skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would have to an extremely powerful magnet though, since it can't be right below the router.
BidKat: Sell Your Stuff With Less Hassle
I think one of the appeals of TM1 was that it WAS a native Mac app and felt like one. Qt apps never 'feel' completely native, so if you went down that path you'd end up with an awkward, substandard, non-native text editor and might as well be using Sublime Text.
> The problem is that you don't know what the 'right way' is until you've done it once and discovered all of your the mistakes and pitfalls.

Isn't that what experience is? (As opposed to talent.)
As someone who runs a crowdsourced transcription company I can tell you it's not worth it. If it was we'd be hiring them, and the going rate would be $7/hour not $60. You'd get better quality with machine transcription - and that's really not saying much.
Bitey: Import LLVM bitcode directly into Python
Absolutely no one is even suggesting it's Al Quaeda. Did you read the article at all? It points to the US and/or Israel above all else...
The trick would be to search for a bunch of random, long, very undesirable domains, to see if it's automated.

Of course, if it's manual, it won't prove it.
Collage app Mixel will shut down in September
That was a federal case. According to the appeal, the federal law was misapplied. Now he's on trial for breaking state laws.
The article explains the issues clearly.
Buh, I think this article has totally missed the point.

First of all, I think the reason why the iPad and iPhone have been so good hardware-wise while most Android devices have been lackluster in comparison is that the vertical integration that Apple can achieve allows them to make decisions at this point that would be completely stupid if they were just another OEM or IHV.

Basically, because iOS is a very large ecosystem with a guaranteed large install base per product, Apple can afford to tape out chips that would have absolutely no chance of being profitable for a IHV (e.g., NVIDIA or Qualcomm). Since every iOS tablet sold for the next N years will use A5X, it makes sense for Apple to design and tape out their own SoCs specifically for that, but the device fragmentation inherent in the Android market makes it extremely difficult for IHVs to do the same. Look at A5X versus Tegra 3 in terms of die size. Tegra 3 is 80mm^2. A5X is 165mm^2. SoCs from IHVs (at least for the foreseeable future) need to be dual-purpose tablet/phone chips in order to deal the many devices the IHVs will need to target (differentiated using clockspeeds or binning), which means no huge die sizes allowed. Even if Android tablet sales increase to iPad levels overall, part of the reason for that is choice; OEMs probably won't be willing to use the same enormous processor in their $600 flagship as their $150 budget tablet due to their margins (or the chip wouldn't exist because IHVs wouldn't be able to make a profit at the cheaper levels because of the fab costs).

Vertical integration also means Apple can eat the cost of large die size SoCs because they don't have to worry about margin on the SoCs alone.

In other words, if bigger chips result in better experiences for tablets, right now the only way to guarantee that is to play kingmaker and only support one SoC. The way Apple has done that is to build their own SoCs and cut the IHVs out entirely. Yet, they haven't done this in PCs at all. PC hardware is all Good Enough at this point; there's no hypothetical 40%-perf-advantage-if-only-someone-would-build-it chip.

As the mobile market matures, platforms become more established, OEMs combine, etc, the need for vertical integration will disappear because mobile hardware will become a commodity, largely indistinguishable in meaningful ways besides minor perf/W or perf/$ advantages. IHVs will see enough sales to do what Intel or the GPU companies do in the PC space and build one scalable architecture for all platforms, there will be relatively established price points, etc.
I'm pretty sure the grader for my algorithms class just assumed that anything typeset in LaTeX must be correct, as I routinely got full credit for completely incorrect things, while classmates not using LaTeX got dinged for every minor mistake.
"It's going to work! I'm using a very convincing font; it's bold, and has a lot of serifs."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APcuJjCZTMU#t=4m07s
I think you might be on to something, but I am not sure.

One thing that seemed odd to me was that Comic Sans has a negative association that is heavily biased by cultural factors rather than any real, intrinsic human determinant. I would suspect that all the typefaces are going to be more heavily influenced by social norms than anything else. But that's just a hunch.
If you ever wondered, this is what it looks like when a corporation has politicians in their pocket. Goldman Sachs is the extreme example of capitalism gone wrong. So powerful they can't lose money and so powerful they can treat legislators and law enforcement like the employees they are.
I would think that should be highly irrelevant.

If they have invested in Spotify, then they are just securing their place in case Spotify (or Spotify-like services) displace the old model. It doesn't mean that is going to make any difference in the change of business model when it happens.

If they have too much control in Spotify, someone else will start a new service/label. OR bands will just self produce.

I love the digital age.
Seriously cool. Nice work. I'm working on a Twitter/Craigslist/StackOverflow-like service for moms and I will certainly see how we could use your service.
there was also scientific cooperation (from wiki on Venus)

> A suite of instruments more sensitive than those on Mariner 2, in particular its radio occultation experiment, returned data on the composition, pressure and density of the Venusian atmosphere.[102] The joint Venera 4 – Mariner 5 data were analyzed by a combined Soviet-American science team in a series of colloquia over the following year,[103] in an early example of space cooperation.[104]
The author earlier in the article referenced the fact that a handful had revenue.
"It's not as if OEM's have been knocking slates out of the park since the iPad was released."

I've worked with a number of OEMs and original device manufacturers (ODMs) over the years and they have been a hugely important resource for getting technology into consumers hands. But one of the things which I have learned is that they don't make products, they manufacture them. The difference between those two statements is subtle and important. An OEM will manufacture exactly what you ask them to manufacturer, they will write into the contract what it is and they will build it. If the device they build is not competitive to some other product it really isn't there fault, its "you" the person writing the contract's fault.

iPads are made by FoxxConn, which is, an OEM. They make lots of stuff for lots of people. They aren't threatened by the 'newer than the new iPad iPad' because they know that Apple will likely ask them to build that one too. That the iPad is an iPad is because Apple drove a vision of what an iPad should be so hard they drove into FoxxConn's heads and they build them.

But not all OEMs are product companies. They are just good manufacturing companies. And sometimes they say "Why should we let these guys push our price down and take all the profits?! They buy those from us for $X and sell then for 3X$! We want that money too!" And so these manufacturers try to make a 'product.' And they do make it by looking at it and making something as similar as possible, but they often don't "get" what it is that makes the product the product because they haven't had the vision drilled into their heads. So you get 'knock off' products.

In all my dealings with OEMs the OEM assumes they are doing the hard job and the product design is the easy part, and the product guys figure they have the hard job and just making it is the easy part. They are both wrong, there is no 'easy' part.
Javascript: Your New Overlord
Especially since music is not essential to this clip. There is no "music" at all, just easy listening in the background. ;)

Hint: Use a (free) youtube proxy ...
Awesome site also, bundling high quality posts and articles in this tech/startup/design industry is really valuable to me
These two quotes make me feel very uneasy:

Other companies do not physically possess the equipment
or resources to produce anything that even approaches an
iPhone or MacBook Pro

and

Perhaps Lenovo can subsist at the bottom end of the
market, or maybe it too will shut up shop.

While the rest of the article makes sense, I call the 1st quote a complete BS: Lenovo already makes vastly superior computers to Macbooks. They just lack the marketing (and confidence) to explain to the masses that cold and uncomfortable aluminum is actually a pretty shitty material for a laptop. The confidence situation is so bad that they even started replacing their supeiror keyboards with calculator keyboards. Because Apple does. Ughh...

And my very first Android phone (Nexus One) had a vastly superior (and practical) construction than the iPhone of the time. The thumb ball was great for precise scrolling and you can tell up/bottom or front/back apart when holding the phone in your pocket. But once again, there was no marketing to rub that into the brains of the shoppers.

Although it will indeed be irrelevant if Microsoft/Google push OEMs aside. For one, I am not looking forward to the depressing "glossy aluminum future". If nobody has ever managed a laptop even half as good as a Thinkpad, I am having doubts if Microsoft will.
Searching for some made-up names on GoDaddy. Will check them tommorow.

* now-why-would-they-register-such-an-obscure-domain-122828178327

* now-why-would-they-register-such-an-obscure-domain-211278327

* now-why-would-they-register-such-an-obscure-domain-218398211
I wonder what the functional difference is between rat brain cells and human brain cells.
Ask HN: Is promoting myself as a freelancer on my project's website a bad idea?
Since launching BugMuncher I've actually got a little bit of freelance work from people who have seen it and wanted to hire me because BugMuncher impressed them. BugMuncher is already profitable and makes me a modest income, but I still need to supplement that income with freelance work.

I recently had the idea of putting a 'Hire Me' link on BugMuncher as a way of getting more freelance leads, but in the back of my mind I'm thinking this could have an adverse affect on sign ups. I'm already A/B testing having the 'hire me' link, but I'd love to know what you all think. (you can see the hire me link by going to http://bugmuncher.com#whm)

Cheers,
Matt
He was originally charged by US Attorney and found guilty by a federal jury, then released by federal appeals court. The new case has been filed by Manhattan District Attorney in NY state court. Apparently double-jeopardy does not apply in this case.
I'm confused. Is your crowd-sourced transcription service free? Or are you charging a nominal fee and having the crowd do it for free?

What are some good machine translation sites?
How can you be sure Sublime won't go the same way TextMate went? Personally, I'll go with Aquamacs.
Ask HN: Generic Privacy Policy/Terms of Use templates?
Does anyone know of a source for Privacy Policy/Terms of Use templates that can be adapted by start ups? We basically want something that says we don't share users' details are not responsible for user created content - but without paying a lawyer to write them for us.
I'm starting to head off-topic here, but that sounds like a scene right out of William Gibson's _Pattern Recognition_. The main character has an allergy to corporate branding and logos, and charges an absurd fee to sit in on a marketing meeting and simply give yea/nay judgements on logos. She can't explain why or how she can tell what's going to be good, but her judgements are considered gospel.
from the internet-themed, I prefer this one http://www.collegehumor.com/video/2563451/internet-commenter...
That's interesting. Though I wonder what the quality of the output is. They are no doubt foreigners at that price and will have the language barrier and Skype call quality to contend with.
I really hate that this is allowed.
We don't have a direct access to the funding buttons (it would require quite a bit of work, probably doable though), so we update it every 2 weeks (roughly) when it lands on the bank account. That way we don't have bounced payments to deal with either (and it works easier). Sorry if you're used to real-time donations, but banking is not real time.
You better start building one right away. I started by building a simple boe-bot copy (search for boe-bot). Then I moved on to bigger things. The issue is robotics, as others have mentioned, is the sheer size of it. Hack with robots to find what it is you like. Then just hack away some more. Some of the roboticists I know dont have a robotics degree. One is even a doctor.
32 points?! I have far better comments with way less karma. This, for example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4358718
Generally I detest font geeks, but I'm going to defend them here. First off: yes it's true that many intellectuals, designers, and hipsters have a genuine prejudice for Comic Sans. Facts need to work a little harder to prove themselves when written in that font. But in a world where we're deluged with typed information from the second we glimpse at our alarm clocks, I think it's okay to have a little prejudice because we need filter out at least some of the noise. Like most stereotypes, the Comic Sans prejudice is based on a grain (beach?) of truth. Can anyone really claim that the percentage of trustworthy Comic Sans based webpages they've seen in their life is equal to the percentage of trustworthy Georgia pages? Sorry. Geocities happened people, and I, for one, will never forget it.
Potential XSS Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails in HTML escaping code
There are XSS vulnerabilities identified in 3 helper-type methods in all: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/rubyonrails-security
This looks more like US/NY attorneys' initiative. It is a case that has gotten a lot of coverage and they do not want it to end with their defeat.
>The issues you mention are outside of the scope of a shortish blog post.

Hardly. If one is going to claim to be a designer (or profess to have wisdom enough to have a "design tip") then you sure as hell better understand why what you're suggesting is in any way true, ever.

If you don't understand the 2nd order explanation (at least) you've got no business trying to explain it to the masses – because you don't understand the boundary conditions. If you do understand those boundary conditions, it should be reflected in the shared explanation, within reason.

Further, as explained in that post, the idea is wrong. It's about contrast (and, thus, dynamic range) more than it is absolute color. Indeed, if one wanted to be pedantic, they could point out that #000000 isn't actually real black and that no human has ever actually produced a truly black object. If one wanted to be slightly less pedantic and more particular, one could note that #000000 has a fuzzy meaning anyway as you're depending on the sensor of the image device (when/if it's captured) and then the output device – the rendering of black points (and whites) isn't the same on almost any two devices.

Pulling back slightly, even from a novice's perspective, the admonishment to never use black is just wrong. The point is/should be that contrast is important, but too much contrast can also be bad. Black can easily be used in such a way as to not yield overly contrasted images – it just needs to be paired with another color sufficiently dark so as to keep contrast low enough to be acceptable. That is something that happens all of the time, in digital media and otherwise. So, trying to tell anyone that "black is bad" without an explanation leads to stupid design decisions that are made because of incomplete or woefully imprecise understandings of one's audience.

You may be okay with that, but I think it's sloppy. It's the stuff that cargo cults and fads are made of – and I expect better from smart people like the author.
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Extending django's auth framework to support multiple profile types
Unless I missed something, the central government referred to is not located in the middle east.
Digia has set out its plans in a letter to the KDE Community
A bit of oneupmanship: ASCII projektor, which was an app from a few years ago that allowed you to create ASCII from video.

http://earthlingsoft.net/ASCII%20Projektor/
Ask HN: Isn't NumPy/SciPy used for serious academic/enterprise applications?
I was surprised to read someone qualified to speak on the topic suggests otherwise:
In Data Analysis with Open Source Tools, P. K. Janert surveys several languages/tools, including R, Octave, and Python with NumPy/Scipy. Regarding the last, he writes:
"[...] NumPy/SciPy has its own share of problems. The project has a tendency to emphasize quantity over quality: the number of features is very large, but the design appears overly complicated and is often awkward to use. Edge and error cases are not always handled properly. On the scientific level, NumPy/SciPy feels amateurish. The choice of algorithms appears to reflect some well-known textbooks more than deep, practical knowledge arising from real experience.
"What worries me most is that the project does not seem to be managed very well: although it has been around for nearly 10 years and has a large and active user base, it has apparently not been able to achieve and maintain a consistent level of reliability and maturity throughout. Features seem to be added haphazardly, without any long-term vision or discernible direction. Despite occasional efforts in this regard, the documentation remains patchy.
"[...] [B]ecause of the overall quality issues, I would not want to rely on it for “serious” production work at this point."
The book reviews I've read have generally been positive so I'm not sure if the SciPy community has any thoughts on this. Regarding the implementation of mostly "textbook" (standard) algorithms, I can see that this would be the case since there are large number of practitioners using and extending SciPy (in contrast, for instance in R there is a strong precedent for statistician to implement their newest algorithm in that language).
Still doesn't solve the sorting problem. YYYY-MM-DD produces sortable strings without needing to parse them.
So in theory someone could be taken to court 3 times for same offense: federal, state and local?
Marissa Mayer Just Made Her Second Great Move As Yahoo CEO
Woah... If I were CL, I would be busy copying this right now. It is such a natural extension to what they already have. Offer this as an option at $1 a pop and they will be making money off the majority of their users.
Genius - even though the router is made by Dewalt, I hope it's patent protected and licensed by MIT so we can start seeing this in Home Depot / Lowes without one company owning the rights.
So what does this mean for services such as PadMapper?
I envy not Google employees who get these benefits. I envy Larry Page and Sergey Brin for founding and building a company that is capable of offering these types of benefits.
Does this effectively mean Padmapper can use CL data once again?
It is an off-the-shelf Kodak sensor.
This is a case where someone has done something wrong, but the aggressiveness of the response is proportional to the size of the victim's wallet.

Also, the NY State Attorney General's Office probably smells blood in the water, with a ton of the work (discovery, etc) done for them by the Federal prosecutors. It's probably viewed as low-hanging fruit in racking up convictions.
Hipmob now tells you when your users need your help.
It already ended in defeat. Now they're dragging it back up, gaining headlines that make people ask "why doesn't double jeopardy apply", all for what?

There might be no evidence of corruption, but this stinks.
Sure, but they might have shopped at Amazon anyway. Given Amazon's size, it's likely they'd do so anyway.
Of course, my question is answered by this: "A consumer version of the position-correcting router is being developed, to be released by a forthcoming startup." - No doubt the same people in this video, technology licensed from MIT. Company to be acquired by Dewalt within 24 mos. after commercialization.
Rails 3.2.8 has been released
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Though the "brain" can successfully control a flight simulation program, more elaborate applications are a long way off, DeMarse said.

Because flying a jet isn't all that impressive!?
The exclusive license effectively meant that you couldn't cross-post to both CraigsList and PadMapper because you had granted exclusivity to CraigsList.
Libraries are physical spaces linked to one geographical community.

Which may have many more users than this group had. How many users does a library in NYC serve?

Libraries have a limited number of physical copies to lend out.

These lending systems are much more limited: each copy can only be loaned once. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...

To read the books in the library, you have to physically go there, check it out, and take it home (or read it there).

But back then you also had to physically go to a book store, buy the book and take it home. Borrowing wasn't much more difficult than buying.
The disclosure at the bottom is rather informative:

"Disclosure: Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist, is a member of EFF’s Advisory Board, and craigslist has donated to EFF."
Found a build from today.

Not sure why this is supposedly so much better than ST2. I've got a Go(lang) bundle installed and a theme that I prefer over my current ST2 theme, but I like the file browser, tabs and menu layout better in ST2.
I don't know about typefaces, but taking a screenshot of rendered black-on-white text and saving as .jpg sure has an effect on credibility.
Add telnet streaming for extra points, like they did to World Cup 2006: http://ascii-wm.net/doc.php
In my experience the measure of good logging is the ability for someone, either yourself or an operations engineer to be able to easily solve problems using only the logs. They shouldn't have to refer to the source code. Developers should be using this as the yardstick when asking questions about their log output.
UTC is great for timestamps, but he needs to make his times sortable (YYYY-MM-DD)
Tab delimited fields are a problem, unless you escape the tabs inside the data you log.

This format seems VERY similar to the Graylog Extended Log Format (or GELF) https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-docs/wiki/GELF

I'm a huge fan of JSON logs now, having just finished implementing them on a major work project. Every language out there can take JSON in and do work against it, and there are some really awesome tools for rendering filtered logs to a browser in realtime.
If this guy hadn't successfully appealed the federal charges, could the state have waited until he'd finished that sentence before prosecuting?
If yes, it's like you can get punished twice for the same crime in America.
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Agree. I work for a highly successful startup that has gone through several major rewrites on subcomponents and we're fine. Rewrites are not in and of themselves a universal evil - but writing shitty code is.
I think the theory goes that it isn't double jeopardy if the municipal, state, and federal don't work "in concert". I only just read the article, so I can't explain what "scientific espionage" even is.
It's possible that Firefox would be more mature or popular than it already is if they never did the rewrite.