skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it be possible to use pushState as the main mechanism on the client, and use a #! as a fallback? You would end up with two different possible URLs, but if the same library handles the calls then it would be fairly straightforward to move from one to the other.
Re-running a selector and wrapping an element in the jQuery object aren't even close to the same thing:

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/core.js#L67

Wrapping elements in event handlers is completely fine.
Art, Meet Touch: Photoshop Reveals New iPad Apps
Sure - will email. Name changed. The important thing is that the categories are not vertical or location specific.

I wonder if you could look for startup opportunities by taking the taxonomy and mapping it to various verticals and countries. When you find a gap with no existing startup, you'd examine if there's a good reason why there's a gap, and if you don't find one you build an MVP for it.
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A+ for effort and thoughtfulness.

C- for the most distracting/annoying UI I've seen in awhile, both front page and the map.

I'm also seeing some questionable stuff in the realtime message display.
At what point in time will we no longer need to learn how to write?
Uh, I'm not so sure about that. The DMCA makes circumventing a copyright protection measure illegal unless you fall into one of the very narrow exemptions.
Sure, but that's not telnet. I would assume you could make a similar tool for debugging SPDY too.
Ha! That's a great idea - add it in as a billable item on client invoices.
I'd second Zoodles. My daughter also enjoyed Toddler Lock when she was younger. Now she's five she enjoys doing Androidify pictures of me and my wife.
Not disagreeing, but I thought the Maps web UI came about post acquisition, and that the technology had previously been developed for desktop apps?
I think it's this phenomenon of bloatware vs minimal software:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html

Summary: It's probably not that any given customer actually uses even a third of the features, but that for any customer there is a feature that is very important to them, and those "I need X" features span the whole set of creative suite functionality.
And SPDY is well documented. Everyone can implement it, even IE if they wanted. Microsoft has a knack for keeping the internal workings of protocols and file formats a secret, or at least very ambigiously documented.
I'd love to see your evidence that it is beyond drawing a conclusion from circumstances. That's a zero-sum game, right there, because there's no way either of us could have evidence as to the ultimate motive.

At any rate, I've said my piece, and I'm circling close to offending you -- which isn't my goal -- so don't take anything I say as intentionally offensive. It seems silly to argue about your life, anyway, from the perspective of someone not in your life.
> generating word of mouth (far more valuable - how do you think people found out about Facebook and Twitter?), and content.

This is pretty much what SEO people mean by white hat SEO. Create interesting/valuable content that people will link to, and you will be rewarded in search engine rankings.
Just a couple of observations:

1) toddlers and up just instantly get simple touch screen UIs. They are way more intuitive for them.
2) Free apps for small children that have adverts are a daft idea. Way too many fat-fingered mis-presses by children (unless that is the idea....)
Who are the best chess players in the tech startup and entrepreneur community?
Seconded. The economics probably make sense even if 90% are "Cs." One or two winners per batch is enough given the relatively small investment for the relatively large stake. Keep in mind that these investments typically result in an initial valuation of somewhere around $300 - $500k. 6% of something that size for relatively low cost makes room for quite a few losers. My only advice is to make sure that there's a lot of focus on getting great advisors and mentors for the program. That piece is easily as important as the funding.
It does depend on the type of business--for most it seems to make more sense to just buy.

But the example given--Photoshop--retails for $699. So that's more like 20 months to break even.
I've never been accepted into YC so this may be totally wrong, but ...

Don't lose sight of the real value in this for a group trying to create their own startup - the mentorship, fraternity, alumni network, initial amount of funding and then finally the demo day presentations which will result in a lot of visibility. Not to mention, at this point in time, the YC brand stamp. I know you have to start somewhere, but I don't think starting with investors is the right move. It won't be difficult to find people willing to invest, as you've already experienced (they came to you). You need to start by trying to provide the startups with the things they can't get on their own - mentorship, fraternity, etc. I have gone through my own adventures of pitching my ideas to VCs, while being completely uneducated about it and green, and I can say it's not difficult to get money from them - so you will be able to get it when its required. At least for me, the money is not really the appeal of YC.

I think dclaysmith says it well here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2432040
Does it undermine problem-solving skills or expose a lack of them? Probably a little of each. If people aren't using advanced search, the search engines probably aren't helping by burying it and showing a one-textbox start page. But if someone doesn't understand that not every web page is equally legitimate or authoritative, it's a failing that's more fundamental.
The "eye-catching" stat here is the emphasis on early-stage funds. In aggregate, up over $3 billion from a year ago!
Once I found that it was ok, but the linked article led me down a wild goose chase with this link - www.adobe.com/go/cssubscription. Or maybe I'm just being slow today.
How many reading this article, and are disgusted by these clearly unconstitutional actions, are still living in the USA? How many of you are paying taxes to the very government that is using this money to fund this harassment, among other illegal activities?

You're providing material support to a terrorist organization! (presuming some number of harassed people are terrorized by the harassment.)

What are you doing to compensate for this material support? Are you going to stop it, withdraw your support? Or are you going to expend energy to compensate for the aiding these oppressors?

This is a rhetorical question. I've my own answer, and I hope you have yours.
This is similar to Microsoft happily pushing and supporting new bus/interface/port standards to allow many various hardware companies to bring newer, better, faster hardware to the consumer.

It wasn't because they were nice or had the consumer's best interest at heart. They just wanted PCs to be faster, because they had a monopoly that sat atop PCs. So they benefit when PCs get faster, get replaced and stay ahead of would-be competitors.
The whole source: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=mXVK93sY
(edit: updated with 0.03)
i am trying to use the hairport (on apple tv1 running ubuntu hardy)... i am getting the following error:

atv@appletv-ubuntu:~/scripts/bbhoss-shairport-31cf954$ make
gcc hairtunes.c alac.c -D__i386 -lm `pkg-config --cflags --libs ao openssl` -o hairtunes
hairtunes.c: In function âinit_outputâ:
hairtunes.c:642: error: âao_sample_formatâ has no member named âmatrixâ

Could someone help me with this matter :) ?
Photoshop is around $600-700 for the full product, $200 for an upgrade. That means that the full product plus one upgrade is approximately equivalent to two years of subscription -- which is the amount of time Adobe is planning to go through two versions anyway. After that point, owning plus upgrading is cheaper, but it seems likely that by that time Adobe will have tweaked the subscription and upgrade prices to make owning less appealing.

The people they are really going after are those that need to swap Adobe files (e.g. creative consultants and their clients): Inter-version compatibility is a headache for any participants who aren't on the latest version. Things could get particularly ugly if they start releasing features to subscribers that aren't otherwise available until the next version.
I think this is a cracking idea for freelancers. I know we pay out close to 2k for the web premium version and its outdated every year now as they are releasing a new version nearly once a year!
Pixelmator has gained a lot of traction against Photoshop.

I tend to use Autodesk Sketchbook + Pixelmator for most of my graphic work.
The Node.js Rap song, learn you some Node.js from music.
This is awesome.

So awesome in fact, that I really wanted this as a browser extension. I quickly packaged it for Chrome, and have published it on the Extension Gallery for all you hackers. Get it while it's fresh:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/abjhkncpebiaepcpeo...

Enjoy :)

P.S. The (very minimal) source is on GitHub, too: https://github.com/obeattie/HackemUp-extension
One script closer to designing in the browser
I disagree, profit vs non-profit is your raison d'etre and it affects all of your decision making, particularly the topline variety.

Say you're writing the FY2012 budget right now for your moderately successful for-profit degree program. You have an extra 10k. Do you spend it on better lab equipment or on subway ads? Subway ads would seem to be the more profitable choice a lot of the time. Actually, while we're at it, if we have a choice between an excellent and a mediocre professor, why don't we take the mediocre guy for less money and spend the difference on marketing? That's a sound business decision, because it will lead to more profit.

Now, maybe your consumer market will be so discerning as to punish schools who make decisions like this in the long run, but I'm not convinced they will.. good marketing can beat a good product in many industries and especially in something as hazily defined as education. Doubly so when you have customers who just want "a degree", take a look at Western New England University sometime if you want to see the definition of a paper mill. Their entire degree program is cops getting their masters for the contracted pay bump.. the emphasis is very much not on learning.

Again, I'd love to be wrong.. but can you really not see these incentives at work here?
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I don't believe this is intended as a replacement for one-time purchases (though I'm sure Adobe would love to have you switch), but rather as an option for businesses whose production needs fluctuate. I can easily see a company with a seasonal crunch time, such as an annual 300-page catalog, that hires on contractors for a couple of months, taking advantage of this.
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"I don't wanna use IPv6! I'll have to change things! Waaaah!"

Just shut up. Do it. Do the transition. Yes, it will be hard. Yes, it might break shit. No, IPv6 is not perfect. But do this transition once and we have enough address space to make it to the galactic civilization level. 2^128 addresses is big. It's a one-time thing.
I think a lot of people work with an assumption that the non-profit colleges at least have pure motives, so they may fall short on execution but they're trying.

This fallacy (what I sometimes call the "non-profit fallacy") is certainly being exploited by the people looking to harm for-profits.

But make no mistake - it is a fallacy. Non-profits want money just as much as for-profits - the only difference is that the money is distributed as salaries to employees (particularly the bloated administrations) rather than as profits to shareholders.

Institutional incentives matter far more than the explicit corporate charter.
I just don't buy into the "I didn't need X, so I will not provide X" argument. It is clear that toddler iphone apps are not required for learning. That doesn't mean they aren't good at what they do. And, even if they're merely neutral w/r/t learning, the kids demonstrably love playing with them.

The "love playing with them" seems to apply to sweets too. Kids love sweets. I love sweets. They're not the healthy part of the diet, but that's why they're intake-limited, not unmetered.

Mobile phones are useful too. When I was a kid, I was terrible about phoning home to let them know whose house I was playing at. Knowing that a kid has a mobile phone that you can reach them on is awesome. The other (cool?) stuff can just be a fringe perk for the kid.

So, I dunno. The alternative to minimalism isn't maximalism. Things like access to highly-attractive, disproportionately rewarding relative to their merits activities can be rationed. But I just don't see not letting a kid play with things that they think are awesome just because if they were to overdo it makes it harmful.

Indeed, the concept of self-metering is huge. I've never seen kids explode quite so spectacularly as when they are released from a restrictive regime into an environment where they have not learned the habits of self control.
This is an invitation for a trademark infringement lawsuit.
New app generating platform
How To Write An App In 8 Hours (Or Die Trying)
Yes, this is possible.

If you do capability detection by checking to see if window.history.pushState exists, then you can configure RouteMap.handler to be tied to history events. Otherwise, you can set the prefix by calling RouteMap.prefix('!').

EDIT: I re-read your question, and I think that I misunderstood. I do think what you're asking is possible, and what I stated above is a piece of what you'd need to do. Basically, instead of simply binding RouteMap.handler to either onhashchange or onpopstate, you'd probably have to write an event listener for both of those methods + a window onload handler all of which send their respective portions of the URL that you care about to RouteMap.handler.
Well, Merriam Webster defines sedition as "incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority"[1].

Treason also has a fairly narrow meaning, "the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign's family"[2].

I don't believe Wikileaks' actions falls under sedition or treason. Certainly I've never heard them of them advocating insurrections or US government overthrow.

What they did do is publish large amounts of data classified by the US.

Legally, that should be a crime, I believe. I'm not sure it is. From my brief (and IANAL) reading on the question, it's never been adequately addressed, and it brings up massive First Amendment issues.

There is also the question of Assange, who is not a US citizen, and therefore not per se subject to US law, and then Applebaum, who is a US citizen, and therefore unquestionably subject to US law. Even under harsher strictures is Manning (and other soldiers), who are under military US law, which is not like civilian law.

The laws have to deal with the "electronic frontier". They must, or we will continually mire ourselves in grey areas of general suspiciousness.

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sedition?show=0...

[2] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treason
Interesting that the author suggests "maybe a feature off of stack overflow"
Something like http://codereview.stackexchange.com perhaps?
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The Myth of the Commodity Server
The article started nice, but it was a bit of a disappointment to see he just picked the biggest blob and that's it. Would have loved something more relevant to detecting the shape.
How to block annoying photo tagging on Facebook.
Was Google's link: operator caching old expired links?
The question is whether all other people we interview will exhibit the same traits.
Looks extremely cool. Can't wait to kick the tires.
Quipper's app generating platform will enable anyone to create mobile apps for distribution across the App Store and Android Market.
Rats! I use HackerNews UX and HackemUp won't work with it. Decisions...decisions...
Editor nearly detained after taking photos near crime scene
And surprisingly the internet has actually made elite schools more important, not less. Pre-internet regional schools were often held in near equal esteem as Harvard/Yale. As information became more fluid (USNWR and the internet) the ranking of credentials became easier to obtain. This won't change.

What changed in the second half of the 20th century is that academia became (for students and professors) a national, rather than a regional, market. Now every top high school student vies for an Ivy League slot, and there just aren't enough of them to accommodate all the great students, especially when there's an implicit contract between the Ivy League and the WASP old-board that about half of the slots are going to go to entitled aristocrats based on privilege rather than merit.

The national market actually makes the process a lot noisier, not a more efficient informational market.

The internet didn't create the national market. That began in the 1960s (air travel, television) if not earlier. The Internet just sped the process along by making it a lot easier for people to send out 20+ applications and clog up the system. The job market has the same problem. It's not flow of information that's the problem. It's, for lack of a better word, spam: content without information.

You know how selective tech companies brag about their 1:250 acceptance rates? For an even moderately qualified applicant, odds are closer to 1:15 to 1:4. Companies get a ridiculous number of spam CVs-- often in duplicate or triplicate, because many of the worst recruiters are prolific spammers, and because the least-qualified applicants send out so many CVs. On this note, be very careful about using recruiters and make sure they won't send out your CV without your consent; the worst recruiters not only throw CVs around promiscuously, but often "upgrade" details, meaning that a later (honest) CV submission may contradict one on file, make you seem a liar, and flush you out on that alone.

It's not fluidity of information that is the problem. In an efficient market for information, no one would give a shit about college prestige in the first place because the (smarter and harder-working) 85th-percentile state-school graduate would beat the 65th-percentile Ivy graduate, hands down. College prestige only matters because people are often typecast to the average quality of a student from their school, at least as the starting assumption about a young person with a blank CV. The problem isn't "fluidity" of information but that personnel markets (job market, academic admissions) are clogged up with so much useless spam information that separating the signal from noise is nearly impossible.
I don't really understand how ( red - green + blue ) determines the pixel's redness.
For those who might not know this, you can stream the audio from one mac to another.

http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/configuration/playing_live_au...

I use it to move music streams to the other computers in the house.
Obligatory joke:

Dean, to the physics department: “Why do I always have to give you guys so much money, for laboratories and expensive equipment and stuff? Why couldn’t you be like the math department? All they need is money for pencils, paper and waste-paper baskets? Or even better, why aren’t you like the philosophy department? All they need are pencils and paper.”
Ah those were the days when computers hardly had enough memory to even keep the Haskell standard prelude in memory.

Immutability doesn't necessarily require copying data all the time though if you copied data only when modified and used the right data structures, does it?
Future of KDE Plasma Workspaces — Qt Quick's QML and Scene Graph for Rendering
Writing | ben fry » Processing 0195 now posted
The point of the article was to detect the biggest red blob, find out where it is positioned and how big it is.

Shape detection is an interesting subject too, maybe I'll write about that in the future. :)
Wsgid - Running your WSGI app as a *nix daemon
I much perfer having gradients on the edges if you are going to do something nonstandard
Yes, you've found the five-word phase that mentions that there are extensions in the selector engine. There is no documentation on which things are, or are, not, extensions.

Now that we've gone all the way down the pedantry slide, have you anything of value to contribute, or was that it?
I've wondered this myself as well, as I do not use it myself either. However, my girlfriend does animation with Flash and some Photoshop and she uses it because that's what she learned with, so I think part of it is vendor lock-in.
Except that it probably equates to around 5% of the total remuneration package.

Not a huge monetary incentive, but you can bet that social ideas will get all the backup they need from infrastructure, marketing, etc.
Feature creep (cartoon)
For an in-depth treatment of modularity, state, and side-effects, see "The Art of the Interpreter" by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman: http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/ai-lab-pubs/AIM-... (and the rest of the original Lambda papers: http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html).
Not too unlike old times:

http://translationparty.com/#9156110

http://translationparty.com/#9156121

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter#Machine_translation_a...
"Instead of spreading this message, Jacob seems to sprinkle a bit of guilt and self aggrandizing"

Hammerdr, I couldn't agree with you more. Willfull masochism is not bravery, or some activist good guy bagde of achievement. It's sad that our society mistakes the one with the other.

Appelbaum, I will be even more blunt than the previous commenter and say that I think you are wallowing in your Jesus complex. If you were serious about all this you would have already sued the DHS the first time you were harassed. You've been held up and hassled, how many times already? I've already lost count. You would have called up Jesse Ventura's lawyer and asked him to represent you as well. You would have contacted Alex Jones from Infowars, who specializes in reporting on DHS harassment, and gotten on his show. Instead, you keep coming back for more abuse like a masochist. You're 100% Jesus to me, and I don't mean that in a flattering way. Stop taking it, stop being a politically correct victim, get a lawyer and fight back. And stop calling people who question your ineffectual and pointless public masochism "trolls", "cowards" and "stalkers".
Great design, superb execution.

Kudos to everyone involved.
Google has hosted many humanitarian services. The focus previously was on providing urgent information (Victorian Bush Fires[1]) or re-uniting dislocated people (Google Person Finder[2]) during these disasters.

Messages for Japan instead shows the sorrow and compassion evoked from around the world. Many have lost all that they've ever known or loved; to know you remain connected in this world is so utterly important.

[1] http://www.google.com.au/landing/bushfires/

[2] http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en
[VIDEO] Sorting algorithms explained using various folk dance forms
Does Apple use the same protocol for streaming video to an Apple TV? If so, is the key from an Apple TV needed to emulate a video endpoint, or is just some tweaking required (presumably to the MDNS service data) to identify it as video-enabled?