jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
MuseScore was acquired by Ultimate Guitar 3 years ago. How has it worked out?
They have kept it open source, and it looks there has been more development since then. However, some users complain about the monetization of the brand. I'm not sure what the ratio of positives to negatives are. It's clear that the devs and the company can make money this way, (and I think this is a good thing), but I'd like to better understand if this kind of model can be good for the users too.

Questions I have:

How has the community responded? It's hard to find much about this, and I imagine many users aren't even aware of this. Did any users leave or join because of changes due to this acquisition?

On the development side, is it easier or more difficult for new developers to contribute new features or fixes to MuseScore?

Is there any worry that if things don't work out they will relicense the product or code and make money that way by selling it for commercial use?

Would the same issues apply to a more popular OSS like VLC?

I asked this question on reddit but didn't get much of a response, so hoping HN has more thoughts on it.
CBS Buys CNET for $1.8 Billion
http://img135.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cnetuz9.gif
As announced in an Email to CBS employees.
Examples of good web design portfolios
http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/9586144678/showing-off#comment-298726075
From the comments of a blog post providing tips about better portfolios for web designers.
Python bindings for the Model S REST API
https://github.com/nside/pytesla
>>> import pytesla
>>> mycar = pytesla.Connection('myemail', 'mypassword').vehicle('myvin')
>>> mycar.honk_horn()
True
Show HN: Hurricane Path Prediction Using LSTM
https://github.com/Zhack47/Hurricane-Path-Prediction
College project I picked back up and improved.
Implementation in PyTorch, better results than NHC models as reported at : https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/verification/verify8.shtml
How  toMake Apple Website a like Button With CSS3
http://blogfreakz.com/button/apple-website-button-css3/
High-quality interface elements are a great way to add that extra bit of refinement to a website. Thoughtbot, a web design and development agency in Boston is sharing tutorial, how to building the button that Peter Vidani recently named 2010 Button of the Year.
Ask HN: Kickstarter for Startups?
What would you think if a site existed that was basicaly a kickstarter but for startups/for-profit businesses.

So a startup or concept would come on and post their idea and the community would then buy shares/equity into the company?

I was thinking that because actual profit can be skewed so much, in exchange for buying equity/shares, the startup would payout a percent of revenue back to the investors. That way it couldn't be up for debate what that number is. Thoughts?
CodeMinima.com: The Minimal Code Site
http://www.codeminima.com
CodeMinima.com is a collaborative site geared towards software developers. It can best be described as a wikipedia for software developers. It is a "minimal" coding site, in that it has code samples that are absolutely minimal so that the mechanism for implementing a particular task is demonstrated without any bells or whistles. It aspires to have code samples for all programming languages in multiple domains. You can view the site at www.CodeMinima.com.
Ask HN: why do spammers target HN?
on http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories you see a lot of spam. A small percentage is blog spam with a technical subject matter but the bulk of it is totally unrelated to technology, hackers or business.

I'm wondering why the spammers continue to spam this site when there is virtually a zero chance that their submission will make the front page. I'm guessing they don't specifically target HN but instead are using spamming software which posts to various sites in bulk.

If that's true, I wonder why the authors included HN in the list of sites to post to. Are they just taking a shotgun approach and hitting any site they can or is there a method to their madness?
VC Fundraising Manual: Signs You Are Close To A Term Sheet
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/12/signs-youre-clo.html
Entrepreneurs in the due diligence phase are often eager to know when they will receive a term sheet. Unfortunately, the due diligence process varies by venture firm, making the timing a bit variable. However, despite the variance in process there are some common signs that the term sheet will be coming soon.

First and foremost...
ACTA IS BACK: Leaked docs show EU Commission trying to sneak ACTA via Canada
http://boingboing.net/?p=170057
source article http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6580/135/
Decentralised social networking
http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/2007/8/10/#200708102
Time to build a proper decentralised social network, so you can keep your profile on your own server without sacrificing Facebook-like privacy controls.
Weeks of hell at Opera Software
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1943590.ece
Video available here:
http://nettv.aftenposten.no/player/player.php?id=5180
Are you Left Brained or Right Brained?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html
I just happen to be one of the right brained people. Apparently I'm rash and religious? Go figure...
Ask HN: Baseline for web traffic?
I'm looking at traffic to my company's site and trying to figure out what's causing spikes and dips. I'm sure many of you are doing the same thing.

The holiday season is especially noisy. There's a huge dip on Christmas day, a huge spike right before, etc. My guess is that the baseline internet traffic for North America is very noisy right now.

What seems dumb is that I'm making guesses about what's causing these spikes and dips with little knowledge of the overall traffic environment. For instance, perhaps everyone's traffic spiked a bit on Dec 29th and 30th and it had nothing to do with the email blast we sent out.

Does anyone know of a good tool or at least a data set I could use to help me tease out the signal in all of this noise?

Thanks!
Show HN: Crystal clear and natural sounding Google TTS voices
http://translate.google.com/#en|es|
Google bought a company called Phonetic Arts last year to make their synthesized voices a lot more natural. I think they've just started implementing that technology in Google Translate. I don't think it works for too many languages yet, but English and Spanish voices sound very natural, almost real.

Write something in the text box and then press to sound button to check it out. I'm not sure if it matters, but I'm using Chrome. I know Google has just released some TTS API's for Chrome recently.
Khan-like videos for Machine Learning and Probability Theory.
http://www.youtube.com/user/mathematicalmonk#p/u
Hat tip to JeanPierre for mentioning this in another thread.

I've really enjoyed these videos by mathematicalmonk. He strives to build intuition and provides good examples. He even touches on some measure theory in his probability theory primer.
Wal-Mart Announces Plans for Internet Domination By 2009
http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/01/wal-mart-announ.html
Wal-Mart launches Internet invasion.
Show HN: Hangman meets Wordle webapp in Angular
https://10letters.app
Hey HN,

I am a novice web developer, and I built a new webapp game in Angular that combines the game play of Hangman and Wordle. I chose this project because I wanted to learn Angular, while also developing something useful.

I have some prior backend experience. And, I was pleasantly surprised with how much you can achieve in the pure JS/Typescript these days. For my app, the backend only sends the daily puzzle data in JSON, while the entire game logic and interactions are completely implemented in the frontend. I wrote around 4000 lines of the frontend code for this project.

For me, the best part was RxJS integration in Angular. It also had a fair amount of learning curve. However, once you have learned the basics, it saves a lot of redundant boilerplate code and makes the code more readable and clean.

You can play the game for free and there is no sign-up required: https://10letters.app

The game does not save any user data at the server. All data is saved in the local storage. So, you can play the game again in the incognito mode, or after clearing your browser cache.

If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to add them in the comments.

Thanks!
Unpaid Internships: A Loophole To Avoid Labor Laws
http://www.social42.com/news/Unpaid-Internships-A-Loophole-To-Avoid-Labor-Laws/36
Many, many, years ago, internships were called apprenticeships, and my dear departed grandfather used to call them.
Being shy about how much I make
http://littlemissmoneybags.blogspot.com/2011/03/being-shy-about-how-much-i-make.html
"I went out for dinner last night with two friends in my field, and had the most bizarre realization that I make way more money than they do."
Ask HN: Remember MailChimp Integration Fund? Anyone else got a reply?
I submitted my idea to MailChimp some 3 weeks back, I just a reply from them. Anyone else got a reply?
Ask NH: MacOS / XCode 4 Guides, Books, Tutorials?
I'm on the search for a good XCode 4 and MacOS development book and tutorial.

Everything I've found either concentrates on Xcode 3, which is significantly different or iOS development, not MacOS.

If you have a good resource for MacOS development, can you please share?
Show HN: Human Chatbot
https://txt.me/customer-support-as-service
We are a small team bootstrapping a human chatbot.
It is like a chatbot, but real people answer the chats. You install our widget on a website, we connect our team and immediately start answering, 24/7.

How does it work?
It is cloud customer service. The operators are shared between the websites, hence lowering the price.

What happens if the operator doesn't know how to answer?
We collect the visitor's contacts and create a ticket. You then reply to the ticket, and the system sends an email to the customer.

Would love feedback from HN!
Ask HN: Any HN'ers in Tokyo/Yokohama? I'm visiting next week
Hi There!
I'm visiting Tokyo/Yokohama next week. Wondering if there are any HN type meet ups or coders that would have a drink with me after work.
Ask HN: Perfect PR or dirty trick?
1) Wait for a big news event in your industry, which has lots of buzz and rumours around it in the news/blogosphere - ala Facebook mail.

2) Then hijack it with your own release just hours before the big event - like AOL's Phenix.

This happens ALL the time - my question is, in terms of company credibility, is this behaviour shameful or not?

Some people I have talked to say it's the perfect PR stunt - try to do it as much as possible. Others say it's dirty trick and will tarnish the brand over time.

I'm wondering what the startup/HN community thinks of this type of PR?
Show HN: Simplified interface for old people.
http://kwkster.com
A simple way to leverage some social networking tools.
Processing.js 1.0 Released
http://processingjs.org/
The Pros and Cons: WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
http://opensourcecms.pro/wordpress/choose-wordpress-com-wordpress-org/
Looks at the eternal question: Which one should I use?
Show HN: CouchTalk push-to-talk demo for Chrome
http://talk.couchbasers.com/talk/hn
This uses new HTML5 features (getUserMedia, Web Workers, etc) to build an audio/visual chat room. Hold down the space bar while you are talking to record messages.
Ask HN: Free alternative to Campfire?
Is there one?
Show HN: An SSH Agent for hardware keys on Windows
https://github.com/unreality/nCryptAgent
An SSH Agent for Hardware backed keys on Windows. I wanted something like Secretive for Windows, so attempted to make one...
Nokia's MITM on its browser
http://gaurangkp.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/nokia-https-mitm/
Seems that nokia is doing naughty stuff. After Turktrust case it makes people paranoid about what to trust.
Show HN: My favourite database for Web3: Xata
https://www.guibibeau.com/blog/web3-database
Blog post on why I love Xata when building web3 projects
Show HN: No-Code access to all FRED and BLS data
https://app.dataherald.com/visualization/create/feed-search
Dataherald is a no-code data platform that allows you to create and deploy powerful data content (charts, maps, graphs) in less than 60 seconds. We’ve automated ETL for hundreds of public and proprietary data sources, surfacing ready-to-use live-updating visualizations in as little as 3 clicks. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) inflation and employment data, FRED economic and automotive data, and hundreds of other fascinating data feeds are already piped in and at your fingertips – the only thing left is for you to create your own custom visualizations and generate insights from them. Dataherald helps you tell stories with data faster.

Take it for a spin and tell me what you think. We’re specifically interested in your feedback for the software interface and what data sources you would want (and for what purpose).
Show HN: 500+ Hours so far on the 4.77Mhz DOS web server
http://brutmanlabs.org/
Warning: As soon as I post this I know the machine is going to be basically DoS'ed. It's not hard to DoS a DOS machine. The machine may refuse to serve your request, but it will stay running, and that's the important part.

This is a follow-up to something I posted three weeks ago. Ye old web server running the mTCP HTTP server on DOS has now passed 500 hours of runtime and it is still going, at least until the power glitches. The stats so far:

Run-time: 505 hours
TCP/IP connections: 34230
Objects served: 38865
TCP Packets sent/received: 996627, 889798
All packet types sent/received: 1544807, 1671011

I started running it as a long term test of my TCP/IP stack for DOS. I need to eventually pull the logs from the machine to look for anomalies, but the code is certainly stable. (I'm logging to both disk and over UDP so I can snoop in on the machine activity without having a monitor turned on.)
While the machine is running I'm taking time to update the documentation.

The site is at http://brutmanlabs.org/ . I did not cache any files in memory, so please be patient with the initial page load. The current server stats can be seen at http://brutmanlabs.org/status .

Fun fact: you can "hear" vulnerability scans being run against the machine. The machine beeps for each response served, and vulnerability scans generate 404s which are really quick to serve. So a sequence of fast beeps is generally a vulnerability scan.
Show HN: weekend project to capture user tests from friends
http://moustach.io
I've been working some software to make capturing feedback cheap and easy. I think it can be much less expensive if we put our friends and family to use.
Does today's XKCD describe you?
http://www.clinkclank.net/getcooking/
If so, can you take 3 minutes to answer a quick survey on why you want to cook more often? (You'll be helping a side project of mine and I'm happy to return the favor.)
Wait... People don't love location based apps?
http://blog.urbantag.com/post/5249446002/wait-people-dont-love-location-based-services
a teaser of whats to come from @urbantag
The negative control came up "positive" while the acid bath came up "negative"
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/259984904_Stimulus-triggered_fate_conversion_of_somatic_cells_into_pluripotency/reviews/103
Fascinating read if you can finish the whole thread. And the story is still developing.
Ask HN: Where is Jack Slocum? (ExtJS)
ExtJS renamed to Sencha and his name is gone:

http://www.sencha.com/company

I'm not following ExtJS intensively, I'm just curious what is he up to.
Show HN: Chrome extension that extracts HTML+CSS from an element to inline style
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/html-+-css-extract/bkahkocegdkgicmmfpkoeipjmjaeohfn
Hi there. I spent the last couple months building this chrome extension to scratch my own itch. It allows you to extract a snippet of HTML along with its styles and export to inline styles or JSX. It’s not perfect and doesn’t work on every site. There is class support but I am still working on it along with some other cool features. Feedback is appreciated.
Ask HN: A Rust Book
It's that time of year where I do something to stretch myself. It's been long enough since I've written a book that I've almost forgotten how much I hated it.

I'm thinking of a writing a Rust book in 3-ish sections:
- Get Started + a few tutorials
- A light-weight referenc-ey take on the language, much like the old K&R C book (which I thought was truly excellent) with maybe a few more definitional or explanatory asides like one would see in the Qt documentation.
- A large project

Here's where the question part comes in. The project I do for myself usually have to do with physical simulations, rendering, agent-based simulations (economics, oil market supply-and-demand lumpiness, markets) or something like a small-worlds analysis of metabolic pathways in a liver cell. Or something.

I'm not really a web-/mobile- CRUD app guy, and something with numerics like a singular value decomposition (SVD) calculation is more my speed.

And Rust is pretty cool for this stuff because it's pretty speedy, typed and safe.

But as I'm a weird guy, coming up with something that might be of general interest "to the people" is stumping me a bit.

Which is where y'all come in.

Q1: What kind of (maybe computationally intensive) type of project would a larger population of people than me find of general interest?

Q2: Most of my prior efforts would be published by Springer Verlag or Morgan Kauffman and the like. Should this be an O'Reilly type thing? A gitbook type thing? Both? Neither? Something else?

Thanks!
Identifying Effective Startup Advisors
http://www.infochachkie.com/oldgrayadvice/#more-252
Great article describing how to find entrepreneurial Advisors who can add real value to your ventures.
Ask HN: Remaining mindful while engaged in intellectual or social activities?
I’m defining mindfulness as the state of being aware of the impressions, thoughts and sensations arising in the moment.

While meditating, this is easily achievable. Though I quickly become swept away in conversation or programming.

Any advice?
Ask HN: What are you using for IAP subscription management?
Seen Revenuecat, Apphud, Qonversion as a few different options, trying to see what may be best for apps in the 100k - 1M and 1M - 10M stage
Ask HN: New team, good tutorials on Linux network admin/ HA db concepts?
I just joined a new team and realized I need to get up to speed on some fundamental concepts.

We're big users of Influxdb and a couple other nosql databases. We deploy both to our cloud and to bespoke on-prem installations.

I want to learn about not only products, but fundamental concepts I've pushed aside until now, specifically HA, distributed databases, vpc peering and other linux networking concepts, as well as docker/k8s.

I've started reading Designing Data Intensive Applications and am working through the Docker tutorial, what other resources are available? I need to balance depth with time commitment as I need to be productive within a month or so. Anything hands on would be greatly appreciated as I don't tend to retain concepts when I just read a Medium article.
What would Jesus Hack
http://www.economist.com/node/21527031?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Far%2Fwhatwouldjesushack
The Economist on the parallels between the Open Source movement and Christianity.
Ask HN: Is there a place where all developer conferences are listed?
As the title says, I'd like to know if there is a place where the upcoming dev conferences are listed? Preferably the list can be filtered based on keywords, country/area etc.

Thanks.
Discover who commits the most/least in your Github project
http://gitmetrics.com/
Analyze Statistics
View your repository development through the last 100 commits and analyze the participation of users within the project. For the first time you can view through graphs who really puts what into the project.
Ask HN: How to securely send legal docs to clients?
Hello Hacker News,

Here's a pain point my lawyer friend has - in order to reduce her liability exposure she has to find a way to securely send files to her clients. She asked me how to do this, and I don't know a good way. She's an estate lawyer so a lot of her clients are on the older side and not too tech savvy.

I know that she could password-protect the docs, but she would still have to email the passwords to her clients, which defeats the whole scheme.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? Does anyone know of any web apps that would let her upload the docs and then invite people to look at the docs - sort of a specialized / streamlined / secure version of google docs? I am pretty sure that she'd pay a monthly subscription fee if that would solve her problem.

(Her email to me is below ...)

----------

Well, I have an ulcer after attending a webinar sponsored by my malpractice carrier. Lawyers may have to deal with the FACTA rules which has "red flag rules" to prevent id theft. You may know about this. I basically know nothing.

During the seminar, the speaker said that encrypting data (separating the client name from the information) helps. More and more, I send clients drafts and final pdf docs via email. What can you tell me about encrypting? I have received encrypted attachments from two financial planners in the past, and I thought they were being way too Dick Tracey at the time; however, it seems this is the future. They would send me a password to open the docs (couldn't someone intercept the password?).

What do I need to know? Big sigh. Thanks SO MUCH.
The Five Orders of Ignorance 
http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:7LZ_aMQV3x8J:www-plan.cs.colorado.edu/diwan/3308-07/p17-armour.pdf+%22The+five+orders+of+ignorance%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3
PDF version is here:
www-plan.cs.colorado.edu/diwan/3308-07/p17-armour.pdf
Valley veteran Jeffrey McManus passes away suddenly
http://pandodaily.com/2013/07/05/valley-veteran-jeffrey-mcmanus-passes-away-suddenly/
RIP Jeffrey McManus. Devoted educator and amazing dad.
Show HN: I created a simple and fast Broken Link Checker for WordPress
https://github.com/Suleman-Elahi/WpBrokenCheck
There aren't any reliable free broken link checkers out there, so I decided to create one. Right now, it is a Python script that can be run on any platform. It is multi-threaded and has a lot of room for improvement.

Feel free to check out the code and point out the mistakes or leave suggestions. I am newbie programmer :)
JumpScan - QR-Code redirector
http://jumpscan.com/
This looks interesting... Links all your stuff with one QR-Code...
Show HN: Monitor for displaying process traffic on Mac Status bar
https://github.com/foamzou/ITraffic-monitor-for-mac
1. The tool show network speed by process
2. Adapt dark mode
3. Use nettop's delta mode to make statistics more accurate
Google's Android unit reportedly building a smartwatch
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/21/4133428/is-google-building-a-smart-watch-of-its-own
After Samsumg and Apple, now it seems Google is making a smartwatch, too.
Rubinius and the Mandelbrot bench
http://rfc2616.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/rubinius-vs-the-benchmark-from-hell/
Interesting read on the possibilities for Rubinius performance backed by Mandelbrot bench performance comparisons
Google Chrome Extension: 2 Pane for Gmail
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jimomiffmbadddfkmhpafdbbofnkdeec
Hey Guys,

Happy New Year 2012.

Please try my new Google Chrome Extension for Gmail. It's a very simple extension but I believe It will be useful for Small Display.