skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a valid point, but I'd like to introduce a few reasons why google may see them differently. Adobe has developed a sandbox for flash, adobe has been working with google to leverage the chrome sandbox (at least in windows), and adobe has given google access to early builds and authorization to distribute them and keep them up to date, so that google can know that if they're running flash it's not an out of date version. In several cases google has been shipping flash security updates to all chrome users before adobe actually pushed to their installed base (which only checks for updates once a week and needs the user to approve them). In comparison, quicktime security features and update practices are considerably worse off.

I think the word that java is also disabled in the nightlies in the same fashion should suggest that this isn't some partisan x264 or open web fight. It's security.
Unless you want hardware acceleration...
Hard to know what zyb09 really meant by his/her comment. It's the sort of comment that I don't like to see on HN, since it states a vague opinion without offering rational. If zyb09 had provided reasons as you did, it would have been a different story.
This looks like a potentially great project, but this is probably the most badly designed landing page of all time.
The call to action is a really tiny gray icon on the bottom. It made my head hurt just trying to figure out how to sign up for their beta list.
The notion that downvotes = disagreement.
Combine with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2421597 and perhaps sentience gets achieved in a Google cluster. :)
PBS Nova video about him too: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/profile-von-ahn.html
New Adobe Flash Zero Day Being Exploited?
Did Apple steal Delicious library idea... yeah probably. Just deal with it and move forward with your idea.

clickable links:
http://www.delicious-monster.com/

http://www.apple.com/ipad/built-in-apps/ibooks.html
I love playing with word lists and text data. While trying to learn iOS/Obj-C coding, I ended up making this app unexpectedly. I wasn't even planning on putting it up on the App Store but my wife said others might like it. I made it free today (99c otherwise) so I could share it with HNers.

This is the original webapp I made a while ago that inspired the iOS app: http://chir.ag/projects/tip-of-my-tongue/
See also: http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/03/31/the-good-...

This one actually came to a decision and the judge ruled against Righthaven, at least partly because of the odious nature of the copyright trolling business.
Flash has so many security flaws I'm not even surprised. I leave flash disabled by default.
sorry. I'll check it out.
Looks very interesting! - does it sound too good to be true though?
Hah! I loved the cold (and snow) when I was younger. As I got older (and commuting became a larger part of my daily life), I too grew to despise the cold/winters in the north.

I actually understand why you'd prefer to deal with the hot/humid summers rather than freezing your balls off in the winter. For me, it's not only freezing my balls, but dealing with the driest/itchiest skin imaginable...

Last year, I made the move from Massachusetts to California. The weather has been amazing. But with all the news about earthquakes, it's making me question whether I made the move at the right time......
Though, the "Notes" can also be a boon to certain people. EG: myself, I post certain notes for my friends in FB network, which is NOT public (people from work, business, etc.)

I also use it as a dump for future "working" blogs, getting feedback from people I actually know on FB. Their are positives to keeping this "Note" behind the "wall" of FB depending on your needs.

Specific example; I lost ~80 lbs in a year, and used to be a large muscular dude (so I've tweaked my diet pretty heavily throughout 7 or so years). I get random questions frequently from friends and instead of going through every iota of information, I throw it up in a Note.
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One of my sites (U.S.) got hit by this update today. It seems that it's more than just an expansion of the existing algorithm, but it looks like the use of site-blocking data will have real impact.
I agree, and I kind of have a problem with it. Regardless of my thoughts about this case and others like it, the judge is supposed to be objective; he sure sounds like he's already biased against the plaintiff.
It's also an issue of costs. If the government can hold up device/protocol X and say your equipment must interact with X, then it makes legal surveillance cheaper.
Feature Learning Architectures with GPU-acceleration
How different is this PDF from the book version? (see: http://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Oka...) Regardless, thanks for the link.
In Search of the Real Bill Gates (1997)
Profile of Gates in '97
Just a random thought, but have you considered graphing the order in which invite codes are used (or attempted)? I'm curious what the optimal strategy would be to try to get one (start from the top, start from the bottom, start from the middle?).
> Again, I'd love to be wrong.. but can you really not see these incentives at work here?

You're ignoring the incentives of the people involved.

Employee behavior is not determined by whether capital costs are being repaid from revenues.

Take your example, higher education. Do you really think that the money goes to the classroom?
I don't believe adding more layers of bureaucracy between me and the person/company providing my care will ever result in better treatment net.

Countries that do use the Walmart approach to healthcare are piggybacking on innovations that wouldn't happen otherwise. Pfizer may not fund a new drug if every government in the world thinks it should sell at 10% above costs.

Additionaly there are other regional differences in pricing between the US/UK. A better comparsion would be the performance of the federal health programs we have now. What kind of treatment are patients at the VA hospitals getting?
I moved to Houston from Milwaukee last year.

Primary reason was economic (more robust job market and the nearly 6% savings on state income taxes).

Secondarily, I was tired of shoveling my weather. Never underestimate the hidden costs of snow...from the countless hours lost removing snow, wear & tear on your vehicles, and random catastrophic "drive times".

Don't get me wrong...for 3 months a year it's "jungle hot". But in trade, I have 9 months of awesome weather. That ratio was basically reversed "up north".
Hey Chad, great to hear! I also (despite having created HireFire) still have use-cases for SimpleWorker, however in my case they will likely be for my VPS' rather than on Heroku. On Heroku (even though there isn't a UI, unless you use Resque), it's already a partially managed service to host workers, it runs from the same compiled slug as the dyno's use so all the credentials / env variables are all shared among dyno's and workers, no need to re-apply configuration and such.

I think for me the hardest part was getting it to work the first time, waiting quite a while for the jobs to run to see if I managed to get it to work. The merge_gem is a huge improvement, though, handling credentials and re-connecting databases and other things are quite a hassle to set up (imo). I have to say that once it's all set up, and if the 30-60 start-up issue is gone, that it does seems like a beast for processing a lot of jobs concurrently and is exciting.

I'm definitely still looking forward to seeing future progress of SimpleWorker. So please do keep up the good work!
Interesting thought. People are definitely not going top down... for example, two of the first invites used were the 3rd, and the last.
Duostack or Heroku for Rails hosting?
I recently got a duostack invite and I was wondering how this compares to Heroku?(pricing, service..etc)
Yeah, that crossed my mind actually. That would be pretty interesting. Anecdotally I can say of the first batch, they went 3, 10, 9... (don't know the rest, they went fast).
I'm a physician also (pathologist). I would encourage you to learn how to code. I decided to learn python about 3 years ago. It took me about 6 months before I really understood a lot of things (object oriented programming, in particular took a long time to grok). I mostly started with the goal of being able to knock together some little gui fronted databases and other things that would make my life a little easier. Now I mostly fart around with Django, javascript and Java (Android). I'm also learning C because I realize that I have a lot of holes in my fundamentals.

I don't want to discourage you, but I think that there are a huge number of roadblocks to creating a disruptive start-up that we usually see on HN in the medical world. Firstly, doctors are not the folks who are making the decisions about health care IT. The hospital IT depts are running that show, and in my limited experience they have no interest in supporting open-source or services that don't come with a big support contract. They would like to be able to point the finger to an outside company if things go south. Secondly, HIPAA and HITECH are going to be a big problem for small medical startups. A single breach or unauthorized disclosure or security hole is going to potentially sink your business.

I would encourage you to learn to code. It's definitely accessible for tech-oriented physicians and the wealth of community resources in the open source world makes it pretty easy to ask questions if you get into a bind.
It allows you to create a page like this: http://lifepath.me/kyle
Apple hired the guy who came up with that UI in the first place, so I wouldn't go as far as saying they "stole" it.
Damn, I already paid, is there any way I could do it now or it's too late?
Aren't judges politicians?
Why 'Post PC' Doesn't Mean 'Sans PC'
Smart read on the Paul Ryan Budget PLan, from a conservative columnist
Yeah the layout looked familiar, but i didn't find the one i remember. This is certainly the first one I've seen with a lawyer theme, and the "on-topic" ratio.

Other google results:
http://isthismeetingreallyworthit.com/
http://tobytripp.github.com/meeting-ticker/
Interesting.

I'm curious: how did you become non-poor and what were the factors that made it possible in your case (if you are willing to share that)?
Chrome is so high because, arguably, nothing comes even close as far as browsers go. I tried to use FF after using Chrome for months, and I simply couldn't go back. I'm willing to bet most HN folks are in the same boat.
DuckDuckGo has done some good in improve the visibility of the non-search issues related to search. I especially like the focus on privacy as well as the !bang syntax (Try !django us phone field). Plus a simple add-on is all it takes to change your default search provider.

I think innovation on "search" itself has matured enough where you aren't going to see a radical improvement in results. Google become the market leader thanks to crushing competition on quality of results, but that was a decade ago. At this point there isn't enough room to differentiate in the field on results alone, but I don't think that is a symptom of Google's dominance.

Take a look at Bing's flight results. Useful in that I care about prices and dates, not which site I buy a ticket through. Almost Wolfram Alpha style applets inferred from the search terms.
*$108 actually. ($9 x 12 months)
RIM CEO: How come we get no respect?
The only type of business that has a chance of doing that well in 3 months is in the web content business, or affiliate marketing, or creating some sort of new social network. For other types, especially building a SaaS, it'll take at least a year to get some sort of traction.
What I mean to say: OK, thanks for the breakdown. But the breakdown of current costs don't necessarily mean they are going to stay that way forever.

The one thing that's constant is that the author needs to be compensated for his work in creating the book. From there, he can just self-publish his word document or whatever. No marketing, no editors, no overhead. Now if you account for the cost of paper to print that book out, it ends up not being very much. Therefore, it's pointless to want an ebook for less than a printed book. You're paying for the author, not paying for the paper.
This was featured on a TED a while ago:

http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung.html
The question is, will Duolingo be able to beatbox?
games/entertainment/virtual goods (zynga,scvngr,foursquare?), retail (actually selling things)

I dont think the taxonomy is very robust. When you talk strategy what do you mean? Ads are a strategy to monetize, but direct marketplace describes the business.

Content is more like published (blogs) vs. user generated content (facebook, twitter)

monetization strategy is different than maybe the customer acquisition strategy. If you pull all mention of ads then I think the taxonomy works better.

Craigslist to me is more like a direct marketplace
Yeah, and it's brilliant, because the gov't is on the hook for poor people and old people, aka unprofitable insurance subjects, while the private industry scoops up profits on the rest. And before some conservative comes in telling me that insurance profits aren't that high as a % of revenue, % profits on a pass-thru payment system are not the same thing as % profits on actually building something.

I saw a statistic (can't place it now and don't feel like googling, so grain of salt) that we actually have comparable government spending per capita on healthcare to some western european countries, and that's just for medicare/medicaid, without even covering everyone. No generic drugs + byzantine public/private payment systems + highest-risk populations = lots of money.
Reminds me of http://www.solvemedia.com
A company from my hometown. Advertising for movies and media, within the CAPTCHA. Their conversion rates are quite impressive.
You might also try Facebook's advertising. From my experience helping my wife advertise her home childcare, it was cheap and helpful to build brand recognition (she wasn't selling anything online, however). At least Facebook's ads let you upload a picture.

We also tried Google AdWords with not much success.

Our No. 1 source of traffic to her website? CraigsList.
Portable music players isn't such a meaningful category when you consider most mobile phones can also play music; plus just other music listening devices in general.
It's interesting to note that one of the defendant's decent laywer ended up scaring off the copyright troll. Apparently, the IP lawyer involved was going to argue RightHaven into the ground, by raising many motions, running up the copyright troll's legal bills (wrong venue, failure to make a claim, etc.) It's the penultimate case of turning the tables!

The judge said some nice things about abuse of the courts, but look at the lawyer for the real victory.
Please have a look at Guy Steele's talk (http://www.vimeo.com/6624203). Basically he suggests using tree-like data structures, instead of linear data structures. You can also map, fold and filter over trees, but it parallelizes better.
The Xerox Star had desktop publishing with multiple proportional typefaces in 1981. It seems likely that this feature would have been imitated by someone regardless of calligraphic experience.

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/xerox-star-8...
Or it won't. Who knows.
I think it really depends on your background. I'm a much better artist using pencils or even brushes than I am on a computer, but I have been doing some work on a tablet and I find I'm adapting fairly well.

For someone like me, Pixelmator has some serious drawbacks. For one thing the pressure sensitivity curve isn't quite right for the pens. Worse yet, it often interprets rapidly drawn curves as straight lines! It also had some serious UI problems which I understand have improved somewhat in the most recent version. If I had to chose, I'd take Pixelmator over GIMP for simple everyday tasks, but seriously, the only reasonable replacement I've seen for what I want out of Photoshp would be Corel Painter.

I don't think it's an accident that Wacom has worked out a deal with both companies and ships PSE and Painter Essentials with their Bamboo tablets.
The efficiency of algorithms depends on the language / model of computation you are using.

For an extreme example, the best way to write an efficient matrix multiplication in Fortran is to write a naive matrix multiplication. The compiler will recognize the pattern, and transform it.
Chrome runs Flash in a sandbox. Quicktime is not sandboxed.
Maybe, maybe not.

David Kerr, the defense laywer, was going to file numerous motions to dismiss/ change venues. That would have ran up the copyright troll's legal bills. I suspect that the judge would have happily gone along with Kerr's plan, but who knows?

Doesn't really matter in this case anyway. The mere threat of actual litigation scared Righthaven away.
Duolingo looks like its more about language education, instead of translation. Should be interesting. I'm curious too.
In fact, I'm certain the Mac would've had multiple fonts, because it was based on () the Xerox Star, and the Star had fonts:

http://toastytech.com/guis/star2.html

() "Based on" might be too strong...or too weak...but we all know the Mac engineers saw a demo of the Star.
models can visually help you to find permutations that arent obvious at first. Think about a state table with states A - F. The state table helps you to examine all transitions even ones that may at first appear to be degenerate.

If you separate monetization strategy from customer acquisition strategy from maybe something like market or medium you might find holes.

monetization - ads, subscription, donations, one time fee

customer acquisition -

Im sure this has been done before, probably by mckinsey or HBR
While I agree with you that not everyone can make a billion dollar business I can't help but think that there ARE people they did it. That other people already did it doesn't mean that you will do it the same way. These thinks require a lot of luck and much more hard work.

BUT what I want to say is non of these people made a billion dollar business because they want to make billion dollar business. No, they did it because they found finally something they thought people on earth do need. Some of them were wrong (like most of the weekend projects on HN will die because of monthly costs ect.) but a few of them were right and did it.

If you want to play this coke game then you should it and you should do it with a fun project, with a project you think the world needs, with a project you would love and whole bunch people too.

BUT make sure that you know that you don't have to play this game. There is also a way to make great money (not billions tough). If you want to go into the million dollar business you could dig into cooperate e-business stuff. These may not be fun and you can't program in Haskell but if do it big you will get your money. There is a lot of room for smart people you just need to say what they want you to say and make them happy. This will let you make so much money you wouldn't have thought about.

Just find out what you want.
Ask HN: Good Books & Blogs to learn about E-Commerce
Hi, I've built couple of E-commerce websites before where I've created the design, development and integrated the website with a payment gateway. Lately I've realized that those are just small components of E-Commerce Business. The stuff like Inventory Management, Data Warehousing, Payment Gateways, Shipping etc. I would want to understand E-Commerce right from storing the products, selling it online to shipping it.

Please recommend books or blogs where I can get a clear understanding of E-Commerce? Thanks.
I worked with him in my undergrad research. Luis is one of those people who communicates with such ease and simplicity that not only is it obvious he's extremely smart, he actually makes you feel smarter as well.
Ask HN: Is there data available on the number of startups in existence?
One of the things I am interested in looking at are the numbers of startups that exist in North America, but I am coming up with entrepreneurship centric (Not web startup specific) and generally don't cover what I am looking for.

Does information on the number of startups that exist? Maybe even location, size, and industry?
He's proposing this as a test, not as a recipe. He's not saying "do what you'd do if this day was your last," but rather "consider what you're about to do, and measure how close it is to what you'd do if this day were your last."
And frankly, it should be common knowledge that western europe has better/equivalent outcomes at less than half of our cost (very round figures to sidestep the nitpicking), meaning, at minimum, they're getting at least twice the value per cost that we are, and that's rounding every number in the direction that's unfavorable to europe. I could argue that let's just copy the system within europe that works best and we can go for 3x.

Unfortunately, doing things that have been empirically borne out to work doesn't seem to be on the agenda these days.
Its only a matter of time before everything is figured out.

There have been major discoveries and inventions where more than one person or team were trying to solve a known problem. But is there proof that it is the case "practically every" time?
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No idea on prices/features, but Heroku is going to be a lot more stable at this point since it's been around longer, hosting tens of thousands of apps.
Surely you can understand why I would disagree. Aside from my mis-speaking, thanks a bunch guys for all the downvotes. I definitely deserved it for that awful, terrible post. Really appreciate it.

http://i.min.us/imDSpu.png

Note, the screenshot is Chrome 12 playing h264 video on Vimeo. I've done nothing to cause this to work.

Oh, yes, it's -3, please continue piling on the downvotes without bothering to verify the information you're voting based on. Pile it on, what a terrible comment for me to have made. To imply that we shouldn't errantly speculate? To suggest that it's irrational to assume they're riping it out because of h264 seeing as Chrome 12 plays it just fine for me? Good work guys.
FED is a private bank?
I'm don't know how DuoStack guys are scaling this, but horizontal scaling of your app is pretty trivial (for each Y req/s launch X instances of the app with minimum of Z instances running at all times).

This is how Google AppEngine does it (btw: you can do it with nginx + ngx_supervisord + supervisord).
The members of the research group I work in are pretty heavy users of OCaml and I'm a big proponent of languages of the ML style. I generally have the impression that OCaml has become the de facto ML implementation. Can anyone make a case why I might want to consider using SML rather than OCaml?
I saw him present his talk about "harnessing the power of people doing meaningless things on the internet" at an AI conference back in 2003, where he introduced what became the Google Image Labeler.

Easily the best talk of the conference - he's a great (and engaging) speaker.

I think this google talk is roughly the same presentation:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143
I would love a spreadsheet where the functions could be written in Lisp (or something less dysfunctional than spreadsheetese). And also one where a cell could contain any value (range of cells, functions...)
I did this 3 years ago, http://meetingprice.com/

I ripped the idea from a guy I used to work with. He had, I think it was some sort of Excel macro that he showed me in one meeting. I thought it was hilarious so the concept stayed with me. Then one day I decided to see if I could get a decent domain and then coded it up.

If you have a webkit-enabled browser you can hit up my 10kapart submission at http://10k.aneventapart.com/Uploads/89/ It's the same thing but has falling dollar signs. One of these days I'll upload that to the domain, but as you can see, I don't really care much about it...