skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The script I use watch the whole tree. And it compiles from a source tree to a dest tree. But this is a nice hack for those starting out.
I think it's where the only submissions displayed are those submitted by users who have karma above a certain threshold (or where their account was created a long time ago, i.e. not new account submissions).
I envision this to take place in staged releases, eg, during an automated nightly build, rather than during the programmers normal code-compile-run cycle.

For example, production code usually turns off a lot of runtime assertions, so this might only be applied to development builds. Having said that, a JIT compiler blurs the line between debug/development and production builds, since the JIT compiler could dynamically insert or remove debug, profiling or tracing code. I like the idea of being able to connect testing tools to a running production system (eg, when an error or bug is detected) and the JIT compiler would insert the required code to make this work for the duration of the test session. The debug information that was generated could then be applied to the next build of the development version (which would include new type annotations, unit test stubs, profile information for the code optimizer and whatever else).
Why Laugh at Nerds
I think it needs to be said as often as people continue prevaricating by using the word 'theft'.

Semantic argument can become tedious and repetitive, but it's necessary for any more substantive argument to proceed. If there's no mutual agreement on what the terminology represents, then the participants of the discussion are effectively speaking separate languages, and they will be unable to 'access' each other's reasoning.

Sometimes, the semantic dispute is caused by an intentional attempt to confound terminology in order to make two things seem more similar than they otherwise are. Calling this out is appropriate and necessary every time it happens.
Wow. I'm surprised that WP7 has 10%. I still haven't seen one in the wild except in the hands of developers.
I don't really get it as the RFC clearly compares two different things. Web servers included in frameworks to ease the development (django/ror and others like web.py) and a web server included in a cli interpreter which is more or less the engine itself.
For me there is a huge difference and mind gap I'm not ready to do.
I genuinely think that php is a convenient language for a lot of things but implementing a simple class (like SimpleHTTPServer) looks more natural to me than adding a server directly inside the cli.
> "We hear in stereo 3-D." This is not true unless we move our heads. We hear in one dimension, left-to-right.

Put on some headphones and listen to this and tell me you cannot visualize it in 3-D:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuxaOO6PsAw

This is a binaural recording. More info on these here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_recording

You can hear in multiple dimensions because, as the original article mentions, there is some post-processing in your mind due to the time delay between sounds entering your left ear and sounds entering your right. Just because your ears are aligned on a single axis does not mean that you cannot perceive in multiple axes. No moving of your head is necessary to perceive in more than one dimension.
What about Saarland? :)
Don't worry, we're on it.
I wonder, why don't large corporations join forces and lobby the government and congress for changes in patent rules and laws?

Some do. In fact Microsoft is doing just this right now and many companies are supporting MS, including Google. Unfortunately, more companies came out AGAINST MS and in support of the current patent system. See: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoftpri0/20137856...

It is interesting to note that the companies in support of MS are largely in the tech sector, while those against are largely in pharma/agriculture.

Note, this case is about changing the standard of proof in patent cases to a "preponderance of evidence" rather than the higher standard of proof, "clear and convincing evidence". While it doesn't get rid of the patent system, it should make it easier to beat weak patents in court.
> has trained me to throw rubber dice down the hall on demand so she can chase them.

That's just the first step in the process. Next step is for her to throw rubber dice down the hall and train you to chase them ;-)
On the flip side, the web has been hindered by software patents. Photo and video compression would be much better. The dominant algorithm for general web compression encoding, gzip, was chosen not because it compresses best, but because it appears to have steered clear of patents.
Trumpet was a truly magical piece of code, basically the gateway to the world we live in today. Donated.
Consider the comparision. Maxim isn't known for its skewed portrayal of men. It's known for only featuring "babes" and other species of "hot chicks".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_localization

There's a lot more to it than that, and it's not just something that occasionally works. The outer-ear notch filtering is also used in vertical localization.
Isn't that a contradiction? Or the cats can feed themselves, they just hate eating alone? :)
So make that "being a top 1% employer", which includes pay, perquisites, environment, culture, the interest of the work itself....

Harder to measure than pay, but so is being a top 1% programmer. This can be a good reason to talk about pay -- an employer can claim excellent culture without any truth to it, but it's harder to self-deceive about money. And pay often correlates to important ephemerals like respect.
This breaks my heart.
You can't switch models so you choose the model with the largest lifetime net benefit.
It's a number that may be impossible to account for. Heres a study concerning illegal music file sharers, it turns out that they spent more money on music than people who don't share music illegally.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/illegal-downloade...

Just like radio (play for free) increases album sales for record labels.

This suggests that "lost sales" may mean a product that is not worth buying to some.
Two very different entities. Techmeme is about the news and that's it. Hacker News is about the community and how we as developers and designers think about the news. Hacker News is more about the community. Like today a random post about Windows 1.0 to 7's journey led to donations for the guy behind Trumpet Winsock. Very few communities have such a strong positive energy in them like HN. I have learnt so many cool things here and I am just 20 days old on HN.
Yup, that sounds consistent with what I've heard, but I think he's taking the wrong strategy. He's playing RIM's game and they can crush him in legal fees and process; he needs to make this a PR issue and he's in a good position to do that.
Thing (listening device)
Kik just got kicked...again, so to speak.
>We hear in one dimension, left-to-right.

While our localization abilities vary by axis, we do have them in all three directions due to the combination of several mechanisms, none of which are actually 'left-to-right'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_localization
Question: any ideas how something with that many assets and concurrent processes runs smoothly down to the iPhone?

Jquery and CSS transforms start slowing down when I stack them in each other. If I'm the problem here, and not the browsers, could someone point me to resources to make js with images run smoother in the browser? Anyone else have this problem?

Btw, awesome product with rocketpack. Wish I could've used it before Disney got it paws on it.
Individual talent is still evident on developer mailing lists, discussion groups, etc.

A quick example:
http://9fans.net/archive/?q=rsc&go=Grep
Fake numbers are often the most interesting sort, that's why we need to look at them closely. $1bn dollars in revenue isn't that big a deal for a company like Google, the question is what are the associated costs and what's the resulting profit. Many a company has come a cropper thinking about revenue when they should be thinking about profit.

>> 1) Mobile searches which were made on Android but where, if Android hadn't ever existed, the user would
>> have had another mobile device and made the same search anyway.
> Google loses money here because the search would have been made anyway. The loss comes from developing
> Android. Let's say Google loses 10 cents. (Total BS number!)

For non-Android OSes, Google pay Apple (or whoever) to run with Google as the default search engine. In essence they're sharing the revenue for these searches if they're not run on Android which is why they're more profitable because Android exists so they do "make" money rather than lose it.

In this category Android is best seen as a mechanism for cost control - it doesn't increase their revenue but it does reduce their outgoings.

> 3) Mobile searches which weren't made on Android.
> I feel like this goes in the same category

I agree this is the hardest category to justify and part of me agrees with you. The only thing that gives me pause is (a) Google and it's partners have thrown a lot of money into advertising and PR which will likely have had some impact on public uptake of smartphones and (b) Android has bought smartphones in at lower price points which simple economics tell us will have expanded the market - you can get a decent Android handset in the UK for free on a contract, the iPhone 4 kicks off at over £300 on the same monthly deal.

> I feel that if Android didn't exist, users would go out and buy an iPhone or something similar. I don't think the
> phone manufacturers would have just let Apple run away with the smartphone market so it would be in their best
> interest to create something competitive. But the bottom line is that Android seems like a needless expense for
> Google.

I think that's easy to assert but the attempts of RIM, Nokia, Palm, Microsoft and others don't really back it up. RIM has a place for sure but it's not directly in the iPhone space. The others have all tried and produced offerings which are either technically or commercially not in the same ballpark as Apple are managing. What makes you think any of them (or someone else - Samsung? HTC? Morotola? Sony-Ericson? Not exactly go to companies for great software experiences) would be capable of competing?

Frankly Android is the only mobile OS going toe to toe with Apple with any level of success.
i don't feel your analogy works at all. if only 1 out of 20 designers (i'm just guessing at the average number of submitted concepts per contest) are getting paid for their work they are submitting, then 19 are losing out: it's called spec work.

cheap is not spec.
> Protection of private property exists to the extent it's judged useful to society.

Interesting use of the passive voice - who's doing the judging?
BestBuy should be called ScamBuy with their new Buyback Program
Today I learned there is a whole universe of bizarre ads on web pages that I have never seen, thanks to AdBlock. Seriously, I had no knowledge of the ads described in this article.
Hmm. You're probably right... still sounds like a win/win/win (if you count the customer that gets their design done and feels good about charity). My wife and I visited Christchurch a little over a year ago. Great town with incredibly friendly people. Glad to see 99designs doing something that will help them.
I envision this to take place in staged releases, eg, during an automated nightly build, rather than during the programmers normal code-compile-run cycle.

Cool!

the JIT compiler could dynamically insert or remove debug, profiling or tracing code. I like the idea of being able to connect testing tools to a running production system (eg, when an error or bug is detected) and the JIT compiler would insert the required code to make this work for the duration of the test session.

That's going much farther than I'd envisioned it! The mind boggles.
I can see a lot of the same people in my social circle as well, but I'm not sure they're representative of the norm. I think as geeks who know what HTML and CSS are, own approximately a dozen devices that can access the web in some capacity, and don't think that Greasemonkey is a brand of motor oil or something, we have a tendency to form an everyone-must-be-just-like-me myopia. And even worse, we tend to (even subconsciously) assume that people who, say, don't know what the difference between a browser and Google must to be too stupid to read long-form content online. They're the ones reading MSN.

I'm not accusing you of doing this personally, it's just a recurring deficiency I see in tech communities (and I'm certainly not immune to it).
We're working on a new, shorter version. Appreciate the feedback.
We've received some nice feedback about the music. Why would you remove it?
Yes, you do. It's your choice what you do with it.

You could sue for everyone for copyright infringement. (This didn't work so well for the RIAA.)

Or you can figure out a way to capitalize off the reason why everyone likes your work.

In any instance you don't lose your copyright.
It wasn't a statement, it was a question. So now questions about monetary policies in threads about economic stagnation are being down voted on HN, good to know.
The VirtualDub case is an interesting one. I wish the author would have pushed it a bit more. I suspect that there was no threat of a lawsuit, but rather an engineer who saw VirtualDub and was POed. Legal at companies like Intel, IBM, and MS generally won't let someone from the actual product team call another company on a legal matter.

My suspicion is that it was just a rogue employee who frankly probably wouldn't have had support from legal, since legal at these organizations tend to be more strategic than tactical (they don't care about one-off infringers, but are usually pushing a bigger strategic story, where patents infringement is just part of it).
This, along with sign language, are things I as a sighted, hearing person want to learn. (Even with fully operational eyes you can't see in the dark, or in smoke. Even with fully operational ears you can't hold a conversation beyond shouting distance.)
Results of a New York Times Article
My company, Irrational Design (www.irrationaldesign.com), got featured in the small business section of the New York Times two weeks ago, both in print and online and then had a follow-up piece last week.

I was thinking about writing up something about the effects that the article had, but wasn't sure if anyone would care or what exactly people would be curious about.

So I thought it might make more sense to just ask here whether anyone would like some detailed info about the effect of the article. Happy to share anything. Graphs, numbers, whatever.
On Reddit recently, in an "I am blind, ask me anything" thread, this comment appeared:

"Do you see blackness all the time?"

"No, I don't know what blackness is; I see the same as you see out of the bottom of your feet".
Because I don't want to listen to music, I just want to get a quick overview of the product.
The College Myth
Banks don't do negative balances. Some banks will automatically turn overdrafts into loans or withdraw them from another account, to prevent you from having a withdrawal or debit denied, but you can generally disable that "feature". In the absence of that, an attempt to withdraw more than an account contains will result in a denial of the withdrawal and possibly a fee (either to the withdrawer or the withdrawee or both, depending on the circumstances and what the bank thinks it can get away with).

In any case, moving the money to an account PayPal doesn't have access to puts you in the much better position of PayPal having to ask you for money, rather than you having to ask PayPal to give your money back. At that point, at most they can lock your PayPal account (which still screws you out of any more donations made before you can say "stop sending money to this PayPal account, you're donating to PayPal").
you tell me! We are all non-native English speakers!

We're calling it "low-kaiz-me"
Clever: Motherboard packaging into a PC case
The portable media player industry was a still a relatively small market when Apple introduced the iPod, and the iPod itself was in its third iteration or so before it really became a runaway hit.

It's not the early days of the tablet market at all. Tablets have been around for a very long time—Microsoft, Archos, et al—it's a much older market than the portable media player was when the iPod was introduced. There just hadn't been any hit tablet products until the iPad.

We're still in the early days of the iPad-style tablet market, true. But the key advantage for Android in the mobile phone market is/was carrier lock-in, and that's not a factor with the iPad. They have to compete on product and price. And Apple is extremely competitive in both those areas.

It's also worth mentioning that, in this market anyway, Apple has a major advantage in its excellent retail channel.
You see, Apple loves to talk about specs when it is in its best interest (speeds and feeds).

Generalizing,

You see, [companies] love to talk about [what] is in its best interest.
Like many HN posts, I found the comments even more insightful than the article:

"TM: What has happened. HN: What will happen." - William Mougayar

"Hacker news is great...Huge time-sink liability though." - Liad

"I find the comments more interesting sometimes than the actual article that is being linked to" - Rick

"Techmeme is a popularity contest, HackerNews is curation. Curation in my experience wins easily." - Larry M.

"I have really fallen in love with HackerNews lately, finding its eclectic mix of articles fascinating. I have been participating a lot there because it doesn't just pull in the same old standard fair I find everywhere else. I also often find, multiple perspectives, whether in stories or in the comments." - Elia Freedman

"...the commenters on HN leave a lot to be desired. With a room full of geeks, you pretty much get what you'd expect -- some insights, but a lot of pedantry." - davidu

"Hacker News is so great I only let myself go there once a day. And I might have to cut back on that too..." - Nate Kidwell

"Hacker News looks like a place where you can soak your brain for hours, if you have the time." - James Harradence
BuzzGenie - Los Gatos - Remote is OK, but must be able to attend on site brainstorming and status meetings near Hwys 17 & 85.

BuzzGenie is a social network/news/blog/action Internet portal. We address an individual's need to not only voice their opinions, but to make a difference, enabling them to discuss and blog interests and act on causes, issues, events, topics, and persons of interest while keeping their identity private to the Internet at large. BuzzGenie combines the best features of Facebook, Huffington Post, WordPress, Yelp, and Twitter by integrating the friends feature; recent activity feeds; interest-based news feeds, blogs, and Tweets; and connecting people using an interest-based social graph. We have a solid revenue model which gets us to profitability in about two years.

Looking for LAMP and mobile developers, as well as Unix/Plesk admin.

Also looking for activists-bloggers.

You will play a key role on a very small team. Since we are at very early stage, you can become a major player in a company that wants to change and improve the way people interact on the things they care about. This is a very hot, competitive space with a potentially huge payout for the team first to get traction in the market. Great achievers will be rewarded accordingly.

Benefits of working on site has the additional benefit of three free gourmet meals a day (including Indian/vegetarian), an outdoor patio work area, hot tub, home gym, and unlimited gourmet espresso/cappuccino/coffee (it's a private residence). Imagine upscale 'garage' start-up. Walking distance to park with basketball, tennis courts, running track, and par course. Across Bascom Ave. from Los Gatos Creek trail for walking, running, roller blading, and biking.

Have a look at the site and see if it interests you. Helps to have some activist in your blood.

Compensation is accomplishment based until funding is closed. Founder's stock available.

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"commercial actors "stealing" software and mass-redistributing it for profit."

So basically exactly the same as torrent sites?
TSR, that was called, terminate and stay resident. It was a legitimate technique, software like Sidekick used it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Sidekick
I never heard of Techmeme to be honest, but I rely a lot HN for everything related to geek and technology. So I believe HN is doing a damn good job. Congrats to everyone of you.
I used the software I linked to above (I'm not blind), you can download it to a laptop, plug in a webcam and earphones. I could tell the difference between a car and a garbage can with no practice at all. Can he click with his tongue and tell if the picture on the wall is a picture a square or a circle? No, this software can enable him to do that.

I'd like to get his opinion of this:
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/
Sorry, my purpose was not to criticize you in particular but to show that such sentiments are (i) common and (ii) occur quite regularly.

I think one cause of this is that people mistake transient fluctations in HN post/comment quality (I don't know if one can even measure this in a relatively objective manner) for real trends.

Now, your indicated observational interval was 9 months, so you can argue that thesze effects don't matter. This leads to the other cause, which may be more important: people place more emphasis on evidence that agrees with their opinions, creating a self serving loop. You see 2-3 bad posts and think that HN is deteriorating. Then, good posts won't be counted against this hypothesis but bad posts will be, so it'll get stronger. There's nothing wrong with you, this is how our brains work.

The antidote would be rigourous analysis. Come up with a quality measure, scrape HN data, analyze and post your analysis. I, for one, would be very interested in seeing them.

EDIT: Also, agressive "so what" replies generally get downvoted, as I now see with yours. I find too much downvoting, especially with newcomers, to be discouraging, so you're getting my upvote.

There, one explaination cfrom a "cool veteran".
I must respectfully beg to differ.

First, I do not think morality would come down entirely on the side of freedom of information (I do think our current system is skewed and it should shift closer to freedom of information, but that is a topic filled with subtlties.) Copyright is a means to ensure authors continue to write.

While it is true publishers did lobby for the original Statute of Anne, it was providing incentives for authors tht motivated Parliment and in the American Constitution Congress' ability to grant copyright for a limited time was expressly to encourage authorship.

Morally, I think there ought to be a balancing between the public and the authors. Our current copyright has some balancing in it with fair use exceptions, though I would think that the balance needs some readjusting.

For a good history of copyright see http://www.thepublicdomain.org/ by James Boyle. The entire book is available as free PDF.
Bing Maps V7 – Modular design and Client Side Clustering
Since this isn't really the place for extensive political theory, that doesn't seem very relevant to the point, so I deliberately didn't go into a digression.

My point is that there are two views of property: it's a right that is somehow inherent/moral/pre-existing; or it's a convention that exists for its benefits to society. How we can know whether it has benefits, and who decides whether the convention should exist, is a whole different discussion.
It includes the predecessor Windows Mobile 6.5, which is probably most of that bar at the moment.
Those terms, simple and easy, should be taken as relative to the system being described.

I would argue that CFD models are surprisingly simple relative to the task of understanding multi-phase, particle-laden, turbulent fluids.