skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the message getting accelerator giving $20K is bad, pay $2.5K for the promise of learning how to build a viable business is good? I think the warning against just get together and "build something" phenomena is valid, but pay me so I can't teach you part somewhat taints the argument.
"It's the problem of font encoding"

Yes, and that was exactly my comment. It would be really cool if the converter generated character code points for the characters on the screen. So that cutting and pasting did what you might expect. But to make that work you need to do some form of OCR on the document, figure out where the text is, and how it is composed, then you create a font which re-creates the look based on the imagery in the document and then you generate the CSS that lays down the text and decorates it with the font and re-create the visual of the PDF. (or make it an epub)

If you can get it to that point, there will be huge utility for folks who want to convert paper books to e-books. Because the typical scanner will generate PDF but the typical e-book will only flow e-pub (or .mobi or proprietary formats).
Could it be just because we've got our monitors set to different gammas? Here's a frame from the animated gif, which still looks fine to me:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/oaNDcnogej-bbrArcXuzK9...

Does this look dithered to anyone?
Thank you...coming soon. An artist friend is making really nice sketches for us.

The girl in the middle was supposed to be the one. One theory we are testing is that initial distribution will primarily come from adults/teachers/parents who learn about it...and trying to optimize for that audience too....do you have any thoughts?
You stand up to get folks out of their typical environment (cube, conference room) and to get their ears open. The point isn't to stand in an upright position, it's to communicate.

At a company I worked for a few years ago, we did "stand up" type meetings in a park across the street, or on a balcony. We were mostly sitting down.
Thank you so much Doug. It has influenced me in so many ways and broadened my outlook Right now I'm reading John Markoff's "What the doormouse said", which is a fascinating account of the early days of silicon valley and how it was influenced by the sixties counter-culture. I decided to buy the book after hearing an interview with the author on Dr.Moira Gunn's program on itconversations.
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Can you explain this further? I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but what exactly would dataFromCaller be (I'm assuming the result of a function that maps an analyzed audio sample [input] to a number), and how could I manipulate it to cause the ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException?
Over the years we have failed to develop software as a true engineering discipline. The way a structural engineer can design and certify a structure as sound, I dream one day we will be able to do for software.
Amazon builded AWS out of necessity and then transformed it into a public service.

It's a myth.

http://www.quora.com/Amazon/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-...
Hi HN,

I've just released ChapterMill and I'd love to know what you think.

I've noticed that a lot of authors struggle when it comes to formatting their ebooks - embedding fonts, setting font sizes, margins, floating images, etc. Makes sense: they're writers, not coders. So ChapterMill is my attempt to create a tool that allows them to build their book and style it using a simple UI for great-looking books.

This is a MVP - there are lots of features I plan to add (image replacement so that embedded fonts display on Kindle e-ink devices, public author pages, many more styling options, etc etc). It also needs help pages, instructions and FAQs, but hopefully the site is quite self-explanatory for now.

I haven't put a payment system in yet (coming later today) but the idea is to charge a fee when the author is happy with his book and wants to download the EPUB or MOBI file to distribute elsewhere.

Please let me know what you think!
Our 4 year old dishwasher was just recalled because it has, apparently, a habit of catching on fire unexpectedly.

"Perfected" is a tricky word. :-D
You could make your life even simpler and more active by dumping the car for a bicycle. Agree with you on the dishwasher - always thought them to be noisy wasteful appliances. Of course I grind my own coffee by hand too for the same reason.
Ask HN: How do I contact memstash.co?
Does anyone know how to contact those guys at http://memstash.co ?

I've been trying to suggest/complain about some stuff but I can't find any way to contact them through the site.

Thanks.
So the Lumia 920 is almost twice as heavy.
> No, I don’t have any measurements

Measure or GTFO.
Check out Yahoo's PlaceFinder API. You get 50,000 requests per day for free. This has worked well for me in the past. http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placefinder/
I think building an MVP in a weekend is possible.

I suggested something similar to this recently. Like startup weekend for your own ideas, except the developers get paid.
congrats! I don't like pen and paper gaming but it looks really great, good luck!!!
How is this different from linked in, other than they have millions of users? Seems like another Facebook for XXXXX type idea.
A similar "image-less" technique I've used is to generate the pattern in JavaScript using a canvas element. eg with canvas.toDataURL("image/png").

The JavaScript code to generate a noise pattern is often smaller than the inlined base64'ed content.
Awesome, thank you so much for the kind words! We're definitely thinking about ways of transitioning students, and that is one great idea.
Or, overall your non-lazy and energetic personality makes you more likely to want to do these manual things, and use that time for those things instead of other things.

Which is all good, either way.
https://twitter.com/MemStash
Thanks for the initial feedback (and Rdio comment...weird, hadn't really noticed that).

As we move forward, we do plan on using Mvsic as a way for listeners to not only download, but also discover, new music. Hartley and I are both in the music blogging scene, and we're really excited to work with bloggers to figure out how they can use our service and players to make their sites even better.
Yours is a typical "everything is uncertain and hard" excuse.

There are plenty of cases when developers do avoidable things that will almost certainly cause issues. And then those things do cause issues. And then developers change nothing in their behavior, and continue doing those same kinds of things - because they don't care. I see results of this almost every day.
C++ exceptions cannot pass DLL boundaries.

Are you sure this isn't just a C++ problem? It's a well known fact that due to name mangling, C++ compiled by different compilers (even different versions of the same compiler!) can't always be called.
I wish NOAA had those recordings at real speed instead of sped up 10 times.

Well, how high is the bitrate? If it's high enough, I suppose you can slow it back down 10x without significant loss of quality...
Agree, this reminded me of the following quote by Schneier:

> “The only useful airport security measures since 9/11,” he says, “were locking and reinforcing the cockpit doors, so terrorists can’t break in, positive baggage matching”—ensuring that people can’t put luggage on planes, and then not board them —“and teaching the passengers to fight back. The rest is security theater.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/12/tsa-insan...
I wonder if the Dice-o-Matic[1] creator offers an API?

Also, how much harder it would be to support multiple shapes of dice for true authenticity.

On a more serious note, looks interesting (although I'm not really the target audience), but you might want to throw some simple styling at it quickly before the anti-Bootstrap people turn up on your lawn.

[1] http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic
The only additional reason they might want to target a plane is the cost of the plane, which is usually substantial.
As for memory allocation, it's not really a good idea to allocate memory in a library and free it in another, is it?

Ah, I guess I'll have to stop using strdup() then.
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We created this little tool for ourselves and our clients.

Then, we decided we'd share it with the world for free.

If you have any ideas on how we can improve it, we're opened to suggestions.
Thanks, we're looking at this right now!
Necrophiliac bestiality

Umm, what? It appears to be a quote from... a movie or something but I am not at all prepared to google it.
(1)compatibility at a formula and function level for some of the excel functions (eg. matrix functions). (2) VB macros
Hartley and I are on the same page - Bandcamp and Soundcloud are awesome. We just think there's room for a different angle.

For example, Bandcamp makes their revenue by taking a % off of all music sales. For this reason, they only let artists give away a certain number of tracks for free (at which point they make artists pay to give away their music for free).

That makes sense for Bandcamp, we understand. For Mvsic, we think that free music is a lot more valuable to indie artists who are looking to get their foot in the door, and we're all about supporting unlimited downloading (and selling!)

Thanks for your feedback though, we'll keep working!
You could have saved the time and gone outdoors instead. Washing dishes or going for a walk - I know which I choose.
Far from the Valley, tech incubators take root in Boston
Without seeing your CV or code examples, it's difficult to tell where the main areas of concern may be. And that's if there are any areas of concern at all, you could just have hit a streak of bad luck. But, I will tell you something I've learned about when selling yourself to potential companies.

A while back I ran across a TEDx video titled How Great Leaders Inspire Action given by Simon Sinek.You can watch it at the TED website, but the summary of the talk is "People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it."

The idea is what can you do to make the hiring person get excited about you? You're a Java developer - there are a lot of those. You have a lot of experience - so do a lot of other candidates. Education - others have it to. Basically, what makes you a unique and memorable candidate?

You even said it yourself - you didn't take the job with the startup because you didn't feel you and the founder were on the same wavelength. Well, that's what the hiring company wants to get from you. They want to know you're on their wavelength. You can't communicate that by telling them what you can do, or how good you are at it. You communicate that you're on the same wavelength by telling them why you do what you do. You have to give them something that gets them excited about you as an individual, something that makes them forget about the other candidates.

That's my perspective, and it's worked out fairly well for me. Especially now that I'm a senior developer, I rarely talk about what I do. I've had years of experience, it's just expected at this point that I have the skills. I wouldn't have been so consistently recruited or promoted if I didn't have the skills. That means the skills I have aren't worth talking about at all. On my own site, and how I present myself in general, I don't talk about my capabilities. I talk about the WHY.

Note: "to get a paycheck" will not suffice as an answer to why you do what you do. You have to have a real answer for this question, and it is a problem. A lot of people don't know why they do what they do, which is why there are a lot more people who can't figure out how to get to the top. This may even require you figuring out what it is you really want to do, and switching job types or careers completely. Any company that hires someone who just wants to collect a paycheck isn't a company where anyone is going to be happy. You'll just be in a cubicle next to dozens of other unhappy people who only showed up that morning so they can continue to collect their paycheck.
Here's what your site looks like to me:

http://i.imgur.com/frnJd.png

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Thank you! We'll definitely be posting updates on our blog (blog.mvsic.co) in the coming month or two as the service continues to be built.
What does Facebook's person-to-person communication offer beyond email and IM? (Honest question)

No doubt it indeed has replaced email and IM for some people, but I would think it is just because "well, everyone else is on facebook so I'll just use that too"...
Yeah. Google did their street view project in 2007, but A9 launched it in 2005.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1032_3-5833916.html

"Amazon A9 takes it to the streets"

> The company's A9 search subsidiary is expected on Tuesday to launch a beta of A9.com Maps, which lets people see street-level photos of addresses and get driving directions.

In fact, Google's Street View was apparently launched a week after A9 shut down. ;P

http://appscout.pcmag.com/web-browsers/277151-r-i-p-a9-maps-...

"R.I.P. A9 Maps; We Hardly Knew Ye"

> The schtick behind A9's take was to have vehicles driving around taking pictures of both sides of every major city street in the US. It looked promising (if a bit invasive), search for some business or other address and even get a photo of what the storefront looked like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View

> It was launched on May 25, 2007, in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include cities and rural areas worldwide.
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Google Books UK carries the DRM-free version according to Boing Boing: http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Rapture_of_the_Ner... and I imagine the DRM-free version on the iTunes store is also carried in the UK.
Shazam for music was an amazing invention that has really helped a lot of people.

Shazam for TV reminds me of QR codes that take you to websites - kind of pointless. There have been multiple ways of finding out what show you are watching for decades - through closed captioning, through tv guides, even googling from dialogue. The benefit is marginal. The page with information on the show and the actors may be useful, but google could find you something like this too.
"Hey I read this great book the other day!"
"Oh really? That sounds really cool!"
"Yeah, here you can borrow it..... Oh wait never mind..."
" :( "

I don't think it really beats paper materials in logistics. You're buying proprietary books. 14-day lending to other people (who may not have a Kindle) doesn't really solve that.
Let me take 1 example: MS Outlook. It really, truly, amazingly, sucks. Badly. It is done to handle few email, few enough that you can remember about them. Good luck if you work in a corporate environment and you need to find an email from even only 1 yr ago.

Is this an issue? Yes. Do people care? Not enough apparently. What do you do? You either accept it or you find a solution at a low enough price that people start caring.

Bottom line: look at what people are willing to pay.
OCR is beyond the scope of pdf2htmlEX
I'm just trying to find out the real meaning of the glyphs through glyph names.

Actually usually you should be able to select/copy text without problem, if there's no type 0 fonts.
Is that on mobile? Looking into it now, thanks for the heads up!

This is how it should look, by the way: http://imgur.com/wt9kC
Well, the main reason is because apple.com has more than just a store. The Apple Store App doesn't have any info about unreleased stuff for instance.
If you like TaskPaper—which by the way it's awesome—you should check [FoldingText], by the same developer. It's currently in alpha, and expand on the idea of TaskPaper adding some interesting features, like the builtin timer.

[FoldingText]:http://www.foldingtext.com
Twitter joins Linux
FTA: "Update: Alibaba has contacted us with the following statement criticizing Google: "It is ironic that a company that talks freely about openness is espousing a closed ecosystem. Aliyun OS is not part of the Android ecosystem, so of course Aliyun OS is not, and does not have to be, compatible with Android. This is like saying that because they own the Googleplex in Mountain View, therefore anyone who builds in Mountain View is part of the Googleplex. Will someone please ask Google to define Android?""
The compiling problem should have been fixed.
Could you please try the latest master branch, see if it works well or maybe fail at one assertion?
>which is rather poor design for a competitive multiplayer game

Watching that video, I would guess the environment isn't so much competitive (even single player JC2 is very no-particular-goals-in-mind-just-blow-shit-up oriented) as it is mass chaos. It looked like what would happen if /b/ bought an island. So cheating is probably only a minor concern at this point.
And we're waiting for a link.
It's an interesting product. I'm working on an ebook and would certainly find it useful at the end of the writing process.

I had a look and I wanted to see some further screenshots, showing off the type of headlines, fonts etc that it's capable of

Currently you're selling it with mostly words (3 columns at the bottom) for something visual, you need to sell it visually.
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Unless I'm misunderstanding how a Bloom Filter works, I don't think the interactive demo is working correctly.

If you add letters a - z as keys, then do a search for some numbers, such as the number 6, you get "Probably there". I was under the impression that a Bloom Filter could determine if something was definitely NOT in the data set, in which case this the example isn't working.

Please correct me if I'm wrong :)

EDIT: After playing around with it some more I'm questioning if I do fully understand how it is supposed to work. It seems there are many cases of "Probably there" when the key definitely is not. So I'm guessing in those cases you'd want to search the set to make sure?
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It would seem that somehow warning about interpositions would be the right thing. Makes it easier to debug weirdness, warns users if someone surreptitiously set LD_PRELOAD, but doesn't get in the way when someone wants to use the functionality.
"Press 1 for foo. Press 2 for bar"

I press 3.
Show HN: Site Check Tool
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Has the Kindle become the new Kleenex and Google? Are the alternatives so insignificant that they aren't worth mentioning? I'm not talking about the Nook, I'm talking about a $50 Alturek e-reader that you can read text files and PDFs on. I think it's fantastic (but small).
"If you are a student, Meritful helps you build a professional network, and an online resume to impress colleges and employers. If you are a teacher or mentor, Meritful helps you run projects and engage with students"

I believe LinkedIn works because for one if it's main use cases, there are two matching parts in the graph:
1. If you are looking for the next step in your career, we'll help you find it through search & recommendations
2. If you are trying to find the right candidate for your position, we'll help you find it through search & recommendations

Your use cases for students and teachers aren't like LinkedIn's - they aren't two sides of the same coin. How do the teachers make the Meritful better for the students like recruiters do for employees on LinkedIn?
Though interesting, the article should more accurately be titled "Living Without Clocks". Mr. Corona still uses time to synchronize activities with others but does not use a clock.

For me, a clock is invaluable. I'd much rather simply look at the clock than have reminders pinging off of events which occur at the same time daily. But I can see how one wouldn't really know which works better for them until trying each way.
The main reason we wanted to do this is that LinkedIn is designed to highlight one key currency...work experience. In contrast, this is not necessarily the most important experience in high school.

So the idea was to create a platform where students can document and share their projects and activities in a rich way, while getting feedback from their peers and mentors---along the way building a professional network.
I've also seen these meetings used as a way for people to "prove" that they have been working.

The main problem I have with mandatory meetings is that they often impair one's ability to get work done. Some people work best when uninterrupted by a meeting. Some people work best when they get an entire morning without interruption. These meetings seem to be mostly sitting waiting for the last person to arrive, or for the cat wrangler to get started with proceedings.
strdup(), part of the libc, allocates memory with a function from the libc (malloc), therefore you are allocating and freeing memory with functions within the same library.

However, yes, for security reasons strdup should be avoided.
I would not be surprised if compilers were the most complex examples of that kind of program in the wild. Still, I would be surprised if automated testing of a compiler was as difficult as, say, test cases kernel-space driver that simulate hardware failure. (this is one example of something I'm currently dealing with) This is probably why compilers tend to have comprehensive test suites, and why drivers (and other I/O-heavy software) usually don't. To be clear: I'm not saying writing compilers is easy; I'm saying automated testing of compilers is conceptually not that hard to imagine, so it gets done. Whereas testing I/O and other external interaction involves ridiculous levels of yak shaving as it has almost no existing tool support, so it doesn't happen. Yet, most of the software we as humans interact with directly is exactly that I/O-heavy stuff.
I don't see why high school students can't use LinkedIn. I was accepted to a summer internship during high school via LinkedIn.
No dishwasher here, either.

It takes 10 minutes, start to finish, to wash and put the dishes in the rack, if I've neglected to do them for a day or two. 15 total if I towel dry them.

Yeah, the dishwasher would be more convenient, maybe, but doing it by hand is just plain faster and I don't have to multitask.

Probably cheaper, too.
This one looks perfectly fine to me. Gamma 2.2 (Mountain Lion default).
Ruby in 83 chars:

(1..100).map{|i|['fizzbuzz'].fetch(i%15,['fizz'].fetch(i%3,['buzz'].fetch(i%5,i)))}
At AMS[0] you can opt-out, I've done so every time I went through there. They will look at you funny, ask you why, and you will be patted down, but they will allow you to fly.

[0]: Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
I always believed the opposite, thanks for pointing this out.
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Hi Helen,

Thanks for your feedback. Yes, it's in need of a lot more in terms of both words and pictures - I released it as it is just to get it out of the gate, and get some early feedback.

I hope to add screenshots and more text in the coming days.
By saying "six" when the system just listed options 1 through 5 to you - or, as patio11 hinted, that may actually allow you to execute SQL statements not inteded to be accessable to cutomers at all.
That's obviously NOT ideal. I'm not sure myself but I know who to ask. Will try to let you know more soon.
Good.is completely changed things up
Echoing what dflock said in the Apple thread, it would be great if webkit (and IE) added animated PNG support: http://caniuse.com/apng

Also, it's interesting to note that out of 31,000 open issues on the chromium site, APNG support is at #9 counting by user votes.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list?sort=-stars...
Anyone use django CMS? https://www.django-cms.org/

How is it in comparison to WP?
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