skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just went through your website. I really think it's a great idea! Personally-vetted designers, even the idea of it, sounds like it would clear out a ton of fluff. You're like an Apple App Store of designers :)

Now I wish there were something similar for web developers.
To be fair, that was more of a private business decision on the part of PayPal than it was a government mandate. But I get what you're saying, and I agree that internet is not as open, even in the United States, as it could and should be.
You don't need iPhone / iPod sync functionality. All you need is for Enqueue to sync back to the iTunes library. So when you change a rating or playlist in Enqueue, it should automatically update the iTunes library and the change should be reflected in iTunes.

Then I can just use iTunes to sync my iPhone / iPod.
> Can the expense of running brick and mortar stores for customer service possibly be worth the added cost to the customer?

Increase the size of the coffee area, have stand-up promotional materials for new releases, figure out some digital equivalent of autographed copies so that authors can continue to have readings, etc.

Barnes & Noble, your neighborhood salon.
OMG EVERYBODY HALP!!! MY FRIEND IS MISSING.

[everybody attempts to help]

OMG EVERYBODY THAN KYOU SO MUCH MY FRIEND IS SAFE!!!

[everybody: YAY! Gald to hear it - what happened!]

NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS YOU NOSY JERKS!

----

Yeah screw that. People will feel less inclined to assist - because they feel that they are an excluded outsider. If you are not told the outcome/reason for the situation in the first place - you are then further removed from the person/situation in question. Thus, you will have less emotional tie with the situation. Without any emotional tie - you will not help situations like this in the future.

The call for help is highly emotional "Our friend, and trusted colleague, who is a great and nice person is missing" -- you feel compassion here, as you would hate togo missing yourself - and you know how great you are as a person. So, you'll assist in this case through empathy.

Take that empathy away, and it gets worse for everyone.
The Technology of Socks in a Time of War
I have used http://www.techscratch.com/ for some help with graphics and design stuff. Its not exactly this, its mostly for small tasks (1 - 5 hours) and you get points that you can then spend to get tasks done.
Agree on both points.
Another situation where I've found QR codes useful for the consumer is links within print publications. I would hesitate to follow any QR codes in a print ad, but for something along the lines of a follow-up video to an article, QR codes can be convenient for the reader.
This is an outstanding comparison. Roughly speaking, are there configuration settings required? Or is this just click?
Seriously, this is the only functionality missing that's keeping me from completely switching from iTunes to Enqueue.
Which math paper maximizes the ratio (importance)/(length)?
Its a nice story - when people don't show up for work I think the usual attitude of the employer is to do nothing but blame the employee and penalise them to the maximum extent possible. This is less true in the privileged roles most web people have - but lets say you are 90% of the population who work in manufacturing, service industries etc...

Just saying.
$100,883.20 in 36 hours?
I could have turned on timing too (\timing in psql). All I know is it returned within one sec. Oh well, next time, I suppose.
Ask HN: Help Us Beta Test Our Real-Time Polling Widget
Hi HN,

We've been working hard on making GoPollGo extensible as widgets for people to use on websites and in blog posts. I'd really appreciate any and all feedback you could give us.

Here is a link to take a look at them: http://gopollgo.com/widget
I am very happy to see Mailgun work towards sane API's for their email offering. I'm in the process of building an internal API for external IMAP accounts for http://snapier.com/ and it has been, well, rather exasperating... I can only imagine the frustration of trying to manage real infrastructure with such obtuse standards.

I'm hoping to open source our IMAP client wrapper soon, as it is a lot simpler than the standard library in Python.
There's no way I'll be 'Liking' things on my G+ account.

I've ruined my FB account by liking every damn thing on the Internet that interested me, and since the FB Like button debuted I've accumulated over 1000 likes.

They now combine to fill my news feed with 99% noise, drowning out the posts from my real friends. Since I don't spend every second of the day monitoring my FB account, posts from real friends get pushed below the fold before the next time I login, and I miss them.

To make matters worse, FB has apparently disabled the Unlike button from the settings page that allows you to see all your likes in one dialog, which is apparently the closest thing to a bulk unlike available (you still have to click Unlike for each page, but at least they're all there in a convenient list).

So the only way to unlike stuff is apparently to visit each page, scroll down to the Unlike button in the bottom of the left menu, click it, then proceed to do the same for the next 1000+ pages. Not. I'm just switching over G+ instead.

Even with G+ I've made the mistake of subscribing to a bunch of shared circles, and there's an impedance mismatch between the topic of the circles, and the Public posts of the people in them. Even if I subscribe to say, a Python Developers circle, I still get people's public posts of pictures of dinner last night, etc., that is just more noise.

At least G+ makes it easy to fix the problem via unsubscribing, but what they could really use is the ability to add filters to circles based on hashtags. So if someone in my Python circle makes a public post that doesn't have #python, #pypy, #tornado, or some other python-related hastag that I've specified in my Python circle filter, that post won't show up in my feed.

But after having learned the hard way twice, I can guarantee I at least won't be adding more spammy businesses and whatnot to my G+ feed.
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Clickable: http://gopollgo.com/widget
I also had a similar unfortunate fate with the iOS tutorials. I was excited clicking "Let's Go", and I spent 8 minutes familiarizing myself with Xcode. Then, I didn't get anything to further me - just something about a quiz, which honestly I don't care to take right now this early, and then a video on Interface Builder and Editor and Utilities Area.

I know what IB is, but for a lot of other people, they probably won't even want to click it, and Editor and Utilities Area sounds kind of boring. Clicking around more, it seems like there are specific categories now - Xcode is just one of them. I thought I was going to learn how to build an iPhone app, but now I have to figure out the right subtopic.

Overall, not a good experience. I think it's a great design in terms of colors and such (and even the video page I watched was nice and simple), but the flow was terrible. To top it all off, iOS 4 Foundations is the name of the iOS page. This barely sounds relevant to a newcomer, I would rather see that say 'iOS Development'. Foundations sounds like it'll go through boring stuff, I really just wanted to start hacking away at apps.
Can anyone explain (simply) what the Camera+ app does that might be different than the integrated iOS camera app?
looks like a great event :)
I wish they had used a mini tripod to minimize blurriness. It also doesn't sound like they were able to use Camera+ on the earlier models, therefore the shots had different settings. The photos for the models pre-iphone 4 aren't really comparable then, though I appreciate the effort.
How does Mailgun handle spam training?
That shouldn't be a problem for the Amazon Fire. It has the Amazon Appstore and that contains a bunch of ebook reader apps, including Aldiko and Kobo which both read ePub books. The former even does Adobe DRM.
Chrome beta does prefetch URLs: download the latest version, go to a Wikipedia page, wait a few seconds then click the first link – it should appear (almost) instantly.

I don't know if it prefetches links in webmail, however, and that would be about the only situation I can think of where this might happen.

Edit: of course, now that I posted this, I can't seem to make it work. I promise it does happen.
Yeah, I caught the video on Engadget too, but they don't actually flip through anything on the device, they just hold it and show you how it looks, then play a video on it.

I want to know what the interface looks like, because the interface videos I've seen on the Fire look pretty stellar. If the Tablet can't match the Fire, then all the hardware specs in the world won't make it appealing to me.
Taken directly from the page I linked from above:

"Note that if W + R > ReplicationFactor, where W is the number of nodes to block for on write, and R the number to block for on reads, you will have strongly consistent behavior; that is, readers will always see the most recent write."

Could you explain why this is incorrect? It seems the Cassandra devs use the definition of "consistency" from Brewer's paper, and Cassandra offers this level of consistency.

Your point about read-repair is correct when using QUORUM consistency level, but even then you can avoid that by using the ALL consistency level.
Really? How would you pay your bills then? :)
I think QR codes have the same problem as the segway (http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html) -- it makes the user look like a doofus.

Walking up to an ad or whatever and waving my my phone around at it just feels un-cool and socially awkward.
Ratings and reviews by applicants (both successful and unsuccessful) on the quality and characteristics of the interview process.

Links to the Github, Stack Overflow, or HN accounts of the people we'd be working with. Targeting HN / Github / Stack Overflow types works both ways.
Reading this article several times, I really failed to see a clear logic from the author as to why the supposed dying of Wikileaks is the NYT's fault.
They _should_ save everything that is sent with this service. They'll have a pretty good dataset to determine common passwords, etc. Then, they could use the data to help users pick better passwords. It's not an invasion of privacy if it's done anonymously, in aggregate, right!?
But it doesn't make sense to me- why does presentation need to be separated from content? On pretty much every single page on the internet, layout and presentation are so tightly coupled that it ends up being more of a hassle to maintain a separate style sheet than it is to declare stuff inline.
What?! I totally want to know what's up with Charmin, my favorite brand of toilet tissue.
I attended various talks by Ben & Casey at Eyeo, and they mentioned the new 2.0 series of Processing including a lot of great new OpenGL improvements by Andres and others, and that the new GL framework shows performance near OF. In another talk, Ben mentioned prototyping something in Processing, and then porting it to OF for speed.

I'd say that in general we'll see this all matter less and less, what with more GPU type stuff happening, and with the advancements in the JIT and code translation in general.
Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike
Just a question: how can I switch to a side panel, like the first screenshot on the site? I find it mildy annoying having the screen split in two.

Other than that, I love this app. I'm using it to (re)build my music library, something I had pending to do for a long time. Hope you keep working on it, there still a lot to do (dupes, auto-tagging using external databases, syncing back with iTunes, cover download, folder managing…) but I love it and will use it daily. Thanks a lot for your work!
In the most general sense (master-master) yes, but in a more detailed sense... not really.

Cassandra and Riak have a similar replication model -- the are deployed into a "ring" and the data in the ring distributed across some (or all) of the nodes depending on your ReplicationFactor (how many nodes to copy each piece of data to).

If you query for a piece of data that a node doesn't have, it hashes the query and routes you to the node that does have it.

CouchDB is a bit different, in that by default it treats every node as a master and replicates it in its entirety to any other nodes registered as a replication target.

You can shard with something like BigCouch, but that is 3rd party.

This is different than Mongo which is master-slave-slave-* or Redis which I believe is master-slave as well (I never got a clear answer on how "slave" nodes in Redis resolve or push changes back upstream to the master).
There is an API freely available on .NET (assuming you have a Microsoft Windows OS) for voice recognition and text to speech. There are even multiple language kits.

If you are interested I wrote an article about it a few weeks ago: http://blog.databigbang.com/voice-recognition-content-extrac...
Selena Gomez en peligro
Elegance and Simplicity
Saw this and thought of the Replicators from Stargate SG1 :)
Moore's law vs. conservation in solar energy
Sony, Apple and Samsung
Some observations on the Great Firewall of China
What would the point of that be, other than to give up money? It doesn't make the barrier to entry any less.
Oh I just found it. Right click on the top header bar of the three columns, 'on left'. Nice. :D
Ask HM: Going to ad:tech/NY? Meetup Help with passes?
Folks, We're trucking down to NYC tomorrow evening from north of Boston to attend ad:tech [1] to network and look for work. Anyone else going? We'll be at Wednesday's sessions.

We decided to go after reading this NYT article: "Advertising Companies Fret Over a Digital Talent Gap" [2]. I'm UX/product dev, my pal is online marketing.

If you're going shoot me a note and we'll meet up before/during/after.

Also, if your company has ad:tech free passes that you can in good conscience give out we'd be grateful. As of now, we'll have (cheap) exhibition passes. Thanks

[1] http://www.ad-tech.com/ny/adtech_new_york_schedule.aspx
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3177715
QUORUM reads & writes in Cassandra are still stronger than guarantees given by async master/slave systems like MySQL, MongoDB, HBase, or Redis.
Very valid points. I was not aware there was a special Visa for investors/entrepreneurs.
I totally agree. I'm a designer/developer (better at design) and I have a company, I don't freelance. I make that distinction very clear. Sure, the company has me as its only employee but that's temporary. Now, the article's title seems a bit misleading. It sounds more like the author is advocating that designers stop freelancing and join a startup full time, not to stop freelancing and start a company.

I wish the post had touched on topics like the fact that considering or calling yourself a freelancer is short sighted and that starting a design company can be better for your bottom line in some markets.

That said, I also feel a bit bad for many of the people who will read this. At least the ones who are designers. These days there are about as many people who think they can call themselves designers as those who think they have the next big app idea. I include myself in this. Anyone nowadays can read some NetTuts, get a book on HTML and think they're a designer. It sucks and it hurts the good ones out there.

While I cringe lately at posts like this that give hope to people who have no business in the areas of design/development/entrepreneurship, I'm also glad they show up here on HN as I myself needed them about a year ago to get where I am today. I'm not an iota as skilled as a lot folks here on HN but I'm glad that the few who do have "it" (as in, "what it takes") get to read this and hopefully it fuels them to do things the rest of us only wish we could do.
I had to type it in, not copy-and-paste, and got it.
We're using QR codes instead of Bar codes for document management. The codes hold more information and being square instead of rectangular, look more discrete.
I think they just rolled it out for me, so I can't actually tell you which were the interested DIVs.
Anyway, just point your cursor on the overlays and "inspect" them. Then delete the nodes.
Your knowledge map needs some work. I'd say Khan Academy's knowledge map rocks: http://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard?k
Your main point is true, but I'd like to point out that copyright circumvents the first-sale doctrine. You're not allowed to copy and distribute works that you own, if you don't have a copyright license for the material.
Fairy Tail 104 entitled “Lost Magic".
Nope, it didn't allow any operation further than the data insertion/retrieving.
i would like to think of twitter as the exception, with all the press, investor hype and celebrities it was hard for it to fail. I highly doubt that many startups could handle that kind of downtime and still be successful
Camera+ provides several functions that I would consider super useful:

1) Timer mode -- allows me to minimize the shake in the less-than-ideal light situation.

2) Separate focus/exposure locks

It also adds a number of post-processing filters, but these are a dime a dozen in this post-Instagram world
Allthough I give this guy a credit for praising often neglected designers, he is in no way entitled to bash on engineers and say that they are less valuable. A good design might attract the user on the first, but if the backend sucks; adios muchacos.

I have a feeling that he doesn't understand that to be a truly great designer, one has to have a great knowledge of the backend programming as well. Design borders dont end at the front. They strech deeply into all the lines of code. And for a product to work nad become great, designers must become engineers and vice versa so that they both get best of both worlds.

I suggest the author to look more into 37signals, and how theyre designers operate. There is an excelent video on peepcode where Brian Singer shows his design methods. Allthough you need to pay to see them (24$), they are one of the most valuable insights in the design process.
Mercury editor - full featured html5 wysiwyg editor
The Hacker News arrived on Google+ Pages
> How did they break it?

After their changes, the tool does not function as it was originally intended. Certain sections of the official rubygems documentation give instructions that do not work with the Debian version of rubygems. How is that not broken? In what way did they not break it?

I understand and admire Debian's commitment to cleanly built, working software. Within that context I also understand that rubygems is a big, scary unknown. That said, if the only way to solve the problem is to hack up rubygems until it no longer works as intended, the only real answer is to not ship rubygems within Debian. It just flat out has to be left in "here be dragons" land. As things are right now people just get pissed off that Ruby isn't working correctly under Debian, then they have to go play with dragons anyways.
not for linux. ;_____;
I wonder what craigslist thinks of this argument.
Ordinary users would not have the same power as governments because they would not have the money to run as many nodes as a gov or big corp.
That's probably out of deference to the host. It's bad form to walk into a party hosted by the owner of some company and show no respect to the host or the company whatsoever.
This us just about exactly right. You have to look at your data, what it means, and how you want it to be able to be used, before you look at how to store it. In some cases NoSQL makes sense. In others a real solid RDBMS makes sense.
true, it's definitely not for everybody. but just wanted to say, i've seen your service and it's great. think you are definitely on a right track.

i can't imagine how valuable your service could be to hundreds of startups out there, especially in S.V.
Camera+ has solid post-processing image functionality.

You can go from 'meh' photo to 'wow!' in just a few clicks. Often, I'll show my girlfriend the before and after and she is surprised that a pleasing photo can come from something marginal. It's a fun photo app -- Instagram is great, too.
Optimize Images With HTML5 Canvas
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/30/optimize-images-with-html5-canvas/
Doesn't Facebook create "Likes" when people put "Toyota" in their interests section on their profile?
1) The explanation of Cassandra isn't quite correct. See http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/cluster_architecture/replic... for details.

2) Cassandra read performance is on par with writes now: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-in-cassandra-1-0-...

3) Your explanation doesn't make sense to me. No matter the value of W, MongoDB should make best efforts to get it to all the replicas, no? So lower W should affect availability and perhaps latency but throughput should be unaffected, given a benchmark with sufficient client threads.
Ask HN: Anyone want my GrubWithUs YC Alumni meal tonight?
I'm suddenly unable to attend, but meals are non-refundable. Figured maybe someone around here might want to go. It's at a place called Source, in SOMA. Freeeeeee (or pay what you'd like via paypal, if you want to help a fellow startup type.)
Details:
http://www.grubwithus.com/restaurants/source-san-francisco/meals/grub-with-yc-alumni-san-francisco-nov-07-11-ad57f5643248

Drop me a line at my e-mail if you'd like it, and I'll update here when it's gone.
so, lots of smart people agree with this guy's point, it has been written about before.

the problem is how to communicate the business importance of simplicity and elegance to non-experts, including experienced people who don't realize they aren't experts. this is much harder.

another problem is, sometimes the pro-simplicity camp can be a bit overzealous.
There is an event horizon that one passes at a certain time in their career in which they come to realize that the two disciplines are indistinguishable. Both are expression of creation, a person that does not see the creative value of one has not reached the pinnacle of the other.
Just curious about the key distribution algorithm -- why use CRC-16(key) % 4096 instead of a fast hash function like djb2, which almost certainly has better key equidistribution?

http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/hash.html
So "creative coding" is programming graphics, music, etc., right? Is it just me or is that something of an inappropriate term? To me it brings to mind, you know, creative code, clever programming tricks, perl poetry, and the like. Shouldn't we call this multi-media programming or something more specific?

I've never heard this usage before. Is it common?
I love Cinder!
First, I don't work for Technorati. I didn't call for help but I'm glad the community responded.

Second, I have enough empathy and imagination to think about how she might be feeling... and in none of the circumstances I can imagine does anyone owe you, random community member, anything more than the exact "Thank you! She's safe!" you mentioned above. I can get my empathy fix just fine from that.
Whether or not they're more search engine friendly, if you're looking for Japanese Astrophysics Vocabulary you're more likely to click `/japanese-astrophysics-vocab.html` than `/p?id=47`
Mark Zuckerberg on Steve Jobs and whether Apple tried to buy Facebook
I think every tape measure I have ever seen in Canada has had both inches and metres.
Do they enjoy having 8x more interactions with advertisements? Or it is inescapable?