skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can also stream your music from your windows computer to a browser, kind of like Orb. Technically, that is all our old version could do, this is kind of a relaunch with this new mash up. We're getting some good visitors, but not much feedback, would love some thoughts, suggestions, comments, even if you are never to return :-)

Features:

* iTunes like interface
* Search multiple databases for complete music searches
* Play music off YouTube
* Lyrics displayed for most songs
* Full Drag 'n' Drop interface (drag entire albums to a playlist, or just a single song)
* Rate songs is community based, so if someone rates the same song you have, it'll show that in your music list.
* Rate a playlist, and it'll go into the "All Playlists" page for everyone else to play and rate.
* Streaming your personal music from a Windows machine to any browser, so you can listen to your real music from anywhere.
* Streaming supports flac, ogg, itunes, wma and mp3
* Scrobbles your plays to Last.fm, and Twitters new playlists you make if you like it to

You can also drag some songs from YouTube to a playlist and some songs from your personal music collection on your computer, and it'll play them in the same playlist and pull the songs from the appropriate sources.
No, the point of email is not attachements or being paperless. It is the speed.
Ask: Who can print and ship for me?
I am starting a business where I need a vendor to print and ship a printed laminated piece of paper (like you see in brochure handouts). I can handle the payments and the I have been searching online but I cannot find anything.

Any tips on which vendor might be able to help me out here?

Thanks.
Piloo.
Give me a break. How desperate are these people for news. I can write secrets to. Here's the secret code to tenthings' thought process:

if (lame)
write_about_it;
else
write_about_it;
notify_press;
waste_my_time;
act_like_a_dillweed;
How do they do it?
Is each frame created with HTML/CSS?
Heh, I know how it legally works. A $25 biz license and you're free of YC, theoretically. I guess I was wondering more about what the appropriate thing to do here is and what YC expects to happen.

I personally would try hard to keep YC's skin in the game (though I might try to re-apply to YC just to get access to the demo day).
Dune twitterers ridicule Kevin J. Anderson
Maybe I just don't get it, but why would it be good to have information encoded on a card or passport? Wouldn't it be better to have an ID number on the card that could then be linked up to a record on the computer?

Like, let's say that an officer needs my ID. What is he going to trust more: the information stored on my card that could be tampered with or the information in their database that I don't have as easy access to? If it just looked me up by ID number, they'd get my picture, name, address on their screen, but it would be harder for me to get in and fake that - since, even if I changed the ID number, I might be able to fake that I'm a different person until they compare the picture on file. And heck, if each card had a unique ID, you could then determine if a card was a stolen card. If the data is just on the card, it remains valid after being reported stolen. Heck, cryptographically sign the ID number so people can't fake it easily.

Not that I'm defending or promoting whatever their aim is, but even if you agree with their aim, why put the data on the card? Keep it secure and only have it available when the card is scanned by a legitimate person. The card carries whether state benefits are given to a person? How soon until someone can just switch that boolean on the card?
Incredible stuff. Do you know if this is using anything intrinsically Flash-only, other than a fast VM? It looks like a software rasterizer - is there anything preventing a port to some kind of Javascript/HTML setup?
The CANVAS tag allows per pixel placement. It's what makes things like this possible.

From the Source-

This file is part of the article series by Jacob Seidelin about
creating a ray casting engine with JavaScript, DOM and Canvas.

If you have questions or comments, please contact the author at
either jseidelin@nihilogic.dk or http://blog.nihilogic.dk/

The code samples here are freely available under the MIT license.
See: [http://www.nihilogic.dk/licenses/mit-license.txt]

The graphics for sprites and walls are property of id Software.
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TechStars Incubator Hatches 10 New Companies
Was that comment approved????
It looks like a hand-rolled combination of Deep and Illuminous, with some extra icons thrown in.
The Startup  life
I wish George Carlin was alive to see this: (NSFW esp if you work at apple) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Nrp7cj_tM
I prefer Scribular for this. It also has a web interface. http://scribular.com/
It doesn't 'necessarily' imply that, but it is a widely-used euphemism for inner city hip-hop culture. Acting like it's not, that the term arises from the name of the slang dictionary (and not the other way around), is just wrong.
Thanks Karan! Yeah I also think there should be a "clear history" button. Would you also want the ability to clear on a per feed item basis?
Web of Seinfeld
Cue religious fundamentalist iPhone users demanding they be protected from seeing information about evolution or other heretical belief systems - the point being that these judgment calls are terribly subjective. Should other dictionaries (which allow one to look up swear words) also be rated 17+, in your view? Serious question.
It is software rasterizing, written in haXe. I know the author from his posts on the haXe compiler ML, so I have a few details about the engine. haXe itself compiles to JS/C++/PHP/etc., however the only way that engine could possibly be fast enough is to make use of haXe's Flash-specific "Memory" API, which uses opcodes from Adobe Alchemy to manipulate a flat memory space at the byte-level.

While it could definitely be ported, you'd have to change the part of the implementation that makes it fast to do so. If JS got a similar ability to do byte-level manipulations, it wouldn't be out of reach, but right now it looks like JS implementations are avoiding these kinds of proprietary extensions.
Paul Erdös was a heavy Ritalin and Amphetamine user for the last 25 years of his life. He died at age 82. He was enormously productive at an age when most mathematicians have stopped producing anything.

http://www.amphetamines.com/paul-erdos.html
I've had no problems with GoDaddy as registrar, and they're priced right (and that seems to be where they win most in that chart). I can't speak to their quality as a hosting provider though.

Have they been screwing up as registrar for others?
How Harmonix (maker of Guitar Hero & Rock Band) hit it big
Why Jerks Are Bad Decision Makers
The Information Architecture of Social Experience Design
No, I think that where he meant 'extremely vulgar language', he mistakenly reached for a term that has racial connotations.
>> "It's what makes things like this possible."

You could, and I've seen, versions that use loads of <div> elements which get resized, or you could use a ton of <img> elements. So it's certainly possible without canvas, but I'm not sure how the frame rate would compare.
Internet Explorer isn't the only browser out there.
Not that surprising, Godaddy is pretty much the amazon of domain registrations. I'm surprised however, that there are 2 companies that are using them for webhosting.
IMO, 17+ denotes nudity or graphic violence not swearing. So saying 17+ is providing most people a hint that it's got swearing silly. If they really care they should have a 13+ (swearing) category.
Taking Down Twitter as Easy as D.N.S
Will US Virtual Goods Market Grow To Equal Asia's?
This is a good article from last year that I didn't see around (the printer-friendly link wouldn't work so you've got to clicky-clicky)
And does this mean we are going to drop other browsers that have had replacements 3 years ago or more? Like Firefox 1.x, Opera 8 (version 7 is on the Wii), Safari 1.x etc.
No, there have been numerous other signs of relativity, going all the way back to the unexpected aberration of the orbit of Mercury that Einstein was aware of. Eventually somebody would have noticed the gravitational deflection of the stars during eclipses, too, though it could have been decades before that happened. (Not because of technology, of course, which clearly existed in Einstein's day, though just barely, but simply because nobody might have noticed.)

Einstein was definitely ahead of the curve, but wasn't running on zero data, even if we discount the purely mathematical issues, such as the inability to reconcile the lack of a reference frame in the Maxwell equations with the need for a reference frame for all other physics of the time.

(It might be worth pointing out here that relativity itself was not a new concept; now when we say "relativity" we mean Einsteinian relativity, but there is also, for instance, "Galilean relativity". Relativity wasn't a surprise, it's just nobody could make it all work out properly without contradictions until Einstein.)

I really recommend this online book: http://www.mathpages.com/rr/rrtoc.htm It is both a great (IMHO) introduction to relativity, Einsteinian and otherwise, and also has a lot about history of Einstein's theory and the general state of thought at the time. I do not mean to diminish Einstein's accomplishment, because like I said he legitimately was ahead of the curve, but it wasn't quite the "bolt from the blue" that it is often portrayed as. All the math pieces Einstein needed had been developed, and his genius was largely the combination of figuring out how to put them together in a way that explained reality, and doing so while discarding inappropriate assumptions that were holding back the physics community at large. I'm actually more impressed by the latter, lest you think I'm trying to diminish that accomplishment; that's a hard harder than that sentence may make it sound.
In Australia you get $4000 for having a child. No questions asked : produce baby, get cash. This has done wonders for the birth rate. It's actually a response to the problem of the baby boomers : they know they need more workers to pay taxes to look after them, and encouraging babies now will pay off in 20 years time when baby boomers are retiring in record numbers.
It's not surprising how many cells say Google.
Do we really believe non journalists in Iran were/are using it en masse? What did twitter do that email/sms/irc/IM/forums couldn't?
How come the people living via Surrogates aren't as fat and degenerate as the people from WALL-E?

All they do is lie in their surrogate chairs all day, apparently.
Y'know, I probably wouldn't have a problem with trying to push out IE6 if it weren't that the biggest supporters of its elimination are such utter dicks about it all.

I hate rehashing this, as it's been said recently elsewhere, but not everybody has their choice of browser, and snotty error messages don't endear me to your cause.

I might be forced to use an older IE browser at the office, but nasty messages make me not want to use your site/app/product when I get home on a less encumbered browser.

My current old-IE boilerplate says something along the lines of "We apologize, but we do not have the resources to test our products in all browsers, and things may not work correctly in your version. If possible, please upgrade your browser to a more recent version." And honestly, that line makes me feel guilty, because I completely understand that it's oftentimes outside their control... As a sidenote, that's a conditional comment on the page, and doesn't exit() from anything -- which means I at least let them TRY to use the site.
That's exactly what I do: IE6 must work, but I don't care how it looks. And it looks bad - mainly because of lack of support for transparent pngs (and I don't care to play with the workarounds).

But also things are not always in the right place, etc. But everything works.
The silencing of Olbermann
Yes, but it sounds like your desire to start a startup preceded your acute dislike of your job. That's a different scenario than the one the author is targeting.

I had the same thing happen; I had various business ideas and was increasingly getting the itch to go out and do my own thing, and carried that itch through three more jobs. It is absolutely certain that the dislike of the jobs and the entrepreneurial yearning fed back on each other; although I'm quite certain I would have disliked my jobs for the same fundamental reasons anyway, feeling less invested in them because really, inside I wanted to go out on my own no doubt made me even more miserable than I otherwise would have been if I had no such compulsion whatsoever. Conversely, innate dislike of the jobs helped bring me closer to the jump-off point.

Even then, I didn't have the balls to walk away from a secure, steady paycheck. Instead, I just started performing worse and worse; I was up till 5 AM working on my own stuff, and, well, very obviously not showing up at 9 AM or what have you the next morning, and seemed kind of preoccupied and distracted at work too. Eventually, I ran into my last employer who was very (understandably) demanding and had no tolerance for that kind of crap, and was summarily fired.

That's what gave me the kick in the ass I needed, because at that point I had a choice before me: Do I look for my 7th job in 3 1/2 years, or do I grab this thing by the horns and find my own way to pay the (large) bills next month? I went for the latter, and that's how it's been ever since. But the thing is, before I got fired, I don't think there's a way I could've done that.

Sure, I dreamt about getting fired or laid off on innumerable occasions and halfway wished it would happen, but there's a long psychological gulf between that and just walking into your boss's office and saying you don't want the comparatively large, steady paycheck anymore. Obviously, the gulf narrows if you have substantial savings and/or a cash reserve and/or low living expenses, but I had none of these, so, there's no telling whether I would have left eventually--I just sort of sabotaged myself into being kicked out onto the street.
No problems with GoDaddy here. My domains were at RegisterFly before the ICANN fiasco and subsequent move. Now THAT was a screwed up registrar.
That sort of policy encourages people to work very long hours to out-compete their coworkers. And don't tell me that there is no competition working for a place where adequate work is rewarded with a "generous severance package."

You pay for that sort of thing long term with burnt out employees and broken families.

Vacation and the 9 to 5 policy encourages people to compete with each other without going overboard and ruining their lives. Whether that's good or bad for you, their employer, is something that you need to consider.
http://searchyc.com/The+Rise+and+Fall+of+Thinking+Machines

and that's just with the same title. I can swear there were more times where this was posted under some different title.

considering that HN is very "link-oriented", maybe pg could bump an original thread when someone is posting a dupe?
Dabbleboard is making money, just with the whiteboard. And we started well after WebEx was sold; thankfully WebEx doesn't care about the whiteboard.

We're working on a broader solution that'll compete more with the likes of WebEx (coincidentally our focus -like TeamApart- is also on 'few-to-few' rather than 'one-to-many'). To differentiate, we're considering adding more Asynchronous collaboration features (inspired mostly by wikis and less so by Google Wave).
No, but for large windows installations based on active directory it's the only one they can easily manage. Other browsers need to provide an MSI installer to make it easy, though after 5.5 years of asking, Firefox still doesn't have one:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231062

Also lots of people need IE for ActiveX based intranet webapps - people seem to have a real mis-understanding of the real issues.
That having been said, the pain of the actual task can be very acute if the task is not interesting.
Well... I do have to make a slight UI criticism.

Which would you rather see when managing your domains?

http://www.godaddy.com/default.aspx

or

http://www.dyndns.com/

Also, I have had very good experiences with DynDNS. Support is helpful and their services are top-notch. I am always confident that I'll get someone knowledgeable at DynDNS, while my experience with GoDaddy was nowhere near as nice. Seems they have a good reputation as a company too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynDNS#Awards
Google Voice is a threat to AT&T and every other potential carrier for the iPhone. Maybe AT&T didn't really have anything directly to do with GV being yanked but it sure isn't going to make carriers around the world happy to have the iphone on their network if it can go around their revenue generating functions.

How? Most people don't make international calls with their cell-phone. All Google Voice calls count as normal calls, and subtract minutes from your cell-phone plan, just like all other normal calls. So if you are calling your friend to see why he's late to dinner, AT&T makes as much money off you with GV as they do otherwise. Same with text messages; when someone sends a text message to your Google Voice number, it's relayed to your cell-phone. If you pay to receive random text messages, you paid for that one too. (But I assume iPhone users have unlimited SMS messages, so who cares?)

Anyway, AT&T loses very little here, and users gain a lot in terms of convenience.

(There's also the argument that Google Voice makes it easier to ditch AT&T. That's true, but I ported my number from AT&T to T-Mobile yesterday, and it took literally 15 minutes, with no involvement from me other than "ok, do it". So it's already really easy to switch away from AT&T.)

All in all, I don't get it. I'm glad I have a MyTouch 3G instead of an iPhone. Google Voice works swimmingly for me (and I even get to see a cute tshirt-wearing android every time I make a call. Yay!)

I'm actually surprised T-Mobile doesn't block GV, as they have a lot more to lose. With "My Faves", you get unlimited calling to 5 arbitrary numbers. With your GV number as one of those, all your calls become free. Now that actually costs them money.
So they can scan the card with a device that is not connected to any network. At best they could cryptographically sign the card to insure the information is at worst a copy of valid information. But, I don't see them doing this any time soon.

PS: As to why you would want a device that can work without a network think terrorists taking down the network, classic government incompetence, or just lower costs.
I'm going to do that - thanks
Which wasn't technically saturated, since 100GB on a 20Mbit/s connection should be feasible in about 12 hours if my back-of-the-envelope math is right.

Of course, they weren't clear on details, so if they meant that the network was only up for half a day by the time they measured then it's significant.
Thanks for the story -- perfect validation for what we are trying to do!
Thanks for the heads up on the scrollbars, I'll fix this.
Check the source. This one is done without canvas, and with div and img elements. The canvas elements used here are for the minimap.
Definitely. I find myself at the office on 12 solid hour benders and really could have accomplished the same amount in 4.
And a followup article:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/03/general_el...
Why is this so catastrophic? How hard is it to fix a memory leak? Unless there is something else going on. But a regular memory leak?
Cool! Looks like most folks using GoDaddy as registrar switch to some other service (typically web host?) for the DNS. How come?

Are any of the companies with Softlayer using their Cloudlayer offering? If yes, how do you find it?
Apple plans 'abuse spy' for your iPhone
I think a fundamental question is "Why does the content rating come with an age attached?" Because that's really what causes stigma.

In other words, if NinjaWords was simply required to put a warning on their app that says, "This dictionary can be used to reference strong language," I doubt anybody (parents, Apple or developers) would have a problem.

The issue is that various different types of content get munged together through some obscure function to form an "Age" rating, which appears to be the "Government Recommended Prudeness" level.

It would be more useful to parents AND developers if we could simply attach a badge warning specifically about content within each app ("This browser may be used to access 3rd party content including sexual, violent, or vulgar themes"). Let the parents decide for themselves how that translates to age.
Umm, what about multiple CN SSL certificates?
Interesting, but in the first two there are slices labeled both "other/self hosted" and "self hosted."
I'm surprised that Linode isn't on there at all, although it's good to see BitPusher get mentioned for their work on Wufoo (good bunch of guys over there).
Cross-posted from my comments on the blog itself:

I think the reason for the recent high-profile assault is not zeal on the part of the people actively decrying IE6. They just realize that sometimes, to make change happen (especially change this “drastic”) is to make a lot of noise. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

They want people to stop using it, instead of just refusing to design for it for 2 reasons (and maybe more):

1. As web designers/developers, we are passionate about people having a beautiful and pleasant web experience. If we just stop developing for IE6, everyone who hasn’t dropped it may have a lesser experience, which just wouldn’t do.

2. Many of them may be forced to support IE6 by their respective powers-that-be, so the only way they can stop actively supporting (designing for) it is by getting a significant amount of people to stop using it.

I agree with you in general. I am never a fan of over-zealousness and pushiness, but sometimes that’s the only way to get things done.
To be honest I barely ever see the front page, so I don't think it's a useful comparison. The so-called "Total DNS Control" page that GoDaddy offers works well enough for me. Is DynDNS' control panel nicer?

As far as support I'll have to defer as I haven't had any problems worth bringing up yet. I moved from Register.com some time ago and that was a breath of fresh air in so many respects.
Another way to help Google track the websites you are visiting and forcing your users to do so too. CDN are great, but please take into consideration the privacy issues when using the ones provided "for free" by the big players.
If you are running a user-generated content site and you get to a large enough size, it's near certain that GoDaddy will shut off your domain. We had a very, very close call with Weebly where someone from GoDaddy called at 10am on a Saturday, didn't get through, and started shutting off the domain. If I hadn't called right back it would have been disastrous.

For some reason, GoDaddy sees it as their job to police the Internet, which is completely not acceptable for a domain registrar.
TakeComics, one of the companies mentioned, has the absolute worst copy ever on their landing page. It is rife with grammatical and spelling errors. A fine example of how to turn off visitors.
No,seriously; there are a TON of people online who hate ads and NEVER click on them. Ever. So we use AdBlock.
I didn't think to check for those. Great idea, thanks!
I've had great service from GoDaddy as well, and it's a lot cheaper to buy a wildcard SSL cert from them ($199/year) than pretty much everywhere else I've looked.
Why traditional video hosting is such an expensive proposition.
http://www.google.com/search?q=godaddy+sucks

Of course you'll personally have a great experience until you get screwed. Learn from others.

I use namecheap.
You're gonna get punished for that. Someone is upset :)

You're already down to zero.

I have proven this site is full of um...let's not say. lol.