skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would recommend the various accounts of Glenn Gould's GV recordings, his Chickering and how it was voiced, as an example of the scope of the project. Voicing a grand piano by itself is a serious undertaking (read about inharmonicity and octave stretching). "Glenn Gould Reader" and "Romance on 3 legs" are good places to start.

re: microphone placement

http://glenngould.org/f_minor/msg04070.html

re: Simone Dinnerstein's GV

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/arts/music/28simo.html
One month of coding in 9min video, set to Chopin
When non-programmers ask you what coding is like, maybe point them to this?
Socializing with CS
> There have been so many times where I'd send an email and have it never even reach its destination

This is easily explained if you were hosting your own Postfix or something. There are a significant number of hoops that legitimate email senders must jump through in order to ensure their email goes through properly. DKIM signing, SPF records, rDNS, etc. These are some of the ways for gmail and apple identify you as a legit sender as opposed to a spammer.

> I'm not talking about a legitimate message being marked as spam and tucked away in some folder, but not even delivered and my email server isn't notified of this shenanigans

In general, ISPs won't want to let spammers know they're are bulking email. That's why you aren't told.
How to deploy private PaaS on CloudStack
Gamifying worked for me: MathBlasters
Why our startup is selling services
To those who carried the Stars and Stripes
Then they need to be taught why the why is cooler than the what.
I wonder if false positives will take off e.g. personal attack alarms that make a sound like gun fire
To be fair, the blogger is pointing to the Camper website "Lookbook" which in this industry is more of a "vanity" type display. It's meant to be a little creative and in this case it's extremely creative and extremely heavy.

If the author of the blog just wants to look at some shoes, then the Camper website catalog is probably where she wants to be:

http://www.camper.com/en/eshop/productos.xhtml?type=W

I'm confident that if you looked at the Camper website daily visits a majority of browsing/shopping (90%+) will be taking place through the Catalog and not through the Lookbook.

If you take a minute to view the homepage HTML you'll notice that there is only 2 links through to the Lookbook and that is only accessible after hitting the arrow down / MENU menu item and then clicking through the SHOES menu and submenu items (which itself is a pretty unintuitive element).

The author brings up some good points about the Lookbook, but we shouldn't pretend that the website is using it as its main interface to the products.
Over at Fashiolista.com we do something similar. The setting system has 3 levels. Default, environment and local. Maybe we'll opensource it at somepoint, not yet entirely happy with it though.
> It would look a lot like memorizing words out of the
> dictionary.

That was a big part of me learning English (my fourth language).
You need to memorize something when learning something — just to get a foundation to operate on.
This reminds me of something most new communication media seem not to realize: no matter how fancy your new thing is, not everyone will want to try it initially, so for God's sake make it bridge to email. Otherwise it will become a ghetto.

I don't think the Wave people understood this; if they had, Wave might have turned out differently.

Asana, on the other hand, made a big deal out of this.
No way. Changing aspect ratio would add fragmentation to apps development. The lack of it is one of the advantages over android.

Also Aple would never emphasize low level hw specs like memory. How much my iPhone has? Have no idea... It has "enough" ;)
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You're right. I guess I was trying to use the list icons.
Yup, anybody who needs to be creative for that matter. Artists, engineers, designers, etc.
These are terrifically hard to make, and I applaud anyone who take the time and effort.

But, a problem: Tapping Bold with no text highlighted (the expectation is that whatever you type next is bold) not only doesn’t work, but steals focus and you lose your cursor

You should not consider this library production-ready!
TextHer : A Serverless P2P Messaging App
You'd be surprised at the effort that users will and won't engage in.

I know plenty of utterly non-technical users who have strong opinions about what are the uses of an email list versus the uses of a web forum versus the uses of a Facebook group page.

Which means, to me, that on the one hand, these folks would be interested in a new messaging approach if it was strongly distinguished from the functionality of email and on the other hand, these users quite likely wouldn't bother with something that seem too much like email. Essential, it seems like average people are up for multiple communications mediums but treat each medium as kind of a given, not something that's going to evolve.

I'd be interested in ways of dealing with this.
Very helpful feedback, thank you. Did you know you can create your own (less sh*tty) caricature at my homepage (peterdevos.com)? The first resume you link to is based on a standard resume template featuring C'thulhu (http://css-tricks.com/one-page-resume-site/), I wanted a more personal approach but I guess I pushed it too far for your taste.
I apologize. I have tried doing it myself, but I am requiring someone who can handle the business end of the atart-up, and take care of it. We will be partnering with grocery store retailers to deliver a product for the end users that benefits both parties greatly !
Doesn't that more or less describe Google Wave?
I think anyone can fall into the habit of taking themselves too seriously unless they develop a certain mindset. Of course individuals who enjoy what they do, no matter how challenging, wouldn't really need to notice if they're taking themselves too seriously or not since enjoyment mellows people out.
My dad was using a powder-actuated concrete nail gun for some remodeling not long ago. It used .22 loads to drive nails. The sound it made was eerily identical to the real thing.
Even if you were able to talk directly to the manager, you'd have been stuck. (I talked to a woman who claimed to be "manager of customer care and sales in North America", and she didn't even know how to work their systems.)

There seems to be no support management team in any normal sense, and no upper-management concern about the lack of support management.

Here's 59 ways they failed to deliver me a working product:

http://consumerist.com/2008/03/adobe-needs-eight-employees-t...
Or even better, use address book groups.
> the system was not intended to record anything except gunshots

So, they could record conversations, but they won't for the time being. A classic example of using software to temporarily cripple the true capabilities of a computing device.

In the hands of DRM-wielding corporations, "defective by design" results in inconvenience and loss of users' freedom. In the hands of the surveillance state, the same technique results in a situation where citizens must simply trust the authorities to exercise restraint. Because the police could flip a switch at any time and record all sorts of conversations. Somehow I don't trust that the switch will remain un-flipped for long. And when it does get flipped, as it did in New Bedford, everyone will say it was just an accident.

Maybe, just maybe, we should accept systems like this as a necessary evil in certain cities where there's a lot of gun violence. Still, I don't like this. When it comes to the government, I'd much rather give them hardware that can't be unlocked "by accident" because there's nothing to unlock. The thing is, it's unrealistic to do that in all cases, and we have to hit a balance somewhere. Which is exactly why systems like this raise difficult issues.
Hi. Long-time lurker here; I just created an HN account to reply to you. Your post expresses some of the things I've been feeling about social media that I haven't been able to express very well myself (I had to look up "Maslow pyramid"). The sort of unease and nausea, the whole thing just feels somehow creepy and wrong.

I deactivated my Facebook account long ago because of this feeling. I think what it boils down to is that I don't think I should know so much stuff about my friends, family, co-workers, etc without having obtained that knowledge by directly interacting with them in meaningful ways over long periods of time. The Facebook model appears to let me know people better, but it's in a shallow, passive way and encourages me to conceptualize people as caricatures, assembled from a handful of their most obvious or outstanding personality traits. I realize this stuff has been around for a long time, but FB turbo-charges it, and I feel like it's an extremely poor way to "know" people.

The really messed up part is that while the effects Facebook seems to have are often anti-social (think of how many times you've been out with someone and they're too busy checking status updates on their phone to carry on a real, actual conversation), people are labelled anti-social for not participating.
I thought we were discussing why Live failed here, not whether the anti-trust trial was justified or not.
"The government can't really do that much to improve human rights, but they can do a lot to curtail them."

I agree with this general idea, but there is one very effective thing the govt can do to improve human rights, and that is to not curtail them.

Rolling back human rights reduction would be an unexpected bonus, but I'd be happy if they just stopped painting us into a smaller corner.
> "Currently there are three known classes of players who develop malware and spyware: hacktivists, cybercriminals and nation states."

Surely that can't be all-inclusive… is it?
Making something bridge to email doesn't seem terribly difficult. SMTP is; as the name would imply, simple. (At least it seems simple.)
Move the meetings to the end of the day if you can. Most people have their most productive hours in the morning.
I've wondered a lot about why e-mail isn't used more as a backend for different services. But as far as I can tell, messaging products proliferate because their creators want to create profitable products rather than distributed protocols.

E-mail is a pretty good group of protocols for distributing arbitrary messages between different locations on the Internet. It's easy to imagine how all sorts of messaging and social network products could be implemented as a specialized e-mail client with a good user experience. Their forms might be slightly different than they have now, but they'd serve approximately the same consumer purpose.

For example, you could build a social networking "client" with e-mail as a backend. Status updates, photos, etc. would be distributed to all your contacts via email, and the client would produce a "timeline" based on the data in its mailbox, without ever showing the user the original messages.

But you give up a lot of control that way, and it's harder to monetize. What developers want (and users too, to be honest) is a centralized service that they can control, mine data with, and sell products or show ads. A distributed protocol, while in some ways more powerful (and less dependent on a fallible central authority!), doesn't achieve the real business aims.
The system will have to distinguish real firearms from other powder-actuated hardware. Otherwise it's going to become useless anywhere near a construction site.

But what if you shoot a person with a nail gun?
I think the broken part of email exists in business communication, in my experience it's grossly overused. It becomes an endless todo list that requires processing (eg, response, forward, assign, done, etc). This is inefficient and distracts us from our primary functions.
You do realise that you've just described Notes, right? If it were a new product, without all the baggage of having to be backward-compatible to the late paleolithic (R2 in '93) and with a UI consistent with everything else on the host OS, folks'd be all over it.
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television – Review
The concept isn't new: planes have been landed automatically based on radio waves of the ILS system. But compared to a landing procedure on a single runway in a controlled space with necessary ground equipment to aid in the process, car traffic is not so much static.

The automatic following system will bump into fundamentals and the close proximity of the participating cars will only magnify their effect.

Consider a ten car "train" (or convoy) following the first car automatically. Their speed is higher than usual and they drive within a few meters of each other, all carefully controlled by a computer. Then the first car hits a big elk (moose).

The weight of the animal itself is sufficient to cause a significant, sudden decrease in the speed of the car body. While the sensors on the second car do notice that the first car slowed down (due to the impact), it cannot possibly brake to a stop without hitting the first car. If the convoy is driving 100 km/h no car is going to stop in time if the forecar loses a significant percentage of its speed in a short flash.

Now, what happened between the first and the second car will continue to propagate far back in the convoy and the end result is a pile of ten cars mostly crushed into each other.

Maybe there are no elk on a highway. Make it someone who had learned his driving skills on a Russian highway (you must have seen the Youtube videos). Or someone's tire blows up and that car spins to the adjacent lane straight in front of the first car.

But there's a good reason to have a speed-dependent 2-4 second safety margin between cars, and robotic controls and computerised radio links aren't going to change the physics.
I suspect that my host's email servers are at least partially to blame for some of these issues. Like a bad egg or two signed up and screwed everyone else over. From what I've gathered Amazon SES is a reliable alternative since they apparently jump through the hoops for you. That might be where I'm turning to for a solution.

It makes sense that they wouldn't notify you if they tanked your email because they think it's "super spam" or something. It is frustrating though. Especially since I'm talking about very low volume emails (not a newsletter or anything). Do you know why some emails are silently dropped while others are marked as junk and allowed to pass through?
Any insights about how it is different from webkit2png?

http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/
How could it not be? That is a very broad group. Who else has the motivation to develop and maintain large scale malware/spyware? If you want to be pedantic about it cybercriminal is probably broad enough to be all inclusive.

I guess you could include companies like Sony but they were probably excluded for not having the same malicious intent.
The funny part about differential equations is that, for a subset of them, there isn't really a systematic way to solve them. You just have to have a talent for it. The great mathematician Ramanujan would come up with bizarre equations that worked but he didn't really provide any information as to how he got there, they just came to him from his subconscious.

For example:

This 1/pi equation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan#Mathematical_achievem...
> But what if you shoot a person with a nail gun?

What if you stab a person with a knife?

It's off-topic. It was designed and built to detect gunshots from real guns.
The confusion probably stems from the fact that the product manufacturer, Musion, repeatedly claims that they build "3D Holographic Projections", even though they're obviously neither 3D nor holographic:

http://www.musion.co.uk/

This is the same company that did the Tupac "hologram". It's all based on Pepper's Ghost, a 19th-century illusion involving a projector with a screen that reflects the projection, but looks transparent in front of the actors.
I don't agree, even if Gmail brought a lot to emails (threads and antispam) it's still a problem that, in my opinion, facebook message tackles.
I love the concept and execution. Can't see the demo but the blog speaks for it.
Throwing 500 error..
Thanks for the nice feedback :) I am defnull, the author of Bottle. Any questions?
I built this little app over the last few weekends. The idea was to help me to organize my thoughts for the different projects I was mulling over. I really feel like writing things down can be a great way to get to the essence of what it is you are trying to do and why.

This is just a simple realization of that idea. Implemented in Python using Heroku's Cedar stack.
or just:

set(tweet.split()) & set(wordlist)
Fireteam website looks nice!
The b element is back in HTML5.
I think the best way to distinguish between firearms and nail guns would be with a man in the loop listening to the sounds (which they appear to have). Construction doesn't sound like a firefight.
I feel like that's weirdly true and false.

Yes, email clients are "broken". It is "easy to see" that fixing them is the key to really useful communication.

The weird thing is that any time you get one of these "broken" mediums, its users nonetheless become adapted to it. Even the stupidest original behavior becomes a part of a common, even socially, understood medium and changing it thus becomes harder.

An old girlfriend of mine was not terribly computer literate but understood the trick of clicking on an email link in Internet Explorer, having an outlook express window come up and then copying the resulting email-address to her webmail account to send an email. Once she learned this trick, she was far less concerned about the round-about-clunkiness involved in the whole process than I would be. It was just "how computers worked" and a simpler process she didn't know would quite possibly confuse her. She probably wouldn't even know that Outlook Express was an email client itself, for example.
I was little surprised at first about: "three cars behind the truck at an average separation of 6m". But this is probably an idea to lessen drag. It doesn't matter what powers our cars(gasoline, biofuel electricity), less is less, and we need all technology that can do it.

This is probably very important step towards self driving cars. Because some kind of commercial product will bring loads of money to the field, even if it's very basic.
This is pretty well done. Good job guys!
I'd love to log in but sadly you can't log in via the site and have to use twitter, facebook, or google. No thanks.
I agree except about telling people what you're going to do. Why not? If nothing else it adds extra accountability on yourself to actually get it done
To clarify, I never did speak to a "manager". That quite apparently simply is not allowed.

I did, finally and purely by chance, end up speaking with a front line support representative who not only came to understand what I was describing but who also demonstrated some initiative.

When they, after my lengthy -- starting "from the top", once again -- explanation, inevitably "went to their manager", they were given an incorrect response. I explained this, and how I had encountered it before, and what was actually needed. And this person actually went to the manager a second time and "pushed back" enough to get the manager to look again. Lo and behold, they found the right product in the licensing system (a special combo installer created for the CS 5.5 32-bit support) and finally supplied me with a working key for that installer.

Unfortunately, my intuition is that that front line representative was probably not long for that job.

P.S. Upon reflection, I now recall that I may have spoken to such a manager, once. Just long enough to get the brush off.
I agree that your points do apply to the majority of facebook users. However, I think fb can be very useful as a social messaging/event calendar if applied properly. Without sacrificing the importance of direct social interaction.

To me it makes me wonder if the application or the popular belief of usage is the problem.
>The really messed up part is that while the effects Facebook seems to have are often anti-social (think of how many times you've been out with someone and they're too busy checking status updates on their phone to carry on a real, actual conversation), people are labelled anti-social for not participating.

Your certainly not the first person to point this out. [0]

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_%28novel%29
Unless you use a telephone to do it or are using a telephone when you're being recorded?

I understand that making a recording of a phone call without notification is strictly disallowed in many states legislation? (eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#United...)
Given that the microphones are placed in a public location, and that they record noises heard in the street, one could argue that it's a reasonable level of surveillance.

The real concern will be when governments start to identify their citizens by their voice signatures, and then use that to track their whereabouts.
UKI: Simple UI Kit for complex web apps
Whow, friend just forwarded this to me. Cool to see my project on HackerNews. I'm still brushing up the docs, not quite perfect yet. But to explain what it does:

Django Facebook enables your users to easily register using the Facebook API. It converts the Facebook user data and creates regular User and Profile objects. This makes it easy to integrate with your existing Django application. After registration it gives you access to user's graph. Allowing for applications such as:

Open graph/ Timeline functionality
Seamless personalization
Inviting friends
Finding friends
Posting to a users profile
I've built it for my startup Fashiolista.com and it's currently used in production there with thousands of signups per day. For a demo of the signup flow have a look at Fashiolista's landing page (fashiolista.com)

Before you get started building your application, know that contributions are very welcome. Seriously, if you see a bug or think of an improvement just open a pull request or issue. Feel free to contact me if you have questions.

Updates and tutorials can be found on my blog mellowmorning

Further demos and tutorials will soon be available on django-facebook.com
Women in IT don't need special treatment
Your resume neglects to mention which City/Country you live in. You list a phone number and email so I assume you want people who don't know you to contact you, but where are you?
Prediction: When the system goes to dispatch the closest UAV to the disturbance, the launch system will return "500 - Destroyed".

EDIT: C'mon, downvotes? You do realize that vandalism will be a serious problem for this system.
Just to be clear. Under normal circumstances, Firefox has all that access anyway. Just like any other app running under X11.

Running it under a different user id means that if it is compromised, there is an extra step required before it can access files. A step which could lead to the compromise being noticed.
House robbed after photo on Facebook of a large sum of cash
Tried it and it made me smile - you're much prettier than me, so I take my comment back referring to your drawing as sh*tty. Just wanted to illustrate what was happening in my head. I know it's very subjective anyway, so please don't take it personal.

Regarding my first link, I didn't know it was based on a template and I doubt many recruiters will know as well. Just thought it's one example of an easy to scan resume.
> having an airline seat represent a plane would be quite confusing, and having a bed represent a hotel is no clearer

The distinction here is that you don't get in an airplane to sit in the seats, you get in an airplane so it can fly somewhere with you in it, and the shape of an airplane is very good at conveying that. With a hotel, I don't go there so I can admire the building, I go there so I have somewhere to sleep.
Ubuntu defaults to AppArmor, but that doesn't mean SELinux is unavailable. All you need to do is an "apt-get install selinux"