skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the patent doesn't necessarily cover the functions of the 3rd-party app. It's only the diagram that I'm sure is a copy.
The interface is laggy in a way that HTML/JS (when correctly done) are not.

Interface lag when I drag things means I'm never going to use it - it can't compete against the many good desktop apps out there for me (plus, being flash means it wont work on my smartphone and iPad, which would have been a case for giving up on desktop apps) HTML/JS apps can have a ton of lag in sending things to the server before it gets frustrating, but dragging something and having it not move until a little bit later is too frustrating for me to use.

Take that with a grain of salt, though, I'm one of the people who get's extremely frustrated when having to use monitors not at their native resolutions (curse you DVDs on HD screens!)
I still don't understand what Slide does or makes or why a company would be interested in acquiring them.

Can someone explain this to me in non-hype terms?

What is Google paying for here exactly?
It's ~5pm on the east coast of the US, I imagine there's generally a spike in traffic at this time which might have something to do with it.
You're right; we'll do that.
Memcached by default only connects to localhost. Were these people using it like that and/or does that matter?
I am. My contract income recently dropped and I'm ruthlessly cutting my expenses, but I would eat one less meal a day before I would drop my Mixergy subscription.
Are there many popular languages which have easy support for floating point decimal numbers? (As in, number literals are interpreted as decimals?) Or do you just want them to use a language with floating point binary numbers, but with a consistent implementation on every platform? (That seems pretty far from ideal to me, too.)

Or perhaps a better generalization of my question: is there any language which won’t be abused horribly by Joe random bond issuer? Python seems like a pretty good choice for minimizing the damage a clueless guy can do, and making it as possible as can be hoped for others reading even awful code to figure out what it does.
I vote for:

(average income - average COL) / average COL = relative purchasing power
Yay! Also coming in Firefox 4: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/05/firefox-4-the-html5-parser-...

and IE9: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/03/16/html5-hardware...

Unfortunately the new parsing algorithm breaks my online banking site: http://bugzil.la/565689
Yes, we know. MS aren't big and scary anymore and they're not really controlling things anymore. Does NH need their opinions on the iPad? Who cares?
I want to have my cake and eat it though.
I think he was referring to the logo and color scheme being very similar.
I am attending the University of Utah Executive MBA. Based on student feedback, the incoming class will all receive a laptop and an iPad with their readings and e-books pre-loaded on them. I already have my own iPad, and that has been my preferred study method as much as possible. Almost everyone disliked trying to use the Dell tablet for reading.
Maybe I understood wrong then, and I'm not in the target market for this? I'm not really interested in having "serious" conversations except with people who pay me to solve their problems.

I was much more interested in the brainstorming or "fresh pair of eyes" aspect. (My day job is an iOS developer) I'm more than happy to give some advice on somebody's iOS app / idea / Apple / app review / APIs when there's a lull in the day. I do really enjoy helping people out.

But the minute I need to start "reserving" time and "scheduling" for this, it starts sounding billable to me. That's the sort of thing I get paid to do.

Put another way, think of the analogy to open source. I am more than happy to field a few e-mails a day doing support for my OSS projects. But I'm not going to reserve time in my day for it unless I've got a support contract in place.
- Costs 5 or 6 figures

- Has often unnecessary hardware and software requirements to reduce sticker shock. For example, requires Solaris on SPARC and the database must be Oracle or MS SQL Server when it's just a glorified CRUD web app.

- Is buzzword-compliant (extra points for more esoteric buzzwords (like JSR-170 compliant)).

- Is often written in Java to allow your typical IT drone to write the necessary glue to integrate it with other enterprise software.

- Is excessively complex at all levels (UI/UX, configuration, extension).

- Is poorly documented due in part to the excessive complexity and more in part to the fat support contracts the vendors rely on.

- Makes your IT boss happy, because it continually uses up their yearly budget allotment, generates a lifetime of status meetings, and gives more of their subordinates something to do.

- Makes you, the IT worker, miserable because you have to continually fight it in order to keep it working.

- Makes you, the office worker, miserable because you have to continually fight it just to get anything done.
Bad reporting from The Register. There's nothing historical, or even all that interesting, about it as it was a default judgement because the defendant did not even show up.

After plaintiff sued, defendant filed an answer and made initial disclosures. Defendant that stopped responding to the court, and told plaintiff that they would not be defending the action. Defendant then failed to appear for a pre-motion conference. Defendant's law firm them submitted a motion asking to withdraw from the case.

Plaintiffs asked for and received a default judgement. In a default judgement that court assumes that the plaintiffs allegations are all true, and rules accordingly. GPL isn't even really relevant at that point--all that matters is that plaintiffs allege they own the copyrighted works and that defendant does not have a valid license to use them.
Can we Martin Luther this essay across Sand Hill Road?

Be more lenient on terms, let us raise less money at once but accumulate it over a few mini-rounds, and leave us to do what we do best.
One of our hypotheses is that there is a market for visualization tools for PMs - mostly because the tools out there tend to focus on organization and analysis but not on presentation as an important aspect of communication. We are starting out as an addition/plugin on top of existing tools but if we do a good job it possible we could ultimately end up as a stand-alone app as well.
i agree about the price in general, but i was kind of aiming towards giving him fast advice for his side project. i'm fairly confident he'll sell something to the single buyer at the $1CPM rate.

if he wants to rake in more customers and a higher rate, he'll have to put more time/effort into it, which he may or may not want to do.
Enough Complaining
Your demo is ugly (Sorry, had to say it), but it works and I like the fact that you can pan around by clicking anywhere. That is not obvious however and might need a hint somewhere. The custom scrollbar is not intuitive because of the coloring, I kept thinking the track was the slider and vice-versa. After playing a bit more with it I discovered you have color themes. DEFINITELY use one of those by default. The grayscale theme is super boring and completely opposite of your goal which I believe is to "show off" your project schedule.

I think you should be able to pan by dragging the chart header (the months/years).

Turn on alternating columns in the demo. Also use the square or round corners but not the one in the middle.

Also the task tree could stand to be widened a bit by default, it looks weird that in your demo you start off with a bunch of tasks only showing halfway.

Expand/Collapse should be a single button, the icon of which changes to indicate state.

When you do a snapshot it is not clear what the output file is going to be I just got a file called "chart" - is that an Image? Is it a MS Project file?

I'm not sure you want to use the full blow "File/Edit/Format/View/Help" menu. It blends in too much with the chrome of the browser window and you would probably be better served (in terms of UI/UX) by using standard icons for the most commonly used items. Also add contrast to that menu/toolbar (Still talking only about file/edit/etc...) so that it doesn't blend with browser chrome so much.

The units on the "Zoom tool" in the bottom right corner are not obvious to me (the P and W)

Otherwise its looking really good. Keep at it!
I believe Buzz has double digit millions of active users. I can not find the source currently though.
(minor paraphrasing for concision)

OP (John Gruber): The iPhone 4 is beautiful to behold and feels like a valuable artifact. It’s like a love letter to Dieter Rams.

btmorex: A love letter to Dieter Rams? Do other people actually like reading stuff like this? I mean, regardless of what you think of the iphone 4, that level of praise almost makes me feel bad for him. It's like romantic love for an object.

dieterrams: I like reading it very much.

^^^^^^^

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1473209
This is a great point. We currently import from MS Proj but we don't yet fully export. I agree with you that it would lower the friction to starting up if it was guaranteed painless to transition back or work with other tools. This feature is on our near term roadmap.
was there any response from futuretap?
Thanks for the feedback. I agree with almost everything you said, and most of it is coming. You can probably stop here unless you care about details, I rambled on a bit :).

Your killer feature for GoodReader is an important one, we're agreed on that, but I hate GoodReader's implementation. I don't like the idea of making the user do something manually that can be done well heuristically. We're hoping to ship a smart crop feature that does good margin detection on most PDFs in one of the next couple point releases. With the iPhone/iPod Touch version coming soon this feature goes from "really nice to have" to "necessary".

Highlights and notes with syncing between Folio instances is coming soon (which will make more sense when we introduce the iPhone/iPod touch version). We've also got plans for syncing with things like SkimPDF and exporting plain old annotated PDFs, but syncing between Folio instances will come first.

> One minor nitpick: Most apps seem to place their Back/Up button in the upper left corner. The Folio "Library" button should be on the left and the search button on the right.

Done in 1.0.2, showing up in the App Store when Apple feels like getting around to it. I had reasons* for putting it where I did that, at the time, I thought were good ones, but you're right that it really is a back button and we should just treat it as such.

Again, thanks for the feedback. It's always nice to hear ideas from people actually using the app, especially when they confirm that we seem to be on the right track for future direction of the app.

* In case you're curious as to how it ended up where it is: I wanted the "Import" button in the library to be in the same place as it was in the iWork apps, and I wanted the search button to be in a consistent location between the two views. Also, I saw the "Library" button as more of a "Done" than a back button (in fact, it sends the doneReading: selector to our reading view controller), and Apple is somewhat inconsistent about where those go.
Actually, legally, theoretically and practically speaking, a corporation is and should be a machine to maximize income.

Whoever downmodded me is a fucking jackass. That's the definition. Legally, they're obligated to protect shareholder value as obligations #1, 2 and 3.

There is no reason that Google should behave any differently than Exxon Mobil or Phillip Morris or whatever corporation you want to call "less moral than google". Basing public policy on the expectation that corporations will be moral is the dumbest thing possible -- it's actually in their charter to be immoral.
Or, to combine the two: start a lotto.
Ron Conway discussing angel investing (5x5mn videos _Social Currency Crunchup)
Ugh, their response:

This is an intentional change. Prior to the HTML5 parsing algorithm, browsers
backtracked and reparsed when seeing an EOF inside a script to deal with
</script> inside an inline script. This means that prior to HTML5, an
accidental or maliciously forced premature end of file could change the
executability properties of pieces of an HTML file.

The current magic in the spec was carefully designed and researched to permit
forward-only parsing in a maximally Web-compatible way. The solution in the
spec was known to break a handful of pages among lots and lots of pages listed
by dmoz, but the breakage was deemed negligible.

This is probably the highest-risk change in the HTML5 parsing algorithm, and
this is the first report of it breaking an "important" contemporary site.
Considering that keeping the forward-only tokenization behavior is highly
desirable, in the absence of evidence of more important breakage, I'm treating
this as an evang issue realizing that further evidence may force us to revisit
this part of the spec. But let's try to get away with forward-only parsing!

What is the logic behind this? Just because we want "forward-only parsing", we're going to try to force people not to write </script> inside of a Javascript string? That seems rather silly.

Are there any benefits to forward-only parsing besides speed? Because if this change was done in the name of performance, then we really should re-evaluate who exactly is proposing these types of changes and why.
I don't think it's fair to say the invaders usually win. In hindsight they appear to, because you don't remember the 10,000 startups that tried and failed for each one that succeeded. Broadcast.com was an invader in the same space as YouTube.

A big business would die of schizophrenia if they tried to fend off everything that attempted to disrupt them.

That's tangential to the point of the article though I suppose.
Extremist group tries to game Digg
Oh yeah, I see it now. Thanks.
Strad vs marge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Simpson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Stradivari
Thank you for taking the time to test drive. We are saving these comments and will use them to drive our next set of features and feature improvements.
Google is getting a bunch of people who get social games (and social software in general) -- something they've historically been pretty bad at. Of course, they are buying the (distant) 2nd horse behind Zynga, aren't they?
Really realy minor, and not related to my personal distate of flash, but while your the tool loaded, the loader bar filled in from left to right as any loader would, but when it filled up, a second "loader" began to fill in from left to right.

Basically, when the first "loader" filled up to 100% and I expected to see the page, I was a put off by the second unexpected loader.
Justin.tv is hiring the smartest engineers on earth
Since the wage data is publicly available, does anyone know how I would go about replicating these maps? I know I could use Google's charting API's for County/US state level, but how would I go about mapping data at the US county level?

Just always wondered how that would work :)
10% of all US billionaires commit to donating most of their wealth
Why the iPhone Strategy is Wrong
Accurate headline: "Someone clueless about patents glances at a patent application, sees an image that matches an existing app, and assumes that is what is being patented".

The exiting app he's talking about in fact does not appear to do what the patent describes, which would have been apparent had he tried to actually read the patent application.
Indeed; I think the best way to define "HTML5" right now is "a large web-developer wishlist for near-future browser features." It's not a standard or anything (other than the part of it that's actually about the HyperText Markup Language v5); it's just a bunch of stuff that's getting hyped so much that all the browser makers are paying attention.
Modernism isn't really modern anymore. Look at Frank Gehry, he uses the materials of the International/Modernist school, but in a way that is much closer to baroque than modern. e.g. this building in Prague:

http://www.achievement.org/achievers/geh0/large/geh0-030.jpg

Also, it really depends on what kind of architecture you are looking at. "Modern" styles have been popular for skyscrapers, but that has as much to do with the structural requirements of a 300 story building as aesthetic intent.

If you look at most residential architecture, styles are much more homey even pushing the overwhelming opulence of baroque styles. The biggest builders in the US e.g. Pulte, Toll Brothers, don't even offer "modern" styles.

There is also a whole resurgance of the flowery stuff due to the rise in low cost custom manufacturing tools. I gave an Ignite talk on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tl7ZgZnhi0&feature=playe...
Definitely want to make this. Just quit my full-time job to flesh out a personal project...
MTBC Names Bettina Bennet Tech Titans Awards Finalist
Thank you for the comments, we will definitely be using these to drive the next set of feature developments.

Just FYI, the snapshot is a .png screenshot and we can definitely clarify that better. There is also a saveAs which saves in our own format and ultimately will save to each of the various PM formats.
For @font-face in canvas, I find that if I use the font on a page element, and defer my drawing until onload() it works reliably. Not ideal, but workable.
Front Page Sports imploding helped quite a bit on the computer side.
In the world of silicon valley intellectual property lawyers what you see is hardly never what it is.
That article appears to be generic SEO spablum with no relevance to angel investing/convertible debt. (For example, the word 'convertible' does not appear.) What's 'great' and relevant about it?
I wasn't really commenting on whether or not it's smart to trust someone you don't know with your laptop. I was mainly commenting on his use of the word stranger which really stuck out to me as a term that seems misplaced when used by an adult.
Google Books Determines That There Are 128,864,880 Books In The World (For Now)
The core of IBM's business in the late 1970s was mainframes for large businesses. Should they have stayed focused on that, and not on the consumer PC market, or services today?
Effort is always important, and not the issue here. I think one of the things we need to get out of this discussion is a distinction between college as a single concept, vs various courses of study that have greater or lesser benefits for the student. I'm not going to argue that some courses of study are worthless, but I do believe that many do not provide benefits beyond their costs, (in all senses, not just financially.)
The menu within the application looks perilously close to the browser UI — For example, users could easily click the back button when trying to open the file menu.

Screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/NTVhYzA0
> What was the vote count on that prescription drug plan disaster, again?

It was mostly repubs for and mostly dems against on final passage. The vote to substitute the Dem proposal, which was more expensive, it was mostly Dems for and mostly Repubs against.

Yes, the Repubs passed a monstrosity. The Dems tried to pass something worse. It's unclear how these two facts make the Dems look better than the Repubs.

> How many of those same people, institutions and editorial pages are huge deficit hawks now? What happened to "deficits don't matter"?

One might argue that there's a difference between $100B/year and $100B/month. You're claiming that it's wrong to be concerned about $100B/month yet be okay with $100B/year....

More to the point, I'm not claiming that the Repubs were/are correct. I'm saying that they're bad, but better than Dems on this.

> yeah but if we figure the calendar this way i can put all of the 2008 stuff on Obama

It's a fact that the 2008 budget wasn't passed until after Obama took office. Congressional Dems said that Obama had significant input into that budget. Do you really want to argue that they were lying?

> you're just going to attempt to twist the facts.

Some actual examples would be nice.

> You said out loud, "I'm doing this".

Oh really? Where?
It looks like most people - strangest of all yourself - missed the very first thing, which is, you are a product guy. It doesn't matter whether it's porn or children's books, the product you pick will likely "kill" opportunities in any unrelated space. By definition, people hire product guys for their knowledge of the product so if you are thinking in terms of your career, you will want to pick something you want to do long-term.

It sounds like you don't want to work in gay dating for the rest of your life. So why invest a chunk of your time getting to know the space?

As far as "HR girls" (how fifties of you...) I would expect them to avoid anything that would appear as though they are discriminating based on your sexual orientation, especially since the background check is normally only done on people already pegged as a hire.
Flash apps tend to crash a lot.

Although some HTML apps have this problem too, Flash is invariably laggy.

Flash doesn't work well on Linux, and many of the people in my world run Linux desktops. (And some won't run proprietary software on principle.)

The UI of Flash apps is always some homegrown awfulness that tries hard but is never as intuitive or responsive as native UI, and not even as good as web browser controls.

With Flash apps, printing usually doesn't work as you expect.

You can't save the page.

Flash apps don't really exist on the web. Even if you give each Flash app its own URL, that just means you re-download the same framework over and over again and then load the data.

It is cumbersome (for instance) to bookmark, or bookmark a particular view, or to link directly to other content, or to have a task expand to show an iframe of other content on the web. Some advanced HTML apps have similar difficulties in practice, but Flash apps have these issues in principle.

None of my existing web browser plugins work well with Flash content. For example, some people have spellcheck built into their browsers; now they can't use that when entering data. Even something as simple as cut and paste sometimes doesn't work quite right.
Laziness, greed, and stupidity
Why can't they just have an iPod Touch like alternative with just wi-fi? That's probably a lot cheaper and even be easier on the students side thereby possibly spawning wonderful classes like the Stanford iPhone one.
heh. One of the things I found most amusing on applying to college was how my military service filled all my physical education requirements.