skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Greg,

There's no books or anything, alas, nor is there a very good corpus of material on this field - there's a few good talks out there, but I've not seen a great deal of written material.

Perhaps I need to write a book as well? Not sure I need another Kickstarter, though!
It's a social convention that you don't edit your own Wikipedia page, too.
Not really true, Hollywood just needs to make it inconvenient for casual users to make copies and give to their friends etc.
The pitch of a sound mostly controls the size for me, so the same sound on different note is very similar. Amplitude makes almost no difference.

The texture makes them very unique though. Sub basses, like a deep sine is usually dark yellow for me, or sometimes very dark grey, and they are soft and very large, like an infinite floor.

Percussive elements tend to be round. Kickdrums usually look big, round, dark, with a hard and shiny edge if it is a rocky kickdrum with punch, and they look like a sphere cut in half if they are weak.

Here are a couple of more examples

- Trancy leads are the only sounds which I percieve turquoise

- Electro synths tend to be very bright yellow or orange

- Drum and bass basses are mudded grimey brown, grey, etc

- Flutes, sax and wind instruments are light yellow too, with a really interesting shape

- Guitar and similar pluck instruments also amaze me, they are very distinctive

- Violins are red, and very shiny, like fire.
And thanks to you from our side :)!
Tcl Conference 2013: Call For Papers
Please, that's hyperbole. Sony rootkit and the DRM present in Flash/Silverlight are worlds apart.
Hi Error,

This is Greg from AngelHack. We have nothing to do with said "shell" accounts, nor did we give anyone incentive to make shell accounts. We offered our community free tickets to our next event if they helped us with up-votes (our definition of a successful product launch).

There was no incentive to vote more than once. But like with any community, we have our more passionate users that go above and beyond to try and help us succeed. It looks like that is what's happening here.
Step 1: Obtain and secure your very own web accessible server...

Fudge :/
no customer data was exposed during the attack

How did you confirm that?
How does it break the internet anymore than Flash and Silverlight do right now?
There's no such thing as a small scale space elevator. The difficulty in reaching orbit or elsewhere in the solar system is not altitude, but enough horizontal velocity to continually fall and miss the earth or reach escape velocity entirely.

A space elevator must stretch to at least geosynchronous altitude which is 35,800 km. Low earth orbit of 300 km sounds like 1% the effort, but does not help. The top of a 300 km structure on the equator would move at only 0.25 km/sec, nowhere near the 4 km/sec needed for orbit. (It could help if you built a launcher or railgun on top of it, outside the atmosphere, to skip air friction, but it can't literally elevate you into orbit.)
The latest of those citations is December 2011.
They may not reflect the current state of the Android OS.

Android 4.1 and 4.2, codenamed "Jelly Bean", have been released since that time, with a "Project Butter" specifically aiming at GUI smoothness.

I haven't had a chance to use anything newer than 4.0, myself, so I'm merely pointing this out. It could be the same for all I know.
I think it's supported, as there were updates for it last year, but just not actively developed. The developers are working on another project called Boomerang that's supposed to replace it(maybe?), but which hasn't seen an update in years last I checked.
Simplify responsive web development
One of the things I'm experiencing Now is a sense of limitless unfolding possibility for the future. Ignoring that would also rob me of a deep experience of what I have.
With all these folks excited by gcc releases (and really the C++11 features) it would seam like there's lots of folks still using C++. However, I have the hardest time in the world recruiting good C++ engineers (here in NYC at least).
I left Posterous over a year before the acquisition due to a difference in opinion over strategy. Brett had also left before. I didn't agree with where my cofounder wanted to go with it. I was bummed to see it didn't work out as we had hoped when it was acq-hired. I use Posterous a ton, and I needed a replacement anyway. Thus, Posthaven. I've been working at YC since 2011, actually.
Here's another thing you can do in your app: employ a custom frequency of periodic emails on a per-user basis. It doesn't help to keep emailing someone who never reads your stuff, they either do not need/like your product and ignoring you, or (and this is much worse) they're reporting your mailings as "spam". That, if left untreated, may affect the "spamicity score" of your domain: not good.
If you think about it, a shell prompt is just as much of an invitation to code. It's only really the GUI that changed this.
That's how I understand it. The founders get acquisition money and get to keep the (slightly different) product and users. How often does a deal like that come along?
Nice. Watching a couple of the fights unfold makes me see a perimeter strategy is very effective against a tank in the middle.
Awesome Garry!
http://tattlerapp.com/
does this work?
Honestly, I cant speak to what happened here as Im not sure what to think other than both US government and now its citizens are working to maintain police state rather than a free country. Beyond that, I happen to work in an environment where women are not treated fairly or given the same opportunities as male sw developers. I survive it, try not to be part of the problem, but it sucks! There really is a gender inequality problem in the tech industry and I think both sides are part of the problem. Both sides conduct themselves in ways that propagate the issues. Beyond that, even tech woman within their own gender group become more detrimental to each other than the males. It's sickening!

How do we truly begin to solve this on all layers? I guess the first step is awareness within all layers of the issue, and agree on all sides there are problems that cut both ways, and then we must be willing to resolve it on all layers. We cant just hold one gender responsible, we all are responsible. But really how best to do this???

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Yeah, this is a bit of a head-scratcher for me.
Heck, this was my favorite game on the Apple IIe as a kid -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar. Glad to see it in-browser again!
Not yet, is planned for 1.0
No, this is a new codebase from scratch. There's zero IP and zero users from Posterous. It's also not a startup -- we are exploring ways to turn it into a non-profit.
I find perverse pleasure in your ironic error, i.e. a hole in your knowledge (or potentially typing skills) related to the distinction between "hole" and "whole".
I think this is a good question. I can tell you that, here in NYC these services do get a fair bit of use (seamless.com, in particular, though I think GrubHub may also be popular). I attribute this to the combination of a large number of affluent people working long hours and the relative difficulty of getting around that big city life presents.

I think the reason why factors like this are important is that, all things being equal, people would rather dine in a restaurant if they're going to pay "eating out" prices. When you go to a restaurant, of course, you are paying for more than the food. You are also paying for (hopefully) a nice atmosphere and a feeling of relaxation and wealth. It's also nice to get out of the house/office.

Oddly enough, I draw an analogy to RSS readers. (Which has been on my mind recently for obvious reasons.) The thing that people overlook about RSS is that the value of a website is in more than just paragraphs of text. Websites are also designed to create a certain kind of experience. The premise that underlies this design work, of course, is that design adds value for the user beyond just the words on the page. But that added value is stripped away when content is consumed through an RSS feed. The question then becomes whether the added convenience (etc.) of aggregation into a feed outweighs the value lost.

Similarly, the question for GrubHub users is whether the loss of the secondary benefits of eating in a restaurant (and add to that, of course, the small additional monetary expense) are made up for by the added convenience. Evidently most people feel that it is not.
Not surprised - my daughter brought herself an excellent Android 7" tablet for £40.00 a month or so ago. Fantastic bargain that has given her a lot of pleasure. If it was not pink I might buy one for myself.

If someone can sell these at a profit in the UK (20% VAT) then they must be pretty cheap to make.
Yes! I've been doing this for awhile. If you feed the data into a Bayesian classifier, you can figure out what kind of user you're dealing with, too.
This.

I'm a developer who is single making a decent salary in the Bay Area, but I also have sent a significant portion of my earnings last year to family who have not faired as well in the economic downturn of the past few years.

Just because someone is single with no kids doesn't mean nobody depends on them.
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Posthaven has made a promise to users that they won't sell (and given that Garry is behind it, I don't think that's a promise made lightly). It's built for people who are tired of seeing their content eventually become dead links.

Instead of offering it free they have a sustainable business model @ $5/mo, so they won't be beholden to finding a big exit or raising a ton of cash.
I had never heard the word 'frisson' before, and I had no idea that some people didn't do it to music. Happens to me all the time. Interesting.
Foursquare was started in a similar way. (Google bought and shuttered Dodgeball, founders did their time at Google, then quit and started Foursquare).

Andy Rubin has done this successfully as well (Danger, MSFT, Android).
Hashtagging Github in a comment on HN? What is the world coming to?
The installation guide link on the homepage that takes you to Git is borked at present?!
Looks very cool––what kind of performance hit is introduced by logging every event?
> people should be free to joke about all such things.

Agreed. But let me disagree about your first sentence. Actually, I think you just showed that funny is orthogonal. The salient point, as you pointed out, is for people to mind their own business about other people's business. This would have applied if the comments between those men were a silly joke or more of a bitter complaint. There would've been far less funny in the 2nd situation, but you still would've had the same result.
You've got the correct offset, but it appears you have some extraneous data at the end.

The offset is 0x20b94, with length 82244. Pull that out of the jpeg, and you can play the song.
I believe this is a large component of it. However, I think there is also a certain amount of response in the form of:

"We made this and shared this, why are you getting paid for it?" Which is different than the tribal notions. Basically if someone is going to profit from my free work, from my community, why shouldn't they at least offer me a cut? It is not a case of legal requirement, it is a case of decency. Something is built on sharing, then someone else decides to make a profit - without sharing that - goes against the grain of the idea to begin with.
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About MySql, it is the db that most existing installations use and it is well tested. Also we had problems with deadlocks on Postgres during integration tests on Travis CI. I must admit that I think Postgres has the momentum and look forward to recommending it in the future.

Good point about the ruby version, I made a pull request https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/pull/3305
It has been corrected since then - the post is from February 28th, not sure why it's just now hitting HN.

This isn't a real-time complaint.
Notice how he has no hair.
Still a long way to go, I think.
Hi George,

Greg from AngelHack here. Thanks for the pro-tip. HN is still a black box to us and I appreciate your tips on successful protocols for using it. We didn't incentive people to create "sock puppets," only to vote once from their personal accounts in return for a free tick. Myself, like everyone else, is looking for ways to hack the system (HN is now a big part of that system and how we distribute information to the community).

It sounds like you understand things much better than us. If you'd ever like to chat I can be reached at greg@angelhack.com
It's essentially imperceptible. We measured it, and our client-side script introduces a 0.1% CPU overhead.
Probably just a typo for 'noting'.
This seems really interesting, but starting at 250 users per month seems high. I notice the price/active user starts at a penny and falls 60% as the users climb to over 500,000.

Would it be possible to create a price option for even smaller companies, demo sites, etc, at a higher rate?

Say, what if the owner of a small blog wanted to use this to do really fine grained analysis of users actions but they average 250 hits a day?
Good riddance. There are plenty of Android 4.0 tablets out there that are as cheap and are powerful enough.
Ah, sorry -- I somehow misread your initial post. I was speaking specifically about male privilege.

But to be fair, so was whoever used that example. It is talking about a particular type of privilege, and how we might not even notice when we have it. It wasn't supposed to indicate all types of straight white privilege.
I'm positive there is a market for it. Unfortunately "capturing everything" has an unsolvable problem beyond capture performance, storage cost and query performance (which are hard but solvable) - it let's you find the outcome you were looking for all along.
The W3C requires at least two implementations before standardization can happen, right? Theoretically, if both Webkit and Gecko refused to implement it (or, more diplomatically, "indefinitely deprioritized its implementation"), would this be DOA?
Check the history: She edited her own page many times.
To look at popular culture, the entire article reminded me of the plot of brazil, and the protagonist struggling with the rigid human beaurocracy that refused to accept that it had made an error.
I don't really contribute to open source, my contribution is mostly bug reports and being willing to help the real contributors track down issues.

Jeremy Ashkenas on here a few days ago would have said such contribution is a vital and useful one - this is a game of inches - and clearing down bug lists, and beefing up the real ones is a big one
I find a restaurant that I like and then find their number to call them directly so I can avoid the delivery fee they charge to Grub Hub / Seamless users (most likely to offset GH's fee to the restaurant).
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Google and Microsoft are supporters and working on the spec,

https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...

Which makes two implementations, I am afraid. Unless we can convince at least one of those to stop.
> I think you're attributing opinions to me that I never expressed.

It was because of the "always." Seems like you meant that more as "most of the time."

> I'm just saying that poking fun is a perfectly appropriate response to this particular absurd situation.

With that, I'll entirely agree.
Well said.

I also think criminals will avoid it like the plague. Bitcoin could conceivably tell law enforcement everywhere you received money from and everywhere you spent it. I realize it is one long number transacting with another long number, but law enforcement have computers too, and they have time on their side. Using bitcoins could be like leaving DNA on the scene of the crime - probably not a good idea if you want to get away with whatever you are doing.
As a programmer I think this is very cool. As a game guy, the field of play is too large given the size of the robot graphics. Make the tanks bigger and you have something much more suspenseful.
Our bottom tier (which includes a 1 month free trial) lets you track 2,500 users/month.

That said, pricing is really hard to get right. There's basically zero chance we nailed it on the first try.
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> Are you looking for a 100% solution? If so, you'll never find it.

I dunno, getting paid to make information-based content (which includes anything you can stick on a hard drive) by the people that want the content, rather than by people who want to try to profit off its artificial scarcity, could probably be a 100% solution.

Because then the information you have you can treat like anything else you own - you can share it, spread it, etc, without fear, and the content creator got paid by people that wanted it made.

I mean, it would be a culture shift, but it is a 100% solution. Piracy doesn't matter if the point of profit isn't in per-goods sales but in goods creation, where the actual costs lie.
From what I understand in the Pycon incident there was an apology and admission that it shouldn't have happened, and parties were happy with the result. The problem came later because of the tweeted picture.
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This looks awesome. One question, why not release it as a third party module first and then merge it into the core later ala staticfiles?
T-Mobile is actually expected to be launching an LTE version of the Galaxy S3 soon: http://www.androidcentral.com/t-mobile-set-launch-galaxy-s3-...

Given that, I think it is very possible they misidentified the device. As many have noted, the designs of the S3 and S4 are quite similar. And unlike an S4, it would make sense for T-Mobile's LTE S3 to have a Snapdragon S4, like all of the other US S3s.
Good point, we're looking into it. For now you can use https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/5-0-stable/doc/ins...
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Javascript is getting better with at least the latter thanks to typed arrays - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Typed_ar...
This is precisely the reason. I was going to answer that question in a separate comment until I noticed yours.

You receive points for an objectively correct answer.
More likely is it was a binary

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23126-dinosaurkilling-...

15% of near earth objects are binaries, a fact that is not widely known.

Edit: asteroids --> objects
Right, but it's Apple, not Google, who holds the keys to Webkit. Not that I presume that Apple is so benevolent (naive much?), but it wouldn't be the first time that Apple has outright rejected a Googler's patch (I can't remember the link now, something about Dart integration). Obviously Google could always fork the whole project for the sole purpose of implementing DRM, but what a fiasco that would be!
They are being pressured by businesses that want to support those broken business models like Google. Youtube is a great example - thousands of people are now living their lives off youtube ad revenue, yet you can get a simple addon for any browser to download the mp4s.

DRM isn't necessary, old media just wants total control. I seriously think if we just play the battle of attrition, they will die off soon because they can't compete in an on-demand get-what-you-want information free era.
This is really weird.

> Its creators are also inspired by Google Reader’s recent demise

What does a demise of a Google product has to do with another totally different product by a different company?
The Ironics are a different school of thought.
I use eat24hours.com almost every week. Recently I tried GrubHub for the first time too. I love using these services. I have dozens of restaurants nearby to choose from on eat24hours & grubhub in LA.
I think this is one of those services which is very hard to scale outside big cities.
They aren't secure, at all. For example, most NCR ATMs can be physically opened with one of three keys that are easily available online. Many (especially at non-national banks) are running XP and only sporadically patched, if at all. Most NCR machines have a default admin password (one for Aptra Edge and one for Aptra Advance). Once you are in you can do whatever you want, from changing the XML for the greeting screens ("FEED ME A STRAY CAT") to replacing the animations and movies with whatever you like.

The parameters controlling what is locally allowable on the machine can be changed by editing the right config file - is $500 going to be the maximum allowable withdrawal or $50,000? If you know your way around the actual machine configuration and the operator panel you can do fun things like tell the machine it is full of $1 dollar bills when it's actually full of $20s - you just have to know what the opacity value is for the bill scanner.

The only factor here is physical security to the electronic components, which is exceedingly poor. The interior safes are very strong even once you've opened the external cabinet, so you won't be physically taking the money out very easily. Except for Triton machines, those things are ridiculously flimsy.
Investment by the current banking industry may well be driven/enabled in part by the deposits they have on the books.

Keeping BTC in a wallet is very much more like just stuffing dollars in a shoebox, the money is dead and removed from the system. It's not driving anything.
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Ask HN: Just created price tracking too, does another site like this exist?
In NYC, seamless.com is very popular at least where I work. Reason being you can order online for delivery at your office doorsteps. So it depends on the use case.
Hi aashay, you are completely correct, we are designed to be a feeder system into other accelerators! We're not trying to re-invent the wheel here, only help great teams prepare for getting into them. We should have branded this more as a pre-accelerator to be honest (any PR people out there looking for a job?)

For 12 weeks of mentorship, 2 weeks in SF, all our connections, help getting into "legit" programs, tickets to Disrupt, and potentially a booth at Disrupt, we take 2%. That makes us sustainable, which is all we're trying to do. We pay for everything out of our own pocket. AngelHack is a bootstrapped company that has scrappily built out our communities around the world without the help of organizations like Kauffman, that could give us the funding to allow us to pay for everyone to stay longer.

No doubt, there is a better way things can be done. But with our current resources, our goals are to do what we can to provide the most value to the community in a sustainable way.
Google Reader is a social service that was free. Google is a company that makes a lot of money, just not on that thing. The product was added to a "projects to cut" list in an email by a Google executive, and the next day it was axed.

Twitter bought Posterous for the talented team. A year later, the service is axed.

This is why things like Newsblur or Posthaven should exist for certain types of socially valuable purposes -- it's a paid service that won't go away. Because, well, money.
Padrino is a Ruby web framework, for those who are not familar with it.
In that case, either one may be littering, vandalism, or property destruction. While it would be wasteful and silly to pursue a prosecution for one occurrence, a single occurrence is still a crime.
I disagree, it's not the best, but it's decent enough for most games. Most HTML5 game engines use the audio tag. My game uses a good amount of sound effects and background music just fine with the audio tag: http://cityfortyone-mattgreer.dotcloud.com/dragonPlunder/
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