skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think the GoPro killed them. If I want good quality video, I need something better than a Flip. If I need a durable, small, device for getting some OK video, I'll get a goPro. If I need OK video quality and don't care about durability, I'll use my smart phone.

When I'm out skiing, I see half the teenagers with GoPro's mounted on their helmets, their ski poles, chest harnesses etc video taping each other hitting jumps to put it up on youtube. When I'm at a car race, half the guys have GoPro's mounted on their rollcage. Flip just kind of missed the niche.
No, they should get more, and earlier, notice so that inappropriate submissions and comments can get flagged earlier to help teach them what this site is and should be about.

It's an experiment:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434333

It's testing out ways to try to halt the current perceived decline in civility and quality: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

It's been prompted by the departure of some long-standing, high-profile users:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2402730

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161427
NILFS2 probably is a much better candidate : http://www.nilfs.org/en
Have a link to this from the desktop.
I wonder if the executives who spent $590 million on Pure Digital will also get a pink slip?
"Upvoted" and "saved" should be two different things; today they are the same.

The only stories I want to "save" are those with practical content that I may use later (some new utility or library, for example).

Stories I find interesting but that I fear may clutter my "save history" don't get an upvote although they would deserve one.

Would it not help to have two separate actions, "save" and "upvote"? (Or did I miss something obvious?)
Exactly. We're trading our time for money so the more we make, the less of our time we need to sell (if we're responsible financial planners anyway).

EDIT: Ambiguous wording
Green is also used to connotate inexperience or lack of maturity, e.g. greenhorn, green lumber.
Hold Ctrl-Shift while moving your cursor over the Dock to temporarily enable magnification.

Useful when your Dock is crammed with tiles.
That is literally how simple it is, and your downside risk is "Alright, in that case, $80k is alright" and nobody will remember this conversation 2 weeks from now except your checking account.

It depends on the size and culture of the firm; is the "decision maker" your future boss or someone in HR you'll never see again? You generally don't know the answer to this so early in the process. Respectful negotiation is never damaging, but it's important to be careful. The "I have an offer from Goldman at $90k" tactic is a bad idea. It's not really respectful negotiation at that point, because you're trying to exploit a competitive offer rather than arrive at what is fair.

Also, the decision-maker might call your bluff and either (a) say, "fine, go work at Goldman" or (b) call Goldman and verify your offer. By the way, if (b) happens and your story checks out, it's still bad for you because the mere act of checking up on someone is an act of distrust and, even though you were "proven innocent" that person is going to remember the call as a token of having not trusted you.
I actually played with a slide rule quite a bit when I was in middle school (but not in school), and it was much more useful as an actual learning aid than my calculator. The visualization of logarithms is in fact rather helpful.
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And add another 100 or so if you're outside the US for shipping. yikes!
Why Google Shouldn't Yank MonoDroid, my response: Because it makes the platform better.

Why does Google care whose development tools you use, as long as you're producing a good product and making their ecosystem better? This is just silly fearmongering.
haha amazing. What's next? Amazon recommendations are all a creation of Jeff Bezos imagination.
Love/Hate Relationship with Social Media. Which Side Are You On?
It is pretty easy to spot the spam submissions, but it seems like there is more spam comments now so this makes it very easy to spot those and flag them.
I'm pretty surprised by the amount of fundamental attribution error displayed in this thread.

If each of us is so confident of our own abilities to rate articles impartially, be objective, etc., why are we putting so much thought into how to ensure that we can keep each other objective? If I believe that I can do it, why can't I believe that you can do it too?
How I Became an Optimist
Sorry I have not done anything like this before.
Through paypal, I meant that you would charge say $10CAD on your site, when the user logs in to their account, the charge is automatically charged in their currency. But this wont be displayed on your site, only a figure of $10.

It really depends what kind of a service you are giving, in what quantity and how often you need to transfer it back home. For example paypal and many credit card companies take a small percentage of the transaction. Google checkout is another solution to this. If you only transfer the money once per quarter then you may save money when converting currencies
To get the share of likes of any URL just

https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?urls=http://n... (for this thread) or https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?urls=http://n... for HN home

(View sourcecode if your browser doesn't format the XML to you as Firefox does)
(a) The GP of my comment asserted that automatically installing Safari when you install iTunes was monopoly abuse. I think they at least have a point.

(b) Apple has about 2/3 of the paid music download market and 3/4 of the MP3 player market. They block other MP3 players from talking to iTunes, and other desktop software from talking to the iPod. I think that's probably abuse: they're using iTunes's dominant market position to protect the iPod's dominant market position, and vice versa.
We noticed this when starting out company (which measures these stats for your blog), and it never struck me as odd. Sure it seems a little disingenuous at first, but the Like button has replaced the Share button as the preferred implementation. Moreover, every like, share, or comment gets posted to your wall for your friends to see (privacy settings depending) so you are in fact "recommending" it.
Obviously not the main point, but he says

Calculators are obsolete

and then

as far as software for serious math, I use a combination of Python, Mathematica, C++, and C#. For quick calculations I’d use Python. For simulations I’d use C++ for maximum speed or C# if I need to interface with .NET software. I mostly use Mathematica for symbolic computations and plotting.

Kind of an idiosyncratic justification for the obsolescence of calculators. Besides if you think a slide rule gives a good intuition for logarithms, pushing function buttons (e.g., square root) repeatedly on a calculator provides insight into limits.
What's wrong with Google Maps development on Android - Part One
Bump! Lua is small and sweet. Zed Shaw picked it for his framework, not that unlike Raphters in some ways: http://tir.mongrel2.org/home
Mobility may be Marvelous but Ubiquitous Access is Disruptive
TxtEagle raises $8.5m to give 2.1B a mobile voice.
Ask HN: Is there a lulu.com for boardgames?
I published a book on lulu.com awhile back and I now have a friend who would like to publish a board game themselves.

I was hoping to find a web-based self-publishing option but didn't have any luck finding what I was looking for, but I thought HN readers might know of something new and cool that I didn't run across in my search.
Mmmm...I think it's more likely all the smartphones out there that now have decent enough video capabilities for most people.
Yes. A judge is making ... judgments ... all through the case. Every time that cliche lawyer jumps up and cries "objection", the judge has to make a decision, and take a side.
Submerged Servers: Green Revolution Cooling in Action
> Yes, it's enough to talk about probably the biggest invention in financial sector in last 20 years.

Off the top of my head, I would state that the following are unquestionably larger financial innovations in the past 20 years: SPDRs, HOLDRs, ETFs, ETNs, dark pools, target-date funds, target risk funds, auction-rate securities, online b2b markets, online b2c markets, online banking, automated market-making, new insurance products, improvements in risk analysis (credit scoring), removal of information asymmetries, just... so much innovation

The bitcoin market is less than a blip on the radar screen. It's so small that if somebody were to sell 100,000BCN right now, they'd crash the price down to pennies. And if somebody were to buy 100,000USD of BCN right now, the exchange rate would skyrocket. It's a small, illiquid market of people who have, mostly for political reasons, decided that they will convert electricity into a private virtual currency.

I know that right now there are a lot of bitcoin miners, dreaming of how wealthy they'll be once their deflationary-by-design virtual currency takes over the world, but I can't envision any realistic scenario whereby that could happen. Heck, the political risk alone makes it untenable as a serious store of value as it would be trivial for a nation to outlaw it's use, thus destroying the utility.

If you don't want to store your wealth in government-issued currency, that's great. But I'd suggest converting wealth to productive assets (e.g. shares of companies, loans to companies, land and other hard assets) rather than a virtual currency that lacks both the inherent value of productive assets and the transactional ease of government-issued currency.
As my learning Go project I created a blog with a telnet interface instead of http. (I guess I overdid channels a little bit.)

I used mongo db for data storage and it's really nice how you can just pass over go structs to the driver (gomongo) and it will serialize them.

Go is awesome and I hope it keeps its momentum.
But also keep in mind that this has some big caveats: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2437005
Am I the only one bothered by the continual efforts to scare people out of using Mono? Even if you dislike the tech, this is pure FUD. Fight it on its merits, not on the "you're doing MS's work" bogeyman.
360 is the name for peer feedback. At least at yahoo, but might be different for the gp.
Thanks for mentioning Cmd-Shift-~. It always annoyed me that pressing Cmd-~, releasing, then Cmd-~ again doesn't take you back to the first window (unlike Cmd-Tab). Now I can use this to go back.
Healthcare CIO thanks RSA for sharing breach details
Really? We're surprised by this?

Camera phones with video recording capabilities are almost ubiquitous. More then that, they're cheaper and solve the primary usage case better then the portable Flip cameras do. Flip cameras provided better quality portable video and now that embedded mobile technology has caught up to that quality, justifying the price to carry around another device is difficult.
The system should be fixed so that filing any frivolous suit is an expected loss.

Maybe, but that's off-topic. I don't think anybody is claiming that this is "frivolous". It's a real case, based on alleged violation of real laws. There's a real question at stake, whether the defendant's usage of the IP was Fair Use.
Thank you, wallflower.

A few years ago, I did a Mixergy interview along with rms about Hacker News:

http://blog.mixergy.com/why-communities/

Andrew, if you're reading this, I would love to do another, not about my past projects, but about my next one. Stay tuned...

we could all learn from his b2b success

Hmmm, sounds like an idea for another ebook....
Squeeze the width of Twitter layout
Not having a ballast tank is decidedly NOT a huge design advantage for a military sub, because to stay under the surface you have to keep moving at a certain rate of speed. That is not a desirable trait when your primary goal is to be stealthy.

It IS a great design advantage for non-military subs when your primary goal is to be safe.

The concept is not exactly earth shatteringly new, I've seen concepts of it from navy contractors for decades, the Navy just has no use for one.

For surviving, yes, the only thing can kill a sub is a ship or airplane. How for succesfully completing a mission usually the goal is to remain undetected. That is certainly harder to do.
@edw519: send me an original editable format of the book and i'll typeset it for you.

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Did the HD video capability of mobile phones (e.g. iPhone 4) kill the Flip? If so, this has happened before; Pure Digital's first product was a cheap point-and-shoot camera that you'd take in for processing, but it was also beaten by the rise of (equally poor quality) cellphone cameras.

Interesting take-away from a user experience perspective.
A dedicated device that is famously easy to use, still loses out to more complicated devices that do everything.

History of Pure Digital and Flip:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/03/19/flip-video-wrong-wrong-wron...
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The product lasted 5 years (though with a name change).
JavaScript for the Modern Web?
I thought I was a capitalist growing up, but these days I think my political affiliation is more likely just 'hacker'.

I can relate to this. I had a socialist and a capitalist phase-- more than one of each, actually. In truth, I'm a pragmatist, a syncretist, and I'd include "libertarian" had that word not been stolen from us by right-wing idiots.

Both "socialism" and "capitalism" encompass two centuries' worth of economic innovations, and it's idiotic to think either column has all of, or none of, the answers. We need enough socialism to prevent economic degeneracy (e.g. an outcome where people become so rich or so poor that fail deals become impossible and the system devolves) and we need enough capitalism to remain innovative, to reward hard work, to put the talented and skilled people (who, for statistical reasons, usually are not born into well-connected elites) into decision-making roles, and to allow people to try out new ideas without having to answer to (government or corporate) bureaucrats.

I hate American-style corporate "capitalism" with a passion, though. It's a horrible system that exists to give a socially insular elite (~0.5%) the best of both systems (socialism and capitalism) and leave everyone else with the worst of both worlds.
I manage a team, and I have to disagree with this article. It is often the employee. For example, I have a client that is going live tonight. Their environment consists of 14 Linux boxes that all need apps deployed, chroot jails setup, monitoring and deployment scripts written or modified, etc. I assigned it to one of my engineers weeks ago, but he works so slowly that most work isn't completed yet. Yesterday, the day before go live, I had to take it over and completed 90% of the work in a single long day.

It's not that he isn't trained... These are basic Linux engineer tasks. It's that he works so slowly, and has to ask so many questions "how did you want me to create the user accounts?" - "I don't know, with useradd, perhaps?" Then 2 weeks later, I say "the client is asking if they can login to their boxes now; are their user accounts created yet?" - "I'll get to that today, he replies."

You might think that I must have hired him, so it's my fault if he works too slowly and asks too many questions, or makes too many mistakes to be of much use. Unfortunately I didn't hire him.

The bottom line is that a lot of employees are just poor performers, and when someone that does good work at a high rate of speed can do it better themselves, in less time, they're going to do it.
I don't think that logic holds; I can comment on something, or provide a link to it, because I hate it.
While salary is certainly important, I can't help but think that it's wiser to work harder on yourself than on your job. In the end, the stress/time that you spend worrying about salary increases and getting underpaid should be spent improving yourself and finding alternative ways of income besides making a living
HTC Sensation 4G official: 1.2GHz dual-core, qHD display, and Sense 3.0
Then you shouldn't feel bad. She was leaving money on the table that she needed. Your conversation led her to make necessary changes. If you had kept quiet she might still be struggling.
Reading On Lisp: Then and Now
Note that I'm not saying "don't negotiate" but I am saying "don't get caught in an outright lie".
> Unfortunately, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has become an unaware puppet playing as proxy friend of Microsoft by making Banshee the default music player of Ubuntu.

Every distro which has shipped the popular Gnome applet Tomboy (Most Gnome distros) have been including Mono for quite some time. It's been included in Ubuntu's base install for about four years, iirc.
Ribbonfarm is cool, but can you elaborate on how it answers the OP's question?
IBM launches open source tool for authoring HTML5 in the browser
Not for the proxy module.
I'm all for a new version of Javascript that eliminates the junk and keeps just the "Good Parts", but I'm averse to anything that serves to abstract away the bad parts by building a subset of functionality on top of the existing version javascript for a niche application (server framework in this case, other cases include cappuccino for UI, coffeescript for...everything? etc.)

The Javascript that can be used only via add-ons is not the eternal Javascript...
Did that acquisition EVER make any sense?
Fish-like syntax highlighting for zsh:
https://github.com/nicoulaj/zsh-syntax-highlighting
Then you want to work with these guys I guess:
http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/
> Check the "new page" and vote up stories you like.

I wonder if it wouldn't make sense for the front page to have a few "new" articles show up as well. Like, sprinkled throughout the list, or maybe just show three of them at the top. Get them in front of the whole audience, rather than just the small subset of users that visit the "new" page regularly.
The iPod touch even has pretty good recording features and the ability to take photos, which Flip cameras cant.
This article could just as well be in a dictionary, defining the word "FUD". There was a time when Microsoft was the one doing FUD..

People should read a little before writing these stupid posts. Saying that we shouldn't have mono because it's from Microsoft is like saying we shouldn't have android because java is from Oracle.
Yeah, but at least if it were free, Amazon have an excuse for showing you ads.

They're putting a $25 value on your eyeballs, for the lifetime of the product. That's an insult disguised as a discount.
You would imagine they would try to sell it off.

They may have already and failed.
Myths About Gagarin's Spaceflight
"My problem with Javascript has always been that expertise is defined more in terms of understanding its faults rather than its features."

That's mostly just true for browsers. Javascript itself has very few faults.

My biggest annoyances with the language are: Lack of lexical scope, no trailing commas and semicolon usage that differs from C.

I could complain all day about my annoyances with browsers (or just IE).
Four More Years Of Blowing Venture Bubbles?
Well, the issue is that the company in an At-will state will never give any official reason for a termination. They will resist even giving a reason as long as they can and if forced there will always be something they can use.
One of many reasons to never work in a backwards "At-will" state.
How to Keep Your Sanity During a Startup Launch
I was about to read this before declaring it garbage...then i realized it was authored by Roy...didn't have to read it to know it's garbage.
I agree, they could have gone in a lot of directions with an inexpensive camera. I guess the problem was that Cisco wanted the mainstream market - and they weren't going to go after the various niche markets like: timelapses, infrared, fast shutter cams (e.g. skateboarding tricks), sport cams (e.g. mountain biking, longboarding)...

Or maybe Cisco didn't want any competition for their line of rather plain, low-quality home security IP cameras.
>>> print(GREEN_ACCOUNT_AGE)
True, but it still might be worth it due to the market size.

I guess after a point the AppStore becomes expensive and it might be worth it to sell your own stuff and keep the 30%.

But $99 is a really low barrier to entry for non-US individuals and companies to sell software to the whole globe.
Intel sets up MeeGo research center with China's Tencent
Why would you write this: [long_io_operation with callback]
When you can instead write this: [long_io_operation without callback]

Off the top of my head, I'd say because "var result = long_io_operation(req);" is not only not self-documenting but actively deceptive if long_io_operation is an asynchronous call.

I'm not sure I see what's to be gained by pretending closures don't exist.
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Interview with TinderBox co-founder Kristian Andersen
Find out me about Kristian: http://about.me/kristianandersen
>Money has marginal utility for me. After a certain amount I do not care.

And this is exactly why I go for the absolute maximum I can: I care about my own projects more than I could ever care for any company or their projects. The more money I get the less I have to work for other people.
True, but if you take "like" to mean "validate," then that logic does hold -- even if you hate an article you're sharing, you're still validating it.
I just purchased the book and it was totally worth the $2.56. Which, BTW, is a nice price. :-)

Comment #49 is a piece of advice that will pay for the book many times over, no matter what you do for a living.
well the logic was the following (I'm assuming): video requires tons of bandwidth, more video out there means more bandwidth requirements. Where are cisco's cash cows? in routers/exchange devices.
Would you be interested in a book about technical marketing?
Never. I wonder why these mega-corps make these acquisitions if they always kill the product after some time.
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To be fair this is true of most people who end up succeeding in any walk of life, as a child/teen or adult..
Principle of Least Software
Local network for news and more
Most interactions are meaningful locally and results into real-life stuff.People can follow places and interact with people at those place in a fun way!<p>I mean a virtual world created by people on top of real world. What do you think about this idea?

Initial, objective would be to generate local news - created, voted and shared by people in your area.Feedback will be highly appreciated.

Best
Rajan
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Given what definition of space? Newton, for one, would not agree with many of your premises, such as the fact that distance is a matter only of relations. And he may have been proven "wrong," but there was a significant amount of theory between Plato and now that you might not want to shuffle under the carpet.

But I should add that I'm no expert myself.
Agreed. I miss that shortcut every time I use Windows or Linux.
> "A dedicated device that is famously easy to use, still loses out to more complicated devices that do everything."

There's something of a gadget axiom in there.
Casual users are, by definition, not interested in the fiddly bits. Thus they value the results over the process, the tools or the craft. Thus they are most-willing to abandon a dedicated device for a good-enough multifunction, if for no other reason than to cut down on extra gadgets for endeavors they don't have a deep interest in.

I think you might be off on 'complicated' though. Note that Flip didn't have any real competition until the latest versions of modern pocket-OSes brought (comparative) simplicity to video. 'Feature-phones' were packing video capabilities for pretty much all of Flip's rise to prominence.

It's the two-tap "upload to youtube/vimeo/facebook" that did them in.