skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rethinking the familiar resume
YouTube Video_ID/ URL Separation. Streaming Media Tuner
Jason, just to be clear, all my tweets link to the original post on my blog, so any votes or submits from my twitter followers who clicked on the link it my tweet would come from the story itself. I'm definitely not sending out tweets with links to the HN story or to the HN submit link.
Noticed a thread on HN about some 30 year old guy who didnt like Google instant.
Anyone has a link to that thread?
However, there hasnt been a single verdict yet...It's been just 20 days since launch!
Ask HN: What's your dev teams git multi-environment setup workflow like?
I've been scouring the web for different git workflows to find one that would work for my development team. I'm looking to add development, staging, and production remotes.

I'd like to hear about your workflows entailing multiple environments, as I haven't locked down on any one particular solution. If you have any links, those would be appreciated as well. Thanks!
I got the idea because you seemed to react in a way that suggested you thought any language changes to support better/easier packaging was "crippling".

I'm not a skilled packager, so I can't get into a deep discussion of the parts that are missing on both sides, but it seems fairly clear that parts are missing on both sides. Perhaps it will take the work of, say, the ruby and ubuntu communities to demonstrate the change is possible and hugely beneficial for users, and encourage its adoption in Debian?
Putting the EU in (Net) Neutrality
What a load of nonsense in this thread! We're talking about localization, not proving P!=NP. It'll take 5% more work to use a localization library instead of hardcoded strings, and a bit of money for a contract with a good translation agency and you'll double your market.

And your product might suddenly become a hit in, say, Denmark, giving you revenue and validation while you keep trying to conquer the U.S. market.
There's a huge difference here. Rodney King is one foolish idiot. The police are a massive, well funded (with our money) organization, with extraordinary powers. If Rodney King had continued to act is his idiotic manner, the consequences are vastly less than if the police continue to act outside the law, doing whatever they please.
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IMHO it's difficult to say "better technically" - for one thing portage is much looser than dpkg. Depending on your goals that may be better or scarier! ;)
"nothing is sacred to a hacker."

Except, apparently, recursion.
What I meant was inviting the best of those Debian devs to start afresh with the same code and create something even better under a new system.

You could always make voting tiered and restricted like stack overflow to avoid this... Moreover, if you attract just the right kind of people then the community will start moderating itself and keep the fluff at bay.

Surely, we need to try something like this out.
The people you harm by restricting neo-nazis from using your software aren't neo-nazis, but everyone else who has to pay for lawyer time to review your custom license before they can use it. Or what's more likely: aren't going to use it at all once they see what sort of license you have.
Unfortunately, the article fails to list the origin of these travelers. I suspect most are from the developing countries in the area.

[One exception may be the "baby production industry". India provides inexpensive surrogacy services. Some call this an "industry"...]
Ask HN: Pivot Or Kill it?
Hi All,

A few months ago, I created a web application (gisconverter.com) that converts GIS files from one format to another. Initial market research led me to believe that there was a decent sized market for such an app. However, a month through advertising using google adwords shows that there is almost no market for this.

Since the core idea has no market, it makes sense to let this app die. However I am unable to let go and keep trying to find ways to pivot and come up with an alternate idea around this one. I know at some level its hard for me to let go after having invested time into this.

Any ideas on what I should do with this?

Much thanks for your time.
That's way too much work to do just to reduce my Erdos number. :-)
After I recommended the Sed & Awk book here a few months ago, silentbicycle countered[1] that The Awk Programming Language[2] (by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger) was much better.

I was curious enough that I bought and read it just at the end of summer. It really is excellent. Highly, highly recommended.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1403376

[2] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/
Hmm, something wrong. I thought I had submitted the reddit page:
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/djxhq/gaming_the...

I did submit a different title - I meant to emphasize the various comments by 'sanitybit' (http://www.reddit.com/user/sanitybit) on his tests and other research.
clickable http://www.gisconverter.com/
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Another obstacle are the EU privacy laws. Don't get me wrong; I _like_ the fact the EU has privacy laws, and I personally wish the United States would do a little more in this area (always assuming, of course, that Congress didn't screw it up totally).

But when I ask our lawyer about it, he starts talking about Safe Harbor certification and all sorts of other fun stuff. For us, this isn't a problem—we're in an industry where certifications are generally useful—but for a consumer internet company, it's one more thing you need to figure out.
Carousels examined pt1 - description and html
Corrected link: http://www.onderhond.com/blog/onderhond/carousel-pattern-pt1-html
Ironically it's more grief to get access to a download for the slides than it is to sign up for Dropbox.
Veterinarians-Specialist Email Lists and Mailing Database.
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Not to mention that actual neonazis will probably not give a great deal of thought to violating said license, meaning you'd have to have a way to monitor usage, and then go to court to stop them. All in all, a hassle that's not worth it.
the comments are interesting too.
You might care to read the 'sanitybit' contributions here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/djxhq/gaming_the...

(I suppose yesterday I mislinked this submission:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1737079 )
This video explains a bit more about what they do: http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/61
Worlds first 'flapless' plane
Another disadvantage to tables for layout, they are weak against attack!
>he doesn't answer the questions about child abuse, homosexuality and bloodshed and ridiculous things in the bible

So you're saying:

child abuse - IE9 has less instances of $problem than in the general browser population

homosexuality - IE9 doesn't allow $action and thinks it shouldn't be allowed elsewhere

bloodshed - IE9 is a browser and it's code has errors too

ridiculous things - I don't like IE9 so IMO MS is full of BS
http://www.pzhipzf.pl
Zwierzęta Futerkowe - Skórki wiązane są po przesortowaniu, tzw. loty (np.
http://www.pzhipzf.pl/pl/norki-dziko-zyjace-w-polsce
norek po 100-120 sztuk,
http://www.pzhipzf.pl/pl/dzikie-i-hodowlane-zwierzeta-gospod...
lisów po 20-25 sztuk), zakupowane są na pokrywanie potrzeb krajowych i na eksport. Obrót handlowy skupia się międzynarodowych targach, tzw. aukcjach futrzarskich, organizowanych raz lub dwa razy do roku w Nowym Jorku, Londynie, Helsinkach, Petersburgu, Lipsku, Sztokholmie, Oslo i w innych miastach. Dystrybucja odbywa się wg ustalonego planu, na rzecz zakładów pracy oraz instytucji handlowych. Zakupione partie skór przekazywane są do dalszej obróbki, tzn. wyprawiania, barwienia oraz obróbki maszynowej (strzyżenie, czesanie, epilowanie i inne).
Setting Up An OpenVPN Server With OpenLDAP Authentication On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
a month through advertising using google adwords shows that there is almost no market for this.

No, it shows that there is no market on Google Adwords. I don't know anything about GIS, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a better way to reach potential customers.
Thats almost a reason to get an iPad. I wonder what else could be ported over
International Ocean Shipping services provider
Ocean freight services help exporters and importers by giving services to handle some or all of the characteristics related to international shipping and often assure the arrival of goods to the target location as well.
I wonder if we also could have something like "HN questions" here?
"Progressive political forum fights lawsuit over five sentence news excerpt"

By Stephen C. Webster
copyright

Progressive political forum fights lawsuit over five sentence news excerpt. The practice of excerpting news and linking to its source is what drives the blogosphere, engages millions in political discussion and aides the dissemination of information the world over.

However, if the so-called "copyright troll" company Righthaven LLC is successful, a vibrant political forum for American progressives could be shut down, all thanks to a five sentence excerpt from the Las Vegas Review-Journal that caught the paper's attention.

Now how many sentences is that now ...
In fairness, PHP provides other methods of IPC as well. http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.sem.php
I believe google adwords is the easiest direct way to find out if people are searching for something and are willing to pay for it. I did this by ensuring that the ads stated that the conversion was a paid service. Unfortunately while there were many impressions, the ads generated very few clicks.

Is there any other way to figure out something like this?
This.

Who are the people who would benefit from this product? What do you know about them, and how to reach them?

Why not reach out to some of the customers you have now, and learn about what other problems they are facing, so you can build on top of what you're already got?
While I agree with grandparent's take on webkit meme, I don't agree with your take on multi-platform meme. IE-on-other-platforms meme will never die, because this is an important issue for many people.

For major releases, like IE9, they could have taken another approach. Like, for example, abstracted many components (css/html engine, js engine, plugins framework, etc.) from the underlying OS and then port just the bridge between those components and underlying OS. It's not easy and there're always many quirks, but we're talking about Microsoft, after all.
This is nice. I like it.
No love for right side navigation then?

I use right side navigation on my blog as I find it focuses attention better on the content and I'm assuming most people arrive via a web search (stats say this anyhow) and so they're there to look at the content and not immediately to navigate off elsewhere.
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Borders unveils updated Kobo eReader with Wi-Fi
Standards plays are political and market based, nothing to do with IE being slow or them being stupid. Innovations we can thank IE for that were never 'standard':

* innerHTML

* css applied to chrome

* XMLHttpRequest

* i18n DNS

* double-byte char support (since 96)

* embed (or was it object? one of the two - the first one)

* first video embed (IE2 on Mac)

* hasLayout

* iframe

* marquee (for the lolz)

* contenteditable

* opacity/filter

* favicons

* first implementations of CSS, tables, 128-bit ssl, xml (5) and xstl (5)

It works better when coders who build browsers decide new features, not some guys sitting around a table trying to agree on what an image display should look like.

Exactly what Andreessen did, he just added stuff to Netscape and let the loonies complain about it not being 'proper'. We criticize Microsoft for the same thing.

People don't complain about Intel and AMD with instruction set standards, but they complain about web standards because it is easy to.
Find real live people who are potential customers and talk to them.

If you don't have access to any potential customers in your network, then you probably should kill the idea or partner with someone who does (but that's kind of difficult if you don't know any such person).
That and most places with a clue that are hiring competent sys admins will expect at least some knowledge of sed and awk.
In a nutshell:

1. All developers push to the remote master
2. Acceptance testing is done against the master
3. Once accepted, the release is tagged
4. The release is exported to production
with `git archive` or `git checkout-index -a`

For larger teams you might need fine-grained control, but it works great for our small team.
I wrote a Haskell library, [texmath](http://github.com/jgm/texmath) that converts LaTeX to MathML; this is used in pandoc and gitit. The library comes with two executables, one a standalone command-line converter, another a CGI program. There's an interactive demo [here](http://johnmacfarlane.net/texmath). The library just handles standard LaTeX math + AMS extensions. It doesn't yet know how to parse macros.
Multi-user?
A former professor of mine grew up with Paul Erdös frequently living at her house. Her father is a prominent graph theorist and has 50 papers with Paul Erdös. Ordinarily she would have Erdös number 2 through several papers with her dad, but has been granted an honorary 1.5 because she also washed his clothes.
I went to a lunch-time talk at WWDC'09 on this stuff (I forget the name of the guy presenting unfortunately, but I presume he was mentioned in those articles). Absolutely mind-blowing.

Two things I recall, apart from the stunning images:
* This was all done in analogue of course; the camera of the lunar orbiter had a 24" aperture from memory, and essentially a mechanical film processing lab onboard (then stitched back on earth by manual layout and re-photographing). "They knew how to build stuff back then!"

* As you said, he was emphasising that while data formats are important, the hardware is even more crucial. For the tapes they were recovering, there were only 4 machines left in the world that could read them... and only one human who knew how they worked and could repair them! I went and started reading up on the long-now project after that.

* Bonus recollection: the reason the tapes hadn't degraded and lost their magnetic material, like many others their age, was because the binding agent used was... whale oil.

Actually, I've found the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/kcowing/presentation-by-dennis-win...

Thanks so much for the reminder.
> "the team's response is so stuffed with fluff it appears this whole Q&A session might have backfired."

I cannot really imagine how it would have ended any other way. It was obviously going to make MS look incompetent and desperate.
The H5F library, emulate the HTML5 forms chapter
You're quite wrong.

HTML5 is innovating. IE is way behind when it comes to innovative features.

And please don't hold up 'innerHTML' as an example of a good thing.
Getting paid can be harder too. I use Paypal to accept subscription payments for my website, and it works for places like Europe and Australia. But if I wanted to expand to South America, it wouldn't take Colombian Pesos, or a variety of other non-western currencies (last I checked).

If you don't use Paypal, you'd have to set up a merchant account, which may or may not be as restrictive. You'd also might have to pay currency conversion fees or other international business fees for the privilege. Laws in some countries might even require you to establish a merchant account with a local bank, which could be difficult, if not impossible, for a small startup.

This might be easier to do for a larger company, but for a one-man startup like mine the 'getting paid' consideration alone would be productivity suicide for me.
That is my entire point. They are far behind now because we criticized the for so long and they threw in the towel after IE6.

Microsoft did almost zero browser innovation after 6 and until now, whereas previously they innovated. And now they can't win either way.

It just shows that the sentiment the entire time was anti-msft
I don't think it's really necessary to downvote a comment just because it mentions a paid service.

Some users over at the reddit discussion (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dka7n/bitbucket...) spoke well of the 6USD/month at http://repositoryhosting.com/

Also, clicky for the free SVN at assembla:
http://offers.assembla.com/free-subversion-hosting/
Thanks for the input. I've been noticing a pattern of "don't use version control in production" which makes complete sense with the export. Do you guys have any kind of staging environment where things get final approval from a third party? I'm in a situation where we have a client approval process which requires another intermediary to production. It basically sits on the same production box but is used for testing prior to going live.

If it helps with anybodies responses, my situation is particular to web development.
Unfortunately I don't have any potential customers in my network. If I did I would have picked their brain till they pretty much told me what to do :)

This idea was kind of a shot in the dark to start with - so I knew this was a possibility.
It's definitely a border case though. <internet-tough-guy>If I saw someone with a gun stepping out of an unmarked car I would run him over with my bike.</...>
How much would they pay a guy that makes 200k a day?
I'm probably telling you stuff you already know, but from what I can see Office for Mac isn't simply a port but a completely separate codebase developed in parallel (for low values of parallel)

It (Mac Office) also generates a significant amount of income for MS
> "I believe making friends (and not making enemies) is simply the most important skill you can have. More important than being clever or hardworking."

Reminds me of an old boss of mine. He was hiring for the team, and when asked what the main skillset needed was for the new positions, he answered "They must get on well with the team". So, lo and behold, few months later we had a few new employees who were nice people, good fun even, but absolutely incompetent at their jobs.
There is a definite need for this. For example, asciicasts.com is the same content as railscasts.com but as an article instead of video.
I disagree. They stopped innovating after they killed all of the competition. They didn't need to any more.

MS certainly don't have a vested interest in the internet - it goes against their core business.
I think no credit at all might be better alternative in many cases.

Taking credit with interest rate 2500% is rarely thought trough, free, conscientious market decision. If you don't have money this month how can you be sure that you will have such money, plus insane interest rate, next month?
This is actually not "new". I watched a "documentary" years ago with similar explanations. There is indeed nothing new under the Sun. People just forget what has come before. :-)
My phone died yesterday and I forget my charger cord, but I still had my wallet.
That's great if your startup has a dial that can be turned all the way to 11. (or 105%, in this case).

Internationalization is almost certainly not the only seemingly minor feature that's been cut by a startup trying to launch and figure out a business model.
A good example of wasted effort. P.Z. Myers, of Pharyngula-fame, dealt with the paper at his blog http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2010/09/strange_stuff_from_pha...
Who would be your paying users? What kind of companies are we talking about? Is there a place where those people congregate on the web?

Adwords is a great way to spend your money, but it is not a guarantee to make any. My own business makes a fair amount, I've tried increasing it using adwords but it was a 100% waste of $, that does not mean the rest of the business is invalid. It just means that adwords and my target market do not overlap significantly.

I went through about $5K (without so much as a single sale!) on adwords before cluing in to that it wasn't the way I was spending money on adwords, it was just that it wasn't going to work at all.

So don't use adwords as the validation of your product, try other avenues to make sales.
No, I didn't know that, because it's completely counter-intuitive approach to creating software. You have to abstract most of the stuff and then port just OS-specific stuff. It's beyond me why a company of the great software development tradition like Microsoft would go and maintain two completely separate codebases.
I love reddit, but I place some of the blame in this fiasco on the reddit admins -- raldi & company. They came out a few weeks ago and mentioned explicitly that they were MANAGING the ad campaign for IE9.

Now, the reddit admins are abosulutely excellent at connecting with their audience. When the site goes down for a bit, they put out technical no-BS posts that get upvoted close to 1000 times, and all is forgiven.

The admins should have interjected themselves before this response was posted and warned Microsoft marketing this 'this response won't fly here'.

Reddit is at an important inflection now, and the admins need to step up and become the Don Draper for their world of tech users. If this campaign had succeeded, I could absolutely see many other companies coming to them and paying big bucks for similar campaigns.

There's still an AMA coming up today, so there's a chance to recover, so we'll see how that goes.
I think its fair to say that Microsoft don't do complacency

esp. in competitive markets

IE team was torn apart as part of internal politics
I'm a 3, but totally by luck.
General term for this: "Hylomorphism", defined as the composition of an anamorphism (a generator function) and a catamorphism (a fold/map-reduce function.) The initial base case of the generator runs BEGIN{}, and the terminal base case of the fold runs END{}.
Not so different as you might think. After all, a large amount of capital is needed to build out a datacentre. Doesn't mean that Google is the only company that can make a profit on the Internet.
I wish I could give this comment more points. It's a blast!
Chromium OS is fully open source. Chrome OS is the closed, Google-compiled version that will arrive on physical machines. As far as I know, iOS is fully closed-source.

So yes, Chromium OS is much more open than iOS.
Tablets and netbooks that run Chrome OS will be released in one or two months, so you might want to wait a bit.
Compare these answers to the "why not build on webkit" question:

Reinterpreted answer:
"Our marketing team tells us the best way to get cross-browser compatibility is to reinvent the wheel."

Original answer:
"Unfortunately, there are no short cuts to getting to a web with same markup (i.e. write once and renders consistently across browsers). For one perspective around the challenges with various Webkit implementations see this article that recently ran. The way to achieve same markup across various browsers and various implementations of rendering engines is through the W3C with comprehensive standards test. We have a robust engine and platform with IE9 that coupled with our work towards same markup and participation with the W3C is focused on making the life of developers a lot easier."

Sorry, but that's not stripping out the BS. That's inventing BS claiming it was Microsoft's when it's in fact a BS reply of some trolling reddit user to another trolling reddit user's question.
Using infographics within/as a resume is definitely an interesting approach. Might give it a try some day ...

anyway, somebody knows of a LaTeX package capable of producing decent looking timelines?