skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thought of this too, I guess you can watermark images.

Not sure how you would sell JS scripts since showing a working demo would require the file to be accessible to the user.
Sure, that would make sense for content that could be so served (for example, the pencil icon used as the example here) - but not all content is like that. What about content you want people to interact with (a blog post on your site, a special beta registration form)? You also take on all the problems of becoming a content distributor rather than a link distributor.
At least for the past two days, yup. Just a small part of the rest of my life though!
I see a button to sign in with Twitter, but nothing to tell me what--if anything--you will do with any data you obtain from Twitter or from observing my activities using your application. I suggest you put your privacy policy right on the front page. If it's privacy-positive, I'd brag about it, e.g. "We'll never share your data with 419 scammers."
The copy on the re-direct page is bothering me a bit. Anyone else?

You're being shared Gumroad!

With the "You're being shared". Sounds confusing.
Appcelerator Titanium: From a developer's perspective
A couple of friends from law school and I just recorded the 95th episode of our law and technology podcast.

We're looking to improve. What can we do better?
Rather than putting time and effort into a "contest", these designers could be doing something more constructive like contributing to open-source projects.
Clickable: http://vimeo.com/21889466
I disagree. Take a bare minimum of 15%. That seems to be about what's competitive for non-merchant-account payment systems. You'll need to keep margins up.
I suppose it's that last part. I tried using some of the ipython parallel stuff, but found it to be pretty clumsy (although this was about 2y ago). Is there a better solution for parallelization in python?
Please put a video on the homepage. If I'm on the fence, I'd rather watch a video than create an account.
And then if you do get in, good luck getting into the next filter, the CSE department's admissions system.
There's flot: http://code.google.com/p/flot/
Raphael.js (along with gRaphael): http://raphaeljs.com/
jqPlot: http://www.jqplot.com/

I'd recommend flot out of these three, had the best experience with that one so far.
And by abstracting out of the car, you get to skip re-running acceleration/skid/crash tests, redesigning for the particular size/weight/balance signature of the new tech, retooling the lines to manipulate the thing, rewriting/testing the controller code to drive the damn thing, etc.

And perhaps most importantly: you avoid compromising a technology's best efficiency curve in the quest to meet the demands of the driving model.

e.g. even if you're burning fossil fuel to generate power, for whatever reason, there are vastly more-efficient ways to do it than the way we do in in-car ICEs. Those ways just happen to be ill-suited to the power-demands of personal vehicles.
And who's there to stop whoever buy these patents from abusing the patent pool in 4 years from now? In that situation, I would much rather have google own them on the risk that they might do something evil with it (but probably not if we believe their history), than any of the other companies who already proved they would.
Check out Flot for jQuery: http://code.google.com/p/flot/

Some excellent examples here (scroll down):

http://code.google.com/p/flot/wiki/FlotUsage
I agree with everything you said. If this were my project, these are all problems I'd be thinking about and trying to address. Looks like you're on the right path ;-)
There's always Protovis: http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/
To a degree you're right, but it's a valid concern. Do you want to trust the gateway to your business to a country and by extension, a government you feel is either unstable or will do your company harm because they don't like your government?

It's less of a west vs <insert government here> thing and more of an A vs B thing.
It really shows up in British vs American versions of "The Office" television show. The American boss is more likeable than Ricky Gervais, and the show's tone is cheerier.
Who is Jeff Tribble on AppleInsider and where does his data come from
So what? Look at the C, Ada or ATS submissions for even more 'crazy hackery'. My programs are quite straightforward in comparison.
StartUpBritain, What A Farce
Just to state the obvious, "us, our partners and the open source community" excludes rivals and suggests something a little stronger than a defensive portfolio.
The philosophy behind Clojure is that there is a right way of doing things and a wrong way of doing things, and Clojure won't let you do things the way it considers to be wrong.

The philosophy behind Scala is that you can do whatever you want. It might nudge you in certain directions, but it won't force you. The language is designed to be flexible enough to support several paradigms. Actors was a demonstration of this: you can build some of the syntax and semantics of Erlang actors into Scala as a library, rather than a core feature of the language. Likewise with ScalaSTM: it's purely a library, rather than a core feature of the language.

If you pick a problem that's well suited to STM, you can use STM in Scala. If you pick a problem that's well suited to Actors, you can use Actors in Scala. If you pick the wrong tool for the problem, well, then yes, you'll find yourself in a lot of pain.
It works for me on some sites, on OS X in Canada. I watch Hulu and YouTube videos only available in the US with that method. YMMV.
I don't know where you're based but they were never common in the USA, and where they were common they have since been replaced by modern materials with a clear inside and outside and no twist.
Remote Sr. Software Developer salary?
I keep hearing about a shortage of experienced Sr. developers, but am not sure how that affects what developers are getting paid.

I am wondering, what people are roughly being paid for fulltime salaried Sr level dev jobs. I have 7 years experience with 2 years previous exp at a fast-paced and well-known startup. I do Ruby/Rails development and quite a bit of JS development. I also have exp with System Admin and project development/management.

Lets imagine, that I live in the Chicago area, but the job is a remote job where the entire team is remote and I can work from anywhere.

What salary ranges are people getting for a remote Sr. Developer job?

Any feedback would be appreciated.
Colleagues of mine are paid users of Appcelerator's small business offering and have said the exact same thing: no community on the other side of the pay wall either, and little to no developer interaction.
I think this is a fantastic example of altruism at work. They could devote those resources to SEO work for their own properties, spending money advertising their properties/work, etc. Instead, they choose to acknowledge that Wikipedia is an incredibly popular resource that millions of people refer to, and are working to make it as accurate as possible when it comes to their area of expertise. Bravo.
Good point. I still might start with a friendly email though.
3 Bitcoins and $4 will get you a Starbucks latte - comments on Bitcoin at http://erehweb.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/bitcoin-madison-hour...
"Yank" doesn't really work either, sorry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee#In_other_English-speakin...

You'll just have to live with the fact that English doesn't have a convenient word.

Even here in Italy, "americano" is much more common than statunitense.
Indeed. They could consider doing something similar to Red Hat:

http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html
Best comment from the show's host:
"I hope some of my colleagues will find this of interest."

A decentralized, global currency is truly a foreign concept to economists.

In the early 1990s there were many who immediately realized the potential of this thing called the world wide web. But there were only a few who were articulate in delivering the message: "I hope you will pay attention, THIS IS KIND OF A BIG DEAL".
Protovis is fantastic. It goes well beyond charts and graphing, but you can create some wonderful, interactive charts with it.
For many of the things that people might want to do, a "patronage" model isn't so bad either: the creator demands $1000 for the work behind the link; people can leave an e-mail address and pay anything from $1 to the full remaining price, and will be notified as soon as the work is available.
MLB.com CEO: iOS users more likely to purchase content than Android users
> Fields and professions that were unwelcoming to women in the past have seen remarkable growth of women in their ranks, including areas such as medicine, police, law, and engineering.

Unless you talk to an engineer.
The text is appreciated, but too long. More importantly, there are no demos. That text is valuable but should be broken up into smaller sectional chunks, each associated with code and functional demos
Hmm, true, especially as far as opinions about governments go. Even in Europe, most of my Greek relatives have views like that on the quality of their government (moreso lately, for obvious reasons). But they do still have rather strongly positive views on how Greek culture stacks up. The consensus seems to be that Greek government is incompetent, but the Greek people and their culture are the world's best.
That's an interesting point.

I wonder if the Arduino itself isn't a competitive response in the sense that earlier products like the BASIC Stamp validated the presence of a market. A large number of Stamp competitors sprung up years ago, but Arduino, by going Open Source, really revolutionized the market in ways that earlier responses didn't.

I remember saying to a friend recently that we're now at a point where I don't think I will ever need to design a hardware product again: just about anything I need is already available as open source hardware.
I wonder whether Google's support for Patent Reform will follow a similar course as their support for Net Neutrality.

That is: will it get dropped the moment they secure a deal that puts them on the other side of the fence.

I mean, that's what this really is: Google attempting to sweeten their patent portfolio so they can land cross-licensing agreements with the other tech giants. If successful, their self-interest would be to maintain the patent system.

And I can't say I'm optimistic they'll stick to their currently-stated principles once those run counter to their self-interest.
My experience exactly. The STL==code-bloat argument is really not valid but avoiding STL in smaller embedded systems due to exceptions+new/malloc is reasonable. Once you have a MMU and megabytes of RAM the balance may shift but you still have to worry about realtime behavior.
What will truly be interesting: How will Google wield its patent cache when, inevitably, waters get rougher in the future and some upstart punches them in the nose? If they shake it off and say, "let's dance," rather than calling their patent lawyers, then they will have lived up to the credo they're espousing here.
Here is a video of a SkillsMatter presentation by GT on the same subject:

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/nosql/how-we-mostly-moved-fr...
The article incorrectly implies that the only way to make a synchronous machine is with a permanent magnet, and thus all synchronous machines have temperature issues. On the contrary, it is entirely possible to build synchronous machines with driven rotors (e.g., through slip rings) that have none of the temperature issues associated with using permanent magnets (it's the magnets themselves that are temperatures sensitive, not some intrinsic property of the synchronous machine design). They are more expensive to manufacture than the good old squirrel cage induction motor, but synchronous machines in general are more efficient over a wider range of output rotational rates than induction machines, have somewhat better failure modes, and are much easier to start up.

In many cases, it's cheaper to (try to) solve these problems with smart drive electronics, i.e., add additional complication to the cheap part of the system rather than to the expensive part. But for the highest output machines---multi-megawatt generators, for example---synchronous machines remain king.

There are some other fun things you can do with motor drive electronics. A lab mate of mine in grad school wrote a cool thesis on using the iron in an induction machine as an electric transformer in such a way that the motor drive and power converter could be controlled independently. In essence, in a Y-connected three-phase system, the motor is insensitive to 3rd harmonic content in the drive signal, so you can pass energy through the air gap in the 3rd harmonic and rectify it on the other side to turn your induction machine into the magnetics for a power converter.

http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/28691
BUT:
1) Renewable don't allow CO2 emitted by burning fossil fuels to be retired.
2) Growing plants to burn will stress an already stressed agricultural system.
3) The "dangers" of nuclear power are overstated. Many more people die in the generation of electricity from coal than in the generation of electricity from nuclear fuel. And those numbers generally ignore the costs of global warming.
smashing success! Great idea and awesome execution. I think this sort of 'display my favorites' is wide open for niche products, like maps, for map lovers.
AOL Fires Freelancers (but invites them to work for free)
I must admit I was looking for this as soon as I started reading the article - I just knew there would be a family connection in there somewhere.

The article also notes that:

* Diveroli's company was actually a shell company transferred to him by his father

* He got financing from someone who worked for his father
I'm from Bangalore.

I know about Austria (and it's infamous son), Israel and it's formative years and it's current influence on my country and middle east. Also, as a South Indian, I know that Jews have lived in my part of the country for nearly two thousand years. Of course, I may be atypical.

My point is that I'm yet to meet atypical people like myself in US even in handfuls after three years of living here and travelling to many big cities.
Sounds like you should learn some Illustrator as well for the type of geometric elements you seem to have in mind. What I like to do is create elements in Illustrator, then copy & paste them into Photoshop for assembly. That way you get an immediate reality check by rasterizing. Of course you save the Illustrator file with all it's elements so you can re-paste as needed. (Illustrator's typography works better than Photoshop's; and of course there is a much better set of drawing tools.)
The idea I was trying to express is about 3rd, 4th, etc. generation immigrants. By that time, the information the trickles down in your family lore boils down to "it sucked, we left, good riddance". I think the combination of "we left, we kept getting dragged back to fight wars, and we ended up on top" (grossly over-simplified), leads to a unique and odd "background vibe" to the culture, which seems more pronounced in long-term 'natives'. I think people who are more recent are more cognizant of the subtleties that exist.
What's wrong with this place that that gets downvoted to 0?

Have people actually looked at books on scala or clojure, or the respective websites?

Odersky's "Programming Scala" a whole chapter on actors entitled "Actors and Concurrency", which leads with an introduction about the problems with threads and how Actors provide a solution. There's no mention of STM. STM is not in the scala standard library and is an experimental feature right now. It would be unreasonable for someone evaluating the language today to regard STM as an available solution for concurrency, and if you follow Martin Odersky's advice, you'd use Actors.

All of the major clojure books, on the other hand, devote their concurrency chapters to STM and Clojures's concurrency primitives that are designed to work with it, and Rich Hickey is pretty clear that this is the way to go.

I think it's reasonable to compare the two approaches since they are the native idiomatic way in each language. The very fact that STM is coming soon to Scala suggests that Actors may not be enough. Don't people want to see the two compared?

It is notable that both languages are flexible enough that STM or Actors can be implemented as libraries.
It looks like they just bolted on VNC - access to whole desktop only (no individual apps), grabbing video, sending pixmaps. The X11 portion of NX provides per-application remoting, and much better optimizations.
Bingo. Speaking as someone who was once a foreign student, generic descriptions of what Americans are like are almost useless.

What is very valuable is to describe them in terms of how they are different from your culture.

Thus compared to Asia they are very sarcastic, and compared to Britain hardly at all.
Android Markets, a turning point
That's why Amazon's Android app store is so important because it moves the App store model closer to being the most important distribution channel for software, media and maybe later services and even tangible goods....The fact that Amazon probably has more consumer credit cards than Apple also means that when the buying starts Apple will never be able to keep up because Amazon sells more than apps and media. App stores will never be the same again.
Sure, at the moment only nerds use Bitcoins, but this _could_ become as universal as PayPal is today.

But yes, it probably doesn't make much (commercial) sense right now.
Everyone is optimistic that they can factor out the GIL (see: Unladen Swallow). Then they find out the problem is much, much harder then they initially thought. That said, all it requires is a fundamental change (e.g. dropping) the ref counting system:

http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan#Gl...

So, perhaps PyPy can do it, and I hope they do - from an evolutionary standpoint, they're the interpreter with the most velocity inside of the interpreter core development, so if it's going to happen, it's going to happen there.

CPython will stay conservative, and much as it is today for some time.
How do you choose to use a specific programming language?
The shuttle was always a huge waste of money. Reusable vehicles can't compete with simpler single-use type vehicles.

The Russians built their own reusable shuttle, then scrapped it early on. It's hard to compete with the Soyuz because it's simple and it works.
how else will they make use of all those fancy and accurate watches then?
Highcharts is my fav and default charting library.

http://www.highcharts.com

Highcharts is not open source but is free to use for non-commercial use.
I have paid the $80 to use it on commercial websites and client/managers are always very impressed with its capabilities. I think its well-worth the $$

http://www.highcharts.com/license
The article is based on poor reading comprehension and a false premise. The article says, "Tribble says his data from 4 million web sites shows". But Tribble never said that. In fact the article they reference says "the firm's analytics data covering 4 million unique visitors across a large portfolio of web sites".

4 million users, not sites.
Just a crazy idea, when something like NaCl catches on perhaps gumroad could generate bitcoins client-side in lieu of payment?
I met the artsicle founders at a Hackers & Founders some time back, they're good guys. I'm glad to see that they've launched to the public. I wish them the best of luck.
Growing plants to burn? What?

They're talking about things like solar power, or wind farms.

Where do you get growing plants to burn from that?

And, as for the deaths from nuclear power:

"Nearly one million people around the world died from exposure to radiation released by the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl reactor, finds a new book from the New York Academy of Sciences published today on the 24th anniversary of the meltdown at the Soviet facility."

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/26

Excerpts from the book here:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.2009.1181.is...
You should definitely learn how holding control, shift and alt (or some combo thereof) in combination with the mouse (click, drag, wheel) will effect all the various tools. This goes for any mouse heavy graphical editor (illustrator, blend, fireworks, etc)
Brilliant little idea, I think the big selling point is speed and ease of use. I might create a similar product to this for BitBuffet.com (a similar file selling service I created), as I think the process can be further streamlined.

Digital sale processes still need streamlining for everyday users (especially one-off users) and I can see a service like this taking off.
I used a html pack from http://sickdesigner.com/resources/HTML5-starter-pack/index.h... then added in my own PHP. I wanted to automate as much as possible any future upkeep of this site, so its very much dynamically generated, with a bunch of forms to add data to the back end. I also use BBPress as forum software, which is turning out to be pretty nice so far.
Consider, too, that the diesel engines in large locomotives are basically rolling power plants. The diesel fuel doesn't directly power the drive train; it's used to generate electricity to power its electric motors.
In Facebook under account settings there is an option for persistent SSL. If you turn on the Facebook platform and use any part of it, on any site (such as clicking a like button, or using Facebook comments, or using an "Facebook app" like Farmville (just an example)) it disables the SSL part of your account, and doesn't re-enable it when it can, instead your account is once again non-SSL enabled.

Now, the last time I tested this was when Facebook comments came out on a test account I have, if it no longer disables SSL using Facebook comments that would certainly be a step up.

Even then I don't want everything tied to my Facebook account, and it is not exactly easy to switch which Facebook account is used on which website.
Ask HN: Is that important for a developer to have an impressive personal page?
I am a Python developer with good design background. I am willing to expand my freelance activity in Python web development area now. I have seen tons of visually appealing impressive personal pages of web designers. Those that are more web graphic designers working with HTML/CSS/JS than hardcore programmers. I bet you saw much of them too on the web. They have professional look and feel giving you an image of the person. I tried to find something similar for the programmers to inspire myself for creating my personal page. I searched for 'web developer portfolio', 'web developer personal page' and some other keywords on Google. I didn't find anything as impressive as web designers' pages. All I could see were some boring CVs or something like CVs, sometimes with a small photo of a person and more or less average look. Obviously everyone is the best at what he is the best and programmers sell their technical/analytical skills. They can show perfectly structured code to impress a potential employer while designers show skills by showing their graphic works. So, what I am trying to figure out now, how important is for a developer to have a visually appealing professionally looking page with his story, a list of recent works and GitHub repositories?
Brilliant name, well done. Definitely needs more features, but great start. have you seen friendorfollow?
The supply is moderated by big cooperative pools that spread out the block generation workload in return for spreading out the rewards.

http://deepbit.net/stats.php is a fairly large pool that wins pretty often, and a hobbyist crunching on spare GPUs will see a better return through a pool than trying to get lucky on their own.
Yeah the second half of that sentence, which explains (in admittedly pretty mangled English) that distribution rights are covered in a separate document.

"Mag Create" lets you create content for free. But to distribute it you need to pay for their "Publish" product.