skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little cheap - $250 MIL vs. about $700 MIL that salesforce paid for buddy media...
Stylish FTFW.

It's a pain maintaining override scripts for multiple sites, but pick your battles and you can make some positive improvements.
Git. Don't bother with subversion.
I think he is not talking about the javascript events. Probably they fire the events in the backend. [1]

[1] https://mixpanel.com/docs/integration-libraries/
Offering a contrary opinion: Microsoft is definitely morally bankrupt. I don't trust them at all.
Google acquires Wildfire, the Facebook-focused marketing startup
I don't think I said that I mix personal and business email in one window. Yes, that is a disaster waiting to happen.

No, the idea is to have tabs that you can organize based on the context you need. One tab would be personal. Another might emails from one business. The other might be setup for the other.

I wear a couple of hats, so, for example, I'd love to have a tab that's just "Business #1 Engineering" and a separate tab that's "Business #1 Business" and keep those "personalities" separate. My engineering email address is different from my business email address as I've found that this keeps the individual mailboxes cleaner overall. Just my preference. Doesn't make it right. I also have hundreds or rules and lots of VBA code in Outlook making sense out of the whole mess.

I wouldn't have been able to do what I've been doing over the last fifteen years without the level of programming and manipulation available in Outlook.
I have my laptop hooked up to two external displays (three displays total) and it works great. Originally in gnome 3, when it came to virtual workspaces your non-primary displays were fixed, but they added an option to allow virtual workspaces on all displays.
IANAL either, but my understanding is that Apple's complaint is that Samsung stole their entire design on purpose, while Samsung's position is "we were already working on it, we didn't willfully copy your design" (and not "we invented it first, your patents are invalid").
a very nice place for me to get recommendations, part of my usual new movie finder.
Chrome Extension to improve Google BigQuery
That's one of the things I love most about Children of Men. It's clearly meant to be a realistic portrayal of 2027 (given the circumstances of the setting). The movie was made in 2006, but the main character wears a London 2012 hoodie. The futuristic elements are extrapolated from real things - the advanced, high res computer screens, the stylization of the cars, etc.
Facebook trading at alltime low
Samsung can also point to the LG Prada which was publicly announced three weeks before the iPhone and on sale months before the iPhone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
Apart from Google's multiple signin, Chrome supports account profiles, so you can have two Chrome windows with completely different cookies, logins, everything.
Socrates rendered the lesson thus, and I agree with you both:

"I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private."
A was looking into digital pianos recently to see how far along the technology has come. The extent to which they go to try to capture the nuances of a real piano took me by surprise.

You know how when you depress the pedal on a piano (without playing) the dampers lifting from the strings causes them to quietly ring a little bit? They model that now.

You know how if you quietly depress a key to keep a single damper open, and then loudly strike a staccato note in the bass, how the first note resonates with some harmonics from the bass note? They're modeling that now too.

They used to try to save memory by not sampling the entire decay of a note (after some amount of decay, they would start looping a brief sample, playing it little quieter each iteration). Now they sample the entire decay, because memory is cheap enough.

Here are some videos of the one that caught my eye:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdVf-fwCRSE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k77nDTIWkeA

I'm tempted to go try to play some. It would be very nice to not have to pay for periodic tunings.
Maybe not me, but there is strength in numbers. I think the most important thing is making it, at the very least, an uncomfortable situation for Twitter. These 'untouchable' entities need to know they can't continue to get away with stuff without a fight.
The glitches with the ssh tunnel were not for the redis replication setup. This has been running fine for 3 weeks already.

However we also use ssh tunnels for our continuous integration (jenkins) and the irc bots that we use for development (http://3scale.github.com/2012/06/29/irc-driven-development-p...).

In this setup we have the autossh going awol every one or two weeks. But as the blog post mentions, the ssh tunnel runs between our HQ (fiber) and Amazon, not very reliable. Furthermore, there is a lot of idle periods, which seems to trigger most of the issues. We cannot give more specifics since we forcefully just restart the daemon with a monit/munin combo.
Outlook.com - when SPAM detection goes wrong
Hello Folks,

I was trying out the new Outlook.com, curious to see the new Microsoft email client.

I tried to send a new email and outlook.com asked me to verify my account using the usual SPAM captcha system. I tried the classic one, where you have to figure out the letters, but it seemed to have some problems. I then switched to the audio captcha and I got a message which seems like a satanic message, the one you get when you play vinyls backwards.

This outlook.com SPAM captcha is scary!

Check out the recording of this audio:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/549431/SPAM%20Detection%20goes%20wrong.m4v
Think Relevance podcast with Rich Hickey
Can't count how many times Wildfire were recommended to me by people I trust. It's often pointed to me that it shines where google analytics fail. Everyone I know who tried it, have loved it. Guess google was paying attention. Grats to the wildfire team, it's great to see a good product succeed.
Why does the blogpost look like this? http://i.imgur.com/1KHCt.png
Darn you physics and your 14 minute tape delay, I want to tweet this live!
Unlike most filesystems, the windows filesystem doesn't allow you to overwrite files that are open. To be 100% sure that you can install all your files everyone checks the box that says require a reboot and install on startup when the file wont be in use.
Publish-Subscribe with web sockets in Python and Firefox
A blog post about an acquisition and no link to the website of the actual product (http://www.wildfireapp.com/)?
that's totally correct. In the case of a redis replication, the ssh tunnel failing would be quite costly, since the whole database will have to be send again since the slave would do a SYNC op. And that can be multiple GB in our case. But so far, we haven't experience it.
Absolutely they should learn a VCS early. Personally, I would recommend Git over Mercurial, with svn a very distant third.

But mostly you'll get people trotting out their prejudices here. The main deal, without question, is to do something.
At first I mistook it for http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/432872

Which is an entirely different game.
I don't have a blog. Thanks for the support though. Anyone and everyone who does have a blog is more than welcome to take my idea and run with it. The post in question (http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4318034) is now licensed with the WTFPL (http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/).
Then the problem is fraudulent manufacturers.

There can't be any universe in which that isn't a shortsighted and downright ludicrous move.

If anything we should be happy for the manufacturers that does that, it means we'd never have to consider them again.
Python Launcher brings shebang line processing to Windows
Didn't see that one coming
DON'T click that link and what to do instead
I never thought I'd actually make a HN username. But Mario and Zelda are both games where a man saves a princess by killing everything in his way.
We need more fiberhoods.
Somebody should create web app to allow folks from the rest of the US to pre-register for their local "fiberhoods". Google Fiber is currently limited to Kansas City, but wouldn't it be great to show Google how much the rest of us would like to have the same service. Anybody willing to run with this idea?
I'm not sure I'd call good they who profit from evil.

One of the things that really troubled me after the financial meltdown was how much people got a pass for saying, "Oh, I didn't know." Even senior people.

I think ignorance is only a real excuse when you've tried to find out what's going on. But as it is, our culture seems to reward people for willful ignorance. That's a dangerous incentive.
There won't be one - Twiiter likely regard themselves as above that. They have a complete stranglehold on "micro-blogging" (who ever called it that?)

Time for an open protocol with multiple, distributed servers?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4318930
That's OK. You can have your opinion.

A fine film camera has no serious contenders at the moment, from the viewpoint of both the photographers, and the sophisticated viewer

Some professional photographers said basically the same thing on film vs digital cameras a decade ago. See what do we have now. I can even predict that in ten years Steinway will bankrupt like what Kodak did.

The complexity of the piano sound is very, very difficult to duplicate, although we've been trying for decades.

As a programmer, I especially disagree with this point. The challenges digital pianos face right now is the key-touching not the sound itself.
TabExplorer: Make Windows Explorer like a tabbed browser.
Ask HN: Safari + AppleScript + Alfred = Win
http://www.stevoyoung.com/post/28412205139/safari-applescript-alfred-win

I recently wrote a simplistic script for working with Alfred and Safari. It's only been few days but OI wouldn't be able to work without it already.

I'm wondering if anyone else has similar scrips or shortcuts they have to have on their computer. Please share if you do ...
because your window is tiny.

I had the same thing happen to me too.
Ask HN: What's your computer setup?
I've got:
* an Acer Aspire 7741G-6426

* a pair of wireless G930 headphones (good, if a little gimmicky)

* a Mionix Naos 3200, a comfortable, well-built, well-priced gaming mouse.

* a shitty 1999 Apple USB keyboard. I need some keyboard recommendations!

What do you guys use?
I totally agree that this is a specific case. At the same time, there are a lot of smaller, brick and mortar businesses out there trying to figure out how to use Facebook Ads, and to me, hosting Events is a great way to drive people into stores (or in my case, a backyard :) )

Also, most big companies in the world actually are trying to figure out how to use Facebook Ads right now. The problem is that most haven't figured out how to create a compelling enough value proposition - I click on the ad, but what compels me as a user to take the next step? It's a big challenge for companies and agencies who are accustomed to being able to pay for captive audiences.
I like Unity. I don't like it enough to go on a forum and tell everyone I like it, but then again there are few things I like enough that I feel I have to tell everyone about my enjoyment. The people who talk the loudest are the people complaining, that's how it always is, has been, and forever will be.

When I worked internal tech support I had users call and complain about Windows 7, asking to go back to DOS. These people stood out more than the 90% of users who enjoyed Windows 7 simply because the complainers were motivated enough to complain and curmudgeonly enough to make such a ridiculous request. The difference is, those users were forced to use software they didn't like. That's hardly the case here.
Great post; I love seeing actual numbers being put to the test on HN.

Something that doesn't sit well with me: how sustainable is this business model? How often can you find crates of records for $2,000 that sell for $10,000? How much time does it take you to locate those crates? How long before your folks get mad about their lawn being trampled during these sales, and the neighbours get miffed having 300-odd people clogging up the streets? What are your opportunity costs?

In short, while this article clearly proves that Facebook ads are viable as profitable sources of lead generation, since this seems like such an occasional-hit scenario I'm still not totally sold on whether they are as suitable for sustainable long-term enterprise (I'm extremely curious as to how many people will attend a 2nd event? 3rd?).

This is particularly relevant if you're wondering what Facebook's long-term revenue growth will look like (how much of their present revenue can be attributed to businesses trying Facebook out? How many of these businesses will find repeat business with Facebook to be profitable?)
How to Write
I use both gmail and hotmail (or outlook.com now) and the titlebar in this case is the same as in gmail: it has the user-name of the person logged in, the "options" (gear icon), the send/reply/delete/new-email buttons. And actually with gmail the interface has the google logo and search input above the title-bar taking up an extra ~100 pixels.
It seems there are some random elements that are set to fixed position, when they really shouldn't be. I imagine it will be fixed very shortly -- it would be odd if nobody at Google has noticed it yet.
Here's the corresponding article from the Wildfire blog: http://blog.wildfireapp.com/2012/07/31/wildfire-is-joining-g... .

The timing on this is so funny to me, since a good friend of mine just moved out to San Francisco last week to join Wildfire. "Surprise! You actually joined Google!" :-) Congratulations to everyone!
Me just starting a project on a strategic board game, I was wondering if there is any active development for Android regarding the cocos2d sdk? I only found two seemingly discontinued projects on Google Code. Is a dedicated game framework helpful in this case with no background in game programming but some expertise in the Java portions of Android?
2011 MBP high res matt display, magic mouse, laptop lap stand. Nothing to fancy.
I do this for my laptop (mainly because wireless support on linux still sucks) and it isn't perfect. Performance suffers quite a bit, which matters for low power devices. Plus, the windows layer will come bite you in all its sneaky ways, as usual.
That article does a poor job proving that you could not find the name before with a simple google search and/or some basic deduction.
Verizon can no longer block tethering apps
Has anybody used this? Any hard numbers in comparison to reference JVM and VMs (jrockit?), latency vs realtime java?

EDIT: Looks like pretty much the same question everywhere. AZUL, please step up.
Lots of businesses can host events, IRL and online - a brick-and-mortar shop can host a sale or a meetup, an online business can host a webinar or a conference - in fact it's tough for me to think of a business that, by nature, could not host any type of event.

Whether it makes sense for them to advertise on Facebook - that'll be up to them to test, but events are a pretty tried and true marketing technique.
I thought Basil Peters' Early Exits (www.early-exits.com) was a pretty decent overview.
Here's a G+ event that will automatically add to your calendar and let you know when the live coverage starts:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110701307803962595019/posts/cZZ9...
Misunderstanding leaderhsip roles
You know, I really cringe anytime I see any articles posted here that deal with gender as most of the comments show a certain naiveté, but reading the comments on the linked page is proving to be even worse.
We're still fundamentally using the PARC Alto model.

We've got windows. We've got keyboards. We've got mice. In some cases we've now got multi-touch keypads and touch-sensitive screens. Some screens are very large. Some are very small. Some are in-between.

There have been some improvements: processors are vastly faster, pixel densities are increasing, and rendering has improved. We've got some hacks for displaying fonts more clearly. But those are pretty minor. Compiz effects if you want to get flashy, but those are hardly necessary.

I've seen master developers completely satisfied, and massively proficient, in hacked-up twm environments.

Really: the desktop is a solved problem. Move on.

I've looked at many of the "modern" desktops. And I'm still using the same one I was using 15 years ago: WindowMaker, based on NeXTstep. It's simple, it's fast, it's light, it's stable. It's not visually distracting. It gets out of the way. It supports keyboard shortcuts and navigation. It presents me with persistent pinnable window lists (something no other window manager / desktop environment provides me) and pinnable submenus.

What the desktop developers for GNOME, Unity, Microsoft, et al are forgetting is Anoine de Saint Exupery's dictum: perfection comes not when there is nothing left to add, but nothing left to take away. There's an implied "and what is left is sufficient to the task at hand".
Twitter Self-Serve Ads Expanding Reach
It sounds to me like cfinke made a poor choice when acquiring a used instrument then extrapolated that to 'all old instruments are bad/can't properly hold pitch'.

This information came to me via my father (a church musician, organist, and pianist for 40 years) and a number of piano tuners in the area that I talked to about getting the piano back in playing condition. I'm familiar with musical instruments and wouldn't claim that all old instruments are bad.

cfinke should've just gotten someone who knows about pianos to help him/her choose a good one

When we did eventually purchase a piano, we talked to the right people and made an informed decision. In the story I shared, the price (free) was more important than the condition.
I've written an ebook about the due diligence process and I could write a post that explains it if enough ppl are interested
Jayson, thanks for your feedback. You raise an important issue.

A huge proportion of the eBooks downloaded are educational, trade, and reference. Cookbooks, for example, are incredibly popular and these "cold-blood analytics" can be very practical for determining what content is working and what content is not engaging readers.

It gets more tricky when it comes to literary fiction. But I think it's safe to say that measurement and creativity aren't mutually exclusive. Measuring something in and of itself doesn't compel you to make changes.

But it would be interesting for us to do some research by getting into an edition of a classic text and seeing what types of changes our analytics would suggest making. This would mostly be an exercise in figuring out how to improve our analytics, rather than taking it at face-value that a classic text should be edited based on some data points.
I think it's important to replace Twitter with an open protocol if Twitter as a platform has value.

I would argue that it doesn't.

Twitter, in the social sense, has value for users on both sides as a corral of content consumers and producers. Twitter, in the technical sense, offers very little - the only special consideration is that I can send an SMS message from my phone and it will appear on a website, but there are many other services that provide this functionality. The reason I use Twitter is that it's free.
Nairobi Startup Accelerator Application
I think this is a great idea. Like you mentioned, craigslist doesn't really do events. I just resqued a couple thousand comic books from my parent's basement and I think I'll try this out to see if I can off load them.
Why just Avatars.io, why not profiles.io? I'd love for my Twitter profile, Facebook bio, About.me, etc to be in sync.
Yes, for a real production solution you'd want some kind of hardened VPN, though I recommended UDP or SCTP based transport for less overhead. But hacks are hacks, and since it's just replication, ssh won't break anything that isn't already broken when it fails.

I would never recommend anyone tunnel anything unencrypted over the internet, especially a database. Arcfour is incredibly fast, comparable to 'none' encryption. RFC4345 specifies the main known attack on arcfour is password auth, so using keys may keep it relatively safe (and using arcfour256 for the longest key).

It's best to assume developers will not implement encryption correctly no matter what library they link to. Always consider how highly vetted the application has been first, and how long it's been around without major issues.
Launched yesterday, 11,000 plays in 24 hours.
Getting the captcha to work at all is nearly impossible. I've entered it 9 times now and can't pass a single one.
I feel your pain, but look at it this way; there were plenty of crap books before this idea as well, the silver lining is maybe having more enticing crap books will eventually lead people down the path to good literature.
Considering the bulk of their offering is marketing tools for facebook, I'm really curious what this means exactly.
Brakeman (Rails vulnerability scanner) v1.7.0 released
What Marissa Mayer Can Really Do with Yahoo--And It Doesn't Mean Pinkifying It
I was already planning to bring some high school students to Pycon this year. This makes the trip even more appealing to students, especially female students. we are traveling from Alaska, so the free tuition lets us focus on the travel costs.

Some students will already know most of what is described in the tutorial. This makes it possible to bring a mix of knowledgeable students, and students who are new to programming but interested and motivated.
Mid-2010 15" MBP with secondary 27" Viewsonic. Sennheiser 595 headphones, Magic Mouse, Full-sized Apple Keyboard.

All the other developers have MBAs or Retina MBPs and Thunderbolt Displays :-/
That's also why you have a truss rod, to prevent/correct neck warping. I've never seen a neck that was easy to break though...
We find it very fascinating that people either love Hiptype or are profoundly disturbed. What we're doing is not different than what occurs on the websites and mobile apps you already use, so the difference is one of culture.

What I'm most curious about is the extent to which these cultural norms will shift as it becomes more common for books to contain analytics like ours.
I knew a guy who got an offer there straight out of college (well, prior to graduating by a few months, but starting afterward).

He readily admitted to not liking them before he even started; but they offered him a percentage increase on his next highest offer...

I am sure not all employees there are like him, but the ones that are should hardly be considered innocent.