skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Reader. Mostly because it's available on any machine I can login to my Google account, so I don't have to worry about synchronising my feeds on multiple machines.

What could be improved? Well, access to protected, private feeds that require authentication would be good. The problem is, of course, that the workarounds for Google Reader to access private feeds (http://lifehacker.com/5432277/access-password+protected-feed... and http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/subscribe-to-authen...) kind of worry me.
Point is... original author clearly knew what he was doing with these package names.

That seems very likely, but from what I have read so far, all the evidence is circumstantial and guilt is being inferred. So it is still possible it's a stupid mistake. Seriously. (Perhaps there is damning, definitive evidence out there. But what I have read so far contains no smoking gun.)
Hey Taki, I've wanted that feature too and we built that into our social news site called The Shared Web (www.thesharedweb.com). The content is pulled from Twitter or posted by other people on the site and aggregated by URL. We'll be looking into pulling directly from sources so you can follow RSS feeds too soon. Would love to know if it works for you.
Munin, the package that charts performance and usage metrics, does so at 5 min intervals by default. But its purpose is to show historical trends (it tracks every single metric for the past year), and its users are expected to understand that it doesn't help for the kind of thing this article is about.
If I was going somewhere and I didn't want people to see my elbow, I'd wear a long sleeved shirt.

Edit: This is specifically for celebrities/public people. I do agree that taking pictures of random girls in this manner is an invasion of privacy however the same common sense rule applies.
Seems relatively simple. This Frank Smit guy loves anime in a borderline-creepy way and is, like the original developer, not a native english speaker.

[1]: http://61924.nl/04-11-2011/ubuntu-10-dot-10.html

[2]: http://61924.nl/about.html
Perhaps somebody could create a service and send new episodes automatically to the free Kindle e-mail address that pushes via WiFi.

That way, once a new episode comes out, boom, it's on your Kindle ready to watch with no intervention on your part.
Sorry you're going through this, but it is a great example of how certain tax and security laws create unhealthy barriers to the free market. Personally, I've never understood the logic of paying tax on stock that you receive before you dispose of it. Seems that tax policies like this do nothing but keep small investors out.
You can't write a good looking app

I beg to differ. By using a custom look and feel or rendering your own UI using Java2D, it is entirely possible to make attractive software in Java.
5 Daily Habits Of Successful Entrepreneurs
Can't speak for that person but I do it because I like to keep the different parts of my life compartmentalized.

When I'm thinking about I clients I don't want to see personal stuff and vice versus.
Just curious, but how is this borderline creepy?
It's not at all an analogous situation. You're talking about offending people with the name of a package you wrote. This is talking about offending the person who originally wrote the package by suggesting a name, the connotations of which she didn't fully understand. Her name is now associated with it. This isn't a problem of someone childishly over reacting.
Watch'Cowboys and Alien'movie 2011'online'free
watch'Cowboys and Alien'movie 2011'online'free
have rejected their only hope of salvation Gunslinger by slowly begins to remember who he is and where he was he realizes that there is a secret that give the city a chance against a foreign power With the help of hard traveling She
No, because it would be hypocrite to rate the importance of the name higher than the value of the code, and then nevertheless try to steal the code from the guy who spent all the time developing it.

The guy wrote the code and gave it a tongue in cheek name. Deal with it. What the hell is wrong with this world? Moral outrage in the sub-urbian latte crowd? Pillows not fluffed enough?
Google's new "Prizes" beta project
That's a big brush you're painting with, but the core is true: this is about judging how they chose to name their project.
Weird: Faces appear uglier when flashed with others
Abstract. We describe a novel face distortion effect resulting from the fast-paced presentation of eye-aligned faces. When cycling through the faces on a computer screen, each face seems to become a caricature of itself and some faces appear highly deformed, even grotesque. The degree of distortion is greatest for faces that deviate from the others in the set on a particular dimension (eg if a person has a large forehead, it looks particularly large). This new method of image presentation, based on alignment and speed, could provide a useful tool for investigating contrastive distortion effects and face adaptation.
Agree! It's a problem of /many/ people childishly overreacting :p
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I read this book and the Hands-on Node.js book by Pedro Teixeira of NodeTuts. I have to say, while The Node Beginner Books is a tremendous effort that deserves congratulations, I did learn more from buying Hands-on Node.js for those interested.

Granted, Hands-on Node.js costs $6 versus Beginner's free. But in my opinion it's worth it. And a sizable portion of Hands-on Node.js is free in a sample download which I what I started with before deciding to buy it.

http://nodetuts.com/handson-nodejs-book.html
Why the space industry isn't booming
Scoble's apology to SEO industry
I don't see the connection to being sent to war: It seems like you are trying to say "because this (war) is more unpleasant, you have nothing to complain about", which makes no sense.
Having just spent the better part of a day setting up Django on a Centos 5.5 machine I am doing a happy dance at this news. The amount of work to get things up and running is truly painful. Especially if you are on a x64 system.
And more to the point, "do what you love" can save you from squandering that very luxury.

I think many of us were handed down an old ethic of sacrificing your dreams to pay the bills that may or may not apply to our own lives.
Are teachers underpaid? It depends.
>Now what?

Select your favorite email address, and forward the others to it. If your favorite is your gmail, then have the incoming emails automatically tagged with a label appropriate for where it is coming from (you may wish to use "family", "hacking" "work" etc).
did you lose the job w/out an idea of what you will do after quitting the job?
chances are that they are just hedging their bets, in case the site gets facebook big...then they can release the movie and make a killing
Ok. But why restrict only to code.google.com? why not track other project hosts as well?
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It felt like an hour
There was a Waterloo-based company called AideRSS that did just this. Then, they became Postrank. Postrank was recently bought by Google, so perhaps they will add some kind of smart filtering to Google Reader.
I think he was trying to say that experiencing high magnitude discomfort puts low magnitude discomfort in perspective.

Also, knowing several Iraq veterans before and after, it seems to get you very comfortable with offensive language :p
The same binary gave different outputs depending on what CPU you ran it on.
Yes, that's generally how options are used. They're cheap and grant you the development rights for a period of years. So, you block competitors from getting those rights, while having the option to develop them yourself.
Since when is forking open source code 'stealing' it?

Oh boy, what can of worms am I opening here...
That's not quite true. It's not because of the "modern age", but because of the "great countries" known as the Developed World.

In the Pharaohs age, there were people working as Farmers, but there were scientists too. There were also traders, and there were the possibility to become rich doing what you love (Example: prototyping a Pyramid). Certainly, this is not possible for everyone, but that's the case even today.

If there is a difference, it's in the Internet. I don't live in a Developed country, but I have a considerable set of options with the Internet.
>You're asking people not to have a knee-jerk reaction to offensive language, but you're having a knee-jerk reaction to people being offended.

Uh, yeah, and that invalidates his point in exactly what way? It's still true that people are overreacting. If somebody is offended by the name of a freaking software package, I'd wager that this person has other problems to work out.

It's also true that "sexism" (and various other *isms) is a completely abused term that simply serves as an "argument" that nobody can counter, since if anybody does, he must be a sexist.

Besides, I think that "civility" includes not whining to everyone over being personally offended by something.
The ownership percentages listed on the site only sum to 72.669%, so there's a lot of stock not accounted for. I'd imagine that there are lots of relatively low-profile employees with 7-8 figure stakes of that dark 27.331%.
You can enable multiple sign in in your account settings page. It lets you switch between accounts very quickly and doesn't require re-authenticating each time.

https://www.google.com/accounts/b/0/MultipleSessions
What is Your C Development Environment like?
Let me explain my problem:

Say I want to start looking at the source of a C project. First thing I do is highlight all the .c/.h files in the folder (ctrl + click and so on..), right click, select "open all with GVim". The script opens all .c and .h files in GVim in separate tabs each. After that, I resize the GVim window to leave some space for a terminal to run make/gcc/gdb/git etc. At this point, I'm ready to look at some code.

Browsing through code is not easy mainly because of the tabs. In this project that I'm looking at, there are 10+ files and I know that's not even a lot. I have to keep hitting 'gt' or 'gT' if I want to go to a certain .c or .h file and it's a nightmare if you have 10+ tabs open.

So, HN what is your environment or workflow like when coding in C? Any tips on how I can make my environment better?

Here's my environment right now:

Laptop 15.6" screen
Ubuntu 10.04
GVim (NerdTree, Taglist, ctags)
Terminal for (gcc, gdb, make, git)

GVim and Terminal are side by side.
Unofficial Google +1 button API: Redux
Unfortunately for the Boston VCs, they can only fix part of the problem. Boston VCs have in the past been timid and unimaginative, and they may be able to fix that by making a conscious effort to be more aggressive. But the biggest problem with Boston may be the weakness of the angel community. It's true that VCs are starting to make more angel type investments, but it seems unlikely they can completely replace angels.
Possible, yes. But so absurdly unlikely that I find it strange to seriously suggest the package maintainer did not know what he was doing.
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New England VCs have been some of the most difficult people I've talked with. SV and regional VCs have been much friendlier/easier/helpful. So saying they won't let another big one get away... they need to change their attitude for the most part. (IMO).
As a cofounder of Leanpub (which is where both books are published and sold) and LeanBundle (which sells the bundle), this makes me so happy to hear!
AWStats/Webalizer alternatives
Google Analytics and similar solutions (client side, only track HTML pages) are really popular these days for analyzing web traffic, but it is obviously not a substitute to logfile analysis.

The two main projects are Webalizer[1], really outdated now, and AWStats[2], which has not evolved for years.

So, what do you use to visualize the logfiles of your webserver?

[1] http://www.webalizer.org/

[2] http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
The PostRank is integrated into Google Reader as a (sort of) filtering plugin for Chrome/Safari. Here is the link: http://labs.postrank.com/gr
Well. I think the author got it wrong. He made me suspicious, so I checked the article he pointed to

A mission. I wanted to work on something I loved so much that I would do it even if I wasn’t getting paid. I had already spent countless hours in my spare time doing front-end development with Ruby on Rails for free, so opportunities to do that with people I liked and a product I loved would fit this requirement.

What the Author means, is that if you can do X for $200/hour, but you prefer doing Y for $40/hour, then do Y.
It isn't. It's just people talking about things which they know next to nothing about. Move on, nothing to see here.
How does that hold up in a market where housing prices are depreciating?
FYI: you can buy both those books (The Node Beginner Book and Hands-on Node.js) as a bundle for only $7.99 at http://leanbundle.com/bundles/node. Buying the bundle gets you both books on Leanpub as well, so you get free updates for as long as they're updated on Leanpub.
Possible, yes. But so absurdly unlikely that I find it strange to seriously suggest the package maintainer did not know what he was doing.

There has already been evidence posted here that the woman involved in the project, like me, had some idea it was kind of risque but no idea just how negatively it would be viewed. So far, no one has posted any definitive evidence to the contrary -- it is all circumstantial. And I have repeatedly seen instances of this on HN and in every case, simply politely informing them of how negative it was got them to change it. I think it is far from "absurdly unlikely" that they vastly underestimated how negatively this would be viewed.
Interesting, thanks for the confirmation! I'll have to try to replicate that.
Now this is what I'm much more interested in. Security of the code is a off-the-charts more important than what the package happens to be called. ;)

Thanks for the insight. The article suggests the author is upset due to controversy due to the name but I assume her anguish is more due to the forking of the library and what she feels is the removal of her credit?
I think his point was that the time he could have spent saving $2k would be better spent earning $5k. I didn't read this as him choosing comfort over cost, rather he realized the true value of his time.
Yes, but how much is their profit down?
I upvoted you because I think your description of the normal response to this kind of unintentionally provocative language is indeed normal.

I speculate that you were downvoted, because the incident in question is fairly clearly an aberration from the normal course of events; an aberration in which someone who wanted to be playful now feels betrayed.
Open-source community would surely be better without people being bullies. It's not like anyone's creative ability or technical excellence comes from bullying other people.
Is there a way to create new directories inside of a project? My apologies if I missed it, but I couldn't find one. A nice feature would be the ability to upload a zip file and have it unzipped on the server side with all the files added automatically to the project (rather than having to upload each file individually).
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I monitor as often as possible to be alerted for sudden high traffic. To not add to the load, it checks every 30 seconds.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who changed his project name after seeing how crazy people can get over a name.

It's free publicity, after all :p
I have incidental stuff I also enjoy now and then, but only one calling, and I consider myself lucky that it's writing code (and that the market value of my work has increased so much in twenty years) rather than something like http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/100000-toothpicks-u.... Some people have a deep-seated need to do things society hardly values at all, and terrible advice like "follow your bliss and money will take care of itself" would only compound their tragedy. I think the key is to find the smallest gap between what you need to do and what our civilization wants from you, because that gap will be the measure of your dissatisfaction.
There're quite a few of us. One of my coworkers was a philosophy major in college, I flirted with doing a philosophy major but couldn't quite make the course schedule work out, and I think PG was a philosophy major.
This means I would manage several different Google+ accounts, right? I would have to set up my circles on each one. At first that sounds redundant to the purpose of Google+, but maybe that's okay? Maybe the Circles are really the subcircles of my individual accounts?
Uh, since it's quite obviously a pun on "grammar-nazi" I fail to see your point. Even the description of the package makes it obvious:

Annoying helper module that finds unicode/bytestring comparisions and other problems.
The explosion in angels has not skipped Boston. A few recent acquisitions will certainly increase activity as well.
Cacti uses 5 minute intervals by default.
No; Github gave her credit immediately on starting the project. She was irritated that they chose to fork her code at all, and disapproved of many of the changes. But her code, as Github found it, was absolutely not safe to run on a popular public web app.
I would be curious to see what the performance is using PyPy instead of CPython. Seems right up its alley after reading http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/07/realtime-image-processi...
Deal Aggregation. 
We've started a deal aggregator with strong focus on realtime and geolocation.

What do you think about this space?. Do you like http://oony.com.ar ?
I speculate that you were downvoted, because the incident in question is fairly clearly an aberration from the normal course of events; an aberration in which someone who wanted to be playful now feels betrayed.

Thanks for your feedback, but I honestly don't know what you are talking about. Care to clarify what is supposed to be so clear? :-/
Yep, you can do 2D. As a non-programmer, I've spent the last couple months learning scripting on Unity with the help of the Walker Brothers free online course.

Best of luck with your project, pumping out a simple game and publishing it is exactly what I'd like to do (when I finish off these other damn projects!).
And don't forget to check out the Extra packages from the EPEL repository - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
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Depolyment automation with glu video
https://gist.github.com/1075119
They do have 1,000 million people and counting. 64million is only 6.4%
That isn't that high in reality. Give China a break.
USA has a rental vacancy rate of 9.7% and an owner vacancy rate of 2.6%. So combined vacancy rate of 12.3%. So yeah, US's is higher.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/hvs/hvs.html
My strong suggestion would be to make it free and charge 99 cents for a premium upgrade of some sorts and also give people a way to pay more if they want to (consumables). Two weeks is perfectly reasonable for an experianced iOS dev to get a first version of a simple game done but if you have never done it before it might be difficult. Shoot me an email if you get stuck on something.
Recent July 2011 Who is hiring thread may help: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2719028

Might also be a good idea to break up your post into paragraphs for easier reading.
We're talking about two different things. You're referring to the female author of Panyshot, who was a non-native English speaker who did not know the full meaning of "pantyshot". I'm talking about the author of Upskirt who is a native English speaker and changed the name of his package to that of a young anime character famous for upskirt shots.
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Don't use that extension its a malware. Please read this thread at reddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ikymu
For the record celebrities rarely "flash" their panties. Its a case of being followed around by paparazzi and the inevitable occurring. I'd actually suggest that the full implications of celebrity magazines (and how they obtain their photographs) is anything but relatively innocent.

It's weird that my only encounter with the term is through mainstream manga, not hentai, manga. Shonen Jump, stuff like that (and for the record I wish stuff like Cages of Eden and Highschool of the Dead toned that down and focused more on the plot). I wonder if its a bit of culture-shock as I would expect it is seen as "relatively innocent" in Japan.
Yeah, they were really strong and aggresive, and I really would people not to be like this, but at least I do not recall him attacking anyone else first. When the issue at hand was purely technical, he was really civil and really to the point.
I made it for a Twilio competition: http://www.twilio.com/contests/2011/07/new-developer-contest....

I'm not trying to self-promote (as this isn't a commercial service or a company), I just want to see what everyone thinks.
While its nice that they got it out, I'm sure many still think that the developers have failed them with this predicament. That's why SL was gaining market, they just wanted 6.

Though, for those looking for a "generic" EL spin, that Ascendos one looks like it may have promise once they get a release out.
This is so much more of a better story than the OP.
Thanks for filling in the gaps, much appreciated.
And the sadder part is that richer investors know their way around those taxes better than new comers because they have access to accountant professionals who can advise to pay less tax.
Good point. And my guess is he's a hell of a lot wiser for it.
This is an option I'll definitely consider.

Is Google+ designed to actually work seamlessly this way? In other words, will people interacting with my Google+ presence through my friendsandfamily@gmail.com have the same experience as those interacting with my Google+ presence through my onlinehackerpersona@gmail.com?

Also, I've got two invites: one for onlinehackerpersona@gmail.com and one for friendsandfamily@gmail.com. Which one do I take? If I choose one, do I lose the connection with the other person and have to re-invite them?
If I was running a billion dollar company I would not be using a product that only promises "basically".
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My understanding is that the original author, feeling betrayed, has abandoned her open source project, allowing the once collaborator and suggester of the name "upskirt" to make his suggestion of the replacement name "misaka".
Is Jeff Rotschild a member of the (in)famous Rotschild family that owns large interests in international banking?
I'm pretty sure it applies more to some jobs then others. I know you're being facetious but the main difference between prostitution and sex is that sex is generally with people you want to have sex with and prostitution is not. The difference isn't just that you're doing it for money so it suddenly becomes boring, although that can probably happen with some jobs.