skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I've never seen anyone do this before: <script src="//usecharm.com/silk.js">
To your first point, is this a critique of the speed (pushing info up to Google) or to Google sucking in yet more information? If it's the latter I'm already in trouble because almost everything I do uses Google Analytics, but I can see the point if you're doing something else.

WRT your second point, there's a middle ground of pointing to Google's hosted version for speed and falling back to a local copy if it is not found.

You can see the technique in use within the Boilerplate HTML5 template - http://html5boilerplate.com/ - Scroll down to the index.html file, line 58.
I have been without flash for almost a year now and I can't remember the last time I had a problem playing a video on YouTube.

It has happen possibly twice.
How 'bout the year before that?
That is the plan. The CSS selectors are only required (for now) as NYT has some specific criteria to cover the markup in various Article and Blg Post pages.

For most cases I imagine 'querySelectorAll' or 'getElementsByTagName' would suffice
"For someone who makes a living doing this type of work and relies on fair pay"

The rest of the world doesn't owe you anything. If 5 guys down the block are all charging less than half your price and you have a harder time getting clients, it is YOUR fault for not proving your value. As brands, Cadillac, BMW and Volvo do very well. They charge a lot of money for their products in a space where others sell their products for less than half the price. You need to build your brand and prove your worth to your potential clients, assuming your work is as good as your prices indicate. Forget about others, justify yourself or settle for Hyundai and KIA rates.
The books I most highly recommend that I read recently include, in no particular order:

- Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good, by Sarah Lacey.

- Founders at Work, by YC's own Jessica Livingston

- The Facebook Effect, by David Kirkpatrick

I'll list some others as I think of them, but those are my three most favorite recent reads.
While I'm happy to hear this, I don't find it surprising.

Despite having a different chipset and radio, the Verizon iPhone is still just another iPhone and Verizon still just one of several dozen carrier partners around the world. If they didn't allow any other carriers to preload software, why would they let Verizon?
Why is it a bad thing to keep some thoughts to yourself? And I'm not necessarily referring to thoughts about other people.
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WebM has zero chance of replacing h264 as the dominant video standard. The time it would take to do that is longer than the remaining lifetime on the h264 patents, and once the patents expire there is no reason for anyone to use WebM.
Why Google was correct in Chrome dropping H.264
No, the average salary has been largely unchanged when adjusted for chained CPI. Chained CPI != inflation since the basket of goods changes with time. To measure inflation, you need to measure the cost of the 1970's basket of goods in 2010 dollars. Modern medicine, cell phones, computers, HDTVs, etc must all be excluded. CPI doesn't do this.

Further, even taking chained CPI as a measure of inflation, it's known to overestimate inflation by about 1.3% at least until 1996 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boskin_Commission). Taking Boskin-corrected CPI as a measure of inflation, wages have increased 40% over 40 years.
Boston has a lot of free wi-fi in "town square" area near Fanueil Hall (Government Center T stop).
Yes, but it's only a matter of time until it gets gamed. Google could index it to find less spammy content for a while.

Ultimately you need to know who is who, who is posting what. Is that what their internet ID lobbying is about?
People need to look out for themselves. You need to have your own thoughts on the future of your company and your own thoughts on what is and isn't worth doing.
Multiple companies, including Apple (and Nokia, which ain't exactly a minor player in the mobile market) objected to HTML5 mandating support for a particular codec, largely on the grounds that we don't really know the patent situations of any of the allegedly-unencumbered codecs.

Now it's my turn to call bullshit. "We don't really know the patent situations of $x" could be used as an argument against ANY piece of software or standard $x. Unless there is real evidence for such concerns, it's FUD.
The Fallacy of Customer Development
"Man, making money like this is sooo easy it should be illegal!"

"ah, Mr Cent.."
Apple's secret weapon
Ask HN: If you were starting a new service, where would you host it?
There are so many options these days in the cloud, I was curious what the consensus is here on HN, if you have any pros or cons of specific services I'd love to hear that too. Rackspace Cloud? EC2? Something else?
The developer mentioned that hitting "e" will render a PNG in the upper-right corner. Right-click > Save image as...
How would one demonstrate that HFTs actually provide liquidity? They get into and out of positions in milliseconds in a race with other HFTs to front-run a trade that was about to happen anyway. If they facilitated trades that were otherwise off the table, they wouldn't need to shave their latency hard, because there wouldn't be anyone else trying to make the same trade whom they'd have to beat. We should be compensating people for making better routing decisions with society's capital, not for making the same decisions but 1/100,000 of an hour sooner.

And formal market makers accept an obligation to stay in the market and provide full-time liquidity in return for their profits. I have to question the value of displacing and de-funding them in favor of HFTs who can walk away at the worst moment (as when they exacerbated the flash crash).
That's a really interesting point. All at once you helped me understand the giant chess game we're watching.
> Sony probably has the upper hand legally here. The DMCA seems to be pretty explicit about these kind of this, at least from my non-lawyerly reading of it.

IANAL, but there are a few things that Sony has going against them: 1) The DMCA interoperability exemptions may apply to this work, although obviously not the piracy side of things (although these guys have not produced anything that is for the sole purpose of copying content), and 2) They are conflating these attacks purely with piracy, which will make their case look far worse when a judge looks at it. Whether or not these things actually matter in the end is up in the air, but this is by no means a cut and dry case. I'm personally excited to see this come to pass, for the precedent this could set, and I hope for the best for bushing et al.

Edit: This is the type of tweet that can lose a case... "The FAIL0VERFLOW Defendants intentionally circumvented SCEA’s TPMs, accessed the PS3 System and trafficked in Circumvention Devices and SCEA’s proprietary information,
with full knowledge that their unlawful conduct would irreparably harm SCEA. Indeed, five days prior to appearing at the Chaos Conference, Bushing echoed a fellow hacker’s comment anticipating this irreparable harm: “Last chance to sell any Sony stock you may have.”"
Does this mean the NDK will get easier to use? Its pretty obtuse, and I've worked with porting software on multiple platforms (not on one to another exactly).
Funny enough, if 37signals have never written this post criticizing RTFHIG, I would have never heard of RTFHIG. Kudos to 37signals.
Sweet! You can make the canvas arbitrarily large -- on Chrome, right-click > inspect element, and change <div id="silk" style="..." to whatever dimension you want.

Wonderfully done!
Yes they should do what Facebook does, where you just click the big red delete button on your profile and it's done!
Exactly, and if you aren't happy, why not quit? You can't tell me that people at MySpace with technical skill couldn't find a better job somewhere else.
I feel like those unwanted profiles will disappear soon enough.
Macros don't kill readability, bad coders do.
While I agree that he is being somewhat of an egomaniac, it does give Sony a big target to shoot at, therefore allowing the court case that may set a good precedent.
Unprecedented?

In this case decided in 2005, Sony received over $6 million in a copyright infringement judgment against a small online retailer who violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. §§ 1201 et seq., by selling computer chips that allowed unauthorized copies of PlayStation games to be played on the PlayStation console.

http://www.patentarcade.com/2010/07/case-analysis-sony-v-fil...
There ain't no such thing as a free codec. At least, not as long as software patents exist.

Does Google want a Free, interoperable web? Then they should take the money they'd spend re-encoding all of YouTube into VP8 and instead spend it on lobbying to eliminate software patents. Then they could just use whatever's the best option from a technical perspective and we could stop having codec shitstorms every six months.
10 Creative Uses of the New Facebook Profile [PICS]
The article was pretty spot-on but I would like to add that the value of Apple Stores is not only for consumers' benefit but also (and arguably even more so) for Apple's: it allows Apple to immediately pinpoint exactly what doesn't work, with whom, how frequently, why, etc. Indeed, it was the Apple Store experience -- and user feedback / complaints -- that lead to the innovation of the magnetic power connector for Macbooks. The Apple Store is arguably the most focused consumer feedback system in existence.

More crucially was Apple's -- Steve's? -- recognition that the average (tech) consumer is actually quite lazy and just can't be bothered with technobabble: most people don't really care HOW or WHY something works, they just care what it can do for them. Hence "1,000 songs in your pocket" vs. the more typical (at the time) "8GB vs 4GB" marketing campaign of Apple's competitors.
The annoying thing is even the Nexus One comes with preinstalled apps that you cannot remove.

Specifically: Amazon MP3, Twitter, and Facebook.
Couldn't agree more: that's been the driving force behind our new startup, and our greatest challenge by far, i.e., how to keep it as simple as practicable.
My city is apparently too underground for Hipster.
Neither?

It is perfectly reasonable for two people to want the same thing and believe in entirely different ways of getting there.
That's fine. No one faults Google for doing whatever they feel is in their strategic, long term interest.

What annoys some people to no end however, is the incessant attempts to market everything they do in the name of "openness".
There was never much of a PlayStation One homebrew or Linux scene though, was there? So it'd be hard to argue that the PS1 device had any useful purpose other than piracy.

Unlike with PS2&3, where for a while there Sony pretty much endorsed alternative uses of the console.
Go easy on me, this is my first comment on HN.

I see couple of other things, apart from free and royalty side of arguments. My story goes like this:

when Apple released iOS device in 2007, H264 was the better choice for mobiles with hardware decoders. Google converted Youtube videos to H264 to support iOS devices. Rest of the world followed. Both Apple and Google wins and they are happy to promote H264 for the wider adoption.

Then after three years, a different competitive landscape, with Android popularity even without H264 hardware decoders advantage, at the same time Apple support to H264 but not to flash, gives big strategic advantage to Goolge to move world away from H264 to its own alternative (openness helps the cause). Win to Google, Lose to Apple.

Its not important anymore which desktop browser support what. We can work with multiple browsers on our desktops/laptops. Its all about to whose advantage it plays out in mobile devices space.

That is why we will see lot of FUD in future in this space while Google and Apple fight for their interests in name of openness.
Don't you keep all emails you send in a "sent" folder?
How can anybody named CobraKai talk about fear, anyway?!?? C'mon man, Cobra Kai never Dies! Fear, does not exist in this Dojo!!!

Your homework, is to go and watch this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8lUt0Ile00

and write "Put him in a body bag" 100 times on the whiteboard.
Will you people please stop trusting companies and politicians.

It's a company and the only goal of it is to make profits for its investors and its employees. If you believe that making artistic movies and maintaining a company's good reputation is a good way to run their business, let it happen with starting up your company and risking your own money or career.

My point is that commenting on how some company's business decisions didn't justify your expectations is tad garish.
That may improve the moral standing, but I don't see how it affects the legal situation. There's no right to homebrew in the DMCA (sadly).
Twitter was pre-installed on Nexus One?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember seeing it out of the Box.

As for as default Facebook installation and integration is a bad idea. I really hate that.
So, let's see if we can summarize the story in broad outline. Sony releases the PS3 with the included functionality of installing an alternate operating system. Users purchase PS3s with this ability. Sony changes its mind about the benefits of this feature and removes it via a software update. Users take steps to regain the full functionality of the devices they purchased. Sony sues the users for this action.
Borders has their "Piccadilly" line of moleskine-alikes, about 1/2 the price and 90% of the quality. I really like their larger sized ones.
The issue is not whether it's a game changer. Apple's game is to build devices, software, and a highly consistent and polished user experience, irresistable to buyers and app developers, all in an effort to capture maximum profit share. Google's game is to build a similar OS that is irresistible to device makers, all in an effort to maximize market share and the advertising revenues boiling off the free app ecosystem.

With Apple, the product is the device and you are the buyer. With Google, the product is you and the advertiser is the buyer. They are each winning their respective games. Superficially they are competitors, but if there is a winner, then there's a loser. How can you look at either company and consider it the loser?
Jack Welch once said something to the effect of "On Friday, after you receive your paycheck, you and the company are even." Corporate America seems to have mostly embraced this. I'm perfectly fine with that as long as all parties are on the same page.

You would have to be a singular company to make me trust any promise, explicit or implicit, about monetary or non-monetary compensation which had a time horizon longer than a paycheck cycle. I'm not intending on ever being a salaryman again, but if I were, an American company which even suggested the desirability of a deathmarch would receive a firm handshake and my two-weeks notice immediately. (There are quite a few Japanese companies where I'd actually trust the company to make good on its side of The Offer. It's still not a good offer, but it's at least understandable to me that someone might take them up on it.)
In HTML5 you can do this by keeping a script in LocalStorage, then executing it on-demand. It could also have a fallback mechanism for network loading (and lazy initialization).

The implementation of this is left as an exercise for the reader.
VRS vet here. Your email's not in your profile, can you get in touch with me? Joshua dot allmann at gmail.
I switched from a shady VPS host that wasn't suitable for any real hosting to Linode a few months ago.

My site only gets ~10k hits per day (a lot less stress than many other services), but it's been rock solid so far.
I have tried the Rackspace Cloud, but I prefer the VPS solution from Linode (http://linode.com).
Apple's stance on Flash hurts users _now_. But, I still envy my future self living in a world where Flash is dead. The same can be said about Google hurting users _now_. Pushing content producers towards an open and maintainable format has obvious long term advantages.
This is not a debate about appropriate intentions. This is a debate about potential consequences.
Well, this is more personal story than reportage. I thought it might contain more of a description of Fermilab's contributions to the Linux environment. (Which coexist with and will apparently now be carried forth by CERN endeavors.) Nonetheless, interesting.

This is the first time I've seen a dollar amount cited for the proposed savings by closing Fermi. $35 million / year. $35 million / year! Now I am truly depressed, and trying to work up a case of my now mostly exhausted anger. A drop in a drop in the budget, for fundemental research as well as all the commercial spinoffs it generates (materials, systems (e.g. clustering in Linux), technical careers).

If that's how we're budgeting, this country is indeed fucked.
The combat range of both is less than diameter_pacific/2 so they are pretty safe.

The US doesn't have any enemies within range of the Chinese jets and the US won't sell the F22 to anybody near china.

They are both techno-wank projects to make generals feel cool and to keep a few aerospace companies in business. It took a while but we have finally corrupted them to be just like us - and we did the chinese as well!
Also like the fact that I can use the GSM iPhone internationally.

The AT&T iPhone has been a disappointment for international travel. The international data plan is a terrible deal, and it seems to be impossible to carrier unlock without also jailbreaking. Jailbreak is not a great option if you're an app developer as the jailbreak ties the phone to a specific OS version, and you generally want the latest, or even a beta OS installed. If you want to use local SIMs, your only real option is to buy a phone factory unlocked from somewhere like Singapore. If you know of a way to carrier unlock without jailbreaking, let me know!
Unprecedented to sue those hacking a console with the sole intent of using it for Linux and homebrew, yes.

(Yes, suing over piracy is not new, and that's what Sony is doing here. But that doesn't change the fact that none of them support piracy.)
Thanks for your review! It's given me a lot to think about.

>3 across list scaling
Yes this is a good point. You consider a horizontal scrollbar breaking right?

>labels
Most of the textfields are 'labeled' with the html5 placeholder tag. You should see some text inside the inputs that gives you instructions. I think that was the wrong thing to do overall and will now be investing in better labels and descriptions. Thanks!

>security/permissions
Yes, click the edit button on the top of the right sidebar of the list. You'll see all the options there.

>notifications
Yes right now you get a private message. You're notified by email whenever you get a private message, assuming you've registered a real user. Right now it doesn't have other modes for messaging, but it's probably a good idea to implement those. Might also be a good idea to skip the private message step.

>spreadsheet
What are the voting options on a google spreadsheet? The primary use of limitedlist is rankings as described on the home page. But I think it's easy to miss.
>On LimitedList items are rated in a special way. Each person gets 9 points to distribute throughout all the items in a list. He or she can give only a maximum of 5 points to an item. As a result, each person picks favorites, and has additional power to choose runner ups. We add everyone's ratings together to create a ranked list.
If google spreadsheets can do this, then I would say focus and interface.

>integration/api
Yes totally, so important. I'm working on this. I wonder if it's possible to validate an idea if it's missing such an important part of virality?

>useful?
well for me, how this started is I wanted to read a new author I just discovered. But he has many books and they're all highly rated. I just wanted to get the *best book, to make sure that I actually like him. It took me a long time to read all the reviews and figure out which book I wanted to read. I think a list would've made things much easier for me. But that's sort of a one off kind of thing. But this can be used for any toplist situation really. I'll be posting some more hacker related lists to HN.

>compliments
Thanks! thank you so very much.

>dmoz
not sure about web directory, but it is a slightly different way to organize data.
I find it a bit sad that this comment has almost more votes than the parent post, which has several insightful points. This comment picks out only a single issue (although an important one), but does ignore all the other statements. I would hope people stop upvoting such a comment at 20 points max.

I can't seem to find it, but there was once a comment or page by PG which explained the core of good follow-up comments: not picking out a single item which is easy to criticise, but rather responding to the core of the parent comment.
Wouldn't you be able to do this with the cache manifest? http://diveintohtml5.org/offline.html
It's priced $.02 to $.05 per minute so depends on how long the content you have is. We have lots of training and event content which is typically longer then a YouTube clip.
Linode has been good for us. Reasonably priced and an easy interface for managing instances. If you need your own hardware then Newservers is good as well since you pay for dedicated hardware on per hour rate.
Show HN: My first start up (30 days in)
I quit my job a month ago and have been heads down working on my startup. It's my first time working with Ruby or web development at all. I launched on the 7th - http://www.onefatpig.com

Now I'm done with the easy part (code) and working on the substantially harder part (getting users). Any advice?
Shielded arc cutting
5. I am.
I don't own one, so I'm not sure -- but couldn't you just reflash it with the downloadable Android?
Yep, though it was internal to the company I used to work for. The project I was on had probably one of the best teams I will ever be on - everyone (for the most part) followed coding standards and if someone didn't then they were called out on it. It was a pretty mature project, and though the source code we inherited had been thrown together in haste, over time we refactored a good deal of that code.

Whenever we had to write new code, we had to propose to our peers what we intended on doing and how we intended on doing it. Keeping senior members of the team in the loop kept the younger guys (like myself) in check when it came to implementations and design pattern usage.

On top of that, a handful of the people on my team were RELIGIOUS about writing comments first and then coding to the comments. All in all, it was a great experience for me having been fresh out of undergrad.
this guy is a turd thats nerd raging
(Honestly I don't see how geohot did anything, here, really: he used one exploit to apply the work of fail0verflow, who presented at CCC, to a new part of the PS3. All the important parts, like the private key calculation, were already presented before he posted anything.)
Ask HN: Do you care about shared account authentication?
There's been an increasing trend to use services like Google/Twitter/Facebook to manage user accounts.

Do you care?
Microsoft, at their retail store(s), enforces the same policy on computers. When you get a computer from there, you get stock Windows 7. (And drivers, I would hope, although 7 seems better about bundling more recent drivers--even Broadcom wireless and Intel graphics!)