skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HTML5 audio is missing many basic features! Like panning. If you make a game, HTML5 audio does not cut it. The Web Audio API is amazing in comparison, with full support for audio routing graphs with processing nodes, filters etc. set up how you want for a maximum efficiently low-memory low-latency audio system. HTML5 audio is like a big tape player that you can press "play", "pause", "stop" and if you're lucky maybe slow it down or speed it up and that's it. They're worlds apart.
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Some projects like Lockitron aren't allowed anymore, so that's a big reason for them not using Kickstarter (and app.net I don't think was allowed either). But another reason is that Kickstarter is US/UK-only, and with the Crowdtilt API on the backend of this version it's international.

In addition to that, with this wordpress-style version, you get to use your own URL/and customize the branding if you want, the users become your users, it's your credit card processing (so you get that data too for future up-sells or feature purchases), and it saves you from paying the Kickstarter fees (this one is free, and Kickstarter charges up to 10%).
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I personally really enjoyed the interview. It was refreshingly honest to hear about his struggles and it was a good reminder as to how much work and dedication it takes.

Some really great quotes about what kind of competition he's most afraid of.

Really thoughtful interview.
I agree. Lets say that somehow FB overcomes the hurdles you've outlined. What do they gain? What additional capabilities would having a platform they own give them over what they can achieve on ios and adroid? Not to mention that the I'm sure Apple would boot them out of their newly gained built-in status, and wouldn't surprise me if Google penalized them somehow.

I just can't see any upside and quite a few potentially very grave downsides.
Agreed, just adding the caveat.
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It is very unfortunate that this happened to your friend.

However, brief anecdotes like this are not incredibly useful without a great deal of additional information.

* Did your friend or others in her family have a history of mental illness?

* Was she depressed or otherwise suffering from mental illness at the time of the trip?

* Was she on any other drugs (prescribed or not) apart from ayahuasca?

* Had she had much previous experience with psychedelics?

* Did she try to fight the experience or was she able to surrender to it and go with the flow (a very important skill to have, when using psychedelics)?

* Was she in a safe environment, among trusted people during the trip?

* Did she have a concrete, positive intention for the trip? Or was she just taking it for the hell of it?

* How much did she know about what she was getting in to?

* How qualified was the shaman she took the brew with?

Unfortunately, many self-styled shamen don't have the proper training, or (occasionaly) any training at all. There could be incentive for people to misrepresent themselves and their credentials, especially when money is involved.

Yes, one should definitely be very careful, and avoid taking psychedelics when one or one's family has a history of mental illness, is currently suffering from mental illness (including plain old depression), or is using any other psychoactive medication (such as antidepressants, antipsychotics, etc).

You should also seriously check out the credentials of any shaman or guide you're taking the medicine with, and be sure you are in a safe, supportive environment during the trip.

Finally, thoroughly educate yourself on the substance and constructive ways of using it.
This ruins the history and is not supported on most Android browsers.
"increasingly irrelevant phones" that somehow keep selling more every year.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57565106-37/iphone-wins-51...
I'm working directly with a DevBootcamp grad and would be happy to talk about the experience some.
This is pretty hilarious :)
I realize that, 15 years ago, I used Word for things like writing manuals, printing cover sheets, formatting resumes, writing newsletters -- everything that was designed to be printed.

I haven't used Word in years. Every workplace of mine has used Google Docs instead. And for the first time, I realize it isn't just because of Google Docs collaboration and use-anywhere -- it's the fact that all the "power" features of Word, particularly formatting and layout, are all geared towards the printed page.

But I literally produce nothing designed to be printed anymore. Everything that used to be printed, is now thrown up the web. Fancy formatting is useless now if it can't be translated into HTML.

(For spreadsheets, there are still big reasons for power usage of those, so I don't see Excel going away anytime soon. But except for producing PDF versions of nicely formatted resumes, it's getting harder and harder to see why Word should even exist. And of course graphic designers need to produce typeset pages, but that's what page layout programs are for.)
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> Seriously? Hahahaha, no. This is an absolutely terrible idea, please don't ever do this!

Last paragraph. :)
> A placebo must match the drug in physical appearance, taste, texture, density, state (liquid/solid/gas), and anticipated side effects.

This makes the following statement: "When compared to a placebo, this drug had rare incidents of the following side effects..." translate as "We guessed correctly at the incidents of side effects before we started the trials," correct?

If so, then that's false advertising.
What was the previous payout schedule - every two weeks I take it?
data:text/html, <html contenteditable><script>var t=prompt("what shall we name this file?","new");document.title=t;</script>

^ you can now hit ctrl+s to save the file with a real name
I bet they will screw up and their git will be incompatible with the rest of the world.
Microsoft CANNOT prevent licensees from loading any old crap they like. The US Justice Department sued Microsoft to establish this fact, and put a judge in oversight for the next decade.

The DoJ also prevented Microsoft from doing deals with the top 10 Windows OEMs, and compelled it to supply them all at the same price. This prevented Microsoft from doing any deals that would be unfavourable to any OEMs who chose to provide slow, badly-installed, crapware-filled systems.

Obviously this was a tremendous benefit to the American public, and to the rest of the world, which doesn't have a choice or a voice when the DoJ makes the rules.
EDP and OOP are not mutually exclusive. Javascript is popular simply because it's really really really underpowered. see: atwood's law
GLad to see the Oric-1 mentioned! That was my first computer :)
Thank you to you and all the volunteers who maintain Rubygems. Its an amazing repository that has helped all ruby developers.

Its amazing to see that one can just type 'gem blah' and magically things get installed.
Requires Win7 SP1 higher first.

Chrome only needs WinXP SP2, while still supporting Mac and Linux.

This is a big deal at least with my customers. It's just silly that Chrome has broader Windows support than IE. IE should not be so dependent on the base OS.
Suffix array is usually built for ONE string, but in his work, OP probably needs multiple strings, for which trie is a conceptually better representation.
Years late...from what epoch?
There was no new functionality in 2013 useful to me so I ended up going back to an old version just because of the new UI. The layout is fine. I've always liked the ribbon UI. The problem is the entire UI is this block of whiteness dotted with icons. I had a very difficult time finding items that hadn't even moved much or at all. I never realized before this just how important the 3D-ish look of buttons/toolbars/etc was to me. The whole flat UI look isn't working well for me at all.
lmao Ruby and RoR shame PHP in terms of security flaws. Making you unknowingly write security holes, ridiculous flaws discovered on daily/weekly basis, package management hacked etc I have never seen as ridiculous holes as RoR even in the CodeIgniter framework. Where are the RoR-haters when we need them?
That Time Shift photo feature does sound brilliant! I really want to try that out.
I don't think it would be a reasonable course of action. However, I do think that as long as they are relatively unregulated, a much better approach would be to limit inserts and advertising descriptions on the incidents of side effects to absolute proportions, not comparing side effect proportions to those on active placebos intended to mimic expected side effects.
Thanks... I'll check that out!
A few confounding issues: first, how do you define 'wrong'? Can you prove empirically that a better solution exists than the answer put fourth in any given example?

Secondly, if we can prove that better solution that the crowd-sourced one exists, then can we prove that it would be more or less likely to be hit upon by an individual working alone or by the crowd? IE: what configuration provides the greatest likelihood of choosing the correct solution, and how do we quantify that?

Thirdly, it is very possible that for any given problem, there's not a 'correct' answer that can be attained reliably given the known data. One trillion people working together would be not more likely to predict the winning lottery numbers tomorrow for instance -the information they have available to them simply is not adequate.

My gut feeling? Group decision making is useful for certain, narrow reasons but doesn't become more powerful in a linear fashion when you add more people. There are inefficiencies of scale that come in to play which begin to outweigh the benefits of distributed decision making.
Wow, Carmen must have 500+ HN pts. I, apparently, was wrong in my assumption that she is in fact yet another political climber in a position that is famous for being a jumping off point for higher office. Obviously a democrat (appointed by Obama), her example of Aaron will surely win her points with the Hollywood/DMCA crowd. Please, downvote me again for a view that, obviously, must be sooooo far off the truth.
I attempted to write a simple web project in Java to learn it. I haven't used Java before, I normally use Python for web stuff and C# for other misc stuff.

It was hell. I installed JetBeans IDEA quickly enough, but it went downhill from there. My AntiVirus (Kaspersky) fucked with Java 7's networking meaning it couldn't connect to anything, so it took an hour and a lot of googling to fix that. Next step: make a struts2 project. Wait, maven doesn't like the archtype IDEA gives it so it explodes and doesn't install it. Ok, do that by hand. Next install a webserver, which one to choose? Install one, doesn't work with IDEA - have to install an earlier version.

Ok. Finally got a blank project up. Read the docs for struts2, brain hurts, uninstall everything, fire up VS 2012 and write the whole thing in C# and run it on mono. Easy.
absolutely brilliant.

this article hits the nail strait on the head.

i initially started learning how to problem solve when i started dabbling with my first computer. living in saudi arabia created an isolated environment. access to information, especially game related was hard to come by. the only thing left was to hack away any way possible to achieve the desired results, which was mostly beating the game.

thank you sierra and lucas arts for all the adventure games. i literally played all the games and beat them all without cheating, must have spent literally 1000s of hours playing and teaching myself. i learned how to hack and problem solve because it peaked my curiosity, it was just all a game to me.

now coding and problem solving come quite naturally.

it really all comes down to constant and correct intervals of dopamine release. just like any sport, entering the dopamine "flow" is what keeps me programming. time disappears, its me and the problem, fencing back and forth, just enough challenge to prevent frustration to prevent boredom.

if you program and don't experience this... i don't know why anyone would want to program if they didn't truthfully.
Deco Rama: I thought I'd take a swing at explaing Python Decorators.
I do love a good PR stunt... Any (legal) ideas? :)
> This is one feature that Eclipse don't have since you have to refresh everytime there is changes outside the IDE.

That used to annoy me a lot. But isn't there a setting that makes Eclipse scan for changes on the file system now? I don't remember what it's called.
It's not insane, it's a rational marketing decision. Users buy on the headline price, and price plus $50 would be much less attractive. People who want to move the recovery partition to their own choice of "recovery usb stick" can do so.
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Original author of the Biopython implementation here. Out of the maybe 100,000 lines of code that I have out on the internet somewhere, I never would have thought that this little module would be what makes the front page of Hacker News! Unfortunately, it's for a bug, but hey, I guess you can't win em all.

I've submitted the fix back to Biopython. Thanks for reporting the problem, and please let me know if there are more issues.
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Ask HN: What's the Best DMCA, Privacy Policy, and ToS Boilerplate Out There?
Hi HN, I'm just getting ready to launch a big side project that I've been working on for quite a while, and I'm realizing that I need to have a DMCA notice, as well as Privacy Policy and Terms of Use statements.

I'm obviously going to hold off on legal consultation until I get some traction, so I'm wondering what the best reusable DMCA boilerplate is?

Regarding Privacy and Terms of Service, I believe Automattic has open sourced theirs, correct? Any better options out there?

Thanks in advance.
MIT 6.470 is a web programming competition/class that started 6 years ago. Our mission is to push the bar on web programming here at MIT and to get more people involved earlier on in their careers. We also strongly believe that competition is a fun and energizing way to learn.

I also want to mention that we're always considering ways to expand our reach. We would love to positively impact the greater community by either expanding our current competition, running additional competitions, or expanding our educational materials/software. We have plenty of ideas of our own (and not enough time ;) but I'm certainly up for discussing ideas, receiving advice, etc anytime! (Feel free to email me or just post here.)
Thanks, that looks like a great recommendation. I spent some time at IMVU (online service + software) a few years back and their processes were heavily inspired by the Toyota Production System. The stuff they adopted seemed to work really well so lean manufacturing has been interesting to me since.
Agreed, so change advertising requirements. Instead of "compared to a placebo" (which is highly misleading in this case), make the drug companies disclose side effects differently. "In clinical trials, this drug had the following incidents of side effects... An active placebo intended to cause anticipated side effects had the following incidents...."

This preserves all of what you can currently get, but it frames the issue so that the average individual does not assume that an on-par comparison means all side effects are placebo effect.
What games have you been making since then ?
Pretty solid selling points to be honest. I guess I might give it a try.
Not really. However, since you're operating on prejudice, there's no point in wasting rational arguments on you.
Do you honestly think if you get lost and knock on a strangers door you'll just be indiscriminately killed in the USA?

Remember that the statistics are all talking about relatively small numbers. Take USA's 0.00004 vs Australia's 0.00001 it's technically correct to say '300% more likely', but it's still a very small chance.

tl;dr Your more likely to commit suicide than be murdered in either country.
Here, here! I still remember playing Xenon and Panic on it. It was a great machine but the keyboard of the first model did suck :)
The SSH model for SSL is a non-starter, because you can MITM bankofamerica.com or Gmail for an hour and find tens of thousands of people who just reinstalled Windows, bought a new iPad, etc etc, and they will fall instantly to your MITM attack. (And -- more's the hilarity -- if they try to go back to bankofamerica.com tomorrow it will look like the bank is trying to MITM them.)
Business Insiders would be sad to read this. It might end their endless link baiting on this topic.
As I said, it's not a pig of a mobile OS, it's a full copy of Windows 8. You know, that's like Mac OS X <feline animal>. And it doesn't fit on a ROM chip.
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You can also use the Office Web Apps to edit your documents online, whereas in Dropbox/Google Drive, you'd have to have Office installed.
In what capacity are you working with the devbootcamp grad? What kind of hiring / working experiences have you had with other developers?

On a surface glance, it seems like you develop rails MVP's via coder.ly?
The thing you're missing is any semblance of fact.
KickStarter is a platform. We have no intention of being a platform or a brand funders recognize. We're meant to be an invisible layer and only serve as a mechanism to get your project online.
Also, just realized that doing so put's it in auto-hide mode (at least in 2010); when you click a tab, it shows up only long enough to let you select something, then it hides again. Great compromise.
> However, publishing database.yml on pastie is TOTALLY 100% NOT COOL ...

This whole thing is a joke, from the ridiculously unsafe YAML parser to the response of the RubyGems people.

If these are your community social norms, then you quite simply deserve the resulting shake-up. This is how you become inoculated against such incredibly poor engineering practices.
The answer is pretty plain: The Office division cut the team that was supposed to ship the Metro-styled Office apps for 2013 despite the Windows division objection. Windows then relented and added 'desktop mode' for ARM just to keep Office in the release. Office tweaked the existing UI to make buttons 'bigger.' The original plan called for the Metro UI to be available whenever a user interacted with his hands -- Surface was the primary objective, but Office 2013 should work great on the Toshiba tablet as well.

The decision to cut Metro support was made in Q1 2011 and distributed to all Office managers by Kurt himself. The team that was working on Metro (called Modern Office eXperience, MOX) shrunk and merged with OneNote. Hence, why we see OneNote has Metro and no other app does. The reasoning was "the Win8 APIs are not stable enough for us to finish on schedule with the team we have. We either ship 10/11/12 or slip by a year to support Windows 8." They decided to ship (RTM) on 10/11/12. We should see a 'surprise' SP1 that supports Metro and iOS by the end of this year (this is pure speculation from me -- I have no NDA knowledge about plans past 10/11/12).

You are seeing a classical "ship the orgchart" dilema from Microsoft with Office and Windows this season. It's sad, really, but these tensions are why I don't work there.
Thanks so much for this article, it's really helpful. I'm currently setting up manufacturing in China using Seeed Studios for a prototype run of 1000 units, and it's really helpful to see that based on the advice here they're probably a decent partner =)

Maybe not the best match for a million unit run, but for this quantity, and at this stage of development, they seem to be doing a great job!
Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles
The widespread practice of admins changing submission titles is incredibly annoying and obnoxious.

I would be more forgiving if the edited titles were actually clearer and more descriptive than the titles the submissions originally had. But much of the time they are worse.

Sometimes the titles will be changed to the title the article originally had. This would be fine if the title was a good one. But often the original article title is not very descriptive, and the submitted title is better. In this case, changing the title to the original article title helps no one. It makes the submission look more vague, obscure, and generic.

If the title changing was actually improving the site, I'd be all for it.

But you guys are incompetent, and are making HN worse. Please stop it!
This title is misleading
You don't know how to calculate the median?

http://www.robertniles.com/stats/median.shtml
Thanks for the suggestion about Indiegogo. I guess I'm just not very in the loop. Too old or something ;-)

I realize 5% isn't that much, and I have seen enough projects fail due to penny pinching that I want to allocate value as value deserves. But for my margins, 5% of $70 is $3.50 -- the same cost as my entire case... I'm just nervous about it being quite tight while feeling like I'm already at the ceiling of what I can ask for in price.
"feature creep"
I'd be interested in hearing the rationale for changing the titles.
This is fantastic!

16 hours ago, I asked this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138705
and now you just conveniently come along with the perfect answer!

Awesome.
Human nature probably.
We could present both the original title and the updated one within the comments thread, and allow people to vote on which title they like more.
I want responsive favicons... thing is; I'm not joking; it would be very useful if every site had a 128px * 128px and 640px * 640px versions of their favicons (logos?).
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> Starting in February 2013, we will transition you to a schedule from being paid two days after the end of the month to 15 days after the end of the month.

Unless there's more to it, they're just changing what day of the month they cut the checks... so you get paid just as often, just as fast. What's the complaint?
Also of interest is http://crate.io/

What I've personally been looking for is an easy to setup caching proxy for PyPI. Something that is pip-compatible and serves files if it has them but will also fetch and then store packages if it doesn't. That way you could build up a collection of 3rd party packages over time, without having to explicitly manage it.

It probably wouldn't be hard to roll my own with a reverse proxy but it never gets moved to the front burner.
'Being a programmer usually consists of very late nights sat in front a screen, which makes getting up the next morning increasingly difficult.'

This is your problem. Being a programmer does not have to consist of these things. I work 8-10 hours a day, after that I go to the gym to get exercise and unwind. Once I'm home, IF I'm really feeling like I want to get something done I'll allocate a single hour to work that must end before 10pm. After 10pm is no more work time. I'll do something else, usually read, until sometime before midnight. Lights out before midnight and up at 7am.

Is it very routine based? Yes.
Does it get me to bed where I have a 7 hour window to sleep every night? Yes.
Do I still hit the snooze button? Of course.

But getting a consistant amount of sleep means I feel good every morning and am productive the rest of the day.

Footnote: 23 and single.
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You nailed it man. The FBI had no right to kick down his door and now he has his revenge, he is going to embarrass them with his riches from this new project.