skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tried "the wombats." Artist not found. "Clutch" found results, but the first three songs were pretty painful. "Mos Def" and I'm happy.

What's behind the recommendations? Is it manual (like Pandora)?

How are you approving music? There's a reason some new music never gets heard. I'd be really interested in hearing how you solved the quality control challenge.

At some point, an artist is going to stop being "up & coming."

Why not use Open Graph and Connect for likes and logins?

I think I've been listening for about 25 minutes. I like listening to it, but visual seems pretty disconnected. I really like the way rdio is doing their playlist and controls.
The speeds we're starting to see on next-gen mobile devices + networks are pretty impressive - more than can be used effectively without draining the battery in a hot second, at least. Now that we've got bandwidth figured out, it's time to tackle latency.

A coworker ran a speed test on his AT&T iPhone 4 in NE Portland at lunch and got about 1.4mbps down with a 150ms ping. I get about 3.9 - 4.3mbps down with an 80ms ping with my Nexus One (T-Mobile): http://j.mp/94sfpF

Both of these speeds are fantastic. The bandwidth question is highly network-dependent, and almost entirely moot once you're beyond the 800k mark -- especially with a low-latency ping, which is likely the biggest bottleneck when browsing the web.

We need device manufacturers and carriers to work closely, striving to reduce latency in mobile connections. For developers, it's critical to drive home the point of minimizing the number of HTTP requests. If you've got a minimum 200ms round-trip for each call and 98 items to load (NYT.com, tested a moment ago), it adds up quickly.
I love the idea, seems terrific.

This has gotten me pretty motivated to learn some new stuff. I plan on taking the span 101 class and the game theory class. I only wish someone would open a Russian class, I'm getting a bit rusty...
Such is the danger of letting the CEO respond to email, especially given his tendency for off-the-cuff remarks
I smelled a rat because the emails "to" Jobs were borderline psycho, with all those misspellings and bad sentences. I wrote it off as possibly someone whose first language wasn't English. Actually, we were all being laughed at by a prankster.
The sound is too low for me to hear. Anyone know a cool trick to make things louder? I'm using Leopard.
Andy Grove: How To Make An American Job Before It's Too Late
Another good alternative is msgpack at http://msgpack.org/

It has it's own rpc mechanism as well that competes with thrift, although it is not IDL-based (however, their IDL is coming soon).
Is a lawsuit necessary? I might be wrong but don't we have a certain number of days to get out of the cell phone contract and return the phone? And shouldn't people be able to decide for themselves if they want to buy the phone or not?
A Virtual Virtual Machine
Cellular communities and artful morphologies
That wasn't too tough to break: javascript:document.getElementById("UserHuman").value="6).%Y.g-";document.getElementById("UserAddForm").submit();
I would expect it to be fully integrated into Google Maps. You can already find a route from A to B using other forms of public transport.
At what point do these stop being interesting and start just being advertising? That's all it really looks like to me, to be honest.
That sounds nice and tidy, but it seems hard to fit the requirements of e.g. the EPA or the erstwhile MMS or the CFTC into something coherent enough to be understood by a lay person.

Simplicity and fairness and effectiveness are all in tension with each other.
Intel Researchers Turn Counter Tops Into Touchscreens
The Geopolitics of the iPhone
Another thing to consider is many advisors do not provide there service for free. Maybe, if you are the flavor of the month like chatroulette you may get someone that wants the high profile of advising for it, but most everyone else has to cough up a small share of equity for advisorship. Unless it is a friend or some other existing relationship.
I got the water part without even thinking, and photosynthesis danced in my head as an answer, but carbon didn't even cross my mind.
I think it would be interesting to compare 2 hours of output from this guy vs. 100 hours of output at prices mentioned in various posts.
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This kind of Ask HN could easily be abused if it becomes a trend. There are plenty of other websites that are more exactly suited to answering his question, and in a more direct and actionable way, based on a real submitted spec.
> "(l,(i,(s,(p))))"

And Lisp doesn't even use commas (very much).
Thanks for the feedback! We'll be importing a bunch more artists in the near future so "the wombats" etc will give results. The recs are more "digg like" so there's a bit of a cold-start problem with some of quality. Once we see how people are using it we'll tweak the algo. We'll be adding Connect soon and are looking into who we can leverage the FB likes but there are limitation with the callbacks.
"visual seems pretty disconnected" can you give me some more specifics. That'd be really helpful!
Thanks! We'll check that out in FF 2
Social Networking? No.

Forum Profiles? Possibly.
And what does a tree do with this energy? It's not a light bulb.

It uses the energy to split the oxygen off of the CO2, splits the oxygen of off water, and makes hydrocarbons from the C in CO2 and the H in water. The oxygen is released as waste (a small amount is used).

So all the energy used in a tree is devoted to making its mass.
"Spammers are lazy" does kinda work for the multitudes of small-traffic sites out there. Put together some unique or custom validation to keep out spambots and odds are that's all you'll ever need.

The thing is, for big sites like Google or Yahoo that won't work. If Google implemented the slider I'd bet a month's salary that it would be flooded with spammers overnight. The CAPTCHA's they use have been put through the ringer and are proven to work against spammers who are focused and resourceful. By lining the two up like that, the post tries to equivocate big site CAPTCHAs with user-friendly client-side-only validation, but the latter is not even in the same league, much less an alternative. It works for the same reasons "Enter the sum of 3 and 5: ____" would work.
No, the loan is the actual source of inflation.

When more loans are made than there is actual economic growth, inflation occurs.
F# rocks (so far)
Boy Genius Report updated the post with full (email) headers. For now it looks like they're sticking with the story:

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/07/01/exclusive-conversa...
Schwarzenegger orders minimum wage for state workers
I reported them as well, but like your report, it doesn't seem to have been acted on.

See my blog post at:
http://www.joewein.net/blog/2010/07/01/codeweblog-com-a-pile...
Think Bigtable.
Headers are easy to fake.
It's hard to imagine anybody having the gumption to talk to Steve Jobs like that.
Why we need the rich ("on wealth creation by a wealth creator")
Your comment inspired me. I've been thinking about this for a long time, and after reading this, I think it's definitely worth the investment (only 400$), and if it doesn't work out, there's always ebay.

Thanks for your thoughts!
Scientific [Mis]Communication
More Feynman on the same topic ("Energy makes it go"): http://physics.gu.se/~f3aamp/teaching/wakalix.html
There sure is, but not without obtaining the appropriate license first.

Broadcasting on licensed frequencies without a license is generally not legal, and can carry stiff penalties, especially if it ends up tying up a licensed operators staff in tracking down the rogue transmitter and they decide to go after you for punitive damages as well.

There is probably (I'm not versed in US law) a type of developer license you can apply for to be allowed to operate on those frequencies within certain specific power limits at a specific location - otherwise nobody would be able to design or experiment with them.
The script just sets a hidden input field to a "magic" value once you've moved the slider all the way. If you can write a trivial regexp, you can circumvent their "captcha".
The original blog and the information in the e-mail headers show that the customer said the quote, not Steve Jobs. The original article was incorrect.
Except that they posted the headers of an e-mail from "Tom" to Jobs, so they necessarily show absolutely no Apple-related mail servers. (And that's, of course, on top of the fact that headers are incredibly easily faked.)
Good grief! I can't believe it, but North Western's article is a trolling linkbait compared to the Time Magazine and the Hastings Center's articles, which it cites.

The Time article was first, it was cited by Hastings, and the two were cited by North Western, but the content becomes increasingly unscientific and partisan.

TIME:

"The early prenatal use of dexamethasone, or dex, has been shown to prevent some of the symptoms of CAH in girls, namely ambiguous genitalia. Because the condition causes overproduction of male hormones in the womb, girls who are affected tend to have genitals that look more male than female, though internal sex organs are normal. (In boys, in contrast, the condition leads to early signs of puberty, such as deep voice, body hair and enlarged penis by age 2 or 3.) But while the prenatal treatment may address girls' physical symptoms, it does not prevent the underlying, medical condition, which in some severe cases can be life-threatening, nor does it preclude the need for medication throughout life."

Hastings Center acknowledges the medical application of dex to prevent CAH, but cites the lead researcher's other interests in "curing" homosexuality in girls:

"The majority of researchers and clinicians interested in the use of prenatal “dex” focus on preventing development of ambiguous genitalia in girls with CAH. CAH results in an excess of androgens prenatally, and this can lead to a “masculinizing” of a female fetus’s genitals. One group of researchers, however, seems to be suggesting that prenatal dex also might prevent affected girls from turning out to be homosexual or bisexual."

The news will get further diluted as it gets excerpted and cited from tertiary sources, and I have a feeling Dr. New will soon have a legion of clinic protesters, and face massive character assassination among her peers.
Since BGR published the email headers, I deiced to see if someone existed behind the name and domain name. There it is. [edited for a typo fix]
Amen to that. I wrote a test app which downloads a single image from the net. There is a progress bar so you can actually see how "quickly" the bytes come in. I kick off the request, and the majority of the time is spent waiting for the first byte. I was pretty surprised by this. All this time I was thinking it was the throughput that was slow; but no, the latency really is the killer here.
You make them respect you by understanding what they do and treating them like what they are: the people who create value for your business. You show actual respect for the work they do and give them interesting things to work on.

I think Fog Creek gets it right. You don't treat programmers like second-class drones who make things for you; you treat them like the primary creators of value for you company, and yourself as their support staff (abstracting away the mechanics of running a software company so all they have to think about is coding and typing commit.)
Jason Burford exists:
http://burfordadvertising.com/Burford_Advertising/Jason_Burf...

Edit. Oh this is odd. There's a second domain in the email path:

http://jasonburford.com/Jason_Burford/Jason_Burford.html
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University of 4chan
Well now hold on a minute. First, out of necessity, they adopt a recruitment model that disregards academic credentials, and then they find no correlation between academic credentials and performance. How about the possibility that they never saw the really talented people because they all got snapped up by companies that high based on academic reputation?

I don't have any evidence that this is the case, but the fact that he's restricted himself to a talent pool that excludes the top 20% academically makes his results not generally applicable.

We've heard this same story from Google, where they say that among those that they hire, those who don't meet their standard academic cutoffs turn out to be their best employees. What's missing from that statement is accounting for whatever got them hired even though they don't meet the criteria.
Yep. Plus the fact that Apple went out of their way to deny the exchange (something they've never done before with I-emailed-Steve stories), suggests that this is fake.

But BGR is sticking with it for now.
Where is the source for THIS claim?
Why Enterprise Software Sucks
"Well, now Fortune is reporting that they've been told by a "a top Apple spokesman" that the emails are fake, and the exchange never happened. Of course, emails are notoriously easy to fake, and Apple has not been in the habit of commenting on its CEO's online wanderings, so our ears pricked up when we saw this article. We've reached out to Apple and they have independently confirmed to us that the conversation is indeed a hoax."

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/apple-pr-says-recent-stev...
I knew it! See here for the opinionated public outcry: http://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Maria_New.html

All her feedback was from yesterday. The wider this news circulates the more scarce information on her research will become. In her own words, here are the disorders she treats, which doesn't mention homosexuality:

http://www.newchf.org/disorders.php
Andy makes an excellent point: when we outsource the manufacturing and scaling processes to another country, what we lose in addition to jobs are the innovations and experience necessary to maintain a strong defensive econosystem with respect to our economy.

However, I disagree with Andy's recommendation that we should tax offshore labor - we should focus on making labor in the United States less expensive. Neuter the Department of Labor, get rid of labor regulations with heniously expensive and obnoxious unintended consequences like the mandatory 8-hour work day in California, eliminate the concept of wrongful termination, and put a muzzle on the EPA.

Negative incentives aren't the way to go to encourage job creation. Make the climate more hospitable for large businesses within the U.S. instead.
That doesn't strike me as fitting the requirements. They need high transaction rates and true high availability (don't know if Bigtable is as good). And they don't need petabyte scaling, which I gather is one of Bigtable's big attractions.
On OSX 10.6 (And maybe older versions?) just do this.

System Preferences -> Security -> Firewall -> Advanced... -> Block all incoming connections

And then start a vpn of your choice. I just open a terminal and type

start_vpn

which is an alias for

sudo openvpn ~/.openvpn/client.conf

:)
http://beta.isound.com/#/artists?search=Passion+Pit

This search comes up with confusing results (what are the words with underscores for?) and clicking a link results in a "not found" error.
I forget which software team that I was on where I came across the phrase "Failures in schedules are failures in management."

So I wonder if this could be applied here. Or to put it another way, we know how to build things better than we know how to estimate their useful lifetime.
We're all to blame
noted. I wasn't trying to abuse HN with this post, just trying to get an idea about whether any type of a dynamic site can be created for under 2k. I'll refrain from this type of speculative posting in the future.
LinkedIn, Apache Pig, and Open Source
The complete post is available at http://sna-projects.com/blog/2010/06/when-pigs-fly-apache-pi... and includes brain injury shenanigans.
You have a good point. You are kind of implying that it is good for transactions in large batches, but may not have the 300 ms response.

But the oracle RAC (just guessing here) may act as a cache between the 300 ms part and the actual tables, and to be a fat reliable pipe.

But they do take on some interesting problems, such as how do you keep this up across system upgrades, hardware failures, application version migration, among others.
How corporate to switch official browsers away from IE… to a browser that is no longer the leading engine anymore. I wonder why they did not pick a WebKit flavor, like Chrome?

Edit: Mozilla Corp. is a commercial entity, just like Google and Apple are. Gecko and WebKit are both open source, and Chromium builds show just how easy it would be to build an IBM-branded Chrome, if you will. I don’t see IP as a serious factor here.
Sadly we don't have Passion Pit in the index yet :(. I know, very bad of us. They and most every other band will be imported soon.
I use rabbitmq for my android app.
It's just a matter of sending a byte array between the client and the server.
Then it's just a matter of reading the bytes into the appropriate fields. (both server and client)
This may be a bit of work but it's really fast and efficient.
Thanks, I was just confused by the results, since I didn't know exactly what I was looking at.
>Neuter the Department of Labor, get rid of labor regulations with heniously expensive and obnoxious unintended consequences like the mandatory 8-hour work day in California, eliminate the concept of wrongful termination, and put a muzzle on the EPA.

Enjoy your third world working conditions. But you are an executive and/or a shareholder, are you not ?
Chrome probably didn't even exist yet when IBM started migrating to Firefox.
Assuming this limit to be practicable (which I doubt; consider complex subjects like corporations law) it would have the effect of giving the judiciary more power. Such succinct laws would need considerable interpretation. I note that bad common-law precedents are a problem as well as bad legislation. Shorter laws don't help this situation. Nor does a more powerful judiciary.
It depends on who you go with. I know a secret - that price does not necessarily equate to quality + value when it comes to consulting work.

Some people are extremely talented & efficient but have never been exposed to the true value of their work. They are usually in college or recent grads, and probably live somewhere where well paying web work typically isn't either commonly found or fun.

It can be done for sure.
The Real Life Social Network v2
Pretty slick, and a great idea. +1.
Oh yes, the EPA and Department of Labor, with their obnoxious "don't fuck up the environment" and "don't treat people like shit" rules. God damn them.
I'm sorry, I don't think this is the place for a thread that will inevitably devolve into tit-for-tat politics, but I really have trouble stomaching the commentary that the EPA should have less regulatory power over industry when proof of the big-picture bankruptcy of environmental deregulation is current gushing into the gulf at a few tens of thousands of barrels a day.

Yes, it raises costs to force industries to comply with environmental protection standards. Yes, this is bad for the short-term of our economy. But we will continue to suffer the consequences of the environmental harm we do, even at the current regulatory levels, and more so with "a muzzle on the EPA".
Artist upload process broken on Google Chrome.

:edit
i guess sometimes it's hard to navigate in the open dialog.

Working great, added my band Awesome Party. Nice player.
There goes the neighborhood...
Aren't you going to be sued, like everyone else that has tried this?
True, but typing the whole sentence gets very, very annoying, quite quickly. Plus the short version will eventually become muscle memory.

It is counter-intuitive, but frequently making security more convenient makes it more likely to happen, which improves security. Conversely measures that should increase security cause users to work around the annoyance, which reduces security.

(For instance in this case the users could just leave a session running.)
Phone Your Blog
Can anyone enlighten me as to what sort of browser-specific investments have been made? Isn’t the idea of a standards-based web that it hardly matters which browser is chosen, as long as it supports the standards in question?
Not bad... listening for past 5-10 mins in background, without even thinking about it... nice radio so far.
Yeah, I hope this doesn't sound bad but I wouldn't hire a US-based dev for under $50/hour. I don't feel $50 is inflated either—even in Tulsa that seems fair to me. To me, going below that is like having the guy down the street paint your car for $150. I'm hiring people for existing, production apps that are making money. I'll skimp on some things but not that.

As for age, I don't know but my guess is mid to late twenties. Of my most recent, one was in the bay area and one is a tech stars alum.

No, no help with HTML/CSS/graphics/icons. I do most of that myself. Plus we do a lot of Flash on the front end and have separate designers for that.

Testing is one area Ive found where the more expensive devs seem to separate themselves. Very thorough which is nice.

This may sound odd but I also try and hire developers who are smarter and better than myself. After almost every job, I glean from their code and end up learning a ton. If nothing else, the extra money we spend also goes to my own education.
This is really cool, and really, really illegal, like federal illegal, pound-in-the-ass illegal. Even owning such a hacked Droid is probably illegal, because it's unlicensed equipment that can use restricted spectrum.

If you use it in a large metropolis, I'd expect you'd interfere with other operators basestations, and as soon as they figure it out, they'd be on you. And the FBI. Maybe the SWAT.

Keep in mind that the GSM/CDMA spectrum was auctioned for billions to the operators.

Update: someone mentioned a "developer's license" - a bit of research turns out something even better - some countries, like the Netherlands, allow unlicensed very-low-power base stations, up to 100mW, essentially pico- and femto-cells. Many Wifi routers have higher TX power than that. This will cover a room, a large hall, or an open air space large like a football stadium. No mention of a developer's license though, as this seems to cover its needs.
This is excellent. If Google decides to stop sponsoring Mozilla, IBM now has an incentive to do so in their place.
I wonder why they did not pick a WebKit flavor, like Chrome?

One of their requirements was that the browser not be "beholden to one commercial entity".
While I'll agree that OSHA/EPA are often overzealous when you look at the cost-effectiveness (i.e. dollars spent per statistical life saved), and that labor is expensive, I don't think the rapid abandonment of our standards in a race to the bottom is the solution.

The problem is that places like China have low/non-existent standards that are politically acceptable there (or citizens can't say otherwise). This is their comparative advantage -- not accounting for the externalities of their industrial efforts. As Larry Summers said, some countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. Not great in the long term perhaps, but harmful for western workers competing for the same contracts in the short term.

So what do you do? Tarrifs on imported goods to make US production more competitive? Limiting trade to countries that have similar standards regarding externalities? Or is it okay for countries to have low/no work and environmental standards because that's (at least in the beginning) the road to economic development?
Protocol buffers are great, but the Python implementation provided by Google is written in native Python and very slow for serializing/deserializing protobufs (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=767882).

I've heard you can get around this by SWIG-wrapping the C++ implementation, but I haven't gotten around to trying it yet.