skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying to get Sign Inventory location data (stop signs, traffic lights, etc) from the city of Rockville, MD. So far it's a losing battle. Integrating TIGER data into my GIS the rest of the time (Geodjango is fun).

The view from my home office:
http://twitpic.com/23rg8a
For the inevitable "Where do I start" questions, read this previous comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033503
I would not since this is just really a demo for how the video product can be used..

good luck with your project though..
Currently I'm checking with people to see if sometime later next week would work for people?

Right now I'm thinking we meet at a starbucks or a caribou, unless we get a lot of people and then I'll find a conference room somewhere.

Send me an email and I'll add you to the list I'm compiling.
Writing some systems integration stuff to allow US ecommerce companies to sell to Latin America.
Do you have a blog or something where you walk through the legal and financial calculations you made? I'm really interested in seeing how you enumerate and evaluate your options.
Doesn't seem like it. Here is a workaround:

http://www.andrewmkane.com/blog/2009/04/16/parsing-qr-codes/
I might have been wrong about 2008, don't have it installed anymore.
Nice post. Chrome's release model has inspired me to create a web deployment tool at work, which I've been hacking away on for the last couple of weeks.

pquerna (and others), what would you like to see in a next-generation web deployment/packaging tool? The first thing that came to mind in the middle of the post was pinning to a project's revision while having tests against its interface. A feature to move that pin to a newer rev, then running those tests before deploying to production might be nice.

I integrated Flourish (http://github.com/wbond/flourish) into a project at work yesterday morning. I went back to the website later to check something in the docs, and noticed he'd committed another revision. How was I supposed to know? I could poll http://github.com/wbond/flourish/commits/master.atom for new releases, but we've got a bunch of dependencies too. Maybe the solution is to just regularly pull changesets and run your tests, then deploying to staging and hope all is well.

How about Dulwich? hg-git depends on it, but 0.5 had a bug that prevented me from pushing to GitHub successfully. I was using Dulwich trunk for a while, and noticed yesterday that 0.6 has been released. The bug fixes are in [repo root]/NEWS. There are no formal release notes.

We've been using a known-working revision of projects until someone gets around to checking for updates, but I'm not sure that's ideal.
Working on a new iteration of Forrst's Rangers algorithm.
The most mind numbing bugs that probably don't matter. At night and in the early mornings I work on personal projects that matter.
I didn't get a malware warning in chrome either. Did you have to do anything to have it cleared from the malware databases, or did you just fix it and wait?
According to the Wikipedia definition, Haskell is a scripting language (it can be dynamically typed, interpreted, embedded, etc). That's why I don't think it's a useful definition.

How do you write a full application in JavaScript? The language doesn't even define any way to open a file. NodeJS is a third-party tool -- it's not part of the JavaScript language.
Drew my first webcomic on the interaction between programmers and recruiters yesterday: http://bit.ly/bx1vi5

Thinking about a follow-up.
I totally have the flexibility in that if I showed up with a Rails version of the app my boss would be all for it. But I don't have the flexibility to do it on company time. I am currently studying Rails 3 and getting a feel for how long I think it'd take to do this. I think a clean, well written Rails version of the app would make my life so much easier in the long run.

Silverlight is an interesting beast. All in all I am finding it feels like writing a webapp in C# and a very strange "version" of HTML :) Especially when you use the Navigation Framework, the app becomes so website like it's ridiculous. I hate to think Microsoft wasted all that money, but I'm having a hard time coming up with Silverlight's strengths. Especially considering we are having issues with the Mac plugin, the promise of "write once" seems to not be met either. Granted it's two plugins versus half a dozen browsers (we don't support Moonlight at all), but still, if I'm going to be fighting how different platforms render my app, I might as well take advantage of the most ubiquitous and open platform there is.

I can admit XAML was well conceived for layout flexibility and visual effects. But at the end of the day, that benefit is so small it's hardly worth considering.
The yuan will likely appreciate significantly over the next two decades (money could be made on that), unfortunately always at the rate dictated by the government.
I'm working on promoting/marketing my cheatsheet site - http://devcheatsheet.com/

I'm also just starting development on a new site - a directory of tech events and conferences. Hope to have a very basic alpha version by next week.
UTF7
Two games, 3 apps, and finding a new house to rent for me and my DJ
Some feedback: the stick figures are slightly confusing. It took me 10 seconds before I figured out they weren't talking on the phone while hunched over on a seat.
Become a farm worker
New research predicts likelihood of being bully, victim
The same thing I do every day, try to take over the world---okay, not really, currently work on SWIX, working on updating some payments stuff, and setting up redis to prototype some new features.
Good advice would be "so be particularly careful to check whether their arguments are logically sound and properly documented;" the original advice to skip past the quality of arguments and data to "so take their conclusions with a healthy grain of salt" is bad advice. The ad hominem fallacy isn't just unsound in principle, it tends to be pretty useless in practice. It can look reasonable at the time if there's enough groupthink, but would anyone like to nominate some cases where with two or more generations of hindsight we can agree that ad hominem arguments were a better guide to truth than simply addressing the technical arguments? And it can be wrong no matter how impressively much circumstantial evidence suggests that there could easily be a political motive: see, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Conquest .
Either the topo data is wrong or something is not rendering right. Take a look at http://kosmosnimki.ru/3d/index.html?x=-13348730&y=472501...
Wrapping up my last day at the office.
Do you lose any sleep over the ethics of it?
New iPod Touch Coming in September with Forward Facing Camera and FaceTime
What I'd really like is for a mail client to find a way to make inline responses simple and intuitive, to the point that your average user would think to do it.
Yeah, but then they'll all turn up thinking they'll be making a girl, like in Weird Science
Thanks for the feedback!

My dad thought one of them was a tablelamp.
Sounds cool. Anyone else in the Eagan area?
android games and Libraries..

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4076/4776883837_ff1ed211e1_b....

blog http://mobilebytes.wordpress.com

I start dev a 3d game next week using a game engine in C++
Get a better bank?

My online banking allows me to:

* transfer money between my accounts (one-time or repeating)
* bill pay (electronic or physical check, one-time or repeating)
* request a wire transfer
* request an electronic transfer to an account of mine at another financial institution
* apply for a loan
* open a new "club" savings account
* and more, but that's about all I recall ever making use of
Seconding Tender. Beautiful and simple.
I am working on stuffing my face with burgers and chips prior to going back to the land of noodles and raw fish. Plus customer support emails, since birthdays and bridal showers don't stop just because I am on vacation.
Getting JOSSO to work with Hudson.
I think that at least one other person I've gotten an email from is in the Eagan area, and I work in the South Saint Paul area. Hope that helps.
Working on PyQt development for my employer, and when I get home, a bit of Django for a webapp I'm building with a friend.

Edit: my dev environment http://imgur.com/IEPWO.png
sigh No, here comes the Comic Sans storm! Don't forget little graphics too.
I took the GED since it was the easiest way of demonstrating to a state university that I had a high-school level of education. (I was homeschooled.)

I wasn't too concerned about the test, since I'd scored in the 99th percentile for the ACT. But I found the GED dramatically harder. Anyone else have this experience?
Since you're designer / programmer, you need a great salesman as your business partner.
"Drop out nation:..." I dropped out of high school to pursue a business venture, I had started, that was taking off at the time. Initially, I had every intention of either getting a GED, finishing online or going back at some later point if things didn't work out. That was 6 years, and a few million dollars in the bank, ago. Personally, I think those who wish to follow in others footsteps should stay in school and eventually find an empty square, that someone else has created, for their square mind to settle. For those who wish to be the first to leave the footprints in the sand ( both in business and on a real beach in the middle of nowhere ) then school may offer the right environment to get you to a point in life where you have that sort of opportunity. However, do not let the 'politically correct' society we live in keep you from taking chances early on, believing in yourself or from finding a way to do things differently even when 'they' say 'there is no other way'. There is ALWAYS another way.
ISPs may rage, but Uncle Sam supports city-owned Internet
I fixed it. then went into webmaster tools and scanned the site, said no problems found. I remember having to request a scan once before when another site had been hacked.
Clicking anywhere on the page effectively goes to google.com.hk so google.cn is pretty much just a dummy page.

You're right. I thought that:

"Under the current setup in mainland China, users can conduct a Google search and see the results, but often they cannot open the links."

...meant that users could conduct the search via google.cn without being redirected to google.com.hk.
Mousewheel doesn't work in Chrome / Ubuntu 10.04
That was probably me, if the message was sent at 10:18.
Yes you should take your clothes off. They impede your movements and provide you with no insulation.
Working on a MUD engine written in PHP, an open sourced pet project of mine for a while now.
imho, an operating software system is kind of an organic entity. It behaves in very different ways, requires different kinds of attention and more personal commitment to keep going. This is distinct from toy examples, prototypes and course projects.

So, I'm suggesting that while you're young, start building something. It doesn't have to make you money or be successful or take any more than 5 hours a week of maintenance. The goal is to have something tangible for the experience of maintaining it and to use in discussions with other people.

This could be an open source project or a serious commitment of contribution to one, something to deal with mp3s or videos or whatever interests you.
LV Handbags
Just received a Sugru.com kit yesterday, and I've been prototyping a mirror to make photos in front of my macbook:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alx/tags/sugru

30min of fun, rest of the day for usual work :)
would love to hear more about that...
Chart of Milk Products and Production Relationships
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Milkproducts_v2.svg
Ask HN: Recommended metrics/data-driven tools for smallish userbase?
I am starting to take an interest in data driving some apps that I'm working on, but am wondering what techniques and tools might be applicable to a relatively small userbase (a few thousand accounts). I am a believer in metrics-driven design, but I'm curious to hear what folks experiences have been in applying these techniques to small data samples.

If you have some recommendations for blogs or articles to read, or links to projects to check out, that'd be great.

I promise to give back by writing articles about my progress after trying out some of your recommendations.

EDIT: To give a bit of background, currently I have two main areas of interest: 1) Testing out and iterating on a new design for a site that has been historically a bit rough around the edges, 2) Starting the data-driven process as soon as possible on a couple new projects that are just beginning to pick up steam.
building an A.I. that has something at least marginally interesting and more-or-less correct about any subject
Partial Deployment with Feature Switches
Comments at -4 can still be voted down, but the displayed score will not go any lower. (I'm not certain of the rationale, but I think it's to somewhat discourage excessive downvotes just to make a public show of disapproval/disagreement.)
Summer student bylaw enforcement officer for the County of Brant in Ontario, I went around every day in my car to survery which houses had swimming pools in their backyards (before Google Earth / Streetview), so that we could come back the next month and give them a ticket for not meeting fencing height / enclosure laws. As if that wasn't bad enough, I got to knock on every door during the first visit to ensure that their dogs were licensed for that year ($30/year/dog). On top of all that, three times a day I had to go into a small town called Paris and give parking tickets to 40+ cars. Crazy crazy job, had a gun pointed at me, threatened many times, attacked outright (punching).. It's still on my resume though, just because I stuck it out to the end of the summer.
We already have compelling systems for most things. Open data formats for things the government produces, version control that could be used for legislation etc. Just think about how much accountable legislators would be if they were all forced to use Git, and you could annotate any piece of legislation.
Inventor of cell phone: We knew someday everybody would have one
Some people can use it for good. Many other people just add headache, not useful emphasis.
Same project I've been working on for the better part of 3 months, unfortunately: a web based chat using GWT to replace a flash based one. The primary reasons are: we wanted to control the source code and remove dependecy on third-party products and becase we want the chat to work on iPad so flash is out.

Running into tons of stumbling blocks primarily around keeping the app near realtime and stable. It's GWT on the front-end, but .NET webservices on the backend. The existing flash based system has a custom server service and periodically dumps logs into SQL Server. We started off trying to write directly to SQL with our version but it wasn't fast enough and we were running into too many contention issues. Now we're throwing Memcached in the middle and it's much faster, but we're not entirely out of the woods.

I'm thoroughly convinced HTTP just shouldn't be used for chat applications.
Working on a few things:

Starting to get the word out for GISQuery.com, a Q&A site for GIS professionals using OSQA. Having an interesting time getting the word out on this one since I need participation for the site to grow.

Learning CodeIngniter as a PHP framework to help get a few other ideas off the ground (a revamped 140Pl.us and a new beer website). I am getting tired of trying to build highly functioning sites from scratch so I thought I'd try a framework.
Perhaps it takes a bit more "intelligence" to keep one's attention focused for long periods on the kinds of subtle clues that one would first get of danger out in the dark beyond the cave.

And it could be a mutually reinforcing thing, in one direction, the higher IQ provides the right skills to form thoughts that keep the listening-&-watching game interesting longer and that interest gives one personal motivation to stay up. In the other direction, groups who delegated this job to those with higher IQ did better; as those members are better able to tease the right danger signals out of the noises in the dark. I.e. do you want the smart guy or the idiot to watch for the wolves as you sleep? I want someone at least as smart than all the wolves put together.

Personally speaking, I know my most creative schemes (leave aside the question of paranoid or not) for attacking/robbing a house all came as I sat listening to the sequences of noises from outside the house... trying to determine if I needed to use the flashlight or yard lights to confirm/dispel danger, weighing the benefits against giving my attention/position away to anyone who might be out there.
"The best way to warm someone up with hypothermia is for someone to get into a sleeping bag with them."

Don't ever do this. The cold blood in their arms and legs will rush to their heart and kill them. You are supposed to leave them out in room temperature and wrap their core in blankets until the blood near their heart is able to reheat their limbs.
Same here! Making the jump from large corporation employment to startup life.
Searching is not the same as indexing. DDG will give different results from Bing search, even though they use the same index.

Edit: DDG does some crawling in addition to using the Bing index.
What's the standard procedure with zombies? Do you have to stake them through the heart, like vampires?
Tell HN: Still manually putting customer feedback in your CRM? Why?
Hi,

We've noticed that every CRM we know is about logging customer feedback manually. It's like a giant log book - sometimes you forward emails there, sometimes you copy & paste them. Sometimes you just sit down and write your notes down. And you always forget to change a deal state (is it closed? is it still opened? Is it pipeline? Is it in negotiations yet?)

Of course - there is this whole contact management, deal management, task management functions - but fundamentally CRM is designed to be "internal team only".

There is something that can be done so we could forget about boring stuff and let things happen automatically.

We've figured that you can "share" your deal space with your customer. Invite them to one place and put all the info there - sort of a deal focused extranet website.
Each action customer makes (reads price quote, downloads presentation or draft of an agreement) is translated into automatic state change.
All the feedback can be made in that "shared space" - no need for manual work here.

Sample screenshots here: http://blog.smartupz.com/2010/07/new-version-is-coming-up.html

Philosophy behind the product: http://blog.smartupz.com/2010/07/facebook-style-business-software-should.html

What do you guys think?
I would be interested to know how much time you spend doing customer support; or, rather, whether you have tried to automate any of this using existing tools (like getsatisfaction, or even just a faq). Or since - as you have written in the past - your customers are not particularly techno-savvy, are these tools of limited use to you, and emails are the only way to go? This might be of interest to companies with similar customers.
I suppose that i read the entire sentence before parsing it, just because i need a slight rational effort to decode it.
There's definitely room for such a product... which is why I formed a company with a friend and wrote one. :)

Our product is currently in closed beta as we squash bugs, but we hit every bullet point on your feature list, plus a few more that we've uncovered as our customers use the system.

Of course, we use this for all of our bug-tracking and customer support as well, and it's amazing what having a good support system does for your workflow.

So, we're competitors, but don't let that stop you. After all, competition is the crucible in which truly amazing products are formed. :)
Two things:

a) A module to load and execute arbitrary ELF files, to be used for post-exploitation in penetration tests.

b) A PoC method to detect SSL stripping attacks, client-side.
What about archive.org?
Large parties with a bunch of strangers aren't the only form of social situation. When I was in college, I had a mostly regular group of friends that I'd hang around with and chat politics/philosophy/whatever till late in the might. Regularly to 2 AM, sometimes to 4 AM. These days, I spend most of my evenings alone and naturally go to sleep around 12:30 to 1:00 AM if left to my own devices. I'm definitely more of a night-owl and an introvert, but close proximity to friends, as I had in college, I would stay up real late.
I've been hanging out with my friend who now lives in NYC (I'm in Denver).

Relationships FTW.
If video games have taught me anything, it takes a shotgun at close range. At least that way is the most fun.
Working on an iPad app for Barilla for a couple of hours and the rest of the day on FancyDocs.
... if I showed up with a Rails version of the app my boss would be all for it. But I don't have the flexibility to do it on company time.

That's a long and tiring road.
Building a digital signature tool with SVG and Batik to replace a paid tool (Pronto from AlphaTrust) that costs about $1 per signature.
How do you suggest we remedy this?
This isn't "new" news, Matt revealed the A/B testing right here on HN quite awhile back when I pointed out the price seemed high:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1230679

(over three months ago)
Pinky? Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Sniffing out a buffer overflow issue on an AT32UC3B. Very new to the lower level c, so it's a process.
are these the 'Before and After' on wheel of fortune?
It provides a good opportunity to self-censor the more screwy ideas too. Just show people the little program you finished around 2am, and no one need ever know about that 3am idea to revolutionize the world of juggling using hairdryers. Just put everything back where you found it before they get up.
In this vein, I wish Gmail would let me select the display font for editing and reading plain text emails. For a while, a Labs feature allowed one to "view in fixed width" a plain text email, but they discontinued even that.
Ethics? According to their contract, if they stop making payments the bank gets the house. There's nothing unethical about exercising that contingency.
Learning OpenGL ES (and computer graphics concepts in general for that matter) while trying to make a 3D iPhone game for my graphics class this summer.
I lose sleep over people suggesting it is unethical. That is buying in hook, line, and sinker to the propaganda these companies would like you to believe. Deciding not to service debt is a tactical business decision made every single day. The same companies suggesting it is immoral in order to increase their own profits at the expense of struggling homeowners have all done the same exact thing without anyone ever suggesting it is immoral. You are choosing to exercise a clause of your contract and have every right to do so.

Also, declaring foreclosure is doing a great public service. It helps still inflated housing prices reach affordability. Californians spend more on housing than residents from any other state. If we were able to spend less money on housing it would have a positive impact on quality of living here.

TL;DR: I would trade my credit score for $250k in a heartbeat.
I'm not sure that's A/B testing really... they're asking a question and the question is 'how much would you pay?'. And the way they've phrased it is to include an example of what it could be worth, and then you can ignore the field (agree with that pricing) or enter your own suggestion.

It's A/B testing pricing when they actually offer different prices to person A than person B, right now they're just asking a question and including in the question an expectation setter. It's market research and not something dodgy.