skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, OpenLaszlo did come before FLEX, and Macromedia was certainly aware of it when they designed FLEX. The big difference between OpenLaszlo and FLEX is that OpenLaszlo was designed from the start (2000-2001) to be independent of the delivery platform, and FLEX was designed from the start (2003-2004) to lock developers into Flash.

OpenLaszlo was originally designed to be cross platform, first targeting Flash, then eventually other platforms like DHTML, which it now does. But FLEX is impossible to use with anything but Flash, by design.

And now, predictably, people are complaining about being locked into Flash because they used FLEX, while Adobe is abandoning FLEX and Flash.
you are thinking in http://zeptojs.com/
I agree. Now if only they'd cease to exist, that'd be glorious.
dojoMobile: http://dojotoolkit.org/features/mobile.php
xUI: http://xuijs.com/
Zepto (i think it's done by scriptaculous creator): http://zeptojs.com/

PhoneGap tools site has others too: http://phonegap.com/tools/
Frontiers in Computing: Simulating the World to Predict the Future
USA makes me proud. But the other way around.
Geothermal Power Plants Could be a Massive Source of Lithium for Batteries
Big Brother Blue is always watching.

It is becoming more and more obvious that we are nothing more than a pile of data to facebook, they don't look at us human beings who have a need for respect and privacy, but as potential data and revenue. I have always gotten the feeling that they think we are 'too dumb' to catch on, it's only a matter of time until the bubble bursts. They may still be a billion dollar company but the respect and loyalty will shift when something greater is envisioned and realized.
Time, what is it?
I missed the drama so I probably don't have anything insightful to add. However, I find that when trying out frameworks its nice to know what kind of overhead they have for the convenience they provide.
Would using noScript with firefox work?
These people do exist. I used to play MMO's a lot more than I'd like to admit, and during the time I probably went through ~5k selling game items for real money and vice versa and personally dealt with some "whales". I can think of about 20 people who I knew from in game who spent sums in the range of 10-20k. I'm sure there's people who spent much more but I didn't ever talk to them directly.
An interview where the interviewer favors people who look at documentation less often is already deeply flawed. In my experience, the best programmers spend the most time reading documentation, and the worst programmers are the ones who never read docs and never ask questions.

I would never want to hire or work with someone who read docs only once a day.
restated:

I'd like to see the statistics comparing github, gitorious, bitbucket, google code, heck, even codeplex. SourceForge is no longer the only goto for compiling from source, either.
I use HTTPS Everywhere and it converts a lot of domains to the HTTPS version, including TorrentFreak. Maybe the OP uses this extension, too. I didn't get a certificate error, though.
If someone else can offer one of my guys a better deal than what I can (and by deal I don't just mean money), then I send them off with my good wishes.

I realise this comes across as naive, and I certainly don't want to minimize the huge disruption someone leaving a busy small team can cause, but if you start seeing people as property and laying your ego on the line every time you have turnover, you are going to have a miserable life.

[Disclaimer: I don't work in startups but I do work somewhere where it typically takes 9 months to re-hire, so don't think I don't feel the pain]
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Try zepto.js [1]. Its primary targets are iOS 4+, Android 2.2+, and webOS 1.4.5+.

[1] https://github.com/madrobby/zepto
You're clearly not ashamed of what your code can do, since you showed us the above with no hesitation. (And you shouldn't be, of course.) So why be ashamed of the code that accomplishes it?
While I'm not sure I would use this as "more personal, more emotional" texting - I'd still just call - I see the value for lessening misunderstanding. Texting is pretty low bandwidth, by comparison.
Retailers ready BlackBerry PlayBook fire sale for holiday push
Are you using Google Chrome?
See this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2662694
How do Internet Affiliate Marketing Programs work?
Because that's where the big bucks are. Why are enterprise customers using IE 6 and the like? Search me.
Yorapi is looking for the MOST aggressive product evangelist out there
title says it all, and yes we are SERIOUS, and yes if you can prove you are there is an interesting reward at the end of it all, but it will take some doing...
As a side note, according to Ghostery the publishing site abcnews.go.com is using 13 external tracking services, including Facebook.
I came across this while trying to understand the significance:

http://simonhunt.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/truecrypt-vs-peter...

So if it's doing the same thing and needs administrator access in the first place is the problem for secure boot that it can't recover itself as it's supposed to be able to?

As truecrypt were dismissing this as insignificant on earlier versions of windows. Is it different for win 8?
Sound advice. Everyone has been telling me that, so maybe I should start listening ;)

Thanks for the offer. I'll keep you in mind when I'm looking for a job next year.
zepto looks wonderful. have you used it yet?
The last time I looked into Zepto (which, in full disclosure, was about a year ago), there was a gigantic HN thread with many people (including John Resig) complaining that it being "JQuery-compatible" was more about syntactic sugar (functions whose signatures look like those in JQuery, but don't behave the same) and marketing buzzwords (comparing it to JQuery obviously attracts attention) than actual feature parity. Has it improved at all?
Google and other search engines could do a lot to undermine the current DNS as well, if they supported indexing other nets.
I would say that forcing longer time spans before quizzes forces you to maintain your attention and thus would help you retain your learning for longer.
transgenic line of marmosets

I first read that as transparent, and I though of the transparent line of zebrafish, and I imagined transparent marmosets and was about to google them when I realized it's transgenic.

And then I was kind of let down, and then I was embarrassed about being underwhelmed by transgenic primates!
blog spam.
AT&T Toys with iPads Instead of Cash Registers
What’s Your Gadget?
> As unfortunate as RIAA loosing millions of potential dollars is

Why should it be? Somebody else will get those dollars, nothing is lost.
Actually, I expect that Mac users are overrepresented: every time you go "brew install blah" there's a good chance you're downloading off of SourceForge.
The last 5 minutes are fantastic!

Thanks for the great interview guys.
These sites that could use Bitcoin to evade the financial embargo would likely break US money laundering laws. If not in the existing form then an easily modified one.

Also, eventually coins need to turn into real money to pay rent, buy food, pay for electricity. If your bank account is frozen that can be a big inconvenience to doing those things. There would have to be some kind of BitCoin for physical cash exchanges and you'd have to pay everything in cash. Not a very scalable solution for even medium sized operations.
Apple Combo Power Adapter Could Charge Mac, iPad Simultaneously
I Saw An Extremely Subtle Bug Today And I Just Have To Tell Someone
No kidding. Adding a single line of css is enough to crash it. Once I tried text-rendering: optimizeLegibility and iphone and ipad went kaboom!
If food is relatively cheap in the US (>7% of income) why are we so poor† at making sure everyone is fed to a certain modicum?

†http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/us_hunger_facts.ht...
Last I checked, the warnings about Flex were few and far between, and Flash is still very much alive and well. This is not the iceberg you are looking for.
To go fast, do less (2009)
I don't think I ever really understood call/cc until I read Lisp in Small Pieces. The author makes a great effort to implement call/cc in each of the interpreters and compilers he presents, and examines the hairy issues that come up when you decide to support first-class continuations.

Highly recommended.
Startup Life: Trough of Sorrow or Crest of Success?
If all the engineers start startups then no one can fill the spots required to run the startups because they all have their own startups, dawg.
As an aside, there can be legal consequences to the "no-poaching agreements" mentioned in the OP's article:

http://gigaom.com/2010/09/24/doj-settles-with-apple-adobe-go...
Disrupt your own product?
Most of the information seems to be stuck in books and harder to find on the internet, I looked for a really long time and that was the best resource I've found so far. It's very possible it's relative to other schooling models.
Uhm.... My local coffee shop on 24th in Noe Valley already uses an iPad with Square for theirs.

The other coffee shop near my old office in Dog Patch did the same...

AT&T doesn't need an article attempting to make them look hip, experimental or innovative through the use of an iPad especially with respect to supposedly providing a better customer experience.

If you want a better customer experience; fix your billing, lower your rates, read the definition of 'unlimited' in the standard dictionary and stop just generally being a greedy big company.
I think this might be of interest to you:

http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer...

GA users can choose to "share" their data with Google, and this page describes the advantages users will get if they choose do to so.
Use one of those proxy buttons which only load the actual Facebook button when the user clicks/hovers. Unfortunately I can't find it right now, but I think it was posted here on HN a while ago.

EDIT: Here is a Slashdot discussion[1] about a German newspaper who did that, and here's[2] the link to their jQuery plugin who does just that: only load FB code when the user clicks on the button. It's in German, but translation services are good enough nowadays.

EDIT2: And here's[3] the HN discussion.

[1]: http://slashdot.org/story/11/09/03/0115241/Heises-Two-Clicks...

[2]: http://www.heise.de/extras/socialshareprivacy/

[3]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2957119
> Later I realized that playing game of grades is not much of an effort so why not play the game and keep doing what I love to do on the side?

That's what I do most of the time. It's just that this once, I went a little too far and took on a task that's going to be more difficult than usual to explain to my profs.

Ah well. It's IPU. Failing at a project or practical exam is impossible here. The worst that can happen is that I score a 70 while everyone else scores a 90. I'm beyond caring at this point.
From A to B, and then ∞ or how imagination works
Nobody thinks of Switzerland as fighting evil. In general people don't look admirably on neutrality. Even less so when it's neutrality most of the time, but not so neutral when it aids my goals.

Obviously there's nothing wrong with Google being what ever they like, including "evil" withing legal limits.

All I am saying is, they shouldn't be surprised when most people don't admire them.
Uh Oh, these guys are in trouble http://twelvesouth.com/products/plugbug/
Let's talk pinguins!
> The "don't be evil" motto doesn't imply Google is going to run around fighting moral causes that don't directly affect them.

I think the issue here is more that Google decided to throw a lot of future organizations under the bus by endorsing a different, equally draconian measure that just happens to leave them untouched.
Non-alphanumeric code with JavaScript and PHP
Yes. Ghostery is much more targeted however, it blocks scripts based on a blacklist (of trackers) rather than blocking ALL scripts. Ghostery is much more user/non-techie friendly; the only time you need to mess with it is:

a) You want to allow some service (I allow disqus, for example): disable blocking for the service
b) A site requires facebook/twitter to log in, or you trust the site: whitelist the site (allows all tracking scripts)

I do wish it had a "allow by domain" so I could allow e.g. just facebook on just turntable.fm so I can log in, but not allow all of ttfn's other trackers.

Works fine on abc.com ;)
http://screencast.com/t/01D8EF6AH5ij
Another article, entitled "Europe's Plan to Simulate the Entire Planet", discusses this issue in slightly more detail, without requiring a subscription. It can be found here: "http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25126/.
The actual paper itself can be found at "http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.4969.
Introducing iZac, the Android Bartender
Vinyl Lettering and Vinyl Wall Lettering fo Work Spaces
Sport betting. Ugh. I knew two devs who worked for two different betting/gambling companies in Vancouver, and both had (acquired) tie-ins with the criminals. Very unhealthy domain, not an area I would ever consider for a startup. But perhaps you are thick-skinned or you know what you are doing, so good luck.
Top Ten Central Park Movies
I have a hard time looking at that URL. I read it thugs who are really into math.
IMO the most important thing to be aware of is that There Is More Than One Way To Learn It: http://perl-tutorial.org
You did just highlight the only two problems I've got with the game. The weapon combination thing is kind of awful, but the 'Favorites' menu that comes up when you push Q is easy to use once you get used to it even though when you press LEFT click it equips to the RIGHT hand, and RIGHT click equips to LEFT hand... DEAR GOD FIX THAT PLEASE BETHESDA FFS!
Other part being inventory management... or lack there of.
Fortunately everything else in the game waaaaaaaaaaaaay more than makes up for that annoyance.
Dame Vida de Huecco
Karpathy: Do you know if prof. Ng will cover the issue of sparse data in his lectures?

When the number of dimensions is much greater than the number of samples and most of your cells in a matrix are equal to zero then most of the ML algorithms don't behave too well. It's very common problem in NLP to have sparse matrices.
Crafting Rubies: Best Practices While Cutting Gems » RubySource
I was using Safari on OS X when I got the error.

Sorry for being dense, but could you elaborate on what I should learn from that thread you linked? Is there some kind of solution there, maybe if I was using Chrome, that I might have missed?
Yes, I misread you, sorry about that. I don't know much about namecoin or how it works in detail, but from what I can tell it is still being designed in large part. At the moment there seems to be only a single central registrar which is an obvious weakness.

It would be interesting to know if there are plans or ideas for decentralising even the registrar role, for example assigning domains through votes across multiple nodes...
Beginner Rails Code Sample: Build a Basic Rails App
I should have clarified -- it's not that a loading message is unnecessary, it's how it was implemented. The fact that a giant overlay modal appears on every page in their public docs calls into question other UI decisions. This isn't the padding on some button, it's an in your face element.

Sure, we can tweak it to have a small transparent spinner in the lower right... but what other changes are needed too? I want a framework where the authors already fixed these obvious things.
Everyday I'm stunned about the low quality food we get served in the US. Walking through a supermarket, reading labels, all processed food is too high in calories, includes corn syrup and loads of sodium.
Ever wondered why a wonder bread can stay good for 2 weeks?

Yikes!
Do we have to link to fox news?
You have completely and utterly missed my point. Look at it this way:

Why should the only person rewarded for a digital good be the best salesman? Without copyright, anyone who writes a book will immediately have it taken by a big publishing company with the best distribution channels and be crushed in the market. The little guy will never be able to compete with that. Whatever small chance at financial reward from writing now will be replaced by the ability to get a contract in place with the dominant market leader before you even start writing. Sure some people will still write for the love of writing, but it will be the kind of thing that terrifies parents even more than does now, and it will be discouraged by popular opinion.

Honestly, what is the argument against giving someone limited exclusive rights to their own work? 14 years was the original term of copyright, and that doesn't seem like an unreasonable time to wait for something to enter the public domain, after which we all get the full public benefit. Again, just because Disney lobbied for and raped the law doesn't mean it's not a good idea.

I think the ridiculousness of software patents has caused a disproportionate number of hackers to go totally fundamental on the concept of intellectual property even though there is a very strong common sense legitimacy to certain forms of it.
You actually get a negative feedback loop there which would circle around an optimal parking ticket fee.
You're taking the definitions for the word "self" and "importance" and just assuming that "self-importance" is the concatenation of those definitions. It is not. It means an exaggerated sense of one's own importance, or outright arrogance: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-importance
I'm using Firefox and got the same problem. (And the same fix: http works just fine.)
Google is already legally responsible for all the content on YouTube. The DMCA does not remove liability, it just sets out a process for managing liability--the takedown notice. If Google ignores conforming legitimate takedown notices, under the DMCA, they are fully liable for the infringing content. And as we see with Viacom, the DMCA does not actually prevent private lawsuits.
It's funny, "poaching" in this context refers to hiring away talent from one company to the next. As if the talent is the property of the company.

I prefer to think of "poaching" in more appropriate terms -- supply and demand. Limited supply, demand increasing, and the market bears what it will.

Anyone who complains about this environment needs to consider another line of work.
Startups say the darndest things
I don't like losing good employees, but when one tells me he's thinking of going somewhere, whether it's a competitor, school. different industry, whatever, I don't take it all personally. Sooner or later, I do the same thing. And that's the reason my people will tell me when they're considering something else.
P.S. My rule of girlfriends and bosses: You learn more about them when you leave than at any other time.
Any details on the approach they used? In my experience, it's impossible to beat css3 transitions on a platform that hardware-accerelates them (i.e., only iOS as of this writing)
Mit dem Fahrrad gegen den ehelichen Fitnessverlust
There is a lot of talk about the consequences for Flash of these recent announcements, but little attention is given to what this will mean for HTML5 adoption.

I, for one, am very excited. If Adobe can do for HTML5 half of what they have done with the Flash toolchain then we are going to see a powerful platform indeed, and sooner than anyone would have dared hope until recently.

A Flash-like animation environment and a Flex UI toolkit, all outputting to canvas? Sign me the hell up right now.
To put it absolutely fucking bluntly:

Most Perl developers are grown-ups who are
a) too busy solving problems and
b) mature enough
to not go and troll every post about a language they don't like.

On the other hand, Perl has attracted a handful of recurring names of amazingly dedicated detractors who seemingly have nothing better to do.
Happy Baklava Day from Grecian Delight
Cookies aren't the only way to be tracked, unfortunately. I don't know if it still works, but some sites were using custom ETags to track users.
>>Imagine, where do we place ∞ on the coordinate system?

The answer is to add a new point, which is called the point at infinity. Maybe you will find this interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_sphere
Why Stack Exchange Isn’t in the Cloud
Smartphones are making us tired, weak work slaves
Future of Battery
I found stacked area to work really well:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6353242/hn/sourceforge-area-normaliz...

You can get a real sense for how large the 'other' datapoint is by looking at non-normalized view as well:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6353242/hn/sourceforge-area.html
Simple but Interesting Features of VS2010 and C# 4.0
Galaxy Nexus Review
is anyone else a bit skeptical at the number of countries averaging over 3,000 calories/day? wouldn't such a person consistently gain a pound or two a month, every month?
... macros would make what is already a fairly large language even larger, along with the fact that it wouldn't really buy you that much vs. what you can already do.

They would for me.
Right. This product is just silicone. Thousands of similar products are already on the market. RainX is silicone. Boot/gear spray is silicone. It's not terribly durable with heavy use (clothing, etc) and it's not very breathable. But it does shed water!
Unbelievable work guys...I can´t wait to see what´s coming next!
Interesting. It seems like it isn't just a problem with Apple though. I've heard similar stories with Xbox Live accounts, where they won't move accounts between countries. I think there may be some laws/regulations involved which are preventing them from moving accounts. Otherwise, it's just silly to not allow people to move accounts, since it should be a simple change in a database somewhere.
Actually, absolute truth is just as dangerous (and perhaps even more dangerous) as (non-extreme) relativism. Someone with a relativistic view isn't necessarily passive either, they just try to be more observant, understanding, and compassionate. I never liked how some philosophers force upon people a specific way of thinking if they claim to be have a general belief system.

Someone might consider it good to rape old ladies, and that is their honest belief, doesn't mean I can't call them out on it and try to make them 'believe' otherwise.

I never said that Bach's music isn't art, I just said that Apple's products can be viewed to be art just as much as a painting can be. You can argue if it is as pure, and what value it has in the artistic world but you can't argue if it is or isn't art. Art's way too vague for that kind of stuff.

In my mind, technology is a very powerful side-effect of art, and therefore it can be viewed as art just as much as a painting it.

My other point I was making is that if someone doesn't wish to discuss their values of art, than you've already lost the discussion because anything you say will be taken with a grain of salt. 99% of the discussions that go on in the world aren't of this case, but sometimes they are and I was just saying that we have to be mindful of those cases.
In the original COBOL specification there is the infamous "ALTER X TO PROCEED TO Y" statement which modify a GOTO X in a GOTO Y.
done some changes, sorry for bad english, will try to improve in time
SSE2 Vectorization of Alphablend Code
Market Share vs Profit (mobile)
*not sure how to edit the comment, hence replying.

The site would have "pay to promote button". People who care keeps donating which will directly fuel the ad campaigns set up on adsense, facebook ads, twitter promoted links etc. It will be all over the place.
You can do something similar with iOS development as well, by implementing a -debugDescription method to return a NSString * object that is then printed out when you use print-object (or po) from GDB/LLDB.

If -debugDescription is not implemented, than the debugger will print out whatever -description returns, instead. -description is the same method that is called when an object is printed out with NSLog().

(more info: http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2011/11/debugging-objec...)