skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been having very good results with the Inkscape SVG renderer (inkscape -z input.pdf -l output.svg). Not pixel-perfect, but handles images and vector diagrams pretty well, and text is selectable/searchable.
This would be a server-side solution, not client-side.
Does the official Tumblr backup app not work? Why?
I wonder how well it would go over if every time you signed up for a service, that service would try to log into the e-mail account you provided with the password you provided - and refused to create your account if it succeeded.
I assume there's probably a risk of arbitrary code execution, which is mostly mitigated by vetting each ad. Too bad though, would be nice to see what could be built for iOS web apps.
It would be nice to have some more details about precisely what this does; is the backup a zip archive, or something that can be directly imported into Wordpress but not Posterous... or something else entirely? And is this a one-time backup, or for the life of the blog? (I presume the latter from the pricing per blog).

Looks good and has me interested though, that's half the battle :)
I laugh at Daily WTF but I always cringe thinking about some of those its3AMgottalaunchat8AMshitI'msotired nasty kludgy hacks I've been responsible for.

Or just the times I was well rested, under no pressure, and just coughed up some stupid.
In a script:

sudo chown -R username:group $WEBAPP

For various reasons, $WEBAPP got set to "/ usr/local/blah/blah" (note the space)

I had the Linode backup service, so got away with restoring the whole VM from the previous night's backup.
1. You are never too old to learn anything.

2. http://www.codeschool.com/courses/rails-for-zombies
Exactly -- facebook has turned into a giant, semi-awkward graduation party (here is your life!) where you can't really speak your mind.
Major Annoyances

- The fact that I still have to run a Windows VM to run some of the software that I use for work.

- Lack of good support for 3 monitors (Laptop screen + 2 additional). I'm currently using a Diamond BVU195 USB video adapter for the 3rd monitor, but it's really quite useless and I use it almost 100% for my instant messaging client.

- Exchange Public folder access is pretty useless in both the Mail app and Outlook 2011. Microsoft Exchange is actually to blame for this, but it's still an annoyance.

Minor Annoyances

- Having to use Command-c, Command-v, ..etc instead of Control-C, Control-V, .etc

- Mouse tracking speed is odd if coming from a Windows environment. I use a Magic Mouse and MagicPrefs to make the mouse work more like it does in Windows.

- Click & Drag on the trackpad is a little more difficult than I'd like it to be. It gets easier with practice though.

- It's pretty and expensive and I'm afraid of breaking it. Dropping my MBP is probably one of the top 10 things I'm afraid of in life.

EDIT: 1 more minor annoyance is that at full resolution I find it hard to read the text on the screen. I'm constantly either using the zoom-in/zoom-out feature in Chrome or holding down Control and scrolling to zoom in on the screen. Everything looks terrible (fuzzy fonts, skewed icons..etc) if you run at lower resolutions, so I stay at the highest resolution. Note: I admit I probably should have my eyes checked.

I'm sure there are other things that I just can't think of right now, but overall I'm very happy with my MBP and have less problems with it than I did with my Windows PC.
Do you have a Tumblr blog? If so, what price would you pay to back it up?

If the answer is "No" to the first, or an equivalent of "free" to the second, why bother saying that the price is too high? Surely we should only advise on prices when it's for something that we would actually like to buy?
That's a good point - enterprise software is meant to be customized to a business, so maintaining a strong repository of documentation is difficult, if not impossible.

However, I've noticed that even some of the core functionality is pretty light on documentation as well (and it is typically written in German-English).
Hidden Benefits of Smiling
MS doesn't do OpenCL; don't you mean you're not surprised if it's implemented using DirectCompute?
All for one, and one for Thrall WoW Patch 4.2 Trailer
Are there also books on what entrepreneurs can learn from homemakers who keep their families on a budget, raise well-behaved, happy, and productive children, and stay married for decades?
Yeah, kind of, but the false negatives are really severe.

You want to select people who really care about development, and while that question might be a pretty good filter for people in their early twenties, it's also a good way to filter out those who have a decade+ more experience but have other life priorities, like a family.

Certainly, their extra decade or more of work and life experience outweighs the inconvenience of them not programming very much in their spare time.
Yeah that alone would be really helpful. I think that's a great place to start
From the article, it seems as though experts are saying the design of the reactors by GE didn't take into account that Japan has earthquakes.

GE was never named directly, but wikipedia says it was their design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power...
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Great.

I hope Tokyo startups start posting; they seldom come up in the "Who's hiring" threads.
Ahh yes, I agree with both of these.
Anonymous announce The Plan
A nice article, but obviously more than a little hardware-oriented. You could apply some of the same lessons to the software side, but the translation is imperfect.
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None of them. The only suggestion listed that you seemed vested in was away notes, so do that one if any.

None of the others really cover the main problem you're aiming to fix, and you don't sound like you are excited about the task they exist to help with.

You don't have to be personally invested in a problem to build a winnning application solving it. But you need to have became excited by the possibily that you could solve it - that suddenly, you will be making someone's life better. Withouth this, you'll just repeat the existing mistakes with what's on the market.
Apple Researching How the iPhone Can Help You Make New Friends
On the flip side, I'm regularly impressed by how the US media almost never questions, mentions or takes note any of the money and power connections which influence US politics so heavily.

I think the story is deeper than one company who gave $269,000 however.
It is great. Quality linux support for nvidia optimus cards is pretty important for a lot of people I know, and bumblebee appears to provide it. (Apparently, optimus cards act /really/ strangely without a proper driver.)
I think this is a very worthwhile problem to solve. However...

I don't think the basic premise of the interface is very helpful. Having to dial in an exact configuration to get any information is very cumbersome, and requires the user to scan the parameters and take notes to get an idea of what the tradeoffs are.

In particular, the way service providers disappear from the results when a configuration they don't support is entered creates more questions than answers to the user. When I enter a few configurations with no result for Rackspace, I think "why don't you just TELL ME what Rackspace supports."

I know you have many dimensions of data to deal with, so a more complex visualization is difficult, but it will be worth it if you can work it out. I would recommend looking at Edward Tufte's books.

You may also find Tableau software's free web visualization software useful. It solves this basic problem although I have never used it so I can't say if it works well.
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It's to encourage you to either keep it short, or to post it to your blog instead (and then post the link to your blog post to HN).
But it's not at all proven that "Fukushima caused a 35% spike in infant mortality in the US", is it? It seems sort of unlikely that no one would have noticed a tremendous spike in the amount of environmental radiation (such as would presumably be necessary to cause such an increase in infant mortality) in these northwestern US cities.

Either way, though, that seems surprising to me that there'd be a 35% increase in infant mortality.
First, you are confusing visas. The tourist visa is not the same as the visa waiver. There is a tourist visa, it's called B-2 and it does not allow you to do any business or work. Visiting with the visa waiver program means visiting without a visa.

Next, for short trips, visiting without a visa is equivalent to having a business visa (B-1). It allows you to meet with US clients, customers, partners, and so on and it allows you to go to conferences. It does not allow you to work.

See as a recent example from Hacker News: http://www.noop.nl/2011/06/american-learning-experience.html
There is a bug in the color text fields. When you click on the text field, a color picker opens, but if you tab to the field, no color picker opens, leaving the user confused as to what format the text should be in. The color picker should open on focus and close on blur of a color field. I have seen this with color fields in Box Shadow and Outline, and if there are other color fields in other sections, the problem probably happens with them too.

I also have a suggestion: add a Randomize button to the right of the whole group of text fields (or anywhere else). When clicked, it would populate the fields with random valid values and update the preview. That way, the user can see the effect of the CSS and examples of the correct format to enter values into the text fields. This would be especially helpful for @Font Face, where the labels "Font Family" and "Font Name" don't make it clear what to type, and where putting various values in those fields produce no effect on the preview.

It also seems that some of the CSS you generate will have no effect on the preview at all, no matter what you enter - those sections are just to get the code to copy and paste. For these, I think you should either add movement or external files or whatever to the preview that will show the effect, or just hide the preview in those sections.
It's easy to point out that this question will exclude some false negatives, good people that don't have side projects. I rarely hear anyone worried that it will produce false positives, crappy people that have a github profile bursting with interesting work.

But here's the thing: If you think that this is a bad question to ask in an interview, I have a challenge for you: Describe a repeatable, objective process for interviewing developers. No hand-waving "I talk to them and decide if they're smart." Be specific: What questions do you ask? What constitutes a HIRE, what constitutes a NO HIRE?

If you actually try to make a repeatable, objective process, you realize that there is no fair interview question. It's impossible to come up with a set of criteria that can't either be (a) gamed by false positives, or (b) overlooks good people as false negatives.

For example, "Successful experience in a similar position" is an excellent criterium. But we all know it overlooks false negatives, people who have done good work in dissimilar positions but will adapt and thrive in this one.

In the end, we must either 'fess up and admit that we make subjective decisions, or set our jaw and accept that some false negatives are a necessary and acceptable cost of trying to standardize our hiring process.

(That doesn't mean we can't minimize the number of false negatives. One way to do that is to ask many questions and to incorporate all of the answers into your decision. If you're very conservative, you take any negative result as a NO HIRE, which leads to having more false negatives but a vanishingly small probability of a false positive. But you can go the other way and allow for some of the answers to be negative, which will create a vanishingly small possibility of a false negative overall but allow some acceptably small probability of a false positive.)
Well, I made a typo in my job post, and I can't edit it. Now I must shame myself in front of the community. Woe is me.

Any chance we can edit the title later?
at least it's one step forward to bring webgl to tablets...
Revealing video about conditions at FoxConn iPad factory
This is just people that don't know how GMail works.

Quoting your first link:

> I receive internal business emails addressed to this other guy and when I email him back, it comes back to me.

It obviously will come back to him, because the guy is emailing himself.
A cursory reading of the founders shows the US was founded as a racial and cultural nation. Nobody thought much differently until post WWII, more like the 1970s really.
hmm... j = i++ + ++i; ....

To me, it seems like that would be evaluated by operator precedence...

++ has a higher precedence than +

So let i=1. The expression then becomes:

j = i++ + ++i;
j = {1}++ + ++{1};
j = 1 + 2; OR, j = 1 + 3;

Aha. And that's the undefined behavior.

Ew. That seems like the type of problem which shouldn't have to be debugged, because the code shouldn't have been written like that to begin with.

Heck, it seems like the compiler shouldn't even allow that code to compile in the first place... But I guess there are technical problems with disallowing that? (Not the least of which is, it would break existing code.)
Just a note, mussels don't have memories - they're very simple bivalves. I think you mean 'muscle'.
What Makes a Good Commencement Address?
I don't want one until this is fixed.
(>>.) doesn't seem to require parallelization in the implementation, at all...it just allows it and requires code to be parallel safe

That's pretty much what I said.

I'd be curious to see what the actual smallest Perl 6 implementation would look like

If you want to guarantee it will work, then it will be about as long as a Perl 5 version. Every brief way to parallelize leaves a lot of the semantics up to the implementation. There's a good reason for that: this is a concurrent problem, but the hyperops are meant for parallelizable problems.
5 lessons from IBM's 100th anniversary
The Facebook for IT (Video)
I'd love to know what the imagined risk would be - as far as I can see the only additional capability from WebGL against regular JavaScript is to send commands and data to and from the GPU. What harm can that do?
How can we get willpower back once it has been depleted?
How to find coworking space
do you know any other startups about office space sharing?
Absolutely, the NYT web site is very, very good. I've been quite impressed by a few of their slick special features.

That's what I'd expect from one of the top 5 newspapers in the world, though. What I'm wondering about is why the average newspaper for a town of 1,000,000 in the US has such a clusterfuck disaster of a website.
Did they fix the bug from 4.3 where home screen web apps don't use Nitro?
I am not sure what you mean? Before we did not have things like the USDA or FDA.

If we maintain that it is illegal to claim regulatory approval unless you actually have it, then that gives us a choice (between tested/approved and not) which we have not had before, and don't have now.

What we have done, is replace all lack of regulation and testing with a universal mandate for extremely long and expensive regulation and testing.

I feel like everyone is interpreting my point as a dichotomy between everything or nothing, between the situation as it is today or total anarchy. But that is not at all what I am saying.
does this mean these won't be any support for websites that use webgl in the browser natively at all?

what if I make a webgl site and someone goes to it on an ipad, will it just refuse to work like IE?
Briefly playing with it, I only had the minor-est of nitpicks, and I don't suspect other users would necessarily react the same way as I did.

When I began live-editing the CSS, the semicolons disappear as you start editing the text, then automatically re-appear after you stop editing the text. I found myself adding a semi-colon automatically, and that led to 2 semi-colons. Not harmful, but certainly weird.

It might be useful if either the edit box included the semi-colon, or a semi-colon remained visible but not editable, at the end of the edit field.

Good luck with this product!
And I'd say rm -r is like a rocket-propelled chainsaw, powerful and out of hand.
That... is an awesome idea.

If you blog about it and submit it, I'll upvote it.
Facebook's mobile webstore, best solution for cross-platform apps?
I probably misunderstood the 'pixelperfect' feature. I thought I could move css elements around in a visual drag&drop style to position them at absolute values. I think what you built, is an overlay of a static image to check for errors.

The font with Cufon looked pretty blurry to me, for some subconscious reason I also like to select text while reading. It's less passive, and when I can't do that, I get annoyed. But I see, you already changed it :)
Another thing: I mostly just scan until I find the "demo" button, unfortunately yours was hard to find because it has almost the exact look like the surrounding text. I know you want us to read the rest too, but that's just not an investment people are going to make unless they already like/see your idea.

In the same spirit, I would make some kind of screenshot walkthrough of your killer features. Your live-editing feature is pretty cool, but in the end it's a tiny button people have to click, and then they have to edit something on the same page, and then they have to pay attention so they see that the thing actually changed.
I myself first thought it was broken, instead I simply wasn't in the correct tab, so I didn't see what changed! I imagine a common mistake which can be easily fixed by doing a single page layout of your page.

I think you have a good idea, but it's a lot more work than one would imagine. You say it yourself: You are competing with Dreamweaver, so you'll need some kind of code intellisense too. http://cloud9ide.com/ could probably implement something like a liveview pretty easily, so that's where you are competing aswell. I wish you the best of luck :)
Although it's easy to look at this in a sinister light, the simpler explanation IMO is just that Apple doesn't feel entirely comfortable with its implementation of WebGL on iOS and wants to be able to screen apps instead of turning it into iOS's Flash.
I've never had the chance to try it since there isn't a Windows version.
Yes, It Is a Police State - A line has been crossed.
the GPU isn't a safe place to execute code. code running on it can be written to hijack the system, thereby providing an entry point for viruses etc.

even on chrome the webgl support is limited to specific gpus that have been vetted by the devs.
I like the meaning when you think of an analogy between number cruncher and cloud cruncher. But cloudorado gives about 240 results in Google (this post is already on top). Cloud cruncher, if written with space, gives 2 mln results - it will be difficult to go through. Wouldn't it change a balance for you?
Your numbers have nothing to do with being Hispanic. Is making $40000/year so rare for families with 2 or 3 kids? First we socialize schools then we complain when the costs are not covered by those using the schools. This is a very common pattern.
Was asked to uninstall IBM/Rational ClearCase from our source code repository server. Apparently at the time, Clearcase's installer NFS mounted 127.0.0.1:/ to a subdirectory. Don't ask me what brain-dead system designer thought this was a good idea.

So, I did a simple /etc/init.d/clearcase stop (not sure that is the exact name) and:

# rm -rf /opt/clearcase

(hmm... that seems to be taking a little too long to run)

Panic - then ctrl-C - it was too late, /opt/clearcase/foo was NFS mounted 127.0.0.1:/ and it had already trashed /bin, /sbin, /etc, /var, and most of /usr.

Luckily I had good backups, but we did spend the rest of the day rebuilding the source repository while the developers couldn't check in any code.
Note that as a company you can't just re-hire as W2 contractors. Generally (as the article states) you need to have the employees form some sort of corporate entity or work for a corporate entity. Both employment and tax law will treat solo W2 contractors (or even single member LLCs) as full time employees if you're working full-time for a single entity.

A lot of times companies will hide these types of contractors behind agencies, but its a tricky balance. Point being if you run a small company and are running into these types of issues talk to an accountant and or an employment attorney before thinking you can just hide full time employees behind a "contractor" label, its not a fool proof solution.
Legal immigration is a huge problem. We are taking in vastly more people than the nation can culturally assimilate, and statistically these legal immigrants are net economic tax drains.

Even if the legal immigration screening were fixed and we stopped bringing in so many economic losers, the cold hard fact is this country is full. MOST of the US is facing fresh water crises in the next couple decades. We will become net importers of food within the next 20 years as prime farmland is consumed. We already have become net importers in most categories.

The USA is overpopulated. Net immigration should be ZERO.

Did you know the US would not be an oil importer if immigration had been stopped in 1970? Instead of being in a position to peacefully mind our own business we're spending trillions on wars for oil.
Hacking group gets their ‘Lulz’ thanks to poor security
I did the reverse :(
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I am working on a tool for UI/UX crit. It might be useful here. This is a link for a crit for your site's landing page:

http://www.userexperiencereview.com/reviews/cloudorado-com/interfaces/landing
I've found that calling government offices can sometimes be extremely helpful.

Civil servants are often very smart, and sometimes very bored. Also, unless they are in a position where they regularly face the public, talking to "civilians" can scare them a little - they don't want to be accused of stuffing up. (As long as you are talking off the record, not getting written advice - they hate paper-trails. Written advice is to "double check" that it's all OK).

They can really go out of their way to give free advice.
I said target individual, not "give everyone an equal check". Business and development loans would seem to be a better use of money than giving it directly to the Mexican government. Individually, work visa are needed but insufficient. Overcoming the objections on mexican trucking is another problem.

Although NPR is sometimes considered propaganda I am don't think I have heard it characterized as that type. I will cite the testimony of Tohono O’odham tribal Chairman Ned Norris Jr. http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/_files/042009Norris.pdf - you can also google for more information on the tribe's struggle and the violence spillover.

- http://buffalopost.net/?p=6232
- http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-12-21-border21_ST_N...
- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1285398...
http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=%22rm%20-rf%2...
Pandora is still massively overpriced at $16/share. I reckon a price at $2/share would still be a significant gamble: http://shortlogic.tumblr.com/post/6586713689/pandora-should-...
A handful of the employees affected in my group were re-hired as contractors.

Those states are going to have a field-day in the event of an audit. We had a ton of trouble recently with a contractor (who worked on his own time, with his own equipment, for a specific duration on a project)... I can only imagine what states will see when they find out they brought back former employees. It's going to be very difficult to justify them as contractors.
Hey thanks for letting me know, yeah that's a bug. What browser were you using?
Are you referring to the knee-jerk reaction of a few downvotes in the last hour?

I wouldn't put too much into that...