skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a computer scientist and an Opera user this actually insults me: http://i.imgur.com/7k0bN.png

Ironically Opera was the one who proposed the <video>-tag which this site uses for it's rotating LP, in 2007. [1] Way to exclude users.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#History_of_.3Cvideo...
An interesting note to this is that there weren't any ads on the site, which is not a surprise given it's a promo video.

However, given the vertical and horizontal scrolling, there's not really any way to include static sidebar ads the way Facebook does. It'll be interesting to see what they do around advertising on the site.
Ask HN: a private Coursera, for training partners or employees?
What I'm looking for is something that is like Coursera, but can be used in-house to develop and deliver training for employees, partners, and customers -- specifically, in IT.

If you've got any leads, please post them in the comments.

And Coursera, if you're reading this: please consider opening up your platform to business. Top universities are great; closed platforms, not so much. I think there's a significant market opportunity for improving non-academic training.
Hey! Thank-you for trying it out, and for your feedback.
1. I hear you on the confirmation for Dangerous actions point... I've almost seriously screwed myself on the Delete Account Data one. That's definitely on my to-do list.
2. Export - also agreed. What kind of format would be useful? CSV, or an XML schema of some kind?
3. Good catch on the click counter - I'll have to think through that one - perhaps just a cosmetic non-ajax increment.
4. Thank-you very much - That's exactly what I was thinking; I'll steal that code (thank-you!) and implement tonight, and will post back here.

Thanks again for trying it out and sharing your insightful feedback - its appreciated!

R
We haven't tried billing by the day yet but this would definitely be an interesting experiment.
To expand on that (since I find in this topic it is necessary to be explicit), since blame is not zero-sum assigning an amount of blame to the victim should in no way be seen to reduce the blame or fault the perpetrator receives.

In other words, since blame is not zero-sum, placing some blame on the victim is not a defense of the perpetrator.
...because musicians and bands seemed to have an affection for it, for whatever reason?

You mean distribution agencies have an affection for it. Myspace has been around forever, so it comes up high on Google, so the guys in charge of putting St. Vincent's music online maintain her Myspace account in addition to her Facebook, iTunes, etc. The artists themselves don't really care, they just want to be everywhere that ears and eyeballs are.

As far as this preview goes, it looks very much like Windows 8. You can tell there's people still just throwing money at the Myspace name, which surprises me. I thought it was pretty much a dead brand.
You added no additional information; saying agencies instead of houses is not helpful information.
That post claims that fonts don't have a fallback mechanism for when a font fails to load, but fonts have had fallbacks for as long as we've had CSS:

font-family: "Obscure Font", "Common Font", sans-serif;
> But sadly Lua is still missing Unicode support.

Whenever I hear someone complain about (lack of) Unicode support, my ears prick up. See, Unicode support is a many-headed beast, and almost no languages have very much of it, and most of what people naively think of as Unicode support (length, indexing into "characters", case conversion) doesn't really work when you take into account combining diacritics, ligatures, Turkish I, German S, etc.

I'm not especially familiar with Lua, but it transparently stores and compares UTF-8 strings, and there are even bindings for ICU. So what's missing from "Unicode support"? Script specifiers in regular expressions, perhaps? I'm asking out of genuine curiosity.
The Instagram-only spin makes the stack much simpler. So for now it's an entirely independent stack. Think Nitrogram as a full scale experiment to discover whether or not targeting subparts of our addressable market might get us to product-market fit.
We will merge back a lot of stuff we built for nitrogram within teleportd very soon.
After that, depending on how things go we might even merge the two stack together to enhance teleportd results with more instagram materials and enhance nitrogram search with non-hashtag search!
Make sense?
We're still just starting out and estimating time is always a bit nerve racking. I'm hoping it gets easier as time goes on.
Efficient analytics over large bodies of pictures gathered from Twitter and Instagram hashtags requires heavy-wrangling of real-time feeds, which is exactly what the back-end of Teleportd does.

So my uninformed guess would be that the (very cool) deep data technology deployed for Teleportd powers Nitrogram's backend as well.
I meant the profiles sections - latest, mixes, connections etc.
http://www.robohornet.org/ doesn't even load on IE7
REBECCA DID NOT SAY SHE WAS FROM NIGERIA.

HOWEVER, MY LATE FATHER GOD BLESS HIM AZIZ ABDOULAYE WAS FINANCE MINISTER OF NIGERIA CRUELLY ASSASINATED BY THE CORRUPT OIL COMPANY AND HAS LEFT ME AND MY WIDOW MOTHER $75 MILLION AMERICA US DOLLAR IN HIS FORTUNE IN LONDON BANK ACCOUNT.

KNOWING YOU ARE AN HONEST BUSINESS MAN OF AMERICA AND GOT YOUR NAME FROM A TRUSTED ASSOCIATE GOD BLESS HIM I WISH YOU TO BE MY AGENT BUSINESS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. FOR THIS YOU SHALL HAVE FEE OF TEN PERCENT OF THE MONEYS SECURED FOR ME BY MY LATE FATHER

...
Main issue with Evernoting and Bookmarking is that it requires an effort to say that today, this page is useful and I want to store it. Most pages I want to find are very things I did not think was useful at the time.
Each unique page(unique as per the content) is stored per user.
Our goal is to build the tools needed to find the information quickly, similiar to what hipmunk.com did for airline search. We have the added dimension of time to use.
That was a very educated guess. But we went off with an entire new stack here to focus on instagram integration. But as I was saying this will get merged back at some point into teleportd's main stack!
Phone communication has been a broken industry for a decade. We have been fully capable of making the whole thing voip using network lines if we had non-crap internet in the first place. If like the topic said, we had fiber to the home, we would have a single internet bill plus some service to provide "rentals" like netflix for shows and movies and that is it. The false split 3 way package deals are already a broken market because they assume you can't get it all under just one of those.

The reason the French rates are so low is because they have competition. I couldn't start an ISP in my area if I wanted to because Verizon owns the phone lines and Comcast owns the cable lines. I would need to lay everything by hand, but even that I would consider not being much of a problem anymore - if you took every "town" of 3k+ in the country you could easily have local ISPs lay fiber channels and fiber to the home for everyone in each community and pay it off with $60 a month service considering the per foot cost of fiber cable is lower than the going rate of coaxial was back in the 70s when cable tv took off.

It is purely a fixed game. You can't introduce competition to the system so you can't make a prediction on the reactionary effects of American consumers because that isn't happening in the first place.

On the topic of phone rates, I paid $250 for a 2 year 5000 minutes prepaid tracfone. It is the best cellular rate I could get considering I infrequently call anyone via traditional means and not over some VOIP service.
I would be interested in reading a blog post on what things work and what don't if you have the time to write it.
any chance you could bake in functionality for WTForms instead? since a number of flask users use that as a form handling library.
I hate it when design agencies try this hard to be cool.
This suggests it was the address:

"On the customs form, I put the value at $500 and the description said “cardboard art.” I’m not completely sure of this, but I think Nigerians have to pay a small percentage of the value to customs, so putting a high price on the customs form hopefully cost them a little money."

That bit about the customs fee wouldn't make sense otherwise.
Like France.
Yeah. I'm a UI Designer and I really like the aesthetics of this sort of interface, although I'm not totally on-board on reducing the total content on-screen in favor of endless scrolling GIGANTIC TEXT and images.
Nice to see getters/setters in there. Performance for them is absolutely abysmal in modern runtimes. :(

EDIT: Is it my imagination or is it really difficult to find a link to RobotHornet itself in the OP?
That sounds like a great event to learn at.
"""But most of the people I know in bands use something else - bandcamp,soundcloud, whatever. Those who listen are using spotify, grooveshark, rdio, whatever. Photographers use flickr, instagram, designers use dribbble, etc etc. My friends all chat on facebook, twitter or g+ - the list goes on."""

Does it not seem though that this redesign seems to be hitting the middleground of this cluster of services? It seems like this could be a very relevant move for Myspace when, as you say, most people use either soundcloud or grooveshark or instagram or tumblr or facebook or etc etc. This redesign, even if it is a concept, seems to touch upon all of these. Which mightn't attract hardcore users who need flickr or bandcamp, but it might attract everyone else who wants to need all the above. I dunno, it all seems very relevant to me.
I find Adobe remarkably inconsistent. The people behind their most famous product line, Creative Suite, seem to consistently produce poor quality software full of awkward limitations and oversights backed by terrible customer support, whose only redeeming feature is that since they basically killed off or bought all of the serious competition years ago everyone else's software is actually worse.

On the other hand, Adobe's typography people seem to be consistently good at producing high quality work, selling it at reasonable prices, and offering it on reasonable terms. Consequently, probably 90% of the money I've spent on serious fonts over the years has gone to Adobe, because they blow away the the-90s-called-they-want-their-printers-back silliness of certain other well known foundries, who either haven't noticed that we use fonts more on-screen than in print these days or who shamelessly advertise one price when the actual price to buy a useful product is presumably higher (presumably, because they never seem to tell you how much those extra permissions will actually cost).
I think any textual representation of the links would be good - possibly a HTML file with the links themselves might be the easiest option.

Regarding the counter, yeah, I'd just "cheat" and increment it locally, no need to go back to the server for it (after all, you know it was exactly one click).

Also, to add: Thanks for a nice service, well done!

I'll try to use it for a couple of days and see if it sticks (I'm notoriously bad at bookmarking, or rather, revisiting bookmarks).
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Teleportd is almost perfectly realtime, while Nitrogram is near-realtime (~1h) but more focused on computation of aggregated stats.
The embed techno is the same.
Show HN: Contactually landing page resembles 37Signal's HighriseHQ landing page
The Contactually landing page (http://contactually.com) looks a lot like 37Signal's HighriseHQ (http://highrisehq.com) landing page. Just an observation I thought I'd share.

Side by side image http://cl.ly/image/1A3u3H1e2p3B*

What are your thoughts?
I would say that a criminal is equally guilty if they commit a crime in a dark alley NYC or if they commit a crime in backcountry Idaho.

If I replace my bicycle u-lock with a nice hefty rope and start lashing my bike to whatever object seems solid at the time (this is a concept that actually appeals to me), then I should receive some blame when my bike gets inevitably stolen. However the bicycle thief is no more nor less a thief.
You're right that during the deferment there isn't much effect. I'm not sure if that's all he was arguing, but of so he's not right.
If you get monopolies, they are considered bad only when they become an obstruction to improvement and inventiveness, because if the prices ever rose enough to justify competition again someone could enter the market, assuming it was a market like on-line retail where you can't crowd out competitors from store shelves.

Internet is a terrible commodity, because so much of the cost of connectivity is wrapped up in laying lines and buying server farms than actually maintaining the infrastructure. And that is really what it is - there is a reason roads aren't private, and why no other animal ever evolved wheels. Some things are best done collectively, and I usually lean libertarian but infrastructure is something you can't effectively leave open to free markets or give to private monopolies, because they are so easy to take through monopolistic practices.
And I imagine you could add direct integration of Teleportd features right into Nitrogram, helping marketers make sense of "real world" use of their products in the wild.

Very interesting perspective!
Sadly perhaps but I know people that if I give them an email address they can turn that into an actual person + personal details. Not cheaply but they are scarily good at it. One of the side effects of no privacy / tracking etc etc is this.
* Assigning keyboard shortcuts reserved for browser actions to something else

* Disabling copy and paste in web forms

I would just use ELinks all day if I could get away with it.
But 2x was just with the initial, non-optimized patch. A language like Java seems to perform quite well even with fine-grained locking, so it's possible.

And I don't see why performance is suddenly used as a deal breaker for a language primarily used for scripting and other non-CPU-bound purposes.

I speculate that the performance issue wasn't really the most important reason for rejecting the patch, but more so not wanting to deal with the complexity of maintaining the patch. It's a shame because the future is definitely going to have lots of cores, and not all problems are well-suited to multiprocessing.
I don't believe the author meant that people should be suspicious of "Nigerians" in general, but rather that they should be suspicious of Nigerians when in the context of an online monetary transaction.

The sad truth is that a lot of scammers originate from Nigeria. Therefore, it makes sense to be extra cautious when engaging in financial transactions with someone who is in within Nigeria.

I highly doubt the author was implying any sort of racist sentiment.
It is weaker for plainer reasons, in that the costs associated with phone, tv, and internet are lay cable once and then reap profits. The costs of maintaining the router farms and fiber lines are paltry compared to the costs of buying the servers and laying the fiber in the first place.

That is why the cartel of providers is as bad as it is in the US - most localities sold their phone and cable lines to private businesses so they never had to recoup the costs of laying lines, and thus no one can compete with them because they had an unfair advantage from the get-go, and they have their hands in the pockets of every local and state government to keep anyone else from even getting permits to try putting down fiber. Sonic and Google are two rare exceptions to that rule.
It seems to me that this might strike a very relevant and "on trend" balance between the needs of the average person, hip circles, and creative circles. Furthermore, the redesign makes Facebook's recentish redesign look very clunky and amateurish; this design is very very fresh. I think it's a fairly interesting development.
Thank you for your analysis. Just a typo: $960 per day not per week.
well seriously thou why would someone use opera ...
That seems like a problem too, though.
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Looks very metro.
This seems like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic...
Why don't browser operators just suck it out of the page?

It's not like the page can display something the browser doesn't want it to.
There's nothing wrong with looking like Windows 8 at the moment!
Or just try. Go do something else if you're not.
How about Laravel?
I think his answer was more or less in the "contact local agencies part".

To add some color, it's likely there are already design/development shops in your city if you live somewhere with any kind of technology presence. If you don't know of any, go to local meetups in the web space and ask around about which ones are local to you.

As was previously mentioned, many development shops subcontract out work to local developers. Talking to them at meetups or sending an email letting them know you're interested in working with them is a great way to kick off a conversation that could lead to you working with them.
here's a source that says something similar: http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/428151/why_nigerian_...
It's good for browsing but terrible for finding something specific, which is why it's a good interface for Pinterest and a terrible interface for Windows 8. It's probably a good interface for MySpace 2.0.
Yes. Metro as a design language is essentially a style guide that appears to be defining a large number of current sites in the way the "Web 2.0 look" did back between 2005-2009 (rounded corners, gradients, Verdana, etc.)
The Jetsons are 50
http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/
There was a story like this in the ny times a while ago. Some guy could access another account. Turns out they were both named John smith or something, and had respectively picked johns and jsmith as usernames. And used the same password, wife's name or something. Guy uses wrong username, guy logs into wrong account.
I don't know why, but for some reason I felt that, while reading your comment, you were for some reason biased towards wanting to find faults in MySpace's announcement.

Just because the UI is staged, it doesn't mean they won't be able to execute on it- matter of fact, with a team the size of myspace's, they'll likely do execute, and execute it well.

You mentioned that the video clearly used test data, but seemed to forget that when mentioning the affinity feature.

Maybe they sync people's instagram photos on their myspace profile.

Point being, give Myspace a fair change. They're certainly not the new kid on the block, are experienced, and this seems like a good new effort.
MySpace is already at the bottom of the ocean collecting barnacles. This is an effort to salvage the wreck.
That would be ironic hipster cache.
The 'bootkit' menace is a paper threat
I concur. My parents were recently duped by botspam sent from an estranged aunt's hacked aol account. The message was one sentence, two words of which were CLICK HERE. My mother spent a whole day researching the reality content farm it linked to, thinking something was happening to some family real-estate.

Maybe there needs to be some sort of Internet-wide PSA about this kind of thing?
Ahh, but the goal is to find another language with "such a broad chasm between two versions of the language." It seems I can't win if people decided that my examples are so far apart that they are no longer two versions of the same language. ;)

What about Old S v.s New S? S v.s S4? S vs. R?

What about D1 and D2 of the D programming language?

Classic awk vs. nawk?

Honestly, I could go on. I think the person I'm responding to really doesn't know much about programming language histories.
I think more than one media companies actually tried to pass the "copy from disk to memory" as requiring a license. I'm not sure how the law views it.

Re: downloading, the EFF's Fred von Lohmann says it's probably infringement[1], and so do the media companies, of course.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/p2p-downloading-i...
Opera doesn't support websockets. I'm sure some socket.IO fans will tell me that's not a big deal, but it kind of is. modern browsers support websockets.

and i know, this demo doesn't use it and will work fine in opera if you spoof the UA, but it's a lot easier to develop if you pick a feature set you're going to support, and skim out any browsers that don't support that feature set.
Then their eighteen year old brother will flick them in the ear and call them a loser and a noob and they'll quickly learn.
Releasing Ruby's Global VM Lock from a C extension
Seems like they are overlooking a market as well by excluding them.

From: http://www.opera.com/press/faq/

"How many people are using Opera?
Today, more than 275 million people are using Opera every month."
Every month? I wonder how many of those are developers testing their stuff ;)

I'd rather see a number of users who have set it as their default browser.
I think pushing hip will be tough whilst still under the myspace banner, Timberlake or not. Perhaps a complete rebrand would have helped.

Trouble is, often big pictures and slick graphics isn't what the average person wants - they just want it to work, and work well - it's why everyone moved from MySpace to fb in the first place.

It looks really pretty, though!
Too bad. Looks like a really cool project. Even more impressive when seeing how old it is.
From that page:

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Edge Web Fonts gives you access to a vast web font library made possible by contributions from Adobe, Google, and designers around the world. The fonts are served by Typekit, so you can be sure of high performance and stability. Plus, it’s free!
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Go back and check the email confirmation you got for these messages.. did it say "...wrote on your Wall?"
Surely, somewhere, somewhen, somebody sent a private message the contents of which are not particularly private. I know most of my private messages consist of "what are you doing Friday?"
The Technology of Big Brother
Their audience is people who still use Myspace.
I would love to see this come to pass. Salesforce and New Relic seem to be killing it, but I'm not aware of others. If anybody has more examples please share links.
"But, I just fail to see how they are going to get a strong user base"

Why not some integration with Pandora, where you can create user specific radio stations based off of the band's Myspace profile, that is also linked to their tour schedule etc etc?

Then all Pandora users who have a station created from that band can be notified either though a push notification or e-mail when they are playing a club within a 30 mi radius?

Integrating with the current Pandora userbase would fix the "how will they build a userbase?" and then Pandora would have another venue to access unsigned bands that they can promote through their Music Genome Project.

Just a thought off the top of my head.
You're expanding on my point exactly. The Internet does not have such an obvious dark alley. You can copy HTML/CSS, have anchors with a different href than shown, and a lot of sly things. I hate using anologies when talking to hackers, so I didn't use the alleyway example even though I was thinking it.
Want some help with that? :-)

(Seriously though, if you're looking for a front-end guy with a formal design background, drop me a line!)
Your FB messages weren't leaked, and your old timeline is a foreign country
The big thing about it is the horizontal scrolling.. that works really well on an ipad, but not so well on the screen. This is definitely a tablet-oriented design ...
The CEO as the Conductor
One of my biggest pet peeves is still being perpetrated today: Using a Javascript onclick event to open a new page instead of (or even alongside), you know, an anchor tag.

If you've ever tried to middle click a bunch of links on, say, a big corporate news site and had your current tab change unexpectedly, now you know why.
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