skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Golf is the most popular sport for wealthy people. Ever watch (and not fall asleep) a golfing event on TV? Advertisements are for ridiculous luxury goods and asset management services.
Bowling. If I had to pick only one thing to do it would be this. My goal is to be competitive on the PBA Tour. I'm averaging 220 right now, but that needs to be closer to 235-240 to be competitive.

My other big hobby is music. http://thesixtyone.com/abledanger
interestingly 2 out of 3 were born outside of USA: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/
So a few questions in my mind - what does this do to wait times for getting apps into the store? How much stricter is Apple going to be on non-conforming UI? I really think Apple will impose artificial controls on the market to prevent it from bottoming out and flooding their top tier producers - or perhaps finally make a AAA section for the store.
music, books and girls occupy most of my time
I honestly could care little about your "skills". I say that because I've come to learn that a resume is no place to discern language competence and/or tool familiarity (eg, SVN).

Instead, I look for the "case study" resume. In other words, talk about a particular project, the tools you used, and the result to the bottom line/client. Structured this way, it's harder to bullshit your achievement, and you get an idea that the author has a good idea of the big picture - something many programmers lack.

At the interview, I'd ask questions on the projects designed to assess skill. In other words:

"On project X, did you use a version control system?"

"Yeah, SVN"

"Cool, how many branches did you have going at any given time? Did you run into any of the common issues, which ones?"

I can usually tell the bs'ers right away, but if you've done the project based resume, you usually know the stuff.

Any more than three languages on a resume, and I either assume you are full of it (ie, don't know any) or are some sort of hacker god, and would expect to see the same sort of "I programed improvements to the space shuttle's flight control systems" project backing that up. :-)

Getting past the HR department might be a different story altogether, but I usually tell them not to vet any technical skills at all.
Dutch startup claims it cost the economy $330,000 so far and counting
Prize money, appearance fees, endorsement fees, bonuses and his golf course design business were calculated to have pushed him over $1 billion.

Not just simply advertising for golf clubs. I wonder how much is golf course design business is worth.

Not to mention Woods is such a dominant player in his sport. Take salaries for baseball players and funnel it even more to the top players and you might have similar results.
regex background: [abc] matches any of 'a', 'b', or 'c'. [m] matches only 'm'.

It works because the text to match is no longer included in the command line invoked to do the matching. Whether or not 'grep [m]ysqld' appears in the list produced by ps is irrelevant, as [m]ysqld does not match "m]ysqld". i.e. the 'm' matches, but then the match fails when it hits ']'.

tl;dr It's just a short way of matching "mysqld" without the matching pattern itself being "mysqld".
A) Macromedia + Adobe = :(

B) Some flash video player wrappers are much worse than others. Hulu's is particularly slow, Comedy Central's basically refuses to work on Linux.

C) Flash has to do the YUV->RGB conversion internally so that it can composite your poorly-conceived UI on top of it. It's almost immune to hardware acceleration (except in full-screen mode). Then it has to run in the main() thread of an intrinsically memory-gobbling application.

D) All of the above
Throw a Proper Beer Pong Shot
I guess it was I that fell into a race condition: replying before my brain had finished parsing the command. :)

It's obvious now, that regexp does not match, for example, the "]".
Lindy hop, it's wicked fun! I've been going once a week for a few months now and did a half day workshop last weekend.

http://www.swingland.com/

And I do a bit of drumming, although have been a bit lazy lately. Mostly my hobbies have revolved around music. I enjoy hiking too but haven't been out too much recently. Tried surfing for the first time recently. I was crap at it but it was still good fun. Must go back.
The libraries people use to "escape all inputs, etc" are providing effectively the same functionality as CSP is

Maybe, but not everyone's using those libraries, and those libraries may themselves have bugs or may be used incorrectly. Defense-in-depth, and all that.

"policy" is generally too brittle to describe what people need to put on pages in real-world apps

Just reading through the spec I linked to, I don't see what would be particularly brittle about it. Do you have an example of a real-world use case that this would hamper?
Did no one else anticipate this? Lots of other people have been doing this for awhile (mono foundation, unity, gambit scheme, etc.). Is this a game changer? Yes. It opens up the door to tons of developers. Will applications written in actionscript still have the same shortcomings as the other aforementioned languages? Probably. Looking at the AS apps in the store right now they all have larger than expected file sizes. Additionally I don't see any of them taking advantage of any of the latest API features rolled out in iPhoneOS v3. Each time Apple releases a new iPhone OS version (with all of the API changes/additions) all of these tools need to be updated and re-released. Moral of the story? If you want to take advantage of the latest API features and remain on the cutting edge of iPhone development it's best to stick with objective-c.
Before everyone gets too excited over this, admittedly very cool technical achievement, how will this affect the look and feel of apps making use of it? Games always tend to use completely custom UIs, so this will be a neat tool at the disposal of game devs. But how will business apps feel? Will text boxes be CocoaTouch-based or some Adobe-proprietary text box?

These things tend to matter in achieving a consistent look and feel to users. I've never preferred Java apps on either Windows or Mac OS X to native ones, primarily because they are only ever 95% of the way there in providing consistent look and feel. There's always something that is just off ever so slightly.
PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage - Composite photos from multiple sources
I didn't know Dan, but reading about how many lives he has touched is heartbreaking. How senseless. The deepest sympathy I can muster goes out to his family and friends. I'm sorry. I wish there was something I could do.
Someone got the backstory here?
Thousands of Hotmail users hacked
How I wish we had some data on the same people, before they had their heart replaced by the new pulseless heart* and then afterwards!

* http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/...
That's some amazing work. Adobe must have dedicated the A-Team to that task.
Another geocacher here :D

I recommend it to everybody too! www.geocaching.com
.99 is the minimum you can go, so iphone apps wont get cheaper. Flash games tend to run really slow even with beafy core 2 duos, so I'm wondering if the performance will translate for smartphones.
While development costs may drop, it's hard for most app prices to drop any further as Apple has set the price floor at $0.99 cents.
Just started the "instrument rating" section in the following book:
Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots Real World Training

Excellent book that should end up saving me lots of actual flying time in preparation for the certification test.

As for physics, I'm re-taking the first calc-based physics course (online) at UNC Charlotte this fall. Just enjoying studying the basics again. I'll probably take 1-2 classes per semester until I can get a degree in it. May go for masters, not sure yet.
Tiger Woods should be lauded. No crazy spending sprees. No expensive divorces. No being taken advantage of by friends and "business associates." No loss in risky business ventures.

He not only earned the money. He retained it too.
Half of babies 'will live to 100'
> ...it takes almost as much energy to produce the hydrogen in the first place as the hydrogen will later provide when used as fuel.

Sweet! I'm totally building a perpetual motion device based on electrolysis of water.

Edit: On a serious note, this article is crap science reporting. Hydrogen is not an energy source, it's an energy storage mechanism. There is no freely available hydrogen, we need to produce it using existing energy sources such as hydrocarbons or solar or wind power. Not only that, it's not even a great storage mechanism. Somewhere around 50% of the energy put into the electrolysis process is wasted.
If your mortgage is under water (i.e. the principal is more than the value of the house), you can't sell your house. And a large percentage of American mortgages are now under water.
SeaSide is not mentioned because the website does not open for some reason. Tried it from 2 PCs (more than 3 times) and got a server error.
This is part of the reason for the explosion of Twitter and Facebook apps. Developers are taking advantage of the fact that millions of users are already using these platforms and that there are easy and powerful APIs that allow applications to be built on top of them.
It will be interesting to see how Microsoft reacts to this. I am in the early stages of planning an application that might have a rich client component. Since the rest of the stack is .NET, it made a lot of sense to look at Silverlight, but now that I could potentially deploy the same code to an iPhone (and probably other mobile platforms as well) with minimal extra effort, it's hard to recommend Silverlight.
Genetics of tamability. Can a zebra be domesticated?
So after all of my investment and time learning the Cocoa Touch platform these flash guys come in with 10+ years of crappy code and inundate the app store without even having to reference count their objects. There goes my consulting business :(

If it's been hard getting noticed in the app store imagine what it's going to be like when every flash app in the world is ported over.
>>asymmetrical

You can say the same about tennis... I wouldn’t worry. You can also try "period" fencing (look up "SCA"). The rules are different: if you are "wounded" on the right arm, you have to switch to the left. There is also two-handed fencing (longsword).
Profitability of an advertising franchise = (value-per-impression) x (Number-of-Impressions)

Online social networking has an extremely low value-per-impression.

Professional golfing has an extremely high value-per-impression.

Which explains why Tiger Woods has generated more in profits than the entire history of the online social networking business.
It's in 3.0.
I don't see the point of adding classes* to Lua, but implementing points 1 and 7 (the error for undeclared vars and nonexistent fields, not the "as userdata" part) is done as an example in PiL. See strict.lua. Any variables not declared as local default to globals, and you can trap the use of globals quite easily by hooking __index and __newindex in the global table's metatable.

* With a class-based system, you first write an abstract version of what you need, then create instances. With prototypes, you just create the instance, and if generalizing is worth doing (it often isn't!), you can spawn new objects based off of it. I wonder if classes themselves encourage over-abstraction. Of course, you have to use prototypes idiomatically, or they just seem like weird classes. (This is also orthogonal to static analysis.)

To really take advantage of static typing, you would probably need to add support for it to the Lua VM. I don't know of any languages as lightweight as Lua with good static type systems, though - and I agree that an ML-like language as lightweight and clean as Lua could be really nice.
You can say that about a lot of entertainment in general.
Unity uses a .NET runtime for it's code, you might be able to port it over.
He crawled a bunch (780 Gigs / ~20 million pages) of 'public' court records that were behind some kind of auth (pay) wall via a free trial and opened them up. Likely as a result of this crawling, the free trial was shut down. The pages he crawled constitute 20% of the total records. The feds then started investigating him.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/steal-these-fede...
Wait, I thought Aaron was still in Cambridge. Did he come back to Chicago?
Thanks Markca, I was sure someone would be crazy enough to be attempting this already.
This line of arguing could go last for pages, but Gates and Buffett both came from successful families and built upon that success through entrepreneurship. It was a mix of both.
Code snippet friendly blogging platform?
Does anyone know a free hosted code snippet friendly blogging platform? Eg. being able to post formatted code snippets in your blog post.

I am referring here exclusively to blogging platforms which are free and don't have to be installed.

I know Wordpress doesn't offer that and neither does movable type except through the software version.

What do you guys use? Any alternatives?
Um, have you been to Bushwick? It smells like dead rats and human urine, I'd hardly call it clean. Brooklyn is pretty big, you're making the same mistake as the people you're talking about. FWIW I live in SoHo and it still smells like piss in places, I don't mind though—it's just part of living in the city.

In fact, for a city of this size it's quite well maintained.
Do you actually know any of this other than the divorces part? I have no evidence that Tiger goes on wild spending sprees or has lost money on bad investments, but I have no evidence that he hasn't either.

FYI I am about as big a Tiger Woods fan as you'll find and if you made me take one side of a bet, I'd take yours, but this seems like an odd statement of fact.
Kevin Rose: How to Take Your Site from One to One Million Users
I've used C-Repl quite comfortably for smaller hacks and tests.

While it's not a true REPL, it can certainly help along for simple use cases.
I know his Dubai golf course is tanking. But I'm not sure he's not just lending his name to it.
Vocoding with a piano
We've already been over this ground more than once:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=733166

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=783074

Summary: 100,000+ person study found that men who ran two or more marathons per year were 41 percent less likely to suffer from high blood pressure, 32 percent less likely to have high cholesterol, and 87 percent less likely to be diabetic than non-marathoners. Those who ran only one marathon every two to five years also had significantly lower risk for these conditions than non-marathoners.

Other studies link long-distance cardio with neurogenesis, increased life expectancy, and more.
Free + email harvesting/advertising/spam?
Perhaps, but I think this is too cynical. You forget about the cost of Flash (assuming you're being legit), the cost of being able to put up stuff on the App Store, how potentially difficult it is to adapt the application to the iPhone, and how annoyingly stringy Apple is about bugs. This will surly shoo away a large amount of amateur Flash-ists.

Plus, you're forgetting that the market is already diluted. The only apps that make it are those which get advertised heavily or a big blog discovers and writes about it. Therefore, these "million of apps" will hardly make a difference in how difficult it is to make significant money developing iPhone apps.

The App Store is not going to become Newgrounds, I promise.
A bit of everything. Obviously the software vs hardware decoding of video is a major factor, but you'll also sometimes find ads/animation causing a huge CPU spike. This is almost solely due to a Flash Designer/Animator creating the flash movie, they tend to just bump the frame rate up to something ridiculous like 60-90 fps to get smooth animation, and also overuse onFrameEnter event handlers which can be attached using the timeline.
NoSQL vs. RDBMS: Two Database Cargo Cults
All I can find is this:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1493749

which relates to headlight flashing and didn't involve any Supreme Court.
Check out MonoTouch: http://monotouch.net/

It precompiles .NET code into ARM binaries for the iPhone.
Ask HN: Facebook Advertising Platform
I had a client approach me to advertise on facebook. A year ago when I used them they were not as effective compared to Adwords and other options. But offlate I do see better ads and well placed, so was wondering if anyone can educate me on the status.

Please share any learnings/ opinion about your marketing campaigns and effectiveness on facebook?
Video games can potentially improve hand eye coordination, spacial reasoning, and reflex times. There have been experiments that have shown that doctors who played video games growing up, were more skilled in surgery. Perhaps just a correlation and not causation, but definitely something to consider.

I also think I'm a better driver because I play games, and better at understanding sports.
Congratulations, you're better at finding me than the FBI.
Can someone point me in the direction of why this is HN worthy? I'm missing the connection here.
He's letting the report speak for itself. However, to save time, here's the URL to the New York Times article about what Aaron was doing http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13records.html?ref=tech...
Posterous supports Gist:

http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-now-supports-traileraddi...
While I dislike hotmail as much as the next person, emails being 'hacked' and people stupidly falling for a phishing attempt are two different things.
I think your point makes a lot of sense. One of the sad things we would discover from that experiment is how the majority of the footage would be absolutely useless.. which to some degree would demonstrate how much time of our lives is spent doing useless or totally boring things.
My guess is that in an average 80 year life you would be pressed to find more than 24 hours worth of "worthy", relevant, amusing, moments.. most of these moments only relevant to the person itself or friends or relatives..
Another interesting thing that this experiment would yield would be to find out how much time in total was really spent doing useful things, moments that were turning points on our lives, in which we were truly happy, felt accomplished. On the average? how much time would that add up to.. probably to less than 0.0001% of our lives.. pff.. how depressing.. I cam going to do something useful right now.
I do, however, feel obligated to point out that going to jail has always been a part of civil disobedience, and people who refuse to face up to that strike me as a bit cowardly.

So all those Iranian protesters should have simply courted arrests? No. There is a particular type of civil disobedience that requires not evading of arrests. Then there are some whose explicit purpose is to fill up jails (jail bharo andolans, literally "fill the jails protests" are an occasional feature in civil disobedience in India, a relic from the British era). I do not agree with your sentiment. I think you decide whether or not you court arrests based on the goals of the movement and the perceived progress of that goal based on doing so.
House is set on a deep lot, behind other houses on Marshman Avenue. This is a heavily wooded, dead-end street, with no other cars parked on the road making continued surveillance difficult to conduct without severely increasing the risk of discovery.

Good to know.
Wasn't prakash involved as well ?

Found this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775507
Well, the problem of "too big to fail" arises due to counterparty interdependancy due to leverage, clearing, domino collapse, etc.

VC firms end up not financially interacting with other companies in this manner, nor do they get large enough to be "big."
"costed" --> "cost".
The article doesn't bring up the fact that a majority of the people in developed countries have plenty of resources to afford their needs. A house is not a necessity. A car is not a necessity. And as one of the commenters pointed out, the rising cost of health care must be in part attributed to _better_ health care. It makes a difference, since many OTC drugs that we take for granted today would be considered life-savers in the 1930s.
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This makes us at Stormpulse really happy, since our map is written in ActionScript, and people have been screaming for an iPhone app.
i don't think we'll be truly able to build a system until technology comes up with a free floating personal video assistant. eg. a digital page to follow the squire around, floating above you or something like that.
chip embedding might be another option i guess.
The upside is that you _sometimes_ get leads. The downside is that ads are overly-expensive for what you're getting. In my opinion, it's better to create a viral campaign and let others do the marketing for you ;).

Edit: thoughts from Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint: "All of our customer acquisition has been free -- through social media, blogs, and the press." (http://www.inc.com/ss/aaron-patzer-made-170-million#5)
Not only that, but 47 CFR prohibits rebroadcasting a non-public signal and Tweets may be considered broadcasting. Even ignoring the reason he's doing this, the act iself may be prima facie illegal.

See 47CFR73.1207 following "(c) The transmissions of non-broadcast stations may be rebroadcast under the following conditions:"
FWIW, there isn't much instrument training for your private certificate. You basically just need to be able to understand VOR navigation, manage attitude and speed, and navigate based on instructions from the tower using your instruments.

They pretty much want to give you the skills needed to get help and get back on the ground if you find yourself in a bad situation. And to not overreact and stall or spin yourself into the ground because you didn't trust the instruments.

With that said, there isn't such a thing as knowing too much about flying. But if your aircraft isn't IFR equipped (and lots of rentals aren't), you won't be able to practice much more than the above.
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I guess Lebron didnt have his wish come true of becoming the 1st Billion dollar athlete. But he's got many more years to come. Im sure he will surpass that number. As it is whatever his new contract is after this season, and whereever it is, is going to be worth a ridiculous amount. Try the possibility of a $50 million per year deal with a European team. Not to mention the Nike deal, the movie being released this year, the management company, a profitable and public relationship with the greatest rapper on the planet (Jay-Z), and many more endorsements. Who knows, maybe he'll be the first $2 billion dollar athlete. He taking a page from the book or "Jordan". Brand yourself, and take away from the game, more than just championships, and shoes. But a name that is worth even more.

Its like his friend Jay-Z said, "Im not a businessman, Im A Business, man."
Weightlifting, beer, cooking, baseball
My dad, who is 54, got taller since he started swimming every other day in the past two years.
Hey, it's still not as bad as most livejournal/myspace/etc. 'hacks', which usually boil down to:

* "Someone guessed my password"
* "I intentionally told someone my password and they locked me out"
* "I want to pretend it wasn't me that just epically flamed out"
I agree. This would only complicate the language, without adding much of value.
funny, this reminds me of the typical series of bugzilla comments i make when I'm debugging something. although this is a lot more detailed and thorough than I ever am...