skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a gross, absurd exaggeration.

He has a few classic pop songs, no doubt, and clearly a very lucrative career writing and producing tracks for A-list pop stars. But in the last 10 years I'm not sure he's written any of what I'd call the best pop hits. Looking through his discography on wikipedia I suspect there's some of those songs I know by melody and not by name, but I think he's long past his songwriter peak. And obviously there's dozens off great pop songs that he didn't write (which were smash hits).

edit: I missed all the Katy Perry ones, so I guess maybe he's still got it. But still, I don't see any work with Rihanna, who is probably the biggest pop star of the last decade.
Yep! Neil Diamond wrote I'm A Believer.

Also, Carole King wrote Pleasant Valley Sunday. Here's her original demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtyqPzeso5A
ok, but "virtually every major pop song" is still an overstatement.
You change a function, and that change doesn't get reflected in upstream calls—this isn't a big deal? Are you kidding me?
A few people here need a humour transplant it seems.
I know this is a somewhat tangential comment but...

The "eat your own dogfood" approach has never sat well with me. I think of Microsoft forcing it's employees to use Bing and Windows - rather than improving the products it seemed to lower morale and ignored the reasons why people were choosing Google or Apple.

If the idea is to improve the product by actually using it I think a better approach would be to "eat everyone's dogfood including your own," because so many good ideas come in bits and pieces from competition and new ideas can come from surveying the entire market to see what's missing. It's not just about experiencing the good/bad of your own product, but seeing where you fit in the market, who would choose your product, and why.
Main two bits:

1. Is there a way to force off the typo correction? I tried "smartos" both with and without quotes, and either way I get results for the word "smartest", which aren't about SmartOS (an operating system derived from OpenSolaris).

2. In terms of CSS/font/layout, honestly I like hnsearch.com's results better. I think part of it is that I use hnsearch.com as an alternative HN interface, not just a search engine, and it's usable for that purpose, in part because it looks more like regular HN.

The issue for me more generally is that hnsearch.com is almost perfect as an HN search engine, as far as I'm concerned. It does what I want, does it fast, with good coverage and a usable interface. So my advice for alternatives would tend towards just "yeah, make it more like that", which is maybe not the most useful commentary.
"But history shows that power gained is never relinquished without a vicious struggle."

People say this, but it's not true. Obviously there are countless cases where violent struggle was used, and quite possibly in many of those cases violent struggle was required (maybe even all), but there have clearly been cases of individuals and groups giving up power. Sometimes in pursuit of ideals, sometimes out of fear that violence might otherwise follow.
Not really. "Some" would be the accurate modifier.
Yes, but "virtually all" != ~5% under even the most liberal accounting.
Working on http://www.quantikid.com and use it daily as my daughter's preschool uses it to log drop off, snacks, naps, activities etc in their classrooms.
I reported this to a freenode staffer. He said they didn't appreciate this kind of activity much and that they would investigate it.
> Blindly worshipping people who are successful at some business venture blinds

Completely agree, but I don't think anyone in the article or this forum could be considered "worshipping" this guy. The article was more of an observation about a not immediately apparent fact that was intellectually curious.
without wolong doge wouldn't be over 200
next time build first a source control system
(and/or a snapshotting filesystem)
Sorry to mislead you. Accidentally hit submit and had the USA and Denmark swapped. Numbers are correct now.

Delete your post if you like...
1. But to game developers it is their most important device. I am a developer who would love to be able to test and publish my games on those platforms — but I don't mind that they keep the platform closed, because I feel it adds value to the games currently on there. (Developers are the main group concerned with the issue of open vs. closed.)

2. I would argue that your point also applies to the best apps on the App Store. The super-polished, simple and focused experiences that people love. They are hardly complex software, they are just well-thought-out design wise. By taking a curated approach you prevent the crud from building up.

I see it as similar to a fashionable clothing store — they buy all their clothes for cheap just like everyone else. The value they offer is in their curation and taste.

(In my mind Apple is not strict enough with their curation, which dilutes the value of their store. But I realise I am in the minority with this opinion.)
Whether this actually happened or not is not the point.

The point is that there is now speculation (and in fact a, albeit remote, possibility) that this could have been the reason.

The loss of trust in the Government is what makes this a story.
Android is open only when your time is free
I would like to have a serious talk to whoever designed the Amazon streaming video interface on the Roku. It shows a grid video selections in rows, then proceeds to obscure most of the selections with the description text. I really can't stand to use it unless Amazon is the only source for that content.
Not too surprising. I was going to click it, then saw it was by sfgate. When was the last time they published scientific research in an informative way?
I use Beatrix every day and it's a great feeling - really helps drive product development. I rely on it. I even pay for it! :)

http://beatrixapp.com
But if you go to a meeting somewhere and you would have to choose between pen/paper or a smartphone which would you choose?

Typing speed may not be an advantage of phones [1] but your colleges will not see what you have planned.
I could write these thoughts I'm writing right now on paper for myself but I'm "thinking" with you.

Maybe it's hard to argue about it because these two things seem superficially similar. But like paperless offices, paperless note taking/planning will win in the end.

[1]: to be fair, you have been writing with a pen since you're 5 or 6. Most people never wrote anything on touchscreens bevor 2007.
And the cellphone market is worse yet, much, much worse. At least here in the US, I can't speak for how it works in South Korea.

A regulation like this in the US would just be a bandaid (one I'd welcome) on the much, much larger problem of spectrum use/abuse resulting in few enough players to allow massive price fixing and few real consumer options.

There isn't a violin in the world small enough for me to play when the government issues regulations to protect consumers against the horrible actions of cellphone carriers (and by extension the cellphone vendors that serve them), ISPs, cable companies, etc. They are all fucking horrible and lobby incessantly for government protection when it benefits their lockin and then cry like some little bitch koalas[1] who fell out of a tree when the shoe is on the other foot.

[1] http://www.textfiles.com/uploads/koalas.txt
Bezos wouldn't need to "turn the WaPo into Amazon's personal PR factory" in order to get this published though. You don't have to have a massive conspiracy to get a story published. Everyone in PR knows that.

All he'd have to do is mention the research to a few writers. If you're a writer and the owner of the company mentions a story that sounds interesting to you, you might be just a little etra inclined to cover it.

The first season of House of Cards is a nice illustration of how the combination of powerful people and ambitous writers can lead to a "journalistic" PR campaign without any mass conspiracy. Granted, it's fictional. But it's a plausible mechanism.
Yup, so is your comparison. Your comparision is really, really bad.

Thus you, are really really bad, so the world doesn't need you, right?
Deliberate or not? Seems to be thanks to the following code:

<style type="text/css">
body {
-webkit-transform: rotateX(180deg);
-o-transform: rotateX(180deg);
-ms-transform: rotateX(180deg);
-moz-transform: rotateX(180deg);
transform: rotateX(180deg);
}
</style>
I think you're missing that this is a thought-experiment around what could be. And you are just wrong in any implication that Nelson is denying that Xerox Park "won".

Even when one approach wins, it is foolish to avoid looking at what other approaches offer. And that is all he is doing (from his particular, biased-but-interesting viewpoint, of course).

I do think Nelson underestimates the importance of icon and metaphor but given that he specific paradigm in mind, I think that's an honest mistake, not a mean-spirit effort to denigrate someone (in contrast to, say, your post for example).
Whether it assuages the conscience of white collar Americans or not, the fact is that the poor in America have it pretty good. The average poor person in America is overweight, not starving, and enjoys a standard of living far better than most people in developing countries. I have trouble relating to anyone for whom that isn't a relevant fact in any discussion of poverty.

I grew up poor, in the south, and am now comfortably middle class (still in the south). In my experience, the thing that keeps poor people poor is an unwillingness to put long-term success above short-term pleasure. Poor people buy cars they can't afford; they blow off work to go to the club with their friends; they have children young. Many poor people work hard, but very seldom are they working _toward_ anything beyond the next paycheck, or the next beer.
I'm 50-50 on this. I try to use the mobile for 2Do, but doesn't work as well as I would like... Especially the part where you have to take a note on the run: No matter how fast you're with your mobile's keyboard you can't beat paper.
Wikipedia actually has a pretty lengthy article about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsakey
Rap Genius traffic back to 2013 levels
Also I think it's important to note that just because its pop music doesn't mean it does not take an incredible amount of skill to produce well. There are a handful of producers that dominate the field because they are the best ones. Dr Luke is an example of another.
Two definitions of investing by notable people:

1. From The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham: "An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative."

http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Definitive-Invest...

2. From Mr. Buffett on the Stock Market: "The definition is simple but often forgotten: investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future -- more money in real terms, after taking inflation into account."

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/...
His Youtube lectures are a poor starting point to get acquainted with his work.

Start with Computer Lib to get the historical context. Then Dream Machines to get his original ideas and visions for computers as tools. Then Literary Machines, Geeks Bearing Gifts, and Possiplex (all worth it if you appreciate his work; if you don't then their level of interest decreases as publication dates increase). And finally if you really like the guy, then you can watch his Youtube lectures.

It's easy to dismiss Ted Nelson as some old crazy man who spent his life selling snake oil when you're behind your computer, but the reality of it is that he contributed a lot to the field and is deeply respected amongst his peers. He was a close friend of Engelbart, his work valued by his contemporaries, and there's a reason for which he was invited at the Homebrew Computer Club reunion a few months ago. Nelson's work gives us an insight on what computing could have looked like, in some weird parallel world.

He is controversial, perhaps; and some of his ideas/claims may be unpractical/unrealistic/etc. - but ignoring and dismissing him only sends the message that you're not as much of an expert as your rhetoric attempts to make you out to be.
Drive-by code review:

I don't see any reason for the Api type to exist. Just make them normal functions?

It would also be helpful to print the portstring rather than just "Hi.".
Little people know that Rick Rubin is someone who helped make hip hop popular , I have an old video of him jamming on a TR909 with Afrika Bambaataa back in the early 80s. Without him , hip hop would not have been what it was. Funny as he is mostly known for his (successfull) Metal productions. But he is the "white guy" that defined hip hop sound. The crap we hear today is not hip hop, i dont know what it is frankly...
On HN of all places we should value the creative process. I think we should do so even when we don't agree with the content, as long as there are no ethical/legal issues. The title is plain silly, of course. There are many other talented songwriters and producers out there - Babyface is one, I'm sure there are others.

Songwriters and producers don't get their due though (unless they also sing). Back in the day, I used to read CD liner notes to get to know the producers behind the songs I liked. But I always paid more attention to producers than songwriters: for some songs it's hard to know which one out of the five listed songwriters was the real creative force; songs with samples will often have lots of unrecognizable names; and I've always valued producers as being more critical to a song's success than songwriters.
How is this different from Anki?

http://ankisrs.net/
I would certainly expect a gap between the answers; I'm not confident about the size. The latter glosses over how the power is used, too. Obviously more people would support trade deals than assassinations - presumably espionage falls somewhere between.
Why I Invested #3: Regalii
Paper is great for tracking small things while I'm working in some task, but how do you take paper notes on non-text data like URL's or images..?
"[Urgent] Please remove this repo immediately"
A major contributing factor is that financial problems are the leading cause of divorce.

Generally speaking wealthier people have fewer financial problems.
If they're buying for the brand, then perhaps. The headphones are objectively worse than other models in the same price range. I'd guess that most buyers are not aware of this and just think it's cool or it must be good because it's higher priced.

It's brilliant marketing, sure. But it's like taking a $2 bottle of wine, rebranding it, and saying it's worth the value at $19.
Not surprised by the other bands from the list, but Bon Jovi? That was very surprising to me. I always thought he had fairly original songs. It's not like they've only done one or two known albums and disappeared.
> should we think people who make pop music are doing a good thing?

...and the tech industry is any better? We're mostly driven by advertising and consumer software/electronics. (Yes, exceptions exist, but they aren't the rule).

Out of curiosity, what industry do you work in?
You build a Z axis with angstrom steps?

...I cannot begin to imagine what's involved in vibration control.
Looks cool.

What motivated you to start the project? I'm just curious since there are already so many SRS flash card apps, including the impressive Anki (cross-platform, powerful features, open source, free). Is it just for fun/the challenge or is there some shortcoming of the existing apps you're looking to fix?

Best of luck with the project!
I used to be very fascinated by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_Aitken_Waterman a group that produced many of 80's pop hits and didn't think that there would be a "more modern" equivalent that could stand up to them.
I don't see it as a big deal. You do, so my advice is to wait for 1.0.
> Internally, the keyboard and TrackPoint speak PS/2. While they could log keystrokes to an on-board chip and transmit keystrokes via radio, there aren't any especially interesting things the NSA can do to her laptop via a modified keyboard. They certainly won't be rooting it that way.

This is a joke, right? A keyboard and a keylogger would give you everything you need to root a computer.
I'd wait a little while. D&D is currently at 4th Edition (abbreviated as 4E). A lot of people _do not_ care for 4E, and I'm among them. They find that 4E lost everything that the happened during the polishing to 3.5. As a result, Wizards of the Coast is working on creating a 5th Edition, as I type this.

I would recommend you wait a while for 5E, or try PathFinder, which is a continuation where 3.5 left off, and seems to be gaining lost of ground against WotC D&D.
There is plenty of stuff installed on iPhone that people might not want. I can't change the keyboard; I can use a different mail app but not for sending attachments; I don't use safari; etc.

These are all far far nicer that the junk installed by vendors (Orange in the UK is pretty bad). But it's still unwanted software that introduce frustrations for some users.
The site which posted this article wouldn't bother posting an article contradicting it.
I havent seen any causational data, merely correlational data.
> Bear in mind that cryptocurrencies are currently an unregulated wild west, where activities like these are both common and legal.

Ah, no, it's not legal. Regulators just don't care (yet) to enforce the rules.
and lawsuits, lots of lawsuits.
Great idea, but I wish it had retro games as well. Retro gamers are the most likely group to really want to catalog everything.
If you'd like to read more inflammatory screeds from idealists who've never released anything, I highly recommend the blog of Stanislav Datsovskiy[1], in which he passionately elucidates the finer details of what might constitute a non-horrible operating system/programming environment[2].

> "I sometimes find myself wondering if the invention of the high-level compiler was a fundamental and grave (if perhaps inevitable) mistake, not unlike, say, leaded gasoline."[3]

As I gather, he's spent about the last five years or so trying to build a LISP machine from scratch on an FPGA.

(PS I see from your profile that you're an iOS dev too... I would think that anybody who writes Objective-C for a living would typically sustain an intense and burning hatred for the state of contemporary programming, and be otherwise eternally fascinated by any proposed alternatives. How do you do it?)

[1] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=8

[2] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284

[3] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=55
Should we think 90% of the stuff produced by HN readers on a daily basis (I mean the software we write, not our comments, hehe) are good things?

Is Facebook a good thing? It just lets people stay in contact with one another, they could already do that with a phone, Facebook just makes it a little more pleasant.

Is Snapchat a good thing? It, well, I don't even know what it does, but it takes pictures and lets you share them with people or something, right? Is that really any more valuable to society than pop music?

I'm not saying Facebook and Snapchat are bad, just that they aren't really any better or worse than something like pop music. The idea is to make people a little happier, or let them do something that makes them happier. Get off your high horse. Bringing people joy or making their lives a little more bearable is just that, nothing more, nothing less.
Two Questions That Will Make You A Better Leader
Yep! It connects to the user's facebook account so it is, like you said, free for anyone.
On HN of all places we should value the creative process. I think we should do so even when we don't agree with the content, as long as there are no ethical/legal issues.

Well, the article like argument that the process going is less creative than it seems. I suspect hackers would love if software could 5% of pop songs. If a person with a formula writes 5% of pop songs, somehow it appeals less and seems less creative. I agree though articulating exactly why might be hard.
Many of us on Hacker News dislike pop music. And there are good reasons to do so, but its popularity alone should not be one. I like to remind myself some of the greatest music in the world was once pop music. For example, J. S. Bach used to perform at the Café Zimmerman in Leipzig[1]. Could you imagine going into a coffeehouse and listening to Bach playing a Teleman concerto? Or a flute concerto of his own?

Now, I'm not saying that the Backstreet Boys have the musical genius of Bach. But neither should you discard their music because it is popular and overplayed. Would the world be better off had they never sung?

"The [Café Zimmerman] was destroyed during an air raid on Leipzig in December 1943." [1] I would have loved to stand inside it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Café_Zimmermann
So, poker isn't gambling? That's news to most of the world.

It seems pretty clear to me that gambling and investing are a continuum, with craps at one end and Treasury bonds at the other.
I find the loss of trust in the gov't encouraging. Healthy skepticism would be better, but distrust is better than nothing.
> No we did not.

The disdain with which you discard my memories of that time is... interesting.

Invent distrust? Of course not.

However, I and my colleagues (as I recall), at the time just did not take the threat of government surveillance seriously. Did I trust the government? Yes. Yes I did. I'm Dutch. We have a childlike faith in our government. Being spied on by the government was something that happened on the other side of the former Iron Curtain. And in the US. Surely not our very own flattened nook of the world.

And would this surveillance of other governments affect me? Ha! Why would it?

Sure I was naive. And I was hardly alone. Were there more enlightened souls, such as yourself? I'm willing to go out on a limb and trust that there were.

Does that discount my memory of being ridiculed as paranoid for using PGP? Or the times I ridiculed friends and colleagues myself for taking measures against being listened in on? I hope not.
I'd say most hiphop fans know Rick Rubin. In fact, he co-produced the lastest Kanye and Eminem albums...
4chan trolls from /g/, I believe?
Yeah, using these figures our married tax liability still ends up being more. I suspect because our incomes are very similar and there is a steep hike (5%) between tax bracket we would be in individually and the one that applies to us if we got married.
Great NYer profile of another pop hit lyricist & production team:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/26/120326fa_fact_...
It all depends on the circumstances.

In the country I now reside in, there is little difference between common law marriage, "official" marriage, and civil union - if you have no kids, and divorce/separate within 7-8 years, then each partner gets what they brought in (and any substantially "joint" income during the same time, e.g. appreciation of an apartment, unless otherwise agreed upon in advance, is split 50/50) . If you are married and/or crossed to the 15-20 year area unmarried, then any income generated during the "united" period (including retirement accounts, pension funds, etc) is assumed 50/50, but anything before (and inheritances) go back to whoever brought them in.

Prenups, of course, take precedence although some have been nullified by courts as being unreasonable (mostly in cases where the prenups says in the event of a divorce wife gets little/nothing, but then separation comes e.g. after 20 years of marriage/union and giving up a career to raise 4 kids with husband's approval and support).
Entrepreneurship in Japan: Separating fact from fiction
I like spaced repetition apps, but I'm kind of annoyed that this is just a sloppy landing page without a demo or a concrete description of what the app does. I would resubmit after the app is ready to launch, or you at least have some kind of demo.