skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Tasks (The task mini-app in Gmail and Calendar) seems like it's been neglected for a while now. Before asking for workable Android and web clients, I would want tagging in addition to or instead of nested lists, and a little more effort integrating it with both Gmail and Calendar. Search integration a must, too.

It's a shame, because except for those caveats I would have been on board with it a long time now, and I still haven't found anything that truly works for me, either. I've mainly been using Gmail for my inbox and a single taskpaper file in Simplenote or Dropbox, but I migrate and try something new every odd month.

The other Google teaser that's a great concept but needs fleshing out in vital areas: The Scratchpad Chrome extension. Why does it seem like Google is bored with the simple stuff?

Edit: Wunderlist doesn't have tagging either. Another one that got away.
Of feral cats and pet cats
May I ask what laptops you recently purchased?
> You're definitely not alone in this -- a lot of my friends still prefer hard copies over eBooks

For me, it's because I own physical books, but I lease eBooks. A fact still lost on many people; there was an erroneous post about Bruce Willis suing Apple over digital property, which then spawned several posts saying "TIL (Today I Learned) I don't actually own my music". It worries me that so many people don't realize this.

DRM means that if I buy an ebook, it's mine to read. If I want to loan it to my girlfriend, things get complicated.

It seems I have three options. We can share one account, which means that if we break up, legally one of us will "lose" all our books. I can give her my device to read it, so I lose all my books while she's reading. I can buy an extra Kindle (or other device, but Kindle seems to have the most mindshare) just for sharing, which seems needlessly expensive.

It sort of seems like everyone should own two Kindles. One is for you to do whatever you like with. The second is for sharing. By this, I mean that this second Kindle is to receive a book, not lend it out. The lending Kindle can be loaded with your friend's account (n.b. this assumes you can lock it so the lendee can't buy books on the lenders account; I don't know enough about it to say), you can read one lent book at a time, then purge the account and data and start from scratch the next time.

Compare this to physical books, where lending just means handing over an object and saying "get it back to me when you're done. Or, in the case of my copy of Watchmen, "forget you still have it when you move". :)

I don't like digital media. Full stop. It's too new, and too much a moving target, for me to feel comfortable with it. Even without DRM, things are still legally uncomfortable.

Again, if I bought an album and, sans-DRM, loaded it on my girlfriend's device, I now have a copy which is potentially traceable to me (iTunes used to watermark and/or ID3-tag certain songs, but that could be a thing of the past now), that I don't control. Likewise, just ripping a CD is currently legal, but still seems a potential grey area, and if I lost/sold the CD, wouldn't I have to delete the file? So now I have to keep track of physical objects to manage my digital files.

This is all very "letter of the law" and an unnecessarily strict view of this. In reality, the way most people would handle this would be to buy the music, distribute it to appropriate people, and just forget the whole thing. People also break the DRM on Kindle books to make them usable.

My view is that if you're going to do things of questionable legality after legally buying an object, how is that really different from just grabbing the files from TPB?

Until digital media grows up, and old media companies adapt their models, I'll stick to radio/internet-radio-streams, physical books, and DVDs.

(That turned into a rant. Apologies all around.)
> That is, it’s a doubly-indirect call. I seriously doubt any processor can do proper branch prediction, speculative execution, and prefetching of code under those circumstances.

His doubts are entirely unfounded. Branch prediction of indirect calls is not done at all based on the value they are provided, but on the address of the call instruction, and the previous targets called from that instruction. A one-target trampoline will add one cycle of latency to a path, and will be predicted perfectly every time after the first. The largest cost is that no useful instructions can be decoded on the cycle that the trampoline is fetched (which does not hurt you at all if you have excess decode throughput to make it up on the cycle before or after), and that the second indirect call takes another entry in the BTB.
An article about the UK in which a comment links to a video that you can't watch in the UK. Yay!
The Woman Who Bought a Domain Name Instead of a House
Because the image is reused in the CSS, it gzips very well. The 75kb CSS file gzips to 7.3kb!
If there's a real market for this kind of app, that's great and I hope it does well. But it's not something I would ever use. (This is intended as feedback -- think of me as the type of user you'd have to work hard to win over. Maybe it's a problem you can solve somehow.)

I already have several communication channels available for contacting my friends, and the cost of adding another isn't worth the slight benefit I might get from an app that targets such a specific problem.

In general, instead of managing accounts on 50+ apps, I've reduced most things down to a few spreadsheets and shared documents on Google Docs. It takes so much less effort and mental energy when I can just keep track of everything, however roughly, all in one place.

So, ask yourself, what would make Por Favor the exception to this rule?
Step 1 says to brew tea and shows people sitting down. In most cases, this to me is a stand-up antipattern. The reason it's called a "stand-up" is because everyone does actually stand up, which encourages everyone to make it finish as quickly as possible.

Sitting down and brewing tea might work for people well versed in agile, but for most places "doing agile", it smells of Agile Theatre.

Standup meeting: Do a quick daily check, offline any conversations that need to happen between individuals, and get on with the job.
Hi. We're working on making the source code that was used to generate the web version and the ebook available on Github soon. With that anyone can easily generate a copy of the book in any format of their choice.

Liliana
Capsule CRM (http://www.capsulecrm.com) has a free plan with Google Apps, and integrates with other systems for invoicing etc.
Exposing your localhost to the Internet for free
100 new App Cooker features for app developers
Progressive-scan DVDs do precisely this kind of correction.
Learning Android Development - Day 16 - A little game
I'm really looking forward to hearing his comments about the bitcoin2012 event
Clearly some of these are life choices, and important ones which almost certainly make sense to you, but one thing;

No dishwasher?

I don't really understand this. My dishwasher has a single wheel and a switch. The switch is "heated dry" [ON|OFF] and the wheel sets to one of three positions ("light wash", "normal wash", "medium wash"). If you're only washing dishes for one then I guess this makes sense, but I fail to grasp how an example of a bad dishwasher user interface is a barrier to all dishwashers (at least in terms of UI - clearly you may have environment reasons).
I doubt it will be that cheap, at least to implement a fully fledged service alla google maps. But sure it will be interesting for a lot of developers.

Amazon builded AWS out of necessity and then transformed it into a public service.
I believe it make sense to them to build a map service in the same way, giving they they are still a logistic company it could be more than helpfull for them.
HTML5: Less Committees, More Competition
Just a random plug for an open source library I wrote, as I know there are a lot of you doing geolocation enabled apps: http://www.zipripjs.com/
It's a free service and it uses Facebook Connect to access the user's graph (friends, movies and other interests) in order to build recommandations.
Have I Got Newsforyou: Analysis of Flamer C&C Servers
The advantages of pure CSS buttons are way over-hyped at the moment. After spending about half a day experimenting recently, our conclusion was that we’re going to stick with images, and just produce a hi-dpi and lo-dpi version to maintain quality on the new hi-res displays.

If you want a carbon copy of everyone else’s buttons, with a thin border, slightly rounded corners, and a gradient/inset shadow creating a slight rounding effect, CSS is OK.

However, as soon as you want anything more distinctive, you run into cross-browser problems almost immediately. IE9 doesn’t support CSS text-shadow and gradients. IE8 and below don’t support rounded corners or shadows either, and they seem to have problems using the full range of weights available with some popular web fonts, too.

Even with a bleeding edge version of Chrome or Firefox, there are only so many effects you can generate with styles alone, and even then the results of fine-tuned visual effects generated by Photoshop are often visibly superior to a limited version of the same effects applied using CSS.

In other words, there is still no browser available today whose rendering engine can compete with one of the heavyweight professional graphics applications. That’s hardly surprising, yet if you read all the trendy design blogs you’d think it was crazy talk! :-)

The thing that really swung it for us, though, was that most of the advantages of using only HTML and CSS turned out to be illusory anyway, at least for our site.

We do have to create a separate button for each label we want to use instead of just changing the text in HTML, but that takes only a few seconds with Photoshop. As I noted above, we spent half a day experimenting with button styles using CSS and never found anything satisfactory across the full range of browsers we have to support.

Having plain text in the HTML might seem better semantically, but it’s unlikely that we actually care about button labels for SEO purposes, and we still have all the same image accessibility hints available as we always did.

The image file size and number of requests might be important concerns in some applications, but if you’ve only got a couple of buttons on a page, it’s unlikely to make any perceptible difference to performance. They might even be smaller than trying to encode all the cross-browser styling information in CSS and/or adding various non-semantic mark-up in the HTML to support it, and that potentially applies whether you download them as separate images or you embed them in the CSS using the data: syntax.

In short, pure CSS buttons seem to have few actual advantages over images and tend to bring a significant loss of quality and distinctiveness in the best browsers and horrible degradation in older but still relevant versions of IE. Unless you actually need to generate the button labels on the fly — and even then, you can still use a background image — I don’t see a good case for moving away from tried-and-tested image-based buttons to a pure CSS approach for most projects.
Pixar: Painting with Code
Funny: while the Macaw and the director's children were in brilliant color, the panorama of London was black-and-white. Why? Because London was black-and-white. Black cars, black clothes, grey stone buildings. Not the best subject for a color film, but interesting historically.

Also: not only first color film, but first color-film director, actors.
I'm going to take an even harder line:

Sync is a fundamentally broken.

The only solution is to switch to technologies where merging data is a primary core feature. Thus why I use text files and git to manage the vast majority of my data.

The sooner people realize that sync isn't fixable (or a good idea in many cases), the sooner real solutions appear.
It's not the stupidity, is the willingness to put up with BS convoluted inelegant workarounds for lack of basic, bread and butter, features.

You're right, there is a willingness to put up with it. Mainly because I understand how these solutions work, how to debug them, and make everything nice and peachy. Do I wish things were better? Of course! Who wouldn't?
As far as the branding goes, MVSIC reminds me of a minimal Bandcamp and I assume the whole V thing is taken directly from Svpply?

Now, I'm sure this will resonate with the artist, but the problem you have is the same problem faced by many sites I've seen before. It's partly a branding issue (on the front page, all I see is a globe) and a distribution issue. Do I have to post a link to mvsic somewhere in order to get people in the door? If so, what are the benefits of sending them to mvsic rather than somewhere like Bandcamp?

I'm not saying that Bandcamp does what you guys do, better (I'm sure mvsic is awesome, and I'm going to delve into it further after work), but it's not clear what value it actually brings to me as an artist.

So, here's some things you can do now.

* Make the front page friendlier. Pictures of the product in action. Keep it minimal, that's a great thing you have there, but just take a think about what someone wants to see when they visit mvsic.co.

* What IS your USP? Give me it in plain english. (It's definitely a SP but not sure how U it is!).

* Maybe think about offering a free tier. I know you've put a reason as to why there isn't one, but I'd urge you to experiment with offering a free trial for a certain amount of downloads, restrictive features etc. For instance, make your account FOR FREE , after first 50 downloads prompt the user to subscribe to your service.
I understand your fatigue, but it doesn't do much good to have opinions for other people.

Me, I think "we" have almost enough. I just want one more.

One that works exactly the way I want it to.
Definitely! Shoot either of us an email:

(hartley and/or brian) at mvsic.co
True software sucks, but that doesn't necessarily imply that it used to be any better. I think software has always sucked. Yeah, there are more problems now, but we're also able to do quite a lot more with computers than we used to be able to as well. I would say that over time, the level of effort out in by developers has stayed the same.
There's no short and simple answer... but you can read this article by James Altucher and follow his ideas on how to build your idea muscle and hopefully in 6 months time you'll be brimming with ideas :)

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/04/how-to-have-great-ideas...
Some books

Hugh Brody Maps and Dreams tells of land use mapping with indigenous people in Canada. They lived without time OK, adjusting activities with the length of the day, and their movement around their land by the seasons and the game available.

Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams tells the story, among other things, of the Government school teachers in a far North village who tried to get the children into school between 9 and 4 on weekdays during the summer (24 hour daylight). The children normally went to sleep when they wanted to. The community reaction was to leave the doors of the cabins unlocked and to suggest that the teachers could come and get the children if they wanted them there....

As this is HN, do we think that a significant number of people could adopt this kind of approach to time given distributed education, home working, ubiquitous computing &c? Remember that my Granddad (born 1892 in UK) went from working in the fields by the light of the Sun to punching a clock in a factory, via the First World War.
Looks great, p.s. you seem to miss a favicon? I got the default one.
> it really doesn't help you when you miss a train because you misread the sun.

I imagine Daylight Saving Time and cloudy days wreak havoc with methods like the author uses.
I think the intersting play is to seach data on FB, which is a different kind of search than Google. ie, ask FB for XYZ slices of data it already has. more like a database query than a www-crawl. the upside for FB here is that just by asking, you've created a situtaion where intent can be inferred. thus, serving them up some targeted ads makes sense. This is a big step for them in solving a problem--not ruining the "social" bit of FB browsing--and that is really the key point. You're just creating a new class of behaviour, that complements an existing one.
Where does the content come from? Is it legal?
If that wasn't intuitive enough, feel free to email me and I'd be glad to teach/walk you through the many unfortunate ways to go about this: me@ryanglover.net.
A Hitchhikers Guide To The Cloud – Database Challenges To Consider
Gun death looks like a proximate cause. Guns are tools for suicide, or for killing people who you don't like. If you want to reduce gun related death, you should look into suicide research and criminology/sociology research. You could ban guns, but it's likely that people will kill each other with something else. There's no shortage of methods on way to kill somebody.

Anyway, do you have a citation? I have mine, which is http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
It's just one sample. Mix it with others and you have a new Aphex Twin album.
It says that facebook is to "see your friends' activity". It's probably just a way to promote the application via facebook, as there's no real benefit.

There's no price, it's to show the movies currently showing in cinemas, and the hours at the bottom.

The layout is nice but my browser seems to struggle a bit.
Just starting out in startups? Here's some advice
Thing is, it's not a video.
It's a glorified animated gif.

This has almost nothing to do with autoplay and the video tag and much more to do with a desire for a script-controllable animation.

(Most obviously: they don't start playing until the animation data is loaded, so that it doesn't do the herky-jerky frame-playing during load, like actual animated gifs.)
I strongly recommend Gisgraphy - http://www.gisgraphy.com/ [not affiliated, just a happy user].

They offer both SaaS, as well as a simple way to deploy the whole thing and run a local (reverse-) geocoding server. It does take a few days to build the GeoNames + OpenStreetMap index though. I run it locally for mapping coordinates to cities and it runs quite decently, a 2-core 2GB Linux VM running PostgreSQL gets me about 80-100 queries/s. It has a nice JSON API so it shouldn't be too hard using it from iOS.
Basically this is just the halting problem.
Lanier VW35 Microcassette Recorder, And The Days Of Moving Parts
I'm going to have to request a citation for the claim that it's possible to do SQL injection via DTMF or IVR. The article doesn't seem to provide any explanation as to how that might work.
Whenever I use windows there's always something broken. Example: old windows laptop dies and won't turn on. It's old so I remove the laptop drive and put it in an enclosure. Now I'll boot into Vista and share files off it and copy it to new Mac. Easy, right? Wrong! The thing won't let me share the files because I don't have access to them even if I am adminstrator on my windows machine. After waiting for permissions to get changed and getting a flurry of access denied popups I think its going to work but directories in the share are simply missing on the mac even though I've assigned privileges to the share user.

So..... I boot into Linux. 20 minutes of googling how to share files with macs, an apt-get or two and I'm copying off the files. Same goes for things like cd ripping. On Linux it just works, on Windows you have to get ad encrusted dodgy apps that sort of work and demand money every 5 minutes. Basically, if you are a power user, Linux rocks. Yeah I know....but Grandma will revolt! Fine, get her a mac or an android tablet. Why people who aren't forced to still use windows, I have no idea.
Scientists levitate liquid in order to develop better pharmaceuticals
2 Million iPhones pre-ordered within 24 hours of availability
Per family pricing is a decent idea. We'll have to take a look at that!

Someone else mentioned integrating with apps that they use every day, so we might take a look into the various other to do products and see of we can build on top of them
For anything other than typing up a paper, I hate Word. It is awful with graphics and formatting is a pain in the ass. When it comes to working with images and text in Word, I almost feel like it would be easier (and less of a hassle) to hand code it in HTML with CSS and then print that instead of doing it in Word. The last few months have been torturous because my fiance and I have been using Word to create our wedding invitations. If that is light years ahead of the competition, I seriously think I need to write a word processor and profit!
> Custom Overlays. You can display the locations of businesses, landmarks and other points of interest with your own customized markers and pins.

Does this mean there finally is some kind of map app on Android when user can place one's own marks, paths and places? One of the feature I miss in Google Maps for Android is being able to put my own data on the map (like, for example, marking places I plan to visit when going for a trip) and having it available off-line.
Start-ups fight back as patent wars intensify
LIFX Wi-Fi enabled iPhone controlled LED light bulb arrives on Kickstarter
Question: maybe just my simplistic take on these complaints - and I have the same ones - but can 90% of these all be broken down into two categories? (database-related), and (UI-related) issues? Windows desktop indexing, iPhone extra space taken up by "other" - can you simplify these things by saying that they´re database related? I´d love to hear someone´s opinion on that.
I don't know if SEO will be a priority for your company--you might be relying on a different source of traffic. If you need SEO, you are hurting yourself by not having "music" in your domain name. Using the "v" might be cool but it isn't going to help your effort.
No one has mentioned reptile lamps yet? Medical UVB is expensive and probably can't be bought without a license of some sort. Reptile lamps you can buy from a local pet store or online.

But nothing beats the real sun (and greenery and fresh air), obviously. Given that the discovery of Vitamin D, heck the whole concept of vitamins even, is relatively recent, we really don't know what else we don't know.
The £1.99 pricing is a work in process. It shows a different price randomly. We're trying to use click through data to find the optimal price.

Everyone needing the app is an issue that we know about, and we're trying to work out a way to solve the issue so people can try it out and see how it's beneficial before having to cough up some cash.
Square closes $200M round at $3.25B valuation
I've been experimenting with getting away from my desk at home more often and taking breaks to play games and such. I use RescueTime to track what I end up doing and how much I end up working and if anything my productivity has only increased.

It's not a perfect measurement but it helps me to realize its not at all expensive to unchain myself from my desk.
There is a paper on 52 Hertz from 2004 which is locked securely in Elsevier's fortress, safe from inquisitive minds.

Fortunately the US Defense Technology Information Center has liberated a copy: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a429410.pdf

I wish NOAA had those recordings at real speed instead of sped up 10 times. 52Hz is well within human hearing, it's a G#, 4 frets up from the bottom of a typical bass guitar. Typically the big whales are around the C that would be past the left end of the piano and beyond human hearing.

From the paper, there is an interesting statement about the capability of the Navy hydrophone systems:

The lack of calls before and after tracking periods appeared to be because the whale was not producing calls, and not due to the lack of the ability of the monitoring equipment to detect the sounds. As the tracks demonstrated, the monitoring system was not limited geographically, and appeared to detect these calls, usually on multiple arrays, whenever calls were produced in these deep-water regions.