skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those organizations are basically just inconsolable, fixated and merciless Israel-bashers. I don't buy into their rhetoric, and you shouldn't either.

The Israeli army said the Palestinians had stopped buying fuel in recent days after Hamas failed to pay its share of the costs.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100409/wl_mideast_afp/mideastc...

Israel is the victim, and it is far too accommodating with the murderers at her doorsteps.
You could do something very low-tech that would perhaps feel similar: Use some cheap electrodes to pick up slight muscle contractions on some part of your body. Then train yourself and your computer for some kind of coding system.
Cool. Building a read-only API is actually pretty straightforward. Looks like you're using php, any framework?

Feel free to email me personally if you'd like some help on the matter. Depending on how much of your codebase you'd be willing to share, I can hack something out for you if you want, I'm really open to anything, I like being as active as I can in projects.

Depending on how your data is structured, it might be as simple as adding an apikey field to your user table then fetching all 101 goals relative to a given apikey.

Then you'd simply create a controller that accepted an apikey and returned a pure json view of your data. Something like:

http://101in365.com/api?apikey=20Fa34uU&format=json&sort=r

This method is just like creating a webpage at /api only instead of sending back text/html you send back text/json
The page validates the apikey and you are free to pass any number of parameter to help you further manipulate the data.

You can check out http://pluspanda.com. I use this method in that site. Create an account by clicking on the big green button and see how the "install code" is just a request to my api controller. The code is actually a little more complex in that it sets up an entire widget environment via javascript and then does "jsonp" requests to fetch data. Sounds complicated but its really straightforward and COOL once you get the hang of it!

Let me know if you want some help with this. - Email is in the profile.
funny.. but i don't think much of a differentiator from other dating sites... i mean what dating site is there where everyone is beautiful :)
A former friend was fond of "I hope you die screaming in a fire", often with additional elaboration.
I like to be able to view movies and videos I've purchased where ever I am on whatever computer I am, and as of right now that's only possible with flash.

Silverlight?
http://clientsfromhell.net/

Is this what you're looking for?
Actually, what would best describe it is that you have been terribly unlucky.

Every single computer I installed Ubuntu, since the 6.x releases, has worked flawlessly with one exception - an IBM desktop that has a buggy HDD controller that requires some time to properly boot. One line in grub and it was solved.

And that was it. The only glitch I ever had installing Ubuntu.
My point was that that is one of the main uses of Flash, and that an extremely simple/common flash implementation is enough to burn a huge number of CPU cycles for no benefit.
it's interesting the use the phrase "creative coding" but make no reference to openframeworks, which is essentially the competition and also uses that phrase http://www.openframeworks.cc/
Don't think this will help, but it's cool nonetheless
http://www.mattmazur.com/2010/03/six-months-of-hackernews-fr...
> C++ being nearly a strict superset of C is almost by definition more powerful.

Not necessarily. In the general case, restrictions can make a language more powerful [1], by allowing the user and the compiler to make more assumptions. E.g. removing gotos and mutations seem good ideas.

In the case of C vs C++, removing operator overloading and exceptions could turn out to make the language more powerful.

[1] If you use the right definition of `powerful'. You need a sensible definition that avoids "They are all Turing complete and thus equally powerful."
GitHub adds contributor list to projects
iTunes wasn't written in Carbon to be cross-platform with Windows--if anything, it would be easier to make a Cocoa app cross platform because you just need to port Cocoa, which is basically just OpenStep.

It was written in Carbon to be cross-platform with Mac OS 9. And because it was just SoundJam MP, which was written for Mac OS pre-X. (Though, to be fair, so was Photoshop.)
Go back through the history of Apple's (and its many, many sycophantic fans) proclamations - such as apps on the phone, push notifications, multitasking - and there is a disturbing trend of Apple (and its followeres) making moral pontifications, stamping their feet, and then quietly and shamelessly backtracking when proven wrong.

Jobs is trying to undermine the competition because he fears that he made the wrong choice.
I love these challenges. There was an another a while back to compress images into 140 characters.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/891643/twitter-image-enco...
Put this in your hosts file:

127.0.0.1 python.com
My initial reaction was 'why?'!

But this actually an interesting tool for getting data on the most used platforms and tools.
Rather than just giving the list of stats on a top 10 style, how about showing just how much more popular jQuery is than prototype and mootools, i think a % based dataset would be more valuable.

Nice work!
MongoDB vs. SQL Server 2008 Performance Showdown (MongoDB wins)
The logical contortions Apple apologists are willing to perform in their defense at this point are truly impressive.
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Put the link in the text box? The point isn't really for people to click through.

(Weird that I've never encountered this 'bug'.)
Well, then it wouldn't be an "open" graph.
Or point to python.org?
Ask HN: Pls review my product: Rapid Social Response 
<oops> I posted this Ask HN wrong - this body of text is supposed to be up there, but I don't want to delete and repost this because I'll lose the comments here.
</oops>

This is just an MVP; the back end does not scale well (this is so not intended for outside of just our small HN community here). I'm actually embarrassed to post this here, but if you're not embarrassed, you've waited too long to launch, right? So here's my first pitch for HN-peer-review.

Q: In a nutshell, what is it?
A: Auto-response, for Twitter. (Twitter for now, possibly Facebook later)

Q: Why the name?
A: It's from Altimeter's Jeremiah Owyang's 18 Use Cases of Social CRM report, I thought this app would help in the use case(s) he listed: http://bit.ly/csoAJC

Q: I don't want to even visit the site, just 'show me' the value prop.
A: Ok, tweet "@jaysern hi !!!"

Q: Anything else in it just for HN readers?
A: Aside from the use cases I listed on the site, here's one I did not list: I also pull tweets from public_timeline, so if you try match on hot trending word, your twitter account will tweet out to strangers you've heard of. Here's my user page: http://www.rapidsocialresponse.com/user/jaysern/ (If none of this makes sense, don't worry - just ignore)

I was delaying posting this on HN because I wanted to make sure I got the Mixpanel analytics working right (since learning is point!) Thanks much YC alumni & Mixpanel's cofounder @trefn for helping me with the tech support!
Fake Steve Jobs has perfected satire (re: Flash)
You can click through to categories and applications.

Compare all Javascript Frameworks:
http://wappalyzer.com/stats/cat/JavaScript%20frameworks

Compare jQuery against Mootools:
http://wappalyzer.com/stats/app/jQuery|Mootools
Yes.

This is borne out, IMHO, by the fact that even though everyone supposedly "knows" it's broken and how to fix it, it is by far still the most popular choice when you need very high performance with reasonable abstraction power in industry. It's been around for decades, and there's nothing worthwhile to replace it that fits in the particular domain it fits into.

I'm not advocating here -- I suspect what will happen is that as the low-level architecture of computers change, something may take it's place that maps better, but for now, that statement is no lie.
<oops> I posted this Ask HN wrong - this body of text is supposed to be up there, but I don't want to delete and repost this because I'll lose the comments here.
</oops>

This is just an MVP; the back end does not scale well (this is so not intended for outside of just our small HN community here). I'm actually embarrassed to post this here, but if you're not embarrassed, you've waited too long to launch, right? So here's my first pitch for HN-peer-review.

Q: In a nutshell, what is it?

A: Auto-response, for Twitter. (Twitter for now, possibly Facebook later)

Q: Why the name?

A: It's from Altimeter's Jeremiah Owyang's 18 Use Cases of Social CRM report, I thought this app would help in the use case(s) he listed: http://bit.ly/csoAJC

Q: I don't want to even visit the site, just 'show me' the value prop.

A: Ok, tweet "@jaysern hi !!!"

Q: Anything else in it just for HN readers?

A: Aside from the use cases I listed on the site, here's one I did not list: I also pull tweets from public_timeline, so if you try match on hot trending word, your twitter account will tweet out to strangers ;) Here's my user page: http://www.rapidsocialresponse.com/user/jaysern/ (If none of this makes sense, don't worry - just ignore)

I was delaying posting this on HN because I wanted to make sure I got the Mixpanel analytics working right (since learning and getting feedback early is point!) Thanks much YC alumni & Mixpanel's cofounder @trefn for helping me with the tech support!
Yeah, and here's the nightmare scenario for Apple: what if the prototype is actually for iPhone 2011 instead of iPhone 2010? Everyone expects a front-facing camera in the next release now. Wanna take bets on what happens to Apple's share price when they formally announce the fourth-gen hardware and it doesn't have one?
I think that's exactly why people get hung up on it. It's not relevant. If we prove to Apple they're being hypocritical will they change their minds? Of course not. Does it matter if they were being hypocritical? Not really. Jobs could have alternatively said "life isn't fair, deal with it" and we'd be in the same spot and people would make the same conclusions. It just annoys me that someone always makes the hypocritical argument when a more substantive argument is much more effective.
It's more fun to cut out necessary words.
Dreamachine - stroboscopic flicker device enter you to a hypnagogic state
> Your comment to me comes across along the same lines of the people thinking digital photography would never surpass the quality of regular film. Maybe node.js won't be the one to catch up and pass Erlang, but my gut feeling is that something will. Scala, maybe?

At least Scala is in a similar category. Node.js is basically a bolt-on solution. It doesn't even actually have a comparable threading model, it just has a comfortably familiar one.
Real Freedom?
You and me as consumers decide what to buy or not to buy.
Yeah, I could on my old ThinkPad. The SL410 BIOS doesn't support this.

Unless I completely missed it. But I went over the BIOS thoroughly a few times.
wow that line is simply superb "It was a filthy profession, but the money was addicting" :D

also, the article can be read in one page here: http://www.fastcompany.com/node/45909/print print version tho :)
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1301272
That banner is really impressive. Stunning Flash effects.

The kind of thing I would show my boss if I didn't work making games with religious content for children.

And how does a project so big as the "Python programming language" lets this kind of thing exist? Paying the site owners for a "did you mean" front page would look like an urgent need for me.
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If (or perhaps when) making a joke yourself, you can also use a (semi-)colon and o or dash and a closing parenthesis at the end of your sentence as a hint to the recipient who may otherwise--in the absence of body language or tone of spoken words--not notice that your utterance was meant to be humorous.

However, in some circles this may be frowned up on as an insult on the readers intelligence.
I far too often have made the typo

[~] pythong
zsh: command not found: pythong

guess I could zsh: correct 'pythong' to 'python' [nyae]?

but it still makes me laugh.
While I don't appreciate much of what Apple is doing these days, surely one has to also appreciate the draconian, closed nature of Flash? At least HTML5 is some kind of standard. Now, if we could just get Apple on the Ogg train...
can anyone comment on how Cinder compares to openFrameworks?
"After years of sacrificing qualified reporting staff to the bottom line, and substituting public relations (press releases barely rewritten, press conferences reported verbatim) for costly investigative journalism, the media corporations that, starting in the ’90s, convinced regulators that consolidation was essential to their survival have found themselves with little immunity against the financial crisis."

Boy does that ever qualify as a run-on sentence! But it does hit a lot of the points of what's gone wrong with journalism. I have noticed media-criticism is a popular past time on HN.
Adobe: call it Flash 11 already
"... Mr Manek did indeed survive on nothing but water and cosmic energy"

Is he the dragon warrior?
Winning a game can be a reward in itself. (Or rather, the sense of smug superiority over your peers you get out of it--of course this only works if everyone's playing to win.)
You have to do comparisons, though.

Anyway, what's the connection to the article?
Has everybody been using a different definition of the word than I have all this time? Criticizing others for things you do yourself is hypocritical. Period.
I had exactly this interaction with YoungStartups and Alex N.

We went back and forth a few times: I felt that "Over the years, I've learned that paying to present is perceived by
investors as a very poor use of funds, especially early on."

And he disagreed.

But my favourite bit was when Fred Wilson weighed in:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/05/conferences.html#disqus_thre...

If I may quote: "Its nuts to pay to present."

But Alex was persistent: "There's no point of arguing but there's no doubt that he's wrong."

It's good to see the silly fight continue.
Those are some very interesting quotes. Now, the question is, which definition of hypocrisy applies to Jobs?
Even if he's right, Jason proves yet again that being an asshole isn't cool.

I makes me sad that anyone feels this is an appropriate way to conduct themselves.
Am I the only person who wasnt impressed by the courier? It seemed overly complicated
Clever idea, though I'd recommend allowing multiple choice searches, and perhaps including in this post a zip code known to have existing users, just for example purposes -- if we can't get any results for given search criteria, the effort to review is a little much to keep interest. How many users do you have so far?

Also, the "procreative/festive/hedging their bets" field is completely obscure. What the hell does that even mean?

edit: also also, I'd hire a professional copy editor. What you've got has a lot of character, but a bit longwinded -- simple sells. If you're shooting for the stars it could use some cleanup by somebody completely grammar-anal/with an English degree.
You know what is draconian? removing a programming environment for children from the App store.
I don't know anything about this mandate, and when I tried to google for more information I could only find citations on right-wing blogs. Nothing in any news source, nothing from an independent source, nothing.

Before everyone gets up-in-arms about this, it might be wise to at least try to seek out some real citations. The Cato study may be correct, but it's impossible to tell from the linked story.
http://www.accountingpartners.com/fines.shtml

Quick google says minimum of $50/per, max of $250k per business.
It depends on which circles you run in what is the most hated name in news. Among many people I know, that would be Fox News. For at least some, it would be one of the major United States broadcast networks, e.g. CBS or NBC.
I'm glad that Adobe decided to take the mature route. Further lashing out against Apple would have only exacerbated the situation.

In the end, Jobs provided a very rational argument and the brevity of Adobe's response lends itself well to that conclusion.
> Jobs is trying to undermine the competition because he fears that he made the wrong choice.

You think so?

Smart-phones have been around a long time. The iPhone was announced over three years ago, yet here we are in the middle of 2010 and mobile Flash is still nowhere to be found on any mobile device. How is that not Adobe's fault? Is Adobe just not very interested in mobile Flash, or are there very serious technical challenges that Adobe has been unable to overcome?

Instead of waiting around for Adobe to get their act together, Apple delivered HTML video and interactive web content for their mobile devices, they delivered it years ago, and they did it using open standards and open source development that their competitors are not only taking advantage of, but are utterly embracing.

It is the tale of one company that's able to get things done, and another company that isn't. And it shows how foolish it is for companies like Apple, Google, Palm, and RIM to depend on a company like Adobe to deliver the "full web".

There was no choice to be made. Mobile Flash didn't exist in 2007, it still doesn't exist today, and any dependence on Adobe is foolish.
I did the same thing. I found that a frequent key component of humor is unexpected word choice, which synergized well with my extensive vernacular.

Can you summarize some of the lessons you learned?
Hmmm, this comment left me even more confused about why I'd want to use this. I definitely don't fit into the power user market but I still don't see the value add.

It'd make sense for an autoresponder for a FAQ or something. But the examples all seem to be imitating a human conversational response which sounds kind of risky for someone trying to maintain a reputation.
(psst, you can edit comments for up to 2 hours after making them)
Haha. Touche, sir. Apple is certainly draconian, but Adobe is no saint I guess was my point. Flash and HTML5 are competing technologies, and one is an open format.
I think http://www.hatena.ne.jp/ is the closest to an equivalent to Hacker News. Maybe 2chan?
Yes, and because Apple controls WebKit they were able to add a workaround to MobileSafari's touch interactions to prevent breakage on sites that use CSS hover menus (give it a try, they work).

Will Adobe's mobile Flash have a similar attention to detail in user interaction design? We'll see.
What can non-coder founders do all day?
This is pretty much how the Qype API works: http://apidocs.qype.com/
Apple had to speak at length to explain all the mess it has created in the last few weeks, and it tried its best to make it all about Adobe.

Adobe didn't need to make such grandiose statement, there was no messiah speaking here; just a humble CTO with better things to do in his day than write press releases.
1) Web design is a lot like pants. Sure, it is annoying and you already have the important bits covered, but please put it on before going out of the door. It takes a few minutes to use a free HTML/CSS template: if you like the Web 2.0 aesthetic, styleshout.com has what you need.

2) Curiosity: Is the backend a person who is going to be composing tweets for me?

3) My worry, which this web site has to sell me on and that it is not doing currently: Is this going to spam my followers or make me look like an idiot to them? (Eliza answers my query: "What resemblance do you see?")
I agree its important that we also understand not to take steves words at its facevalue. Unfortunately in a world of applorgasm. Steves words will be lapped to rally agains adobe
That's awesome! Yes, I think having just one successful role model in the local community will make a huge impact.
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They weren't forced to start with LGPL code. They did because they were comfortable working under the GPL.

They did it because the alternative - writing an HTML rendering engine from scratch - was not an economical option for them at that time.

On the whole though, I agree with your point that no other company has released and actively maintained an open source project that is directly benefitting it's competitors.

Though I would tend to believe that's more of an accident of history than any sort of belief in the open source movement.
Taking something that doesn't belong to you is stealing, any way you look at it.
It's terrifying, but I agree. This has to be real... I want it to be a joke, because it'd be pretty frickin' funny if it were, but it can't be.

I was about to post the same discovery, but you beat me to it. Bah! And +1!
There are many tax, fees, and legal barriers that make Japan not very friendly for startups. Unfortunately, there is no progress there (as far as I know).
Agreed that it's a red herring from a pure technology standpoint: they both expose hover events, for better or for worse.

And I agree that a large portion of things like navigation elements and the like will work fine because of the way mobile Flash Player passes those events on touch devices to apps. But I think nearly all of us agree that nav elements shouldn't be done in Flash. They work best and it makes the most sense to use built-in browser technologies for them.

So, other than video (the recent trend there seems strongly to be toward HTML5 <video>), that leaves mostly Flash games.

Many existing Flash games will work with a touch interface enough to get to an intro screen, and perhaps even into the game itself. But it seems like a good majority will be unplayable, and doubly frustrating because you can see the game running, but not actually control it.
From the article (quoting Philip Seib):

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Comparing it with the American networks "is like comparing The Economist to Newsweek."

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That's how I see it pretty much. I had accidentally stumbled on Al Jazeera English while channel surfing. Somehow I had always thought they were some shady, terrorist supported news outlet. I very much surprised at the quality of reporting and investigative journalism. They covered issues that actually matter in the world as opposed to "Tiger Woods has been thinking about a public apology" type crap or "Be afraid of killer fungus from outer space that eats your children" type stuff.

At the same time I don't know why CNN and other American network report junk. Don't they simply report what American public wants to see and hear? Isn't that a commentary on the quality of American viewers? They are in the business of selling the audience to the advertisers.
Flash apologist that claim flash is OSS make me sick. If they bothered to google they could find the countless evidence against suck claims.
Thanks for the information, I'm Brazilian as well, I will study more about the legal situation, someone that worked in a large software industry here in Brazil (he is trustworthy), told me that it is illegal, I have to look further and not take for granted what people say to me.
It goes to show that most people on the "internet" don't understand software development.
Isn't one of the reasons that mobile flash doesn't exist today that Apple, y'know, expressly disallowed Adobe's flash-to-iPhone compiler? Isn't that the issue at hand here?

If Adobe had simply failed to deliver a product, no one would care. Instead, they did deliver it (or were just about to deliver it), and Apple freaked out.
If you find something that doesn't belong to, you need to return it to the owner. If you can't find the owner, you must return it to the police. That didn't happen in this case. Therefore, theft.