skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what the GP means is that it won't mesh well with certain outdated marketing methods used for certain target audiences. The genre itself is merely correlated with this, not directly linked.

Which is perfectly okay. We're in an age where music production is so accessible that a few talented musicians can make music of better quality than a top "pop band" and sell it with near-zero distribution costs. The production cost of a full album, including paying a talented, professionally trained vocalist, is now down to just a few thousand dollars.

As a result, there's a massive, ever-increasing supply of incredibly high-quality music that never touched a record label. The genre and style are irrelevant.

"Pop artists" these days are now more a matter of selling idols than selling sound. Let the music be made by actual musicians: Justin Bieber and AKB48 were never marketed based on their music to begin with.
As a long time lurker, let me try to encourage you to write up your projects.

Even if they seem mundane or pointlessly obscure. Not only is writing a fantastically important skill to level up, and the very act of writing about them will help your thinking, but the buzz and help you can get from the community can spur you on further.

And now I need to go practice what I preach ...
In what sense is this a filesystem, rather than a database? To me, the difference between those is whether I can boot off it.
Doesn't seem to have amounted to much. In my search results for "browser", I get:

1. Firefox
2. Wikipedia "browser"
3. Wikipedia "Google chrome"
4. PC Mag "Browser chrome definition"
5. Google's Chrome download page

For "chrome":

1. Google's Chrome download page
2. Wikipedia "Google Chrome"
3. PC Mag "Browser chrome definition"
4. Chrome messenger bags
5. CNet's Google Chrome download page
I have wondered whether sales of WP7 would be better had they either named it something else (without the word windows) or have it owned by a separate/new company/subsidiary. Though I suspect that, for the time being, their lateness to market is the real killer (and the brand issue the ongoing on).
Check the 2011 rankings. Perth comes in just after the usual Norway and Switzerland usual suspects.

I don't know how it can be fixed, but Australia's insane cost of living explosion needs to be sorted out. I suspect most of it is real-estate related (ie, the pub needs to pay huge rent so passes it on in beer costs).

It used to be that someone in the UK or USA could sell their house and move to Australia and live the good life. Now that same strategy would see you living a crappy life in a bad suburb.

Several of my friends have recently made the decision to move to the USA where they can. The economy isn't great, but the cost of living can't be beat if you do have a job.
I think the use case was ad-hoc wi-fi networks.

But getting back to the original complaint, if not for zeroconf you'd have no IP address at all; I don't see how that's any better.
I believe the flags are acted upon automatically if enough people flag the same item.
External site, accessed by external companies. Granted, we only "support" the products on IE and Firefox, but the usage is still pretty varied, as they all mostly under other browsers.
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Use the year drop down at the top of the page. That loads the 2011 data. You're correct in that the 2012 data is too patchy to be taken seriously.

Any list of expensive cities not topped by Oslo is kidding itself. That place is insane.
There's all kinds of people out there. I've had buyers who purchased something and claimed they never received it. I won the claim on that one since the buyer forgot that I shipped the package with delivery confirmation so it showed that it arrived at his door. I also had a buyer who wanted me to ship to him internationally, which I never do and upon receiving the item filed a complaint and said I charged too much for shipping. I was like seriously? I went out of the way to let you ship internationally, so of course it's going to cost more than shipping within the US. Needless to say I won all those battles, but people do file complaints for the stupidest things.

Basically you can think of PayPal as a credit card. The buyer is always protected over the seller. So as long as you, as a buyer, don't abuse your right, you'll be able to get away with a few claims.
Yes, I definitely like Flipboard. However, it fails me in a few respects. One big one is the skimability like you can get on Reader. Another is its inability to pull and highlight from the more obscure, but golden blogs and sources that I really love. It does a fantastic job of pulling from Twitter, Facebook, and showing me things it thinks I'll like. To that regards, I give those guys some serious props.
Why politicians should never make laws about technology
That's an interesting look at things. I look at it from something Stephen King wrote in On Writing. Basically, the story was about his father/uncle/grand father who, when he needed to fix something, would bring out his entire tool box, with all his tools, despite only needing a hammer. Stephen would ask him why he didn't just bring the hammer, and his reply was: "Because, I didn't know what else I might need one I got out here." Basically, the story tells us to bring our toolbox with us.

When you look at a large framework like Zend, it's a lot to swallow. There are a lot of parts, and just like the tools in a tool box, each plays a different part. You might just need a hammer today, but tomorrow, you might need a screw driver, and then a saw, and then a sander.

So, I appreciate larger frameworks. Sure, SOAP or XML-RPC might not be fun, but when that's the way you connect to the bank, it being apart of the framework makes it so much easier.

Anyways, the point was I saw your post, and it reminded me of Stephen's story.
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$75-$80k, do you live in a small town? That seems very low.
Another thing that goes hand in hand with that is not to worry/complain about n many stories on the front page that suck or seem reddit like. The other 30 - n stories are probably pretty good... and in all reality we probably don't need to be reading that many in the first place. Flagging isn't going to solve anything with regards to this and you have to realize this is a community made up with people with many backgrounds, we all are going to have our own favorites.
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How do we know buyer did destroy the violin, and not some random shitty violin?
What would happen if an entity started buying links for a competitor product so that it was demoted?
just goes to show how hard domains are to come by these days
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The problem is that OSX's behaviour (and not, notably, Windows') is to try once then fail as a "good enough" solution. It may indeed keep trying, but it's a problem that Windows never runs into in the first place.

I'll admit to having only a rudimentary knowledge of how wireless networks work, but it's better than 99% of users and I find OSX frustrating (in this regard). At the end of the day, the user doesn't care whether the router manufacturer isn't following the spec, or whether Apple's implementation is buggy. The simple fact is that it works on Windows but not on OSX, and that's a failure on Apple's part.
I've done this using select.
I was initially a little worried because he was showing signs of being a paranoid schizophrenic, but then I remembered that I was on the Internet and probably shouldn't be surprised.
If you don't have a prototype or MVP built yet, then I would suggest you to delay getting the domain name until you have a basic product ready. I wrote about it in a blog post - http://www.nilkanth.com/2011/12/22/dope-com/
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/press-releases/trust-me-is-no...

"Trust me" is not enough of a safeguard, says Amnesty International, as President Obama signs the NDAA into law

This holds especially true with Obama given how he's almost complete reversed his positions on law-and-order type of issues after he was elected.
A $2500 case would go to small claims court in most US states where legal fees are not as much of an issue.
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Are you guys hiring summer interns as well?
It isn't? The first thing I see when I search for "google chrome" is

Google Chrome Download | google.com

www.google.com/chrome
PayPal is not qualified to know if the Violin is real or not, So there would be grounds that it would be impossible for them to know without an expert.
I would totally take Babylum for a project I'm working on now.

Edit: I misunderstood. Thanks for the list!
> On the other hand, Kinkel argued, Microsoft’s insistence on certain consistencies of interface and hardware has left its partners handcuffed.

That's an interesting interpretation, I think the simple truth is that Microsoft is coming too late at the party. We're entering a nuclear winter where only Android and iOS (and soon, most likely mostly Android) dominate the space for the next five years to come.

On a related note, I found the following article fairly accurate when it comes to evaluate reactions to Windows Phone:

http://shysnowsquare.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/enemies-of-you...
I've sold a ton on eBay and Etsy and I've issued plenty of refunds for items lost in transit. Luckily, I haven't had an issue where the buyer got the item and wanted a refund, so I have no idea how it would go.

I guess as a seller in the Etsy community, I've heard so many shitty buyer stories, I tend to side with the seller. Everything from a simple claiming the item was never received when it actually was, to all sorts of bizarre schemes by buyers to get extra money out of the deal.

Regardless, PayPal should have gotten an actual expert to check out the violin before ordering it destroyed.
I don't see why. The whole point of the difference between ads and results is that results supposedly can't be bought (hence the demotion for "cheating") and ads can be.
This exactly. Too many people don't say what they think because they are afraid of losing internet points.
Yes, this was a smart response to a bad situation. If Google had done anything else it would have been heavily criticized. This was the right thing to do.
> It'd be fun to get a list of best HN discussions (highest karma average per comment perhaps)

The now-discontinued SearchYC database had top lists but not the particular metric you want. It doesn't show up in the Google cache or archive.org's Wayback Machine (http://top.searchyc.com)

In my opinion, I think some of the best HN discussions have been/are the ones with hundreds of comments, with divergent threads and replies. They are usually sparked by a fairly controversial topic.

I can't think of an example right now. However, this API to the HN corpus might be able to get you the data you want (not sure how current it is):

http://api.ihackernews.com
> 1 - They were stupidly late to market

Which would explain Xbox.

> 2 - Both the Windows brand and Microsoft's imagine are at best mehh..at worse very uncool and bad.

Which would explain Xbox.

Edit: sorry for being obtuse. The point is that Microsoft entered the gaming market with a worse brand than today, and later than with iPhones and is despite that very sucessful.
No offense to TBL, but the Internet is not what he designed anymore. It hasn't been for a long time. He created an idea, and others took that idea and ran with it. To your point, yes sites render in IE6. Hacker News also looks like shit and was poorly put together.

There's something to be said about backwards compatibility. It doesn't exist, it shouldn't exist, and clinging to it holds back progress. Well designed code should just work, full-stop. Look at the jumble that is Windows, or Linux. Mac OSX is highly regarded, it's fast, its stable, and it "just works" so they say. It also has no backwards compatibility to worry about. How many lines of code are in Windows or Linux solely to make antique software work because the designer used unportable code?[1]

Design your production sites to the standard and they will last forever, regardless of what browser you use. Design them for IE6 and they will forever be broken.

Regardless, neither you nor I can change the course of the Internet. All we can do it sit back, enjoy the ride, and write code that works.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html (search for SimCity)
Excellent, trenchant point, and also why RMS gradually needs to fade away from the EFF (only). You can't have a belligerent and extremist mouthpiece and be taken seriously in law.
Not that it's a particular boon for music acquisition, but since iOS 5, a desktop install of iTunes need not come in to the picture at all for an iOS device. Apple calls all the changes related to this "PC Free".

iTunes' hitherto expansion in scope has been amusing / scary. I noticed that the iOS app collection got saved in a subdirectory of ~/Music/ :)
Is the world coming to an end this 2012?
I did a lot of the same things as Mattan, some of them sitting right next to him, in order to get up to speed on Rails enough to build a web app. It was not easy. I had about 6 weeks to learn Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, and mongoid to build a web scale app and I can definitely say that the advice he gives is invaluable.

Do every single tutorial you can find. Eventually the information sinks in.

Congratulations Mattan. You worked hard while so many founders out there just hire people to build their dreams for them. You are an example of what is right in this industry, true entrepreneurialism.
Right, I get that the TOS covers what they did, but couldn't the argument be made that they acted on their TOS irresponsibly? It doesn't sound like they did much to verify/investigate whether the violin was indeed counterfeit.
Is it too much to ask LaTeX aficionados to use ASCII symbols where LaTeX isn't supported, or does using "$\mapsto$" instead of "-->" give the writer more academic street cred?
Much like Microsoft did with WinMo.

edit: not literally.
This is the absolute best response to this post that we could ever have expected. Nailed it.
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I don't agree with the OP about frameworks at all. The code example shows about 10 lines of code that are "just to get the app started" but what it doesn't show is all of the places where there will be much, much less code.

Frameworks do require a bit of initialization code, but the whole point is that once initialized they save you tons of writing. They take care of boring stuff like authentication, basic code organization, certain security issues, etc.

There's nothing wrong with deciding not to use any frameworks, but to do so because it seems "cleaner" or "simpler" I think it misguided.
As far as I can tell, "lifestyle businesses" were not implied in the parent's comment... just "bootstrapping." There is plenty of room in between "lifestyle business" and "swing for the fences" -- your comment seems to imply that those are the only options.
Its disappeared for me for the queries [browser], [internet browser] etc. The change probably takes a while to rollout everywhere. Probably fair that it still shows up for [chrome].
Exactly correct on the brand loyalty, for example Motorola won the "loyalty" of virtually the entire mobile phone market in North America twice, once with the Star-Tac generation of phones and again with the Razr generation.

We all know what happened to them wen their products sucked too much for too long.
-a does work with decompression, what version are you using? I'm using GNU tar 1.26, and just successfully used "tar xaf firefox-9.0.1.source.tar.bz2".
Ask HN: Best cross platform mobile development framework for native apps ?
{updated}
What do you think is best cross platform mobile development framework for native apps ?

(It should support both iOS and Android)

Is there one which lets you develop your apps in Java ?
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Personally I've had great experiences with PayPal's phone support through PayPal Advantage.
Does anyone else find the strictness of these policies disturbing? It sounds like they found one post that violated their policy and as a result you can't find Chrome on Google for the next two months. While I appreciate the evenhandedness in applying the rules to their own company, should these things allow for a bit more leniency and discretion in enforcement?
Are you logged in to Google? I wouldn't be surprised if that's skewing the results.
I froze for a second after reading that statement, which I was completely unaware of.

I sometimes buy and sell rare coins (particularly US Morgan dollars), which regularly go for thousands of dollars. I have one on eBay at this very moment that I'm attempting to get $3000+ for.

I've never heard of such a dispute happening before, or have I had any issues in the past, but now knowing this, i'm really scared of what might happen.

We seriously need a viable competitor to the paypal/ebay system yesterday.
my suggestions:

1) When a major event occurs that isn't directly related to technology, don't post comments to the effect "I thought this was hacker news, not reddit". This will ALWAYS get you downvoted and nothing good will come of the discussion.

2) When someone makes a detailed post that you don't agree with, don't down vote it, respond.

3) This is just me speaking for myself, but the only comments I really find useful and thought provoking are the ones that expound on or contradict the original story with your own personal experiences.

4) Nobody here cares if you don't like the font or styling used in the article. Likewise if the page doesn't work in chromefox version2079. Email the owner of the article. Besides, you are a nerd, you already have 4 other browsers installed and know how to use readability.

5) don't be afraid to post funny or terse insightful comments, but make sure they are funny or insightful first.
Exactly.

You could use the techniques you saw in awesome CSS3 or WebGL demo.

You may get inspired by these demos to do something different.

Even simple looking at stuff (if it's not awesome enough for you to check out at how it's done, or you're not a programmer) at least refines your understanding of possibilities of different technologies, that kind of knowledge we use often without noticing it.

Hell, a post with playing paint.exe as audio data might give an idea for a killer 8bit chiptune dubstep track!

They say that even watching TV might be useful, depending on how you're doing it. (Can't remember the source, ironically.) So, we shouldn't be quick at labeling things useless.
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>The buyer wanted a refund, but the seller refused and stated there was no refund for it.

That was nowhere in the original article. I'll grant that it may have happened that way, but to state it as fact to someone asking for clarification is misleading.
Looks like markdown and a sinatra based presentation framework. See the code at: https://github.com/kennethreitz/python-for-humans
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Step 1: Buy expensive Violin on eBay/PayPal.

Step 2: Dispute Authenticity. Ask for a refund / offer to smash as proof.

Step 3: Buy and Smash Cheap Violin and send PayPal photos as proof.

Step 4: Profit!
For what: websites? native apps? Are there any features you see your app needing that you couldn't do with html5 / javascript?
This is pretty well done. I'd like it better if I could use it with just my left hand. I use an external mouse and keyboard - I'd prefer to not have to take my right hand off the mouse.

I've been using Flexiglass for a while now, but only really the ability to drag a window to an edge of the screen and have it size it accordingly (top is full screen, sides are vertical half, corners are quarters, etc)
I couldn't find on the Internet a Bourguignon Maurice priced at less than $10.000. This certainly looks as if the seller tried to make an "irresistible offer" with their chinese violin that even had a inkjet paper label inside.
Yes, because while you're learning one style, you completely forget the other style and are left unable to type fluently. </sarcasm>

(I'm still able to type in both.)
One of my favourite implementations is the Javascript implementation in Common Lisp. It translates the Javascript code to Lisp so that it can take advantage of the native compiler. It's very slick.
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What was wrong with the MS brand for gaming when Xbox came out? Their OS was practically the exclusive platform for computer games at the time, and that was all they had to do with gaming, so they were neutral at worst.
I think that their response is also proving a point to the general SEO community that this sort of activity is frowned upon. It's very unlikely that your typical website would get such a harsh punishment for something so small & trivial.
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Or even that it would be noticed.
Regardless of the rationale, Google's willingness to manually manipulate page rank for the sake of PR doesn't make a positive impression on me. There was the appearance that Google was gaming SE results, publicly doing so does not seem like a very convincing argument that Google is above such practices.

In other words, I am not inclined to bestow accolades upon them for making real the concerns which were raised.
Wow I never knew that. Very interesting... It seems to be a global thing. Guess not!
It's a bit more complicated than that. When buying antique violins, you generally ignore the labels on violins, as they're meaningless for determining authenticity. So being "counterfeit," as in not being what's written on the label, doesn't mean much.
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There is a way to configure your Mac (with the program Ukulele, I think) to activate a QWERTY layout when you hold the Ctrl or Alt keys, thus preserving your one-handed shortcuts. Custom keymaps on Linux and Windows could probably accomplish the same thing.
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What I see when searching for "Google Chrome" is support.google.com/chrome, with sub-links underneath and the top-left sublink going directly to google.com/chrome. I think the system has been worked a little bit, but it's still interesting that they made this move. It may be enough to make it hard for people who have to search to find the download to get to it.
I can't speak for them, but I'd guess you have to be a lot harsher on yourself than you are with others when you have power, or else people are going to feel that you are using your power unfairly.
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PlaysForSure® was hilarious. Sell people music. Revoke rights later. Oh, Microsoft. You are such a cad!

The subscription service was as much of a joke. Sure, it sounds great to be able to access a huge library for a low monthly fee, but guess what, if you don't pay that monthly fee...forever...you won't have access to any of your favorite music. A track on iTunes is $0.99. A track on the Zune subscription service was $∞.00.
My husband wants me to be a whore
My husband wanted me to become a prostitute
He is a policeman.
He forced me to wear sexy clothes, and attend a party dancing with him.
It makes me look like a prostitute.
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I do not want to wear panties.
Should I compromise his?
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Coincidentally, preparing for my compilers class this semester, I was just wondering if it would be easier to write in Python instead of SML, which the class uses. I was just looking into PLY while googling around. Really cool that Beazley would do this, although for purely selfish reasons I wish he would release the material sooner :p