skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree somewhat with the sentiment that a stronger EU can be good.

But I do not see why we should see harmonization as so important. Unilateral free trade is always possible. Also, Switzerland seems to be doing fine as a small and independent country.
> For example, everyone says you can 'use SQLAlchemy' in Django. On paper this is true. But then you lose the admin, the user auth system, the messages system, model forms, and all of the other batteries that make Django useful.

Using SQLAlchemy doesn't change any of that. For pre-built components, like auth and admin, just go with the flow. You're free to use SQLAlchemy side-by-side with Django's ORM.
"The economic collapse will hurt most companies in the financial sector, but Kleiner’s position is particularly vulnerable because its investments critically depend on economic growth to produce the pain that these investments solve."

So economic collapse is assured but KPCB will be hurt more than most because of its portfolio.
I'm just about there anyway.
Well, luckily I would choose neither of these for traversing a graph, neo4j being bound to java, and MySQL lacking recursive CTEs.
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Symbian is WebKit, Blackberry OS 6 is WebKit, Android is WebKit, WebOS is WebKit. What other non-MS smartphone platforms are there?
I'm not sure what your point is. REST [1] has beaten SOAP as the de facto API standard, and JSON has beaten XML as the de facto standard for portable data structure.

[1] Notwithstanding: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304244
The whole thing with money is that its a way to mediate resource allocation.

As you point out, as the internet gets more ubiquitous, and there gets to be more money on the internet, it is bound to end up looking more like the "real" world.
I wish someone would run with the original business and fix digital photo frames... I've spent so much time on the phone with my parents and mother in law trying to keep their Flickr feed of granddaughter pictures working. The Kodak connected picture frames are god awful.
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A terrible title. This will drift right past the front page. I was going to use "Adobe CEO disagrees with Steve Jobs".
After participating in a few of the XLDB meetups, at which the requirements for and design of SciDB were debated and discussed, I was quite excited about this project. I was kicked off of the mailing list unceremoniously once they decided they wanted to make it a business, and I haven't been allowed back on since. They're certainly abusing the term "open source" for marketing purposes here.

The reason they don't want people looking behind the curtain is that the rhetoric far exceeds the reality.
Very interesting. One of the stranger things I regularly did in the '80s and '90s was advise the leaders many small firms I worked for about the ... slow clock cycle, shall we say, of real estate people. I learned this growing up and watching my father play the game from all sides, most people don't realize just how slow the industry moves.

It might take longer than most of you would expect for this to become a reality, and a lot of potential players may resist since they will think it will reduce or eliminate their role in the game, but it does indeed look like a potential game changer.
I think that's why the India's Defence Research Development Organisation is looking into it.

What is the number of days a "normal" human can survive without food or water? If I recall correctly it was 3 or 4. Although it may vary depending on the environment and activity conditions.
And HTML5 canvas changes this how?
To me, this feels like the difference between smartphone and desktop/laptop kinda boils down to the Appstore being on the homescreen.

In a way what he's asking for is already there, Adobe Air and Silverlight.

They can both do exactly as Sachin asks for, web focused, quick downloading, rich applications, just like iPhone apps. Fantastic dev environments.

But how do you find those apps? There's no Air store on every desktop. MS could never put a Silverlight store on every desktop without being slapped silly with monopoly charges. Apple are never gonna put an Adobe Air store on every Mac.

What he's asking for, in a way, is impossible, a new type of browser won't fix it. In reality only Microsoft or Apple can. Or a totally new OS. And I doubt Chrome OS is going to go in that direction.
That's not really the whole story, and given that Hamas forcibly evicted the also-democratically-elected executive branch, I wouldn't exactly call their rule democratic.

For a typical Gazan, they're stuck with Hamas and Israel even if they'd rather not deal with either of them.
Working in NYC. Not affected or back up?
Beachball aside, why does it take 100 billion cpu clock cycles to switch from one tab to another?

Because 90% of those cycles are spent in other processes while your kernel is waiting for your blocking I/O to finish, and 5% or more of the rest are taken by the kernel to let other tasks run. </pedantic>
No, I'm not implying that, and I said I'm not really into apportioning blame, that's a long conversation and there's more than enough to go around.

The net sum of Israel's policies have probably contributed to radicalization in Gaza, but that's more about incompetence than malice.
frankly, the probability of fraud by the researchers or reporters strikes me as many orders of magnitude higher than the probability that he can fast indefinitely without dying.
Their answer would be that the existence of the TSA security system has certainly prevented many people from trying in the first place.
This project has been around for a while, and I've always found it really interesting. I wish more people were working on approaches like this to make asynchronous programming easier on the developer.
I hope we can all agree that Apple has never really been
an open standards company

We cannot. I strongly disagree. At least in the web space there is a lot of innovation comming from or strongly supported by Apple.
Merriam Webster defines hypocrisy thus:

"feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion"

I'd say Apple's lambasting of Adobe for failing to provide open & reliable cross-platform software fits the bill perfectly. Steve's critique of Flash can be both accurate and hypocritical at the same time.
I was wholly expecting his argument to address this quote:

If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.

with respect to "private api" arguments made here: http://www.marco.org/500743718
Is it not hypocritical to hold others to higher standards than one demonstrates?

I see a normative claim:

Software systems should do X, Y, and Z

Software systems that do not meet the norm are penalized or disallowed by Apple's platform(s). However, Apple's own software does not meet this norm either, even on Apple's own platform.

It sure seems like hypocrisy to me, even if it is defensible.
Steve's critique of Flash can be both accurate and hypocritical at the same time.

Great point, actually.
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Thanks for that linkup!
I remember when I joined Facebook, it was at least in part because it alleviated a lot of the MySpace privacy concerns. It didn't share data with outside companies, and only people with a UVA email address or who I accepted their friend request could see anything beyond my name, school, and photo. If I had known they would eventually be sharing my data such that CNN.com gets it if I just surf there or that it would publish my online shopping habits if I didn't opt-out (thankfully a rescinded policy), I'd have been more hesitant to sign up.
You seem to believe that 'hypocrisy' (and related words, I assume) can only apply to moral claims.

That isn't true to the best of my knowledge, and a check of a handful of good dictionaries (online and paper) confirms this.

Here's one link, for example: http://dictionaries.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=hypocrisy*1...

Although the charge of hypocrisy often comes up in moral contexts, that isn't a requirement.
Seems more complicated to me..
on point 2, Gizmodo said that the person who found the phone attempted to contact Apple by calling their support and the response he got from them was basically they didn't know what he was talking about and it wasn't their phone.
So...are you saying that Steve Job's efforts have made the world worse, or no difference at all?
You could also reasonably argue that the US is a perfect example of what the OP thinks is impossible. The primary differences are that we have a far more mobile workforce than does Europe, we have effective caps on state debt levels, and we have a (much hated) unified tax system that allows federal tax money to be spent in states that are lagging economically. Despite conservative hatred of these latter two items, they have done a lot to keep us from going through Greek debt crises of our own.
Agreed. Can someone (admin / moderator) modify this to avoid double submission?
Perhaps devices like the iPad are making the original business irrelevant?

Granted, $500 is a lot of money for a digital frame–but the iPad has a great digital frame mode, so I think its not too far off.
I had hoped for something more forceful. Helium and plutonium are quite obscure and we can do without.

You are probably right about genetic and linguistic diversity. Though we can also do with less, if necessary.

I am not sure about the useful energy supply of the universe. I suspect its true, but we probably do not know whether the universe at large behave like a thermodynamically closed system.
They answered this question many years ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23938
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/elnmibmpefhmfgph...
You asked for a second source, you have it: the CBO and the White House. The fact that heritage put CBO numbers onto a graph does not make them invalid.
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I really couldn't disagree more strongly with this. The advantages of web-based apps (distribution, network awareness, persistence etc) already outweigh native apps for a lot of applications and this will only be more true as HTML5 compliant browsers become commonplace.

If anything it's the complex content creation apps that devices like the iPad seem to eschew that will be last to go online.
iTunes sucks on windows because it does not take advantage of windows. If windows was the iPhone and iTunes was an app it would have been banned a long time ago.
Ask HN: Do you patent your software projects?
In class today my teacher mentioned that most small coders don't bother filing patents for their programs because it's too expensive to be worth it. Is this true in the "real world"?
I'll concede that the claim does not need to be moral, but it should, at least, be a claim about what ought to be or what one ought to do.

But the author meets this standard. For example, he points out that Jobs says, in effect, that Adobe should have moved their Carbon apps to Cocoa, even though Apple hasn't done so in some cases.
Israel care more about the people of Gaza way more than Hamas. It's a real tragedy.
The real question is, how higher ed will adapt at all. Even still, the game seems to be played the same way it always has. It's a dinosaur industry run by dinosaurs.
I personally hate developing in flash and I hate flash websites.

However I enjoy flash videos and flash games. I don't want someone telling me I can no longer play these games.
http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/04/1st-international-longest-tw... actual link
virtual goods are making zynga a ton of money on fb -- not sure how this business model would translate for your app?
All I am saying is that Steve Jobs isn't putting all the facts on the table as they are. He is feeding the anti-Flash gang mob with half-truths.

To say Flash is proprietary, possibly poorly executed format is a fair thing to say. To say it is completely without merit and has no place is a fallacy. HTML5 video is widely supported today. Flash might be a delivery vehicle for another unrealized idea tomorrow.

And the "death to the plugin arch" circle-jerk logic is almost intolerable. Only create within the confines of the parent layer's imaginative capacity? Sounds more closed than SWF.

kevinh said it best: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1305322

Support to my assertions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304353
Can you give a quick run down on why I should be interested? I gave it the standard "very quick look" and didn't make any headway.
I'm thinking of getting the Pangolin Performance from System76, any thoughts?
this is actually the #1 benefit of going after a large market and why VCs often invest (1) in the market (2) in the team and (3) in the current product (in that order).

If you are in a good market, and spend enough time slamming your head against the wall, you'll probably find a way to make money.
I've seen this argument so many times I've lost count.

If you compare an iPad app against a website, yes, the iPad app is better for the amount of effort put in. Now go and make an iPhone OS app, an Android app, a J2ME app, a Windows app, and a Mac OS X app, and you still won't reach as many users as with a single website.

Fracturing the web with browser-created SDKs will break the foremost feature of the web, and quite frankly, we've been there before and it didn't work out that great. Does any developer miss 1997, browser wars 1.0?
Well, yeah. Which is not to say there isn't money to be made in such a mess, you just have to e.g. fulfill the real requirements of people and/or companies.

After a good fraction of a decade where the environment for normal VC was awful KPCB changed its business model to rent seeking but made a bad bet on the field to do that in. Other fields where there's real value, not stuff that depends on unsustainable in bad times government subsidies, will do better. Or at least less worse.
That was one of the last things keeping Windows on my machine.
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Darn, it crashes Safari on my iPad. Ironic given that the iDevices are the ones providing onus to developers to use HTML5 in the first place. /-:
One way they could make it less worrisome for passengers is to have the room where they view the body scans separate from the room where the scanner is. From the images I've seen, it doesn't seem like you'd be able to recognize a person from their body scan -- I suppose unless they had a very, shall we say "shapely", body.
The telephone is an aberration
According to the table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density coal doesn't fare too bad compared to gasoline in terms of J/kg.

Another factor in the attack of Germany on the Soviet Union was that both countries had quite insane leaders..
"works everywhere, period"

Hehe. This made me chuckle a lot.

We are now entering an era where the hardware is suddenly significantly different, but your app may have to target all 3. As in an iPhone sized screen, an iPad sized screen and a monitor. Often you won't be able to use the same app for each one. The UX has to be different.

So the dream of write once - works everywhere is now at an end because of the devices themselves.
For iMac recently No1 reason of crashes is not flash, It's 10.6.3 update
As someone who is not a security expert, it's hard discern which of the UI problems are specific to that app and which are general to all possible public key solutions.
I'm sure it will see the light of day. I'm using the release candidate on my media center PC right now because it is the first version of Flash that can play Hulu content full screen at 1080p resolution without dropping frames.

Running a beta of a Flash Plugin that kinda supports hardware decoding but still crashes occasionally on a Windows PC is much different than running a production quality release of a hardware accelerated Flash plugin on a mobile device.
I believe it is a mistake to assume that engineering certifications ensure that engineers are experienced professionals. I think it is far more normal for engineers to do a few years of actual engineering out of school before they are scooped up into management.

My father makes good money fixing the mistakes of professional engineers. And most of the mistakes he encounters are simply the result of poor experience.
Bloomberg and Reuters would like to disagree. The collection of reliable cleaned data in the real world is such a chore and has such a strong network effect that it is a good model on which to build a business upon. Eg Mint might have cashed out because of the buyout but yodlee is going to see a check every year from intuit for a long long time to come.
I really like that idea. Good thing I haven't started implementing my API yet. :)
Only way to resolve around that bug is force reboot. Which is almost daily thing. Too bad feels like again running windows XP after so many years.
My wife and I have already done just that -- twice.

(I suspect many other HN readers have too.)
"Not flat" doesn't mean wrinkled into other dimensions. Again, it's just a metaphor/visualization, not a direct representation. It's like this image: http://sparrow.stanford.edu/~chumakov/images/grids-negative-... The 2D space has "negative curvature," but it doesn't bend into a third dimension. It's still flat.
> It is an essay about why Apple thinks its actions are good for it.

Hidden in that of course is the lack of concern for what's good for the consumer.
Most people don't know what HTML is, yet they can use web browsers. Not knowing HTML 5 will not prevent them from using HTML 5 -- and HTML 5 is covered by the first half of that list. The mailto extensions don't have to be -- they could as easily be built into the browser (and should be by now). Web applications can already be online/offline hybrids (Google Gears already provides the functionality, HTML 5 adds it as well).
> This is Microsoft Research; I believe it's not really the Microsoft behind Windows and co.

I'm curious as to what you mean with this statement, given that Microsoft Research is a part of Microsoft.
Is it not hypocritical to hold others to higher standards than one demonstrates?

I would say it's hypocritical to hold those of a class including yourself to standards which you do not meet. That is, it's not hypocritical (however blameworthy it may or may not be) to say, "Everyone but me should do X, while I should do Y," but it is to say "Everyone should do X" while actually doing Y.

You can see Jobs trying to avoid hypocrisy in the original post by asserting that web standards should be open, while other software systems have no such obligation.
Apple's lambasting of Adobe for failing to provide open & reliable cross-platform software

I think a quotation to support your interpretation above would be helpful, because it's not at all what I read in "Thoughts on Flash" today.

That is, I did not get the impression that Apple thought Adobe ought to deliver anything open. They were merely pointing out that it is not — and that this does not meet Apple's vision for what they want to support within Mobile Safari.

In fact, he went so far as to concede that "Apple has many proprietary products too."
What's premature? I don't see anything about "beta" at ubuntu's download page. It looks like final.
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Wow, that's embarrassing.
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I asked for a second source regarding the financial reform bill. I'm well aware of the approximate projected size of our federal deficit, thanks.

The fact that Heritage supported Reagan, opposed Clinton, supported Bush and now claim to be concerned about deficits says a lot about the Heritage Foundation.

EDIT: Awesome, downvoted for clarifying a willful misinterpretation of my original comment. Ladies and gentlemen, your conservative movement -- it's not about facts, it's about which side you're on.
"The web is the closest we've ever come to a standards compliant universal platform that is write once - works everywhere, period."

I think Java applications succeeded better in this regard. I remember hearing about fewer incompatibilities between JRE versions than I currently hear between browsers; there was never a "stop supporting JRE 1" campaign like there has been for successive versions of IE.
I think the most likely explanation is The Flying Spaghetti Monster is surreptitiously slipping him meatballs when nobody's looking.
You're right I meant point 6 but typo'ed. Thanks for pointing that out, I've fixed it now.
I wish privacy was expensive, because then I could just pay for it and be done. What bothers me are services where you can't get privacy for any amount of money.
Yeah, it would take a lot of trustworthy eyewitnesses, video evidence, etc to convince me of this claim. Having some measure of mental control over your heartbeat or body temperature is interesting; having your cells function long-term without calories to burn and without creating waste products that need to be removed by water....

Well, that's quite a claim. I'd count it more likely that he's a cyborg from the future.
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"open, copy-and-paste-the-source-code Web that we know and love"

....

Being able to view what is almost always the most trivial layer of a website is not the same as open. Most websites, even those on open platforms, are very much closed.
If anything has been learned from the past decade's ramping up and unwinding of the Collateralized Debt Obligations (and related matters), it's that today's politicians and technocrats have taken leave of the notion of moral hazard, as if they could repeal it. Until moral hazard comes back into vogue, I fear the sky is the limit for the bad things that can happen because the game will always be to act in your short term interest before the next guy does.
Well you make a good point but I'd argue that most web apps are easily adjusted to work well using Safari even on something the size of an iPhone. Take Hacker News for example - half the time I'm reading/commenting on my iPhone even though this site is not iPhone optimized.
Sony was asking for it in this case. I can understand why the ps3 slim had the feature discontinued but disabling the functionality on older consoles was severely overreaching. Especially since in the early ps3 days sony actively sold these machines as cheap ps3 devboxes so that developers could use the ps3 to become familiar with the underlying architecture.
You may see this as a "normal" transition period but that doesn't mean EMU will survive intact. Sovereign debt crises (plural) and bank solvency are huge problems for several EMU states.

If one EMU state defaults on sovereign debt, there will be a chain reaction in the banking system and the debt markets. Several states are at risk of defaulting.

The politics remain highly unpredictable.
It's a good point, I'm sure it won't be too long before there's a $300 Android tablet that would do the job well.
Windows users don't hate Flash nearly as much as OSX users. Performance plays a role, no doubt.
Search the archives; there was a discussion recently about why game studios generally don't fit the VC model. There are always exceptions, but you should know what the objections are before trying to be one.