skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A super tube/image/mp3 doubler in javascript.
mashface.net

This is something a friend and I made because we where frustrated at how limited youtube doublers and the like are. It gives you as many light boxes as you want which you can resize. The boxes can take youtubes, images, mp3s and html. The boxes can take css rules and other content specific rules depending on the box's url. eg. If the box holds a youtube you get a loop rule. Some examples:

http://mashface.net/#/w3rews

http://mashface.net/#/m3ik2g

Chrome only sorry.
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"The first interesting thing you'll probably learn is that the more "secure" something is marketed as being to consumers, the easier it is to pick."

BS! I have a medecco lock on my door that was marketed as secure. I'd love to see how much easier it is to pick for you than some run of the mill Yale lock from Home Despot.

How many gun safes have you "picked"? Most of the firearm owners I know have spent some serious coin on their safes. What gun safes specifically have you picked? And when you say home safes surely you mean home fire safes right? How many UL tool-rated safes have you picked?

Paper clips? I have never seen anyone recommend beginners start with paper clips. What do you suggest they use for the torque wrench? I think beginners should just buy one of the many introductory/beginners kits available on the net.
yeah, the thunderbolt wasn't mine :) had no idea which operator locked it. but it was locked beyond hope.

and i wasn't saying 'non-google-store-sources-aka-unkown-sources is a bad thing. i was just saying it's not enough to 'do what you want' with your device.
Ask HN: What makes a great Google Summer of Code application?
This year's GSoC applications are due 04/02. I've been working on mine for the last week (applying for a Ruby gig with Twitter) and I'm at the point where I'm losing sleep, I'm getting so nervous.

To past participants and mentors: what should I do to make my application be completely kick-ass?

The most obvious thing, I would guess, is passion about the topic. I've picked something that I'm passionate about (internationalization, Ruby) and I think that comes across in my application. But what else do I need to know?

Thanks for potentially helping me sleep peacefully again!
...and the rage that accompanies being hoist by one's own petard.
I've sent the list of companies from the latest batch to several non-tech friends and not a single person has been impressed with anything on the list. That's not a good sign.

With things like Dropbox and Reddit not only did my eyes light up, but the eyes of non-tech friends lit up. Same with Hipmunk. Hipmunk I didn't even have to show someone, I could just say "not shitty airline search" and they were intrigued.

I think the point to this submission and others like it are that a lot of people are scratching their heads over this current batch. Nobody expects every company to be "Wow!" but generally there are a few.
In theory, the system's "economics" encourage askers to accept an answer, as askers with low acceptance rates will receive fewer quality responses (and often comments reiterating the phenomenon). But there's little incentive for drive-by askers with no engagement with the community, such as it is, to choose an answer; a consequence of SO's growing popularity is that these users comprise the largest group (901K users with between 1 and 200 reputation).

There should probably be some mechanism by which moderators or other trusted users can, after a time, accept an answer for such abandoned questions. Perhaps questions thus answered would be treated slightly differently (and identified differently in the UI); the original asker could always return and override the proxy acceptance.
HTML5: Per-Element FullScreen API
Some quick thoughts:

• Ads are eroding the experience. Focus on high impact inventory with fewer competing ads and alternatives to display. The goal is higher revenue and a better experience.

• Need to design beyond news. Give users indispensable tools for their daily routine and provide context beyond the news cycle.

• The site lacks a voice. You live in your community. Your site should look and sound local.

• Local news seems to be your core asset. Provide a local filter on everything. Allow passive and active customization for better relevance.

• The navigation and taxonomy are confusing. By housing everything, you showcase nothing. Decrease top navigation by increasing in-page navigation.
Just because the site is not "fresh" doesn't mean it's bad. I found it quite usable. Things you can do better at:

1. Give more "room" for the content to breath, this improves legibility, specially at the home page where the reader is more likely to skim the content. Move unrelated content further away.

2. Follow a grid, and have all content block following the same margins. Most are uneven and that makes it hard to understand which things are related, and which aren't.

3. Improve typography. Use consistent styles for all your titles and body text. Assign consistent sizes and line-spacing.
So, you literally went back EXACTLY 6 months, right? Well, natural language writing is not code. It has this things called "figures of speech".

The title means: "hellofalot of TC companies don't go anywhere and/or close quit soon after featured".

So, try 1 year and adjust the scale to > 70%. How will that go?

Also the "disappear" thing -- take it to mean, "are in dire situation, while the may still keep up a website and make desperate attempts for VC".
If you guess a letter contained in 99% of remaining possible words, then either

- you are correct (happens 99% of the time). No penalty, and you find out at which positions your guessed letter occurs, a decent information gain.

- you are incorrect. You suffer a penalty but eliminate 99% of the remaining words, a massive information gain.

How would 50% be preferable in either case?
I'm in a somewhat unique position, in that I can comfortably run the first technical phone interview, in addition to filtering resumes before candidates even get to that point. However, this is definitely part of the problem, overall, because most recruiters weren't engineers at some point or another. InterviewStreet et al address this issue to some extent, but I wish there were other, more universal solutions, too.
HTML5: Learn about Page visibility API
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always bellow 500 because i love to dump oddball questions that get no answer and then i blow 1k on bounties to raise visibility that just die and i never get my reputation back.
Those spike traps were brutal.
What about scaling (in the non technical sense)? There are some vital ancillary (oxymoron?) roles in a large scale company that a lot of founders will likely be bad at (support, administration, etc).

Obviously these are Good Problems to Have, but how do you best obtain that knowledge?
It's spam prevention. Everyone is actively reading questions and answers so spam in those types of posts gets reported immediately and deleted. Comments are unobtrusive (new comments on a post don't bump it back up to the top of the active queue like new answers do) so fewer people are looking at them. If anyone at all could comment at any time, spammers would have a zero-barrier point of entry. Setting the limit at 50 reputation gives people a very low hurdle to get over before they can comment.
Try Opera’s mobile browsers. I believe they do essentially this (and have been for years). You can even install it to your iPhone. (And PPK of Quirksmode.org fame says you definitely should, because we devs tend to pretend the mobile world is mostly Webkit, but the reality is still a bit more diverse than that.)

(I see Chrome/Android gets a mention for doing this. It’s kind of funny: Chrome seems to get the credit for features Opera invented, over and over; on desktop: Tabs-on-top. Speed dial. Keyword search. Etc. Of course, I still really respect the Chrome team for being really smart about what features to steal to make a great UX, but Opera deserves love for being such a pioneer!)
Node.js: Getting started
Yes, I've noticed an increase in speed over the last couple of days.

Keep up the good work!
A Netflix for number two: the Pandora of poop
Well sure. But at the same time, it would be setting a bit too high a standard for me to expect people to do a scientific study for every silly little comment they leave on HN, don't you think? If someone claims that something happens "all the time", don't you think it's reasonable to expect that person to have observed it at least once or twice recently? Or at least be able to provide a reason why they don't have one or two examples?
Something Is Broken If Internet Radio Has to Charge Bands to Make Money
it's be good if somebody with powers could change the link to the permalink instead of the base blog url: http://ardenthoughts.tumblr.com/post/20053064127/frightening...
The lock picking was awful in Skyrim. I'm not sure why they diod not stick with the model from Oblivion. The lock picking in oblivion was the best I have ever seen in a game.
"Lack of guidance" is the way I'd describe it. The documentation is great, but it didn't help to steer me away from making architectural decisions that don't work well with Backbone when I was doing my first experiments.
This was inevitable imo. FarmVille and other popular Facebook "games" were really just going after the same dopamine triggers as casino games.
Unfortunately, the implementation is, in my experience, not very good, because it's not consistent. Sometimes it shows up, and other times it doesn't, so you can't rely on it, and you have to make sure that you click perfectly every time in case it doesn't pop up. Which effectively negates the usefulness of the feature.
This is great — solves the big problem that would keep me, personally, from blogging on Svbtle, and a lesson I learned from my startup (see link): Basically, new blog platforms kinda suck due to a lack of features/interop/import/export/customizability. See: http://alanhogan.com/the-problem-with-new-blog-platforms for the story.
the only problem with this post is that Google was like Yahoo but that search actually worked, Microsoft was like IBM (the software bits) but software for the masses. There are a lot of counterexamples where starting with something existing provides a beachhead for the ambitious.
It'll be a bit hard to pick the lock using just a pick and no tensioner.
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Scientists use Twitter data to show meme quality is not required for popularity
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> Specifics aside, knowing that Google is far superior in their results makes it real difficult to use another search engine really, extra features (!so etc) or no extra features.

Just so you know, you can use keyword searches to get this same functionality directly in your browser for any search engine of your choice.
Oh man, I wish I am able to look at code I wrote today, 23 years later. It's like going to your parents house and picking out toys you played with when you were 5 years old. Might seem like a silly thing to do when you're 15, but priceless when you're 30.
I wonder what RMS thinks of the fact that Ruby recently switched from a GPL-like license (Ruby License) to BSD.

At any rate, congrats to Matz!
Ubuntu Unity 5.8 seriously impresses
OAuth 2.0 Playground: new features
This article read like a Michael Crichton short story.
Lox, a tiny user auth middleware for ExpressJS
Lox is a tiny mongoose based authentication middleware for Express. Lox tries to provide the minimum set of features to handle users. I hope some of you find it useful
That works if you're only performing a few such tests. But if you have an extremely accurate test, say 99.999% correct, and you apply it at 3 billion base pairs, then you're still going to have tens of thousands of incorrect calls, and no way to distinguish the good calls from the bad calls, without more data.
I'm somewhere in between 'I don\'t use Stack Overflow' and 'I use Stack Overflow as a resource, but don\'t participate'. It's not that I avoid it as a resource: if I stumble upon the answer to my question at SO via Google, I'll use it. However, I can't really say I've ever actively searched the site, either.
I like their attitude, but...

it needs more speed and better results, though using Bing as a source this might not be possible. The lack of image, news and video search is a problem too. Actually, I use quite often book search, scholar and maps too. In order to be a complete search solution, you need more than web search today.
I'm not sure how well this will work. Users care about accessing content, not answering surveys.

A user can achieve their goal faster by clicking the top result instead of reading the question. Browser extensions like AdBlock can make the process even 'better' by auto-completing the surveys.

Correcting for these biases is problematic, especially if the user's true answer to the question correlates with things like AdBlock usage or patience.
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Similarly Andy Gavin wrote a series of blog posts about the development of Crash Bandicoot. It's more of an overview than the journals, but still interesting.

http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ban...
I can't find it in the market. Looks like it's dead again. I guess all the source code is there.

I've missed that app. The LCARS interface was neat but just showing off the sensor capabilities to people, especially kids, was great.
which language the software is written in?
Weird webkit box-shadow bug
They are useful for curved displays too. With this, you could put a display on something round and as Too said, they are more durable.
Along with that, they decreased transmit power which also helped reduce interference.

And later they increased interference, in order to add a 4th channel.

It's all about tradeoffs...that's why they pay engineers the (market-competitive) bucks.
I'd eliminate any scripts you're not actively using and generally focus on reducing the size of the pages.

The home page "feels" very heavy — it takes a long time to load, and inspecting it via Google Chrome Developer tools there's several scripts which fail to load entirely. I'd challenge whether you absolutely need TinyMCE for example on your homepage, and any of the associated scripts.

A lot of the yahoo yieldmanager javascript (if it's needed at all) should be pushed into a separate cacheable file.

There's a mix of relative URLs and complete URLs, I'd strip out the repeated http://www.pe.com/ as much as possible.
I was simply trying to be helpful and providing data in response to someone who wanted some on wealth distribution. I can't believe you thought providing a source to closely related data deserved a downvote.

Sure, wealth and income are not the same, but they must be pretty correlated. I have read that the Gini is higher for wealth that income, but I haven't seen data for American wealth Gini coefficients over time. If you have that data, then you could be constructive and provide it.
JRuby or TRuby?
How many person's curated genome does the nextbio has? I am just curious.
The problem is press coverage. The press needs to be able to write a story. In order to write that story, they have to understand (quickly) what they are writing about and deliver it to readers in a way they can understand (quickly). So if someone demo's a way for doctors to track medical records and an algorithm that uses all of this data to improve point of care diagnostics, what do you call that in a headline? Google for Doctors?

The reason why I bring the medical example up is because there is a team here that has a frighteningly ambitious start up (not idea yet). Medigram is a stacked team that is going after the medical industry in a way that no one else wants to. Starting with a messaging app that complies with regulators, they are planting the seed of trust with the medical industry. When they move up to records, they get data. When they get data, they use that math heavy team to solve the ambitious idea of making diagnosis more accurate. Then who knows? A tiny pill that you can swallow that transmits blood test data back to a central server and diagnose your issues instantly? I don't know, but they had to start somewhere.
I'm sure AOL is factoring in power used for cooling and labor for maintenance in those numbers.
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The problem with Best Buy selling cables for absurd mark-up levels is that they're trading away brand equity for a few dollars today. How does someone feel if, after buying a cable at Best Buy, he later sees the same cable for sale elsewhere for 1/4 the price? Will he be so willing to go to Best Buy in the future? Will he trust the salesperson's recommendations if he does indeed enter the store again? Traditional accounting methods don't assess the change in value of a company's brand quarter-over-quarter, but they sure do represent the seemingly high profit margins of cables. So, what's a poor executive to do?
As to your fourth point: if you're able to figure out what a poorly written question is asking and post a good answer, it's probably worth taking a couple of minutes to edit the question to improve its clarity.
I worked at a place that seemed to be this way, it wasn't a startup though but a fairly small company. The offices were in an older office park and kind of dingy and I think thats why. When you have certain types of insulation, etc and the building isn't well kept up I think it tends to harbor mold, etc, I know I would always smell something (like mold) when I walked in one of the doors.

By contrast the building I work in now is actually quite old, but it has wooden ceilings, no layers of insulation, etc and is fairly open and airy. I think it really can be caused by the building and then of course the lack of space and number of people also contribute.

I work in SF now too but the "sick office" place was in Phoenix, there they had to run the AC all day for 7-8 months out of the year, which I think is part of the problem, here the climate is milder and I would think you can figure out creative ways to use the ventilation system to get more fresh air into the building
> According to LG, the first plastic display-toting e-readers are expected to emerge in Europe “at the beginning of next month,” with the US presumably following swiftly after.

So either they will be releasing their own device, or they already have someone wanting to use their screens. Either way, the answer to your question is "yes".
Bump Pay lets you send money by tapping your iPhone
Gizmodo: We're done with Kickstarter
I kept reading the article and looking for something that would give this away as an early April Fools joke.
" the Bogota Titans are the new "go-to" tool for operators." (serepick)

Any site that mentions "operators" is most likely a joke. Any site that pretends to cater to "operators" and does not provide GSA ordering information is definitely a joke.

I really like peterson http://www.peterson-international.com

But I have also heard good things about southord.
College Adventures in Open Source: Fraginator edition
Spotify and The Echo Nest Team Up to Offer Integrated APIs
Do you enjoy house fires?

Certification of electronics prevents those.
They probably raised the rates on all the visitors afterward.
But a display by itself is useless. I'm assuming that the electronics and battery that drive the display are going to be rigid too, and will break just as easily as anything else. Or are they working on those too?
Why is that a problem? Or, I think you may misunderstand how crowdsourcing works.

One sentence answers are often exactly what crowd needs. Obviously so if they vote them up.
There are technological issue and then there are ethical issues. I can say we are several decades away from making a baby just by stitching raw genome data. There are 30,000 genes in human genome. Think the number of possible combinations that can arise only choosing few good genes are optimizing for a developing a tailor made human being. And the ethical challenge is huge too.
I have to say, if I'd known this years ago when I was in school trying to become a game programmer... Well, I would have gotten more sleep! But yeah, nice stuff sir.
I think that's debatable. I don't see anything blatantly wrong with any of those, but I could see how someone might find titles like that inappropriate. I personally don't have a problem with it.
I was hoping for a little list at the end saying "By the way, if you're playing against someone who's using this strategy, the best word to play is: xyzzy" (or whatever word it actually would be)
Given that you've said you would try to force someone who didn't agree with you out of the company, I'm sure all your current coworkers are completely honest with you about what they enjoy.
I've heard this idea before and always thought it was silly until i saw it live.

There's a museum in Oslo (can't remember which one) that has a book like this. The book is really big, like an old school story book, and it's fixed into the table, there's maybe 10 pages. They have a projector in the ceiling above the book projecting images so they fit exactly onto the pages in the book. Each page has an invisible rfid-chip embedded in the paper so when you turn the book some sensor knows which page you have open and the projector changes page accordingly. (it also displays video and has touch-interface but that's irrelevant for this discussion). It feels magic to flip through it even though the implementation is quite trivial once you decompose it. Too bad it can't be done without having it in a fixed location.

When you are a group of people it is much easier to flip through and keeping a mental map over physical pages instead of fighting over who gets to control the scrollbar on a computer. But admittedly, it is also a bit gimmicky.
The only time I am subjected to SO is when it's a top search result.
The best dataset for this audience is probably the most recent curated set of variant calls on 1000genomes.org. (Incidentally, the data access links appear down at the moment...)

This provides data in VCF format [1], which I would argue is the lowest level you want to go with this data unless you are doing variant calling methods development.

One tool you can use to analyze these data is PLINK/SEQ [2] (disclaimer: I work on the project). If any C++ devs are interested in contributing, let me know. (We'll have the source on Github soon...still pushing my group to learn Git :)

[1] http://www.1000genomes.org/node/101

[2] atgu.mgh.harvard.edu/plinkseq/
Ask HN: How did you get involved in your first open source projects
I reading through pragprogs Metaprogramming in Ruby. In order to learn better by applying knowledge from the book to real world projects, I want to get involved with some cool Ruby (Metaprogram) or Rails projects on Github. However, many of the projects I've came across are not just "starters", they require a lot of domain knowledge.

I'm wondering how did you some of you get involved in your first open source project on github and what projects are you involved in?
There is a novel by famous Russian writer, Pelevin.
It is called Prince of Gosplan (Принц Госплана), written in 1991.

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86_...

Protagonist works for the huge gov bureaucracy in Soviet Union (Gosplan) and imagines that he is going through the levels to reach the Princess. He pretty much lives in the world of Prince of Persia.
Hes colleagues, OTOH, live in the worlds of F19 or M1 Abrams, so when protagonist goes to speak to his boss, he has to go through the tank battlefield of M1 game.
> It is properly too early to tell, but if this proves to be something real

“Then there are government agencies and companies that will take it and take it to that final step.” The problem is getting to that stage when it proves to be something real.
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