skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the ipad have a microphone? It seems like that would open up a lot of doors for this kind of app (and obviously the iphone has one).
The question was phrased in the format of a poll, not a direct query to each individual company. Your comment added no value to either the OP nor the people reading the thread and was superfluous. This is, in my opinion, why you were down-voted.
Success Startup: Success Story Behind YouTube
the more i think about this model, the more it makes sense to me.

eventually google can start to leverage their phones sales and can negotiate service contract prices if more device manufacturers sign up to sell their phones thru google.
While the House has very broad discretion to make its own rules, the Supreme Court case striking down the line item veto provides pretty strong authority for saying that a "deemed enacted" method of purporting to pass a bill would violate Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution.

According to Article I, Section 7, in order for a "Bill" to "become a Law," it "shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate" and be "presented to the President of the United States" for signature or veto. Unless a bill actually has "passed" both Houses, it cannot be presented to the president and cannot become a law.

In striking down the line item veto, the Court (in the case of Clinton v. City of New York (1998)) rested its decision squarely on the requirements of Article 1, Section 7, stating as follows:

"[O]ur decision rests on the narrow ground that the procedures authorized by the Line Item Veto Act are not authorized by the Constitution. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 is a 500-page document that became 'Public Law 105-33' after three procedural steps were taken: (1) a bill containing its exact text was approved by a majority of the Members of the House of Representatives; (2) the Senate approved precisely the same text; and (3) that text was signed into law by the President. The Constitution explicitly requires that each of those three steps be taken before a bill may 'become a law.' Art. I, sec. 7. If one paragraph of that text had been omitted at any one of those three stages, Public Law 105-33 would not have been validly enacted. If the Line Item Veto Act were valid, it would authorize the President to create a different law, one whose text was not voted on by either House of Congress or presented to the President for signature. Something that might be known as 'Public Law 105-33 as modified by the President' may or may not be desirable, but it is surely not a document that may 'become a law' pursuant to the procedures designed by the Framers of Article I, sec. 7, of the Constitution."

Michael McConnell, a Stanford constitutional law scholar, explained the problem with the Slaughter rule ("deemed enacted") as it would apply to this case:

"The Slaughter solution attempts to allow the House to pass the Senate bill, plus a bill amending it, with a single vote. The senators would then vote only on the amendatory bill. But this means that no single bill will have passed both houses in the same form."

Ergo, a clear violation of Article 1, section 7, as recently interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. This is not so much a political issue as a legal one - if this rather desperate approach is used to attempt to pass this bill, it will very likely be struck down as unconstitutional, notwithstanding the House's otherwise broad discretion in regulating its own affairs.
Anyone know what the word is on WebSockets?
Yea, there's a lot of interesting things that have been done with graphs. I'm currently working on a reversing platform, and one of the core things I'm doing is elegant graph manipulation. It's amazing how much you can do when you have nice graphs, e.g. native pattern matching over graphs.
The author raises a good point on the subject of disclosure and its importance. However, wrapping that important argument in the guise of "we need a new tag" is simply link bait.
Interesting and I liked the CherryPy results. I used CherryPy a lot 5 to 6 years ago back in my Python using days -- simple and does the job.

That said, database access, network latency, caching, etc. are so important that you might as well just use the framework you like, then tune if required.
This is one of the best lectures/essays I have ever read. Argues for better (moral) leadership in nearly all of society's institutions, and what is required for that, exposing, along the way, not only military bureaucracies and the kinds of people these attract, and much more.
Hm this adds up to roughly 11 work weeks of straight-through work. Do you have some kind of real-time estimate and break down about which parts you developed first or in conjunction with what other features?

My mind usually races a million miles an hour when starting new projects and I end up doing a little bit of everything.
Why would not supporting flash be bad?
I love being reminded occasionally about the lower levels of computer operation. It never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to gloss over the details of computers with an abstraction. We create layer upon layer of abstraction and can quickly forget what is underneath, if we ever knew in the first place.

As long as those abstractions don't leak, it isn't a big deal, but when they do you had better know what's going on down below.
I would like to know that, but I wouldn’t read the source to find out.

What’s so bad about something like

<p class="disclosure"><em>Disclosure:</em> XYZ</p>

?

Put it inside the <article>-tag (in our glorious HTML5 future) so you don’t lose it. A <disclosure>-tag just seems too specific.
The chicken example was concerning the cycle of flies in fruit trees. You're right, they will eat anything people will eat, including your lovely garden. But companion planting, like marigolds in tomatoes is also a permaculture design principle. Wormwood, the stuff in absinthe, is also good for chickens to keep away some parasites.

For anyone interested, it's definitely more complicated than I'm describing here (but not by much). Go to a video search site like bing or google and search for permaculture and filter by videos longer than 20 minutes. There's a wealth of information on it. Look for stuff about about Forest Gardens. There are several videos about Sepp Holzer in Austria who grows everything you can imagine. Really spectacular stuff!

As sethg said, by "more productive" I mean more food per acre. I've heard with permaculture, you can feed 10 people on an acre. The reason is because you have nut trees at the top, fruit trees below that, followed by bushes, herbaceous, root plants, then vines and climbers spread throughout.

In a monoculture, you have just one layer of productivity: a field of potatoes with no trees. An apple orchard with no herbaceous plants or vines. It's like a web server at 15% capacity. Permaculture is to agriculture what virtualization is to I.T. Infrastructure.
Oops I seem to have misread this comment... you did say "mirror".

As for ECC, how often does corruption occur? 100% Data integrity is not hugely important for the main app that will be sitting on this box, so a cosmic ray here or there isn't a big deal, but persistent unknown errors would be a problem.
That's one of the first thing I though of when I heard about the ipad. I had figured an app for the iphone that used its mic to follow a piano piece along and "turn" the pages would have been cool but for the tiny screen. Then ipad came along.

How hard would it be to use the mic input to estimate progress through a piece and turn the pages? Of course just using timing to scroll at the right speed would be ok, but having it listen would be much cooler.
"That pretty much means that most Amazon ratings are bullshit."

That is an insane overreaction. Amazon has a long-standing reputation of excellent customer service over millions of transactions. A singular error on their part should be examined in that context. You'll find that their response invalidates your claim: http://www.makingstrange.net/2010/03/update-are-amazon-selle...
It really needs a message board so that you can brag about how far you've gotten, and so that the old timers can give advice to the noobs.
thank you sir!
To egg your competitors or not to egg, that is the question
I do a lot of simple things. Servers: use cron, zip, and s3cmd tools to backup to S3; on EC2, use snapshots. Development laptops: use git repos hosted on a rented VPS and I have a cron script to ZIP these repos and back them up to S3.
It may just be a timing issue... I have a G1 and still almost a year until I can get the contract upgrade from T-Mobile. Once I can get it for $180, I'll probably snap one right up.

Although I admit I will deeply miss the hardware keyboard...
You know why Outlook is vulnerable? Because it's openly scriptable. If you can convince someone to run your script, they can do whatever they like, so name it AnnaKournikovaNekkid.exe and many, many people were convinced.

That's possibly the stupidest argument I've heard all day.

Outlook is nowhere near open. Popular open source mail clients have a much better security record than Outlook. Security failings of Microsoft are a ridiculous way to argue against openness.
From the FAQ:

Does Platform Preview replace my current Internet Explorer?

No, it does not, though it does share some settings with your existing Internet Explorer intsallation. One of the best features of Platform Preview is that it installs side-by-side with earlier versions of Internet Explorer and any other browser(s) on your computer.
I've sensationalized nothing. I've laid out my arguments for the new tag in plain English. If you want to address the arguments, please do so, but don't dismiss my entire article as link bait just because the idea is radical.

I've written on the topic of disclosure before (http://blog.ivylees.com/ftc-blogging-guidelines/); the post submitted here isn't about the basic benefits of disclosure at all. It's about a better way of providing those benefits.
I wish they did this at first. I'm stuck on AT&T and bought the Nexus One when it came out. I couldn't handle Edge though, and got rid of it. My wife will kill me if I buy the same phone twice in a few months!
Do you have a link for that article? Sounds like something I'd be interested in reading. Thanks.
Ugh...I just bought my Nexus One too. Upgraded from an iPhone, so I'm still on AT&T right now. Would be nice if they could make one phone for both providers, but I'm sure that's more complex than I realize or understand.

Still, I'm moving to T-Mobile because I'm in a major city, so coverage is good, I'll have GSM for international travel, and AT&T is a roaming partner, so I can use them as a backup for free. All that and it's $30 per month cheaper. Hell yeah!
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It's called parody and satire. Real hackers enjoy a creative social "hack" as much as the next guy.
How many of you founders are Girls ?

You founders, not your founders.
I'd upvote this twice if I could. Agreed.
Woohoo! Now I don't have to tear my web game apart for IE support.

They were hinting at doing SVG a few months ago, it's nice to see they're stating it officially.
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I always find it weird to think that I'm in pi somewhere. The exact position of every atom in my body at every moment of my life.

Maybe I'm getting the math wrong though?
More than that, the tools that are available to develop with in IE are useless at best. Launching the developer tools in IE8 has a 50/50 chance of crashing your app and when you finally get it open it looks like an intern built it with their first time in Visual Studio. Aside from that, IE doesn't run in OS X or Linux.

So no, I won't be coding my pages against IE ever.
A friend and I use encrypted email from time to time for fun. We generated self-signed keys and we both added security exceptions for each other's keys to our email clients manually. While it works it took us both some time to figure out how to generate the keys. Our keys are also marked as untrusted so you have to manually add them to a trusted list. This method works okay for us but I doubt it would work for most people.
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Sheet music is truly one killer app for the iPad. I had never thought of it before seeing this app, but even if it's something as simple as scanned .PDFs of your sheet music, imagine not having to carry around backpacks full of books.

I have a lot of jazz fake books that are literally monstrous to carry around.
[edit] artists & writers used parody and satire to make the society a better place. I find it inadequate, mentioning the same in the context of advertising.

And..it's not, if you are a part of the labeling, or a victim of that hack.
You wouldn't be reading the source to find out, but if there was ever a legal dispute, someone probably would be. And in such a case it would be nice to having something as unambiguous as a disclosure tag.

But I do agree it seems a little too specific.
I have to agree with everyone else and say this is fantastically well done, and I think you underpriced it. I think $50 is too high, but $10 is good.
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Websockets are something I long dreamed about : bidirectional HTTP, no more stupid AJAX polling tricks.
Sure. But there's a much simpler and more foolproof way to get your bits displayed properly to everyone who buys a new windows machine (which of course are just about the only non-developers who will get ie9):

Scrap IE, start shipping windows with Opera, Chrome, Safari, or Firefox. Let the crappy existing versions die off slowly and focus on improving the mediocre operating system rather than reinventing the wheel with a consistently inferior and uncooperative browser.
The purpose of the semantic web is parsing of documents in general, not JUST search engine parsing of documents.

A disclosure tag would enable services such as aggregators (which the author mentions specifically), to deal with disclosures consistently. Given the recently raised legal implications surrounding this issue, it sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
When I was about 14 I found writing a floppy disk boot loader in x86 Assembly to be a good way of learning how a computer really works at the most basic level. Including reading FAT12 to find the start of your next piece of code and even displaying a slash screen!

While a little masochistic I find I still call upon what I learned back then while writing in C and to a lesser extent higher level languages.
"there's no defence like an obvious offense" -- Sweet!
Unless the reader is careful, he could misread the headline as stating Android is a failure while, in fact, it's a very narrow observation on the lackluster sales of a recent device.
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I am not a pianist but loved the way your application is made. Your website is very selling. Nice video, nice design. I am impressed.
I think that we should adopt the <scraped> tag. This could be used by sites such as Mahalo to know where the content really came from:

<scaped>Content scaped from http://en.wikipedia.org/ </scraped>
<steve-jobs>
May be its time to change some things. You being constantly stressed out, while doing what you love, is a good enough signal. Listen to your heart.
</steve-jobs>
I don't really get why they don't sell it at brick and mortar stores. I mean, I understand that they're trying to buck the usual trend of selling locked phones on contract, so selling them through carriers wouldn't make much sense. But you could still probably sell them through electronics stores like Best Buy and RadioShack.

They seem to be marketing it pretty heavily to the developer demographic. Almost every programming-related site that I've gone to in the past few weeks which uses Google Ads has had a Nexus One ad on it somewhere.
Apple was a newcomer to consumer mobile hardware the same way Google was a newcomer to consumer mobile hardware. Saying Google is a newcomer to hardware is simple incorrect. They have the most sophisticated data centers in the world. They actively sell a hardware search solution. Google is not new to hardware.

I understand that Google's hardware background isn't the same as Apple's. My point is that mobile hardware was just as new to both companies when they entered the space. Apple simply executed better than Google did.
Here's an edited version of an as yet unpublished blog post I've written...

* Get up, stretch - a bit of stretching from head to toe. It’s amazing what a few minutes of stretching does for waking you up.

* Shower, breakfast - this sounds obvious, but it was all too easy for me to get down to work, and skip the freshen up and food!

* Take a short walk - a quick 20 minute walk clears my head. I use this time to think of anything else. Even thinking about work is fine, because it’s away from a keyboard and screen!

* Stop for lunch by 1:30 at the latest - or whatever time suits you, but the idea is not to get too far from breakfast and too close to dinner.

* Get up, walk around the block. Again, this is like the morning walk - something to let the brain step back.

* Once or twice a week, step out completely, just do any strenuous physical activity for a few hours, where you have to concentrate your mind and body, making it impossible to think of anything else. This to me is the best break, better than a holiday. It’s a bit like hitting the 'reboot' button!

* And finally, before going to bed, I read. It doesn’t matter what the book - it can be work related or not - the important thing is to let my brain wind down away from the screen, and especially away from the internet.

Let us know how you get on with the tips that I and other HNers post.
I like the app, and if there is indeed an iPad version, that would be fantastic. I played with it a bit this morning and posted a review. Here's the gist of what I said:

Pros:

- The music font looks really good, very clean and readable.

- The store navigation is fast and easy to use

- The music scrolling/speed controls are very handy and easy to use.

- Good initial selection of music.

Cons

- On my 3G the update after a page turn is too slow, no matter if it's continuous or turn mode. Often half the score isn't displayed yet, and it's impossible to look ahead. This made it difficult to actually play to the score at full speed. Would it be possible to do more aggressive caching/pre-rendering to make it smoother?

- You went to all the work to make a great store navigation UI, but the "My Music" UI is cover flow only. Even after downloading just a few pieces, it was clunky and slow to find anything. My Music desperately needs better navigation.

- The modal dialog that pops up in the store when done downloading is really annoying, especially because navigation is locked as its preparing to display. The download icon already has a badge to show the download status, why do I need the modal reminder? It just disrupts the flow.

Suggestions

- A very handy feature for students would be to show different colors for the different hands in the keyboard view, and show what finger should be playing the note.

- A difficulty sort in the store could be handy. Or at least a "beginner" category in the styles.

- I realize I can use the volume switch, but a mute button in the app would be nice. Especially in the iPad version where I may not be able to reach the switch.

Kudos on shipping, I look forward to what's to come. With some improvements and an iPad I could see this replacing a lot of sheet music, especially on the go. Break a leg!
I know Stanford's financial aid is excellent, but unfortunately we are basically making like $64,000 a year; just over the $60,000 limit for no parent contribution. =(
I would have to second this. I will almost always squash (or split) commits in a branch before review to have it merged back into the master branch. I try to have each commit do a specific individual task. While adding docs to the api could be a separate function (just because you did it last) I would rather have that squashed so in two years when you are looking at the new function you see the api docs that go with it. This doesn't mean everything should be in 1 commit and it also doesn't mean 30 commits. Common sense plays a big role here.
> (which of course are just about the only non-developers who will get ie9):

Why so?
Even if you could run IE on Linux, it's probably best to test on the same OS that most IE users will be using.

We use an old IBM laptop - with IE, FF, Chrome installed - for our Windows testing.

Failing that, a VM is probably the best alternative.
Good point. Judging from the table of contents, he added a chapter up front on various types of trees, tacked on Haskell source in the appendix, and mushed all the conclusions together.

But I'm a poor grad student, so I'll read the free dissertation over the $75 book. ;)
The problem is not that the intelligence agencies can't stay above politics, but that the politicians meddle with the intelligence agencies for political reasons. Despite what some conspiracy theorists believe, the US intelligence agencies are run by the elected officials, not the other way around. This is good for a lot of reasons, but does leave them subject to the whims of politicians.
I think Windows 7 is a pretty solid offering.
This was in reference to the pre-edit version, where he said it was to be based on IE6.

In comparison to that prospect, an IE7/8 mishmash is oddly comforting.
I think this bit of advice makes more sense if you replace "hiring someone" with "finding a cofounder" and "potential hire" with "potential cofounder".
BBC Interview with Evan Williams, Mentions News.YC
Interesting variety of "douche" usage:

douchebag (n), douchey (adj), douche up (v)

Still, I think she needs a new word.
I was thinking about unicode the other day, and I realized the look-alike characters could be used to bypass Twitter's 140 letter limit, so I put together this little app.

As far as I know, this is the first time anyone's written an app to exploit unicode this way. I looked at a bunch of other "tweet shorteners", but none of them really delivered.

I figure if people will switch URL shorteners to save a few letters, they might find this useful, too.
Get a physical hobby. Running, bicycling, weight lifting, martial arts. Make room for an hour a day for it.
Tell Bay Area HN: 100 things you must eat in SF
Last night after having just turned off my computer with HN being the last page to have been open, I turn on BBC radio and listen to an interview with Evan Williams only to have him mention the site I was just at. It was a bit of a surprise, granted it was a technology oriented interview, though still a bit surprising.

Regarding the interview, it's interesting, not over the top interesting, but interesting.

Some things I recall -

_tweeting in SF to get pot holes filled

_the value of perseverance

_building something open-ended and having users further develop it

Those last two get down to the basics, things we've all heard before, sometimes it can be good to hear them again or presented in a new perspective. Of course, there will always be those hearing them for the first time, as well.