skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that future "iTouch" devices are going to compete more with the Kindle than the netbook market. Unless Apple has invented a magic new text input method, the lack of a touch-type keyboard makes it suck as a full laptop.

Of course, Apple could something else up their sleeve (built-in stand and wireless keyboard?) Should be interesting to find out.
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Anyone else think he was valuing his time too highly?
On long cryptographic keys
Bad headline, Wired. Should read, "detected swine flu", instead of "caught swine flu".
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I decided that another user was right in saying that it is in bad taste (arguably profiting from others' misfortune), so i deleted my facebook app.

I built it yesterday to poke fun at the panic (it was just a simple counter & invite script with a few viral feed features), but i woke up today and decided it is much more serious, given that people have died.
Popular, profitable (or at least charging) Flickr gets hit hard by Yahoo layoffs
Maybe I put too much judgment in the title. Being on the outside, I know nothing about expenses and the tough choices they're undoubtedly making.
It's just that from the outside, Flickr seems like such a no-brainer priority.
Good luck to all the engineering talent who left today, I'm sure you'll have no trouble getting a new gig.
It's entirely non-statistical. It works by measuring the Hamming distance between samples using features consisting of single tokens, sequences of tokens and sequences of tokens with gaps. For example:

The

The quick

The quick brown

The quick ... jumped

would all be features of the input "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog".

It doesn't know anything about grammar, though as a performance optimization it might be useful to limit the length of features to detectable sentence boundaries. I intend to make that behavior optional. More information here: http://crm114.sourceforge.net/docs/KNN_Hyperspace_Filters/KN...
pysicsss (I dunno. Something trying to blend python, physics, simulation, and the sssss sound a snake makes).
Horrible type of humor, IMHO.

I am known for making some hardcore jokes, but I try not to laugh, and profit, from others people horrors. Just like I want others to not laugh from mine.

And no, I won't "lighten up and laugh, life is funny". It's like these authors never went into a painful experience. I am pretty sure their grandfathers died of cancer, or something like that. A similar slow destroying, soul crushing process. I wonder how they would feel if random people started making jokes about cancer.

But hey, we're just little monkeys, living in a sphere of indifference.
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Did you check out Smalltalk?
The linked Python Decorate Library http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary is nice too.
Usually I have no time for rumours, but I've got a feeling you're right on this one.
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You really would think he would know, especially considering his previous (totally failed and backfired) attempts at gun-control. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/30/us/gun-maker-s-accord-on-c...
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Ask HN: Technology for Video Streaming site
We are evaluating technologies for video streaming site. I am a Microsoft guy from last 6 years. Please suggest what combination of technology is good for video streaming sites on the scale of performance, scalability and development effort.
I'm afraid I wouldn't have much to talk about. This is just a a casual interest of mine. If I see a story in the media about this sort of thing, I'll read it. And where I live, there's the infamous Pacific Mall which often has shanzhai items of all sorts. But I'm by no means a mobile expert. You'd be better off asking around at howardforums.com or something. I mainly got interested in the topic because a few years back I had a friendly bet with a friend who works at an Asian mega-corp which makes cellphones that they should start paying attention to Apple. But they had their attention on the knock-offs instead.

They were totally caught flat-footed by the iPhone. Apparently their last annual meeting fell just after the launch of the iPhone 3G. When their cellphone head honcho got up to talk, apparently he took a visible sigh and essentially admitted that the high-end market, which they want to be in during the recession (focus on profit margins not unit sales) was essentially stolen from them by Apple, and that their growth numbers in this segment had been slashed. They're essentially ceding the market to Apple in the short term while they go back to the drawing board and try to get the software part right. In other words, what Apple did to them in the MP3 player market is happening to them in the cellphone market. Keep this in mind the next time somebody tells you it's foolish to think that iPhone OS won't be the defacto mobile platform in 3 years time.
There is a cognitive gap here:

Those of us who were in law enforcement in New York City in the late '80s and early '90s remember how drug dealers pioneered the use of 9-mm guns. We heard over and over from our friends in the police department that they were outgunned, that their service revolvers were no match for semi-automatics in a shootout. So what did the police do? The New York City Police Department finally bought 9-mms, too. It was a classic arms race, with the gun manufacturers in the economically enviable position of selling bigger and better guns to both sides.

So the proposal, then, is to restrict the government from escalating the arms race by either creating policies or internal politics in such a way that the police can't purchase the weapons that they otherwise would?

"Police friendly" arms manufacturers would continue to sell guns that they think the police want. They're expensive, dated, and proprietary. This is roughly analogous to the state of government tech procurement before the large push for open systems. They will always be behind the curve because they will have no market for their innovative designs since their hands will be tied compared to "police unfriendly" manufacturers.

The police were behind the 8-ball because they failed to innovate. If you take the divisive stigma of firearms out of the picture and look at it as a strategic game, it seems obvious to me that messing with the incremental demand of one (albeit large) customer isn't going to bend the industry to your will.

The Obama White House recently made it clear—abandoning a campaign pledge—that it won't push for a legislative ban on the sale of assault weapons. Yet a series of provocative recent events has revived the gun debate: the international tension arising from Mexican drug gangs using guns purchased at American stores, the 10th anniversary of Columbine, and a Supreme Court case invalidating a District of Columbia law prohibiting the possession of guns at home.

Let's enumerate these events:

1) A foreign country has problems sealing its borders at both ends. Drugs on the south and firearms, allegedly, on the north. It's interesting to point out that the automatic weapons that the Mexican gangs are using are incredibly hard to find in stores here -- they're not the guns you buy at a rural Wal-Mart. It also conveniently ignores the elephant in the room -- pervasive corruption of Mexican officials.

2) Tenth anniversary of a tragedy. Referring to Columbine as a "recent" event is incredibly disingenuous.

3) Supreme court case invalidating an unconstitutional law. The letter of the law was upheld but you'd endeavor to attack the spirit of it?

This is a shameful attempt to take Obama to task on, frankly, a minor component of his platform at a time when he inherited a complex and severe economic mess unheard of in generations, if ever.
If you think you can add 1mm to the value of your startup by working 12 hours a day 7 days a week for a year, then your time is "worth" $230/hour.

Also, considering what someone with a similar background could earn working full time for an established company (especially factoring in benefits), $50/hr is fairly conservative in terms of opportunity cost.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=586445
In other news, truth still stranger than fiction.
Zynga Pushing Nine Figures In Revenues Thanks To Micro-Transactions
PocketGod developers have been releasing updates frequently, adding additional islands and objects that you can throw at the tribal guys.

If you consider GTA a game, why not pocketgod?
Apple was rumored to have acquired http://www.fingerworks.com. They sell touch keypads and keyboards (TouchStream LP). I have a Touchstream LP (http://motionobj.com/blog/new-found-minimalism). It still works excellently after 6-7 years now.

It's a flat surface keyboard with no physical buttons. Besides typing on it, a key thing you can do is gestures, like dragging/expanding out 5 fingers to zoom in, pinching the middle finger and thumb to cut (cut as in cut-and-paste). The gestures are configurable. A basic configuration is switching between Windows, Linux and OS X modes, since the gestures implicitly needs to invoke Cmd/Ctrl, etc. The built-in software (no installation required) depends typos and tries to correct them to compensate for the flat typing surface.

If you use the iPhone and/or newer macbooks/macbook pros, you will recognise that some (I would say only the most basic so far) of this technology have made it there. So if they did acquire this excellent company (which sadly, cause the keyboard to be no longer available on the market, except ebay), it's reasonable to expect more usage of their technology, and its original form - keyboards and keypads. In its current form, you need quite a bit of practice to type well, but who knows how they can improve on it.
But you know, the whole custom chip "advantage" thing didn't work out so well last time for Apple, now did it?
Mono is not a scripting language. The Unity Scripting language is similar to ECMAscript, but is not standard and does not have comprehensive documentation. It is true that you can interact with the mono / .net 2.0 system libraries.

... and you have about a 1/3 chance of it crashing if you are using the recompile on the fly as you edit.. command p, alt+tab, save, alt+tab, command p...
That assumes that the attack can find a collision for a chosen hash value, not merely two inputs that collide to some random value. Are the attacks that strong?

I am amused that the URL for a hash-is-broken paper is based on the file's MD5 hash.
These numbers are real.
Broken? Just keeps reloading the search and telling me I'm disconnected
The people do not want real qwerty keyboards on their mobile devices. Its not a replacement for a notebook computer.
How did you manage to translate "Although rare, severe respiratory illness (pneumonia) and deaths have been reported with flu infections in children" to such a broad, absolute statement like "you have fever, headaches, sore throat, but one week later, you die."

Did you even read the page you linked to?
A much more usable (and accurate) map at http://www.idemc.org/.
The issue with the H1N1 virus is that it has been for the most part out of action for the majority of the population and therefore have a generation of people with no resistance to the virus at all. The typical versions of the influenza that has been going around (usually the antigens are in the the flu shots) have similar proteins that we have some level of defense to, but when we encounter (in this case) a new virus that we have no defense, our bodies just go way overboard on the defense response and if not properly treated - basically die of asphyxiation.
What if he were a more traditional comedian, and gallows humor was how he coped with, and helped others cope with, a situation that many people find scary and beyond their control?

Would you still feel justified in condemning him for profiting "from other people's horrors"?
Swine flu virus an engineered pandemic?
Right, but prior to his running, what were his technology usage patterns?

In other words, before we can say he is or isn't getting more conservative, we need to know what he did before he was so famous.
IMHO, this is wonderful. Laughing at the death is the only way to deal with it.

Ask anyone who actually has gone through a long, slow, painful experience. The only way to come out the other end intact is to keep your sense of humor.

Laughing represents the best in the human experience. And if we don't laugh, we'll cry. So mock the Flu, mock the Bomb, mock Death itself. If you don't start enjoying life now, when will you?
Lemme fix that for you:

"I am saying to friends that the swine flu is like the normal one, you have fever, headaches, sore throat, but one week later, you die (less than 2% of the time)"
I think gallows humor makes sense sometimes. For example, in the case of terrorism, which we really have no way to prevent and can just as easily hit the rich as it can the poor. Hence, the jokes that we hear nightly about Osama, etc.

But the people who buy these shirts or make these games probably won't have to deal with swine flu (or at least die from it), because they likely have good healthcare and their nations are relatively rich with infrastructures that can accommodate a large percentage of their populations becoming sick at once. I don't think they're in a position to mock the disease.

On the other hand, I'm fine the Mexicans who are sprucing up their face masks with funny mustaches as people are dying around them. They're living it. The guys looking to get their startup a few more ad impressions? Not so much.
Awesome. This is hacker news.
"I'm in the UK and have never had such an impression."

I'm in the USA and have never had such an impression, either.

It sound more like an unfortunate male stereotype that various media like to play on.
Here's an article in English at last: http://www.thelocal.se/19162/20090430/
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Thanks. I was curious because I've never had an actual test for the flu. However, I have had a PCR test for hepatitis after a bout of food poisoning. My HMO got back to me pretty quick with that test, so I'm guessing whatever lab they use has the necessary gear. Thus, I was curious as to whether or not my HMO could quickly retool its testing center with the right equipment to test for this flu virus.

I did a bit more research and it does look like the swine flu test is PCR based. However, it looks like there's only one vendor for this particular test. Indeed it does look like samples must be shipped out to labs which have the right equipment.
Snippets from the article:

"My guess is that you can expect to see a lot of panic over this issue in the near future. But the key is to remain calm -- this isn't the first time the public has been warned about swine flu. The last time was in 1976, right before I entered medical school and I remember it very clearly. It resulted in the massive swine flu vaccine campaign.

"Within a few months, claims totaling $1.3 billion had been filed by victims who had suffered paralysis from the vaccine. The vaccine was also blamed for 25 deaths.

"However, several hundred people developed crippling Guillain-Barré Syndrome after they were injected with the swine flu vaccine. Even healthy 20-year-olds ended up as paraplegics.

"And the swine flu pandemic itself? It never materialized."

"More People Died From the [1976] Swine Flu Vaccine than Swine Flu!"

"Personally, I am highly skeptical. It simply doesn't add up to a real pandemic.

"But it does raise serious questions about where this brand new, never before seen [swine flu] virus came from, especially since it cannot be contracted from eating pork products, and has never before been seen in pigs, and contains traits from the bird flu -- and which, so far, only seems to respond to Tamiflu. Are we just that lucky, or... what?"

"Could a mixed animal-human mutant like this occur naturally? And if not, who made it, and how was it released?

"Not one to dabble too deep in conspiracy theories, I don't have to strain very hard to find actual facts to support the notion that this may not be a natural mutation, and that those who stand to gain have the wherewithal to pull off such a stunt."
" ... but it's awfully embarrassing to me as a man, and as a computer programmer. "

Why? Matt's not you, doesn't speak for you, doesn't claim to represent you. Or would any reasonable adult think that.

One person did something, others have their reactions. Let them sort it out.
EVERY single person who gets the flu (any and every flu) at some point in his life gets one they have no resistance/immunity to!

There is nothing magical about this one, it's not more infectious, it's doesn't kill more people (at least in the US).

It's just a regular flu.

Except that normally only a small number of people get sick, and this time a large number of people will get sick.

But the individual sicknesses are going to be regular flu.

It could mutate to a version that kills (your overboard on defense theory), but right now it's not, and every flu can mutate to a version that kills.

The best case scenario is it goes global now, before it has a chance to mutate. Or that it waits till an immunization is available.

And since in my opinion it's not going to mutate to a killer version before we manage to make a vaccine (4-6 months) this is going to turn out to be a big nothing!
"2. Content businesses suck..."

This seems like a pretty strong argument in favor of some form of DRM. If content creators can't make money, we're not going to have good content.
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The suggestion that the move is "also an effort to share fewer details about its technology plans with external chip suppliers..." fits Apple's MO: keeping the lid on future directions.

For the long run it would be a lot more important for Apple to keep a lid on development of the next quantum leap in its business directions (e.g., iPod, iPhone) than just price competition on a netbook or whatever.
You think that. I hope that. But neither of us really know.

The point is that a new flu variant can mutate rapidly when it crosses species. If swine flu chills out and remains as is, everything will indeed be ok. If it mutates and gets worse, we are so screwed.

The danger is that there is a rapidly spreading flu strain that is much more likely than normal to rapidly increase its mortality rate.

So... fingers crossed. We should be ok. If not, there's not much anyone can do about it.
"Using 800 kB of stack is an incredibly dumb thing to do ..., but it still shouldn't cause a huge drop in performance."

Dunno about you, but if I accidentally use 800 kB of stack, I want the computer to emit fire every time the function is called.
It didn't work out because Apple didn't have the in-house talent to pull it off. They had to rely on IBM and Motorola to do the actual chip design, while Apple focussed on creating the software for these chips. IBM and Motorola started to lose interest in promoting PowerPC in anything but the embedded space and server markets.

This time around, Apple has brought all the talent they need to do all of the design in-house. No more design-by-committee. We're dealing with Steve Jobs after all ;)
That would be a really useful thing. Keep us posted when that goes live.
I'm been getting in to erlang, xmpp, web.py and twisted.
It took 37 requests and 14 seconds to get me any kind of result. That needs to be about 13 seconds faster for me to actually use it more than once for novelty.
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Opportunity cost != time valuation
You don't need DRM to sell content.
Your post itself was entirely fair, and the improvements to the profiler were great. It is only the title of this posting that I take issue with. If the title had been "280 North makes WebKit's JavaScript Profiler Useful!" I don't think it would be any less dramatic and would have been a lot less contentious. It can be a little irksome knowing that someone put a huge amount of work into the profiling infrastructure in JavaScriptCore and the UI in the web inspector while the title, and the dozens of tweets it spawned, imply that is all 280 North's doing.

We're all better off if we focus on doing great things and set the sensationalism aside. Thanks again for the contributions to WebKit, and I hope there are more going forwards!
I think a microformat schema or schemas would be more beneficial for this kind of data.
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They were acquired by apple in 2006. Its their technology that is the basis of all the multi touch stuff that apple is doing.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/some-iphone-touchscreen-r...
How did they get micro-payments working? It is common knowledge to me that consumers reject mini-payments. Did the attitude change? Or has Zynga found some clever scheme?
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I'm developing a wysywig web development tool - http://www.leapdesigner.com Version 1 is up, Version 2 will enable you to create interactive web sites.
Please tell us more about your budget and project requirements.

There's Flash Media Server, WowzaMediaServer, and Red5 for flash streaming solutions.

Flash Media Server is quick to setup and easy to maintain/extend using actionscript 3. Probably the most featureful out of the box, but will require work to scale up.

WowzaMediaServer is probably your best bet if you're looking to get up and running quickly on a reasonable budget and have a need to scale. They've integrated with Amazon for pre-configured EC2 instances and S3 for backend storage, and support h264 I believe. It's extended in Java, so make sure you're comfortable with that.

Red5 is the most nebulous. I lost the last week and a half to two weeks trying to get different versions to work with varying results. It's open source, completely free, and very nearly undocumented. If you have a crack team of hackers and attack it with vigor, this would be a good solution to explore - they have an initial planning setup for scaling via clustering/edge server. This is also Java-based, but can be extended by Jython, Jruby, Rhino, etc.

Without too much more information, it would be difficult to give recommendations. But the above three options should be good to get started. They're all flash though, so if you're looking for silverlight, you may need to do more digging.

Good luck, and keep us up to date!
> But the people who buy these shirts or make these games probably won't have to deal with swine flu

You might consider that people's fears about most dangers are far out of proportion to the actual probability of their encountering them.
Stupid conspiracy shit, get off my HN.
Swine Flu Q&A
At least one of those loops in the 2-loop version should be backwards... :)
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I'm posting this because there are too many swine flu post in Hacker News. It's still soon to panic.

Now let's go back to startup-related news.
"EVERY single person who gets the flu (any and every flu) at some point in his life gets one they have no resistance/immunity to!"

But thatericguy's point still stands, if he was talking about there being no herd immunity and the crucial difference that makes in the disease's potential to spread