skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abandoned Prisons of Planet Earth
It's similar to Diaspora. We haven't built the federated parts but it's on the roadmap.

I've got a ton of respect for the Diaspora folks but we're focusing much more on the average user and making the software appealing to them (which means easy to use). Diaspora also has to overcome the chicken & egg problem which we can work around fairly easily by providing value even when your friends aren't on OpenPhoto.
Yeah, I stopped shopping at Best Buy for this reason. All they sell for accessories now is their two in-house brands and Monster, all of which are stupidly marked up.
Dell was doing this at one point. I don't know whether they still do.
I fully agree. Apple has externally boasted about how many apple accounts that have associated credit cards. I image they follow this number closely internally. I think Google is now starting to realize the importance of this metric. Google should make getting customers to pay something a priority for every product/division.
Apparently now they're refusing comments on their blog because theres so much negative backlash.
but it does make a tire flat. :)
> Decisions would be made based on what is in the best interest of the employees of that company. A real democratic way to run a business.

Decisions would be made based on whatever can convince 50%+1 of the employees, which might well not be in the best interest of the employees of that company.

The potential results like "no raises for the 25% of employees who are women" might get you sued, too.
IPad and physical toys
I agree about the encoding problems, particularly when using buffers. No combination seemed to allow me to download a binary file and then upload. But this was my first few hours with Node so I'm open to correction. In the end I was able to use .pipe which correctly managed the encoding
Fair enough, if you live close to a Walmart (and I know many do.) Personally, I find the 2 day wait is generally a reasonable trade for being able to order from my iPhone wherever I am, saving me an hour of driving to Walmart, going in and driving back. Moving errands from time blockers to parallel processes is a win in my view.
OSE Christmas Gift to the World
I prefer C# to Java, but compared to $400/yr/developer, I'd just as soon stick with Java.

Granted, $400/year is peanuts for developer tools if you're a large company but for smaller (eg. one man) operations I just don't see it as being worth it, especially as it is an ongoing cost if you want product updates and you really have no guarantee that any specific release of the Android APIs will be well supported in a timely manner (especially if Xamarin goes belly up at some point).

So, yeah... I prefer C# to Java, but Java isn't that bad.
Sweet, twitter bootstrap is already awesome, and this makes it ... awesome-er! Lovely stuff.
Perl Rocks Latin American App Competition
Dealing with Technical Debt: An Agile Horror Story
If I could make one suggestion, please make it more clear what your website and service does. The front page mentions that I have total "photo liberation" but that's just sort of buzz. I clicked on "overview" (not sure how many people would make it that far) and the headline is "Like WordPress for Photos" but if I wasn't tech savvy, I would have no idea what WordPress does. I spent about 2 minutes on the website (much longer than any consumer) and I still didn't quite get it.

Also, on the see the difference page it might help to compare yourself to Flickr and other photo services.

I don't mean any disrespect or offense, I just don't think your website is immediately clear.
Show HN: My first xbox 360 game - piniq
I think I mentioned in the past that I was working on an Xbox 360 game, and now, it's finally here! Hope some of you guys check it out and have fun with it. I had fun making it. Also, it's most fun playing with another human.

If you have any feedback after playing it, feel free to share. I intend to patch it after I find out what people think.

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/piniq/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258550a04
Ruby on Ales 2012 CFP is open
I've "only" been using it since 1998, but I always skim threads like this -- even lots of short articles -- because there's nearly always something new to discover! Sometimes it's hard not to gush, but it's just such an amazing and organic piece of software.
CloudFTP. Wirelessly share ANY USB storage with iPad, iPhone
The author did preface it with "i know" which does condition it as their experience. But yes they may have a experience that is the minority to the odds of running across a bad VC and generally once you are in a VC group you tend to use those connections in the future. For example I just had a really good idea the other day, called a good VC that I know and we are working out the details now to start working on it. If I had met her as one of my first contacts, I probably would have not went through the learning process that I did.
I'm curious about the other direction. Will the little scrappy Chinese companies be able to win over a significant fraction of Western customers, or will brand-recognition act as to much of a deterrent against them?
I think the first step is to just put the content online, which is what Kahn Academy does. The next step is to make the content interactive and gamified, and also have a sandboxed playground to test new ideas in.

I think coding is the new literacy which is why I'm working on www.trybloc.com, to me that level of instant feedback and interactivity is where the real innovation is.
With a Little Help, East London Embraces Tech
Not to mention that in this case the cash was destined for under-privileged people to make their holidays better.
The only problem I see that this guy has is, "I don't know of any good tools for Javascript".

These tools exist. Emacs, Vim, Komodo Edit/IDE, ...
Visual Studio might even have support for Javascript at this point.
I don't mind using Best Buy as a show room when they seem to have plenty of customers unwilling to do a simple google comparison shop before they leave for the store.

As long as wireless routers and HDMI cables continue to be foreign concepts to most consumers, brick and mortars like Best Buy will stick around.
Thanks for the suggestions. We haven't had any "non tech" folks look at the site yet but will definitely address anything that's not clear.

I expect most non-technical users to go to the hosted version which won't have nearly as much information but a straightforward way to get started. The project site is geared more for early adopters who care about said liberation, developers and theme makers.

The hosted version (currently designed by myself who has no creative juice) is at http://openphoto.me
Ask HN: Would you like to have your ebooks autographed?
Absolutely the first thing I noticed when reading that article. It fits with the tone though at least...
Nice nodejs version of Python's Request[1] and/or Ruby's Farday[2]

[1] http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html

[2] https://github.com/technoweenie/faraday
Have a look at the OpenAL specification, section 3.4.

http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Documentation/OpenAL%...
Not exactly. Meat isn't the only thing that causes satiation. A full stomach causes satiation too. Vegetables, especially green, leafy ones with lots of fiber and water them will fill your stomach faster than a fatty piece of meat. The carbohydrates in green beans and lettuce for example are largely fiber which doesn't even get absorbed by your body.
What kind of performance hit would this give, if any?
It was nice that the exposure got Regretsy the customer support they needed, it was sad that the exposure had to rise to that level in order to get that support.
How to make ads that don't suck
Regretsy for using a button with implications they didn't realise.

I think that's a little bit of a stretch, along the lines of "Facebook users complaining of privacy violations are at fault for using a service whose implications they didn't realize" - I mean it's true, in both cases, but assigning equal levels of fault is a little bit much.
I use M-q (fill-paragraph) quite a bit when modifying comments in source files.

Not sure why you were downvoted.
It's easy to think this way if you aren't an 18 year old naive kid in front of predatory lenders and everyone else around you telling you that this is the normal way things work and you are worthless without a college education.

Unfortunately, you don't get a second chance. How many things did you have to sign at 18 years old that will haunt you to your grave?

As for when you should not have to repay what you borrowed, well, that is pretty common in business and no one plays the deadbeat card.
I'm pretty sure that if you have an S3 account, chances are you'll know WordPress.

But I agree that better copy is needed.
No, it doesn't. Bone marrow regenerates, the same is for blood (which is a tissue). One thing is donating organs, other is donating tissues. While you may define an organ as a "set of tissues" (therefore, skin). In "transplantation slang" is commonly referred to "organs" as not regenerating ones, i.e. kidneys, heart, etc.

As long as you can't sell it, there is no price at it.
bdg, I mean no disrespect, but the matter is honestly not that trivial. Ultimately, you are right - it does come down to getting some queries right, but you quickly discover that it's an ongoing effort. Three months since I'm doing this, and even now I'd be happier if I could manage duplicates better. It's not a simple select query for sure.
Screen capture.
Your heading elements are off (javascript issue?) - Chrome

http://www.diigo.com/item/image/15sdb/njh2
Was very hard for me to read, too. The text looked pixellated, like it had chunks missing. It was fine after I zoomed in. (Also Chrome)
We're tracking that here. It's chrome on windows...

https://github.com/openphoto/community/issues/17
> "Part of the debt problem has been the dearth of students going into high demand majors (mostly STEM)."

STEM degrees are expensive - considerably moreso than, say, English degrees. This is especially true for professional degrees like engineering.

So yeah, your odds of employment out of school are much better than the English major, but your debt load has increased significantly as well. Getting a STEM degree can mitigate the effects of our ludicrously overpriced education system (i.e., you've got a shitload of debt, but at least you're chipping away at it, as opposed to not making your payments at all), it does not avoid it.
The funny part is the first page is all development books, my recommendation would be one on the business of software development or on usability design. Developers are naturally going to run across the information in those books if they are interested. Understanding business or users is one of the things that separates a good programmer from a great developer. Unless you are going into some pretty hardcore space, read about the parts of software development that you don't like, because the stuff that should be in a CS classroom will be picked up along the way if you like what you do. Read a book on QA or SCM, you will be the better for it.
Well, you may have Dropbox without knowing much about WordPress :). The point of better copy is one we've taken note of.
Too hard to pick one, it depends on the task.
Maybe I'd go with M-x Occur.
Other candidates are regex i-search, registers, yasnippet, kill/copy/(insert)string-rectangle, etc etc.

Also, emacsclient.
>How long does it take to type in a gibberish mailinator address and a password?

it isn't about "how long" this specific operation takes. In Russian there is a saying "One's experience of a theatrical show starts with the coatchecking experience at the theater". In this particular case the reg form strongly suggests that the user experience on the site wasn't designed well.

And as it happens according to the other posts, the experince of the majority of the users (the ones who completed the registration) was miserable as they didn't fit the narrow category of "know and interested in Python and ready to provide Skype ID".
Thanks! I'll try it in Inkscape.
M-q is admittedly not very interesting. Just useful. :-)
I hope you're right and they find better revenue models. I would hate for all these "showrooms" we have to go extinct. Could the day come where you pay an entrance fee to browse the latest gadgets at your nearest BestBuy "showroom"?
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How To Come Up With Your Next Product Idea With Product Entrepreneur Shed Simove
tldr; some enterprise Java developer is intimidated by the rising popularity of JavaScript.
Verizon to take on Netflix with Web service
The tuition is exactly the same at the state schools I'm familiar with. Books were more expensive but were a small fraction of the tuition costs.
You're kind of restating the premise of the comment that cited the research paper.

In what appears to have been a carefully run study, under the best circumstances, grass-fed beef provides a tiny fraction of the fatty acid benefits of fish.

In other words: even if grass-fed beef has a better fatty acid profile, "better than corn-fed beef" still doesn't mean "good source of healthful fatty acids"; both grass-fed and corn-fed are poor sources. If you believe you need a better fatty acid profile in your diet, take fish oil tablets or eat fish.
Ask HN: How are you replacing IndexTank?
IndexTank was acquired by LinkedIn recently -- http://blog.indextank.com/ -- meaning we customers need to find a new service.

What are other companies migrating to? Is IndexTank going to Open Source components of their tech as implied during the acquisition?
You're living the HN dream by quitting your job to do your own thing, so how's it going? Are you better off doing this than working at Yahoo?

I'm sure other people are curious too.
Museum of Outdoor Arts MOA permanent outdoor collection MOA
Just curious, what does pay have to do with how many months of expenses you keep as an emergency fund?
Clueless Founder
Show HN: We Just Launched Real-Time Polling Widgets For Your Website
Hi HN,

I'm the founder of GoPollGo: A real-time polling site with a focus on analytics. We recently launched GoPollGo widgets, so now anyone can collect votes using our system from their website. Our widgets have all of the analytics (segment votes by location, age, gender, browser, etc) and also show votes coming in instantly as others vote. We're giving away more analytics for free than PollDaddy charges ~1000/yr for.

Would appreciate you trying it out and letting us know how we can improve, etc.

Link: http://gopollgo.com/widget
In his own words is probably best here: http://cdixon.org/aboutme/
What does the contract say? Does it say 30 hours, then you charge by the hour? Or a 30 hour flat fee and certain results?

You need to look up the term "change order" and start sending them.
Exactly, my current monthly expenses are higher because I have a job. If I suddenly became jobless then my variable cost budget would change accordingly.

It does help though to take the general rule of thumb of 3-6 months or the other one I've heard is 1 month expenses for every 10k in salary you expect to make and put that away. If something bad ever does happen it's good to know you can tighten up and stretch that out even more.
Great update! It's exciting to have you in the Mozilla WebFWD program.
I'm a little surprised by the results. Why would a tome on C be the most influential book that every programmer should read?

I would think that before any of these books I would prefer that someone I was working with or hiring had read something like "How to Win Friends and Influence People" or a book on writing effectively, instead of any of the books on the first two pages.

My reasoning is that the most common problem I find with other programmers is not their programming skills, but their communication of interpersonal skills.

Edit: Aha! "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is on page 5 with 74 points!
Open University podcast series to celebrate 20 years of Linux
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm directly involved in the test and evaluation of one of the current attempts at "sense and avoid" technology. It is a long way from being safe for fully autonomous use. It is my understanding that the DARPA autonomous land vehicle contest required autonomous collision avoidance, and that more than one of the entrants did so effectively. Their budgets were a pittance compared to what is being spent on "sense and avoid" for UAVs, and yet they had much greater success. That tells me that urban traffic avoidance is easier for computers than air traffic avoidance.

I think that two big reasons for this are probably:

1: For land vehicles, simply stopping in place is almost always an effective collision avoidance tactic (unless the other vehicle is deliberately seeking a collision). This simple solution is not available to airplanes.

2: Tracking objects thar are moving in three dimensions with a sensor that is also moving in three dimensions is an immensely more complex problem than tracking objects that are constrained to move on a fixed surface in two dimensions with a sensor that is also constrained to move on a fixed surface in two dimensions.
If they're going to make a fuss about it, PayPal shouldn't even make the "donate" button available without getting explicit agreement from the customer to clear, unambiguous rules. And no, sticking it in their giant ToS doesn't cut it.
In addition to navyrain's comment, there's also a large amount of randomness in what percolates to the top of HN. Many, many stories are submitted each hour, and unless a few people immediately say "Oh, cool" and upvote it, the story gets buried.
mirror to exploit instructions + pictures
http://www.multiupload.com/RC184ELRZ9
Carrier Networks: Down the Rabbit Hole
> There is often a description, a type, bandied at Perl that you cannot build an application in the language in a short period of time…

I have…never heard this, and in the absence of anyone else’s opinion I’d assume the opposite. When I want to get something done quickly, Perl is one of my go-to languages. Of course, the final product might not be as maintainable as it could otherwise have been, but that’s to be expected when you focus on working code rather than pretty code.
That's a separate post altogether. I'm definitely not just living the good life as I have a wife, a 2 year old son and another on the way. My wife stays at home with our son. So this is serious sh*t for me :).

It's going great though. I've had numerous side projects and co-founded a startup for a few years earlier (no successful outcome). This has received much more traction and interest so I'm riding that out and trying to build it into something I can do for a long time.
It sounds like you've met someone who is an ace salesman. This can be great if they can really back up their big talk with results. Make sure your equity split is equal and your interests are aligned...in writing.

Before you take him on as a co-founder, test-drive. See if he can deliver some results.
So it's a function of the font?!? Odd.
I think you may have misread that part, she includes people who graduated in less than 6 years.

> The chart below shows the percentage of beginning undergraduate students who, six years later, had accumulated more than the indicated levels of debt.
I've incurred some of these. The UPS or FedEx guy (or sometimes both) is at my house almost every day. We order a lot of stuff from Amazon, just general merchandise (Amazon Prime makes this a no-brainer), plus I order a lot of things for work.

Rarely are things lost or damaged in shipment. It has happened, but so infrequently I can't remember the last time.

The pre-signing for shipments is mostly solved, especially if you frequently deal with the same merchants. I'll put in the order notes to not require signature and call or email if this cannot be done. When ordering things from Apple, the send you a release form to sign in advance.

Having a place to leave packages could be a problem for people in apartments I imaging, I don't have that issue.

I've also had the carriers claim to attempt a delivery when they didn't (FedEx holiday fill-in person). For me, this isn't a big deal, I have security cameras covering all areas of my property (a unique case, I'm aware). The one time that happened the driver got to make a special trip back out to deliver my package a 7:30PM...
I've been using DNSCrypt over the past few weeks as a beta tester. I'm pleased that it doesn't have any noticeable decrease in speed while browsing the web.

It improves my security and privacy without any cost I can perceive. So why not.

Considering it took me a while to understand the value to me, I wonder if it can be packaged in such a way to get broader adoption from the public. Will you have to bundle it with McAfee Internet Security for Mom & Pop to end up using it?
I didn't know about occur, which is awesome and thanks. The benefit of hi-lock is that I can "read" code without actually having to "read" it.

Instead, I can either set myself up to look for patterns of colors (function --- red line --- shit no blue line!), or set myself to serendipitously discover things as I actually do read code.

I have never, ever, ever, ever figured out an Emacs "grep" that I liked enough to stop using find/xargs/grep from eshell.
Certainly. But any business will have issues with cash and institutions. With banks, with customers, with the government, everyone. If you want there to be no friction ever for monetary transactions then be prepared to live in that world and make sure to express that opinion at the polls, there's not a ton banks and/or paypal can do on their own to make that world a reality without simply going rogue and abandoning all pretense of legality.

Also, re: minecraft it hasn't gotten much press but some people have had problems actually getting the game after they've paid, and in most examples the customer service they've gotten has been atrocious to non-existent. This doesn't just prevent people from logging into forums, it prevents anyone from playing on any public server and makes it a lot harder to even install the game or get updates (basically forcing people to pirate the game). Not that I'm saying Mojang should be raked over the coals for that, but it's not such a dissimilar situation.
Enter auto-fill-mode.
I don't know if this is relevant, but as an european I phoned paypal europe. As far as I can tell from their accent, the phone was picked by irish people.
Time's running out on this decision since it looks like the old service is going offline in March. What's reddit moving to?
Forrest, awesome to meet you on HN. Talk to you in 30 minutes ;)
Ha! Yes, I was going to include a "Steal this book" example. Just didn't get around to it. And because a lot of the HTML was hand coded, didn't want to embarrass myself. But I guess even if the parsing doesn't go perfectly, it's good practice. Thank you for the feedback.
I believe if you make an app free on the Android market you cannot then go back to charging for that app, it is a one way trip.
Hmm. I'm an AP Biology student who just started studying cellular respiration. This is interesting, but I simply don't know enough. Could you provide the correct pathway? :P
One nice property of tablets is they don't need to go obsolete like laptops or desktop computers. They can be turned in to picture frames, home automation interfaces, cookbooks, mini-TVs, combined into larger interfaces, (if only they had narrower borders!) etc.

The only real obstacle to making them really useful is power supply, but wireless electricity should solve that problem shortly (and tablet computers might be their "killer app").
Likewise! How will I ever get any work done with all these new productivity features I'm learning about!

My favorite Emacs feature that I've learned about in the past year is Org-Mode. I use it now for just about everything.