the stats he's using) he seems to be using a mix of means and medians and they're coming from different sources and different years. This isn't the best idea, but might be unavoidable.

Despite being the most prosperous nation in history, that chart would make us look destitute. Using different forms of averages hides an extremely significant factor: our income gap.

While good by world standards, it's poor-to-mediocre by developed nation standards and getting worse. I'd argue it's the biggest threat to our long-term stability because it compounds all of the others, but I suppose that's getting off-topic.
That's funny -- at one point I attended a boarding school for people with 'behavioral problems', and every person there was incredibly smart. I call shenanigans on this idea that smart people get into less trouble.
It's a savvier statement than it seems on the surface. Topography, water supply, and especially zoning prevent housing supply from meeting demand in much of the country (hence high prices). Housing is temporarily down because both the economy and the mortgage money supply are readjusting. But for pretty much every place where median house price > (3*median household income), it can handle a lot of economic collapse before housing prices stay down.