skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was using this on a project for a while. But compared to running the application with PHP, it was always slower. Sure, I've developed applications with PHP since 2001, so I really know how to tweak it and optimize it. But, with App Engine it was really frustrating. Requests really took long to complete, and there was no real way to figure out what was going on behind the scenes. We created an 'always on' instance, but it was still quite sluggish compared to the exact app running on a standard linux, apache, PHP system.

I would still try it again down the road, but it's really not a good fit for what I'm currently doing.
There are various issues. One of them is that FCPX doesn't suport tape decks as well. That feels more like what Apple did with USB and floppy drives: jettison tech on the way out while it was still useful in some contexts. Jobs has said many times he is only interested in technology in the ascendency, and tapes are definitely not that.

It also doesn't support a few pro workflows I don't understand (multiple camera editing, etc)... seemingly because the new interface is a radical departure. It uses a single, treelike track instead of multiple tracks, and doesn't easily map to these workflows. This to me feels like an "Innovator's Dilemma" situation: the new interface does many things overwhelmingly better, but has important regressions.

The regressions will be fixed or outweighed in time. For now (perhaps not for long) other software, including the previous version of Final Cut, compares favorably.
grim isn't paying that much for voxel. Voxel cut him a ridiculous deal in exchange for the advertising they get out of it.

We're talking about them right now. The only reason I mentioned them is because I heard about them in relation to imgur.
Building middleware hinges on the notion that your platform has enough spare cycles to execute your middleware.

iPhones can, Androids can... but have you seen the level of performance on a BlackBerry lately? I'm not sure if there's enough power under the hood, or enough performance in the OS, to run an interpreted layer on top.
All talk videos from EuroPython 2011
In my experience no UK newspapers block AWS IP addresses.
Stealth startup Platfora wants to do Hadoop for the rest of us
> For now, App Engine is nearly perfect for us.

Have you launched yet? My experience is that it becomes very difficult to manage once you have customer data.
If he wants to learn objective-C, Programming in Objective C by Stephen G. Kochan is a great book
If this is Apple's thinking, I think they're in serious trouble. It sounds to me they're taking how they build the iPhone and iPad and applying it to FCP, and it doesn't work.

There are two types of people: People who pay for video editing software and those that don't. I actually paid for Adobe Elements a few years back. It was painful, but I needed it for a specific reason. But I seriously doubt I will ever pay again (unless it's $2.99 or something). Most people will be fine with iMovie or Windows Live Movie Maker. It does 99% of what you need and braindead simple.

My wife (and her friends) regularly record GBs of video each week. The problem is that nothing in FCPX fixes their core issues -- most revolve around video management, and not actual editing.

There are amateur video editors out there, but I don't think its a growing market. It's not small, but I think Apple is making a poor bet if they think the millions of ppl creating video with their phones and cameras is going to buy this product.
Founders: in your experience, what qualifications should a "business guy" have? Is the willingness to do what your cofounder can't or what sufficient or do you need a certain business/leadership/social skill?
Don't hire a team, form a rock band
I know a few people at facebook and it is certainly possible he works there (this kind of attitude seems slightly more prevalent amongst newer hires), but I agree it definitely is not the general sentiment around the company nor amongst most of the people making strategic decisions.
I think of tables as a shortcut and they do cause actual problems in the future even if they work for you. I think the bigger issue here is that it isn't clear to everyone how to code with CSS. I use tables only for tabular data but my HTML is clean, fast and certainly not obscure. I would say in most cases I can create an tableless design in less lines of code and have a much easier time maintaining or updating it in the future.
Why does this defy the age of the universe?
Get Ready for Google+ Games
On a public forum like HN or Reddit many people are anonymous. I find the provided answers so far honest and insightful.

Did you expect an "official" replay by PR?
> Why get rid of the white text for full day events?

For me, it still displays full day events in white text if I select a dark color like green, and only uses black text for light colors. The only minor problem I see is that it also uses the light color I selected for timed events, which could make them a bit difficult to see on the white background.

> The create button looks gimmicky and cartoonish as well.

It reminded me of Gmail's "Compose mail" button (which is located similarly), and don't quite understand how it looks gimmicky or cartoonish in comparison. Because it's red? I would argue it makes sense to make the most important button on the site a flashy color, but I guess it comes down to a matter of taste.

Overall, I think this is Google unifying their services and making them look more alike. Google+ is more than just another social attempt, but rather the beginning of Google bringing its services together, which seems like a smart move in countering Facebook by their new CEO.
The latest version of Final Cut dropped a bunch of features that are vital to pros and focused more on features that are useful advanced amateurs. Basically if you used Final Cut to edit home movies and amateur film productions then the new version is vastly improved. If on the other hand you used Final Cut to earn a living editing feature length movies and television productions, then the new version is a bit of a complete disaster. I guess Apple figured that there wasn't enough money in the pro market, and decided to double down on the enthusiast and advanced amateur market.
"WebRTC is supported by Mozilla and Opera" -- hmm, someone is absent from that list
Actually, to be fair, Microsoft isn't the only one missing.
The article clearly states that whats interesting is the client-server infrastructure behind it and the fact that it isn't P2P.
at the end of the day, all your profile are belong to us.

That one line was enough to convince me to delete my Facebook account again, once and for all. Thank you.
Are Entrepreneurs Full of Themselves?
I wasn't even aware there was outrage. I mentioned it to my vegan friends and they thought it was great.
USPTO invalidates an entire Oracle Java patent-in-suit on a preliminary basis
Shortmail: "Twitter For Email" Has 500 Character Limit, Forces Conciseness
It's the best course of action because they are clear leaders in the enterprise sector. Fortune 500 companies love blackberries and the BES server. They love the control, they love the security.

They do not want their employees going out to buy their own devices and then conducting business on them. Governments are even more concerned about this. They will willingly pay to offer their employees phones that allow their employees to communicate yet ensure they remain in overall control.

In this situation, Blackberry doesn't need an app world. They don't need touch screens. They don't need safari web browsers.
http://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=2715787&whence=item...
Like others, I question whether this guy actually works for Facebook, but the "all your profile are belong to us." has done it's damage, because while perhaps you don't work there, it's highlighting a culture I know to be there.

You're more likely to be a google+ team member, simply genius!
There wasn't enough time for the black hole to grow as large as this one is (was). If X is how much material it would consume per billion years, it is sitting 4X when you universe is only two billion years old and should have only been 2X (note: I don't know the actual magnitude of the numbers, but am basing my numbers off the six-foot kindergartner comment).
Even if he thinks the company is going to end up doing better in the long term, that doesn't necessarily mean he should purchase the stock. He could think they are going to be making moves with only minor announcements and the stock will fall despite the company actually doing something that will fix their downward trajectory. Stock purchases are more closely tied to what the public perception of their trajectory is, or even higher order (eg what will individuals on average predict what the public will think the company worth is).
It's going to be hard to get the 'best' framework, but you'll certainly get a lot of responses of frameworks that definitely work for people. I'll add:

Tornado

http://www.tornadoweb.org
I don't think you are understanding my point. Nobody gives a damn what the Mail Administrator thinks. The auditors see "BES" and move to the next item, they see your custom made solution and go "WTF is that? Not in the manual == Security Risk!!!11"
The most often mentioned is Django.

We picked Tornado (tornadoweb.org) because it is lightweight and fast, especially on cold start, which is an app engine issue for low-traffic apps. It's even faster than webapp (!) because webapp loads the Django templating system.

We've been happy with Tornado, although it doesn't have as much support for some stuff (e.g., web forms). It does have a templating language which is just embedded python. I like having the power to have a reasonable "if" statement or "for" loop, even though most people believe that embedding complex logic in templates will produce spaghetti.

See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/70913/which-python-framew... and http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-Python-Web-Framework-t...
None. Just use webapp and you'll be happier, and faster.
I find Facebook's blue header far more distracting than Google's dark grey one. But noone really complains about that. Maybe because they are used to it.
Is it me or is founding investor of Napster an odd title?
Looking at his account history, I get a troll vibe from him.
Scientists predict future actions based on brain activity
In the end it doesn’t really matter, though. Final Cut’s success or failure is inconsequential to Apple’s success or failure. That might not have been true in 1999 (when Final Cut Pro was first released) but it certainly is today.

Apple’s video software people may be in serious trouble, the rest of Apple is not.
Those 500K Bitcoins that caused the flash crash weren't real
Also, they've been working on FCPX for two years, and needed to ship. Even if it wasn't quite ready for pro usage.
Networking, GTD-style
You're assuming that the channel holds a full 90 days worth of inventory. I don't know much about these things, but in these days of just-in-time manufacturing, that seems implausible to me. How do you know it's not 30 days, or 15?
Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, World's Longest Cross-Sea Bridge, Opens In China (VIDEO)
I'm sure you study, research, write, socialize, etc. in addition to learning C++. If not, I recommend starting. Those are all way more important than C++.

And like I said, it doesn't need to be your pain that you're relieving. Look at the people around you — even if you yourself are chained into your bed with no hope of escape, I bet you know people who do things. You can help them do those things.

For example, take a look at patio11 on this site. He's built a whole business out of a simple tool he wrote in a few hours to help a teacher make bingo cards for her students, because making bingo cards is such a soul-sucking waste of time when humans do it. (To be clear, he's put a lot more time than that into building the program and the business over the years. But it only took a few hours of coding to solve the problem.)
http://www.authenticjobs.com/ ?
At first I was like, "wow this would take me five minutes to program". Now it's looking like a solid 20 minutes.
"...took four years to build..."

Compare that to any infrastructure project here in the US.
Might have been a generic failure due to a signup rate limiting. Maybe it's worth retrying for a couple of time.
I don't think it was so bad either, but I think SeoxyS's (above) is better; it's less defensive, without saying anything that will cause another whack to be taken out of the stock price.
Google's epic graph cruncher mimicked with open source
Tipfy
yes, but there'll be other vcs and other teams to make the fun apps. this will just add to the ecosystem, and who knows, we might get some useful-if-boring and profitable software out of it.
What delicious would be today if Yahoo didn't buy it
We've built a product called The Shared Web - the best way to discover amazing content based on your interests, and the people you care about (the friends and experts you follow). We realized we're all seeing lots of amazing content, and increasingly having social experiences around that content every day - so we wanted to build a product that really reflected that - a place to discover cool content, and to comfortably share all of the interesting things you come across on the Internet.

We have many similarities to Reddit and HackerNews - except we are focused on people's real identities, and connections between their friends, and the experts in the topics they care about.

We are constantly tinkering with the formula of what makes something interesting - is it because it is controversial and there are many comments about it? Is it because a large number of people posted it too? Or is it enough that one of your friends, who is knowledgable about the topic, posted it? These are the questions that we are exploring and planning on answering by building The Shared Web.

But, there is something even more powerful that we realized as we were developing and using it. The sense of community and common context that is created when people that you know start seeing the same content as you. It makes for better conversations. That social engagement around content translates to discussions in different topics - it’s the evolution of old school forums. It’s a way to make sure that the people you care about see the things that you find interesting so you can discuss them, so you can interpret them, so you can develop closer relationships by having common experiences. That’s what we hope to achieve with TSW, creating stronger, more meaningful connections between people through the content that they enjoy together.

That’s our mission. That’s why we are building The Shared Web.

What do you think are the most interesting heuristics to decide whether content is interesting to you or not?

http://www.thesharedweb.com

We'd love to hear your thoughts, so please try out The Shared Web, tell us what you think help shape our vision.
there are amateur video editors out there, but I don't think its a growing market. It's not small, but I think Apple is making a poor bet if they think the millions of ppl creating video with their phones and cameras is going to buy this product.

This is quite possibly the most wrong comment I've ever read on hacker news. every kid on earth with a skateboard or snowboard or BMX bike will be buying this software as soon as they can afford it.
I thought profiles are now enabled on Google Apps -- or do you mean your domain manager won't turn on the profiles?
BoxPAY: Mobile micropayments for any business | New Tech Post
Google already has a product named Places (I think it's kind of like Yelp?), but I get your meaning.
Just out of curiosity, how would you describe what you are currently doing? Can you elaborate on why it might not be a good fit?
I'm honestly just trying to learn from your experience, not disputing anything.
So true. The red notification really hooks you back in.

It's because Google+'s social signal to noise ratio is so much higher than Facebook. I dread the red notifications in FB's upper left corner bc they're usually from some friend of friend's irrelevant spam event/survey/tagging etc. Google+ Circles really filters thats out.

Facebook's mistake was introducing Groups so late. With Circles, users can create Circles AS friends join. I will never retroactively organize my Facebook "friends" into Groups. I will, however, take a little time each day as new REAL friends come to Google+ to organize them to reflect real social structure.

Google 1. Facebook 0.
My guess is that they don't really want to be in the pro apps business. Their pro apps were built or acquired for platform-strategic reasons during a time that the company's future was a fraction as stable as it is now and they don't really fit with the focus of the company.

But it'd be tough on a number of levels to outright cancel such a successful product as Final Cut Pro. And it's beneficial for them to have a stable of very capable media app developers that help drive design of and exercise system frameworks like AVFoundation and GCD and provide code/expertise that trickles down into media apps that are more aligned with the company's focus and main customers.

And I think they do think there's more profit to be made from a much larger audience of prosumer/pro-but-non-top-10-blockbuster-movie-editors. Bet they're right, too.
I tried it last night, though only two of the people involved had cameras.

We were surprised how remarkably well it performed. For group calls, Skype has serious competition.

Also, a lesser-known site that is probably doomed? Synchtube.
We use django, but yes, google only officially support webapp and you may end up having to translate docs from appengine entities to django objects.
It's a misfeature if you are trying to actually get work done, but in my experience people aren't exactly going to use a different search engine so that they can avoid seeing something that they want to see. They are going to use the same one and complain "why do I have friends!" while reading their messages and procrastinating on their work.
Video Interview: Benjamin Satterfield, Co-Founder & CEO TestFlight
You can find the report that LightSquared submitted in the right-hand column of the page at [0]. I'm reading it now to see if their suggestion to use filters (which was very vague in the linked article) really has merit. The "Save our GPS" consortium surely doesn't think it does.

[0] http://www.pnt.gov/interference/lightsquared/
ZeroMQ might not bring the complete power of Erlang to other programming languages but what it brings is, at least in my opinion, the most powerful and interesting part!
"The quasar was found after five years of searching through databases containing images of millions of objects."

sounds intriguing... How available is the survey data? Last time i checked for example - the GRB observatory in South America - that one publishes only small percent of the data.
I agree. Google already had all of the services down and well done, they just needed something to unify them. Google+ makes everything fit together and with Google's already prominent position on the web it is quite the formidable opponent.
It looks like the favicon is now the day of the month too.

(quite possible that it was always like this, or that it just always shows 30 and it just works because that is the count of today. I honestly never noticed before though.)
I'd like to know why. Sounded cogent to me.
Multi camera editing is coming, and the tape deck stuff looks like it will be handled by a company that will do it better than Apple (although a plugin costing > 2x the program is kinda weird). The sound export stuff is a great biz opportunity for a plugin writer.

They needed to rebuild for 64-bit. This is what you get when you start over. I expect that patches and new plugins will turn it around by next year.

Lost in all this is the incredible Motion 5 at $50. Learning that and selling some templates (with decent Parameter Rigs) for Final Cut Pro X users would seem to be a nice way to make some extra cash.
... and focused more on features that are useful advanced amateurs

I actually don't think this is quite right. I'll quote Gary Adcock's Macworld review:

"Most of the features introduced in FCP X are welcome and badly needed. Some are long overdue. Still, others are positively jarring and require a change in mindset to appreciate."

There is no doubt that Apple made it unusable for high-end pros (for the time being, at least) but I feel they also added many things that high-end pros would have really appreciated, had they been able to use it seriously. So it's not quite as simple as "amatueurs only" (even if you're talking about advanced amateurs.)
They should have done a graceful transition, i.e. they should have continued to support and sell FCP7 while also testing the waters with FCPX. This would have also allowed them to frame the product differently: “FCPX is the future and already has nearly everything professionals need to edit videos. If it doesn’t yet have a feature you need you can continue using FCP7 while we work as fast as we can on adding those features.”

The transition is just too rough.
Someone just posted a sticker with our logo (no idea who made it, or where pic was taken, but that's encouraging)

http://i.imgur.com/5XHGn.jpg
I just got it sent to my @gmail
Agreed. Tipy is awesome! http://www.tipfy.org/
My university spent $10 million updating their student information system. It's not hard to hit eight figures when you're paying an army of extremely unproductive consultants $500-$1000/hour.

$600 million is extortionate, of course - hence the demand for reparation. That's why bloated consulting companies like this are able to demand such high prices. Their size provides a target for the inevitable lawsuit if things go south.
It doesn't necessarily. It is an object that due to current models of quasar formation should not exist at that point in time. This means that there is something wrong with those or current estimations of the age of the universe. The latter is less likely.
In Appleseed, you can set a Circle to be viewable by it's members, so it's similar in function to how you describe "Places".
Over on Slashdot is "a story I've kept secret for 30 years" about Robert Morris harvesting logins at Bell Labs. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2285212&cid=36628...
Webapp2: http://webapp-improved.appspot.com/
The black bar at the top of Google can be extremely distracting when I try to do work-related searches. I think their core product can suffer if they try to make this a game dashboard, bombarding users with these notifications.
Agreed -- 100% code coverage is impressive, but only means you are testing the code you've written.

What about all the cases you forgot about. By definition you forgot about the tests too.

What about all the interactions between module A & module B? They may work 100% on their own, but not together.

A good QA department can generate many more tests that the developer could, and do so without the 'author blindness' that is somewhat unavoidable when writing code.
Yes, but the documentation is a little out of date as the current version has changed significantly. Basically, don't go by anything you find on the web, make sure you use the docs/examples in the mercurial tree
If anybody was going to be outraged by this, wouldn't it be the FAA and the Us Military?
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2676263

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