skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure Javascript will ever take over as a preferred technology for browser-based games. I have always seen Javascript games and advanced effects as more novelties than anything else. It is a great language for enhancing user experience for web pages but I can't think of a reason to use Javascript instead of Flash for an identical task given the current support for HTML5 and the performance of js right now.

The HTML5 specification brings a lot of cool new features that may have me eating my words if it's ever fully supported by all major browsers, however, right now advanced js creations are better suited for the demoscene than the mainstream.
Alas it doesn't charge the requester for storage.
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#cr
Running single most common use case for every day for next 10 years is a simple, doable test.
Really, this looks like a rather silly way to put this function together. It doesn't even run in constant time! It might be a little complicated, due to the leap year rules, but it would probably not be too difficult to do this calculation without any loops.
What is the meaning of this?

"although he did not go to church, was religious and read the Bible in church every Sunday morning"
Facebook doesn't get to define or create laws and ethics through their TOS.
Annals of Crime: The Chameleon
Beginning Emacs in 10 minutes
Let's be glad you're not head of product development at Apple.
cf. also Alvin Plantinga's modal-logic-using Ontological argument:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm%27s_argument#Plantinga.2...
Plenty Of Fish Advertising on NYTimes
Saw this PoF ad on NYTimes..thought it was kind of interesting.
How about the low-hanging fruit first? The ability to resize a window from any edge or corner and a divider from anywhere along its length seem obvious.
all good applications must service one of the cardinal sins.

preferably several at once.
How the World of Goo became one of the indie video game hits of 2008
The logos here that aren't gimmicky are totally predictable, and very few of them are "weird". If you liked this post, you will love the "Brand New" blog, which does dissections of rebrandings on a weekly basis. It's one of the very best design blogs on the net:

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew

Brand New has solid writeups on the LSO and London Museum logos, which are the only two companies in this list I think I even recognize.
You are right.

I didn't attempt to distinguish between trade dress and trade mark. It is difficult for a person studying IP to understand. I thought it would only confuse things.

But yes, you are right. And you explained it better than I would have.
Ah, thanks. I was wondering where the search/archive was hidden..
Someone who has a failed startup is in a better position to give advice than someone who has not.

You seem quite willing to deem someone not ready or not in a position to give advice. Also, before you make a bold claim about someone's character it would be helpful if you read their previous comments.
Everyone tries to be realistic about risk tolerance. I'm more concerned about people who don't hesitate over big decisions than those who do.
I'd say they deserved to go out of business.
"The conventional view of the task of the philosopher is to solve seemingly intractable problems of philosophy using logical analysis (for example, the problem of free will, the relationship between mind and matter, what the good or the beautiful or the true consist of, and so on). However, Wittgenstein argues that these problems are, in fact, "bewitchments" that arise from philosophers' misuse of language.

In Wittgenstein's view, language is inextricably woven into the fabric of life, and as part of that fabric it works relatively unproblematically. Philosophical problems arise when language is forced from its proper home and into a metaphysical environment, where all the familiar and necessary landmarks and contextual clues are absent - removed, perhaps, for what appear to be sound philosophical reasons, but which lead, for Wittgenstein, to the source of the problem. Wittgenstein describes this metaphysical environment as like being on frictionless ice: where the conditions are apparently perfect for a philosophically and logically perfect language (the language of the Tractatus), where all philosophical problems can be solved without the confusing and muddying effects of everyday contexts; but where, just because of the lack of friction, language can in fact do no actual work at all. There is much talk in the Investigations, then, of "idle wheels" and language being "on holiday" or a mere "ornament", all of which are used to express the idea of what is lacking in philosophical contexts. To resolve the problems encountered there, Wittgenstein argues that philosophers must leave the frictionless ice and return to the "rough ground" of ordinary language in use; that is, philosophers must "bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein#Philosophical_Inve...
I guarantee you have never met a TCS-raised child. A TCS child wouldn't throw such a tantrum. When you throw a tantrum you are already in a state of coercion, of being hurt or frustrated. A TCS child trusts their parent to help them out before it gets to that stage, and a TCS parent helps their child out before it gets to that stage. Both parent and child are interested in, and have always been interested in, problem-solving. Not fighting or revenge or huring each other, but finding mutual preferences and both being happy with the outcome.

I don't think I'd want to be friends with a person who had hurt and coerced me all my life. As for socializing, 'no man can use his brain to think for another man'. A parent can't socialize their child. The child must socialize themselves. The parent can only either persuade their child, trying to help them, or else coerce them, that is, harm them.

One of these is the attitude of a human, the other of a monstrous tyrant. It is always alarming to hear a person say that for the individual, tyranny is the only way to a successful outcome, when time and time again it has wrecked whole societies who together were unable to withstand its corrosive effects.
that's not true. transferring a large amount of data in a consistent manner can be difficult. dumping your database without taking down your live site (or seriously impacting performance) can also be difficult without a dedicated backup slave. and the same can hold for any storage solution where you are short on IOs, no matter if the data fits on a drive or not.
Ok, So; I posted on monday about mytwitternotebook, an app I made.

Originally, I made it so that you signed up with an openID, and then put in your twitter username, and then got a verification DM, and then verified.

_Nobody_ understood it.

I switched to using twitter username and password, and nearly instantly, my user-base doubled.

I don't store the UN or PW at all, ever; I verify with the twitter server, and forget about it, you don't even need to put your UN or PW into my site to use my service, ever, it can be done completely by Direct Message.

It may be stupid to share your password, but it's stupid to use the same password everywhere. Turns out, it may be stupid, but it's easy, and you get good results.
Compare to C++ templates, Java generics, etc. vs duck typing.
Some humorous episodes that illustrate the rivalry between Feynman and Gell-man (and other famous physicists):

http://www.fotuva.org/online/frameload.htm?/online/seckel.ht...
Except a DS is already 4 years old (nearing the end of it's lifecycle). In the next year or two, Nintendo will just release something new (not just another rehash); especially if Apple keep closing in on the handheld games market. Maybe the next gen Nintendo handheld killer...
Domain Specific Language Exceptionalism
Not a restaurant, but I've used the $20 Theory of the Universe for concerts, tickets, bars and other treats.

http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0303-MAR_20DOLLARS
The $20 Theory of the Universe
I agree. JungleDisk is an easy to use program that allows you to back up on S3, and it works with GNU/Linux as well. For $20, you get unlimited free updates, unlimited installations tied to the same S3 account, and all three versions (Mac, Windows, Linux). Amazon S3 is pricey, but this program looks like a great deal. Other recommended services are Dropbox and CrashPlan.
The yellow to white trick was pretty clever. But it seems 8 years later that they're still struggling with usability & design. Amazon has me nailed down...I haven't gone to Ebay in ages.

And I know compete & quantcast aren't perfect, but these aren't good signs:

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ebay.com/?metric=uv

http://www.quantcast.com/ebay.com#traffic
pop3 + fetchmail + crontab makes me feel a whole lot better
(Actually, I just realized, JS has == semantics that are... kind of crazy. Do you write equals calls as a call to an equal method or just kind of keep it in mind?)
Taking a Closer Look at Leopard’s Guest Account
This is a common argument heard in Denmark to make us the Danes who left feel bad.

While not as bad now, there was a time when the word "udenlandsdansker" (Danish emigrant) was synonymous with traitor when used by Danish politicians.

The way I look at it is that my parents paid 70% taxes when I was going through the educational system, so I could go through the educational system. I have also paid plenty of Danish taxes myself to put other peoples children through school.

While I have great love for my country, I am not indebted nor indentured to it.

We already went through a period in Danish history http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stavnsbånd (in Danish) where men between 18 and 36 were forced to stay and work for the local land owner.

I do not think there is a need through law, guilt or propaganda to enforce a new version of this indentureship.

There are many reasons to stay in Denmark, but there are also plenty of good reasons for entrepreneurs and other over achievers to leave:

http://stakeventures.com/articles/2007/07/01/silicon-vikings...
Then they should ban the users who access through a proxy. A site can't put up a TOS that says you can't access through a proxy and then wait for it happen to sue. The web would be chocked full of liabilities if shit like that were allowed to happen. Searching Google would be too dangerous, what if one of the sites in a SERP had a TOS against coming from a referrer?
I hate to be judgmental. We are humans, we all make mistakes. But it's my understanding that they were operating for several years and hosting the data for many people. Carrying on without a backup plan and hoping for the best was very irresponsible and I agree with you that they, sadly, deserved to go out of business.
I only ever use Guest mode with friends I trust. I'd let them use my account, but screen corners and funky shortcuts freak them out. The guest mode is a great way of giving people I trust a vanilla Mac to use for a few minutes.
That's what you get for shouting at those disks. Oh, different story. Sorry. :)
An FAQ about those Android netbooks
Complex Order, Simple Chaos
Maybe there could be a Chrome plug-in to complete with Flash.
Micropayments have been tried again and again, and for some reason they never work. I have no idea why.

Lets hope that it works this time. If it becomes popular, this site will be incredibly useful.
IIRC, Netscape introduced some JavaScript functions for playing audio, but those rely on the browser having a plug-in to play it.
Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants
Today’s Links That Just Make Me Want to Be Better: 01/02/09
I hope they can turn it into Megabucks; I need Ivan to have poker money to lose ;)

I've always thought the whole "promise to pay" thing was a bit of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you're relying on the honesty and follow-through of people to actually pay their promised debt. But on the other hand, it is awesome that you can pay/receive without having an account linked to some sort of payment method and all the other hurdles that a tipping service would usually have. Plus, the ability to "cash out" at any time helps skirt the fact that micropayments are still very uneconomical due to fees. I don't know their statistics, but I imagine a vast majority of people only pay / cash out after they have at least a few bucks accrued.
Yeah, that's nice. This was news the day Leopard was released, along with the fact that you can submit cron jobs and reconfigure wireless. Guest Accounts are a good way to let your 9 year old use your computer. They aren't a kiosk solution.
Free DVD to iPod Converter
Discover what I found on my journey to find a Free DVD to iPod Converter
...'gentle'?
Sadly it doesn't work for chat... I use a lot of gmail chat, and there is no known way to download a chat archive or anything such.
This is a common argument heard in Denmark to make us the Danes who left feel bad. it wasn't meant that way, just pointing out the bad politics of not letting people reap the rewards of what they sow.

I'm thinking of moving away myself, if it wasn't for the good friends and beautiful girls I would have gone already.
Yes app-stores could mean a lot for small and amateur developers.

I personally hope their will be a way to charge for stuff in the Android-phone app-store soon.
See http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081218094626.ht... for a long summary that's no charge.

1. The technology must address the cause-effect relationship connecting problem to solution. For example, vaccines work with great reliability because they address almost all of the important variables necessary for preventing the disease.

2. The effects of the technological fix must be unambiguous using uncontroversial criteria: benefits must be obvious to all.

3. R&D is more likely to solve a social problem when it improves an existing technical core. It's less effective when exploring theoretical foundations, causes or dynamics of a problem.
He is Brazilian.
I don't like it. Case in point, I have "$168" in my tipjoy from people who have "promised". But only $11 has actually been followed through on.

But if you look up the public information, what does it say? $168. It'd be very easy to make it look like random people were getting MASSIVE donations just by.. promising a whole lot and then not delivering.
I thought it was already understood that imperative/mutable won't work in any concurrent environment.
This post is stolen from this site: http://vectortuts.com/articles/20-weird-logos-that-work-and-...
I'd love to have an alternative to storing usernames and passwords. I wrote a web based twitter/identi.ca client mainly for my own use, but it's public and there are people using it, and I've been thinking about purging the auth data every month or so mainly because if I hadn't written it there's no way I'd just blindly hand over my password to some weirdo who happened to write a handy client for my phone. At least then the users could be assured that their authentication info will be removed at a predictable interval.
I tried out the Hot right now link, should this show active yaplet chats across the web? I can't see myself checking pages to see if they have open chats (I'm sure the plan is to use a link rather than check each page) Maybe a browser plugin could alert me if other yaplet users are chatting or visiting pages I am browsing?
IMO, Kelvin is a wrong example for being usefully wrong.

http://www.usd.edu/esci/age/content/failed_scientific_clocks...
He argued against evolution based on wrong assumptions (which at his time were speculative).
He was arrogant and didn't submit to reason; He didn't publicly retract his stand even after he was proven wrong. All this points to his arrogance and fanaticism.

And Kedrosky's blog post is a little lame too:
"Kelvin did not believe that heavier-than-air flying machines were possible and he regarded X-rays as a hoax"
At the turn of the twentieth century he
"claimed that physics was nearly complete and all problems would soon be settled."
After mentioning these he goes on to claim that Kelvin's "genius as a physicist was manifested by the fact" that he predicted the "unexpected behavior of ether in Michelson-Morley experiment", and black-body radiation as two open problems in physics at that time.

the unexpected results of Michelson-Morley experiment brought classical physics to its knees. Anyone with a decent understanding of physics at that time would have considered that solving this problem is going to directly open doors to great findings.

Kelvin, sure was a genius in physics, but these are definitely not signs of it.
And he didn't come across as an open minded person.
Inspiring Vintage Advertisements
Dumb like a fox. That CEO probably issued himself several million worth of stock options.
Thanks for sharing these links. I am commenting to visit this thread later. Is there another way to mark a thread to be visited later from my profile?
The Big Cram to get into an elite High School as an 11 year old
It's too bad the use of "the exception proves the rule" in cases like this is a solecism, because this would be the perfect time for it. SAS is the closest thing to an old-style industrial company in the software business.

(In "the exception proves the rule," proves is used in the older sense, meaning to test, not the newer sense, meaning to establish.)
How do you say "Tip people $20 and they will sometimes give you what you want." in 2000 words or more?
Guess I misunderstood ;-)

Just heard the argument I thought I heard so many times before.
The climate models do not pretend to be able to predict the climate in an individual year but the medium and long term trends.

> By their own standards, by their own confidence intervals, the models from several years ago are at 5%-ish and dropping.

I'm not sure which models you are speaking of. Would you care to provide a reference. It would surprise me if any well respected model from a few years ago had such a tight confidence interval as to be demonstrably wrong already.

You keep saying things like 'unscientific babble' and 'hype' but you don't even seem to dispute that most scientists do in fact hold global warming to be a fact. When most of the worlds experts agree on something then it is up to the deniers to come up with actual scientific evidence and not to throw around unsubstantiable insults. You could also refer to evolution or quantum physics as unscientific babble but what does that achieve.

Frankly if any group should be accused of unscientific babble or hype it is many of the climate change deniers.
The EC is only the inter-government stuff. To be fair, you'd have to include all the employees of all the member states' governments too; or alternatively, compare e.g. London governmental employees, though scaled to population and leaving out actual England and UK administration.

For example, http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/investorrelations/... shows that Transport for London (buses, trains and underground) alone employs about 18,000 people (and probably quite a bit higher now).
No worries, just wanted to clear it up since I've heard the argument endless times too.

And I hate whiners...

Btw. are you ever in Copenhagen?
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416055
This is excellent. Two suggestions:

- Filter by gender

- Check boxes instead of search, for the non-picky people
I implemented a little prototype of this. This is very doable. The beauty is that it didn't use HTTP-Auth, which meant that a user can be using Google Reader or another third-party browser, and still get access to the paid content only if they authenticated correctly, but this still happens from within the feed reader, without clicking back to the website.
Probably by giving specific examples of all the places you tried to do it over a week in New York.
Evolution of Mona Lisa in JavaScript & Canvas http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392036
"Those VP jobs just don’t exist at startups, and the few VPs they have are the founders and a key early hire or two. Not you."

That's probably not fair. Successful startups are looking for talent, not pedigree - it's a question of whether the candidate can add significant value as a VP.

I think this blog post get's distracted from it's original point - if you're a software developer looking for a software developer position then emphasize software development skills. This applies to small companies and even big companies (like Google). The skill set to be a good developer is consistent no matter what the size of your company.

This doesn't mean that startups don't need business, product, or technical leadership because all the best ones have shown they attracted all these very early.
I've had luck saying "is there anything I could possibly pay to make this better for me?" For instance, I got my car sprung from a Chicago city impound, where it would have sat over a weekend racking up fees (they wouldn't release it until I got a licensing thing worked out, but the impound lot tow guys would tow the car out of the lot for me for a couple bucks).
Ask HN: How/Where do you host your webapp?
What is the best way to host a webapplication?

What are pros cons of hosting in the cloud vs hosting on your own servers.

Is it a lot of work to host on your own?

What services do you recommend for hosting your application elsewhere?
Google Appengine is the most famous option I guess, what do you think about that?

I also looked at slicehost:
https://manage.slicehost.com/customers/new?referrer=40156bada03f0adc4fae89abdce4693c

256 slice	$20.00	10GB	100GB
Exactly how much is that? Seems cheap but how far does 100GB go?

Other tips? It seems an obvious choice for me with no real knowledge of hosting my own server to choose to host in the cloud.
I love that he calls his envious half "Z". The letter after every other letter; even the lower case "z". Of course, there are numbers but screw 'em; they are cold and calculating.

"Z" should be the last of his worries, but, first thing in the morning, it is the first of his concerns. Start with "A" and work to "Z". This world; our connected universe tells us to ignore our intuition and instinct and rely on the "real" information.

Your son wants to know more about his grasshopper leg, but you're burnt out with the web(a source of information greater than all libraries of the world, past and present) because you relied so heavily on being informed by an ultimately artificial world.

He's right. These moments, these thoughts; what do I know? why I am here? what did I do today?, are recurring thoughts. Now, 200 years past and future, they'll still be there. You're son or daughter, your wife, will not. The life with them lasts only briefly in the grand theme of existence. The emotions and joy or sadness felt only briefly. If you don't catch them like confetti in the wind, you are lost. You will always be lost.

Start with "A" and work towards "Z".
World’s largest solar project to come up in China
Buy a Dodge Ram truck, get a Ram, PT Cruiser, or Dodge Caliber for free
Unfortunately, this broad and absurdly obvious patent was filed in 1995. It wasn't granted until 2007.
slicehost is a wonderful place to stage your app and grow it until you need to break out, imo.

i host around 10 apps and sites on a 256 slice. its plenty if you're not getting too much traffic and optimize correctly so that you don't see thrashing.

if you don't like that, though, you can boot up a server on EC2.
Thanks. I was behind a firewall and couldn't test whether it was free.
Another resume tip
I'd say it's at least 50-50.
What are you talking about? When did I say anyone wasn't ready or in a position to give advice, and when did I say anything about anyone's character?

Opinions were asked for, I gave mine, someone disagreed with me, and I disagreed with their reasoning. Nobody's feelings should be hurt, grow up.