skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A buddy of mine just passed this along.

"For those interested in music and applications that scour the internet for all relevant news, media, merchandise and concert info related to an artist, Jeremiah, a current student at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, is showcasing his new App for the iPad called Groovebug, a centralized source of all things related to the artist you love, this Thursday at the TechCocktail conference."
For some of us, memory of how Mitnick was treated (or for a more modern example, Manning), still taints how we expect accused "hackers" to be treated by the criminal justice system.

Physical detainment of someone accused of such crimes is hardly unheard of.
A friend of mine posted my site, but I thought I should say a few words:

This is my first startup-based website that I've built for myself and I'd like to get feedback from the hacker news community.

Please let me know what you think of the site and I'd love to hear your advice and/or suggestions.

Thanks HN!
As it's a linux distro, it supports most everything except Windows- or Mac OS-specific programs. And even those have a chance with various compatibility projects.
the download page seems to be down at the moment.
I predict it will be adopted even quicker than the 4.x branch, due to new notifications. Much sought after feature. Few months and 4.x market share will probably be close to 3G market share.
Most areas, not all.
> Just thought of an application: Use the fluctuating waveform from the sensor to modulate a tone, say, or make beats.

Fair enough, that's pretty cool I guess.
Sure, if you have big enough Balls.
Thanks for that, I was missing the About page.
Wow that is quite a headline, it has everything!
Just curious, but why'd you decide to use nginx instead of a node-based web server (i.e. serving stuff up via Express)?
It really depends on your build and testing times. If you have to wait another fucking 15 minutes so the entire build system can compile the project, or 30 minutes to run through all of the tests before you can compile, it does kick you out of coding.
i dont understand why every new distro has to be praised by the owners as the ultimate [lightweight|powerfull|blaaa] distro every user should use. and why every publisher needs to praise a new philosophie in its work.
Especially those who just copy ideas from others or invent a new wheel or just make another linux distro.

and its really the wrong direction if every developer who starts with some more or less usefull linux applications seems to have to create a new distro instead of making just a project to add to an existing distro.
Most public libraries have relationships with JSTOR that allow members to access the articles online. I use the Boston Public Library and look up articles via Google Scholar. All free.
And only pre-4.0 iPod Touch updates. iOS 4.0 was the first release after the accounting rule change was implemented.
> It might not be breaking & entering, but it's still trespassing, which is a crime.

Jaywalking is murder! Well, it's still a crime...
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It's actually 5 out of 11 (considering USA). Other finalists are from different countries (including 1 from India)
Email sent to your @mac address
glassdoor.com has anonymous company reviews and (self-reported) salary ranges for many companies. The data can also be filtered by job title and geography.
It's probably a quip referring to Ulrich Drepper, a kernel hacker whose personality seems to be quite controversial according to a quick Google search. I'd love to hear the GP explain it further though.
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Having been at JTV, looking back it almost seems insane to try to do as much work as we we're without good coverage. If it matters, it should get a test.

I think a lot of people also see tests as slowing things down but, they also provide a lot of value in documenting intentions, make upgrades easier, etc.
This is cool. I'm one of the guys who makes WorkFlowy.com, so I always check out new to-do/list making apps. I'm almost always like, "This is super lame," but not this time. This app actually seems quite nice. I'd like to be able to flip forward/backward in the planner, as that aligns with the metaphor nicely.

Anyway, nice work.
If you're having a hard time finding the app via search, try going to Categories -> Social Networking -> Release Date

I was able to find it there.
I am an Indian and I am wondering why am I alive to see this day on HackerNews.
Scaling Khan Academy: hundreds of thousands of videos for each subject
Ulrich Drepper is the maintainer of glibc; I don't know what the comment is intended to mean, though.
Ask HN: What is the purpose of having karma higher than 100?
Obviously you are shooting for a realistic UI. I don't think the current strikethrough image is very realistic since I do not draw the same line every time I cross an item out in real life. I suggest you make use of a sprite image to implement multiple lines.
Hadoop Make utility (fold and foreach model for dataset)
Ask HN: Should I build this?
> OrangeSlyce, my last startup, developed a marketplace where small business owners could browse and hire local graphic design students for freelance projects. I did not regularly use OrangeSlyce, ... Had these problems been spotted earlier, maybe OrangeSlyce would have ended up a different and more successful service.

> From this comes our first surprising lesson: Dogfooding may be the ultimate form of customer feedback. Surveys, GetSatisfaction/Uservoice, usage statistics – all fine ways to peer into people's heads. But using your own product is like mind-melding with a motivated user. It’s instant feedback.

Dogfooding is usually seen as evidence that someone believes in their product. But as this article shows, the more practical part of dogfooding is that the product has benefited from some of the best possible feedback. It's better stewardship.
good that he decided to address the issue at the receiving side of the system, not at the producing - i mean, with his money he could have commissioned a some "human anatomy and physiology improvement" research ...
Please give me examples of these other sites that take heterogeneous user generated live streams of varying codecs, profiles, etc. that are being delivered to the flash player that perform much better than Justin on your Macbook.

I think you do not understand the underlying technology well enough to be pointing fingers at Justin's player.
Such a friendly response.

The GP talked about "the given problem domains". One problem domain is simple, one-shot processing for plain old websites. Custom sign-up forms for stuff. Forms that email their data to some address. Homecooked personal-use search boxes that have "magic" functionality. All kinds of simple shit. These are deployed by FTP just fine.

Another problem domain is deploying something to virtually any cheap shared hosting provider. These very seldomly have e.g. ruby support. Sometimes, for all kinds of practical purposes, you don't get to choose.
You mean highest iOS?
That's what these YC-funded guys are trying to do: http://www.hackruiter.com/ They advertise to engineers, have them code FizzBuzz on the signup page, etc. I recently found a job through them, so naturally I recommend them.
We currently target 3.0 and later, but we will probably move to 4.0+ later this year for all new and updated apps. Our analytics is showing that the bulk of our users are on 4.0, in line with what Bump and others are seeing.
Well, mobile app doesn't let me do it either.
Where do you draw the line? 0x0 doesn't work. Let's use 1x1 and blend it in somewhere. 10x10? Probably can find a square somewhere to hide it. Or a long rectangle at the bottom perhaps with a solid color. I don't see blocking 0x0 as a real solution to the problem.
^this. I actually grow as a programmer when I read through the Kohana source
the one in line 87. It looks like it might be added later because it's not even indented, but clearly it doesn't serve any purpose and it doesn't make it more readable (you can tell the function never returns from the second while(1) loop).
Actually, you don't see any sort of skilled Canadian smuggling themselves in at all because it's ridiculously easy to get into the USA if you're from Canada. You walk up to the border, say "I have someone who wants to employ me in the USA, and I have a degree. Give me a TN visa." One hour later, your visa application is processed, and you continue across the border to start your new job.

However, even if that wasn't the case, You wouldn't see Canadian PhDs smuggling themselves in because they can get perfectly good jobs outside of the country. They don't need to go anywhere illegally, because they have plenty of options to go elsewhere. If it wasn't for the TN visa, I would be working in Europe, Asia, Canada, or nearly anywhere else, because someone from there would be trying to attract me.

It's not that there's no demand to support the risk. There's plenty of demand. There's also enough demand elsewhere -- if I had trouble getting into the states, some other company would have me, and I would be contributing to the economy there.
Interesting to see how they've used it. I remember seeing a proof of concept a while back checking the most popular sites against your browser history and pointing this flaw out. Now it will be interesting to see the repercussions of actually abusing this.
Forgotten C: The comma operator
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Nice work courteous and complete. Funny because I usually do this the other way around. I'm not getting the SEOmoz profile high in the SERPs.

I never used to give away my location but got tired of anonymity for it's own sake. Think I'll be reviewing my online exposure now. It's been something I've worried over a little recently but it's hard to keep work/home separate (which I prefer) in many ways. Thanks for getting back to me.
Why is Bitcoin "for the distrustful"?

And if you don't see why Bitcoin is necessary in this scenario, try starting an online casino that takes payments from credit cards, and see what happens.
Yeah, that one is going to be... problematic to explain away.

sounds like he walked over the edge. Shame.
My biggest complaint about CoD is that the singleplayer is really more of a movie than a game. The story and the characters are always interesting, the voice acting and music are great, and the game looks very impressive (especially the semi-interactive cutscenes). The problem is that the game designers usually resort to tricks like infinite enemies, enemies that only shoot at you and not your squadmates, etc. I guess what I'm saying is that it is a very linear scripted experience when compared to games like Halo.

The multiplayer on the other hand is what most people seem to buy the game for, and consequently I think that's what gets the most attention. I think there are some pretty significant changes in-between the games that really couldn't be done with DLC, so the cries that CoD is becoming the Madden on FPS games are unwarranted IMO.

I'm not sure why people bash Treyarch. I really liked MW2 and spec ops, but Treyarch brought us split-screen on XBL (yes, some people actually do play split-screen) and zombies.

As someone who mainly plays zombies on BO I do wish they would release the zombies maps as standalone DLC. Spending 15$ when I'm only going to play one map is an annoying waste of money.
Code review has larger organizational benefits like reducing the "bus factor."
Sponges Scale, Faucets Don't
> Don't the poor and uneducated deserve that dream just as much as anyone else?

Yes, but how do you prioritize? How do you control the drag on the social support systems of the country? How do you handle the gargantuan task of integrating these people into society?
This link from one of the Reddit threads suggests that at least at one time, and perhaps begrudgingly, Alexis would call Aaron a 'co-founder':

http://web.archive.org/web/20070823200504/http://startupstor...

I know nothing of the internal arrangements and disputes. But knowing how these things often go, it's easy to imagine that Aaron was tangentially involved, and the Reddit team needed more help, but Aaron still had another project, where his 'founding' stake/claim was larger.

Offering a founder-ish stake and founder-ish title for bringing that other project in-house (even if the combined team pursues something else) is a common resolution to such a situation.
Mitnick's story is absolutely nothing like Aaron's. Mitnick was a fugitive after already having done prison time and had to be tracked down via cell phone triangulation.
So, as a loyal BBEdit user, I can upgrade for $39.99, compared to the new user price of $39.99. You're really looking after your old customers there.

Edit: I paid $30 for upgrading from v8 to v9, so they're actually charging more for the upgrade this time.
That doesn't really work when you have a complex system that spans servers, clients, databases, custom libaries,etc. And a large large test suite.
0 points for speaking the truth. At least we're honest with ourselves right?
Personally I think fixing death problems is only a matter of technological progress.

And in general technological problems are much easier than social ones as social problems sometimes do not admit technological fixes ;)

With the problem I outlined above, modifying humans to not feel the need for children would make us much less human than replacing our body parts with pieces made from silicon.

It is easy imagining living a 1000 happy years, but would you experience happiness at all if you were less human? And I am aware that happiness could be faked, but then what incentive would you have for living a good life and accomplishing stuff instead of living like a vegetable, as many drug addicts are doing?

And if you can't be happy, since that's the ultimate goal of everybody, than what's the point to all this?

In my humble opinion, cheating death is the easy part.
depends... what's the total value of what he stole? say, for arguments sake, it was in the 7 figure range. If I steal a million bucks from you, how long would you like me to spend in prison?
Apple board directors discussing options for Steve Jobs successor
Since the foot note links use anchor tags, have you considered just hitting the back button?
System V (USG) UNIX is another mess altogether:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.wizards/browse_frm/...
You could simply open the footnote in a new tab, then the only effort to returning would be to close the tab. Or better just leave it open for the next footnote you come to.
Show HN: Chrome extension that graphs HN polls
It's time for Social Network Neutrality
Ulrich Drepper tends to write software that is easy for him to read (one would hope) -- but is very difficult for anyone else to follow.
> I would guess most bitcoiners are mathematically inclined people, and not super into pure gambling.

Heh, ahh, maybe this will disabuse you of that notion:

> "I'd say my IQ has jumped at least 10 points for having learned about and joined the bitcoin community."

https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?action=printpage;topic=1...
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HarassMap Helps Spot Sexual Harassment Areas in Egypt
I have 5 years of coldfusion and I can't understand that people can like it. It's too much buggy (yes it is). I don't like PHP but I cant say that PHP is a lot better.
Fortunatly, this is my last month with coldfusion, and don't want to work with again.
This was struck down by the courts by the way. Why? If unauthorized access is a federal offense, and unauthorized access can be determined by (e.g.) a EULA, then it basically allows a business to dictate criminal law. For example:

1. This would allow all of those 'You agree that you are not a law enforcement official' B.S. 'terms of use' on warez servers to actually have teeth.

2. "If you are a {black,hispanic,gay,etc} person, you are not allowed to access my website."

Do any of these sound reasonable? I should hope not.
The clean, simpleness is good, but it's looking over the wrong pond for inspiration.

Windows 7 has a great desktop experience, and it's whats keeping me from switching over to Linux. Gnome 3 is really close to it though, if not for the font rendering[1], games[2], and comfortable software I would switch over to Linux. I think Linux can do it if the people who develop software with a GUI only work with their GUI to develop their software. This would force them to be frustrated enough with their application to make it work, or just give up. Either case, it's better than wasting other peoples time.

[1]: While the freetype2-infinality library tries to solve this problem, it's not quite there yet. It's close though

[2]: Wine is a good effort, but it needs to look more like Windows 7, and less like Windows 2000 (lots of the great UX was introduced in 7 in my opinion).
I agree. I generally don't consider those as part of the normal immigration process -- a side channel into the country, if you will.
The identities people have difficulty obscuring (gender, skin color, weight, etc) just so happen to be the aspects that have the most enduring prejudice against them.
+1 for correlation with ancient Greek mythology.

I seriously recommend Prometheus Unbound for a more modern treatment of the subject.

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/prometheus.html
FBI Performs Nationwide Raid on Anonymous Hacking Group
The advantage of traveling is that it forces you out of your comfort zone. You'll meet types of people that you otherwise wouldn't ever bump into.
With a wife like that how can you possibly fail! Good luck.
Feds Charge Activist As Hacker For Downloading Millions of Academic Articles
Looking at Toxoplasmosis
> it's not even indented

It's an issue of mixed tab-space indentation, with tabs being displayed at 4 spaces instead of the 8 spaces they were intended to be.
Show HN: Our first iPhone App, aggregates geo-social data
A friend and I developed this as an MVP over three weeks. It aggregates geo-social data from Foursquare, Twitter, Instagram and Flickr and uses those signals to show real-time social activity in San Francisco and New York.

We have plenty of feature ideas for the next version (including, most importantly, a business model that also adds value for the user), if this first release shows any signs of success/traction. If not, we're also developing other web / iPhone / iPad apps (we aim to release one per month).

Comments are welcomed!
Sounds interesting, how does it work?
:) Above and and beyond my friend. Thanks to everyone for all your help, feel free to keep adding to the discussion I'm checking out each and everyone.
A friend and I developed this as an MVP over three weeks. It aggregates geo-social data from Foursquare, Twitter, Instagram and Flickr and uses those signals to show real-time social activity in San Francisco and New York.

We have plenty of feature ideas for the next version (including, most importantly, a business model that also adds value for the user), if this first release shows any signs of success/traction. If not, we're also developing other web / iPhone / iPad apps (we aim to release one per month).

Comments are welcomed!
Does Demand Progress realize how creepy that logo is?
It also matters a lot more when you're hiring relatively new/inexperienced people, and throwing them in the deep end. I disagree with Bill mostly because I see the purpose of testing differently than he: the point is not to catch All Of The Bugs; the point is to make it easier to confidently work on code that you didn't write.

There's a lot of counter-intuitive stuff that happens in production code for a big website, and it's not totally fair to throw inexperienced people at it without at least some safety belts in place.
And that's why Linux has almost double the server market share that Windows has today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
So I'm thinking when you first sign up you get 1000 "ParadiseCoins" which you can use to bet with your friends on Facebook. The more bets you win the more coins you get and the more cool stuff you can buy for your character.
And OSX's, which is rather similar to FreeBSD's but adds:

* Writing to NULL

* Writing to address 1 (unaligned write)

* Writing to text space (read-only machine code)

* Dividing by 0

* More violence than SIGABRT (SIGILL, SIGBUS)

http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/Libc/Libc-262/stdlib/...
If you have Premium, you can create your own ncurses interface with libspotify: http://developer.spotify.com/en/libspotify/overview/

Depending on the functionality you need, you can also use DBus with the native client. We implement parts of the Mpris2 specification. If all you need to do is change tracks and play/pause on your jukebox machine that should work with a few simple scripts.
Yes - A boom implies the rising valuations are justified. In a bubble the rising prices are based on speculation and hysteria.

We are not in a tech bubble that resembles the dot-com days. There is a ton of money at the seed and early stage for untested ideas (Color) and many VCs and angels will lose money. But more entrepreneurs will get funded and that instinct to gamble is why America has such a terrific tech sector.
GOOGLE DOODLE: CELEBRATING GREGOR MENDAL'S 198th BIRTHDAY
FBI Arrests 16 in Anonymous Hacking Investigation
Yeah, but didn't Apple just copy the Netscape Navigator theme for their Safari icon?
1. The analogy is only to point out that a 3rd party repository can be negatively affected by a break-in event if it doesn't have an ownership interest in the materials it stores.

2. The government is not hung up on the 'theft' terminology. The words 'steal' or 'stole' only appear three times in the 15 page indictment and the actual offenses he is charged with are wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer.
Semantic MediaWiki: Toward smarter wikis
I'm interested in this opp as well... Curious if anyone else has tried the course they are promoting, or might suggest this as a possible way to learn Ruby for beginners.
Man, I worded that terribly. Better?

The highest iOS the 2nd gen can support is 4.2, but 4 is the lowest with most of the nicer features, and covers 90% of all devices (probably higher % now).
> Most developers couldn't write enough SQL to escape a paper bag.

Agreed, but you can split your SQL queries into really simple ones and glue them with PHP. What I don't see anymore in my code is a hundred lines of unbroken PHP. Actually, I don't even see a dozen. A few lines, SQL, a few lines, SQL ... that sort of thing. That's what I'm talking about.

You don't need to be puritanical, although of course, you can. That's personal choice.
So people can sign up with dummy accounts, make terrible bets against their main account, and collect the 1000 ParadiseCoins on their main account?
'Anonymous' hackers arrested in US sweep
Tibetan Advocacy Group Holds World's First Video Press Conf via Google+ Hangouts
Apple Earnings Are A Massive Blow Out
Definitely agree with the idea that regularly posting on a blog shows dedication and commitment
Belgian Newspapers 'Give Permission' To Google To Return Them To Search Results
Startup Buzzwords [comic]
I disagree. I think the overall quality of software built by software professionals has increased over time. It's the natural maturation of an industry (although I believe we are far from mature).
Blogspam, as usual from physorg.

Original: http://home.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail... which, unlike the physorg blogspam, includes links to sources with more information.
Compared to that, 35 years in jail seems quite humane ;-)
Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft
Google Spending Millions to Find the Next Google
I just go rock climbing a lot.