skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a disheartening demonstration of an oblivious sort of sexism that's all too prevalent in software development already

I don't think it's a demonstration of sexism in software development, but a reflection of sexual politics in the real world. He built a product people want.

If he built a product that helped people file lawsuits, would anyone claim that it's a disheartening demonstration of the litigiousness in software development? Or if he built a project that helped people find drink specials, would it be sign that alcoholism is a serious problem for developers?
Got it in one...
Web Optimization Contest
I know, it's depressing about the Stella, and Carling too. Especially when there's amazing ales like Landlord, Jaipur and so on.

I don't know pabst blue ribbon, but Peroni is the closest to a drinkable mainstream lager I can find in the UK.
I think the solution to that one is to use a hammer to make a saw out of metal and use it.
Why is X (Andoid, iPhone, Symbian) so... http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...
Indeed. One of the things that makes me laugh as well is that 37signals themselves use Propane - which is an OS X app which gives campfire a more desktop-like experience.

IRC is still great
I had a database of guitar-related affiliate ads, did a word count on all of them, filtered keywords and used these to suggest related guitars/amps/accessories.

Thanks for impressions/snafu reports...So far, basically "ugly" and design-free.

Minimum Viable Product in that:

(a) AdSense

(b) and it works, click some links!
Google's vested interests are irrelevant. The government can take any or all of their information any time they want to.
I don't put myself out there at all and I've always found it incredibly easy to find jobs in the tech industry. As a matter of fact I get calls from recruiters at least once a week and the most I've got is 5 calls in a week, for jobs that honestly are at least decently paid. It's even worse because I have being stalling a degree in finance (yeah I'm weird like that...) for the last 4 years, while working as a developer. So I don't even have a degree. At this point I'd probably explain this because I have work experience that 'proves' me but I didn't have it at the beginning and I still found it easy anyways.
I'm fascinated that people on HN find that taking part in online social networks (like HN) is an anti-indicator of professionalism (in all fields).
This was recently on reddit (maybe even HN): http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...
If you use OS X, try http://propaneapp.com/
Attitude is more important than talent
Doh. Of course. It's all on the same domain. Do you think, that if designing a new application, it would make sense to make a separate admin sub-domain (assuming no wildcard cookies)?

Does the solution entail purchasing legit ssl certs for your static content domains?
Can you mix and match, like having an angry gay guido call with a horoscope?
http://bugs.php.net/52435
You have to crawl before you can walk. Weak ties can turn into strong ties; cheap affiliations can grow into durable ones. Once you're self-identified with a cause via something cheap and easy like Twitter, various cognitive/behavioral effects will draw you further in, over time. So give it time.
Is Google deliberately screwing up social?
The original problem is that sending HTTP requests and such directly on the WiFi hotspot connection sends it as plaintext. Thus it readable by anybody. With an SSH tunnel, all that plaintext is actually encrypted before it sent out over the WiFi hotspot, which protects it from eavesdroppers over that segment of the connection.
Firesheep-Extension para Firefox que permite hackear
You don't need to run squid to use an SSH tunnel as a proxy. If you set up a dynamic tunnel (not sure how to do this in SSH Tunnel Manager but it's fairly straightforward in putty) you point your clients at the local side and use it as a SOCKS proxy.
Actually, sounds to me like if you do marketing wrong (or your product is crap), it doesn't matter what your reputation is.

However, get all the rest right, and I still think your reputation gets tremendously.

Failure to use something effectively doesn't mean it's crap.
Anyone remember the article from a few days ago about how windows computers are passing the ssid "free public wifi" around?
Hell, I even know a small bit of 64bit MIPS assembly...
University of Colorado at Boulder. Like the commenter above notes, Dave Morin and in earlier times the Woz are alumni.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak (search for Colorado)
Yerba Mate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate
> The Wall Street Journal was able to decode 26 of them.

It's not like it's a secret or anything. They act like this chart is something they've discovered.
Here is a very bad pseudo-code demo illustrating the problem and the proposed solution:

http://pastie.org/1247590

I'm beginning to suspect that the willful incompetence on their part is maybe just a scheme of many to get others to do the work. Suspected a bit of professionalism from people who are about to graduate with master degrees.
Comments here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829211
No, just pen & paper.

I've been on a mission since the beginning of the year to get my weight and health under control. I track the calories of everything I eat/drink plus the amount of exercise I get everyday. Then at the end of the week I add it all up and measure my progress (fat%, muscle%, etc...)

I've been able to drop 12 pounds of body fat and increase my muscle percentage over this last year, for the first time in my life, by tracking all this stuff...
How can there not be a bacon icon?!
You win a cookie! I was wondering how long it would take for someone to comment on that. :)
Fun idea. Ven Diagram overlaps comments which makes it harder to see the diagram. This is on firefox 3.6.11
This specific attack should work just fine with WEP but will not work against WPA2 (Disclaimer: I haven't tried the combinations personally). With WEP every single client uses the same encryption key, so all the packets are visible to everyone. With WPA2-PSK, each client has it's own key which is derived from the pre-shared key. Because of this, your adapter won't decode someone else's packets, but it's technically feasible to do so with other types of attacks outside of the scope of this firefox plugin. I'm not that familiar with the encryption within WPA-Enterprise, but I don't believe you can derive other people's keys and sniff their data when using it.
"make a stand on an issue that is shades of Grey and not Black or White"

There is much more of this type of discourse in the programming community than I can bear. I think it happens when a young programmer gets just enough experience to gain confidence but not enough experience to gain perspective.
Oh hey, I have the same webapp.
http://www.recurseapp.com
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Show HN: An as-you-type time calculator
My screenshot and canvas don't match, but I'm running Chrome. Same thing happens in Firefox, so it's probably the OS. I'm running Windows XP with two LCD monitors. ClearType was off so I turned it on, and that seems to have fixed it.

There's a bug when selecting items with a box when the cursor leaves the canvas. It would also be nice to set a new default font.

I was looking for a good web page mockup tool last weekend, but couldn't find one. I know HTML though and went with a good editor.
They force you to use their hosted service rather than allowing you remote access to an API though.
http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=How+do...

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...
lol, that i would pay for.
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My SSIDs are in Greek and my passwords are all in Middle Welsh. Good luck with that.
awesome. this definitely beats office clip art search. You should maybe have a section "User's who downloaded this ...also downloaded X icon"
Don't bother supporting older versions of IE. However, take a peek at this: http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/

Edit: also, great job on the app. Branding could use some work (i.e. the name) but I think this is well beyond my expectations. I was about to pay for a balsamiq license today, but I'd rather have this. Any idea for license costs?
For anybody that is using Firefox, you might try the stable release:
http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.5.1/editor/svg...

I wasn't able to get the linked version to work in Firefox (3.6.11).
also, whats with the weird feature detection for canvas, why not just send people straight to the demo and use standard canvas detection methods, it can bail out with a message if canvas isnt there.

I almost failed the test because the canvas text didnt render the same
Build a forge. Construct a saw mold. Melt down the head of the hammer into the mold. Meanwhile, carve notches into the handle to measure the board. After the saw cools, find a rock to sharpen it with. Saw the wood in half.

This actually sounds like a process that's more fun than some work I've done in the past.
"Hence a prediction: within less than 5 years a Mac will be running on an Apple designed ARM processor."

That assertion presupposes that Apple will give up the professional content creation market entirely. If they've killed off Shake and curtailed developement on Final Cut Pro, then I'g guess that your theory has some merit.

The reason? The upcoming 2.5 GHz ARM core will most likely be performance competitive with today's x86, but by the time it comes to market, we'll most likely be looking at a Sandy Bridge refresh, and even the first Sandy Bridge processors will most likely smoke the best that ARM can throw at it.

The ARM will almost certainly continue to dominate the low-power markets though. I don't see a high likelihood of x86 making it there. I'd even go out on a limb and suggest that if Intel wanted to compete head-to-head with ARM, their best bet would be a low-power Itanium, since it's not saddled with x86 hardware any more, and therefore requires considerably less logic to match x86 performance with the same manufacturing technology.
I stumbled upon this when I about to draw a wireframe for a new project on paper, so I decided to give it a try. Here's my comments, as I'm creating the mockup:

- it's usable. Probably easier than Photohshop to throw together something quick and simple

- There's no way it's going to replace Photoshop anytime soon since I need a many more tools to get a real design done but it works for mockups.

- <strike>I don't get why the height is limited. My canvas is very wide (24 inch display) but only about 50% of the available space</strike>. Already found out from the comments how to resize

- it's hard to position elements exactly: it behaves differently from Photoshop near the guiding lines, which takes time to adjust to

- can't do ctrl-c, ctrl-v to duplicate objects. Again, it's a pattern I'm used to

- when the number of objects becomes large and overlapping, the list of layers will be useful probably. Or, I'll move to photoshop for anything complicated anyway

- when I hold the shift key down, I expect the element to move much quicker (I guess Photoshop does it this way)

- I cannot make only part of the text underlined. If I have a piece of text with some links in it, I'm forced to create individual elements for all links
The Loongson family was developed at the Institute of Computing Technology in China. It's based on the MIPS design but the original processors were missing 4 instructions covered by MIPS Technologies patents.

ICT now licence the MIPS architectures directly from MIPS Technologies, so there's nothing stolen about it.
Agreed on both points! That fade is a nice little touch and the system needs to provide users with feedback on what it's doing.
Wait, jMockups is way more confusing, nevermind.
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Not an uninteresting idea, but the $1k is just a tiny amount of money, eg. just 10x $100. It would be really interesting to have a (long-lasting) service around raising funds for open-source contributions and bugfixes and connecting users and developers. This could even look like a kind of reverse-kickstarter, where a number of people contribute money to a specific goal and only then find a developer/designer/... via the service.

As a sidenote: I always am a bit skeptical when i see links to a HN thread propagated in posts, primarily because it may bring too many new people here in particular if the post gets picked up by major news outlets. Nothing wrong with new users, but I think anyone interested in HN related topics learns of this site sooner or later anyway. The rate of submissions/changes on the front page has increased a lot during the last year and I'm a bit afraid where that will lead to (unless PG starts updating / trying a couple of things with HN, such as thresholds, categories, etc).
Can you email me? (You don't have an email in your profile.) matt@jmockups.com

I'd like to get more information.
Saying that the solution is for server admins to do something misses the point. Even if you're right, as a user I have no way to get a random server's config changed. Therefore I want the option to configure my client so that I don't run into the issue.
Illuminating: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...
This seems like a bad idea.

Let’s assume it costs a few million to design this chip, well you can already buy a an i7 which has 4 cores runs at 3.06GHz costs about 250$ in bulk. That’s 4,000 CPU’s per million in development costs before they see a single CPU off the line. If they get something 20% better then they are looking at a few hundred thousand chips to break even.

PS: They suggest that it’s going to be 30% slower than a 6 core chip which suggests it’s on par with a current generation chip 4core CPU.
It is something my wife learned in medical school. And then told me when her cousin committed suicide, just a few weeks after he was put on anti-depressants.

However searching quickly, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12... verifies the link between anti-depressants and suicide. And further verifies that the link is short-term, but long-term they help.
I've been meaning to to just this for a long time, just haven't had the time. I'm glad someone finally did though. Bookmarked. Great job. Hope it keeps improving.
I'd really like a citation for serifs being easier to engrave in stone. That really doesn't make sense to me. I'd expect things like runes -- entirely straight lines, minimal decoration -- to be easier to carve.
Is Cloud OS Maker Jolicloud Preparing To Sell A Netbook Of Its Own?
Websites should transparently redirect to https if they need to

From a UX point of view, definitely. But from a security point of view, this isn't good.
love it!
my only complaint is that the locations map in the bottom right doesnt fit on my screen completely without scrolling down. 1280x800 using chrome with a 3 line toolbar.
And the obligatory "Without Eclipse":
http://benlynn.blogspot.com/2009/01/developing-android-witho...

http://www.anddev.org/novice-tutorials-f8/developing-android...
I think the guy copied the video processing loop into the event handler.

So the event handler goes into a while(1) loop instead of starting a new thread/process to do the video processing.

That will lock the GUI and make the app unusable.
I find mis-spelled Dakota works quite well.

[edit: I guess we got some native language haters in the crowd]
Let's be honest, this is an appeal for work, or maybe a marketing ploy of some sort. As an appeal for work it reads "I can be part of the boys' club." But a product people want? Please. There is not nearly enough Foursquare data in New Orleans to warrant this effort, and even if there was, can you identify the user that would look at this for more than a quick amusement? Ratio Finder (http://www.weeplaces.com/ratiofinder/) is better for actual planning because it shows historical data, not current trends.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to pop over to Imelda's Fine Shoes and hit on the only female foursquare user in all of New Orleans.
It's insane in Istanbul. London is generally perceived by Londoners to be the centre of the universe, but in Istanbul people act like Istanbul is the whole of the universe. I can understand it given that all the money is running through it, but that's not going to last forever and at some point places like Izmir, Bursa and Trabzon need to get their turn.

I think you did the absolute right thing getting out. I'm not sure I could live in Istanbul, but certainly anywhere on the coast or islands is always beautiful.
Obvious, easy security exploits should be be as publicly exposed as possible, and repeatedly so.

This kind of exploit is so many years old that it's a matter of basic public education and computer literacy. While this might be a "forcing function" on the web development community - it is not unfair. There is so much new tech every year, it's unfortunate that security isn't more in the consciousness of tech.

There may be more graceful ways to lead "sheep" to more secure use of the internet deserving of praise, but it's fair game to release an exploit, and I'd rather see FireSheep than censorship of it.
I live in a suburb of Atlanta and haven't locked my front door during the day in about a decade (since moving from an apartment to a house). The world isn't really as scary as the news makes it seem.
actually now that i looked over the site and their other categories (angry, guido etc), this is pretty funny stuff.
At the end, he should tell me I'm awesome.
Which U.S. brands are spending the most on advertising?
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Google has way too much insight into human nature:

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+do...
c is god
I'm sure the article will be fascinating. I'm also sure the bees don't solve the TSP as computer scientists and mathematicians define it.

As I say elsewhere, hard instances of the TSP are non-trivial to find, especially in 2D. Random instances are almost always trivial. Further, "good" solutions are trivial to find, even when the exact problem is hard.

I'll bet the bees never solved a hard instance (in the technical, algorithmic complexity sense of "hard"). The hype is going to be way overblown.
I think its a good idea, there is definitely room for a mock-up / wireframing tool that exists outside of Photoshop or other desktop apps. Unfortunately for you there are several other options on the market right now that (so far) are much better. For example, Balsamiq mock-ups has a web based product that has most of the capabilities of your product with a more polished design (granted its Flash based but not sure thats a differentiator).

I do like the fact that you are doing it in HTML5, and your browser test is pretty ingenious (although would be nice if it wasn't necessary through browser detection).

Keep it up, always room for a better tool for designing!
Your comment on the width is well-received. I doubt many people are going to use this to create a mockup wider than 960px, so when I implement the grid I think I'm going to limit its width. I'd appreciate everyone's thoughts on this.

Ctrl C/V : Will do.

Re layers: Can you give me an example (share your mockup link) where that would be useful? I worry that it would complicate things more than they need to be.

Can you elaborate on the shift key? How does that work?

Eventually I'd like to implement a rich text feature where you can format the text however you want. Currently, as you noted, an element's font applies to all the text within it.

Thanks for the feedback. Keep it coming.
This is an awesome.

With the Chrome Web Store launching soon, you could consider making this as a chrome extension. You could sell this at a good price to those who want it locally.
Can you elaborate? How is it confusing?
You already have some python experience, I'd say give Django a try. It's not hard to get a simple app up and running, and if you already understand the underlying language basics you'll find it even easier.
bjacobso, what search utility are you using on the backend? -- Are you using YouTube search?
- Or are you building your own index using Sphinx,Solr/Lucene,etc.
- Or some combination of?
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Seems like spam with so many links to the site...
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Clojure-conj: Parallel programming and fork-join
Sinatra 1.1 is out
Sinatra, the DSL for creating web applications using Ruby in a snap just released version 1.1. Sinatra has become very popular among Ruby folks because of it simplicity. Sinatra's paradigm has inspired many as we can figure out by other projects for Node.js (Express), Scala (Scalatra) and Python (Bottle) just to mention a few.
Just happenstance. I'm not much of an MC.
I know how to do the <i> and </i> tags, does that count as knowing basic HTML?

Seriously, I think people might be showing a certain myopia in this thread, believing that the subfield that they're working on is all there is, or at least all that matters. If you want someone to write an iterative eigenvalue solver for a large sparse matrix in Fortran, I'm your guy... but my HTML is at the level of circa 1997 "Look at my awesome <blink>web page</blink>".
I don't do anything unencrypted (no sites that don't support ssl, no ftp or telnet, etc). If I absolutely have to do something potentially insecure, I set up an ssh tunnel through my vps slice...I tend to avoid this if possible, because its both a pain-in-the-ass and very slow.
"Probably of all tech companies, Intel is the one I'd be most hardpressed to bet against in their core market."

True, in Intel's core market (high-end server, desktop and laptop CPUs), Intel is nigh unassailable. No other semiconductor manufacturer in the world can afford to keep up to date with semiconductor manufacturing R&D on their own any longer.

The handheld isn't part of Intel's core market though, and the MacBook Air doesn't quite fit, either.

CPU margins are quite small now, outside of high end parts. That's less true for graphics processors right now. That's probably why Intel's going after the graphics market, but Intel doesn't have much expertise in that area, and it

Also, as graphics processors becoming more general-purpose, the CPU will gradually become less critical to application performance...
Then, you can't save a file and continue working on it in OS X?
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It can be a tricky situation when there is not a distinction between investors (those writing the checks) and the operating team (those spending the money). There are different incentives and motivations for the two sides and it has a tendency to create power dynamics that are not always best for the business. The fact that you worked together previously and presumably had a positive experience, is a good sign.

Based on your description, I would make the observation that titles are not the biggest potential issue here, but who is making the decisions that drive the business forward. If the investor/cofounder is trustworthy and has the success of the business as the key motivator, then you could be ok.

The other issue is that investors and operators get two different classes of stock: investors get preferred shares and employees/team get common stock. This is another potential issue.

I would suggest talking to him and getting clear on what is best for the business and what he wants out of this: an investment or a job.
Yeah - we chose to "just launch" first. All this kind of marketing stuff will come along. There is a free account you can use to try it out in a hands-on way. I should be able to get a tour / screenshots / demo up there later this week...
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I think the point is, you'd have no problem learning pointer arithmetic if you needed it. It's not hard.