skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking for co-founder (Sunnyvale, Bay Area)
Looking for co-founder to build a something big in enterprise 2.0 for SMB. My background is both technical as tech lead in middleware company for 6 years and business as product manager for the last 4.
I Would prefer to find somebody financially stable and who is either very technical, strong architect that can build a SaaS offering (experience in middleware/scalability is also ok) or somebody very strong in design who can also do some html/javascript dev.
I would also consider a finance/sale/CEO person but then we will have to figure out plan B to get additional devs to help me out.

If it sounds interesting drop me an email at freespamming .at. yahoo dot com , tell me a little bit about yourself and we can take it from there.

If you have some ideas yourself (preferably something for enterprises) that's ok too.
I have made a flash blocker for mac chrome. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kfncbcioneejfnne...
Look people, Google is not above anybody else. Google turned over information to the Indian government to throw some guy in jail for making some remark on a website about the government. Google is just as much against free speech and corroborating with governments against individual rights when it comes to making money. http://binaryday.com/2008/05/18/is-the-arrest-of-rahul-krish...
Nice, but I didn't get: what software is used to record the screen?
I deleted the Main Page
UK has surveillance cameras everywhere. Echelon monitors all phones, email, fax, cell calls. China is only catching up to us. What's your point?
Great, more numbers pulled out of context. Especially if you embed.
I really dont see the big deal. This is simple stuff and we are programmers. It is obvious that a standard is the easiest and safest way to go wheather its 2 tabs , 1 space , 1 tab... etc. But are people really having that many problems? It is annoying to see tabs and spaces used in the same file and unclean code but is it that bad? Who is programming with you to the point where their tabs/spaces actually makes your code unreadable (dont count html which really needs correct indentation to read). Has anyone ever had a huge bug created by indentation?
Thieves beware Droid can catch you with its lookout App.
"Or consider someone who is on an 80x25 terminal"... ok now where are just getting silly. This discussion isnt even really technical but more of a aesthetic opinion. A single standard would be best but it wont happen because it really doesnt matter as long as the code runs and your coders arent actively making text-pictures. Also that free BSD example is only because they have the time to format their comments like that. No one really comments like that , its unnecessary and if it causes problems then a simpler form should be used.
Maybe it's a rough indicator of how much looking is required to locate a part. Maybe it reduces the odds of cracking One's head on large metal objects.
To grow, Boxee must embrace porn
In most cases, the behavior is identical.

I think as you implement what the article describes, you will find it to be tedious and impractical in real-world use.
> God cannot be proved or disproved

Incorrect. Why would you think not? After all, you can see God, pet God, and even show him to others. However, it may be that you are not referring to the Great Dane named God I read about online. It may be that, rather than assuming I'd know to which "God" you were referring (is there a reason you would assume such?), you meant ideas of supernatural gods cannot be proved or disproved, and on that I would agree. Of course, the problem is that such an axiom isn't limited to gods; there are all sorts of things that can't be proved or disproved including unicorns, invisible fairies, and even a magical whale named Brutus that wears a smoking jacket and is said by some (like me) to be a candidate for creator of the universe. My belief that Brutus may exist is safely beyond challenge, and that's fine. However, I would not impose any actions conveyed to me by Brutus, as I understood them, on others. If I did so I would hope someone like Professor Dawkins would show me why it was wrong to assert (and act on) any positive position that Brutus exists, rather than remain neutral until actual proof was forthcoming.
Would you accept "Welcome to Google's university search of Adrian College" to be less confusing, since the word 'university' is not repeated?

O/T
Their university-specific search is nothing new; they've had the feature for several years.
Other topic specific searches are at the bottom of this page: http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Exactly. This is almost common sense; I have never specifically told anyone "to commit to my repository, make sure you indent in such-and-such way". I have also never been told this rule; if I notice that every indentation level is two spaces more than the last level, I assume I should do the same. (If it's a whole project, I just add the changed settings to my .eproject file, and never think about it again. Very simple.)

I have found, in general, that it's the very new or very bad programmers that want to quibble over style. Everyone I've worked with is fine with anything. In the long run, it just doesn't matter at all.
Some day people will learn that URIs are for computers (not computer operators), and that they shouldn't be confused by them.
I'm not sure why TomJen2's comment was barred - since he may have been asking what I would like to know: what method of "banning" have you found effective (with such a rowdy, determined group), i.e., how do you know a member's real identity: IP address, etc.?
No one really comments like that , its unnecessary and if it causes problems then a simpler form should be used.

I comment like this. It's also not hard to do. You type something like:

some line of code ; here is my comment, blah blah blah, very long, blah blah blah

Then press M-q ("fill-paragraph"), and Emacs turns it into:

some line of code ; here is my comment, blah blah
; blah, very long, blah blah blah

Sometimes this looks nicer than:

;; here is my comment, blah blah blah, very long,
;; blah blah blah
some line of code

Anyway, both styles are quite common.

"Or consider someone who is on an 80x25 terminal"... ok now where are just getting silly.

I always consider people on 80 column terminals, because although I have a huge monitor, I would like to display more than one file at a time. Aiming for 80 columns means that you appeal to the "lowest common denominator" and it means that you can have lots of files within easy visual reach. (I actually end up near 90 at home and 85 at work... but I try not to exceed 78 too often.)
"Why is google moving to ext4?"

The Ars article says that ext2 can develop what amounts to fragmentation in the metadata, causing reading to slow down a lot as the file system is used. That matters for apps with heavy data turnover, like Gmail.
Yeah, a lot of languages have a history of Arabic-script literacy which is far less studied than Ajami. Dongxiang (aka Sarta, a Mongolic language) comes to mind --- "Dongxiang Xiao'erjing" manuscripts are almost completely ignored among Anglophone scholars, and the only publications about it are in obscure regional journals in Gansu. Certainly no one has taken advantage of them to do diachronic studies of the language or literary criticism, as has been done for Wolofal [1] ...

Digitisation of all these kinds of Arabic-script manuscripts would be somewhat easier if the Arabic block in Unicode had more combining marks, the way the Latin and Cyrillic blocks have done for pretty much all the various tails and tildes and slash marks.

[1] e.g. http://www.jstor.org/pss/3821001 http://www.reference-global.com/doi/abs/10.1515/ijsl.2002.05...
Seems like a java app.
one big company really has never shown to be better then smaller companies except for in speed of product to market. And for big companies to rule absolutely it usually requires some previous legal corruption that creates a monopoly. So basically China would have to be the world government in order to get that foot hold. Second regulation is an illusion , its a combinaiton of people doing their job and people playing nice. These dont always occur together and when the both dont occur you have deregulation or corruption. Also if there was to be one super company weather china or us or anyone it would be too big to regulate all the smallest parts so in effect corruption would occur within and against the huge company. Basically its impossible to control everyone. Read 'Multitude' its a social fact , kind of.
> God cannot be proved or disproved, so stop wasting your time!

The world is not so simple. Most people on Earth use some sort of God as their ethical basis. Some even argue that atheists cannot possibly have ethics, for they have no God. Thus whether to believe that the root of ethics is God, and whose God, is a crucial question.

What atheism argues is that reason alone, not faith, should guide our acts; an idea worth to teach, even if we must kill God in the way.
Concerns with Apple’s business model — Kiran Jonnalagadda’s Blog
Really easy to use. I love it. Would be nice if you could choose custom URLs (instead of http://showmewhatswrong.com/submit/c6VbeeTi I could have http://showmewhatswrong.com/submit/reedlaw)
pvg's dislike seems to be that pipes transfer a stream of octets with no inherent syntax or semantics. That means every program needs baroque options to impose structure, which is difficult to create, maintain, and debug. Also brittle.
Why does Google look different in Chrome Incognito?
The main point of ext4 (and ext3) is that they are backwards compatible; you can use your existing on-disk layout. Google probably has a zillion disks that they can't just reformat.
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http://code.google.com/p/bwapi/

http://www.broodwarai.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=659
A lot of people are involved, so some of them make errors from time to time. So far I haven't really heard anything shocking, just nitpicking about details.
Too much time passed since last major war. Generations of sissies are now in charge.
Everything you wanted to know about corn syrup sweeteners
Wow, the end of this article really brought home to me in a visceral way something that I already intellectually knew - that I (and the rest of us) really do have distant past ancestors that were fish, mouse-like creatures, etc.
Ask HN: Projections web app / FB app growth?
Hi HN,

I'm putting together projections for investors of a Facebook game we're developing.

Before I go and build it out myself, anyone know any good existing models/spreadsheets that take into account the viral rate, retention, lifespan of typical user etc?

I checked out the one at http://andrewchenblog.com/2008/03/05/facebook-viral-marketing-when-and-why-do-apps-jump-the-shark/ and it's good but somehow doesn't include how retention changes over time for active users, which I guess would be more like in the real deployment.

Any pointers appreciated, or case studies from existing FB apps..
Thx
bits and pieces on the website: http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/exhibit/technology/carsys...
What are your favorite business social media presences?
I like Mint
http://twitter.com/mint
http://www.mint.com/blog/

Would be grateful if you shared yours :)
To quote the article:

"Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, has previously dismissed criticism of the Himalayas claim as "voodoo science".

You have to give it to him though, he didn't play Holocaust denier card at least.
Those that are curious "gq" does the same thing on vim. Use ":set tw=<number of columns>" to tell vim the maximum number of columns (80 by default)
HyperGraphDB - a new open-source graph db
The -w option seems to do the same thing with "git blame" that it does with diff -- ignore whitespace changes.
I'm not sure how you process a video "102%", seems like that might be a bug. Other than that seems like it could be pretty useful.
What I don’t get is why critics of Dawkins always seem to use words like “strident” or “shrill”. He always has been very polite where I’ve seen him talk. His criticism of religion would certainly be considered very mild mannered if it were – for example – directed at a political party. I’m genuinely confused when many religious people seem to go pretty nuts when they are confronted with Dawkins’ (hilarious) chapter on the old testament. Who in their right mind would be offended by that?

We have nothing against high profile scientists expressing their opinions about politics. We should have nothing against scientists expressing their opinion about religion.
1. Interesting that both this and the opposing article were submitted by the same person (which suggests to me that the "I" in the article titles does not refer to the submitter).

2. Sometimes I use tabs. Sometimes I don't. I can never really remember, because Vim is set to :expandtab for me on some of my machines. What I do know is that I never really care.

I use the ^T, ^D, <<, >>, and = commands to shift my left margin around in Vim. I haven't typed a space or a tab at the beginning of a line in years. After all, why use low-level functions when you have high-level ones?
We should nurture terrorists?
Please note RFC 2396, which defines URI's, and in particular section 1.5, which details the importance of a URI scheme that can be written on a paper napkin by hand.
The article also points out, though it's lost in sensationalism, that the core of the dispute is not whether the glaciers are melting, but how quickly they're melting. The anti-AGW folks will probably turn this on its head into a claim that no glaciers are melting, which is -- as I've noted -- the same methodology used by a known-dodgy group and just as invalid in this case as it is in others.
Social Engineering 101 by 2LT osiris
Why Isn't My Web Site Encrypted?
As I said in the other thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1058237
Gold is irrelevant. An emergent property of human psychology is that the bulk of the money supply usually comes from leverage: humans are very willing to treat promise of future payment as assets. Catastrophic changes in the money supply generally result from trust fads, not from production/destruction of the basis asset.
Need to refresh your math skills? From basic algebra to calculus and beyond.
Except that the mayor is not "former".
I found this while doing some research on collision detection algorithms. All math classes should incorporate game programming, I sure would have paid more attention.
Whip up some minnow soup and algae salad, Aunt Edna is coming over. ;)
Optimised to Fail: Card Readers for Online Banking
The majority of collaborative conversations taking place in an enterprise mail world do not involve the customer. Words fail me. Well actually some words come to me. Words like "unbelievable" and "circle" and "jerk"

It's clear that the author has absolutely no training in user experience work. The first thing you learn is to ignore what the users say that they want, and instead focus on what they're doing, and figuring out what they actually want to accomplish. Involving users directly in product development is a recipe for disaster.

You should of course manage your user relations, be nice to them and talk to them and try to solve their problems, but to figure out in what direction you should develop your product, never ever ask your users directly. Instead, perform proper user research, analyze their work patterns, do split testing, optimize their workflow, gather data, data and more data.

The best counter-example is something that everyone who has ever launched a re-design of a popular website has experienced: For the first four weeks, the absolute majority of your users will complain that your website is different, and they will demand that you change it back to the way it was. After four weeks everyone will have forgotten what the old version looked like and stop complaining.

What the article author fails to realize is that the users that are interested in being part of the product development process are in no way representative of your actual userbase. There might be a precious few super-users that actually do and will come up with worthwhile suggestions, but the majority are not in this category and are best kept away from your business.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tech_support_cheat_sheet.png
Oh yes. Tabs or spaces in source code. That's really what makes software great.

Just have guidelines and stick to them. What sucks is inconsistency.

Everybody's got an opinion about code layout. It doesn't matter. There's no good or bad layout. Readability is just another word for "looking like stuff I'm used to read".
Sounds awful, I hated all that stuff in VStudio. I'm one of those crocks that thinks it makes you lazy in your organisation.

grep '^fname' *.c

is good enough for me
Nice. How about live streaming ? Often my "friends & family" simply get confused by some gui and the best way to help them starts by asking them to click on the 'tightvnc server' icon on their desktop.
Wow, what a terrible layout!

If anyone here isn't using Readability, this would be a good time to start: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
If it is your loved one asking then tell her why you love her.
Spaces are fine, tabs are fine, but mix them together (for indentation) and you're asking for trouble. That's all I've ever had to think about the subject. Personally I consider two-space indentation to be the One True Way, and my tab key is setup to physically insert two actual spaces.
neato. I did some work in his lab 10 years ago. Back then the AR getup looked something like the Ghostbusters backpack.
Haskell Weekly News: Issue 146
Isn't this a classic case of "What works for me must work for everyone." ??

Not everyone is interested in games, not everyone is interested in programming. One source of motivation should not be forced on everyone, there should be a wide range.
This counts as something that is so obvious that everyone is going to think "why didn't I make that?"

I just sent it to my team and we're going to try it. My only worry is that I have no data about the java install base size.

Otherwise, think of all the issues this solves!

Customer: I can't get on the site.

Me: What are you trying to do?

Customer: I want to get the log on!?

Me: OK. Did you go the the home page and click signup?

Customer: What?

Me: OK. Type in www.xyz.com

Customer: Oh, yeah, I did that.

Me: OK. What are you trying to do?

Customer: Etc

continue for 20 more e-mail exchanges

Me: OK. This looks like a new IE6 issue that we havne't run into before. Joy. We'll take a look and try to have it fixed within the next week.

This app would solve the above problem.
Would also be nice if you could white label it. So I could have showmewhatswrong.xyz.com
Aren't you simplifying this just a little too much?
Thanks for the explanation.

I know there are a lot of requirements, and I've used most of what you listed there. But even with all the common, plentiful requirements, the bit about an 8pt font was exaggerated.
My understanding is that the phrase refers to the fact that athletes and others go into coaching/teaching when they can no longer do the sport (etc) because they are too old. It was not intended to suggest that teaching is a last resort job for losers who can't do anything else. It means when the body can no longer stand up to the rigors of professional dance, professional sports, or anything else that is a young person's game, age and experience mean they still have something of value to offer.
That a couple of scientists said some dumb stuff in private emails does not call into question the entire peer review system.
we're a Java shop

You could have stopped there :)
Thank you, that was a most interesting read.

This is my way of dealing with these issues:

- use a unix box rather than a windows machine to conduct online transactions,
reducing the chance of having malware on the system

- never use an the authorization token from someone else, just my own, which
I treat roughly the same as any other valuable

- get a new one directly from the bank once every year to avoid wearing down
the keypad so the pin numbers stand out

- always type in the url of the bank in full and verify that
again when authorizing transactions

- check the list of outstanding transactions that I'm authorizing
to make sure the amount and beneficiaries match

The things this still leaves me vulnerable to are man in the middle attacks impersonating the bank website, at a minimum this would require poisoning the DNS of the provider, another trick would be to install a keylogger, but this would only get the attacker a bunch of one-time codes (which could presumably be used to recover the pin in combination with the challenges).

And of course nobody can rule out a brutal attack on my person to get possession of the PIN code, and I expect that such attacks will increase in frequency.
Op-Ed Columnist - What’s Our Sputnik?
It might be worth checking out the Reform project: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/toomim/toomim-reform.pdf and the Zeotrope: http://www.adobe.com/technology/pdfs/uist08zoetrope.pdf for explorations of this idea in an academic context.

edit: And, of course, CamelCamelCamel for amazon price tracking: http://camelcamelcamel.com/
What about security implications? Can anyone view the uploaded recordings? Maybe an optional password protection will be cool.
Daniel G Bobrow: Common Lisp Object Standard (1987)
The Acme environment (incl. screencasts)
In the TSA grunt's defense, the training course probably involved something like "look for the hard drive, it's blue with a circle thing", "look for the battery, it's green", etc. Replacing a hard drive with C4 could yield a pretty sizable explosion...
Possibly. Any "real world" application would have been better than just theory. But games seem like a natural extension of math lessons, and who doesn't like games?
MIA’s Mystery Video a Marketing Success
Apple To Release 4G iPhone As Soon As April
It would probably be tolerated just fine, I imagine.
http://swtch.com/plan9port/ - Acme (and other ported Plan9 tools) for Linux/BSD/whatever
www.copilot.com does this
I agree, it's not a case of "What works for me must work for everyone" but more a case of "applying theory helps learning, especially when it's fun". I still haven't found anyone who doesn't like any game, so as long as there are a few different possibilities it DOES work for everyone.
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Agreed. I remember learning trig at high school, without any motivation being presented whatsoever. Just 'lets calculate what this equation looks like' - what it came time to the government mandated project, there was a practical use - graphing the movement of a pendulum clock - which made it much easier to learn.

And yes, who doesn't like games?
What about backspace? Do you use a greedy backspace that deletes two spaces at a time? Or do you have to hit it twice?
I've got an other question: Might that shying away from humans be kind of a folk tale amongst species? Which new/remote species don't know about? Like Galápagos?
Implementation of a Modern Web Search Engine Cluster.
Most cases isn't good enough. Exceptions are still frequent, such as this example FTA:

SomeClass::SomeClass()
_____.:.InheritingClass(false, false
_____...................5, 10, true,
_____...................bleh, blah)

As compared to

SomeClass::SomeClass()
_____.:.InheritingClass(false, false
____________________....5, 10, true,
____________________....bleh, blah)

Which will no longer align if tabstops are changed.

I've set up emacs to do the right thing in c-mode, and possibly in other modes which inherit from it. It's not hard to find a solution online, but it's certainly not "out of the box".
Particularly disturbing is the implication that the portable card readers distributed by the banks (we have four here in my house alone) can be used by muggers etc. to verify PINs being stolen at knifepoint (or gunpoint, as the case may be), and already may have been involved in past murder and torture cases.