skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing. AS3 is messier than javascript? Are you huffing ether? Absolutely none of the OO features are "bolted-on". You must be talking about AS2, for which this would be a legitimate argument. BTW, AS3 is a well-conformed implementation of the ECMA4 standard, which is, wait for it, the javascript 2 spec! Welcome to the present.
Is being “connected” becoming a “sense”?
google is over playing there hand here, this is becoming a very closed system, i bet near the end it will be locked like the iphone only with t mobile instead of att
And other illusionists.
"... Studentsell.co.uk (www.studentsell.co.uk) is an entity designed to act as a medium that enables students in Scotland to trade physical items and share information with each other and could be considered as an electronic version of the ultimate student notice board ..."

eBay for students? Is their a question or are we supposed to ask?

"... The website has the potential to develop into an integral part of College and University life for students all over the country ..."

Here's one for you, how are you going to do this?
Talent and leverage goes side by side in H1-Bs.
The same applies sometimes to the foreign students pursuing PhD in US. If the advisor does not like something he does not mind to use the leverage"if you do not like it - go back to your country".
Actually, a lot of them(Derren Brown, Penn & Teller, James Randi) do reveal a lot of their tricks.
"at last count, I have 8 Macs in my home".
Why do you need 8 computers?
How long will you guys stick around? My plane doesn't land in NYC until 6:30pm but I would love to get in on this.
Are You Productive In the Morning Or Creative at Night?
I admit to only reading part of the article, but it seems like the author just wants a media scripting language, not a "programming" language, which AS3 has become. The sandboxing and unloading are legitimate issues, but have nothing to do with the language.

I wouldn't necessarily be against a wholly different language for use in the timeline, as I prefer not to put code there anyway, assuming I have to use those ugly Movieclips at all. I could see something terse and elegant, eschewing the AS2 prototype nastiness, being useful for animators and light programmers alike. I think the biggest barrier for most is the new event model. Adding listeners is a bit verbose for those used to simply overriding an on() method.
There's also a number of disassembled ZX Spectrum games on the Internet, e.g., http://www.icemark.com/dataformats/hobbit/index.html
I've read the H1-B discount is 20% off the regular salary.
"... No, I’m not offering to write copy for entire websites free of charge. What I am considering is to take a look at your homepage, marketing sheet, mass email, elevator pitch, or whatever other single item you need the most help on, and refine / polish it ..."

Hey Zac this is an interesting idea but looking at your contact suggestion and work flow:

- intro email

- detail of requirements (clear idea of company & wants)

- your analysis (is it worth doing)

would it not be better to find a way to mechanise this where a potential client enters these details into a form (using http://www.google.com/url?q=http://wufoo.com/about for example) then letting the client see the progress? If there is one way to build a project it would to be build an App that allows writers and people who want stuff written about them to meet.

An example of this process I have in mind is http://99designs.com/ where designers pitch for a clients brief. The advantage of this approach is the client is required to pay upfront a fixed fee.
javascript is javascript, i don't see the need to say it's C with Lisp...
Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't make any sense to use Bittorrent to stream videos. One of the strengths of Bittorrent is that you don't download everything sequentially (which makes sense to do if you're streaming audio and/or video). It's broken up into pieces that can be sent randomly to many users who then redistribute the data.

Sure, there's Initial Seeding (spec: http://tinyurl.com/6y2ng2 ) which sends data sequentially. But that refuses to send data to a peer until that peer has already sent its data out to everyone else. There's also HTTP-based seeding (spec: http://tinyurl.com/p5kpn ) but the implementations - or attempted implementations - that I'm aware of don't exactly work well.
Hmm. I think it's a "would" and not a "will." If MS didn't want to do it when their stock price was over $30 why would they do it now when they are under $26. Also, all the bad blood that's been going on between them can't be helping the deal making here.
Most people that surround me, regardles of origin, are not able to invent their ways out of problems - instead they learn to cope. It seems to me that more advanced societies learned to encourage those few who can to think outside the box, whereas less successfull societies did not.
He was probably counting old laptops, iPhones, and maybe iPods?
It's cool, I wasn't jumping on you :-) I was just summarizing the content.
This is exciting news. The long-awaited 1.0 is in sight.
Somebody has to provide what is being consumed! Suddenly just because some humans have the ability and capacity to provide something that others want, they are now entitled to it? That is a pretty bold claim that I think needs justification. I'm not saying I disagree, just that when you are suggesting that someone must do something, you provide your reasoning.
The Death of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Thousands More - Associated Content
Yes they modified the bittorent protocol, article talks about it, it remains backward compatible though (for non-live streams).

On a different note, please cut it out with the tinyurls (not just you everyone), needless obfuscation of usable information makes no sense.
Keep in mind he probably has kids, and they each probably have a Mac.
I'm not sure about the derivatives market part, but remember that (in the US, at least) most student loans are administered by the federal government, and are 'guaranteed' by them. That means if you don't pay up, the government will fuck with you in all the various ways a government can (confiscation of tax refunds, wage garnishment, etc - and don't forget student loans are not covered by bankruptcy). That is why my loan interest is less than 2% over the fed funds rate - it's worth it to loan money at that rate, because there is effectively no way to avoid having to pay up, short of dying.
I find it's easiest for me to focus in the morning, from around 8AM to 1PM and in the evening, from around 6PM to 10PM.

I don't know about "productive" versus "creative," though.
I find it curious that "economizing measures" are touted as very high priority, while "cloud computing" is last on every CIOs list.

I calculated the savings for my company: moving out of a hosted datacenter solution with leased equipment and into a cloud provider's environment will be roughly 50% cheaper. Half price, and scalable on demand.

Sounds like an economizing measure to me.
DataPortability Announces Initial Steering Group Members
The complexity of sharing scientific databases
Not historically. China used to be the go-to place for fine textiles and luxury in general. There's even a saying in Spanish - "un lujo asiático" (an Asian luxury). It describes hyperbolic opulence.
Very true. But the quality of Apple's own replacements (like Keynote) and the ease with which they can interoperate with Microsoft Office (Keynote is a better Powerpoint than Powerpoint) makes the transition very easy. Add competitive pricing to this and Microsoft has a real problem even here.
You can meet other entrepreneurs at a Bootstrapper's Breakfasts http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/ there are three scheduled for August. We get a number of out of town visitors and you would be welcome. The other events you list all look very good, if I had to pick one from those you mentioned to make sure of attending it would be the the New Tech Meetup in Palo Alto. SVASE (http://www.svase.org/) runs a number of events where you can meet VCs: breakfasts, Startup-U, CXO Leadership forum. SDForum (http://www.sdforum.org/) runs 20+ SIGs, I would check out the Startup and VC Funding SIGs during your visit as well as any related to technologies you are working with.
yep, it's horrible.

Manufacturers purposefully change the model number between retailers so it's impossible to do any sort of comparison shopping.
Dr. Horrible brings evil, laughs to the Net
This is a particularly interesting topic for Agile teams. Letting a team self-organize sometimes leads to a team wanting to "self-organize someone off the team".

I've had my Scrum masters come to me twice in the past two years and ask to have a team member removed. One needed to get fired, one needed to be reassigned to a position that better suited his talents.

In both cases, the team experienced an immediate productivity boost and jelled better.

The key for the manager is letting the team know that you trust them enough to bring those issues to you.
Read it again:

> In Ubuntu, I simply do apt-get install. On a Mac, I have to download a tarball and compile it (their package management systems have many fewer packages, many of which are out of date).
Ruby Streams
Did we just watch E3's last gasp?
I've never heard of that. Does it use the magnet to hold the door locked, or to unlock it? If the latter, what happens when power goes down or the battery runs out and you want to get in or out? If the former, what stops people from disrupting the power supply to bypass the lock?
I am most creative when I sleep. I wake up with ideas. But I'm not productive in the morning. If I can get to the office before it gets too busy or distracting, I find I can jell a lot of ideas in the morning.

I am productive late at night, when I can go into the coding zone with little interruption. But that late night time is generally not creative for me.
I was looking at a sweet one that also allows you to enter a code. It hooked up to the internet and allowed you to program restrictions on codes. For example, if you had a maid come in regularly (wouldn't that be nice?), her code would only work on certain days or during certain hours. Or if you were afraid you left your stove on and wanted someone to check, you could give them a code that would only work one time. I don't know how much you'd actually use those features, but it was a neat gadget.
The U.S. is actually quite unique in its penchant for looking to the future. Many other cultures focus on and place more emphasis on tradition and the past, or the present.
It's the culturally reinforced tendency to constantly look to a future that is presumed to be better then the present that drives invention.
well that and necessity...and war.
Excellent news. I just bid a new Django project today and this will be a great help.
Agreed - they say you shouldn't hire someone who doesn't decide he wants to accept within a few days. Although this isn't anything like hiring, a similar rule-of-thumb might be a good idea - if either one of them wanted it badly enough, they would have worked something out already.
QR codes from end games? That would be fun.
"I know for sure, that what we're doing today is sorta "configuration files" for software built in the 50s."

BINGO, i talk about this all the time and no one listens!
the move to multi-core is a chance for a real reboot, rather than optimizing old software to run slightly faster on the new hardware.
I notice that when I get enough sleep I will sometimes spend the last dream of the morning solving (or at least advancing on a solution) to a problem I have been wrestling with. My dead time is after lunch until early evening, I try and schedule phone calls and interaction with other people to renew my energy.
You're dangerously close to a Chuck Norris thread.
I always liked this implementation:

http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2005/05/lazy-streams-fo...
Some fun - I just posted The BitTorrent Song:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/musical-geek-friday-the-bittorr...
I would think free alternatives like Google Docs/Zoho probably scare MS more in the long term. I'm still skeptical anything will replace MS office in the foreseeable future (that's just my nature I guess) but I imagine if anything does, it will be something free.
Seasteading: Constructed Sovereignty?
Inflection Point
NewForms-Admin Lands in Django Trunk
It'll cost you a little bit of cash, but why not Amazon Web Services?
Mobility Blues
Don't forget all of that energy used to keep that intarwebs thing running.... While California uses a lot of energy it also produces a ton of stuff. California's economy would make it the sixth largest economy in the world if it was its own country (11th by PPP) and according to wikipedia it has one of the lowest per-capita energy consumption rates in the US.
The aggregate system of simpler machines will still need to get the task done. It's still a hard problem, no matter how you slice it. Systems probably also are less able to operate in human environments.

But one big trend in robotics is simpler robots that can solve part of the problem. We don't have butler robots, or systems of robots that are as capable as butlers, but we do have roombas & scoobas.
Am I the only one who enjoys the antics of really bad employees?

At least they make my own incompetence seem less raging.
This is a false dichotomy; thought patterns are more nuanced.
Five Questions with Ryan Bates (Railscasts producer)
Is all really great software born in an environment where it was protected from competition? Caveat , I am not drawing a causal relation, nor am I claiming that competition doesn't produce merely good software. But a sort of 'happy childhood' may be necessary (although not sufficient) for great software.

Just look at the examples... Google, three years in academia when business considered search a cost rather than an asset. Gmail, again a long incubation. All the great open source projects are like this too.

This seems to work best when the authors have little competitive pressure, but somehow are able and willing to use that idyll to learn a lot about the problem and the users.
GitHub has improved my coding more than any other tool recently. [...] because it brings the social aspect into coding like never before. [...] It’s easier to go the extra mile for readability when you know others may be watching.

Github, the social network for hackers.
I think this idea is great. This site has been pushing me towards quitting my comfortable job and going for some of the crazy ideas I've had. I just might be contacting you in the future.
Well I've never seen it before; that's why I submitted it.
"... have you tried Eric? ..."

also check out 'Idle' the standard editor issued with Python ... sorry I couldn't resist ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Idle
H1Bs can switch jobs any time.
Awesome iphone touch game... Galcon.
I think i am most productive at night, I am awake almost all night and sleep in the morning and wake up at noon. The reason, nights are productive is because 99.9% of the people are sleeping, no phone calls to disturb, no online friends pinging you and many more reasons.
I like this. It unifies big complex projects and light webapps. In the early days, Flickr was famous for iterating in minutes, based on feedback in their user forums.

Perhaps the real advantage webapp authors have is their ability to iterate. It certainly isn't anything else about the web platform!
Let's talk about the US only for argument's sake.

Point 1: Today's doctors are for the most part motivated by $. This was not so even as early as 50 years ago. We need more doctors and need to pay them less. Part of the solution: increased specialization, reduced time in medical school and a different form of health care system. This is a complex problem. The best short summary I have found is available at
http://www.strategy-business.com/press/article/07110?gko=564...

Scroll down and read especially "Redefining Competition" about Porter and Teisberg's ideas.

Point 2: By reducing the income of doctors, we'll rid the system of the greedheads currently running the HMOs, the medical centers and the cancer institutes. People who enter medicine will be people more interested in medicine and less in accumulating a fortune. The financial motivation to get into medical school is simply too tempting currently in the US. Pre-med students are the only group in whom I have seen intentional sabotage of other (pre-med) students' work. Even worse, most pre-meds expect such behavior as normal. And consider Senator Bill Frist, M.D. repeatedly strangling kittens he obtained from the local Adopt-A-Pet in the bathroom sink to get an edge in medical school. Is this normal behavior? For today's pre-med or medical student it apparently is.

Once MDs are knocked down a notch (both in pay scale and consequently in social status), PhDs will once again be able to dominate laboratory research, where they are far, far better than are MDs (who unfortunately currently dominate). We may finally get decent medical research for our government dollars. Doctors are bad researchers: their training is as scholars (i.e., they read and memorize books, books and more books) and they are good at spitting back what they've read. Training as a doctor usually destroys the ability to think independently and do good research.

PS: The original article says treatment could be in the US. I took the opportunity to make a statement about the US health care system and how expensive it is. But FWIW certain changes to the US health care system would make it cheaper for anyone who could use that system.
Good riddance. I'm sick of this fuzzy, low def picture. It's a tragedy that the U.S. telcos have scammed the tax payers and dragged their feet.

7 years is a long time, but then things will (hopefully) finally be where they should be. Of course, a lot can happen in that time. Wireless may become viable or the world could be taken over by robots running on Lisp.
Ask YC: What is/are the best book(s) you have read on nutrition?
It has been 3 months since I started dieting, and exercising on a regular basis as a plan to become a more healthy person. I have lost 20 pounds by now, and have gained some insight about how nutrition works by reading the hackers diet and articles over the Internet, however, I dont seem to get the full picture about how the whole process works, and would love to hear recommendations about some books that would help me understand about how metabolism, fats, carbohydrates, and everything else that is involved in nutrition operates.
Business Idea:
the same thing, but with a chastity belt. eh? million dollars, easy. >_>
He should be downvoted; there's no need for him to grand stand about how hard he's trying.
Raising tuition by how much? Back in the 90s when I was an undergrad an unsubsizded stafford max was about $2600. Last time I checked (2005) the max was still around $2600 in 2005 dollars! They didn't even add on yearly for inflation. So whatever is driving costs, I seriously doubt government largesse.
How The BSA Misleads With Piracy Stats
Sarbanes-Oxley: A Chilling Effect on Venture Capital?
"... But the Steve Jobs that counts for is Steve Jobs circa 1978, the Steve Jobs that was making cheap ugly boxes that plugged into your TV ..."

The (production) Apples you refer to have never really been ugly nor cheap. If I remember they had sleek design with easy to get at insides so you could add slots. They always seemed to be on, around the magical $2-3K dollar mark no matter what country you lived in. Who needs monitors when you could use a spare tv? I remember getting my first PC and asking if they had a card to support TV and got blank stares... "no you need a high quality CGA screen instead or an EGA for $$$ more"
I read the article and noted that they modified the protocol. I also mentioned a bunch of previous ways that the protocol was changed that might be similar to what tribler is doing and that they don't exactly work very well. Hence my skepticism.

Also, if you're going to click the URL anyway, so what difference does it make if its tinyurl'd or not? I don't expect to be rickrolled on HN.
Feedity and Comnicate partner to enhance Enterprise RSS
The law actually requires that H-1B salaries be above a certain level. Many companies (mostly, shady "consultants") routinely violate the law causing the impression that H-1Bs are cheap.
The Car of Tomorrow Has an Extension Cord
Researchers Test BitTorrent Live Streaming
Rails for PHP Developers - Function Reference
New model explains why we overestimate our future choices
For sports nutrition, Nancy Clark's books are the best.
I don't know Sam at all, but if all he wanted to do was sell out in a few years, I could think of better ways to pass the time than negotiating with (ick) cell phone carriers. That's some serious muck he and the other Loopts waded through, and it makes me think they're in it for the long haul.
Imagine... people doing what they want and making decisions that are best for themselves.
This article is essentially a recap of PG's speech at startup school from three months ago.
Exciting article. Hopefully the concept of bandwidth caps will go away and we can focus on the future with massive amounts of bandwidth.

Does anyone know what level of processing it takes to decode a 1080p picture?
I do my development on WinXP and most of my work is in Python/Django. I am using PyScripter and I am pretty satisfied with it.

Previously I used Eclipse + PyDev but found it pretty slow and sometimes buggy. The debugger used to hang a lot even for simple python scripts. I switched to PyScripter and found it way better than any other free IDE available.

PyScripter is perfect for me in all sense except for debugging. The debugger is a bit unstable and does not work well with django.

Few days back I tried WingIDE. Being a Windows user I have a few issues with its look & feel as it is in GTK but prolly a *nix user feel will feel more comfortable with it than PyScripter. I've found its debugger better than any other and works for django perfectly. Stability is also good. I think it is worth the price.
It seems like many of the strengths of Lisp/Scheme are an emergent property of the S-expression syntax, though.

I agree, and I think your use of the word "emergent" is exactly right: the properties in question were unanticipated, yet orderly and beautiful.

This point explains why abortive attempts to "fix" the s-expression syntax are about as old as the syntax itself.
I am here ;-)
New documents could show evidence of NVIDIA-ATI price fixing
Agreed. Give us a teaser about your project idea.
The magnet opens the door. Its basicly home made, and its security through obscurity. Only some nabors and friends know about it, and about 4-5 people know how to unlock it(it doesn't use a key, it has a metal detector and a fake door bell, you put a bolt on the metal detector, which is hidden, and pres the fake door bell, and it opens, then open the door). You don't know it's there if you look at the outside of the door, you just see a standard lock. Its actually not that secure, anybody that knows how it workers can open it, we only use it if we are outh of town for more than a day, most of the time there is at least one person home. If the power goes down, you have to wait for it to come back. You can get in from a window if that happens and unlock it from the inside. It's not a problem from the inside, you just pull the lock. Ooops, i said too much :D
Maybe it's just me, but I actually find the intelli-sense annoying in vim. I prefer the normal ctrl-n/-p without the popup (too distracting/slow/etc).
Cash cows: large markets and opportunities
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=143052

3 points by aristus:

"My wife's took 5 months, but then she married a local. :) But before that was a three-year tragicomedy with all the problems you bring up, plus another nasty one: the 'visa discount'. Large employers love to cut your salary by 15-20% if they can get away with it. What are you going to do? Quit?"
What does it take to get a PC with XP?