skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps that's why the post is back up - I don't believe the bits and pieces described in the article are patentable. (Fourier has been used in signal processing for decades. Adding a nearest-neighbor lookup - also know for decades - is a trivial extension.)

I did a master degree on pattern matching on text in 1999 (same year Shazam started), and it was obvious then that much of the same concepts (many of them from textbooks stemming from the 1970s) could be used for pattern matching on music. (We even discussed implementing music matching, but couldn't see a market for it.)

There may very well be other parts of music fingerprint algorithms that are patentable, but I have a hard time believing that the parts described in the article could be.
Semantic search is one of those ideas that every tech person loves, and many people point out as the future, but has not been able to find a product market fit and really taken off.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: I now realize this happened when I saved to disk my webpage using Chrome(!!!!). Frankly I thought Chrome would never do this, along prodigal_erik's lines. It looks like IE is not the only one that isn't bit-for-bit faithful...
One week after the release of Amnesia
Would this algorithm work with music that is hummed or sung live? Shazam doesn't work for that, but SoundHound does. What's the difference in algorithm you think?
Seriously, you submitted your own inflammatory tweet about karma to HN?

Jacques would have actually measured this. It's not hard; the top karma scores and their relative posting time are right there at the top of the comment.
Do you need to worry about scaling ? No.

If you can prove your idea, execution, and model, then you will be able to worry about scaling then.
Happy to see varnish get so much airtime recently, it's a great piece of software and I would not be able to run my service at the current budget without it. If you are not a varnish user yet and you have a high volume site, go check it out, and save yourself some big $ by better utilizing the servers that you already have.
Yehuda's Rails Song
The birth of Active Model
It's a textbook example of how to code up a unix daemon that does a spectacular amount of work.
Ask HN: What would a viable eBay competitor look like?
For years I've entertained the dream of creating an auction service that may one day compete effectively with eBay. I have a concept that eliminates the need for "reputation", eliminates PayPal as the primary payment option, provides secure escrow service for both buyers and sellers, send email alerts when items are listed with your keywords or in your elected categories, etc. ... but these are just MY primary ideas, and I'm interested in hearing what other people might like to see in such a venture.

What features would YOU like to see in an eBay competitor?
Tech Talk:  "10 Things" Design Talk with Jason Putorti
What you have written brings a tear to my eye.
Newer versions of remote desktop know how to pass through some hardware accelerated things, if you have Vista+ on both ends. Or so I've read. I don't know at what layer that mechanism applies though. It may be direct3d calls, or it may be hooking into the application layer to work with WPF.
CTO Sean Gourley gave a TED talk on the "Mathematics of War":

http://www.ted.com/talks/sean_gourley_on_the_mathematics_of_...
VCL is actually one of the strong points of varnish, if you have a more complex situation you can pull all kinds of tricks without slowing down.
Thanks! And great questions.

Well I remember when I moved from Texas to Cali (drove), I had a magazine to finish, make sure the site was always up and running, did an interview (written, not a big deal), and had to make sure I kept up with support issues. I also had 10 days to find a house for my family when I got here since I was starting a new job. But I made it!

I could probably have used the following in order of importance: Print Designer, Business Strategist/Marketer, Developer.
Being an early commenter isn't enough. You also have to say something that someone else values. You won't get upvotes otherwise.
Here's another take on this: those who are good at teaching, teach and those who are good at blogging, blog. In other words, some people are actually very good at teaching or communicating ideas, even though they may not 'do' them.
How to Handle Surprise Criticism
Actually, just make witty observations about HN, hacker culture, ...: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672032

Being an early commenter certainly helps, but it's not essential. HN moves a lot slower than reddit and has a lot less comments.
Adobe Fireworks: What Can You Achieve With It?
The section of the website in question is basically a colophon. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colophon_(publishing).

Including a colophon is a fairly common practice, especially in the world of print design, when a publication has been artfully assembled and polished by a professional designer. I hardly think it's fair to use this as a point of criticism; it just means they have a designer on staff who:
a) might have a history in print design
b) knows his typography
c) was thinking about the culture of the business when making design decisions

It's no mistake that all the typefaces they've chosen have long, strong histories firmly rooted in England. They are Bulmer, Baskerville, and Underground (of London underground fame - most of us have seen the old signs from the subway).

Furthermore, wccrawford's earlier assertion that their name and typeface choice has nothing to do with the business is obtuse; if you check out http://quid.com/team.html, you'll notice that most of the hackers involved are either from, or studied in, England, which makes their branding choices eminently appropriate in the context of their shared history.
I think he was citing those as examples of "fascinating," not saying they provide evidence of a good memory.
>It's just a matter of getting things together with our data providers

would you elaborate?
I read it differently. These things happen, you can get data corruption replicated to the hot spare, i.e. failure more catastrophic than this setup is able to handle.

They were able to identify the problem and successfully recover from backup and successfully replay missing transactions in a reasonable amount of time for the setup this large. In my book it's a success.
I like this a lot. Works perfect in FF 3.6.3 (as it should) I too expected to be able to drag them around, It would be nice if I could just arrange them on the page like some of the css3 polaroid galleries you see. I will defiantly be using this.
Mass hacking happening at GoDaddy today - Many sites hacked
It's died down a bit, but for a while in the late-90s / early-2000s, there was a whole research subfield dedicated to retrieving audio via humming, which has some interesting stuff in it: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22query+by+hu... It's got a nice mixture of signal processing, sequence alignment, and approximate pattern matching problems all rolled together.
Please add Safari 5 to the browser sniffer. (It works fine if I change the User-Agent to "Chrome 6", so presumably it should be included in the list of browsers that you support.)
What's the reasoning for putting the version control of a project in a separate folder?

Using your names and RCS, I'd have

~/Projects/ProjectName/.hg

(with subfolders for design/ docs/ scripts/ etc - which are also saved in version control)
The video is out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yghiC_U2RaM
I love this, the drag especially, i've never seen the "just drag" file upload thing before without flash/java. It'd be really nice to see a drag file upload replace the typical file form input.

Excellent job.
At this point, I'd be surprised if Google resubmitted it. The reason being that I feel that the deep integration with Google Voice that Android phones can offer is a fairly good selling point when one hesitates between Android and iOS. (when it was initially submitted, Android phones were much less popular)

That being said, if the unofficial apps get popular, it might then be in Google's interest to offer their own to control the offers and make sure their service is appealing to even iPhone owners.
What a cute little slideshow...
This article doesn't go far enough. It's an optimistic take written by an academic with a background studying P2P and privacy-preserving communications. I respect Eckersley's view and the dues he's paid to have that view, but I strongly disagree.

The economics of circumvention tools do not work.

One of the smallest regimes online activists target (the Islamic Republic of Iran) spends many, many tens of millions of dollars a year to fund militant groups in other countries. A safe estimate of the amount of money they would be capable of spending "without blinking" to defeat a newly-popular circumvention tool is 7 figures.

To put that rough figure in perspective, 7 figures may be more than any company has spent to assess the security of any release of any piece of software or hardware ever. Those assessments always find terrible things. So you have to start one of these projects assuming the responsibility for withstanding a 7 figure analytical assault by your adversary.

I think --- but can't support the thought with evidence --- that many advocates of circumvention tools are laboring under the idea that their adversaries aren't savvy enough to defeat these tools. For instance, ask anti-censorship advocates about the "great firewalls" or DPI systems; or don't, because they're bound to snicker about them to you anyways. We're talking about people dumb enough to think they can censor the Internet! How smart can they be?

Unfortunately, a million dollars demonstrably buys a lot of smart. Look to any major credit card exfiltration ring or botnet operator or pay-per-install site for evidence that there are many hundreds of people who can find vulnerabilities in software and are willing to do so for the highest bidder.

Into this environment, inject the fact that a vulnerability in circumvention software "turns" the tool, allowing it to be used as a dragnet to conduct sweeping arrests (or simply to create files on people for later use). We're talking about regimes that hang people from construction cranes for writing blog posts.

This isn't a technology problem. If you don't speak Farsi, you probably shouldn't be thinking about what you can do from your office chair in North America to help overthrow goverments.
I'm guessing this isn't possible because you don't have the data, but it would be great to have Southwest flights as well.
Having been there I recommend anyone who doesn't know what "design thinking" watch. The talk isn't comprehensive but should spark your interest in the right direction.
Fucking brilliant! I'd love to hack on this... are you using app engine? Is it open source?

In particular, you know what would make this rock*10^6?
facebook/dropbox integration.
It's unfair to compare a programming language and a framework. Worst of all these types of articles keep coming up on HN. I guess the fanboys will keep coming, eh? :)

It's sad that many Ruby programmers think that their language is superior to another just because it's cool. I love Ruby, but I was interested in Python before learning Ruby. But somehow the language was not a fit. I think which language you like is just a matter of choice (and obviously depends on what you are doing). I would still jump at the opportunity of learning/using python because it's a pretty awesome language. :)
Exactly what evidence have you observed to make you believe that other researchers have used CBC padding oracles to break the security of ASP.NET?
Netbooks have GPUs. The Intel GPU is probably most common and least performant, but it can still accelerate OpenGL to faster-than-software speeds. And, new netbooks are shipping with nVidia Ion, which is quite fast. (I can play 1080p h.264 on my nettop with an Ion GPU.)
It's OpenGL, right? On Linux, anyway, Intel GPUs do hardware acceleration.
QMail?
The Mail app doesn't follow the exact same behavior as the Gmail interface. I tend to prefer the mobile web interface for that reason (e.g. archiving, tagging, mark as spam work the same, whereas are somewhat broken through the Mail app). One could imagine that an official native app would follow the same "philosophy". (though the mobile web app is very well done, and can be used offline to a certain extent)
C64 Graphics – Data or Light?
I would very much like to have this auto-pull from Dropbox folders; it is something for another weekend.

I just posted the source:
http://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks
http://www.southwest.com/about_swa/terms_and_con.html
They don't allow it.
Showcase of Games Developed Using HTML5 Canvas
Ditto for Chromium
Auto-pull, auto-push, etc.

Also, to my phone. When I take a picture on my phone, I want it to sync to a dropbox folder.

Also, with facebook. I want each of my picture galleries to sync with a mock (and, optionally, to a dropbox).

Let's say a mock is synced with both dropbox and facebook. Then adding a file to the folder locally on a machine, it should push to mock, then from mock to facebook.
It shows a wage increase for women, but a wage decline for men by 17% over 30 years.
Safari 5, at least on Windows, doesn't support the File and FileReader APIs which are necessary for the drag and drop uploader. If you've seen otherwise, please let me know (I love the Safari team, and don't want to be unfair to them).

Nightly WebKit builds may work.
The Microsoft campus is within biking distance of the Caltrain. It's not a terrible ride, from what I can tell.

Also, ask on the wiki! http://superhappydevhouse.org/SuperHappyDevHouse40 Somebody courteously offered me a ride from Noe Valley, although I'm not sure I'll be able to make it.
Craft-beer aficionados do it pretty frequently without much in the way of problems, though it's definitely a gray area. FedEx and UPS seem to take a don't-ask-don't-tell approach to what's in the box, though don't expect to claim insurance on broken bottles. Here's one guide: http://www.ratebeer.com/Beer-News/Article-174.htm
I agree, make the demo one of your calls to action on the home page.

Generally speaking, without a demo I wouldn't spend any more time investigating this type of app.
If you're writing desktop software for a platform, I think it's perfectly reasonable to demand you buy into that desktop OS.

Windows devs can test their web apps on Safari for free, from right inside Windows. Why should I have to drop $200 to make my web app work for most Windows users? That's the point he's making.
there needs to be a time-series view.
Yes, you can share the URL of the results page*

*The results are stored in memcached and last ~24 hours. This will improve in the future.
Durendal - A bucket of tricks for Clojure and Slime
Gmail had it for almost a year.
Make the imagery around the site more analogous to the "homely" tastefulness of Etsy.

I know it's obvious and trivial, but Ebay just looks bad.
Apple Said to Negotiate With Publishers Over Digital Newsstand
There are few technologies that I think could be invested in to get much more support from the HN crowd (whether they are well known to the HN crowd yet or not)

* Singularity -- should be the basis of a new OS, maybe not to replace windows... but be the next windows. You're going to have to break backwards compatibility sometime, might as well start with a parallel OS

* Intellipad -- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd861709%28VS.85%29.... I heard it would be something like emacs for .NET

* opening .NET -- mono is really close but isn't yet as polished as to attract the thousands of .NET developers. Buying into the whole MS stack is too expensive for founders and small businesses but if development could be done on or in conjunction with open source environments, I imagine lots of Ruby (IronRuby), Python (IronPython), Java/Clojure (ClojureCLR) folks would be more willing to consider the market.

* SharePoint is beloved by all enterprise companies but ALL developers laugh at it. Offer some kind of DLR API and I bet you could get lots of programmers more willing to support it.

* Command line -- go ahead and support unix commands and a more unix-like shell. How could it hurt?

* MSDN licenses are ridiculous and clearly only for big companies. Even startups that could start with BizSpark and ActionPack would rather use open source tools than be stuck in MSDN licensing hell.

* drop the price of Windows Server 08 Core to better compete with Linux servers

* start advertising better to non-enterprisey IT guys.
I haven't said wow since Etherpad , I believe. Wow.
Yes, much better model imho - put it all under one roof, and make it easy to find and expose only topics you're interested in. Similar to Reddit's subreddits in that respect, both work well.
Love it! Nice work.

What did you write it in?
LSH: Near Neighbor Search in high dimensional spaces
What happens if this becomes wildly popular among casual computer users who want to share pics with their friends? Any plans on how to monetize it?
for a journalism student she is about as succinct and articulate as a gooseberry.
Pitching Your Startup to Potential Enterprise Clients
We are on Vista, and we have problems with D3D. Another problem, even without RDC is the security that IT put to log off the machine if it's not used for 15 minutes. That's okay, but certain D3D applications would lose the device, and would not restore it correctly.

(That to be said, it's just way easier to write the said applications without thinking of recovering from D3D LOST DEVICE. It's real pain in the ass to get this working, especially if you have to put 1GB of vertex buffer/images data in memory, and expect to be there).
I was just going to say almost exactly this: it might be worth reading Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb, in which he points out how many of the essential scientists and engineers working in aspects of the Manhattan Project were Europeans. Some of the most essential figures, like Leo Szliard (sp?), were.
I didn't realize submission text would be eaten for external links, so here it is:

I had an itch to scratch around making it easy to share sets of images with other designers and thought that I could use the new drag and drop file support to solve it. DropMocks was the result after a quick weekend of hacking.

It's built on a simple Python App Engine backend, and the uploader relies on the PushState, File, and FileReader APIs (I realize that some of these aren't strictly HTML5), so uploads currently only work in Chrome 6+ and Firefox 3.6+; supporting other browsers would be the first post-hack step if I were to take it further.

An example gallery can be found here, it should be viewable in all modern browsers: http://www.dropmocks.com/mSER
Very Simple but Powerful new Hivli Php Framework
It was a very informative talk. Got lot to learn especially what not to do while designing websites.
didnt pass my browser sniffer, firefox 3.6 on ubuntu, but I know that supports drag and drop uploads, I wrote an image uploader the other week http://dropup.net/
I was really expecting Microsoft to launch a some ad campaign about .NET and mono after all of this Java/Oracle stuff hit the news. Seems like a missed opportunity.

Of course, as a developer, I hope there to be not just marketing and have a real initiative to bridge the divide.
USB 3.0 and WiDi Make Waves at IDF
Podcast of Peter Skillman's talk on Innovating the Mobile Experience
I think it's might be somewhat relevant, consider this theory: it reminds reasonable person that there is a possibility of divorce, and given the high cost of divorce for at least of one parties, people might become more cautious in proposing or accepting. Ironically, potentially reducing future divorce rate by doing so. In other words, knowing this statistics may tilt people into more cautions behavior.
Love the concept.

Your shadows look very odd with the very horizontal screenshots I dragged in to test it.
Even without something like YC it gives you to opportunity to connect with others doing startups, as long as your city has a startup/ coworking ecosystem. Probably met more people and had way more interesting conversations since getting involved.
The images left and right of the current one distract from what should be the focus. Doesn't work well for sharing small image files.
Obviously, this needs to be ported to Android, partly for distribution's sake, and partly just for the sake of irony.
you could build just a two story house, glass side walls, high enough ceilings, and see what happens on the first or second floor.
For non-designers looking to understand how "design" can and will influence your company's value - the talk is a good springboard. A list of the first 10 things to research to get a basic grasp.
Amazing idea and execution. Great work.
Unfortunately the companies that they (Bing, Yahoo, Google, etc) buy the map data from would be very much against pushing their precious vector data out into the public. All of the licensing is setup and specifically deals with tiling maps. It will take years and years before the lawyers agree to it and figure out the licensing details. Perhaps Google can circumvent this in the US because they own their US data, but what about the rest of the world?
Getting -> 502 Bad Gateway
So many cliche words in one page: "Innovative, disruptive, explosive impact, novel uses, proprietary algorithms, etc."

When I visited the site a few days ago, I wasn't quite sure if it's real.

The team's record is impressive but I hope they get it why people think their site is pretentious.
Yeah, it requires me to double click and clear or type over the input for each text box... That's more clicking than I should have to do if all I want is a new multi city search from.
Aside from the word "lacuna" there is also an actual lacuna on the front page: it's missing a specified referent for the word "lacuna."
Mechanical Proust: An automated crowd-written blog
Besides what people have already suggested, you can take Caltrain to downtown Mountain View and take a taxi to the party. (Usually there are taxis on the station) It's a 7 minute ride, so you'd probably pay around 7-12 bucks. The train ride from SF to MV is 50ish minutes on the weekends, so bring something to do on the train ;-)
I've seen 'really, really bad' code. This ain't it.

Yeas, it's made some rookie mistakes. Yes, there's a load of things they shouldn't be trusting on postback (silly things like not checking the owner of an object on 'delete' commands).

That's not bad code, that's a bad implementation. That's not knowing what to trust and what not trust cause they've never been screwed up the ass by it yet.

But bad code? No.

The implementations are problems, they need this shit pointed out to them. That is all.

Steve and Patio11 are doing some serious damage to a good project for no apparent reason apart from self promotion. I want to call them nasty names, I really, really do.
Apple and Google May Settle Antitrust Case on Staff Poaching