skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft Agrees With Apple And Google: “The Future Of The Web Is HTML5″
There is nothing wrong with adding affiliate links if there is no affiliate link there currently. It is only when it goes horribly wrong (livejournal) that it is a bad thing. Why should they not get paid for a free blogging service. Don't promote free models if you think this is a bad idea.
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There is not only no reason a preprocessor like SASS can't someday efficiently process selectors like he describes, but theoretically it would be easier with something like SASS. In SASS you could keep the color declaration alongside the other CSS declarations, then the preprocessor could simply find all the declarations with that variable and string them together with commas.

Unfortunately the SASS preprocessor doesn't do that... yet. The main draw of SASS is the ease of development and maintainability, not reducing the byte size of your CSS files. Personally, I don't want to spend the time manually hunting through CSS to combine selectors in order to save a few bytes.

To give you a more practical example, instead of a color like #efac68, imagine the variable held the value 1em or 10px. If you wanted to increase the width of the gutters between columns, it's easier to change $gutter than to try a find and replace of 10px in your CSS, while trying to only change the values you want.
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And in either case, the author needs to be involved. From an end-user perspective, there's one or two parties that could prevent my app working on a new OS version. So don't you always run that risk when you buy software from a small vendor?
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What does it mean to patent a peptide? I suppose that it doesn't mean that everyone has to pay him to get an orgasm. He didn't patent a process for making the peptide either. So perhaps it's the use of the peptide in other situations than a natural orgasm? If I discover a planet, can I patent the use of the planet?
On2 had a pile of active patents covering VP3, which they granted irrevocable royalty-free licenses to when they abandoned it to become Theora.

Nobody's ever done codec development without either filing a ton of patents or at least publishing rigorous documentation to establish prior art (Dirac). Some of those patents may no longer be in force, but they still exist.
No it won't. The linked article is pointless, nothing major happened.

And the spill in the gulf will only have short term impact, and more importantly only local impact.

People always overestimate the effects of these kinds of things.
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I wish apple would be a little more involved in open source.

hopefully they keep the LLVM team well-funded and give them good freedoms.
"An inland shallow-water drilling rig capsized near Morgan City, Louisiana, while being towed to a salvage yard..."

This wasn't an active rig, and had nowhere near the impact of the previous event. Nonetheless, I can still see CNN reporters cutting into their round-the-clock coverage to announce this breaking news.
I'm definitely interested in this as well, i just moved to Seattle for work and am looking for something to do other than work :)
Alright, I figured it out.
They go through the data collected by google through the street view car:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-google-collects...

That's the only way they can know the coordinates of were I live since it's a residential area and the only wifi I see are mine and the two from the neighbors.
Weird. I posted a simple link, http://www.apple.com/wwdc on our blog (http://gpapps.com), and I get this crazy sequence of forwards:

http://clk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=2554&a=1503186&g...

http://registration.euro.apple.com/cgi-bin/trade-cookie.cgi?...

http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/?aosid=p204&siteid=15031...

All I want is my readers to go to the simple http://apple.com/wwdc link and not all that junk. Posterous was awesome before this.
There is nothing wrong as long as it is done in a transparent way. Without that transparency, authors are potentially subjecting their readers to click-tracking without being able to give appropriate disclosures.
It's a shame I'm feeling so shitty today, or I'd be going. I've been wanting to go to the SD HN meetups for a few months now. :(

Also, how can I get prior notice of when the meetups are? I always here about it day of, which is part of why I've never gone.
I disagree, he probably has one of the top 5 research jobs in the nation!
Thanks for the point. I'm aware of the SoC issues in general - analog bits, etc. I meant high-performance items like 6MB caches, buses like the EV one in Alpha chips (with AMD and Intel descendents), etc. That was my doubt.

(self-note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Microcontroller_Bus_Ar...)
If this works, doesn't overwrite existing affiliate links and doesn't end up in a bad experience for users then I'm all for it. Posterous has to make money somehow, this is better than banner ads if you ask me.
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Now why did I know that most passages that have been highlighted by readers are from lowbrow popular books, with many of the highlighted passages being platitudes?

P.S. When you read a book that you own, do you highlight passages of the text, or do you keep a notebook (electronically or on paper) of the most important points in the book? At the risk of setting up a bogus dichotomy, I think many people who take notes from books seem not to highlight them, and perhaps the converse is true as well.
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and what would be wrong with this?
Unreal... To me, guessing a password is not the same as hacking.
Is there a good browser extension that removes all affiliate links? I use Amazon a lot, and I don't feel that Amazon should be paying someone to refer me there, as I already buy everything from Amazon anyway.
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Flash isn't an open standard by any useful definition.

Sure they specified the container format and data structures (just like with the MS Office formats), but everybody had figured that part out a long time ago because it's obvious and easy to capitalize on by developing an extractor. The runtime APIs are incredibly hard to reverse-engineer, comprise the vast bulk of the Flash implementation, and are the entire reason for the plugin's instability.
FF makes money off revenue generated when you search and click on google ad. They do not replace links on content that you generate without telling you. Apples/Oranges my friend...

Personally I use posterous as my personal site and I don't appreciate this.
Am I the only one who's kind of annoyed that Kindle has become synonymous with e-ink book readers? I wouldn't care so much if Amazon didn't have a history of removing books from Kindles. Not to beat a dead horse, but I don't see why everyone seem to, either, not care or have forgotten about it. What if they took back a physical book you had purchased from them, that you wanted to keep, without your consent and just refunded your money as compensation. It's obvious you wanted the book not the cash or you'd not have spent it. That's what made up my mind about the Kindle. Yes, I know you could get one and not buy any books from Amazon but I'd like to have the option open. </open>
I don't understand how far they need to go to show that they do this without being obnoxious. If they show the affiliate link instead it may confuse users (even in the status bar).
Oh wow, those are great. It's been in my mind for years (basically since I discovered Comet) to create an in-browser 2D MMORPG based on a very large programmatically-generated trackable map.

Looks like Legend of Sadness has got a start on at least some of that.
I'm not saying I disagree, but I think there is a fundamental difference between monetizing functionality in a piece of software, and monetizing user-generated content.
If it bothers you, you can add rel="norewrite" to your links (editing as HTML), and it won't rewrite them.
Why is:

PRINCESS ON THE PEA (From the tale by Hans Christian Andersen)THE UGLY DUCKLING

at #19? or:

AND THE BEAN-STALK (Said to be an allegory of the Teutonic Al-fader, The tale written in French by Charles Perrault)JACK THE GIANT KILLER (From the old British legend told by Geoffrey of Monmouth, of Corineus the Trojan)LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD (From the French tale by Charles Perrault)THE THREE BEARS

at #22? And it shows the number of highlights - around 700 for each. Is this a case of accidental highlighting, some people organizing to highlight random sections of text from free books to mess up the stats, or a bug?

Edit: I have no idea how to use markdown. Argh! I thought two spaces at the end of the line added a line break?
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The Mongo storage isn't local to the network though, right? The data must be read/written over the Internet?
Unfortunately, the article doesn't do anything to back up the headline. Apple is being pretty douchey, but they actually make good products. Microsoft generally doesn't. I think Apple may eventually lose mobile to Android, but it'll take a while. I wish some one would make better products than Apple. Their products aren't perfect, but they are better than most.
Why doesn't Apple write their own Flash runtime? They did so for PDF on the Mac.

Or was "Thoughts on Flash" intended to be Jobs's pitch for Core Animation?
Apple supports standards in hardware (USB, PCI, SDRAM, Ethernet, Firewire [debatable], DVI, DisplayPort, 802.11, EFI, CD/DVD-R). Most of their systems are made up of standards-based pieces... it's just the glue that holds them together that's proprietary.
All the initial reports are constantly under-played.

News outlets take the press releases almost verbatim from the corporations involved in the mess which is incredibly irresponsible.

The main spill disaster was massively under-reported for the few days when it happened and they were taking things from the corporate press release and re-releasing it as "news". Reporting in barrels instead of gallons, using 10 x 10 miles instead of "100 square miles" to make the numbers seem small and not mentioning what impacts it would have as it progresses.

If you think releasing 200 gallons of fuel into a localized area does nothing, I dare you to eat a fish from there in a couple weeks.

Oh and we're taking their word for it that it's "just" 200 gallons.
would you rather have banner ads?
they have to make their money somewhere.

as long as they're not rewriting existing affiliate links, this is about as unobtrusive as it gets

[edit: rewriting the links directly, instead of using a third party that necessarily obfuscates the url would be less obtrusive, but the principle is still the same]
Aren't these pretty standard in new cars already?
It is a sub-standard app based on a cross-platform layer of software (Carbon) that has not been updated to take advantage of platform enhancements (i.e., Windows 7).

Granted, it's not third-party since Apple owns the Carbon layer and iTunes, but then again, Flash isn't third-party for Adobe's in-house developers for the very same reason. Perhaps this is what Jobs means by "painful experience".
They are both on ec2 IIRC so i think it is effectively local.
Also, how can I get prior notice of when the meetups are?

Sure, join the mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/sd-hackernews
Love the idea. I did find a down page btw.

http://api.embed.ly/about
I just rofl'd.
But well, I'm still with Posterous. Not changing anyone's affiliate links seems pretty far and making use of the free money on their table is also reasonable.

The idea is actually pretty good. I'd definitely love a blog-engine plugin that would make sure I don't forget my affiliate ID whenever I'm linking something.

(just found something to look into)
Buying ARM doesn't make sense. It's a bit of shared infrastructure, like GPL software, that Apple uses/pays for. See, for instance,
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1602454/apple-arm
Why not? If <canvas> is being used as a drop-in replacement for Flash, why wouldn't it just be used in exactly the same ways? There's nothing special about canvas that would make it less prone to abuse.
Do you honestly think anyone cares what you highlight in the Communist Manifesto or the Anarchist's Cookbook?

Even presuming some dystopian future where The Government (cue hammy antagonist music) is busting your chops for what you read, the fact that Amazon has a receipt for you purchasing a copy is likely to be a bigger deal to them than which bit you highlighted.
It's always a choice. Going out of business is a choice, selling the company is a choice, and the acquiring company shutting down the acquired company's product is a choice. Any way you slice it, no matter what the circumstances, someone made a choice not to honor your purchase anymore, if that's the way you want to describe it.
Any decent editor can use color coding to contextualize variables and such: no need for syntax cruft. I'm a longtime PHP user and much prefer working in languages with less visual noise.
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Aha! Thanks for the info.
Gladwell must be so proud to be nestled between Dan Brown and William P. Young atop these charts.
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I agree. There is a big difference between getting a cut from generated search result (which is expected to change over time) and a users' blog post (which is often static after written).

And don't get with the problem with will cause to the linked sites in term of Google juice.
There are two issues here:

a. The links.

b. The disclosure.

Item a is very well debated. What about b? Why aren't users notified of it? If it is a recent change, why wasn't it announced? Etc.
I was quite enjoying the music on the video on that site.
"For example, when Apple introduced in iPhone OS 3.2 the new split views that the iPad uses extensively when rotating your screen, that functionality would have taken too long to bring in a satisfactory way to say Silverlight on iPhone or Flash on iPhone."

Really? http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2010/04/one_applica...
It's easy to add new things to Lisp and C when the interface looks mostly like function invocation. It's easier to extend Lisp with things that aren't a lot like function invocation, because C syntax and the C preprocessor don't work together as well as Lisp syntax and Lisp macros.

I wouldn't worry much about spouting nonsense when you learn new things unless you're prone to that already.
I don't think there's anything wrong with this, but why would Amazon, Walmart and others not make this type of linking against their terms of service?

It goes against the spirit of affiliate programs, which is an exchange of actual promotion in exchange for commission.
The stores aren't gaining anything by allowing it since those links were already published. And it hurts other affiliates, not only by directly taking their commissions (because the most recent affiliate click before purchase counts), but also because it increases the total amount that the stores are paying out.

If this catches on, it will force merchants to lower their commission rates, causing them to lose publishers. I think that most merchants will end up forbidding the practice, just as many have forbid bidding against them in PPC campaigns.
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It's just occurred to me... Posterous could make themselves THE publishing platform by simply sharing the revenue again.

All they need do is to act like another viglink or skimlinks and to record the clicks made per publisher using their platform. Then offer the publisher 50% of the revenue.

This is then an incentive to use Posterous beyond all of the ease of use. Anything you posted that included a potentially monetisable link would earn you revenue.

Now, this isn't as lucrative as just doing it yourself. But to all of the creative people making cool content who are lost when it comes to affiliate schemes this would be a killer feature.
I was wondering why I wasn't seeing this for myself when I looked at the no-script settings.

The code for this is coming from viglink.com. If you disallow or block such scripts you do not see the added affiliate info.
does it help them?
I'd like to know that too.

The only product I see here is an open standard which would be forked the moment they try to slap ads on it.
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Obviously any platform is only going to support a few languages natively. But you can always use tools that compile from other languages into the native ones. What's uniquely overreaching about Apple's new rule is that you can't even do that anymore.

On App Engine you can run Java code that has been generated by a compiler that translates Scheme source code into Java. Apple's saying you can't do that. You can't write programs in anything except C, C++, or Objective-C.

In theory, anyway. No doubt what they'll do is selectively enforce it just to ban competitive threats like Flash. I kind of wish they were forced to enforce it rigidly, because then they'd start to feel the consequences of doing something so opposed to the way software development works.
Not sure what's going on there. That site isn't even a Posterous website so I don't understand why you think those redirects are related to Posterous
Some day, Patrick is going to move back to Chicago (we're the best city in the country, after all) and he's going to be doing business with people here, and he's going hear a lot of, "oh, you're that bingo guy the big crazy security guy won't stop babbling about!". I'm working hard to make that happen for him.
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Nicely done! Suggested searches is a good touch.

It'd be nice to have a tiny icon beside each of the search results to tell me what service the search result is coming from.

The search result page is a bit... long. Not sure that it's bad, but it is unexpected.
Why the hell do you want the web to use stateful, synchronous, persistent connections?

Good luck implementing Xanadu.
Have you found that being a graduate from a top 5 CS school is a good indicator of being a good performer? I know that the early Dropbox team was almost entirely MIT grads, but at the same time, I know a lot of GREAT programmers who haven't come from top 5 programs.
> you're advocating illegal activity

When laws are bad, civil disobedience is morally justified. It's arguably a moral obligation.

> negatively impacting the artist who created the music you like

The guy has already paid for the music. Downloading it will make no difference to the musicians. If someone likes a band, thy can go to their gigs or give them money directly; enriching the likes of the RIAA or Apple is morally wrong, because these people will use that money to restrict everyone's freedom.

> because you dislike a business model

Some business models are evil.

> FYI, in case you missed it, music purchased from ITMS is DRM free.

Irrelevant; music on streaming services such as Lala has DRM, since the whole point of a streaming service is that the listener isn't supposed to get control of a copy (obviously there are ways round that).
Gruber didn't say that MonoTouch would be compatible with Section 3.3.1.

>MonoTouch is not in the same boat as Flash’s iPhone compiler, as it’s not a cross-platform framework. It’s a lighter shade of gray, if you will. But it’s still a layer of middleware between developers and Apple’s own APIs. 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.
The problem for me is that visitors to my site may think that I'm the one who is using this affiliate code, and that I'm looking to make a buck off my links.

Is that a problem? Depends; some readers are put off by this sort of thing. Witness the comments on HN when someone discovers an affiliate link in a article posted here.

You can dismiss this as a fairly benign way to increase revenue, but I'd prefer no one alter my content, benign or not, without telling me right up front.
So you're using prototype & scriptaculous to make a game. How is that easier than flash? How do I do particle effects using scriptaculous? How do I pair it with background music & sound effects? What if I wanted box2d style physics and collision detection? What's the proper way to animate a sprite?

jQuery, scriptaculous, prototype, mootools -- all great javascript libraries, but not very good at game development.
Also there is no guarantee that in a blog post that people will adhere to the conditions that affiliates impose when they aren't aware they are part of an affiliate program. For instance Amazon requires that the product be described accurately and that it doesn't seem to be endorsed by a third party. Other sites probably have other requirements, though of course I have no idea what Amazon's arrangement with Viglink is.
> "I just want to remind people that many recent Java success stories are getting lost in all the gloom and doom. Among them are Google Collections, Guice, the JVM languages you referred to earlier, and Android"

Bloch should also highlight java.util.concurrent, which was his and Doug Lea's own work, including upcoming Fork/Join framework (JSR166y): http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/jsr166/dist/jsr166ydocs/

People often overlook this strength. There are quite beautifully designed APIs (built on fairly few primitives e.g., monitors and condition variables) around the difficult problem of shared state concurrency (yet the Fork/Join APIs are also used by the Actor implementation in Scala 2.8 and I believe other Actor implementations).