skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using Firefox 3.6.3 here, the same they listed.

I tried the "Call select() on a text field" test because it looked like a simple one I could check myself.

It selects the text field perfectly. When I start typing the current text is replaced, everything seems to be working fine. "Test result: FAIL"

It's only one test, sure, but this page is smelling even fishier than before.
2/3 unionized auto makers in the US failed and had to be nationalized in order to survive. (Ford survived largely on the principle that you don't have to outrun the bear, just your hunting companions.) The foreign, non-unionized auto makers have no problem keeping plants open in the US and turning profits.

It may be more affordable to support a unionized workforce in Europe just because European countries have more generous welfare systems, or because European unions own stock in the company and have a financial incentive not to completely destroy the host. Of course, UAW resisted that level of responsibility in the GM and Chrysler bailouts.
Remember when Reddit _was_ about startups (pre-HN)?

It's good to see them coming back around. :)
Zeta Software is Zeta-Quality :)

Fun aside, but we do extensive stress tests for our games before going to the E3, or even for just journalist visits. If we know that the game crash, a special person is playing it (usually some QA guy) so that it doesn't.

That's failure to DEMONSTRATE!
Huh?

No, by my logic, traditions develop for a reason. Learn the reason and do what you like. Having a lot of tradition and social norms isn't good -- neither is having none.

You're just as idiotic throwing it all out the window as you are accepting it as the unalterable truth.

Moderation my friend. Understanding and moderation. Adapting and changing things is awesome. Let's do more of that. But let's not be idiotic about it.

EDIT: I work in hi-tech with people changing the world. I love startups. My goal in life is to change people's lives for the better. I'm always talking about the singularity and how great change for the better is on the way.

And now I'm a Victorian. Go figure.
> They do that because they are __required to__ in order to retain talent and competitiveness. If they could get it for free, you can bet they would.

You'd be surprised - often it's more cost effective to pay people than to try to get them for free. You get a different quality of work, support, and dedication. Ever had an unpaid intern? They take up more time than they're worth. Free labor is very expensive...

> And Einstein was not a bad example to pick out of that. His contributions possibly number in the trillions, yet his salary was quite low.

Salary is a part of compensation, but not all of it. Again, the U.S. President makes something like $400,000 per year, but his total compensation including prestige, perks, fame, power, etc, etc is one of the highest in the USA. Salary is not the only form of compensation. Money/direct monetary benefits is not the only form of compensation. When you can eat anywhere for free, and stay in any hotel or palace as an honored guest for free, you don't really need so much money any more. Einstein was on that level for the latter half of his life.
The tablet looks pretty cool - though the multi-touch seemed a bit glitchy, not always picking up gestures. But it is alpha
These things take time. There are years and years between a single proof of concept working circuit and packaged product at Newegg, if it makes it there at all.
Agreed. It's not as if Android devices would switch to this Flash implementation to playback videos. Why not demo something like Farmville?
Dropbox Anywhere
FCC Turns Up the Heat in Battle for Net Neutrality
Some examples would be nice. Previously satisfied customers or selected insightful comments. Just something for me to judge if the service has any value before spending the 10 bucks.
Perhaps I misread the emphasis because you put "Should we regulate them?" in the headline. It seemed like the point was that we should expect some cool free service a kid sets up over winter break to live up to the same standard we would normally apply to high-end corporate services in the same space.

I agree that people should treat their users with respect, but your post goes far beyond that. You even say that a service offering full data portability and plenty of warning to its users if it's unable to continue is not good enough. Like, what more can we reasonably offer? I'm offering you something valuable for free and being completely honest with you, but still I'm a jerk for not making a lifetime commitment? That isn't rational.

And to be honest: I guess you could say I feel a sense of entitlement as the person offering a free service. If I offer my girlfriend a massage, I feel entitled to not give everybody else on the planet a massage as well. If I bring donuts to work, I feel entitled to not bring an unlimited supply of donuts forever. Of course, people wouldn't normally call this "entitlement" — only on the Net do people feel like I'm being "entitled" if I won't work for them for free.
there's always ...@googlemail.com, if the + method fails.
And that's really the most important thing a startup founder needs to know.
Pretty sure that's more marketing than anything to do with their product strategy. They release the best products they can, but implementing features better than their competitors means it takes them longer, so they talk down any feature they don't offer yet, and then hype it up once they offer it.
Which versions? If it's IE6 then it can't be terribly HTML5-ish.
What, you don't think that common carrier style government regulation of the Internet is fraught with peril?

(That's what I've heard from other sources, that the FCC Chairman is looking for a "third way" between common carrier and the current regulatory setup, each of which have terms of art which precisely describe them.)

I don't like how things are set up in the US after line sharing was zapped and Ed Whitacre started raving about "my pipes" (http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/10/5498.ars), but I'm sure it can get worse. Much worse.
Really?

I always thought that Flash was quite performant compared to browser-based Javascript. Can you point to any benchmarks?
did you sign in to kickstarter with your facebook profile?

kind of funny that's an option
In other words, its an accurate port of the Flash platform to this new device.
But how else will people find their way to Scribd's site to click the ads?
Why Intel Will Be a Mobile Loser
It's not collateral, it's an indication that, just like passenger rail, the market can't support automobile manufacturing in this country[1] so instead we'll use nationalization and massive government subsidies to save otherwise useless jobs[2].

[1] Except for Ford.

[2] Specifically, jobs belonging to unionized left-wing voters in Michigan, who need to be shored up during the upcoming elections, since they were far more in Hillary's base than Obama's during the primary.

Also, the salaries for those jobs go to union dues, which go to the UAW's political contributions, which go to the Democrats. So basically, the Democrats just voted themselves more public money. Not that the Republicans wouldn't do the same in their place, but....
I long for the day when a really fast internet connection + Zencoder can replace my Handbrake setup.

Probably not Zencoder's premier market though...
I believe I understand your perspective. I think you're saying that "Betting The Company" == "Taking Mortal Risk", and I agree with that definition.

I don't agree that the odds are fixed, nor that it's all-or-nothing-to-the-end. For any startup, you take mortal risk as infrequently as you can; you hedge those bets as much as you can; and, since you can invest effort to change the game in reaction to the market, you work to improve your odds over time.

So in the end, I believe you present a false dichotomy. It's rarely $100MM or death, and there's never a guaranteed outcome.
Can anybody name a single feature exclusive to HTML5 that it is actually using? TFA says:

"Friedman estimates that 97 percent of browsers will be able to read Scribd’s HTML5 documents"

That pretty much counts IE6 into the picture, so I'm really wondering exactly what "HTML5" features IE6 supports!
Facebook Open Graph: The Definitive Guide For Publishers, Users and Competitors
> I wondered who would be confident or crazy enough to get a cosmetic dental procedure performed in public.

Not a dental procedure! Oh NO! Have these people no shame?

>"Your slip is showing" used to be the most embarrassing sartorial faux pas a lady could commit.

The idea that a lady would have been ashamed to accidentally show their underwear is plain dumb. Good riddance of such social customs. I get that part of the message is that it's going beyond the accidental situation, but I honestly don't care. I'm sick of older people whining about their values. I can't be sure, but I'll speculate that the whiners wish they could have had done those things - or feel that they were severely punished for doing such things and feel unfair that these people are "getting away". The fact is that what they are whining about don't exist anymore. They need to learn to deal with it.
I'm not saying you're a Victorian. I'm saying that during a culture where shame and social norming were at their height, most of the "societal" problems you attribute to the 70's were epidemic.
I smell some serious potential for startups in this article.
Adobe decries Apple's 'walled garden,' yet pledges 'best tools' for HTML5
Bit of a shame that this gets posted here right in the middle of a major Reddit outage. (Yeah, you can see the site now, but logins still aren't up.)
Give them a little time; the paper was just published last month! Commercial availability is expected in 2013 according to http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25018/
Ubuntu + Bluetooth = Custom PS3 controller
Yes. Even today, people occasionally live to 120 years. Therefore on the principle of mediocrity, in 2130 there are likely to be people who were born on or before 2010. And it's very likely IMO that immortality will be a given by then, either using uploading, or via careful repair of damage caused by aging.
>If you were boarding a bus in Israel, Sri Lanka, Iraq during certain periods of time, you would have a higher chance of dying from a bombing than from an accident.

You should check the stats on these things first. I'm pretty certain that isn't true. Check out the traffic fatality rate in Iraq: http://chartsbin.com/view/0lz

Even with the rate of Israel at 7.59 per 100,000, that comes out to 539 people per year.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+israel+*+...

That is more people every year than have died of terrorism in any year during Israel's history, even 1948.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2000/1/Terror...

Even in the most terrorism-stricken places on earth, traffic fatalities still dwarf terrorism.
Email, the web, DNS, routing and TCP/IP are all decentralised. I think the push is to try and do that for social apps like Facebook as well, instead of having AOL-email style monopolies...
http://www.sba.gov/recovery/arcloanprogram/index.html
The argument life extenders make is that in 20 years, we'll cure all the ailments that may cause death for another 20 years and then within that time, another set of cures will evolve until eventually, we've cured everything that could kill a person.

The trend supports them, somewhat. Lifetimes centuries ago were 30-40 years on average. Only a handful of people lived 60 or more years. Today, many people live to 100, many more to 80... so we are getting better at preventing death.

At some point, if this trend continues, we'll be almost perfect at it.
"It's hard to wreck a nice beach"
Net neutrality: Yes we can
IE6+. In less-compatible browsers there are workarounds to implement the same features, so the UX is basically the same.
Surviving the Age of Humiliation
With a preliminary section defining things more rigorously
I do believe that this is publishable in a conference on Cryptography

[trying to get the rhyme going for you]
I have, although I have limited free time to work on it right now. My 'market testing' page is here: http://openf.oarsum.com/

The idea is that there needs to be a protocol such that I can friend you, even though you're hosted on a completely different server. I suspect that it's a difficult concept to wrap your head around unless there's something that you can actually play with (although it's not too dissimilar to email). Perhaps the Django/Python choice might throw people too...
Agreed, Delicious is great.

Coupled with Delish (an OS X Delicious client) which displays a screenshot of each bookmark it's perfect.

http://pinepointsoftware.com/delish/site/
"Free" implies no exchange of value; a one way street.

It's difficult to have a thoughtful discussion based on a false premise (I'm assuming Ning -and any other free service- derives some benefit from its users). That said, changing TOS to the extent it alienates customers is a sure-fire way to relegate yourself into obscurity.
Quite complicated - but an interesting analysis. I see that this overlaps (or even is?) neuro-linguistic programming.

However, it seems to go even broader than simply converting your mental programming from saying "i must go to work" to "i want to go to work". The way I read this article is:
- Optimism: The bad parts of my life are temporary. (implying that the good parts are the way it should be).
- Pessimism: The good parts of my life are temporary. (implying that the bad parts are the way it should be)
Reasoned argument, or naked hyperbole?
I'm not saying it's trivial... just that they are not exactly restarting from scratch.

Never having done something similar myself, I would expect the hardest part to be correctly parsing the original PDFs and dealing with the varyiaty of PDF generators out there.
He got Adobe Flash and HTML 5. That's tangential enough to almost include Apple.

Needs:
* Facebook integration (or even better for HN cred - removing facebook connect)
* "Now works on iPhone/iPad"
Human interaction should be voluntary and mutually beneficial. But I respect your right to think it should be governed by coercion.
> It doesn't bother me at all that the google guys have billions. I may envy them, but I don't resent them. However, I resent AIG and GS, because I'm utterly unconvinced that they are contributing a damn thing, and that they are probably damaging wealth creation.

This is my position too. If people get rich by making the world a better place, they deserve it. If they get rich by making the world a worse place, then morally they are no better than thieves.

Generally, successful countries are those that most align people's personal interests with those of society, so that people's natural greed can be harnessed for the common good.
1. HN is the reddit of startups

2. I'm subscribed to that reddit and it's pretty dead...there are like 1-2 new submissions a day
I've just created a google group to discuss implementing this and other game changing techs. Because if you are going to start from scratch with computers again, you want to correct the some other problems we have with current systems (e.g. security architectures)

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/fca-t

Spread the word (I was kinda waiting until I had some more content before I publicised, but this seemed like a good opportunity).
Wish I could double-upvote that one. well played.
Here's the bonus...

If you read the article that sourced this video the author claimed "It runs Adobe’s Flash and Air apps flawlessly." I actually laughed out loud reading that after seeing the video.

http://zedomax.com/blog/2010/05/04/android-multi-touch-table...
I agree completely with your observation about Ts&Cs. OTOH, I have a legal background and I know that agreements like this one (they used to be called 'rip-and-sign' back in the days of packaged software) are hard to enforce. I know of the problems and I still seldom do more than scan them to see if they contain an egregious paragraph or two that I look out for.

I'm not sure if Americans "expect to be bailed out all the time," but I do know that we expect as consumers not to have our rights trampled on arbitrarily. As a nation of laws, that's inconvenient sometimes but it's vastly preferable to any alternative I've seen.
I use the sync option on Chrome to keep my 3 computers synced.
Yes, and SNL mocked it for (potentially having) poor battery life the week the first 2G was announced.
The d.school's Beta Trade Show Features Ideas From 11 Entrepreneurial Teams
You’re taking it too literally. The point was that they made it so that players would necessarily quickly learn that the mushroom wasn’t an enemy, even though other things that looked nearly like mushrooms were enemies (as was learned the first two or three plays by dying to them). If it was easy to avoid the mushroom, some players would spend many plays through carefully avoiding it. “Force” is relative.
The flash video on youtube crashes for me at least once a day on my Mac... so nothing new here. Is the flash player for the mac also alpha quality too?
Google Chrome Speed Test [video]
Lack of sleep 'linked to early death'
Linux vs. Genome in Network Challenge
I'm guessing because their HTML5 one doesn't support annotations yet. Even in the chrome browser, the default is still the flash player.
Uh oh.
Also, I wonder how this applies to polyphasic sleep.
On the other hand, the P/E ratio of Google's stock is still higher than Apple's.

Apple - 21.72

Google - 23.10

Microsoft - 15.44
Unless someone else hosts an ad-supported version that turns out to be viable. But I agree that their business model needs work.
That's starting to change. The Nexus One is very nice, the Droid Incredible (which is basically the same thing with a better camera) is even better, HTC Sense is a very nice interface, and in June, Sprint's going to get the Evo, which is basically an Incredible with an even better camera (takes 720p video), a front-facing camera, 4G, a 4.3" screen, and the ability to act as a wifi router.
Years ago, PowerMarks. The best implementation of tagging that I've yet run across. Unfortunately, while the website is still up, development has essentially long since ceased.

These days, I'll often save a copy of a specific page using the Firefox extension "Scrapbook". In part because pages get taken down or die not entirely infrequently.
Hey, that's my subreddit. Does anyone want to be a moderator? I don't check it very often.
DNS, routing and TCP/IP are things you never see. They're technically decentralised and they stay like that in practice.

Email and web? Not so much really. Everyone serves their little page from their own site. But as soon as you want to interact / share, you're back to hubs like dropbox, facebook, twitter, etc. The data may flow through decentralised links, but it's still coming from FB.
A robot that balances on a ball
Designing Digital Warning Signs for Facebook
Why would you even think for one second that this "dust-up" isn't fully orchestrated by Apple in the first place? Are consumers really that dumb? That's two days in the running that Apple got (seemingly free) advertising on her show.

Less laughably transparent plugging of products, next time.
The code within the code
Last I checked it's called Hacker News.
Well, if he is a devil, then it may be the right environment. Depends on the job, I guess.
Living Earth Simulator hopes to unlock secrets of the past, present, future
I think I saw somewhere that California state spending DOUBLED between 1996 and 2006, going from $100 billion to $200 billion in just a decade.

Localities could have used all that housing bubble tax revenue to pay down their debt, but instead many choose to spend it as fast as they could get it. And now their ability to meet their commitments is collapsing.

I'd like to see spending growth limited to the 5 year moving average of a municipality's revenues, with the excess going to pay down debt. Politicians are just too short sighted to be allowed to spend everything.
I immediately looked (in vain) for a reference to the poem "High Windows" written in 1974.

When I see a couple of kids

And guess he's fucking her and she's

Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm,

I know this is paradise

Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives--

Bonds and gestures pushed to one side

...

http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/philip-larkin/high-wind...
You'd be surprised - often it's more cost effective to pay people than to try to get them for free. You get a different quality of work, support, and dedication. Ever had an unpaid intern?

Please reread my sentence which you've just completely ignored. Unpaid interns obviously don't have the talent that most people want. But despite that, people still want them!

When you can eat anywhere for free, and stay in any hotel or palace as an honored guest for free, you don't really need so much money any more. Einstein was on that level for the latter half of his life.

Einstein could do that, but with what stipulation? Most likely that he had to give a speech. He can't just go to a multiple month luxury resort free of obligations that any billion-air mogul can today. And again, what is the value of these free meals and visits that can only be offered to you first? I would peg that at around $20 million at most, which pales in comparison to the billion dollar industries that have resulted from his discoveries.
Pro tip: try to figure out the delicious accounts of your friends, coworkers, and generally interesting online people. Add these people to your delicious network and then subscribe to your own network with your feed reader of choice. It's an easy and passive way to harvest lots of great links.
The theoretical density they give neglects some overhead. If you divide the area of a chip by the size of a transistor, you should get 100 billion transistors on a chip, but in fact you can only get about 1 billion. The rest is overhead: wiring, power, isolation, etc. Probably a similar overhead will apply to memristors.

Also, in the 5+ years it takes to make them practical and reliable, transistors will make progress too. So it's unfair to compare the theoretical density of a new technology to the achieved density of an existing technology.
There's a difference between P(Q(Q)) not being able to finish its evaluation and P(Q(Q)) stating that Q(Q) will never finish. If P does not finish, then you have no answer. If you have no answer, then P does not do what we defined it to do.

But I think you're missing the more important point. We defined P to be a certain way, and as a result of that definition, we also demonstrated that it cannot do what we defined it to do. That's the fundamental problem. If you want to think of it in terms of what you're currently hung up on, then consider that implicit in our definition of P is that it will finish.

Also consider that if P does not finish, it's no better than just running the program with its input and observing the behavior.