skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, not to mention that honestly I don't have a big problem with it. I have it load on demand and my device is old now, a Nexus One. I load and play flash games regulairly without issue. I keep hearing that Flash sucks on Android but I guess I have the one and only device where it works.

I admit it does bog on occasion but I attribute that mostly to flash apps that were designed on and for desktop PC power. I also have run HTML 5 sites that bring my desktop computer and browser to its knees but I don't scream "HTML 5 sucks!" Perhaps my experience is unique.
"Yep. It could be argued that the first is more readable though" -> I agree with you that this vote should not have been down-voted. I feel like the down-vote was more of a "I think what you said is wrong" rather then a "this comment was useless or misplaced".

However, I feel like the following replies coming from you were unnecessary aggressive.

In your first comment, after you saw that people didn't understand the meaning, I think it would have been better to edit it and explain - without being aggressive - what you intended by "more readable".
You're the first person I've seen who has mentioned assassination politics (which is one of the big reasons why states are likely to resist Bitcoin). It's impressive the degree to which so many don't get the radical potential of the world's first viable anonymous decentralized currency.
This is DNA strand displacement logic, a particularly simple (yet surprisingly robust) style of DNA computing. They can chain together "logic gates" made from reactions of partially complementary DNA oligonucleotides, computing arbitrary boolean logic functions, in an asynchronous logic style. The big potential here is that they can use this for drugs (and other biological purposes) that can do a bit of simple computation. Biology does this sort of thing all the time -- that's where it gets a lot of its power -- but this kind of simplified logic is easier for humans.

Looking over the paper, it looks like they figured out how to combine their seesaw gates and thresholding gates into AND and OR gates, then from there, used dual-rail asynchronous logic to make a four-bit square root calculator. They can't make NOT gates (or NAND, or NOR), so each bit gets two "wires", holding opposite values; this lets them make arbitrary logic without NOT operations.

There's a pretty slick simulator program you can play with here, along with more information, if anybody's interested:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/dna/
http://searchyc.com/post/6123932077/ever-heard-of-searching-...
Skype is not yet part of Microsoft. Skype retired the little-used app on its own.
To tell you the truth I was a little apprehensive of actually writing that. Standard disclaimer applies and whatnot. And by standard disclaimer I mean I gave it as an example of something to actually be afraid of, not something that I find exhilerating.
to drive technological progress? After all, the exponential development of brain and technology was triggered by the ape discovering the tactical advantages of stick and stone in fight/hunt.
Obviously I don't think the same way as the rest of HN, but I think these hackers are a bunch of cunts. They fuck up the services for all the paying customers and all for what? Geohot? FFS - he took the money that people gave him to fight Sony and then SETTLED. It's not like he's some paragon of virtue.

I happen to think that Sony were wrong to withdraw Linux access to PS3 and wrong to sue GeoHot, but this vigilante justice is just fucked up and I'm bemused by the number of HN posters who think this kind of vandalism is justified.
how much RAM can a process use? What happens if I run Redis and fill it up with "a lot" of data?

From http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/how-much-memory-does-a-... : Each dyno has 300MB of memory. If your process uses more than 300MB, the system will automatically kill your dyno and insert an entry into your logs.
that about sums it up.
Sony is not a Goliath. Sony is the old, senile neighbor shaking his fists as the kids throw stones at his windows.

They have a huge surface area to be targeted and very few people tasked with defending them, against god knows how many hackers that take joy in doing this. And it takes only one to wreak havoc, and they can only do something with the person after the damage is done.

This is true for most corporations with online presence, but Sony gave the hackers a reason to target them specifically.

As someone who doesn't own any Sony products and doesn't know or is in the groups making this madness, I can just sit back and enjoy some popcorn.
My bet is that the Document Foundation will end up offering the Apache Software Foundation a major role in their organization in exchange for a merger of the OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice codebases.
The North Vietnamese had a uniformed, regimented army. Al-Qaeda and the American Indians did/do not.
Actually Skype runs large clouds of linux clients (or a version of the Linux client) as part of gateways hosted with some mobile operators. They care a great deal about keeping linux compatibility.
Talk to an executive headhunter that specializes in the retail market. Look for people who have launched roughly similar (eg electronics, not fashion) products into large retail channels.

Don't know enough about your product and company cash position to comment on the second question. If your product has the potential to hit huge sales, you have just enough time to hit stores in time for the Christmas shopping season. That would most likely be the ideal case.

Another option I was just thing of could be the summer concert series. It sounds like you might have an ideal product for pre-concert shopping/food/drinks concession kiosks. This could also be a good test market.
For sure (especially considering what happened to Jim Bell for writing about the idea).

[Related: @lulzsec just soliciated BTC donations to fund further Sony hacks.]
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That aligns with what I was thinking - I guess we'll all find out soon enough.

Thank you.
I wonder how long you can get away with abusing your health? I wonder how much longer older people would feel young if they hadn't abused their health?
Not exactly. Apple changed their developer agreement such that programs that weren't developed using the iOS SDK weren't allowed on the App Store. They reversed the decision only later on, and now you can develop on Adobe AIR and have the LLVM-derived compiler (irony?) output code for iOS.
Personally, I'd rather have the vendors kill off Flash, forcing the web to switch to alternatives, resulting in an environment where I never need (or want) to use Flash.

I'm even willing to suffer slightly for this in the meantime -- even if that means you can access Flash (poorly) on an Android device, and I can't. Apple's position has already resulted in a fairly dramatic decrease in the number of flash-only websites, and I won't cry if I see it disappear entirely.
Facebook Philosophy: Move Fast and Break Things
Have you tried outsourcing on elance?
Going back pages does not give you an accurate representation of the daily front page. Also, when I go a few pages back there is suddenly a huge swathe of non-URL posts for seemingly no reason.

I lifted a dataset[1] from http://hackerslide.com which has hourly archived front pages. With that and some dumb regular expressions[2] I categorized stories and how much time that story stayed on the front page. That is, two bitcoin posts on four different front-pages in a day would be 8 'story-hours'.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=t2W3xQ5p...

I'm sure this way of measuring has problems such as different times having different amount of activity on HN.

To me it seems like there are constantly 1+ bitcoin posts on the front-page everyday. Most of the time the posts are about some trivial event (bitcoin hits 8.5 on mtgox, EFF starts accepting bitcoins, EFF stops accepting bitcoins) or a blog post that discusses bitcoin. In all of these circumstances the discussion seems to follow the same trends and go over the same ground. If there is ever a truly novel insight it would be hard to find in the mess.

[1] https://dl.dropbox.com/s/182rbsb8kb83y4w/hn-frontpages.7z?dl...

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/s/d6ivp8lrj8esflr/count.py
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did I mention Apple suing iOS jailbreakers?
I mentioned that because I'd seen a lot of contracts that included drivel about how the developer is free to have other contracts, free to set their own hours, ... stuff that is implicit.

Getting a contract like this worked over by a lawyer would be a great help. That's why I open-sourced it, hoping to get more exposure and some feedback from knowledgeable people.
Head check: intact.

Thanks for your concern. :)
Flash may run poorly on mobile devices, but doesn't the equivalent HTML 5 run worse? It runs worse on all other platforms.
Don't forget Amazon Local too.
What makes VoIP different from any other protocols, like HTTP?
Skype voice and video calls route media directly among participants with two exceptions. First, some thin clients on mobile phones and a few embedded devices don't connect directly to the Skype network, so media streams through Skype gateways operated by Skype or by Skype mobile operator partners. The other exception is for group video calling, a premium service, which redirects video streams through Skype servers to push computational loads for media transcoding from the desktop or mobile clients to Skype's cloud.
Why do I suspect Mossberg's statement could be reduced to?

I have yet to test a single [Android phone]

Ok, cheap shot, but I really think he's not actually tried it on high end phones with reasonable flash apps that are designed for mobile use. Yes, if you go to cnn.com which fully expects to be running on a desktop it stutters. It stutters on some desktop computers too. But go to the mobile games sites that specialize in Flash games for phones - and many of them are great.
Because wikileaks represents using the disruptive power of the internet to transform the very fundamental conceptions of government transparency and of journalism.

That's very relevant to internet business folks and to hackers.
Money Doesn't Talk
This is a really poorly written, fanboyish article - not saying anything about whether or not flash is good, but do we really need articles like this one on HN?

"Watch the smug get slapped right off of Narayen’s face after he laughably tries to claim that contrary to Steve Jobs’s argument that Flash is a dead technology, it’s currently running on 130 million Android devices."
I would expect it to be more ironic if it did work with JavaScript disabled.

It's kind of hard to be a functional JQuery developer with JavaScript turned off all the time. It's like being a blind tour guide or a celibate porn star.
With all of Flash's security issues, I am not surprised Apple doesn't let native Flash apps on their own store.
Is it truly work if you are enjoying what you are doing? One of the keys to avoiding regret is to figure out how the things you need to do and the things you love to do can be one and the same.
Agreed. However, I think the scariest risks are governments becomes more justified in unconstitutional(USA) policies, which effect all of us on more substantial levels.
>Microsoft bought Skype to kill Asterisk (since Cisco is not a competition really)

Um, how does this make any sense?
Why is built-in deflation necessarily a problem?

If the real economy continues to generate investment opportunities, wouldn't the deflation rate just supplement that? Sure, you could put money in your mattress for 5%, but if you can invest for a nominal 10% and thus yield a real 15%, why would you choose the mattress?
If you can't Trust Gene Simmons and the Kiss Army who can you trust? Do you think he is on the market manipulation?
Communicate in way that will convey the meaning you desire to others. Everything else is self-indulgence and solipsism.

It's your responsibility to make yourself understood, not ours.
I didn't say that Apple took them to court. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/jailbreak/ I am just saying that Apple is using every means available to them to prevent other people using their software or hardware in a different way.
gulp Here's hoping my disclaimer and my nomadic lifestyle are enough to insulate me from that.
Interesting idea. Any plans for an optional HTML5 player?
I pitched at startup weekend. It was a great experience to get up in front of a group and try to succinctly convey an idea. I got a decent response but ended up working on a different project.

As a warning, I spoiled my weekend by pitching a semi-well received idea. In Baltimore we all got three votes and any idea with more than 7 votes went through to the next round.

I had 8 votes. Starting highest to lowest to form groups I had to wait for all the 30+ vote ideas to be announced which started pulling away talent. By the time they got down to my idea, even though I had 8 votes, others had zero interest. I did a disservice to myself by waiting to find an idea. I ended up with a group of other lost souls and we had a good time.

I think the weekend would have been better if I joined up for a pitch I was actually interested in rather than waiting to see who was going to join my low-interest idea.
I find this rather amusing, that kn0thing would make a post that's essentially the scourge of reddit. Are the reddit admins trying their hand at being a hipster, and /ironically/ posting this? :)
Well maybe things working out 'okay' is not good enough? Maybe not everyone has a good life already and actually wants or needs to change?

This advice is meant for people that want to change their destiny. It is good that you can be happy with who you are, but some people want to improve drastically, not just by a few minor character alignments over a few decades.
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You need to consult a good IP lawyer on this issue and have her/him do the negotiation for you. If you really want the job you can probably negotiate the limitation to a specified subject area and require them to sign mutual non-disclosure agreements for each and every disclosed bit of IP. Remember to declare all future hobby projects to keep them in your control.

It would be nice if you were to publish the name and embarrass them in public.
Re: "Facebook would be better if it were to target people in a specific location geographically." Wouldn't that be the case for all small businesses?

It's almost instinctual for people to want to share things that have played a part -- large or small -- in adding to their quality of life. That being said, I don't think it depends on the what type of service the small biz offers, nor the audience that it panders to. Especially not the latter because whether you're selling aardvarks or zyzzyvas, if someone enjoyed their experience purchasing said aardvark or zyzzvya, they'll naturally be inclined to share.

That being said, I'm not exactly sure your last question fits into the equation. Even if the small biz generated most of its clients through mediums like direct mail and the like, that fact alone makes little impact on if the small biz should advertise via social media platforms like Facebook.

The question really boils down to whether or not Facebook ads (being that they're display based) is a better option for small businesses over Adwords, due to the inherent fact that Adwords allows the small biz owner to target specific keywords that essentially act as pre-sell for whatever product or service they offer.

I see a lot of small businesses advertising on Facebook, but mostly for businesses that are no where near where I live. A lot of people would quote the fact that there aren't many small businesses advertising on Facebook as evidence that Facebook is not a good platform for generating customers. I'd say that's more because people are unaware of how to successfully create Facebook ad campaigns to generate those customers than anything.
HTML5 seems to be the way of the future, so I'm definitely exploring that as an option.
However, sometimes I do get caught up in chasing my dreams and forget to make time for friends and family. Just like realizing dreams, successful relationships are built on quality time spent together. I always appreciate being reminded to dedicate more time to this essential part of life, as I was today. I’d love to hear your thoughts or personal experiences on achieving the right balance.

Work and family/friends are big priorities in my life. I don't see what the issue is. I think most folks piss too much time away on hobbies, seeing the latest movie, filling their lives with material crapola, unnecessarily long commutes and other pointless "filler". If you keep those things under control, I think there is time for both work and "love"/relationships.
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Cool, thanks. The first Google SERP for "rake changelog" was kind of awful.
It all depends on what bands you select at the beginning and what songs you favorite.
metacognitive regulation is a skill that takes concerted effort to develop, but is verified by science to impact behavior. practices like cognitive behavioral therapy and buddhism take a similar approach to altering thought habits to influence actions.
It's clearly not about which one runs better, has the better development tools, or best support across browsers and operating systems. It's about Flash being (semi)closed, requiring a plugin, and being owned by Adobe.
I think the security issues for flash in-browser (mobile safari) are more troublesome than security issues for apps in the app store.

Apple can (in theory) validate that the things going through the app store aren't total malware. In-browser? You're on your own, for good or for bad.
"In November 1998 an survey was held to allow Vim users to vote for changes to Vim. This resulted in a good overview of what users wanted to be added. This is the top six:"

1. Add folding (display only a selected part of the text)
2. Vertically split windows (side-by-side)
3. Add configurable auto-indenting for many languages (like 'cindent')
4. Fix all problems, big and small; make Vim more robust
5. Add Perl compatible search pattern
6. Search patterns that cross line boundaries

Compare that to the top 6 most requested features today:

1. add IDE features (debugger integration, shell window)
2. add integration with Python instead of inventing more Vim script
3. improve diff mode: automatic refresh, better merge support
4. fix all problems, big and small; make Vim more robust
5. improve syntax highlighting speed
6. add an indication what text was changed since editing started (change bar or diff)

From:

http://www.vim.org/sponsor/vote_results.php
A bit of a repost. Went over it the first time.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2610725
Are you suggesting the article from "cultofmac.com" is slightly sensational and bias?
It's kind of funny to watch people trying to justify not having bought in earlier, with the logic that it's going to crash. Good old sunk costs fallacy.

Yeah maybe it'll crash one day. Maybe it'll go from $1000 clean down to $100, destroying much of the world economy (i.e. that part that was backed by speculation rather than real stuff to begin with) in the process.
Flash is pretty lousy even on the 4G Android phones. Plenty of browser crashes all over the place. That said, at least Flash support is there.
Agreed. Definitely did not see what the author was talking about there, which leads me to suspect he started watching the video with a strong bias in mind.
> The way their sale staff works is to create direct relationships, phone contact etc - that is not a cheap proposition

Isn't that in itself a reason to be skeptical about whether they can actually scale? The whole point around most internet businesses is that they can scale for very little cost. For Groupon to scale they need huge capital input (to hire staff) but then importantly that expense needs to be maintained to keep the treadmill going.
I probably should not have used rape as the example there. What I was really trying to convey is that a crime was committed, and the perpetrators have set things up to shift the public's blame to Sony.
You could be using a One Time Pad for key management. This is certainly feasible now, since a couple of Gigabytes of data is now considered a manageable amount.
I've always looked at it like this: Time travel is possible and we're doing it all the time, just at the standard rate. Mathematic models show that if you travel close to the speed of light that time slows down, effectively making you travel faster into the future. Once you hit light speed (which is theoretically impossible), time essentially stops. Past that (also theoretically impossible), I would imagine time reverses, though I haven't studied this stuff in years. Granted we'll probably never be able to travel that fast or backwards in time, but we're all traveling through time, just at 1second/second.
Here's a barb Elop pulls on Ballmer.

"That upsets me—not because some of you are using iPhones, but because only a small number of people are using iPhones. I'd rather people have the intellectual curiosity to understand what we're up against."

Compared with this:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/ballmer-makes-...

Then he put it on the ground and pretended to stomp on it, before walking away.

This kind of reminds me of a criticism of the US towards Afghan insurgents/OBL etc. That they conflate underestimating the opposition with loyalty.
Also the Demo’s don’t seem to work either in Safari 5.05.
If they don't cache writes, and they honor fsync calls, then not having a supercap isn't such a liability. That said, when a vendor announces a enterprise-targeted storage product without mentioning reliability, it likely isn't there.

There's never any excuse for failing to perform your own power-plug tests.
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Relevant: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2440
And then there's people like me:

4. I just want to stay in the US any way I can.
I've had good experiences with flash on my Galaxy S, mainly flash streaming, I don't play flash games. I've used it on a number of occasions to watch streams of cricket matches.

Much better than not having it at all.
Would you go to the past or to the future?
That may or may not be true, but this particular attack shows no evidence of skill, and they admit as much in the original link.
It's okay when the replier is, in some way, an authority on the subject at hand. As in, "I, a cofounder of the site this person is talking about, hereby endorse his position."

Nobody cares if it's just, "I, as some random person on the Internet, endorse his position."
I don't believe most people are thinking there's something exciting about Skype's technology. They just want to be able to make things compatible with Skype.
If nothing else the timing of this seems suspect to me. The Linked In IPO has investors who missed out champing at the bit for something else. I think Groupon knows their current business model is unsustainable and have picked this moment precisely because the market is particularly irrational right now. (Note: I'm not saying there is a bubble in general, just that the Linked In IPO has created a unique opportunity for them to go public with less scrutiny than would otherwise be the case.)