skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got the email and noted the request. I'll see what I can do about the penguin!
Porting the new site to AIR (with the same support for the desktop helpers) is on my todo list.
Prefixing attributes is the preferred W3C way to implement nonstandard attributes, which in my opinion is probably the right way to go, because it means there won't ever be a case where two attributes named the same mean totally different things, there will only be differences in implementation for a spec attribute.
How about FINRA/SEC regs? Quants in the room chime in?
From the Gumball Capital page or TC? If TC, please follow through to the Gumball Capital page and click "Make a Donation".

Does that help?
Interesting. Is the screen as good as the iPad? (Samsung should be able in this area.)

The killer iPad feature for me is that I can browse web pages as on a normal computer. At least my eyes can't handle 7".

Does the Galaxy have a trick with its keyboard? In vertical mode, I'd start to get more faults with a smaller keyboard than the iPad.
Thank you. While I wouldn't say masterful (rather serendipitious), I'm definitely planning to write an article about it.
Grooveshark has been working fine on Ubuntu for me. What were the issues people reported?

edit: just tried the site in Firefox ; can't even get the sign-in form to react. :(

Seems OK in Chrome, but at least the Flash version worked in FF for me.
I'm curious if you had the same opinion when they reportedly turned down a three billion dollar offer from Yahoo.
Whatever you think of the user interface, please don't use Grooveshark. Their business model is either illegal or immoral. You will get mail from copyright owners telling you cease and desist from accounts that you've closed in the past - Grooveshark will claim that you're sharing the music, and you have legal responsibility, not them. Mails to close accounts go unanswered.

And if you work there - shame on you.
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I wonder if the same argument could be made 5 years ago, only replacing "Opera" with "Not-IE" and "WebKit" with "Trident" :)
I wonder if this will be a trend. Though this is not really a celebrity I'm sure other kids of celebrities are trying to monetize their parent's success.
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Seems nice to me. I've always had issues with getting stressed out by an overly large list and feeling like I was forgetting things in the clutter.
For me, it's not about being a power user; I'm actually quite happy to see the new era of "stripped down" os's become commonplace for people to use.

I just honestly don't see anything that Chrome OS does that Google couldn't already do with Android.

They've stated that they think of the distinction being whether there is a keyboard (Android is for devices without a keyboard/Chrome is for ones that have one), but to me that seems arbitrary.

Functionally, Android is all the functionality of Chrome OS with the added benefit of running native applications.

I don't particularly like Android, but I think it's totally well-suited to the market they're trying to go after.
The problem is, without knowing the cap on "bonus points," I can't know how far under 4.0 your GPA might have been without the bonus. Maybe your GPA was "only" a 3.7 before adding 1 bonus point? It's ambiguous at best, deceptive at worst.
Of course it's a bubble. There's an article in the NYTimes asking if its a bubble.
Lucky escape for Google if true. This is not the long term shopping model you're looking for.
One euro was worth about $1.60 in the middle of 2008. It's worth about $1.35 now. Was worth about $1.20 back this summer. And in mid 2001 it was worth about $0.85.

Cheap is relative.
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We weren't all bragging
> For example, there's no need to prefix CSS3 attributes with -moz.

And that's wrong, css attributes whose drafts aren't final yet should not be labeled as such by Opera.
One thing I noticed is now the ad blocker (on Chrome) catches the ads and doesn't show them. Since I don't have a VIP account with them and the ads aren't as intrusive as Pandora/Last.fm services, I decided to whitelist listen.grooveshark.com to show ads.
It works beautifully though, Flash on Linux was such a pain.
A bit limited, no? Obviously, no taxonomy of sex or gender will ever be completely satisfactory, but {unknown, male, female, not applicable} is missing some fairly obvious and useful additions, such as hermaphroditic and transgendered. I should have hoped that a standard taxonomy for gender would at least have a catch-all like "other;" "unknown" and "n/a" are not good catch-alls, as both make definite claims which may not be true for other genders.
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i know what you mean about making cash in other ways faster than inheriting a 100k site - i did some affiliate marketing and was able to generate that kind of cash pretty quick.

the thing that still makes this site worth looking into is the fact that they were able to even generate 3k without really knowing how to monetize the site. it seems like they just went on with the site, skimping over alot of things.

i think they could have done alot more with adding more social features, more frequent content (since they rank so well on google), sending out newsletters with occasional related cpa offers, etc etc.

most ppl here are probably capable of building a site very quick and testing the market. id say im technically capable also, but this site already has the traffic going for it and could be scaled alot more.

i also noticed, when you hear about any acquisition of a site, its either the big startups (in the multiple millions), or tiny ones that you can find on flippa, etc.

i dont hear alot about people turning around sites in the 6 figure range as often.

nonetheless, 100k does some like a pretty big evaluation for it
can't we have both? a gentleman hacker farm? a small countryside farm where you can go to bootstrap your own startup. i mean, we've kind of discussed similar in the past and i still actually kind of like the idea.
He had a fairly large antenna set up on a large stand next to him, and presumably the PoV headset on and a controller and things like that. If a police car drove by, I think they'd consider it worth asking him what he was doing.

I say asking, not freaking out over, because there is an important difference.
High Scalability - Some Services are More Equal than Others
I would assume that this is the reason.

This is one of the major limitations of the HTML5 + Javascript stack, and one that will have to be solved before we see even more widespread use on services like Hulu or Netflix.
But then they pulled that book too, right? I thought that result also ended up as censorship.
Laggy as hell flash UI.
Yes, Watson is a known jerk who got hit badly by age. That doesn't mean he's wrong when he claims most scientists are stupid. They are.
LoL )) i wish somebody call me idiot for refusing 6B deal. who are you to judge? dont u assume they know something you dont? all i can say these guys have balls to make such decisions.
I keep having to reload in the latest Chromium builds.
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Let's see,

* I quit my full time job, start doing contracting again.

* I co-founded http://cooln.es to test our theory about points relationships between social sites.

* I founded http://mybucket.co because all other bookmarking apps are too much work.

* manual classification of news is too much work, so I created Bayesian filter on top of Redis. It's open source: https://github.com/didip/bayes_on_redis

* I'm still helping out Python newcomers on Pylons, Tornado, and recently Flask mailing list.

* I fix bugs on a couple of gems.

* I start blogging again.

* I start learning http://keplerproject.github.com/orbit not too long ago after answering my own question "I wish there's a hybrid between ruby+python and faster than both."

I'd say it hasn't been a bad year.
Please make this game full screen !!!
My gut instinct is that this deal was never on the table. The rational minds at Google would have to be high on something really strong to even consider Groupon worth $6B. (If so, please share, people!). My cynical thinking is that these were rumors spread by people interested in seeing Groupon go public; the $6B from Google rumor makes for a nice, fat initial offering price.

Groupon has zero barrier to entry and zero technology. Unless they have a strong IP portfolio (which they don't appear to be, given the number of competitors that have sprung up), I don't see the value here, other than brand name.

I was given a Groupon for a local specialty chocolate vendor recently, so I decided to chat her up to see what she felt about it. She had tried Groupon, Townhog and a couple of others. She shrugged and said that she wasn't sure if she was going to try these again; but if she did, she'd use Townhog. It was clear that there was no barrier for her to switch. Why should merchants give Groupon 50% of the face value of coupon, if their competitor will do the same for 25%? And the next one at 10%?
Perhaps eventually. It's something we've looked into, but we have some content security concerns. Obviously it's not impossible to rip our content with flash streaming, but it is more difficult than something that can be written with an <audio> tag.

Someone could easily steal my car's stereo even if I lock the doors, by using a slim jim/lockpick (downloader tool) or smashing my window (rip audio straight from the sound card). There's no way to 100% stop determined people from stealing my stereo, just like there's no 100% way to stop determined people from ripping our content. But that doesn't mean I leave my car unlocked.

Also right now we use the flash piece as a proxy for making service calls that would be otherwise significantly more difficult/impossible through javascript's crossdomain restrictions.
Best blog post I've read in a year.
A lot of the suggestions so far have really been for CS, not software engineering.

For software engineering, how about a practical way to do proofs of correctness for large real-world systems written in mainstream languages?
forgot to mention also, it makes 3k a month, so roughly 30k a year. your evaluation of 8 times is based off the monthly right
Um... how is Lieberman not part of the administration?
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FTA: "In 2006, Dr. Mitra moved to England, became a professor of educational technology at Newcastle University,. . . "

This saddened me. Now, don't get me wrong: he's free to move whereever he feels like; I'm not upset at him. But it would nice if the smartest people in developing countries didn't move to cushy western universities/think-tanks, and stayed where they grew up to enrich everyone around them.
Can you elaborate on that? You make some very inflammatory statements, and you neither cite a source or properly describe your experience. A brief overview of the citations on the Wikipedia page show that they have dealt with legal problems directly and made arrangements with a lot of the concerned parties. As a long time user, what you say flies in the face of everything I've heard and experienced, so can you back up any of your statements?
Did you read Swivel's story? They had many many more users, they did ask them to pay and convinced less than 10. That's a lot less than 0.1%.
Marginal effects count. We don't have to cause an epiphany; making everyone slightly more aware of the problem is useful too.
On the other hand, if a school doesn't give extra points for more advanced classes, someone who took the hardest curriculum possible and did pretty well might have a lower GPA than someone who took the easiest curriculum possible.
Do you have any links or references to back this up? I've never heard this claim before.
You are entitled to your opinion, but if you use Youtube you have no place to talk (and Google seems to think Youtube is pretty legit). It's the same business model, just a different market.
this is awesome, feel like writing it for ruby too?
Well, I'd be flattered to be considered competition to Tableau. They are a well-funded enterprise software company. I'm just a little guy in a garage :-P
Maybe it was Yahoo, sorry. I can't remember.

Thinking of Yahoo, why in the world doesn't Yahoo push Flickr as a social network? They certainly have all the tools in place (photo, video, users, groups, ads) that have always been superior to FaceBook.

Personally, I think Flickr could put FB to shame. Maybe the die hard photo fans wouldn't like it, but if you want to push advertising revenue I think they have a gold mine.

Yahoo! Anyone there listening?
The thing is, you still need some institutions to provide public goods within each region of the earth, and these invariably have to be governments.
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I think you forgot to add the words 'is eliminated'.

"... and any variant of it (...) is eliminated."

Just helping to clarify your interesting post.
Based in the UK.
On paper I think the iPad has better specs for the display. But the Tabs display is very vivid videos almost look 3D. I do not notice a difference between the two. It seems at least for me, that 7 inches is the perfects size for a new style of thumb based typing where you type with your two thumbs. It is really fast and I like it now that I have used it for a little while. If you think about holding a Tab in the vertical position with your fingers under the Tab, and your thumbs above it, that is the way you hold it when typing, the 7" (at least for me) is the perfect size to efficiently reach every key. It is not as fast as a physical keyboard, but then again none of the virtual keyboards are. That being said, the voice automation and dictation is second to none, and free me from using the keyboard for simple items. You can get turn by turn directions by just speaking directions to "somewhere", you can email a contact by saying send email to "jim" "hey lets do dinner tonight" same with a SMS and several other commands, search the web and a host of others. The nice part about the Tab is it comes with a widget on the desktop that you just click the mic speak and off it goes. The voice activation alone is worth it to me.
Why is this getting upvotes? There's plenty of devices like this. Dell just introduced one. They always flop. So much for "blow them all away".
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What do you think of my project, MeetupMail?
I think QE2 was being sarcastic...
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What have I done this year? Wow... a lot and nothing, depending on how you look at it. It's been a weird year. But I guess the biggest thing is all the work I've put into the ScrewPile projects... ScrewPile [1] being a suite of open-source tools centered around knowledge management / information retrieval / search. As far as generic infrastructure stuff goes, I moved all the code to GitHub[2], moved the project website to Google Code, installed Bugzilla[3], wrote some blog entries[4], etc.

On a more technical level, I wrote a modest amount of code for Neddick[5], opened a lot of bugs, fixed a few bugs, and setup a Neddick demo server[6].

Created the http://www.fogbeam.org/ website.

Outside of ScrewPile related stuff, I spent a lot of time learning Lucene, read parts of a couple of books on Machine Learning / Collective Intelligence, read Steven Pinker's "How The Mind Works," read the "Swarm Intelligence" book by Russell C. Eberhart, Yuhui Shi, & James Kennedy, and started Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid." I also managed to read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," watched "The Social Network" twice, and read "The Accidental Billionaires." Organized a few "JVM Hack Night"[7] events locally, one "Hackers & Founders"[8] meetup and one Semantic Web[9] meetup.

Went to a VC event where Mark Cuban was the keynote speaker and got to meet Mark, which was kinda neat.

Took an Improv 101 class at DSI Comedy Theater.

Oh, and also read Steve Blank's book "The Four Steps to the Epiphany."

All in all, I did a lot of stuff, but - in a lot of ways - I didn't get as much done as I'd hoped for. I'm hoping to turn these ScrewPile projects into something usable enough to productize eventually; but I got a little stalled out in the 2nd half of the year, after a huge flurry of activity from March-August or so. Still, I'm sitting here tonight hacking away on the Quoddy[10] stuff, and since 2010 isn't over yet, I hope to bang out some more good stuff before Jan 1 rolls around.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/screwpile/

[2]: https://github.com/fogbeam

[3]: http://dev.fogbeam.org/bugzilla/

[4]: http://screwpiledev.blogspot.com/

[5]: http://code.google.com/p/neddick/

[6]: http://spdemo.fogbeam.org:8080/neddick1/

[7]: http://www.meetup.com/TriJVM/

[8]: http://www.meetup.com/RTP-Hackers-Founders/

[9]: http://www.meetup.com/RTP-Semantic-Web-Group/

[10]: http://code.google.com/p/quoddy/
Thanks!

I've been writing Grooveshark's players since the beginning, so I'd pretty much consider myself at an expert at getting flash to communicate with other moving pieces by this point.

We've gone through some pretty crazy revisions, including one (ancient) version, back when the actual playback was performed by a locally installed client application written in java, yet the actual playback controls were located on the website in a small flash widget. That involved the use of the script-tag hack (I think nowadays most people call that JSONP) in javascript to confirm that the local client was running, ExternalInterface to tell flash that it was safe to attempt to load the crossdomain.xml file from the local client (it would quite stubbornly refuse to try again after a failure), and then an XMLSocket connection between the local client and the flash widget on the page in order to pass back and forth user commands and the current playback state.

It actually worked surprisingly well, but I'm really glad we've since moved to centralized server streaming. The current version is just as you said, an invisible flash widget that syncs to the javascript on the page via ExternalInterface.

As for the audio tag, see one of my other comments, here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1968640
Funny thing - everything works amazingly, until I turn Flashblock on http://i.imgur.com/HFe8h.png then all my stuff disappears (favs, playlists) and this js error hangs my firefox to death.

Besides that, it's awesome, even better than before.
Pretty cool. Originally published in Feb 1996 for those who are curious (like I was).
Can you be a bit clearer? I'm not seeing anything constructive yet.

Roads aren't ideas, they're hunks of concrete.
I don't know ruby... but RoR is an established platform, I would think it would have something similar?
"Concise electronics for geeks" http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/
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Offtopic: Please, stop this linking to print version nonsense.

Discussion about it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966724

Original: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs.html Issue 4.02 | Feb 1996
I build first, then announce :-)
Something to bear in mind: these Groupon guys are some pretty business savvy dudes. They've started several very successful companies in the past and likely have a very good idea of where they're going with this. I wouldn't dismiss their rejection so hastily.
Interestingly enough, apparently ignorance of the law has been a big enough argument that this amendment is adding a section basically saying "if you know that it's illegal then you have no excuse", to which Japanese game developers are now adding of FBI warning-esque messages like those seen in American videorecordings:
http://kotaku.com/5705055/this-new-warning-screen-means-hand...
Dude, I'm not hating, but when you are plugging accelereyes, maybe you should mention you're the CEO and cofounder.

That being said, it looks like interesting tech.
> aleatoric music composition

You made me look 'aleatoric' up just now ("a process is said to be aleatoric ... if its course is determined in general but depends on chance in detail" per Wikipedia), but all I found was stuff I had heard of a long time ago, in that you can generate various types of music randomly and a reference to a very old dice game attributed to Mozart.

So I'm left wondering how this generator would be more useful for generating random music than ordinary dice or a RNG?
Of course the NYTimes asks - they just were in the vicinity of one quite recently.
How come the RIAA is okay with Grooveshark streaming any music at any time? Pandora has many more restrictions in their free version to qualify for "internet radio" licensing rates.
Ctrl-B.
TechCrunch reported they'll do 50m in profit this year, so it's not exactly cheap. If they were to stop growing it'd take 100 years for Google to get their investment back in cash.

The question is when they'll stop growing.
This is also the most exciting feature to me. But, looking through the reviews, it sounds like the buggiest feature. Worst of all, they process your UIs server-side and then send the code to you. Unacceptable.

I just picked up Dapp (http://dapp.kerofrog.com.au/) and put together the first screen of an app that's been bouncing around in my head for a couple weeks. It was pretty intuitive and quick to put it together. I also confirmed that Dapp generates all its code client-side, by using the app only in Airplane mode. Looking over the code, I'm not thrilled about the coding style, but it's not bad for auto-generated code.

So I can't speak for Interfaces (I wasn't going to drop $10 on an app that had terrible reviews about the one killer feature I need) but it seems like Dapp is a winner. YMMV.
Yes, definitely, especially if you 1. can scale up and down quickly like cloud hosting and 2. make extracting text from a large set of pages as easy as writing a regular expression.

Shoot me an email, I would love to talk about this further.
I'm pretty sure there's a legal loophole occurring here. All of the music on Grooveshark.com is uploaded by the users and Grooveshark is not responsible for the content. If the song is copyright it's user who broke the law, not Grooveshark. It's a similar concept to copyright videos on Youtube.
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You're making a mistake Groupon!
The Information Superhighway is just a metaphor that requires no actual concrete.
a clean, professional looking (no handing off to a third party site) billing system

Strangely enough, I really appreciate paying with paypal sometimes because of the hand-off.
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I know the Grooveshark fans who are Linux users will appreciate the increased stability as well.

On Ubuntu 10.04 x64 Flash is pretty stable for me, except when I've got 40 Firefox tabs open (yes I'm seeing a therapist about that) and then try to run some Flash app that's more complex than a mere Youtube video. No more popping htop to manually kill nspluginwrapper that's in some kind of infinite loop ftw.
People climb up the ladder because they want to get out of where they are. It's not very often that someone climbs out and elects to go back down to help others.

It also doesn't make sense to stay. If you're an autodidact, you almost certainly really enjoy learning. Where better to do that than a University/think tank?
I hope WePay jumps in and takes up the donations ... freedom of speech is important. Even if you do not agree with what WikiLeaks is doing they should have the right to operate and receive donations
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"複製行為については罰則は設けない。"

Translation: [The proposed modification to the law] does not establish criminal penalties for unauthorized copying.
Anyone else wonder how the author made the white outlines on the Yahoo Maps text? Seems super tedious to do this by hand.