skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
User-generated Cliff's Notes for online articles? I can see some value there, but in as much as Cliff's Notes has value. I worry sometimes about the intellectual shortcuts people are taking in not reading articles completely or depending on other's feedback / scores / comments to determine the value of the content. Since when was reading for comprehension a chore? I know people are short on time, but is it wise to shortcut really understanding something?
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reminds me of my brief stint in frontend web development, when i would sneak in at least one #c0ffee-coloured element in every project.
Google Unveils Brilliant Android-Controlled LED Light Bulb
Incredibly ironic? It sounds like you've found a couple of bugs. What's with the throw away hatchet account?
This article compares non-workers to people who work and have very low incomes. It describes a situation where non-workers spend more money than low-income workers.

I'm confused here: where are the non-workers getting this money that they spend?
Lots of interesting stuff in the story.

For example the part where Google blocks Motorola from using Skyhook, but then Samsung ships with Skyhook. Moto goes back to Google to request a waiver so it can ship Skyhook:

"•Google denied the waiver on June 22, saying that Andy Rubin had already denied Sanjay Jha’s request for a waiver. Oh, and “compatibility is a learning process,” and “Motorola should not be concerned with other OEMs and their devices.” Look not at the world, Motorola. Look only inside yourself."

How can a phone company not be concerned with other OEMs and their devices? That's like telling Google to not be concerned with other search engines.
Show HN: Put it to Music (our recent "weekend" project)
This is a small project that we built with some off-hours at work. The idea is basically, we provide the idea or context of a song with a one-liner, and people submit either whole songs or parts of songs to collaborate with other users.

This is basically our MVP for this project. There's a fair amount of CSS3/jQuery and we aren't worried about older browsers at this point.

Looking for critiques on visuals/functionality and maybe some ideas of how we might drive people to the site. Most of the one-liners we provide have a country-ish feel to them so we will probably post this on some country music messageboards/blogs to start, but really we welcome any type of music that people want to post.
http://jsfiddle.net/RffRn/

Here is a jsFiddle with the code that actually works, or it would, if I had a browser that supported this that didn't crash the second I tried to do anything with it.
To make him or her aware of the issue? I'd rather have my program crash at a well identifiable point in the execution flow than start acting rogue for no obvious reason (in both debug and production environments).
But probably a game changer in terms of selection bias -- we're seeing it reported now. But it does happen from time to time.
pretty much every vendor has an agreement with skyhook to share this kind of information.
I ran it on JSFiddle (http://jsfiddle.net/BGW5u/) a few minutes ago, and everything went fine. Though, I now strangely have a craving of human brains for breakfast.

So, yeah, it's safe.

braaaaaaiiiinnsssss
Facebook should raise more money so it can higher better (quieter) PR.
What type of traffic volume do you expect to see in the first month and year?
I even got one of those as my local dollar store. Not the best quality, but good enough to do the job.
<script src="audio-test.js"></script>

Doesn't actually point to anything in your fiddle.
This is really really great to see: pypy is such an interesting project, and it's really encouraging to see it make so much ground.

It's interesting that Guido deliberately didn't go for a full re write for python 3, but this project which is a full rewrite in a whole different language has provided a faster implementation with less developers!
I'm always considering building a site like this myself, there's not law of nature that dictates that freelance sites need to be races to the bottom.

The pricing is a little ambiguous, is it free (after the pre-launch period) for coders?
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Very cool, nice work. It would be interesting if you could do this with legislation, both proposed and passed. You'd probably have to add/ modify relevancy factors but it could be helpful to not have to read legalese and still get the gist of laws.
These numbers are based on W3school users. People that go to w3schools.com are interested in web development. I am guessing the average IE6 user is not interested in web development, so I'd be wary of the numbers.
Relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2539892
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Oh wow, I didn't realize that Postgresql was working on PyPy. I heard that Django was only tested with SQLite so I made my assumptions from then on.

By messaging, I mean something like RabbitMQ, that way I can have batch scheduling at a little bit more sophisticated grain than "run a cronjob".
I like the concept, but I feel that your algorithm for generating an initial summary needs a lot of work. For example, I was experimenting with the API:

The input page:

http://bookflavor.com/dukan-diet-2-steps-lose-weight-2-steps...

The API results:

http://gistpoint.com/get?u=http://bookflavor.com/dukan-diet-...

Rather than choosing a snippet of the main text, it chose a few words from one of the menu items...

If you can fine tune the algorithmic generation of snippets in the API this could be very useful. Keep up the good work!
Now, yes.
Was there any technical/manufacturing reasons for those 5-point screwheads? Better performance? I love the mac as much as you do. I run one at work and 2 at home. I'm just worried that they start making it suck. And i don't think apple fans saying "you should get applecare" like in the comments for this article are helping.
We are thinking monthly fee. Your point on charging to search devs is exactly what we are going for. People won't sign up unless they are serious about building a project.
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Do you use TPC-UVA? http://www.infor.uva.es/~diego/tpcc-uva.html
It is not Dunning-Kruger effect. It is impostor syndrome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
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They "think" they are experts at it. Yeah. If they were experts at predicting which ones would fail, they would simply buy shitloads of puts on xyz & wait it out instead of hedging themselves in case xyz doesn't default.
Also, you give them too much credit when you use words like "technology infrastructure". I've been to many of them & the extent of their infrastructure is RAID & the extent of their technology is writing a for loop in VBA.
Back in school I pumped about 10k into a venture that hasn't panned out.

Was incredibly stressful, and disappointing, but it helped me learn. Hopefully will push that forward and build upon it if I tried something like that again - for now I'm focusing on other areas.
Almost no-one is truly addicted to email. The problem is the people that are moderately 'addicted', and they can certainly wait a few hours a couple times to kill the unpredictable reward system.
They are, sorry. I ran into some formatting problems with HN, so they must have become switched in the confusion.
Yeah really. Great counterexample to the people here who claim that HN voting is primarily about the content of the article. The TechCrunch article had a better headline, broader readership in the HN crowd, and a more techy URL ... so it pulled in the votes.
The morality is quite different to physical goods. Infringement is a malum prohibitum not a malum in se.

Copying is not immoral in itself. Quite the opposite: it is something we would want to encourage.

It can only really be immoral in so far as the law is moral. And the law is only moral in that it serves an economic purpose -- that is, to be clear, it serves us overall. The law is not there to 'protect' or benefit copyright 'owners', they are the means not the end.

So is it serving us overall to restrict access to goods where there is no need to? to charge more than can be afforded, yet the cost of supply is negligible?

If the intrinsic act is moral, and the law obstructing it is in some case seemingly immoral, it is easy to support doing the act anyway.
Submission of Daily Beast reporting:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2539932
In some of the performance comparisons with Gnome, XFCE ends up consuming almost as many resources as Gnome. That's one of the reasons Lubuntu came into existence.
Ask HN: Who do you eat lunch with?
It's lunch time here on the U.S. east coast. Who does HN eat lunch with? I'm interested in finding out whether people use it as an opportunity to relax, or network, or what-have-you. So, what is your most common lunch situation?
Eat alone & don't think about work.
Eat alone & work at my desk.
Eat with my peers (developers clustering together for lunch, separately from sales, QA, etc.)
Eat with a diverse group of colleagues.
Eat with friends or colleagues not from my workplace.
A combination of the above; none are more common and my lunch plans shift regularly.
psycopg2 is implemented in a fork of mine: http://bitbucket.org/alex_gaynor/pypy-postgresql/ it requires compiling yourself, but works nicely (I was told by someone that this brought their script's time from 2 minutes to 8 seconds). As of last test it passes all Django tests. What's the current standard RabbitMQ lib? I didn't realize it was a c-extension (hell I've used it myself and never noticed).
Wait a minute – this story broke on a blog, and then got picked up by the Daily Beast, and then by Arrington. I guess you could give Arrington credit for spreading this story to his audience, but he doesn't deserve credit for calling Facebook out in the first place.
nice idea, but what's the incentive for me to submit a summary?
We are working on pricing on the coders side. We are thinking of doing at least 3 months free and figuring it out from there.
What a silly argument. "Just make it happen!"

What do you do in the case where a show is shown on ABC in the US and Channel 4 in the UK, and they both have online streaming? How do you just make that happen? Who is going to give up their rights to broadcast online? Are you just going to wish the contracts away? Yes, the torrenters have no problem avoiding the legal limits because they are illegal, that's not an answer.
Linus absolutely correct describing this refusal of the monkey's to see anything else beside the matter at hands. The security isn't the main goal of the server development. Successful development of the server is the _goal_ and security is just a necessary piece, among others, in the much bigger picture. Linus understands it and thus he's successfully managed to deliver for 20 years where others, more weak minded and weak willed, have succumbed to the process, security and others monkeys.
I didn't find these bugs, they're just ones that have been accumulating over the years. If all of these were as simple as being "bugs" rather than flaws in the type system why wouldn't they have been fixed by now?

Is there something wrong with trying to encourage them to fix these problems and make Scala all the better for it?
I've no experience of these sites, but asking dev's to put "i am real" strikes me as something they're doing out of desperation of dealing with fake requests etc.

This implies to me that they will be all the more appreciative when you turn out to actually be real! A client that appreciates you from the get go, well that has to be a good thing, no?
It's not too late, depending on your interest. Maybe something related to Taurine (the active ingredient in RedBull)?
I put an SSD in mine and, yep, that happened. So I put a bit of wire across the sockets in the sensor cable and now it monitors at a constant 30C with no fan activity. No fuss, no hassle, and SSDs don't need serious cooling anyway. Seems a bit of a mountain out of a molehill story from my POV.
mkdir /lib64

ln -s /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

This fixed it for me.
Yup, exactly. The entire world of PR is cutthroat. If facebook doesn't play, they will get beat.
Then please start fixing all these bugs and submit patches!
I got the same thing, but enabling Web Audio in about:flags fixed it.
Researchers tout foldable display for large mobile device screens
I understand your point, the way I see people use this is to determine before committing their time if the article content fits their interests and worth their time. It's not to bypass reading articles altogether, it's to filter out what they want to read.
Just because you never would have paid for it doesn't give you the automatic right to view/listen/consume it.
I just had a similar experience with my Macbook Pro (Mid-2009): The SATA controller supports SATA II. But if you use any SATA II drive with that model, you get occasional freezes in the best case, and the machine doesn't boot in the worst. The problem is apparently an improperly shielded SATA cable, but Apple doesn't care because: They never supplied any SATA II drives for that device.
I think having to short out a sensor on your computer because you changed the hard drive warrants such a story.

Luckily for you, you used a SSD and don't have to worry about cooling... What about the people wanting to add a 1TB drive or simply needing to replace their dead one?
Apparently I can quickly produce extremely high-scoring gibberish using Emacs M-x dissociated-press.
Passing it through readability.com first improves it dramatically: http://gistpoint.com/get?u=https://www.readability.com/artic...

It would be nice if the API would take a parameter for the approximate number of words to return, so a 100 word vs a 500 word summary.
Yes they have evolved. Not necessarily for the better IMHO.
Dammit, I accidentally downvoted you when I meant to upvote - stupid phone.

Yet, another thimg I hate about the comment system, one cant change their vote.
In my personal opinion your use of Comic Sans is fine considering the context, but you could placate the font connoisseurs and Comic Sans haters by using a handwriting font face such as one of these:

http://www.google.com/webfonts?subset=latin&category=han...
People that complain about languages simply haven't mastered them yet.
> Turing completeless, not C.

Be serious. Brainfuck is Turing-complete: are you suggesting that other programming languages could reasonably be implemented on top of it?

Almost every single VM or programming language implementation is written in C. What are people going to write programming languages in when you take C away from them?

> We have. We've innovated for 40 years. It turns out we've learned some stuff since then, and it's time to move some of those innovations down to the lower parts of the system.

So your opinion is basically that it's time to stop innovating, because now we know the best answer. What do you have to say to the fact that I wrote a JIT two weeks ago that effectively improved the state of the art in network protocol parsing? How is that not part of "the networked future?"

Your arguments that C is holding us back are vague and unconvincing. People write VMs all the time. Code that runs on these VMs can be as insulated as you want from the underlying system. The entire web is built on JavaScript which doesn't know a lick about C -- how would that whole ecosystem be any better if C wasn't underneath it? I argue it would be much worse, because the radical performance improvements of the last 4 years (which came from writing JITs that target the bare metal) would not have been possible.

You can pry address spaces and machine code from my cold, dead hands.
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Perhaps it's the other way around--electrons and positrons are produced by (some unknown means), they collide, and this is what causes the gamma ray flashes. Isn't that a possibility? I was surprised they didn't explore it in the article.
The main reason why more people are not working on this is that:

* volunteers are interested somewhere else

* nobody is willing to put money into numpy on pypy happening
A bike SHOP isn't trying to sell you anything? How long to they expect to stay in "business?"
I like mingetty http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-546544.html
Previous discussion of Alpha.gov.uk: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2536003
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thank you very much for your answer.
I have several question : can we mix node with different storage capacities (for example when we add new node later)?
Is this kind of storage really cheaper than Nas with RAID on "small" capacity like 40 or 60TB total space? Ok hardware is cheaper, but what about other cost like power consumption or cooling?
Yeah, I don't know why BASIC got so much hate. It was so powerful. There was nothing to complain about.
Good idea... I'll check Readability's API's then, perhaps using a combination of both API's will generate good snippets of the pages on my site.
Yeah the fact it forces you to buy their absurdly marked up HDDs is just a convenient side effect.
I think the main reason that Apple(and a lot of other manufacturers) use these is because they simplify automated assembly. Since they're using torque wrenches to screw it in, it's better to have a screw head that won't allow the bit to fall out. Since the Torx screws can be flush with the surface they're preferable to using a hex bolt.

On another note, this is perhaps the first time ever that a DYI advocate is complaining about needing to buy a new tool. At this point, if you're a remotely serious electronics hobbyist, you should have one anyway.

EDIT: Grammar fail.
GHC 7 recently broken with the traditional ML type checking / inference mechanism because it's not expressive enough for the kind of the code that Haskell wants to support. Noone has this stuff figured out, certainly not ML, Haskell, or Scala. Benjamin C Pierce has even written about how some domains are positively painful w/ strong type systems and how contracts are a more expressive solution.

I'd like to see the ideas behind the Art of the Metaobject Protocol applied to type systems. Allow users to selectively fill those holes that relevant for their domain.
The ability to buy non-standard screwdrivers does not justify the use of non-standard screwdrivers where a standard is just as good.
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The thepiratebay.org doesn't respond to PINGs, so that's exactly what you should see.
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If there wasn't so much piracy affecting sales, there wouldn't be a need for those anti-piracy measures. PC gaming is practically non-existent with the exception of Blizzard.
Step 1: Get worldwide rights to desirable content.

No one has ever gotten past step one.
No, tpc-uva is a bit more than what I need right now. I might use it later on when I have decided on any single algorithm that I want to test in a more realistic environment. Because changing the caching algorithm that postgres uses isn't as easy as doing so in a standalone python simulator, I will have to be sure that I want to do that. I have already tried that before and it is a lot harder and takes a lot more time.
I do not love computers and I certainly hate the MBA (for its glossy screen). Bringing up those screws strikes me as pedantic and disingenuous, though.
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Show HN: Noted.in - Simple app for tasks and notes management
This is our app that tries to solve our voes with organization. It is extremely lightweight, and the idea is that in moment of writing down the note, you don't want to be distracted with anything else.

The mobile app is in works and should be finished pretty soon.

http://noted.in
Http://www.economist.com/node/18680048?story_id=18680048
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Shit, it was Christopher Soghoian? Whoever thought that he would participate in a pay-for-editorial job should be fired. Actually, they have almost certainly already been fired. He's practically built a career on exposing corporate bullshit. If they bothered to read his wikipedia page, they'd note that he has a history of releasing private corporate correspondance that is sent to him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Soghoian
Most of these types, anyway. 1Password doesn't work with CNET's pop-up login form.
How does Groupon or Twitter fit into this schema?
given that there is no stated end date to this experiment, when exactly will you post the data? ("once it's all in" doesn't say anything).

will you post all of the data (in its original, unadulterated form) collected for free, unrestricted download by anyone for any purpose, including competing with last.fm?

intending to share, and actually making a public promise to do so, are quite different things.
It's about an even toss-up between either a) eating with other developers and throwing work ideas around; and b) eating, usually alone, while playing a game on my comp for 20 minutes or so
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I blame story selection. There is a pronounced unmistakable bias towards bullshit controversies on HN.
It varies tremendously from day to day. Eating at my desk at the $DAYJOB is probably most common by a small margin, but I often lunch with other people for various reasons. Sometimes $DAYJOB colleagues, sometimes startup related meetings, sometimes random lunches with friends or acquaintances just to catch up, etc.
there's not law of nature that dictates that freelance sites need to be races to the bottom

True, but setting a price floor doesn't automatically prevent the race from happening. $2000 for a 5 week project is still racing to the bottom.
It's unfortunate that the Forbes article repeatedly calls the company "Typeface" instead of "Typesafe".
Yes, I should have been more precise. I've never liked the form factor and packaging of the WebOS devices. TouchPad looks like it might be up to scratch, but still nothing that looks good to me on the horizon in terms of the handset.
I was deeply in love with WebOS on my 1st gen Pre. But - like you noted - the hardware was disappointing, and the Pre 2 should have been the Pre 1.5.

Even a year after switching to the iPhone 4 - there are still things I miss about my Pre's UI. If I could get WebOS on iPhone quality hardware, I'd be there in a second.
So what if he's wrong about that? You don't get a prize for winning that argument; he's still Linus, Linux is still going to be the dominant server platform on the Internet, and he doesn't have to take security any more seriously.

The fact is, despite that one obvious nit with his comment, if you take what he's saying in context, he has a very valid point about how the security community interacts with the Linux development community.
Yeah ... and that is why I can't leave comments =)
Monthly fee is nonsense. Charge a project cut.