skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sweet service. Where did you get a lyrics web service? I was looking for a lyrics web service some time ago for the following idea: certain times when listening to a song it would be useful/more entertaining if the lyrics would follow along with the song similar to karaoke, this could be done by running the song through some speech recognition software such as nuance to get the approximate words/time during the song. You would then tie that into the lyrics through the web service and would be able to display the lyrics along with the song for almost any song. This would be helpful to me anyway, and I think add an extra level of connection and understanding to your songs.
:split worksforme, also :! is fun, but your post makes me think there is probably more to it than that.
Support YC: Voting broken?
For the past couple of days, when I upvote a comment and then refresh the page the upvote is gone.

I've tested this by going into some older entries and upvoting items that had 1 point previously. I figured these votes were unlikely to be getting downvoted as soon as I'd upvoted them.

I've tried logging out, and clearing cache.

Has anyone else seen this issue?

(As an aside, is there a better place to report this stuff than directly on the board?)

[Edit: I'm sorry, I mistakenly said "article" when I meant "comment"]

[Edit #2: It may be worth noting that while my vote hasn't taken, the arrows disappear as though it has]

[Edit #3: Downvotes are not taking either, changed the title to read "Voting broken" instead of "Downvoting broken"]
Nice.

I vaguely remembered a song by Cake, knew it contained the phrase "prize fighter". Found the song "Shadow Stabbing" almost instantly.

Nifty.
I thought that the entire startup culture was based on the idea that a startup could outpace a behemoth like Google or Microsoft.
All I know is, where I grew up, girls usually scored higher than boys on math tests, and of course that was also attributed to physical/gender differences... girls having a "natural" interest in studying and boys having a "natural" interest in running around and being boys. Everything always gets blamed on gender differences but the truth is, we simply don't know what those differences are (as opposed to culture/individual upbringing), so we justify our own prejudices with "science".
how much should i pay to a web designer based in india?
how much to a php developer?
I don't pay it, the retailer does.
Going Open source - pros and cons
Are you a top down or bottoms up kind of leader?
We love our mbps. Not just because Mac OS X is nice, but because it's useful to have a relatively similar platform between dev and deploy.
Here's why dynamic languages are slow and how to fix it
There's Hollywood films and then there's 60-second Youtube spots. Both formats can reach a million people, easy.
>With vim, I would navigate around in the shell, open up a file in vim, edit, close, repeat.

I do that to. I open up an `eshell`, navigate around. Then I edit a file with `vi filename.py`. That works best if you have `alias vi find-file $1` in your eshell aliases.
yeah i liked this. searched for hooker in minneapolis, and not only did i get the correct lyrics but i also got sweet version by neko case to hear. i have been looking for it for ages..whata bonus. nice one. just to nit pick. i would out-source your logo. try 99designs for $150-$200.
If there was a prize for precognition, you would win it. :)
This submission set a new record for sockpuppet upvotes: 104 from 2 ip addrs.
Try opening a 100MB+ text file in TextMate, it doesnt work so well...
I worked for a company that was given a free 1 month trial of 1 dev guy out of india. We had a custom PHP framework (http://www.sinapse.org/), and he jumped in and started pumping out code pretty quick. When you looked at his pages, he was "accomplishing" his tasks, but his code was so inconsistent and completely outside the framework (it was all one-off-spaghetti-code-hell), so at the end of the month we had to throw everything out. We didn't outsource again.
Well, how about making categories: Flash games, Flash tools, stuff like that.

Just change your focus a bit, but keep your technology.
I think you're just karma-whoring.

I tested this by upvoting both your article, and one of your recent comments as well. Both votes "stuck", both when I reload the page and when I re-check your profile.

I'm just kidding about the karma-whoring part. Mostly ;)
no result for the query 'sex' , what more should I expect from it. It should show me some flash animations over that!
they should pay you
Generally this is a good rule halo. But Mac OS X is a big exception.

5 years ago I predicted that MS would be gone and OS X would be the only widely available user friendly operating system (of course, the various Unix derivatives are going to survive and be healthy, but niche, players for many decades to come.. in fact Mac OS X is built on one of them, Mach 3 Unix, and is dependent on this programmer base for it's depth and stability).

I was obviously wrong in that prediction but "better late than never".
look for body parts ;)
ever think that maybe it is because DreamIt works in the same building together?
Couldn't agree more.

PS: Hope MS doesn't force you to rewrite everything in C#.. hehe. Maybe IronRuby will be good enough down the line.
Features are a one-way street.
i've not seen an issue with votes sticking, though i've definitely seen caching related issues.

have you tried doing a hard refresh of the page (in FF, hold down shift and hit the refresh button)?
Yes, I've also tried upvoting in a thread I hadn't previously been to in FF, then switching over to IE to view the thread to see if it'd taken.
As a quick test, I tried upvoting your comment from 1 to 2. What does it show for you?
Cool stuff! A few bugs: under the "recently viewed" header, the same song appears twice in a row. You're getting text encoding funkiness -- http://www.myplaylist.biz/Coldplay/Cemeteries-Of-London/2698...
nope, just simply stating that it is not original advice, but rather gathered from someone else.
If you were right, you'd have more then 1 point now :p

LE: a bit like divine justice, doesn't it? If the vote sticks, you earned it. Didn't expect it to feel so good, though.
Nokia 5220 Xpress Music
This lightweight handset of 78 g will be introduced with a TFT display of 256K colors and a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels which can be further beautified with an extensive range of organic wallpapers. Moreover, its rhythmic flash of light will add more to its beauty.
Every single of one of them called me to say "Well, Microsoft is going to be doing this now, we don't want to throw our money away."

That thumping sound you just heard is a bunch of diehard Apple shareholders -- the ones who bought on Steve Jobs' first day and held on -- falling off their chairs in helpless laughter.

But I feel for you: I'm sure it's nigh-impossible to look your potential investors in the eye and tell them that they don't understand how business works. I'm sure they're all so focused on becoming the number-one player in a small and obscure market that they ignore the advantages of being the second (or third, or twelfth) player in a large and buzzing market.
> Just sayin.

Not super-saiyan.
i like the product btw, but personally, I wouldn't want to wait that long for a clothing order.
In the long run, I think that maintaining a blog does have to do with a programmers competence.

Programming is a social activity. Communication and discussion are important. Even if no one reads your blog, the act of regularly putting insights into text form forces you to organize your thoughts. If affects your way of thinking and your approach to problems. It exposes your thoughts to criticism, or at least the possibility of it.

Part of the reason I was recruited and hired by Yahoo, despite not having a lot of professional front-end experience at the time, was the fact that I maintained a blog about web development. I was told this by both HR and the hiring manager.
I know Java enough to use Processing--which isn't a whole lot. My C is passable. To be honest, I didn't read a whole lot of it. I expected it to get harder that thought I'd ask around before I invested more time.
TextMate is one of the most over-hyped anythings, ever. The only thing that makes TextMate different from NotePad is the Bundle. The editor itself is weak as shit, and even the Bundles don't add anything that can't already be found in an extension for Emacs (and Vim, but not as well done as in Emacs).
You're right, French law forbids the sale of locked cell phones.
Did you upvote anything bad? I was dis-voted for anti karma-bombing someone... eventually our benevolent Leader returned the privilege.

For you, it is only on comments but not on articles? It was for both on me.
there are some lyrics sources about, one i found after was:
http://lyricwiki.org/Main_Page

But mine come from other resources :)

Nice idea, yours, but too complicated me thinks for my style, I prefer elegance, as in not trying to do too much but do what you dodo well.
That works for some applications, but applying that to Photoshop would ruin it. There's too many operations that can't be done at any time, and it's usually obvious why. Unless you're in Indexed Color mode. Maybe it would be better to gray them out but leave a reason available (tooltip or click).
We got permission from bluebison.net and she even offered to make a custom logo for us, but we're waiting to see if the idea is even worth investing money into at this point. We bought a logo off ebay (not suggested) that's on our wiki page of logos: http://mediawombat.com/wiki/index.php/Logos
yes spam sites seem to dominate this space. Thought it could do with some respectability. hehe
Cloudsecurity.org Interviews Guido van Rossum: Google App Engine, Python and Security
Bill Gates replacements are getting desperate now.
'You're getting text encoding funkiness --??'
please explain what you see, all looks good here?
I still see his comment as a 1 as of right now.

Have you tried using a different browser and/or logging in from a different location to see if the problem follows your software or your account?
Sorry m8, I know the logo might be a bit cheap (30 mins work) as I am, but I really could care less about the logo, I'm more fanatical about making it actually work well.
feel free to give your thoughts regardless
I do not know how they do it.

It's a great site but they need some kind of business model. Every time I go there I feel like I'm visiting a special place on our planet where the law of gravity just doesn't apply.

So I'm quite baffled by facebook but at the same time I admire the people who are running it.
We never actually paid him a cent. We covered some of his expenses. Where it hurt us was in moral, and in internal resources poured into a dead end pit. At least he's facing 40 years in jail, and 5 years on, we've managed just fine.
You're most certainly correct. The VC's intention to produce a return certainly has not changed and never will... no rocket science there. That said, please correlate their goal to poor investment strategies/methodologies in hopes of achieving 10:1. And that's my point.
Yes, it's only comments.

I can't recall being nefarious with my upvoting; usually if I like a comment I'll upvote it, and if I dislike it I downvote it.
Does that work in Emacs?

Serious question.
I've just tried upvoting your comment in IE (versus FF) and get the same results.

I'm guessing that there is either something wrong with my profile, or I'm in trouble for something or another.

Thank you for the help, by the way.
This is NOT Chris Anderson. This is Berkeley researchers from the mid EIGHTIES and a lawyer in 1913, for the love of God.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_Networks#History

This is like if somebody finds P Diddy's version of "Every Breath You Take" and goes, "wow, I didn't know Diddy wrote that song."

If you haven't been watching Bayes, you don't know what powers the biggest success stories on the Web. Bayes is the tech innovation story of the Web.

Ironic that a site run by Paul Graham would have this problem.
Your average web programmer doesn't even check for SQL injection or XSS attacks. Your average web programmer though, likes to adopt new technologies because of some "buzz." Your average web programmer will read the basic tutorial, which will cover examples, which are not to be used in a production environment. However these examples will make their way into production environments and we'll see a bunch of attacks pop up. I hope I'm wrong, but we'll have to wait and see..
Py65: A 6502 Microprocessor Simulator in Python
Well, frankly it worked out for the better that the Angels shied away. My startup was too ambitious, and there wasn't enough focus in the product, we were focusing too broadly.

Someone mentioned in another comment that startups should be more agile than the big corps, and they were absolutely right. In the vein of 37signals, we should have been focusing on one problem instead of a class of problems.
I thought the same thing in 2003, when me and one of my current cofounders decided to build an AOL IM firewall. Then AOL announced they were going to package AIM and offer it to companies with access control and management, and we said "ok we're doomed".

AOL mothballed the project, and the leading AIM firewall companies now make mid-high 8 digits.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball (http://daringfireball.net) grumbled today about the closed nature of Adobe/Google/Yahoo's methodology on this one. Which means there's surely an opportunity to appeal to everyone who prefers openness in their web--and that's a lot of people. Go for it.
Shiftzoom.js (zoom and pan functionality)
Glad to hear that you got your vote back.
Hopefully this won't be the last I hear about them.
"Twitter may be a destination for millions of people and a great place for self-indulged "Internet celebrities" to massage their egos as more and more people follow them"

Author and Internet celeb Don Reisinger has 1325 followers ...

/massage
Yeah, I realize it's not a trivial problem to solve, but I can't imagine that many of the swf files on the web today are nothing more than some keyframes and a bit of embedded text. I would think in this case strings would be suitable enough.

Also, since you can't really specify which spot in the swf to load (assuming you're going to display the swf in it's original context), I can't imagine why it would matter if you took into play conditionals. I mean, obviously you have to interpret everything, but aren't you really just after all the blobs of text so you can do, for all intents and purposes, does this document contain this text?

Thanks for the links!
Array Indices: Start from 0 or 1?
Very interesting poll. Sample size rather small but so is the RoR community. With so many gems and plugins available now I'm not sure how one would ask that question but I think that would be some interesting information to have.

What surprised me the most was the number of responders working on teams with more than 5 developers. I'm still in the advanced learning stages of this framework but I can't imagine trying to coordinate any kind of project in RoR with more than 2 or 3 people.

Now, it may be that when they say 8 or 9 developers what they mean is 2 or 3 guys working the view/controller code and maybe one guy on the models and database and everyone else doing the functional, unit, and final user testing. That would make more sense.
The VC Asset Class Crisis Thing: Venture Capital is NOT in crisis
Researchers: 637 million browser users at risk
try making the project drawer work with your version control system. Emacs is more extensible, but has a steeper learning curve.
(1) less-known submitter; (2) linkjacked.
?? Why?

This is blatantly a viral ad for Monster. They've paid for it already.
Found all three songs I looked for first try, but site is getting pretty slow. Might try whittling down the number of results returned. Also saw text encoding funkiness. Really nice tho, bookmarked. How are you getting the songs and pictures in the flash on the left?
Vim for five-ish years, then Emacs for two, so far.

I just wrote this a few days back:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230990
I just love my net beans.

I would have thought that this great IDE would have made a stronger showing.
Ironic that a site run by Paul Graham would have which problem?

The title of the submission is just the title from Hank's blog. So, wouldn't be a problem with his blog, and not news.YC?
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Figure out the sort of thing that Google and Yahoo don't or won't do, and do that.

Exactly. There has to be an approach or angle on this data that Google isn't doing -- maybe they wouldn't think to do it, or maybe they'd just find it anathema.
Do you use windows? Compared to that user experience, Mac OS X is a whole lot more personable.
$400,000 valuation?
Understanding the Web browser threat
Hang on, I thought "features are a one-way street"
Yes, it is good, although we need to grow our office pretty soon if we start hiring again. It's getting kind of full in here.
There was an obsession with eyeballs then too?
It's hard to get good data, but I've read the opposite - that educational standards for engineers may be much higher in the US than in India and China.

Here's a link to a business week article by Vivek Wadhwa, a prof at Duke:

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2005/sb20051...

and another by Pete Engardio on a related topic...

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2005/nf200512...

Btw, none of this is meant to knock the top tier, such as the IIT schools, which are excellent But we're talking about the "masses" here...
A couple weeks ago, they decided to pull the feature because it was too confusing and it wasn’t adding value.

This is wrong. If the feature weren't adding value, the users wouldn't care if it disappeared. In this case, it added the value of allowing a family to have separate queues and ratings with a single account. Whether Netflix was able to capitalize on that value is another story...
If it's the case that someone has Vista misbehave continually in numerous ways and feels like the OS doesn't care, then if Mac OSX is a much more pleasant experience to that user then he will feel like the OS cares.
That totally sucks for you.

How much money/time did you sink into this, and do you have investors yet?
Ruby has a pretty hairy syntax whose ambiguities are resolved at what is essentially runtime in some cases. Python's syntax is cleaner, and the way it regards whitespace is better defined. I doubt there are examples of syntactic hairyness in Python as bad as what's in Ruby.
talk of anecdotal evidence
As I said, TextMate is almost as powerful. I prefer usability to power, so long as power is still present in adequate amounts.
Apple Spurns Intel, For Now
any kind of cleanup -- especially releasing locks/other shared resources, and also closing sockets, files, memory, etc.
See my later comment about expected errors versus unexpected ones. Exceptions were never meant to replace good error-handling code.
http://www.strombergschickens.com/products/basic_incubators....
I think he's saying NetFlix thought it wasn't adding value, which it clearly was.
Yet another visualization of the internet
Hi,
Many of the comments here are negative, probably due to the overly sensational title ;-) Since this is a project I have been working on, however, I will do my best to clarify and respond candidly.

This is clearly not a breakthrough. Sockets (or socket-like interfaces) are the most obvious way to communicate a bi-directional stream of bytes. This has been true for decades. The problem is that everybody has been trying to reinvent the wheel for AJAX. So yes, this is not new, just something that had been missing from the web for a long time!

We have been very mindful of the security implications. Orbited uses a strict whitelist and will not allow outgoing connections to addresses (hostname:port) that are not listed in the access configuration.

Feel free to ask me any questions.

-Frank Salim
The title makes it seem as if the issue is with Windows although Microsoft and Windows are only mentioned once throughout the article; the issue is not with Windows but with the operators, you may want to update the title.

"Hackers are targeting the ATM system's infrastructure, which is increasingly built on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and allows machines to be remotely diagnosed and repaired over the Internet. And despite industry standards that call for protecting PINs with "strong encryption -- which means encoding them to cloak them to outsiders -- some ATM operators apparently aren't properly doing that. The PINs seem to be leaking while in transit between the automated teller machines and the computers that process the transactions.
Lisp, 50th Birthday this October
Yea, I've written some similar code to this for fetching the lyrics based on arbitrary parts of the song. It's a fun challenge, and getting the correct lyrics is also hard. Well done on that account.

I see that you are using a flash player to display Flickr photos, presumably appropriated tagged, while playing an mp3 of the song?

I like the site though, well done!
You were denied funding? "The VC group"? How many times were you told no by how many investors? The way you said it makes it look like you talked to 1 firm and then stopped. Fundraising is a process-- not a single ask. Expect to have 1 person pitching, largely full-time, for 3-9 months to tons of different investors. But to be honest-- a VC firm isn't going to touch a company with no traction except in the rare event that the founders have an unusual amount of credibility. You'd really be better off with angels. Though (on the surface), I don't think you'll get buyoff from ANY investors unless you can prove there's a business there. In your shoes I wouldn't talk to investors until I had a proven growth rate and 10-20k uniques per day.

I'm going to disagree with the people saying, "oooh, market validation". This validates that Google wants to index more stuff and Flash builders want to get indexed. It doesn't validate that users would go to a vertical flash search engine.

When Google does something in the search game, they are generally going to win. Without the exit strategy of selling to them, you are left with building your own search brand (supported by ads). Are there enough people who are passionate about finding Flash stuff that they'd rather use your (better) flash search engine over an integrated experience at Google?
Decision: To continue working on the start-up or go to grad school?
My business partner and I have been plugging away for the past 6 weeks on getting our web start-up going. Now he's deciding whether or not to continue on or stop and go to grad school. We're so close to launching and then would need a few 3-6 months to see if it has any potential in the market. We all know Paul Graham's opinion on going to grad school verses seeing your startup through to completion. I thought some friendly encouragement from the y-combinator crowd might help illuminate his decision. Ironically, our "start-up" is a decision making tool, and he has posted a decision page listing all the pros and cons. It's a wiki so anyone can add their two cents. It's still in pre alpha stage but here's a direct link if anyone wants to help steer this sorry fellow from a sad life of grad school at 'cough cough' Indiana State University, verses doing what he always deep in his heart wanted to do. (Actually, he's always wanted both, hence the conflict, but I digress.) All feedback on this discussion board or on the site is most appreciated.

http://decisionero.com/43t_friends/San_Francisco_or_Indiana%3F

Cheers!
I don't think so. The whole point of his post is that once you introduce a feature, users will demand you to keep it even if it doesn't add value.