skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't understand why chrome's current bookmark-sync goes into google docs rather than their existing bookmarks site. I can't decide whether it's people not talking to each other, /bookmarks being unable to handle the load (which again would point to its priority in the scheme of things), some grand plan that hasn't been unveiled yet, or something else.

It's certainly a royal pain though, because it's still useful the way my bookmarks show up at the top of search results -- now I just need a painless way to get them in there!
I'm glad to see this. I for one am looking forward to the day when javascript is at the point where it offers a level of programing ease for animations, etc, that you get with flash. (It may have happened already, last time I did lingo programming it was called lingo, and I am not conversant with the state of the art in javascript.)

Or it seems that CSS is supporting animations and maybe that is a better choice over javascript? (because the browser, I presume, can optimize CSS a lot easier than javascript which can have arbitrary functionality.)
I think django should include magic to fall back to 2.x version when and where 3.x is not available. May be via configuring multiple virtualenvs.
Hmm flashblock is triggered for some reason but works anyway.

Those menus are rather distracting and complicated for an average consumer site.

ps. OT but the "Leaf" is not available in green ???
Absolutely, Audiotool is amazing.
I really like what they did with the nissan site, but you can still see that it doesn't flow as smooth as flash.
Dead simple real-time GPS location sharing
svg. doc is similar to html (nodes in a tree structure) and it can be scripted(js). Animation scripted by hand or using an external lib like jq.
I like this from the comments

"C#

Well, you're a big girl now -- all grown up and the heiress of a promising diamond mine.
But you're also a politician bucking to be the first female president. You've promised to be everything all of your predecessors were and everything they could not be.

You look strangely familiar like an old girlfriend who has had a facelift and who has been in the witness relocation program. The wig and wheelchair don't fool those who can smell your scent and those of us who see that little switch at the back of the wheelchair that says "/unsafe" which is a euphemism for "release the whore" or
“Unleashed! Now Scks And Fcks Everybody.”

Once flipped, you'll be doing all of the nasty things we secretly like, but hired you not to do. But once we know you can be that whore, that's all you'll ever be... and at the dinner-party / political fund-raiser, your diamonds will still sparkle. Wipe your mouth, honey.
"
It didn't even occur to me that left and right lanes get confusing. My apologies.

My confusion about the multi-lane roundabout mostly stems from the scenario where two cars, entering from streets 90* in the direction of the flow apart, both want to go straight through. If the one entering 'upstream' takes the inner lane and the one 'downstream' takes the outer lane, it would seem that in some timing conditions you'd get a collision situation when the inner lane car tries to exit but must cross the outer lane to do so. Is this a practical concern? Is there a universal set order of precedence for this case, e.g. inner lane always yields if necessary?
Paul Graham: Hackers and Painters (15 pages)
Their feedback form doesn't work in Safari. The site feels like a Flash site, but doesn't use flash, which is nice!

It also works on my iPad. The 360 is a bit slow but it's there.
Perhaps this time, it's warranted.

Apple's new policy raising the price of all media on all networks? It's possible because Apple is the biggest (by far) tech company in the world.

Though if they're looking at Apple, maybe they should look at Amazon also - the do similar things with their suppliers.
Flashblock might be triggered due to SoundManager 2.

Which is funny, considering in many cases it's probably Flash handling the audio for this, and thus the title is inaccurate.
Nice and all, but the scroll bars don't work on the iPad, nor is there a way to scroll the tag list on the left. A step in the right direction though.
I think what a lot of people don't realize is that most of the things that government does for us right now can and would be handled through property rights and voluntary contracts if government were limited to a minimal role.

For example, a group of property owners could agree to a contract that controls whats on sale at stores in their collection of properties, decide what channels are available on its cable tv system, ban smoking of tobacco and even combine their bargaining power to get better deals on credit cards, lawn mowing, etc.

I think we'd certainly see such systems evolve if government restricted itself to just enforcing property rights and contracts. There is nothing about this that conflicts with property rights, as long as people can enter and leave these contracts and the terms cannot be changed arbitrarily.

A lot of these things are impossible for government to do without stepping on the rights and preferences of large portions of the population. It tries and fails at many of them. It actually regulates very badly compared to standards that

For example, we still don't have smoke free communities. I doubt it will ever be mandated. But its been possible in private property forever. And smoke free communities can coexist with communities that allow smoking (except for whoever's downwind).

These neighborhoods would attract people who value the overall quality of life who may even disagree with some parts of the contract, but are willing to tolerate the rules to get the safety and health benefits or just to live with people like themselves. And there'd be others who'd prefer not to be involved with any such arrangements.
Ayn Rand would like her pulpit back. jk

In the examples you cite, the benefits of progress in technology confound the changes you attribute to developments in policy and government.

If we look to only the recent example of India, it's decreasing poverty rate has been decreasing prior to "lessening of the socialist burdens" that you cite between 1980 - 2000. On page 4, it appears to be trending down in the 1970s and actually becomes stagnant in the 1990s.

Secondly, in the same study, for the time period you cite, India's Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequity, goes up.

http://www.ekh.lu.se/ekhcgu/teaching/401d4/poverty%20in%20in...

I'm all for capitalism, but I think it's misleading to think that it's everything for everyone. There are a lot of examples of great capitalism models as well as socialist models, and I think the idea of excesses in unregulated capitalism (ie. the cost and moral hazard of healthcare) are extensively documented.
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The only thing you (likely) cant achieve with plain old html + javascript there is if the Flash is actually editing the audio itself (and is not just getting a server to do it).

I don't think thats a very common requirement: there are other, much more straight forward barriers to replacing flash with html + js, such as lack of dev/designer skills (ie. number of people whom can do that in flash vs whom can do it in html + js).
Why can't the beams cancel each other out in the air?
Ok, lets get serious here. $10B valuation / $250M revenue/year = 40x multiplier.

Do people really think that Zynga is going to continue to deliver for years and years to come?
You've got to convince the masses, that you can do Flash ... without flash first, before you can get them to stop using flash.
Make a RogueLike game in 7 days, 2011 7DRL challenge
I don't understand how we've gone from "Flash is crap for entire websites" (edit: which is almost always true) to "Flash is the devil in every situation". It has its place, Javascript will never and shouldn't try and "kill" Flash, they're different.
ambitious but not impossible
Any example(s) of informative comments which got downvoted because of this? links?
webOS looks great. Summer will be here before you know it.
The companies mentioned and their history since 1967:

Fairchild is still operational after a series of mergers and spin-offs.

Burroughs Corporation merged with Unisys in 1986.

Stromberg-Carlson, at the time owned by General Dynamics, was sold in parts in the following years.

H. H. Scott was eventually bought out by Emerson Electronics, but vintage, pre-IC Scott amplifiers are still popular with the audiophile crowd.
As above, it uses the Raphael JavaScript drawing and animation library.
I hope in a few years to be able to launch startupboat.

Snark aside, I used to work with a guy who lived on a boat in SF (for him it was cheaper than renting), and once a week or so, a bunch of us would actually work from the boat.
RedGate .Net Reflector Free Replacement Tools – ILSpy and Resharper Decompiler
I personally dislike symbol to proc for a reason I can't fully put into words so I would say
widgets.any?{|x| x.can_frobnicate?}
If you prefer Python, look at http://blogofile.com
Flash is here to stay until someone creates a designer-oriented HTML5/JS/SVG IDE analogous to Adobe's designer-oriented Flash/AS IDE. Even after that point, it'll be a while before we see Flash head out the door. There's a lot that HTML5 doesn't address yet.
The point is that if you had created the best buggy whip, you could corner the market for S&M products. You'd be making millions.

Idea and execution are 2 parts of the same thing. Start with idea, then you execute, you get stuck after which you tweak the idea and then your back to execution.

You can also start with execution: do consulting for a bunch of companies in the same space. Figure out a common problem to all(ie idea) and then you execute a solution.

Idea Is Execution.
Mobl – Open Source Language For Mobile Development
Poverty is the natural state of man. Its not until he could trade and keep the results of his efforts that he was able to start accumulating capital.

Government limited to the enforcement of property rights allows each of us to accumulate capital.

But some of us are smarter, work harder and defer consumption. They can accumulate more than others. There is nothing wrong with that.

Then mass production and mass media came along, enabling some to sell what they produced to millions of people and accumulating a lot more. Still no crime committed.

In fact, the average person benefits when others are able to produce a lot with little effort. Things become cheaper.

And those who save rather than consuming benefit us too. We can borrow their money and invest in improving our own productive abilities.

Its true that those who commit crimes and get away with it also can accumulate wealth, but that doesn't mean that those who've respected the rights of others don't deserve what they've accumulated.
My favourite was about how Microsoft "will include an algorithmic search engine bundled in its next generation of Windows products, due out next year."
Nokia's Flirtations Put the Fear of Google Into Microsoft
Externalities are one form. They are the source of imperfections in markets for scarce resources. Informational asymmetries are another source of imperfection. I don't think taxes and subsidies can help remedy them. Regulation that promotes information sharing is the only remedy I know.
I think its also worth noting that people from all over the world moved to the US to partake in the immense poverty.
Why Kenya's first Internet meme wasn't notable enough for Wikipedia ... On March 24, the Wall Street Journal’s Cassandra Vinograd commented on the story ... The article was deleted once again

Actually in the end, it was notable enough for Wikipedia. The article was not deleted again following the initial speedy deletions for copyright violation and the like. It was nominated for a full deletion discussion, but every single person other than the nominator voted "keep" [1]. Furthermore, the nominator (the guy who initiated the full debate) isn't exactly a model Wikipedian; he had been registered for less than half a year, and left in a huff just two months later after administrators told him to be more patient with some guy who had added unsourced names to a soccer roster article [2][3].

But it is doubtful whether Internet access alone will make people in developing countries contribute to Wikipedia ... As those from developing countries come online and try to edit the encyclopedia, a number of conflicts have arisen due to tensions between so-called ‘inclusionists’ and ‘deletionists’ in the encyclopaedia ... the homophily of the current network is coming up against its need to expand and diversify

Incidentally, one of the users who proposed the Makmende article for deletion (one of the other times, not the main debate above) is himself from a developing country [4]. And he's contributed to Wikipedia numerous articles about his home country (as well as others about Swedish, Taiwan, and Russian chemists) [5].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Woogee

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_not...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Makmende&actio...

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Salih
Unfortunately, the way the system is setup, things won't change anytime soon. The reality is: often cities' homelessness departments are prime locations for employing cronies and operatives.

For example: the City of San Francisco spends $70M per year (about $10K per homeless person, given that the population of the homeless is just under 7K). On top of that you have churches and other charities helping out. And yet I see homeless people all around, sleeping in doorways, on sidewalks, etc. Heck, in the shadow of City Hall you'll see dozens of homeless people.

But the department of homelessness (I don't recall the name of the department) was filled with people from (ex-mayor) Gavin Newsom's campaign staff (from his unsuccessful run for Governor). There is no accountability. There are no metrics on how many homeless people are in the City. All we have is a massive bureaucracy that is making a living off of claiming to help homeless people.
Aren't you the same guy that was "ecstatic" that Apple was taking a 30% cut of subscription revenue? Here you're worried about Amazon's easily-replaced static file hosting service, while having no problems becoming 100% dependent for key parts of your business on Apple. You criticize Amazon for censoring Wikileaks while Apple did the same (wikileaks app was pulled).

Sorry, I just had to point it out. :)
If you're not familar with the genre:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike
Unless ... You want to record video or audio from a user. Or run more than 5 fps in IE7 (about 25% of our users). Everyone says flash is a piece of crap but you can see from stuff like boxcar2d.com that can run for days without crashing or leaking. It's about how it's coded. There are tons of poorly programmed flashes out there but that doesn't make Flash bad. Flash has been abused but it's not the devil. far from it.
Believe it or not, I have had applicants who have felt entitled not only to $85/hour (52 weeks x 40 hours equates this to 176,000 USD for this particular programmer whose only skill is Basic and C#), who was even asking for equity at this rate. This guy was talking about serious CEO pay even though he didn't even know our main language (Ruby) and would presumably require time to be acquainted with it.

The bottom line is you need to account properly for the past, the present, and the future. We pay $75,000 or $45/hour (if contractor) for a programmer with 3-4 years of professional experience (add $10/hour to your rate if you are not salaried or there is no guarantee of continued work a la contractor. We talk equity later.
Well, those charities are able to scrape by due to necessity (if they had more resources the likelihood of some percentage of those resources being wasted increases as their resources do) and because the people are generally more committed. Government bureaucrats generally aren't that motivated to cut corners, nor do they care for much beyond getting their paycheck (and maybe moving up the ladder).
The title of Quora questions are usually that length. The tweet + link works well for many sharing situations.
As soon as the masses decide that HTML5 = "Flash, but better", everything that is bad about Flash will rapidly become everything that's bad about HTML5.

Changing the underlying technology will not change the people who use it.
I only learned to touch-type in my late twenties. It took my about two weeks of practising with gtypist for 20-30 minutes a day. I only type about 50-60wpm when I push myself (usually quite less), but even if you can only type 30wpm it's still an enormous improvement over hunt-and-pecking. It makes me cringe to think they're "teaching" MSOffice to school kids but can't be bothered to teach them basic typing skills.
PS the links for the video or any of the others around the car don't work.
Automation & Outsourcing
If by 'we' you mean Nissan, well... great.

Counterexample: http://blog.phono.com/2011/02/17/how-to-build-a-voip-based-b... (browser-based VOIP, Flash under the hood)

Bizarrely, Chrome has support for speech input on text-based forms which translates microphone input to text on their servers, but it doesn't expose direct access to the audio. Argh!
What's this then?

http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/js/js.swf__v2.0.2...
Impressive, to be sure. But terms like "anything" and "ever" are hyperbolic. Flash isn't going anywhere for years.
Excellent. Notice that the same shadow is missing on the last part of the track, at least in the part to the left of the vertical pillar.

Edit: http://i.imgur.com/Kqgtr.jpg
+1 for the reschedule in San Francisco.

Common experience is that once an employer knows you're stepping out and interviewing, you're already out. Especially if you haven't informed them you're looking, or at least asked them basic questions like: "I'm feeling limited in my role, do you have any ideas of how I can expand responsibility or learn new X"? If it's about money, bring that up and see what they say.

People can feel very betrayed when someone they like or value departs or plays games, for good reason, since obviously you don't value your current opportunity as much as your new one. Think of it like an intimate relationship. Especially in such a small company where you represent over 14% of the work force.

Interviewing while employed is something we'll all have to do once or more in our careers (especially in tech). Being graceful and honorable is fine, but at the end of the day, if you try and live a righteous life, you're going to find out that most people don't act like that. Especially when they feel betrayed.

However. Doing the right thing and protecting yourself does not give you the right to discharge your responsibilities. Certainly not something I would look for in a new hire.

If you haven't done so yet, explain, or even forward a sanitized agenda from Monday's meeting. Explain you can't make it as desired (Monday is a holiday I think), let your employers know you need personal time off after the demo and handle things like an adult.

As others have said several times, the new company will wait a day or two for you.

Your best bet is to knock the demo out of the park, show your value to your current employer and take the new offer with pride. You treat your old employer right when you run out of town to San Francisco, the better chance you'll have a reference or a job back there if things don't work out here.

Another thing to keep in mind if you're relatively new and only worked in small companies. In such a small setting, in such a lowered cost of living location like (anywhere in) Texas, you'll have a lot more work-habit related freedoms than in a larger organization.
"Someone" might be Adobe:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/preview-of-the-edge-p...
Is the number of LCD panel manufacturers limited by some universal constant or why Apple's competitors just don't build their own factories?
There is some flash on there (a video, under Specs > Features & Specs), but this is still a very impressive demonstration of how little it is actually required to achieve these kinds of effect.
“An owner’s manual” for Google’s shareholders (2004)
I would say no, but never underestimate the extent of human stupidity. All those bizarre Farmville-branded snacks and drinks at 7-11? Somebody's buying that crap.
Which is why it should be taught in school. It took me two weeks to learn to type in my late twenties. It's not like you'd ever forget the skill--or have the opportunity to forget with all the homework that needs to be done.
The story behind the laser itself is pretty interesting. It was largely built by people at a hacklab in Toronto. Here's a writeup from another member:

http://www.andrewkilpatrick.org/?p=laser_cutter

During the build, we noticed the sound of the stepper motors was unusually melodic. The sound it made while tracing an arc was inescapably musical.

One night, I just hacked up a Ruby script to translate a simple ASCII music notation into movement commands. This is actually quite simple. Feed rate * DPI gives you pitch and distance / feed rate is note duration. All the axes are intersected to create a single list of movements. When multiple axes are moving, a bit of trig is used to calculate the right feed rate.

The acceleration limits also have to be disabled on the machine.

Here is the code. It should work with any G-code based CNC machine:

https://github.com/jedediah/lasermuzak
There are two people I love more than cats, despite conventional hatred of them as a class of people:

My CPA and my Attorney

While it may seem expensive now, spending $2500 in consultation will save you a heck of a lot more in tax liability or legal action down the road.

One of the first markers for success is the willingness to pay for experienced and informed advice. Don't mess around and call an EA/CPA/accounting service tomorrow.
Anyone know which agency did this?
I assumed it was a <video/> element that Firefox wouldn't render because it used H.264 video, but no... it's an ordinary Flash video. How odd.
I may have misunderstood your first point but one of the primary reasons Apple is purchasing so many screens is to purposefully reduce the amount of components on the market to block out competitors from reaching demand.
Less than half the resumes we've received have fit on a single page. I simply do not believe anyone who says they discard anything after the first page of a resume.
I definitely want this feature as well. But I feel like it won't happen for a while because to make this happen Amazon incurs additional overhead for caching the gzipped version.
Yes, but someone has to determine whether the evidence is real Typically this is a judge's job, isn't it?

Of course there isn't and shouldn't be protection for the continued operation of a child porn website, but shouldn't it be found to be one first? You seem to be saying "yes," but that the evidence should be given to I don't know...a dude at Comcast or wherever? I'm fuzzy on this last part.
Why Australia’s second dot com boom has just begun
SourceForge.net Gets A Makeover
Well, to me it's good news, the web will be a lot snappier when it's fully integrated. No more clunky plugins. No matter what Adobe says, the Flash plugin still manages to crash a lot here, increases memory usage, and loads the CPU like crazy.

There are certainly a few corner cases left in which flash remains a better fit, but it's losing territory, fast. Good work Nissan.
Much better link with more details:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-kall/former-cia-agent-ray-...

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=N-Vy8fFnz18#t=0m20s

If I am understanding this correctly, all this guy did was stay standing with his back to the speaker.

That's some insane abuse if true.
The Scala language report does include an Extended-BNF syntax for the language, weighing in at 7 pages.