skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At one time, Facebook's ToS were quite friendly and unintimidating. Encryption means that a repository that "isn't evil" today, stays that way forever.

Additionally, if done right, the users do not need to know a whiff about encryption. I'll point to "https:// as a more successful example.
Entrepreneur builds a better breathalyzer
HTC Sues Apple for Patent Infringement
You can scare the general public pretty easily. All it takes is one example of what could go wrong and all of the sudden there is a boom.
Note about the scribd link:

Unfortunately, the vacuum method doesn't dump you on the HTML5 view of it, even if you have HTML view set in your scridb settings :( Guess it's to the PDF reader for me :) (flash interaction is completely broken for second-monitors in chrome on OSX)
To be fair - this benchmark is from 6 months ago. There have been a lot of improvements in Mongo since then.

I also question his statement of "Slower than DB" - I have been in production w/ MongoDB since August '09 and it was a huge performance improvement over MySQL. Since then there have been incremental improvements in performance w/ each release.
Thanks for correction. On HFT - in what sense is it ever anything other than a speed measurement?
In contrast with what others have said, it works for me in Opera 10.53 in Linux.
Go fsck yourself - has a long history
What a short-sighted rant. Of course it's easier to create Flash content than HTML5; it's been around a lot longer. Then, content creation tools will start supporting HTML5, like how Adobe Flash CS5 now exports to HTML5 Canvas, and all that will be forgotten, as it'll just be an extra menu option to choose to be enabled. No need for these Flash "developers" to get their panties in a twist. It'll only hurt a bit.
that last little bit about distinguishing between being homeless by choice versus misfortune is just bollocks -- as someone who has been in those shoes (homeless by choice) and having met a LOT of 'homeless' people I can attest that it is ALL by choice -- sure it might be pyschologically harder for one person to bring themselves back up into 'society' if they have let rougher circumstances befall them but it's still a matter of choice -- living pro-actively instead of re-actively allows you to define your situation rather than letting it define you
As Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch points out: "HTC recently forged an agreement with Microsoft that would 'provides broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for HTC’s mobile phones running the Android mobile platform'."

I wonder what role that agreement plays into this suit.
Cool :) I guess if I had a search I could have just searched :)
so I can just run my regular code in Obj-C and it should work with minimal boiler plate? I guess the barrier to iphone dev isn't as high as I was imagining.
One suggestion, an option to use it like tinygrab. Right click,
1) it uploads the file
2) Moves it to trash
3) copies a bit.ly URL to the file

Like TinyGrab for files, this would make large file sharing much easier
Ooh! Free Postgres shirt, here I come!
A misguided and confusing appeal based on misconceptions and untruths.

For example, the author suggests that separation of content from presentation using HTML and CSS is not possible because the <em> tag is presentational. On the contrary, emphasis is a semantic (in this instance).

The author claims HTML5 will take 12 years to become "fully adopted" when in fact it will be finalized in 2012 and actual production usage is exploding in growth.

HTML5 is apparently no good because it only adds "just a few tags".

HTML, CSS, and JS are best conceptualized as content, presentation, and behaviour, but the author attempts to fit them together as model, view, and controller.

JavaScript is, the author says, a "half-baked toy language that does not scale well" that can never be improved because it is served as source-code to the browser [?] and new versions must be backwards-compatible. Yes, backwards-compatibility slows adoption of updated standards. But, the suggested replacement is a "package-based" system (whatever that is) that can be "text or binary". How does that solve the problem?

[Edit: typo]
PNaCl is "write once, run on x86 and ARM". http://nativeclient.googlecode.com/svn/data/site/pnacl.pdf
Zynga Leases Data Center in Virginia
If this is your first time raising money...
Anil Dash had a dirty Internet-Culture joke in the NYT a few years back (scroll down the article to the picture of Mr. Dash):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/fashion/thursdaystyles/02G...
I am using Delphi 5 and 6 on daily basis maintaining some very very old and mega boring projects.

There is a lot of crap (and some good) software written in this language and IDE around medium sized companies.
Go runs under NaCl - check out setting up a rendering context for a simple tetris game: http://golang.org/src/pkg/exp/4s/4s.go It's literally a couple of lines in the main function. Pretty straightforward.

I think the guys here chose a less-than-ideal way of demoing the interface for this video, which is surprising.
[C4 release];
I actually choked on my coffee at that sentence, but I persevered. Another gem:

> "There is an alternative to serving up source code that works well in a growing number of situations, eg the JVM, CLR..."

Really? I'm not sure how much more "big enterprise" we can get... and having been writing a lot of JS as of late, and a lot of past experience with C#... doing the things you do with jQuery et al using C# would be a gigantic pain in the ass and create a morass of completely incomprehensible, unmaintainable code.

I've noticed something in this great big Flash vs. the World debate - the only people defending Flash appear to be Flash developers, and the only real motivation I've seen in the defense of Flash is self-preservation...
Tangential thought I've had around electoral transparency:

If you had (open schematic/open source) electronic voting equipment, you could issue a hashed/random ID on receipt of a ballot. After accumulating a number of votes, the ballot data is published alongside the secret IDs and can then be audited by the respective voters.
If the measure is "donate to the cause that will benefit the most people" (which the inclusion of "will benefit 99% of people" suggests it is) then pulling apart "how many people will benefit" is hardly a nitpick of a completely inconsequential detail - it's a rebuke of the main detail.

For all de Grey's antiaging speculation, Dean Kamen's external combustion water purifier has the potential to benefit poor people who die young this year, not rich people who live a long time 25+ years from now. On the "where should we donate money now" question, de Grey's ideas are very distant with no clear paths to their realization.

And if you include speculative future technologies then Eliezer Yudkowsky's arguments for pushing AI development seem fundamentally more compelling than de Grey's argument for pushing antiaging research. Not that I can ever find specific Eliezer writings when I want to link to them :/
Without further analysis or background, just looking at the figures and the ordering it would appear to me that that table is incorrect in several ways at least.

Pascal usage greater than actionscript? Delphi on the rise and javascript dropping? Python dropping? Go already larger than actionscript?

I don't buy any of that.
Capitalism no where says that if you live in a mixed society you should not use the subway -- when capitalism is forcibly suppressed of course people should use alternatives to get on with their lives. What capitalism does is explain why a mixed society is worse than a fully capitalist society, and what the consequences of each type of society are. (The current situation with subways, by the way, is certainly not socialism but some sort of compromise approach.)

BTW, the cab ride is a mixed system too. Many cars are made by union workers who use political pull to be paid above-market salaries. Other cars are imported and face some protectionist regulation. Cab drivers, like everyone, are regulated by minimum wage laws and income tax laws. Cabs drive on roads which the Government built. Immigration quotas lower the number of people in the country interested in being a cab driver, which raises the wages (at the expense of the foreigners who couldn't come here, and the passengers). And so on.
Lobstertech wrote:
> American programmers: In your day to day grind,
> it's superfluous to put a 'u' in front of every single
> string."*

Good idea, who cares about internationalization? You can
always just pay someone in India to go over all of your
code the day you notice the rest of the world

Regards,
European developer

(... who doesn't want more competition)
A simple HTML5 demo ran many times slower than a much more complex Flash demo. And the HTML5 one was made by people who are trying to convince everyone to follow them.

Do you really think their code is that bad?
These all are very good points but well written code is not easy to find and tools which help one to quickly understand code become really important in such cases.
That is misleading. An ActiveX control has the same permissions as the IE process hosting it. A malicious ActiveX control can hijack your browser, and do any number of other things.

A NaCl app can only interact with the system through a restricted syscall interface. That's it.
Have you ever tried to keep a large group busy at a useful task?

Now add to that the fact that you'd be taking work away from other folks who want to get paid to do it (cf: internships).
U.S. Senators Seek ATM Fee Cap at 50 Cents
Native Client now comes with an actual SDK
As far as I understand, the game engines went open. Lugaru's characters, levels, textures, models and story will probably be kept commercial.

I don't think you could play the real Lugaru game without paying or pirating it.
Did you see FabFacts? ( http://cloudfab.com/fab_facts/ ) Your first paragraph sounds like a criticism of it, but your second implies you haven't seen it.

In any case, yeah. With FabFacts, we were trying to strike an appropriate balance between too much and too little information, which is why we did the summary + full data sheets. If this is a bit too lopsided from one side to another, I'd love some more detailed suggestions, but it's a _really hard_ problem.

> I think you need to reduce the barrier between having an stl file and knowing the cost of a part with given tolerances, strength and surface finish. Perhaps this means offering at least one higher priced, longer lead time service with a fixed cost per volume of material. Shapeways does this very well.

We're currently (mostly) serving the industrial design/engineering market, which is already reasonably knowledgeable about the field, or at least parts of it. It's easier to start with an informed userbase, you know? But decreasing the expertise necessary is certainly in our plans, and where we want to go... but with only two people, you have to prioritize your time. Most of our current customers want _more_ options, not less.
If you don't tackle the issues of apathy, ignorance, and stupidity then you get the current system and no set of rules is going to change this.

It's all a question of costs and incentives. Right now, it is rational to be ignorant an irrational when you vote. It takes a lot of work to understand all the issues. On the other hand, if you guess wrong, the marginal cost (because your one vote has such a small effect on the outcome) is fleeting. So the cost to each individual voter to be well-informed far exceeds his the benefit from so doing. (See The Myth of the Rational Voter http://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+myth+of+the+rational+voter ).

So you've got to either lower the cost of rationality, raise the cost of ignorance, or raise the benefit of rationality.
... but nonetheless they are useful projects that probably helped the business to make money ...
I used searchyc to try and find something before I submitted yesterday.. though I didn't find anything, in some instances it took up to 40 seconds for a query to go through.. ugh.
> Do you really think the only positive quality of black people is their resistance to sunburn?

No, of course not. But their other positive qualities are due to being people, not to being black.
Yet one of Judy's childhood friends sensed something. Susan White felt there was an "elephant in the closet" at Judy's house. She believed that the elephant was Judy's father.

English must be so weird for non-native speakers.
The best current way to "get a structure in" is through laser scanning the part, and converting the resulting point cloud to an STL file.

This isn't yet to the point of being automatic, though, as laser scanners aren't yet perfect. There's still a bit of artistry involved.
It's not lambda. The line executes as `while (decrement x) (greater than) zero`.

As in, a while loop that executes ten times. Creative use of misleading whitespace though :)
I went to the London one last year, it was a good experience. It was very good for networking and also for motivation.

For making a start-up less so, but there is the possibility.
The hosting IE process is running with low integrity. Accordingly, it's ability to do bad stuff is severely limited.

I do see that restricting access to syscalls potentially improves security. But, which syscalls can a low integrity process use to actually do something bad? That's something I'm interested in finding out.
And also, it's a "sneak peak" because it represents the highest point of mobile technology achievement. But I think that makes sense only if you start "loosing your mind."
They don't have a product. Their product idea sounds revolutionary but its kinda far-fetched. However the press they have received is astounding. So I wonder what is the sequence of events that lead to them being featured on nytimes, HN, etc.
Browsers are going to be getting closer and closer to the metal all the time. That's what this is telling us. It's like 1991 all over again.
same could happen to... eg. the gulf stream! europe would be frozen like sibiria...

look around, in fact there are people anticipating a shutdown: http://www.gulfstreamshutdown.com/
The lock is especially powerful if you combine it with lists. For the longest time I didn't know about lists because I didn't use FB's chat or any similar features that revealed lists to me. Being able to quickly block just "Family" or "Old Bosses" via lists and locks is one security change FB made that really works for me.

(one big problem, though, is that I don't think there is a way from Facebook mobile to use the lock's functionality.)
"""For example, the author suggests that separation of content from presentation using HTML and CSS is not possible because the <em> tag is presentational. On the contrary, emphasis is a semantic (in this instance)."""

That's the point where I said this guy is an idiot. What exactly does emphasis look like? Bold and Italic are presentational, whereas <strong> and <em> are semantic.

There is a kernel of truth in there as I often wish CSS let arrange elements independent of the order they appear in the HTML doc.
Freshmeat and Google Code, but no GitHub?
Click through to the NYT story and the original photo has been cropped to remove the joke!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/nyregion/12about.html?part...
Regarding LLVM -- See the comment about PNaCl (Portable Native Code Client). This is portable code based on LLVM intermediate representation.
Objective-C is much closer to the 'just a pre-processor on top of C' idea than C++ is at this point. ANSI C is still valid, though to hook into Apple's CocoaTouch APIs I believe that you will be forced to write ObjC.
You can compile your binary for multiple architectures, check the type of processor and give it the appropriate binary.

They also have the LLVM option so that old binaries keep working on new architectures without recompiling and rewriting NaCl for them, but it has downsides http://blog.chromium.org/2010/03/native-client-and-web-porta...

The reason they didn't go with LLVM as the main approach was performance. Google wants there to be no distinction between desktop and web apps, and for web apps to have even 60% of desktop performance is still unacceptable. 90+% is more like it.
I remember coming across this in the past. This is very similar to what I want to find, only.. I want to push the "Base" much further.
I wonder how much money Microsoft is making by providing patent coverage for Linux. They got Amazon to pay up, too. God knows how many companies have been coerced into paying these absurd licensing fees to MS just because they use Linux somewhere. I guess TomTom is an example of what could happen when you don't play ball.
I suppose that they meant to say that the traveling star was 90 times more massive than the sun[1]... this reporter seems awfully confused. A little proofreading goes a long way.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/runaway-sta...
Useless FUD. Yes, let's compare a 15-year-old mature platform to one in its infancy, and dismiss the latter on grounds of the performance of its more esoteric features. We get it, Flash developers fear change; cry me a river. Considering the relative rates of progress of Adobe, the only company that can advance the Flash platform, and every other tech company in existence currently working on HTML5, I know where the safer bet five years from now is, barring Adobe doing something smart and opening up the Flash runtime. So HTML5 is still rough around the edges, big surprise there.

The fact is, for video playback, it does just fine today, even on limited mobile devices, and if sites were to only replace Flash with HTML5 for video and audio playback, we're talking about 90% of Flash's popular use right there. As HTML5 matures, including content creation tools and the performance of various browser runtime implementations, it'll eat into Flash's share for other tasks as well. Apple is creating a market demand for HTML5 development tools and expertise, which is the first necessary step in order to bring the platform to maturity. After that happens, Flash developers will jump on board and forget this thing ever happened. Until then, just keep coding your crappy Flash ads and leave the rest of us who actually want some progress for the open web alone.
>The idea that some kinds of information are more or less suitable for privacy controls is nonsensical.

Should comments on public blogs have privacy controls?
As a long time js developer (started hacking serious js on the Mozilla XPFE in 2001) I'll defend flash for the platform consistency and for providing an initial direction for the WHATWG efforts. I'll also note that Flex is more polished as a platform than anything available in the DOM world. The closest competitors in the thick client space are SproutCore and YUI3, neither of which has a great selection of widgets.

Not that I'd start a new project in Flash/Flex, but let's be realistic here.
If someone has interesting work, and wants to pay me to learn COBOL, then absolutely I will. Actually, I have another startup in the works that probably will require learning COBOL at some point anyway...
Cost of Driving Worldwide (Infographic)
I think you're looking for this:

http://devkick.com/lab/tripoli/sample.php?base=base&visu...

http://devkick.com/lab/tripoli/

It's not just a reset, it's an attempt to be a "better browser default".

Another sample, applied to an existing W3C page: http://devkick.com/lab/tripoli/selectors.php?base=base&v...
What would be the difference if Microsoft disabled the prompts for ActiveX controls?
Just to note, article's main point (that C surpassed Java) also happened previously in 2004-2005 as well, at least according to this Tiobe graph from Wikipedia (cum grano salis):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Tiobe_index.pn...
I live in an area that has 2 providers, Comcast and Consolidated. Neither are a good choice, both are pricey, and for some reason there is some law/policy in place preventing other companies( like AT&T or verizon )from competing in my location. It saddens me that the telcos seem to be impeding progress here and preventing us from getting any kind of reasonable bandwidth to our homes.
It appears the NYT has cropped the joke out of their photo. (Cached: http://www.geekosystem.com/dirty-unix-joke-nyt-facebook-nyu/)
In my experience, I've found that processes that influence the desired behavior (through the use of incentives) have been more effective than tools. But I'm certainly no expert and am always looking for better ways to do things.

Have you used any tools that you've found to encourage well written code? I'd really love to give them a try.
Work-fare programs have been attempted to varying degrees in the U.S. (not just for homeless). The trouble is things that work for city-states like Singapore, don't scale to U.S. size.

This can be said for many things Singapore does. Its quite possible these type of social services simply do not scale well and it would be best if local governments "owned" these problems as they do sewage, water, fire department, etc... But in a multi-tier government: local, state, federal, you can most always kick the problem up a level.
I didn't dismiss/refute/claim anything or intend to start yet another global warming flame war. I'm probably as familiar with that research as you are and I'm not refuting it.

If other planets are warming/cooling then something is responsible for it. If it's not the sun, then it's something else related to planetary environments with which we are not familiar. Studying that would be A Good Idea, regardless of where people stand on global warming, because examining Earth alone just gives us a single data point.

What's happening on Mars? Does it parallel the changes we're seeing on Earth to some degree? What's happening in Jupiter's atmosphere to bring about such a dramatic change in a short period of time?

Could we see a similar dramatic change on this planet?
Net Neutrality Battle Gets Silly... Astroturfers, Sock Puppets, Student Projects
I agree about the larger point that limiting the web to one language is a bad idea.

There is a serious effort by Google http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341340 to alleviate this issue. With NPAPI that allows plenty of access to the browser, instead of current plugin islands, NaCl could be an excellent option. Not to mention, NaCl has the performance of desktop apps, it erases web vs desktop differences.

Hopefully it will also erase browsers, just as browsers largely erased old operating systems.
What tripped you up the most?

I just re-re-learned it, and:

* How to handle type 'id'

* Formal protocols (informal protocols I get just fine)

* Autorelease
From a strategic point of view for Microsoft (and assuming the assertion in the OP is true), why would Microsoft be willing to help HTC (and consequently, Android) considering that Microsoft has a competing platform due for arrival later this year?
I'm on the borderline, pook. The NIH page describes my childhood pretty accurately, although calling autism a "developmental disorder" is kind of like calling being white a "melanin deficiency disorder".

For an overview of recent research in the area, I suggest reading http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627581.500-the-advan... before embarrassing yourself any further.
Rentzsch ends the C4 indie Mac developer conference
Maybe they were desperately looking for patent protection and Microsoft was the cheapest vendor willing to sell it to them.
Mac SteamPowered Client (dmg)
I am no Sarah Palin fan, but I highly doubt she is dumb... out of her depth sure, ruthlessly ambitious yes, a poor ad-lib interviewee definitely, but not dumb.
I'm looking at google.ca (it redirects me there) and it has the blank space to the left of the search field as a <td>.

Look here: http://www.google.com/advanced_search

Do you consider that mass of table usage to be for tabular data?
YUI is on GitHub. I'm sure they'd love any help & suggestions to their Base component.
http://github.com/yui/yui3
CSS Hover Controls On the iPhone
Why we don't need an alternative to Facebook