skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working on a couple of javascript projects.

The big one is best described as iTunes for Flash games - a rich internet app for creating and managing a library of Flash games - http://www.webalon.com/gamemanager/

The second thing that I have been working on is a resizeable javascript image carousel featuring a variety of transitions - you can see it in action at: http://www.webalon.com

I hope to open source the latter when complete
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Bingo! A well written tool is a huge necessity.
That's a good question, pyroman. After you've added you Kindle email address, we'll give you a bookmarklet to use to select webpages to be sent wirelessly to your Kindle.

I've just added that note to the page where Hatchet requests your Kindle email address.
Automated procedures for Opensim on Linux
Right now I envy all of you :D

I wish I could list here my own project too but lately I just take input all day without producing anything ...
the H1N1 virus... [has been] out of action for the majority of the population and therefore have a generation of people with no resistance to the virus at all

Actually, an H1N1 virus was included in the 2008/2009 FDA-approved seasonal flu vaccination formula:

http://www.fda.gov/cber/flu/flu2008.htm

As of March, the 2008-2009 flu season was considered especially mild, perhaps because "this year's flu shot closely matched the strains of flu virus prevalent in the general population". See:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-flu14-2009mar14,0,58...

So it's not like an H1N1 virus is all-new; it's just this mexico-originated '09 flu that's new. (And that's why "H1N1" alone is a poor name for the new '09 flu virus, as bad in a different way than "swine flu".)
Mexicans actually play Swinefighter more than any other country.

It is a serious subject, we made the game in a way that was sensitive to that and avoided mocking the victims but was intended to give some amusement. People on the whole enjoy it on twitter etc.

Edit: we also have no ads runing currently
And there's also TechCrunch which is monetizing swine flu by writing a story about some mediocre attempts to monetize swine flu.
At work I've just been writing a testing framework in Matlab (mostly for fun, but it actualy seems to work!). And I have next week off, so I thought I'd have a go at building something in rails.
Do you really need streaming? Progressive download is much cheaper to set up and implement.

Only choose streaming if you need to protect the content from downloading.
Two projects. One is scraping and indexing data on corporations registered in tax havens, mainly for the purpose of helping transparency researchers follow the activities and connections of businessmen, politicians, etc. I've done Panama, and am now working on a couple of others:

http://ohuiginn.net/panama

http://www.ohuiginn.net/mt/2008/12/opening_up_a_tax_haven.ht...

The second project is building a decent interface to the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The current edition is online, charging ~$200/year for access, but the first edition is out of copyright, sitting on archive.org, and just waiting for somebody to make it accessible without the need to download several GB of scans.
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I'm posting this [swine flu post] because there are too many swine flu post in Hacker News.

Ironise much?

PS: yes, that's a word: http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?qsrc=2888&q=ironise
This is seriously bad stuff ..
After being flagged twice, this is back again.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=579890
I discovered it while sitting at a Ruby User Group. The guy next to me was playing it, it looked cool, I asked what it was and bought it straight away.

Yeah, the Ruby presentation wasn't too great.
It has potential to spread, yes - but once spread it is no different than any other flu. Unlike the GP post of "you get it you are dead".

It doesn't matter that no one has been exposed to it before - people will get sick, sure. But that happens all the time that someone gets sick from a flu that for them is new.

It is only the spreading potential that is a problem, as a disease it is the same as regular flu once you get it.
Forget auto-collapsing, I'd like to be able to collapse period.

It happens quite often that I've already read a really long thread and just want to skip over it to the new stuff, or that the topic discussed in the thread is just not that interesting to me, but the topic of the post is.
Direct communication as a half-dead project saver.
I read your post as a recomendation for someone traveling to "the UK...Paris...Sweden... Australia".

3 of those are countries.

But this is admittedly a silly discussion so lets not continue it, ok? :)
It really depends on the content you are distributing too, as streaming can really reduce bandwidth. Streaming works much better if you are sending very long recordings as most people won't download the whole thing if you stream it. We found that it really reduced our bandwidth when we moved some long video's to stream rather than using progressive download.
Seriously, wtf... Why do we keep getting this post over and over again?
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Suddenly Phelps becomes the center of attention; especially on facebook that comes with all that billion has made Phelps the friend to have on Facebook. Michael Phelps has to be the most famous person on Facebook. Why and how you may ask? Well it all can be explained with his current Beijing Olympic performance.
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Add rate limiting and something like mod_h264_streaming for skipping ahead in the content and you get most of those benefits.

The main thing streaming can do that progressive downloads cannot is live content.
I doubt that their TV game show had a pirating problem.
It seemed rather low to me. If a "startup worker" is x times more productive than a normal employee, wouldn't it also make sense to value his time x times higher?
Streaming doesn't automatically protected your content, it at best obscures it a bit.

Flash has options for encrypting content as it's sent, not sure if that's been broken yet or not. And if someone -really- wants the content, they'll get it anyway.
I'm currently working on a mp3tag-like tag editor for Linux called puddletag which you can find at puddletag.sourceforge.net. Don't download it yet though. I'm releasing a update tomorrow with a large number of bugfixes and improvements.
I'm developing a CSS generator called Stylish. It's pretty rudimentary right now, but progress is relatively quick (for me, anyway).

Code: http://github.com/ionfish/stylish

Docs: http://ionfish.github.com/stylish
Looks good, and that was a side project I was going to do. Glad I didn't.

I tell you though--it speaks well to Mercurial's UI and usability that I really don't feel like I need any graphical UI. The CLI is easy and fast.
You do if you want to make a lot of money at it.

File sharing is easy and getting easier.

Why pay for anything when you can easily get it for free?
“Where do you get your ideas?” by Charles Stross
Yeah, probably not. I was mainly thinking about this paragraph:

"I would advise any entrepreneur or investor considering content to think twice, as Howard Lindzon from Wallstrip warned us. Content is an order of magnitude harder than technology with an order less upside; no YouTube producer will earn within a hundredth of $1.65 billion. This will only become more true as DVRs and media-sharing reduce revenues and pay-for-performance ads eliminate inefficient ad spend, of which there is a lot. The main and perhaps only reason to do content should be the love of creating it."

The situation just kind of sucks if you ask me.
I actually think this is a fairly good way to distract people from the media scaremongering.
Exactly, in fact nothing you can do can protect your content (well short of not letting them view it). As anyone can get a screen recorder and capture it.
Debate is another alternative. Besides speaking in front an audience it also teaches you how to articulate your thoughts and engage your listeners which is invaluable for presentations and the like.
I don't really see DRM as a good answer. It is usually pretty ineffective, and it can cause problems for your customers.

I'm not really aware of truly effective DRM. DRM just needs to be cracked once for it to be pirated. And there are people who actually enjoy cracking DRM.

I guess server side authentication would work, but that is only if you convinced people to connect to your servers. This is actually pretty hard. Spore seemed like it added value when it connected to the internet. But I am sure authenticity could have easily been verified with less restrictive DRM. And cracked copies were out before retail copies were out, so DRM was a total bust in that case.

WOW is one of the few companies that I don't think has huge problem with piracy. But that is only because you can't pirate the experience of playing with tens of thousands of other people. And even with WOW I was able to easily find torrents of the game and lists of private servers. So even MMORPG's get pirated.

Big companies have thrown millions of dollars at this problem already, and haven't come up with a good solution. So this isn't an easy problem. And I am under the impression that DRM is currently very expensive for companies.

Sure, DRM could be made better. But I think it is kind of pointless. If the authentication relies only on hardware that is under the users control, like a pc, it will get cracked. And you will almost certainly end up annoying your paying customers.

That said, I am interested in seeing how GOO turns out. A DRM solution that lets you legally sell your game sounds promising. And since Stardock built it, it might actually be customer friendly.
Not right now, but here's last night's foray into TKinter (plus explanation):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585714 (edit: code in the pastebin link, but not much use if you don't know why you can't type into the textbox).
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TyreSafe helps the British drivers
Well, I tossed it in because I was getting a bit sick of the twitter pr0n flu videos, and thought that a discussion of MS joining the desktop virtualization party would be interesting.

Of course, even for TheInq, the author stands out for sporting a somewhat rottweilerish style, which does get a rise out of his readers. Note that he also got some good flack in his comments.

Apart from the scornful hostile tone, I don't think there's much that's technically inaccurate - it's just put in the worst possible light, like an attack lawyer would do. Which isn't really that bad: we can use a bit of critical thinking about what can realistically be had out of desktop virtualization, for what markets (and role vs. 'any browser + cloud apps').
This just shows how attention is and continues to be the scarcest commodity in an information glut world.

Maybe eyeballs mean something after all... but only if you hook it up to a way to monetize, whether its Acai Berry / daily SMS horoscope ads, OfferPal, or direct micropayments. Within the context of almost any content, that's unacceptable, but within the concept of a social game like mobwars -- all is fair game.

Yes people are making money doing low-bar / low-brow casual social network games. Why? There's no skill involved! And that's a good thing. When it's pure hedonic ramp, it's like shock of pure China White in the arm of bored people everywhere.

If we weren't 110% consumed with building Posterous, I just might be tempted to build some of this stuff myself. ;-)
Gabe knows because he's in the business (iMob) and he's seeing first hand where this rabbit hole is leading...
Content creators can't make money... yet! Video content is expensive and difficult to produce because it has not become widespread enough for millions of people to actually be doing this.

For example, compare Word Processing to TV editing. Anybody can use a word processor on a PC...now. At the very start of things, a word processor on a PC was a specialised task. As the market grew, things became more automated and a lot easier.

YouTube and such are only a few years old. The software to make producing content really easy is not there yet - so there is still a lot that needs to be done manually. This software will improve and content production will get cheaper.
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Another programming language: http://www-student.cs.york.ac.uk/~anc505/code/hasp/hasp.html

I'm not doing any fancy compiler stuff - the target language is Haskell so that's all done for me.

*Edit: And I should probably say something about it :)
Its an s-expression based language so it looks like a Lisp and you can use macros on it, it also reads by indentation if you want it to look like Python, and then the rest of it just comes from Haskell :)
I'm working on a AWS stack based web crawler. It uses S3 and SimpleDB to coordinate instances. It's implemented in Python/Twisted, and extensible via plugins.

It has a low cost of entry in terms of code and costs and scales horizontally, so it's useful for all sorts of aggregation.
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Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel
Are running shoes a waste of money?
Crackable DRM isn't the problem. Casual piracy is the problem. Pretty much any security system can be circumvented; the point of DRM is just to make getting it for free sufficiently more of a pain in the ass than paying for it.

GOO does indeed look interesting: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/stardock%E2%80%99s_%E2...
DRM usually leads to unusable content. Better solutions would be easy micropayments, bundling, etc.
The canonical SF answer is "Mail order from Schenectady, New York", not Poughkeepsie. Stross also got the author of the quip wrong, but I can't get my memory to produce the right one (I saw it in print many moons ago).

P.S. Seems Stross was right about the source. I remembered Barry B. Longyear's It Came from Schenectady. He explains:

http://www.sff.net/people/bblongyear/ItSchenectady.html

http://www.sff.net/people/bblongyear/ICFSFF.html
The page contains little more than a link to this GoogleTechTalks video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ

Haven't watched it yet...
I don't believe you or Dictionary.com!

If you can't imagine the Queen saying it - it 'aint a word!

seriously though, any students got access to the OED online? check it out and give us the official definition, I'm dubious, but could do with a new way of insulting peoples' intelligence =P
Until you get to the point at which students work needs to be assessed. In most CS courses if it doesn't run first time on the prof's machine, that's an automatic fail.
Back-testing a support vector machine -based text classification system that models daily stock news, looking for mispriced volatility. A big stealth project, with just the Ruby option pricer here:

http://tinyurl.com/chmk7p

Need much more realism than Black-Scholes for the model training!
Currently the last release of Arc is one year old. The fork (Anarki) has had more visible development, although it has slowed down after october 2008. You can see the full history here: http://github.com/nex3/arc/commits/master/ . There has been no cross pollination of code: the anarki fork fixes a few bugs that are still present in the official release of arc and it has a few interesting extra features, such as the possibility of defining your own functions to be called when a non-function object gets called. Another interesting implementaton of arc, which does include a few features from anarki, is rainbow: http://github.com/conanite/rainbow .
How does it know who are the odd ones?
On the other hand, what necessary features does this chair have that the most basic ones don't?

I was going to buy me the most basic office chair (height and tilt-adjustable, as I guess just any of them) because I don't wish to pay price of something like Aeron and I don't understand what the above-basic chairs have to offer me.
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Post-by-mail is a very old feature. Blogger.com has had it for a very long time, for example (as have other blogging services).
Thanks for clarifying - and Gabe, you should have pointed out in your post that you're a trained expert in the field :-)
There's a number of issues here.

First, men and women tend to think differently, and have talents in different areas, just as men tend to be taller. This is a matter of biology, and on that basis alone, a reasonable mix in IT would be biased towards a greater proportion of males, depending on the exact developmental role. About 2:1.

Except it's more like 8:1 or even 12:1, rather than 2:1.In open source, 50:1.

It's no accident that there are more women in interface design, project management and architecture within IT either. Remember though that this is all statistical, just as there are short men and tall women, you should always look at individuals as individuals, not as stereotypes. Talents between the ears are what's important, and chromosomes are a poor guide to those.

Part of the problem is the discouragement talented girls experience at school because IT is a "male field". Part of it is that businesses are set up with men in mind, with stereotypically male aspects of bonding after work, of stakhanovite hours with no concession for having a Life, with hierachies and competition for "fastest gun in the west" rather than teamwork. The latter is particularly important in Open Source development.

Part of it is straight old-fashioned misogyny and the glass ceiling, but I think that's not as important as the other issues. It can get pretty bad though as a consequence of the other causes, trust me on that one. I invite all the straight guys to imagine what it would be like in a gay-only environment, with gay porn posters and bitchy jokes about "breeders", plus the occasional overt sexual harrassment and almost universal attempts to flirt. That's what it's like for many women in IT, all the time.

It's not as bad as it was. I'm 51, and can remember when things were a lot worse. Female medical students are no longer required to sign a pledge not to get married if they enter med school, as they were when I was in grade school. But Blacks don't have separate drinking fountains either, as they did then. "Better" does not mean "Good" or even "minimally acceptable".
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We are trying to build "video ad server" for delivering video ads on web-sites for one of our customer. Right now we are doing R&D on the topic. Please also suggest some good learning material for the same.
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Panel Advises Clarifying U.S. Plans on Cyberwar
As a pro user since 2006, it's one of the few web services I actually pay for, and I would easily pay double the current $24.95/year. No question at all. Perhaps not every pro user would do that, but they could easily add a 3rd tier (free, pro, poweruser) or something similar.
Why Firefox Has Jumped the Shark
Solving Problems Created by Tying Web Apps to IP addresses
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i know on facebook their texas holdem app... when you get knocked out of the weekly tournament you can buy back in for maybe $2 or something
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"It just doesn't feel right any more" - this point makes no sense at all, and the worst part is that the whole article is based on this saying.

(I suspect the real meaning is "It is not that brand new shiny toy any more, and Chrome is")
You might want to consider naming it something else since there is already a firefox addon called stylish: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108

Yes they are different products but I still think there might be some confusion...
"the stupid URL bar that explodes into a list of sites whenever I type even a single letter there"

Um, that feature is brilliant, it's the only way I can still handle my bookmarks. Haven't tried Google Chrome, so I don't know if they have come up with a better solution. Have they?
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Not everyone does, mate. I know a good-looking guy, tall, gray-blue eyes, blond, nice build and great social skills, that just happens to think exactly the way you described. I myself am a moderately sexful person. And I happen to enjoy music far more then the average person seems to (if that wasn't clear enough). And hassling with the record/LP is nothing like foreplay, in my experience, it's like assembling the bed.

Don't extrapolate from your experience. Folks come in all shapes and sizes.
There are a limited number of good names in the world! :)

To nitpick slightly, I wouldn't call my library a product. If you have any suggestions for alternative names I'd be happy to hear them.
Do decorators actually provide any other utility than application of one or more HOF's at function definition time?
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I believe Chrome does the same sort of thing, and it includes "Search for..." for the the tokens you have already entered.
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It's obviously intentional word play, although I would agree if you thought it wasn't very clever.
I just know I never used Firefox again after Safari 4 Beta...
Simon?
HP Makes Official "MediaSmart Server"; Targets Macs, PC, Home/Office
Little more than linkbait, and less well argued than a Dvorak piece.
Agreed. And even if you do have some valid reason to hate Vista, I think most people can agree that Windows 7 is a vast improvement. The author of this article, however, claims that Microsoft is intentionally leaking info to sympathizers to hide its flaws: "Microsoft is conducting a very carefully crafted PR campaign to make Windows 7 seem less broken than the Broken OS". What BS! Does he not know that the Beta and RC are publicly available to anyone who wants to download it?

Of course it shouldn't be a surprise that the article is flamebait considering its source. theinquirer.net should be on the HN auto ban list, in my opinion. When have they ever reported on anything without trying to incite people in the process?
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Greg Chaitin: Goedel's Theorem and Information (1982)
If only I could attach ads to your post, I could monetize of your attempt to ... and then some
I love that bar, I don't even need to bookmark pages I visit a lot any more. All I need to do is type, say, "yc" and up pops this site. "tv" will show me tonight's TV listings. "gu" brings up the Guardian.

If I wanted to come back to this story, "yc firefox" would most likely bring me here and to any other HN stories I'd read with Firefox in the title. And so on. I didn't really like it when it was first brought in (change? no!) but it's grown on me.
Interesting. How do these estimates square with the perceived advantages of open source development over closed source in the realm of software?

The NSA has more money, but so do many commercial software companies.

Does the NSA have other advantages? Is cryptography so different from software? Or does the NSA just fool people about their level of sophistication but relies on Rubber-hose cryptanalysis and eaves-dropping on telephone calls to get their result?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#The_free_rider_prob... lists possible solutions for the free rider problem.
'Hackers wanted' ad fed security misconception
This guy sums up my sentiments on the issue quite nicely. Firefox just can't hang anymore in the presence of Chrome, and Safari (and arguably even IE). I dig plugins as much as the next guy, but it's not enough to make me open Firefox for anything more than testing these days.