skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odd that you mention MP3 as the high-end because that is famous as a lossy encoding. He makes it clear that his beef is with wiping out detail that is already in hand.

So my dubious music analogy is scratching up your new CD so that it skips a bit.
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I think phone cameras have been at that point for a while.

I took my iPhone 4 and digital SRL on holiday this year, and my best shots where taken with the iPhone 4 simply due to serendipity.

At first I was actually annoyed when my friends and family preferred most of the iPhone shots on Flickr, but then maybe my SRL skills aren't as good as I thought they were!
It will be interesting to see whether subsequent versions of Android will be able to drive similar adoption rates.

I work, lets say on the handset production side of things, and my impression is that the major driver for Froyo take up from handset vendors was the promise of Flash support.

Gingerbread and/or Honeycomb might offer better support for large screen devices (pads), but apart from slightly less bed Flash video support (via Stagevideo) it's not clear that these releases will have the same pull as Froyo.

On the fragmentation side of things, I find the debate rather strange and strained. Ignoring that the debate is probably between fanboys rather than developers, those developers have some obvious strategies they can take.

They can become or remain Apple specialists and sit in a comfortable, superior but cloistered ecosystem. Alternatively, embrace other platforms in a manner which specifically suits your application, its audience and implementation.

The pros and cons are equally obvious for either strategy. I'd say at least if you choose to stay solely on Apple, I think this will definitely remain a strong platform for the near future. However, there's no point resenting that it is likely that the iOS platform (in the handset space) is unlikely to grow much relative to other platforms. But.. of course it may not matter to you.
Even though I'm not supposed to agree with you disagreeing with what should be on HN, I do.
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What about all the people who shoot in jpeg instead of RAW? Also the camera manufacturers who don't enable RAW on their cameras, they are stealing our data! Revolt!</sarcasm>

I was a professional photographer before becoming a programmer. I think apps like instagram and hipstamatic are fantastic. Not everyone can to take the time to learn photo editing software, and filters add a new perspective on ordinary subjects.
I don't believe too much in dispute stories, when there is only one party of the dispute to represent. The stories are inevitably skewed too much in one direction.
"Retiring" is an interesting way to describe it. He took VC money, didn't like VC control, got into a court battle. He then settled for millions with the VCs, while his partners got nothing out of the settlement (http://www.assureconsulting.com/articles/arsdigitahisone.sht...).

It's interesting to see him slightly back in the public eye as an aircraft nerd.
Legal action would seem more appropriate than counter-slandering...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law#De...
Now I know who designed sites in web1.0 era. Kids :)
The html5 side has a nice smooth movement for me. The flash is more jerky, and changes speed. This is on Chromium 9.
I found Musk's "marital problems", i.e. the nullification of his and his wife's post-nup very instructive. It's useful information to know how flimsy such agreements are in the US (or at least California).
Especially as an interviewee on an NPR story about Groupon. If I remember correctly NPR made no mention of Greenspun as having founded a seminal social media web app, before there was language to describe it that way.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1293863...
I think the autopilot follows a ILS beacon in. Isn't that why less flights are diverted in poor weather now?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki?search=Autopilot
I understand it as a dramatic device. Being quiet to start with makes the shouting seem louder.
I'll taks a stab at guessing the killing: parent^2 was being facetious and a lengty serious answer was not considered appropriate.
I am mostly guessing though, and I don't think it should have been killed.
Offer HN: I'll Post Your Startup
After pg's posting explaining why "rate my startup" posts have been killed, I decided I'd smooth over the interim. If you are new to HN and can't post your own startup, I will be happy to post it for you (provided, of course, it's legit). I'll also do my best to provide some personalized feedback of my own.

My contact information is in my profile. Best of luck to all startups on HN, hope I can help you out.
"the FAA will not allow this because those replacement pilots, though competent with the airplane, do not have experience with the specific operating rules of the airline"

Then why don't the airlines standardize their operating rules?
How much is Facebook worth? Hundreds of billions or close to nothing?
Most economic regulations we have today exist because a government was trying to patch over a market failure. The US has Medicare, for example, because Americans were appalled that senior citizens were dying because they couldn't afford health care. Similarly, workplace safety regulations exist because Americans were appalled that employees were getting mangled and killed by the thousands in dangerous work environments; and so on.

We can argue over whether a particular regulation was the best approach (maybe a smart incentives-based approach would work better than a prohibition, for example); and we can argue over whether a given regulation still makes sense in changing economic circumstances.

However, it requires a special kind of dogmatic myopia to insist against all evidence to the contrary that markets are self-correcting, that positive and negative externalities either don't exist or don't matter, and that the best way to deal with disasters (like a restaurant poisoning thousands of customers with e. coli infection due to unsanitary food handling) is to let the market sort it out.
He makes it clear that his beef is with wiping out detail that is already in hand.

...like ripping a CD to a lossy encoding, or taking a digital photo in JPEG. There really is no way make the complaint about data-degradation without counting these things. The author's real beef is with the aesthetics.
What is this, a cheatsheet for creating an HTML5 blacklist? Why would you ever do such a thing?
"You are fucking up your photo."

500,000 users disagree
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I suspect in TechCrunch's case publicizing every lawsuit threat acts as a deterrent, resulting in much less legal hassle than they'd face otherwise.
I agree with you there. All you had to change for this proposition to pass was change the timing to either 2008 or 2012. The 2010 elections seem to be the last gasp of an aging baby boomer population who believe everything they hear on cable news and are afraid that their country is going downhill.

We'll end prohibition eventually, but we need to vote on it in an election year where voter turnout isn't based on how much they fear the president.
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Prof. Gilbert Strang is a great teacher — I am amazed at how well he explains complex concepts in a simple way.

Does anybody know of a similar resource on probability, especially the Bayesian approach? All I could find were lectures of significantly worse quality than prof. Strang's teachings.
some lawyers charge $1000/hr for consultation. an hour with pg is worth even more than that. $500 is bargain.
While it's really cute and kids are quite capable, you are taking chances in the legal realm by hiring them. In many areas, children require work permits, and sometimes the minimum age is 15. Otherwise, it's often illegal if you don't go into contract with their parents first. It all depends on where you are in the world.
Sure, but the vast majority of Indians are not in the IT sector. These salary increases in IT are great for engineers, but they also work against India as an offshoring destination because of the rising costs.
I agree that it's the size of your market that's important. However if a large percentage of Android users can't or don't access the market (because of old software), then your market is not as large as it could be, and that is not ideal.
You know, this type of tabloid stuff has made me better.

Before watching Jason from a distance, I didn't realize how powerful this form of marketing was. I don't think I'd ever want to be known as the type of person I perceive Jason to be.

However, this realization has made me stronger. Jason has a soft rule saying "always fight up, don't talk to people below you". I also understand that a lot of the things Jason has accomplished are a result of this tabloid / bickering form of marketing and not his business acumen.

Today, for the most part, I ignore this type of stuff. This type of marketing is so powerful that it engages people online on a deep level. Much more effective then a million dollar ad buy, watching Jason and learning how to spot this game is incredibly valuable.
Airlines tend to be unionized because fifty years ago, every major industry in the US was unionized. The large-scale shifts in the American economy in the 1970s and 1980s (less manufacturing, more services) accompanied changes in law, regulations, and public opinion that made it harder to organize unions.

Senior pilots make more than junior pilots because back when the government set routes and fares, the airlines collected higher-than-market revenues, which they could share with the pilots. After deregulation, the industry was no longer so profitable, and the pilots’ union compromised by protecting its existing members’ salaries while letting new pilots make less.
This story will make you think twice before choosing your next co-founder.
One of the major reasons why we went with Clojure for a commercial project was the maturity of the JVM platform, particularly the HotSpot VM. We really care about multiprocessing, pauseless GC (ConcMarkSweep does a good job here), low memory situations, JIT optimizing our code and overall stability. HotSpot has been great so far.

I do not want to spend time on debugging VM or dealing with its issues. I've had that with Common Lisp and I don't want to go back there.
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National Review? WFB himself was, right?
These are two of the most visible people in tech having a juvenile battle in public. In all truthfulness, Calacanis regularly serves as a warning to me about how not to handle oneself, and how just because your are successful doesn't mean your behavior is always going to be acceptable.
Frankly I think this is a wonderful story and am surprise by the jaded tone of the comments. Sure, the site might not be perfect, but at least they comment their source code well: view-source:http://www.wrightstownusedauto.com/ and use tableless layouts! If the owner is happy with the product, then so be it. We should all be happy these kids are taking an interest in something tangible rather than wasting away their time playing Halo.
This guy published his LaTeX CV template source, http://jblevins.org/projects/cv-template/.
Fowa moved to Vegas. Carson told me he couldn't find a venue big enough in Miami, which is laughable. Anyway best of luck to them in Vegas, Auston will do a great job on this in Miami. I'll make sure to rally the locals behind this (just as I did for fowa)
Well, those time consuming things is what will make you have users.

So you want users but you don't want to spend time telling them what you offer?
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What's your startup ?
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I'm sure they'll sort it out somehow.
here is what I sent Google in response:

I love Gmail. I've loved it since the beginning when I got an invite
code from [redacted] and I think it has just gotten better
and better over the years. But, I am disappointed that you didn't
commit to being more careful with how you handle privacy leaks with
new products. Either make a commitment that you won't intentionally
do something like this again, or admit that your plan is to "educate"
people about auto-added privacy-violating products that ride on
Gmail's coattails. If you plan on going the latter route, please let
me know so I can switch to a different email provider now.
Just to note: I'm not affiliated with the project in anyway, but it did save me an unreasonable amount of time recently.

So I thought I'd spread the joy.
Nah, those comments and the layout are put together by a WYSIWYG editor. I agree though, it's good to see kids get started into experimenting with a business early in life. It's also nice to see them do something more lucrative than a lemonade stand.
Actually, the exact opposite is true - pilots must use autopilot on a certain number of occasions to retain their certification to use it on low visibility approaches, but otherwise generally do so only when visibility is severely restricted.
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I disagree. It's a lot easier not to go to Nevada than it is to pick up and move someplace where you prefer the voting system.
I suspect this will remain true right up to the point at which Macs start shipping with touchscreens.
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> This video contains content from Current TV LLC, who
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As a Canadian developer I agree 100% and this very thought is what keeps me up at night.

We are soft. Our duvet's are too fluffy. And we can't rely on our natural resources forever.
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No kidding. From http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html:

Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads.

A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting. Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.

People, if you really think this "article" is "deeply interesting", then by all means keep upvoting it... otherwise, maybe upvote something else that is more worthy of our attention.
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As someone who was in this exact situation themselves, having started a tiny IT firm at thirteen, the answers are:

>Is it legal (at least in the US) to hire kids that young?

No, it's not, at least from from the perspective of most states. However, as long as you're not going to make them do manual labour and they are doing it as contracting, it is likely that no one is going to care.

>Are they able to legally enter into contracts at that age?

I did have each one of my clients sign a boilerplate contract about data loss, hardware damage, acts of god etc... but fortunately never had to test if it was binding for either party.

>How about as interns?

The laws regarding interns are very well defined, and very strict. You are almost always better off hiring some schmuck for $7.25 or whatever minimum wage is than trying to figure out if someone qualifies as an intern and preventing them from doing any work that actually benefits the company, as that's illegal without compensation. If you do hire someone as an intern, have them do work that would typically be done by a full-time employee, and don't pay them or grant them college credits and someone tells the Labour Board my understanding is that it's a civil case with very large fines associated, but YMMV by state.
But not all of these can: http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html. This is an older, but much more complete list.
The unions would see that as management imposing a change in working practices and go on strike.

Remember, the current system favours the unions.
This is an interesting and valuable comment, but I think, with regards to the particulars of the bill, that you're confusing the common sense positions of most pro-19 people with the actual details of the bill.

Prop 19 was spectacularly flawed. Among other things:

* It created a new protected class of employees in California with a clause that said "discrimination" against pot smokers was unlawful, modulo only circumstances where an employer could claim marijuana was actually harming job performance. The bill actually says that! Race, color, religion, gender, national origin... and pot smoking.

* The bill was remarkably fuzzy about the driving issue. Yes, it says you can't smoke and drive. But it also created circumstances where you could clearly be under the influence of marijuana and operate a motor vehicle.

In both cases, the underlying motivations behind these egregious overreaches seems to have been the concern that MJ metabolites are long-lived, and people would get fired or lose their licenses for smoking several weeks ago. At least as regards the driving situation, that seems like a valid concern... but the answer to that problem isn't a law with gargantuan loopholes.

Prop 19 may have lost in part because its campaign was incompetently run, but it also lost because the proposal was incompetently written. And those two issues fed on each other: read the political analyses to hear about the pro-pot groups that sat this one out because of the flaws in the measure.
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With friends like these...
I started coding professionally at 15 (by that I mean a real job making real money for a real, now publicly held, company). I certainly agree that "kids" have value, but I think there's a concern that rarely gets addressed in these articles: professionalism.

I left that company after one month because I found myself utterly unprepared, at 15, to be living cube life. Later on (18), I helped a former boss bootstrap a business around a monitoring package we'd written. He was having difficulties with the business model, was stressed out, and not always the most pleasant person to work for. After an incident on site at a client, I emailed him saying I wouldn't be showing up again. While the situation might have been tense for anyone, this was certainly not the appropriate way of resolving it.

Teenagers are often too reactionary to conduct themselves professionally. This is also difficult to assess in a hiring interview, so realize that hiring young is a gamble.
The hack here is that someone got a ton of press for the cost of 5 USB drives and a gallon of cement.
This is akin to complaining that Impressionist paintings don't look "real" and therefore are not as good. I suppose we should be deploring the fact that we'll never, ever know what that starry sky in Arles really looked like because Van Gogh mucked it all up with his swirling colors.

What the author fails to understand is that most people, like artists, use photography (and many other recording media for that matter) to create or communicate a certain mood or feeling, not to document reality with the highest fidelity possible.
That's the same kind of work I used to do when I was about 15, creating websites including some PHP. Retrospectively I have to say, that I lacked alot of experience and guidance. So I pity the guy who has to maintain my spaghetti code today.
Alternative definition of friend is being an enemy's enemy.

With the number of enemies they have both individually got, I am sure there are more than a handful of common ones!
Right now it's not even in the top 25 on programming.reddit.com... but that might be because it has little to do with programming.
The question on my mind is whether native development will continue to be the favored means of development on mobile platforms or if it will fade in favor of the browser as native development on the desktop largely has. Also is Silverlight's future hitched to the success of WM7?
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Example:

Subject: You Smell

Body: Sorry mate, but I wanted to tell you that you really stink, it's really offputting and I feel pretty sick when I have to stand near you.
This message was sent through chancemail, there was a 1 in 10 chance this message was delivered, so the sender probably thinks you never got this message, allowing you to act on it without having to feel awkward about it.

Reaction: wtf dude, why did you email me telling me I smell?

Or in other words: Once you've sold the sender on the concept, you have also to sell the recipient on the concept. That task is even harder, because typically the recipient will just have been told something hurtful or awkward.

Question: Why is this better than anonymous email?
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In practice you do run into cross-device issues, though. For instance, the ConnectBot SSH client has a glitch that makes it impossible to type the pipe character with the custom Sense virtual keyboard on the HTC Incredible. But it works fine on stock Android.
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Right on both counts.
When I was younger, tinkering on the computer on my own was fun for awhile, but contributing in a way that I felt I was affecting others made it even more fun.
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I agree that something should be done to improve education, but am not convinced by this proposal.

We want creative adults. The solution is not simply to "nurture expression" in children. Most of the creative output of world history came from adults who were schooled rigorously in the techniques of their field.

Having creative adult mathematicians relies on developing skills and intuitions through rigorous training. You cannot "nurture" a child to do this.

Unsurprisingly, then, having brilliantly creative composers, painters, politicians and business professionals also requires difficult training first.

Our current educational system seems to over-emphasize the motions of developing analytical skills (without necessarily the rigor of showing that your analysis is right) and offers no opportunities to develop spatial skills. I don't mean the touchy-feely "modes of learning," I mean seriously being able to look in front of you and accurately discern the spatial relationships of the objects you see.

So my suggestion would be:

- Arts education beginning with basic drawing courses and branching out into other media. Studying art history to see how artists expressed themselves through styles of iconography, realism, expressionism, etc.

But seriously, there are schools that do roughly what we are both talking about, and the key idea at all of them is to avoid this idea of a messianic administrator to lead them. At really good schools, administrators are just teachers of teachers (like Plato) and the teachers have the full power to do what they need.
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The internet is older than the Apple II. Apart from GPS and FMRI, i dont agree that the other consumer-products are revolutionary at all. CDs are notoriously unreliable data storage mechanism which are already obselete; laser printers haven't done much other than enable people to waste more paper ; digital cameras are just dense CCDs, nothing great or new about that.
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