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I didn't find anything specific to open source, but in their FAQ[1] they say:

10. Is your API free?

Yes, our API is free, requires attribution and is subject to Rate Limiting. If necessary, these limits are also expandable for free through our Whitelisting program.

[1]
http://developers.face.com/docs/faq/
I agree on #1 and #2 but not on #3. I used to run computer training for people who'd never used a computer before, and I'd say the majority were not very adventurous (a few dived in). I think there's a sense that computers are valuable and can 'crash' and so they try not to do anything to break the machine
What a cool shot. The prez with a common bug on his screen. And a bug I can fix! Still, even though this is an easy fix, he's going to need to open up a ticket.
I would only argue one point in this: Github is not a developer's paradise. It's good. In fact, it's really good. But it has one huge weakness, something which all DVCS repositories seem to have followed: they charge per repository.

This is a terrible pricing model. It should, if anything, be based on per-GB of storage regardless of repositories. Otherwise it gets hideously expensive for people to, say, have many small repositories.

It just doesn't make sense that, say, the Linux kernel, and a 500 line personal Ruby project are equal units as far as Github is concerned.
iTerm 2's visor mode was still a bit wonky so I keep Terminal.app around just for visor. But that was when I was using the alpha and beta versions.

I've been using iTerm as my main vim screen for over a year now. iTerm 2 alpha chugged right along for this.
Mameshiba
- Apple Computer, eBay, Yardbarker, Apture now fulltime on Open Home Pro

-I need a cofounder who is a great backend engineer or loves iOS (Objective C)

-I'm committed to Open Home Pro, have over 8k users

-Currently based in Dog Patch Labs in San Francisco.

Andrew
I'll try to be brief. It'd be nice if you read your old comments, so that you see this. I'm not going to login to hackernewsers to contact you.

I didn't (mean to) conflate nationalism (pro-US) and libertarianism. America is more libertarian than anywhere. It's obsessed with having a small state. I used to agree with that, the uber Thatcherism, anglo-saxon model. Now I don't. The Labour government embraced a caricature of being pro-business, leaving us with no stable banks. Even Lehman was doing its most suicidal and socially irresponsible stuff through it's London office while Gordon Brown kissed its ass. Nobody has disputed my point that governments are now mere facades of the banks behind the curtain. This revelation changes all politics, but the average voter hasn't noticed.

My first reaction was "So fitbit allows me to lifelog and PROVE that I had 75 minutes of sex today". Sign me up! That's not a bug that's a feature. I don't care even if my grandmother can read it. She'll approve anyway.

If facebook allowed you to do posts like x fucked y today, I'd love it much more. I know why people don't like that level of boasting and "over"sharing, which not even fetlife manages. It's because they don't see any status (or seek it) in broadcasting the fun you're having to the old schoolfriends in your friend list. I do. So they can see that I did grow up. Here's me in my private pool. Here's my model girlfriend. Yes, social networks ENABLE narcissism. It's only a bonus if the guys who bullied us are noticing this from their backbreaking job.

10 "I am only this way because have what YOU have made me." - Pink

long-nurtured bitterness? insecure? arrivist? vainglorious? hypersexual?

Guilty as charged. Unless you have some way of subverting the tendencies that are wired into human psychology. Goto 10.
Chicken and the egg. If you've got 10k in cash lying around, you've probably already found a cofounder and got funded. Even the people who save up before launching a startup aren't going to want to part with 10k just to find a cofounder, regardless of how good an investment 10k for the right cofounder may end up being.

The immediate problem of how to match people is also non-trivial. Reputation doesn't really work in the startup field, unless you're matching serial entrepreneurs, who probably don't need your service.

It's a real problem, and it'd be great if someone could solve it, but I just don't see a business in it. I'd be happy to be proved wrong, however.
How many of those forks contain anything useful, though? Not that most SourceForge projects aren't abandonware, either.
A few things to consider with any registrar:

- Cost for a redemption if a name is deleted. There is always a cost for this since the registrar is charged for this by the registry operators. The only question is what the markup is.
- How soon after expiration does the registrar put the name on hold so it doesn't resolve.
- Does the registrar try to make you renew with them once the name has expired (many do but ICANN doesn't allow this).
- Although a domain can be deleted by the registrar any time after expiration, most registrars offer a grace period that could run up to 44 days past expiration that you can still renew the name
- Make sure they are not only ICANN accredited (in other words not a reseller) but that they are actually registering names. There are ICANN accredited registrars that actually have gone through the accreditation process and are acting as resellers for others (as hard as that is to believe). Check the registry whois on their domain for example and see if it lists another "registrar".
"I wish handling files was so simple that even those you call “non power-users” (i.e. pretty much everyone) could work with versioned files."

We have that already, it's called persistent undo and/or save as. Stunningly, a versioning system designed for the technologically illiterate doesn't measure up to one designed for coders.

Auto-save is a separate issue, but we have that as well...
Ask HN: Who are you using for stock market data in your app?
Collecting stock market data directly seems to mean trawling through dozens of exchanges and doing one-off implementations of their feeds. Some companies try and wrap this up for enterprise-tier customers (http://www.interactivedata.com being one). Google Finance's API was deprecated May 26. Yahoo has a method for accessing CSVs of this data programatically, but it's undocumented.

Is anyone serving startups or smaller shops with an API for retrieving stock trading data? Does HN have any experience integrating with this type of data?
The Daily Mail is, in it's own passive aggressive way, as malicious as the redtops, and I personally wouldn't be surprised if it is also implicated in the phone hacking scandal - there's been a very strong implication that all the tabloids are 'dirty'.

But an example of just how vile the Daily Mail is can be seen here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010193/Teachers-str...

As can be seen from the URL (but subsequently excised from the headline and the story itself), the Daily Mail blamed the death of this schoolgirl, killed by a falling branch, on teachers who were striking on that day.

The original story can be seen here: http://ontoberlin.blogspot.com/2011/07/daily-mail-claims-tea...
Mini almost beat frickin' Porsche What Starters can learn from the Challenge.
Company Sanctioned for Editing Wikipedia to Its Advantage
I think we're talking at different points, I was saying that we don't have like literal robots walking the streets who might accidentally wander into your house, and you can't misclick your way into sticking up a liquor store.

Certainly if you have a whole set of willful misconduct associated with the act, like in this case, then it's illegal/wrong even if the page was wide open and prominently linked.

I guess I was just saying that you couldn't just hold someone culpable for a hit in the access log like you could for being in the wrong kitchen. The bar to prove bad intent is higher.
Kids should learn everyday math the way they learn to play a musical instrument
Fishy. I don't trust them at all. I wouldn't be surprised if this was done at the request of the DoJ/State Dept., and they'd agreed to provide details on donors.

It simply is not in the nature of companies like this to say, "sorry guys, our bad. No hard feelings?"
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And Hanselman works for Microsoft, where i18n is a big deal. So yes, for someone who's been at MS for a while i18n related issues become second nature. But if you typically are only targeting the United States, it's more understandable to not have these things on the brain.
For all you unfamiliar with sales, this is what's referred to as, "the close". I highly doubt Zuckerberg thought about the biblical overtones. It is, an easy way to close a prospect, and a great way to convince somebody to join Facebook.

It would be the same as a highly recruited athlete in high school. You take the tour of the college campus, then they lead you to the stadium and say, "Imagine Nick, 30,000 fans screaming your name every Saturday afternoon."

It's just a sales pitch, nothing more, nothing less.
And mailing lists. The day that GitHub allows me to create and manage mailing lists for my projects is the day I can finally tell sourceforge to burn in hell.
So of course I agree that spam results are the heart of evil. But I'm confused. After reading the DDG comment, I plugged both "VLC" and "VLC Media Player" into both google and DDG, expecting to see bad results at google. Instead, the top 4 results (ignoring ads, of course) all point to videolan.org. Is this a case of my results being pre-filtered or something? I don't recall hitting the "this is stupid, make it go away" button too often on Google.
Tree data structure in Haskell in the context of parallel scan on GPUs
Had forgotten the link but here is the demo link
http://www.mockuptiger.com/wireframe/mockups/mt.php?x=DEMO

You can also use it free by registering. check the download page for more details
I've seen this mentioned elsewhere, but I can't see anything on the Statcounter site that confirms it.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201006-... breaks browser usage for iPod and iPhones out explicitly, and the sum of those both is less than the total iOS usage in http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201006-20110...

I could be wrong, but if I am then it would be a weird thing to do - it would mean that Statcounter doesn't list iPad usage anywhere (eg, the other browser-by-version graphs exclude mobile Safari)
On the plus side, he could probably get a job with that school system in Pennsylvania. He seems qualified.
I know of companies where working overtime is "expected" and where accumulating a certain amount of overtime hours per year is seen as "commitment" or "dedication". They also have several employees who are out of action for months due to burnout.
Mozilla Is Back: New Firefox Aurora 7 Looks Promising
Sprite animation in CSS3
Sprite animation – is one of those things that, for all its primitiveness is still working successfully and are being applied in computer graphics and games for more than a quarter century. Even 3D games have sprites – for example, billboard explosions. Sprite animation is used in many browser-and flash-games, because it is very simple and does not require high performance – all you need is to change the frames and that’s it! And with the advent of animation in CSS3 it has become possible to use sprites on your pages without javascript.
Hemingway has such a style, so short and declarative... so suitable to a coding environment.

Also, Cory Stoll did a great job of bringing Hemingway to life in a recent film, and its hard not to read this in his voice
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So, Facebook is going the way of MySpace then?
Wish it worked to detect explicit images also
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Here are the rules:
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2) Anybots will also want to interview and accept you. They want to make sure we get people who come through the robot well, and make sure the technology is treated nicely.
3) You need to be willing to stay up for the fair, and you will need to interview with Anybots during hours compatible to Pacific Standard Time. The fair is from 11AM until 4PM Pacific Standard Time, and you are invited to remotely attend the after-party at 5PM.
4) You need to be willing to move to Silicon Valley if you accept a job. Many of the companies hiring have remote offices, so you may get lucky, but the majority of them want you here, so we're giving top priority to people willing to move.

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Battle.net mobile authenticator now available for most major smartphones
Zynga's privacy policy
Apple (Mobile Me) Possibly Filtering Political Emails
According to the NYT article summarizing this, the reporters (or PIs hired by them) not only accessed messages in the murder case, they also deleted some to make room for more.

Assuming this is true, it makes irrelevant a lot of gedanken experiments in the thread here.
Rumor: "iPad HD" with "Retina" display could launch this fall
This is illustrative of a fundamental misunderstanding among a lot of programmers about what 'front-end' means. 'Front-end' doesn't mean the colour scheme of the website. It means the features which are exposed to users, the mechanism in which those features are exposed and, broadly speaking, the way the entire thing is USED.

Programmers have a tendency to exaggerate the importance of what they do so that the 'back end' is bigger and more important than it actually is.
According to the NYT article, they actually did delete messages from the cell phone (to make room for more).
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How to Increase HTC Wildfire S Battery Life
Majority of the users complained about the battery life span of HTC Wildfire S just because of lower battery strength. Though we cannot increase the battery power but we can optimize the usage to increase the battery life.
If someone is techsavvy enough to be on this site, but isn't on fetlife because they're being modest / private / discreet, I'd still diagnose a shame complex of sexual hangups.

If they aren't on it because they're not kinky (enough), then that's even easier - they're boring. I just dont get it. You've got the amazingly good luck to have corporeal form, for a limited time, in a random universe, and you're not going to do those things with it. Baffling.
That pretty much sums it up. I've set a global hotkey on ⌘+P to show iTerm on fullscreen (with all my tabs and custom configurations) and I love it =). Much kudos to the developers!
Now it appears that project may be in jeopardy.

The "project" would be the least of my worries.
Evidence of a Facebook Music Service Surfaces
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AKA "does anyone want to test drive a ROBOT?"
If I have yet to learn long division well, the equation 129328 / 2983 might very well be too difficult for me. This isn't an insult.
Cornell U. pays you 1/3 of the royalty, your department gets 1/3 and rest 1/3 goes to university. No upfront costs to file a patent. I assume other universities also have similar arrangements.
Hand-over-hand is a well-known learning technique for children and learning-disabled folks as well as it emphasizes muscle memory.
Please read my comment in the context of the thread. You've agreed with me: It's a crime. The parent post was suggesting this:

> If there is NO security, then it could be argued that it was intended to be public.

You then go on to this:

> If you accessed your bank account on a public computer, and then left without logging out, would it be okay for someone to glance at the screen, see your account balances, and log you out?

You really think things are black and white. Trying to tidy things up into a neat little package.

No, the intent, or motive of the person is to close the sessions. However, if I'd closed the browser window and left, and someone came and opened and then browsed the bank's site, and then made note of some information, and use it in some manner (perhaps, a PI or something), this is more likely criminal in nature.

You cannot simply say: "This is bad" and "This is good." However, it's absurd to think that just because someone forgets to secure something that it's free for public consumption. There is a reasonable expectation of privacy in certain cases. Just because it's easily accessible doesn't mean you have free reign to do what you will with whatever it is.
As long as the app stores aren't walled gardens it doesn't matter if there are a bunch - likely they'll all have 95% of the apps. It's only a problem when every second app is exclusive to a specific store.
That's what I'm doing right now but I fear the wrath of the IRS.
Sure. Like I said: what did you do with the data? What prompted you to access it in the first place?
Just for the record, the correct spelling is now:

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Sure. Who disagrees with that? If you accidentally stumble onto an /admin page, say "shit!", send an email to the site and then log off, who thinks you should be charged with a crime? Nobody does.
At some point, someone will probably sue -- after getting cutoff by this new policy or receive significant fines -- on the grounds this does constitute a conflict of interest on the part of the internet provider.

In the ideal world, we'd allow for competition across the board and remove the monopolies through the introduction of new options. Those options could make a major dent by positioning themselves solely as pipe providers. In turn, this would put market pressure on the conglomerates to either compete or die, in the ideal world.

In the realistic world, the options would be to force the companies to split into wholly owned subsidiaries of a parent corporation. IE: Comcast Internet, Comcast TV / Comcast Content and they would not receive preferential treatment from one another. Also, remove the monopolies and change the current regulatory structure to create incentives for new ISPs to spring up and challenge the conglomerates.

Ideally, we would be able to solve this without having to involve the government bureaucracy which will end up creating more new rules and probably hurting as much as helping. Realistically, the only way people will go for is if there's a regulatory change.
Good find, this sounds like exactly what we need.
doesnt work on touch devices
> Why do we care how much time, effort, or money was spent to brand a generic term? That's not useful to the people.

Isn't it? If you told someone you got food poisoning from the All Bran at the free breakfast at Holiday Inn while representing Network Solutions at a conference on Windows development, are you really asserting that people wouldn't be able to recognize the brands involved despite the generically descriptive trademarks?
The author of the blog post used a deterministic algorithm; he observed some of his users using a non-deterministic one that appeared to work better.

The fact that the algorithm is executed by a human matters, because the human processing system is optimised for highly parallel tasks, such as estimating which of many possible next moves is most likely to improve the solution.
I'm skeptical when the main source for this article is working on a database meant to replace MySQL, as stated at the end. I'm sure MySQL isn't perfect, but it's a bit hyperbolic to call it 'worse than death'.
Usability testing on the iPad: iReddit
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I have ubuntu installed on my home pc. But, I need windows desktop for a task that will not last more than 15 days. Is there any one who rents virtual machines (I should have an option to install software I like on it)?
After your comment, I changed it to be random.
You can actually test drive the robots normally on their site. This is more trying to help all the people who wrote in asking if a Hacker Fair would come to their city participate with us!
It's happened to me.
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Unfuddle charges by space used, not per-repo.

For Git projects, the per-repo pricing of Github is insane. They don't even have a public pricing plan for the number of repos I'd need for my personal (and private) coding.

I use Unfuddle for my private and business code.
I'm earning a co-founder, you perhaps?
So I've been at this game for a while now and figured maybe it's time to get someone committed on board (well, let's plan on dating before we get married).

What is this?

- It's a B2B SaaS application serving lots of SMBs. (email in profile for more info)

Why?

- People should spend more time with their customers and their families than dealing with what we're replacing.

For the last couple months I've been focusing on getting a minimum acceptable product out the door. Probably about 3-4 weeks from making that happen. The product has been built with the help of a friend of mine and some remote developers for hire. While the product was getting built I was doing my customer development piece.

What else have I done?

- Reached out to nearly 800 people, had conversations with roughly 70 businesses.
- Have 6-8 beta testers lined up.
- Have about 5 industry experts (they're in a niche industry) that are taking my calls & emails about the product.
- Mockedup most of the layouts of how the product should look and be used.
- Setup SEM strategy (just need to click 'play')

Why me?

- I have experience in this industry and with this type of a product. I know how to make money with it. I know the metrics that are necessary to grow the business and the levers to pull.
- I want to build a company and particularly with a developer focus mindset. It's not an exciting industry, but it could use some love. I love technology and bringing intelligent development/engineers to this industry would set us apart.

Who are you?

- Know your way around Python/Django.
- Aren't chasing a quick exit. This business will grow, but organically. No silver bullets or virality here.
- SF/SV based.

Look, I'm not trying to get someone on board immediately. I'm more than happy to go through this beta testing period over the next couple months with you looking over my shoulder. When you're ready to commit, you fully commit - no farting around. I could run this on my own with lots of outsourced help, but I love working with people in the same room too much.

Drop me an email....I'll buy you a beer.
youtube.com has some great classes by Google on python. search for 'google python class'.
US Treasury computers to still churn out money that really doesn't exist