skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also think Ableton's legal team will not be happy with Bitwig, but I think all of the following DAWs are visually similar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_workstation#Comme...

Of these, only Renoise supports the linux platform, and I just learned about them this morning.
Makes sense when you get a bit bigger, for me a load balancer would just about double my hosting costs at the moment. Probably the difference between a weekend project like ShareLaTeX and a startup of 4 people.
This is so bad yet so typical of Microsoft (remember the funeral for the iPhone?) where they come out with some stunt because they aren't winning in the product category.

What bothers me most is that MS is trying to take this principled position on the side of the consumer when I know they would be doing the EXACT SAME THING if their ad platform and marketplace wasn't so far behind AdWords.

To my old colleagues at MS, please help stop these embarrassments from happening.
GitHire - All Ratings Change On Capitalization
Changing the capitalization of a users' name will change their rating to 50%. GitHire has no contact information, but since it was rather popular here I imagine the founders might stumble upon this here. After about 10 minutes, it seems the change in rating to 50% is reflected on the users' normal uri as well.

Examples of people in the 1% who became 50%:

Linus Torvalds: http://i.imgur.com/SIE8o.png

Paul Irish: http://i.imgur.com/z5Orl.png

Ryan Dahl: http://i.imgur.com/1ooTY.png

Discovered this when I went from the top 2% to the top 50%.
I would be interested in hearing results from anyone who has switched the payment structure of their product. From say, one-time-purchase to saas, or vice-versa.
The Importance of Turing's Contributions
Wish Facebook had a Calendar?
Wish Facebook had a calendar?

Now it does with Momentler! http://signin.momentler.com

#bootstrapped #nontechnicalfounder #lean #social

I want to know what my friends are planning and I also want to share my future plans too, so I created Momentler. Future plans are posted as 'Moments' (think of them as Tweets with a time/date) and they are put into your social calendar.

It's fully intergrated with facebook-

Sign in with facebook, you can view the calendars of all your facebook friends using the site, facebook events are imported into your calendar automatically and more.

I'm planning to apply to Y-combinator and so before I do I was hoping for some feedback from you guys RE the site and the idea. I am confident I am what they are looking for as an entrepreneur (disruptive, fast mover/learner, sucessful) I just want to make sure I'm on the right track product wise.

Thanks all!
In face, your goal in a negotiation is not always to get
the lowest possible terms. Your goal is to understand the
needs of your partner and create win/win outcomes where
both sides are incentivized to continue to want to work
hard together – now and into the future. Sometimes that
means you want the absolute best deal you can get. Other
times it doesn’t.

That's a lesson that applies to employee salary negotiations as well. I've seen too many instances of employers trying to take advantage of an employee's lack of negotiation skills, trying to squeeze out that last $5k/year. It's much more important to have an employee who is happy with their compensation and dedicated to your company than to shave a few grand off your annual payroll.
I'm not an expert on programming language design, so I was hoping someone can help me understand. When people talk about syntax, do they mean how bits of text are strung together to make programs; kind of from a down-and-dirty, implementation-level POV? As opposed to the more high-level thinking of the kinds of things you can get done in the language?

So for example, assignment of a value to a variable is a high-level "thing you get done" in a language, which isn't syntax, whereas using := versus = for assignment is a matter of syntax? Do I have the right idea?
shouldn't that be #!/usr/bin/env ruby
One funny thing about "how to switch from Gmail" post is the top suggestion (Fastmail) is funded by Google. Indirectly, yes, but it is owned by Opera, which is nearly entirely funded by Google. It may be slightly better, but Fastmail still has a natural inclination to have you see Google ads. The reality is it is a trade off. Gmail is more secure than nearly any other solution, better than any other solution, and dead simple. And then you get served ads, cause there is no such thing as free lunch. If I had the skills and time, I would run my own server, but in all likelihood it would give me a minuscule amount of more privacy with a lot worse experience and a lot less security.
I usually try to add my personality to the letter while still observing the typical business etiquette. Even though this is subjective, I find this helps guide me toward a cover letter which is personal, friendly, and urges the reader to want to work with me. (Or at least find out more about me.)

I've tried the full gamut, from way-out-there to the-status-quo. Of the more unusual ones I've written and published can be found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2545033 (No response with that one.) But there is a trick to it that doesn't improve without some practice.

If you'd like a critique, send it via email to <my initials> (at) nobulb.com
Here's a practical example:

I have found a concatenative language (Factor, specifically) to be extremely useful for use in a workflow system. In particular, since it's not applicative, there's no API between "words", so it's damn near trivial to combine workflow sequences together -- no API is necessary. Each sequence of words (think of it as a workflow) can consume and or produce as much data as needed -- again, without any API coordination whatsoever.
I'm so, so sorry. Here's my belly. Now please move on.
I agree 100%. Anyone who takes this guy seriously is ridiculous.

There are interesting stories on Hacker News, but I have to force myself not to get drawn into reading any of the comments. They make me lose faith in humanity.

...let the lambasting begin.
(Disclaimer: I work for MS)

It's $5/mo (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/compare-plans.aspx). If that sounds like a lot, keep in mind that you get:

* No ads
* 24/7 phone support
* Uptime SLA
* Proper mobile support (everything supports Exchange w/ proper syncing, push email, device wipe, searching the server, etc better than IMAP)
* Calendaring and other Exchange features
* Great webmail (I like the latest version of OWA a lot)
* Custom domain support
* Etc

I want my email provider's business model to be getting dollars from me. If I didn't work for MS I perhaps would have done some more research into everything everyone else is mentioning, but I've been very happy with Office 365's email hosting and haven't needed to do any comparison shopping.
FTA: (the govenrment) shouldn't endorse Adobe.

Um.. is this guy aware that the spec for PDF has been open for a long time? Using PDF isn't endorsing Adobe any more than using MP4 is endorsing the motion picture experts group.
It seems the management philosophy of “ask for forgiveness, not permission” is becoming the “industry best practice.” And based on the response to Mr. Morin, tech executives are even lauded for it.

I am really upset by this. Most executives (I'm looking at you BP) have had very inconsiderate versions of "I'm sorry" that are literred by play on words, media spin, and disgrace.

Human beings are not flawless and I respect the companies (I'm looking at you Facebook, Dropbox, Path, etc) that are willing to treat me like a human being and say they're sorry.
Asking questions is not only a trait of smart people, but it is quite possibly the simplest most effective tool that can set you appart in many things.

Think about the last time you bought something where you had a great sales experience. How many questions did the sales person ask? Think about last time you were on a great date? Did the person ask questions about you.

Asking questions is a sign of validated learning and active listening and those two concepts are the way we better ourselves and our surroundings.
Clickable:

Linus Torvalds: http://i.imgur.com/SIE8o.png

Paul Irish: http://i.imgur.com/z5Orl.png

Ryan Dahl: http://i.imgur.com/1ooTY.png
I'm not clear on what you want help on here. Are you looking for a custom shopping cart solution or improve on driving traffic to your site?

I'm going to assume you're trying to improve your traffic, but it's not clear on what you've tested or tried. There's a wealth of knowledge on the web, but from your initial request it doesn't sound like you've done your homework and you want me to point you in the right direction. So start with this: http://blog.appsumo.com/getting-the-most-from-setting-up-a-n... for starter information.
I'll repeat some of the other answers here, while giving examples from my own company and industry. I'll provide numbers when possible.

You can still make money by taking:
(a) a moderately-sized vertical (excluding hackers & developers)

(b) and doing any/all of the following:

- Web hosting

- Email newsletters

- Forums

- SEO

- Publishing tools (web & print)

- Ecommerce

Ok, now details from my own industry (professional and semi-professional photography).

Web hosting: at BIG Folio, we provide web hosting for photographers. We host the sites we build as well as WordPress blogs. We charge $20/month with very low space/bandwidth limits. If we tried to be a generic host, there's not way we could compete with GoDaddy at those prices. But in a vertical, people don't mind. Even though we use expensive, managed servers from Rackspace, our margins are really good.

Email newsletters: Take a look at Photojojo's ad rates: http://photojojo.com/advertising/. $6K for a 1-week sponsorship.

Forums: We advertise on one paid forum that is focused on only wedding and portrait photography (a vertical of a vertical). They have roughly 5,000 members that pay $100/year + they get good advertising rates and run an annual convention. You can do the math on that.

SEO: If you know SEO and/or social media, my guess is you could easily make $50K or more by publishing an ebook on "SEO & Social Media for [insert vertical]". I published a DVD on SEO for photographers a few years ago. I pressed 1,000 copies at Discmakers and sold them all within 18 months ... for $79/each. http://photographyseo.com

Publishing tools: This could be anything from website tools/CMSs, WordPress themes, or even tools for printing (yes, people still print stuff). One of our competitors just sells a "WordPress theme for photographers" ... they get $200 for a theme that is no better than themes you buy for $29 on Theme Forest. I know people that sell Photoshop templates for borders, albums and greeting cards. In my recent foray into restaurant tools, I've notice that a lot of people search for restaurant menu templates (the kind you print). I could go on and on in this section, but just know that people have all sorts of web/print/mobile/social publishing needs and are willing to pay for it.

Ecommerce: Not selling things directly but helping people sell things and taking a fee. We do this at NextProof (nextproof.com). We take 7-12% of sales and it's the lowest I know of in the space. The forum I mentioned above has a classified ad section and it's one of the few places I trust to find used camera gear. People are used to giving Apple 30% and Groupon 50% of their sales. I think there's lots of room to monetize (either through fees or ads) a vertical sales platform, classified system, or "Shopify for [insert vertical]".
Email is indeed woefully insecure, but the problem with Google's "privacy" policy has little to do with whether or not email is a secure medium or not. It's about social norms, and Google's institutional ignorance of them.

Privacy is created by social norms. It's no technical challenge for me to borrow your paper mail from your mailbox, steam it open, read it, copy the bits I find interesting, seal it up again, and replace it in your mailbox. But, in doing so, it's understood that I'm doing an awful thing. It's so awful that it's against the law:

http://www.wbrz.com/news/postal-workers-accused-of-tampering...

... and, all else being equal, juries will not be inclined to sympathize with me.

Similarly, it's somewhere between very rude and illegal, depending on circumstances, to intercept or interfere with someone's email. If you happen to glance at someone's email you're expected to keep politely silent about it, as you would be if you happened to glimpse your neighbor through a window of their house. You're certainly expected, under pain of felony charges, not to tamper with or forge someone's email, just as you're expected to avoid entering your neighbor's house without knocking even if the front door is standing open.

Google, on the other hand, seems to be constantly trying to establish the precedent that it's perfectly normal and polite for any aspect of your life - currently including, but presumably not forever limited to: the state of your front yard, the contents of your photo album, the list of movies you've watched on YouTube, and the contents of your mailbox - to be sampled, data-mined, correlated, and archived forever by entities completely outside your knowledge or control so long as those entities are using secret algorithms to do it.

If you'd tolerate this behavior in a friend, you may by all means continue to have Google as a friend. I, however, am getting increasingly uncomfortable with Google sitting in my living room, and am increasingly tempted to escort them politely but firmly to the door and then deliberately misplace their address.
SEAS students devise biology inspired search algos for hurricane response plans
I would love to see how many new accounts were created and what other projects they backed.
There definitely is a lack of good JSON parsers for C. We wrote our own in QEMU. The relevant code is:

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=json-lexer.c;h=3cd3...

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=json-parser.c;h=849...

Among other things, this supports streaming, is fairly fast, and has gotten a fair bit of scrutiny against malicious input.

The lexer is a hand written state machine which seems like something you should never do but turned out to be pretty reasonable.
If it's python3, the previously built-in reduce() has been relegated to the functools module. But I don't think this is python 3.

I'm not sure what it is, but I know I don't like "guess which subset of the language you get" being harder than actually solving the algorithms challenges.
Pretty well! The mission still has great food but is very competitive for rental space and getting from berkeley to Silicon Valley still sucks ;)
I've done a few migrations to Gmail/Google Apps, I'm actually in the middle of one right now. It's pretty easy to retain your folder structure, especially if you have IMAP and are going to Google Apps. Nested Labels has been moved from Labs to a standard feature. I think there is a still a 40 char folder path limit, so make sure your folder names are short enough before migration, e.g., rename "Mailing Lists" to "Lists".

Google has the Migration for Microsoft Exchange tool, which does IMAP sync with any normal IMAP server. The tool is Windows-only, they used to have a web-based version but they discontinued it (WTF Google?!). It requires 2-legged OAuth, which requires Google Apps for Business. But Google Apps for Business has a free trial with no billing info required. So what I do is sign up for Google Apps Free, upgrade to Business, do the migration, and downgrade to Free.

If your mail in stored in a mail client (POP3-style), you can add Google Apps IMAP to your mail client, and drag and drop your folders/mail from the old account to Google IMAP. Be sure to hold down the Ctrl key (or whatever) to copy not move. This method also works if you are going to normal Gmail.

There is also imapsync, a Perl command line tool, and a few other tools that do things like Maildir to IMAP sync.
Unless you're an important person, celebrity etc, your email is not worth reading, hence under the context, there aren't people out there reading everyone's email. Proportionally, there wouldn't be enough time in this world for people to read every email of every person. Again, you have to look at it under the context of email having a common denominator property of each and every individual on this planet earth, just as, the post office mail box belongs to each and every household. Assume you can read my email and I can read yours, both of our email content would be intelligible and useless for each of us to waste time on.

Ultimately, the point is not if a machine or human is or can read email....the point is, whether present day civilization should give up this privacy aspect to machines/corporations/government etc. The answer is already obvious, somebody has to manage the technology and that somebody is most likely not you....so by default, you have given up your privacy to someone else, so it can be managed for you.

The more bigger and unresolved problem is whether government or corporation should use machines to profile each and every one of us to preempt potential criminals.
Microsoft India's web store attacked. Passwords in plain text
Simply placing a QR code to the URL onscreen will cut this process down drastically.
I did this and ended up working on CouchDB. Turned out that following my passion eventually led to a job (as a cofounder).
Reminded my of this, from Gladwell's Outliers:

"The way you were raised, namely with wealthy or less fortunate parents, also plays a role. Gladwell explains that when wealthy parents drive their children to the doctor, they tell their children things like, “Johnny, now if you have any questions, be sure to ask the doctor. This is your opportunity to talk to him about any health problems you’re having….” And so on.

In contrast, the children of poor parents may feel less entitled to this same questioning. Instead, they accept what the doctor tells them straight out, without surfacing concerns or criticisms. Gladwell then uses Chris Langan, a genius with a 195 IQ who wasn’t able to succeed in college, as an example. Langan failed to get a PhD (his goal) not because he lacked intelligence, but because he had a mentality to passively accept the conditions and limitations others imposed on him. Langan ended up dropping out of college because he couldn’t convince his teachers to accommodate a simple change in his schedule (a change he needed because his truck broke and he could no longer get to campus early in the morning)."
I'm in Ireland and yes this also started happening here today.
Just sent you an email from <my username> AT me.com

Thanks again!
I find it interesting when reading these Barnum descriptions to think about what it would take for the statement to be false. Once you do that, they lose a lot of the magic. In fact, some come out as downright laughable.
I don't think the employees are really interested in tracking their own time 'for real' and just fill in their timesheets as they do it every day.
So do they ask questions because they're smart, or are they smart because they ask questions?
HTC Introducing First Quad Core Phone At MWC?
Alexis Ohanian defends Reddit allowing photos of underaged girls.
In my, ahem, limited experience, it seems like a well-constructed site is very much needed. Most have only the most rudimentary, earlier-this-decade, styles of filtering.
Why VCs Are Getting Into PR
I don't think the author implied anything other than correlation, but interesting question none the less.
Android Electronic Reference App
I've used cJSON (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cjson/) in the past, which worked very well for what I needed (simple 1 file JSON parser for config files). Maybe I'll give this a shot the next time I need to do some simple JSON parsing.

You should get the project listed on http://www.json.org/
how about airlines informing you about flight delays, or credit card warning of unusual activity with the card?
The stagnation and backslide started circa 1995-1996. IE was barely a blip at that time. By 1998, Netscape was basically useless and their share was just starting to drop below 50%.

If you look at timelines instead of listening to hysterical lawyers, the truth becomes clear. If you listen to the people who were actually at Netscape during this time, it becomes even clearer. They were utterly lost in the woods before Big Bad Microsoft ate them alive.
This is exactly my issue with stack-based languages as well; i.e., '(f g h)' vs. '(f (g h))' are pretty easy to distinguish, but both of those would be an identical 'h g f' in a stack-based language.
You are thinking of the challenge on the front page. He's talking about the first of the three "guest challenges" you get if you click the link on the front page to see more challenges.

The front page challenges asked for the sum of the integers from 1 to 1000, excluding those divisible by 5 or 7. Here was my sort of smart-ass answer:

function jsChallenge() {
var num = 1000;
var t = num;
var sum = t*(t+1)/2;
t = Math.floor(num/5);
sum -= 5*t*(t+1)/2;
t = Math.floor(num/7);
sum -= 7*t*(t+1)/2;
t = Math.floor(num/35);
sum += 35*t*(t+1)/2;
return sum;

}

The first guest challenge asks for the sum of the integers from 1 to 1000, excluding those that contain the digit 7.
The 17x17 problem solved
Week 3's song now up on the blog
You forgot one of the most important details: Books have a high cost:weight ratio -- between $10 and $200 per lbs -- which ensures that shipping costs stay reasonable. Pet food tends to be around $3/lbs.
I really hope the furor over this causes Apple to require permission to access the address book. I understand Apple is trying to keep things simple, but this is, IMO, as important as location information.
Taking my first steps to learn programming
Correct, an app with a binary compiled using the iOS SDK will not run on your Android device, if that's what you're implying. Is that surprising?
Indian and Bangladeshi Hackers destroying Cyber Space of Each Other
Why are ugly websites so successful?
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So what do you do if you're in an environment that discourages asking dumb questions you might have?
iTunes purchases can currently only be made from inside of iTunes.app, not in the browser. Apple does offer the ability to link to apps or music in the browser, and a track list, description, screenshots, etc will be displayed inside of your browser. iTunes can be launched to make the purchase.
If it's not jumping out at you with any reasonable locations, consider that it doesn't belong in your "New Acct" workflow. Besides, if they are new to your service, you might not want to bombard their friends until you establish the relationship first.

You could offer new FB account users to "Like" you as a final (optional) step (maybe in the Welcome modal) and that might not be too pushy. But maybe you should remind them in a few weeks of active use to invite friends and "Like" you again (if they didn't already) at that time. They'll be more familiar with your brand and service and can share their appreciation more confidently.

PS: plus signs (+) are a valid email address character when before the at sign (@).
This is arguably far more important than the location info.
Based on a paper in 2007: http://allegro.mit.edu/pubs/posted/journal/2007-erez-trott-w...
Patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US8023570