skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Priceless: “The information here comes from consultation with Final Cut Pro X’s product managers at Apple.”
Many of the traits that correlate with “outsider” status among high school students — originality, self-awareness, courage, resilience, integrity and passion — reveal themselves as assets later in life.

Those are also useful, for well, anyone who is successful...
High Technology, Not Low Taxes, May Drive US States' Economic Growth
Textmate, although there are a few apps in the win env. that try (E-TextEditor is great). Quicksilver/Launchbar - This is a biggy, I used to use Enso by Aza Raskin back in the day before I switched.

Ultimately it was these two programs that did it for me. Those and a terminal.
CloudApp, Growl, Adium, Seashore and Fuzzyclock? Just simplicity. Ignore iTunes for your article.
> Strange that the vast vast majority of web sites on the open web don't seem to have a problem with this. Could it be because they write to standards?

I believe ther's a better answer: the owners/operators of the websites are incentivized to update them to current popular browsers. Let's face it, writing to standards helps, but does not guarantee good cross-browser compatibility if the website is somewhat complex.

Also the owners/operator usually are themselves -- or have on hand -- the people that can modify the site's code right away. May have something to do with popular sites being either very simple, or being developed all the time.

To contrast, the corporate IT is the embodiment of ``don't touch it if itsn't broken'' and ``fill in those three forms before you check any new code in'' mindset. Os just outright procurement of huge systems from external vendors with no contractual provisions for updates to match current software.

(which was one of the ills of my previous workplace, sigh)
Actually, I think he provides a pretty awesome rosetta stone for those upgrading. It's not perfect, as he acknowledges, but it sure helps a lot of people who make the transition.
Unfortunately we (UK) are somewhere in the middle, and we can't agree on a way forward. The answer is to let the insurance/private people do some things, but not just the profitable things. It's a tricky thing to set up permanently without having to muddle around in the future (which would look bad)
This guy really doesn't understand what all the noise about FCPX is and what film and broadcast practices are. In that regard, I really do not understand why he wrote that article at all. It's as if I wrote an article on organic chemistry since I once read about it on wikipedia. I wrote about what FCPX vs FCP means to me here: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2695610
Two more examples for you:

Xcode, TextMate.

Adium is actually a clone of Pidgin, Pidgin can be used on Windows and Linux, so this is not a good example of a Mac only application.
His final words on the subject (from the next blog post):

"Having read through hundreds of comments from professionals, both civil and uncivil, I’m now convinced: Final Cut Pro X may indeed be ready for the future. But for professional video editors, it’s not yet ready for the present."
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I think every Project Manager has its place. I really like the development of Asana. http://asana.com/
Ah yes, the classic "if you haven't memorized all of the APIs and their side effects you're not a real developer" schtick.
Ethanol is so absurdly addictive that trying to quit can literally kill you. Heroin? You'll just wish you were dead. It's dangerous enough that ethanol related death is the number one cause of death in some modern countries, before even heart disease.

Yet most of society would hesitate to label having a beer "bad use". Why? Probably because we're used to it, it's not a boogyman.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Alcohol_withd...
Awesome 404 page
Do these qualify as hacker?

* pixlr
* Grasshopper - "*The Virtual Phone System Designed for Entrepreneurs*"
* 99logos
* half of your services section

Where is computer science? Where is security? Where is HACKING.

Hacker does not mean Valley Superstar, sorry. We're upset when the media dilutes the meaning of our beloved "hacker" identity, but like this we do a good job ourselves.

I remember 9 years ago when I was 14 that I used to read UNIX manuals and guides on phreaking from the 80's. I feel terribly old when I see people these days put JQUERY FUNDAMENTALS on a list of "hacker" resources, and I'm 23.
I love Eclipse for Java, but it seems absurd that this page even exists in the first place. I'm OK with a long startup time, but the amount of finagling I had to do in order to get the Android environment to run without hiccuping every 5 minutes is pretty ridiculous. You'd think desktop Java would move to, oh, I don't know, a model where you don't have to set the heap size like we did in Mac OS 7? It just seems archaic to sit there and try to reason how much heap space we'd possibly use ahead of time.

I don't want to care about that, and shouldn't have to.
I would add: Visit an art museum and learn about the different styles of art. It's about different forms of expression that don't involve 1s and 0s.
Why I Became a Programmer
> mapping out "given this scenario, x, y and z happen".

I've used scenario tables in some contracts. Each row is a scenario. For each scenario, there are columns for Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C. (Some column entries for a given scenario might be blank.)

There are a couple of made-up examples in a blog posting I did a few years back -- scroll down to "Situation tables" at http://www.ontechnologylaw.com/contract-simplification/.
'I also think that if your entire business relies on the rankings of an algorithm of a third party company, you are doomed anyway.*

What you say makes sense but especially a startup can very easily go under. It doesn't take much for Google /MS /Apple etc to kill them and that results in less competition /innovation. Google loves the fact that 70% of search traffic passes through them, but with that come responsibilities according to the law.

It's not an ideal comparison but what if the power company said, I don't want your money, no power for you?
Or the TV station with 70% market share that owns a competing business to turn you down for a legit advertising?
What it Takes to Do Online Retail in India
Dumbing down my smartphone
Also, now people want to be somewhat disguised as nerds, using geeky gadgets and pretending to like computers (just because they like Facebook and MSN).
Pot, LSD, and mushrooms, for starters. Except for expansive and distorted definitions of the word "addictive", and except for that one friend everyone seems to have who couldn't handle their acid.
Congrats!

You have some really nice apps. Perhaps you should try charging more?
AIUI TrueCrypt has one hidden volume for every real volume, so it's reasonable for law enforcement to ask for the hidden volume if there's a real one. But what if there was a hard disk encryption system that allowed a large number of hidden volumes (say 1000), and a suspect provided police with keys for 5 of them -- how would the police know that there was any more? I think that this would give more effective plausible deniability.
Wait, I don't get it. The title is about laying visualization like music, and the text is about implementing game of life? Didn't everybody and their little brother do that once, on the then-current platform of choice?
Out of curiosity, what are you using now?
If you run the Red Hat family (Fedora, CentOS, SL, whatever else) you could also run Spacewalk. Machines periodically check in and get config files and packages that it needs. If you configure it to do so you can also push.

At my last job we ran Spacewalk on our Koji box. Koji will let you build packages that you can then put in your repo to yum install.
s/Hacker/Webdesigner/
The origin of the word Origin.
"None of this, however, dampens the urgency of her broader message. “Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being ‘different’ will pay off sometime after graduation,” she writes. “But no one explains to them why.” Beyond the bromides, she’s dead on: teenagers need to hear that adolescence ends. And more than that, they need to believe it."

Our kids have been told that they will learn more about living in the world from school than they will of the Three Rs. And that it is an important skill, being able to cope with the stress. It just seems to be the best way to frame it for them: people are sometimes shitty. No sense in trying to figure out why or change them. Better spend your energies finding ways to avoid them when possible and suck it up the rest of the time. And I don't exclude teachers. I tell them that these are skills they'll need for the rest of their lives, because there will always be a boss, a cop, a teacher or some other person in a position of authority who may not be inclined to act to your advantage.

Then you move on. Build stuff. Learn to play an instrument. Write stuff. Anything that makes you feel good that doesn't rely on someone else's approval. Next thing you know, you're interesting and everybody wants to know you. It's a better use of your resources than whining, for sure.
"Hallucinating" is really a misnomer when discussing LSD and shrooms. "Profound changes in perception and cognition" would be more like it.
Reading this made me think about the punk movement in music. In the beginning it was about being different. Real punk was anything that your parents and friends didn't like. It wasn't about the kind of music you were playing per se, rather about your attitude. Commercially and socially it didn't really take off. You can argue however that the attitude did. Some musicians started to adapt to the attitude in order to take advantage of the small "movement". Rebellion and individuality were what some went after.

Then punk became accepted. Then it even became commercial. Now you can't recognize punk.
Early revolutionaries are always seen as criminals.

Relevant quotes:

"Those who make revolutions half way only dig their own graves" and "History is written by the victors."
You can do two things.

1. Mirror a yum repository plus updates. For each day create a hardlinked directory of updates named reponame.YYYYMMDD. On the hosts you wish to update sed -i to the new day in your yum repo config file and run yum -y upgrade. When you know it works, do it on the other hosts too.

2. Use a configuration management tool like Puppet.

For your sized infrastructure you probably want the first.
Foodtrucks Squabble Over Logo Design
this "us against them" mentality seems to really be picking up steam these days. it doesn't make sense to me. for every "successful" computer geek there is a successful banker, lawyer, politician or any other traditionally mainstream-sexy profession. CEOs tend to be extremely charismatic...not exactly a trait associated with "revenge of the nerds."

this fixation on popularity seems to exist as strongly in the tech world as it did in my high school. I mean, christ, our two biggest web services right now (fb & tw) are entirely, "look at me! pay attention to me!"
I had a similar experience, and am curious why you think you had the experience you did?

I grew up an unabashed geek in the midwest, and felt no more social isolation than anyone else in my peer group at school.

Some of this was because I played sports (not well, but this was a relatively small school so I wasn't going to get cut). Most of it, came down to two factors:

1) I didn't react to taunting, teasing, name-calling, or even the occasional bits of violence. I only really had to deal with this in 8th and 9th grade, but those who would do such things figured out after a while that I wasn't going to give them any satisfaction.

2) My peers respected people who were good at things. I was good at things (our academic bowl team won nationals, for example, and I had several short stories published). In fact, I'd go so far as to say most people respect people who are good at things, especially if that "good at things" is immediate and visible and public.

Frankly, if schools/teachers adopted a broader view of "success", and if they provided a chance for students to showcase their successes in a public fashion (I'm talking actual successes here, rather than "Congratulations! You're made of carbon, and that makes you special!" psuedo-successes designed to prop up self-esteem), a lot of the bullying would probably stop.
You know Batman isn't the good guy, right? He's a fascist archetype that operates as a paramilitary force in service of and in reaction to a weakened liberal democratic state. He's about as jack-booted thug as you can get.
Some nasty script on this page crashes firefox.
Kind of a odd example just to use map/reduce where each works just fine:

result = Hash.new(0)
Dir['test?.txt'].each do |file|
File.read(file).split(' ').each {|word|
result[word.downcase.tr('.,\'', '')] += 1}
end

If you really needed map/reduce here you'd probably want to write it this way:

Dir['test?.txt'].map do |file|
Hash.new(0).tap {|result|
File.read(file).split(' ').each {|word|
result[word.downcase.tr('.,\'', '')] += 1}}
end.reduce do |result, partial|
result.merge(partial) {|k, v1, v2| v1 + v2}
end
The Windows Steam client works fine in the current version of WINE.

To install Steam on Linux:

1) Download the Windows installer from http://store.steampowered.com/about/

2) Open up a terminal and run `wine msiexec /i /path/to/SteamInstall.msi`

3) Install Steam as you would in Windows
It's unfortunate that people can't be successful _in high school_ without socializing well. Fortunately, high school doesn't last forever. And, there are other ways to get a functioning adult without mass incarceration at a public school.

We talk about how high school is a problem, but improperly-socialized children is a parental failure. Most parents are quick to drop the children off at day care at six weeks old and then they wonder why high school is barely more civilized than a wolfpack.

I have a three-year old, and I will support any activity he wants to do (from fly fishing to perl hacking), but I will also make sure he's polite, articulate, and compassionate. If only all parents made that a priority.
The key word here being "average". Many of my classmates weren't even able to do the things on the list, much less write a toy OS or language. So yes, for average people this list is a good stepping stone to become above average.
The Global Web Development Community
Ask HN: what to do in SF, as a nerd?
Hey guys, I'm in town very briefly. I already checked out a bit of mtv and palo alto and bummed around SF two nights.

I have 10 hours left here before my flight. what should I do?

so far, my favourite thing was the computer history museum.
I don't have a problem with people using games to escape their real, shitty life. But then picking a game that makes you so angry you want to riot sounds like a strange choice. I mean, if you are going to riot, there's plenty of things to protest about in your real, shitty life that impact you more. (Granted, it also takes a lot more effort to deal with.)
Comet Elenin
I think this is the sort of thing one is meant to consider and reflect upon, not the sort of thing one subjects to Standard Internet Argument Protocol.
+1. Yum and apt and the like are awesome for individual machines, but pull based. Spacewalk and RHN are centralized push, which you need for any decent amount of machines.
That's probably because short urls usually tend to be static pages while long ones tend to be dynamically generated content.
Being your own bitch is better than someone else.
I would be more hesitant to doubt the validity of this. I'm sure after witnessing what happened to Sony, corporations will be a little more hesitant to deny freedom of use to their users.
Pogue is a paid punk.
It infiltrates healthcare and education (hopefully).
Ask HN: Are threads Banned from the Front Page?  (Is flagging too powerful?)
I've noticed that some threads get booted from the HN front page and are no where to be found. I noticed this for example this morning with:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2695670

It was #1 on the front page for a bit and then disappeared. I couldn't find it out all the way out to #300, when I stopped looking (its still on the list of new threads though).

I get that some may have flagged the thread (although I'd argue it isn't justified), but can a thread get flagged in such a way that pushes it so far down the rankings as to be virtually non-discoverable? If so that seems like a flaw in the flag system that it seems so much more powerful than upvotes.
His entire site that he observed this behavior on is static.
Ask HN: Video Editing Options on Android?
I need to be able to start working on videos using my photos to put together stories. SO I need to be able to import my photos, show how long they should show before transitioning to the next one, and support a music track and an audio (voiceover) track. I have looked at what is available online, but the only thing that I could find for Android is Jaycut, and I'll be darned if I can figure out a way to get it to do two audio tracks.

Anything (!) out there, or do I need to accept that I have a use case that requires iOS rather than Android?
Perhaps Murder would work? See: http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/07/murder-fast-datacente...
SubethaEdit

Terminal (jk)
Looks great...I'll try you guys out for the site I'm building at the moment.
"see things that aren't real" is a very poor characterization of the psychedelic experience. One attempt at describing a small part of its many aspects: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2498783
I don't understand why all these professionals are upset with Apple about FCP X. Do Not Upgrade(R). Stay on FCP 7.

Your linked post seems much more down-to-earth and level-headed than the complaints I keep seeing everywhere. If all these professionals would hold off purchasing the new version (and I suppose they will with all the negative feedback from those who have already purchased), then Apple will feel the repercussions in lack of sales.
Just released DesktopShelves http://kitestack.com/desktopshelves (my own app)

Also take a look at Skitch.
Adium
Is actually very different from Pidgin. I mean the core is based on Pidgin but the UI makes it unique and more useable (IMO).
Both are pretty shallow.
Yeah! This is great journalism and what blogging is all about.

On the one hand, you have a bunch of upset film editors complaining about the upgrade with their laundry list of complaints. Unlike every other journalist in the industry, who just report the list, Pogue actually studies each and every complaint and reports on whether it's actually valid or not--from a technically adept position--and concludes that he understands why people are upset but that a lot of their claims are debunkable.
i believe also that a lot of players weren't happy with the upcoming Dust514 being Playstation only.

Some would like it on other consoles (XBOX) and the rest feels betrayed for playing eve for so long and not being able to play on the PC.

Thats it! I'm quitting this game and giving all my ISK away for this 1 Tritanium!!!
The English speaking countries of the world need a 'free movement of labour' agreement, like the EU.

IE, UK, US, CA, AU, NZ
Midnight is obviously 12:00am, but people don't know which day it belongs to. Is midnight the start of the day? Or the end of the day? Tuesday 12:00am could be 2 different times (spaced 24 hours apart) depending on your interpretation. If you say 12:01am, there is no ambiguity.

A lot of people in high school probably ignored their math teacher when he explained open/closed intervals.
Funny how the treatment varies across cultures. At least where I'm from, if some one is getting good grades/considered to be geeky, there will be a lot of "why can't you be more like him" comments from other parents.
The site adheres to a strict url structure. /state/city/id/schoolname - entering from the homepage, the only way to crawl the site 1 level at a time would be crawling the shortest urls first. this structure is also emphasised in the breadcrumbs on every page, the shortest urls are also the ones with the most internal links.

why would you crawl the site in any other way?
Probably moderators decided that was Apple flamebait and would generate more heat than light, or that it was off-topic for hackers.
I honestly can't fathom what the problem with FCP X is. If there really are things missing, stick with FCP7 and keep an eye on FCPX updates. And if FCPX has everything you need, upgrade.

I've got a few years video editing experience under my belt (less and less in these days unfortunately). I'm not amateur, nor would I be comfortable calling myself a professional, but from where I'm sat, FCPX looks like a huge step forward. I'm willing to be a guinea pig for a little while if it's for genuine, radical progress.
Well, as great as being polite, articulate, and compassionate is, those attributes don't (necessarily) add up to cool in school. I don't think that's something parents can really teach.
I don't understand why all these professionals are upset with Apple about FCP X.

i think it's a combination of two things. First, obvious lack of pro features we need - even the basic ones. Second, Apple/FCP development/release cycles were known to be really slow and lacking in feature compared to competing products. This amplified the lackluster release that is FCPX IMO, since - I presume - lots of FCP guys felt let down by Apple, expectations were high, delivery was below low.

Do Not Upgrade(R). Stay on FCP 7.

On the other hand, people will stay on FCP7, of course. But, if you've read my post you'll remember that productions are budgeted and organized well in advance, and people are buying/will soon buy new pipelines for future products. Apple is not selling FCP7/Studio anymore, so people immediately start looking in other directions - even if they don't jump the ship right now.
It starts at the top of your sitemap - which are likely shorter URLs
Can somebody explain to me why investing in something like CiscoGuard does not obsolete this kind of attack? Eight years ago I heard about this technology, the ability to drop packets at line speed, and I have been confused since that DDOS has remained effective. I understand cost barriers, but again, that was eight years ago.
Native style momentum scrolling to arrive in iOS5
>recognize that there’s no obligation to switch from the old program yet,

This is the whole takeaway of the article. As an iOS dev who still has Xcode 3.X for some clients, I am thinking "wtf are these professionals DOING swapping to a newly refreshed apple software product. Use the old one until the new one is better!"