skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been doing Flash for about 9 years now, so here's my perspective. There are a couple classes of people that actually use the authoring environment.

Developers - Mostly looking a code, but may pop open an asset or movieclip to adjust the design or animation.

Animators - Tweening lots of layers of movieclips and audio. Apparently Hype doesn't do audio yet, and I haven't looked at how complex they can layer animations, think tweens inside of tweens inside of tweens. They also draw assets in the flash ide, so they need a vector tool.

Promotional - Split in to 2 categories
Category 1 makes ads and promotional pamplets, Hype would work for them. Category 2 makes websites like the ones in Hypes gallery. Both categories need the ability to drop in audio and video from time to time though.

Edit - I think the biggest obstacle they may have is the lack of vector graphics, both at creation time as well as runtime manipulation.
Isn't it brilliant how the process of selling a product has such negative impacts on the product itself.
That’s ridiculous.

I can be opposed to the current income tax rate while still paying all my taxes. Observing the law should not be confused with endorsing the law.
i think technically it is $150 more, since the only way to get the antiglare is with the hi-res option. definitely annoying.
I'm confused too because github asks me to authorize them reading my public information. If it's public, what's there to authorize?

(Since this github authorization thing was new to me, I didn't grant it. Paranoid, sure.)
I could understand if it was something that had tons of duplicates, but it's not that big of a deal when a company is still relatively unknown.

I didn't catch the other article, not everyone logs in within a 24 hour period. I found the article useful despite it being a resubmission and I otherwise wouldn't have heard about the company--apparently 37 other people agree.
I think there is a nice trend online for services charged at a round rate, these aren't impulse purchases. But please post any results if you do an experiment!
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I predicted something like this in an old HN comment:

http://hackerne.ws/item?id=2247654
I think what rcthompson was asking is why can't both kin altruism and group altruism exist as primary causes? If there's a genetic (as opposed to memetic) basis, it's conceivable* that there is a single gene that, if mutated, would cause individuals to care about the group, but not direct kin any more than the group at large, or to care about close kin, but not the larger group. Given how much of biology is layers of overlapping, cooperative systems, I would guess this is the most likely idea: that both kin selection and group selection are active, to varying degrees in different populations.

* Though unlikely
Clang has been able to build Linux since October of last year.

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2010-October/0117...
The United States has one of the very highest GDP (PPP) per hour worked in the world. Been that way for a long time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP... . It makes sense, given our massive capital stock. So working longer hours here would mean a lot more productivity.

I myself value leisure highly, though. I have a job as a software engineer at a large bank in New York. Right out of college, the bank allows me (and all other first-year developers) four weeks of vacation per year, and I'm taking full advantage of it. I like to travel.

Demand for software engineering talent is so strong right now in the United States that I'm surprised so many Americans on Hacker News feel they can't take a decent vacation. I'm sure if they spoke to their bosses they could work something out. You shouldn't be afraid to ask for a reasonable vacation.
Requests a simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings
patent wars instead of standards...why
Well, it's not a competitor for Flash, the technology (which HTML5 is indeed a competitor of), but of Flash the program which is part of Adobe's Creative Suite and used to create Flash content.

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#Adobe_Flash_Profess... )
Natural selection at the level of organisms is just the "regular" form of evolution that we are familiar with. I used the word "organism" simply as a contrast to other levels at which natural selection can act.

Note that although the DNA is the genetic material, a selective pressure such as the threat of predation acts on organisms. Very rarely would selection act directly on the DNA. Rather, the correlation between carrying a snippet of DNA and not getting eaten causes that snippet to become overrepresented in the population over time.
I wish the abstract gave some hint of what conclusions were reached.
I think you're missing the point of his argument. It isn't that we don't know anything, or that we cannot know anything. It is simply that people who are successful do not know how they became successful. Even the work of someone like Einstein is subject to the vagaries of chance; it's entirely possible that had he not been inspired by some trivial incident in his life, he might never have had the insight that led to relativity. The author may overstate the argument, but his fundamental point is sound.
as an aside: I definitely was agreeing with him. jeez, you guys are difficult.
You believe restaurant owners are calling up web developers, and saying, "Hey, we need a new website. Make it with Flash."? And that the web developers are trying to convince them otherwise? No. The responsible party for the abomination that is Flash websites lies mostly with web developers. I've even met a few of them over the years. They use Flash because it is easy/cheap/fast to produce flashy (pun incidental) websites. Some of them also like it because it means the client has to call them for updates to the website, even trivial ones.

Restaurant owners are victims of Flash websites, just like end users are. They just don't know enough to know it.

I hate Flash as much as anyone, and I'm glad Jobs refused to put it in the iPhone, whatever his reasons, because it means Flash is losing its stranglehold on some kinds of site faster than it otherwise would have. But, in the meantime, my phone can visit those sites, while iPhones can't.
I wonder how their checks compare to Coverity's and QAC++'s.

I have a passing acquaintance with both, and I'm almost certain both would have caught the three bugs listed on that page.
Does anyone understand enough to tell us what the "math" is all about? According to the article, the math is key to this ... yet they don't give any info at all about what that math says and how it is relevant. If anyone can enlighten us, please do!
We're doing something with Githib called Work for Pie. It aggregates info from Githib, Stack Overflow, HN, Bitbucket and gives you a score based on activity and participation. Then you get a profile where you can highlight code, languages, etc. Kind of a portfolio for developers. We're still in private beta, but invites will come pretty pretty quickly after you sign up. www.workforpie.com
Medicaid doesn't cover you unless you are disabled or have children. It's not a very good safety net.
Updated icon deserves it is own version number and release cycle if it is by google (chuckle)
Nightly backups copies data over a dedicated 1Gbps link to a secondary data center.
That's Linus' sense of humour showing through. If you like, you could see it as him listening to his wizardly maker's intuition.
For convenience we didn't want users to be required to create yet another set of credentials. This allows you to still authenticate and control your coderwall settings/profile while using your GitHub acct. When we request public access, github only gives us public access.
I've been learning Haskell for the past few months, and it is the most expressive language I've ever looked into. (More so even than lisp, I thought anyway, but I have only spent a couple of weeks in that direction).

I thought, why bother with python / ruby, save for existing libraries and tools already made? All I need is Haskell and C!

This article explains it. That's right, I don't! I should go read about Forth, though.

(I still use python, precisely because of existing libraries and tools.)
I have a feeling that there is a bit more to it than that.

In America it is fairly common for employers tack on a little more vacation time every year for both salary and hourly employees. It isn't too terribly odd to have 1 to 1.5 months off a year after working for someone for 5 to 10 years, but Americans seldom stay at the same job for very long. Either you go off for greener pastures, quit out of frustration, get laid off or simply resign because they fear that prospective employers won't hire you because you stayed at one place for too long.

Deep down, I think we have a serious fear of being considered lazy by our peers.
Yes, that's what I meant: I don't see why either one has to be the cause of the other.
Would you be able to make useful, high-level recommendations to the auto industry after riding in the back seat of 26 drivers for an hour or so?

I certainly do believe that to be possible, yes.
GCC has enabled Apple and Google far more than the other way around. Clang and LLVM sound like great projects, but I hardly think GCC is heading for the grave anytime soon.

http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html#timeline
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html (see part about Objective C)
Well, it's a three bedroom, 2 1/2 bath with a two car garage. I've been in it since '93 Just after I turned 27. I'm the first owner. Original as built price ~$85,000. I'm not on the either coast and property prices were, and still are, a lot lower here. Last appraised value ~$122,000 (appraised 5 years ago), and similar sized homes in the same neighborhood are currently going for ~$135,000+. I'm in a nice neighborhood with relativly low crime compared to other parts of the city. In the intervening 18 years I have changed jobs once and stayed in the same city, and the new job is closer to home. I did refinance once to shave 2% off my interest rate so it will be another 7 years till it's paid off. Yes, mortgage interest does add up, but when you are renting an apartment you are basically paying the landlords mortgage interest anyway. If I did need to sell to move for a job I'd be able to roll the proceeds into the new home and have a much smaller, shorter mortgage to begin with. If I had rented for the same time period I would not have any built up equity. It would hurt to sell though, this house has seen me get married and gain two children. There are a lot of memories here.
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Clearer - title and article could be clearer.
I heard Marco Arment at a 5by5 Show also saying it's easier to pay 0.5% instead of going into a long and expensive trial.

I believe it's not necessarily a troll patent issue that Marco was talking about, this is what trolls are meant to do, anyway; I think it's an issue with the law itself and its enforcement.

Could you believe this some 40 years ago: "I'm going to pay this parasite tax just because I cannot be protected by anybody"? Try "associate with" instead of "protected by"!
Something tells me Glenn Beck's star power will help his new website quickly catapult to the top of search engine rankings.
I think it's much better than wompt.com for following conferences and things like that.

But I guess wompt is a chat widget, not useful for this.
A cash register, yes, but what about one that can process credit cards?
See also the almost complete takeover of 16:9 aspect ratios from 16:10 or 4:3, often with horrible 1366x768 resolution.
I love it, the black/glass shows fingerprints like the devil. And it seems like it's of an impossibly small relevancy. I bought my MBP for the power, matte high-res screen and durability. The appearance of the bezel is probably the least important thing on the device.
Is it Friday already? :-)

Its binary short hand for 2^{10/20/30/40/50/60/...} where 10 bits stands in for 3 decimal orders of magnitude.

And since 2^10 comes closest to 10^3 we get kilo.

Don't expect if you ask for 50K salary as a programmer that you'll be paid $51,200 / year :-)
This looks amazing. Andy Clarke & others are working on a similar, web based, tool. http://animatable.com/
It may be hard to count. I change my user agent on my phone so that I don't get the mobile version if websites. With current phone resolutions I prefer to see the full page and zoom than have an often crappy mobile specific site that shows me less and makes me click more.
Holy moley, that was fast.
I don't think PC Pro readers count as an accurate sampling of people who buy PCs. And I must be in the minority that I like glossy screens. Colors are more vibrant, and it's not hard for me to avoid situations which cause glare.
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Annoying? Unsurprising is appropriate too. Remember the $100 'black' tax? "Same model, specs, just in black, for only $100 more!" Apple knows that their fans might moan a little, but in the end will hand over their credit card regardless.
hi-res version is TOTALLY worth it, however. Best $150 I spent, seriously, was the matte+hires screen
great minds think alike
Thanks for this. I have posted via Facebook. I'll also show a message to my users soon.
Also don't forget the home mortgage deduction on the income tax, which once you are itemizing opens the door to a whole host of other deductions. My effective federal tax rate this year was 4.6%, back when I was renting I could not have accomplished that.
It's cool. I really don't care either way - didn't flag it.

timsco was first post, the submission was still on /newest, had few points. It would have been silly not to point to the previous discussion.

Also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2569644

Peace ;)
> I can totally relate to how getting sales notifications in my inbox can make or break the day's mood.

And from the article:

> For me, most of the time it stems from seeing our daily sales numbers.

Both of you seem to miss the obvious solution: don't check your sales numbers so often.

In the world of professional poker, the effects of variance are well-documented and understood. It's possible to play ideally for a day, a week, or even a month and lose money.

There are several coping mechanisms to deal with this. A common one is to simply check the account balance less often, on a regular schedule.

If looking at sales numbers is ruining your day, do it once per week. A day or two of bad sales could be due in part to simple variance, and by applying micro-corrections too frequently, you could be failing to see the forest for the trees.
Video and computer games arguably look better on a glossy screen. A lot of people play games on their computers.

Even in the mac world, I can see why Apple have gone glossy even though for the HN-type crowd matte makes more sense.
My two cents are that switching to a date-based version system would be the wrong move.

Linux has not been extraordinarily successful at penetrating the desktop market. Where a lot of Linux lives is in the datacenter or the server farm. And if I'm a corporate IT drone, I want to know what is a major, disruptive upgrade and what is a minor upgrade. If you give such a person a CD labeled 2.8.0, it will be viewed with much more suspicion than one labeled 2.6.40, and rightly so. If you give one labeled 3.0, it will be filed in the dustbin until those zeros have become twos. Nobody's going to deploy a dot zero in a production environment.

Thus, giving the kernel what appears to be a big version bump for what is effectively a minor upgrade is going to freak out a lot of IT guys for no good reason. I remember IT shops which still ran 2.4 back in 2005ish because 2.6 was still 'too new'.

(Whether this attitude is legitimate or not is another question entirely).
At least in the TV market, less glare is considered a feature. Modern plasmas are vastly better at toning down reflections that the old ones.
So 2.8.0 is not really going to be a feature release?
Seems strange.
I think its just nice to see java mentioned in a positive light on HN
Meanwhile, the employer keeps a bunch of "dumb and stupid" employees that they refuse to make better. Those employees that are self-starters will make themselves better and, if they want to, will leave anyway.

Seems kind of silly to me. If your better employees regularly leave your company, than you probably have more deeply-rooted organizational problems that need fixing.
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The only valid argument that I'd find for glossy screens is that you can build them more robust than matte screens. For example, it's much easier to clean the glass on the new Macbooks compared to a matte screen, which you wouldn't clean with a normal towel. Another example is Lenovo's new X1 laptop that uses Gorilla Glass which should be even much more robust than Apple's screens. Still, I prefer matte screens, as the reflections on glossy screens are too much of a distraction for me.

Speaking of "out of touch" another issue with new screens is the format: On my old IBM/Lenovo X41 and X61s laptops the 4:3 screen format was perfect for the 12" screen. Although the screen was small I used the X41 as my main laptop for about half a year (without an external monitor). On my current X201 the 16:10 format is much worse: I'm a programmer, I don't need horizontal space, but vertical space. Even for non-programmers I guess that for reading web pages or other documents vertical space is also more important than horizontal space. With Lenovo's new X210 they've introduced a further step in the wrong direction by switching from 16:10 to 16:9.
congratulations, dan and team!
What is the Norris-LaGuardia Act? The legal issue at the core of Brady v. NFL
When will they enhance it to flag the other error in this line:

long kMaxDiskSpace = 10 << 30; // Thirty gigs ought to be enough for anybody.

10<<30 is ten gigs, not thirty gigs.
This article perpetuates a dichotomy that I have only just (at 50+) realised is false: creative versus technical. Technical people create: software and hardware often come out of nothing more than an idea.

The real dichotomy that this article is getting at might be effectively described as artistic versus non-artistic, but even that is not a complete description of the distinction. Maybe it comes down to the old left-brain/right-brain thing?

I used to call myself non-creative, until several good friends united to point out that I do create things, just not things that you could plausibly turn up in art galleries.
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I would expect many of these tools to catch these types of bugs. The challenging thing for us has been to catch only bugs, and to catch them very fast during normal compilation.

A lot of the static analyses we've looked into (and I'm hoping for more detailed blog posts about that in the future) find plenty of bugs, but also find lots of non-bugs. Combine that with being too slow to run during the normal build, and you can't break the build when such a bug is found.

I think one of the most interesting aspects of this is how we catch the bugs early, and force developers to fix them immediately by breaking the build.
Hi there -- I authored the article. You are correct, as I did not include Softbank (see 2nd paragraph for methodology on which VCs were included). As you can imagine, this was a painstakingly time intensive proces so we had to weed out some of the VC firms in the area somehow (as is we looked at over 200 different partners). If I get enough calls for updates, I will add to the list and let people know. Thanks for mentioning!
If the source is in a single language, compiled by a single tool, with one single version, and entirely linked by a single linker strictly at the end of the process, then that might be feasible. But that's probably not the case. If there is much heterogeneity at all, getting proper symbol information may be a lot more work than analysing the binary for control and data flow. For example, intermediate linking steps may resolve symbol fixups internally and just leave a list of relocations behind, or perhaps use strictly relative addresses within what looks to the final linker like a monolithic blob.
Great move, Google. Congrats Dan and Scott!
As if an IT Drone will look at the kernel version numbers!
They are probably just going to install whatever RHEL or SuSE gives them.
Blogging your startup - mentioned during Steve Blank's Keynote at SLLConf
Got it, thank you. I'd love to see a good pointer to worked out examples of natural selection happening at non-organism levels if you have one handy. It sounds pretty fascinating.
It's actually an extension of DJB's netstrings. Hence the name.
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Tell HN: I'm selling codr.cc
I'm selling my latest project, Codr.cc, which you might remember from here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2481287

Why I want to sell:

I'm a college student with limited time, money, and ressources. I haven't touched the app since listing it on HN and since people seem to like it it deserves someone who can take it further. Also, there's a project that has been on the back burner for a while that I should really go back to.

Furthermore, I've been learning Apple software development, and I want to purchase an iPad to further my learning (the simulator doesn't cut it when it involves stuff like geolocation, gestures, accelerometer, camera, etc.). I'm also trying to get off heroku and acquire some sysadmin skills, for which I want to get some money to pay for a linode vps for a while. There's also a handful of programming books and guides I want to buy.

These are things I really want to do but can't afford unless I get a bit of a cash boost.

----

It got some good feedback here on HN, it got listed on a few sites, and twitter and forrst love it.

After the HN spike died down, it's been getting around 250 visitors a day on average.
Here's a PDF snapshot of my google analytics for the past 23 days: http://cl.ly/2J2e3q222x1F2o1g293J

The app is first on google for "share code live" (revision: it just dropped to second place), and slowly climbing for "share code".

I had plans to develop a pro version and provided a form for those who were interested. About 82 entries were collected, though I'd argue that many were not aware of its placement (not a very good one).

----

Given what I explained above, I'm looking to sell for a price in the upper $xxx. Selling apps like this and getting some odd programming jobs through HN helped me to get a MacBook, and I'm hoping it happens again.

I can answer any questions if any of you is interested :)

Thanks!
An apparent word of caution though for A/B price tests:

”Amazon has run A/B pricing experiments, and learned the hard way that customers do find out, and are upset about it. So their new policy is: if they run a price experiment, you’ll always get the lowest price in the experiment, when you get to the checkout. (So you might click on something with 5% off - when you get to the checkout, it’ll give it to you for 10% off, because that was the other offer that you didn’t see).” -AndrewMcG
Doh! Good catch, comment updated. =[ Maybe we do need Clang-for-comments as well as Clang-for-C++ code.... ;]
Isn't laptop a PC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer
You seem to believe Lodsys patents are as unavoidable as the taxes you pay. That's a funny idea.

They are not. Apple could have taken Lodsys to court for their patents were, in fact, quite feeble.

Now, thanks in part to Apple, Lodsys has enough money to litigate. The only way to crush a troll is if everyone refuses to pay extortion for worthless patents. Without a source of easy money, the troll dies.
Am I the only person here who doesn't care? I've used both a ThinkPad T61p (matte) and 15" MBP (glossy) regularly in the past 5 years. The only time I've had an issue with the glossy screen on my MBP is in full on sunshine. Even a matte screen would have been terribly washed out in that situation.