skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Local and remote storage of data beyond what traditional web apps can accomplish.

We already have HTML5 for that, why would we need yet another method for the same thing?

> 2. Snappier applications, since everything is stored locally.

Again... this is all possible with HTML5.

> 3. You'll still be capable of being connected remotely. 4. Ability to use the app even if you aren't connected, or cannot connect remotely.

...HTML5 or Google Gears maybe.

> Also, you assert that we were moving away from desktop apps, when the opposite is true.

Show me a recent native app that has the success rate of Facebook or Twitter. A lot of native apps are just interfaces to web apps.

> Even on an iOS device, you can run web apps as if they are local applications.

With bookmarking them and making the app use HTML5 app cache.

> Being able to install an application on your phone outside the App Store.

install = bookmark

Ohhh and let's not forget the "native" applications that in reality wrapped web apps.
It's a dark art if you are doing it in PHP...
Another related concept: Total Cost of Ownership - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_cost_of_ownership
So that's a peak of about $4.7k.
Or, to quote Allan McRae:

"Arch is bleeding edge. We do things first. We experience the pain before others. That what makes us full of awesome."
I think one should work on ideas which they are more passionate about than worrying about monetization. Hard work will pay itself.
Hi, thanks to both of you for bringing this to my attention. I don't believe my account was dead, as my last comment received a reply.

It may have happened because initially when I edited the comment for a typo, it displayed duplicate comments after I hit update. So naturally, afterward I deleted one of them. My guess is I got caught by some spam filter or something.

For what it's worth, my original comment was just pointing people to Matthias Wandel's site: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/ where he actually has lots of cool projects. In particular I like the marble machines and his demo on how combination locks work.
If it would become unlimited than nothing would stop my web app from filling your hard drive up with crap. So removing this limit maybe not such a good idea. Besides if Mozilla wanted to provide unlimited storage they could just remove the limit from the HTML5 storage, but they won't for the reason I already wrote.
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Currently working on a Super Nintendo Emulator in Java for my senior project in college.

The intent is to make it easy to embed the emulator as an applet and link it to a ROM, save states, etc. so visitors to your site can play an SNES game at a point of your choosing (IE a blog post talking about the atmosphere of Zeal in Chrono Trigger with accompanying demo).

We're also hoping to allow Javascript to receive information about what is happening inside of the game, and possibly to interact with the emulator or respond to certain events (IE someone makes a monitor for a specific game that triggers events on, say, the player beating a level).
I think Arch's decision was a bit premature

This change has only been made in the 'testing' repositories.
Ask HN: Alternatives to being a web developer
Personally, I just don't want to learn PHP. I build wordpress websites for people and even at that stage, being an infant when it comes to PHP dev, I just feel my stomach hurl when I have to deal with some modifications in header.php.

I do plenty of development in Django and am pretty happy with Python. I am most comfortable with .Net and C# to be honest.

I'll be graduating soon and want to know what my options are. What are the alternatives to being a web developer?
To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen:

I've seen bad code and that isn't bad code.

I prefer dynamic languages, but come on people. A type declaration makes 'good' code 'bad'. I can't even... I mean... really? And this got 4 points so far? Yes, I'm having a disappointed in the world night otherwise I could ignore those 4 points. Still... 3 people saw this recently and thought that was a valid argument.

Sigh.
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Another way to look at it can to ask yourself the question

"What do you stand to loose?" - Worst case scenario you would have spend time on creating something which gets failed or they cut you off - In any situation you'll be learning invaluable lessons.

Of course if you end up taking up resources in form of people or material you can ask them to take the costs up for that. Try to position yourself a technical co founder on the team.
I also liked the Jenga pistol:

http://woodgears.ca/jenga_pistol/index.html

It's a very satisfying way to cheat.
For all we know, those four points on the new feed could be from bored and drunk/coked up people waiting for more Techcrunch or Apple fanfic. The intellectual rigor often doesn't kick in until after the single digits.

See the flag button? The glowing, shiny, happy flag button?
The insistence on classifying Kaczynski as schizophrenic is disturbing. I'm reading Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, and it resonates a lot with both how he was perceived and tried, and what his thoughts on modern society are (although there is nothing anti-technology in Anti-Oedipus, quite the opposite).
I would take the record producer approach and get paid a lot up front. Only because I've been in the EXACT same position once and took a tiny (near-free) salary for "a vested interest" and got fucked. Equity in a private concern like this is worth nothing. You should get paid in dollars (or whatever your local currency is).
It's very hard to get these right and not having an annoying nag-ware application.
Lets not forget that time of day of submission can lead to a getting buried or at least getting less exposure than it would otherwise...
"cigar butts"?
I was never in Toast Masters, but I'll definitely second the value of good speaking abilities. The problem, of course, is that you have to make it past the HR barrier, and land an interview to show those skills. But the HR barrier is less of an issue if you look at smaller companies, where they may not even have HR people getting in the way.
Day job with oil and gas company. Stupidly trying to build a double entry accounting app in spare time. Learning way too much.
"What are you working on" was the standard conversation starter at the Startup School mixers. It's amazing how there are so many makers; makes me feel like the world's being improved every second.
I would draw up a quote on how much you would charge for the work, submit that to him and say that you're open to discuss equity arrangements.

Then you can make a decision based on how much you want to risk.

Without knowing the whole situation, I personally would lean towards taking cash. Offers like this are a dime a dozen. If you want to work for equity, there's tons of people looking for a technical co-founder. I would reserve taking equity for situations where you play a more active part in the direction of the business.
I was hoping they'd be using advanced imaging for text not visible to the naked eye, and was excited to see this paragraph:
"The refined images were shot with a high-tech infrared camera NASA uses for space imaging. It helped uncover sections of the scrolls that have faded over the centuries and became indecipherable"
You wouldn't reinvest all your returns. You'd distribute most of them to your limited partners (the people who supplied the money).
I see the flag button. I like the flag button. It is my friend. Doesn't mean I can't occasionally lash out and say 'wtf do I keep having to use this flag button'. See note about 'disappointed in the world night'.
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I'm pretty sure they're the width of the agent's image. So the ball is 19x19px, bullet is 11x11px and ... everything else is 45x45px. #OOfacepalm
That's just shifting the goal-posts, though.

Google touts the Android platform's openness as a benefit for developers and end-users.

And yet:

As a developer, I have, if anything, less visibility into upcoming changes to the Android SDK than I do into upcoming changes in iOS 4.2.

As an end-user, Android's openness hasn't stopped carriers from foisting unremovable crapware on me, or given me any more control over my Droid X than I have over my iPhone 4.

But whenever anyone dares to point out this disconnect between Google's marketing rhetoric and reality vis a vis openness, suddenly "open" means nothing more than "fulfills the letter of the contractual agreements of the GPL version 2 and provides no promises of anything beyond that". It's farcical.
He didn't say RIM has any of those things. He just said that he's not going to pretend they're unimportant or even actively bad choices just because he hasn't implemented them (which is precisely what Apple does, and why I think they rightly deserve criticism for distorting reality.) It's one thing to say that they made some trade offs in designing the iPad, and the screen size is clearly a good choice. It's another thing to claim that 7" screens are categorically a bad design choice, which is just absurd.
Oops, yes, I should talk to someone about that.
1. There's a very impressive video on how to teach kids to be entrepreneurs which covers the aspects of money management
http://ca.ted.com/talks/cameron_herold_let_s_raise_kids_to_b...

2. Another article by Ken Rockwell which covers some important lessons http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/how-to-afford-anything.htm
How about "minor" developers? By that, I mean people who would make an app as a hobby in their spare time. How easy is it for them?
I personally feel that they are just wasting time. They should working on providing:

- a cross domain JSON request function(they may have already implemented this)

- a way to limit the scope of a script tag, prevent a script from accessing the global object

and other security features that people really care about.
Integrating Buzz into PinkelStar, a free platform for mobile app developers. Its driving us nuts. Can't get the final redirect to hit our servers, aaargh
You mean SAVE his life.
I am certainly passionate about my idea ... since it came to me I have done nothing but eat sleep and breathe this idea. I own a tech consulting firm by trade and have literally sent my employees out to do jobs I would usually do myself just so I could spend more time working on this project.

That is part of the reason I chose it to apply to YC. I was not "looking" for an idea to pitch to YC, but I felt I could benefit greatly from YC. In most cases when I think of a new idea I bootstrap it and work for an exit without outside investors (I've already had a decent exit in the software industry) however I felt that YC experience could

A. Help me build a network in SV where I plan on moving in the near future anyway
B. Get insight some of the greatest minds in our industry
C. Have an experience which I felt could not be matched in any bootstrapped company, because of the opportunity to meet other likeminded individuals who share my interests and passion for technology.
I agree. Joe can be somewhat of a whiner. Every time he's on the news, it's probably because he whines and complains about something (Apple app store policy, the state of web development, Android openness, etc.)
how do you handle schema changes ?

Another clojure web framework - Conjure - has rails like migrations.

What do you do ?
Ask HN: When did you submit your YCombinator application
I'll start - 10/10 9:25 PST
I'm working on coza robot: http://cozarobot.co.za

It's like Dotster for co.za domains. The current way to register co.za domains is a real pain in the butt. Oh, and it has a DNS manager built-in.
Its fuzzy like when people discuss 'capitalism'. Note the semantic arguments that break out on HN when 'capitalism' is referenced.

I don't think OO is a meaningless concept, I think arguing about what is and isn't OO in terms of implementation is. OO is a way of doing things. I can do OO in C. I've known people who hated C++ so much they did OO in C. Seriously.

I know people who think that Java's polymorphism is so bastardize that you can't call Java an OO language.

Still through all that, there are the some basic ideas that people agree on for what OO is. OO is not a good term to use if you want precision, it is a nice one if you want to quickly convey an idea where the specifics of an implementation aren't that important to the point at hand.
That's weird, I could have sworn I wrote that ;-)

Concur 100%; hunchentoot + postmodern. No continuation crap there.
>As a developer

As a developer, your customers can run the app even if the app store says no.

>As a customer

As a customer, you can choose from a range of android powered devices including those not approved by Google. The nook would likely not exist were it not for Android.
How does it feel to be so thoroughly analysed in a purely numerical fashion? I would feel as though things were being turned up about myself that I never even thought about.
lol "FT.com articles are only available to registered users and subscribers." but the short paragraph can be read via view source or w/o js

The dollar tumbled against most major currencies on Thursday, prompting warnings that the weakness of the world’s reserve currency could destabilise the global economy and push other countries into retaliatory devaluations to underwrite their exports. Increasing expectations the Federal Reserve will pump more money into the US economy next month under a policy known as quantitative easing sent the dollar to new lows against the Chinese renminbi, Swiss franc and Australian dollar. It dropped to a 15-year low against the yen and an eight-month low against the euro.
Djangy.com - Instant deployment and scaling for django apps. Currently in private beta.
Paul, two questions I've always wanted to ask and now seems like the right time: Why do you use an image for your essay titles? What do you use to write and publish your essays to your site?
http://tropo.com is entirely free until you are ready to go production. We also just released http://phono.com.
You are awesome.

Truly and emphatically awesome. What a great way to make the most of a bad situation. I think it'll be great for your kids – they'll learn so much in the process.

I really wish you the best of luck.
Ah good catch! Thanks!
What's the point of forking something you can't install without voiding your warranty? Especially knowing that you can't redistribute your fork because average users won't hack their phones to install it, and even if they did your fork would lack essential applications like an email client or maps?

Android is no more open than Tivo, and in fact is the perfect example of what the GPL3 advocates were warning us about.
Don't know any resources for queer hackers, but both of our founders are queer.
I am working on learning Ruby/Rails to build a couple of projects I'm imagining.

I'm coming from C, Objective-C and iOS work. It's a little tough, since the framework is doing so much for me. It takes detective work and vigilance to keep track of what's happening.

Getting through it, though!

Day job is consumed with UI prototyping and other product-centric adventures at Aurora Feint.
Mark Zuckerberg at Startup school
What big problems would you like to see solved?
By big problems, I mean those addressing problems that are both important and urgent. Interpret that as you like.

By solved, I mean, for the most part, solved by people like those who participate in forums like HN. Which in turn probably also implies a solution that is web-based, or at least tech-based. Again, interpret as you like. I'm not looking to narrow the scope of this question too much.
Android source code is licensed under the GPL and Apache licenses and therefore is open for developers.

Most Android hardware is carrier locked, has proprietary firmware, or has proprietary services loaded on top and therefore is closed for users.
Both have the same answer: Yahoo Store. It was written in an era when browsers had about 3 fonts, so when sites wanted to to do anything interesting with typography the text had to be rendered as images. One day I'll move my site, but there's a bit of activation energy involved, because I'll have to write another site builder first.
Chris Hughes, founder of Jumo and former Facebook co-founder/spokesman, is gay. Not a technical hacker, but a hacker nonetheless.
Adding Python support to my programming test platform http://codeboff.in.

Last week I added random hints that show up during a test session to let people improve their code (and score).
for clarification, raphael's IE support is not from HTML 5's canvas tag, but from SVG's precursor, VML: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Markup_Language
Yep, and I now have 2 million (!) downloads of the free version, Trainyard Express. That's a huge base of users I can reach when I eventually release a new game or a new feature in Trainyard. I go into a little more detail about the stuff that happened this week here: http://struct.ca/2010/the-week-that-was
I think there's a separation between openness (freedom) vs openness (transparency).

Android is open as in freedom, you can install it anywhere you want, you can modify the source code, you can build stuff on top of it, you can root it, etc.

But it is not open in transparency as Joe points out. They are not open about what they are working on. His arguments against Android stem from that. The not allowing read/write access and the latest and greatest all relate to the fact that Google doesn't want to be transparent with the future of Android.

Either way, iOS is neither.
Grouspawn.com: What if
Grouspawn.com? An extension of Groupon.com that deals with dating and fertelizing to make more babies.

So first you buy a groupon. Then go out on a date and after 9 months have a baby. Grouspawn will give out
a college grant to your baby who is a product of the company.

It's a very interesting idea. But, I think it might just lead to national over population for no reason.

It's future may not be as bright as it may seem. Here is why:

What if it's not the right time to have a baby and you were motivated to have a baby just because of a deal.

What if you've already figured out a way of how you will use the grant for yourself.

What if you name your baby "Groupon".

What if you're a jerk and you abandon the groupon baby

What if groupon babies start appearing in random trash cans because the parents didn't have the money to take care of them.

What if you're baby grows up just to meet other groupon babies who never got the grant ( only 2 get once a year). Not so "G" in school.

What if you have more babies than you want just so that one of your babies gets grants.

What if the groupon baby sell you're soul at 90 % off discount and takes over all the money you spend.

Remember, best way to save money is not to spend.
Cool, but seems like the infrastructure would cost way too much considering the number of people who would want to use this.
I respectfully disagree. It is as relevant today as it was in 2000, and the date shows up in the status bar when you hover over the link.
Real morons never admit their mistakes, and are hardly self-critical. I suspect you're a fake, wannabe-moron: i.e. a closeted intelligent person, with human decency.

CLISP is not really written in C proper; but files with *.d suffix are C with heavy pre-processor use that make them look like Pascal. It also uses "var" keyword to declare new variables, along with shell-style # line comments. It also uses German for variables and comments. Things have been changing heavily as of late, and there is more push toward C style and English usage, but here is what it look(s|ed) like.

http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/src/intc...

The code is beautiful and readable, but very unidiomatic.
My first reaction is curiosity, the second is a sort of flinching at the probable reaction of haters (whose reactions I've internalized by this point) to the idea that it matters what month I write things in, and the third is that I really should work harder. Especially in June.
No, i think peak value is 1.2k * 4.5 ~= $5.4k
Not a touchy-feely democracy, it can build bridges, highways, skyscrapers a lot faster with less paperwork and fewer property rights considerations.

I have been visiting China frequently in the past years. Economic aspects aside, I still find the functional high-speed trains and rise of stunning skyscrapers simply fascinating. Perhaps the engineer in me admires it.

Here in Palo Alto, it took the bickering of multiple committees 6 years to decide what to build on a dilapidated, abandoned parking lot. And in the downtown, it has taken nearly 4 years to build a short structure that now also sits empty. And high-speed rail? Forget about it.
It's not all about the literal translation. I wonder how much of a subconscious effect the name "Super Angel Investor" might have on a young entrepreneur looking for funding resources.

I'm not saying that the influence is necessarily a bad thing because I believe that what these investors stand for is good in principle. These people are taking huge risks with their hard-earned money in ideas that fail 99% of the time... but doesn't anyone find the title "Super Angel Investor" just a little bit over-the-top?

I didn't think that this comment would offend so many people, but I have to say... I'm flattered that everyone cares enough to respond! I'm getting a ton of points! ...but what is that little dash doing on the left side of them?

It's great that people are proactive in enforcing the caliber of intellectual conversation that occurs here... but seriously though, a response with a link to a 6 tier article on "How to Disagree?" Hahaha! Come on guys, lighten up.
That's a really cool idea. I hope to see a post on here when it's playable!
Have you compared waterjet and laser prices? There's a shop down the street from me that will do custom laser cutting (in Masonite or wood) but they want me to bring in an EPS file to get a price quote. What should I expect to pay?
I like being able to change the wording of my buttons, and the color, and everything else, without having to leave my text editor.
I agree with you that an embryo isn't sentient - however, they believe it is, or at least that it has a "soul" (which, in their minds, is the same thing). Their position is that wrong to kill something with a soul. You can (and should) be scientific about whether or not an embryo meets that qualification, but that's a question of their poor science, not their motive nor the position they think they're arguing...which I do think is reasonably accurately captured by "pro-life".
all of this sounds fine and dandy, but is http://brehaut.net web scale?
Working on a new platform to crank out several new product prototypes.

Otto ( http://github.com/mathgladiator/otto ) = CouchDB replication to node.js

WIN ( http://github.com/mathgladiator/win ) = overly simple node.js web framework

Longbeard ( http://longbeardstudios.com/ ) = simple UI framework for engineers/scientists/longbeards like myself.
Ask HN: Do you use Quora?
Recently I'm hearing alot about Quora so thought of giving it a try. But I looked very confusing to me. I don't really get the purpose of it.

Does any one of you use Quora and like it?