skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also revolve around people who fail to understand trade-offs and opportunity costs. This never became clearer to me than after I read "The Soul of a Commuter" in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_... . I actually just submitted it to HN as a regular article; it seems germane to this discussion, and as far as I can tell no one else has offered a point.

Most interesting to me: the long discussion of the research showing the negative effects of commuting.
And global consulting firm Deloitte employs digital games for its Deloitte Leadership Academy, an executive education program it uses to train clients and its own consultants.

Gamification doesn't mean "playing videogames designed to teach you about work". I got the sense that that's what many of the companies in the article are using, HR "games" for employee training. Proper gamification is a feedback loop that pushes the person to do better in their actual job.
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Ask HN: Switch from Flash to HTML5 for a new version of a large project?
We have a large web product with 11 million users (widgets that are embedded into third party web sites, and now adding iOS/Android apps). Most of our core interface is written in ActionScript 2.0. We are planning to release a revamped version. We are now facing a choice of porting it to ActionScript 3.0 or rewriting it in HTML5. We already have about 30% of our code written in AS 3.0. Can you help us make this decision?

HTML5

Pros

1.Future proof
2.Works in browser in iOS
3.No plugin required, presumably faster loading
4.Native browser rich text rendering, including spell check and copy/paste
5.Appealing to webmasters (contemporary technology)

Cons

1.Product relies on WebSocket - no standard yet, not available in IE
2.Highly custom UI, not consistent across all browsers
3.No video/audio hardware interaction for stream capture
4.Harder to convert into iOS apps (e.g. need hybrid apps, UIWebView cannot easily call functions in the native wrapper)
5.Javascript is like AS 1.0, less sophisticated than AS 3.0
6.More work for us given our existing codebase and skills
7.Harder to embed JS widgets into third party sites than Flash widgets

Flash

Pros

1.Already have some code base, experience
2.Video/audio stream capture, socket connection
3.Good for widgets on third party websites
4.Consistent UI across browsers and platforms
5.Easier to use the same codebase for AIR apps on iOS/Android

Cons

1.Adobe's commitment to Flash is unclear
2.Adobe feels free to force developers to change technologies often, unreliable : AS1.0, AS2.0 have been phased out, Text Layout Framework is not supported on mobile and is being phased out, not clear if our AS3.0 codebase will still be relevant in 3 years)
3.Shoddy support of Flash on Android (e.g. text input is broken in 25% of devices)
4.Does not work in browser on iOS and Metro, so need a lite HTML5 version anyway
5.Slower in browser on Android
6.Public perception of Flash as obsolete?
Lest we not forget the number one killer of otherwise healthy people in the US -- the automobile accident. Curiously, drops in accident fatality rates[1] correlate with spikes in unemployment[2]. I'll let you draw the conclusion there.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...
[2] http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104719.html
I personally prefer physical books because I really fully own them. I love the Kindle experience, and if I could buy books in a DRM-free format that guaranteed that I'll be able to read on every device I could want forever, I can loan them out/resell them, etc. I'd do it (and I have--eg. Pragmatic Programmers books).

But being locked into whatever devices Amazon decides to support and not having some of the freedom isn't ok with me.

There also seems to be no quality control on Kindle books. I'm now pretty much afraid to buy any book that doesn't offer a sample of the first few pages. I almost bought Dante's Inferno on Kindle because it was ~3x cheaper, but then I downloaded the sample. The print version of this book has the Italian on the left side pages and the English on the right side. They seem to have just run that version of it through some Kindle-ifier, meaning that there was one print-page worth of Italian, followed by one print-page worth of English, repeating. Just an awful experience.
Same thing happened to me, I did however just read on another blog post that its apparently cached and propagating through Apples servers. So I guess try again in a few hours.

EDIT: I downloaded via iTunes and it worked, downloading via my iPad seemed to download the wrong version. So I guess its proportion, some servers probably haven't been updated yet.
I wish PG would answer this one, because I'm thinking the same thing and would love some solid clarification.
Marty McFly: Whoa, this is heavy.

Dr. Emmett Brown: There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?

From, of course, Back To The Future (1985)
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"If conventional wisdom is your only guide, small wonder you are blown and tossed by the wind." This is exactly the attitude that I'm against. It may seem easy for us on Hacker News to ignore conventional wisdom. But I think it's perfectly fair that most people should be able to trust the advice that almost everyone in society gives them.

"What tiny sliver of the population forced them to go massively into student and credit card debt?" The sliver that does this is the one that eats up an incredibly disproportionate amount of the value in society, leaving a smaller pie for everyone else to spend on their education, housing, food, medical care, etc.. The average middle class person has been taught and fairly believes that college is a necessity for economic security. If that can only be paid for with debt, then what is such a person to do? Be an entrepreneur? Clearly, that's not for everyone. Likewise, you can't expect all these people to just figure out what careers they can have without an education, then learn it all through self-teaching.
Limited to the US market unless they do a chip and PIN reader.
#cool. very impressive!
Installed on a UK account. Still listed under iphone apps in the store, although with the 'dual use' symbol, but is now v4.0 according to the app config settings.

Crashed every time after startup just after showing a fullscreen facebook logo. Deleting and reinstalling the app got it working. Probably some cache problems from having the iphone version previously installed...
Didn't this site have a no-affiliate-link policy?
His numbers are absolute nonsense - $125k over 10 years is only possible if you were spending your wage commuting - it's far more than just the $19/day travel costs he cites.

If you go from a 60 minute commute to a 0 minute commute, you don't suddenly get 2 hours of extra pay per day.

It's like saying "You don't get paid for that hour of chores you do every day - which means if you stop doing chores, you'll get more money!"
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Judging by the flood of last-day applications, in spite of PG's advice to apply early, a reminder is still needed: http://twitter.com/#!/paulg/status/123509842412445696
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I have no sympathy for that guy. Seems like he had a disconnect between the importance of his work and the greater strategy of the company, having a whinge over people putting his work on the back burner is very immature.
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Any version over about 3 days old would probably not have been graded. (We skim early applications, but we rarely vote on them.) Anything since then could have been.
Can't catalogs be used?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Catalog
This was written on October 8th, before much information was available about Dart.
Whether it does or not, I'm flagging it for that.
I think what we call "morality" probably has a biological basis as well. Humans are social animals. Hence, we're going to have selection pressures towards behaviors (and the internal thinking required to produce those behaviors) that preserve social groups. If we didn't, human groups wouldn't survive, and we wouldn't be social animals. I think we can point to other social animals as examples. There's also support in the fact that there are broad similarities across cultures about what is moral - for example, murder is wrong. If there was no biological basis, I think we'd see far more variation in what we call "morals."
True, sorry, I read it as something else.
Looks like something in between a blog post and a real book. Are these Hyperink books organized like real books or just transcriptions of interviews?
If the government has secret interpretation of all its laws, how do they expect citizens to conform with them? Let's say they arrest someone based on a secret interpretation of its laws, does it mean the trial has to be secret too, to avoid revealing this secret interpretation? Can the arrested person hire a lawyer of his choosing, or are only lawyers with the appropriate level of access (determined based on the government's own choosing) allowed to be hired by the said arrested person? The secret trial is held, the judge deems the person guilty (at this point we're not sure the judge was granted access to the secret interpretation, though), the person goes to jail. Now, will the person has access to the secret interpretation, so at least they now know for what secret interpretation of the law they got into jail for? If not, then what if the sentence was capital punishment?
Jobs helped create and industry, Stallman helped create a licence
Jobs drove a company to be a commercially significant platform (twice) and more recently redesigned the way such an entity could produce desirable goods people want to buy. Stallman will be remembered as the man who failed to produce HURD, quibbled about licences and fell on his sword when arguing an extreme position rather than, y'know, shipping an alternative.

You just don't get to categorically decry a market leader's strategic, commercial, and production accomplishments as 'jail made cool' unless you're willing and able to show a functional option. People will buy what they like and, to some degree, like what they buy. Whether they purchased goods with time, money, labour or some form of opportunity loss it doesn't matter: every sale is a _sale_ and Stallman has never sold. He's had a hand in building some niche 'ware (some of which makes my little world go 'round, to be sure) and championed some ideas which others have utilized to great good but the man himself doesn't ship or cause to ship in anything like the league that Jobs did.
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From the Dart documentation:

"Integers are not restricted to a fi xed range. Dart integers are true integers, not
32 bit or 64 bit or any other fi xed range representation. Their size is limited only
by the memory available to the implementation"

So they obviously haven't got this right. Not only does their implementation not implement this, but it is completely broken anyway because you certainly won't be more efficient than Javascript if your integers are implemented as bignums instead of floats.
Ask HN: Who are you and what do you do for a living?
Hi, Id be really curious to better understand who reads HN.

How old are you, where do you live and what do you do for a living?

I'll start, my name is Carl, I'm 24, live in NY and I work in an advertising agency, doing paid search (SEM).

Thank you for your participation.
I'm an evangelist for ExpressionEngine. Open-architecture, built on CodeIgniter. Lots of add-ons, many free. Very easy tag-based template language.
If Python is going to include urllib or urllib2 in the standard distro, why not make it good? Http is foundational to (web) programming. I am shocked at how poor the standard httpclient implementations are in most environments.
What percentage of apps do you think bignum performance will matter? Even in cases where it might matter (cryptography), you would be better suited using GPGPU code, or adding cryptographic APIs to the browser itself rather than insisting it be done in JS. Indeed, you could always fallback to that for browsers with poor bignum performance.

GWT has supported Java's BigInteger/BigDecember, and it's never been an issue.

(For the record, since it is no secret by searching my handle, I work for Google, but I do not work on Dart. I specifically work on the GWT compiler, and do not speak for the Dart team nor represent their views, nor am I really representing anything, but my own biases here given my experience with trying to develop high performance Javascript games both in the browser and mobile)
The event bus is one of my very favorite architecture patterns.

It usually ends up in most desktop apps I write that have a UI. There's just too much to love about them. In languages with method annotations (or something similar), the wiring process can be almost entirely automatic.
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Sweat is not the only problem with Atlanta summers. It's the smog that keeps me indoors.
A life is worth 6 downvotes, so it only ruined half your life.
Did you get to re-use any of Zed Shaw's excellent parser work from Mongrel?
Show HN: Wufoo for iOS (My MVP, Get Feedback/Offer Support to Your iOS Users)
In case you are curious:
https://github.com/dwight
You mean like this: http://www.invoice2go.com/? Yeah, go for it.
The one I use most often is:

lsof -i -P

This shows all the open Internet connections and port numbers.
GWT has had a similar EventBus class for a while that works well on both the server and client sides of an app.
The disadvantage of a glossy screen is that at some angles, you'll get more glare. The advantage is that (as you note) if you modify its angle, you get less glare than you would with a matte surface.

Agreed that you sometimes need those extra hours. But to be fair you have to count their weight as well; you can double the usable life of a MacBook Air with an external battery if you need to but it also doubles the weight.
I bought the book for Kindle and it's just an interview. Since the publisher is a YC company and Andrew is a cool guy, I don't feel bad giving up $5 for this.
TLDR: I am upset that my customers are so stupid that they pay for something which was never meant to be a real product, while almost entirely ignoring the real product, which just happens to be a true labor of love. Therefore, I shall discontinue the thing that's bringing in more money, while also publicly talking about how little I think of my customers. I am smarter than them, and I like to rub this fact in their foolish faces.

I understand that there might be deep, philosophical implications here, with regard to the psychology of social gaming and whatnot, but throughout history, way before Facebook and the Internet, artists would frequently create "popular" art, even though they despised it, so that they could have the money to privately create the "real" art that they loved. It is not only rude, but a sign of poor character, for the artist to also despise the people who gladly pay him for what they perceive to have value. I don't know anything more about this guy than what I read in the above article, but HNers, given their tendency towards startups, should stand with his disappointed customers, and not with his lofty attitude. If someone paid me for the privilege of being able to click on the image of a cow more often than those who do not pay, I would try to figure out how to improve the experience for them, and/or how to charge them even more, all the while pocketing the money for some project that was important to me on an idealistic level. Making fun of your customers' intelligence, especially because they've simply made the choice to pay for your product, is never a good thing.
You thought you were joking:

http://nsarchive.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/exemption-5.jpg
That was a brilliant read, thanks.

where can I find more discussions like that?
I noticed that too, i'm glad you mentioned it. Q6600 running Chrome 15, everything was perfectly snappy until somewhere around then.

Maybe slideshare has some sort of architectural problem? Is it seeking through the slides linearly for every request? Maybe slides after a certain point get read from disk in multiple segments? Maybe at that exact point in time, the load on the server increased?

Who knows :(
Employers should locate in sustainable, dense, transit-friendly neighborhoods

They should, I guess.

* Rent is going to be steep in a place like that. I worked for a concern that took space in a very nice office building. Wood paneling! We had a walled lawn with trees outside. Offices, not cubes. Rent was far more than the generic building across the street.

It was great until we had to cut costs when the economy tanked. I prefer the cheap space, beige cubes and a job as opposed to laying folks off.

* Not all employers can do that. Your average dense transit-friendly neighborhood is not going to take kindly to an electronics concern opening up 100,000 sq/ft of manufacturing space, for example.
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What the write of this article says is very understated. I have a friend with Crohn's Disease, seeing the effects first hand I would not wish this on people I hate, my friend missed most of his high school years because of this, the steroids that he had to take allowed him to grow a full beard in a week, he was weak, tired and could not function in society let alone find a job that could compromise for his condition
It's kind of funny this guy is couching his arguments in how much they could be saving on some house they should buy. It can be argued a house is a bad investment, too. And driving around in a used Kia means a lot less pleasure and comfort derived from doing your weekly trips to the store and what not. There's a degree of enjoyment you can get out of life that you can't necessarily quantify in terms of how it affects your mortgage.
Seems like there might be an idea for a start up in there
It occurs to me that the profile he dress is excellent fit for most successful political leaders
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1) The girl sounds so much like Hermione that I don't want to be her.

2) I hate C++.

3) Oh, crap, I already knew 98,5% of all this (thanks to the C++ FQA in part, but still). I guess I'm a language lawyer now…
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I can answer for myself:

• I read books when I want to escape computers, the internet and the distractions they bring. That's part of what I love about them.

• I don't own an ebook reader or a tablet. I don't have any plans to purchase one. I have no desire to read a book on my phone, and the only books I read on my laptop are technical books with no real value as literature.

• I like physical collections of things. I've never bought an eBook, nor music, nor movies to be downloaded. I have hundreds of CDs and vinyl records and around a thousand paper books. Books aren't simply things to read, but a physical representation of my life's history: virtually everything I've been interested in in my life is displayed on my bookshelves.

• I can give a book away. I do that a lot. Two walls of my living room are covered in bookshelves. When I'm talking to someone and there's a book I think they should read, I give it to them. I've bought my favorite books half a dozen times, because I want to have them around to give away.

• I mostly read books away from home, in places that I don't want to whoop out an expensive device (because it makes it a target for theft, because I think it looks dorky) -- parks, the subway, cafés. This is connected to the first point -- I like getting away from the distractions of the internet and being somewhere where I can just read.

• I can throw books in my bag when I'm headed to places where there's a high propensity for me to lose or have my bag stolen. Catching the subway on the way to a concert? If I lose my book that's $10 down the tubes, not $100.
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Thanks for sharing this. Although I was a bit surprised to find by accident ;)
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If we want to kill the process listening on a specific port, we can do that with a simple shell script: http://aaronblohowiak.com/how-to-kill-the-process-listening-...

Similarly, most versions of lsof support built-in filtering of TCP ports by status:

lsof -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN -P

will show you the open TCP ports without having to use grep (which discards the header.)
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BTW: are you serious to use Flash for everything ? =)
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He was right about Sun having bigger problems though.
What would Andrew have to gain by doing anything shifty here? Nothing.

His reputation in this business is worth way more than he could ever generate selling an e-book.

I respect Andrew's work enough to know he did his diligence before-hand. Namely, working with and having PG's permission.
This is a nice summary, but even with a small font this is way too verbose to qualify even remotely as "cheat sheet". It seems to me that the title "... Cheat Sheet" is simply link bait and nothing else.
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That's a terribly stupid mistake on my part. Typo in the domain name. Thanks for the suggestions, those are the ones I'm already currently trying.
I always use libcurl for PHP... don't really have any complaints.
Uh, how is it "demonstrably not the case"?

Seems to me that you're making a blanket statement, here, that is contradicted by most of the available facts. How about some support?

Personally, I'd say you'd have to be an idiot to NOT assume that a large number of Facebook's actions are not intended to get more access to more kinds of user data. We've got about a half-decade of proof of this.
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Leave it to the guy who finds any excuse possible to talk about how great Erlang is to create a perceived controversy for a new programming language so he can defend it -- and, tangentially, Erlang.

Dart actually looks pretty good, and since it can be compiled into JavaScript, there's no real risk in giving it a shot other than the obvious lack of user libraries, at this point. If Dart solves problems JavaScript has without introducing its own laundry list of wonky inconsistencies, then it's definitely worth developing with and participating in.
I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease a little over a year ago. I went through pentasa, remicade, all the usual medications and they semi-worked but for the most part not really worth their side effects.

My Dr. told me that diet has nothing to do with Crohn's disease, but like the guy in this story, I read Breaking the Vicious Cycle and got started on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. I've been following it strictly for the past ~6 months and I am literally symptom free (with no drugs). Besides the strict diet, you wouldn't even know I have the disease.

The few times I've cheated on the diet, symptoms noticeably come back. So at this point I'm pretty sold on the benefits of SCD for Crohn's patients. Regardless of what my Dr. says.
As if one obligatory click-thru obviates any responsibility for what Facebook does.

Please. Don't make me laugh. BTW, on the way back to your cubicle at Facebook, wave hi to Zuck for me!
Does anyone else think this is why China blocked the Android Market? It basically happened the next day.
Link to the tweet:
http://twitter.com/#!/paulg/status/123509842412445696