skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because whatever software they use to layout the magazine can't export to HTML5. Since they're optimizing for time-to-market, they don't have time to retrain their designers to use different software, rewrite/extend it, or wait for the creators of that software to add export-to-HTML5 functionality, and so this was the most reasonable move. Give it some time, and they'll either move everything to HTML5 or a similar format with the features they need (their style of pagination, control over scrolling/swiping details in the UI, etc).
It's like asking a doctor, what are the health implications of eating ice cream daily? Then deciding it's worth it!
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Suppose you want to invest in a company you truly believe in. Where will you get the shares from? Unless someone else thinks it's crap and wants to unload it, there will be no one to buy it from.

There are a reasons to sell a shares besides thinking that a company is bad. Sells are also sold to raise capital, this may of course be done by the company itself to raise capital for expansion or in lieu of a loan. This is precisely what an IPO is and companies will also do it post IPO if the cirumstances are right.

But individual or institutional stock holders may also sell it to raise capital even while thinking that the company is doing fine and will likely go up over the long run. If the money was invested specifically for retirement or college for instance, it will be withdrawn (the shares sold) for that reason. An individual or instution may also sell some shares to support diversification or to move to a lower risk investment class while believing the company is most likely to prosper. And of course its perfectly rational to sell your shares if you believe an overall market decline is coming, even if the intention is to rebuy those shares when you believe it is near the bottom

There will be plenty of people to buy stock in any major company without anyone necessarily believing the stock is bad.
There many are more laws and regulations on businesses in Germany. You probably need a labor law specialist to keep track of them.
It's vague enough that the principle is both sound and useless.
JavaScript: The Good Parts (2009) [video]
"Only your mac's built-in keyboard, not a USB keyboard, works in the simulator, because the iPhone uses really low-level keyboard APIs in OSX. etc.)"

I have a USB keyboard connected to my MacBook, an old M7803, and it works great in the iPhone simulator.
Adobe built the app for Wired. First it was Flash/AIR based, but then they have to make it iPOS compliant...
most movies that are considered 'successes' wind up losing money.

It's actually just like the movies. The movie is set up as a corporation, which is funded by an investment by the studio (read:venture capital). The movie is made by the producer, director, actors, crew (founder, advisors, employees, contractors). The movie is released (public launch), and hopefully after a few months of being in theaters (ramen profitable), the movie leaves theaters (makes an exit). The corporation that was formed to make the movie pays back the studio (its investors), and the producers, directors, and maybe the lead actors get their backend cut (stock options). The corporation always "loses money" because the studio always gets paid back.
Adobe built the app for Wired:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/the-wired-ipad-app-a-...
Hmmm. The J58 is humongous, but it would be kind of cool to use them to start a scramjet (or, better, use it as the basis of another engine that can function in all three modes).

The SJX6 combustion chamber is not cylindrical and would not fit around a jet engine the way the J58 works in ramjet regime, but I bet many people are thinking about how to do it right now.

A scramjet engine that can take off and land like a more or less ordinary plane (it would certainly not look ordinary) is something very desirable.
It all depends on the altitude. If you are using a rocket, you can avoid the friction problem by going out of most of the atmosphere. Do that with an air-breathing engine and it will not function.
The iPad edition of the magazine was originally made in a beta version of Flash CS5, relying on its ability to output iPhone OS apps. When Apple banned third-party runtimes, Adobe built Wired this horrifying hack. I think it's an InDesign plugin. The idea is that Wired's designers won't have to learn anything about the iPhone OS to create the app, but this is a pretty atrocious implementation.
Does the World Really Need Yahoo Anymore?
A few things.

It's 5000 psi at a 20 foot diameter! That's one monster of a valve.

Also, it's not like a valve in your sink. It's designed to sit there, and they drill through the opening in it.

It looks more like those circular portals you see on alien ships in movies. Like an iris door.

You need tremendous pressure to move the sliders. It's even designed to be strong enough to cut right through the drill string if necessary.

I don't know why they are unable to get it to close, but maybe it's jammed or there have no way of giving it pressure.

So it's not as simple as "close the valve".
Maxwell Kennerly is an attorney, and thus defining his own role in legal consultations. I was at the doctor's office earlier today and made a decision about the costs and benefits of a medication which required considering the probability of side effects and the expense of purchase vs. the potential health benefits.
If we purchase that, can we export it and read it in reader using an open and free format? I suppose again, we can't use it and are forced to go in p2p to fetch a converted and open version.

I'm always willing to buy e-books in open format and they always end-up in broken or/and proprietary formats that you can't read on your platform.

This always reminds me of the DRM sucks visualization for the audio book :
http://s3.amazonaws.com/the_brads/the_brads_drm.png
Hmm, if you already know Java, or like Java, go for it. Otherwise I'd avoid it and use something like ExtJS or similar.
I'm not really sure if you're trying to say:

iPhone/iPad Operating system

or

iPiece Of Shit.

What the heck with the downvotes? Aren't the iPhone and iPad Operating Systems based on one another? I just thought it was funny that, at first glance, my brain saw something completely different than "iPhone Operating System".
Browserscope - crowdsourcing tests about anything browsers do
Right, but the Android OS should convert it into the units of measure of the country so there is no confusion on the user's part. This is just one example of where Google supposdly A/B tests the thickness of lines, but don't care about the big picture issues that will hinder adoption.
This was my experience with netbooks. After the honeymoon wore off (a couple of months for me, actually), my netbook has been sitting on the coffee table, dead.
Startups battle for $50,000 and killer buzz (slideshow)
So you don't think anyone on a board should be primarily concerned with risk management?
Google Code API Overview
Yes, it really is that hard. Water valves that someone can walk up to and spin by hand is very much different from a valve that is a mile away (vertically) under water. Wikipedia says the pressure increases by 1 atmosphere every 33 feet (10m)... 5000 feet would be more than 150 times atmospheric pressure.

Marine Remote Operated Vehicles (MROVs) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MROV are being used, but it is very difficult to operate them even in good conditions (flat seas and minimal currents). Add to that, the dexterity of the tools on the ROV is nowhere close to the dexterity of a human hand.
I have to use both Eclipse and VS2k3/VS2k8/VS2k10 on a daily basis. Sure, eclipse has better refactorings. I would also argue that it's References/Declarations search features are better than the VS equivelents.

But that is the only two features where VS gets eclipsed. VS is an all-round better tool than Eclipse for everything else I need to do. Sure perhaps I can make Eclipse better by searching out some plugin written by some 3rd party, because the 3rd party support/community is better for Eclipse than VS. But from a daily use POV, atleast IMO, VS is simply leaps and bounds beyond Eclipse. VS also cost me $1000, Eclipse didn't cost me anything. So perhaps my view is skewed simply because I'm deluding myself because of my financial outlay, but I'd like to think not.
curbing piracy, which they as a company NEED TO DO

Let me state plainly that I believe piracy is generally immoral and I would be happy to see it vanish from the face of the earth. Let me also say that I think approaches like battle.net are much better than DRM.

But, they do not necessarily need to stop piracy. What they need to do is earn a reasonable and healthy profit.

They could (potentially) do this witout worrying about piracy at all. They would benefit from preventing all piracy that would otherwise have been a sale, of course, but if they are earning a profit even this is only beneficial, not necessary. The piracy that would not otherwise have been a sale is simply irrelevant to the company's health. In fact, in some circumstances piracy that would not otherwise have been a sale could be beneficial to them by providing publicity and helping to gain a fan base that will eventually make purchases (again, this should not in any way be read as condoning piracy, but it remains true.)
Shouldn't we just dump worthless public schools and start over?
How is what you described (having to solve a problem once) different than most languages (especially those with garbage collection). It seems like you're describing libraries, ala growing a language (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415...).
Reflecting upon my previous post, I am wondering why LISP triumphalists like Paul Graham annoy me so much? Perhaps it is because I used to be one myself, in spirit if not in syntax. And also because I now see them as a major symptom of what ails programming.

Responding just to the Lisp part of this post, all programming languages suck (but not equally!). Lisp isn't designed to let you show how clever you are, it's just designed to suck a little less.

For example, until Java came along, Garbage Collection was still mostly regarded as a "toy" feature, rather than as something whose absence would make a language suck. Lisp originated Garbage Collection of course, and remains the only language where you can can find a few other "non-sucky" features that still haven't caught on in the mainstream.
hrm, presumably whatever layout tool they use can export to pdf, and presumably it would be possible to then use Scribd's html5 tech (or license the right to use it) to then make it html 5?
They received something like 70,000 ideas.

And not a chance in the world would that work.

Open source software works because the people who contribute are .... programmers!

Other kinds of crowd sourcing works by doing something simple/stupid many times.

Most people don't even understand the problem. So how do you expect them to come up with a solution? How many people do you know who have the slightest clue what they do to drill a well? And reading wikipedia doesn't count.
Twilio + Google Chrome Extensions Hackathon Contest Winners
An Introduction to Using YUI 3 in Offline Applications
Just want to say that my experience with my kindle is very much unlike this. The only thing that keeps me buying dead-tree books right now is the ability to bike over to Barnes and Noble and browse them, and my ability to keep a couple under the seat in my Jeep without fear of them being stolen.

At first, I liked it, but it still just felt like an MP3 player for books...the first time I really "got it" was when I was walking my dog one morning. I usually bring a bag with my that has a couple of tools in it (mountain bike habits die hard, I guess), as well as my kindle. I decided to stop near the lake and let my dog rest a bit. My friend had recently recommend that I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", and I was considering riding up to the store and buying it when I realized that I already had it...in my bag, all I had to do was pay for it.

I booted the kindle, opened the kindle store, and was reading the book all in less than a minute. This is absolutely amazing to me because unlike my phone, or my laptop, or whatever other device I have that can read text, the kindle really really does feel like reading a book. It doesn't hurt by eyeballs, it doesn't get warm and feel strange in my hand, and the battery lasts for almost a month without charging.

Nothing about my kindle feels like it's getting in my way...this is pretty much exactly the opposite of my experience with every piece of apple product I have ever used (save for the early ipods...can you still sync them with amarok and gtkpod?).
Symfony: storing i18-n translations in MySql 
Why would you want to the translation inside a database? One of the answers may be that you want to edit these translations via a nice web-interface. But whatever is your goal – here’s a detailed instruction
There's a significant trickle-down effect from the innovation and competitive pressure they apply. All MP3 players and (practically) all phones will be better, (even if they're simply selling overpriced toys.) :)
who cares about drm?

It can hinder my enjoyment of my software that I have purchased legitimately right now. Every time I have to deal with even the most minor of DRM I am annoyed. If I have to put in a disc for a game I have already installed, it makes me actually dig out that disc. Registration codes annoy me to know end, especially very long ones. I am a veteran and still work with the government, in my job I could wind up without network access for some period, so I do not even think about buying a game that requires network authentication for the single player version.

Any time an illegal, cracked version of a piece of software is superior in usability to the legitimate version, I consider that a major problem.

Everybody in the game industry knows that "cloud computing" is the future..

This may prove true in the long run, but I find it far from obvious and it certainly is not true right now.

Remember that there are people (people deployed in the military come to mind, also some rural areas even in America..) for which consistent network access, much less fast network access is a luxury they do not always have. This may change in the future, but it is going to hold true for a while still.

Also, there are some people that just do not like the idea of their software needing to check in and report back. They do not like it for privacy reasons and because they may like being able to play retro games long after they are unpopular and forgotten about by most.

Cloud computer will definitely affect gaming (already has to a degree), but I think the idea of it being "the future" for all or even most games is not obvious
Visualize the Deepwater oil spil over your hometown
Cross-posted from here: http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade/comments/c8nji/i_made_an_oil_spill_map_visualizer_tool/

Move the oil spill over your hometown to get a better sense of its magnitude.
I'm just happy to see the tech media finally putting real pressure on Apple to open up. I love my (jailbroken) iPhone and all, but Apple deserves a swift kick in the pants for fighting me for control over it.
"Based on Tony’s estimate MongoDB used up 4 times the storage they had used in Mysql." Quite alarming.
He should have mentioned Sports Illustrated at I/O 2010 for their magazine demo built in HTML5 to make his point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3j7mM_JBNw
Great site! I share some of the sentiments here about the hills being a distraction and also would like to see some sort of demo that shows a typical session. I'd also like to see your "About" page more prominently displayed, instead of being embedded in a text link that I had to find like an easter egg lol.

My question is this (and I'm not so sure if this is proper to ask), but is there a pricing structure? What might your revenue model for this be like?
As I said, solved as far as practically required, as your comment illustrates.

The viability of the scramjet being actually useful for anything is up for debate. Either you can fly slower with a jet, or leave the atmosphere altogether with a rocket.

Flying at orbital speeds within the atmosphere is of very, very marginal utility, given the number of complexities involved.
A killer Android app
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Hopefully they are not so stupid as to "disable" LAN play. What they have probably done is to never have written LAN netcode in the first place. There is a very large difference between those two - one implies maliciousness, one implies that they didn't devote the manpower necessary to get it running anywhere other than Battle.net (which presumably is doing something more complex than connecting several IPs together for a net game).
Ummm...what? Businesses other than Apple stores would have to be out of their fucking minds to tie any part of their business-flow to a device that is as locked down as the iPad. Maybe if apple decided to change their licensing and it screwed up something that Lockheed Martin or IBM was doing, apple would help them out...but me? With my 200 employees?

Sorry, Ryan! Here's a $5 iTunes gift card!

I do not understand this fixation people have with the iPad mattering to manufacturing/warehousing people. We have solved this problem many many many many times over. Intermec, Symbol, Zebra, and Toughbook are the name of the game, have been for 15 years, and will be for the foreseeable future. If I can't drop the device from 4 feet onto a concrete warehouse floor or parking lot over and over and over and over again, all day, every day...then it is useless to me and nearly everybody else in the manufacturing/warehousing industry.

If apple pulls the stick out of their butt about user-replaceable batteries, opens the thing from a technical standpoint, and builds a rugged version of it...then maybe (hey, they could call it a toughbook!), until then, it's going to remain something that hip kids with more money than sense show to their friends and something that technophiles use to read their email while sitting on their terrace and drinking wine.
IPv4 Address Run Out: Are You Ready For The Big Crunch? Of Drama Queens?
Assuming your home has 3G coverage, you could just have 3G. For some people, this is already cheaper (especially with pre-paid options). This is situation only going to get better. [I'm going by Australian prices]

Is 3G less reliable than fixed line? I don't know - but networks in general aren't always available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Comput...
Ask HN: $2K for a lawyer to revise your TOS & privacy statement
Before launching my web app, I spent several days reviewing other sites' privacy statements and terms of service. I noticed [1] while doing this that many sites use the same or similar documents, many of which are based on WordPress's TOS which they make available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license [2].

I took notes on what I liked and what was applicable and came up with a TOS and privacy statement for my site.

I'm working with a local lawyer to take care of some administrative stuff, and he offered to review and rework the TOS and privacy statements for somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.5K to $2K, depending on how long it takes.

That's a nontrivial amount of money for my relatively small web app so I'm wondering: How important are these documents? What are risks if I miss something by doing it on my own?

I'll also consult with the lawyer on this, but was hoping to your thoughts as well. Appreciate the help.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=990375

[2] http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
Not the way he's meaning it. This is a follow-up to his previous post, which claims that "There are no super programming languages, only super programmers."

Cleverness gets you things like Garbage Collection. Convention and simplicity leaves us all using assembler because there's no need for "clever" language features.
Agreed—I've known too many of the former, who undo years of quality work in a single, well-meaning but unintelligent rewrite.

I think the author is confusing the Real Thing with the hubris-laden, self-proclaimed intelligent programmer. Programming is one of the tiny handful of fields where real intelligence (plus hard work) puts you at a significant advantage over the eager-but-average-intelligence hard-workers.

Programming is like writing or other arts in so many ways: it's easy for those who are competent to immediately recognize another gifted thinker, but the have-nots will dismiss the gifted work as "unintelligible" simply because they don't have the skill or capacity to appreciate it yet (Dunning-Kruger Effect).
There are probably better things you can spend the money on if it's a nontrivial amount of money for your app.
Cut any way you like it, TechCrunch is a success.
One last thought to bare in mind before disagreeing: http://www.savagechickens.com/2008/12/iq-test.html
Yeah, good point... That is a big (biggest?) part of a typical VC's way of thinking. Similarly on the founder's side is the "emotional control" factor in determining exits and decisions in spite of the terms and VC's objectives. Have you seen any posts about that aspect?
Good idea, but maybe they started this project before that was announced, or they aren't bleeding edge enough to come up with that kind of solution.
I like that suggestion, I was big on meetups for a while when I lived in Vegas for hiking and the like, hadn't thought to join (or start) a tech related meetup.
I've started reading The E-Myth Revisited (http://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-Abou...). Someone recommended it pretty highly on one of the previous HN book threads.

I wish I'd read it two start-ups ago. It's downright scary how well he describes the exact path my companies took.
Unrelated, but did you get the second account on HN?
> "get over it"? why?

Because Apple care about the consumer, not some techie with a blog. What matters to techies means nothing to the average consumer.
A better article would be "Why Wired Didn't use HTML5 for their iPad App". Since that probably wouldn't have the same link-bait worthy title, I'll write one here.

Why didn't Wired use HTML5?

1) a) it was built by Adobe who build it on Flash to begin with, b) the tools just aren't there yet. c) because of #2.

2) Why is the app 500MB? Because all the rich content (images, movies, audio) are bundled into the app so you do not need an internet connection to view it. I think we can all agree that downloading a "magazine" before you leave the house, then finding you can't view most of it, would be an uber fail.

If the app had been based on HTML5 it would have been a 'mare to cache all of the content locally for offline viewing. HTML5 does offer local storage, but not in a way that would allow sites to cache 500MB of content. And even if they could, do you really want to wait 20 minutes for that Pixar feature to download over 3G?

I suppose you could have created a native app with everything bundled locally and a UIWebView for rendering the HTML5 content, but really what do you gain from that?
Anyone read the prior post he references? This one is supposed to be acknowledging that he was too aggressive in attacking the Lisp community in his last post ("Mea Culpa").

Sounds like the author is having trouble with the humility thing:

"I'm really humble, so now everyone else has to be as well"

just one of the many faces of narcissism
Kitchens are where people gather and do lots of other things besides cook and eat.

I'm sure every family is different, but a kitchen computer is a computer in the kitchen that you use when you are there and need access to a computer. Email, Google, surf, Youtube. Who knows, you might even look at a recipe and or play a game while cookies cool on the counter ...
Also looking for a Linux laptop.

Any recommendations/feedback for ASUS models? I'm looking into the K501D-X3 laptop.
Less than 500MB?
A serious question.