skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be innovative, but it also can be nightmare, if your application must support all interfaces. I believe abstraction layer in OS or language ease a bit, but won't fix that.

Nevertheless, I'm positive to that trend, actually cannot wait to see what innovative idea (and games on these) will come in near two years (and if I can bring anything).
Have they ever referred to it as a problem?

With Google, I always assume they want as much training data as possible for their machine learning. We all know about GOOG-411, right?

I bet they're thrilled. And if they get around to competing with LinkedIn and Indeed, they're going to have some great data to work with.
Weird that The Fighter wasn't mentioned, would be up there with inception in terms of good storytelling.
I continue to hope that Ragnar Tornquist will make another game as brilliant as The Longest Journey. If he can manage to inject some of the creativity of that game into his upcoming Lovecraftian MMO The Secret World, it could be superb.
With a single member route it's more concisely written like this:

namespace :products do
resources :comments do
get :like, :on => :member
end
end
Simple Telephony App TellFi (YCW11) Gives Small Businesses More Options
I don't have any personal experience with it (yet), but eBay's new "Instant Sale" appears to be offering upto $370 for a mint 16GB WiFi version with all the original bits.

http://green.ebay.com/instantsale/
If an applicant is judged to be a reasonable applicant, but is not hired, Google could refund the fee. Basically, you get your money back if you weren't completely insane to apply.

This probably introduces even more problems, but it's an idea.
Forcing users to do something isn't always necessarily a bad thing. It depends on the use case.

In general, no, I wouldn't want to tweet about a video before seeing it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a use inside of something larger.
The study doesn't appear to have what Robert Plomin would call a "genetically sensitive design"

http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567%2809%2963427-4/abst...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8624.00398/a...

(distinguishing related individuals who share genetic ancestry, for example twins, from individuals who share household environments, for example adoptive siblings) by its nature as a sample of children all born in short time window. But the data are interesting nonetheless.
But that only solves for the case of predictable events. If you want to remain agile, and do deployments on an as-needed basis, then you need to cache bust with file naming or query parameters as I mention in other msg. Again, I'm pretty sure this is the preferred method of most web teams, and also appears to be what Apple is doing (atleast with a subset of their assets).
I think asking "how many jobs does X create" isn't as useful an analytical framework as its inverse, "how productively does X allow its workers to create new things of value".
I was in Hong Kong a few months ago. Apple doesn't have any of their own stores there but I was surprised how many third party retailers picked up on doing things their way.

In the IFC, an awesome knockoff of a real Apple store sells Macs and iPads in a bright, open space, letting users kick the tires.

A Fortress store in Macau wasn't nearly as Apple-like as all that, but you could still poke around at a real iPad.

They may not be, themselves, in every single country, but 300 stores on four continents and in eleven countries is a much bigger hands-on presence than other competing tablet manufacturers can claim, without even getting into the third party distributors that cover even more of the globe.
It is possible for people to invent ideas independently. Also, maybe he just hasn't read Marx.

Furthermore, maybe he does, but I wouldn't call him 'lazy' for not providing some sort of citation: there's enough cultural baggage associated with Marx that as soon as you say that word, a certain portion of your audience's brains turn off.

Better to be 'lazy' and possibly reach some of those people than not.
Bill Gates on why the brilliant Khan Academy is a force of social change
A fee scheme relies on the applicant being very sure that s/he is what the company is looking for. The higher the fee, the more sure s/he has to be.

The problem is when applicants aren't really sure, and don't have quite enough information on what the company would view as a good candidate. Given some of the stories that have circulated in the press about Google's hiring criteria, I am pretty sure their is a chunk of candidates that Google would want that won't be sure enough to apply.
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The more I think about it I think you're right, but if you look at the way that games are made now, the costs and the audiences they have to reach, making a highly cerebral adventure game is quite risky. I don't see EA ever doing it for example.

I can see adventures working well in the casual gaming space, but I think that the mass appeal side probably needs to be there too.
In a sense, Netflix is making Hollywood compete with itself. If Hollywood doesn't make anything new worth watching, I'll watch something worth the time from years past.
Yea, the conversion barrier is a big one. The argument rested solely on the "expected value" of applying versus not, where E[applying] = E[marginal value] - E[marginal cost] = Pr(Will get a job and take it) * $4166 - $100. So if Pr(Will get a job and take it) >= 100/4166, then it would make sense to apply.

Of course, most people would not think like that, which is the problem.
Over the next 20 years, as startup costs drop, there's going to be a enormous number of technical people with real world experience in various markets that retire and would like something to do.

As long as those folks can manage to be hungry (this is the same problem successful founders find on the second startup), they are going to kick some serious booty. Even if only 1 in 100 can be motivated enough, the numbers will dwarf anything we've seen in the startup world to date.
Or, with the actual pricing compared to the competition, think of it this way:

The price model is competitive enough for the price to sink in hundred dollar decrements, although a 32GB flash memory chip is only $50. Maybe that's something you only can do if you expect to sell millions of them?
Sturgeon's Second Law applies just as much to the movie industry as anything else. Which was the notion/observation that "90% of everything is shit." Movies, books, songs, politicians, artificial foods, software, companies, predictions, websites, etc.
Well there was a fantastic feature of trumpet that windows lacked: If you had to reboot your computer (lol windows), the modem would remain connected, and trumpet could be re-enabled when the computer launched, you would be back up and running with internet, having not had to re-dial. Windows never did that, if you rebooted it was another phone call.

As far as Peter and Trumpet Software, they were based out of Hobart - After Windows implemented a default TCP/IP stack, much of his core business disappeared, they mucked around with building their own operating system for a while, turned Trumpet into an ISP, and in the end, his wife took him for most of what he had. Messy divorce/bankruptcy. Poor guy, he created a piece of software that I used for many years. For a long time, the trumpet implementation was better than the MS implementation, I still used it even when windows had built in PPP facilities.
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Didn't everyone do it that way?

I tried the upgrade-option exactly once. I can't remember whether it preserved my background color. But I do remember that all sorts of drivers got screwed, software installs would fail with obscure error messages, and it generally was nothing but problems until I finally wiped and re-installed.
Part of the US antitrust settlement with Microsoft required Microsoft to disclose private APIs used in middleware and to document protocols used by its software.

iBooks uses private APIs (especially in WebCore and WebKit), which Apple specifically prohibits 3rd party developers from using. These alone provide Apple with an unfair advantage in user experience.

Additionally, Apple ships an in-app store in iBooks, which both their ToC and technical limitations of in-app purchase API make impossible for 3rd party developers to implement in their own apps.

So, no, Apple is not on equal ground and at this point, I don't see how Apple can hope to avoid litigation on the issue.
5 Stages Of iPad Developer Acceptance
I'm 34 and married (for 14 years) with 4 small kids working on my startup. I believe it's possible.
Qwiki crowdsourcing the direction of their pivot
Superbrothers are trying a fresh approach to adventure games with Sword & Sworcery EP: http://www.swordandsworcery.com/
The Penguin Combinator
Myst is still one of the biggest sellers (in units total) even today, IIRC it sold 6 million units.
I would totally send him a few quid. I remember using it back in the day.
Or you could marry a beautiful,intelligent, low maintance, wife with a career of her own, and then you could have the security to do a startup and take risks. Worked for me.
نور العرب
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I think this is an important point that most people forget. Most developers may be interested in doing the latest and greatest thing, but unless it can add value to an organization, then it is worthless.
Normally you just install apache and php and they just work. Macs come with both pre-installed as do most linux distros. Don't see whats so hard!
UDP's semanatics are faster for small (<= 1MTU) transactions since there is no connection state and no handshaking.

Further, at the time DNS was designed, TCP was not considered 'scalable' since each TCP connection required its own file descriptor and computers at the time struggled with even 64 file descriptors per process. As DNS was not distributed at the zone level (it was replicated but each replica had the full zone contents of those zones they mirrored).

These days UDP is still faster for small packets but as others have pointed out DNS switches to TCP for bigger requests.
I think the iOS platform is helping the revival of adventure games. Just the ones I've personally played on the iPhone over the last couple of years:

- Monkey Island 1 & 2 Special Edition (remastered graphics)

- Broken Sword special edition

- Hector: Badge of Carnage: EXCELLENT original game (if somewhat short)

- Flight of the Amazon Queen

- Beneath the Steel Sky

- Gobliins

I'm sure I'm missing something... There's also some games that are available on the iPad only, and I think the trend is there: adventure games are coming back.
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This is why I'm not concerned with the percentage of new "good" films decreasing, if that is in fact what is happening (which is up for debate.) Because we can always watch the very best films of any year, at any time, approximately speaking. If you want to see a recently produced film, regardless of quality, Hollywood will provide that. If you want to see a good film, regardless of when it was made, that's possible too. It's up to the individual to choose. Onus on the chooser.
This is the perfect intersection between pretty crafty and annoying as hell.

It might be stronger if you could play the first 5 minutes and then prompt for the tweet to see the rest of the video.
Try handling a warranty claim on a Dell and an Apple, or a Nokia and an Apple, outside the first world.
Really? I always wonder who is the audience of posts "look at my 2 lines of javascript i wrote over the weekend".

Anyway, this PDF is for indie game developers, for people who actually making and selling stuff. And while many things might be obvious for many, 5 years ago I would have had found some things very useful, DRM software for example.
There's actually a very specific reason for it to fail. There's an unfixable bug in the way that the Windows emulates 16-bit BIOS calls in the 8086 mode monitor. This is specific to Microsoft's implementation and is (if I remember correctly) an architectural issue (and not the only one). The options are rewrite an emulator or ditch 16-bit support in 64-bit.

I'm not saying that this is the only reason, but it is one. Emulation/Virtualisation is different, but gets the support requirement off Microsoft's books.
I've started playing adventure games in late 80's/early 90's with King's Quest and Gobliiins, and I've seen pretty much all of it, but for my money, there's no better adventure game than Longest Journey
They can't write because they've had all the creative life force drained out of them from 6 years of learning about "business". Of course, that creativity was probably already on the low end considering that they opted into business school in the first place. /jokes
Windows Mobile 6.x behaves in the same way.
Your mother will never have to manage any of that stuff. She'll just log in to socialsite.com and interact with your aunt, who's on othersite.org.

As I said when Diaspora first started making headlines, this is incorrect. Both your mother and your aunt would be signing in to (name of decentralized social service).google.com, just like everybody else except for a handful of geeks who take pride in running their own nodes.

Because, really, the only way decentralized social networking will work is if everybody ends up centralized again on one node, run for free (most likely) or very cheap (not as likely) by some big company they trust. AKA, Google, who'd certainly love to have access to all the types of data Facebook currently has.
This article comes down a difference over the view of what constitutes a "good" film:

* Studios: Economic -- low risk, popular, high profit
* Writer, reviewers: Aesthetic -- plot, visuals, acting

The mass-market movie model just doesn't lend itself to making high quality product. It compliments high-marketability products - known franchises, sequels, etc.

In movies, you do a big marketing campaign where you spend tens of millions of dollars before opening day, then hope the movie makes that back in its first two weeks.

In television, with multi-week runs, you can hope to build audience, get good buzz, etc with a quality product that you didn't market a ton. See: The Wire, Mad Men, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, etc. The niche audience seeking quality will find the product.

This is why we are seeing movies move towards huge, low-risk, low-intellect tentpole movies targeted at non-discerning teenagers, and increasing success of relatively intellectual, high quality, long-form television series that create massively loyal followings, lots of rewatching and good DVD sales for years.

(And I'd argue it's a reversal of the 60s-70s, when you saw great, groundbreaking movies like Bonnie & Clyde while most of the TV stuff on networks was middle-of-the-road dreck.)
Google: We’ve Made No “Significant” Changes To The Farmer Update
> Warning: pedranty follows.

That is making my inner pedant twitch uncontrollably. :)

(successfully resisted. back to vi.)
Right. He hasn't read Marx. Or any other critique of capitalism, European or homegrown, for the past 100 years. Or any fiction that is informed, in whole or in part, by this critique. No, he didn't invent this 'independently'.

What's the point of 'reaching' people if you've got so little new to say? Its not a matter of 'citation', it's a matter of acknowledging that there are a host of proposed solutions (and critiques of critiques, and so on) out there. By pretending that none of it exists, you wind up with a tl;dr column that says what's been said before.

His contribution is in fact a subtraction from the sum total of human knowledge, in that the only thing original about it is wrong - the notion that the phenomenon that he talks about has something specifically to do with America between 1950-1990.
"Of course they weren't earned."

Perhaps that has something to do with why wealth is so concentrated.

Why should only the rich and powerful get to redistribute wealth from others to themselves by force? Doesn't that suggest that there should be some distribution the other way too?
Show HN: My new personal website
I know its kinda useless for anything other than "just because i can" but anyone can code their own webserver in for PHP using PHP. Just saying. Might be useful for development on your own machine or something.
Off the top of my head, because when I want to reference My.Namespace.MyClass.Foo(), I have to do something like:

use \My\Namespace;
$var = new Namespace\MyClass();
$var->Foo();

I have to remember and type the parent namespace for every imported class I want to use. In a big project this gets to be too much typing and too much for my brain to remember. Contrast with say, C#:

using My.Namespace;
MyClass var = new MyClass();
var.Foo();

You import a namespace, and the compiler figures out what goes where without you having to remember anything.

Plus the weird exceptions required for backwards compatibility, and the global namespace: I often forget where a root \ is required and where it isn't (not when declaring a namespace, but often--not always!--when referencing one). And of course there's the monstrous choice of namespace separator.

End of the world? Not really. Sucks? Yeah. And possibly a dealbreaker for me for larger projects with complicated namespaces and lots of classes.

I'd love for this to be just a misunderstanding on my part, because it would make my life a lot easier if PHP namespaces where more like C# ones!
Do you think that everyone should be required to read everything about a topic before posting their thoughts on it?
DistributedCloneFactory
The iPad 2 Shows Tablets Aren't Just For Play
The Apple Strategy Tax
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1466892
Augmented reality apps.
> i also found it interesting that despite foursquare being 2 years old as of next week and having >7 million users (by comparison, facebook had 6 million users at 2 years) he still doesn't consider foursquare a success at all and worries about the company failing every day.

I find that interesting as well. Most people would consider Foursquare at least 'successful enough' with widespread adoption and some revenue stream. Foursquare also gets nonstop press and a rival incorporated their API (http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/02/gowalla-3-foursquare-facebo...).

That said, worrying about survival everyday is a good startup mentality to have. There are big players (Fb places, Google Lattitude? / Google-whatever-they-have-coming-down-the-pipeline) and possible upsets (such as http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/14/mytown-booyah-location-ipho...) ever looming.
I've had to build sync systems in the past for RoR + iPhone and was amazed that there was no industry standard approach to sync. Even syncing contacts on my iPhone still goes haywire regularly.

Is it just one of those "hard problems" that's still searching for a solution, or is there a tried and true online/offline sync algorithm that works?
I guess you don't push web servers. They're "apps", not system software. Anybody who deploys non-trivial web-apps knows this. Per-app web servers, standing behind a proxy, with a shared session-db is the most ideal way to get things done.

At this point in the game, Apache-class servers are glorified proxies, and occasionally dole out static data when you're not using a CDN.

I have customized my web server so much, I would've had to wait for years to see the changes in Apache, nginx or lighty, if ever.
I'm a student, and I find Google Docs is super useful. I just wish for a more consistent experience. For example, I like to edit with "Compact Controls." Sometimes that feature goes missing, and I'm forced to edit in full screen – not an incredibly useful feature because the controls are completely hidden.
Simple access to well indexed/searchable information through the internet was a very positive and disruptive change to education, but didn't really change the way education was delivered. I think education-on-demand and open textbooks are fundamentally going to change how people learn.
I thought crates were actually on their way out a few years back. Then cover-based shooters became popular. For those who don't know, a "cover-based shooter" is a shooting game in which the game explicitly has a concept of taking cover, such that your character can actually duck behind things and has explicit support for popping up and shooting things. As opposed to simply ducking behind a wall in Doom or something, which has always been good strategy but never actually been part of the engine.

Sadly, there are only two forms of cover level designers seem to be able to work into games now: crates, and in a true sign of giving up, completely unmotivated chest-high walls, which apparently on the battlefields of the past, present, and future are just sort of treated like a basic decoration tool, like an "arch" or "window". ("Hey, hon, I cleared a space in the backyard, what should we do with it?" "Ever since I was a child, I dreamed of having a white picket fence, a dog, and a small maze of chesthigh walls in the backyard. Grab a shovel.") Now we're back to a TTC of approximately "whenever the first firefight" occurs, so, yeah, few seconds tops.
The thing about the FSF is that they have been tremendously influential. Facebook runs on quite a number of technologies released under ... the FSF's GPL.

By setting an extremely high bar, they've managed to get a lot of people to move towards that bar. Not as close as they'd like, I'm sure but much closer than they'd otherwise have moved.

The FSF has made a priceless contribution whether or not we're going to see a world that conforms to their vision.
Oh yeah, I always hear great things about Django. Definitely want to try it out at some point. I'm just focusing on Ruby/PHP for now so as to not spread myself too thin.
The elements are required, but the tags are implied by the tag structure of the rest of the document. They're added automatically at parse time:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tokenization.html#the-before-html...
Etherpad sure was inspirational, useful, and frankly mind-blowing.
His site seems to be down, but I found his company in the whitepages. I've left a message for him to call me back.

I'm going to suggest that he sets up a paypal account we can contribute to. I will also set up a website at lunch time, I think.