skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair this isn't the usual way to install things on Ubuntu. It's a dirty hack for running a program intended for Windows.

I've installed stuff on Windows in the past that was clearly developed with a Unix in mind and it's just as painful.
They made 3 copies of the car and used them for purposes that would clearly consume said car. That's 3 lost sales. So did they pay royalties or were those pirated cars?
while this is an interesting reply, it could be way more interesting if it contained a "because ...." subsentence, could you expand on this?
Unless something changed drastically changed in the last year my impression was this: Backbone helps you to fix problem, Knockout just hides it.
I think some people just have a problem with backbone being too flexible, because it matches the name perfectly: it is just backbone helping you to solve problems you will have to solve anyway.

Knockout feels more like exoskeleton — it may be very comfortable when you fit in, but as soon as you don't you are in a lot of pain.
Tablature copyright is generally owned by a publishing company, often protecting rights to tab books. Read up on the history of the OnLine Guitar Archive [1] (OLGA), one of the first internet copyright fights I became aware of a couple of years after I got online. Despite the fact that these were user created and shared tabs, often of middling quality, EMI felt they owned copyright and pursued various incarnations of the archive for years. The current crop of ugly, SEO spammed offshore tab and ringtone sites are the result instead of beautiful tools to learn music like Soundslice. Unless the creator has made agreements for publishing rights I'm afraid this great resource is going the way of so many before it while these copyright dinosaurs guard their last remaining treasure.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-line_Guitar_Archive
Superangel Mike Edwards Goes Public with LX Ventures
Vista got better right around the time W7 was released anyway, right? Both in terms of the OS itself as well as better support from third parties. I've always thought that W7, while a great operating system in its own right, also benefited from Vista acting as a sort of beta test for all the new shit they added like UAC and better separation of concerns. FWIW I had a Vista machine from a few months after release until W7 came out and I liked it well enough to consider it at least an improvement on XP.
Obligatory http://xkcd.com/356/
As far as I know, right now Google's revenue is coming from ads and not from Android. Exclusivity of apps could potentially help the Android market grow over time. But is Google directly benefiting from this? I think that a larger Android market is just reducing the risks of Google tools/revenue generating apps/services being kicked out of environments that Google doesn't "control". Next question would be: would users of these other platform allow this to happen?

As a side comment, I don't think app exclusivity as user acquisition technique is working anymore. It's an important aspect, but it's part of a larger picture.
That's very interesting. There are two things, which seems to be crucial if Bitcoin will become more popular.

- How banks would react? They would loose they power of creating money (which is good, since they create mostly sick kind of money - http://www.moneyasdebt.net)

- How goverments would react? Would they try to tax Bitcoin incomes, if yes, how to do this?
> For some nice mobile packaged games see Avernum and Avadon, Silversword, Mission Europa or The World Ends With You and Ghost Trick.

I can't believe Avernum is still around. I remember my friend playing it on his Mac when we were kids. And I heartily second your recommendation of The World Ends With You. Great game.
You will get an encrypted form of it, you would still have to figure out the key which would require stepping through silverlight/netflix with a debugger as well as working around whatever tamperproofing has been added to your OS kernel when you installed it.
>>> "Monetary policy" and "ideology" are two distinct and separate concepts.

I think a good deal of today's economic problems are connected to the fact that most people either do not understand or do not agree with this.
His user account was created an hour ago. Ignore the troll.
Ask HN: Why is Google Plus Not responsive?
I was checking a G+ page on android. I am shocked to find it does not support Android screen size.

Android does not support the Reader functionality or double touch functionality of iOS either, Watching G+ sites on Android is complete FAIL.

What makes Google miss something so important? Is it complacency or plain ignorance or G+host town?
Interesting to see how vendor-provided files, drivers and utilities seems to be causing most problems across the line.

Also it seems that Windows 8 has a lot going for it stability-wise. The figures reported (if reliable) seems to indicate that Windows 8 is about 2-3 times more stable than Windows 7, which I already would consider pretty good. That's a remarkable improvement.

As for Windows 8 itself, I had a chance to fool around with it on a MS Surface tablet. Not saying I'm buying the tablet myself (I already have an Asus Transformer), but Windows 8 suddenly feels like it makes a lot more sense, once you are using it on a touch-enabled device.
I honestly have no idea, but I can confirm it. I uninstalled Google Drive on my Windows 7 machine and never bothered to install it on my Windows 8 machine since it was basically unusable. It worked fine for several month and then one day it just started crashing within minutes of me logging in.
Move Over, Barbie — You’re Obsolete
I just read this entire article on the way to work and I have to say it's one of the best written and most informative pieces I've had the luck to come across on here.

Personally, I'm ill informed with most "software" languages and mostly use web languages and some c++ in my spare time projects, but this gave me quite in depth knowledge without getting overly technical.

I would definitely recommend a read to everyone scrolling past this comment.
Games jobs often have long hours and shitty pay, but at least you know what to expect going in. Based on the press coverage of Zynga it's almost like they are trying to mistreat people as a matter of course.
Well it does until you fire up office, which appears to be glued on the side, badly.
Personally, I like the idea of digital currency, but the knowledge that it is based on completely useless computations (gold at least has many practical applications and looks nice) annoys my programmer side. I know money do not have to be otherwise useful, but still the feeling is there.
Interjecting is what you call it when you disregard the topic being discussed, qualifications made to observations, you don't read the data in the footnotes...etc.

Steven Pinker: The surprising decline in violence

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1455883115

Filmed Mar 2007 • Posted Sep 2007 • TED2007

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violen...

to which the counter=argument is somthing like this:

The biggest problem with [Pinker], though, is [his] overreliance on history, which, like the light on a caboose, shows us only where we are not going. We live in a time when all the rules are being rewritten blindingly fast—when, for example, an increasingly smaller number of people can do increasingly greater damage. (Scientific American)[1]

I don't fully dis-agree with this latter qualication. If you go back and read my initial comments, you will see this.

[1] from: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bookreview-...; See also: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-decline...
Are you sure? Then they can create a exact copy of your university e-mail for another person.
Sounds similar to "One Day" http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v...
Rejected for YC and still feeling awesome
The company I'm working on is receiving a lot of support right now. We needed £30k to get a 9-12 month runway and in the last week our users have pledged £90k with a couple of organisations pledging another £20k+.

This is really emboldening, if you have users you can draw strength from, an idea so validated and working that you can draw from that... then do it. Remember what you're working on and why.

That's the only thing matters, to do today that which needs to be done to move your work forward and get that successful business built sooner.

I hope all of the those who received the email join me in digging even deeper today.
It looks absolutely amazing, and I loved the visualizations. If I had this in early calculus, or even before that, in middle school when I was first learning to program but hated maths, it would have been amazing.

I see a ton of potential down this route, thank you for sharing.

I do worry that it requires a sharp mind to be able to design visualizations clearly, but that's likely a problem all education faces - and fails at - regularly, but it goes unmentioned because of the nature of textbooks and isolated schools.
We are very happy to pay for plane tickets -- if you’re not in the same room as someone that you need to talk to, one of you needs to change that. Disagreements that have not been addressed IRL will be promptly dismissed as misunderstandings until an actual conversation has taken place.

Ridiculous.
Google Drive exposed something similar few months ago.
http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2012/08/allowing-use...

Trello was amongst the firsts to add file picker support (great feature we use frequently).
Funny to see that the first player Dropbox picks is Asana ..
We're actually offering free web security, too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4792073 :)
Because I don't want to fly that far just to use the bathroom!

... joking aside, I think it's the notion of using water that might freak people out. I'm not opposed to the concept, but I would worry about its effectiveness. I mean, I feel like I'd always want toilet paper there, even if it's just a placebo for making me feel truly clean.
I love that half the comments here say to wipe first, and the other half say to wet first.
Both the Co-Star and Revue. The Co-Star runs better.
It does, but not well. You'll have to resort to Plex.

Roku has a better app ecosystem than Google TV, more video channels in particular.
This is totally awesome.

BTW, I've been meaning to ask for a while though: what sort of algorithm is running that detects edges and orientation so when the mouse is moved, the small white circle or quadrilateral seems to touch the objects in the image?
Eh you don't get made partner after just sticking around for a few years, partners are participants in the firm's capital who usually need to buy themselves in. Partners in law firms can not be compared to roles in other companies where employees are just that, employees.
Was just playing around with the YouTube JavaScript API myself, it's really not that complicated. You can do some pretty cool things with it. Looks like you're using the HTML5 YouTube player too, I haven't tried that.

I'm surprised by how rarely people integrate a YouTube player into sites, does anyone have any other good examples?
There are a bunch more cool ones: golden gate bridge, bay bridge, brooklyn bridge, even lincoln tunnel!

This is too much fun :)
Show HN: Modern and compatible web forms
Aaaand.... what company is it? If it' s possible to know. Good job anyway this is the right attitude!
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Can't help it: survivorship bias.
If you are using secure OS, like *nix, there is really not much opportunity to spy on your files for outsider. The article is ignorant, like most of the stuff on Wired, and in fact is more encouraging script kiddies to play, than educating users how to employ better practices to protect themselves online.
Instead of mentioning Zeus, it would be better to explain users the basics of public key cryptography.
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And easier to set a fuse so you can be somewhere else when it topples over.
War of the virtual wallets
More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugs (discuss on LWN)
That sounds suspiciously like quantum, it does.
I understand the point of the article, but it feels a little preachy. Doesn't anyone else see the irony that the author became a vegetarian to improve his carbon footprint and yet hosts a blog which will cost large amounts of "carbon" in terms of hosting, people browsing, uploading and especially posting to here.

I wonder how much carbon monoxide will be generated from the factory which supplies the electricity required to keep this website operational now it's hit the front page of HN. It stinks of hypocrisy.
For the casual Linux user, can you explain why './configure && make && make install' is a bad idea? Thanks.
>We do not have a vacation policy.

This works out fine till you get that one employee who screws it up for everyone else. It really works when you have people who love working a lot, and those who don't have other "distractions" (marriage, kids etc,). A company should definitely have a vacation policy, if it doesn't it is doing injustice to employees who work hard.

Let's say Omar is a hard working guy doesn't take a lot of vacation, and Jack is a guy who loves taking vacations ( and sometimes takes too many vacations ), If both these guys are equally capable and have the same efficiency, Omar is the guy who contributes more to the company. Without a clear guideline from the hand book, Omar doesn't know how much time he can spend on vacations and so does Jack, but they both assume that whatever they are doing is right, and whatever the other guy is doing is going overboard. Giving a little thought to the vacation policy can help you a lot in these areas, Once you do have a vacation policy there is no misunderstanding everyone knows what they are doing.

The "vacation policy" ultimately gets changed when people take undue advantage of it, or people get fired for taking too many vacations, but not transparently. The management will say, oh, your results are below average, blah blah blah....
Learn a foreign language. Thai phrases look pretty random.
Which reminds me - the best investors are mentally damaged in some way, especially in terms of emotion (a distinct lack of empathy and emotion).

I wonder if this relates to the discovery that the two systems in the brain responsible for empathy and reason are mutually exclusive (that is, in the study I read about but can no longer find, activating one system always deactivated the other).
Yep. Geeks backup.
Just tried this on my Ubuntu box and it works great. Can't wait to try it on a real phone.
Someone else can probably explain more issues but how are you going to remove it or update it later?
Geeks backup. 'Wired' authors do not.
Not XP (my private licence) but I have Ubuntu running parallel for my private stuff. Never had any problems with it.
Polar Bear VS Sphinx
Due to their poor ability to (re)adapt to the current minor shifts in the environment without high susceptibilities to skin cancers like squamous and basal cell carcinomas, melanomas and cataracts the long term affects of global warming and ozone depletion negatively impact the fair skinned moreso than those with darker pigments. Who is evolving, we are evolving.
"Get Firefox and Microsoft Silverlight working in WINE."

IMHO that's the stinky part of it. Saying "Netflix on Ubuntu is Here" is misleading when you're actually using a special version of a compatibility layer* to run the Windows version.

That's far from Netflix supporting Linux.

* that's what the compiling part is about, if you read the post there's a notice about packages being released soon.

EDIT: WINE is not an emulator.
How come this is so much faster than Google's own Street View interface? I feel like whether I use Flash or WebGL, Street View always feels a bit clunky and laggy, while here it's really instant.

I suppose one of the things that helps is that this doesn't do the "zoom" effect that looks ugly and slows you down navigating.
In my experience it's common for a significant portion of developers to undervalue their skills and the value of the stuff they make. So - no, it's a not a dick move, and the large majority of people will get why you did it.
Now as for the rest - there's always someone who responds to any change in a negative way. Ignore these people (almost always). Only get worried when you make changes or do 'something', and no-one seems to care; even a negative response is indicative of interest in what you are doing.
Very good - I am working with several wifi enabled arduino packages - hoping to link back to a Raspberry Pi using this Kickstarter project http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ciseco/eve-alpha-raspber... which looks likely to get funded.
Economists do distinguish and discuss the causes of inflation. Search for "demand pull inflation", "cost push inflation" or "imported inflation". You won't see "monetary inflation" that much in modern economics discussions because it simply isn't that relevant empirically for understanding the development of the price level.
if you are not looking at the settings and privacy sections of the website but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you.

This is a dangerous, anti-consumer notion. Nobody should have to go out of their way to preserve their privacy. I would reword your assertion like this: "If your users have to dig through settings and privacy sections to have some semblance of a normal existence, there is something wrong with your site."

What next, people start selling your most personal information (travel habits, TV and movie viewing history, etc.) on the open market, then demand a $20/mo fee to be left alone?
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> For the casual Linux user, can you explain why './configure && make && make install' is a bad idea? Thanks.

It isn't necessarily, given that the Autotools configure installs to /usr/local by default, which is a directory tree explicitly reserved for installation of software outside the package system.

Installing shared libraries can cause problems, but that's rare because shared libraries are versioned in Linux, as opposed to Windows, which greatly reduces the incidence of DLL Hell. In short, a program might find a shared library that isn't the one it wants, but it very likely won't.

Similarly, installing your own executable files might cause problems for scripts. This could be more serious, but, in practice, I've installed a newer version of Perl outside the package system and everything works fine.

The biggest hassle of doing things outside the package system is the simple fact you don't have the package managers doing the scutwork for you. You have to do your own dependency tracking, your own configuration, and your own update management. There is no really easy way to uninstall anything. You quickly come to realize why we have package management in the first place, if you really go nuts with this stuff. ;)

So. The easy advice here is "Wait for the PPA", which the post itself mentions a few times. That will give you a nice little package, albeit not one from the official repos. I do that with VLC and couldn't be happier. But doing this little dance with Wine, building it yourself, is unlikely to cause problems if you follow the instructions.
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Just got 20 extra projects. How will the new pricing rollout affect this?
No, no its not. Netflix works with WINE. When you install Ubuntu, and Netflix works out of the box, then Netflix on Ubuntu will be here.
Thank you, that's interesting. That's in the magnitude of time I myself estimated when I started asking this question, but I started wondering over time if my expectation was realistic.
I don't accept that this minor qualification is the main critique of Pinker's thesis, which in the end has very little to do with the fact that violence has declined. (And, BTW, this qualification also serves a political agenda which regards terrorism as a discreet phenomenon that can only be dealt with by military means.)

But failing to acknowledge the circumstances surrounding outbreaks of violence as being intrinsic to the nature of that violence is, generally, a matter of choice.

[Again, the fact that you don't like what I'm saying doesn't give you the right to set the terms of the discussion, and condescending comments about my ability to read don't really help either.]

[Edit: Your reply below, which doesn't yet have a reply button, is not coherent so I can't respond to it anyway. (A? B? Bozos? What?) I don't think there's much more that can be usefully said at this point. Speaking of non-falsifiability though, ain't evolutionary psychology a hoot?]
Ask HN: Formalized training plans for developers
I'm exploring the option of having a formalized skills development program for my dev team, and wanted to hear experiences people may have had.

Frequently - it seems to me - teams have a reasonable amount of ad-hoc training. Someone brings in an expert in `git` to help the team transition, or a big-name developer is passing through town who's roped in to giving a day or two of training.

I'm interested in providing something a little more rigorous for my team - perhaps a day a fortnight specifically set aside for skill development, using a mixture of intra-team training, external courses, external trainers coming in, auto-didactic exploration of certain topics.

Has anyone tried this successfully? Unsuccessfully? Can anyone provide examples of things that worked well or didn't work at all?
According to my understanding, the bitcoin economy is small enough that all clients can have a record of all transactions. Bitcoin was designed for a truly distributed model, but this aspect is untested in practice.

It seems to me that the move from "everyone knows everything" to a truly distributed model entails a lot of risk, and it's possible that the protocol just may not work at this scale. Is this a reasonable concern?
Samsung Galaxy S2 And S3 Jelly Bean 4.1.2 Firmware Updates Leaked
Somewhat offtopic - the logo has a strong correlation with the Adidas mark. This may cause you a headache further down the road, perhaps sooner than you realize.
Facilitated Communication Persists Despite Scientific Criticism
Yes - BSc in Maths and Comp Sci (earned in 1993, cue stroking of beard and dyeing of grey hair). It definitely helped land me my first job, although my then-manager never had a degree and was / is far and away the best developer I've known.
The value of the degree drops off with experience, but at 'year 0' it's definitely worthwhile in most situations.
This particular one did, yes, but not just because she could solve this problem. I refuse to let my hire/no hire recommendations be boxed into binary thinking or autistically rigid 'if a then b' type of testing. I will try my best to interview in a way that will eliminate or suppress any biases I may have, but will still use judgement when interpreting the results of any tests/questions. Rigid algorithms are too easy to game.
Could some of these be caused by 3rd party in-process shell extensions? Especially ones that aren't compatible with Windows 8?
Too bad it does not produce an URL to share with location built in. Or am I missing something?
I have a fourth fear with Mt. Gox. For a European the only way to directly buy Bitcoins there is a SEPA transfer. Mt. Gox will only accepts this after I send a scanned identification document and a proof of residency without ANY alterations.

I understand why they need this and I appreciate that they are thorough in their measures to prevent fraud and money laundering. I even sent my passport to other companies, but only altered in a way that makes it unusable for identity theft.

But still: I don't trust them enough that I don't fear my passport scan gets leaked some day and is used for identity theft.
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