skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programmer comes home late with lipstick on his collar and face, smelling of perfume.

Wife is glaring at him.

"Honey, I have to tell you the truth" he says. "You remember Judy from accounting? We ended up talking, getting close, one thing led to another, and I ended up sleeping with her. I'm so sorry".

Wife glares at him some more.

"I don't believe you for a second, you lying son of a bitch. You stayed late programming again, didn't you?"
> That doesn't seem right to me.

Alas, that doesn't matter - what matters is the contract you agreed to when paying them.
> They could have simply not bought WebM, saved $100 million, and they would not have the storage problem.

Is it not the case that even using just h264, Youtube currently has to store several encodings using different codec profiles in order to target different devices, including low power ones like the iPhone? See my reply to macrael for why this might not be the case with WebM: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2098874
Linked to http://unhosted.org and http://couchapp.org in the comments -- glad to see these sorts of concerns becoming more mainstream.
Now I feel bad for charging my mom $$$...
The original HN submission title was in all-caps
Digging into Pandora's Music Genome with musicologist Nolan Gasser
IE and Chrome don't support blink, only Firefox does. A legacy of the Netscape heritage I'd imagine, since blink is a Netscape proprietary HTML addition.
Do no currently shipping browsers support it?
I think the growth was more at Reddit's expense. There was a drastic downturn in the quality of material hitting the front page in 2010. The comment quality has gone down significantly, too.

(Yes, I know you can decide which subreddits appear on the front page when you are logged in).
So far is PHP on the backend, JS + HTML5 on the client side.
That's awesome, I always hoped for something like this.

Also I can't stop hoping that many other Universities will make their lectures avaiable, and not only on the iTunes U
BigTable is basically a (distributed) Google-proprietary SAN. Lots of Storage, distributed over a really big Area ;-), and lots of Networking.
but honest truth: this means a ton more responsibility

Dude, this is kinda scary.
Semi-unrelated: I don't understand the note at the bottom or the linked document about the XSS problem. Is there actually a way to prevent XSS that's under consideration?
This just seems like another test of the anti-circumvention provision in the DCMA. Unlike the XBox modding trial that was dismissed [1], this case actually has nothing to do with piracy, as geohot made it a point not to add in piracy enabling features.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/crippen-dismissed/
Matt Biddulph Uses This
Upvote because I believe you raise a valid question.

The enforceability of the contract depends on many factors. I'm no lawyer, but from what I remember from my Computer Ethics course and from some quick wiki-research[1], most cases revolve around whether the user made reasonably aware that they are agreeing to the contract, and if there is a reasonable way of disagreeing with the contract and returning the product.

I can't remember if my PS3 prompted me with a EULA when it first booted up, but it probably did. And I think the ability to return the product for a refund is considered a reasonable way of disagreeing with the contract. So it may be legally sound and enforceable, and in that respect I agree.

But it's common knowledge that the pattern of presenting a EULA with a submit button is not enough to make users read the terms of the agreement. Sony is using this fact to their advantage, as do most companies with restrictive EULAs. I'm against restrictive EULAs on principle, but particularly in the case of a physical good like a PS3 restricting you from using it, learning from it, modifying it, etc.

[1] Relevant Wiki Articles on Short Notice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkwrap_contract

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickwrap
The same attack is also possible with Flash's fullscreen; their "Press Esc to exit Fullscreen" message would work fine here too.
I have naively taken that to mean that the trade-off of resolution for battery life can be handled in the decoder; that fewer encodings need to be stored on the server

No. The reason YouTube encodes different versions is mostly for bandwidth, not battery life. Postprocessing doesn't do anything about bandwidth; a 1 Mbps stream is 1 Mbps.
They're working on it. They still only have 4 engineers (!), plus a trainee. They've hired/are hiring a couple more, so maybe that will work.

Unfortunately, by selling to Conde Nast, they've ceded control on things like hiring. Every time they want to hire somebody, they have to beg to CN for permission. If it was VC funded, they'd have 40+ employees by now, and the site would look/work good. Unfortunately, CN just doesn't know what they have.

Also, never mind the headline; Mashable pretty much lives off of Digg referals, so this is just linkbait.
You also mentioned Mozilla there.
There will probably be an iPhone 4S (ala 3GS) that will feature a couple improvements but not a departure from the current iPhone 4.

the other conjecture of a universal iPhone probably won't come to pass as Apple gave up on the programmable SIM (http://www.todaysiphone.com/2010/11/carriers-force-apple-to-...) also it doesn't take into account fitting another chip into pretty tight space.

I believe expanding to other carriers is pretty much a given.

His other point that they will Focus on the Mac this summer doesn't really take into account they will easily be able to do more than one thing at a time.
An aesthetic sense takes a while to develop, it's one of those 10,000 hour skills. Many designers never really get it, just as many working programmers are not "hackers."

That said it might be useful to check out good art and design inspiration sites, might help you tell apart the good from the bad and mediocre. You might see the difference with some beginners luck.

There are a lot of "design blogs" that mimic smashing magazine and post ugly stuff. Sometimes ugly stuff gets popular. Smashing magazine itself often posts aesthetically mediocre content.

The trick might be to look at sites that always post top notch stuff and have designer friends tell you what's pretty and not.

Sites like:

http://surfstation.com/
http://butdoesitfloat.com/
http://www.designiskinky.net/
http://spacecollective.org/gallery/

post aesthetically flawless stuff. When you agree with their selection, you are an aesthetically proficient designer/artist.

Keep in mind that aesthetics and design are not the same. Good design might need to be ugly. Google search results are closer to ugly. Aesthetically obsessed designers would get rid of the underlines, add more white space, etc.. But Google's purpose is to let you skim results quickly, not to impress you with how pretty it is.

http://siteinspire.net/ is a good resource for aesthetically pleasing UIs, but some of them have poor usability.

As a startup founder you should probably be more concerned with UI/UX, "design" in the sense of accomplishing goals or conversions, not necessarily aesthetics. I haven't seen many startups with top notch aesthetics in UIs, so hard to say how that converts. If you're in a large company and see something ugly that's supposed to be pretty, it's a sign, just like bad code is.
Yeah, I'd say the overall quality has dropped, and has been dropping with increased traffic for a long time. Still, there's been some absolute gold on there. Check out the Best of 2010 for some examples:

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/f12id/its_time_to_choo...
You can work for free on your own to gain experience.

The only way working for a company for free makes any sense is if they are providing mentorship in the form of code reviews or teaching. Except those kind of positions are typically called internships and are paid positions as well.
I think an important question to research here is why p21 evolved in mammals. The article says knocking it out doesn't appear to increase cancer rates, which would have been my first and only guess.
I still dont see where I made the connection that you ascribe to me. Nevertheless if such a connection is indeed visible in my comments, thats probably my lack of native english skills showing. Suspecting that my comment might be misinterpreted, I attemped to prempt that. Apparently not very effectively. So let me try again:

We are tolerant of, or inadequately vigilant of ineffective drugs. One such sign can be seen in a particular apect of the patent system I described. Given this environment, it does not surprise me that a particular drug was found to be ineffective.

Your downvotes came with an explanation, which is better than silent downvotes.
I actually like Cars - while story is quite cheesy, it has good character development and just fun to watch. Racing is just done well - it gives you the same feeling as watching real racing on TV.

I enjoyed Toy Story 2 and it has very decent jokes, but I think that story-wise it is quite inferior to Toy Story 1 - the entire story setup just feels artificial. I'm afraid that same thing on larger scale is going to happen to Cars 2.
That's one of those questions that makes a guy feel old. I also remember 8" floppy disks first-hand. I was a kid, but still.
Apple supported PowerPC for 2 years after the transition. Ignoring that fact, well said.
The user.css file works just file in Opera as a site-specific user CSS file, though it does look slightly different than the screenshots.
I absolutely love the URL of the story.
I also wrote a Star Trek adventure game in BASIC. Must have been a rite of passage for kid programmers. :)
Apple's reasons for not supporting Flash on their mobile platform are primarily performance reasons.

It's not only Apple that isn't supporting WebM by the way, IE9 won't support it (unless you have a VP8 codec installed). In fact, the only browsers that currently support WebM in their latest stable versions are Chrome and Opera. Remember that flash doesn't support WebM yet either.

WebM might well become more popular than H.264 for web video in the next couple of years and I wouldn't be all that surprised if Apple supported WebM in their next Safari release. But… I'd still be very surprised if YouTube stopped encoding videos into H.264 in this decade.
Tests referred to in the article:

Forced Swimming Test
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_despair_test

Tail Suspension Test http://www.stoeltingco.com/stoelting/productlist13c.aspx?cat...
I favor Protovis (quick) and jquery.svg (custom).
Although I know it's not at all -literally- why they are used (not to mention that they may not work), these tests seem to say something to me about our understanding of depression, right there.
A Stalemate of Standards: What H.264 Means for the Average User
SearchYC's benefit is not that it gives more current results: it allows you to search comments by, e.g., their author in ways that Google, being a general search engine, cannot.
> The reason YouTube encodes different versions is mostly for bandwidth

No. For example, to support iPhone prior to v4, they have to encode using the Baseline profile because that's all those devices support. The less complex h264 profiles are designed for CPU-limited devices, not just bandwidth savings -- indeed the most obvious way to save bandwidth is to use the CPU more.
And they will look at you and ask "but what's a root canal?"
That explains a lot, thank you.
I didn't call godDLL a superficial hipster -- I said (with, I hope, abundant sarcasm) that Hacker News was missing the superficial hipster touch. I said so because the re-skinned version feels A) superficial (the primary difference is simply the change in typeface), and B) hipster (using Helvetica for the sake of Helvetica). Is it ok if I don't like it? I hope I'm not breaching protocol here -- that would be awful.

If godDLL is offended, I'll promise to next time better structure my criticism with kind words and phrases of subtle encouragement rather than snark and sarcasm.
OpenBSD now "allows to write relay daemons with zero data copy"
Ratatouille just doesn't cut it for me, I don't care if it's a rat cooking food or not, the entire story just leaves me thinking "whateva".

Incredibles on other hand is perfect in every way. BTW, given the premise of this movie it's possible to make good sequel for it without resorting to "international spies in the world of racing cars".
I need a Flex developer to do some freelance work for me. Do you have any contact info? There isn't any listed in your profile. Sorry that this is off-topic, I just really need a Flex guy before the other lady gets a Flex guy and gets the Flex contract before me.
A Volatile Look into HSQLDB
PyPy Loop invariant code motion
There's a phone number there... hmmm ;)
More reasons he's awesome- he wrote a fantastic introductory book to Common Lisp in 1990 that holds up to this day. It's also considered a good general early CS text by many.

It is available for free download from his own directory at CMU: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/
60%? Is that correct?
That is the new release plan post-Firefox 4. (I work for Mozilla.)
FWIW, Foursquare's situation was kind of unique. They have a need for all of their data to be in RAM. In most applications, you can define a working set of data. As long as you can keep that working set and indexes in RAM, you'll be fine.
I haven't experienced this. What platform are you on? Are you using betas or nightlies? You may want to report the bug if there isn't a report already.
Install IE9 (yes, seriously; it comes with patches for the drivers). Failing that, turn DirectWrite off: go to about:config and switch gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled to false.
Your hair-splitting over how many questions were actually asked draws the discussion away from some good questions.

Second, virtually all of these questions take as an axiom that H.264 is IP-encumbered and WebM/VP8 isn't. Technical analyses (by people who have actually implemented H.264 and are familiar with the patents) suggests that that simply isn't the case

Possible, but if the issue came down to 'an h264 developer with the technical chops' vs 'The due dilligence exercised by Google when acquiring WebM for millions and millions', I think I would lean slightly towards the latter.
The most surprising thing for me was to learn that Bono of U2 fame owns 1.5% of Facebook.
This distribution method is the only way to ensure some kind of control over the web experience and stop the IE6's of the future, imo.
IDC: Apple hits 8.7% share as fastest growing PC maker in US 4Q sales
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A simple Gist viewer for HTML/JavaScript examples
SalesCrunch: Pissing Us Off Isn’t Much Of A PR Or Marketing Strategy
RedDotRubyConf, Singapore - April 22-23 2011
Three lawyers and three engineers are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three lawyers each buy tickets and watch as the three engineers buy only a single ticket.

"How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" wonders one of the lawyers. "Watch, and you'll see," replies one of the engineers.

They all board the train. The lawyers take their respective seats while all three engineers cram into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train departs, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, "Ticket, please." The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on.

The lawyers see this and agree it is quite a clever idea. After the conference, the lawyers decide to copy the engineers on the return trip and save some money. When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the engineers don't buy a ticket at all. "How are you going to travel without a ticket?" asks one perplexed lawyer. "Watch, and you'll see," replies one of the engineers.

When they board the train the three lawyers cram into a restroom and the three engineers cram into another one nearby. The train departs. A few moments later, one of the engineers leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the lawyers are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please."
The biggest win has been for smaller niche subreddits that now have enough of a readership to feel like communities now. Reddit's strong suit has always been in the discussions.
Is it? I buy a PC loaded with Windows. I own the hardware. I have a license to windows.

I buy a PS3. It is a computer loaded up with a OS to which I have a license. I can do what I want with the hardware, but the software isn't mine. An encryption key (in my mind) is a software component.
Really pathetic that MA and TC think they own "Crunch" like Facebook owning "face" and "book" and MSFT owning "Access" "Word" "Outlook" "Publisher" etc.

I like the comment that points out Nestle beat TC to crunch.
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Apparently, they already have gone after smaller targets:

http://www.techdirt.com/blog.php?company=gooseberry&edit...

http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2010/07/goosebe...

"Gooseberry Natural Resources, LLC has taken extraordinary steps to hide the identity of its owner. Corporate records held by the Texas Secretary of State show that a second Delaware-based shell company, Vertigo Holding LLC, owns Gooseberry. Since Vertigo Holding is incorporated in Delaware, it is not required to list its officers or owners."
Ah, Emancipay. I reviewed them as part of my work on what is a very similar idea. My notes say "Academics who have not implemented anything". Hmm.
I'm coming to this mostly from my mom's perspective. She's a medical illustrator which means that hospitals make up a substantial fraction of her revenue, but she's constantly getting calls from "non-profit" hospitals that expect to be able to use her work for free. It just strikes me as disingenuous for a highly paid professional to be calling another professional asking for their services, and expecting to not have to pay for them.

I'm skeptical of a non-profit that pays a lot of professional people for skilled work, deciding that it isn't going to pay certain types of professionals for skilled work.
okay let's link it bank. If you make a hack for PS3, fine. I doubt Sony would find out unless they have vans driving around the neighborhood like Google. But it's illegal if you start sharing it. Isn't this what Sony is trying to prevent? Having a free hacks released on the web, and therefore people can access it freely? I'm sure there are certain laws written within Congress, as many people below has stated that points specifically to sharing on the web. But in essence all of them were drafted and passed with the First amendment as the foundation
Just tried it in all 4 Chromes, they all look fine to me. Identical to FF4b8.

What's odd, though, is it seems the background and image borders load last. Which is crazy - load your macro styles first, then the two-hundred-odd thumbnails.
Predicting the future of the Internet is easy
You are correct. I had allowed math.ly in NoScript but not the additional sites. Fixed. Thanks
This story is from Mar. 16, 2010
See also http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp

About 850K units was the alpha sold for about 10 Euro, the remaining 150K were the beta for 15 Euro. This works out to a revenue of about 10,750,000 Euro (US$ 14m roughly). Not too shabby, considering that the game isn't even out of beta yet!
I found his video a little "managerial".
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I disagree. If first amendment is executed explicitly as what it states, we can share whatever we want on the internet. Napster wouldn't have lost in court, and you can all all sorts of videos on Youtube. Private businesses over and over again tried to use lawyers to fight cases in the courts to protect their "intellectual property" and "copyright". By all means, I believe those things should be respected, or else the business world would be corrupted. But little by little, these private businesses are limiting to what we can share and express. For example, it is illegal to lipsync on Youtube because it violates the copyrights of music label companies.
Sure, but once you split that amongst all the employees, it's not very much.
BigTable is a SAN without the SAN cost. It's all software.
The AVC (h.264) licensing rate according to ( http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?Arti... ) goes up to $100,000 per year for over a million subscribers and can not exceed $5 million a year per enterprise. AAC, the audio codec that usually goes along with AVC might be $1,200,000 per year ( http://www.vialicensing.com/licensing/aac-fees.aspx ).

Given that the last AVC patents expire at 2028, there's seventeen years left where Google might still have to pay the annual fee that wouldn't exceed a few million dollars (though at the last few years when there's something like one patent that's still valid, I doubt the patent pool really could be enforced). The On2 acquisition was $124.6 million ( http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9159738/Google_closes... ) and probably a lot more for the ongoing development.

Assuming, rather reasonably that there's 12 years left for AVC (that's doubtful, it'll probably be ancient in a few years), the recurring fees for YouTube's licensing would need to exceed $10 million a year for the argument to make sense.
This isn't being taken lightly as you seem to imply, the scientists responsible for this are a bit screwed career wise. Wakefield got more attention because of the massive damaging effect he and his ilk had on immunization rates.
It doesn't matter anymore. The web 2.0 bubble is popping. Soon no one will care.

Look @ the trend for the startup news sites. It's downward, and broken key resistance levels.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/techcrunch.com+mashable.com...

I'm a daytrader. It's how I self fund my bootstrapped web projects. A lot more daytraders are shifting from the tech space and piling onto resource stocks (base metals, commodities, precious metal). That's the new bubble. So even if a web 2.0 exits in an IPO, will there be demand for its paper, given the hysteria over resource plays?

Web 2.0 has jumped the shark.
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Curt (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=curt) has a lot of experience with this process. Here's a thread he posted a few months ago that's full of great information: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840896
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I'd agree that caching is important, but when, realistically, would you not have any sort of wireless access in 20 years? Driving? Many cars these days have hard drives; it's easy to see that becoming more prevalent as storage gets even cheaper. The people designing mobile devices aren't worried about a single farmer in the middle of Saskatchewan. Cell phone providers didn't even bother with the whole of Saskatchewan for a number of years.

If you can get a cell signal, you can get streaming media, or at least you will be able to. I don't see that being much of a problem.
Nice rant. A/B testing helped a few products take off that would otherwise be lost in obscurity, but yea it's easy to fall into the obsession. It's one of those traps to keep yourself busy and avoid thinking. Mobile apps are similar.

Google founders wanted to make it a portal, have calendars, weather, top news on the search page, but Merissa said no. Google's initial success was probably from short loading times on 56K modems, not search results. Might be why they tout how quickly Chrome can load pages. A/B testers rarely test dramatically different pages, like a portal vs search box only. You need a vision or theory to do that.
Yeah, I like HN just as it and understand this is a design made by a coder, but using tables is just plain wrong IMHO.