CytokineStorm

Isn't reddit's code open source? https://github.com/reddit/reddit

Or are there parts (like the spam detection algorithm) that are kept secret?

It would be great to see a heatmap of all the tweets that they've collected since November 1st. The real-time thing is pretty cool, but I think it would be interesting to see the most active locations from the last few months on a higher resolution heatmap.

Or even better, let the user select between fixed time periods (all time, one month, one week, etc.).

"A few companies (such as ScanScout) were acquired by other private companies, so I include those in the "still alive and doing well" category, since it was not an exit from the investor perspective (no liquidity)"

How common is it for investors not to get liquidity in this situation?

Get ready for animated banner ads on your iPad...

Seriously though this looks like an amazing piece of software that will finally bring the full power of CSS3 animations to a much broader range of designers.

I cannot agree with this advice enough. Working for a startup, even as a summer intern, will give you a much clearer idea of what it actually means to run a company than reading HN every day.

You may even realize it's not what you want to do after college.

I know plenty of entries from the Node Knockout competition that fit this description perfectly. I wonder if Mozilla was inspired by what they saw at Node Knockout to put this on? There were a bunch of high-profile Mozilla employees judging.

A good place to start is http://html5boilerplate.com/. This provides a good starting point and includes the modernizr library by default, which makes it very easy to check for compatibility with HTML5 features like canvas, video/audio tags and websockets.

Dive into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim has also been a helpful reference for me.

Thanks for all the feedback. This was my entry in the Node knockout competition, along with @ollerac and @steadicat. This app was built using the awesome sockets.io library which made it simple to send realtime messages without dealing with cross-browser compatibility issues. Really the server's only job is to pass messages back and forth between the clients, who do all the work of detecting the formations and updating the other players when they move.

I think that this just the beginning for Teevox. When I met the founders last spring they were showing off a prototype iPad app that was sort of like a live newsfeed for television. As you watched a show it would pop up additional information about what was going on at that moment, like who the actors were, what song was playing in the background, trivia, and I'm sure in the future targeted ads.

I think the integration with Twitter and Facebook also indicates that they're going to be building some social features into the app, which would be pretty interesting to see. Anyway, definitely keep an eye out for these guys.

Or even better, change the default IP address for the admin login. This attack relies on a bunch of hidden iframes loading IPs that are common default addresses of the admin login page.

Did anyone else think it was strange that this article didn't even mention the importance of dark matter to the formation of galaxies? Without the enormous quantity of dark matter that gravitationally binds our galaxy together the centrifugal force would cause the galaxy to fly apart.

I think that rather than focusing on coming up with new chemicals to kill bacteria, pharmaceutical companies should work on entirely new ways of fighting bacteria, like genetically modifying bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) to go after certain strains.

db.get('flights', 'KLM-5034')(function(flight, meta) { ... });

Is this a typo? Shouldn't it be:

db.get('flights', 'KLM-5034', function(flight, meta) { ... });

How about:

"I gave my kid Harry Potter 5 MARSHALLED! I've never seen a kid deserialize that fast!"

Someone needs to prove that P != NP. Want to understand why that's important? Read this: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/9/38904-the-status-of-the...

This site looks like a great reference, but coming to git from subversion I found this page[1] to be clear and concise, and gave me enough understanding to start playing with git right away.

[1][http://betterexplained.com/articles/aha-moments-when-learnin...]

Am I the only one who read the heading on the actual page as 'Girculate'? That arrow on the end of the C is a little confusing.

Why rely on HN's anecdotal advice when you can use scientific evidence?

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplem...

Zed Shaw explained this very well in a post about why there's no real startup culture in NYC (yet): http://zedshaw.com/blog/2010-01-19.html

It's true though. The financial industry controls an incredible amount of wealth in New York. I think most people don't really appreciate the scale of it.

Really great explanation of the code... almost made me get out my linear algebra textbook.

But seriously, anyone who actually juggles could tell you that the person you rendered isn't doing it right. The balls should cross in an X pattern, not go around in a circle.

Interesting coincidence... I just went to a talk by MIT professor Sherry Turkle where she mentioned that publishers were questioning if the 'longform' of her book (~17,000 words I think) could actually sell. Her answer was that the only way to adequately deal with the complex issues she addressed was in this format.

Finally! It looks like someone actually did some simple math to determine if their results were statistically meaningful. I wish more people would include a section like this when they talk about conversion rates.

Wait, no Heroku? It should definitely be listed in the Price-Scalable Hosting section. Like AppEngine it's also free starting out, and super easy to scale. Plus it's all rails, so you don't even have to learn any App Engine API.

I think it's interesting to see the different approaches used by jQuery and YUI. Plus if you know jQuery, you can get a good sense of YUI's style just by going down the list and comparing syntax. This also pointed out a few things that YUI can do out of the box that jQuery can't, such as cross-domain requests via a flash helper.

How is one supposed to run any sort of machine learning algorithm with only two seasons of data? I could understand throwing the stats from the last 15-20 seasons into Weka and seeing what it said about 2010, but seriously how useful is only 2 seasons worth of data going to be?

Anyone know where I can download the Zen Coding plugin? The link on Google Code seems to be broken.

The title of this post is a bit of an exaggeration, to say the least. There is a great discussion over at Reddit about this same article, I strongly recommend reading the highest rated comment.

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/b53f5/a_temple_comp...

Was I the only one left wondering why this ever made it onto Hacker News? If you want personal essays read the New Yorker.

I agree. You would think that they would realize how important a well-designed and attractive website would be to their target audience.

This post might have some merit if the graph included another 10 years of data showing the return on his investment.