skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to work on your PR-speak. Simple = "dumb". You need a word without such unfortunate connotations, like elegant or uncluttered. Try something like this:

I recently read your article about computers and music titled ([article title]). Thus, I thought that you might be interested in my project as well <a href="http://computoser.com>Computoser</a>, which provides a very accessible and intuitive web interface to a virtually unlimited set of music tracks, all generated without any human input. Although it is not the first algorithm to generate music, to the best of my knowledge, it is the first time such an algorithm has been available via web with a user-friendly interface.

Announcement of the project, and later the related app, made the front page of Hacker News, an accomplishment in itself. Initial feedback from fellow tech professionals was very positive (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4819269 and {the other hn link}). I was surprised that it did so well on such a large and competitive forum. The experience inspired me to make some improvements. Those improvements are already in place. There is no doubt still room for improvement but initial response is extremely encouraging.

I am currently looking for feedback from industry insiders like yourself and offering you the chance to be the first to cover the story, assuming you find it worthy.

Thanks so much for your time.

Respectfully,
Bozho

Edit: "Computoser" should be clickable but it should be the name of the site, not the url. Similarly, you should name the two hn links. But hn is mucking up my formatting etc.
Looks fantastic, good work!

One state is missing from Australia: Australian Capital Territory, which has it's own test and rules. Having that would be of particular use to a lot of people I know :)
Selected my state without selecting a country and I got a 404. The states dropdown was populated for US, so I assumed I could skip selecting my country.
> This is a hugely successful pattern throughout a number of aspects of gaming, graphics being one of the most classic examples.

Not really, no. Immutability comes at the cost of performance compared to mutability. The gap is shrinking between the two, but it's still wide enough that using pure immutable structures for frame buffers, shaders and other graphical concepts is simply not an option to write games.

Haskell is interesting in the sense that it doesn't prevent you from using mutable structures (e.g. Lenses, Writer) but it encodes this information in the type system. I'm really curious to read the conclusions that Carmack will draw from his experience but I wouldn't be surprised to read that at the very low levels, mutable structures are just unavoidable for high performance games.

Also, mutable structures accessed by concurrent threads is a problem that's much less difficult than most people claim, and it's often much easier to reason about locks and semaphores than about immutable lazily initialized structures.
Without getting too far into specific operational security -- the same reason that I hate there's an entire branch off my thread discussing this specific attack, which I think is detrimental to the discussion -- we have monitoring in place to tell me if this exact attack happens. Within seconds. The latency would just be a clue.

Think about the dumbest way you would do that. Then implement it. That's how simple our system is.
So, how are you making money out of this? I also see a section for car insurance, but I saw nothing even after selecting a country.
Thanks! The Australian Capital Territory is one of the next states on our list. Much appreciated for your comment
I can't wait for end-to-end encryption to become more mainstream.

What would happen if Apple or Samsung started selling cell phones that encrypted voice communications end-to-end and prevented any kind of intercepting? Would the government just ban them?
I think the whole point of a "front" framebuffer is that its only purpose is to be written to the screen. You're only ever writing to the back buffer, which is then flipped, at which point you're writing to a new buffer and it's the next frame.

[edit: If I'm wrong... ouch. But it's been a while.]
1. http://zendesk.com/

2. http://tenderapp.com/

3. http://desk.com/ Highly Recommended
Well, different people find different things interesting. For instance, I might ask: "why concern yourself with Twilight", yet there are many devout fans of the shows.
I don't understand.
Is it
Block if websites != (stackoverflow OR google 201)
Or
Block unless websites != (stackoverflow or google 201)?
The Bloomberg Terminal is a great example. There is nothing intuitive about is at all and using the mouse with it is quite painful. (Here's what a news screen in the terminal looks like http://www.businessinsider.com/type-this-command-into-your-b...)

However, every new feature we had to release needed to have every action accessible using the keyboard. There were best practices for using certain keys with certain actions (so that they were consistent across the features) and this was one of the most important things of an UI review.

I ended up using the keyboard always whenever interacting with the terminal. The Chief UI guy at Bloomberg was ex-Wall Street and told us that when he started working on his first job on Wall Street, someone came up to his PC and disconnected his mouse so that he would learn how to use the Terminal properly and efficiently.
I think things are trending towards being more interactive.

In the immediate future, GHC is going to become more interactive by adding "type holes". Essentially, you can just leave out parts of your program and the compiler will tell you what type needs to go there. So instead of writing your program and checking if it typechecks, the type system can actually help you formulate the code in the first place!

Further afield, a bunch of people at the lab I'm working at are working on interactive systems that use a solver running in the background to solve problems for the programmers. These can be used to do all sorts of things from finding bugs to actually generating new code. Being interactive lets the solver suggest things without being 100% certain--the programmer can always supply more information. This also makes the solvers easier to scale because if it's not terminating quickly, it can just ask for more guidance from the programmer.

I think the general trend towards more interactive development is pretty exciting.
We used PayPay for our product http://justmigrate.com

It is a night mare if someone asks for refund after auto withdrawal and never change PAN details unless you are okay with 7 days downtime.

You missed another important point, we also got few users from India and thanks to RBI regulations using paypal we cannot accept payments from another Indian. Well just offered them free migration.

Also if you are targeting consumers in US they are little more confident paying with PayPal vs asking for credit card details. This is an important point, always keep PayPal as an alternate when accepting payments from US market.
You need to select a country and state. The content is free and I monetize through ads
A previous discussion, "Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US" from April, 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2491213
Thanks for mentioning this. I will fix the issue. Much appreciated
* Has functional change + introduces bugs

* No functional changes + introduces bugs

* Has functional changes + doesn't introduce bugs

* No functional changes + doesn't introduce bugs

Also I haven't seen too many commit that say "this introduces 5 new accidental bugs into the system". Just saying, not sure what ou are criticizing here
@obviouslygreen that is why "all of the objects just referenced a read only version of the world state" doesn't make sense to me as a frame buffer analogy...
Step 1: Stop using "hacks" to describe non-hacking-related things.
Or worse: they’re written in Tcl/Tk…

What's wrong with that?

it is the mutt to your Outlook, the Vim to your Emacs, the w3m to your Firefox.

Not sure I can follow?!
Yep. Knowing various people who have done security work for banks and similar organisations, I've heard a few hair-raising stories.

They never ever disclose when they get hacked. And they do get hacked.
The silicon valley support for green/clean energy goes beyond rationality. They were investing based on faith (or hoping for bigger government intervention) and got burned.
I get an error when trying to install the crx file in Chrome (something about invalud magic number).
In my first job after university, I was responsible for automating a ton of stuff in a telecom and making new apps that could connect and streamline processes, the usual efficiency and capability stuff.

There was a team where I replaced their mainframe UI with a web-based UI that enabled better reports, better visibility and categorization of the orders, etc. It dug into the mainframe to do data IO, scrapers acted as the interface between the mainframe and web UI.

One lady who used my system complained of getting tendonitis in her right wrist. It was from using the mouse so much, which she had never really had to do with the mainframe UI.

Years later, I realize that updating their UI was the wrong thing to do. I could have given them the various reports and stuff without updating their UI. Updating their UI severely decreased their efficiency, even if the mainframe UI sucked to look at and was difficult for newcomers to understand.

That being said, if an enterprise organization has high employee turnover, I think it's better to have a system that's easy to understand and use within a single glance. Those places sometimes have difficulty training their new employees and getting them up to speed. That being said, if employee turnover is high, the company probably has bigger problems.
Yes. Remember Clipper chip?
Interesting .. although a similar project already exists (http://www.openworm.org/), and is, from a cursory glance, much more developed.
"I feel very sorry for teachers when the children who come here start guessing if what they're being taught is wrong."

Without defending the museum, this comment struck me as odd. Especially coming from a scientist. There is no harm in having questions.
Honestly curious, are all of the cost covered out of your pocket? How can you manage to maintain such a service for free? Looks great... I haven't found anything out there that will let you do this for free.
Is it illegal to steal bitcoins ?

If so, why ? And how is it different (at least in the eyes of the law) than stealing a wand from someone in Ultima Online ?

In fact, let me go further - does not a "real" currency issuer have a vested interest in not judging bitcoin theft to be illegal ? If it's illegal, that bestows a certain legitimacy ...
You're right that sometimes it's just about using some buzz words to grab attention, but I would hope that beneath the surface there's more there. Yes, you could consider every KS project taking on the lean approach - but to explicitly state that and approach a KS like that is quite a bit different altogether.
This is rad. Thank you. It is being added to our home education curriculum. I think the kids will get a lot out of it "turtle graphics" style.
Love this. Thanks for sharing.
You seem to be getting downvoted but I found this response hilarious and probably more in tune with how I would actually speak to myself. Unfortunately, I am yet to fully learn this lesson. I get distracted by just about everything and run off into the wild leaving half attempts strewn in my wake.

Thought you'd like to know not everyone is downvoting you ;)
Yeah, with Rails on the backend.
Doesn't seem to be same thing. OpenWorm is computer simulation, while the OP plans to build a model based on observing an actual living individual [1].

[1] http://nemaload.davidad.org/about
re: your first paragraph, there is a way to jack an entire DNS record and not miss anything. It involves writing a custom DNS server. Once you become the primary, as the queries come in, if you are queried for a record that you don't know, you simply forward the query to the old primary and then store it yourself. Works all the time.

Domains are jacked and proxied a lot more than people know. The hackers have custom tools (rather than Squid + BIND etc.) that perform these tasks and keep them hidden.

Even better, you could host spoofed DNS for a number of Linode's on a single small 128-256MB virtual machine. The infrastructure required is tiny. Definitely possible, definitely happens all the time.
Nginx 0.7.65 is packaged by Ubuntu for 10.04 LTS. Should still get security updates.
Histography: History is now at your fingertips
Does your software at your users site potentially contain taxpayer data from the IRS or state tax authority? Congratulations, the implementation needs to comply with IRS Pub 1075.

Does it potentially contain law enforcement data? Congratulations, your customer needs to implement it in a manner consistent withs its CJIS agreement.

Healthcare data? Hello HIPPA.

Up to a certain size, businesses can pretty much do whatever they want. Then they reach a point or acquire a customer that requires them to start meeting various regulatory requirements.

Ability to comply is a business opportunity. If I make software that contains encryption that isn't FIPS 140-2 validated, I am missing out on a multi-billion dollar market. (US and state governments + govt contractors)
I keep hearing that Muni and BART are awful, but how so? I've been on public transit in NYC, Boston, Berlin, and other major cities and I don't notice any significant disparities.
For this to work you can't be completely delusional, only partially.

This.

Or as I like to say: the most important pitch you will ever make is to yourself. Convince yourself and others will follow.
The wobbling plate is an explanation, not a yes/no answer about correlation. If you can explain something then by definition there is causality in there somewhere.

Look, I'm wording myself badly today, let me try again. The question of 'is there a correlation' is worth answering but ONLY because a correlation is plausible. If you are graphing data to apply to a PLAUSIBLE hypothesis, then your work is reasonable. But if you are instead graphing random junk without any reason, you are wasting everyone's time. Data needs to cause some kind of mental connection in the viewer. That is a VERY low bar to meet. This article meets it. But not all theoretical articles do.

No conclusion is not necessarily a conclusion. Data doesn't have meaning but showing people data should have meaning.
I don't understand why they would invest in fisker over tesla.
Made me think of tools like vim and emacs. Glitzy is awesome, but there is something to be said for efficient and "works"
Please get your facts straight. How about you also read these articles:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/10/2011102799...

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/06/20126410503...

Before the terrorists you're referring to went into Syria, the regime was brutally terrorizing its own citizens. There are countless of videos that prove it. It's the very actions of the mafia-like Syrian regime that has lead the country to where it is today, unfortunately.
I have not been following the conflict closely. (Note I'm not the grandparent poster.) What picture should I have?
When the CEO Burns Out
yeef thæm ÆAHL-dun men THEES-nuh für.

Thanks. I'm sure all agree that's much clearer.
Oooh Exciting stuff! I've been following openworm off and on for a while now. The projects should be extremely complementary. I hope they communicate.

(This projects is going to collect a totally new dataset)
I had a friend that returned from Japan after breaking up with a Chinese girl that he met there. The aftermath was interesting to say the least. Must be something cultural.
Obama is such a disappointment. At least Bush/Cheney punched you in the face and took your rights. This guy gives you some flowery speech and stabs you in the back.

How are you going to regulate IM wiretapping? I wrote a simple IM app as a sophomore in 1997. Will that be a criminal act?
Big difference between a company like Disney and an author. Copyrights should NEVER be transferable. At best, large corporations should enter limited time partnerships to promote their books (or music).
"Select you Country" doesn't work at all. Gives me nothing. Design looks like the 'era after geocities' when the ability to create gradients was first invented...

I'm really not trying to bash you. Initiative is always good, but who decides this is first page material? It has 10 pts and 17 comments... I've been noticing lately that there is a huge amount of trash coming into HN rather than what I am used to being over-the-top, higher-quality-than-usual news and/or products.
Just picked up my username. Thank you for this!
I wasn't aware I had Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome until I read this. However, this was the main reason I became an entrepreneur. After suffering every morning during high school, I swore to myself that I would never use an alarm clock when I was an adult. I'm happy to say that I've achieved this goal, thanks to DSPS.
Same here. Checked in Chrome and IE. The drop down is not working.
I hate to be the inevitable nitpicking HN commenter, but this doesn't work in Firefox.
Unity decided to provide support for Tizen OS
Block if websites != (stackoverflow or google 201)

Added a "solution" section to the OP for clarity.
This has been out for a while. Would be interesting to see the next steps.
Can someone tell me what exactly a 'port' is? Is it just rewriting all the code base in a target language?
This isn't a dig, so don't take it as one. But you mention in the article that you have felt like this your whole life - people have tried to fit you against a preconceived stereotype and you don't fit one. You also said that before the interview you were worried about the interview for that reason. Perhaps that's your bias?
Dropbox broken Ubuntu / CHrome.
Firefox 20 on OS X. Nada.
Take a look at Eve Online, and then take a look at Siebel Systems, and then try and tell me MMOs are simpler than entreprise software...
> It's a fashion to bash copyright laws but lot of people forget that without economic instrument called copyrights it would be almost impossible to produce/consume works that bears high risk/investment.

What are you talking about? No one has a problem with limited term copyright like you are talking about. We have a problem with infinite term copyright.

How does retroactively extending copyright length provide any of the benefits you are claiming?

> Why music/books/software that you create should be any different?

They aren't any different. You are allowed to bequeath music, books, software (sometimes) to people. Haven't you ever given a CD away?

If you are trying to refer to intellectual property, then you are talking about a made-up right. The only reason we even grant this made-up right is because there is a quid pro quo. If there is no cultural/societal benefit to enforcing this made-up right, then why shouldn't we unmake it?
Academic citation isn't an honor system. They're there so you can look them up. That said, your point is effectively what I was saying in that the statement "I have personal experience with this" taken in good faith is much more supportive than a link which does not actually support my point, yet the latter frequently passes without comment.
I think these comments are relevant - can be kind of frustrating to try something and wonder if you're just doing something wrong vs. if it is broken.

Unrelatedly, thought it was a pretty well-done and clever game, I'm impressed.
That's why Windows 3.11 wasn't written until after the Sunny Bono act. Just think if we had strong copyright in the 50s. That's probably why we don't have flying cars yet.
And no restrictions on non-commercial use. Don't forget that.
You would probably find this amusing - http://www.braintripping.com/new/paul-graham
We need to spy on the government as invasively as the government spies on us. We need to legalize that globally. Every waking minute of every leader's life needs to be monitored and reported to the people.

People should be scared to lead because every little detail of their personal and professional life will become a matter of public record. They will have to essentially try their best to be Saints. That way no leader will ever have any real power to do anything. They will truly be public servant, nay slaves.

You trespass on us, we trespass on you. It's only fair.
I appreciate your comment. A lot of work went into the site and unfortunately the volume of traffic just crashed our server. Thanks
It's not that difficult, as long as the vast majority of users agree to upgrade by a certain date. New versions of clients are coded to switch the parameter after a certain block number, far enough in the future to give everyone plenty of time to upgrade.
Sure thing! I ended up picking up a few fun .io domains, so I figured I would give back to the hn community. After how quickly the a-z two letter domains disappeared, I was surprised to see that the majority of letter + number domains were still available. Enjoy t0.io.

Also, for those wondering, not all registrars accept two character .io registrations. Of those who do accept such registrations, the cheapest I've found is gandi at $40/year.
Don't forget about the hours of color correction and post production you've done on the piece. I agree with most of your points, but that's not what T2i footage looks like off the card.
> since 2010 has pushed for a legal mandate requiring companies like Facebook and Google to build into their instant-messaging and other such systems a capacity to comply with wiretap orders.

Their IM services aren't encrypted by default, at least with their default clients. Therefore nothing stops law enforcement from requesting the data with the court order. And presumably they already collect literally all open communication anyway.

However anyone can of course use OTR, ZRTP and etc. with normal standalone clients through these same services. So they now want to request building backdoors into those protocols? Or they want to make encryption illegal? Or what is this really about?
Thanks. Server crashed
Thanks, server crashed
Haskell Summer of Code
> what is rightfully private property

If it was private then no one would have the ability to copy it. If you keep your works private, you get infinite copyright.
I've felt far happier moving towards success than actually having success.

There's many aphorisms supporting this: the journey is the destination; it's better to travel than to arrive; getting there is half the fun. People are enthralled by movies/stories about doing something - not having already done it. Emerson's Self-Reliance touches on this too (http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm), the soul becoming.

It's a bit logically absurd though - you're aiming at achieving something, yet it's the process of achieving that you really want... but absurd or not in theory, that's been the most fun for me, in practice.
Show HN: Flattest Route - A web app to help you avoid hills in SF
That's how Dickens wrote most of his novels, actually.
White House close to backing FBI's wiretap backdoor proposal
Clicking on menus (about us, car insurance etc.) throws this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function FetchRow() on a non-object in /hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom/drivingtests101/page_content.php on line 8

Fatal error: Call to a member function FetchRow() on a non-object in /hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom/drivingtests101/car_insurance.php on line 12

Also, drop-down list is empty! Chromium on Windows 7.
And remember how it failed?

The only way the government is going to be able to snoop in on everyone's traffic is to make the use of cryptography illegal. I don't see how that can work, either, since it's sort of necessary for commercial transactions.
Or just got hacked...
Thanks. Either server is down or I just got hacked...
If they spoke out within two weeks. That's not very long. Hell, you can take down sites for two weeks just by filing a DMCA notice.