skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a commercial demo released for the PS3 on PSN called Linger in Shadows(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linger_in_Shadows), sold for $3. Farbrausch also released a commercial PSN demo called .detuned. I'm surprised the demo scene hasn't released more productions for iOS or Android. It seems like impressive non-interactive or semi-interactive demos with no game play would do alright either ad supported or at the $0.99 price point. I'm not sure if the average person would really get the difference between a real time non-interactive demo and a video playing on their phone, though.
Selling Mobile Games Portfolio
Dear Friends
A friend of mine is looking to explore options for selling his cash flow positive game studio specialized in developing mobile games portfolio. Since, most of his team is offshore ( 50 engineers , graphic designers ) and he is exploring options for M&A or raising funds. Can someone guide as what should i suggest him. If anyone is interested, i can do the intro as well.
Which class is that? udacity or coursera?
Social Networks, Small and Smaller
It occurred to me the other day that each major desktop platform uses a different "default" programming language:

Windows: C++

Linux: C

OS X: Objective-C
It's nice how you've written him off entirely because he likes one thing and not another! You completely disregard the possibility that some people are only ever fully engaged and in the moment when their mind is on and they are performing analysis. There's so little to what you're saying, you can mad libs your whole rant to paint you as the asshole.
As for quitting- never quit unless you must. And don't sabotage yourself to get yourself fired. You suck less than you think you do, and if you work hard enough, you will hopefully find something somewhere to transition to.

I worked in golden handcuffs, unable to leave because of the good pay, benefits. I felt I was getting less marketable by staying there, and that I couldn't work somewhere else. Friends told me about other opportunities and I ignored them because I had no motivation- I was miserable with the job, the politics, everything. Luckily, an old co-worker provided me with a great opportunity. For others I knew who were even more able than I was, it also took spending a lot of time polishing his image and interview skills. You used to be able to just get jobs because of your resume. But these days, an interview can be like a black belt test. You have to show skills as if you were applying for an enrty level position, mid level, senior and executive all at once. Once I broke those handcuffs, I knew I was better off. It is scary, but it is worth it. I still don't know if I'm doing what I should be doing, but it has got to be better than hating every day at work.

And when you accept the offer at another company, treat the first company with respect, but tell them honestly what you think in a way that you'd be proud if your assessment of them went public.
Right, it isn't that surprising. I was originally motivated by the general question of how many URL shorteners you have to hop through to get to sites from Twitter. What this doesn't show is as interesting as what it does: other URL shorteners seem to be behaving well since they haven't increased the rate of re-wrapping already short URLs, including services like Facebook where you might expect they would do so for the same reasons Twitter does.

But to really answer your question, I didn't intend to make a particular point -- I collected the data to answer a question and then dug in a bit more to see if I could find anything else interesting.
The effect is awesome, but on a real website it's most probably excessive design.
I don't think that it's technically illegal to serve email to someone under 13 years of age. That's just the conservative take on the law that most sites have taken.

[You may be able to allow < 13 year olds with parent's permission, but most sites probably feel that it's too much effort/risk to do that.]
>And it's true in the context of this post, because the author is conflating Objective-C and Cocoa throughout the entire post

He also mentions GnuStep specifically in the post, and says that it's far from ready to use.
Ahem: apropos that 2007 post of mine, I will stand right behind it. Back in March 2007, it was right on the nail.

In case you've forgotten:

- In March 2007, most book titles from the big six were not available as ebooks at all.

- Kindle did not exist. (Launched November 2007)

- Those ebooks that were available were usually priced at the same, or higher than the equivalent paper edition "in order to avoid cannibalizing sales".

- We had a systematic problem with proliferating, rival ebook file formats: ePub wasn't a standard yet (not until September 2007 - that blog entry was from March '07), Mobipocket was still out there and competing with weird shit like Aportis Doc and iSilo for the PalmOS market, Microsoft was still performing CPR on .LIT format, and so on.

- Sales of ebooks amounted to less than 0.5% of the total sales of books. The big six were ignoring them, basically.

- The iPhone as an app platform did not exist. (The original iPhone was announced on January 9th, 2007, but was to only run web apps. The app store lay in the future.) Android didn't launch for another year, and the multitouch big-screen smartphone (capable of running an ebook reader app) simply did not exist.

- Cheap ebook reader devices ... are still a minority pursuit today, even though the price has pushed down to just under $99; the real breakthrough has been the [free] ebook apps for Android and iOS which turn every smartphone into a potential ebook reader. Back in March 2007, a typical e-ink ebook reader cost around $399 (something like the Sony PRS-505 or the Irex Iliad) and the nearest thing to a smartphone you could buy had buttons and a stylus. Not to mention an eye-stabbingly bad screen (anyone else remember having a Treo 650 with a 320x320 pixel display and being so happy because it was an improvement over what they had before?).

I will plead guilty to not having predicted the disruptive effect of iPhone apps in March 2007, sold from an app store that Steve Jobs had pretty much ruled out. How about you?
Considerations when Storing C# code in JSON
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/ml/

http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780120884780

Two of the most important books I own.

Also, thank you for tearing down the dragon book -- I was going to do the same myself.

The dragon book is outdated on parsing, too. It's from a time where single-pass parsing and compilation was sometimes necessary because you didn't have enough memory (or time) to do multiple passes. It certainly doesn't have anything on packrat parsing. It is a historical book -- I would recommend it for no serious purpose (even pedagogical) these days.
I'd have more sympathy for this point of view if the Big 6 publishers hadn't been running a de facto cartel since, well... forever, and basing their relationship with authors on a business model that could be compared, unfavorably, with a payday loan operation.

Seriously? Standard author contracts have clauses that a) acknowledge that the author owns all copyrights & is only granting the publisher a limited right to publish, b) said publishing rights revert to the author if the publishers ceases to publish the work (admittedly a more difficult concept in these days of permanently available e-books, anyone know how this is being handled these days?) and c) the publishing industry is structured so that (sane) authors are represented by agents who are not employed by the publishers.

By comparison with the music industry the publishing world is populated by saints! (Personally, I wonder if the fact that authors tend to be represented by agents instead of the music industry model where musicians are usually signed up by industry representatives is an accident of history that explains the relative difference in the normative contracts between the two. Thoughts?)
Maybe your puppy is not the target audience ;). I think it would help make it feel less generic and more appealing to (some) hiphop listeners. I don't mean to overdo it just something like "I feel it" instead of "upvote".
Computer modeled using swarms of soldier crabs
In other news? Research by University of Amsterdam has shown that the ban has had no effect on number of downloads. (PDF: http://tweakimg.net/files/upload/dutchpirate.pdf [Dutch])
Udacity.
http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs262
Objective-C has some huge warts (XCode crashes is a big one), while the standard library might be decent, it's much more difficult than it needs to be to package modules for iOS.

What sucks about Java is not the standard library but the line noise. I'm not sure that Obj-C improves much in this regard. Blocks are definitely an improvement over java but again, way too much line noise. Selectors are much better than the java reflection system, as well are categories.

If you compare Obj-C to C# there isn't really much to write home about. In C# it's a bit more difficult to use C but not much and it's tightly integrated enough into the OS that the GUI issues are largely non-existant. The MVVC system does leave something to be desired though, not really sure how much better xib is than xaml, as I tend to avoid both.

There are definitely a class of apps (games) that benefit from the tighter integration with C but in that case I'd look to managed C++ as a comparison, and not java.
"Kickstarter let's you basically preorder a product that lacks investors."

Exactly. But why do you actually need Kickstarter for that?
Maybe, but as I understand it, the value proposition of MongoDB is closely tied to clustered deployments.
>I have seen so many great Mac apps that were unusable in the end because of constant crashes. I doubt this would be the case if developers had picked some higher level language.

Yes, then they would have been unusable because of slow performance and regular gc pauses, like almost any Java program I ever met.

It's a lot faster now that it used to be around 2002+ with the Swing of the day, but still lags perceptibly behind C/C++ for UI work. And don't even think using it for a multimedia app (video/sound) etc, or a game, except if you delegate all the work to a hardware accelerated C/C++ 3D backend.
Why Web 2.0 is Not always good
40+ Techniques to enhance your php code
The Atlantic asks if Facebook makes us lonely. The answer is No.
Although you can argue that a "product does not make a business," many businesses start off with a single product.

Kickstarter is great way to determine if there is commercial viability for an product, but only within the early adopter customer segment -- and that's about it.

YC primarily looks for teams they like. The description of the product idea in the application is indicative of the team's ability to communicate (which is critical), and the actual idea may give a glimpse into the judgement of the team, but a good number of teams (including mine) pivoted pretty dramatically during our time in YC.

Steve Blank, who spoke to our batch, says that a startup is a temporary organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Understanding this, and understanding when to pivot, was one of the most critical teachings made by YC.
Designers Are Taking Over Silicon Valley
>If you need to deliver your app fast then sluggish (Java) is better than not working at all.

I don't think this is how it works, at least in the OS X market. I never seen any but 2-3 Java apps become popular, and none that much. All the popular, successful apps are native.

So, you can maybe deliver faster with Java (doubt it, since you'll have to implement all the Cocoa goodies and cool integration APIs by yourself) but it wont get you that far.
How does Twitter share link work?
An example:
"<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-text="List scroll effects applied via CSS. Created by @hakimel" data-url="http://lab.hakim.se/scroll-effects" data-count="small" data-related="hakimel"></a>"

How does Twitter catch the data attributes being passed to twitter.com/share?
You're right that a guy with a knife might be able to bring down the entire plane, but that's only one of many ways to mass-murder people. Security lines at the airport, political rallies, crowds outside concerts and sporting events, and other concentrations of people are easy targets for an unsophisticated suicide attacker under the direction of a bomb-maker. You can't stop that kind of attack. Planes are special because (we now know) they can be extremely effective weapons in themselves, not because bringing down a plane is an effective way to kill the people on it.

Ironically, reinforced cockpit doors are a necessary part of any terrorist's plan post 9-11, because that's the only way they can protect themselves from the passengers. I think there are now protocols to take control of the plane remotely in case an attacker infiltrates the cockpit and barricades himself inside. Unfortunately, trying to search the web for that information only gets me conspiracy pages about how the government remote-controlled the planes in the 9/11 attacks. Information pollution FTW :-/
Dart programming language design
We need a black Macbook Air.
How cool would a black Macbook Air be. Black anodised aluminium unibody, looking like a beautiful Thinkpad... I am pretty sure that the technology is here. Also I haven't actually hold a Nokia Lumia but how his the material. Would a MBA be attractive in polycarbonate?
Where is that Zencoder house? (http://yfrog.com/09x7fsj)
This.
Thinking and problem solving is a social process, the human brain is designed to be fueled via lots of nuggets of social. Theres a huge amount of variability in what sorts of socialization different folks need and what form it needs to take, but it's absence creates a terrifying inability to think clearly and execute.

Foam earplugs plus around the ear headphones solve most hearing other people distractions. :)

Point being, if my group is in YC this summer, we're definitely looking for a social living space
Salam Stock - Muslim Stock Photography venture
Greetings! So I'm a Muslim, and I've been concerned about the imbalance of Muslim imagery on the web (just google search "muslim" and you'll hopefully see what I mean). So I've created a space for positive, realistic Muslim imagery that people, orgs, media outlets, etc can share, download, sell, and purchase. I could use your feedback!
I do that. I'm a freelance developer part time, and a freelance musician part time. It's difficult, and way more work than just doing one or the other. You have to constantly guard your ability to do it -- if you let them, people will demand your absolute full time devotion to them. But I've found when you lay out th rules early on, they usually accept that they can't have you body and soul. If not, they weren't a good employer for you anyway.
I've considered it, but automating all formatting is still troublesome and dealing with documents written in Word, of all things, is already a mess.
Agreed, this is a trivial amount of data.

Context is the article which made is seem like even 220GB is an ok amount, still can fit in memory.
That was a disappointingly poor article.

It seems a product no-one has heard of (a "best kept secret"), which requires a monthly subscription, and is used by no blog of note, is going to try to challenge WordPress. It is unclear in the extreme why it thinks it has any chance of doing that.
IMHO, high DPI displays are way more needed
PlatformLayer adds Solr-as-a-service, 1 day after AWS CloudSearch launch
I was just pointing out that there is someone who wanted $25k upfront and here we have someone who will do the work for free. That's all, just context.

And since you mentioned it, $44k is a two full years salary where I live, so excuse me if I think that's a bit much for a installer script.

Other than that, I have no interest in this since I'm not a RoR developer nor am I planning on becoming one. Like I said, I just wanted to provide context.
Manhattan tech/media companies grow up and out
Wow. Just wow. 64kb: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kx66_i3ue4
I'm looking forward to a world where some books return to their 1800s newspaper-style formats: short chapters published weekly, like we get some graphic novels on the web now. I WANT to pay the author, and look forward to this happening. It's definitely a great space to look into. It may exist already and I don't know about it? (again, leaving it open for some startup to make waves..)
So, what have I missed?

Sounds something like a return to the magazine sales nodel of Dicken's time. I think there's probably room for this kind of "soap opera" type sales: you've only got to look at the way people follow long form fan-fic authors, commenting on chapters as they're released & interacting with the author as they write to see that this kind of model could be possible.

I doubt it will work for all forms of writing, some works just don't suit the episodic format, but I'm sure it will work for some.
5 months is a short waterfall dev cycle. Allocating one dev to "best possible OSX support for our dev platform" is a totally reasonable thing to slot into a cycle.

But since you don't know what you're talking about, I'm left wondering why you bothered to comment on this thread. What context could you possibly have to offer?

The level of irrational behavior dollar signs generate on HN is baffling.
If I remember correctly from my high-school art class, the landscape was imaginary.
It works well on my iPhone.
Awesome! I suggested something like this in the 500px TOS thread.

should have known somebody would already be doing it :).
Do you have a citation to back up the claim that you shouldn't use MongoDB for serious apps?

We have done billions of ops with Mongo and have never lost any data.
Well, as noted by the top comment in this thread, many of the benefits of Objective-C that he's talking about are really attributable to Cocoa, not the Objective-C language itself.

My main point is that, even if the quoted statement in the parent post to my original comment was technically false, the idea was essentially true. The biggest reason for using Objective-C at this point is for a type of project that can only be done on Apple's hardware and OS, not on Linux.
Somehow, to me anyway, it loses something if you just watch a video of it. If you have the hardware for it, you can download the binary from http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=59107 and run it in real-time on your own machine, the way it was intended :)
"Cheap ebook reader devices ... are still a minority pursuit today"

Amazon sold over 4 million Kindles in December alone, and now sells more ebooks than paperback and hardcover combined.

With one or two exceptions, every serious reader I know has a Kindle, an iPad, or both.
I think HN simply "de-linkbaited" the title.
I don't have an exact address. I spoke with Jon (of Zencoder), he said it was somewhere in the Santa Cruz mountains. Such a place is probably a little too remote for most people (it was a 30 minute or more drive to YC)
If your list has more than a dozen items or so, then you need a better way to represent your data (EDIT: just to be clear, not in a data structure way— rather in a graphical representation way. See Tufte's "Envisioning Information" (and Tufte's work in general)).

That being said, the effects are really sweet. Zipper and Fan are my favorites.
Rachel Mendelson-Haywire-Marone does not _deserve_ ANY privacy. Why is that? Rachel MHM is responsible for a website which featured pictures of people nude and having sex on it. These photos were never public, never on the internet until she and a sugar daddy of hers _purchased_ them from a 3rd party. It took _considerable_ legal resources to get this website down, and this MAKES RACHEL MARONE THE WORST KIND OF STALKER! She IS what she accuses others (many others) of!!!
Hard to say but it's probably all from outside links. Few websites picked up the app + I posted on facebook, hackernews.

Beside submitting the app to macappstorm and techcrunch I haven't done any marketing.
Just to add to this; it looks like Haxe will have objective-C target available soonish.
Sorry I really have nothing to say to you since you apparently have some false assumptions about me and ignore what I write and I can't have a conversation that way.
That effectively already exists. Adobe digital editions books are supported on a range of devices including the nook.
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This is an excellent idea, and is the goal of a project that Google announced at JSConf 2011 with much fanfare (some of it from Brendan Eich himself), Traceur: http://code.google.com/p/traceur-compiler/

However, Traceur has gained little traction. With the announcement of Dart, it's clear that Google's heart isn't really into the project.

See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6506519/ecmascriptharmony...
Totally agree but that also means more GPU which means more battery. Apple really does have to strike the perfect balance.
F - Felix’s Workshop by Ctrl-Alt-Test the 2nd place 64K is also very very good, so much crammed into a small file
http://thedemoscene.tumblr.com/post/20960247819/f-felixs-wor...
That's not exactly how it works.

When embedding a Tweet button using the Twitter JavaScript API, you also need to include a script reference to //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js. This code scans the DOM, reads those data attributes and then replaces the href above with an iframe. That iframe contains the Tweet button with the data attribute values serialized into a new href that triggers the popup.
Which service should PlatformLayer add next?
I think you've forgotten just what things were like even as little as five years ago.

The rate of change in publishing today is like the web circa 1992-97.
User Acquisition isn't the only thing, but it should be the first thing. Once you figure out how to get users, then you do need to build a good product to retain them.

First figure out a strategy to get people to use something, and then build out the product around that. For instance, I know Facebook virals pretty well, and it is through that lens that I look at new ideas - is this something that they'd post to their wall, share, like, comment on, etc. If not, how can the idea be shifted around to work? In my experience getting users is a lot more important than building a good product. I know lots of really bad products that have lots of users because they nailed the UA part. There is even one app I know that is basically nonfunctional that has over 1MM users.

Outside of FB I can only speculate, but I'd imagine that you have to think about how you could get users. If it is through ads, there is nothing stopping you from running ads before you've built the product, to see what type of ads or products people are interested in. You could find out how to get people to leave their email for invites, or what would get people to post to blogs or tweet, etc.
Web browsers will send an OPTIONS request when you try to send an xhr to a different domain. See the Mozilla post on this: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/07/cross-site-xmlhttprequest-w...
My understanding was that this was to avoid issuing more founders shares. I was wrong. It is indeed a powers grab.
I believe in 3 "wheels":

1st wheel is PR, and reaching out to bloggers. Best time to do this is before you launch. develop a relationship, tell them you want to pick their brain for feedback. Of course not everyone will respond, maybe even 1%. But those handful can easily lead to 1000 new users.

2nd wheel is content marketing (or SEO). Develop content where you share information with others. People will see you as an expert, and give you attention. That's where you can link your content to your product.

A great example is EngineYard: http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/your-pages-will-load-fas... They created this blog to tell you tips about Rails, so people are interested right away. But they then connected it to their product and how it can help.

3rd wheel is build engagement into your product. Make something people will naturally want to tell others about.