skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're not expecting that, and have mostly empty or invalid ID3 information, because you have habitually kept metadata in the filename and directory hierarchy, iTunes will destroy your library. Everything becomes Unknown Title 243 by Unknown Artist 14, and by the time you notice (because who's expecting an MP3 player to rearrange all the files on disk!?), the only way to fix this is by listening to each track and trying to figure out via Google what song it is.

This happened to me in 2003 when I switched from Linux to Mac. I still get a little worked up over that, even though nowadays I just let iTunes manage everything and throw away the original files after I rip something.
It's easy to say as an executive too. Just hard to do. Any music exec will tell you "We need to own music distribution on the internet." But it's hard for an organization to actually work on two goals at once when those goals are

1. Crush the new business model

2. Make the new business model your own

You have different parts of the same company working against each other, and that either poisons the environment or everyone ends up favoring one side over the other.
Pending legislation would mandate that all Wifi operators retain DHCP logs for two years
Microsoft/Red Hat Deal
Problems with Measuring
Yodlee powers Mint, many online banking sites, etc. Mint is an advanced skin on-top of Yodlee. Yodlee is not a consumer brand.

Quicken online is really, really bad. They should have acquired Mint at least 12 months ago.
awsome.
I'm adding

| mail senator@cornyn.senate.gov

to my syslog.conf
But you can run it and click the disable for one hour button if you're popping into photoshop for a little while.
It will definitely get your colors weird, but it has a one hour disable button for when you need calibrated color.

How well is your monitor actually calibrated in the first place? ;)
How fast does your website load?. Check your speed here
I really don't like reading pdfs in the scribd flash reader. It usually slows my browser to a crawl.
Making An Effective Mobile Site
In his recent letter Bill Gates has this graph that shows the correlatin between better health and less children for a family. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annual-letter/Pages/2009-prev... (chart 3)

Bill G. explained that in the begining his foundation was focused on population control. But when they discovered that the single most important factor in population was health is when they started to focus in the most crucial sickness.
His explanation is that parents simply try to optimize to have two children that can take care of them when they are old.
This is a perfect example of how you should release new versions of code.

A well written explanation and good visualizations and statistics of what changed (with the appropriate credit due).

It makes me want to upgrade instead of begrudgingly do so.
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I get a page that says "web server is ok " (yes, with the trailing space). Lies! Web server is clearly not ok.
Temporary code never is
This is a story that potentially hundreds of thousands of U2 fans would be interested in emailing to each other. Not to mention anyone who has ever downloaded music illegally. Sound like linkbait?
You have to retain a certain amount of ability to suspend judgement, or other people can force you to participate in their quarrels on their schedule. They can basically throw an interrupt in you. You have to be able to ignore people who use lines like "if you're not with us, you're against us" or "if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" or even, more subtly, "do you condone x?"

(Regarding the quote, we should remember that Dante lived in a time of extreme factionalism in Italy. In fact he spent many years in exile because his faction lost.)
Myths about prison growth
It should be noted that putting Helvetica after Arial in your stylesheet is self-defeating if your aim is to display Helvetica on Macs but Arial on Windows. Macs ship with Arial, so such declarations mean Helvetica will never be used.
I don't know about Digg, but are you sure there are armies of paid minions upvoting stuff on Reddit? That sort of thing is not hard to detect, and the guys running Reddit are pretty good programmers.
Because they usually try to capture the essence of an article in 1 sentence, and they usually fail.
Strange. It's as if CNN decided they better get hip and make the site more bloggish, and then they copied the wrong things about blogging.
The Race for New Biofuels
Nokia N76 RED Unlocked
Intelligent inside, dynamic outside. The Nokia N76 is a revolution in one-touch technology. Shoot high-resolution images, play thousands of songs, and connect instantly to the web- without ever opening your device.
I actually find that handy for use with my laptop--unplug the HD, import my "core library" (about 30GB), then plug it in and import the rest (over 200GB at this point.) Thus, when I'm out and want to listen to something, I still have all my favorite songs; just not everything (which wouldn't fit on my laptop's HD, anyway.) Basically, it turns the internal HD into a not-too-smart cache of the external one. (On that note, if there's a program that provides this internal/external storage caching mechanism more intelligently and on a larger scale, I'dclove to hear about it.)
Obama uses credit to solve the credit crisis
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NYTimes.com opens API
Near the end of the article: "The three civilian law judges, and a fourth professional judge, will decide the defendants' guilt or innocence by a majority vote."
Scientist Looks to Weaponize Ball Lightning
where are the talks given? where do i go?
5 Steps To Become A Millionaire
I'd tell him to set himself up for success. His activity was innocent this time but by creating situations where he has the opportunity to do so not-so-innocent things, he'll give in to the temptation someday. It's like working at McDonalds or KFC: there is a big chance that you'll gain 2-3 lbs ever month you work there because sooner or later, you'll eat there. He shouldn't put himself into such situations where he can screw up. Bad decisions snow-ball.
FWIW, I'm a small business owner and have downloaded quite a few whitepapers and signed up for quite a few "webinars" that I thought might provide valuable info. Quality varies, but tends to hover well below "wow".

In each of these cases, my contact info was captured. So that part of it works.

The object, however, is not to get a prospect's number, but to get them to call you.

Nothing will light a fire under a potential customer's ass like seeing your product/service in use:

* use customer testimonials/case studies/videos (see mathematica's customer testimonials - http://is.gd/kk8B / Highrise customer interviews / etc.)

* make a great, simple video explanation - see http://commoncraft.com

* show off the website, twitter stream, etc. of a make-believe lawyer who represents your ideal happy customer (e.g. "let us help you be this awesome."

At the end of the day, I think a whitepaper is too much like a TPS report. You want something that can be shared 'over the shoulder', when someone at a company finds your service and shows it off to his partner or colleague.
Mint.com on the definition of a user
I'm curious to know if I'm the only one scratching my head about this.
This is so silly.. logs of what? MAC addresses that can trivially be spoofed.

And for anything running NAT, requiring traffic log retention so that law enforcement can correlate accesses?

Good luck getting technically inept coffeeshop owners to do that, most can barely keep the network alive.
As per the IE performance... I usually feel the inclination to dig deeper and figure out what the cause is, but not this time. It only reared its head because it was on mousemove, which obviously gets fired a lot. I have a hunch it's in computing the source element in certain cases, like floats or absolutely positioned things.

To get around this, I use my own event normalization that seems to work across all browsers and only normalizes what I need in any given project, for example:

var e = e || window.event;
var fixed_e = {};
fixed_e.pageX = document.all ? e.clientX + truebody.scrollLeft : e.pageX;
fixed_e.pageY = document.all ? e.clientY + truebody.scrollTop : e.pageY;
fixed_e.X = (e.offsetX ? e.offsetX : e.layerX) || 0;
fixed_e.Y = (e.offsetY ? e.offsetY : e.layerY) || 0;
fixed_e.source = e.target ? e.target : e.srcElement;

Another problem with jQuery events is unbinding is tricky.. I don't like how I have to have a reference to the bound function laying around somewhere so that I can unbind it. In my event system, adding an event returns a handle, which allows you to simple call ".detach()" or ".attach()" or ".trigger()" .. it's worked out very well for me.

As per the remove, I added a simple extension that's worked perfectly:

$.fn.rm = function(){
return this.each(
function(){
if (!this.parentNode) return;	//already removed.
this.parentNode.removeChild(this);
}
);
}
This is a pretty bold claim that TechCrunch has made, they need to do some more fact checking.

I don't know if Last.fm can sue, but if the article causes some significant damage (high loss of users) then I believe they have the right to some reimbursement.
It sounds easy to say but I think the author of the article needs to grow up. Sorry, but it doesn't matter who started a fight on the playground. How old is he and he still cares about such things? It actually is wisdom to realize that you should stop caring about who started fights - not always but often.

Here's idea. Being mature involves realizing there are many kind of stupidities in the world and that most conflicts involve one kind of stupidity battling another kind of stupidity so neither side is really worth taking.
We have the same madness in the EU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retenti...

"The Directive requires Member States to ensure that communications providers must retain, for a period of between 6 months and 2 years, necessary data as specified in the Directive

* to trace and identify the source of a communication;
* to trace and identify the destination of a communication;
* to identify the date, time and duration of a communication;
* to identify the type of communication;
* to identify the communication device;
* to identify the location of mobile communication equipment.

The data is required to be available to competent national authorities in specific cases, "for the purpose of the investigation, detection and prosecution of serious crime, as defined by each Member State in its national law"."

A wonderful case of "it's possible so let's do it, screw integrity".
I think basically there are only two things: Facts and Illusions. Non-living entities can never have illusions and they are governed by just plain facts.And so these non-living entities can be objective and perform efficiently. For living entities, facts are still important, but illusions are what gives meaning to life.Identity is one such illusion. An historical example is the biblical theory that earth is the center of the universe. It was a comfortable idea because it gave importance to human beings as the center of creation.So what I realized after reading the essay is that one should know about differences between illusions and facts and do not get carried away by illusions to cause conflicts. Illusions are pleasant, just like good graphics in a video game (although with poor graphics also one can implement the same game logic).
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I think that the title of the article has nothing to do with the content. As in, it doesn't really describe how the article talks about how Amazon aims at increasing its business through a better user experience and better customer service and thinks of long term growth over short term wins.

Regardless, i couldn't agree more. I've had two experiences involving customer service with Amazon that turned me into a life-time loyal customer. One time, i even got a book completely free even though it wasn't their fault. And they did this even though i am an international buyer who probably doesn't spend that much anyway.

Because of this, their concept of keeping the customer happy is burned into my head(and hopefully into my business plan later). Amazon still shines with this concept even though it is supposed to be the norm in doing business.

If it weren't for the high shipping costs(international), i would prefer buying whatever i can from Amazon to show them my appreciation and support.
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Blog yazmada müvəffəqiyyət asan dəyir. əyər blog yazan olsaz bunu bilər siz. Gərək siyasət niz ola və mənbələrdən və vaxtınızdan ən yaxşı istifadə edə siz. Hər işdə tələlər olar ki adam giriftar olandan sonra onları tanıyar və təcrübə edər.
Cory Doctorow: On the demise of books, newspapers, music and movies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs
Of course you should permit to run such tests only if you are sure you are dealing with site owners or their representatives. You can use the system that is used in Google webmasters tools - users can confirm their ownership by adding specific document or meta-tag. Also - registration system's usability is not perfect. But the idea is great - I would use this service.
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Figuring out who started it becomes a chicken and an egg situation.

Now I might have tunnel-vision because of my peculiar experience as a child, but I recall almost all incidents of physical bullying to be pretty freaking easy to tell who hit who. One heuristic: the aggressor is likely to be the same on the 27th time as it was on times 1 through 26.
How old is he and he still cares about such things?

I think it is sort of silly for somebody to have to kill himself for other people to give a shit about his physical wellbeing, but since suicide fairly reliably makes people actually care about things, I note that most authorities put the number of suicides as a result of bullying at between one and two dozen a year in the US.

This means that bullies are more effective at killing American children than terrorists, school shootings, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, sharks, and kidnappers motivated by ransom. Combined.

But who cares about such things?
Would this make it illegal to have open wifi?
I have to assume that someone with 3500+ karma submitting this means there is something to it, but I don't see it. Please, if you you submit something that appears totally generic, but has something of interest, at least point it out.

Although I suspect this was maybe a test of the HN moderation system.
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I'm a little late. But quite honestly, this really is the most beautiful investment yet. Congratulations pg.
TimesNewswire API Coming Next Week
It depends upon their investment model. The Angels Forum will create a syndicate and a lead angel for each investment and negotiate for a board seat for the lead.
No offense taken. My statement is so non-controversial that I have no problem saying that anyone who disagrees with it truly has no idea what they're talking about.

The "marginal revolution" is one of the major events in the history of economics.

EDIT - here's some useful wikipedia links:

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

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

EDIT #2 - paragraph 3 from wikipedia:

Different labor theories of value prevailed amongst classical economists through to the mid-19th century. It is especially associated with Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Since that time, it is most often associated with Marxian economics; while modern mainstream economics replaces it by the marginal utility approach.
I didn't know about Mint, but have often wished for something exactly like it.

I do my banking with a very small local bank -- it has maybe 4 branches total! -- and was amazed to see it listed in Mint. Yay Mint!

Thank you, Intuit.
www.nonzero.org

We have infinite creativity. By finding more productive and innovative uses for resources we can make the world a better place for everyone. By keeping more people alive now we have more creative minds working on the problems that we face.
Get cheap ass folding cafeteria style tables, chairs out of dumpsters, and make shelves from wood and cinderblocks.

Pay someone to design your space ? Are you kidding ?

One trick, is to get everyone to commit to once every three weeks, completely re-arranging the space. Have everyone stay late one day, do it, and then go to dinner together. It will keep things feeling new for longer, and if people arrange things in a way that sucks, you only have to put up with it for three weeks.
What about an automatic IP address on open wifi?
How does intellectual property and knowledge fit into this framework? How much of the value of software is in the natural resources used to package it? If the Industrial revolution was about using steam engines to build steam engines and we use software to write software, is labor really the only differentiating component?
Mininova Upgrades Layout, Servers and Office
Oh c'mon... hit the 1:00 mark. For me.
Buhay Bahay-Bahayan
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in a war zone maybe

Well, I am in warzone, I'm founding a startup! ;-)
No, on a more serious note: I'm drinking the instant stuff (Nescafe Gold, fwiw) for half a year since my coffee-maker broke down - and I actually like it.

I find it tastes merely different, not necessarily worse, than the stuff that my former capsule machine ("Dolce Gusto") and the regular powder-through-filter setup spit out.

It's obviously no comparison to a fullblown espresso maker that meals the beans on the fly but since I can't afford the latter I don't find the instant stuff much worse than the listed alternatives. All of them merely taste reminiscent of real coffee anways - so I can just as well drink the cheapest option.
The unknown hackers
It's risen like 50% YoY. It has been, by far, the best investment vehicle from September on.
Perhaps it's time to accept that there may be nothing anyone can do to make the good times keep rolling. Perhaps losses must be cut.
Download free music videos and participate in music community 
Making music videos less disposable in the post-ringtone era. Commentary and forum with a funny, random touch.
Interesting. I think your point is generally good but that phone numbers is an example against it. I tend to document stuff using the second approach, because I'm documenting for lookup. Phone numbers are a case in point - I always have it in front of me on a scrap of paper, but want to enter it into the appropriate page and place of our wiki where I or a colleague will be able to quickly recall it later. I'm creating it with the lookup in mind.

Whereas if I'm opening a document just to play around with ideas I won't be doing that, and most documents start that way. I think this is why Word has so far won the field in mainstream document production. Word is a superb tool for prototyping and terrible in almost every aspect of structuring data for its long-term use.
I would like to add that at some point in the next two years the best item to invest in will be disposable luxuries. You want them after production ends and there are large discounts, but before production levels off at much more expensive, smaller production levels. Although I'm not sure how the Veblen effect will affect this.
What about before Etherpad? I'm curious to know.. :)
Ask HN: What's the best way to graph stuff on web sites?
So I've been picking through the various frameworks for displaying graphs (Google Charts, Yahoo Charts, Flot, etc). There are lots of possibilities but they all seem bare-bones to me. In that you need to do a fair amount of data manipulation before you can start using one.

The real challenge I'm having is hooking up my data to a model to present a sensible visualization. One of my primary sets of data is a series of response times. I want to throw the series of times (in milli-seconds for example) at an API which will create the a graph of the best trend to represent that data.

I've been trying to brush off my college statistic to hand roll something, but maybe someone knows a better way...
It isn't in the least! There'd be no point to it.

I am one of the people for whom most of the pictures at http://critiquewall.com/2007/12/10/blindness look identical. In addition to red/green colorblindness, I have similar problems with purple/violet/blue/etc. See also "Deuteranopia".

For this reason, when tasked with doing an actual website design, I tend to make heavy use of pastels and "muted" colors. I'm looking forward to finding a graphics person I can trust to do layouts.
Seconded. Ofcourse everyone should take such "rave reviews" on the internet with a grain of salt but over here in germany I have the very same expirience with amazon and plenty of stories from friends who also were positively surprised.

Just a few anecdotes:

* Ordered a paperback, 1 week later amazon tells me that they made a mistake and I'd have to wait a month for the paperback - or take hardcover instead for the same price (hardcover would've been almost twice as expensive at the time). Had hardcover + a voucher in the mail 2 days later.

* Friend ordered dozens of DVDs. A few were damaged in shipping (only the boxes, the discs still intact). Amazon sent replacements without even wanting the broken ones back.

* Once they shipped a wrong book to me. 2 days later, before I had a chance to complain, I received the requested one, along with a voucher, an apology and a notice that I can keep the one they sent to me by accident.

Way to do business I'd say. If there's a reason for amazon's success, apart from the competitive prices, then it would be that kind of "customer first" policy - where else do you ever get that nowadays?
A portfolio instead of a diploma « BuzzMachine
The American Gene Patent Legal FAQ
On reading this, I am reminded of the decision by the BBC not to broadcast the Gaza fundraising appeal on the grounds of it affecting its reputation for impartiality.
Ask HN: Anyone in Miami for FOWA?
Got down to Miami this afternoon for the Future of Web Apps conference, anybody else down here and want to arrange a meetup? Anyone going to BarCamp on Sunday?
I don't think that you should reason too much from the font somebody uses. Plenty of successful websites started out with an amateurish look and for some of them it's still a trademark.
No, but the way that "network communication service" is defined, you have to do the log retention even if it's encrypted and you're the only one who uses it.
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this is atrocious!
Linux Server Administration Commands
Ask: Financing options for startups
What is your opinion about each of the following investment fund sources:

- venture capital

- bank loan

- own capital

Questions:

- Is it OK to source from both venture capital and bank loan?

- How do you arrive at what % of requirements should be sourced from where?

- Is it a good idea to invest personal savings
Fits with my experience: So I appreciate having it stated so succinctly and pithily - anything that helps me stay "on the wagon" of good (if not speedy) practices.

Just to add to his three good reasons one "bad" (but motivating) reason for not writing "disposable crap": you save the embarrassment of having someone else read the "stuff you never meant to leave in."
The first open source Unix based OS wasn't Linux.
This is a pretty good example of why software should be released early and often. They managed to destroy all their momentum with an 18 month long development cycle.