skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im 19 I've Spent $100 on Facebook ads, and when ads are mobile, i'll probably spend more, and if I had a disposable chunk of 100K I will definitely try to promote on Twitter Trending Topics, as the startup culture continues to grow, college students like me will be willing to throw money on Facebook,Twitter, and other sites rather than you know drugs and alcohol ;)
First.. I'm a huge fan of this stuff, and Kind of Blue is one of my favorite records.

That said, I think that the author is making a mistake by taking Stephen Thomas Erlewine's review too seriously. When you read things like "an album that towers above its peers, a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album, a universally acknowledged standard of excellence..." take it for what it is -- fawning praise written 50 years later by a fanboy.

Read a bit further... "this music never flaunts its genius," a line that stuck with the blogger. In fact, anybody who knows a bit about Miles Davis is probably laughing now about how backwards this is. Miles was Mr. Flaunty Genius.

"Kind of Blue is more than easy listening. It's the pinnacle of modal jazz"... I think at this point, modal jazz was just getting started, not reaching it's pinnacle.

"...this is an exceptional band... one of the greatest in history, playing at the peak of its power. "... Um, no! None of these musicians were at the peak of their power at all. They all went on to do more.

Unfortunately now the blogger is trapped in this line of thinking, and he writes... "I think what draws me to this album is the enormous restraint that each of these brilliant musicians show... They were all extraordinary musicians at the top of their games, and yet they came together and produced a piece of work that doesn’t feel strained or over the top. There is a sense of comfort – of rightness – to every note on the album."... In fact, there are other critics that have said that Cannonball Adderley was really a wrong choice for Kind of Blue - his playing stands out as being too bluesy and he didn't really "get" the modal jazz like the other musicians.

Anyway, I guess my point is to be wary of empty praise. The author was clearly moved by the music, and the Erlewine review reinforced those feelings, but he is missing out on a lot of interesting lines of criticism that might bring him new insights. Jazz, like other abstract arts, is especially interesting because of how malleable it can be, with each listener bringing their own perspectives and opinions into how they perceive the work. The best ones (and Kind of Blue is among them) will grab your attention, play off your memories and emotions, and inspire you.
Fraunhofer makes mini-projector for smartphones
Why Instagram Is Worth $1 Billion (Or More)
This is a bit off topic, but I'll second the Bitbucket recommendation. Sure they ripped off Github's implementation, but the free, unlimited private hosting is just too good of a value to pass up.

I never understood why Github doesn't offer a better plan for the ADHD tinkerer. I want many repos - perhaps at the expense of limited collaborators or size.
US conservatives gain upper hand in Twitter politics
We (my company) have filed quite a few radar bug reports, including one quite serious flaw (account passwords being sent across a network in plaintext serious). We never heard a squeak back. We never know if they have, or will ever be fixed in a future release.

Some of these bugs affect our software critically, but we're completely in the dark about whether we should invest serious time and energy into providing our own workaround or leave it as it'll be fixed in the next Mountain Lion Preview.

This lack of communication is one of the worst things about being an Apple developer, and I fully support the community's efforts to try and persuade them to do better.
Bubble or not:

shoe-shine boys offering stock tips - Happens in all markets, even in really bad ones.
how could i dragondrop a pdf viewed in chrome into another app without having it to store on disk first?

is there some kind of minimum-wiggle-movement i have to hit in order for drangdrop to get activated?
Hey spqr, for the past 266 days you've been posting comments that virtually nobody can see. I read dead comments - call me crazy.

Just thought you might want to know why nobody has been replying to you.
Bill Evans played with Miles Davis for no more than a total of 8 months. Miles Davis was a genius before he met Bill Evans. Bill Evans was a good piano player who complemented Miles's playing style @ the time. Without Miles Davis there's no Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Philly Joe Jones, Paul Chambers, etc.
It works really well for this specific distribution format. Not that it could not be done another way.
If you file a bug report on Radar, unless you know someone at Apple who you can give the Report ID to, it is unlikely to be dealt with quickly. Seems like they don't have a dedicated team overlooking it.
2012 Ram 1500 Lone Star Launched
Where Clone of Groupon Differs
I was in the web/dotcom 1.0 biz from early 1995 through late 2001.

I am reading the news these days with a strong sense of deja vu for late 1999.

Kickstarter and crowdsourced funding is great news for artists, but I don't see it scaling much bigger than AFP and "Iron Sky" without attracting fraudsters. Again: hacker/maker culture is great, it has brought us great things in the past, and I expect great things to come of it in future, but it's not delivering huge new industries on the scale of a Google or Facebook or Apple. (Making stuff with atoms instead of bits is intrinsically slow, energy and matter intensive, and hard to scale up exponentially.)

But this isn't about artists making a living. If this guy was talking about crowdsourcing to fund his next book of poetry I'd be all in favour. But instead, he's talking about building some kind of bullshit hosting/purchasing storefront with the idea of raking off a percentage of gross from a market that died of natural causes three quarters of a century ago.

Thinking you can set yourself up to rake off a chunk of the value in each exchange in a particular field is the sort of wishful thinking that gave us the Feb 2000 bust.
How much important a bigger  is?
A man having a small penis thinks himself as a cursed person. Those men who have a small penis always feel shy and try to avoid any kind of physical relation.
Yes, quite right. It's superfluous.
Chief Customer Officers Boost Customer Engagement
How to grow your ?
I use to drag and drop on my macbook many times a day to organize my Downloads folder and I found this application to be amazing. Bought it seconds after watching the video. Congrats, it is an amazing and well executed idea.
Sorry I should have been more clear, it's not that people will tweet "I have X, Y, Z problems with product" it's that they will tweet "@company Help me I have this problem".

This is basically because plenty of companies are doing this (see https://twitter.com/#!/vodafoneuk for example), so people get used to it.

So really it's not so much posting to a random website, it's more using social media as a means to contact them.

But based on the trend, people have come to expect it as the norm thanks to companies that lead the way in doing it, and now those compares are leading the way in proactively reaching out to customers who tweet not directly at them - for example 9 months ago I tweeted something like "As soon as my contract with Vodafone ends I'm moving to Orange", both companies tweeted at me offering to help - so people could well come to expect that as the norm too.
Re the levis - I always find the front right hand pocket (and especially the "mini pocket" inside) starts fraying after a year or two. Maybe it's because that's where I put my keys
Queen's Speech: Internet monitoring plan to have 'strict safeguards'
The New Hulu - Documenting the MENA's Fastest Growing Startup
NYC TechCruch Meetup - If you were there.
Did you find it crowded? Wish you could have met and learnt more about others? I felt the same.

I thought it might be useful to share information about each other. I have created a google spreadsheet. You can add your information here
- http://bit.ly/K1RuGK

I was going to put some event-specific password to access the document, but google docs does not do password protect for this case.
CSS arrow please
Immigration: The Albatross around the GOP's Neck
Going to have a more thorough read later, was very surprised that this even exists too. Hope it keeps going.
It's a pain in the ass trying to rotate anything more than 2 degrees.
How comfortable would you be sharing sales figures caused by the fireball?
> The leftover parts could be identified by crowdsourced databases as nonimportant

In a low-margin business such as home appliances, I'm willing to bet every single part's cost/benefit ratio is carefully examined by experts before being added.
Eclipse Emacs Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet [pdf]
Says the guy who sells books. I suppose that's a few rungs up from shoe-shine boy, innit?

(Don't get me wrong, I love his books. But are we really looking to SF authors for market guidance now? Just because he cites one failed business model?)
Blackholing because the ISP made a contract with BREIN to do so is probably a net neutrality violation.

Blackholing because a judge ordered to is not. When disagreeing with the judge, give him better guidelines to work with (ie. change the law)
Finding Productivity through Obsession
How To Make Money Online via Seth Godin
I have a super efficient email process;

1) use gmail
2) any email which is important I click on and read
3) everything else remains unread

Most of the time I can get everything I need from an email from what is shown in gmail's inbox view. I currently have 8,212 unread messages in my inbox. I like seeing that number get bigger and bigger, as it is a kind of score board of how much time I've saved by not using a process similar to the one described in this submission.

Why spend time manually archiving when I'm just going to search to find anything from the past anyway....
Yeah, I know :-( I'll improve it on the next version.
Poetry is the only artform that has more practitioners than appreciators. So no wonder.
Why would Apple want to "fix" Radar? It seems to meet _their_ requirements quite well:

- Developers have a place that they can report things which is industry best practice

- They don't need to put in as much money to staffing it

If it's a big enough issue then they'll hear about it through other channels.

(EDIT: formatting)
Everything that might have been invented has been, because I haven't seen enough mind blowing stuff this week. Therefore, we are closing the patent office. Good day.
"frayed cord" == risk of fire or death. That's not sheltering, it's true.
I do agree with what you say and I'm sure that our current economic models are far from perfect and in fact there is no such thing as a truly free market, being more of an ideal that's as hard to pursue as true communism (probably because reality is too complex for such models).

I'm not being religions here. However, I do think that capitalism does work because of competition and in the context of capitalism, the worst that could happen in a market is the creation of a monopoly / oligopoly.

The context is important here. I'm against government regulations, because such legislation increases the chances of such monopolies and despite what many people think, few monopolies are "natural", with most of them being driven by legislation.

> valuing equality and accessibility for all

Since you brought religion into discussion, you know how they say: "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". This is another way of saying that decisions based on good intentions often have unexpected and far-reaching consequences, that may actually have the opposite effect of what you're trying to do.

My problem with "net neutrality" proposals is that I haven't seen any unbiased and throughout analysis of its pitfalls from its proponents. Another problem I have is that the Net was never "neutral", so why is that an issue right now? And sure there are problems, but aren't we fixing the symptoms here rather than the cause?
Seems to me like each of these overblown evaluations is a bubble onto itself. Perhaps there is a general trend but such a thing cant lead to a crash. What would a crash involve?
He's an ex-developer for a payment processor. Might have a little bit of knowledge...
Funnily enough, we had a similar problem at one of my previous employers with Firefox 3.6.

If an institution sticks doggedly to one version of one browser, then it stands to reason any intranet software is going to be optimised for nothing other than that.
Ask HN: Accepting clients payments
As someone making the transition to self-employment, billing clients is something I have very little experience with, and is starting to worry me! Maybe I'm making a mountain out of a mole-hill, but I'd like to hear how other web developers/designers bill their clients. I'll be charging a one-off fee for initial design and development, and a recurring monthly fee for hosting/maintenance. Bearing in mind that I'm located in the UK, clients will mostly be small businesses, but may be located abroad. How do you collect payments from your clients for similar work, and what issues should I be aware of? I feel somewhat embarrassed asking such a fundamental question on HN, but if I take away even a single small piece of useful advice, I figured it's worth asking. Thanks for your help!
Unfortunately, no. I wish I could, but I believe the situation is roughly the same anywhere in the country.
tl;dr version: because instragram could have become a facebook competitor.

I'm not sure this is a new viewpoint.
"ARM is a licensing company that develops technology so it can sell licenses."

I think ARM falls nicely into "technology company". Calling something "a licensing company" doesn't make sense when they license their own technology products.

Same for IBM. They might service software from other vendors, but I suspect most of their profit is by servicing their own. As such, again, it doesn't make much sense to call them "a services company".
The Sun has a far higher circulation than the WSJ, yet in the info-graphic the circle is much smaller. Unless the circle size is meant to represent the size of the continent. I could have sworn Iberia was in Europe, though.

In short, this is why I hate almost all info-graphics.
Yup and the Netherlands used to be ahead on some topic but it looks like we're going backwards atm. Referring to Wietpas and Brein-vs-piratebay
"nobody owns Linux"

It's not just marketing, it's service and education, too.

Who trains the retailer's staff? What website do customers go to for support (and how does it compare to Microsoft or Apple?

The business model for Linux is based on charging a premium for support rather than rolling it into the retail price. There's a good reason that Redhat stores don't exist. The Linux business is incompatible with consumer channels.
This has been coming for a while and there has already been a lot of activism on it.

For more information on the background: http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Intercept_Modernisation

This event discussed it last month: http://scramblingforsafety.org/2012/
The fast and easy-to-use social music sharing service for Facebook & Twitter
Nokia X7:Wonderful Smartphone With Great Features
There are a few in there like that, but just glancing at it the majority of them are suspiciously uniform. 8 random-looking characters, upper/lower/number.

If this really is a list of spammer accounts, the ones that look like real accounts are probably stolen from legit users to be used for spamming.
How to make 3D Hosting Server in Photoshop
Get a key pouch!.. 10 dollar item that has saved me many many pants ever since I got it
What Facebook taught me
Outsourcing Market Research, Dedicated Market Research, Market Research Services
MarketsandMarkets offers outsource market research services or hire dedicated research analyst for ongoing research support.
I wonder what the M:F ratio of the name "Alex" is. I agree that it's not really gender specific, but I only know 1 "Alexandria", and she doesn't go by "Alex". This could be a function of my university (70:30 M:F), or it could be generational (I'm in my 20's). As a result, I tend to default to male.

Perhaps different demographics respond better to different names, based on their preconceived notions of class and status. Does a really exotic name change anything?
Kerala Tourist Attractions
Choose the best tour package for Tourist Attractions in kerala, kerala Tourist Packages, kerala Tourist Places, Kovalam, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur.
Coach Op Art Handbags
I never really accepted the argument that Scheme/Lisp is simpler than a language like Python, simply because everything in the language is reduced to constants/terminals (what's the right terminology here?) and functions.

Many language differantiate between statement and expression, and compile-time and runtime and lots of other stuff.

Saying that we can express C-structs in a language by reducing them to functions is not a simplification, instead I would argue it's worse when trying to grok C. While coming from Python it would be easier since we already have classes, and C-structs are simply compile-time final classes without inheritance.

I agree though that learning Scheme can teach a lot, just not necessarily how to grok every other language well.
With a structured code representation (i.e. ASTs rather than flat text) this falls out naturally. The calls to foo identify foo via foo's GUID, not via the string "foo". So if you rename foo to bar you don't need to rename any call sites, since the GUID is still the same. Similarly, merging the branch B just works: the call to foo there is still pointing to the right foo (now called bar) via its GUID. When displaying a call to a function, the IDE looks up the name associated with the GUID.
Is this a joke?

No helmets?

Seriously, no helmets during your tests in a garage?

Are you serious, MIT?

I thought there are smart hackers at MIT, this is just a facepalm.
I might be forced to abandon Canvas because of this strange bug in Chrome on OSX
Investors realizing that they can't make their money back. Right now even if they pay $10 billion for a photo app, they're still expecting other investors will buy their shares at a $20 billion valuation or more later on. All investments are made on speculation right now, rather than based on true value and potential for making money.

But if that doesn't come true, and everyone realizes this, then there will be a crash. Valuations will fall, and the initial investors won't be able to make their money back because those photo apps weren't making any revenue, let alone profits.
I haven't tried them, but the page says:

"may or may not work in other hosting environments."

&

"simply shutdown the VPC image and discard the changes you’ve made from undo disks to reset the image back to its initial state. By doing either of these methods, you can technically have a base image which never expires although you will never be able to permanently save any changes on these images for longer than 90 days."

... so it seems pretty positive, really.

Which, as someone who'd like to see more Free operating systems and less proprietary ones, is a bit of a shame! :P
What happens in a crash is a rapid collapse of a single market (say the social segment of online businesses) then then the markets supported by that market follow suit until the momentum threatens the economy as a whole. Financial markets can react fast to this causing a "crash."
Another tech recruiter "lying and fabricating"
Social media stats for 2012
Unless you go to a top university like MIT I doubt much will change. If it were me I'd quit and move to Bay Area and join or create a start-up.

I have a degree and it is definitely totally useless to me other than the prestige of the thing. Some employers look at it as a requirement, but if they do, it is probably a boring place to work.
It's interesting to note that this legislation was prompted because the incumbent telco (KPN) overplayed its hand. They publicly suggested that they would price traffic from WhatsApp higher to offset their loss in SMS revenue. A public outcry ensued, law makers got involved and this is the result.

Democracy doesn't always work, but when it does it's a beautiful thing.
I don't think this is the case, not in Chrome anyway.

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7QL0NAwES8 - All files are "must-revalidate" except the JS file which is far-future cached. When the manifest is changed an update is triggered, all files are updated except the JS file, which is assumed to be fresh because of the far future expiry.

You see similar behaviour when no caching headers are served, heuristics take over & files may be updated from the normal browser cache rather than going to the server.
Loft Conversions London, diy Loft conversions
"Fix Radar or... Carry on making large sums of money regardless."

Developers aren't their primary concern. Look at Xcode for crying out loud (and wonder at its magical ever-crashing nature).
Smartphones set to become the fastest spreading technology in human history
This is an example of what we get when a potential new technology is turned into a patent minefield. It's very hard to get anything done in the field of video encoding without having someone with a law degree on the team. Mr. Steve Jobs said it roughly this way: "all video codecs are patented".

Makes me sad :(
At the retail level, it has nothing to do with economies of scale. It's all about margin.

Assuming it takes the same resources to sell a Linux box as it does to sell a Windows box (which is probably a bad assumption), then the lower price of the Linux box means less profit at a given margin.

It's not Microsoft that's preventing reseller's from offering discounts for Linux, it's basic retailing economics. There's probably only ten or twenty dollars difference at retail when it comes to Linux v. windows when all the factors are considered. It's not as if Linux machines are cheaper in logistics or take up less display space.
You care a lot
$50 bucks spent on fiverr and a weekend of hacking. Tah dah!
We're 12 years past the .com bubble. A large portion of the people who're creating and moving money today are in their twenties, they didn't experience 1999 in an economic point of view so there are no signals for them.

Having said that, let's not forget that a lot of the uncharted terrain from 1999 is now thoroughly explored with a microscope. If you're talking about a bubble, don't forget to mention which subset of the internet you're referring to. Yes, social thingies are the new buzz but they are such a small part of the online ecosystem. A lot of the social stuff was created as an add-on to existing stuff - take it out of the equation and very little value is lost.
FSA fines Mitsui Sumitomo £3.5m for IT and governance failings
That doesn't seem like a crash though; I'd wager the investor class and the general populace are quite disjoint sets, e.g. there's not a mass of pension funds involved in IT venture capital. What we might see is a "return to senses" and a shortfall of capital for a while, but not a crash.
> instead of buying it from Lenovo and installing my own distro?

I would buy from him over Lenovo precisely to avoid having to install my own distro. I want a laptop that just works, not a new project.
I don't this is specifically an Apple issue either, I've filled bug reports on quite a few different projects (mostly open source) including at least one that's a full application framework and rarely do they ever move into 'confirmed' or 'accepted' status.

The entire reason of letting people add bugs is that they can be tracked, if the submitter can't track it then why would they want to add it? If you can't see a perceived benefit then you're going to lose interest in reporting the bugs which in the long term is bad for the overall package.