skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say "flat". I said "fiat". As in, there's a marketwide rule about what book prices "should" be.

It is not an economic injustice that the ebook Cryptonomicon costs more than the softcover.
Gnash, swfdec, lightspark, scaleform, smokescreen and others that I'm forgetting are making progress. Most of them are highly compatible with the simple image and video use cases that dominate well over 95% (at least of my) use of flash.
If it's implemented in C with a simple API, it should be easy to use from anything that has a C FFI. I'd rather not make it too language-specific - there's a huge duplication of effort as new languages appear.

Lua and SQLite are both great examples of libraries whose APIs make them straightforward to embed in other languages.
Why not Wikinvest? They have an app: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/wikinvest-iphone/
If your window gets sun, you can get herbs like basil, parsley, or mint to grow indoors. Currently I'm growing catnip indoors and I plan on moving some of my herbs indoors when it gets colder.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll update to make it clear that everyone gets a 30-day free demo. In fact, I collect no credit card info at signup.

Edit: Done. Does that look better on the signup page?
I have a roofdeck in Chicago where my wife and I grow quite a bit. This summer we planted two each tomato and tomatillo plants, 2x brussels sprouts, green onions, a few serrano pepper plans, and many herbs including rosemary, mint, basil, chervil, cilantro, etc. Oh, and a raspberry plant.

We make our own simple syrup out of dextrose and the mint, which we can mix into liquor or tea as needed. Sometimes I'll throw some mint leaves (torn in a few pieces each) in with my tea when brewing.
Game consoles have been successful so far with closed systems, and they've learned over the years how to improve their security, a key one being forced firmware updates.
I think I can hold my opinion and agree with yours simultaneously. Upmodded.
Part IV

To be more clear, is pink hard wired? No. What is hard wired is that she wants to grow to be an adult woman and wants to fit into the group of other girls who want to grow to be adult women. In particular, she wants to fit into the group of other girls who want pretty, pink dresses. And notice, the adult women with the greatest influence on girls 3-4 are the ones who are MOMMIES. E.g., can't expect that a women, who for the past 5-10 years has been working 24 x 7 to be a mommy, would mostly communicate to her daughters that what women should do is to be information technology entrepreneurs. Sorry 'bout that.

Here's a guess: Use standard color graphics software and see how to make a pastel color: Take any saturated color and just mix in a lot of white. Done. So, saturated colors are more bombastic, and pastels are more sensitive. So, guess which is more appropriate for a human female?

But, fathers, there's another reason, comparably strong, she wants pretty, pink dresses: One of the A+, astounding talents of little girls is being able to be endearing and to elicit supportive, protective emotions and behavior from their fathers. A girl of 4 can totally outclass her father, wrap him around her little finger. How does she do this? She copies from women and other girls, runs experiments, and sees what gets supportive, protective behavior from her father. Quickly she figures out that being in a pretty pink dress and acting cute, sweet, meek, darling, adorable, precious, dependent, needing to be supported, cared for, and protected, smiling, having her eyes big, looking small by keeping her elbows at her side and her feet together, looking meek by keeping her hands together, being spotlessly clean, etc. gets back an ocean of support, protectiveness, approval, smiles, affection, more pretty, pink dresses, etc. from Daddy. She says, "Daddy, Daddy, will you get me X?". For X a hammer, gun, or toy truck, she sees it doesn't work. For anything pretty and pink, it does work. Age 3; pattern set for life. Mainly she does this work with her astoundingly effective emotional sensors and processors; always right along she knows what Daddy is feeling and likely thinking about what to do. Fathers: She can read your emotions, ones you never knew you expressed or even had, like a book. If you smile at her, even a little, when she looks a little prettier, and you WILL, then she will look prettier. Bet on it. Mother Nature does.

So, fathers, you've been telling your daughters in terms loud and clear to them that you want them to be cute, sweet, pretty, .... Or, she's nearly never so happy as when she can look cute, sweet, pretty, ..., because she knows that then she can get what she really wants -- supportive and protective behavior from Daddy.

So, fathers, to see why she wants a pretty, pink dress, in part look to your own reactions.

Again, just what is it about motherhood we're having such a tough time understanding?

It's not nice to try to fool Mother Nature.

Be not deceived: I've only touched on a little of what Mother Nature has, and I omitted the many monsters in Pandora's box. Don't mess around with Mother Nature.
The Identifiable Victim Bias
Allowing fares to float while maintaining the current artificially restricted supply will cause prices to rise. Allowing increased competition will almost certainly lower costs.

Taxi revenues are currently $91k/year in NYC. Breakdown: $18k medallion, $50k labor, the rest is maintenance/insurance. If labor costs were reduced to $35k/year due to competition (taxi driving isn't exactly high skill labor) and medallion costs were cut in half, that's a 25% reduction in taxi cost.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/downloads/pdf/presentation.pdf

I think my proposed $9k/year would be sufficient to pay for taxi inspections to get rid of blatantly unsafe vehicles. As for running people down, current incentives not to do that seem sufficient. It's no more a problem to be run down by a taxi than by a Dominos driver, who has the same incentives as a taxi driver. In fact, Michael Q. Lateforwork has even less incentive than any taxi driver to not run people down - he won't lose his job for doing so.
Autocad has advocated DirectX over OpenGL for years, and OpenGL support has been removed from Autocad 2010 all together. The OpenGL support in earlier versions was emulated on top of DirectX. See for example this paper from an Autodesk engineer: http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com//files/autodesk_inventor... .

So I don't know how they're implementing this, I hope they didn't make some poor sod reimplement the whole rendering engine or worse yet write a new DirectX -> OpenGL layer that works in a Java stack...
BIG disclaimer: I have NO formal training.

1. Tools. I generally shy away from tools. I just don't like using anything that makes me more productive when I'm programming. I prefer to type out every line of code, occasionally cutting and pasting from the same program or something similar from the past, but not very often. I want the writing of code to be painstakingly slow and deliberate. Why? Because productivity is not the objective. Becoming "one" with my project is. I may not start as fast as others, but that doesn't matter. It's not how fast you start, it's how soon you deliver a quality product. Like memorizing a speech, cranking out the code by hand makes it "firmware" in my brain. It's not unusual for me to crank out 300 lines of code and then be able to reenter them on another machine from memory. So when it comes time to debug, refactor, enhance, or rework, those cycles go very quickly; that code is already in my brain's RAM and it got there the hard way.

2. Simple Algorithms. Yes! I love this example:

* EnterOrders 08/31/10 edw519
*
return();

I now have a working programming - Woo hoo! You say you want more features? No problem. Let's start enhancing it.

3. Debugging. I don't. I've seen 25 different debuggers and I hate them all. Print() is my friend, especially beyond the right hand margin. Better yet, write code that doesn't need to be debugged (See #1 & #2 above.) (Of course, this is much harder with someone else's code.)

4. References. Don't need no stinkin' manual. I have become extremely adept at about 4% of what's available to me, but that 4% accomplishes 98% of what I want to do. (OK, I'll refer to a manual when I need something from the other 96%, but that doesn't happen too often.)

Nice post, Gabriel. Got my juices flowing. We could talk about all kinds of other things too, like variable naming, how to iterate and branch, and never typing the same line of code twice, but this was a nice starting subset.
I think chartbeat on a cool factor is high but on a useful factor it's low and therefore I passed. What web analytics needs is to go beyond just showing the data (real-time or not) into helping you understand WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE in order to IMPROVE your website objectives.

To be more specific:
Tying in a/b testing with user flows and analytics like
- ranking pages by abandon rate so you can see where your loosing people
- tracking funnel processes like sign up and shopping cart to identify problem areas
- ranking links based on clicks to show what users really care about and what is just taking up space on a page
- enabling exit interviews and real-time chat with users to collect feedback
- and on top of identifying problems it would be really useful for it to present suggestions to help solve the problems.

Analytics are just a means to an end but for some reason analytics companies think analytics are the end. Big disconnect here as most of their customers don't have the sophistication to take the analytics and know how to improve their site from them. The analytics company that provides an idiots guide to fixing problem areas and optimizing your site will be a game changer.
I'm taking the view of an avant-garde designer in a firm that has a separate team of drafters to implement designs and construction documents. My focus is on the conceptual design phase, so I simply have different needs.
I can't think of a specific quote about breaking down programs into small steps, but you could be thinking of something from http://paulgraham.com/progbot.html
No, I just jumped in cold turkey, but Googling around produced this which you might try:

http://jaymz.eu/2010/02/importing-existing-visitor-stats-fro...
cool, thanks. please email me personally (i can't find your email addr from your HN profile)
Under windows you can also get minidump which are a mini core dump with the current state of variables
Given the price and that I only use Live Gold for watching Netflix, it's almost high enough to justify getting a second Roku (would take 2 years to break even, though) for our house. It'd be a lot less of a heat-generator for my small office.

If I actually used the Live Gold for gaming, I wouldn't mind the cost as much. It's still not much for what it does provide. I just don't like playing multi-player games on the console. It's frustrating, however, to pay $60/year for the mere privilege of opening an app that likely doesn't cost Microsoft anything. If Roku can stream for free from Netflix, I'm imagining Microsoft does the same.
Actually, airport fares aren't that great and they are getting worse for drivers (fee changes and cops on 101). But for the drivers who don't want to work much it's fun to hang out there. The problem with cabs in SF isn't SFO, it's simply there aren't enough cabs on Thursday to Saturday nights.
Java VM implemented in pure Ruby
Yeah, I've heard or read Joe Armstrong talking about how Erlang process are like 'objects', but his brief cryptic comment needed something more. And I still disagree with it, because there's tons of interaction in Erlang that is not message passing.
Nope:

(a) There will be more than one of these dispatching services, so you'll just hop.

(b) There's an inherent TOCTTOU problem, since they're only checking licenses when you sign up, not every time you pick up a fare. You'll just "rent" someone else's license; there are presumably tens of thousands of people who don't care what their cab dispatch reputation is.
Currently if a woman wants to wear jeans in a new brand or style, you are right, it is a good idea for her to try them on before buying them. Depending on the woman, she may or may not consider going jeans shopping a chore.

In your proposed system, the woman instead needs to measure her waist, hips, thighs, inseam, and probably some other things too. Having done some dress making in the distant past, I know it is easier said than done to measure yourself in the correct places. And it is not fun. But sure, if you offered jeans that were customizable on enough size points, as well as in styles, perhaps you could sell your jeans online without a lot of returns.

I think the key to the success of a new brand of jeans though is not just about how well it fits. Just take a look at all the women in ill-fitting skinny jeans out there! My hunch is that women on average have a less utilitarian attitude to fashion than men (men often just want something that looks decent and fits well?).

Perhaps instead of taking on the risk and challenge of building a new fashion brand, you could leverage the brands of others. Take measurements of all the popular jeans brands in all the major sizes and then write the matching tool. Its not as lucrative a revenue model (it would be affiliate), but it would help you test part of your idea.
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Does this mean AutoCAD is going to be shipping with Mono? Quite a bit of AutoCAD functionality is now written in .NET.
Global Warming Vs. Street Crime
Currently: Opera + (Komodo Edit + CoffeeScript) + (Console2 + cygwin) + (VirtualBox + (CentOS + emacs)) + (VirtualBox + Ubuntu Server) + Outlook
Have we circled around to some kind of violent agreement? I suggested that calling people "Minons of Gruber" is poor rhetoric. You're saying that calling people "fanatical" is poor rhetoric. Our arguments appear to be twin children of different mothers.

But just to make a very small point, I am not calling anyone fanatical. I talked about a game where it was possible for fictional groups of people to have something in common yet be opposed to each other. In that game, this happens with groups the inventor describes as fanatical.

In this particular case, I am suggesting it is entirely possible for people who agree with Dave and people who agree with Gruber to have a lot in common yet appear to be opposed in the debate. You asked how this can be the case when they appear to have opposed interests, and I will now repeat what I said above without trying to be charming.

The fact that two people appear to be opposed on a single issue does not automatically exclude the possibility that they have a great deal in common with each other.
Mark Hurd to exit News Corp.'s board
"If that’s all my years of hacking amount to, that just might be OK."
That's a very particular case because no one has the expectation of being able to play a game for one system on another, and there are legitimate technical reasons for that being hard to do.
I can agree that if you're using your Xbox mostly as a Netflix player, then it isn't really a good deal. I'm not totally sure why Netflix is bundled into that, since you're already paying for it via Netflix.
You're probably suffering from an extreme lack of inbound links, not outbound links. The web is a popularity contest and you're seen by Google as the guy over in the corner talking to himself. Inbound links are like saying, "Hey, look at this guy, he's great.".

You can do a simple inbound link check in google like this:

http://www.google.com/search?as_lq=yoururlhere.com&btnG=...

Are there any results? Probably not many. Now try the same thing with ycombinator.com. Inbound links are 80% of the battle as far as I can tell.
Last time I had this discussion with a cab driver in SF, he explained that there's some issue with the way cabs are dispatched in SF that pulls drivers to SFO, and that SFO is overserved at the expense of the city. I wish I could remember the details.

It wasn't "cabs are lazy".
Google Docs Gets a Taste of Wave with Collaborative Highlighting
After taking into account the cost of time and effort tending plants, it's almost always cheaper (dollars per pound) to buy food. Still, I'm an avid gardener because of the other benefits besides cost.

1. Better taste. A tomato out of the garden is almost a different fruit (vegetable?) than one from the store.

2. Personal satisfaction. There is just something rewarding about tending to a plant and enjoying the fruit after the work.

3. Aesthetics. I have a lemon and a grapefruit tree I keep indoors. They look and smell nice. The fruit is just an added bonus.
Ask HN: Online website creator?
The website is crucial for a startup. Yet it is very tricky and time consuming to get it right. To save us time we are looking for the best online website authoring software.

So far we have found SiteMaker powered sites and sitekreator.com which seems to be pretty good. Do you have any better suggestions?
I have to agree. The receipt checkers at stores annoy me to no end.

But DRM is much worse. It prevents me from doing things that it seems like I ought to be able to do. If the kindle did not use DRM, I would buy one right now. As it is, I am staying primarily with physical books for the moment.
Why Paul Allen doesn't want to be a troll
I don't know if this counts as a quote, but the term of art is "divide and conquer"
I did this 12 years ago. Nobody really wants this. I would advise against it.

Men have the same problem, btw. Size 32/32 jeans at Old Navy are not equivalent to size 32/32 Levi's 501s or size 32/32 Diesel "skinny jeans" and so on and so forth.
You manage to type on that massive keyboard in a drawer? Surely not.
"Better yet, write code that doesn't need to be debugged (See #1 & #2 above.) (Of course, this is much harder with someone else's code.)"

This is pretty hard with your own code too. :-)

It never ceases to amaze me how often I go back to code I've written and think, "Why did I think this would work for all cases and exceptional conditions?". Then again, it's often hard to remember what I knew a year ago... maybe I wasn't even aware of these cases.
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I hear you there. I've created a few sites, and hit a point this summer where I asked myself why I was building yet another site. The one I learned by far the most from was the one I completed and had real customers heading to.

Since then, I've really worked hard to focus on the one "startup" I'm involved with. Sometimes it takes some patience to get to the finish line, but once I've crossed it, I've found it can get interesting again.
Clojure or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Parentheses
As Interest in Online Learning Grows, Udemy Lands $1 Million in Angel Funding
Just thinking about what forces might prevent the industry from being disrupted (regardless of whether/how this is good for the public):

I think the biggest innovation is the drivers rating the customers. It seems like a joke, but if you think about it, professional car service drivers aren't going to want to pick up just anybody for short rides. That's the real obstacle for scalability among that group. The obstacle for getting all cab drivers to join UberCab is probably the risk of alienating the customer base that might just want town cars, etc., without having to think about the complexity (i.e., it's a software problem, and a pretty easy software problem if done right). The other obstacle is the cost of an iphone, etc., for cab drivers. The obstacles for anybody with a car to join are medallions, licenses, etc., as mentioned. The other obstacle is, even with licenses, the fairness and effectiveness of the rating system is tough. Service history is a mixed blessing. When I step into a cab, I may not actually want to know about the driver's history. I may just want a nearly 100% guaranteed level of service (which theoretically the medallions provide). Though on the other hand it would be crazy to see like average on-time trips, average speeds, customer satisfactions, etc., in one big visual thumbprint before you step into a cab...
"2. Simple Algorithms. Yes! I love this example:

* EnterOrders 08/31/10 edw519
*
return();

I now have a working programming - Woo hoo! You say you want more features? No problem. Let's start enhancing it."

There is nothing like simply getting a "Hello World" up and running as a simple sanity check and starting point.
Michael Q. Lateforwork is probably not economically marginal in the same way most cab drivers are, so the incentives are not the same.

Similarly, most people who deliver pizza are not career pizza delivery drivers. A pretty big chunk of them are students. Their incentive not to wreak havoc isn't the loss of their pizza job, it's in not screwing up their lives and bankrupting themselves.

That said, you have a good point. And I'm not HN's official advocate for taxi medallions. I just want to point out that while it certainly wasn't the intention of the medallion system, or even its primary effect, artificially-limited medallions do create a scarcity value to them that incentivizes drivers to play nice with the rest of the system.

There are plenty of unlicensed cars out there, and there is a clear difference in how reliable they are.

I wouldn't vote against any sensible replacement scheme, and yours sounds sensible.
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For me a white board is a lot better. No idea why. But something about standing up in my office at the white board gets the juices flowing more than a pen and paper.
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The College Search Process
Sounds like there could be a trade-off between using resources on your own server to keep track of these analytics versus just having Google do it. But then maybe it is insignificant.

Anyone has some stats on how much hit on the server it is doing?
You have to invest quite a lot of time to get everything to work. Nevertheless, growing your own food is still very popular here in Russia, when almost every family (even with <600$ total monthly income) has its village cottage with some plants. You get to harvest and eat fresh only late summer and early autumn though.
Awesome! As I replied further down, I think we're at different ends of the industry. BIM needs are amazingly complex, and you're right about all of the functionality that is needed.

But for my end -- designers that depend almost entirely on Rhino or similar products -- those functionality needs aren't there.

But yes, we then have to have our designs "reimplemented" as construction documents if they are going to be built. It would be great if I could work solely in a BIM package, but none of them come close to meeting my (or most progressive designers') needs yet.
AutoCad is a dying technology - the real thrust is toward Building Information Modeling away from 20 year old 2d drafting software. When Autodesk's Revit is available on the Mac, that will be an impressive announcement.
I feel the same way. I am far too often starting a new project, or coming up with new random ideas. I put things aside and have to work hard at finishing them. I think starting is the easiest part, and finishing is the skill that needs to be preached.