skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are the cost centers in production? I've watched some guys I know get together and make films using pro-am hd cameras, and then edit it down on a mac pro.

Would building an online service that allows people to mail in hd tapes, and then edit online via a flex app help? You could use AWS clusters to handle the rendering compute load.
The connection is that the internet really took off when people realised you could use it to connect with each other in new and interesting ways.

YouTube, Facebook, Myspace etc are among the most visited sites and are all about connecting with each other.

Among the younger crowd, people spend more time online than they do infront of their TV.

So, While Facebook itself didn't kill TV, the assertion that social activities online killed TV is becoming increasingly true, especially as more content producers start distributing their stuff online.

Paul just put it in a broad manner (although not 100% accurate, but close enough).
Good points, but not everyone that can build a good product has the ability to position it, promote it, and sell it - a crash course could be of great value.

Further, paying in warrants for a class is much less expensive than hiring an MBA.
If you want code to pluralize a noun, have a look at activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb in the Rails source code.

It might make an interesting code kata because you have to decide on a way to represent some declarative knowledge in whatever language you decide to code in, like the fact that the plural of "rice" is "rice".
What, nobody wants to piss on PG's beloved language?

Well, I DO hate Lisp and I'll tell you why. Syntactically speaking is the ugliest of all. I don't deny its inner beauty but those parenthesis are a stopper for me.

Look, nowadays we have powerful IDEs that help programmers do their job. How about an editor that subtly hides the parenthesis so they are out of the way when you don't need them?

Maybe then I would consider it, meantime no, I don't want to be cool.
Broadcast bandwidth is currently being wasted big time by the broadcasters. It is actually worth more as a backfill conduit to feed desktop caches than to broadcast TV repeatedly.
> 1) TV screens are much bigger and cheaper.

I guess the majority of people still find it tough to hook their computer up to their TV screen. I can't see what the problem is myself. Surely soon most people will be able to do this soon.
Eh, it's a troll. I sensed sarcasm but honestly, it's rendered as a troll. The title itself is present tense. There is no hint other than extra-article content that the author means anything other than what he's saying.

Didn't expect to see this type of thing on HN.
Actually, no.

For some reason many people have impression that lisp is "functional language" and so on, but that is not true, and certainly was not true for first practical implementations (practical = really running on some hardware).

One could discuss various approaches of implementing LISP, but in the end implementation either do not use stack at all (which is especially useful when you want Scheme-like semantics) or use stack in way that is not too different from C or assembly programs (and when it is different it in most cases means using less stack space).

Other thing is that particularly common implementation strategy (at least in various simple and educational implementations) of heap allocation and garbage collection was ignoring the problem and simple allocating heap structures by incrementing some pointer and never reclaiming used memory. Which in the end looks somehow like "using ridiculous amounts of stack space".
Maybe they have a Google Search Appliance? (I don't really know. Just wild ass guessing. I'm pretty sure the appliance has been around that long, though.)
You're mistaken. IE has had SVG support since IE5, long before Safari and Firefox introduced Canvas. And the nice kids at Google have built a little library that lets you emulate most Canvas functionality via SVG:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/iecanvas
Of course! But no one suggests that it's risky for a company to rely on a third party as a primary source of electricity.

This is probably not true in the case where a company requires a massive amount of electricity to operate but other factors, like cost, would factor in to the equation too.
So things like paredit mode (http://mumble.net/~campbell/emacs/paredit.el) for Emacs don't count because... why exactly?

Honestly I find most people who "hate parenthesis" don't actually hate parenthesis. They hate the idea of having to delimit the start of a statement as well as the finish. And unless your editor is helping out it can sometimes be a pain (let's admit it, it can be). But like every computer language, Lisp makes a tradeoff here and says that the features they can enable with such an incredibly regular syntax outweigh the pain of needing an editor mode.
I down-vote boring comments, pointless comments, comments by people I don't like, false comments, comments I disagree with, comments that are already down-voted, meta comments about what constitutes proper voting behavior, and accidentally hitting the down-vote arrow instead of the up-vote arrow.

I think I'm in the minority, but my position is that the arrows should be used liberally and for whatever reason a person sees fit.

I like things like voting and scores because I have a kooky personal theory that reading too much stuff online scrambles my thought processes and sometimes even makes me feel physically kind of sick. I'd rather simply ignore down-voted comments than read a well-intentioned but vacuous back-and-forth discussion about why people disagree.

There's another common notion that high scores on funny quips are a bad thing. I also disagree with this. Reading genuinely funny stuff makes me laugh and boosts my serotonin levels, which is actually good for you. The issue with this phenomena on Reddit was that funny quips that weren't actually funny started getting high votes.

Next to YouTube style comments, the worst stuff you can read online is the sort of middle range discussion between two people who sort of know what they are talking about but not really. It's like listening to two dentists on vacation talking about time-share apartments and tee times. It turns your brain into mush.

I've been here since the beginning and have not noticed any significant abuse of the voting system[1]. Most buried comments seem to deserve their scores. I wonder why this topic keeps coming up. The stark reality is if your comments consistently get down-voted, you're probably making stupid posts.

[1] aside from long ago when you could nuke someone's karma into oblivion by repeatedly downvoting everything they had ever posted.
The point is that the work incentives are diminished at your high income. The value you are creating that is being compensated for at ~$250k hits a glass ceiling. You aren't exactly losing money, there's just no point in working more at your highly specialized profession.

The author of the original article doesn't quite understand this point.

A blog post by (right-wing) Harvard professor Greg Mankiw clearly explains this: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post.html
I disagree for the most part. HN is a pretty polite place and I prefer it remain so. There are very few trolls that need piling on. Some dummies just need elightenment. http://xkcd.com/386/ guides me.
I remember reading about a court ruling that copyright circumvention is different from skipping ads. So you can't pirate the DVD you just bought, but it's ok to fastforward past the previews. Somebody help me out..
What? No MUMPS experience?
Who are the darling children startups these days?
Broadcast has bandwidth. Computers have brains. Why are these two competing? Broadcasting a signal that means something to computers, and having computers then marshal that for users is way more profitable.

Easy place to start - start hiring a small TV station for an hour in the morning, somewhere in amongst the informercials, and broadcast a signal that people with TV Tuners can decode. Using some variation of colour 3D barcodes, say. Have the TV Tuner decode software use this hour to pump content into squid or some other form of web cache.

Monetisation strategy: give people the ability to vote on what gets broadcast based on their cache logs.
Obama picks Net neutrality backer as FCC chief
Facebook and youtube/hulu/pirated TV shows are worlds apart to me. Facebook is something you actively take part in, you contribute to. This has almost nothing in common with the passive entertainment of TV that people enjoy. I didn't cancel my cable connection because facebook, AIM, or any other social connecting mechanism came around; it's because I found I could spend my passive hours (read: not typing things) on a computer instead of a TV.
There are a lot of stupid people breaking $250k/year.

When you get out of school, you'll discover that the correlation between intelligence and income is low. There are dumbasses who succeed in investment banking on account of sheer stamina and frat-boy charisma. Also, real estate is a "profession" in which idiots thrive, because they are closer to the animalistic/territorial emotions involved in that game than smart people.

Finally, there are some people in prestigious careers (doctors, lawyers, and, yes, even professors) who are not low-IQ people, but are still idiots... and you'd be amazed how uninformed many of them are. Idiocy has a lot more to do with provincial attitudes and willful ignorance than an IQ score.
That's not, imho, a fair comparison - the user agent has the right to alter their perception of the content (strip ads, enlarge font size, have a screen-reader read it) - nowhere in that did the poster suggest that they are then free to re-distribute that content on to other users as your post suggests. I (humbly) put it that your logic is flawed.
No, we shouldn't stuff browsers with an object for every data type in existance: XmlRequest, AsciiRequest, CSVRequest, EDIRequest, ASNRequest, TXTRequest, etc.

Just one that allows same/remote connections and a few methods: get the data and check for errors.

The parsing and validation should be done on the client after the data has been received and for that we have xml parsers and json parsers.

The data transfer should have nothing to do with its format or content.
Ask HN: Review my startup, Droplink for OS X
Not sure I buy that - not in the stressful way TV people talk. As I said, overexcited, they constantly have to convey the impression that something exciting is happening.

When was the last time you felt relaxed like after getting a massage from watching TV?
> What would it take to make a University lecture into a decent production? Improved slides/visual? Re-recorded audio/narration? Stock footage? Supplementary materials such as other lectures or pieces of documentaries.

I've actually been giving this a lot of thought recently, and I'm now convinced of a few things. First, lectures can and should become computerized. This needs to happen. Second, a simple video stream isn't going to cut it. What you want is several streams of various media:

* A video of someone talking, gesturing, maybe writing something on a markerboard. This needs a certain amount of quality, depending on the lecture. You could record it at a high resolution and distribute reasonable-quality H.264 videos, and that should take care of it.

* Slides. Darn near everybody has PowerPoint these days, or something similar. Whatever they use, it can generally be coerced into PDF format. How you actually send out the slides to viewers is a separate matter -- you might render them to PNG on your server so they don't have to fire up PDF software locally -- but you should have slides in a clear format that doesn't depend on a video stream being intelligible. No more "shaky camera looking at a projector screen" crap. Even Google Tech Talks has this problem, because they're still hampered by the just-a-video-stream model.

* Table of contents. Have an outline of the subjects covered, so that people can skip around in the lecture and watch it out of order. It's the Internet way!

* Supplementary material, as HTML. If the speaker is talking about TRIACs, have a link to the Wikipedia page on TRIACs in the slides. Have all links from the slides open up in a new tab, and have the browser window (or an iframe, or whatever) be alongside the video stream. This would be crazy nonlinear, but that's a good thing.

* On the subject of tabbed browsing: have an equivalent of it for watching lecture videos. When the user opens up a new tab, pause the tab they were watching and duplicate all its state in a new tab. This way people can watch multiple parts of the same lecture (or, hell, even different lectures) at the same time. Remember the Wikipedia effect? Here's a succinct summary:

http://xkcd.com/214/

People will literally click around reading wikipedia pages for hours, but that just wouldn't happen without the extremely interlinked, hypertextual, ADD-inducing format of Wikipedia. Imagine what school would be like if lectures could be made minimally painful like that.

And of course you would want to make all the content available in multiple ways. Maybe have a desktop program for maximum slickness, a Flash-and-HTML version for people wanting quick web-based enlightenment, and an Android-based version for cell phones with a revamped UI.
How would you feed the bank statement page into this service?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox
It's an interesting thought, though I'm not sure it's the most efficient way to get at the data for which he is looking.

For instance, you could just look at price history of TVs and you'd find that prices are generally increased in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl and then discounted heavily in the following weeks. Therefore, if you want a good deal on a TV, buy it a week or so after the Super Bowl.
Supercomputer Given 6/7 Stone Handicap Able To Win Professional 19X19 Go Games
I downloaded it, but it quits right after it opens. (Macbook running 10.5.6, if that helps.)
Why there are students who are sad or angry just because their visas were "delayed"?

I am Stanford summer student for 2008, and I was not even granted the visa! I lost hundreds of dollars, faced insults at the embassy, did not even get the visa, and that's it.

I would be crazy if I even think of applying for a U.S. visa again! It's a dignity matter.

It's America's rights to protect it's land, but it's not America's right to be paranoid about Islam forever.

If America wants to continue to be the leader in this world, then America has to keep it's doors open... there is no choice!

It's really so weird for me that America is acting like that, while we are in the globalization time... I can order books from Amazon, sell my old items on ebay, look at any street in America using Google maps, make a new friendships with guys at Stanford, and read nytimes at a time while I am in Cairo, Egypt!

It's very weird because America focuses much more on the physical security, while leaving the online security, which looks much dangerous for me!
I have to be pretty annoyed to downvote. I almost never vote up or down, actually, and downvotes are extremely rare.

A personal pet peeve is when someone willfully misses the point of an article or comment in order to go off on some pretty much unrelated tangent. It happens on reddit more than around these parts (I suppose because politics are free game over there and not welcome here, and politics bring out the worst in people), but it happens around here occasionally, particularly on religious topics (Apple, text editors, pg essays, programming languages, etc.).

Plain old stupidity will do it, too. Willful ignorance, spam, self-righteousness due to ignorance of limitations (e.g. a "business/idea guy" looking for an engineer and offering a pittance for the work being shocked and angry that no one wants to work with him), that sort of thing.

I'm more forgiving of stupid posts if the poster recognizes their limitations and can laugh about it. Humor goes a long way towards nullifying any annoyance I might be feeling about flaws in a post.
A better idea would be to give them marks based on how much money they made from their own startups.
The higher your income, the lower your work incentive should be anyway (regardless of tax situation). You can afford to slow down and enjoy life.

I don't believe that people change their work habit, or choose to work less, just because of a relative tax increase. However, they may be more inclined to find more tax efficient schemes.
Hey, I DO hate parenthesis as much as I hate brackets, angled, square and curlies. They are visual speedbumps, at least for me. Therefor I hate all C based and java languages, also html and xml. Again, visually speaking.

Good to know there are editors out there that deal with the issue, I didn't know they existed.
Interestingly, almost everyone posting to the Reddit thread got that it was a joke (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/81s36/i_hate_li...) but most people posting to HN took it seriously.
I find irritating at least the signal/noise ratio of tv and radio shows, im spoiled by being able to proactively choose what im going to hear or watch (via podcasts, reading on the web,etc) instead of pasively watching tv.
So, afaik, tv and radio have been dead for a couple of years.
Sun's Tim Bray on the future of Java Web development
Thanks for giving it a look, I'll try and see whats up with it.
Why the downmods?

For those outside the US, there's a significant price rise (In Australia, an iMac is now 25% more expensive than it was yesterday) with very little to show for it. I've got some friends who I've told to hold off buying because there was an update due soon, but this is just embarrassing.
Probably the biggest problem for university lectures right now is that video compression means you can't see what they are writing on the board. I thought this may have been a YouTube thing but it happens with iTunes video as well. Check out some of the Stanford CS video lectures, they are a great idea but mostly hopeless because you can't read anything that's on the board. If someone solved that seemingly minor problem video lectures would improve tenfold.
Sounds like a lot of work compared to using Hulu or BitTorrent. The Internet bandwidth costs more, sure, but it's convenient. Lazy wins.
HTTP headers suggest GWS/2.1 (Google Web Server 2.1). The GSA seems like a pretty keen estimation.
If she's going to cut her hours to come in below $250,000, she probably wasn't looking for new patients anyway.
The top tax bracket is only going up 4 percent, but Obama is also changing the tax deduction rules to be less favorable to the rich. The difference will be more than 4%.
I usually reserve my downvote for the most absurd of comments. Stupidity, trolling, immaturity.

I DO NOT downvote things that are false, things I disagree with, or comments that make outlandish claims. All of these are discussion instigators, and not worthy of negative ratings.

I upvote comments that make smart and sound points, get me thinking in a new way about something, or effectively counter an argument, even if it is mine.

I also upvote in lieu of a comment if what I would have said has already been sufficiently covered.
When the final boss of your favorite RPG has only 500 HP left out of his total 25000 HP, that's when he dishes out the most devastating attacks -- the ones which could flatten your cocksure party just before the coup de grace.
Google Code Lab Is Like High School For APIs
Parentheses, braces etc. sure beat BEGIN and END.
If it does that, then it's essentially a computer in the shape of a TV.
This could be one way to do it, change the css to media="print" and do a print... you can change it on a page with firebug and see the difference it makes on print...
I agree, and I should have said this, “Money as Debt” takes a conspiracy turn at about halfway. I'm a reminded of Adam Savage's "Do you mean Tesla the inventor of AC power, the genius or Tesla the nut-job?".

I very much liked your explanation in the third paragraph, but under this model what does interest represent? If I step through your logic here.....

1. I believe there is copper in that hill which has a value ( say of 60K ).

2. I ask the bank for 10K to get started

3. Thus 10K has been added to the economy, recognizing that raw materials will be brought to the economy and growing the pie of wealth

4. I go into them thar hills, mine out the copper for 60K.

5. I pay back the bank, who now has 10K actual cash in their reserves, against which they may lend. I have also put 50K of my sale of this copper in their bank, giving them 60K against which to lend.

6. At this point, I think we're balanced in terms of what's been added to the value pie.

7. OK, so what does interest represent? The opportunity cost on the hope that I would find the copper? And, alternatively, say I found nothing in those hills, what happens to that 10K that was created? Shouldn't that be destroyed?

I'm not disagreeing, but I'm trying to understand your model better.
This Year’s Global Technology Symposium Takes On The Turbulent Economy
eg: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html
Twitter's Varnish config
Hear, Hear. I've got stock in a former employer, but I won't see anything until they go public or are acquired. The cost to go public is in the $3-5 million range. A lot of money in this climate.
Translation: We're waiting for all those startups out there with good traffic to run out of cash so we can buy them on the cheap.

This isn't unexpected. With fewer companies willing to front the cash they can just wait until startups are in a tougher cash position and buy them then without needing to worry about other companies coming in and bidding up the price.

The obvious solution is have a business plan that generates actual revenue and doesn't rely on advertising for all of it.
That's what Print Preview should be for; I'm not sure how Firefox and other browsers handle this on other platforms, but OS X builds the Preview right into the Print dialog, so I don't see the Print Preview option. That would be the easiest way to view how a page looks when printed.
Well then let's hope it is the non-technical co-founder without a MBA who seats there.
That was tried for movies: http://www.unmediated.org/archives/2006/02/pbs_sells_out_t_1...
Both; cable networks have about 5Gbps AFAIK and it is broadcast to all customers.
Blue background?
Doesn't really match the orange bar.
Where there is a price difference, there is an arbitrage opportunity. Sure it's a bunch of work, but it only has to be done once. With something like software radio it can even be invisible to the end user. It becomes a usb dongle that feeds them high def youtube et al.
It'll do in a pinch, though -- e.g., when Gmail is down.
You're wrong. :-) ISPs have no plan to enable multicast -- ever. IPv6 "supports" multicast, but it can't force anyone to turn it on. See previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=443599
I know, was kind of funny that you used that to make the point. I understand it. It's usually true.

The paradigm shift is one where development is moving away from desktop based environments like Eclipse and Visual Studio to web based development environments that automate the majority of tasks from the database layer to the front end. To build an enterprise system anymore, developers need nothing but a browser.

And yes, when you said "solid enterprise application" I was wondering what you meant by both solid and enterprise. So no, I couldn't build SAP in a month, but I or really any individual now could build a system that impacts everyone in the organization and scales to support them automatically.

It's really intersting how things are changing faster over time with the exponential impacts of multiple technologies coming together into one point of entry. I'm not sure if any of this is making sense. I don't want to get too work related here, I come here to distract myself so my subconscious can do its job and I entertain myself.

I do get pretty crazy about these topics. Sometimes too crazy.