skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The easy guess is the new Android-native interface being promoted from beta to release, but I hope it's more than that.
Giving this an up vote just so you might get some response. I'd probably try to report it normally and specify what happened in the notes in case this doesn't hot the front page.
At the time, there was nothing out there that competed with WinAmp--it was simple, fast, and pretty easy to use. It also had features like global hotkeys (before media keyboards were common, or before I had one anyway.) From what I remember, there was a giant-list-of-songs thing (I never used it, but I remember going to parties and there would be a computer sitting somewhere with the giant list of songs up.)

Anyway, Foobar came out 5 years after Winamp, and was in fact written by someone who worked for Nullsoft, so I wouldn't say they were competitors exactly, more like Winamp inspired Foobar.
The size of the project makes a huge difference. If it is just a simple website, you may have a really hard time finding someone.

If you are looking at building a web app, you might be better going to an agency, or asking around your own network to find a project manager.

Post some more details about the type of website you are wanting to create (and the industry it will serve) and I may be able to refer you to a PM or 2.
It looks at how you can proportionally allocate resources under the assumption that you're not going to examine everyone deeply. Can you explain why the cost of a false negative affects the allocation of limited resources, under its assumptions?
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Rethinking ape intellect
Back in the day I used WinAMP (and X11amp) as a simple front end to my web-based Linux jukebox server that I had ripped all of my CDs on to. Those were the days of AudioGalaxy and Red Hat 6 and WindowMaker. It was a marvelous time, for a couple of years anyway.

Then WinAMP 3.0 happened, and it was buggy garbage.

Then I discovered what iTunes could do for me as far as organizing my music. It put WinAMP 3.0 in a new light, and I decided to give it another shot. Nope, still garbage. Then I tried the newly-released WMP 9. That was garbage too.

So I retired my Linux Jukebox and migrated to iTunes. Then I got an iPod. Then I got a PowerBook. Later I threw out my beige boxes, learned Cocoa and iOS development, and now that's what I do for a living.

So if WinAMP 3.0 wasn't such a mess then I might still be a Windows developer. Thanks, WinAMP, for inadvertently putting me on a new path.
Not only has the URL to that page not changed in 13 years, its content hasn't either. http://web.archive.org/web/19990508205057/http://www.w3.org/...
Do you have a source on that? I'm a huge fan of Valve's and I've never seen that quote.
I think it's more complicated then that. The fact is that there are multiple ways to do things. These different ways have different tradeoffs.

You know, if you are just starting to found a company with 2-3 friends, chances are you jump into eachothers' roles as needed. There may be an official hierarchy but chances are pretty good that this hierarchy exists mostly on paper. As you hire employees, typically you want to maintain control and this is where management structures come in.

I think that there are all sorts of possible management structures that could work and these have different advantages and disadvantages.
In other news, "bamboozle" is a word. Wow.
Great to hear that some of my "no duh" thoughts have mathematical backing!

I've always found ethnic profiling rather strange. If we assume, correctly, that the vast majority of people are not "malfeasors" and the fact that said "malfeasors" will plan against any and all barriers which we put into place, why on Earth would you think that those you "nab" at airports and the like would be anything but innocent?

Seems like you'd only nab "malfeasors" who would've failed anyway, and in turn antognized a large population for little to no benefit.

What better way to breed "malfeasors" than to select and irritate a large number of people for long periods of time for no particular reason?

Contempt breeds contempt breeds contempt.

One last thought: Malfeasance is a result of some cause. Treating malfeasance is all well and good. But I always assumed that it would've been better to address the root cause that creates "malfeasors", which are (in no particular order); brutal poverty, constant assault and general mistreatment by those other than themselves.

I wonder what would have happened had we flooded the Middle East with cheap food/consumables and paid for hospitals, schools and infrastructure instead of going in and starting a rather prolonged war.

I suppose it probably doesn't matter now - the damage is done.
Perhaps you were late to the Winamp game? According to the wiki, fb2k came out 5 years after winamp (and was done by a former nullsoft contractor). When winamp was in its prime there really wasn't anything else to compete with it.
Hopefully no one with any sense will use these features.
According to this other LinkIn blog post, http://engineering.linkedin.com/frontend/leaving-jsps-dust-m... (look for SEO in the comments), they detect cases where the client can't or won't do JS and perform the rendering server-side.
How can a developer check his or her applications against this without needing to run Norton Internet Security or AV.

If this isn't possible, is there a cheap(er) option that I can get my hands on that still includes this reputation check?
Winamp was always a piece of crap.
One thing about Microsoft though is that they leverage things like email lists internally to provide many opportunities for participation one might think of as primarily characteristic of these flat organizational models. For example, a lot of the work that was being done on competing with Linux when I was there was taking place on the basis of this sort of flat model.

The point I am making is that these wouldn't have occurred to the Valve founders in a vacuum. They were built on top of what they already knew worked. So it's not a matter of playing around but rather trying to copy what you think works well in your past experience and ditching the rest.
Did Winamp ever have a built-in music store? I was under the impression that people basically stopped caring about Winamp mostly because the newer versions of Windows Media Player (7 and up) were "good enough" that mainstream users didn't see any need to go hunting down an alternative player.

Nobody really likes iTunes as a player, it's only notable because of the store and the device lock-in.
The most often overlooked, but technically best, music player of the
late 90's was Kojofol. It's a shame it was never released as open
source, but I'm fairly sure it couldn't be. The author had no license
for the patented audio compression codecs it used, and it even contained
an mostly unknown variant called "Astrid AAC". It's the last bit that
has always had me fascinated, and no, it's not AAC as you know it. It
was actually a variant of the VQF format with some MPEG-ish bits thrown
in there for fun. It always sounded just gorgeous compared to other
codecs at equivalent bit rates/sizes.

I have a copy of Kojofol around here somewhere along with some old
"Astrid AAC" formatted files. I've always thought about reverse engineering
it, but there's really no point when you'd just end up in a lawsuit.
Is learning Haskell even practical yet? I have a great interest in becoming a more productive programmer, but not as much in learning a language just for the fun of it. What kind of stuff is Haskell best suited for building?
I think that's only because then the click is getting registered, not because of the dragging.
Yes. Most probably it's about moving Firefox Beta for Android to Release. I've been using it for a few weeks now and it's nice. Fullscreen and Phony add-ons are a must-have also.
The original, lean Winamp was a fabulous piece of software--I can't think of many other products I've used that made me so happy, or seemed so much like magic. I still remember feeling awed by the idea that your computer could play, and Winamp was the face of the revolution, managing somehow to seem both nerdy and hip.

I stopped using Winamp a bit after the acquisition, so I really enjoyed the article - it filled in a lot of gaps for me. I guess now I know why it started sucking, eventually. Thanks to Frankel and the rest of the team for their hard work - what a cool time and place to be alive.
The point of the article (and most people who say that Winamp use to be great) is that it was good for it's time before AOL acquired them in 1999.

So did you use Foobar then? Of course not, Foobar initial release was December 2002.
Maybe it was too much text. Once you get over 2 words, the less it looks and feels like a button to someone in a hurry. "Reedem Living Social Coupon" may have just been too long, maybe "Redeem Now!" may have been better.
Biomedical applications of machine learning have great potential, but they suffer from a lack of data problem. It's great to see Little championing for a more open database, hopefully it has a positive effect.

For more traditional machine learning research, there are common sets of data (i.e. MNIST for handwriting recognition) which serve to benchmark new algorithms.

The main problem with biomedical data is the difficulty of acquisition, and the fact that many researchers are afraid of discovering findings that they may have missed.
It's not child porn.

It's a top YouTube video (162 million views, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlgr6MoXufU) of a baby accidentally kicking her dad in the balls while they sit on a bed together.
I had a number of revelations through rereading this classic article:

First, holy crap, I hadn't been to http://www.w3.org/ in a long time, and it looks like they've actually made it to the 21st century!

Second, perhaps cool URIs don't change, but it seems like http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html is kind of an unfortunate URI. What's "Provider"? Why are "Provider" and "Style" uppercase? And what's wrong with 301 redirecting (don't break old URIs, but still restructure them as your website matures and you realize a better organizational hierarchy)?

Third and perhaps most importantly, this all seems like a pretty awesome problem to have! How many websites survive more than a few years? (Geocities doesn't count.)
If I recall correctly AOL is to blame. They promised Frankel and co one thing but did another. Besides, it fell apart on their watch.
In most business cases, I would think the problem for us is to minimize the work required to solve the ongoing business needs.

The other cases, I suppose, are art and play -- but there probably isn't much point in trying to optimize these activities.
And the CEO can be hired/fired by the Board, and the Board can be hired/fired by the Shareholders......

My experience though is that it is rare for managers to step back and that they are just as susceptible to groupthink as teams are.
I do miss my Star Trek theme. I've never been able to find a replacement for iTunes.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the recent Oracle v. Google lawsuit determine that language specifications aren't copyrightable?
It does ignore that. Let me show you that analysis quickly.

A naive analysis with a high cost of not finding malfeasors would say that we should sample all people whose probability is above some threshold. (This threshold depends on available resources.)

However a more sophisticated analysis takes into account the possibility of a terrorist dry run to figure out who will be detected, and who not. Then the terrorists can launch their attack knowing that they will not be detected.

There may be fewer available terrorists who register as low probability p, but they can find enough for their attack. For a real life example, screening went up for people from the Middle-East after 9/11. So Al-Qaeda found a London born mulatto named Richard Reid for their next airplane bombing attempt. He didn't fit the profile, sailed right through screening, and only luck and an observant stewardess saved the airplane from the bomb in his shoe.

If you assume that the terrorists have sufficient candidates available, and are aware of the screening protocol, you should assume that they will always use the candidate that they have that is least likely to be caught. Therefore the most efficient use of resources would be to randomly screen everyone with the exact same probability.

If you don't assume that terrorists have unlimited potential candidates, then some profiling is worthwhile. But not that much - the enemy should be assumed to be relying on their most difficult to spot members, so the obvious criteria are not going to be nearly as predictive as you would hope.
For finding people who aren't nearby, I recently built Who Will I Know There [1]. Using facebook's search tools to filter friends by location was a huge pain in the ass; this is better.

[1] http://wwikt-peterldowns.dotcloud.com/
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i'm starting to get the idea that arc could be an incredibly powerful language
I'll take a stab at it (though I recognize the entire purpose behind this being a "meta" rule is not to deconstruct).

It's a combination of intellectual capacity, previous track record of success (in something great - not necessarily startups, though that's a bonus), absolute-and-utter commitment to the project, incredible confidence in what you're doing, a team that's fully formed, awareness of all relevant landscapes (technological, regulatory, competitive, etc..) the ability to answer every question without hesitation, insight into where you are strong, and where you are weak, but, perhaps most importantly, the ability to project a sense that regardless of what obstacles are placed in your way (and there will be many), you will be successful.

Those teams always seem to come out ahead in the end.
Winamp had tons of skins, but I only ever used two. One was the default, the other looked like an old wooden jukebox.

But that wasn't the reason to use Winamp. I started using it when it was basically the only game in town, but for a long time there was no reason to switch. Winamp had a few things going for it:

1. It was amazingly small, and consequently it was terrifically fast. The tiny window also gave you all the information and controls you needed, hogging preciously little of your 800x600 or 1024x768 display.

2. I could use it efficiently. My favorite feature (which I still miss sometimes) was you could bring up a box and start typing a song name and jump straight to playing it. I think it was the J key. When you got in your mind "Hey, I'd like to hear X", you could do it in a second or two.

3. The ecosystem was huge. There were thousands of skins (most terrible, some looked pretty amazing) and tons of plugins. People made visualizers, ways to control the software with external interfaces, all sorts of neat stuff.

It still amazes me how small Winamp was. I didn't like Winamp 3. I tried it for a while but it felt bloated and the jump feature was gone. Despite the near universal unhappiness, the developers defended version 3, making them seem out of touch. After a while I downloaded the previous release again (2.95?) and used it for years. I eventually moved to iTunes shortly before I got an iPod.

The last I heard about Winamp was a few years ago when Winamp 5 came out. My reaction then was amazement that it was still around. I'm amazed it's still around now.
That photograph of them on the edge of the crater is wonderfully dramatic. Makes me wonder what instructions they had, precautions they took, preparations they made to make sure they didn't tumble in accidentally.
The Fourth Dimension - $13,945 in 3 months without being featured by Apple
Nokia also didn't get the whole movie tie-in thing. The version of the Nokia 8110 featured in The Matrix didn't exist as a purchasable product. This defeats the purpose of product placement.
Reviewing a Programmer's Blog Design and Content
> Second, perhaps cool URIs don't change, but it seems like http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html is kind of an unfortunate URI. What's "Provider"? Why are "Provider" and "Style" uppercase?

They're uppercase because they're uppercase. Asking why is like asking why Rubyists like_using_method_names_like_this and .NET devs LikeUsingMethodNamesLikeThis.
MIT researchers published a paper showing this simple mathematical fact in 2002 when the terrorism scare first appeared in the US.
Patterns can be bad too
I've seen something like this demo'd in NYC, unfortunately I can't remember if it was a NY Tech Meetup or other event, in the last six-eight months.

The NYC Metrocards come in two flavors: unlimited (day, week, and month) and pay as you go dollar denominated. The dollar denominated ones are topped up in such a way that you get n bonus dollars (essentially additional rides) for every X dollars. It had been the case that if you only use your metrocard on the subway and most buses then you don't end up with odd dollar amounts on the card. But certain buses (typically express buses) charge more than "one ride" (whatever that currently is, $2.50 I think), however with the last fare increase they did not adjust the bonus so now you do end up with odd dollar amounts.

There's also an automatic refill "pay as you go" card, the EasyPayXPress Metrocard which can be filled from a credit/debit card.

Fares are discussed here: http://www.mta.info/metrocard/mcgtreng.htm#payper

As to whether it would be useful? Sure? Maybe? In NYC most subway stations have metrocard vending machines where you can top up, but almost no bus stops do.

The MTA is in the very slow process of evaluating MetroCard replacements and options (there's been multiple NFC-ish experiments with fobs and credit cards), now would be a good time to contact the MTA if you have something that can add value (and scale).
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Capital one is also known as capital one financial corporation. It is a bank holding company based in United States and found in 1988. It is mainly specializes in loans credit cards, banking & saving. As since Jan 2011, capital one became issuer of HBC master cards.
Nice little zing about Eratosthenes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg#t=238s
America != North America

There is substantial evidence that america was populated from the south first, though researchers can't mount the puzzle yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedra_Furada_sites
Ah, the glorification of your old, dead language. This reads very much like an Oxford don extolling the virtues of Latin or Ancient Greek. Many of his claims are sheer nonsense, such as his digression on the ordering of alphabets. Sanskrit didn't use a fixed alphabet until the 19th century, and there are certainly other writing systems with collation orders just as sensible.

Everyone likes to claim that their old sophisticates were scientists before the scientific revolution in Europe. The basic insistence on repeatability, independent of any individual, and trumping any logical system, wasn't there, though. Thus mathematics flourished throughout the world for thousands of years, and philosophy, too, but not science. Vaisheshika had atomic theory? So did Democritus, several centuries earlier. Nyaya was doing logical syllogism? Yeah, Aristotle was doing that, again a couple centuries earlier. We don't think of Aristotle or Democritus as scientists, though, because they wouldn't test their ideas.

The whole thing is the ill informed cant of a bigot who wants to ensconce his particular folk tale that glorifies his heritage and denigrates all others.
Convention is for URLs to be all lowercase, which IMO aids in readability and certainly makes them easier to type (imagine giving a URL to a friend over the phone -- remember this is 1999).
Quote:"Now thirty five years later, Cernan and Schmitt are still the last to walk on the Moon."

That page was last updated in December of 2007, so add another four years.

How many people in this forum can truthfully say this sentence: "Man has not walked on the moon in my lifetime."

Say it again. Say it again. Say it again until righteous rage makes you want to spit on all of the bureaucrats, activists, and other parasites who clipped humanity's wings.

Repeat after me: "Man has not walked on the moon in my lifetime."
The former is a simpler more immediate action that is easier to induce.
There is broad idealogical/political movement in India along the following lines:

"India" was an extremely advanced civilization that suffered under the Mughals and the British. Before these "foreign invaders" arrived, there existed a body of knowledge that remains unsurpassed.

--

This is a revisionist version of history based on cultural supremacy. It has become a compelling political argument, since it contains truisms that are either difficult to test, or jingoism that's hard to resist.

The controversy stems from the truisms, many of which are repeated in Justice Katju's speech. At it's heart however is this idea of India as an ancient nation.

The modern nation state as we know it today was stitched together from multiple nations by the British. Before them, the Mughals also ruled a vast area, but the ruling classes were completely separate (culturally, linguistically etc.) from the people they ruled. And the Mughals never ruled the south, where the Tamils continue to represent one of the last surviving classic (comparable to the Greek etc.) civilizations in the world.

There are those who choose to pick a particular culture as the dominant culture and present that as "India". However, that isn't necessarily true.
What's on your summer reading list?
Some of it depends on the nature of the URI though. The article is about linked resources, but a lot of URI usage isn't really about linked resources. Many of these can change reasonably.

For example, is there any harm in changing where that contact us form points to? Do you have to maintain the contact us forms API to be backwards compatible forever? This really depends on what you are doing.

I agree with the article as it relates to documents for the most part. There are cases where maintaining URL backwards compatibility is a problem due to unforeseen dead ends. However, for the most part it shouldn't be. However, URIs needs for persistence varies so widely that I don't know one can generalize much beyond that.
DrinkingAge.isAbove(person.getAge())

Sounds like the type of code Yoda would write if he codes.
Is this something Facebook made, or a user created app?
I'm not sure if you did it on purpose, but

http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

works and is more in the spirit of the article than

http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
The most fun was the Win98 start menu task bar that moves around the page at the flick of your finger when you misclick