skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This must be one reason that musical instrument apps are unusable on Android (all the way from my Moto Droid 2 to my Galaxy S3, one can't play drum apps in a way that sounds decent at all) while they are generally excellent on iOS.

Per discussions I've had in the past the audio layer in Android is part of the problem. 60-100 ms delay is a lot too, though and that surely is adding to the perceived lack of responsiveness.
This is live for ages. I think they just started PR around this because it can now not die on iOS 7, running in background.

As a side note, try out Leap Motion playback controls on GS (in Settings > Subscription, wtf), they're super sweet. I just wave my hands around to control music, it's awesome!
If you access the site from Germany, they tell you that they have shut down in Germany because of too high operating costs.
Goodbye Big Bang, hello black hole? A new theory of the universe's creation
Productivity is probably too generic of a word. I would say 'typing speed'.
Yeah, I've been using this for about a year!
that statement by itself is a little cryptic - the operating costs are caused by the GEMA agency: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_f%C3%BCr_musikalis...
When using Visual C++ I'd use ViEmu. Other IDEs have similar vim plugins of varying strength.

To put things into perspective, in terms of productivity if given a choice between Visual Studio without ViEmu or just vim I'd pick Visual Studio. Fortunately I don't have to choose.
My wife and I lived in Laurel, maybe 30
miles away. Likely the whole area within
100 miles of the Washington Monument is
much more highly built up now than then.
I suspect that now Laurel is a bit expensive,
and the traffic from there to the Homewood
campus is
likely too much for a daily commute.

When my wife and I were at Hopkins, there
was some nice graduate student housing
just east of campus, and I'd look into
that.

For the
neighborhood of the medical school
campus,
maybe it's okay, but I'd
check to be sure.
Grooveshark has been my favorite online music player for last 3 years, but recently I have observed a lot of bugs on their site, which hinders smoooth experience and forces me to consider alternatives.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi speaking at a Conference in Singapore (22 Sept 2013)
Compare any two drum set applications - no drumming skill needed - on even a high end Android device vs a 4 Gen iPod Touch and the iPod has much better response aurally. In fact, Android instruments are universally so laugh they are unplayable. If there is a usable android drum program/hardware combo I'd like to see it... So far, I don't know why people even make instrument apps for android other than sequencers.
Grooveshark has great breadth, but lacks in depth. There are lots of types of music, but I find that they rarely have the specific artists that I'm looking for. (I mainly listen to power metal.)

Also, there are a lot of tracks that finish prematurely, are just static, or simply don't play. I've tried flagging them as broken, but Grooveshark keeps adding them to my playlists. There are also tons of tagging issues (ie: there's one album under "Battle Beast" and another under "BATTLE BEAST" for the same band), making it difficult to find things sometimes.

I agree, Grooveshark is the best one out there, but it's far from perfect.
Why do people still wait in line for the new iPhone?
Part of why I felt it out is that it was presented to me as very low-key thing, just finishing profile information… "Movies I've watched", which as you said is very casual. But then it was presented to others like information that I (I'm grandfathered into a grooveshark subscription at $3 a mo. and have kept it despite the fact that a I have a spotify subscription...)specifically felt the need to go add to my profile on my own, as if it was important that I watched some obscure movie from 1982 and really wanted my friends to know. It's even sillier that they were movies from a random FB list of 3 choices for each question, not something I typed in.
I believe that the question you should be asking yourself is this - Can BaaS (or any other service) help me get to the market right now at the lowest cost possible.

For any such commodity as a service, the initial costs to you will be lower than if you had to build the service yourself. However, over time the costs will go up. The benefit to you will always be ease of development and having the time to focus on building the core features that will make your startup feasible. Most startups fail before they reach a point where they need to worry about rising costs and that's a good problem to have. (when you have it you can mostly pay someone to fix them for you)

My recommendations (having never used any of the above mentioned BaaS providers, do take these with a pinch of salt)

1. Look at how easy it is to get your data back if you need to host the services yourself or change providers. Does the provider have any processes for the same? Speak to the sales (and support) people about this before you decide on a provider. Look for the provider that is transparent about this.

2. Don't worry about what the cost will be when you reach a million users. Your time right now is spent wisely validating your idea. Cross that bridge when you come to it.

3. The only "complete no no" scenario I can think of would be if you were hosting sensitive information (credit card etc)

Hope this helps
This is the best story I've read on medium, worth the read for the imagery alone.
I think it's iterating through queries as well. I can't imagine Hebrew is such a "hot" language and that is used so heavily, so that I see the same query repeated over and over (population of Israel has about 7 million people, where only 5-6 would probably use Hebrew as their main language...).
* It undermines the freedom of the press because journalists need to protect their sources.

* It undermines the rule of law because the government should not know what you discuss with your lawyer.

* It sabotages the health system because you should be able to talk to your doctor in privacy.
Musings about Debian and Python
Could this be used as the base of the electronics in a reprap?
Handy to run via cli also: https://npmjs.org/package/grooveshark-cli https://github.com/danopia/remora
Where is the hyperinflation? Data please
Homosexual pride
Since we're doing stories, here's mine.

My brother didn't have an account but he needed someone to cash a $3K check from an acquaintance of his. He told me he'd give me 10% if I did it, and I was dead broke at the time. So I do it and the next day my bank (one of the big names) lets me take it all out, at which point I give it to my brother and he gives me $300. On the same morning, the check-writer cancels the check and the bank hits me with a -$3,000, plus overdraft fees. A week later they closed my account of good standing of 10+ years. My brother spends the money, refuses to pay it back and swears he wasn't 'in it' from the start with his buddy, the check-writer. That was 4 years ago and I haven't spoken to my lovely brother since. To top it off, I wasn't able to open another account in the US for a few years.
Yup, just got the 500GB Samsung 840 EVO to run my development VMs on it.

It's TLC, so a bit slower and it won't last as long, but for almost 30% cheaper it's good value.
If I had to look for one single thing in a CTO to head my new startup - it would be a person who is able to answer - "No. I don't know how to do that. But I will figure it out and let you know".

Since you mention that you are a startup, you will have technical issues that no one single person will have worked on before. Instead of looking for someone who has UI, backend, server admin, mobile, web [add many more] skills, look for someone who is honest about what he knows and does not know, is not intimidated by different technologies and enjoys getting his fingers wet in different areas of work. I'd go with a Jack of all trades to a Ninja-Guru-Shaman programmer any day.
Yes, the main evidence is Xbox. Bing is an ok example. It has a little market share where Google dominates(I think around 15% to 20%). I think they would be happy to have that in mobile.
Where is the volume button?
They did the same thing at the 2000 Atlanta Linux Showcase.

http://webonastick.com/photos/als2000/mvc-600s.jpg
Can't you see "I don't want to use my full name" button?
http://waltherpragerandphilosophy1.blogspot.com/2013/09/fit-...
I think those examples are begging the question. Many people would say they don't care if a Government agency knows any of that info. Why should they care? Personally I'm not worried if GCHQ know that I went to the doctor about a rash.

I find a more convincing argument is that the data can be abused for purposes beyond that for which it was gathered; for example, the disclosures about the DEA and 'parallel construction' shocked many people with whom I work. People respond more to the risk that their misdeeds will be discovered ( be it simple cash-in-hand tax evasion or more nefarious activities ).
Not sure how a LIFO queue would possibly work whatsoever for perishable goods.
The original comment was to reflect that the Fed is not monetizing the government, which is different than influencing the treasury market. The fed is influencing the market by effecting the "rate" not the "size". Just by influencing the treasury market you cannot make the logic leap that they are creating $ for the government to spend (recklessly?), or forcing the government to create more UST in order to pay back older maturing UST.
SpaceX's job listing for "Space Suit Design Engineer"
I had loads of fun sharing mistagged songs on Facebook, fishing for those "less in the known".

My favorite mistag is "Freebird" by "Led Zeppelin". Also, I'm of firm belief no one ever fixes that, as I've reported loads. And that's ok with me. :)
Too much text. If anyone want to have at least some slim success conveying these ideas the message has to be impactful and short. That's why "think of the children" and "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" work so well.
Agree, selling will be problematic. The fed's probably going to use reverse-repo to exit. See http://www.voxeu.org/article/exit-path-implications-collater... and http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/08/27/1612763/will-this-be-t...
Yeah, it's definitely not for everyone. It's just the kind of thing I would like though.
Usable Usability - checklist
I'm not sure I agree with how channels are used here. What's the point of this spaces chan? Why couldn't a simple atomic counter solve this (see sync/atomic)? Why allocate a thousand bools?

// The booleans representing the free active connection spaces.
spaces := make(chan bool, *maxConnections)
// Initialize the spaces
for i := 0; i < *maxConnections; i++ {
spaces <- true
}

}

Is this really how people use go???
I explain it in four words: "We are all guilty of something."

And then I explain that a corrupt power can use this nearly perfect intelligence machine can use this to find something that they hold over our heads.

From there its a pretty easy explanation to get to a Hitler like figure being in charge.
It could be that we see many startups in "the market" because like flies they spawn and die quickly, but have few to nil influence on the world, while real big new things are few and last longer, and influence the world, and require higher skill levels. Think about it, between Instagram and Bitcoin, which will be influencing our world and our life more?
(Not) Jonathan Ive [Twitter parody account]
Wow.

Not sure if this article was paid for by the anti-sugar lobby of America, but all of it is based on extreme urban legend.
The rise of online “certificates” and how they threaten traditional degrees
Maybe Space-Time Is Just an Illusion
>Personally I'm not worried if GCHQ know that I went to the doctor about a rash.

Except it can leave you vulnerable to blackmail. Say your rash is a symptom of a STD which was caused by a drunken one night stand with a x/y person you met at a bar. "Now you wouldn't your partner to find out would you?" says the guy in guy in the suit...

Other ways health records can be abused if your partner or child needs a transplant and they are way down the waiting list...
Usually, content isn't loaded with JS. So defering JS makes sense, if you want to show the content as quickly as possible.
Funny how we had the same idea for the name: https://github.com/jvzr/MrPoole

But kudos to the OP for delivering. I switched over to Middleman, so mine will never be publicly released.
Explaining the gyro effect - without math or vectors
Looking at this some more... Why wouldn't you just make the waiting chan buffered and eliminate any tracking of connections.
I think the first 2 examples do not necessarily affect your personal privacy but the knowledge that there are some checks and balances left. You are right that data leaks/abuse might be the biggest risk concerning the 3rd example.

But who would you know if the data is abused or not if journalists can't convince their potential sources that their communication is private?

And if you - on some way - get the knowledge that your data is abused, what can you do? Sue the government? That's a lot more difficult if you can assume that the other side has potentially access to your whole strategy and to every mistake you ever did in your whole life (dirty campaigning/blackmailing).
Sparrow on my macs, and on my iPhone. Soon, when I will acquire the Nexus 5 I don't know what to use. ¿Any recommendations?
Can you provide any citations to back that up?

FreeBSD's new security framework -- Capsicum -- has been backed by Google: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/
RemoteStorage: an open protocol for per-user storage
The people we are talking about use cash, but need a service to turn checks into cash.

You propose what you think should be a better solution. This history so far shows that your solution is not clearly better. Just this month "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a bulletin warning employers against using only so-called payroll cards to pay workers." ... "Complaints received included fees for withdrawing cash and checking card balances. Critics say payroll cards with high fees mean that some workers are essentially making less than minimum wage." -- http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/09/13/agen...

Yes, there can be a time where that's a better solution than a check.

However, we are not yet at that time, so it's not a rational choice NOW.
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Used to love Grooveshark, but the music quality started to get a little too hit-or-miss for me. I find "normal" radio services like TuneIn, Pandora, and now iTunes Radio to be an overall better experience.

I am impressed that Grooveshark is still kicking, though, as I don't hear much about them outside of random articles on HN.
LinkedIn is great if you need more emails in your inbox to boost your self-importance quotient, but I haven't heard of anyone in my sphere that was discovered and hired due to LI.

It seems all of the technology companies are givin their best effort to invading privacy and undermining trust on a societal level. There will be lasting consequences for these behaviors.
It's strange that they chose a fixed-funding model for indiegogo. Even though the kickstarter has reached its goal, the indigogo project might not.

Aside from the lower price of the remaining early bird specials, is there any reason to fund it through indiegogo instead of kickstarter?
Yes, it could be, actually we're designing a 3D-printer board, which is under testing stage, not ready yet.

Please check some snapshot of it from our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.158118377715808.10...
Odd. In Midori and Chromium, seems to work correctly. In Firefox, it appears crippled and I get 38 errors on the console -- SyntaxError, TypeError, ReferenceError -- including:

[09:42:19.907] SyntaxError: in strict mode code, functions may be declared only at top level or immediately within another function @ http://html5.grooveshark.com/build/app.min.js:1
It actually made me feel really good, and I'm 23
Maybe I'm crazy, but I always thought that Trader Joes just bought their food from low cost countries and cheap manufacturers and then sold it for much higher prices, but with cool labels and within a fun atmosphere. I would never trust Trader Joes food, personally.
Actual research on the topic instead of punditry. A good article that will sadly sway no politician.
Except that many people believe they are - and will always be - "guilty" of nothing. (I have nothing to hide. . .). So that argument won't fly with huge numbers of people.

It's like the huge number of people who believe the police department/judicial system/system of choice is infallible until they personally know someone who was treated unfairly or see some egregious example of unfairness in the media. And even then, they still often believe that they never would have done XX and never would have found themselves in that situation.
Its not fraud. Congress explicitly decided that they should pay farmers not to grow crops as a method of price control. Fraud would be if those farmers took the money and proceeded to grow the crops.
Concatenative Clojure
If you read the irc logs, weev and spitler's intent was obviously malicious. I think many things in this case are true at the same time. Oversentencing and prosecution yes, but how do you then prosecute someone like this? There was a reason they included the irc logs in the prosecution, because the intent counts, not just the physical actions by the accused.
Two words for you: "That's not four words"
Read it all the way through, when I typically give these sort of things 3 seconds before hitting the back button. The art caught my attention initially, but the writing and story are quite compelling. Still not sure if it's fiction or a style of in-depth human interest documentary writing. Either way, well done.
But then how do you cover a five-year gap on your resume?
Either set BATCH env variable or use portupgrade/portinstall with -c or -C flags. The latter gathers all the dependencies of a given port and let's you configure them up front, and then the compilation and installation goes without any interruptions.

-c
--config
Run "make config-conditional" before everything for all tasks.
-C
--force-config
Run "make config" before everything for all tasks.

http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?topic=portupgrade
Animated tooltip in CSS3 and HTML (no JavaScript)
Homeland Security to test BOSS facial recognition at junior hockey game
From my experience, Gates is definitely a more-competitive-than-most kind of personality, but, let's face it, like most wildly successful folk, he was in the right place at the right time. (He drove hard to make sure he was there, it's true.)

As they say, success is where luck meets preparedness...
Run play 2.2.0 on heroku
If you've never read it, "In Search of Stupidity" ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001C6MQA8/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=de... ) covers this and other companies that rose and fell. His thesis is that the most successful companies weren't really all that brilliant and visionary - just less stupid than some of their competition.
Hey, poster here.

You're right that sync/atomic could've taken care of this, I wasn't aware of that package and figured channels were the way to go in Go.

As for making the waiting chan buffered, the reason I wanted to keep track of pending connections and active connections is because I'd like to proxy from a high-power server to a low-power server such as a Raspberry Pi. I agree with you that it could have done without though.

Thanks for the tips! :-)
It's the same from Denmark. I guess most EU countries are cut off from Grooveshark these days.
Facebook Nation: Mr. Zuckerberg Goes to Washington
This. And whimsical error pages, documentation, etc, are just showing the lack of writing skills behind. Google is full of those, and most of the time the allusion cannot be understood by those who are not sharing the same culture. That's utterly annoying. Did SICP writers feel the need to embellish their prose with eye winks?
Creating the minimum badass user.
Ah, sorry for reading too much into your comment.

While I've got you here, and while we're pushing the civil boundaries on the topic, there's something on this subject I'm curious about, but have always been afraid to ask...

Won't a more accessible / inhabitable taiga be kind of awesome?

I mean, low lying areas without hurricane protection swallowed by the seas, algal blooms, the shutdown of the thermohaline cycle leading to a frozen Europe, midwestern desertification, all these are well down the bad side of the ledger. Harms are still outweighing the good. But isn't some of what's going on up north good for humanity?
No the buyouts are the exception.
> All emails sent from friend's email account, not LinkedIn.

Are you sure about this? LinkedIn could just be using the friend's email address as the envelope sender; the email would still be coming from LinkedIn's mail server network.

I'd really love to see the headers of one of these messages.
>When you're raiding an office you have no idea what you will find,

These are not responders chasing a suspect, they are investigators. How does a professional investigator find himself in some kind of Jean Claude van Damme B-movie-esque arms warehouse cum office by surprise? Sounds like you think they shouldn't need to investigate anything, just barge in and see how it goes.

>so it's better to be over-prepared and over-armed than under-prepared and under-armed.

Better for whom?
I find that when dumps of data are released, other journalists go through it and curate it. So, I see WL as making more good journalism possible because there are a lot of curators who do not also have the resources to collect material to curate.
Here in the UK it's illegal to sell food after the "use by" date and every so often someone gets in trouble for it. ("Best before" dates, on the other hand, are advisory.)
I don't care what's in your drink: caffeine, alcohol, ice, fruit, water, whatever. I mean, can we sit together as humans around the ancient trust building ritual of food/drink.
Smartphone Messenger Line invests heavily to fight WhatsApp in Europe
The animations are an interesting illustrative technique, but tying them to the scroll event doesn't work well. I'm on a fairly powerful desktop running chrome and its all very jerky.
Seems to be nonfiction: http://deadspin.com/supposedly-dead-mm%20a-fighter-robs-gun-...
Could somebody post this on pastebin for people who don't like to visit Slate?
I've actually had the domain name poole.io sitting for a while now, ready to do something that supports Jekyll. Great minds think alike?
I would like to see that chart with 'homicides' instead of just firearm-centric ones. I crunched these numbers several years ago for my own amusement and found that in countries with strict gun control, violence in general and violent deaths especially went WAY up, surpassing the US's by a fair margin. No I don't have a source at the moment, it was a weekend's worth of Googling trying to find data that didn't come from biased sources (either the NRA on one side, or groups like the Violence Policy Center on the other), and done purely for my own amusement.
From the article - To parse the simultaneous claims of both a shortage and a surplus of STEM workers [...]

Or to put it another way: there is no shortage of applicants, but there sure is a shortage of good ones.
That ties in a bit with Seymour Papert's idea of teaching programming as a medium of expression. One part is having a meaningful domain, though an equally important second part is encouraging exploration and tinkering, rather than plowing through rote exercises.

Here's a passage from an old journal article I've long liked: http://www.kmjn.org/snippets/papert85_logovisions.html
AutoAwesome shows that Innovation is not wasted on the young companies