skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.youtube.com/html5

Youtube streams the file. Youtube also serves ads. Youtube, as exemplified by the OP and by my link is experimenting with an HTML5 player. But you are right. HTML5 has this problem of exposing the player, so any mechanisms in the javascript to force ad viewing can be more easily defeated.

A possible solution would be to track user session and force a new ad on every new session (so you can't clear cookies). That way ad tracking can persist outside of the video player itself by using the cookie.

The other problem is, who serves video files themselves anymore? So if Youtube, or any other video services who depend on ads to keep themselves afloat can't use the HTML5 video tag, who will?
Ugh - guys please don't be fooled by this. The guy has no journalistic integrity whatsoever. Remember the last.fm fiasco?

http://www.itworld.com/business/63085/lastfm-tech-crunch-and...

He's a very opportunistic person. Ranting against popular business practices produces great publicity. So does posting a very damaging but completely unverified rumor. Arrington has done both, which is why he is hardly the Robin Hood of web2.0.

Yes, occasionally Arrington's flamebaits produce some good. But overall TechCrunch is a mediocre and irresponsible "publication". I think it's a tragedy that the network effect has resulted in a clown running the most important blog about web start-ups. Imagine if the WSJ or NYT was run like TC.
Indeed. Sorry for any confusion.
Alcest -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaDm6n2oo1c

http://rapidshare.com/files/90534814/Alcest_-_Souvenirs_d_un...
Also check out Terry Reiley...
Creating PDF documents with PHP in 10 steps
Is the pace of change really such a shock?
I've heard that before. Where would you recommend I start with him.
Since you're already using Python, I'd highly recommend looking at Matplotlib (pylab). We've used it to great utility in the past.
And you're also an idiot if you pay someone else to change the oil in your car.
Does lisp not support negative numbers? :)
Imagine...

http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/11/why-mainstream-media-is-dyi...
It's kinda useful though when you want to be dumb. I've found that lately when I want to be smart, I'd rather code something than talk about coding. This leaves HN in the awkward position of not being the most productive thing I could be doing, and yet not being so idiotic that I can spout off drivel and not care.

I suppose technically Reddit is in that position too, since if I really wanted to be dumb, there's always 4chan. I never really got into 4chan though, perhaps fortunately.
you save a lot more than just deploying rails. You no longer have to administer a server, and don't under estimate how much work that is. You can create a server and maybe get away with administering it for a year or two, but eventually it will bite you in the ass.

The question people have to ask themselves is at what point is the cost of these services greater than the cost of administering their own servers. My feeling is that these services are great if you're running a small to medium site. If you have a large site, or run lots of small sites, or some combination, then you're probably better off doing it yourself.
Steve Reich?
sadly, these types of titles are the way to get on the front page of sites like this.
You would like Crippled Black Phoenix -- not entirely instrumental, but similar influences. Linked is their recent double album, Night Raiders opens with their post-rockiest track.

http://rapidshare.com/files/177917402/CBP_-_2009_The_Resurre...

http://rapidshare.com/files/177890387/CBP_-_2009_Night_Raide...
Stars of the Lid
Octave? (sort of an open source matlab)
The lambda calculus is Turing-complete, so the following language is sufficient to encode any computable function:

exp ::= var | (lambda (var) exp) | (exp exp)

Check out

http://matt.might.net/articles/church-encodings-demo-in-sche...

To see how to build numbers, booleans, lists, conditionals and recursion out of pure lambdas.

Even cooler is that these tricks work in languages like JavaScript too:

http://matt.might.net/articles/implementation-of-recursive-f...
Not any less than the Cold War culture did here.

My family name is Polish, which was as good as Russian to the average American in the early 1950s. I grew up hearing stories about Cold War discrimination from my grandparents. That sort of paranoia is un-American. It shouldn't happen here.

But there were deeper reasons for the paranoia that settled over the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and pretending that some kind of parity exists between the two is the height of college-campus solipsism:

﻿﻿http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
you're also an idiot if you eat out at a restaurant.
Ten books by Amazon and Walmart, considering their size, is more a loss-leader than price war. The publicity alone, as mentioned in the article, is worth more than any losses. After the dust has settled, both their revenue and profit intakes will likely be up.
I like A Rainbow in Curved Air, but it may be a little distracting for programming work.
Ask HN: How did you get started? 
Hi. I'm wondering how the rest of you got started, what was your first step, what was your "initial motivation"?

Before I decided to be an Entrepreneur(I can't really call myself an "official one" but I'm getting there), I first wanted to be a programmer because I had watched a short video clip of the work enviornment of a programmer. I was fascinated, I was 11 at the time and for a kid that age it seemed like heaven!
Does Heroku allow Ruby 1.9 ?
You're missing the point of what Fake Steve is saying. Puff pieces don't work as often anymore because they rely on people not having good access to better (non-puff) reporting.

If someone cares enough about something to read a puff-piece then they probably are going to care enough to read properly informative stories.

Increasingly, in all field (from celebrity gossip to finance to politics) you can get expert reporting from people who write well and know what they are talking about - and they provide real insights, not puff.

Forest. Trees.
A quick google search has a bunch of people indicating it is "free" and I don't see much a TOS. Is there anything to prevent me from encrypting my data and using this as an tertiary backup?
TechCrunch is mainstream tech journalism. Try to think of someone relatively informed about the industry who doesn't read it.
coincidently i've been looking for something like that but i haven't found anything of that kind so far.
Acme::Don't - The opposite of do
Ask HN: Open Source Technology Database?
Is anyone aware of a open source technology database? In other words, a resource in which you can search for a particular type of technology and get a set of descriptors, specs, drawings, models, inheritance, etc. I am envisioning something similar to the US patent database, only more ubiquitous and usable.

If not, do any hackers see the value that I do in this?
I wonder if this says more about Ruby, or more about Lisp?
That's an interesting question!

But please post full links rather than shortened ones.
I found it to be quite readable. Just my 2 cents.
I don't think the deprivation of money would be within due process of law. Aside from that point, where does the constitution say the government can mandate participation in an insurance plan, public or private?
Add 2 more columns to the leader board:

1. date/time or "minutes ago" of last comment

2. first 40 characters of that comment...

Most of the people I like to follow are already on the leader board. It sure would be nice to know who's on-line right now and what they're talking about without having to drill down 20 times.

Possible additional benefits of this enhancement:

1. People may take an extra moment or two to examine their comment's quality if they knew it would shortly be on a "master" page for all to see.

2. An additional route for people to join a conversation they're interested in.
Ruby client for HBase's Stargate web service
Stargate is the new RESTful web service front end for HBase, which is planned to replace the old REST server. Some new features include serving up data in XML, JSON, and protobufs, as well as having an API that's better integrated to REST. Check out wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/Stargate for more information.

I rewrote the existing 'hbase-ruby' client to use Stargate and released it on Github/Gemcutter.

Github: github.com/greglu/hbase-ruby
Gemcutter: gemcutter.org/gems/hbase-ruby
I particularly like arch carrier, by autechre: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYikLIMPHSs
The later works of Scriabin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin
KA-POW!

Feels like that episode of family guy (post-apocalypse) when the town destroys all weapons only to be destroyed by mutated stewies.
Stargate is the new RESTful web service front end for HBase, which is planned to replace the old REST server. Some new features include serving up data in XML, JSON, and protobufs, as well as having an API that's better integrated to REST. Check out http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/Stargate for more information.

I rewrote the existing 'hbase-ruby' client to use Stargate and released it on Github/Gemcutter.

Github: http://github.com/greglu/hbase-ruby
Gemcutter: http://gemcutter.org/gems/hbase-ruby
About as playful as 'You're an idiot if you take this comment seriously.'
This is reminiscent of (in effect, if not in mechanism) Belady's Anomaly. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belady%27s_anomaly)
Quote as a predefined macro could be important though, in a Lisp, if you expect to be doing a lot of macro magic, and I don't see it here.

This is cool, though, and very readable; I know what all the code is doing with a quick glance. Cheers to the author.
You can use this if you are adding something that belongs on archive.org. If you are uploading something that might belong in a museum or library, you can use this api. The Internet Archive is not for your encrypted backups.
The one I wish they had measured was createElement compared to innerHTML replacement.

In my job I was always shocked to see massive HTML strings appended or replaced in an objects innerHTML, and instead wrote lots of createElements and createTextNodes. Apparently, for performance's sake (and especially in loops) it is MUCH more efficient to use a string and replace methods to alter the content.
I also say the words in my head, but not in their entirety, a lot of the time. However, my speed also varies greatly depending on what I'm reading. The Art can take me almost 10 minutes per page, while Harry Potter or some other fiction book clock in at 150-200 pages an hour.

Unlike you, I don't read aloud very fast. In fact, I'm usually pretty poor at reading aloud. At max speed, I read much, much faster than I could possibly speak and when reading aloud I often stumble over words because my mind is going on, but my mouth is still trying to say the third word behind.

To a certain extent I sometimes dislike reading very fast. My retention rate is the same either way but I will often finish good books too quickly for my liking. This may also be a reason why I am attracted to longer books -- they can provide more than an hour or so of reading time.
Android, Mythbusters and openness
Definitely prefer Rails.

PHP just can't match the Ruby language, and I have yet to find a PHP framework with the sheer level of awesome of Rails.

I currently have both Rails and PHP apps in production, and these days I charge extra to work in PHP because I know it will take me a lot longer.
the lies repeted many times become to be truth.don't the goverments do the same things but politicians get away with it, with the difference to mister gollum whos luck is at list under question mark
hehe, I had this open two tabs to the left of HN :)

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/lisp-faq/part1/section-6.html
What are Some of the Teeth Whitening Results You Should Expect?
Lisp in about 100 lines of Python:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/lisp/l.py
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
http://philip.greenspun.com/research/
All true. However, the question was not about ethics, it was about the presence or absence of technical countermeasures to prevent less scrupulous folks from using archive.org in this way.
I found the tone of the title and the whole article arrogant, rather than playful.

I can't help wondering at the small view of the world implied in the title. People are still creating interesting software applications that are not web apps. Those people won't give a damn about Heroku, and they are not idiots.
Multi-Billion dollar business vs. pointless elegance. I wonder who will win the argument.
Who will? Anyone who wants to serve video without interstitial ads. Think about the world before Youtube-like sites. How did we embed video? Often times hosted on our own servers. If I want to serve up a dynamic video for example, right now Youtube-like services do not allow me to do that. I think dynamic video is a great use case for the video tag e.g. splicing a use photo into video.

It seems to me that unless the ad is prepended to the actual video file then using javascript we can tell when an ad is playing and kill it/skip to the "real" content. On the other hand the average user probably does not have the expertise to kill ads, so maybe the point is moot.
Startup Claims Google Copied Web-Annotation Product
Remote-controlled war planes will probably return to being thought of as a niche/specialist weapon after the first time they are launched against an enemy with some actual engineering know-how. (Consider battery/solar-powered Tesla coils lofted on weather balloons, by the hundreds. Hell, spoofing GPS will probably do the trick.) Any signal can be jammed - especially a critically real-time one.
Speaking from experience when I read quickly it feels like I'm "pipelining" stuff. Normal people read a bit, process, integrate, then read some more. I am able to read, process, and integrate in parallel at different speeds. I'll get to the end of my reading, and internally I am not done the material. This lets me read much more quickly.

I will definitely support this. I didn't even know that people normally take time to process after reading. When I read, I never stop, I simply digest while reading the next paragraph.

I just flipped through a book that I had read before and my reading speed is also pretty high at 1,000-1,200 words per minute.
One of the curious things about the system is how infrequently large companies actually own the patents that make up the core of their business. PageRank is owned by Stanford, not by Google. The original Lisp Machine patents were owned by MIT, not by Symbolics. Same with Akamai's core patents. The original ideas behind EBay and online auctions were never patented, because Pierre Omidyar had a day job and his employer probably would've owned it anyway.

I guess the takeaway for new entrepreneurs is to focus on making money, not patents. Because once you have money, you can hire good people, and then you'll own the patents that they produce. It's kinda odd that giant corporations own huge patent portfolios, but almost never the patents on the inventions that spawned the companies. I guess it makes sense when you consider employment law and the need to earn a living, though. If it works for Google, E-bay, Akamai, etc, it ought to be good enough for us.
See, this is why it's a playful title and not a literal one, which is why so many literal-minded people don't like it. If you really take everything you read at face value, you're missing out on a lot of fun frivolities to be had. Life should not be so serious that a title of an article irritates you like that.
Or, somewhat more boringly, the spies were posted outside the airbases in Italy with a mobile phone and instructions to call when the F-117's took off.

There are a few details on http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htada/articles/20051121.asp...
Well, you are, aren't you? I mean, if my comment enlightens you, then take what you can from it. But if it doesn't, why the fuck should you care about it? It's an Internet comment. Either have fun with it or go find something you legit enjoy.
That's okay: I'm not a programmer.
iStoleYourStartup: A story of an iPhone Company Con Man
It's pretty sad that, based on the Summary at the bottom, the worst non-IE browser (Opera 9 with 34%, in Far Past) is still better off than the current version of IE (28%).
When I really listen to a few songs, at certain parts, I get an intense tingly feeling all over my body that feels awesome.

Yes - Close to the Edge (when the organs come in)
Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (the finale)

These two do it basically every time. Anyone know anything about this? Do other people get this awesome tingling sensation?

I also find that harpsichord music is good for concentrating as well as music by Can. In particular, I'll often put on Can's Tago Mago when I need to get work done.
I recently noticed that if I put on something extremely hard or caustic - some kind of screamy metal like Protest the Hero or Tool - and turn the volume up to the point where I can't hear anything else, I stop noticing the music altogether. It kind of feels like it puts my auditory nerve on overload and everything gets filtered out.

The intense, ear-crushing metal also confers the added bonus of warding away pesky human distractions.
Where are these numbers coming from? $20k for family expenses? If you "leave the money in it's income" and you're paying more? You need an accountant. If you start a company with $50k and end the year with $20k in the company ING account, you did something drastically wrong.

What I'm stuck on now is: Daniel, you're clearly over 35. Are you telling us you're not insured? Or did I misread you?

It would be easier to discuss this with you if you had

(a) read the bill,

(b) grokked basic corp accounting, and

(c) would explain where your numbers from.

From this discussion, to be totally frank, I think you have bigger problems with your impending startup than health insurance. Who distros $20k of a $50k investment out to a founder?
From the man page:

BUGS: Unlikely, since it doesn't actually do anything.
You're not? What are you?

[edit: that came out wrong]
Well, it's not research, but G Gordon Liddy's autobiography Will shows one person's regimen for successfully developing a high degree of willpower. It might be a little over the top, though. For example, while in prison he burns a hole through his arm to test his willpower against pain.
Running my own business:

Necessity.

I simply had to get some food on the table, it was a pretty good motivator I can tell you.

Programming:

Because it seemed like a better way to build logic stuff rather than to use a bunch of 74 series chips for it. I was always hooking stuff up to the centronics port or other io ports.

My first 'programmable' device I think was a ti 57 calculator, then one of those radio shack/sharp pocket basic computers (I still have that thing somewhere here!), then a KIM-1.
Not yet, at least not for general customers.
For me, it depends on the day. Today, I put on some 90's ska. It's not usually that.
Depends on the kinda of visualization you are talking about.

I've worked extensively with tools like:
Starlight http://www.futurepointsystms.com
Palantir (mentioned previously) http://www.palantirtech.com
I2's tools http://www.i2inc.com/
and others.

There's also scientific data visualization, for looking at things like heat dissipation in an engine...

But it sounds like you are looking for something like Matlab.
http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ImplementingLisp

Pair-structured memory, a (very simple) recursive-descent parser, eval, apply, read, print, a few mathematical primitives, not too much else. Once you have the bare bones, _The Art of the Interpreter_ provides a good skeleton. Don't worry about a garbage collector yet - either use a language with one (Scheme, Python, Lua, Ruby, OCaml, etc.) or just let it leak memory for now. (Garbage collectors aren't deep magic either, but one thing at a time, you know?)

Implementing a toy Lisp is absolutely worthwhile. It shouldn't take too long* , and it will teach you several deep things. Don't worry about making it efficient until you have it together enough to be useful. (If you want a mini language that's mature, just use Lua.) This is about discovery. Many interpreters for mini-languages don't need to be efficient, anyway. Who writes 20,k-long files in a DSL?

* Though if you've never done an interpreter at all, a half-assed Forth is even simpler. Either way, implementing half-assed Lisps, Prologs, Js, etc. is a great way to feel out a language. Worrying about getting it efficient upfront can be a red herring.
Wait wait wait wait wait wait.

You had 7-8 figures in your brokerage account, and that was when you decided you didn't need health insurance?
The best thing about my new gig at oneforty is that I'm in Massachusetts and I can get health insurance via the Massachusetts exchange. I seriously, seriously believe that if health insurance doesn't pass that startups who aren't looking to raise money locate in Massachusetts for this reason alone (and there are a ton of other good things about the community here).
I've always used it to mean "something that you find initially contradictory, but can be rationally explained".
"there is no quick fix for crumbling infrastructure"

According to US engineers ... it's not just 'communism' that has that problem.
From WP:

Arrington grew up in California, USA and Surrey, England and graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a major in economics. He went on to Stanford Law School and graduated in 1995.[6] He practiced corporate and securities law at O’Melveny & Myers, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.[7] Arrington was co-founder of Achex, an internet payments company, which was sold to First Data Corp for US$32 million and is now the back end of Western Union online. His other entrepreneurial endeavors include co-founding Zip.ca and Pool.com, acting as chief operating officer for Razorgator, and founding Edgeio.
I'm pretty amazed by this whole thread, to be honest. Do people really believe that the author thinks they're idiots?
Given good enough automation, critical real-time signals will become unnecessary.
I think he is wrong about price matching. You can very often find items at stores with price-match guarantees at prices higher than elsewhere. If you are willing to price-match and spend a relatively large amount of time, then you can get the item at... that same price you would have paid somewhere else. Surprisingly enough, consumers rarely take advantage of this! Price-match guarantees are a cheap way to mislead consumers that your prices are lower, not a way of negotiating with competitors. If stores wanted to signal each other, as he claims, they would automatically match prices. They don't.
brace is an experimental language, the let(a,1) business it a very primitive approach to type inference, it is simply a macro that translates to typeof(1) a = 1 (and unfortunately thereby depends on a gcc extension). I do hope to add proper type inference in a later version of brace.
Cyber Attacks Caused Brazil Power Outages
since some people like C's syntax and some people like python's syntax, I hope to support both in future, changing one to the other can be as simple as running a program like "indent" over the code.
Happy hacking :) Hopefully you're more productive as a result.
I prefer Ruby as well, but I definitely found being a Ruby newbie on Windows very painful. This was several years ago though.
Simple Simhashing - Clustering in linear time.