skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It says on the site that it uses Flash for dynamic sound. I looked into this a while ago and dynamic playback in <audio> is being prototyped by at least a few people, so maybe someday soon it'll hit the mainstream.
I don't think so. I didn't give away anything more than what was in the trailer.
Reminds me of chuck, an audio programming language. http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
A few things:

Mostly what RedHat sell is server services and a lot of the original market they competed with were similar services from IBM, Sun, SGI etc.

I don't think support services work for desktop software, particularly not for non-business critical parts

I don't think Open Source is really about the cost for larger businesses. It's about having something stable, reliable, predictable and ultimately knowing that you can get it fixed if it breaks. Google, for example made $23.7bn last year, their software stack, as I understand it, is completely either open source or coded internally, so they can fix anything that goes wrong. Had they been based on proprietary software, then they would be at the whims of some company who doesn't want to fix their issue (think Microsoft for example). Facebook have found the software they used was not able to work at the scale and cost they wanted so were able to tailor it to their needs, they would have found it difficult and expensive to do that with proprietary software.

Companies around free software often sell services because that's what people want and they didn't often write most of the software themselves anyway.

Whilst Open source does get a bad rep. for being hard to use, I think it's unjustified and if your people can't work it out then their not very good TBH. Most startups are based entirely on open source software, so there is a certain amount of proof that on the server, at least, it is easy enough to use.

I think you under-estimate the cost of replacing software when large numbers of people have become used to it's intricacies and not forgetting many staff need training in order to use any software effectively. I've been involved in a few big projects and the people time involved usually outweighs the software by 10:1 even with proprietary solutions. Also bigger organisations are less risk adverse so they tend to buy support contracts on everything.

Software is a commodity and the ones making a lot from it have mostly engineered a artificial situation where it's difficult for anyone to compete with them effectively. That is not good for you as customer and is a risky strategy for them.
Ask HN: Have you deleted your Facebook account?
I went ahead and pulled the plug. How about you? Are you planning to?
Sounds like you might like living in one of the Hacker Houses? http://hackerhouse.bluwiki.com
There was a back-up service once that was revealed to store the log-in data a while ago; it was a pretty big thing.

There is absolutely no point in taking a leap of faith when it comes to handing over control of sensitive data.
so laggy, can't play it on my laptop.
I didn't miss your point, I just didn't re-iterate it. I am in agreement with you, but I am pessimistic. I think we are in trouble.

Regarding intellectuals at university, I also met a handful, and I bet the school I went to was much worse than yours. That said, it seems hard to argue that advanced education in the USA is promoted as a place for intellectual advancement. At best, university is marketed as a way to get a better job. At worst, it's the place where Girls Go Wild.
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Contributing back to open source. Getting started…
You're doomed unless you move in with somebody who hates StarCraft
Sounds like reactive programming.
Actually no, since Fox News precipitated the event. FTA:

>The debate heated up when FoxNews.com began contacting high profile corporations and foundations that have donated to the Wikimedia Foundation for comment — including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Best Buy, USA Networks, Craigslist, Ford Foundation and Open Society Institute.

>...["think of the children" argument]...

>When the donors started calling, Wales immediately called on the sites’ editors to quickly purge any possibly obscene or pornographic content from the sites.
I didn't know about that: that is a damn good argument to moving to their services. Thanks for posting.
"(Economists get more excited than the rest of us when happening on a potential new indicator.)"

Then again all of us professionals get excited when we happen upon something that helps us do our job better.

In this case, this indicator may have substantial predictive power of something we are very interested in during the Great Recession as we wonder if it's going to be V, W, L or whatever shaped (W is a double dip recession, L is what Japan's been experiencing).
Actually it uses a small Flash app to generate the sound (see the News section at the bottom of the page). I wonder if data URLs could be used like that though?
To say that "[t]hose images have been the subject of heated discussion within the community since their existence was revealed exclusively by FoxNews.com on April 27" is disingenuous considering Larry Sanger has been ringing this bell for quite a while now.

To say "... the images, which legal analysts say may violate pornography and obscenity laws" is border-line FUDish. Even something like "there is no agreement among legal analysts whether or not some of the images violate pornography and obscenity laws" would be better. It would be nice if they would get some experts to go on record and explain their reasoning, but I'm truly not expecting that much.

To say "images ... that could be considered child pornography" is a smear. If they want to call it CP, or get an expert to go on record as calling it CP, go for it -- but don't hide behind the "could" while invoking a moral panic.
Learning a new technology isn't really that big of a deal anyway. What if somebody introduces you to a technology that is better suited to solve a problem?
He wasn't removing illegal images, he set out to remove anything that might make Wikipedia look bad to donors.
What makes it work well on a distributed system?

The value of such an approach lives and dies on how well-defined the problem space is. If the domain covered by those events is relatively walled-off and has a very clear protocol for interacting with the rest of the system, that's good. But if it turns out to require lots of special cases, you end up wanting (and probably hacking your way to get at) a general-purpose language and can end up with something more complicated.

Event propagation in response to unpredictable signals from hardware is pretty much what GUI logic consists of. GUI event handling written the obvious way quickly generates into spaghetti under complexity. I've often wondered about a better way, since much of that complexity doesn't feel intrinsic.

I don't know much about games but it seems like a lot of them might be in the sweet spot for this approach, with a lot of complexity that can be expressed using such rules and encapsulated in a way that works nicely with the rest of the program. The devil is in the details, though.
Why do you make an assumption that these images are illegal? Photographs of genitalia are not necessarily pornography, much less illegal or obscene. The hysteria that Fox seems to be trying to whip up is that children in school might learn about sex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow looks similar.
For those who are interested in flash security, FX gave a nice talk about that on the last chaos communication congress:
http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2009/26c3-3494-de-defend...
Great intro to the semantic web [video]
Perfect example of how ridiculous the power structure is on Wikipedia. Administrators of the site seem to think that they must be consulted before the Wikimedia board can do anything. The Wikipedia community has some serious problems.
Sounds like VHDL
No openings, but you can always keep a close eye on Unity (http://unity3d.com) based in Copenhagen, if I am not mistaken. The decision on iPhone SDK support is still out there, and whatever happens, it might propel them in a new direction you could assist them in.
Who is hiring in India ?
Startup hiring in India and looking for talented programmers post your openings here.
TomTom is hiring in Amsterdam, and possibly in Berlin. A variety of front-end and back-end skills, more at the Java end of the spectrum. Even some Scala. Ping me at eric.bowman@tomtom.com and I'll put you in touch.
Then that cap must be reached for this year. At least I think that's what one small startup willing to go through the process with me indicated.
Your right - as much as I love StarCraft, I don't play it anymore.
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"By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?"

I immediately thought about the movie Thank you for smoking where this guy said that the best way to win a discussion was to prove the opponent wrong. You didn't have to be right, as long as he was wrong.
Wikipedia looking bad in the eyes of donors would be catastrophic considering the Wikimedia Foundation's sole source of revenue is donations.
On my 2 year old laptop on Vista + Chrome 5beta, it runs just as fast as it did when I played it sitting at a TV screen eons ago. It's really quite impressive.

... or, rather, it's really quite depressing once you realize this is 25-year-old technology finally making its appearance into (some!) browsers without requiring plugins.
Missing "semper ubi sub ubi". Someone here had to be the first to say it. Might as well be someone who suffered through 4 years of high school latin.
That's exactly what I need! Thank you so much, am looking into it.
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I really don't think you can say that Gates or MS made any breakthroughs in
making computing ubiquitous. They were in business for a BASIC interpreter[1],
created an empire based on monopoly and questionable ethics and frankly could
not care less about the philosophy that paved the way for ubiquitous
computing(that still is far from existing.)

If you want to give credit, give it to people who did the deeds to deserve it.
People like Alan Kay, Doug Engelbart, Ivan Sutherland, Seymour Papert[2].

[1] http://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/bill-gates-1986/

[2] http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html
In SICP, I think they use this approach to simulate digital circuits. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-22.html...
If you were to convert the nes asm into javascript how much faster would it run?
check out www.nixty.com -- we are dreaming too (and building)!
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O1 visa is an option, though not easy to get. If the H1B quota is reached, then they'll reissue in April, though you can't start work till the fall.

For your J-1 are you sure there's no 2 year home residency requirement?
It sounds kinda like binding in JavaFX.

http://java.sun.com/javafx/1/tutorials/core/dataBinding/
Cool. How do you do the sound in javascript?
If anyone wants to learn constraint programming, as I needed to do a few months ago, the two best books I found are this one, which is a general introduction:

http://www.amazon.com/Constraint-Processing-Kaufmann-Artific...

... and this one, which is a survey of the literature:

http://www.amazon.com/Constraint-Programming-Foundations-Art...

None of the other books I looked at was even close to as useful as these. Maybe this will save somebody some trouble.
I tried that, but unfortunately data URLs are far too slow. Firefox 3.7 has some exciting audio APIs though:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API

I've been meaning to write a JSNES prototype for them.
Can anybody explain exactly what is happening in this picture from Mongolia? http://citynoise.org/upload/42145.jpg
This demo seems to do just that:

http://acko.net/files/audiosynth/index.html

Edit: It's not exactly as "dynamic" as I thought. The different samples are generated once and then played in a loop. So the audio data is not generated in real time, but it is generated.
Nice strawman. He never said NeXT was irrelevant. He said, "Regardless of their market impact (which in the cases of Lisa and NeXT were disappointing), all four were remarkable artistic achievements." The key words being "market impact". In other words, they didn't sell much, which is true. It was a hindsight observation of market performance, not a forward looking prediction.
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These issues are certainly nothing new.

I had years of emails from the late 90s happily stored with Excite's webmail. Then, after one or another merger they instituted a policy of deleting any account that had not been signed into within 90 days. I had moved on to using desktop pop3 mail, and that was that - they deleted all of my archived messages without any recourse or so much as an apology.

I don't believe there had been any sort of export, download or backup option, either. I should have learned from that, but lo! Netscape did the same thing to me not long afterwards.
I am not a lawyer.

* there are no dirty tricks and short cuts, IMO.

* you can apply even now. there is NO limit on the number of applications to be recd by USCIS. Only, if there are more eligible applicants than the limit, there will be a lottery.

* there are consulting companies which specialize in visa workers. talk to them find out whether they can sponsor you. However, if you are not working on the speciality/project that you get your visa approved for, you may be violating the visa conditions.

* approach a attorney specializing in immigration and work visas. the fees are upward of $2500 for the entire process.

* you cannot get visa as a self-employed person. The application has to be sponsored by an existing US company. Sometimes you are even asked to produce tax returns of the sponsoring company for last 2-3 years, if the visa officer suspects you are self-employed etc.,

* you get to know the decision on your application some time b'n july and october.
* if approved, your visa will be valid from oct 14.
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Sounds like Cells: http://common-lisp.net/project/cells/
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

Translation: "Everything said in Latin, seems deep."
No, it's not. USICS issued a new memo in january, which made H1B hard to use for bodyshops(~consulting companies). As a result only 25% of total quota is currently submitted and numbers are rising very slow(1-2% a week).
You can think of it as dataflow programming where (event,value) tuples are the data.

You can still think of it as the same old shared memory approach, where before the game loop frame gets to "look" at it, some conditional event propagation and generation is performed. In other words if b and c are hardware events. Their values get written to the shared memory. Before the game loop gets to look at the memory, there is a stage where a (an event derived from b and c) is generated. Of course, now you don't have the limitation of a physical piece of shared memory. These events can be distributed across many machines.

> It turns out this is really powerful and works well on a distributed system. Did they create something new here?

I think the power comes from creating a DSL that fits very well in your domain (problem space). It lets you manage a lot events and express relationships between them. Also you seem to have defined an event algebra, where events can be composed. I am not sure how applicable this is to other domains. If your language is abstract and not related to particulars of flight simulators, it might be quite useful...

What is the language called? How proprietary is it?
Why is that depressing? I find it amazing and exiting.
If you use the shared memory approach on a distributed system, each node has a copy of the shared memory, and there's infrastructure for keeping all that memory synchronized. At least that's one way of doing it.

In the event-based approach they implemented, different nodes (PCs) subscribe just to the events they are interested in. It's light-weight, easy to understand, monitor and debug, and it fits the problem well in this case.
I'm in exactly the same position as you.

If you're at UCB then perhaps you can frame your startup as a spinoff company, which universities love. You'd be trading capital for a visa.

That's the best idea I have right now.

Otherwise there's always 20% time at google.
A good programmer can get more than $85/hr. I know HTML/CSS people who charge $85/hr. He was suggesting $25/hr, which is what dog walkers charge. Beyond $85 you encounter people trying to haggle on price, unless you're doing something hairy for a hedge fund. $85 is a sweet spot where you can find work without too much of a headache. It's also a good litmus test. If a company tries to negotiate down from $85 it means they are going to suck to work with.
Now, I am a self-professed idealist sometimes, but it strikes me that what would really be catastrophic would be an encyclopedia altering their content solely in response to a moral hysteria whipped up by a partisan media organization (regardless of their affiliation).
Osiris didn't say the images were illegal - Osiris asked whether the foundation had a right/obligation to remove the images "if, in fact," they were illegal. Seems like no one can say, at this point, whether the images were or were not illegal, since that question has not been decided by a court.
Oh, I see, you meant knowledgeable about the general situation, not about what Hitler said as such. I think you got downvoted (not by me, fwiw) for appearing to take the quote literally.

As for the general situation, that's quite interesting. Shows how much Hitler cared about the German people.
Consult with an immigration lawyer. A few months ago, the MIT International Student Association organized a Q&A session with a lawyer and he referred to cases of people getting a visa with self-employment jobs such as blogging.
One thing I remembered from the Mint.com case - they were selling to the news not themselves directly but their by-product. What do I mean by that? In your case you can analyse your customer cases and find some interesting common patterns like "using word Love in the tag line usually gives 50% better results etc etc". Or "compelling tag line can not exceed 5 words - our research proved etc etc"

You have plenty of data to play with and I'm sure there are extremely interesting points you can make.
I believe they have alpha support now, but it's still very buggy.
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. --Reagon
We are hiring transcribers, front end and back end engineers.

http://callgraph.biz/jobs
The O1 is the most consistently successful for a hacker entrepreneur of some repute, but is a pain to get. Definitely look for a lawyer who's done it before (I can't give names, though)
Why do you find it amazing? I saw this first probably 10 years ago with java applets. Is it more amazing because applets are unfashionable?
A PDP-8/E Simulator for the Apple Macintosh
But should someone involved in the incident be the one reporting on it?
I love the conciseness of Latin.
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I don't think this means what you think it means. Consider the situation in 36 AB (After Brian):

By the summer of 70 the Romans had breached the walls of Jerusalem, ransacking and burning nearly the entire city...

The Second Temple (the rennovated Herod's Temple) was destroyed on Tisha B'Av (29 or 30 July 70).

Tacitus... notes that those who were besieged in Jerusalem amounted to no fewer than six hundred thousand, that men and women alike and every age engaged in armed resistance, everyone who could pick up a weapon did, both sexes showed equal determination, preferring death to a life that involved expulsion from their country. All three walls were destroyed and in turn so was the Temple, some of whose overturned stones and their place of impact can still be seen...

The famous Arch of Titus still stands in Rome: it depicts Roman legionaries carrying the Temple of Jerusalem's treasuries, including the Menorah, during Titus's triumphal procession in Rome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish-Roman_War

Even after crushing the Judean revolt, the Romans provided sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health. But they also destroyed the symbolic center of the Jewish identity.
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I thought the idea of getting donations instead of having ads was to avoid the theoretical possibility of altering the content. If indeed this is related to donor perception you might as well rely on ads, which are not certain to alter the content AND will make Wikimedia a financial powerhouse able to pursue multiple other projects.

Although I must confess that at this stage, the thought of Jimmy Wales commanding a billion dollar empire does not necessarily excite me.
This is awesome. Even Konami code works in Contra!
At least they're not allowing donors to change facts, like this "history" project is doing: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1502076070/mondo-2000-an... (check out the prizes on the right-hand side).
It depends on how aggressively you optimize. In the worst case scenario (the compiler just copies the code that the interpreter would run) you end up with the same performance as the interpreter.
But the whole point is not to have a business model--he's doing it for philanthropic reasons.