skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for making this! The existing dropbox music apps are terrible, you have to select songs one by one instead of streaming entire directories. Thank you. Going to download when I get home.
Some friends at medium sized mobile game publishers ran both SDKs at the same time (without either providing much of a performance issue) but said that Apsalar was clearly the winner because of cohort analysis, event settings (built in ARPU per game/custom tracking), and cross-game customization. Haven't tested it myself though so do your own diligence.
Ridiculous. Who upvoted this?

I don't think much more needs to be said. Adobe has thrown in the towel themselves regarding Flash on mobile devices, as they couldn't manage to develop a solid experience. How can you argue maturity in this day and age while ignoring that Flash is dead in a mobile environment? (edit: until RIM saves it!)
A nice solution here is to have a 'traditional' application with new page loads for links, so that search engines can follow them. You then enrich this application with Javascript, placing click handlers on the links to replace their default action (loading a new page) with a similar action performed through Javascript/AJAX.
If you have a modern simile for Tablets,
Flash is just completely redundant

I'm against Flash but this argument doesn't hold. It's like saying - if you have a modern website designed for mobile phones, than a native iOS app is redundant.

Flash is not redundant if it allows you to escape the browser's limits. Here, I'll give you an example -- try doing chat-roulette without Flash.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but you have to commit locally before pushing to Github so that is not a problem (you do it on your machine before the `git push` to Github).
> The TSA has an absolutely abysmal record for catching weapons and explosives during security audits.

I know I'm expressing a view that's probably been expressed.

Nevertheless, I hope you can explain how/why this statement is wrong: "The scanners are deterring people from carrying weapons right now. If the scanners were removed, there would be more people carrying weapons."

I suppose you could argue that the people who really want to carry weapons wouldn't be stopped by a scanner. Then again, there are definitely "impulse crimes", where people are driven to commit crimes based on nothing but impulse/pent up anger. Those people would have been stopped by scanners, but are let through, if there were no/less effective scanners.
Whoop, I get to reuse a comment I made on an earlier article, almost verbatim:

"Now that the client is the MVC execution environment with the client-server interaction used mostly for asynchronous data replication, plus some extra invokable server-side behaviours, we can congratulate ourselves on having more-or-less reinvented Lotus Notes."
Seed Edition Launches Free Subscription Billing Platform For Seed Stage Startups
This asynchronous sending of emails sounds nice but it reminds me of the times when I started using email some 15 years ago. I would sit at a Unix terminal, fire up Pine, write all my emails and hit send with no delay or blocking, go to sleep and hope that during the night some script actually succeeds in sending those emails.
Can we get more citations for this besides Gatto?

I.e., do we have citations to some of Dewey's works, or the early 1900s academic reformers advocating this?
Nice hack (and bonus points for what looks like a chewbacca shirt)
Great app! Does the app cache songs? (ie. can I listen to them once and then listen to them offline?)
Django, with admin, running on Google App Engine + Cloud SQL
This is another great point. Thank you for sharing this.
This gives you eight levels (plus blank)[1]. Most of the type I read is at least twice that many pixels high.

[1]:https://github.com/holman/spark/blob/master/spark#L46
Show HN: Bumb.ly, an HTML5 image editor/sharer/host - I'm 2 weeks in, continue?
That might be a practical improvement for some applications. But at a framework level I don't see any clear reason to prefer that approach. Particularly as the savings evaporate for any applications that can't handle collisions 'less than graciously'.

And, personally, it still 'smells' to me. I know that's not an objective argument, but there it is. It feels like a particularly leaky abstraction that will end up causing more trouble than it spares.

edit: clarified sarcasm that looked ambiguous on second glance.
You Americans need some privacy laws. Badly. (Yes, the EU has issues. But the privacy stuff is a step in the right direction.)
Experienced developers will always lean strongly on writing as little code as possible. Every line of code is a liability.
Security vulnerability in Gimp, PoC code submitted in COBOL
Kickstarter launched a typography page
Throw one of your images at tineye.com. It's a reverse image analysis tool; their algorithm is under wraps, but I'm sure a few people around here could speculate on how it works. It works nicely with cropped and scaled images, which is a hint =)
Black Friday tv deals
This rap is purely about wanting money, with absolutely no mention of the product or what it does. Are they entrepreneurs, or panhandlers?
I think there's a better solution for e-mail. The moment it reaches the server the UI unblocks.

Later, if there is an issue with sending your e-mail it alerts you inside your browser. If you're unreachable through your web browser it sends you a text. What's wrong with that?
Let's see, we're ready for another exciting episode of 'Hackers Go to Washington' or 'As The Real World Turns':

Step 1. At a fancy lunch spot on Rodeo Drive a lobbyist gets with someone in Hollywood, and they talk about a Hollywood dream law, e.g., shut down Internet movie sharing or some such, just to pick a hypothetical issue! Wink, wink!

Step 2. The lobbyist sells the Hollywood guy on an effort to get the dream law passed. "Sign your check, and we will get started from our M Street offices." They do get started and draft the Hollywood Dream Act.

Step 3. The lobbyist finds some Dumb-Dumb legislators on Capital Hill who are not very bright, not doing very well, and need some campaign donations, maybe some trips to Vegas, etc. and hands them copies of the Hollywood Dream Act and some campaign donations, trips to Vegas, etc. Maybe if we did some searching we could find a list of the Dumb-Dumbs? Ah, that would assume that Dumb-Dumbs exist! I ask you, are there any Dumb-Dumbs on Capital Hill?

Step 4. The Dumb-Dumbs hold hearings and look like they are about to get the Hollywood Dream Act passed.

Step 5. People who oppose the Hollywood Dream Act, and there is no shortage, get up on their hind legs, write checks to other lobbyists on M Street, and the battle is on. Legislators who oppose the Hollywood Dream Act get campaign donations, trips to Vegas, etc.

Step 6. The Hollywood Dream Act dies in committee or in negotiations between the House and Senate or has some killer amendments added, etc.

Ah, it was always just the 'Hollywood Dumb-Dumb Public Wet Dream Act' or 'Who Gets Screwed As the World Turns' anyway!

Net, M Street gets richer; both the Dumb-Dumbs and all the opposing legislators get campaign donations, which they don't return, and trips to Vegas, but nothing real happens. It's just Hollywood.

Naw, no one would ever do anything so stupid. That would be called a 'scam', and that's SUCH a pejorative locution! We can be SURE that M Street and Capitol Hill would NEVER engage in anything like a scam, can't we?
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Third Party JavaScript
Many did -- e.g. the original G4 Towers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4

The gray oval in the center of the drive door cover is the load of a class 3 lever that pushes the eject button on a relatively commodity optical drive. It was eliminated once the Quicksilver generation came out.

Those early G4s could also be purchased with a ZIP drive, the coverplate to which infuriatingly had a thin section of plastic covering the ZIP eject button, such that you could see the LED in it but not push it. Now that's just mean.
A history of the sky
Nice article overall, but this stood out for me:

> Again, this is an exceptional event, so it's not worth investing too much developer time into.

I have to disagree here. Exceptional events are exceptionally important here, since so much progress is hidden from the user. It is absolutely critical to inform the user of what happened, so their expectations aren't broken, and to cleanly recover so the application is not in an incorrect state. I think this is the most important thing to invest developer time into in an application built in this way. Otherwise, you'll lose customer confidence do to unexpected behavior or even lost/corrupted data.
What are the  Kinds of the Forex?
At Web censorship hearing, Congress guns for "pro-pirate" Google
Time for occupyoccupysites.com...
I worked for about 45 minutes today and finished all the work that was assigned to me for today and tomorrow.(I am not a genius,I just used a few modules from github!).

If I work more than that I will not get more money.All I will get is more work and stricter deadlines."You are smart.Why dont you work during the weekend and finish this.We have a demo!" has happened to me numerous times.And everytime I have ended up changing teams!

The best strategy at xyz corp is to pretend that you are slightly dumber than average!
Yes, SOPA Breaks The Internet
Baloney.

Stuff worth knowing in academia takes dedicated effort and access to deep resources that are unavailable on the internet.

Even knowing what book to read can be a significant challenge.

Just cause you can read some tutorials, watch a MIT lecture, and write PHP/jQuery does not a computer scientist or a mathematician make.
I do. Every time I visit YouTube. Or Hulu. Or Pandora. Or Amazon Instant Video. Or Amazon Cloud Player.
Here is the video of the full year from 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNln_me-XjI&hd=1
hey, can you contact me at kul@tagstand.com? be good to talk.
Lame and lamer phishing scams
If your site needs Flash, develop it in Flash. But it sure doesn't seem like there are that many sites that really need it these days.
Good point. I'm the Founder/CEO. This was more about exposure/hiring than it was about funding. However, we're definitely looking for great investors. Not about money, about people and what they can bring.
We (TidePowerd) enrolled in BizSpark towards the end of 2009 -- as we build a .NET-based product, it's been instrumental in building our company. It doesn't cost Microsoft to give us copies of Visual Studio, Windows, etc., and it would've been a major factor in our startup costs if we'd had to pay for a bunch of licenses.
Um, quite possibly both.

I really hope you are not suggesting that since you apparently don't enjoy Flash therefore no one else could possibly enjoy Flash?
Yes - kinda.

Recent songs are cached as they play, and library info is maintained locally. So if you know you've listened to a song you should be able to go back and play it offline.

v1 doesn't have a good interface for showing you which songs it's got cached though -- that might arrive in an update :)
The (UK) Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health would disagree. They've been pushing hard on a "helping people with MH problems get back to work"; not just for the benefits to wider society but for the benefits to the individual of better mental health.
I hear you, but I think that this can be solved with the UI instead of a blocking approach. The synchronization status of the app (and even individual records) can be shown without preventing a user's next action. As Alex states in his article, you can also warn users about pending requests when they attempt to leave the page or close the browser.
RIAA claims you do not own your iTunes music purchases
This is a good app, but Dropbox would be very expensive as a cloud platform. Wouldn't it make more sense to use Amazon or something cheaper?
Is this the kind of thinking that led to Gawker's monstrosity of a redesign half a year ago?
Chill Integrates with Hulu to Let You Watch TV with Friends
I like Flash on Hulu and Youtube. I also am a fan of many flash games.

It has its uses.
Does proficiency mean you stop learning when you get good?
lol. it's like you're trying to troll me. #5,612,606.
Stop this occupy madness, even worse is upvoting it, let it die.
I agree it's messy. Is it possible to talk? kul at tagstand.com
But there's a third choice, which I hope is the sort of thing he meant:

as soon as you send a message, it goes into a little list on the side of your screen of things that are transferring to Google's servers. You can see it there, and you will see it go away when it has been transferred, so you know what's going on. But in the mean time, you can go back to your inbox, look at other emails, or do whatever else you want. That's how an asynchronous interface should be done.

One thing I didn't notice the article mentioning is that it's possible to have blocking only for certain parts of an interface. So if you press a "load picture" button, then maybe a gray square with a spinner will appear, but the rest of the interface should continue working as usual.
As someone else who disables flash, I hope this isn't all that I am missing. These are all video/audio applications, for which non-flash implementations of the same application (Youtube, Vimeo, Apple's HTTP Live Steaming) work strictly better for me: smoother, faster to load, more responsive UI elements, more generic => more able to be optimized in the future.
Robert Scoble: Why I'm treating startups more critically lately
Haha that's awesome. I'm definitely going to try dropping into some classes (I kinda like breaking rules).
Uberzet : The First File-Sharing Network built on Dropbox
I thought so too, but it's $9.99 a month for 50 GBs, which is more than iTunes Match gives you, and comparable with services like Rdio and Spotify.
Compare and contrast tradition schools for the wealthy with what became public school.

A proper education comes when you put pupils in a room with a very smart person and let them question him. He answers their questions and introduces them to new ideas. Pupils guide the learning, tutors are just a resource. There are no lesson plans.

This is how the great thinkers have learned and taught since the dawn of man. This is how the wealthy and in-the-know still educate themselves.

When public school was demanded, the educated upper class thought it abhorrent and dangerous to give poor children this kind of free-form, liberating education. They invented "public education" and modeled it after church education where students are preached to and rigidly controlled.

Church is a place where poor people go to be controlled. Public school extended this control programming to the formative years of all the children of the non-elite. Everything in public schools is optimized to create obedience, unthinking, conformity, rigidity.

Tell me one thing you learned from a lesson plan that did you any good. All the great thinkers, today and in the past, learned by directing themselves and (ideally) questioning smart people. Never by being whipped into doing lesson plans, always by following their creativity and doing investigations and self-directed projects.
App developers don't get your credit card info, so I don't really think there's a point to this.
OP here, just wanting some honest feedback on whether Bumb.ly has legs. It's been a fun little project.
Your "pushing someone in front of a bus just because you can" metaphore is flawed: there's no gain in committing murder in public; conversely the whole point of corruption is financial gain.
I see, I should uninstall Flash from my computer because you somehow have managed to have so much trouble with it. Now, I haven't had these issues but I'll go ahead and take your word for it that Flash is bad for my computer so I'll uninstall it immediately.
I am not a dev and we are investors in Apsalar so I am already biased, but our reference calls with Devs made us comfortable investing as they had tested Apsalar's product vs others and gave many compelling reasons why they were choosing the Apsalar platform. I think this Quora post does a great job of comparing mobile analytics platforms for iOS:

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-Mobile-Analytics-servi...
I don't know what the original comment was, but yes, this hook runs on your local machine. If you want a similar script to run on a server when people push to it, you want to use an update hook on the server.

More information about hooks: http://book.git-scm.com/5_git_hooks.html
Constipation and Parkinson's Disease
Totally not arguing for SOPA. But SOPA doesn't break DNS edge security systems like DNScurve, and those are the solutions we actually need.
(Skip intro)

The best use for these CPU hungry, crash-happy little rectangles that represent portals into some pocket Universe, disjoint and separate from the web surrounding and encompassing it, is for audio and video. As that use becomes redundant Flash will have very little to justify its existence.
Empower Network: Welcome Message
Sure, but the fact remains that bullshit DOES get passed that then has to be fought in courts for YEARS before it is overturned as unconstitutional. In the meantime people get arrested or heavily fined for bullshit. It might not have happened to someone you personally know but bullshit laws SHATTER LIVES.
"There are currently 500 body scanners, split about evenly between the two technologies, deployed in airports. The TSA plans to deploy 1,275 backscatter and millimeter-wave scanners covering more than half its security lanes by the end of 2012 and 1,800 covering nearly all lanes by 2014."

potential risk to such a huge contract with a company Chertoff is profiting from seems like a pretty darn good reason to delay the study.
I prefer to put the worker queue on the server. It's not as snappy, but it's snappy enough. And queued up operations will not get lost if the browser is closed/crashes.
For desktop it is a mature technology. The website doesn't say otherwise.
> "If my e-mail web app always instantaneously tells me "sent!", then I never have any idea if it actually was"

But you already have no idea if it actually arrives, let alone at the right mailbox, let alone was read/processed - until you get an asynchronous response.

And even if a web app blocks on 'sending mail', you can still suffer timeouts and disconnects, meaning the case remains of occasionally having to refresh and manually verify an action truly went through.

So if you're not concerned about those things, why be concerned about blocking on 'sent'? And if you are concerned about those things, how does non-blocking materially increase your concern? At least an asynchronous UI could automatically follow-up on a client-side send command that was never acknowledged.

Don't get me wrong; I can see an argument for operations that you truly do want to block all activity on until you receive a pass/fail. Email just doesn't strike me as a particularly good example of that.
Regarding "impulse" crimes--I don't see why such crimes are that much more of an issue on a plane than anywhere else. My understanding of psychology is naturally imperfect, but I don't think that a hijacking would be an impulse crime.

I could see why explosives would be more dangerous on a plane than elsewhere. However, people don't generally carry large amounts of explosives with them for no good reason, so explosives also don't lend themselves to impulse crime.

Other dangers, like getting shot or stabbed--something that is actually likely to be an impulse crime--are not much more dangerous on a plane than on the ground. Since we're perfectly content running the risk of being shot walking around outside, I don't see why airports would need special security just to prevent impulse crimes.

Of course, this is not an argument against all airport security. While I am personally against it, I would have to spend more time and do some research before being confident of making a compelling case against it. I'm just explaining why I think preventing impulse crimes would not be a good reason for tight security at airports.
Colon disease and colon cancer : Natural Remedies
I find the standard Mail app painfully slow over 3G for checking for mail. So far, the gmail app seems much, much faster. The UI will take some getting used to though.
For the most part things are consistent. In this case there are a few ways to do the same thing. I think that's a good thing in the case some people don't see one way right away.

I always thought the keyboard eject was pretty obvious. There's also the eject icon next to the disc in the Finder. And then the File menu.

I think people make too big a deal over the eject button. If youre used to something else you might bitch a little (especially if you're one of those who always likes to compare Windows and Mac) but generally its not like it happens all the time and the fix is easily available with a quick Google if you haven't heard of it before. I've had discs get stuck in my iMac before. Oh well, it happens on a rare occasion. I try the different methods and move on. Did they really drop the ball or is this just a petty excuse to imply another OS is better? What else could they do? There's like 5 ways to do it by mouse that I can think of, 3 on the keyboard, and on some Macs, the paper clip slot. Everyone needs to chill. It's not like people are ripping apart their computers on a wide scale to remove stuck discs. The whole post came off as a kind of smarmy way to say "oh, look at this bad thing that happened once to my Mac. Looks like Apple sucks now and other options are better because they have a physical eject button ". Really? Come off it.

If you've got to take apart a SuperDrive t get it out then I really feel for you and I can understand the complaint.
Put the Internet to work for you.
Bigger question:

How does Flash jive with responsive web design techniques, meant to provide one flexible interface for desktop and mobile form factors?

Answer: It doesn't.
I'm anti-conspiracy-theory too, but it's hard to argue that levying an enormous unfunded mandate on the most productive, most creative, most vigorously first-amendment-oriented corporate members of our society, which would force them to monitor the speech of each and every anonymous member they serve, is something that a Congress stupid enough to make the statements heard tonight would have concocted of their own accord.

edit: I think the above might be the longest grammatically correct run-on sentence I've ever written.
I think his point was that you can certainly detect an image in use on other sites but that does not matter because it may or may not be infringement. Nobody could possibly know if he licensed his work to be used by certain sites or not.
Give the gift of a dosimeter badge this holiday traveling season.

(TSA agents aren't allowed to have one, maybe the brighter ones will start to wonder why.)
What is Carrier IQ?
Does it also prevent the browser from crashing if there's still something pending? :)
It's official: Adobe puts Flash for mobile to sleep. Permanently.
I'm just wondering if it's actually cheaper though. iTunes Match is $24.99 per year, remember.

However, iTunes Match isn't everyone's cup of tea (and odds are, not available in their country. It isn't in mine).
Google Checkout Transitioning to Google Wallet
Unless this has a file search/discovery feature I don't see point.
The main problem with South Africa is the bandwidth issue. The fact that you pay per GB is ridiculous. I'm on "uncapped" ADSL myself, downloading hundreds of gigabytes on a monthly basis, but they have their ways of throttling you to discourage you from doing this.
I actually don't think so. For one thing, this argument is true of Dropbox itself, and are music files really that special? For many people, the simplicity and convenience is worth it. Plus if you have some extra space in your Dropbox (yes, there are some of us) this gives you a good use for it.

Very slick. I like it. Dropbox should promote this app.