skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, signed up just to let you know that the track progress meter has some issues:

1) Because the total length of the song increases as it is streamed the proportion of it that has been played can go down as it is played, causing the progress bar to go backwards, or jitter backwards and forwards. You must know the length of the song before streaming it, so this should be easy to fix. I hope the explanation made sense.

2) Sometimes clicks on the progress bar are missed. Maybe less than half the time it would skip ahead in the song, other times it just did nothing. EDIT: Also when it does jump it's often not to where I've clicked.

This is in Fiefox 3.6.6, Flash Player version returns WIN 10,1,53,64

HTH
Much more than red tape: a few year ago, I read that NuLabour had been creating crimes at the rate of one a day....
First-Ever Photo Of Alien Planet Finally Confirmed
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Yeah, definitely agree. We'll be working very hard on that over the coming months.
Lets also not forget that millions of people in China were starving 30 years ago. The flow of jobs into China pulled 1 billion people out of poverty. This is not insignificant and is not mentioned enough.
Americans will go back to work when we get to valuing intelligence and work ethic again. It may take a while.
Google vs. China, the Sequel (Editorial)
Ask HN: Do you use the most recent version of your preferred web browser?
Are you using the most recent version of your web browser of choice? Do you know anyone that is still on a very old version (IE 6 or FF 2)?
I live in an Edge-only area and I'm affected by the problem.
Your comment contains 257 characters. Do you seriously think adding 72 more would allow you to effectively describe an app of any significant complexity?
They changed it back to the old version!
Uh, no. Aside from petroleum issues, it was a SUSTAINABLE CLOSED SYSTEM of trade among similarly-developed countries with similar standards. This could continue even if innovation had suddenly stopped in 1985.

Far more sustainable than the present, which involves unsustainable personal debts, unsustainable trade deficits, and unsustainable federal borrowing.

But please note that CENTRAL POINT OF THE ARTICLE explains WHY our technological superiority lessened, rather than moving exponentially further ahead.
I was trying to incite some passion. Following what Jeff Atwood says about "picking an enemy" (eg stackoverflow's enemy is experts-exchange). Maybe it's in bad taste to list that in the about though.
We are currently losing this non-war.
The Chinese are playing to win this non-war.
Just bought it. Sweeeeeet app.

$25 is a lot easier to swallow for a universal app when you have an iPhone and iPad.
This post is silly. No one is forced to work at an unsafe job for any given wage. The job of the government should not be to say "you can only work for this long, for this wage, under these conditions." Shouldn't that question be up to the would-be employee?

And you're not as clever as you think bringing up asbestos. You're far more likely to die in a fire because your building had its asbestos replaced with shitty fireproofing than from the cancer that asbestos can cause.
State of Text Rendering (on Linux)
I used to go to thesixtyone and found a ton of great music that way, but when they changed their site I couldn't navigate it at all it was/is completely unintuitive and annoying compared to the old interface. I can't find any of the artists I haven't heard of easily unless they are top scorers and it is maddening that such a good site was destroyed for design.

Edit: whoever downvoted me please show me the error in my ways I really would like to use the site again but just can't because it seems like only those artists who everyone thinks is wonderful are easily found while the true gems that you looked for on the site are now impossible to find.
A research project with which I am involved recently moved from google protocol buffers + TCP to thrift RPC, because they found that thrift was much faster. Google Protocol buffers encode the keys and field types with varints, which are basically series of bytes of arbitrary length to represent ints. If the 8th bit is set, move on to the next byte. It's pretty straightforward

int parse(uchar *msg) {
int x = 0;
do {
x <<= 7;
x |= *msg;
} while(*msg & 0x80);
return x;
}

Thrift, on the other hand, uses vanilla 4-byte ints for the same purpose. This has the effect of limited the number of fields to 2^29 (I think they use the bottom 3 bits to specify field type, but I don't remember off the top of my head). On the flip side, it's pretty instant to parse, as opposed to the looping thing.

Further, thrift makes it pretty trivial to write a thrift server/client in any language.

In short, thrift > protocol buffers.

Edit: One caveat -- Async calls WITH return values are more or less a no-go in thrift.
Hey, if you're gonna work for $.20/hr anyway, do you have an iPhone? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1478403
Thank you!! These are on the list of fixes.
I'm uploading a few tracks right now as Able Danger.

Do you have a filesize limit? I tried to upload a track that was a little over 10 MB, and it just disappeared. EDIT: I saw that you have to pay for that...

Also, you need to add categories for Nerdcore, Chiptune, IDM, Glitch and maybe a generic Electronica. Techno and Trance don't really cover that.
> The software that ITA developers that makes them different from the rest

Classic paper by Carl de Marcken, co-founder and former CTO of ITA Software, elaborating the unique domain problems of air travel planning:

"Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning"

http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...
Probably testing.
I get the following errors in Safari 5 when it tries to go to the next track:

TypeError: Result of expression '(d||f||i.body)' [null] is not an object.

560/javascripts/jplayer.js?1277763781:398INDEX_SIZE_ERR: DOM Exception 1: Index or size was negative, or greater than the allowed value.

That 560 is the error count for that second error at the time I copied the text. It was increasing quite rapidly.
Wow, a super-shady, leveraged buyout and commodities markets manipulation firm with a founder who was associated with the scummiest of junk bond firms _during_ their most criminal of activities, is telling us not to hate pizza restaurant owners and electricians.

The thing is, we weren't disliking them, nor do we. We hate 30:1 longshot bet "investors", market manipulators and corporate raiders. That won't change no matter how flashy your flash splashscreen is.
I've found that often the best advice is to take whatever Jeff Atwood says and do the complete opposite.
Looks like some kindly mod has switched it to a Youtube link so it might be available now...
I wouldn't be surprised to see a lawyer or solicitor pull out some quote from Kafka's The Trial, and try to spin that. Just another reason why people do not trust lawyers, on top of the fact that they are the ultimate middle men.

Of course, what you finish with is true, they are very necessary for our current way of life. Of course, they also ensure that they are more and more necessary, as all good middle men do.
From the page you linked:

Note: Tickets cannot be purchased directly from ITA Software.
If you find a fare you like, you can give the information from this site to your travel agent or airline when making a booking.

This is a deal breaker. I do not want to contact travel agent OR airline customer rep for booking my tickets. I want to find the best fare, enter my credit card and be done. Also, why should Travel Agent OR airline honor the fare which you posted when we all know that flight ticket pricing is highly dynamic?
I think our elected representatives need to listen a hell of a lot more to guys like this.
Bad latency makes for a terrible interactive terminal experience too. I remember SSH on my first gen iPhone was awful.
Economic infrastructure and energy are essential services, though. Energy in particular. You'd expect energy companies to be rich, because energy is a necessary part of nearly all the wealth created in any economy (knowledge or industrial).
Dig it. I put in Muse, got back a few Muse songs and some decent recommendations with similar sound. Clear simple UI, very fast on Chromium 6 on linux. Looks great so far.

However, I created an account and got the following email confirmation:

Hi listener [my plaintext password]
body ....

I assume that's an artifact of pre-beta testing, but time to fix that asap. Nobody likes their password getting emailed in plaintext.
How do salaries at Zoho compare to the average in the local market?

Part of me is happy that they give disadvantaged students a fair chance. Another part is suspicious that salaries are low on average because employees are informed that they are lucky to have a job at all.

Does anyone know?
What might be interesting is to have the position randomly generated somehow. Or two sliders that you have to line up...
We all need income to SURVIVE, and indeed FORCED to take the market wage for our labor. The question is whether the market wage will tend toward "Modern Western Wage" or "Communist Slave Wage." Current trade and industrial policies favor the latter.
Not exactly original. It would be less offensive if he labeled it something other than "My Take"

http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2005-April/0...
The corporatist sociopaths will say "Even the poorest among us can buy [a bunch of stupid cheap shit], surely our standard of living is high!" Wake up: standard of living isn't a bunch of cheap shit.

If instead of people spending $28.73 on a cheap toaster at Wal-Mart every 3 years, they spent $150 on a toaster every 20 years, the cost of labor would become much less of a problem. People are conditioned from birth by marketing and advertising that these cheap pieces of shit are really good deals.

There are enough examples of manufacturing companies that have a shred of decency improving their efficiency through process design and intelligence that I don't buy it. But, of course, it's much easier and profitable in the short-term to find some people on the other side of the planet you'll never have to meet. iSupply estimated that it costs $6.50 to assemble the iPhone 3G -- labor, equipment, management, everything. Is the cost of labor in Ohio (at $49/hour) really a problem for Honda?
There was a point in time when 37 signals was inspiring with their anti-enterprise/ror/bootstrap ideas, but do we really need to hear the same thing repeated over and over?

Edit: didn't notice at first that this blog entry was from 2007. Anyway credit to them for making this point so many times that it is now a widely accepted belief in the startup community. But now there is just as much uninspired non-enterprise software out there too.
His view seems aligned to the mainstream way of storytelling form of art, which has long history of development (Alistotle said the plot structure was the essential.) But even in storytelling, there are other forms; e.g. Brechtian epic theatre deliberately avoids involving audience into the 'emotional journey', and also avoids presenting one conclusion.
Or to put it in other words, the Chinese are fighting a trade war and we are just pretending this is not happening, and getting our asses kicked.
I think it pretty much went downhill from where he stated that the wealthy aren't the intellectual elite and then used Wosniak, Gates, Allen, Larry, and Sergey to make his point. I guess Berkeley, Harvard, and Stanford are chump schools now? Boy do I feel bad about my rejections...
If nothing else, they've demonstrated they can do cool and sexy quite well.
Totally agree, it would need to be accompanied by a corresponding change in the culture of governance (and is highly unlikely), but one can wish.
Because detonating nuclear weapons on the earth, in the earth, in the oceans, in the air, and in space near the earth, could not possibly cause cancer.
While I could certainly believe it was fake, isn't there a third option - that it's real, but that Apple is now denying it? No one seems to consider that PR could lie...
Have you actually ever been to an industrialized country that lacks an equivalent of the EPA and OSHA?

Go to Beijing, and enjoy the brown air, which is pretty unbreathable on the bad days, and just moderately smelly on the good ones. Whatever you do, don't drink the tapwater, because it'll make even local residents sick. Don't go for a swim in the river, either.

Be careful near construction sites; there are gaping holes with no signs, and if you fall into one and break your leg, tough. Also, if there's construction only on the higher floors of a building, slag from welding may rain down onto your head. Unless you're well-connected, don't even think about getting the construction firm to pay for your medical bills.

If you're a woman and your boss rapes you, and you're not connected, that's too bad. If you're a man and your boss rapes you, and you're not connected, that's even worse.

Californa's labor practices and tax laws aren't ideal, but I'd much rather work in California than China.
I have a question; does a company only exist to make profits?*

Whenever, someone starts a debate like this, or whenever I see a human being slaving away for a pennies in despicable conditions. I have to ask this question.

If and only if companies are entities that exist to make more and more money (not wealth) then you will inevitably run into such problems. The companies in the USA outsource that labor to China, or India only for earning more money, but are they creating wealth? By destroying the long-term sustainability of human civilization on this planet (I live a few kms from a few of these factories in India. You have to see in order to believe what they get away with)? By ultimately harming the very source of their wealth through such measures?

I have absolutely no idea about the implications of these concepts to make any categorical statement on them, but I think that David Packard and Bill Hewlett may have gotten it right. (see: http://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/the-hp-way...)

*profits are a pre-requisite to its existence. I want to ask if they exist only to do that?
Seriously. I mean, when has a private, for-profit corporate entity not been a responsible steward of the environment?
Australian Government announces Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy
Thanks!! Yes, that will go away and they definitely aren't being stored in plain text.
maybe my question should be modify to ask years-of-experience?
I use the development version of google chrome when I do use it but most of the time I use conkeror which is probably pretty dated when it comes to css and html 5 (not so bad but around firefox 3.0 ish with xulrunner 1.9)

Everyone I know who isn't computer savvy uses IE 6 on xp 7 on vista and 8 on win7 and so on for operating systems you choose.
I am not saying these industries are not essential and don't deserve the revenues they earn, but the concentration of PROFIT they generate is telling. The margins of players in competitive industries in healthy markets run thin because prices are low and anything left is re-invested into R&D. Just look at the profits Microsoft enjoys -- purely because of their stranglehold on the market, which we'd all agree is bad for the consumer. The concentration of capital and resources that Microsoft retains and mis-manages is staggering. In a true free market, a more efficient, well-managed competitor would have undercut them long ago.
This search engine is actually pretty nice since you can see which dates are the cheapest. But there is still this fundamental flaw:

I need hopefully need to fly to Salt Lake City in Febuary and I'm staying for about 1-2 months

- I search for "Iceland -> Salt lake city" for 50 nights => $2,441 (many dates)

- I search for "Iceland -> New York" for 50 nights => $454 (many dates)

- I search for "New York -> Salt Lake City" for 50 nights => $350 (af few dates)

So If I do it manually from Iceland to new york and then book a flight some other dates from NYC->SLC, I save $1,637 ... that's a lot of savings

I understand that that is a hard problem to solve, but if it can be handled by a computer one day, my life will be better!
Enterprise software certainly doesn't suck due to companies hiring mediocre programmers who cargo-cult vendor technologies (open OR closed source), hoodwinked by clever marketing, catch phrases and shallow promises of increased productivity?
Hey bandhunt, what's your email? HN profiles only show the text in the big about box.
And since this is YCombinator: it means high wages for YOUR CUSTOMERS to afford YOUR PRODUCT by the MILLIONS.

There are only so many Senators and Hedge Fund managers, and they spend their weekends in The Hamptons, not playing with your crappy iPhone game.
Yeah, we need to error out the file size better. Also, we'll be adding genre tagging in the future as it's almost impossible to keep up with every genre ;). Thanks!
Hedge fund managers do indeed bring their iPhones along to the Hamptons.
That's why making the one page rule a rule of honour instead of a formal rule might help. Because you want people following the spirit of the rule instead of its letter.
hahaha. I tend to enjoy his stuff. but noted
The fact that people keep naming the same few well known examples (eg Jane Street Capital) plus a few extremely obscure projects whenever this question comes up essentially demonstrates that functional programming hasn't really caught on yet. By contrast, if someone asked you "who uses Java/C++/C#/etc.?", there are so many well-known answers you wouldn't even know where to start.

Don't get me wrong, I like what I've seen from functional programming so far (currently learning Clojure), but at the moment it's a niche thing at best.
I'll look into this. thanks!
The buyers were not the users when I last used BaseCamp.
It's pretty clean and easy to find new artists. I like that. However, I didn't really like the "Enter a favorite artist to hear up & coming music like them". Maybe it's because I am not native english speaker but I wasn't sure what it meant. So, I was kind of surprised to click on the artist I wanted but to hear a song from a different artist. Now, I know it looks kind of stupid because that's what the site is supposed to do.. but maybe you could make that sentence a little bit clearer. "Enter an artist you like, and we'll show you other artists you'll like." or something like that. (That's my 2 cents, good job)
My comment about waterboarding is not irrelevant in a discussion about an article whose topic was "how the topic of waterboarding was treated and when & why a change in the narrative occurred." And especially one in which said article took the stance that waterboarding is torture and therefore evil and therefore always unacceptable by any party and then showed a photo of a Khmer Rouge torture facility as if to imply there were a 1-to-1 correspondence and ethical parity between the actions of the Khmer Rouge (whom most international observers agree tortured thousands of innocent people and murdered at least a million more) and the actions of the US government (in reaction to 9/11 in which Al Qaeda murdered thousands of innocent US citizens) when any reasonable person could spot the differences in the circumstances.

Also there was no strawman argument in my comment unless you make an assumption that is wrong going into the reading of it. I made an independent argument formulated based on how I perceived and analyzed the topic that the OA was addressing. I did not misrepresent the author's position, nor did I claim to refute the narrow point of his article. I was intentionally not addressing his narrow core claim (dealing with the change in mainstream media terminology, theorized to have been done in order to become more in alignment with a desired change in the public narrative by vested interests) -- by intent -- and instead addressing the larger issue and assumptions made by the OA's article. And I put a lot of thought and care into what I wrote -- with no cursing, name-calling and with good spelling and grammar (generally) -- and don't think it deserved to be downvoted into karma penalty land.

Votes should be based on the quality of the contribution to a discussion, not on a mere I-agree/I-disagree or on emotional reactions.
No, get an iPad and use the Kindle App - it's 1000x better than the hardware Kindle. Since the Kindle App became available for iPhone, my hardware Kindle has gathered dust - and now with the iPad, I can read on a large- or smaller-format device.

It's great for illustrations, too - all the drawbacks of the hardware-based Kindles disappear when you use the Kindle App on the iPad.
I resume there'd be a strong tendency toward maintaining the stability of commercial law, where needed, and preference for common law and equity above statutes. I guess for the same reasons so many companies choose to incorporate in Delaware today.
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If they ever do an all electric NASCAR that will be one quiet race with the exception of the air wrenches changing tires and automated battery replacement swapping.
Thanks! Yeah, I think the wording is a little clumsy (even for native speakers). Haven't nailed down those details yet.
I've been doing customer development this week, and one benefit to thinking in terms of separate economic buyers and end users is that it helps you to consider their relevant issues separately: usability and usefulness.

Because I use my own software, I'm very aware of how easy (or not) it is to use, and of course I'd really like to make it great to use. But in doing this, I tend to overlook what it's doing. What does it do that makes it worth buying? Separating these issues into different persons makes it easier to think about them clearly (especially when the usability one is so concrete, immediate and, well, personal.)

Also, when the user and economic buyer are combined, people will sometimes buy based on how beautiful it is, how it feels and so on. But I would like my product to actually make things better, not just make them feel better. Both are important (and of course it doesn't excuse enterprises who build/buy inefficient and unpleasant software).
I feel like we're going round and round, here.

You said, "Not person to person loans as you are talking about".

This is the same as saying it's not the loan, since the loan is the same in these cases. The difference is that when the bank loans money (at least in the US), they don't loan money they have most of the time, but money they're allowed to create to loan. I don't remember what the multiplier is offhand.
From the quoted quip near the bottom:

Life insurance premiums will never be the same again once this test is out there.

That means, for people who are more likely to live a long time, the recent-and-upcoming health care shifts are fantastic news. I remember reading about some 100+ers who have had their support vanish because they lived too long, and are now surviving wholly on donations. Some of them are quite active yet, but they're almost totally incapable of getting a job because of their age.
I worked at a company that paid us fuck-all and still managed to burn thru $300 million. Are you in a position to tell us that the companies you worked with blew their cash on salaries, or are you just drawing making two causally unrelated statements in the same sentence?
I dunno. Do people really have trouble finding the cheapest flights with the likes of Kayak and Farecast around already?

My question is how this acquisition really helps travelers. I can see how it might help Google possibly become an online travel agent, but how does that help me when the carriers set the prices anyway? Are we hoping for Google discounts or better visibility of seat sales? Or is there something that Google can do to really change things beyond how ITA already has?