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I certainly believe this to be a trend. I have been interviewing with different startups and they all have seemed to respond more to my github page than my resume. They all want to hear about personal projects and your thought process through them. Maybe I'm biased towards startups though.
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More invites if needed.

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cool, thanks for mentioning resume, I've never seen it!
I like the idea of GitHub as a resume, but most of the code I drop in GitHub is closed source and I don't spend a lot of free time hacking on other people's projects. So, while a GitHub resume is a great idea if you do a lot of open source hacking, it is not nearly as useful if you are working on private code.
Here's the key to git: embrace the fact that you're going to learn a new tool. Learn how to use it and play around with it. Once you're comfortable doing the basic things you would do day to day like create a repo, commit, push, pull, branch, merge, etc. then dig in deeper. Now you start reading about how git works under the hood to demystify the things you already know.

Articles like "Git for Computer Scientists" are great at this stage. Once you know how git's incredibly simple model works you are well poised to learn more advanced things. Rebasing can be hard for some people to understand and it's even harder if you don't know what commits and branches actually are.

After that you need little instruction and should be able to help yourself. It's totally worth it and it's not as hard as you think!

edit: Plus once you know how it works you get to skip big parts of articles like this and just skim around to pick up what you don't already know. It's pretty light reading actually.
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Groovor. Look at all your achievements
I would love to see some stackexchange developers dropping by and give us some numbers..
I'd love to see sample prices from said vending machine. I.e. 2oz bag of m&m = $1 or snickers bar = $2
These all appear to be used.
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Netflix Releases Nintendo 3DS App with 3D Movies To Come
Unlike a website, a car requires access to a physical, proprietary interface to embedded components. You must craft an attack to the interface and ECU.

And there are chips that can have their memory permanently burned into them (I don't know if ECUs use them, however). Patches are impossible, but there's no risk of infection either. Just test it rigorously first.
I wrote a peer-to-peer credit server in Neo4j and Ruby: https://github.com/jplewicke/rivulet . There were two reasons I used Neo4j: I needed to be able to quickly find paths to route payments along, and I needed to be able to update properties on multiple edges as an atomic action.
Totally agree, and I share your hope that, in time, visual.ly will showcase interactive infographics as well. The vast, vast majority of internet infographics today are full of chartjunk and other eyecandy that doesn't really convey useful information. There is something to be said for eyecandy bringing people into the space where they can engage with the data, but I hope we'll see more stuff like Tangle (http://worrydream.com/#!/Tangle) and less like the likbaity charts that are so popular right now.
System Admin WebApp - Newbie Requesting Advice
I made a Django web app for work that records local administrators on Windows and Mac OS X machines and reports them to the security team.

I think this would be a great tool for other system administrators.

Is anyone interested?

I built a quick survey on wufoo here http://asnark.wufoo.com/forms/local-administrator-reporting-survey/. Please fill it out if you are interested.

I welcome any comments or questions. Thanks.
My day-to-day tasks are all around private repos too. But for some reason I keep having to patch, fix, edit, hack other people's open source projects. If you don't, maybe it's time to look for a piece inside a private repo that could be useful to others and spend the extra time extracting it into something open-source?
It's pretty similar to b2b marketplaces .
http://webbiquity.com/random/b2b-marketplaces-a-new-breed-ta...
The Problem with Groupon's Business Model
I do wish more companies would take lessons from this. Sadly it seems like this will only ever work for relatively big companies. Having to hire someone to cook for a team of 10 doesn't really seem worth it. And feeding a team of 10 anything other than sandwiches seems impractical.

There are many catering services out there that (pardon the pun) cater to smaller crowds, but in my experience their food is invariably crap. Think hospital chow. I'd like to see this void filled. Surely there's room for a "health lunches delivered on your doorstep"-startup? Because face it, we programmers need to be fed healthy food, because our natural instincts seem to direct us to the nearest pizza place.
apache: rails & sinatra were on passenger. php was mod_php. nodejs was proxied.

nginx: rails & sinatra are on passenger. php is php-fpm. nodejs is proxied
Building a HTML5/CSS/JS Turntable app
IIRC free accounts remained invite-only for a long time after they first introduced premium subscriptions in Europe.
> Set MaxClients to 8.

LOL what? what's your mpm? did you enable this to keep the backend from blowing up from too many queries? surely you can handle more than 8 connections at a time. is this the proxy layer, and if so are you using web caching on top of wordpress caching?

if monit is restarting apache every time it can't connect (i hope you have a long timeout) you're denying service to a lot of people. connections are supposed to queue so they don't get dropped.
Estimating project length, Cold War style
clickable link: http://asnark.wufoo.com/forms/local-administrator-reporting-...
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Link to the page:
http://wheelsofsteel.net/
So this news is already old. The top winner now get eight 30 minute meetings. So 4 hours of meetings with investors. More to come!
As someone who works in digital advertising I would love that to be realistic, but I'm afraid it's not.
I had little knowledge on either, but after reading this thread and a quick browsing of both I have to agree that MOG is extremely well done. I hope they are able to put up a fight as the market is being established.
It's because you can't just build this and expect large organizations to just use this even if they wanted. There's tons of things like compliance, certifications, internationalization support, accessibility features. You can't launch a "simple" barebones product.

Not to mention many companies for legal reasons have to host their content internally.

These concerns alone - not withstanding the long sales cycles of corporate sales turns off many startups.
Google Accelerates Google+ for Business Test Program
What I don't get is why many people are so violently opposed to this. I'm not even talking about transhumanism or anything as controversial as that, just preventing "old" people from degenerating.

I think it's an Ugh Field: http://lesswrong.com/lw/21b/ugh_fields/. The prospect of having your body and mind slowly fall apart is appalling, and most people really really don't want to think about it, to the point of dismissing possible solutions.

Which reminds me, it's about time for another donation to SENS.
Google's Android dominance to be challenged by Amazon tablet
I pay an accountant. It costs a lot, but leaves me free to worry about the stuff I know how to do (technology) and not worry about missing or screwing up financial filings. It's worth the price.
IN/OUT invoices, bills and bank statements to an accountant which sets everything straight. For my own sake, I keep an excel sheet (KISS) with IN/OUT balance, that's about it.

I'd have to buy an application if I had large volume sales, but since I'm dealing with only a couple of invoices and bills per month, I don't need it.
He's also hacked together a little javascript applet to do it for you: http://www.eyefodder.com/how-long-will-your-project-take-sof...
Likewise, Fortress.

1. http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/wiki/MathS...

2. https://projectfortress.sun.com/svn/Community/trunk/.../asci...
Ask HN: Recommended tax accountants in your area
Since this is by far the best collection of people who would know this, I hope someone can help.

This year was the first time I ever used a tax accountant for my taxes (due to an adoption, not tech related). This was also the first year I had any amount of revenue from my programming side projects (like $200 from the iPhone app store), and I wasn't particularly impressed with my accountant's abilities when it came to how to to process this extra revenue.

This year my app revenues are much higher, and I am going to need to an accountant next year to do this years return. I'm looking now (rather than during tax season) because I'd like to register a company as well, and would rather have the accountant in place during that process.

So, I need an accountant who knows how to handle software sales and/or iPhone app store sales (which are royalties maybe? I don't even know).

Anyone know of one that they can point me to?

I'm specifically looking for Connecticut accountants, but I'd like to encourage HN members in other places to contribute for their areas as well.
You can be sued if your product looks too much like another product that has, in part, been trademarked or otherwise protected. You can also be sued for "passing off" under some trade practices laws.

If you look at the pictures, they look very similar indeed to the Major Manufacturer's product. In their position I'd do the same thing.

IANAL, TINLA, and in particular I never got around to studying this area of law.
I was at a bar with a friend the other night, and he took a picture using a flash. I took one by holding very still so I could take a longer exposure without the flash. His image accurately recorded the scene in detail. Mine recorded the feel.

I think you're supposed to get an emotional impression, instead of an explicit idea of how the software works.
Considering how most hackers build stuff at hackerspaces ("i don't know how to build this, so let's go with trial and error and learn as we go!") this sounds dangerous.

But cool.
3 Myths of the Startup Bubble: Chris Shipley on Surviving the Inevitable Crash
Drug production is (to oversimplify, please correct) to blindly create millions of combinations, test the successful-looking versions on rats, cats and people, and produce billions of the drug. I wonder how the money is split between those tasks.
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Fantastic its like that movie I saw in which a guy can freeze time whenever he likes and then gets the reality going by cracking his knuckles.
Spotify Opens Shop in the U.S.
AnyAsQ: I am the CEO & a co-founder of OkCupid. Ask me anything.
Apple Pays $946 Fine in Korean iPhone Tracking Lawsuit
Indeed. Quaker chewy granola is identified (by price -- $0.15) as a good food, which may be true if you're out hiking, but as part of an urban lifestyle, granola bars are a glycemic disaster.

By contrast, someone who eats an otherwise moderately healthy diet can eat the caloric equivalent of several granola bars worth of walnuts -- identified by google as a "yellow" food -- with no ill effects, and certainly no insulin spike.
TechStars or a Harvard MBA
Nah, not really, because "a github account with a bunch of code in it" is the signal.

Of course, it can be gamed by someone who just forks a bunch of other people's repos, which a recruiter won't be able to spot but "github" is a keyword that can be searched for on a CV like any other.
I just have never been able to understand how some people can look at all the challenges in the world and not feel a need to solve one of them.

But, I admit, this is the majority of most people. Of the minority of people that really feel compelled to "make a dent in the universe" (Steve Jobs) the majority of them are probably stuck in meaningless jobs. This article speaks to this group.
I'm not quite used to seeing a photo of myself in the top bar across Google sites, but I can certainly see where they're taking this is more than the 'facebook killer!!' the media would make it out to be. Google has a lot more to offer as a company than Facebook - YouTube, Docs, two OSs, a vast ad network, search and news - in addition to their features which overlap with FB, such as Blogger or Picasa. Google+ is unifying all of that into a very impressive product, which is rather unprecedented. I'd be looking at what Apple thinks, too. And Amazon... it's definitely not just about Facebook.
"live is beautiful" - live activity visualisation made with node.js
That's an interesting thought, thanks for sharing this link! I never thought about it this way before.
My emotional impression was that I couldn't see the bloody software. It was more like a wedding movie for the MacBooks than a product presentation.
Thanks. No it is not, which is why I'm not yet strongly pushing for the valley.
I've been running Gnome 3 on Fedora 15 and Ubuntu 11.04 (via the PPA) on my Thinkpad W500 since April or so.

This laptop has a discrete (FireGL 5700) and integrated graphics (GMA 4500) chip I can toggle between for power management reasons. No performance issues, alt-tab or otherwise, under either.

It's been such a solid desktop that it's been my main development environment for these past few months.
I recently started a new job and their recruiter found me through my Github profile. Aside from that, I put my Github link on my CV and have for a while.

Additionally, when I am interviewing others, I always like to see a Github link or will Google them to find a Github account. Even though people may work a lot in closed source, it is interesting to see the activity history, to see which projects they've forked, patched, written, or contributed to.

It sometimes varies based on the community you're in, but the Ruby community is very collaborative and sharing contributions. Even when I've worked in largely closed source codebases, I'll still encounter bugs in other libraries, fork them, fix it, and send a pull request. Those all show in my repo list and activity feed.
It only says: "I'm a computer engineering graduate from Kansas State University."
We've got Grooveshark and Slacker, and Grooveshark doesn't make you hear any ads even if you don't pay them. The other side of that is you can only use Grooveshark on your phone if you are a paying customer.

Apparently Pandora has good recommendations so I'll give them a try when they come to Canada. As for Spotify, meh. What's so great about them?
Yeah. I mean, accountants and lawyers don't publish accounts and cases they've worked on pro-bono do they?
Along the same line, the "Good, Bad, or Murky" value judgements are dependent on the POV, so it would be nice to see them explain how / why certain attacks got labelled one way as opposed to the others.
In a sense, the index is an acknowledgment of the fact that the operation of "creating a commit" should be a two-phase process, similar to a database transaction.

Phase 1: Choose which parts of the working directory changes should be in the upcoming commit.

Phase 2: Actually commit those changes.

The separation is not entirely clean in Git. While this is very appreciated for convenience (e.g. git commit -a), it blurs the line and does cause confusion.
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Machine, RTFM
The PDF is part of a larger blog post: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/how-much-should-you-pa...
Gmail is an ongoing April fool's prank.

Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googles_hoaxes
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Since I didn't see an obvious way from the front page, the place to sign up for a free account if you have an invite code is: https://www.spotify.com/us/get-spotify/overview/
The 'high impact' hacks are mostly 'bad', the 'low impact' ones are mostly good.

This may of course be accurate; it's easier to destroy things than to improve them.
Thank you for the link, there's some very useful information here.
I dislike these magazine articles posted online that are some 8 pages long and the entire first page is simply the hook, no real info. Sorry, I am not going to read you, espeically if I came to you not for a feature story, but for a piece of specific news info, e.g. "how stuxnet was deciphered."

Am I the only one who feels this way?

edit: not sure why opinion = downvoted.
Congrats to @toshiyori and @rattazong - very nice!
A file is a file whether you call it data glob, group of bits, or Beelzebubba.
Ohloh has everything but the code.

It reminds me of those "CSS galleries" but for open source projects.

In the end, I'm where the code is, and that place is GitHub.
1. The food is not available 24/7. There are snacks 24/7 but not the "famous food program".

2. Not all of it is totally free. There are paid breakfast services in some offices.
Not horrible, I guess, although I would have it warn and/or close the accounts automatically, and then have employees review appeals (ideally very quickly).

Otherwise I don't think that "initial surge" you mentioned would ever actually subside.
I also recommend http://indinero.com - which went through YC.
The Problem with the iPhone's Home Button
You may be pleased to know that text-overflow: ellipsis is supported in Firefox 7 (in the Aurora channel now, release later this year). At that point it will finally be supported in all modern browsers!
I can think of better ways of displaying that information. Ugh.
Yes, I agree. MOG has been ahead of the competition for almost a year and yet you never hear anything about it.

Total, epic marketing fail.
Meetup is trying something like this:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_24/b40880886...

I haven't heard an update for how it has gone.
A person could (easily?) build this using context.io (http://context.io)
And any discussion about memory topics under linux has to include Ulrich Drepper's fantastic series of LWN.net articles: http://lwn.net/Articles/257209/

Very thick in places, but absolutely worth reading. Still the only good place to find an exposition about how SDRAM timings actually work.
IANAL, TINLA either, but I don't think you can trademark product design. If anything copyright law is applicable.
> What's a "branch tag"? What do labels do in "trees of nodes"?

I'd recommend "Git from the bottom up" or Scott Chacon's "Getting Git" screencast. Both tackle Git for newcomers by describing the underlying data structures. Once I had a cursory overview of what Git was actually doing under the hood, so much else clicked for me.
Learning To Use The :before And :after Pseudo-Elements In CSS
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Craig Walker's Firespotter Labs launches Nosh, a new way to rate and share food.
Spotify seems less exciting than Grooveshark, which has been available in the US for a long time.

http://www.grooveshark.com
"But I don't see how any scientist who also holds this view is threatened by articles proposing the alternative. Some creationist makes a publication claiming that evolution is wrong-- should be amusing!"

You're right that science should be objective. You then say that evolution is an observable phenomena. Well then, how could a paper disputing evolution be objective?

They're welcome to submit such a paper, as long as it's good science. It's not threatening, it's just potentially misleading to people who read it and gives the author the chance to claim legitimacy through publication. That's what the peer review process exists for, to weed out bad science, so that the general public is not required to try to evaluate claims that require expertise they don't have. Again, it certainly has its problems, but it's better than outsourcing to non-experts. Peer review can also sometimes be politically motivated, but, at least in my experience, that's often the argument of someone who's angry because their paper was rejected for legitimate reasons.

The fact that you think "AGW" is simply and provably false is also a beautiful demonstration of why we need peer review. You have a ridiculously simplistic view of the issue and of the status of consensus because you're opining on a question that's outside your field. (I'm just guessing, but you're not a climatologist, are you?) There are a lot of "experts" like yourself making similar claims who have no idea what state the field is in. If you tried to get such a paper published, professional climatologists would say, "hey, we're not idiots, we study this for a living and have taken basic physics and chemistry. Nice try." And they would send your paper back, as they should.
This Quarter in Venture Capital: Dealflow/Funding At Highest Level in 9 Quarters
Live is beautiful - live activity visualisation made with node.js
If that was to become true, it'd be great to be able to curate your profile. At the moment your repos appear in order of newness, and an unchanged fork of someone's repo could be the first thing potential employers see.
Tell HN: Scala + Play are easy, and I'm a PHP dude
My team is using Scala + Play. I'm not doing much programming, but I know some PHP, and I'll edit a Scala file here and there now and then to make some quick changes (a small logic change, some spelling correction, etc.). It's easy to read, easy to understand. The way Play is setup is easy to. I can also read the code to see what is actually going on, without having to ask the programmer "how this works".

I could never feel comfortable editing Java, or understanding what goes on there.
Also why did he have to stop selling the usb drives?
Just a trend.
For me, git is remarkably simple. Its underlying data model is all that you need to understand (and there are only about four major types of object).

Everything about SCM then pops out. I found myself needing tools to manipulate the data model in some way, and a suitable tool always seems to exist.

It's kind of like the Grand Unified Theory of SCM. With such a simple core, everything about SCM just falls out.

I prefer to understand everything in this way so git is perfect for me. But I can understand that it's probably far trickier for people who prefer to learn top-down by starting with workflow and processes rather than from first principles from bottom-up.
such an awesome app!
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The question Coke's ads answer is not just Pepsi Or Coke, it is To Coke Or Not To Coke. You always have the option of drinking water. Water dominates Coke as a beverage for health, it (perhaps) loses on taste and texture. Hence a lot of advertising stressing Coke's positives. How do you know that when you say it tastes fairly good that they haven't gotten to you too?

That's why we skip ads in my house, they are just too hot to handle.
Maybe have 1 threshold for review, and another threshold for automatically suspend and review?
My invite codes:

All of my 32 invitation codes are now used.

Edit: removed the used ones.
Why Virtual Machines suck when you run them from BTRFS files system
Silicon Valley Likes "Wars" (Platform, Talent, Mobile) But Ignores Veterans
That helped me a lot. I kept trying to sign up on the wrong page and kept saying every code I was using was invalid. I was getting incredibly irritated!
An unforgettable week of fathers and sons, triumph and tragedy
like matt said, I think eventually yes. It seems silly to us now, just as it seemed silly back a couple hundred years ago that you can run a farm with just a handful of people and even produce more food.
It was ok on my HTC Desire.
There's a vending machine in 43, second floor.
Most of the spam links I get to porn sites or free ipod scam sites, not AFAIK malware sites.

That said, this seems like a reasonable idea.