skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks pretty promising. Judging from the demo, they have the UI close enough. They need to offer it as a service, though. I like that I have the freedom to run my own server, but I really don't want to have to bother in practice.
That's partly the point of the student's gsoc pastebin like project!

Luite also has a vagrant image available that has a working ghcjs patched build available for down load.
You previously spoke of standard of living. Now you seem to be changing the topic to "inequity", whatever that means. I am definitely confused.
Very cool! I'm a n00b to the music-notation-app-world, but was able to get going pretty quickly. I'm not sure if any of these are already standard features on most music notation apps...but I think keyboard shortcuts to the note/rest types would help. Maybe even an option to eliminate some clicks (just press the key corresponding to the note/rest to place it underneath current cursor position)

Then again, being a n00b, maybe I don't realize that speed-of-input isn't the bottleneck for composers hehe.
Bad analogy.

The Walkman, while creating detached non-social behavior, still only distracts the user, or a nearby busybody.

Glass turns you into that busybody, potentially prying into everyone else's business.

A potentially always-on camera recording into the cloud is unfriendly and unwelcome in a lot of ways.
We are growing fast and hiring engineers – PlanGrid (YC W12)
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We’re a small team of construction engineers, software engineers, and ex-rocket scientists, building intuitive, beautiful tablet apps for construction. We love disrupting an industry that makes up 11% of Global GDP because no one ever cared to do so (for comparison, defense is only 2.5% of global GDP). Our users are project engineers, architects, superintendents, and electricians, and they love our app (because it helps them build real things more efficiently).

We're looking for front-end engineers with a passion for making beautiful intuitive products. Our front-end tech is iOS, Android, and backbone.js. You will be our 13th team member and sixth member of engineering.

We've been around for a year and we're growing fast. Unlike a lot of early stage startups, we measure our growth in revenue, not users, and it's been exponential since the day we launched.

Competitive salary, equity, company engineering retreats to Mexico (this years location:http://i.imgur.com/kEiI2ej.jpg), and an office next to a beer garden (Hayes Valley, SF).

Send your info to: jobs@plangrid.com
this is like HN's equivalent of r/circlejerk
Thanks! I've taken the idea from @fogus. Every JS library's website should provide a REPL and a few examples so people can get used to it right away.
I can't decide if it's a general aversion to public complaining, or if this company is really as arrogant and self important as this article made them out to be. In fact, after the thuggish threats, I'm pretty sure it's arrogance.
Thank you for the correction; apologies for my error.
I applaud you, sir. And your website, which is very elegant.
Exactly.

One of the major discussions in my engineering program is that there isn't a "right" answer like there usually is in regular math.

Instead, there's a "best answer given the current circumstances and limitations."

It becomes entirely about the How and the Why.
Exactly! As I understand it, the moment js gets nice things like tail calls or concurrency, with very little work ghcjs can too! I'm really really excited.
Speed Up your Device With Memory Booster for Android
Anyone know when it will be possible to remove the title bar on OS X? With tabs on top it's redundant and Firefox uses more vertical space than Safari or Chrome.

There are various extensions floating around that claim to do this but they generally target much older versions of Firefox and don't work very well.
This is a step in the right direction. Music notation in the browser is hard. I'm a music composer turned software developer, so of course I have been interested in an open, web-based music notation solution for a long time. Nobody has really hit the nail on the head.

There is just a TON to take into consideration when it comes to music notation, and one misstep will get in the way of the creative process and leave someone hating using your app.

Make sure you're ready for a seriously uphill battle if you continue working on this. It's a good start.

Maybe it sounds silly, but has anyone thought about using D3 to draw the music notation? Just an afterthought.
I got past that wall, but the track goes completely crazy after that and it's impossible to proceed.

http://i.imgur.com/KPfKdab.png
At this point of time IE6 is a wide open door, something as trivial as reading your paste isn't that big of a deal in comparison.
According to the infographic, Firefox seems to be popular in North Korea, with 33.79% market share. I suppose they don't censor StatCounter in Pyongyang? /jk
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I find this quite ironic considering the first response to my comment was one of the humanities advocates calling me an asshole because I disagreed with him.
Not to mention the radiation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/03/010329075139.ht...
Show HN: Programmatically sent 42k snapchats, created a social contest
Well, that's just, like, your opinion man.
you can go back to vimperator. I'm using it on 23.0a2 without problems.
Is incredible that we don't have an Android or iOS Haskell interpreter but we can run it on an embedded browser first.
iCloud Backups are encrypted: https://www.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_Oct12....

Apple can still get at them because they can reset your password on you. Certain files in the backup will not be accessible to them if they were encrypted with a key that wraps the Device UID. iMessages don't seem to be one of these files, but Mail backups are clearly inaccessible.
I don't know what the actual legal position on this is, but I think that public sentiment usually recognizes that:

1.) There is a legitimate need for classified information within a government;

2.) The purpose of classified information is not to cover up illegal activities by the government.

So when it comes to revealing classified information, if it is done to expose a crime, I think the US public generally supports that. But in this case, near as I can tell, no crime was exposed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't PRISM conducted within the bounds of the law?

So now there's the question of whether or not PRISM should have been legal, and whether or not exposing classified information to put a spotlight on that discussion is legit. And I don't know how I feel about that let alone what the public at large thinks about it.
I use supervisor with all of my node.js deployments... It seems straightforward for me just to drop a new .conf script in, it's agnostic to what code it's starting/monitoring (I use it with ruby as well) so I'm confused as to what problems have you had using it with node?

That said, this looks pretty cool, I'm going to try it out.
> Assuming you make $10 per hour at a summer job

Do you mean $10 per hour over the cost of living/driving/eating/etc ?

>The bigger issues are the fact that education you'll receive is likely complete garbage

The lectures are the same, the bar has been lowered too much.
Live Blog from the Microsoft Build 2013 keynote
In my experience at a college with a large engineering program, the S and M parts of STEM has a large emphasis on critical thinking and the TE do not. That's only one data-point though.

Also the school was so heavily STEM focused that I wouldn't trust any of the liberal arts students there to reason their way out of a paper-bag.
I didn't find it cute, but rather annoying.
It will soon be used for numerous business apps as companies are porting their native applications to work on browsers.
Sorry about posting here. Couldn't find a bug report link on your website:

wheezy/sid (Really Mint Linux but whatever)

openjdk-7-jre:i386

$ sudo dpkg -i reader-1.1.1.deb

dpkg: error processing reader-1.1.1.deb (--install):

parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 2 package 'reader':

error in Version string '${reader.version}': version number does not start with digit

Errors were encountered while processing:
reader-1.1.1.deb

Hope that helps.
One out of many cafeterias on my college campus was reported to have cleared 100k in profit for the year. Food is definitely not the problem, and I wouldn't be surprised if college dorms were profitable as well (more expensive than living off campus).
If they charge Glenn Greenwald with a crime, I will be out on the streets.
Windows 8.1 Preview
GeoJSON rendering improvements
Google Fortifies Chrome’s Web Store Vetting Process
It would probably be slower with emscripten in non-asm.js mode (asm.js format is more careful to not change types at runtime, etc.), based on benchmarks I've tested in the past. Have not tested on this particular one, though, if you check it out please let us know.
I'm not sure if you're serious here. The UK government doesn't own the vast majority of the cameras in the UK which make up this 'huge' number. The vast majority of CCTV cameras in the UK are not connected to a grand network. The majority of cameras are in small shops / stores and are used to provide evidence for shoplifting or other types of theft. It's the owners choice as to whether they are there or not.

The UK government doesn't employ vast numbers of people to watch the live output of the minority of CCTV cameras they do own. The state owned CCTV is almost never used in a proactive sense. You can probably safely commit most crimes in full view of a CCTV camera in the UK. If someone reports you or you leave obvious evidence of the crime the CCTV tapes will be reviewed.

There is a massive difference between the man power requirements of analysing video footage compared to analysis of text.
Ask HN: What are stock options? What should I do with them?
I'm a recent graduate, and I've just received a job offer for a small, but well established startup. Stock options are part of the renumeration package. What should I understand about them, and how should I go about effectively making best use of them? Also, can anyone recommend any advice on decent books to read to get acquainted with personal finance and budgetting, I've been in school so long, I need to understand how the real world works.

Many thanks,
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Sorry for your loss. This must be heartbreaking.
I like the decisions so far! On a pure style/preference note, I prefer content over chrome to an almost absurd degree - the margins around the individual posts could be tighter maybe?
It can’t just be “better.”
For API Hack Day in San Francisco (https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/api-hackday-sf-2013/...), we created ranker.io (http://ranker.io).

A bot named 'epicchallenge' programmatically sends a snapchat video about a "smile" contest to a huge (42k) list of users. Then we programmatically get their responses and have people vote on them.
PR and article placement
I think the problem here is, how would a $FEDERAL_AGENCY know how much bitcoins does one have? The 'no' may come at a point when they ask this question and it may come in the form of "I don't have any, now go and prove otherwise".
This is the important aspect that most people don't think about when discussing this issue. A quick google search reveals 80% of Walmart employees are on government assistance.
Did anyone else get an Internal Server Error after reading about half of the article?
Poppy: Turn Your iPhone into a 3D Camera
Not all senses are available in dream state, however.
Nope, I'm with you. I've seen much more obvious plagiarisms. Although it's obvious that Kintek were more than a little inspired by infinum, and indeed some items look copied as is except the color change, the rest looks like any other bootstrap / grid based marketing site template. They might have pushed the "inspiration" part to the limit, and might deserve the post for not being too original, but I'm sure you can find thousands of sites that have similar elements and statistically, some of them copied from someone else. And I'm sure infinium were also inspired (even subconsciously) from other designers.

Almost every other site today has a dark header, a Mac screen / laptop carousel, slide scroll / parallax / infinite scrolling and a 3 column grid using the same icon fonts, dark 3 column footer with links, partners / as seen on techcrunch / customer logos in gray emboss. everyone has it. Although it's clear they copied, you could find sites that have these elements that didn't copy (or copied from someone else). So it's just the number of similar elements that is annoying, not each element individually IMHO.
From the wikipedia article for my home town
"Males had a median income of $40,743 versus $29,279 for females." (assuming most people here work in private industry)

From the Dept Pub Instruction 2012 report for the salaries for teachers (not admin, not staff) for the school district I live in which is almost perfectly coincident with the boundaries of the city, lowest pay was 24131, highest was 93313, and average was 61223 with an average years of employment in the district of 12.34 years and total years of experience of 13.66 years.

I can't get a straight answer on garbage man pay. I can find quotes between $20K and $60K depending on which political axe they're grinding. I believe the low end is part time / noob / disability and there's a cluster around upper 50s for the full timers who have a couple years in (so we can compare apples to apples, like the teachers with 12 years experience above). Some guys get stuck on overtime, especially around the holidays. So if your axe to grind is they're underpaid for a gross heavy labor job, they're only making in the $20s, but if your axe to grind is they're overpaid for gross heavy manual labor then they make about $60K.

Its hard to compare medians and means and there's lots of fuzzy math.
The Origin of the YouTube logo
Youtube logo was inspired by the Caltrain logo
Firefox is very popular in central and north africa.
Show HN: ngrok – secure introspectable tunnels to localhost
What about the (very real) possibility of him not being illegally kidnapped and instead being extradited through legal process and brought back to the US? Do you think the US cares that much about bringing back this guy considering the political fallout from such an act of kidnapping.

We could do it for bin Laden because it's bin Laden. I think most people would disapprove of something similar for Snowden (as in : running into a foreign country to take this guy , not kill him). Plus everyone's watching anyways, and the last thing we need to do is vindicate Russia/Venezuela
Sukerman! Hrvatska's best world cup.
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't PRISM conducted within the bounds of the law?

Remember, even the Stasi was legal. But no, these programs violate the 4th amendment.
It's baffling to me that country like America with strong 1st amendment and freedom of speech culture has people who think a journalist should be put in prison.

So, now, a whistle-blower needs to have strong anonymity and privacy to pass information on, and the newspaper needs to be strong enough to protect its journalists. And when this might mean that the editor goes to jail (contempt laws?) that's a lot to ask.

But would any sane government push things that far? Locking up the editor of a newspaper for not handing over the name of a journalist?

(I'm about to web-search, but have any American journalists been jailed for not giving up the names of their sources?)
or build your own!

www.tokbox.com

disclaimer: BD @ tokbox
Slightly off-topic, but a couple of the more powerful open-source music notation pieces are software are Lilypond [1] and Mup [2].

They've both been around for awhile, work from custom text-formats, and support a ton of music typesetting features.

[1] http://www.lilypond.org/
[2] http://www.arkkra.com/
Porn addict, food addict.

I don't think negative habitual behavior equals addiction.

Not to marginalize people who has problem with porn or food habits, but poor self-control and bad habits does not equal addiction in my book. I'm probably wrong definition wise, but I think this stance trivializes real addiction.

I mean, yes, dopamine and all that. Reward of negative behavior. But you make your own decisions in life. You're not an insect, you're a conscious human being.
Not much better, arguably worse. If my intention was to go to Amazon.com, they're now "helping" me and writing a cookie that wouldn't have been there, and earning $ in the process. A bare WWW request should never result in affiliate income.
My experiment with StumbleUpon Paid Discovery
Looks good, and I like the mobile web view. Key missing feature for me: oldest-first view.

[Edit]: Also, keyboard shortcuts (most important for me: jk for next/previous).
Clear your browser history, just in case.
That's nice, but I'm not taking a business like Klout at their word to not use the information. Even if they're only receiving it accidentally.
"How Close.io (YC W11) exploited a technical loop hole in the way email and the web works in order to mine data about users without their knowledge or permission"

Oh, but everyone does it, so it's ok right?
Author here. I made this tool with the intention of making it easier to develop websites and webservices as well as easier to share projects you're working on with friends or at hackathons. Happy to answer any questions.
Ohh yeah! This is where my initial frustrations have always been for spaces...mounting an NTFS-3G or URL encodings.
I agree. This — service plus open source — is the model for my Google Reader replacement of choice, FeedHQ [1].

[1]: http://feedhq.org/
>Based on the reaction to the revelation that the NSA is watching every single piece of Internet communication in the world, now I'm not so sure.

Except that's not what they're doing. People actually care about nuance, and things aren't black and white.

I understand the notion of having principle, but it's been several weeks now and we need to stop having arguments in absolutes and start actually talking about what actually happens, what is actually useful and what should be changed.
https://adblockplus.org/blog/typo-correction-feature-in-adbl...

>Whenever typo correction brings you to the site of a large online shop an affiliate ID will be added to the address. This makes sure that if you buy something there we get a small amount of money from the shop.

Mentioned on their website.
> The apathy to all matters beyond "Kim Kardashian is fat now" is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

It is interesting you note this. This seems to lend credence to the 'Brave New World' theory over the '1984' theory of how the American people feel about the government.
What makes you think this is Snowden?
"which recipient opened the message" and: The times they opened it, where they were when they opened it, and what operating system and user agents they were using when they opened it.
I tend to agree with you, but I'd be happy for Pinterest to convert any non-affiliate links to affiliate links. They'd need to make it very clear what they were doing before doing it.

I get value from Pinterest's collection, so I'm happy for them to skim a little bit of money from my purchase. Shopping is hellish, and Pinterest makes it easier for me.

I am aware that they got into trouble for using skimlinks to convert links. (I think they were converting affiliate links to their affiliate links which is pretty dodgy.)
I'd consider RiffUp incomplete until it could express the same musical concepts as GuitarPro/Sibelius/Finale. I don't have much interest in purely presentational features, though.

Import/Export is on the TODO list. If there ended up being a custom RiffUp format, it would be open and documented.
Dining and living in the dorms is an extra cost on top of tuition. At least at the public universities I'm familiar with.
Take this with a grain of salt. There is no right way or the only way.

- Learn complete web development. Use something like CodeAcademy/Udacity to learn the complementary skills you need. My guess is since you know Html/css and Java, you are better off learning Javascript as well. Nodejs / advanced Java might be a good fit.

- Learn some of the theoretical fundamentals. This might not be of immediate need for freelancing, but you should almost always be honing your fundamentals. Take up the core computer science courses on Coursera - Algorithms (1,2), Programming Languages, Basic Math (linear algebra, graph theory etc) are some must haves. This can be a longer term goal and plan it beyond 6 months.

- Sharpen your skills with coding exercises. Do some of the stuff on InterviewStreet and other such sites. Being able to solve small problems effectively and time bound, is very important skills. You should practice hard for the first 6 months I think.

- Know your domain. Being a web freelancer means you might have to be full stack. Being able to write the client and server side with ease. You might want to be good at some specific domains - like building sites for X, Y, Z (you can build your own reusable code). Then expand. Looking at stuff at elance is an easy start.

Its doable in 6 months. IMO don't stop learning.
Anyone have any idea why the GeoJSON files here still show up as the raw files? https://github.com/johan/world.geo.json
>All sides in a story should be covered.

So I should let creationists speak on stage on the same level as everyone else?

There was an editorial by (I think) the EIC of Nature. In it he talks about how giving people the floor for discussion in some way validates their positions, no matter how absurd, so the best solution is simply not to give them the floor.

If someone knows what article I'm talking about , please link it, it was extremely interesting read.