skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but without having stats on how many "successful" flash renderings all those users' browsers complete, the stats would be pretty skewed towards flash just due to its prevalance over quicktime and silverlight. much wider use of flash would lead to more reported crashes even if quicktime crashed more commonly.
Much is said about protecting children from video games, but what about other mediums (mainly TV, given its exposure)?

Any station can air some movie at 4pm featuring the good cops shooting the bad guys. Or, for instance, it is easy to be watching some news report at dinner and being exposed to something beating the horror or gore movies by points.

Aren't kids exposed since birth to the notion that violence becomes acceptable if against the bad guys? Where goes the moral of don't to others what you don't want to be done to you?

Even some very successful animated movies like Lion King end up with the bad guy being killed. Either intentionally or not, kids end up satisfied that the bad guy had what he deserved and that all become happily ever after.

I'm not for one side or the other, I just wanted to raise some questions to see what you guys think. I don't think video games are bad for children, but I agree they have to be picked appropriately for their age.
But I also think we end up avoiding violence in the obvious places but letting kids completely exposed to it in another ones.
On the flip side, don't they also think you're geniuses to be able to use it?
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No, the main reason we hate facebook is because they are trying to press criminal charges on a company. Also, they keep changing what data they make accessable publicly, without warning, and have a ridiculous system of letting you chnage what is private/public.
Perl6 was started in the year 2000. It's a lot more than a rev from 5.08 to 5.12, for example. Can you elaborate on some of the more details? For example, what concepts from Ruby and Python are they borrowing in Perl6 that don't exist in Perl5? Wikipedia didn't elaborate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl6#Goals

Sure, at some high-level they're all the same, but the devil is in the details. Just saying they're all the same is specious.
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Speaking of smoking, I wonder what's the author's opinion regarding alcohol. I and other friends have drunk (or better said tasted) wine and beer since we were kids (less than 10 years old) and we haven't become alcoholics. Sure, I know a couple of people who drink a bit too much at parties, but still, I don't think that forbidding them to drink until they were 21 would have avoided this. If someone wants to shoot himself in the foot, I don't see how some law can stop this.
Nice link. The article before Mazur's, by Davis (author of the book I mentioned above) is also good.
Clickable HN signup link: http://www.deadsimplemonitor.com/signup/hackernews

Just signed up. I agree with your annoyance about Pindom SMS credits -- it makes the service much less valuable when it's only email.

I do like having it be a phone call b/c then I can program in a very ominous ringtone.
I was having the same issue so I created a simple site that polls the site every 2 minutes and attributes points according to where in the top 30 a story was located and maintains the rankings for every day.

It is ridiculously simple, but I find I have a much better experience with HN content while using it and the top benefit is that I can afford to miss a day or two and still manage to not miss anything. Check it out! It may (or may not) prove to be useful for you too. Also, no ads or similar annoying stuff. :)

http://hnrecap.com

P.S. It is currently a bit messed up (stories are entered multiple times in the table) because of how (poorly!) I handled articles that make it across many days in the hour that it took me to code it. I will fix that ASAP and add support to view the recap for past dates and search the site.
+1.

Also I feel like HN would enjoy these videos where you can see their craftsmanship at work.

http://vimeo.com/8977253 Syphon Coffee
http://vimeo.com/8709313 Espresso
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Anyone intriguided by this idea should check out the Autofocus System: http://www.markforster.net/autofocus-index/

One of the ideas underpinning it is to use the energy that is otherwise (mostly) wasted while you're procrastinating to do constructive things.

I use AFv4 but have used it since Mark started posting about it back at v1. I find it an effective system that is fun to use, portable, simple and, most critically, lightweight and not really much of a 'system' at all.
I'm confused by the limited focus of your statement. Wide reach is important to a marketer who helps their company by making an impact on sales but a developer doesn't care about reach because ... why?

As a sole developer, you require not only the technical knowledge to complete the initial job of writing the software that attracts the traffic to generate revenue, but you also must rely on yourself to place and promote it adequately to have significant returns enough to cover both investments of time and energy.

"80 apps" is great news for a developer if a good percentage of them are yours, serving your ads. Otherwise, its at best 1/80th of a chance they are running your ads, but probably worse as each app is not created equal. If yours is a "killer app" that is use most often, its more than likely not ad-driven unless a guy likes playing iChess on the shitter.

All of the data you provided is great - but none of it ties to money paid. 10.2 billion ad requests means dick if there wasn't any money exchanging hands. You said yourself there's no definitive evidence of people making a lot from mobile app advertising, so I'm not sure what point you were defending in the first place.
"the main reason you hate facebook is because they are big"

Incorrect.
perl6 is a huge leap beyond the current crop of interpreted languages. Go through this content to get an idea:

http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/
A nit: "XML is a framework". format != framework
Sure, risk it when you're young, but don't think that the older you get the less risks you should take. It's just the opposite. The "old dogs, new tricks" adage is a fallacy designed to keep people in line. Don't believe it! Take risks when you're young, when you're middle-aged, and when you're old!
> He didn't avoid these things because I told him he counldn't try them. It just never occurred to him to commit these acts.

Does the game cause kids to go bad or is the game simply a litmus test for evil? The little baby kid didn't waste bystanders because the game doesn't tell you to do that. Perhaps your first instinct is to kill innocent bystanders when you think of sandbox style worlds... but for this kid apparently it's not. Even if it was, the game wouldn't be at fault. I'm pretty sure even if he did the missions, and understood the dialogue, he wouldn't be made to do such things because the missions don't usually have you kill innocent people.
High Yield Agriculture Cuts CO2 Emissions
Would love to read a review.
How to Take Extraordinary Photographs, Part 1: Exposure
Quite clunky, but I've used it a lot-- hard to beat "free".

For pay versions, I have to second GoToMeeting-- it's pretty solid.
FYI if you're in NYC St. Mark's books has it and it is discounted at the Strand.
Yes, it's just a computer, albeit a very specialized one. And like any computer, it's useless without I/O
There are two reasons why I use chromium (not Chrome) over Firefox.

Chromium has true process separation.
Chromium is faster for boot/page loads/JavaScript.

Splitting up plugins like this is chipping away at the first reason why I don't use Firefox. I would really like to use Fx, but chromium is just "better" for what I want in a browser.

Come on Firefox, win me back!
On a completely related note, here's a great video summary of the situation from NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/20/sports/soccer/...
For me, the incident leaving the worst taste in my mouth was the footage of the ref laughing with Fabiano, pointing to his arm after Fabiano's obvious double-handball goal in the Brazil game against the Ivory Coast. (Again, very hard to find the footage online, but multiple articles have been written, particularly with Miradona commenting)

Bad calls are one thing - this is another entirely. This, and all the dives makes it hard for me to take the World Cup as a serious competitive sporting competition.

Many rebut with 'haven't you watched basketball' or some other replacement with referee judgement calls, but no other sport has frequently over HALF of the scoring of one game decided by such non-objective means.
While not a bad thing in general, I think a "good job and a regular paycheck" is counterproductive for those wishing to be entrepreneurs.
Good grant applications (especially large ones) take a considerable amount of time to put together. In general, you can't bang one out in a couple of days or even a week. Some large ones I've worked on have taken months to pull together. A few quick tips:

- Start as early as possible so that you can write, develop ideas, rewrite and rework.

- Find a mentor, preferably one in the same or related area who has a good record of success.

- Ask colleagues for copies of successful grant applications to the same programs.

- Have your mentor and other colleagues review your grant and provide feedback.

- Listen to advice from others, but ultimately trust your own judgement.

- Apply to as many programs as possible--you can't get funded if you don't apply.

- Don't get discouraged if you are not successful, as many programs have small (and ever dwindling) success rates.

- Reapply if turned down, being sure to address the concerns of the reviewers.
I've done about 4 non trivial projects with Clojuire. (a) some fairly serious SEO related to RFS1 (b) a news aggregator (c) music-compojure http://github.com/mhowlett/music-compojure (d) some investment portfolio performance calculations.

I really like the language. Am I productive with it? Not really - as a guess, I'm about 3 times faster with .NET / C# (with which I'm very experienced). I might be able to get to the same level of productivity, but it'd certainly take me a while to get there.
Seems like maybe the website could be a bit more clear that it was based on the Smultron editor. I know it's a bit obvious to anyone who's familiar with Smultron, but it feels a bit disingenuous when it isn't mentioned anywhere (that I can see, anyway).
I think another problem not discussed in the article is the "manufactured consensus" phenomenon where well funded labs can populate a particular niche with grad students and researchers who are all working from the same theoretical framework. This creates a feedback loop of ever increasing funding and publishing for this ever growing group.

Any researcher who does not subscribe to this false consensus will find it almost impossible to get funded or published. Thus those with radical ideas are kept out of the system.
You see this in many of areas scientific research (e.g. viticulture, climatology, linguistics...)
No, people who read books on their phones generally don't read any significant amount by any measure.
> Throwing around the phrase "fan boy" does no one any good, and certainly won't help your karma.

True but in many ways the 'definite bias favoring Apple on Hacker News' does actually validate the concept of a cluster of people that could usefully be described by a distinct term. If 'fanboys' is considered an offensive slur (as it appears to be) then I'm personally happy to use the term 'Apple fans' but they are essentially referring to the phenomena/grouping.

Personally I'm less interested in karma than contributing to the insight-fullness and accuracy of the discussion. I'll gladly wear my -20 comments as a badge of pride as long as they do this.
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If copyright law stopped existing, and authors could no longer be compensated for what they'd made

Haven't we already established that this is a red herring in light of all the content that people create for no money every day? I'd provide a list, but reminding people of this just gets exhausting. Just because some people wouldn't consider it worthwhile to create because they don't get paid doesn't mean that creation would stop, it just means that the stuff that gets created by people who don't see a need in getting paid would rise to increased prominence and be recognized as such.
Can't say I've had any serious problems with AT&T. I can't even remember the last time I didn't have 3G coverage or good signal. I'm quite sure some people do have problems but considering AT&T is still adding subscribers at a brisk pace, and keeping their old subscribers, makes me think the issues are hugely overstated. All 70 million AT&T customers can't be having these types of problems.
I don't think it's responsible to advise people with negative cash to take big risks. Risk is for people with no debt and a year or two of living expenses in cash.
Definitely do the things that you're passionate about, because you will only end up regretting and coming up with those "what-if" questions everyday. Do it anyway.

They WePay founders are right in a way. You do give up (or do not adapt) a certain lifestyle if you do choose the entrepreneurial path, but the long-term rewards are endless.
That's not a difficult task unless I misunderstand you. I have a load cell with a weighing platform somewhere in my garage and never got around to using it.

What part are you having trouble sourcing? For general electromechanical components, MSC, Small Parts, McMaster-Carr are my usual go-to places. Are you looking to build a machine that can take pet treats from a hopper and bag them by weight? That's a pretty straightfoward task: the 100k pricetag probably has more to do with speed/throughput and low economies of scale than anything else.

PM/email me if you need more help.
The sooner you risk it, the sooner you'll start learning.
No, you aren't. There may be other examples, but at least in Germany the iPhone is exclusive to T-Mobile. The bad news about that is that T-Mobile charges outrageous prices compared to the other carriers. The good news is that their network works really, really well.
I guess that this relates in some way to cases where newspapers complain about companies like Google indexing their sites and effectively repackaging their news stories - and where violating terms of service (civil issue) crosses into unauthorised access (criminal issue).

It all comes down to what precisely am I allowed to do with a publicly available web page? I'm allowed to use a web browser to access it (presumably), but when does something stop being a web browser and start being an automated tool? I'm not familiar with the tool in question here, but could it be argued that in some ways it's no different than a web browser that pre-fetches linked content?
Am I wrong or is there no currently running example to found? Or does it not actually publish a blog itself?
If you have a year or two of living expenses, a mortgage, and a family, it's a much bigger risk than if you have nothing...especially if "nothing" means very few big-ticket expenses.

If you have nothing, you are risking the opportunity cost of having a "real job". As long as you can find a way to support yourself (food and shelter), it's a good time to gamble.
Oh, I see. A decision that is motivated by convenience, i.e., business and profit, is not evil. Thanks for this insight into the Google newspeak

No one is forcing Google to impose the restriction. They have free will. Google already blocked new account creation in Gizmo5 (one of their small acts of goodness) so very few users could ever make use of this scenario, in any case. So the restriction is unnecessary and overkill.

Google's decision means that my android device can't place a Google Voice call from my house which has no cell phone reception. Thanks Google, for wrapping the AT&T user experience in your colorful world-changing logo.
If you would truly be homeless if you went bankrupt, then yes, it's not prudent.

But many of the people who would be in this position have a safety net if things go bad. They can default on their debt, move in with a friend or relative, and get a job and get back on their feet.
Many is correct. Many refers to countable items, much refers to uncountable items. Many apples vs much wine, many lines of code vs much text.

I do agree with your assessment of the awkwardness of the phrase though.
I'm 30 now and just getting going on this. My startup is just starting to get some nice sales traction.

I've never really understood the assessment of risk that people apply to starting a company. If my company fails when I start full time on it then I'll get a job in a week tops unless I decide to take some time off. My family won't ever notice the difference except when I have to get the insurance information changed with our doctors.

I have a wife who stays home with our daughter and another kid on the way. Maybe I'm delusional but it really doesn't seem very risky to me.
Thanks for the info. The "acculturation" part was particularly enlightening
Unlike iPhone/iTouch, iPad runs iOS 3.2, which I'm assuming includes some or all of the bugfixes that are part of 4.0. Of course this is pure speculation like the original article, though - if anyone has a detailed 3.2 and 4.0 changelist, please post it.
Those videos were great. This place looks like a fun place to hang out. Using the science equipment to make coffee seems real unique. If one of these were close to me, I would go for sure.
Clojure's a decent choice for writing a cross-platform UI application, using Swing. Java+Swing sucks, but Clojure+Swing works pretty well. I wrote a dependency graph library, dgraph, which significantly reduces the amount of boilerplate required to keep UI state in sync.

http://github.com/gcv/dgraph

I also wrote an embedded database library for Clojure, based on Berkeley DB.

http://github.com/gcv/cupboard

Which specific features make Clojure a good choice? Interactive development and macros.
Really? REALLY?

sigh...
> As long as you can find a way to support yourself

I'm not nearly so sanguine about most people's ability to make that happen. The kind of people who get into a seed funding program probably don't have to worry about living in mom's basement for three years before something comes together. I think that kind of penalty for failure would be way more common among most people than you're acknowledging.
Well Facebook has three major expenditures: Offices, Servers, 1400 salaries. No matter how you slice it, these guys are making a nice profit.
I like how the site shows sample code on the home page.

Anyone care to compare to Thrift or Google Protocol Buffers?
Direct link: http://github.com/twitter

edit, this is just one of several of their accounts
Try http://futbol.univision.com/

Links to live game video at the top right. In Spanish.
Rightly or wrongly, because they want to keep the game low tech and reproducible in the park.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4&feature=relat...
The whole world already hates the US -- can you imagine the angst the rest of the world would feel if the US does well in soccer. The ref did the US a favor.
Also curious about how this compares to BERT, which uses Erlang's binary term format, which makes sense to me since so much infrastructure uses Erlang these days.
I don't think he was talking about zooming in a vector graphic. I believe he is saying that the physical pixels on the screen are so physically tiny that he can not see the individual pixels.
Ask HN: Startup "field day"?
I loved field day as a kid in grammar school. I know there is the occasional kickball tournament between startups in the bay area. I'd love to setup or do an all day long (charity benefit?) field day one weekend later in the summer. It would be fun to get all of us in one place and do something outdoors. If this gains significant interest, I'm okay with spearheading it up in my free time.
Steve Hafner (founder of Expedia, Kayak) sums it up perfectly with the theory of a personal Drag Coefficient:

http://startupatwork.org/video/concept-of-drag-coefficients/
How is the transport layer implemented? Does it use TCP? Or does it build its own reliable transport over UDP? Of another concern is the message delivery latency.
another nit: GET requests are idempotent, but that's a necessary, not sufficient, condition. You should just say they have no side effects.
He said "expanded to giant size" referring to text. If he meant "taking a digital image and expanding", well you barely have to expand it at all before you can see the pixels. He was clearly talking about actually enlarging text.
Richard Feynman: A Video Interview About Learning and Real Knowledge
ESPN actually seems to be doing it right this year for the first time ever.

Actual experienced pro footballers, about half US and half English, doing both the announcing, and the pre/half/post game commentating.

And they're not trying to 'explain' the game too obviously to the NFL/MLB/NBA/MLH crowd.

I'll take what I can get, but it seems ESPN has made leaps and bounds over past years.

Oh, and they even found a way muffle the vuvuzelas in the audio. Download one of the BBC games from a torrent and compare. Until I did that, I couldn't figure out what the big deal was, lol.
No. Formal Arabic plays the same role as Formal English. It's the language of business, government, media, education and the learned classes.

Every time you mind your grammar and articulate something for polite company, more than you would have for buddies, you're speaking the English equivalent of "Formal Arabic".

I don't know where people get this meme about Arabic being a dead prestige language.
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I agree. As they say "In 10 years you will regret more things you have not done than things you have"
I <3 Univision. Was looking at missing about half the cup till I discovered their live game streams.
If you have been here longer and have more karma, you would also know that you should explain why you are right, not simply arguing that your "numbers" are bigger.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." --Benito Mussolini
Most people couldn't get a job in a week. It'd take them months, sometimes even years if they had a high paying job that is hard to come by. This may be less applicable in our field, but it's a real issue for many workers in other fields.

To do what you suggest you'd also need to have some savings, unless your startup is already earning you the equivalent of your regular salary. Most people have debts, not savings.

It can be done of course, but there is definitely an element of risk involved unless you have some form of safety net.
I've been 'product managing' for 4 years now in NYC and haven't found very many books useful. Here are a few:

-Getting Real / Rework (37 signals) - Build a lean product

-Don't Make Me Think - Usability 101

-Web Analytics 2.0 - Metrics are your best friend

-Viral Loop - Great companies and how they did it

-Delivering Happiness - Last 50 pages are phenomenal for building your company's "culture"
...is GitHub 'on github'?
20% of Android apps use private data
After the match, Coach Bradley gave the most likely explanation. He speculated that the ref had already decided to call a foul on the play because he thought better of awarding the free kick in the first place--so, a makeup call. Usually there's a lot of pushing and shoving in the box, so you can get away with this. Unfortunately for the ref, the quick goal and prominent bear hug by Slovenia made him look extremely foolish.
I'm not really sure where I stand on this issue but I think the argument is along the lines of: watching violence is different than role-playing violence.