skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter has released a statement on the issue: http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/our-approach-to-trust-safety...
Show HN: Recycled a piano into a work desk
With a little paint and 2-3 days I recycled this 1910s piano into a work desk. Cost: paint and manual labor to pick up the piano from craigslist.I'm here to answer questions incase you are interested in doing the same.
Exactly. Anyonymous payment however would be bad. And currently, with e.g. bitcoin scramblers, we are getting there.

I can see no harm in anonymous data exchange (except copyright infringement) on an open society. But if you can order whatever you want online anonymously -- that could result in some deplorable stuff.
(That's why I think bitcoins will get shut down entirely by goverments at some point)
This is the same demographic that dominated a big part of the retail segments Borders covered. I wonder how much of Amazon's business they represent?
Gmail has "Preview Pane" option under the Labs tab in Settings. I don't use it personally, but I am pretty sure it has been there for at least a few years.

Any unpaid account has a chance of being shut down without recourse. I haven't heard of this happening with any Google Apps accounts though (especially paid ones). Anyone else?
>Never use three words when one will do. Be concise.

Tech bloggers: please read this and repeat it to yourself every day until it sticks.
Old pianos, or their parts, have been a part of foley for ages. Plenty of foley studios have parts of pianos lying around, for example, the piano harp.

Do you know the sound that the TARDIS makes when it materializes? Part of that sound is someone at the BBC radiophonic workshop scraping a wrench against the strings on a harp from a disassembled piano.
because they earn their money elsewhere?

This is a terribly odd statement. Microsoft has shown, time and time again, that they can shaft their customers because many of them have, or at least had, few alternatives. Google might make a lot of its money on advertising, but it wouldn't make a penny if it didn't have the trust and respect of its customers.
Select type "hard disk" (last row of options) instead of "usb drive".
I've used it do to full network installs of centOS
They hire a lot of tech oblivious people too (artists, designers, animators, copywriters, ..., pizza delivery guys turned SEO/SEM/SMEs) who don't deserve to be screwed over by sociopathic management.
I've asked the question before: is modern spam filtering not enough? I used to have several accounts to void spam, but that was pre-bayesian. Filtering works great now and I use the same email for everything and anything..
Gotcha, I'm going to have to try this, thanks for the insight!
Can't wait for them to do this to AT&T
> Samsung's copying of Apple has extended to literally using Apple's UI graphics in store displays

This is new to me, cite? Obviously doing that would amount to cut and dry copyright violation, and Apple would be well within its rights to demand the in-store displays be removed.

But this isn't a spit about clip art. They're claiming ownership of an increasingly nebulous idea of a "tablet" (it seems it's no longer just about the narrow design patent, or about the size, or aspect ratio, or curved corners). That's a different thing, and not at all related to what you're talking about.
Is this thing using raw RSA with no padding?
https://github.com/tarcieri/cryptosphere/blob/master/lib/cry...
Avoid security risks with iTunes Connect scraping services
Actually, as a reader, I would prefer book publishers to know what gets read in their books and what doesn't. Likewise, I would like to know that information as a reader.

There've been countless times when I purchased a heavily advertised (well reviewed) book, only to find out that it was worthless piece of ... Anyways, those books weren't written for me; they repeated the same stuff over and over and over again.

One example - Good to Great. The first chapter is good, so is the second (maybe). Everything afterwards is just a repetition of the same concept. If I could see ahead of time that most readers stop reading the book 20% in, I'd make my assumptions and not even bother to try to get through it.

Likewise, there are books where the first chapters are quite tedious to read, but the rest are great. If, while reading chapter 1, I could see that most people struggled but then persisted and loved the book, that might encourage me to get going.

Just my 2 cents.
Newton patents must've expired by now. Also, if it's indeed the case that they look like the Newton, then Newton is the prior art and the patent on it has expired. This would also invalidate Apple's "new" design patents.
Not trying to be smug, but I bet you're younger than 30, if you can say that with a straight face.
True, but it would be nice to augment Mutt with things like tags and conversations[1] without having convoluted setups involving hacks with external scripts.

Another example, it would be really cool to be able to edit email as Markdown/Textile/reStructuredText and have it converted to a text+html (multipart/alternative) email, but currently there is no way to do that with Mutt without using some sort of sendmail wrapper that does this.

[1] I realize that Gmail's threading isn't 'true' threading, but I'm talking about pulling in the entire thread even if it's not part of the current email folder.
Ray Wenderlich is indirectly responsible for a ton of Indie games on the App Store, should be thanked

I will do so the next time I see him.
> discordant soundtrack

"What do you play?"

"The discordion."
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Great UI can be created without adding anything new. Use old things well, in intuitive ways, and you already are ahead of 99% of your competition anyway.
I second your feedback on gnome. I finally gave up on Ubuntu about 2 days ago because I persisted with gnome 3 for far too long. It makes simple things easier but everything else much harder.
I used to tell windows users why I preferred Ubuntu: 3 logical menus/auto sorted apps, clear separation between settings and administration. Then I was lumbered with this "kids toy" for tablets that made everything less clear (except the few pinned apps).

In this instance, Ubuntu lost me to mint Linux. I expect a similar backlash against Windows 8, although for slightly different reasons.

Enough is enough. Goodbye gnome 3 and Ubuntu.
It took me a good 10 seconds to locate it. Also, I signed in with my Microsoft ID which was confusing as it logged into outlook using my existing, non-microsoft email. If you don't have an @outlook.com email, it'd be nice for them to pop a prompt.
So that is basically insane, but I do have to ask how many of those kinds of maneuvers have been tried before? I mean, they say they can't land the rover with rockets, so I assume they have used alternate methods before as well?
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So what?

When I go to a clothing store, all the jeans and dress shirts and folded the same way and look nearly identical, same goes for the milk and eggs at the grocery store.

In spite of all this I always manage to come home with the brand I set out to buy in the first place.
Yes but don't pretend like you havent tried something similar.
A reddit-like ranking system would merely ensure that only mundane, low-brow and easily-digested content would be popular.
That really hits home. What pushed me over the edge in my switch (from GNOME 3 on Fedora 16 to i3 on Debian Testing) was my inability to debug problems with wireless networking. "Modern" linux plumbing like PolicyKit and NetworkManager is complex, fast-moving, and under-documented.
I didn't see it at first but I wanted to see what would happened if I tabbed out of the message body and it focused on the send button.
Intel buys into Luster FS (acquires Whamcloud)
I agree with his recommendation of Don Reinertsen's _Managing the Design Factory_. (I assume that's the book he recommended.) I read it last year and it had a strong effect on me.
Why use a pronoun at all? Why not use the noun "USSR"? It always freaks me out a bit when people use "we" to describe e.g. a team they supported in a sports game. Feels a bit strange to give up one's identity like that.
If you want to launch mobile internet business, there is lots of opportunities in developing countries.

Quess what country leads mobile banking? It's Kenya. Something like 60% of Kenyans have made mobile money transfer. Money transfer via mobile phones has expanded to 16 percent of the total population in sub-Saharan Africa in just few years. Most of the third world people will never get landlines for the last mile, they just skip the whole step and turn wireless.

Mobile business in developing countries is just going crazy. Threre has been huge revolution in just few years and it's currently ongoing. I predict that cheap below $100 smartphones will turn the life of hunreads of millions people around in less than five years. They have less money, but they already use mobile phones more innovatively than we do.

The main difference in comparision to developing countries seems to be that mobile internet will provide much bigger productivity boost for developing countries than it will do for us. New iPhone app in U.S is nice but it will not turn your life prospects around. Lacking infrastructure (like roads that work in rain season) makes the ability to use mobile Internet more important.
We worked hard on Sinatra support this past weekend. Give it another shot. I've deployed multiple test Sinatra apps painlessly today, which was admittedly far less painless last week.
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Show HN: Comment Haiku, find haikus in YouTube comments
I doubt this is easily possible, with Tor as designed.

Maybe you could establish a blacklist of CP sites, and that could be applied at the entry and exit nodes of the Tor network. This blacklist would have to be public and checked by many that it didn't contain non-CP sites, so in effect it would be a public directory of CP, which is problematic already.

Then, those that run entry and exit nodes could voluntarily apply the blacklist. In this way the Tor community could have its own values, while still being independent of any authority.

But this assumes that CP will remain restricted to certain domains in the .onion system, or the traditional DNS system. Which of course they won't. Maybe there will be one .onion domain per picture. Maybe there will be a Flickr of .onion where it's not so easy to figure out who's doing what. Then you'd have to lean on that service to police its own members' content.

I can imagine various messy and imperfect ways to limit the amount of CP in the world, or at least make it harder to find, but we just don't have good legal models for dealing with true freedom of speech. And our institutions today would rather persist in the fantasy that they can completely control speech, than accept that their role might just be to advise the citizens on how to police themselves.
Tags/Categories, and filter-by-tag/category

tl;dr: Let any user add any tag/category to any article, allow each user to up/down vote each tag once (to increase categorization quality), and allow all users to filter HN articles by tag - and tag properties.

Result: When we have only a short time, we see only the types of article that most interest us. When we have more time, we can browse through new or untagged or little tagged articles and apply/vote tags.

Why? Because HN and the HN community are good at curating articles of interest, and I cannot find a better community for suggesting the types of article I'm interested in, but that type is, broadly, off topic.

Longer version, more rationale, details....

I wandered into HN when I was a hackerpreneur - but I'm not anymore.

I stay because of the high quality of articles and comments - but the articles I'm mostly interested in are not about hacking code or hardware or startups, they're about cognition, hacking the mind, pedagogy, etc. Ya know, the off topic stuff.

But the real off topic gems tend to drown in a sea of on topic stuff.

So I spend a fair amount of time filtering through the first four or five pages of stories every day, looking for those non-coding&&non-startup gems that spark my interest. I'd like technology and crowd-sourcing to make this easier for me....

Let anyone add a tag/category to a story, e.g., hardhack, softhack, hardknocks, cognition, mindhack, etc. - AND let everyone vote up/down the tag/category: Voting tags would make them fluid and make the most sensible ones apply to any story.

(The most popular tags, or the most commonly used ones, would populate a dynamic list - this would allow the tag system to grow organically.)

Next, let me filter HN by tag/category, using as many/few as I want. Or none.

I'll start viewing with filters turned on and find recent stories of interest. When there are none (or not enough for this period of distraction), I'll look through recent untagged (or little tagged) stories, and apply tags, or up/down vote tags.

In other words, when I have little time, and need a distraction, I'll find one on topic for me; when I have more time, I'll help manage tagging so that you find one for you, next time you need one.

(Why am I not a hackerpreneur anymore? Well, that's off topic, but tl;dr? My values and interests have changed as I near the big 5-0, I'm not completely enamored of my current gig - IT security consulting - and I've come to realize I don't really want to start or run a business. So I'm irrationally edging back into undergrad studies in a very different field from my original studies... ...but I'm still here because of the very high signal/noise ratio.)
Humorous mistake of a similar nature: I recently tried to link to a post about Skype becoming more susceptible to policing when it had previously been far more resilient. Messenger warned me that the link was dangerous. After a few minutes I discovered that it was the ow.ly service that was flagged as "dangerous" rather than the blog post.

I was losing my head for a few minutes.
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What bad scenarios do you see occurring with anonymous online payments?

I do agree that the US Government will shut down bitcoin fairly soon, for the same reasons it doesn't allow people to create any other kind of currency.

I consider governments to essentially be criminal gangs that have achieved enough power to be able to buy legitimacy. Money laundering allows 3rd party gangs to start to claim legitimacy too, so it must be stopped. This is not to discount the good things governments (and gangs) accomplish, just to call attention to the good and bad done by both. Governments generally have elaborate propaganda and disinformation arms as well, and use money laundering laws to attack the funding channels used by competitors (described derogatorily as gangs).
p.s. This was announced July 13th.
Unless this is a very expensive aqui-hire, it does complicate the current narrative that Facebook marketing is without value.
It's also interesting that images on the poster are front on so that feature details such as sliding keyboards and flip keypads are usefully omitted. With names like Slider and Flipper it almost gives the game away.

It's not just the boxes either. See the cabling and power adaptor.

http://cydiahelp.com/samsung-copies-apple/
I didn't want to just down vote this without an explanation:

My father is a plumber, a very good one in fact, yet his house has some of the worst plumbing you'll ever see. Ever heard the phrase "The cobler's son goes barefoot"? It applies to almost every industry.

When you're good at what you do, you're too busy earning a living to apply your trade to your own life. As long as ashraful's websites that are meant to be responsive work on mobile devices what's the problem if his portfolio doesn't?

And while I'm spouting old-timey phrases, "Never look a gift horse in the mouth"
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I do not think that is significant reason to allow their product. If I make, say, a Louis Vuitton clone, but added some part that shouted 'FAKE; NOT THE REAL THING' that every buyer could remove, there still would be a case to make for forbidding the non-clone.
Why don't more companies do this? It seems like a good way to outsource your penetration testing at bargain basement prices.

edit: Well, I would say in concert with your own internal penetration test, not replace
Software Engineer(Microsoft)

Work:
- ThinkPad i7 2.67 GHz, Win 7
-Dual 22" ThinkVision Displays
-Logitech Natural Keyboard
-Logitech Trackball Mouse

Home:
- circa 2009 MBP dual 2.63 GHz
- Dual Displays, Samsung 19", running one via USB monitor,
Default screen on MBP runs as well ( i need all three yes)
-Microsoft Natural Keyboard
-Logitech Trackball Mouse (never a mouse user)
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A lot of that polish overhead time would be avoided through the use of the Cocos2D engine, it seems. Of course it won't be as perfect as cut the rope. It will be like cut the rope.
So if someone's making knock-off Levi's jeans you're cool with that?
FYI the post has been changed:

> Also, another thing I’m particularly proud of is that getting this thing up only cost $50.

His earlier reference to it is now:

> I settled on the Pluto Theme, which is designed to make easy, but beautiful restaurant websites. It only costs $50. No biggy
I quickly read over the description of how this works. Nodes have a crypto identity which is used to establish trust between nodes, and storing data from another node gives you bandwidth "credit" to download other stuff. Transactions are cryptographically signed, but presumably this is safe because the contents of the files are unknown because they are encrypted. So how are they encrypted and then stored, and later retrieved? Content is hashed, the hash is used as the AES256 decryption key. Another hash is made of the encrypted data, and this is your lookup key. Only the crypto hash is needed to query a file, but it's useless to you unless you know the original data hash to serve as a decryption key.

I see two problems with this:

1. So, if both hashes of a file of illegal content becomes publicly known, like say on a website, I don't see how you avoid liability having it on your machine. It seems you can only avoid legal liability if someone stores stuff on your machine that is never intended to become publicly available. In any other case, the system has created a cryptographically provable trail between the data and your storage, which can be used to prosecute you.

2. The FBI can generate a SHA256 hash of every computer file of child pornography it has ever collected, and immediately be able to identify every node that contains this data. Presumably this gives them enough legal authority to shut down your node, regardless if you have plausible deniability that you are aware of the contents.
Well, they gave it a shot: http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/our-approach-to-trust-safety.... :)

I think they did alright. Still a chink in the armour, but they didn't come out of it looking like complete assholes.
Twitter is not a public utility. If you want to put your namespace in the hands of a private company that offers their service for free, then by all means use them.

Organizations that want to retain control of their own namespace should host an OStatus compliant service on their own infrastructure.
The smaller rovers "bounced down" with airbags.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover#Airbags
There exist pianos with carbon fiber sound boards. They advertise increased tuning stability and reduced sensitivity to environmental conditions. I don't know how they sound. The advertisements say that they have "increased sustain", "a brighter harmonic spectrum", and a "much wider dynamic range", but to me, all of these sound like downsides.

The dynamic range of some pianos is already too large, increased sustain beyond current levels makes everything sound muddy, and "brighter" could mean "harsher". For the same reasons, people are reluctant to replace wooden parts of other instruments with newer materials. I'd be willing to buy one, but I'd definitely have to play it first.
Apple has evidence from Samsung that plenty of people accidentally purchased (and then returned) the Galaxy Tab thinking it was the iPad. So no reason the same wouldn't happen for the Galaxy S.

So yes. It does happen.
It's almost as if when the iPhone launched the designs started to heavily converge on whatever Apple was doing, though prior to that there are some surprising similarities.

This whole trial has been enormously educational. Stuff like this rarely sees the light of day.
Class-action lawsuit details alleged insider trading at Zynga
You've got the right conclusion but the wrong reasoning. Non-inventory sales result in taxable gain if the sale price exceeds the seller's "adjusted basis" (i.e., tax-adjusted cost) in the item sold. For personal property that isn't subject to depreciation (basically, stuff you would sell at a garage sale), the seller's adjusted basis usually exceeds the sale price, so the seller recognizes a loss on the sale. Consequently, the money earned from the sale does not result in taxable income for federal income tax purposes.

State income tax laws vary....

Also, income taxes are actually owed at least quarterly. The self-employed and contractors must deal with this timing issue, which can result in penalty interest rates on taxes not timely paid. Employers withhold and remit the taxes with each paycheck using automated payroll systems.

April 2012 is the due date to settle up all income taxes for the entire 2012 tax year. In most cases, people will have overpaid taxes b/c remittances over the year were based on estimated income (i.e, prior to deductions and credits).
Credit card tied to the purchasing account. Once you have that, you have (for sale) access to in-depth profiles I would assume include more or less accurate assessments of income. Presumes this is being done in coordination/through the e-tailor.
Was Spike Lee suspended? NOT

Because he was politically correct and didn't put twitter revenue at risk.

Depends on who you are and what you say.
Amazon updates Cloud Player, includes iTunes Match-like scanning
> you can buy a new one made in China that’s just as good.

This is rather debatable. I would rather have a restored piano from an established manufacturer than a shiny new one from an untested brand at the same price.
you mean like if you fail to unbind/remove stuff?
How can I overcome envy of people who are my age but are far more successful?
This is a bigger issue—I can't figure out how I'm supposed to get an account @outlook.com.
Unlike with the trademarks Apple does not need to demonstrate brand confusion. With Design Patents they need to demonstrate is that a Galaxy S is "substantially similar to the design" of an iPhone. "The copy does not have to be exact for the patent to be infringed. It only has to be substantially similar."
If a bubble pops before the soap leaves the wand, does it make a sound?
I used GNOME 3 for awhile. Of all the heavy, DE-style desktops, I like GNOME 3. I use Awesome WM more often because it's lighter and saves precious battery on my laptop, but GNOME 3 is zippy and mostly stays out of my way.

As long as you can access a terminal quickly, everything else is really window dressing.
I should mention, you change one bit of a file and it will obscure the file from the "FBI test". But still, you trivially can generate the Cryptoshphere lookup for any unencrypted file you have access to, and see if anybody has it.