skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is definitely one of the fluffiest pieces I've ever read. There are numerous client-side frameworks as this piece mentions, but none of them really replace flash. Sure, the general development community is now finally coming to accept that there are clearly numerous use cases that flash was unnecessary for, but that doesn't replace flash.

We've had the ability to have rich internet applications in our browsers since 2005. There are literally hundreds of client-side frameworks, but I guess since Apple is creating one, all of a sudden it warrants a mention. All of the apple applications that were mentioned could've easily been done in any of those. Why only mention Cappucinno, and Sproutcore? What do they have to with flash? It's just complete fluffery, very frustrating.
Man, I first read this as Apple developing flash alternative named "Giardia:" http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/Giardiasis/factsht_g...
IPhone 3G Running Android [video]
Chocolate Compound Good Against Strokes?
NativeClient will support other languages and through a new plugin API, they'll be able to link up with HTML, CSS just like JS can.

Only the other browsers have to agree to implement it. Minor little problem.
The other end of this joke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianduja_(chocolate)
18 Tools for Scheduling Future Tweets
I was referencing that correct file permissions, on a dedicated server, with a well-selected user (NOT admin) will do a LONG way in making it safer. Also, putting in the time to shore up the main holes is 100% worth it. Sure, there are holes in it, just like ANY framework. Simply setting it up right helps a ton. My comment is directed to people who just unzip, dump it on a shared GoDaddy server, and wonder why it gets hacked.
Yep working fine in various browsers on win & mac and I get the page rendered all fine. I actually run sportmeets.com & I would really want to get down to why this is happening - can you email me your IP at miro@sportmeets.com to check the server logs? Cheers.
..as is your belief to a hindu
Guys, it's really easy to remove IP law infringing app once you ask apple to do so. Apple is under the impression that it's between two people, but if the 'defendant' doesn't really have any solid defense whatsoever, apple will remove it quite quickly. Actually this can be abused, as in that story between two app developers who developed a similar game, which in a real court would be totally fine, but one sent a bogus complaint to apple about the other and being of small resources, the developer couldn't fight it and got his application removed.

I also remember that apple actually quite regularly blocks trademarks in keywords, for example, there was this Yahtzee like game that was being developed by one developer I knew, a valid use for a keyword 'Yahtzee' and was rejected due to Yahtzee being not allowed.

So this kind of copycat keyword infringing stuff although looks bad, is quite easy to fix if you just send an email.
They also have trending channels (click on the tv icon near the play button) - which don't seem to be working for me. When I click nothing happens. Prob an MVP thing.
Would society benefit if the output of that company were 25% more costly?

Let's say that the company sells a serving of food for $4, or clothing or clean water or some other neccessity of life, which would go up by 25% to account for the need of that company to feed 25% more mouths.

Suppose company A (your exemplar company) raises its prices from $4 to $5 and company B holds its price constant at $4 (and maybe works its staff 50 hours a week). Which company would you expect to be more successful in the marketplace? Which company would you expect would ultimately employ more people over time? I'd bet on company B.
HN is getting too big
Sorry for the link bait title ;) HN is maintaining its quality very nicely for a site that's growing so quickly.

Just wondering if it might be time for HN to get sub HNs (like sub reddits).

Stories are getting buried v.quickly. I was trying to find a link I saw at work yesterday and ended up having to dig through 6 or 7 pages worth of posts.
because Christians are people too...they have feelings.

I am not arguing that the Christian God is more logical than Zeus. But be careful to bring it up on date if you don't want to end up in an argument like this one. Respect the religious beliefs of other people because they are important for them.
The Internal Combustion Engine Is Not Dead
That is pretty funny. Had me laughing out loud which pretty rare for nerd humour (which is usually cringe worthy).

By the way for future editions there has to be a good joke about Haskell being lazy because it was created by a bunch of hippies.
i try to go down that track now - decided to bill them for business analysis and see how things turn out ... i'll report here :-)
billing only for the hours would be under value i think, i simply see it as a business analysis and even offer them to give them deeper insight in their own business if desired - simply change the seats ... lets see.
No problem.

>Also, I don't appreciate being called a pedant. [...]

I didn't. I said that I don't object to spelling errors unless I feel the author is being pedantic about the writing of someone else, then I _have_ to!

You made no errors that I spotted I simply pointed out a couple of nuanced alterations in style that I would make.

However, I do feel you're a pedant in this respect but don't see that as an especially deleterious characteristic. Pedantry has it's place.

I don't think you're being a snob or being rude but I do think that spelling on a blog is not as important as your post suggested it should be - it would depend on the blog to some extent of course.
welp, i'm back after using nowmov. thanks to nowmov i found one of the coolest youtube videos i've seen in a while http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0 Google Chrome speed tests
slideshare, please take a cue from scribd and ditch the flash
When I tried that link it said I wasn't on the guest list to that event :(
It depends on what you are doing. Generally you're right, however we're currently doing work with a group that does live PPV events, streamed over HLS in h.264 in the live case encoding is very time sensitive.

(this is a bit of a red herring - the times related in the story are pretty much useless)
aww. me too ;/
So, what's this other thing we need to have to be able to replace flash? What else is flash currently doing for everyone that's so unique?
Actually if you know enough about the history of the Norse religion, Odin to Mercury is not a difference. Odin comes from Wotan who started as the messenger of the gods then gained prominence in the pantheon. By Roman times he was co-equal with Tiwaz and had acquired many of his characteristics. By Norse times Thor was still important enough to take the central position in the temple at Uppsala. However Odin was god of wars, aristocracy, and poetry. After Christianity took over, Odin continued to gain importance in the mythology (which was after all continued by poets telling stories for aristocracy) and by the time Snorri Sturluson wrote The Prose Edda was the familiar allfather, king of the gods, etc.
Will God (Super Solar Storms) Destroy Our Money or Will We Do It First?
I found one funny video and a bunch of random spanish stuff and a lot of pop music. Not sure I see what this has besides some novelty, sorry guys.
Adobe CS5 is Out, Trials Available
No? So Sivers' message was just about religion then? ;)
It's time to get rid of the mortgage interest deduction
What Happens When You Deactivate Your Facebook Account
Unless the team is really smart and very good at various recommendation algorithms and mathematical tricks(which is not doing so well now),I don't see them going anywhere. Everyone can pull out the videos overnight using the Youtube API but only everyone can write a good filtering algorithm to decide what to show.
Social Networks tend to be regional, bebo for europe, myspace in the US, friendster & hi5 for South East Asia, Orkut for Brazil, etc. If you decouple your game enough from social networks you can make them work on all of them and perhaps add incentives to use the more profitable networks over others. (10 Facebook credits only gets you 5 farmville points, but buying direct on farmville gives you 5 farmville points for the same price as 5 facebook credits, etc)
I found it impressive, and I've seen content here on HN that is less relevant than this.
I have been trying to come up with a design for a Open Social Network. Something you can host yourself or use from a "trusted" third party with the ability to seamlessly connect with each other.

The idea is:

1) You take your data where you want

2) You control you privacy

3) Seamless integration with different installation running all around the world.

4) Open Source (So it can be peer reviewed)

5) Tools for migrating from facebook and other Social Networks

6) Dead simple and user friendly UI. Built for people who can not differentiate between facebook and readwriteweb
See also: buttons at the bottom of touchpads, vs. tap-to-click, vs. Apple's "the touchpad is a button" design.
Facebook leaks user's IP addresses
Why the iAd Model Faces an Uphill Battle
vector animation engine? I don't know much about SVG though.
Raphael 1.4: Touch and more
> There is no decision that is more life-impacting than belief/disbelief in a god.

There might be a god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.
Not speculation. I just tried this with a few folks, and it works as advertised.
http://searchyc.com is the solution to your particular problem, not sharded communities.

It's unfortunate that pg petulantly refuses to acknowledge its existence. Even talking about in person, he'd only engage with me on the subject when I referred to the useless HNSearch Firefox extension that's linked in the footer because it's from WebMynd (YC W08).

Confounding things is the fact that HNSearch actually redirects to searchyc SERPs on some user actions!
My guess is that the flash tool-chain will be a lasting reason that it won't get instantly replaced by any of these new frameworks. There are a ton of developers and designers out there that know how to build flash and don't want to start learning new tools in unproven frameworks.

That said, I think the more and more bloated nature of adobe's tools will become a huge weakness. Developers will be able to build tools for much more specific work-flows that feed directly into specific use cases. Sproutcore and this one seem to be aimed at the 'desktop feel' app development for html5, I'm guessing there will be other frameworks and tools for creating games, vector animations, silly interactive websites, etc. Each of tho uses should grow it's own tool/framework specific for the task
I watched it for 10 minutes, which consisted of about 30 clips. 70% of them were bad quality music videos, the rest uninteresting other content, partly in spanish. The "best" one that came across was the recent Chrome Ad. Even voting down every music video just caused more of them to come up. Sometimes the videos had no sound for some reason.
apparently, IE doesn't respond to filter. You'll need this:

-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=50)"
address?
More like relative cost- the price of the belt is a small % of the price of the suit as a whole. Similar to how it's easy to sell the power seats, w/e other luxury on a car for $200 when the car is $20k+.

Anchoring would be if the suit salesman shows you a $3k suit to start out. Or more realistically say an $800 suit for your average person-not so outrageous as to offend you, but probably still out of your range, so you'll be more likely to spend $400 on a suit than if he had just started out in a more standard $300 range.
The games themselves may be replaceable, if you're just starting out.

But I don't think that anyone who has invested over a year in gaining achievements and advancement in FarmVille is going to just switch to a new farm game and start all over again.
Now it seems even more odd that Apple doesn't bother to include Lucida Grande on the iPhone or iPad, since that forms the cornerstone of Cocoa's interface. On the iPhone and iPad, they seem to use Helvetica instead (which is far less suited for small text).
I have to mark this one "cannot replicate". I see no sign of this behavior on my account.
I understand that images and visual representations are powerful, and impact more people in large part because they require less in terms of time/attention, so they have the power to mislead. But to label all infographics as a scourge and as automatically biased is quite a generalization. For that matter, how do they claim to be unbiased in the first place? Data and studies are spun towards researcher bias at times regardless of the end format. To disregard infographics or despise them versus black and white text and Excel tables doesn't make sense. It is a medium, and a powerful medium at that, but so is text, photography and videos, and they can all be used to objective ends or subjective ends, and none is ever pure and holy or automatically accurate (nor are Excel tables and the raw data used to inform the stylized infographics).
Can You Build a Particle Accelerator in Your Home?
Evolution has no direction, no intended goal.
search only works when you know what you're searching for :)

I only had a vague idea of what I was looking for.
Once the iPhone app starts invoking a "Facebook would like to use your current location" popup each time you launch, where "no" will prompt you again next time, but "yes" will remove the annoyance, a lot of people will choose the latter.

And then some people will uninstall it.
Would think about on 1 - does the product work? has it been tested, could you get it infront of clients?

As for the 40k lines of his code and his component; write up tests, refactor it where need be and if the worse comes to the worse launch with buggy code and update after it's out there and you know if it's worth fixing!
539 Bryant Street, Suite 200
Apple didn't buy SproutCore. Although they have contributed to the project. They use the framework for MobileMe and iWork.com.
I believe the proper answer is, 'no chance in hell'. The second I do, I'll start getting bombarded by ads coming to my cell phone. Since my number is listed online, but i don't actually 'own' it.
The good news is that the eviller Facebook gets, the more of a market it creates for the "kinda like facebook, but not evil" competitor to come along.

I'm not sure how you could get traction, but aiming it directly at people who are disillusioned with facebook over privacy and stupid apps would be the way to go... position it as a "clean" and "sophisticated" alternative to facebook, and make it super-easy for people to control what information goes to whom.
That's already happening, since a few weeks HN now has an 'ask' section, which is effectively a first split.
"There is no decision that is more life-impacting than belief/disbelief in a god."

Not really. The real life-impacting decision is choosing whether to live for yourself and by your own moral code, or blindly following someone else's.
My guess is that one of the drivers is to beef up their ad platform. It's hard to make $$$ selling local ads if you don't know where the user is located.
Why I'm not applying to the Founder Institute
Though since it searches the comments too (with links to the parent + story), and commenters often also have vague ideas of what the story is, it works extremely well in practice.
The interesting thing is that, if people took morphine recreationally, there would be a stigma to putting cancer patients on it.

From an ev-psych standpoint, medicine is considered to be a "gift" from a society to an individual, and yet certain drugs also lower the status of people who consume them, because of their association with "unproductive behavior." We don't want to allow, as a rule, gifts to lower the recipient's status, because we can be on the receiving end of a gift without being aware of it, and we have to act like we like it as part of a certain social dance. Thus, we ban potentially status-lowering gifts.

Note that alcohol, caffeine and other such "consumed as part of eating ritual" drugs, even if they did lower status, aren't part of the gift culture of medicine—that's why relatively few suggest banning them.
Are you assuming I am a Christian? I am not. I'm just saying that a comment like may upset a person that believes in Christ.
Capturing webcam and microphone input.
but not when a wife is trying to hide from an abusive husband and assumes Facebook is the best form of communication

Is this the best scenario they could come up with where this is a problem?
Effects of Data Center Vibration on Compute System Performance
I wonder what the deal is there.

He has to be aware of the fact that we all understand that he's rooting for the companies that YC has funded, but clearly webmynd is dysfunctional when it comes to effectively searching HN, and the HN audience deserves the best it can get.

If he would just so much as place a link to searchyc or a form that submits there that would make life a bit easier and save endless newcomer questions.

In any other community such a feature would have been implemented long ago, the searchyc guys seem to do it for free so why not recognize their efforts and make it official? Or is there bad blood between searchyc and PG?
When? Someone should really either fix the link in the OP or give the info there... I'm not sure what this Anyvite site is, but this is giving me a horrible first impression for something that may or may not even be their fault. Unfortunate, but such are first impressions...
Labelling externalities costs in the traditional sense is misleading. By the same logic one could argue that the "real cost" of meat-production isn't borne by the buyers or sellers of meat, but by the moral-vegetarians whose conscience the process bothers. Similarly, just because Pepsi has billboards and I prefer Coke, doesn't mean I would say Pepsi existing delivers a cost to my time.

Misleading products on the other hand are different, (when the offer isn't genuine), but spam does not necessarily mean fraud.
If they were, I'm pretty confident it wouldn't be called that.
Normal people would, but not people who -- day in and day out -- read articles about privacy issues on Facebook.
So why isn't anyone pushing to include that in HTML5? (That is, HTML5 the let's-do-new-stuff-with-browsers movement, not specifically the markup language standard.)
The store has two weeks to submit the coupons to their clearinghouse. They also make (a small amount) of money on the coupon vs. you paying in cash (unless they do doubling where they lose).

Technically they are not supposed to accept a coupon that expired 24 or 48 hours ago. But if you ask in the middle of checkout, you'd be surprised where 3 out of 4 times they will say no problem (if you have a decent cashier).
TWiST #51 with Joel Spolsky
Anyvite is a YC company. Their Tweetvite service - http://twvt.us - is baller. I've never actually used the old-school Anyvite service.
Delivering a cross platform environment that provides the same functionality with more features.

Don't get me wrong here, the first sentence may sound as Flash "fanboyism", but i think it is rather objective.
Let me explain:

- Flash Apps work on Windows/MacOSX/Linux/smartphones/tablets with the exact same API and no difference in implementation of that API (in contrast to IE/Webkit/Opera/Firefox that implement different features and even differ in details when it comes to the implementation of HTML5/CSS3)

- Flash offers additional APIs that are not available in HTML5 (Webcam access for example)

- taking this further, Air enables cross platform installers, integration into the OS, even more APIs

And this can be explained really good, because Adobe can implement new features much faster than HTML standard committees can agree on new HTML features (plus a variety browsers that need to support those). So this shouldn't surprise anyone. It's wishful thinking when people claim that HTML5 can replace Flash in _every_ regard (and here i mean 100% alternative, which can't be true if you just take the webcam access).
HTML5 can replace the majority of todays Flash applications.
At least i can't think of many web sites that depend on Flash that wouldn't be possible with HTML5 (Websites that make use of Webcams being one of them). And i hope all those navigational elements, advertisings and whatever people chose Flash for, will be replaced with proper HTML in the future!
To implement a full fledged multimedia website is harder with HTML5 than with Flash, imo (think of cross browser compliance and difference in performance between browsers).

Just to make my standpoint clear: I would not create a website with Flash nowadays, even if it means less effort. HTML5 is for the web. Flash should die. The "fact" that it can be extremely difficult to create those web sites remains, though.

Regarding the article:

Am i missing something or isn't this just another JS-framework? There are already hundreds of them out there, why is this labeled as "Flash alternative"? Unless i am missing a point this looks like nothing fundamentally new. Seen in the light of the headline every JS-framework is a Flash alternative.
It is a pretty awful name. If you're going up against something with a name as catch as "Flash" you'll need something that doesn't sound like an intestinal parasite.
-1 (if I in fact had the points to do it), for assuming that changing the metric space obviates calling a dimension a dimension.
The whole time I was thinking that somehow they were going to say that their shoes 'go to 11'
Interesting, of course your ip address is normally present in the headers of your email anyway, but using a service like facebook (which has a pretty high stalking potential) you might not want to give that much away, especially not when you think that such info is safe.
Here is what the invitation says:

Invitation Details

Scribd Turns 3!!

Help celebrate Scribd's (belated) 3rd birthday!!!

We want to thank all our amazing employees, partners and friends who've helped make this past year a blowout success. Enjoy great
food, drink, company and maybe even some go-karting and ziplining at Scribd's SoMa headquarters.

Be sure to try the Scribdtini while you're here!

- Trip

Date & Time

Friday, May 7 at 8:00 PM (PDT)

Location

Scribd Office
539 Bryant Street, Suite 200
(between 3rd & 4th Street)
San Francisco, CA

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
U.S. Lets Hollywood Disable Home TV Outputs to Prevent Piracy
What about NameJet? I've purchased domains from them and everything was straight forward and easy.
The liquidity of Facebook Credits is a major problem. They are asking game developers to give up control of their virtual currencies. When you control your virtual currency you can use it in so many ways to influence user behavior.

You can give away your own currency to lure back wayward players. You can use your currency to smooth over customer support problems (lost some of your inventory due to a bug? Sorry, have 1000 gold). You can run contests where the grand prize is $100 of virtual currency. And, so on.

You won't be able to give away or otherwise manipulate Facebook Credits in the same way you can your own currency.

Of course, you keep your own virtual currency and accept Facebook Credits. You just need to ask your players to exchange real money for Facebook Credits, and then exchange Facebook Credits for your currency, and finally exchange your currency for that neat power-up they wanted. That won't confuse anyone.
I don't use the 'ask' section link, but regularly click on them from the 'new' or main view.

What categories would you suggest?
Business, technology, environment, programming, apple, facebook?
Ok, probably not apple and facebook though those do get an inordinate amount of links.

Personally I wouldn't use them, and my concern would be that people who come only to read articles tagged in that column wouldn't cross-polinate their expertise into cross-over areas.

Just a thought.
http://raphaeljs.com/