skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, we haven't seen the landscape change yet because no one knows what the fuck is going on.

Let me put it this way. Should I make my art in the form a 180 minute long atonal sound collage that can only be heard by buying a custom piece of machinery that is installed in your house OR should I make my art form 55 minutes of music that can fit on a Compact Disc?

Think of shipping containers. Should I make my own custom shipping container or should I go with the modern, modular standard?

The medium affects the kind of art that is made. The reason we even ended up with the three minute single and the LP have more to do with the physical limitations of vinyl than anything else. An entire industry and culture sprung up around this. It is prohibitively difficult for a musician to go outside of the well established path of the current industry to make and share their music.

Music isn't about 3 minute songs, it isn't about albums, or anything of the sort. It conforms to the momentum of culture and technology as much as it inspires the technology and culture.

It will survive, but the current culture and industry will of course go away, and with it, the entire art form.

Think about that phrase. ART FORM. Roll it around in your mouth, taste it on your tongue. Art will always be made, but it's shape is constantly in motion.
Microsoft gives up on new YouTube Windows Phone app, reverts back to web player
Can you explain how they blocked US players? I skimmed that page and only saw "not possible since you play via sending to a bitcoin address; there's no IP to block".
Exactly. I have no interest in adding any more computer networks or nodes to my home, nor do I wish to provide Internet services on public IPs, etc. I don't need the complexity in my life, nor do I need the attack surface (nor the trade of legacy annoyances for modern annoyances).

BUT, I do need a smoke detector that doesn't make me want to kill myself every time I interact with it - I already have printers for that. Here's hoping there's an easy way to completely disable all networking on these devices...
Raspberry Pi likes its Camera
Yes, there is something inherently wrong with vigilante justice. Our law system is built on the pillar of due process, which means that we have prosecutor, judge and defendant and a process in which those three parties try to get as close to the truth as possible. Each party in that process has rights and obligations - and all those rights the defendant has get thrown out the window in vigilante justice because judge, juror and executor is one and the only party deciding what they deem "the truth" and "the correct punishment." There is no defense speaking, since the defendant doesn't get heard, there's no appeal, because the punishment has already been dealt. There is no 'intelligent objective "vigilante justice"' since there is no objective all-knowing human being, this is exactly the reason that due process was established: To prevent as many human failures as possible and to reduce the damage those failures cause.

Note that this does not mean "do not take action", please, do so: Call out false behavior, but keep it limited to the behavior. Collect evidence if you think that criminal charges should be filed. Support the victim. Doxxing, as appealing as it sounds is not the right action to take.
Show HN: Poutly| Friendly email reminders to past due clients
I've heard many freelancers complaining about clients taking ages and ages to pay after a project has been completed.

In my experience, I have seen that the invoice that gets "chased" is normally the one that gets paid first.

Poutly send friendly email reminders (SMS coming soon) to past due clients.

Would love your thoughts.

http://paymentrem.herokuapp.com
Facebook looks shady?
Show HN: JavaScript to auto record & report webpage metrics in prod & dev
> What's the advantage of this thing over a tablet with an external keyboard?

Am I the only one who sits on a couch anymore? There's no way I'm juggling a tablet, something to prop it upright with, and a bluetooth keyboard in my lap all at once.
Interesting take on mobile payments. There are a few questions that aren't answered on this project page though.

1. Does a 'recorded' card count as a card-not-present sale?

2. What about card skimming? I would think this sort of broadcast would be easier to pick up with a less-conspicuous skimmer device. Also, if this technique gains popularity we might see people using skimmed cards through this or similar hardware.
Fox News Implements 55-Inch Tablets In Their Newsroom
Yet there's no shorthand for the "potentially beneficial" scope...

I just hate that the general public connotes "radiation" with "harmful".
It's clear that well tuned campaigns with 10-100k seed capital can raise $1M+ for (partially) physical products.

One big question is how that will translate to software businesses. Successful non-game software projects are few and far between. And they raise a lot less [1]. Will JOBS act equity investing change this? I think it will take 4-6 years for a few people to win big with it before there is a bubble-level rush of speculators.

[1] Annecdotal plug: we just had a subscription fitness app crowd funded, but it took a lot of work and the median pledge level is way lower than in most hardware projects: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acgourley/bitgym
Rewording of http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-updates-youtube-app-surre...
Why wouldn't you just save money when you are making it instead of paying for insurance and having to go through the hassle of filing claims?
It's a daily bet on a weighted 12 hour average. So you'd probably need to lose much more than a block.
> i don't think this is the correct interpretation. in a court of laws, acquiring evidence is something procedural and governed by rules and regulations. having a third party (lavabit) acquire the evidence and then turn it over to the government is probably something that wouldn't pass muster in court due to chain of custody and other rules.

Search for "$" on this page: http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2009/12/8-million-reasons-for-re... It is very common for third party service providers to search records themselves on behalf of law enforcement, and law enforcement has historically trusted that and even compensated them.

It's the only way that really makes sense IMO. Can the FBI really bust down, say, Verizon's doors, seize all their hard drives, and correctly generate evidence based on systems that aren't theirs, and may in fact be unique among the phone systems of the entire world? Maybe an email system is simpler, but still.

Also, I think it's inappropriate to seize 400,000 users' data just to (ostensibly) get to one person. But I'm not a lawyer, maybe it is arguably legal.

P.S. Also see https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/social_network/Yahoo_SN_L... for all the things Yahoo does on behalf of LE.
SlimSurveys Debuts Site Survey Widget
1) Will be improved in next release, was a platform specific issue, apparently.

2) You can do this already. It works just about the same as chrome dev tools, create a new rule to add a new css rule, etc.

3) I would like this too.
It would be interesting to see if they plan to link Amazon Coins to this somehow. They could try to aggressively go after PayPal by offering 1% cashback in Amazon Coins for all purchases through "Login and Pay with Amazon" and lock users into the Amazon currency.
The belief that touring is a panacea really cracks me up. Touring does not make money for indie musicians. Maybe for the top 1% or less, fine - there are always anecdotes - but far, far more common is the kind of tour where you save up money, sleep on couches or share a motel 6 bed with a bandmate, eat crappy food, play to mostly empty rooms to people that are turned away from you talking to their friends, for a door fee that doesn't cover your food and gas money. And that's for good musicians. The bad musicians don't tour.
It happens all the time, I'd go far as hazarding a guess that the majority of the non-generic articles that get to the front page are gamed.
Copyright infringement isn't a criminal offence unless it's done as part of business.

That's true in practice, mostly, but not true in theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NET_Act
Yes, I think that hate speech should be prosecuted. I just don't think that the internet mob makes for a good prosecution and it's even a worse judge and jury.

> The fat person is not a "heifer" (a type of cow), we're already out of the bounds of "accurate information".

So in retaliation we accept that our act of doxxing might provide the details of a completely unrelated person that then suddenly has to deal with all the shit the internet mob throws at them? Or feed teenagers to the internet mob so that unto them be done what they did in a careless, stupid moment? Now that's classy.

Just because other people on the internet behave like careless, blundering idiots we don't have to.
I lived in an apartment where there was no fume hood on the stove top, the smoke detectors were in the living room half-way between the doors to the outside I was told by apartment management to open while cooking and the kitchen.

Basically whatever I was doing the damn alarms would go off. They were so sensitive that they would go off if I was boiling a pot of water, or if a single crumb in the oven "burned".

In the end the alarms ended up on my table, and every time when I would go cook I would remove the battery, and replace them when the time came.
Only for buyers. Sellers need to be U.S based.

To get started for free, sign up for an Amazon Payments seller account. You will need your legal business name, contact information, a US credit card, and a US address. After you sign up, you'll be able to use our tools to create HTML that you can copy and paste into your website code to show our button and start accepting payments.

https://payments.amazon.com/business/html-button
"after rolling out our optimizations, we saw our error rates (ie. the proportion of slow or timed out queries) drop by up to 400%"

There is some good shared knowledge in the post (unlike this comment, to be fair), but what does drop by 400% mean?

If a rate drops by 100% it becomes zero. I get that.

If it increases by 400%, the outcome is slightly ambiguous (do we add 400% for 500% total or do we multiply up to 400% of the original value).

But a rate decreasing by 400% - am I the only person who finds that (not uncommon) expression hard to conceptualize?
I'm getting a little sick of the term "Growth Hacking" but this article is spot on.

Although, the strategies read more like good old fashioned elbow grease than growth hacking tricks.
It's a trolling comment ;-)
"When they login with Amazon, you get the customer's name, email address and zip code"

Getting email addresses is the key. That doesn't happen with most 3rd party-login/OAuth implementers.

"Rates for Micropayments: For transactions less than or equal to $9.99, we offer a fee of 5.0% + $0.05 per transaction."

These micropayment rates match Paypal and is better than Stripe.

I'm keeping an eye on this.
Sanctimonious bullshit like yours gets people killed. You're going to have a hard time pleading honest ignorance on this one; it has been clearly and repeatedly explained how false positives and bad user interface design in safety-critical equipment cost lives, and this company is trying to do something about that. If you're not going to be part of the solution, stop being part of the problem.
Which docs? Where? all I see is rates for non-profits and micropayments. Even in the detailed fee scheduled I can't find a single mention...

I feel like I'm either blind, stupid, or looking at the wrong website (or all of the above).
> reputation as a moral authority

His treatment of his first wife should have ruled out any idea he was a moral authority.
Cute kids are supremely adept at taming finger biting demons.
Uh? I'm still using the free plan... Did I miss something?
3 Ways MailChimp Uses Data to Scale
In my apartment complex where I had this issue, it would have have required re-wiring, AND the apartment complex wasn't at all interested in making sure the fire alarm didn't go off if I was making toast...

One little crumb burns and all of the fire alarms in the apartment would go off, not pleasant at all.
Thanks! That seems clear (even though not the answer I was hoping for)
Even assuming you're correct, what does it have to do with Developer Tools. Please stay on topic.
This post seems to have gotten buried very quickly (jumped from top 50 to #172 in a matter of minutes). Anyone have a reason why?
Evidence of apocalyptic comet discovered by S. African scientists
> Eric Dunn of Community Recyclers does not hesitate when we ask him why the recycling centers have closed: “Getting rid of street people by getting rid of recycling centers is the bottom line. It’s basically class warfare concerns.”

We need to start showing real compassion for each other. Removing one of the few legit ways the poor can generate money is not the right thing to do. They need help. Recycling helps the environment AND the poor! How many things are there in the world like that? Closing them down because the bike-riding, starbucks-sipping, smartphone-talking, organic-eating fancy & polished crowd feel uncomfortable around the poor is selfish IMHO. One day, we won't be able to sweep the unpleasant truths of our society underneath the rug anymore. What then? Oh, actually, I know. They'll make it illegal to be poor, so they'll all be in jail. Thus solving the problem _ONCE AND FOR ALL_.
Wave at it ...
You can buy a battery-only smoke-alarm. That's not ideal, but you wouldn't have to rewire anything.
5 Key Questions Every Digital Health Entrepreneur Should Consider
Overview from Rock Health presentation. Pertains to me than just digital health entrepreneurs.
yes, people who need their collection of macros or advanced mail merge are going to have trouble adapting to google docs.

but the original argument in this thread was that chromebooks couldn't do things that "your mother" needed to do. Google docs can't replace all the power-user features of MS Office. but that doesn't make a chromebook unsuitable for everybody.
Well, it's not something truly """innovative""" like a smoke detector you can program with your computer. I'll give you that.
So long Firebug. It was like Christmas when we first saw what you did for us.
I think it's really tough to get someone to pay for an app from an unknown publisher. Games like Angry Birds are a known, if I like one of them, I'll very likely enjoy the next one, so I can pay and play. Games from unknown publishers could be awful.

I think you gotta go with freemium at this point, because it's a lot easier to get someone to try your game for free. Try your best to make a great game, and hopefully you'll sell some in-game expansions.

For example Puzzle and Dragons makes millions of dollars daily from in-game purchases: http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/GungHo+Online+news/news....
It's a good model for both developers and customers. Everyone gets to try it, and some people will more than cover for others who don't want to pay, or tried it but didn't like it.
I had the exact same assumption.

The ridicule risk is both a good and bad thing.

Good: You better write good code, and the public shaming is a pretty great motivator.

Bad: I have a lot of code that has never seen the light of day because I don't deem it good enough for the intertubes.
Keep in mind this was 1932 when there was the gold standard.
Inflation was more volatile then and was -10% (minus!) according to
http://www.rateinflation.com/inflation-rate/usa-historical-i...
Obviously the bubble level is just one example... Many apps use this feature for various things.
Freejack, very interesting. What would be the best course of action to preventing these takedowns, or at the very least, prevent the abuse of takedown notices?
According to every small-time musician I've spoken to, piracy killed the indie music scene. In particular, Boston used to have a vibrant music scene that's all but dried up now, and every former musician who played that scene I've spoken to points the finger at file sharing.

This is because piracy changes the economics of how the major labels behave. Before, major labels used to take risks on what they thought might be the "next big thing" in order to reap the profits when it does turn out to be popular -- and landing a major label contract, and the attendant fame and fortune, is what motivated many bands to get together and play. These days, however, if the "next big thing" is starting to show signs of catching on, that probably means its music is already pirated and all over BitTorrent, and that's like Kryptonite to a major label. So they don't sign that cool new band and the band has to make do with concert and T-shirt sales and word-of-mouth. And that may mean having to choose between your music and putting food on the table. To most musicians, your "big break" is how you make a living with your music.

It also brings the quality of music down, as now the major labels will only invest in "sure bets" like Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, or Justin Bieber. The ones that don't get signed to major labels either take nine-to-five jobs and stop playing, or are so in love with their music that they don't mind being penniless hipsters. Most can't achieve the critical mass it takes to build a large fan base, so most people's conception of what music is is disproportionately influenced by the formulaic "sure bet" acts.

So support your local musicians. Support DRM.
Conical Gradients in CSS
Increasing A Blog Post’s Traffic With Pinterest and PinWoot
Here's a blurb from the blog-post announcement:

"It senses carbon monoxide and connects to your Nest Thermostat through your Nest Account. So it can automatically shut down the furnace, a possible source of CO poisoning, when the carbon monoxide alarm goes off."

so ... what if your Internet connection is down ?

Further, even if it isn't, why[1] would you ever want your thermostats and/or fire alarms talking to some third-party, for-profit company and existing on public IP space ?

Do I misunderstand how this works ? I hate typical smoke alarms with a passion, but I'm not replacing them with something that can be DoS'd or requires Internet to function properly...

[1] Other than blind, stupid pursuit of new and shiny
About ID obfuscation: i like to use a small-width block cipher (e.g. 32-bit skipjack). A reversible int->int transform means you don't need an extra DB column, you're never prone to CRC32 collisions, you can still use base36 (why not case-sensitive base62?) for URLs, and with an application secret key there's no chance of reversal.

Well, maybe someone could aim to get many sequential keys and then reverse-engineer the state of the cipher, but that's also possible with your method.
Cooking properly frequently requires lots of heat and creates smoke. Peek into a commercial kitchen sometime. I suffered a childhood of sad, grey, rubbery steaks until I grew up and learned you're supposed to sear them. Same with many other types of food.
Cyber-Bullies Charged With Distributing Child Pornography In Canada
That's one way to get Rehtaeh Parsons' attackers.
How many false positives smoke alarm positives equal a single false negative?
Is is just me or is the code source really hard to understand? It's cool that you can represent such complex shapes with just a few lines of code in Mathmatica, but without comments and with all the single letter variables, it's hard for me to follow what's going on.
Does Google provide enterprise support for Chrome?
I think he meant his or her lost business opportunities.
URL standard - WHATWG vs IETF vs ...
A Vim Primer
Lethal Autonomous Robots are inevitable. They think faster than humans

On the contrary. They follow orders faster than humans. They don't think at all, in the sense that a human can with their adaptability and ethical awareness and ability to make a judgement call that a situation is not something the predetermined rules were designed to handle.

This is the main reason I don't see LARs becoming widely used. They are superior to human warriors in the kind of war that is decided by split-second reactions, when you know exactly who the enemy is and you're otherwise roughly evenly matched. Very few modern wars are actually like that.

The beauty of networked robots is that they are ultimately coordinated, one knows what all the others know at all times. This is the absolute dream of military commanders.

But that dream becomes a nightmare if the system is ever compromised. Of course, no battlefield-wide, 100% computer-driven, 100% remote-controlled system would ever be deployed with a security vulnerability, for the same reasons that no military equipment ever fails under combat conditions, no military unit in the field ever finds itself unable to communicate with its commanders, no computer virus has ever found its way into a secure installation, no software bug has ever caused military equipment to fail, and no human involved in the military or intelligence communities or their suppliers has ever been disloyal.

One objection that people have is that drones will eliminate the human cost of war and make destructive combat more common.

What is the point of having these machines, if they will not ultimately result in a human cost? Weapons of war are made for one purpose, and one purpose only: to be able to kill people. Any more desirable outcomes, like taking control of a hostile country without actually killing everyone, tend to be predicated on the threat that you can do so if you need to.
Prolific Node.js contributors LearnBoost acquired by Automattic
These guys have a smart team, don't bet against them.
Sounds like a management or business consulting arrangement, except longer-term and compensated with equity.

Management consulting is a fairly large industry, but there's an open debate about how effective it is, particularly for startups.
Technical document preparation. When you're dealing with stuff like tables, graphs, footnotes, appendices... Word makes it easier. I know there's probably a way to reproduce everything in Google Docs, but it's not as easy/automatic.
Obviously, he gets -300% errors now.
"You might be missing the point a little bit. You're correct, but end-to-end encryption is irrelevant if the operator changes the (e.g., Javascript) code in a webmail app and maybe even just for a single user."

Which is why, as I have said elsewhere, webmail is the problem here; more generally, you cannot have security or privacy as a service.

As for the government pushing back doors into products, that is at least upping the ante. It is harder to sneak back doors into software that people are actually using, especially software that is widely used, than it is to sneak a back door onto a server than only a handful of people can inspect. It is also harder to sneak in a back door when there are many, separately maintained implementations of a common protocol; you are forced to try to sneak a back door into an abstract description, which a lot of experts will be reviewing (see e.g. DUAL_EC_DBRG; the backdoor was discovered within a year of the PRNG being publicized).

There are also limits to what sort of back doors can be put at a lower level. Suppose you sneak a back door into my CPU, but I am running software that was developed after you developed your back door. You can make a straightforward computability argument that in general, your back door will be rendered useless by unexpected changes to software, particularly sweeping changes to it.

In any case, my point is not that encryption is a panacea, but rather that webmail is, by its nature, insecure. There was no way that Lavabit's security could have ever been more than just a handwave.
Lavabit SSL Cert Revoked
Don't talk shit on Android. It is FOSS, therefore it respects your 4 freedoms, unlike iOS, which you cited.

Agreed on Chrome OS. I'll stay with my cheap old Linux Thinkpad. My remote services run on my server at home anyway and they're pretty close to what Google offers, minus the sleek look (who cares, I'm functional).
Transparent Is The New Black