skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this is a hoax/website hack? There's no mention of it anywhere else apart from this particular URL. No mention on Twitter, no talk of it in the forums etc. They only just updated the Winamp Android Client.

I doubt it, but the odd HTML in the title and lack of any other information makes me doubt it's authenticity.
Dear Mr Newton. My memory of the Cambridge event a few years back is rather different from what you report. As I recall, the room was packed, the reception was enthusiastic, as was the applause; and the folks who talked with me later were excited and congratulatory. I don't know who you talked to, but -- perhaps it's best not to report on things that you didn't attend.

As for Micah, my son, he runs a very successful software development company of 60 or so developers who specialize in extremely high quality software. He maintains very high standards for the developers who work for him. Every one of them practices TDD as well as many other practices that we've found to be beneficial. The result has been a steady stream of very satisfied customers and repeat business. Those customers would likely disagree with you about the reliability of his code; and the code of his employees. But then, I don't imagine your comment was based on any actual knowledge of his code. Perhaps it's best not to report on things you haven't seen.
No competition is forcing them to... Plus consumers are consumers.
Announcing LoopBack Android SDK
it's better to just let it die, unless they open source it. helping people find and use unmaintained software is a terrible idea.
Every single engineering advancement is innovation. By definition[0].

The fact that you are ready to discount Facebook as non-innovatine tell about your personal bias. Even if they 100% advertising business it still requires lots of innovation. Including the task of capturing, analyzing and presenting the largest social graph to hundreds million people. And Facebook has significant open source contributions. Sure, it doesn't produce so many engineering advancements as Microsoft, but saying the comparison is laughable is simply wrong.

And of course, Google makes money innovating. AdWords and AdSense,arguably, are the most innovative ad platforms on the planet. You may dislike advertising all you want but don't change the meaning of words ('innovation') to rant about business models based on advertising.

[0]"Innovation is the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, inarticulated needs, or existing market needs." - Wikipedia
So I also have these Intel services for which I don't know the whole purpose:

-Intel Capability Licensing Service Interface

-Intel Dynamic Application Loader Host Interface Service

-Intel Management and Security Application Local Management Service

-Intel Managementand Security Application User Notification Service

I also observe that in the folder with HeciServer.exe that is in c:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client\ there are also iclsClient.dll and iclsProxy.dll but also openssl libraries and certificates, so obviously at least Intel's HeciServer phones home.

Even stranger, all these services add immense amount of additional entries in PATH, because there are 32 and64 bit versions and they need all every folder thaey use (and they use a lot) in the PATH. Which also means that they somehow don't know what they are doing as with manifests they wouldn't need PATH entries for DLLs at all. And I can't imagine that one service invoke command line for another one.

Intel made a lot of mess now.
"easy to download" ... please take your head out of your...steam client. steam is the most obnoxious client. it abuses your machine in several ways. in linux all games can now exploit system bugs as root. screw steam. everyone hates DRM, unless it is an app store.
>Music is a great use-case for keeping data in the cloud.

Yes, but ideally, when it's your cloud. Just because all these major cloud players can just stop their service on their whim.
Now what's the next big app that's still missing?
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Note for the nerds: the math is legit. We take sample size into account when calculating artist associations, and the likelihood factor is the lowest bound of a confidence interval. Everything is statistically significant. Results are real, yo.
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Blade Runner animated as 12,597 hand-painted watercolor paintings
The helicopter is emission-free. How you power it is up to you. You have the option of using an emission-free source, which is not an option with normal helicopters.
If everybody were required to take that one particular class, the content would be so diluted that it'd lose its original intention. I think it's better for some to seek it out than for half of the freshman class taking it, failing, then complaining that it was the most worthless course ever.

My university required everybody take a philosophy course, and I can't remember anything from it because there was essentially nothing taught. The professor assigned the absolute bare minimum and expected the absolute bare minimum since he knew people took it for only one reason: they needed to.
Batteries are less energy dense (J/kg) than fossil fuels at any scale. For flight applications this makes batteries not so great because reducing weight is so critical. This becomes especially pronounced for larger aircraft sizes. You also don't get the weight reduction as you burn off fuel. For tiny RC aircraft the short flight times are fine, you can use cheap electric motors and they're safer. Larger RC aircraft are gas powered though.
Bizarre choice to launch without core features like image and video capture. I understand the anxiousness to launch, but I wonder if this was somehow due to pressure from Microsoft or investors or something to launch before the app was actually ready?

I like that they're using the platform to its fullest with the live tiles and what not, but it's still strange.
I can't speak for him, but since he didn't answer, I'll tell you what we do in Rwanda.

We educate homeless illiterate kids. In Rwanda, getting your way around a computer is a respected skill and none of those kids have ever touched a computer before.
We are trying to give them basic computer skills such as: finding your way online, e-mail usage, searching, file management...there is a ton of simple things like that. We all take them for granted because we use computers every day of our lives.

Imagine that you're illiterate and you see this shiny thing that looks like a magic box filled with random symbols. You heard about it before, you heard older men say that it's really powerful and that everybody respects individuals who can operate The Computer. So now you're in front of it. You touched the keyboard for the first time. It's filled with weird symbols, and this shinny thing has weird unearthly colors and glyphs that you cannot make sense of. It's unknown and above all, really frightening.

After a couple of months, when their literacy becomes "good enough" and when they can figure out how to do basic computer tasks on their own (or figure out a solution from online sources) we seek funding to send them to boarding school so they get off the streets.

This is a difficult transition for those kids, they completely lack self-respect and will be surrounded with kids from rich families that have had a massive advantage over them. But now, they consider themselves a Computer User. A person that can figure out the powerful machine, so their feeling of self-worth rises dramatically and they fare much, much better in the new school environment.

And that's it. Nothing really innovative, just teaching homeless street kids some computer skills so they can feel better about themselves and find their way in school.
Apparently VLC does the shoutcast stuff now if you download a pls file from shoutcast.com and feed it to VLC.

If you're a linux user then 'audacious' is a good/similar replacement to winamp IMHO.

I switched to using quodlibet some time ago. Can't remember why (simplicity, the right views, stuff) but now everything else seems sucky.
Yeah I assumed this when I noticed even the Retina laptops with the i7s weren't doing as well. I have an Nvidia GTX 560 Ti which must be doing most of the work.
>> And as a non-American I fully see this as nothing but bribing. The only difference is that in US paying money to pass or fail bills like this is "legal".

You think it doesn't happen in your country? You can rest assured your government is full of corrupt shitbags too, just like the US. There's overt corruption, covert corruption, and lots of degrees in between.
Abolition of property rights is usually down through coercive means by some agent of the state, hence it is top-down.

"Human thriving" can be defined any number of ways, including wealth, health, liberty (positive or negative), freedom, happiness, environmental factors, etc. Most capitalists define thriving as improvement in some or all of these areas. You are correct that a vague definition of "thriving" can be self-serving, but it is hard to find any factor which socialist countries have made more progress in than less socialist countries. Even a socialist country (i.e. China or India) which frees its markets and creates property rights sees a substantial gain in the rate of improvement of the lives of its citizens in almost every aspect.
I suspect it is more the availability of motors. Bigger than that and you are going to want to build them yourself because the price will be astronomical and nearly everything you will be able to get will be for the marine industry and weigh a ton.
foobar is very lightweight and barebones, but it's also easily extensible
Create a trousseau store, specify which gpg recipients are
allowed to open and modify it, and adding some key-value
pairs to, export it to s3 for example, and re-import it on
another device. As simple as that.

Simple?
Well, if you keep losing your war games, you should probably keep playing until you win.

I recall reading a story where someone kept winning against the US side in a war game, and instead of changing tactics, the guys running the US side just kept adding more and more restrictions to what the opposite team was allowed to do, until they finally lost. (Wish I had a link to the story. [EDIT: jmhobbs has it, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6770236)

Huh, kind of like Ender's Game, except for the loss part.
Historical Literature students, sure.

They are still working out who authored the Federalist papers and they're using NLP methods like those described to do so. Of course, you'd be surprised the amount of effort that might have gone into obfuscating that information.

"Hey, Jefferson, you write like you're me or Adams, I'll write like I'm Adams or you, and he'll write like..."
Can you explain this a bit further? I'm not a fan of Mitt Romney, but I've never understood the outrage at his tax returns. It was my understanding that the low tax rate was due to 1) donations and 2) the fact that most of his income comes from capital gains. Do you think people considering running for president should go out of their way to pay more taxes?
Understanding Weak References (2006)
steam is like paypal for gamers. which would be good if integration was easy... but no, you are forced to depend on their fullfledged client with all the DRM and abusive tactics.
The type of challenges you want are the ones that your brain shies away from - the ones that cause you intense anxiety, like you'll feel the world will end if you keep doing them and you'll be left totally exposed. (Obviously, assuming that there's no rational reason for the world to actually end.)

So for me - the first major challenge was rewriting the database & website for FictionAlley.org in college. The reason it was challenging was that up until then I'd flaked on every project that I couldn't see the end of. I was great at stuff that could be accomplished in a few hours, but when it came to stuff that took sustained effort over months, I'd start to panic that maybe it wasn't worth the effort after all and what if it failed?

My second major project was Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours, where there was this voice running through my head saying "Who are you to think that you can teach Haskell to the web? You barely know it yourself." It was a fear of being judged publicly.

The third was redesigning the Google Search Results Page in 2010. And that was scary for similar reasons - every whole-page redesign up until then had failed, and we were putting ourselves out there in front of literally millions of users. Luckily I had lots of support from my coworkers and senior management, and it wasn't me leading the project.

The fourth was Gumbo, which was scary because it was ambitious (a full implementation of the HTML5 parsing algorithm), and I was solely responsible for it with nobody backing me up. I'd identified a problem, no organization was supporting me, and I'd embarked on a multi-year 20% project to deliver it.

It's not just technical stuff either; you can become more determined by exercising the parts of yourself that you'd assumed are no good. For example, many geeks are absolutely terrified about talking to women. Or to strangers in general. The 2 years I spent dating, which eventually led to finding my girlfriend, were as educational and character-building as any software project I did.

Flossing every night will probably not cut it unless you have a phobia about flossing.
That's a shame. Winamp is still my music player of choice when I'm not using a streaming service. I've always appreciated the design that allows me to minimize it to a thin bar and leave it on top in a way that's unobtrusive. Has anyone else copied that design?

iTunes and Windows Media Player are both monstrosities, and while I appreciate VLC for playing video, I've never been inclined to use it as a music player.
> If you are trying to trick somebody with your data, never share the raw data; only share the conclusions. Bonus points if you can't share the data because it is somehow priviledged or a trade secret. The last thing you want is to allow other people to evaluate your analysis and possibly challenge your conclusions.

Of course, I'm not against sharing data. However, the satire here is slightly too optimistic that people, when given raw data, will attempt to verify it for themselves. When people are given plain narrative text, they can still be profoundly influenced by a skewed headline -- something which everyone here may not ever be familiar with :)

I guess I'm being curmudgeonly about this...We should all share the data behind our conclusions, but don't think that by doing so -- and an absence of outside observations -- that you were correct. Most people just don't have time to read beyond the summary, nevermind work with data.
And your argument doesn't explain why venture capitalists would have got that impression in the first place.
> the impact of their contributions might have already superseded what Gates has been able to accomplish

Oh come on. In the long run, the ideas of Free Software are hugely important. But for now, Gates is actually helping people not die through philanthropy on a level which, as far as I know, Torvalds and Stallman are not even remotely capable of achieving.
Media Monkey was quite useful in adding mp3 tags the way I wanted and organizing the entire library.
Thanks for that suggestion. Looking at its documentation, it seems that it does not support rating songs. Is that correct?
One could ask why a profitable agency would take out billions of dollars in loans.

"theoretically profitable" is not the same as "profitable"
It's certainly terrorism, but there is a real asymmetry between how we treat the State and the individual.

The State engaged in plenty of mass indiscriminate violence against nonviolent people in the same period. The incidents you mention killed two people (one of whom, as a historical irony, was a working class security officer, and the other was an anarchist himself.)

But when the government comes in and kills dozens if not hundreds of people in various labor incidents (or turned a blind eye to corporations doing the same), it's just establishing "law and order" (read: used violent force to ensure the continued functioning of and economic profits of capital).

There's also the elephant in the room, since we're talking about the 1910s, of some unspecified but very widespread government violence and big explosions in public squares. Though that was more a competition among elites, it was still borne disproportionately by the non-elite.
Click readability view on top and it will go away.
I remember one librarian mentioned that it was her most-stolen book. She meant it as a big compliment :)
Marfan syndrome makes you tall and lanky, so they actually have to watch for it carefully in highschool basketball teams. The build it gives them makes them a natural at the sport, but the stress of the game combined with the heart weakness caused by Marfan Syndrome can be lethal.

I suspect a lot of kids who lost their basketball dreams in a heart-attack will be lining up for this procedure.
Just for those who are looking for a replacement player on Windows Desktop. I have been using JetAudio player, and have been very happy with it. It supports global keyboard shortcuts (VERY important for me), CD ripping, playlists with live monitoring and what not. And one of the biggest reasons I moved to it from Winamp was that it could handle the 4500 something songs I had on my machine in one playlist, without getting laggy. Winamp would just crawl with those many songs.
USV.com is not open source
Women in my country have already overtaken men for final scores on mathematics degrees.
I understand market segmentation, Starbucks does a great job with this (marketing background).

But, one of the reasons why I have lately avoided Apple's iOS devices is the feeling of getting robbed. Why should I pay 100 dollars more for 16 GB, its not worth it in 2013.
... 8 years ago.
Ya that wasn't very clear. Thanks for the downvote.
All the Viet business people I've talked to said that when they present these tourists with a menu or a shelf full of goods all they want to do is identify the most expensive option so they can choose it to show off their money. So they fit your description pretty well.
I would be shocked if the timing on this release wasn't at least tangentially related to sponsored posts.

I think this is going one of two ways: Either the official client is a quick bid to incentive Microsoft to remove 6tag the same way Microsoft replaced their YouTube app with a gutted one, or Instagram think their official client is going to rapidly eclipse the "knockoffs" and they won't have to worry about it.

Keep in mind that while Microsoft did cave on their own YouTube app, it wasn't in exchange for nothing at all. They still got to keep a gutted "official" YouTube client in order to fill checkboxes in pundit comparison reviews.
> I don't want to give the impression that I think advertising is bad or anything. I think of it like porn: fine for adults, but not something I want my daughter exposed to until she can appreciate what it is.

That's an interesting comparison. One could argue that advertising is far worse than pornography, in the sense that pornography is usually being purposefully sought out when one is exposed to it, whereas advertising is often intrusive info-pollution, going out of its way to expose us to strongly-biased and/or manipulative rhetoric.
Refactor the World
If you are talking about "official" apps, then it would be Snapchat and probably Youtube.
"Increasing inequality leads not only to the growth of top fortunes; it also results in greater numbers of wealth-holders. The “1 percent” becomes “2 percent.” Or even more."

So, a larger percentage of wealthy people in society is a product of _more_ inequality? My brain has a bit of trouble with that statement.
Ask HN: Where can I find some good free MySQL hosting for development?
I know that Xeround used to provide some low-power free database hosting, but they have since gone under (bummer). Anyone know any good no-strings database hosting, it doesn't have to be MySQL, any SQL database will work.

Thanks
Not only does GTA IV run perfectly smoothly, but there are community patches to make it look jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Very similar story there to this one, actually.
Nice idea.

30dB isolation is about what is claimed from some DJ style headphones. I use a pair of old BeyerDynamics that claim 20dB isolation and that seems a good compromise between peripheral awareness and isolation for my particular setting.
It was great while it lasted. I am sorry to see them shut down, but I understand.
You should check out aimp[1]. It looks and performs like winamp and has similar functionality.

[1] http://www.aimp.ru/
> Both you and the article miss a basic point, which is that the preservation of government, for its own sake, is in the interest of both the people who compose the government, and also of the people. This is particularly true in democratic countries, where the government is the vehicle for the popular will.

The USSR made the exact same sort of claim.

> In authoritarian regimes like China, there is less of an overlap between the interests of the people and the interests of the government.

There may be more of an overlap with the interests of the people as a whole, but less overlap with the interests of individuals. Polls are used extensively by party officials:

http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_x_li_a_tale_of_two_political_s...
The main reason I use Winamp is because it has global keyboard shortcuts for controlling playback. I'm not sure if any other media players have that, if anyone knows of one that does I would love to know.
Human nature abhors a power vacuum?
"Synthesia"? For God's sake, PLEASE copy the title from the original article -- do not try to press the keys on your computer's keyboard. That is clearly beyond your competence.

Copy: Ctrl+C

Paste: Ctrl+V
Seconded - Foobar2000 is a great music app. No visual bells and whistles, just functionality. It gets out of your way, and it's fast.

Also, it was developed by some of the people who originally developed Winamp.
Very cool! We've been working on a similar open-source project for collaboration via github gists of R scripts. Think iPython web notebook meets js-fiddle over a github backend: https://github.com/att/rcloud

One nice feature of RCloud is it knows how to make a Javascript-R bridge, so you can create d3 and webgl plots with R data and back.

The github page has more details: http://att.github.io/rcloud
deadbeef is a very nice lesser-known linux music player that's heavily influenced by foobar2000. quodlibet is probably my second favourite, but it's written in python, so it can be a bit slow/heavy on resources at times. banshee is great for large libraries and as an iTunes replacement.
Maybe I overlooked it skimming the article, but has anyone else noticed that the pattern of his location matches the pattern of his shirt?
You can't come up with half a dozen ways in which Verizon's phone records would be useful to prevent or analyze terrorist attacks? #1 for me would be training pattern recognition and social graph generation algorithms on real data. That sounds like a pretty rational basis for getting that data to me.

Whether its value is a good tradeoff vs. the resulting privacy concerns is a good debate to have, but surely the government has a responsibility to try to prevent mass casualty events? The Marathon bombings alone caused more havoc than a typical e. coli outbreak, even if everyone had stood up, shrugged, and gone about the rest of their Monday afternoon business without a care for their attackers.
> What is top-down about the abolition of private property and workers owning the means of production?

What isn't? How could you get individuals to give up their property without the use of force, which would most likely come from the state?
Only 12 points? Really? Come on, it just so much fun!
I prefer Clementine, Amarok, and Rhythmbox. No point using a proprietary app when there's plenty of open-source apps which are just as good if not better...