skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work part-time for a production company and as far as I know, the industry standard is the RED Camera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RED_Digital_Cinema, whose standard output is 2K-4K RAW.

Compressed formats that interpolate between keyframes (like MPEG) are generally a bad idea since they make precise cutting between clips a lot harder.
Here's current one, 3 days after reconstructive knee surgery:

http://jraines.posterous.com/current-workspace-3-days-after-...
note this article: "BP Fought Safety Measures at Deepwater Oil Rigs"

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/bp-fought-safety-measures-deep...
Because I think my attitude represents a huge chunk of Facebook's users

A common mistake people make here is to think they represent the majority. Hacker news is a very small community.
Big-O notation for beginners
Asana. It's a little noisy, but otherwise fantastic.
I'm definitely in the minority running Windows (x64). Here's a video of my rig: http://www.vimeo.com/9954310

Picture: http://chir.ag/stuff/5lcd.jpg

* LCD1: Communication (chat/im, email)

* LCD2: Test browsers (IE, FF, Opera, Safari), Photo Editor

* LCD3: Main browser (Chrome)

* LCD4: Text Editor (EmEditor), SFTP

* LCD5: Media (music, video, audio controls)

I'm about twice as more productive on this setup than on my laptop.
That's interesting. I might buy one just to try it out then, I hurt my lower back a couple of years ago and it never fully healed, and slouching on a leather chair all day doesn't seem to be helping..

(thanks for the inspiration)
Arch Linux + OpenBSD. So yes.
How Wired.com Tracked the iPhone Finder
Regular: http://phodroid.com/10/05/kvhpyw

Basement: http://phodroid.com/10/04/x3x2c9
I sometimes share my ideas with the hope that someone will do something with it.

I don't really care about making money and honestly, I have too many ideas to tell the good ones from the bad ones anymore.
I feel your pain. I'm going to try to crash it :-)
if it's the simple stuff like variable substitution and simple loops, php is actually not too bad IMO. When you start doing database and http calls then your performance gets a lot worse.

A static page is obviously going to be faster though.
I use Sass because it provides certain features that CSS doesn't ordinarily provide. (variables and mathematical computations for instance)

HAML provides (at least to my knowledge) nothing other than somewhat cleaner syntax. That to me isn't worth the pain of something not working or other developers not knowing HAML and not being able to be brought up-to-speed on a project too quickly
Yes there is good reason to think that. An outsider would have to pay .75c/bid to run the bot, which is lunacy.

A bot run by wavee would pay nothing
Telling users what they want often doesn't give the best user experience.
A simple XP machine with the coolest vintage IBM clicky keyboard (circa 1987)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/4563010672_f7ba1b428c_o....
What graphics card are you using to drive this?
the desk of a college student:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3095590/thedesk.JPG
How much worse? 5 times? 10 times? Let's say it's a wordpress blog.
left handed mouse user? 0_o
Three dual-DVI ATIs. Nothing too expensive really. My PC is three years old but does have quad-core dual CPUs and mirrored C: drive. So even with 20 open apps, I've never had any speed issues.
This is my space:

http://www.swfstats.com/Imagen010.jpg

No macs. Not even a decent camera phone lol.
Working on a friend's website in Quebec. I also had to work dishes when things got really busy. The free food and free beer more than made up for it, though.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/107312/IMG_2391.JPG
PG's Binary Search Trees in Clojure
Small weekend project: Track your found/lost Facebook Friends.
IKEA desk.

MacBook.

Airport Extreme.

Mighty Mouse.

Steelpad.

Alessandro headphones.

Necessary Moleskine + rollerball pen.

Iomega UltraMax 1GB RAID.

Window for inspiration.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12637/IMG_0535.jpg
I think it makes sense but people may not agree with the logic.

Flash on OSX: An entrenched industry standard for keyboard/mice computers. As an open platform users can and will install Flash. Might as well bundle a stable version with the OS so users don't have to install it themselves. Good for end user experience.

Flash on mobile/touch: Not an industry standard. In fact it doesn't really exist yet other than Flash Lite or Nokia's custom version of Flash for the N900. There is an opportunity to move away form Flash here in favor of HTML5 on the web. For native apps obviously Apple would prefer people to use their proprietary platform instead of Adobe's proprietary platform. As a closed platform, and a popular one, Apple has leverage to prevent Flash from becoming a mobile industry standard.
Roundup of papers about Twitter at the WWW 2010 conference
They should be inherently 'viral'
My home office from a year ago (wow), it's a bit messier now and the Fujitsu laptop has since been replaced with a Macbook pro. Both my main pc and my laptop are running Ubuntu.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3584/img_0241.jpg
Writing a wall post or tweet takes active action on behalf of the friend. Hmm, this is on Jarek's Facebook profile -- let's paste it somewhere where others can see it too.

With the recent app privacy changes, all they have to do is use an app. The programmer can take care of the rest. Different level altogether.
Mine is pretty minimalistic. My main Windows 7 computer is used for design work while my MacBook is for coding.

http://imgur.com/J3gch.jpg
The only thing that will get the enormous bulk of Facebook users to quit is if some other product starts filling the same need that Facebook does.

The ten points listed in this blog are of absolutely no concern to the average Facebook user.
This is my home setup. Has everything I need.

http://jneal.com/images/stories/my_desk_space.jpg
Well, you could also say lots has evolved out of Flash. Quick casual games, fast playing video, micro vector and raster content, experimentation and lots of Flash developers use lots of mathematics (trig, calculus) to make excellent graphic and effects libraries. I think every technology has had something to add in our trial and error machine including Flash.

Flash developers are unique people as well because it is a unique tool that merges code and design. Try Neave out if you haven't: http://www.neave.com/ Flash Earth, planetarium, the rebirth of slick. This stuff won't be cross browser in html5 for years, especially webcam, mic projects.

This work is being reimplemented in html5/canvas/svg and it has added benefits.
At 7CC in Kendall Square today: http://i.imgur.com/Kmz9U.jpg

Should I have gone to 5CC and pretended I was at the Google office?
Yes I use both machines. I often use the one on the left for recording screencasts and for testing different configurations.

The wall has a bunch of project notes and motivational stuff

"There is 0 value is fear and anxiety"
"Differentiate every day"

and my favorite

"The thoughts of others were light and fleeting,
of lovers meeting or luck or fame,
mine were of trouble and mine were steady,
and I was ready when trouble came - Houseman".
That's why there is the scribd link in the title. Click it, to view the pdf online. Very handy!
This isn't about Flash; it's about homebrew applications, alternative programming languages, and the many other (technical) roads less travelled by.
With the majority of Internet traffic expected to shift to congestion-prone mobile networks

Doubtful to say the least.
I'd say that's a pretty common assumption. Back in the day Facebook really did use to be a pretty walled garden and I have no doubt things were said that would not be said on Twitter or elsewhere on the web. I'm sad to see that aspect go.

Maybe it's different for people with 300 or 600 friends.
Idea: site that lets people show off things they own/ setups. Girls would love it for fashion, guys with cars, geeks with comp setups,etc. Also shoe collectors.
Dr. Weston A. Price was a big advocate of teeth leading to other health problems long ago.

His book at PG-Australia is worth a look:
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200251h.html
How do you deal with so many screens? Doesn't your neck hurt?
Mostly they dump bucketloads of money into projects that disappear into blackholes, or morph into other products that are dubiously successful.

As far as talent goes, the Dodgeball founders left, Jaiku founders left, Panoramio, Blogger and Feedburner founders left. That's off the top of my head, there's probably a lot more.

Seems like an expensive and unreliable way to do bulk hires.
Best thing I've found for oral hygiene is a Water Pik. It will really flush out your gums. Use lukewarm water, tap cold is painful at least for me. You can put some mouthwash it it too if you like.

Since I've been using one my dentist has remarked on the noticeable improvement in my gum health.

EDIT: This is in addition to regular brushing of course.
Hawking: Time travel will happen
I know the author's intent is to weaken Jobs' arguments, but to me he seems to strengthen them. The vast majority of people driving cars never need to drive on country roads. Anyone that needs to drive on country roads is by no means forced to drive an iCar - they are free to choose whatever car they want.
The release is quite nice but not perfect - still can't rotate the monitors 90 degrees for vertical alignment unless you go in and manually edit the files instead of the gui
I'm not entirely sure it's a lot different to ebay bid sniping with multiple contestants, except for the fact that it's all automated and the profit margin is centralised with the auction house itself.

Of course, that doesn't mean that said centralisation is legal.

But I think my only real disagreement with their existence is that they aren't covered by gambling regulations. As a slightly weird form of gambling, presented clearly to the public as such (and regulated as such), I don't believe I'd have any objection to them.

Sadly, borderline misrepresentation of the truth is not illegal and probably couldn't effectively be made so.

shrug one way or another a fool and his money will be separated - the important thing is to make sure he enjoys the process. Value for money can come in excitement/fun as well as goods.

(why, yes, I'm feeling cynical today, why did you ask?)
This is my work setup:

http://imgur.com/FN9vi.jpg

* Macbook Pro

* 24" Monitor (primary)

* Macbook LCD (terminal, skype)

* iPad 3G

* Kinesis keyboard

* Aeron chair

Not pictured: mini-refrigerator stocked with sugarfree redbull. :)

My home setup is nearly identical, except I have a 30" Dell monitor instead (which is actually a huge improvement).
Arsenic is a metallic element - it comes in atoms, not molecules :)
Not really. I sit back about 3 feet and my chair's pretty comfortable.
http://imgur.com/T0DKp.jpg

That's me, running ArchLinux. This is in London in a co-working space in Shoreditch.

EDIT: I find 2 or at the maximum 3 screens to be optimum but i do keep a separate laptop for communication, browsing activities. When i need isolation I simply close my communication machine, the main "work" machine does not have IM,Email and has a very strict firewall.
I'm very surprised that no one is standing up while working. I tried a couple times in the past, but never stuck with it. Prompted by an article I read this morning, I tried again this afternoon: http://bit.ly/dyBXft (my live reactions on Twitter).

It is a bit tiring, but it has an amazing way of focusing your mind.

Anyone here has done this on an extended period of time? How was your workspace structured?
There's a difference between saying "what John did is wrong" and "John is a bad person." I think the OP was saying we should be cautious in making judgments of the second sort.
I feel the same way. If someone took one of my ideas and made a great success out of it I would no doubt feel a little jealous but I would also feel proud and gain confidence in my own ideas.
I renovated a corner of my uncle's garage into an office for my startup. Started off with just a custom built linux box and a desk for webdev.

http://i.imgur.com/rKlAf.jpg

Since then I've added a MacMini, MBP, and iPad for doing iP([oa]d|hone) development (oh and some mountain dew).

http://i.imgur.com/hjX6B.jpg
The technology roadmap for the next five decades is predictable. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Raymond_Kur... are spot on so far. What ideas do you have that aren't there? No big ideas that's for sure.

Startups mainly work by using existing technology to make a working service in a few years. The main problems are economic, social, psychological, not technological.

Will people use some silly limited email service? Yes, because it alters the psychology of communication, enables them to talk to more people quicker. Will people use a search engine that indexes the web? Yes if content on the web is worth a damn. Will labeling the world through people's IDs instead of URLs and brands be more efficient? Yes if you pull it off.

Will people pay for Adobe's apps instead of buying templates? Yes if they're convinced by designers that templates are bad and they need to go through an exclusive branding ritual.

A lot of startups are so mesmerized by what's possible with current technology they can't see two steps ahead. They come up with pretty small ideas in most cases and it's often difficult to link those ideas to the big technological trends even when the startup gets as big as Mint or Twitter.

That's why VCs don't care about ideas. We already have the ideas. If you understand tech like Ray Kurzweil did, you can shit out ideas all day. VCs care about fitting into the unpredictable world of fickle humans, like Twitter's 140 characters did, and your motivation to slave away.

The tech economy will move forward one way or another. In the big scheme of things we will get to AI and understand our own brains until we can predict if Twitter should add the ability to subdivide long texts into 150 character chunks to limit the size of rants like this one.
Ironic that we're reading this article from a bastion of "pay for high quality" and such is the quality we receive.
It always astounds me that 30-year-olds or older think they represent the average Facebook user. I have never seen anyone older than 30 write anything intelligent about Facebook. You people are not real users. Please understand this. How you "use" Facebook is so completely different from how people in college and recent grads use Facebook. For you, most of your pictures were what you actually posted yourself. For real Facebook power users, the vast, vast majority of photos come from other people. It's becoming clear that understanding of Facebook is the clearest dividing line between those in their late twenties and beyond and those younger. You pretend users really sound like old men shouting at kids to stay off your lawn. Why don't you at least try to educate yourselves about how Facebook actually works?
A common mistake people make here is to think they represent the majority.

Your statement is true in general. But tptacek (the author of the parent comment to your comment) did not write his comment as one HN insider speaking to others, but as a technically aware Facebook user to others. My personal observation of Facebook user behavior (including my many Facebook friends who are not at all hackers) squares with his. My favorite kind of link to post on Facebook is any well written link about security issues with Facebook. My friends read those, and share them with their friends, and most of the friends are reasonably cautious in how they use Facebook. We still have a good time. I don't see Facebook advertisements because I run a general ad-blocker on my browser. I don't sign up for Facebook applications in general. I just have good conversations (much like this one with you) with friends who know me in real life, about links that we find interesting.
I was talking about 'rolling your own' degree. Of course if you are in university then you should do what is required. But if you are studying for knowledge sake, then the 'thesis' can take a very different form.
I would think any general would be versed in Roman history...
13" MBP with Arch and FreeBSD for webdev in VMWare.
Same experience here, but I thought it had great potential - it was just limited by in-the-box thinking (literally, in fact). Not very good for a mouse/pen combo...but I can easily imagine some evolution of it on my phone. Android already presents picture galleries in a 'pile of photos' fashion, and while there's a limit amount of space on the phone for throwing things about, some tablet device could certainly benefit from a shuffly physics metaphor.
What are you using as your "window" manager on the left monitor... screen/tmux?
Seems to me they likely have the causality reversed. As your mental acuity decreases, your ability to properly care for your teeth decreases. You forget to brush as often as you should, and so you lose more teeth. Also your brushing effectiveness could be reduced, as evaluating whether further brushing is necessary is not an entirely trivial task.
A telling Facebook comment on the wall of a former Wired intern who still had connections to Wired. Had he not done that, he might still be underground.
At Startup Weekend Bay Area. Not visible in photo: donuts, pizza, empty coffee and red bull containers, iPad, 80 other hackers.

http://imgur.com/AnZOw.jpg
This made me think: what if a particular idea isn't a novel concept in itself, but rather manifests itself as market information?

For instance, the knowledge that the available software in sector X sucks might be worth something, simply because people outside the sector don't know that that opportunity exists.

Not all ideas are about revolutionizing news reporting or optimizing dating... sometimes they're about making decent software for veterinarians, or something like that.
If you don't mind me asking, where?

I'm looking into finding a london co-working space in the next few months.
A lot of things about the iPad could use some tweaking and fixing up. That said, it's still better than everything else out there for "simple and ease of use" devices for the technically inept.
There's a difference between not caring about privacy and not understanding privacy issues. I would imagine most users are in the latter category.
Adobe Reader isn't the only PDF-viewing software out there.
Sometimes the shift in their share price from an acquisition pays for that acquisition.
I wonder if you're still satisfied after having read "Your Office Chair Is Killing You"... (looks like much inclined towards back)
Ask HN: Social Media Management for NPOs? 
So my friend and I have this idea. We want to provide social media management services to nonprofits to improve their public relations and meet their goals (fundraising, recruiting volunteers, increasing awareness, etc). Currently, I provide web services to NPOs, but we are thinking of expanding this service to include support for social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, Craigslist, etc. The individual organization's needs would steer what specific type of services they would want (as in, if they are really in need of volunteers, we'd concentrate on expanding their volunteermatch profile and local, community-specific forums for volunteers).

The problem we see is that a lot of small and medium sized nonprofits don't have the capacity to manage a successful social media program. At best, a lot of nonprofits think its sufficient to set up a facebook or twitter account with minimal maintenance or updates. We would argue that it takes a lot more than that for a nonprofit to successfully engage constituents on the web. Our solution is to provide these types of services to nonprofits.

I can give more details as needed, but basically we're wondering if this would work. Do you see this as a need in the sector? How should we consider tweaking our idea to improve our services or make them more appealing? How much would you pay (or think is a fair price) for this service?

Any help or advice is appreciated.
How to Start a Fire With Only Compressed Air
Is this Xmonad under OSX?
Nonetheless, it was really good.
If this (screenshot of UI) is what people are paying $250/m for, and it's the best thing around then it looks like room for a simpler web based solution.

http://www.m1products.net/sms/manager/images/orderscreen.jpg
Sure , its this - http://thetrampery.com/

My requirements were silence, natural light, space to walk as and when, 24 hours access and plenty of eateries near by.

This place seems to do the trick.
If history is any indication, history isn't any indication. (E.g., Apple is always the niche player, right?)

Just because the previous top social network eventually faded away doesn't mean we should expect the current one to do the same in any similar manner or time frame. There's quite a lot that differentiates today's Facebook and the MySpace of old. For one thing, how many third parties ever built on MySpace as an application platform, to the extent that they are today with Farmville and Microsoft Docs and the like?
Spotify is sorely missing a last.fm-like feature, and this is a neat, but not perfect solution.

With an endless catalogue of music, it's still hard to find stuff to listen to.
What monitor stand/stands are you using for this?
Eerily reminds me of something Ender would say to his army in Ender's Game (currently reading, for the first time, and only about 2/3 through).

To apply to startups: I know of at least one big company that has the "it's still day one" mantra.
how long is a piece of string?

It depends on the time that your database query or http call takes, and how much data you are returning, and how much processing you have to do on it. A well written query or call won't have too much of a negative impact, maybe making the page two times slower than a static. A poorly written query strategy could make a page a thousand times slower.

xdebug and timing code are helpful.
Mister Rooster
On pasta and music and copyright
If history is any indication, Google will fade out slowly like AltaVista, if there's a new competitor.

(Making the assumption that Facebook will be replaced this way is kind of stupid; Facebook is competent, MySpace wasn't.)
I find it hard to imagine how you can comfortably type on the left-most screen with the keyboard in the center. To keep your arms parallel to your head you must have to move the keyboard and mouse according to the screen you are looking at.

It doesn't sound like the most ergonomic setup, but it must work for you since you say you're twice as productive!
I remember hearing about a kid who chugged a cup of hot sauce on a dare maybe 10 years ago and died. Not sure if it's urban legend or not, but obviously if you had paid the kid $100 to do it you would be in a heap of trouble.
My home office:
http://chewbranca.com/office_photos/2009-10-14_18.34.58.jpg
Especially one who believed he fought the Romans at Carthage.
Also, you can "droplift" -- print up a label with a bar code of another hot sauce at the price point you want -- and leave them surreptiously on store shelves. Have directions on the label to a website where you can order more.
Looking for Roommates in SF
Hey everyone,

I'm looking to move to San Francisco within the next month. If you're looking for a roommate, or if you're also looking to move to SF, shoot me an email (sauerp+hackernews@gmail.com).

Peter
Well, the product has been out just over/under a year, If I'd paid for a digital product and less than a year later I'm told that I've got just a week to download it forever and there will be no further updates, I'd be pretty pissed.

Then to find out something I paid (even just last week) for was then given free to everyone else..
Yes actually. When I quit my job to start my first company, I told a few employees at my old company what I was working on. One of them thought it was such a good idea, he also quit and started a similar company. I was successful, he wasn't, but in the early days, it was a major headache that I didn't need.
Ask HN: Best noise canceling headphones for the money?
Just wondering what everybody uses on the plane to get "SERENITY NOW!"