skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal for the lossless webradio station is for it to serve in a marketing role. My company aims to provide high-end sound systems for concerts at small theaters & later to stadiums once the revenue picks up to afford that kind of expansion. The webradio's going to broadcast top-shelf techno, since our first target market is high-end DJ events. Our speakers are amongst the most technologically advanced designs in the world, and reflect an obsession with sound quality. The radio station is to bring attention to our commitment to quality sound, and it's goal is to establish us as sound quality leaders with our lossless webradio, since, like it is with our sound system offering, ours beats the status quo in terms of sound quality. The system does propose 3 streams in total: lossless, lossy & mobile-ready, so while streaming lossless doesn't work with mobile yet, it'll still be included in what formats we broadcast.

The Telepresence system is a long term goal, would hopefully be financed by revenue coming from the sound systems, and would be a seperate product offering that would allow us to rent a second sound rig to a venue who's hosting a virtual event. Ideally we'd rent a stadium sound rig, then maybe 3 Telepresence nodes & 2 more small sound systems for wherever the other 2 nodes are providing virtual shows. In addition to whatever the Telepresence nodes rent for.
The NDA example isn't so good. The problem wasn't that he went and bought creatine. The problem was that he was working out with the intent to be the next Arnold. This is like the many entrepreneurs that fantasize about being the net Zuck or Jobs instead of starting with something small and practical that they know. So entrepreneurs try to establish structure, culture, vision, valuation, work flow - before they even build a basic product. Instead of building the next facebook, build that snake game or group album sharing. Get hungry, keep shipping.
How do you balance that with the post below that the commissions you identify aren't allowed to be charged for these kinds of transactions?
What do these actually look like on the iPhone at icon size?
I think the new watermark is fantastic, it is definitely way better than their old watermark (a million times over). If you ever saw what the old watermark looked like, it ruined the images so much. Check out this image with the old watermark here: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3bvopcnLC1qbi7o0o1_400.jp...

The watermark obscures vital detail in the image, kind of destroys the feeling of the original photo. So those of you who can only seem to muster up negative comments, go back to 4chan. The new watermark is innovative in an industry that feels like its been the same forever.
Most useful when shared with our enemies.
It varies, on Retina many look beautiful. Some of the icons shown in the post are only for iTunes which has a different, larger pixel size (512x512) to the one on the handset
There is a difference between a page view and a video video view. The video views really should not increment unless someone watches them all the way through (or at least most of the way through). Since Google has not announced how they tally the view count I was just pointing out evidence that they are probably considering % of videos watched in the view count.
"This is Water"
A scatterplot will be superior whenever you want to see all your data (and not smooth some of it away).
Ask HN: Windows 8 Developer days useful?
I've got an invite to a Windows 8 Dev day in Ireland. Does anyone know if MS will give out any useful tools or s it just a simple presentation?
Ask HN: What to do with my life?
I know this is not a self help forum but I'm asking your advice HN what to do with my life.

Long story short: I've been interested in computers and programming all my life. I went to university to start learning programming but I stick around about 2 months or so because I didn't feel comfortable learning the specialty in the uni. Maybe it has something to do with some mental problems but who doesn't have them...

I've been making money by freelancing all my life, I make a little bit more than average wage which is okay I guess, money is not the biggest issue in my life anyway. The problem is that I have exactly 0 friends to talk about computer or programming. I do have friends.

I have started many startups but the have all failed because I always feel lost and embarrassed about my ideas after working on the for a while.

I've been thinking about getting a steady job to find a network of people but I'm afraid to apply because I have no formal education or official work experience. Every time I read the job ads I get afraid.

I can program in many languages, I spend most of the time reading hacker news, stackoverflow or sites like that if I'm not programming or trying to find out more about the computers or the world.

I've been thinking about going to some startup meetups or tech related events but I would feel being embarrassed. try simultaneously learn about everything. Therefore I feel like I know a lot about everything but same time nothing. If someone would ask me what I've been doing in my life is past 7 years I wouldn't have an answer. Also I live in a small country/city in Europe so there are not many related events to attend anyway...

I will turn 25 tomorrow and I feel like I have accomplished absolutely nothing in my life and I'm a big failure.

What would you suggest me to do? Go back to university? Try to find a real job? I have also been thinking about changing profession (after reading things like "Please Don't Learn to Code" etc) Sometimes I doubt if this is the right thing to do in my life but same time there is nothing else I can do or I'm passionate about.

Any suggestions are welcomed...
True, most of us define retired that way. I don't think Mr. Money needs to work anymore either, but he/they do.
Flagged (spam).

Also, the core motivation of environmentalism and "green" stuff is offensive because it's against humans. The true ideal is industrial progress. Search for "Alex Epstein" to learn more (maybe you'll change your mind, maybe not. But either way, you'll find out why some of us are actively opposed to environmentalism.)
Senate Armed Services Report: http://armed-services.senate.gov/Publications/Counterfeit%20...
People were raving about it on a forum - well I'm sold on the idea. In all serious though, if you assume that your email service will be around forever you probably shouldn't be on the Internet. Cudos to the author, I haven't really seen the point stressed enough that you should backup your email, especially on a service as large as Gmail.
Murat, are there any resources/insight you'd recommend for making app icons yourself?
> P.S. Note how I do not anchor costs around the price of coffee.

Well, neither does Starbucks.
> The video views really should not increment unless someone watches them all the way through

Although this would be better it's not what they do. I'm a Youtube Partner and from the analytics I have access to I can see that no matter how long a user watches for a view is counted, otherwise they would not be able to provide "user retention" statistics.

"Absolute audience retention helps you see how often each moment of your video is being watched as a percentage of total views. Rewinding and rewatching can result in values of higher than 100%"

http://i.imgur.com/r6Wr0.jpg
During college, in order to plan my time, I used to measure my studying time on more mathematically intense texts. I took 30-60mins per page on average. It is a hard read, at least for me, but intensely gratifying too.
Cute site. It doesn't change the fact that the iOS icon standard is terrible, though. (It defeats the human visual system's attempts to recognize objects by silhouettes, which is why so many people take so long to find the icon they are looking for).
Show HN: Soundbox - Use YouTube as a music library
You miss the point. The majority of shareholders would put up with it in the main. The tech press, hungry for an Apple story, would not. A minority of shareholders might react badly. Therefore the smart thing is not to stupidly say "give a portion of your salary to whomever you work for if you don't like it", but to avoid the issue altogether.
Making Microchips at home
It was bound to happen sooner or later. RIM have really been struggling to adapt to the changing corporate/business sector. Phones like the iPhone have been biting slowly but surely into the corporate/business sector. I know in many areas like government Blackberry's are still the number #1 choice but for how long?

They've lost direction, it'll be interesting to see if they're still around in a few years time or someone else scoops them up and tries to turn the company around.
I won't argue about amounts, just the principle behind it.

I don't think it's got anything to do with devaluing the image by posting it on a micro website, so much as recognizing potential commercial value on someone else's work, without giving them their due.

If this had not been a business (like folks downloading mp3s, and not reselling them), I'd probably think about it differently, but in this case, there was specifically a commercial intent.

I agree the $15k / $75T thing is beyond ridiculous, especially given the non-commercial nature of that infringement. We're not arguing there.

I'm arguing 'oops, I'm sorry I made money using your work without paying you' isn't good enough. Who knows, maybe it could have been $5 - the sum isn't the important part, it's the principle.
"Never underestimate the importance of a great app icon. It’s the first thing a user sees before downloading your app (I’ve downloaded apps in the past solely on the icon making the app seem interesting)."

I cannot stress the importance of this. I have payed money for apps over their free counterparts because the icon looks better. It's a bite sized preview of the experience I can expect to have with your whole app, and more often than not, the quality of the icon is directly correlated to the quality of the UI and UX as a whole.
Don't know if MailGun (http://mailgun.net/) counts as a 'cloud' company, but they definitely provide a really cool service.
"Wists was also too early. The big social networks weren’t in place yet for the site to leverage off of."

This. A few years ago a friend of mine had just joined a company called Groupon. He showed me the sharing component and I knew right away it would be successful.

I remember first encountering the group buying idea around 1999. It was a good idea but lacked the distribution channel that Facebook and Twitter provide.
Apple, Microsoft, Google, Adobe and Mozilla – That’s Bullshit Fix it
Actually it would be cool to add a check box 'allow this to be displayed' which would solve both issues. I always assume that if folks don't put an email there then they don't care to be contacted and leave it at that.
Plus they must be first made of silicon and rare metals and then deconstructed, both in a very toxic and energy consuming processes. Nuclear waste on the other hand is not only coming form nuclear plants but also from medicine, industry (mostly food disinfection) and science -- shutting down all nuclear plants won't make this issue disappear.
Thanks for putting it up. I'll have a play with it!
imapsync doesn't work perfectly with gmails imap server. There are multiple scripts out there just to work around as many edge cases as possible.
Shouryya Ray solves 300-year-old mathematical riddle posed by Sir Isaac Newton
Here's a great video of one of the designers recording their Photoshop session and creating a icon

http://vimeo.com/36302707

I use this PSD to create icons, it comes with a PS Action that resizes and exports the icons based on the biggest design so you don't have to make each one. It also puts it in situ!

Download it here http://www.pixelresort.com/blog/new-app-icon-template/
It was a cable. Just that. They published the data knowing it was wrong - they asked fellow scientists to explain why.
I don't know if this is what you do, but I've definitely noticed that working seriously on the power lifts (squat, deadlift, overhead press, bench press) has made my joints feel better throughout the day.
It is possible to write elegant PHP. All it takes is discipline.

Besides, being a PHP application, you may even be able to deploy it to shared hosting. Not bad.
Seems like an opportunity to do a deal with Amazon.
Goes for all skilled jobs where your create.
There is no requirement to use polling or sockets. If it isn't relevant to your users or server side then don't do it.

But the bar now is that users expect their displays to automatically update promptly, and they don't care how hard it is for you to implement. You don't have to do the level of complexity you think. For example there is no need to tell the client there is an update, or the details of the update. All it needs to know is that there could be an update. It can then go off on the regular HTTP connections to see what is new/relevant and that will go via your existing servers/caches/load balancers etc.
Somewhat awkward that Sweden had already won after 35 of 42 countries had presented their votes.
Any traditional performance is a pseudo-random process - it doesn't come out exactly the same way every time.
I don't think you need fear that. Unless it is made illegal you will always be able to buy a 'computer' on which you can write your own code. However, as the great mass of folks who are only users of what we now call computers (web, email, twitter, what ever) move on to the appliance that replaces them, the cost of a computer will go up because the volumes in which they are sold will go down.

In '78 I paid $800 for a computer kit which, when assembled, was waaaaay less capable than a Raspberry Pi. But there were maybe 10,000 ever made. My prediction is that the next 'gap' will be when the big players (HP, Apple, Asus, etc) move on to selling appliances for users.

Laptops might get eaten in this gap. But there will be the equivalent of a terminal program in the appliance thing you are using so you can program over the network. If you want to run code on the machine that you are typing on, you may have to have a 'deskside' type computer, which is living off the ecosystem of server machines.

Other risks are disk drives that are too smart for their own good (built in DRM as an example). Hard to build one from scratch, but flash is ok for now.

Overall you'll experience the same sort of changes car enthusiasts did where cars became less and less a motor and a transmission and a body and more all of that and a complex proprietary feedback control system to run it. Of course many kids these days don't care that they can't put 'glass packs' on their ride, they have other things to customize.
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Prisoners’ votes: Ballot and chain
Moving the family abroad: Hedging their bets
Ouch, as it would be quite easy to think that you are "safe" if you spin your own processor from scratch and run it on an FPGA.

Who's to say that manufacturing in China means the backdoor was injected by China? I would have thought the US is just as likely a source, given that the design came from there. Surely the US government would love having access to FPGAs in foreign systems?

The cynic in me says that Cambridge needs to keep poking, as they might find two backdoors: one inserted by the US, the other by China.
Really never? I think you're the minority here. Running a Linux for me meant a /lot/ of going to developer websites, downloading something, then: ./config make make install
This is an attempt to give a pragmatic overview, without the math.

Bayesian methods rely on the concept of "priors". A prior is a known probability about a fact, or event, or whatever it is you are modeling. Priors "seed" the network.

Bayesian networks generally need fewer samples of data to make predictions, and as a result the downside is the sensitivity of the data (aka priors) increases. Whereas frequentist approaches rely on much larger data sets that can handle noise, more effectively.

Think about GMail's spam filter for example (A Bayesian approach), if you train HAM as SPAM, that is going to have devastating effect on the efficacy of your filtering.

Thus practically speaking, if you have tons of data and looking for a signal, use frequentist. If you're building, for example, an expert diagnostic engine (think Sherlock Holmes), requiring few pieces of information to make a prediction, consider using Bayesian.

I'm over-simplifying of course, but that seems to be the gist of it.
1800 cases of counterfeit parts, not 1800 cases of maliciously designed parts. There could well be malice involved, but the vast majority of those cases were almost certainly economically motivated.
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That doesn't make it any less suspect.
While previously the Android facebook client was a native app, it recently became a webview (it also got slower because of this). I'm pretty sure the iOS app is also a webview now too. From the perspective of multi-mobile OS adoption, this makes sense. You now only need to develop a single webapp, and since you control the client apps, you can ensure 100% compatibility.

While I don't think they'll try to cripple other phones, they'll most likely make new features a priority for the facebook phone.
There's a lot of confusion between "freedom to install anything" and "freedom of not worrying about what you install".

The Android app stores have some housekeeping problems. There are apps that shouldn't be in there because they're malicious. Is it restricting "freedom" to prevent people from installing these?

Cory is turning into a cantankerous crank lately. The future is not these general purpose computation platforms, naturally it is smaller more application focused devices that provide a safe environment for the user.

I can imagine he'd be railing against roads a hundred years ago as "the coming war on general driving" because they restrict a person's freedom to drive anywhere they want.

At the same time, users have never had more options when it comes to free and open in other spaces like Arduino or the new ARM-based machines. People can get a very capable computer for $25-35 and run a robust open-source environment like Ubuntu on it. What more do you want?
Because it exists in its own world. You don't get to use your normal editors or command line tools to interact with it. I think that the ease of use interacting with C libraries and the command line correlates well to popularity and the popular Smalltalk implementations fail in this regard.
It's not terrible. You're ignoring the human visual system's ability to recognize objects by color, shape, or pattern.
The FB IPO was not a mistake for FB - all the money went to the company instead of the insiders. The idea that the stock for an IPO has to soar on opening day is flawed - if this happens, the company should have charged more.
Why don't you add some form of obvious notification system to show when one of your comments have been replied to?
The last few hours before you go to sleep.
This article has a host of interesting points and references which are great to read, but the one-upmanship of 'its probably been done before' (which seems omnipresent when discussing visual programming) really annoys me, because the upshot of it is to discourage anyone who is interested in this kind of work from pursuing it.

My point is that whilst lots of ideas have been tested before, what hasn't been 'done' is a a visual programming environment that really takes off. And when/if that happens, it will be worth more than 1000 well written research papers and PARC prototypes, and its creators will deserve more success than 1000 academics who have tested some idea (or merely seen someone else try) but never seen it through to widespread adoption....
the NHS couch-to-5k podcasts are pretty good motivation for running. (Background music + an encouraging human voice that speaks up every now and then with things like "you're doing great, just 10 minutes to go, keep going... " etc)
The probability of it happening with C# is much, much higher.

It's a given that Objective-C is entirely within Apple's domain and C# is within Microsoft's just as Java is now Oracle's. These languages are not independent of the organizations involved.

Other more standard-based languages, which has traditionally included things like C, C++, JavaScript and now Ruby are less likely to be disrupted because of shared ownership.

I'm worried about all the people chugging C# Kool-Aid when Microsoft wasn't the least bit concerned about taking SilverLight back out behind the barn...
VisualAge Smalltalk begot VisualAge Java which then became Eclipse, although over the transition some things changed a lot (more interop, no images). I think in turn IBM got VisualAge from their acquisition of OTI; Dave Thomas has the history, you could ask him if you ever attend OOPSLA .
in the html of http://16s.us/sha1_pass/js/ add <!doctype html> to the top. this will prevent "quirks mode" in IE and String.prototype.trim will reappear.

if you want to support IE 8 and lower you'll have to add a shim for String.prototype.trim. (see http://kangax.github.com/es5-compat-table/ )
Poker hand identifier in 796 bytes of sed
Is it just my phone or does this Wikipedia link forward iOS devices to the self-modifying code article?

Edit: Not just my phone. But I tend to expect Wikipedia articles to have a title matching the URL unless there's a "redirected from..." subheading and it's just the mobile site that doesn't have that subheading.
Nice collection, thanks for posting. Have you seen Marco Arment's new Nursing Clock icon? Clever and Unforgettable

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nursing-clock/id525195468?mt=...
You can get anything made in the US, it just may cost an egregious amount. The military will do it without batting an eye.

We (government contractor) pay a bunch extra to buy tools made in the US - even if they aren't normally manufactured here - just to satisfy the buy US provisions.

Typically what happens is that a subcontractor says it is US made, and then outsources to a foreign country and pockets the difference. Obviously there is money to be made there.

However, that is defrauding the government and those subcontractors can/will/do go to federal prison.
Joining the Dark Side: Why I left engineering to become a VC
> ... then restrict access of other smartphones to it's platforms and APIs (so that they become a crippled shell) while adding features that were exclusive to the FB phone.

Nothing subtle about that.
Definitely written for generals, but if the claims are true (and it wouldn't be difficult for a general to send and engineer to check it out and report back), they definitely should be thrown some money for more research
A little known tank destroyer - the M18 Hellcat could more than hold its own against German tanks, given the right tactics. It had a more powerful gun than the early Sherman models and phenomenal speed. (Still respectable today.) Some crews even used this speed to outpace the slow turret traversal of German tanks for the kill. The speed came at the price of very light armor. (No armor in the case of the turret.)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031064