skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A musician can compose a song and play some instrument, of course. But you can't expect him to know all instruments. Of course, she will usually compose for their most familiar instrument but not necessarily, see movie composers for example."

I disagree with your point.

I'm a part-time musician and my wife programs (selects music for) several classical ensembles.

It's very important that composers and arrangers understand a lot about the instruments for which they are composing, and even more so if they have to additionally understand educational requirements or the limitations of players beyond their instruments.

To do the work, you have to understand, for instance, the ranges of instruments you compose for, as well as the difficulties imposed by the mechanics of the instrument.

To be fair, folks like Mark Mothersbaugh can hand off their basic compositions to arrangers to implement, but this is not a normal situation. Rather, most composers, especially composers of pieces for educational ensembles like my wife's are largely judge by how playable a piece is-- this is a pragmatic limitation on how good a piece can sound.

I am a pop musician, and occasionally I run into pieces that have been composed for string ensembles by people with little knowledge of the instruments for which they are writing.

As a low-rent front end developer, these pieces feel _very_ much like the "web designs" that I occasionally implement for people who generally do print design: they are missing a lot of details that I have to generate in order to make them work on the web and there are often many misqueues as far as basic things like creating usable forms and buttons.

I don't believe that anyone would maintain that you can't create good work unless you have deep formal training in every aspect of a design.

However, I my suspicions about the abilities of, say, self-taught singer-songwriters whose only instrument is guitar and who can play barely enough keyboard to input a score into finale are often confirmed.

And that happens a little less frequently than my suspicions about print-trained "web designers" are confirmed.
They could probably board the ship with gas masks even before the poison is released, come to think of it. :-)

If the ship filled with poison gas manages to avoid the pirates it'll have a tougher time avoiding Greenpeace activists...
Cool, I going to add this site to my webring.
I look forward to plhaskell. Great to see a practical use case for dependent typing!
The Enrichment Center is required to remind you that you will be baked, and then there will be cake.
Oh shit if you didn't have a starry background <blink>-tagged website with image maps you were not a person in the 90's internet.
Thanks buzzfeed.
To me, the term dev-ops is probably more accurate these days.
I remember when SGI came by to demo their VRML viewer with an animated character. During Q&A I commented that the web made it easy to learn by 'view source'; "how do you do that with VRML?" I remember being dissatisfied with their response. (I think you were supposed to use one of their authoring tools for it?)
Microsoft TypeScript graduates to Visual Studio
3 Steps To How I Got My First 1,000 Legitimate Followers In 3 Weeks
I still lend this book out to friends who want to learn HTML.
Ah, I had the opposite remark:

On http://www.formspree.com/ at section 1, they say to use "http://api.formspree.com/your@email.com" while it should be "//api.formspree.com/your@email.com".

I just set up a Jekyll site with links to youtube and disqus. Quite important or it won't work.
My old CRT had amazingly high resolution given that it was only 17" or something. Of course you couldn't really see much at 1600x1200, but it could do it!
Wow -- no matter what car is available over the next 10 months, it can't possibly be better than this one!

Anyone else hate "year inflation"?
In the mid-90s I discovered HTML and cleaned up the web page for the company I was contracting for. It was supposed to be a 5-hour a week side project that became 20 hours a week often. I discovered David Seigel's web site, where I learned all the magic of the single-pixel gif and table layouts. I bought his book "Creating Killer Websites," and followed his web journal, which was a new concept at the time.

I took a detour for a bit, working on server-side projects in C++ and Java, but came back to a new world of CSS and for a time was quite confused. Certainly our tools for creating killer websites have improved, but I have very fond memories of those early days.
Building things to help you sell the things you build
As I said: It's not just another security bug. It's an easy to spot bug, in the most critical part of the code, of a fundamental security library. THIS is what makes it unacceptable. It pretty much means the change has never gone through code review, or has been planted.
My favorite part about this is why it's worth $10 million.

Because it's currency? Nope.
Because it's gold? Nope.
Because it's collectable? Yes!

Really highlights how price and value can come unstuck.
I thought homepage was just whatever page you had your browser set to start up on. And then some of us built personal home pages that had all the links we cared about on them. And then one of us built Personal Home Pages.
Yeah, I should have made that clearer in my comment. I still think it's a bit morbid.
that... makes me feel very old, and I'm 32 :(
It could be the places I spend my time online (including HN), but employee demand for remote work is growing and I expect it will take a relatively small number of companies changing policy for remote work to gain momentum.

Right now obviously the standard is the office model, and remote is so rare that the office companies aren't having a hard time competing for talent with the remote shops. Once a higher percentage of shops start going remote, the companies that don't offer it will start having a harder time competing. I don't think we are too far off from seeing remote being more widely accepted, but it's hard to tell when that change will be. At say 5% the offices still can get their hires, but if it gets around 20% (and with no major public failures) you'll start to see companies reconsidering policy.
Yes but those are trivial examples. What about a math library? The type signature isn't going to tell you which trig function to apply.

I'm a fan of static typing, but this sort of guessing based on type signatures seems like a bad thing, actually. It's like when people use autocomplete in their IDE and pick anything that looks like it might work, instead of reading the documentation (and maybe the source) to understand what they're using. It's understandable with beginners, but for people who should know better it's willful blindness.
"Spritzing is reading text with Spritz Inc.’s patent-pending technology."

You might as well patent the alphabet, I don't mind. Albeit mostly because I don't live in the US. I don't see how your online service will be able to compete with a free program that does this locally on my machine at no charge.

Then again I'm fairly out of touch with the world. I heard a sales-person describe a website as a cloud service and I no longer think I understand technology anymore.
Ugh.. the rendering bugs.. when combining tables and divs... IE for the longest time had a bug where combining table and div elements nested, when exceeding a certain complexity, you'd just get a white screen... It was fixed in IE6 on XP, but not on earlier versions of windows.

That was a nightmare of support issues on a few apps for me.
There is no need make Jenkins work like GO anymore to show the pipelines. Awesome :)
Supreme Court narrows right to object to a police search of suspect's home
2014: The year the Americans broke the internet
I was homeless and on foodstamps about 5 years ago. Within three years I had a bootstrapped business with 15 people and sold my stake. Life can certainly change quickly!

I'm happy for the team at WhatsApp. All other things being equal, having money is much nicer than not having it.
Yes yes yes! You were a webmaster based on the article posted.

You were a web developer if you'd torn apart and rebuild Matt's Forum, Poll, and other widgets.
If he doesn't, who will line my HFT pockets?
Existential Horror masterpiece.
Why Few Teams Build Billion Dollar Companies and most Disintegrate
Public Story Facebook
Reaching the world with public stories and subscriptions
You could also paste that into the developer console.
you're right. i was considering the events in the order they were revealed, not necessarily the event they occurred. i'm not sure which it is now.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/29/5156246/7-5-million-bitco...
The idea that you don't need tutorials because of the type system is absurd, another whopper along the same lines as Haskell programs being bug-free.

If nothing else, you may need a tutorial to learn to use the complex type system.
Ask HN: Is there a way to access kindle content for a speed reading app?
I would like to read my kindle books using a speed reading interface like this http://www.spreeder.com/ but I can't find an API to access the books. I have seen some iphone and android apps that can read content like that, but none of them can access kindle books. Is this possible and nobody has done it yet, or is this forbidden by Amazon's terms of service?
YanukovychLeaks: How Ukraine Journalists Are Making History
Bingo. While growing up in the '70s, my parents were often small businessmen, or running the business affairs of e.g. groups of doctors. More than one I can remember them spending quite a while tracking down a less than $1 discrepancy in the books they necessarily kept manually, for just that reason. (They moved to doing by computer in the '80s, of course.)
This is hardly a new thing with model years.
This was what jumped out at me. People have short memories; screen resolutions have not really improved in the last 15 years, and possibly aren't still as high as the rate they were at in the late 90s. Of course, they've improved in other, very obvious ways.
Most of their support staff/ID verification people etc were international. It's probably way easier to do that kind of hiring as contractors than staff (how would labour laws even work with international staff?)
You could try and write an algo that would carry out your value investing strategy. You could trawl Yahoo for P/E or whatever value metrics you want to look at buy or sell based on certain thresholds.
I saved $40k my first year out of college making quite a bit less than fresh grads get at big companies. I was sort of frugal--I ate out a lot and lived in a really nice apartment, but I did share it with a roommate, I didn't have any expensive hobbies besides the occasional video game, and I did own a paid off car and had no other debts of any kind. Anyway, with no income increases and no investment appreciation of any kind (i.e., just putting 100% of the money under your bed, or in a checking account), that would be $400k in 10 years.
That's hilarious: For information about the Apple Product Security PGP Key, see "How to use the Apple Product Security PGP Key."

From a company that has it's own email client (Mail), which doesn't support PGP(!!!) natively and when these goodfellas[1] decided to spent their time and write an add-on, Apple managed to break it with every update of Mail client. Like saying "Go use Thunderbird if you want security". And now they are using PGP to sign their stuff. Incredible.

[1] https://gpgtools.org/
"Mom, First use linux/fbsd/obsd/win box to download update. Next verify authenticity of cert/sha1. Then just scp dmg / copy to USB drive, apply update and move on."

If you're 13, add "duh" at the end.
It seems the natural next step would be to allow non-algorithm writers to invest in algorithms (or a bundle of algorithms), with some fee going to either or both Quantopian or the writer of the algorithm(s). Any chance that's on the roadmap, and if so, when can I expect to be able to crowdsource my investing?
Xabber doesn't do push notifications so it eats battery.

It's basically over for XMPP, but Hangouts was a still born PoS.
I suspect the bigger problem is that ultra reliable ships with state-of-the art communications and robotics will seldom be cheaper than a creaky old tub manned by Filipino sailors, especially Filipino sailors willing to accept non-unionized wages.
From what I understand there is actually a lot of penetration from the outside world, much of which is in the form of entertainment. And the article does talk about sending pamphlets.

PBS released a documentary about NK in January, a portion of which is with this guy.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/secret-state-of-nort...
And no redo either, I suppose? Nothing good comes from the current undo function in Mathematica; if you accidentally press it you're bound to lose work.
Misread that as Postal 2 beta (with an "s"), even though Postal 2 for Linux on Steam has been around for a while now. RWS is planning a big update this year, too.

This is good, too, though. I might consider checking it out, though I'm hardly a gamer.
add boomarklet support please, it is easy
Sssh, we're trying to drum up distrust in the government and drive up the price of our gold holdings here! Get with the program! :)
Yes, 1000x! I'm waiting to see Quantopian's forward testing with results.

Personally, I couldn't wait for their roll-out. So I wrote my own IB client and traded my Quantopian backtested strategies myself on my IB test account. Race condition, deadlocks much at 3:59PM ET at 2000+/msg burst from quote ticks (esp. when you are doing some kind of stat arb, pairs trading where one order submission is dependent on another order's fill).

Anyways interesting technical problems abound. Gl to the Quantopian team!
The guy "hasn't got a clue". Basically, inventing random algorithms (even if they back test ok) is a good way of losing all your money. Fundamentally, there are people who write algorithms based on past prices, largely trend following. They generally think they are doing well, without realising that they are making money by being generally long a rising market. Then they lose it all. Then there are the other people who have inside information, largely details of other peoples trades they can front run. They generally make money over the long run. You are not them.
Oh god. I still use &nbsp; for spacing things. Like, all the time.

I'm a terrible person.
I may be wrong but is part of WebKit and not just Safari? In which case this isn't solely apple.
This is what happens when you allow your interests to deviate from those of your users. Companies tell themselves a sweet lie that there's a common ground - people will love G+, G+ is great for Google, it all just happens to be a beautiful marriage. Herd them there and everyone is happy, even if there's a little initial resistance. But it's a terrible lie.

The simplicity of Talk was a huge feature. I still have not upgraded to Hangouts on my tablet. Frankly, I just don't understand what the hell G+ really is. It has so many features, so many facets, it's like a giant ball of wool that I don't know how to unravel. But it's not so much that I can't unravel it (I know I could if I spent the effort) - but I know I can't expect others to do that. Telling someone to join G+ implies so much possibly more than just a chat service, which is what we actually want. Even if they are already members, I might end up seeing who all their friends and relationships are, their photos, god knows what else. I don't want any of that. Telling them to use Hangouts and not join G+ is another giant ball of weirdness. It's too much, it's too complex.

So I've gone from recommending everyone use GTalk to trying to find something simpler that just works and just does the single thing I want. ie., exactly what Talk used to be.
In my opinion HTML/CSS/JavaScript is the best interface design technology ever invented. I believe it gets a lot of hate because:

1) Amateurs can use it easily and poorly
2) It is not taught in computer science class
3) HTML/CSS is not programming
4) HTML docs attempt to be responsive/liquid as opposed to traditional screen painters.

These are actually good things (and #2 can be fixed) but they represent a significant philosophical shift that most traditional developers don't want to accept.
One of the best things about reading Bleeding Edge this year was reminiscing about VRML.
Pirates can wear gas masks. Flooding the deck of an autonomous ship with heavy gas has been discussed as a way to raise the barrier to entry for new piracy operations. An unresolved issue is how to reliably flush the bodies off the deck - one does not want to enter port (and foreign jurisdiction) with dead Somalians on board.
There are low hundreds of attempts and a few dozen successful ship hijackings per year. It is, overall, a very small part of freight theft, the vast majority of which happens on land. This should be obvious: on land, you don't need a boat big enough to float a container to steal a container. You just need a access to a semi-tractor and maybe a trailer.

If you make the technical demands on a successful hijacking higher, I expect these numbers to fall.

I also expect self-driving trucks to sharply cut theft, rather than enable it.
A small project I have been working on Bewbr.com
This project took me around ~2 hours to build. Bewbr sends daily boobs to your snapchat account free. Enter your snapchat username to receive a daily snap of boobs. I mean who doesn't love bewbs?

http://www.bewbr.com
Oh, great, now SoMa will be overrun with artisanal food stamp offices.
Offended by use of via.
Hearing "DHTML" reminded me of Thomas Brattli's old site[1] and it's successor dhtmlcentral. I learned quite a bit from those sites in the late 90s early 00s.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20001019064945/http://www.bratta...
If only there was some way to invest in an index of some sort of the best algorithms...
And here you have the full untrimmed background image extracted directly from the pdf using the enterprise forensic tool pdfimage:

http://i.imgur.com/7vDwvYp.png

"Gox styleguide" ?
Webmaster in a Nutshell [1] was our bible!

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565923256.do
We had to design websites in high school, circa 7-8 years ago. Pretty sure if anyone had implemented a flat desing they would have been given a D for poor effort.

It's all about that terrible blue button in Dreamweaver that animated concentric circles when you hovered over it..
I'm in Europe too (Denmark), and a lot of people I know here don't have free SMS, because a-la-carte plans with no monthly fee are very common, rather than monthly subscriptions. I pay $9/GB for data, $0.03/min for voice, $0.03/message for domestic SMS, and $0.35/message for international SMS.

Unlimited call/messaging subscription plans do exist, but you have to use a lot of voice and SMS for them to be worth it. My typical monthly bill is ~$10-20 (almost all of that data), and some months, e.g. when on vacation and using a foreign SIM while not using my Danish one, I pay nothing. So it wouldn't make sense to pay an up front fee on the order of $50/mo to get "free" SMS.
HoTMetaL
Pfft. No it doesn't. Does Bill Gates have a billion dollars' worth of soybeans sitting around in silos somewhere? Did Steve Jobs buy up $50 million worth of crude oil at some point and no one told me? Does Warren Buffett have a freezer with $333,000,000 worth of pork bellies hanging in it? No. Even an ETF like PHCU has ~$15.24 million worth of copper - a drop in the ocean next to the wealth of a single billionaire.

The only commodity the rich put anything approaching a substantial amount of money into... is gold. (Oooh, no, the price of gold is too high! think of the children!)

No no. The super-rich put their wealth into BUSINESSES, which is why they remain super-wealthy. Also, they put it into: taxes (incl. the estate tax), charities, their heirs, corporate bonds, government bonds, and positional goods like fine art or NYC penthouses.
I worked on a VRML retail store that had 3D products on 3D shelves and 3D customer service reps you could chat with. It was just like shopping in a real world retail store, except you're tripping on LSD flying uncontrollably upside down through a bright colored world of blocks and pyramids while wearing binoculars until you punch a hole in the sky and your browser crashes. The world just wasn't ready to shop in 3D.
I agree about exploring new ideas, but I don't think the drifting ship is a good example. Intercontinental shipping is already dirt cheap thanks to containeraization, well under $50/ton IIRC. Also, a drifting or super-slow ship would have to run in such a way that it didn't present a hazard to other mariners by drifting across shipping lanes or suchlike, so managing that risk and insuring against wouldn't be cost-free.

What this unmanned slow boat would be good for would be trash pickup, something that's not really economical now but is nevertheless a real problem, especially int he pacific.
Tripod let you run perl scripts?
404s for me. Link path is missing ~zach/ prefix.
Swap demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZU0wnpyhF8
I am interested to hear your opinion: at what point should a vulnerability be considered unacceptable?
>IF IT BLEEDS WE CAN KILL IT

I think that would do better as a switch or case handler semantic.
It was their way of warning us.
$27,000 face value in $10 and $20 gold coins, each gold coin having 0.9675 ounces of gold in them ($10 coins would have had exactly half that amount of gold).

So that is about 1350 $20 gold coins or their equivalent, thus 1300 ounces of gold. At current spot prices of $1340 per ounce, about $1.75 million USD.

IF they are the $20 coins, they probably look similar to these: http://www.apmex.com/product/9119/20-liberty-gold-double-eag...
I was going to add some in my area but have no facebook.
At some point I believe they added photo messaging support by email, but you have to check + check for attachment. I had already filtered/archived all emails by default so I didn't realize this until very late in the game
Bitcoin Price Resilient as Antonopoulos, Andreessen Weigh in on Mt. Gox Debacle
Dad Builds Awesome NASA Mission Control Desk for Son
Ok... but almost all that you said is a UX Issue...

Imagine an UI with a circle and the spritz box above. You put your thumb in the middle, push right it starts to show the words forward, push farther from midle => faster. Push it left => slower. Left after middle, rewinding text.

You could even use up, down to go back entiry frases or paragraphs.

Regarding linearity, you could use color/color fading to wrap phrases, or show two to four words per time moving just the red letter according to speed.

Personally... I think it's an amazing Idea! :)
Same here, I was 22 and finishing my CS degree with lots of experience on side projects and ready to jump into the golden .COM days.

Still after all these years, the scars earned in web development projects, make me jump of joy when I get to do native desktop stuff instead.
Some other commenters have hinted at this but... I feel sad whenever people build this kind of stuff. It's probably a very well built product (or will be) and is better than the alternatives out there, but the unfortunate fact is that anything that enables and encourages active trading in modern financial markets is setting 99% of their customers up for failure. And the 1% that are actually on to something will quickly move off the platform onto their own, or will end up losing whatever they make when their strategy loses whatever alpha it has and they can't admit it (I've seen this happen, but never the former, actually).

Trading is hard. I run a proprietary trading firm with modern technology infrastructure and we have a lot of trading experience. You really have very little chance of success unless you're doing this full time, and even then it will take years before you have enough experience to build a sustainable income.