skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are not mistakes as much as they are inevitabilities. No business wants to cannibalize sales or reduce their prices but these results are almost a given with any form of digital distribution. The music industry tried to avoid this and failed miserably and the film industry will suffer the same fate. The place to look for lessons to be learned is possibly in publishing where so far e-books have been introduced at much the same price-point as the paper versions they might replace. This is greatly aided by the proprietary platforms for delivery so it is not clear whether a similar strategy could the pursued. That Netflix exists and is successful makes this unlikely. It is indeed an interesting time to be in the film business.
Smalltalk and System/38 did this in the mid-70s. System/38 code can be run on IBM Power Systems (AS/400) made today. Open Cobalt (Croquet) does peer-to-peer virtual reality by passing Smalltalk bytecode around. Read up on some computing history before flaming.
They show a (creepy) graph that appears to grow exponentially. http://s3.amazonaws.com/fromus/media/facebook_users_who_have...

But they fail to grasp the absolute reality of their chart which is that it can not grow exponentially. It is guaranteed to remain near constant with bounds much less than one order of magnitude.

As any anthropologist will tell you, fertility, mortality and migration are the determinants of population growth and decline. They are well understood metrics and processes that surround them. And none of them appear exponential for anything more than a tiny brief period of time.

And yes, this blog post is absurdly creepy. This is why morticians don't blog.
Terminal emulator using the #html5 FileSystem API
Technically, it's not illegal to sell a GPLed application. The GPL attempts to confer true freedom to whoever has the code. They may do anything with it... except one thing: they can't make it (or any derivative version of it) non GPL and take away the freedom from whoever else gets the code.

The question is, should people be prevented from charging money for something that is GPLed and someone else can get it for free? I guess the answer is no. After all, if these guys aren't violating the GPL, anyone can download the program and then offer it on Amazon for a dollar, undercutting them.

The real question is, can you make restrictive trademarks etc. around a fork of a GPLed product? I think you are legally allowed to. In this case, you can actually go after people who try to undercut you, on trademark grounds. And if that is the case, you will get a bunch of people who don't realize that there is a free version called something else. Business opportunity for unscrupulous people right there! Heh... they can claim to give "support" for their trademarked version of the program.

Of course, if the original software is licensed under MIT, BSD or something that doesn't enforce propagation of the license, then the person selling a fork of the program can do whatever they want. This happens all the time.
I'm so impatient!

From:
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/gs...

AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud without having to worry about the infrastructure that runs those applications. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is designed to reduce management complexity without restricting choice or control. You simply upload your application and AWS Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. AWS Elastic Beanstalk uses highly reliable and scalable services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Simple Notification Service, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling to deploy your application within minutes. You can also perform most deployment tasks such as changing the fleet size or monitoring your application directly from the AWS Elastic Beanstalk web interface
Ajax.org Code Editor demo
1. Enemy crushing.

2. Forward-before driving of enemies.

3. Ability to hear and enjoy the lamentations of enemy women.
And the source code: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace
Arguing Over the Jobs Slump
There was an excellent comment on a previous article that I can't find now, someone said, when you join a company, it's because you meet their minimum requirement. You work hard and in a few years, you're a badass at what you do - but because the change was gradual, no-one really notices it. The only way to monetize your new level of skill is to jump ship and join another company as "the guru".
The author is not an economist.

Just like people writing about science in the newspapers are rarely actual scientists, people writing about economy in the news are rarely economists.
Nobody here is ever going to send over 2^68 bytes of data
in a single session.

I think that's a flawed assumption. I don't think you shouldn assume that there will ever be a certain limit on the amount of data sent in a single session. People are paid (mountains worth) just to work toward breaking that assumption in the fastest time possible.

Anytime someone is paid money to break barriers I avoid betting against them.
There's not a problem with labeling technologies. The problem is that those labels get hijacked by marketing and management types who see a well-done website and assume that it looks pretty because it's that magic HTML5 thing they read about last week, then they start advertising for HTML5 devs and touting their HTML5 products and blathering on about things they really have no idea about and just confuse the whole field and practice.

It's "DHTML" all over again.
A soft voice and a steady hand.
At this point, I'd be a little disappointed too, if iPad 2 doesn't have the doubled display. But the article is definitely convincing.

I'm a nerd, so it would disappoint me. But I think in general, Apple already still has such an enormous lead in the tablet "market". I don't expect them to rest on this for iPad 2, but I also don't think it would be devastating for iPad 2 to keep the same resolution as the original.

iPad's display only started to look lacklustre to me after spending a few weeks with iPhone 4.
I guess the answer is basically this: under case law and statutory law, the person can resell one copy of it for any price if they have never been exposed to the license. However, the judge/jury may not believe that is likely. They may invoke some tort or delict saying that you should at least look at a work's license before selling it to someone else.

In any case, you cannot make a copy of the product and must resell the original product which you bought, due to copyright law. Personally, I don't think copyright models reality really well, so there will be lots of these problems.
Clearly someone who "once handrolled his own html code and then uploaded it using UNIX commands" is simply too Awesome for Facebook.
persistence, persistence, persistence
Keep in mind that the majority of the success and growth in the companies in the Dow happened BEFORE they were added to the index, so it isn't factored in. If holding the top 30 US companies was inherently a market-beating strategy, investing would be easy.
What good points? He vaguely references his sources, makes an unsubstantiated claim that there couldn't possibly be enough RAM to drive a 2k display, and makes an unsubstantiated claim that such a display would be cost prohibitive.

I agree that cost and performance would be two huge obstacles, but the iPhone 4 seems to have overcome similar obstacles. Also, those double resolution graphics seem pretty telling.

Of course, I've been planning on buying a new iPad if the display rumors are true. I'm probably exhibiting some wishful thinking. (An iPad at its current resolution and size will never interest me.)
FWIW, the longest stretch of interstate without services is I-70 in Utah, at 106 miles. I don't think I-80 has any >100 mile stretches without gas, but possibly 80 mile stretches.

Off interstates though, the west can get pretty empty. This is near the Nevada/Oregon border:

http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv114/cherokeeprogressive...
I wish I could sign on to the damn thing and not have the first thing I feel be exasperation at the aggressive dimness of it UI and its functionality.

People use Facebook because they see past the "website" and read the content. They communicate with their friends and family. How many non-technical people have you ever heard complain about email apps? They don't because they use email to communicate, not to use an email app.

If the first thing you feel is "exasperation at the aggressive dimness of it UI and its functionality" then you need to find some new people to connect with so that you're actually interested in reading what they have to say.
Apple is ahead of the game much of the time, but not all of the time. They seem to have this weird, innate ability to know when its best to be first, and when its best to be... well, best. This issue (iPad resolution) is a good example.

My guess? Apple will wait for the BlackBerry Playbook, which has close to the specs Gruber mentions Apple will need to support the "iPad retina display", and see how it affects (1) the price and (2) the battery life of the Playbook. I expect screen size and resolution to be a big differentiator if we ever start seeing the plethora of Android tablets we've been promised as well, which will lead to fanboyism criticizing Apple's decision to leave the iPad's resolution at its current state until 2012.

But, if the iPad 3 does have a 'retina display', I expect it will also have battery life and system performance that will make its competitors look silly by comparison.

I think Apple, having been first into the tablet market will wait to do that tablet's resolution right.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_PlayBook
Nissan are showcasing the Leaf and installing a network of charging stations are being installed in my part of town (Lisbon, Portugal). The cars are quieter than others but not close to silent since the tyres still generate the same amount of frictional noise from the road as a regular car.
In my opinion, it seems fine for someone to submit their own work under another title than Review / Show HN. I look at the quality of the content rather than title but if the title was overly spammy ("Forget Backbone: Learn about the world's best ....") I'd have an issue with that too.
0-5 year olds are especially at risk (compared to older pre-teens) for sexual abuse from some significant number of sick (mostly male) adults? Or your 6+ year olds will be trained to defend themselves?
I know that for my undergrad, college seemed to be an extension of high school- and both the slackers and the non-slackers went to college. Now that I am in grad school, I don't notice many, if any, slackers.

Does anyone have any similar stories?
Well, given that here in Australia our banks guarantee all the money stolen through skimming, then yes, it is in the banks favour to upgrade.
Please don't just kill this again -- I cleaned this post up as my wording the first go around was unnecessary, but I think there is a valuable point here.

I don't find this to be the case at all... though I do find it to be the assumption made by many who don't actually use reddit. I just checked the top few threads to ensure I don't have confirmation bias (heh, though I understand the futility of such an exercise). Reddit is VERY good about not letting people piggy back on top posts and their "best" algorithm does not sort according to score. It sorts according to how those who voted generally vote, and based on how the majority has voted, both up and down, regardless of overall positive or negative score for the post.

The notion that replies are contextual relevant to their parent comment on reddit is a TESTAMENT to my original claim:: That reddit does a good job of exposing, even new posts, in inundated threads.

(As usual, it surprises me how much if the "our community is better that there" rhetoric goes on here, while simultaneously, we seem to mock that idea of communities making that judgemental statement.)

edit: And even so, is it a bad thing if non-relevant intriguing content is upvoted? Just click the [-] if you don't want to see it... but that's the very nature of discussion. Things go off topic and humanity learns as a result.
In war time, the economy appears to stall, since the growth is concentrated in war-related products which do not influence indicators like the consumer price index. After the war ends, the industry goes back to normal and the CPI `catches up', making it look like the war boosted economic growth.

That's how we explained it when I studied economics, at least IIRC.

Edit: just noticed the website name. "The Christian Science Monitor". I feel slightly cheated.
Good point.

I think Listen's bugginess would only be mildly irritating if more critical (and official) Google apps like Voice didn't have almost-dealbreakers cropping up so often.
I found his stance to be quite smug but he got his opinions across. I agree with him that it helps the 'normal' people interact with each other without jumping through loops but I think that is more a benefit than a critique.
The bugs here have generally little to do with how much data you send.
In the same way that "most accidents happen within 5 miles of home" is true but wouldn't be true any longer if you intentionally increased the amount of time spent driving farther away, if you made sure your kids hung out with a variety of strangers more often than with people you know, then it wouldn't be true any more than most of their abuse would come from family or friends.

At least, you can't deny that it's possible. In other words, your reasoning is wrong ("So ..."), no matter the actual truth value of your conclusion.
It was referenced in http://xkcd.com/323/ but I can't find a proper reference either.
"THE HTML5 SHIRT — BUY IT! Every Man, Woman and Child can show their HTML5 Pride!"

As long as you wear a XL or smaller.
Even after one round, repeating that knocks down your plaintext-space to 256 bit strings (or however long the output is of the hash function that you are using). Tom/Colin, is this actually a problem?
The iPhone 4's display density at it's size had precedent. A high volume, remotely affordable, production 260+ PPI panel anywhere near as large as the iPad doesn't exist anywhere.
Stories like this are correlated with people muttering about "correlation is not causation". It's a cause for concern.
> Apple will wait for the BlackBerry Playbook, which has close to the specs Gruber mentions Apple will need to support the "iPad retina display", and see how it affects (1) the price and (2) the battery life of the Playbook.

(1) is a trivial lookup in a spreadsheet somewhere in Apple
(2) is likely the same; if not it's about half a day's work to do the calculations.

Do you really believe figuring out (1) and (2) is so complex they have wait for somebody else to do it first?
And still other times you need secret & random nonces (as for DSA), as Sony learned recently....
On the whole, I don't believe this. It reads like an outline of a rejected Dan Brown novel. It puts the 'F' in FUD.
Ah, I keep hearing from GPL advocates that anyone is "allowed" to sell GPL software.

And then when someone does it, like in this article, there is a big fuss.
Comcast: $10/month Internet—and cheap netbooks—for the poor
This is referring to children who have trouble sleeping, as opposed to children who choose not to sleep much.
To be honest I hear you, if you use semantic class names tied to a grid, and keep the class layering to a minimum it's totally fine. But I've just never found a use for CSS frameworks, SASS etc. (and I work on a relatively large public site). CSS has just never been the bottleneck for me, and the few times I've wanted to use variables and other complications have usually been for "clever" hacks, nothing production quality IMO.

As for your second point, it really depends on the coupling. If you are using a grid system, like I was talking about, it's pretty rare that you would ever want to restyle EVERY single 760px wide div (which just leads to more class layering and more of a headache).
What? A state-funded program that appears to have been somewhat hampered by bureaucracy?

Say it ain't so! ;)
Only if he uploaded it via his own hand-crimped ethernet cables.
He's smarter than "normal" people, and jealous that they're making Facebook lots of money.
Some ATMs take a picture or video of a customer and timestamp them, at least that's something for now.
That doesn't seem very "open".
More and more I find that for people I see in real life facebook has become fairly redundant. And facebook has just clarified the reason that I don't see most of my other 'friends' in real life; I'm not really friends with them anymore.
As time passes, and the users of the internet get more sophisticated, this wont seem so much like a rant, it'll seem like an opportunity for the next social networking phenomenon. The thing that replaces Facebook wont look much like Facebook. It will need to cater to what today seems like the power user.

Just my .02
I don't think these are technical problems for Apple (at least in terms of the question "do we include this feature"), but I have to believe Apple is interested in how successful those differentiators are once their competitors attempt to use them on the market.
> "Whoever did this needed to know WinCC programming, Step 7, they needed platform process knowledge, the ability to reverse engineer a number of file formats, kernel rootkit development and exploit development. That's a broad set of skills. Does anyone here think they could do all of that?"

Sure, I could do that and I am nobody special. That's absolutely nothing compared to the "minimum requirements" stated in most job ads for jobs that pay crap.
I think the 4 most important skills are:

Curiosity - I agree with yours

Time Alone - You learn best alone, you work best alone, and you are most creative alone. Being with friends and family for me is a release from this pressure to avoid burnout.

Perfectionism - Just look at what Steve Jobs has done with a certain level of this. Your work will always absolutely be the best possible.

Competetiveness - You should WANT to be the best at everything you do. This will be what motivates you to spend that time alone pouring over new material, working through a hard problem. This will make you become a perfectionist if you aren't one because the perfect creations will be the best. I feel this is the most important skill to have because it enforces many other traits all at once.
Twitter + Random Acts of Kindness = A Successful Social Campaign
I'm always interested to know why people think "because it doesn't exist, it can't exist".

Because batteries take hours to charge, rather than minutes, it makes long trips awfully impractical. That's just plain ol' chemistry getting in the way, absent some huge advance in technology. Some have suggested hot-swappable battery packs, but bearing in mind that battery packs weigh hundreds of kilos and degrade over time (meaning you can never be sure you're not going to get a shitty one) then it makes life tricky.

Personally I think the Chevy Volt has the right idea: combine fully-electric behaviour for short trips with the capability to do long trips by burning fuel. I'd definitely consider buying something with that kind of tech once it becomes available in a wider variety of cars.
If you send 2^68 bytes over a next-next-next-generation ethernet at 1 Tbps, you'll still run into the Y2038 bug before you finish.

Also, if you're sending more than 2^68 bytes of data, CBC is insecure too.
Well, would you mind humoring us? The unwashed masses...
I would incline more to libertarian views like this if the full downstream cost of your decision was brought back to you to pay. But it never is.

Example where I live: new building is almost all McMansions because the new wealth wants that crappy design. Trouble is, the buildings have no eaves, so they get really hot (+100F) in summer when the sun hits the walls. They must have air-conditioning. Electricity capacity wasn't designed for that, so we need new generators and an upgraded grid. All users bills have gone up by 50% in 3 years to pay for it.

Why are my bills going up? I haven't done anything. The McMansion owners should pay the full cost. The only way for that to happen is by government order, thereby defeating libertarianism. Or, design rules should be changed to forbid eave-less building, also defeating libertarianism. It's catch-22.
Care to elaborate on why you feel that way? I'm not a BSD user, but I am interested in why you might feel it a good alternative to Linux or OS X.
I was referring to the belief that 6+ year olds can be taught some things to avoid being exploited. At the very least they might be able to state that something has happened.
I consider this comment unlikely to be part of the front page, and am commenting so that I might find this later.
I'd rather see a hard limit on the number of top-level threads allowed than a "More."
Just make sure your counters can't wrap and you don't have this problem, noting that attackers will do things to try to force your counters to wrap.
The Poignant Guide is great for Ruby, which I highly recommend one has a decent understanding of before delving into Rails, but it is not very useful for Rails itself.

After understanding Ruby, http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ is where you should go to figure out Rails.
No developer can be across everything, but you do need to be learning a latest technology though, if only so that you can get a decent raise by either inflating your market rate, or by jumping ship when the pay difference gets too great.

The other option is to get a greater depth in one of your current skills so that you can be a 'guru of X', but you'll probably still want to have broad knowledge in related areas (eg. a guru web dev will need HTML, CSS, databases, Analytics, AJAX, etc.)
Retina display on iPad is 5x more pixels than retina display on iPhone. That takes significantly more processing power and RAM to deal with. Since the iPad is a $500 machine, the math doesn't work. It's prohibitively expensive.
You think the users of the internet are getting more sophisticated? I'd say the users of the internet are getting less sophisticated. In the 1970s nobody without a PhD used the internet. In the early 90s you still needed a helluva lot of technical skill. In the late 90s the internet was still a bit geeky. Nowadays everybody and everything is on the internet and we've gone from Eternal September to.... some more extreme version of Eternal September (I'm tempted to say Eternal April, but that would entirely destroy the point of the metaphor).
Senior engineers usually have a mortgage and kids.
I just registered, that's a clever way of collecting user links, through scraping status update.

It seems like the bookmarking scene is getting crowded again.

PS: I run a dead simple bookmarking app too - http://mybucket.co
Postbox is a nice alternative, though it is made from Thunderbird code by many of the people from the Thunderbird team. Still, they made the user experience much better...

Check it out at http://www.postbox-inc.com/, and there's a free, Express version available too.
MPlayer Ported for Android
Quite so. Firstly, it wasn't a very high total pixel count, it's still smaller than XGA which is considered the modern absolute minimum acceptable resolution for desktops and laptops. Secondly, it wasn't that much of a bump over the existing highest resolution displays of that size. The Motorola Droid used an 854x480 display at 265 pp and was released a year before the iPhone 4. A 50% bump in total pixel count and a 23% bump in linear pixel resolution is impressive, but hardly a quantum leap in engineering.

In contrast, the equivalent leap for the iPad would be to resolutions that only extremely high-end, very large LCD monitors display today (such as 30" displays) at pixel densities for the display size far beyond what anyone is producing in commodity hardware.