skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the production, vocals, and presentation (good branding, etc) are at a level where most people who like that genre would play the song and think "Yeah, this sounds like a real song..." then we will work hard to make sure those people hear the song.

Our artists are good at reviewing rap, pop, edm, country, rock, etc. All genres.

Currently we can help the most with promoting rap, hip-hop, pop, and edm. We can help all genres find labels (we know a lot of them).
I'm with you. My go-to place is Pancho Villa: $5 for veggie; $7 for meat: http://sfpanchovilla.com/menu.php

Taqueria Cancun, another solid place, is $5 for either meat or veg: http://sanfrancisco.menupages.com/restaurants/taqueria-cancu...
This is by far the best way to live comfortably in NYC. People forget how diverse the city is. Everyone thinks that you just have to be in Manhattan. Yes if you are working for a startup in NYC it will be located in Manhattan (Etsy is an exception), but there's no real good reason to live there. It is a fantastic place to work and dine, that is for certain, but in terms of living it is overcrowded, overpriced, and quite noisy.

In Brooklyn or Queens you can have plenty of room for much cheaper than Manhattan/SF/Seattle. There are one bedrooms in Astoria that start around $1200 and with a roommate you can easily be paying less than a grand each for a BIG place in a great part of the City. Almost all of the creative and intellectual activity in NYC comes from Brooklyn/Queens, whether its the rise of new and interesting publications (N+1, for example), art houses being opened, exhibitions being held, wild house shows or rooftoop parties and so on and so forth. It has a great vibe that I have yet to get from any other city.

I remember being on a rooftop in Greenpoint with some friends, having a nighttime barbecue, and they had a marvelous view of Manhattan. I mentioned that it would be nice to live there and my friend just laughed, saying "The city looks so beautiful now. Why would you want to ruin it by living there?"
I don't think it's fair to take JSON out of context from the rest of the query API. Or maybe it's being overly generous, I'm not sure. Either way, this is the same way object literals are constructed in JavaScript. So is the beef w/JavaScript?

For me the Mongo shell is just enough so-called "richness" and "expressiveness" (Try it yourself: http://try.mongodb.org/). There's a certain magic to passing objects to functions (and being able to, say, read the body of a function by typing that object into the CLI).
Wait, so you're saying that the CEO of a Facebook competitor is saying in public that Facebook is doing a bad job?

I'm shocked!

More seriously do you expect him to say "Facebook is doing an awesome job - we should turn off Plus and go home." ?
CoralCDN link:

http://mergy.org.nyud.net/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane...

I couldn't get through to the main site. Fortunately someone had fetched the page over coralcdn at some earlier point. I wonder if someone wrote a proactive coralcdn bot for HN links.
It's tempting because that's how we build our skills. You must abuse a tool to understand it, and know when to not use it. Unfortunately in professional contexts, many of us do that learning on the job, exhausting out a turbulent jet wake of too-clever code, upsetting those who follow. Coming across CRTP for the first time is either an upsetting detour or a fascinating David Foster Wallace style WTF-inducing endnote that you must consume before continuing. You appreciate this dynamic more as you play out different roles, both producing and consuming. Some languages try to interdict this state of affairs, shielding us from each other, but the more fun languages let us burn ourselves and our colleagues and finally learn restraint in ways you never learn in languages with training wheels.
Well, people could be faking the surprise. But it seems authentic to me.
Go is a language for those who love the simple C/UNIX approach but would rather have a Garbage Collector there.
I'd like Go to have manual memory management: But Google decided it was better this way.

I don't really see it as a replacement for Java: But maybe for C (In non-critical performance software) or Python.
No, at least not yet. Thanks though, it's good to finally get something out there!
Who gets to decide what qualifies as a "real alternative?" I have seen much larger applications written in Java than in C++; does that make Java a "real alternative?" C++ does not really have any technical advantages over "true" high-level languages (i.e. languages that don't force the programmer to deal with low-level details and whose support for low-level operations does not constrain high-level features), but it has plenty of disadvantages. Meanwhile, I cannot think of anything people do in C++ that I am unable to do in Lisp, although I can think of plenty of things people do in C++ that are unnecessary in Lisp and that only serve to make code more complex and more error-prone.

So there, you have two "real alternatives:" Java and Lisp. I'll also throw in Scala (basically it's what Java should have been to begin with) and OCaml. So what are you doing in C++ that could not be done in any of these languages?
Thanks! I spent a few weeks on it. It's my goal in 2013 to actually finish projects that I start :)
That's not really true. If I were designing a low-level language I wouldn't go for "it's just a really fast PDP-11" C. I'd pick something with programmable syntax and Lisp-style macros, because being able to generate code at compile time is a huge boon if you're writing something performance intensive. C++ BLAS libraries use this to good effect to partially-evaluate things using the template mechanism, but that's just a small bit of what's possible with proper metaprogramming.
I remember a similar story about the original IBM PC.
Definitely interested. I've been looking at FRP for a school project. I haven't done a lot of investigation yet, mainly just branching off http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Functional_Reactive_Progr..., saving bookmarks and reading papers like you mentioned.
Sure my use case is simple and common for even the smallest startups:

I want my app to work in multiple Amazon EC2 regions.
On a somewhat meta note:

>Over the last two and a half years, we’ve picked up a few tips and tools about scaling Postgres that we wanted to share—things we wish we knew when we first launched Instagram.

A common failure mode for myself and, I suspect, others, is thinking that we have to know every single thing before we start. Good old geek perfectionism of wanting an ideal, elegant setup. A sort of Platonic Ideal, if you will.

These guys went on to build one of the hottest web properties on earth, and they didn't get it all right up front.

If you're postponing something because you think you need to master all the intricacies of EC2, Postgres, Rails or $Technology_Name, pay close attention to this example. While they were launching growing, and being acquired for a cool billion, were you agonizing over the perfect hba.conf?

More a note to myself than anything else :)
> Love, affection, contentment, happiness, connection.

Technology has addressed these more than you will ever realize.

As has been said already, technology greatly reduces isolation for anyone who isn't young, healthy, heterosexual, cissexual, and of the majority race in the region they find themselves. The ability to form connections based on mutual interests even when geography is against you is easily the difference between living and dying alone and finding a place where you actually fit.

What's more, the ability to make connections anonymously is essential. Being of the wrong persuasion, whatever that persuasion is, in the wrong environment can be grounds for anything from social ostracism to death. Without the technology to anonymously make connections with others, there are people who would risk death just looking for someone they'd enjoy spending time with.

The only people who think technology can't help with what you call 'existential needs' are the people who are lucky enough to not already know what I just posted. And they are amazingly lucky indeed.
Google's search URLs have slowly been creeping up in length over years. Some of the parameters like hl are for user interface control (in this case, langauge). Others like sourceid are for broad tracking of who's using Google how. And lately there are many more nonces mostly related to tracking individual users, Google+, instant search, etc. Many of those change based on who you are logged in as.

Google is also responsible for all the utm_source spam in Feedburner and other tracked URLs. And they are the ones behind the #! / _escaped_fragment_ nonsense. Google's first search product worked so well mostly because it relied on standard URLs as unique pointers to web pages. It's a shame they're breaking URLs in so many ways now.
If you're a designer and your clients are getting branding input on a casual basis that really means that you haven't educated your clients. Branding shouldn't be mere decoration but really needs to communicate something about the company. Also the branding needs to be more than just a logo.
Ah, interesting. What's the rationale for using the intermediate random key when sending the content to only one recipient?
He forgot the rapping but he did give thumbs up!
Leaving my startup behind for Nicaragua
What's wrong with my comment history and why do you feel you need to reduce yourself to ad hominem?

I already stated my point. That his article is an advertisement and offers no new information and doesn't belong on HN, and that Raspberry Pi is being falsely modest about their success because they have a lot of resources.
why? you assume that they have a computer already.
Ask HN: How to monetize our web clipping app?
Our site / Chrome app - http://clipular.com - has about 7,500 users so far, and is one year old this month.

With it, you can draw a box anywhere you like to clip a web page, saving exactly the area you select (snap to div is optional). Our users like it because it's very simple, with a keyboard shortcut and no extra actions to take.

The clips are kept in a password-protected quilt that only you can see. The full text of the site is indexed no matter what portion you clip, so you can search for words on a site you've saved, even if they're not in your clipping.

Now we need to decide how to monetize our app.

We're considering premium features, like group sharing, public sharing, or enterprise versions. Advertising and data collection have been discussed, but we don't really like turning our users into products.

What do you think? Premium features for a fee? One-time or monthly? What would be good features? Is there a better business model?
At the bottom of the page it says:

"Forbes: Hipset Is Next Generation Music Site >>"

...which seems like it would be a link to the article. But I can't seem to click it. In fact, I can't even find that text in the DOM, which is confusing me something fierce.
> JSON is used as a query language

Maybe a little more accurate to say JSON is used as a base layer for the query language.

JSON is "JavaScript Object Notation". But the "meaning" of the query is in the objects being denoted, not the notation used to represent them as text. So comparing Mongo's use of JSON to SQL is apples-to-oranges.

We could encode SQL as JSON too:

{"query": "SELECT * FROM things;"}

or

{"query": [
{"SELECT": "*"},
{"FROM": "things"} ] }

without affecting the expressive power of the SQL language one bit.
I think you should find a girlfriend. She will 'start your engine'
What do you mean the "law doesn't work" ? De Morgan's laws are working just fine!
Yeah. It's funny in my case, though. I'm writing a music streaming web app and not sure yet if the RPi will be able to transcode formats in real-time, so have pondered using decoders in JavaScript, e.g. [1], instead. Normally this would be an obvious task to do on the server side.

[1]: https://github.com/ofmlabs/flac.js
From a comment on wsj:

Please email the US Attorneys and tell them how you feel: carmen.ortiz _AT_ usdoj.gov and stephen.heymann _AT_ usdoj.gov
I literally just ran into the same issue with SQL Server. Since we're running an older version, I was very confused when I found the alternative to MySQL's "LIMIT"-- it wasn't pretty.
Great idea Peter! Are you open to or looking for any help?
Ah sorry, I didn't see. So the decision about DOM elem vs String is one I'm not 100% sure about, but I think the performance difference is at most like a 10-15% difference which wasn't that compelling to us. So I didn't see a strong reason to go one way or the other and the code I believe is cleaner producing nodes rather than Strings, but I easily could be wrong on both counts.

I didn't actually consider EDN. I haven't see enough of a win over JSON to consider it, but that could just be misinformed.
I've just started using Undirect in Chrome. Seems pretty good.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/undirect/dohbiijnj...

http://code.google.com/p/undirect/
obviously Google's servers will see your request and the results in plain text, or do you expect them to be encrypted even there?
Since you're so blasé about plea bargaining, maybe you can help us out with this one:

Why was it necessary for Aaron to plead guilty to 13 felonies in order to get a short sentence? If it were me, I'd be more concerned by the 13 felonies than the time, and I get the impression he was too.

How does it work? Do the prosecutors get to count it as 13 kills, which buffs up their own record as badass prosecutors? Can you explain the logic that pleading guilty to _more_ felonies than would be convicted at trial should lead to a shorter sentence?

You're really just changing the subject here. The issue isn't whether or not Aaron was a superman. We're shocked and offended by the plea bargaining process (even more surprised that its commonplace, forgive our naiveté) and the draconian vagueness of the CFAA (for example, what does "unauthorized" mean?)
I'll just reply with a hint, using an old maxim: ""Amateurs discuss tactics, professionals discuss logistics".
Bit.ly for apps totally under sells it, I thought it was another url shortener for app store links. This is link to app install analytics solution. Very cool.
Can we beat Zynga at their own games?
I'm with you 1000% percent here. The only language I ever encountered that could possibly have supplanted C was FORTH, and it was doomed by legions of Unix-trained C programmers once the hardware got good enough to support C.
If I were making a "non detectable by x-ray gun", I'd probably go with ceramic instead of plastic for some parts, or with using more metal, not less, to disrupt the shape (which is illegal under current law, too)
As several people have mentioned, you are confusing molten salt with liquid sodium. In a LFTR, the is no mechanism for driving the dispersal of the molten salt fuel. Therefore, no small particles and therefore the material is still in the hot cell where it is well shielded.

By the way, much of the stuff released by Fukushima will remain radioactive for hundreds of years not days, having a half life of about 30 years. But the activity maps I've seen suggest that at least the older folk should be allowed back pretty much everywhere. Pregnant women and little children, maybe should stay out of the hottest of the "red zone" hot spots. But FUD will cause them to keep folk out of the yellow zones too. Needless.
This is awesome and incredible when I hit "watch price" it says:

Ensure this value has at most 100 characters (it has 103).

My email is not very long... its 8 characters + @gmail.com

EDIT: I like to fly back to see my family in Los Angeles and I was finding across the board better prices at hipmunk.
You can try breadboarding if you have a simple through-hole circuit. If things are SMD-only, you'll have more trouble.
Huh, very interesting. Those would definitely be deadly (considering that even "blanks" can be). I think the cartridge body might be plastic too, if I am reading that page correctly (probably not too odd, that is how shotgun shells are often made I think).

Of course those rounds don't have enough recoil to cycle a semi-automatic rifle so I'm not sure how much of an advantage having a high-capacity magazine for those would really give anybody.
Sorry, this isn't a forum where saying "Fuck You" to another poster is okay.
i don't think i'm confusing anything. Clojure programmers love their persistent data structures, and in a browser environment, the most important data structure - the document model object - is not persistent and cannot be made persistent in a performant manner because it is a native api.

there is ongoing research into dom manipulaton in clojurescript - Conrad Barski presented one approach[1] at Conj 2012 where the dom is mirrored in clojurescript data structures, and then 'synced' with the dom - so that way the imperative ickyness is tucked away in the sync method - it remains to be seen if that can be made fast enough until we get a native persistent interface to the dom.

[1] https://github.com/drcode/webfui
Sould be mentioned that regulations apply to small drones as well, not just balloons.
Own3d.tv (streaming startup) not paying streamers for over 5 months
Gotcha

Without some details like a list w/ credentials of the reviewers, it comes off as less than credible. I'd wanna know who was reviewing me and what makes them qualified. Even if they're not the biggest of names, I'd be less leery if seeing more than 'verified artists'.

Calling Rap Genius "the #1 hip hop site" adds to this leeriness. Aside from the fact that it's not (no disrespect to Rap Genius), specifying a hip hop site as the success story on a page with limited details kind of pigeonholes it into seeming like a "rap thing" - potential artists that aren't making hip hop music may think they aren't qualified, or may become disinterested.
Meh. I count roughly the same number of tokens either way. I really don't think this is that big of a deal.
Bullets are not the only thing which can kill even a compressed air canister which expels some sort of projectile can be lethal.
I like how they timed something everyone has wanted for like a million years with the switch to per-core pricing lol.
I had to track down the bugs from embedded "gcc -O3" multi-#define-expanded C calling into Lua. Highly perverse definition of fun that would be, yet it was somehow. :-)

I read from your comment that the "kids should start with building their own CPU". The Java abstraction disease has eaten far too many souls who think the magic just happens, without regards for the sweaty chaps who make this magic come true :-)

I would beg anyone to try to program as many languages as they find around.

Both Python and Ruby have their strong traits, though integration with C is not one of them.

But "12345.to_s(21)" is a construct that is nowhere else, much like "python -m SimpleHTTPServer".

Then Haskell can be fantastic in it's mind-numbing math-derived domain-specificity (This, to me, is the biggest power of C and the biggest drawback of any meta-capable language - anyone new onboard needs to learn the custom shortcuts. C sucks at this so it is relatively easy for onboarding).

But all the languages you try leave a useful imprint in your brains.

For FFI, however, in my experience nothing can beat the http://luajit.org/ext_jit.html.

So, for something that may in the future benefit of low level offload, start with Lua, then move to Luajit, then move to Luajit+C. C being used for (preferrably) purely functional demonstrably performance critical parts. If you do not benefit first of a better TTM if used Python/Ruby...

But really it all boils down to using the best tool for the job.

Starting your education with assembler (mine was the 16x16 matrix of instruction codes of 8080 back in the day mapping onto bytes of raw data) gives you the insight of what is going down the curtains, and a possibility to keep the higher level languages in check.

Sorry for verbosity, bit tired to write in a more terse fashion.
This misses the important stuff:

* The extra flaring is temporary, because gas pipeline which could/would be built isn't there [0]. The issue isn't capturing gas in general, but capturing it right away, this year. Your four-year power plant construction doesn't solve this.

North Dakota even has a shortage of oil pipelines [1]; they are shipping out oil by rail, at a $5-$10/barrel premium, rather than delay.

* The "interesting" part of the cost is the capture/distribution at the well. These wells are small and remote. There are 8,000 of them [2]. The amount of flared gas is just $25,000/year per well (naive average).

Already 70% of the associated gas is captured; presumably, the 30% that is flared is more difficult.

* If they extract shale gas on a large scale, they can build long-distance pipelines cheaply. There is no economic need to site power plants near the gas field -- this is a solution in search of a problem.

* If they extract shale gas on a large scale, the amounts would be much larger than the amount being flared: they will purposefully seek out gas pockets. What they're flaring now is gas they don't want to extract.

* There's incentive to delay shale gas projects: there's an enormous gas glut in the US, which is depressing prices. Things which could be otherwise profitable are temporarily not.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/business/energy-environmen...

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020370750457701...

[2] https://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/stats/historicaloilprodstats.p...
That's a very good question...
I've never seen a major brand complete a redesign without at least a little backlash. People have a natural preference for what's familiar, but in time new brands tend to grow on you.
Just because historically, we've been a bit stupid, doesn't mean we should continue to be.

I think the analogy fits.
You have Flash player 0.0.0 installed.
You need Flash player 8 to view this page.

- on iPad. :(
I will definitely take a look at the site. I wouldn't want to ignore information based on my own bias.

I see the appeal of what you're saying, and I'm indeed concerned with private coercive power; however, explaining the "how" behind a free society is contradictory and presupposes State power. I can't tell you how it would work without the State, the same way I can't tell how an iPhone is made (besides some high-level explanation), or how the process came to be that produced it. I don't know what solutions people will come up with.

I would say, though, how is justice being served now? Is there not police corruption, abuse of power, innocent people thrown in jail (especially for drugs), unjust laws, etc? I would argue that this fair system you speak of does not exist, and would never exist under the State. I'm not saying it would exist in a free society (to err is human), but at least it wouldn't be centralized. At least we'd have third-party options. Maybe there would a financial incentive for you to not incite violence. Perhaps you'd be socially ostracized for your actions. Maybe I'd have to live with my broken nose. Again, not saying that this is the way it would work, only that there are plenty of creative solutions that don't involve a central, coercive agency.

There are a few books here that go into the possible solutions:
http://freedomainradio.com/FreeBooks.aspx

Also, for any of this to happen, there must a multi-generational philosophical awakening, in which people would become less violent and more open to peaceful solutions.
If you think an article is not best for HN, flag it and move on. Personally I found it to contain plenty of interesting information. Funding should by no means make you take success for granted, it is idiotic to think otherwise.

Your comment history looks like the comment history of a troll. I'm probably wasting my time here.