skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought I'd take the liberty post a comment from a user in the techcrunch comments. I'm curious to hear reaction from those more familiar with telephony than I am.

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PhonoSDK (http://phono.com) is a far superior implementation of this same concept that has the advantage of being released almost a year ago - close to 10,000 developers are now using it.

The number of advantages that PhonoSDK has over this is pretty impressive:

- Phono supports enterprise-grade open standards for VoIP and IM (SIP and XMPP).
Phono supports HD audio (much better caller experience).

- Phono supports in-browser IM functionality as well as in-browser phone functionality, using the same library.

- Phono is open source.

- There is no charge for Phono -> Phono calls or IMs.

Noticeably absent from this offering is the use of any of the generally accepted standards for telephony or communication. You can call this "VoIP" but but it is that in only the loosest sense of word.

The lack of open standards and the inability to interoperate with systems that suport them make this little more than a toy for developers to play with between real projects.

Enterprise customers won't touch this with a 10-foot pole.

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She talks about preserving group #2 (pseudonyms) while agressively moderating group #3 (trolls). This is the most important balance to keep, and moderation is obviously a necessity. But I think there might be a way to inherently limit trolling by using the proper site design for social interaction. At Freeversation.com, we've developed an invite-only anonymous discussion forum where everyone knows who was invited to the conversation, but not who's saying what. In other words, an online form of Chatham House Rules.

So far, we haven't seen much trolling because we've eliminated the limitless audience of traditional anonymous forums. Our focused discussion groups are limited to relevant individuals only. I just think there has to be a way to promote honest, open dialogue without having to moderate each and every comment.
This title is completely misleading. This assumes that the election was hacked, and the "court evidence" presents a theory about how the presumed hack could have happened.

All this article proves is that not all conspiracy nuts are right-wingers.
I would be nice if this was done in terms of MIME Types. Perhaps similar to the "Accept" header in HTTP (though in this case the invoker is telling the program (aka server) what types it would like).

Of course this only solves the parsing problem, not the semantic one.
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On linux you can remove the firewire driver temporarily with 'rmmod firewire_ohci' or permanently by adding 'blacklist firewire_ohci' to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.
TLWIR 10: 20 Years of GNU/Linux and More
Agreed. We're a Postgres shop at work, and the few times I've had to bust out MySQL for a side gig because of client requirements I lament the lack of functions and transactional DDL. It feels like a toy.
Ok I updated it here: is this better? http://www.geekrations.com
No, Jobs would have co-opted the cops and they would have raided you.

http://gizmodo.com/5524843/police-seize-jason-chens-computer...
I wonder how https://www.tropo.com/ is doing. They seem to be a bit of an underdog in the telephony api world.
Hm... in this case, we'll still need adapter scripts that transform interfaces among each other, and they'd be more complicated (but also more flexible) than awk.
Running FF5 on Win7, 2 GB of RAM. I leave it open all day with no issues. 5+ tabs at all times.
Seems a neat idea, bt it isn't exactly seamless to the user -- I get the Flash security dialog asking for permission to access my speaker & microphone, and the default was to deny.

Many users probably won't have a clue what to click there.

The lag time on actually calling through to my phone was rather long (over 10s) but maybe that is just because their servers are busy.
CUPS 1.5.0 is now available for download
To me, it's clear that they have spent more time making a rendering engine that is more compatible with CSS and Javascript. Every other popular browser(including Opera) has some serious Javascript and CSS rendering issues where it counts. From my development experience Firefox is the most developer friendly browser, by miles.
Hmm, so Phono is free and open source. It sounds like I'll have to do a lot more than sign up for Twilio, give them my CC#, and drop four lines of JS into my app.
2^-infinity == 0
This is not a big surprise to anyone who was paying attention during the election. However most of the public did not pay attention, and the media failed to report a lot of what happened.

Here is a simple rule of thumb. Exit polling is an independent confirmation of the fairness of elections. Exit polling has been proven accurate in every advanced democracy except one. Agreement between exit polling and the official vote tally is widely regarded as a litmus test for fair elections in third world countries. It should be so regarded in the one advanced democracy where there are regularly large deviations between exit polls and reported results.

That outlier is, of course, the USA. :-(
I wish I had my charting library spreadsheet handy. These selected to be included in this "top" list failed any advanced requirements, if my memory serves me right.
Same story, much, much discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2801033
Impressive how the most voted comments are rants about the browser.

If that's insightful or useful comments hit me...

I really don't understand this hate towards Mozilla that has been going around lately.

Edit: Why am I being downvoted? It's a sincere opinion of a person who doesn't see a relation in critizising a project of an organisation in an article that talks about other projects.

If you dont like Firefox its fine, but it's a wonderful project with millions of users and that cannot be denied.

Sending my opinion to oblivion because of pointing how unrelated the firefox rant comments are to the article makes no sense.
Lag time dialing your phone number or audio lag?

EDIT: In regards to the Flash issue, the security dialog is a necessary evil. It's an unfortunate UX, but the opt-in model for accessing your devices is important.
Maybe you could add a filter function that allows you to target and monitor specific groups: i.e. kids, singles, couples etc...
Like the idea too!
PS: Would be nice add on to Airbnb.com
Do you still work on it, or have you just worked on it in the past?
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The thing is, you can never predict which command outputs you're going to need to consume programatically. Even if you have control over the codebase, it might not be desirable because of time-burn to make it so that your commandline outputs in a uniform machine-readable way.

I think another approach is to use robust, good tools to parse human readable output (assuming it is reasonably consistent as many unix commands are, for instance).

There is a great tool for TCL environments called "Expect". You can use that to send/parse commmands in the shell or ssh, ftp, even over serial ports, etc. There are sophisticated capabilities for regex-based matching, and the syntax is nicely compact. There are also ways to fork tasks so that multiple command/response sessions can be done in parallel.

I really wish that something like "Expect" existed in .NET or Java. It was nice to have it as a tool.
There's nothing wrong with my eye sight. I don't mind wasting some vertical space to get better readability. Modifying the css is very easy and doesn't take much time.
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Patents in Europe are much, very much, less restrictive than in USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Euro...
I'd like to see what Mozilla comes up with. Bring it on Mozilla!
This. Monte Carlo simulations are widely used in finance and as they're "embarrassingly parallel" we see fantastic speedups when porting them to the GPU. I've seen gains up to 200x on a single board when running in single precision (and about half that in double-precision) -- and you can cram 6 or 8 GPUs in a single workstation or server.
"And it’s not clear America would benefit even if it tried maintaining these lower-skilled jobs."

Myopic on many levels. A week in an industrial fabrication shop would change the author's tune regarding skill levels required for modern manufacturing jobs.
Show HN: Drop and Give Me (Android App)
"I wish my car accepted audio input."

I just used a Grom adapter to add bluetooth to my 1999 daily driver. It doesn't have whizzy features like voice dialing and A2DP audio quality is not excellent but, for podcasts, pop music, and phone calls, it's great.

http://www.gromaudio.com/
The post felt like a tabloid piece -- it does not show that the Presidental Election was hacked, but rather that it could have been hacked. It then goes on to say things like "Connell died a month and a half after giving this deposition in a suspicious small plane crash" seemingly to imply that he was murdered, but stops before going any deeper than that.

Finally, lets look at who wrote this -- a member of the Co-Counsel in the King Lincoln vs Blackwell case, not exactly the most unbiased of people.
Considering a normal Segway costs about 4-5 times that, it's pretty impressive stuff! I'd like to know how long the batteries last/how fast it could go. Seems a lot more portable than an actual Segway as well.
>All babies are atheists, by the way.

that's cute. that statement has about as much sense as "all frogs are atheists." if you cannot ask/be asked the question you cannot be categorized by your answer.

my point was that modeling the spread of ideas would require treating atheism as a payload, carried between two people.

>do you really think that atheism spreads by people convincing other people?

no. it spreads by osmosis. atheism leaks through water to other people. the whole of r/atheism has never convinced a single person to take up the atheistic banner through reasoned argument.

sorry, I just don't know how to respond to such a silly claim except sarcastically.
I hate censorship, but I think the intent here is not so much to censor his ideas as to negate the "advertising" value of the tragic attacks.

It's wrong to say "that guy has dangerous ideas and should be censored", but it's another thing to say "that guy killed nearly 90 people to promote his manifesto, we should make sure he doesn't get what he wanted"
How Germany bought Europe via the EFSF
> They know exactly what they're doing.

Oh yeah. A bunch of teens and really bored adults photoshopping pictures, posting gay furry anthropomorph fanfic and child porn must know EXACTLY what they're doing.

This is the fucking streisand effect! This is the definition of it! They're trying to censor/cover up the original and make a big deal about it, so guess what's going to happen? More people will look for the original to see what it says. This is the worst Anon operation so far.
> the media failed to report

9/11 and its consequences sold so well to a demoralized public that they went to sleep for the better part of a decade and allowed deviant personalities to take over and shape their agenda as news. Personally, I see no other punishment fitting than allowing all of their outlest to go out of business.
Or pay to fuel your vehicle with it and then set aside an equivalent amount of cash and pay the balance off when the bill comes. Of course, if you don't own a car, you can pick some other thing that you'd ordinarily only buy with cash.

Years ago, when I graduated from HS, I had my credit ruined for me by a thief. What I know now that I didn't understand then was that if I had pressed charges, things would have gone differently. But somehow I've managed to slither through life with almost no credit. It's sad to see that times have changed.
relatively soon after the arrival of paginated books,
public reading becomes commonplace.

Oh no, it was because of the alphabet changed everything. And because some nations required universal education (technically, first among boys).

Books (in the codex form, versus scrolls) were indeed very helpful in reading, the way dvd is an improvement over a cassette tape. It made navigation easier (reading in one case, listening in the other). So your example is indeed relevant to the point you are making, but not the way you made it. (IMHO.)
Amazon, Others Cave to Apple, Remove In-App Purchasing
Archipel Beta3.2 released.
To be fair, every mobile device that Microsoft released was supposed to destroy RIM. I'm still not convinced that Microsoft can pull of a decent phone with full Exchange integration.
Domino’s Pizza: delivery of resilient IT only possible with outsourcing
Marissa Mayer, Google. Scary smart, out of the box thinker. Find a YouTube video of one of her talks, you'll be impressed.
He's not talking about that, he's talking about sewing buttons on things for 5 bucks a day.
The submitted article reminds me of a science fiction story I read as a child, "Hunting Lodge" by Randall Garrett, in the anthology Men and Machines edited by Robert Silverberg.

http://books.google.com/books?id=3PSTqQrrzjEC&pg=PA141&#...

The premise of the story is that an effective life extension treatment has been found, and it is so expensive that only the politically powerful can have access to it. The protagonist (and first-person narrator) of the story is an assassin whose job is to murder the immortal oligarchs who rule a future United States--it is pretty apparent that the target of his assassination plot is J. Edgar Hoover in a far-off future. That has always caused me to pause and think about whether I would really like society to discover an effective longevity treatment. Are you sure that people who are as high on the social power and influence scale as HN readers will have access to the treatment?
Consider this before buying enterprise tablets
The Lies Behind The 40% Return Rate Of Android Phones
Very interesting, I'll have to check into that! I use a Griffin FM transmitter right now, works OK, but has frequent problems with competing radio stations.

http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/Griffin-RoadTrip-iPhone...
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How we interpret failure amongst startups is a very important part to a healthy ecosystem.
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Yes I found this statement interesting too.. wonder what issues he takes with chrome. I find my taste is opposite: firefox for development and chrome for regular browsing.
Philosophy department? I don't know if the odds are so good for getting the truth, as opposed to the odds of getting the ability to greatly impress a certain fraction of the populace while talking around the truth.
Turning on the firmware password (Either EFI or Open Firmware on PPC machines) disables firewire DMA.

This is a well known and common lockdown procedure for security focused Mac admins, especially as it also prevents booting off of alternate media.
Let's pay respects with silence! :)
Building an os is hard stuff, and if you can't produce a browser without memory leaks (or a caching strategy I can't possibly start to fathom), you're not headed in the right direction.
So make it x && blah. Do I really have to state the obvious?
Ask HN: what's the best place to find devs in NYC? 
We're hiring frontend and backend engineers for Minus.com and are having some trouble finding the right candidates in the NYC area that can commit fulltime and have the experience we're looking for.

Does anyone have suggestions?
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You really should A/B test it against engagement of new users (page views, time on site, etc).
I like the interaction, my problem is with layout. There's information overload and lack of hierarchy (at least on the default layout theme). The typographic hierarchy is fantastic, but the squared grid is too standardized to communicate meaning/importance. The eye wants to be guided, not given a ton of equally-sized boxes.

newsmap.jp understands this principle and is a much better design. If only you could combine the hierarchy of newsmap with the typography, aesthetic, and interaction of the NYT skimmer...
We barely sell anything overseas as it is - what exactly are they going to "tax the hell out of" ?

Have you seen the mountain of shipping containers in our ports from inbounds with no outbounds? They are stacked a dozen high over HUNDREDS of acres of land. No exaggeration.

We are the only potential consumers of our own products - because every other job has been shipped overseas that can easily shipped. Most of what is left is services and assembling components made elsewhere (auto industry).
On China: Economic Outlook is Uncertain, At Best...
Although China enjoys growth well above other large economies, the global economy is more dependent on the country than it has ever been - for demand on everything from commodities to luxury goods. Any slowdown in China could send ripple effects across the world. Below are a few reasons why I believe China’s economic outlook is uncertain, at best.

1. Slowing Growth, Rising Inflation - Recent data shows that China’s economic growth slowed to 9.5% in Q2 2011, from 9.7% in Q1 2011 and 9.8% in Q4 2010. The economic slowdown has been coupled with a rise in consumer prices - inflation reached 6.4% in June (highest level in 3 years). The government has previously stated that it is targeting circa 8% economic growth for 2011 and intends to keep inflation around 4%. To tame the rise in consumer prices, China’s central bank has raised its benchmark rates three separate times this year and increased the reserve requirement ratio 6 times (banks now have to keep a record 21.5% of their deposits in reserve). These tightening measures have resulted in financing difficulties for small/medium-sized businesses trying to get capital (these businesses represent the most significant source of employment for China).

2. China is a Housing-Led Economy - Real estate has been the foundation of China’s unprecedented growth record in the past two decades. In addition, its stability and health are crucial to a variety of other significant sectors, including: steel, construction and cement. But the overheating of the housing market could cause even bigger problems for the country’s economy. The fact remains that China is a housing-led economy. Research analysts estimate that property construction accounted for over 13% of GDP (twice the share than in the 1990’s). A downturn in this market could have drastic effects on China’s economic outlook.

3. Toxic Loan Problem - Moody’s recently warned that China’s government agency may have underestimated the volume of loans lent to local governments by Chinese banks. According to the rating agency, the Chinese agency may have missed the mark by about 3.5 trillion yuan ($540 billion). Moody’s also added that non-performing loans could reach between 8%-12% of total loans outstanding. These problem loans could end up as direct obligations to the central government in China, if local banks can’t repay them.
Helvetica on Windows is terrible, see https://github.com/paulirish/html5-boilerplate/issues/42. This is because Helvetica comes from Linotype instead of Microsoft, and they care more about print than screens.

Arial might not be a good typeface, but as a font it's pretty damn well hinted for screens.

Except for Minion Web and Myriad, I haven't seen a really legible web font from Adobe that is usable at 11-15px. Heck, even Typekit uses Georgia/Arial for long copy.
The site is down, any cached or working links?
Great move by Assistly. Killer service that just got better.
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Ceglia case: does digital writing leave fingerprints?
Practical Foundations of Mathematics
Dialling ... though I never got the audio to work, but I blame that on the USB headset I have as the only (working) microphone.

Flash probably defaulted to the soundcard mic.
does this mean we'll get a better osx gui for interacting with postgres? all i could find is navicat and it kind of suck.
I think it would be better to list the worst- and average-case asymptotic analyses of each method, rather than just the run-times. For instance, the "Decimal-Based Approaches to Checking for Powers of Two" will take longer depending on the size of your number.
DropBox (and other file sharing sites) are blocked at my work, so I hope if this takes off, people use some sort of proxy.
I look there for a number of reasons:

1. Sometimes I've read a few pages of popular articles and I want something fresh.

2. To be weird and observe spam. I get sad when I see spam on HN and do my best not to comment on spam posts just like I have to try very hard not to reply to email spam with some choice words.

3. Upvote the gems I find in the new section.

I must say I do a lot of lurking... more lurking than up/down voting but those are my reasons for visitng the New section.
Simple formula for being a college uber-student:

- Practice good sleep hygiene
- Begin work on all of your assignments the day you get
them, and work a little on them every day until they
are due

If you can do these two things, your odds of being in the top 10% will increase dramatically.
Yeah, well... you know... that's just, like, your opinion, man.

I think subpixel hinting looks terrible. I think letterforms are really interesting and beautiful and I actually want to see them when I use the web.

That said, I do agree that web sites shouldn't override the browser settings for body text. But turning off hinting of titles is probably reasonable.
Mobile advertising: It’s overrated
Talking to users? Be sure to Say the Right Thing At the Right Time
So I Took Your Data, But I Am Safe Here...
I think this article really states something that's been bothering me for some time : more and more articles online are being written with unreliable sources or no source at all. Remember when all the online magazines talked about the LulzSec manifesto that wasn't written by LulzSec? It's the same thing over and over again, writers are in a hurry to come up with an article and they grab whatever source they can without validating.
I'd have to trust Mozilla to keep up in the browser space before I considered using an OS developed by them.
Off the top of my head, three things that've bugged me:

I use a ton of tabs in my browser, in Firefox the tabs go off to the side and allow me to scroll through them (while still allowing me to read the title) whereas Chrome squishes the tabs into tiny micro-sized pills that are completely unreadable.

Additionally I use App Tabs in both browsers - but only in Firefox does it highlight when I've received an update (such as a message in Hip Chat or an email in Gmail).

The lack of integrated extensions in Chrome makes for a weaker overall experience. I use PasswordMaker to manage my passwords - works great in Firefox, can enter passwords into any field, but in Chrome it frequently doesn't detect a password field - and since it doesn't have context menu access I can't fill in my password. I end up having to open up Firefox just to get to my password.

So yeah, I still use Firefox for daily browsing, and Chrome for dev.
It currently uses the default system mic. We'll be adding complete microphone support (changing, etc) in a future release.
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Most people have never used the scroll wheel. They move their mouse to the down arrow on scroll bar and click.
On your webpage you said that you're affiliated with said.fm. Have you tried reaching out to those users? If you're looking to reach people who are genuinely interested in your product, starting with those who are interested in a related product from the same team seems like a reasonable place to start.
Using make to Orchestrate Machine Learning Tasks
Recent Intel/AMD CPUs have a POPCNT instruction, which seems like the logical way to do this. Would be interested to see how that performs compared to these implementations.