skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting - "I also bought an iPad which made me realize that perhaps the desktop distribution was approaching a decline."

I'm not sure what he means by this - Desktop OS'es and Tablet OS'es do different things for different people. In fact, I'd argue that Server, Desktop/Laptop, and Tablet OSes all have their place. I like Ubuntu for my Server, OS X for my Laptop, and IOS for my Tablet.

But, nothing like a new adventure - and it sounds like he'll keep working on Upstart - so best of Luck!
Ask HN: How is grooveshark built?
I plan to start my new project that is kinda similar to Grooveshark, I have the idea in my head but I don't know where to start. For example, what languages do they use? (Javascript/Php?) Is it possible for me to build it using rails? (I am more comfortable with Rails)? Help is very much appreciated.
This doesn't have as much to do with cell phones as it does with Jerry Brown's need to cut something. In other words I think he knows a lot of positions need cell phones but I think he also knows most people have personal phones they'll use if their work one is taken away. Since most people won't quit their job over the loss of a cell phone. So it's an easy cut to make (albeit an unfair one in many ways)

Sadly many of the union contracts specify employees be provided a cell phone so he's only going to get so far with this.
Ask HN: Building a Search Utility
What are some resources that'd guide building a simple Web-based search utility? Free online content, course materials, or source code are especially appreciated :-).
I'm not sure about that, I don't know what pricing is like in the US but here (Ireland) Android phones are significantly cheaper. Most people I know who buy an Android phone, do so because it was a cheap phone, not because it's a 'smartphone' (excluding the more technically inclined friends of mine) — while the iPhone and Android are certainly competitors, I don't think people buy Android for the same reason. If I'm making sense...
As long as people's basic needs are fullfilled I think it really is the relative wealth that decides their happiness.
According to my logic i can tell if a company is giving the right to license its product to others, that this company will most likely get money for it.

Do you really think Mircrosoft is like "oh, well. MPEG-LA, we hand over the rights for our patens to you. Do as you wish with those patents and also please give the license fees to the other companies. But please don't give us money!"? ;)

You do know that the MPEG-LAs purpose is to collect the rights to those patents from those companies (the licensors) and collects money from the licensees, redistributing it to the licensors.
Now Apple and MS are on the list of licensors. And they don't get money, you say? And never will? sure... :)
Google were also opposed to a format in the spec, they claimed ogg theora was too large in file size. Why do you think they bought On2 and released WebM in the first place? There already was a free video code theora before.
I've had a summer internship after every school year I've had in college.
First to answer your questions, put whatever you want. If you're applying to jobs not related to your degree, well, it's up to you. Cater your resume don't have a one size fits all resume. Is it worth your time though? What do you ultimately want to do?
Yes, some early stage startups hire interns. It's normally easier to get a job at a large company offering internships. That way, you get the corporate experience early and realize how much better it is to work for startups.
If you apply out of city, consider costs maybe. Generally, it's more fun and adventurous and you're isolated so you end up learning a lot more somehow.
Negotiate payments when they tell you how much you're offered. Generally, if it's your 1st internship, you have no leverage to negotiate.
Failed attempts should just be considered incomplete projects. Don't list them as experience.

Now, my personal advice is this: if you know what you enjoy doing, try and be a little picky. If you settle for any internship just for the experience, you may become experienced in something you don't enjoy doing. Then, it would be rather difficult to express in your resume that though you are vastly experienced in one thing you really want to be doing something else.

Hope it helps.
I guess I was assuming that the request was to remove flash entirely and prohibit its addition through plugins. If the question is bundle versus don't bundle, my answer is confusion at the difference in end result. It's not an apples to apples comparison because not bundling H.264 is essentially the same as making it entirely unavailable.
I wrote something similar just the other day :)

I don't write daily though, only when I feel like it.
It's not a bad looking design, but it is a somewhat strange attempt to bring an iOS-specific UI element to a desktop application.
>never realised what Selective Gaussian Blur was really useful for

This is probably the filter I use most - basically it smooths colours that are close positionally and colourwise to avoid graininess. A good way to clean up images quickly though it can look unnatural if done too much.

I often use a little SGB and then a little Unsharp Mask when touching up images for low-res or online output.

I'm not professionally trained but do use this for commercial purposes and have for some time.
Some parts of Android graphics are GPU accelerated, and the vast majority of Android devices accelerate video decoding (though codec support does vary, and up till now doesn't generally include VP8, though the TI OMAP hardware at least can be updated to support it).
I appreciate cosmetic improvements as much as the next guy, but my cynical bastard side thinks that cell phones are cheap and ostentatious (because real people actually pay for them) and pension/health benefits that are systematically looting the Californian pocket are expensive and stealthy (because we have convinced ourselves that no one needs to know the cost of these things).

$34 will pay the deferred benefits of, e.g., a California teacher for maybe a few hours if that.
I watched "ILM - Creating the Impossible" on Encore on Demand the other night, and it was well worth the watch. There is quite a bit devoted to the relationship between ILM and Pixar, and a number of historical anecdotes like this article that are very interesting.

If you haven't seen it, check it out before they drop it. Of course, The Pixar Story is worth watching as well (same people, I think).
Evolution of the Batmobile [infographic]
If you look at it from the perspective of the provider, the standard is h.264 files on the server, and various avenues through which you can deliver it. Saying WebM is tied for second place is vastly overstating its proximity in popularity space to h.264.
I agree with failures, although many employers want to know WHY something failed - and what you would do next time to avoid said failure.

It's ok to fail but it's not ok to fail and not know why and what you learned from it. Least from my experience.
Many employees these days at (mature) companies only make their work cell phone number available in the company listing - so, if they need to be reached after hours, or in an emergency, the company provides them with a cell phone.

On the flip side, little things like cell phones, coffee machines, free water, laptop refreshes every three years - these are the things that Government Jobs are notorious for stripping away and making those jobs much less attractive to star performers. It's kind of like a spectrum, with Facebook/Google on one side, and Government positions on the other.
dear god, how tired I am of this "no one will be obliged" argument!

no one is obliged to have an iphone or credit card too. that doesn't mean that a lot of people can't have them, and the fact that they got them voluntarily (or more likely trough carefully crafted advertisement) doesn't mean that companies providing them can now do as they wish with their customers!

believe they'll gain some advantage through doing it - so conversely you could argue that by offering this service Credit Suisse are doing their customers a favour

you're doing your customers a favor when you're actually giving them some advantage, not making them believe in you doing so.
Could you expand? This doesn't compute to me, so maybe I'm missing something. Caltech is a school. It is structered as a school. If you hate school, why go to school? There are other ways to learn, and if I'm a Caltech admissions officer I already reject a full class of students who would love to attend and have great qualifications. So why accept someone who would neither want to attend, and probably shouldn't.
Read the article - he's not proposing to do away with state-issued phones altogether.
Assange could face execution or Gitmo, lawyers claim
Excellent. Another dark pool for people who think that they are safe. There are already have a bunch of these, Crossfinder, Liquidnet etc.

Here's how you game them without being detected. Have your long term hedge fund/mutual fund department set up an connection to that market. Make sure that you only do long term investing on these venues (e.g., buy blue chip stocks that have low PE) so that they don't ban you.

Now you feed the information about displayed liquidity on high volatility stocks that you are interested in trading (e.g., small biotechs) from those exchanges. Especially this new one that isn't even a dark pool but has displayed liquidity.

Now next you use that information to front-run the mutual funds who are trying to execute their VWAP in other exchanges such as BATS. Most investors don't have access to dark pools and dark pools aren't obligated to conform to NBBO, so you could get cheaper shares elsewhere and sell when the VWAP is reported in the next hour/end of trading day by dark pools.

Other way you can play this is play the liquidity rebate game. So much rebate, $.14/100 shares. Just trade C all day long, high liquidity, low slippage. Offer and buy back at same price as long as C doesn't slip too much. Guess who's paying for the rebates, the mutual funds who's taking the liquidity. Wall Street, what a scam.
I agree now after seeing this: http://arewefastyet.com/
My boss does everything Visio. It imports and exports to CAD so we can communicate with the rest of the world. It might be worth looking into.
Their implementations of the HTML5 <video> and <audio> draft standards work only with royalty-encumbered codecs. (The licensing is currently royalty-free for publishers and end users, but not for device manufacturers or browser vendors.)
"Is SwipeGood a non-profit?

Our goal is to make giving to charity as easy and as impactful as possible. By structuring ourselves as a for-profit business, we believe we can make a much larger impact on the world and help non-profit organizations become more efficient in their fundraising efforts."

So, no.
Show HN: Monday Night Project
I took a break from my regular projects and work to have a little test of MVP speed. I tried to see if I what I could get posted in a evening's worth of work.

For all you data nerds out there that use Excel to do some formatting and data manipulation that requires removing blank rows, I created this site and add-in last night for Excel 2007 and greater users.

It has a user guide/video, accepts payment through Amazon, and instead of removing blank cells...it actually deletes blank/empty rows. [Control]+[R] will be your friend.
I've kept a journal off and on since my junior year in high school (20 years) and while I'd never claim to be a great man, it certainly is fascinating to look back over time at the things I was going through, the things I chose to write about, the times I wasn't writing, etc. I've found patterns (like I don't write in the summer much which corresponds to pretty much everything else - summers in Texas are brutal), worked through personal issues and of late, I've started working on convincing myself to do something completely different with my life by examining my meditations in the journal.

I tend to find writing easy but I think even jotting down what you did in a day could be useful on all kinds of levels. I recommitted myself this year to journal regularly every morning when I wake up and so far, it's been a fun and enlightening experience.
It's also nice for them not to have to build a down payment for a house. Where does this logic end?
You'd need a pretty hefty support library to add the JVM-provided features Scala relies on. Garbage collection is obviously a major one, but there are also the pieces of the standard Java libraries that Scala builds on top of (though I'm not sure how deep those dependencies run).

GCJ attempted to do this for straight Java; I don't believe many people consider it a success.
The first time I saw it, I thought the Cars 2 trailer was fake.
It may be an expression of hubris (and always a liability). I'm not really trying to imply a causal relationship.
I have been following http://usehipter.com when it was just for boulder, you can explore some of the stuff it has too offer from here. http://boulder.usehipster.com/explore

The site is a question and answer site on what cool stuff there is to do unless they are going to pivot on their launch.
Here is a related interesting article on what any industry can learn from this incident in regards to risk management and regulatory oversight.

Two pointers:
1) Ensure layers of controls are implemented and tested for known risks.

2) Do not underestimate or ignore the low risk vulnerabilities. It does not take many in aggregate to result in catastrophe.

http://www.redspin.com/blog/2011/01/07/lessons-learned-from-...
Piano and Violin and Asian Parents - How good intentions backfire
YouTube depends on Flash for its most profitable enterprises, which are advertisements before the video you're trying to watch, rental, and so forth. I don't know why they can't implement pre-show ads in HTML5, but rentals, etc., can't be done in HTML5 because they require DRM.

There was a big post a while back about all the things YouTube needs to do in Flash instead of HTML5. The fact of the matter is that HTML5 video puts several of YouTube's main money-makers out of order, at least temporarily while the logic is re-implemented.

Edit: The post from YouTube about why they still need Flash is at http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html .
The Story outline for cars might seem "terrible," but think about every Pixar movie's outline before you actually saw it? A movie about Toys? A Movie entirely about Rats--whose going to watch that? A Robot who doesn't talk, for how long?

And yet, each and everyone of those movies were astounding, at least in my opinion, but critics and box office receipts prove my point too.

Yes, sequels have a tendency to be purely money ploys, but luckily Pixar's sequels almost exceed the originals (Toy Story 2 and 3). I'd give the future films a chance before you even see a trailer for them.
Completely agree, this is similar to what I do. It's worth noting though that there are some brands that don't do high-end that are worth considering, in some markets. Buying the most expensive stuff is never good value, the law of diminishing returns kicks in.
CurveDNS: DNS proxy implementing DJB's DNSCurve
It's great to see that level of commitment to a team, but it was also a smart move - those guys knew that the intellectual capital sitting in those employees heads was one of Pixar's biggest assets. Get rid of them so they can go work for a competitor? Nuts.
If you don't know much about a given job it looks low risk. But a successful doctor, etc. have taken many risky decisions, with not enough information.
Read my comment - I specifically said "Sadly many of the union contracts specify employees be provided a cell phone so he's only going to get so far with this."

The order is simply too broad for him to have taken time to evaluate each position and decide who does and does not need a cell phone. Given that I will bet you all the money I have the cell phones he's taking away are the non-union employees and the ones who are getting to keep them are union employees.
Try solidworks. It's the only one I learned in engineering school but is really intuitive for a CAD (autocad sucks, but that's because it was hard for me and I never learned it).

Also sketchup will give you the fundamentals for free.

I'd say it is worth it to learn the basics of anything you'll be having employees do for you. It's good to know what you're asking for and the scope so that you can connect to your employees more easily. I wouldn't become an expert at it though if you are not planning on using it too much.
> before you even see a trailer for them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFTfAdauCOo
Here's my brutal honesty:

1) The cute homepage image is a waste of space and makes no sense for your target market.

2) Having your menu below the fold makes no sense at all. I bet your bounce rate is really high.

3) Pricing page could use some clarity...The images make no sense, the price well, the whole page is unclear.

4) The handwriting on your screenshots make them really hard to read. On some of the screenshots it looks like you have threaded messages, but the threads look like they're inversely indented. First message shouldn't be more indented then following messages.

5) "Small town values bug and issue tracker" Says: is a terrible tag line. Your tag line should say who your targeting and why they should be interested.

"Simple issue tracking for designers" -- If your a designer here's a SIMPLE way to track issues.

"The most powerful issue tracker for manufactures" Says: If your a manufacture, we have a highly configurable system to meet your needs.

Your tag line says: "Meh?"

I think you're trying to stand out with some cute web design, but really you could use a very standard template. You really need to work on WHO should use your service and WHY. Go to woothemes and use wordpress. Websites are a time suck, use a CMS and spend the extra time on your product.

Probably worth the 20 bucks:
http://47hats.com/ebooks/
For one, the classical homo-economimus model of humans as rational utility maximizers is further called into question.

While I wouldn't argue that humans are rational utility maximizers, this result doesn't call that into question in and of itself: there could easily be utility functions which depend on relative status or position, rather than absolute material wealth.
If you're a MySpace engineer that was laid off, hit me up: bpaetzke@leads360.com. I'm a software engineer at a .NET startup in El Segundo, CA that's hiring.
As a person who encodes video for the web for a living I can tell you we won't be switching to WebM because of iOS and other hardware devices that have hardware based decoding.

H.264 is the closest thing to a ubiquitous codec there is and assuming Chrome correctly updates the "canPlayType" javascript function I won't even have to update our players to provide Chrome users with the crappy Flash player.

As a Chrome user, I'll be switching to Safari so I can continue to get the working HTML5 player.

We'll consider switching once Apple adds support for WebM and the millions of old iOS devices are obsolete. In other words it's H.264 for us for the next 3 years.
I don't understand what you're trying to imply. My point is just that money is useful and it can make your life and the lives of your family easier, and that there are reasons for wanting it other than not being Buddhist enough.
Not just strange – incorrect. iOS UI vocabulary is designed for touching. You have a big meatstick you can freely move around and squash against whatever interests you.

This does not apply to the desktop. On the desktop, you have a plastic puck you need to shove around a surface, which moves a pointer to a designated area. At the most advanced, you're massaging a glass tile, for the same effect. By merit of these facts, the interface must work differently.

It's a lazy design, by someone who couldn't be bothered to learn the correct UI paradigms for a desktop app. It doesn't make them a bad person, it doesn't mean they caused any grievous offense, it simply means they made a bad design. This isn't subjective.
IT Auditing: Raising Awareness
Really? How about the risk, that one won't be able to complete his degree, after investing a lot of money and time? Or that he'll make a mistake, which will get him blacklisted from good jobs.

One knows all the risks involved in his job, and few in other's jobs.
True, but it sure makes for an effective marketing hack targeting a certain internet subculture...
The Balsamiq Mockups Manifesto
Yeah, and it's funny how Android is never called Android Linux or God forbid GNU/Linux/Android and you know somehow Android seems qualitatively different from Linux but it's not! Just re-skinned; although it is a heck of a re-skinning.

I'm going to pop 10.10 the most Maverick of Meerkats onto my Macbook in a couple of days to see how well it plays with the hardware. I've dual-booted Windows and Linux countless times but Mac hardware seems trickier by the looks of it - they've got this EFI thing (is it?) and not the BIOS yer granma knows and loves so it'll be a chain of new tech for me until I get them OSX and 10.10 working side by side. (Funny, all the tens.)

Yeah, Upstart is a good attack at an old problem.
ffmpeg only has a working webm decoder. xvp8 (the x264-based encoder) hasn't been touched for a few months and is basically vaporware.
This is nice to say and I don't disagree with the sentiment but people need to get real. The unions are the democratic base. No one denies that. A Democrat can't govern without their support and they aren't going to budge on pension/health benefits. So any reform in that area is a non-starter. Even if Jerry Brown wanted to do it there's no way the legislature would support him on it.

I'm not attacking him by saying that. I'm stating what I believe is the fact. He can't force the unions to do anything and they aren't going to give ground willingly. So it's simply beyond his power to do no matter how badly he might want to.
This is Jerry setting a tone familiar to people who look at history. Last time he was governor, he ordered the sale of the Governer's mansion (to this day, governors must provide their own housing). He did not use the state's limo service but, rather, drove himself in a modest car.

This time around ... although it his own campaign money, not state money that pays for the inauguration ... he served hot dogs at the inauguration party rather than a fancy meal.

These are, in a way, theatrical gestures but they are neither empty gestures or pure pandering to the public.

They aren't empty because, for example, saving $20M on the state's cell phone bill won't balance the budget, but it is a hefty chunk of change.

They aren't pandering to the public because, as much as anything, the symbolism here is addressed inward on state government. If the governor is doing lots of stuff like this cutting at the top, then on down the hierarchy it becomes potentially embarrassing and career risking for high level civil servants and appointees not to follow in the same spirit. In other words, Jerry's gesture here helps to create a new political weapon: embarrassing someone that is choosing to protect rather than cut dubious perks. (Additionally, this circumstance makes it easier for lower-ranking bosses to cut discretionary perks that they control without invoking a riot among staff.)

Finally, this kind of thing is critical armor against the reverse political attack. In this case, for example, the unions can't get in his face and say "How can you expect us to cut salaries or benefits when your own staff and others are wasting state money on stuff like cell phones?"