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Ask HN: What comms/collab software do you use for remote work?
Companies are becoming freer and more open to an idea of their employees working remotely. So I am just wondering what software do you use for audio/video conferencing, maybe whiteboarding and other applications to minimize the gap of not being able to communicate in face to face manner?

Thanks in advance.
This has been going on for years. Idiots. To reduce the annoyance, you can use fail2ban or run ssh on a non-standard port.

From 2007:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/protect-ssh-from-b...

http://lwn.net/Articles/255651/
On the note of Haxe I ran across http://haxepunk.com/ ( a Haxe port of Flashpunk) a while back, haven't tried so I don't know the quality of the port but Flashpunk is good library.
Wow, I didn't even pay enough attention to the picture to notice it's a cleavage.
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The Mathematics of Cloud Optimization
A graph of Twitter post lengths from 1 million tweets
Reminds me of the Sleepy City (http://sleepycity.net/) folks.
If you (1) love programming, (2) want to become a much better programmer (e.g. want to really understand how things work), and (3) want to surround yourself with smart, hyper-curious, and extremely positive/encouraging people, then you should definitely do HS, even if it means taking time out of college or grad school.

I'm a batch[1] alumnus and law-school student who, prior to Hacker School, had been programming for only about a month. I did Hacker School concurrently with law school, but my attention split between the two was about 99:1. Before I started HS, I knew only the very basics -- the stuff you might find in the first 3-4 chapters of your standard introductory Python book. Once I started Hacker School, my knowledge absorption rate shot up at least five fold. This is because it is hard to overestimate the value of:

(1) working next to people like Dave/Nick (HS co-founders), who will not just answer your programming question -- but spend the next 3 hours of their time happily explaining to you the intricacies of 15 other topics related to your question, all the while infecting you with their enthusiasm for those topics;

(2) having the structure that Hacker school provides -- the morning check-ins, the spontaneous white-board-assisted discussions, the Saturday presentations -- to help you tackle those projects you've always wanted to start/complete;

(3) simply being in the physical proximity of people who love programming, people who will show you how much you still have left to learn, and make you excited about learning it.

I'm now leaving law school to work at a software development company in San Francisco, which is a development that I certainly did not think was possible after just 3.5 months of serious coding. So yeah, HS can make you employable too, and probably much faster than you expect. But as Nick/Dave say (http://www.hackerschool.com/about) getting a job certainly shouldn't be your only reason for joining.
If this were an active military facility there would have been a portrait of Vladimir Putin hanging in every room. But obviously this factory has long been abandoned.
We do this kind of analysis where I work for detecting fraud. I can't go into too many details, but I can probably show you a simple example: http://i.imgur.com/feJLd.png

This is showing some of the relationships between users in the system. You take a user that you know is dodgy, and then start looking at what they have in common with other users.

Also, slightly offtopic—I open sourced the graph visualisation part: http://github.com/dhotson/springy
I hear a 'In Soviet Russia joke coming on...
From the website of the company that runs the facility (http://www.npoenergomash.ru/eng/) it would seem most of the tests are of engines which use a liquid oxygen/kerosene mixture - presumably not much more toxic than exhaust from cars..
It's probably real. People do this stuff all the time.

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=67536

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=67492

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=40287

There's hundreds of other examples on that site.
Damn, you beat me to it. After I saw the original visitor.js was a paid service (which blew my mind), I started hacking together the JS implementations of most of the functionality I had laying around already.
Gives 404?
> do you see an iOS app developed by an independent developer as belonging to both the developer and to Apple?

I've develop a few iOS apps. The money is Apple's until they pay me. I'm entitled to that money under the payment schedule we agreed upon, but Apple can do whatever they want with it in the meantime. I'm sure they do make use of it.
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>"and it may be a trademark violation."

"visitor.js" isn't distinct in the field, particularly as it's descriptive and of a common form, I'd warrant it's not novel either.

That doesn't mean that you wouldn't be sued for using it just that any sane TM office shouldn't allow it to be registered and that a sane IP judge should dismiss a case brought against it's use as passing off. The law isn't sane of course ....

I think it's reasonable to use the same name if the scope is largely co-terminous.
Why CouchDB?
Does not matter. As I said, pick any value of Y, and you'll end up better off (on average) by not saying the first number. Doesn't matter if Y = X or if Y = 20X.
It is now apparently Session.js https://github.com/codejoust/session.js
It's not really valid to treat this as a sequence, since most side lengths don't form what we think of as a Sudoku puzzle. The side length of a true Sudoku must be a perfect square in order to create the interior boxes that are (geometrical) squares. For the counterexample, think of a 7x7 puzzle (or any prime)... how can a square box contain seven cells?

A 4x4 puzzle gives you four 2x2 boxes. The standard 9x9 puzzle gives nine 3x3 boxes. A 16x16 puzzle gives sixteen 4x4 boxes. Sudoku variations sometimes have rectangular boxes; a 6x6 puzzle can have six 2x3 boxes, or a 12x12 puzzle can have twelve 3x4 boxes. But that is a different form of constraint logic so we shouldn't expect that the minimum number of clues for these sizes would follow a recognizable sequence.
Arguably more dead-space later in the game makes sense. You want to make it really hard to get lost early on, but start to make it harder later on.
I primarily use Grooveshark to listen to small-time Canadian acts that are quite difficult to find elsewhere (online and physically). Does Rdio cover that kind of content?
Is the showroom the future of retail?
He answers that in the earlier visitor.js thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3434154
Print 3D worlds like Minecraft into tangible 3d maps
"Moved to session.js"

https://github.com/codejoust/session.js
We use Skype, it has video conference calling, chat, audio and screen sharing. We use Bitbucket which does either Git, Mercurial, or SVN hosting with a ticket and wiki system and we use Dropbox.
someVariable = someVariable || {foo: 'bar'} is one of my favorite ways to cock the heads of my less JavaScript-inclined pairing partners. Both effective and terse.
batch[1] alum here, although you never really graduate from hacker school. I would highly recommend taking time off to do hacker school. HS was more valuable to me than any of the CS classes I took at UC Berkeley. At HS you will learn new languages, SHIP code and work with brilliant people. Nick, Dave and Sonali are some of smartest, kindest and most helpful people you will meet, so go for it!
Esoteric language of IRP--Ask nicely and humans will execute
the repository has been renamed. see session.js link in memnips comment.
I don't think there are any ethical issues here. The paid service is doing something that was mostly, if not completely, available in other open source projects such as piwik and OWA in the first place. It's very educational to look at the differences in the way codejoust implemented his javascript vs. these other projects, and very convenient that you don't have to dig through a gigantor open source code base to do it.
It's even easier to just disable password authentication. SSH agent forwarding makes public key authentication even more convenient.
Is it possible to attend this on a B1/B2 visa ? I have been looking for a course like this all my life. I am not particularly interested in a job offer at the end (although wouldn't mind if something interesting comes up) but I just want to attend to improve my skills.
I think it's full people that know the basics of programming, but never done full on projects before.
The ICE seizures are perfectly fine...

I wouldn't say perfectly fine... They're less objectionable than SOPA because they have some semblance of a claim to legality under current law, but I hardly think they're a model of how the Internet should be policed (or that the Internet as a whole even needs policing). Many, many subdomains were seized by ICE that were completely innocent, and there was still a lack of due process (see the rojadirecta.com case, where a site that is legal in its home country had its domain taken, then returned without explanation a year later).
Considering how may people pay to learn less relevant skills in school it actually looks like a great deal.
This is interesting. I've learned to decode the over-the-top qualifications a little. It's not unheard of to see job listings mentioning 5 years of experience with some form of software development plus ideally a graduate degree with "competitive" compensation that turns out to be a fairly low-paid, junior position.

These days I ignore the crazy qualifications when applying, but I've never called anyone on it.
Nick,

first, congrats for the Hacker School. I think it's an awesome idea.

I would not assume going for a job interview or talking to a prospective employer necessarily constitutes "seeking employment". See this for instance:

http://visaforimmigration.com/

> USCIS will usually allow a non-immigrant to enter the US to attend a specific pre-arranged job interview in visitor status.

The implication is that you go for the interview on-site, but do not attempt to actually work; you first have to back to your country then go through the normal H1-B (or other such visa) process.

Of course that's not directly applicable to people holding visitor status that want to look for jobs after attending Hacker School. Attending the School might not be allowed in the first place.

If you're getting a lot of non-US candidates (either for Hacker School or directly to Hackruiter), I think it would be a good idea to consult an immigration lawyer.
I believe the earlier comments have merit, thus I've renamed the library.
Well, exactly. It was written in prototype, put in production, and ignored for a year while usage slowly built up.
I think your code is off by 1.
I've created a couple of games with ImpactJS and have really enjoyed it. I think it's great for tile-based platformer games in particular. But (with enough programming skill), you can bend it to make virtually any type of 2D game. The code is very well thought out and organized. It's a pleasure to work with generally. Haven't used any of the other HTML5 engines though.
Is Google Unwiring the Web for Google+?
There are all kinds of theories on how a Zombie apocalypse could actually happen. From parasites to neuro-toxins. The most far out there I've read about is Neurogenesis. A condition where stem cells re-grow brain tissue. Probable? No Possible? Apparently
Also you want a feeling of greater size in the later dungeons, for aesthetic reasons. They're supposed to be more important and powerful as you go on.
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I had to check Wikipedia (which, as we all know, always is right :-)) to see that you are right. I have seen so many variations on sudoku's that I forgot what the original looked like. I was just thinking of Latin squares.
The more people who can code, the more demand there will be for advanced training from experienced coders. The hackers of today will be the teachers of tomorrow :)
This is fantastic! Unscrupulous training mills run by non-hackers have brought a bad name to the training industry. Hackruiter is fixing this and helping both the students and the recruiting companies. Bravo!
She got in with the official guide and then reported it and published photos as if she rode her bike there by herself.

People go there completely legally for sightseeing for many years now for a small fee.
I think I saw that Chernobyl one, how that turned out to be a hoax?

I was planning driving with friends there one summer, and whole idea of this trip was inspired by those photos.
I didn't know about that hot key! I'm guessing it's command opt shift on + s on the mac, I'll have to give that a try, thanks!
I'm glad you've done this, because I'd have wasted a few hours on it I didn't have otherwise :-)
https://jungle-blaze.heroku.com/buy/1706c

I signed up and put one of my favourite photos of a thick fog covering the city at night up for sale. $1.99 is a steal :)

A few comments:
I couldn't find a how-to or guide for formatting in the text entry area.

Considering that you do not host the resource being sold, are you able to list a set of instructions for how to best host the secured image and generate a public thumbnail for it?

Is it possible to customise the purchase page with a company logo or something else so that customers know they have landed in the right spot? At the moment it is branded as Jungle Blaze, but my customers may have been expecting to purchase from Jim's Photography company.

Well done on getting your product to launch. What did you find the most time consuming during those few months? Would you change anything if you started again?

(edit)
I signed up for gum road, not having used it before. The process from resource -> selling involves much fewer steps. I don't need to sign up for a stripe account, then find the stripe key and give it to you. That is a big win. I can sell a link, or I can upload a resource, another huge win. Most people I know can upload a file, but have no clue about where or how to host a resource.

Here is my gum road product: https://gumroad.com/l/vm $2.50
I'd say bandwidth is the main barrier for most computing nowadays, followed closely by storage
I know, but I like to tease, thanks for looking at my profile!
utensil is the solo founder. Prior to that, they needed their hands only.
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For the record: http://techsoup.org is an organization that makes it easy for non-profits to get cheap/free software licenses and hardware. They've worked out deals with many major companies, not just Microsoft.

Here's a list of their most popular software that you can get through TechSoup: http://www.techsoup.org/stock/Default.asp?cg=lnav&visit=...
We don't sponsor visas or have any type of accreditation, but if you can figure out how to be in NYC for 3 months, you're more than welcome to apply.
Reverse Influence from Christianity perhaps? I may have lost the faith - but I've always liked the following as a religious statement: (From Matt 15 / ESV)

You are still no more intelligent than the others.17 Don't you understand? Anything that goes into your mouth goes into your stomach and then on out of your body.18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these are the things that make you ritually unclean.19 For from your heart come the evil ideas which lead you to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others.20 These are the things that make you unclean. But to eat without washing your hands as they say you should—this doesn't make you unclean.
Embedding public keys in URLs might solve the initial trust problem in a lot of cases, but I guess it would be kind of clunky (long URLs) in practice.
So far, we have not generated any materials. If we do in the future, we'd absolutely love to put them online. I'd like to start video taping our guest speakers who we have from time to time and put those online. Just have to get our hands on a video camera.
But think of the impact it will have if it is as well put together as the trailer. And think of where the first got the guy. Dartmouth isn't too bad right?
The good technical reasons are "Vint Cerf says so"
Truly weird. A one-off license would sound reasonable, but $40 a month for a common script?
In our experience, computer science and programming are two different things. Being good at one, doesn't necessarily make you good at the other, but they are certainly complementary (computer scientists will tell you that programming is a tool to do their studies; programmers will tell you that computer science is a tool to help them write better code). We have had students with advanced degrees in CS (M.S., PhD) and students who never studied it before. All are welcome.
Really just getting the time to work on it was the most difficult.

You upload the files and in that case I do host and secure them - in that case I never let the purchaser see the real url.

I suppose I could proxy the link to other files too - New feature to work on...
He's 19, give him a little bit of a break. I know where my mind was most of the time at 19 (alright it still is :P)
I can attest that we are.

In the specific case of my current employer I can say that we have enough budget to pay a few dollars per seat per day without blinking, and we'd choose this option even if a hosted Trello option was ten times cheaper.

There are two main constraints that need to be taken into account where I work when it comes to buying things:

Firstly, variable pricing models are a no-go. We'll happily pay well over the odds to secure abundant capacity but we need to know in advance with absolute certainty exactly how much it will cost for a full year of service.

Secondly, we deal with potentially sensitive information that could be damaging to our organisation and our government if it were in any way compromised. Because of this we need to retain control of the data we'd store in any kind of issue tracking or collaboration system.

Trello is clearly a great tool and I hope Joel et al do well with it. It's a great tool for agile teams to use, and I can only blame the bureaucracy of my organisation for preventing my small team's ability to use it.
The hyperbole around this law is getting irritating. Congress can't restrict First Amendment rights online any more easily than they can in print; laws cannot override the Constitution.
I use Trello all day, every day, the simplicity of it is such a strong feature, it's hard to turn working with Trello into busy work where you're spending more time managing it than actually using it and this is a trap I fall into with a lot of solutions.
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...is marketed by...another acting in concert with that operator...

Without a contrary definition of "in concert," I could see that as covering any site with an affiliate program. For example, Amazon provides automated revenue sharing for inbound affiliate links. Let's say some third-party affiliate site markets Amazon as an ideal venue for "engag[ing] in, enabl[ing], or facilitat[ing], violation of [...some existing laws...]". Under the wording of what you just posted, Amazon would now be subject to DNS blacklisting and termination of payment processing.

"They'd never shut down Amazon," you say? Well, so what? They would shut down some smaller Amazon-like site. History has shown that the RIAA and MPAA (and/or their members) will do whatever they can get away with, and sometimes more (see Megaupload+Universal). AIUI, SOPA gives legal force to mere accusations coming from a major copyright holder.
It's a redditism
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Okay, so let me be a bit clearer.
This is the advice I got from a hermit who has been practicing Yoga for 22 years, and teaching for 14.
He specifically told me that initially Yoga (particularly Hatha Yoga) is meant to help you with your everyday postures, such as standing and sitting, and breathing correctly.

That part is easy, but it requires practice. The Yoga postures are not really the essence of Yoga for a beginner. It's only the correction of your everyday postures. That is what I said should be done alone, from a book. That is what the body can handle, and you will not be hurting yourself. Again, this is truly expert advice, and you may follow it if you feel it is.

The hard part of Yoga is undoubtedly dangerous to pursue alone, but even more dangerous to pursue with a teacher who does not know what he/she is doing. So, even though this seems like a Kobiyashi Maru, I would advise finding a really good teacher first, and if that doesn't work, and you really have to do Yoga (for whatever reasons) you're better of doing it on your own, with instructions from a really good book. By no means do I say doing it alone should be your first option.
He's a 19 year old college student with good design skills. I wouldn't call that a deal-breaker by any means.
I think in the end it may make it more profitable not to extract equity at the community's expense, but rather to engage in honest business. I love this kind of article.
Those are not strawmen, those are called examples. What he's saying is that "naturalness" or "antiquity" does not mean that something shouldn't be tested. For example, running is obviously very natural and old, and that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be tested.

So:

>Who and where exactly is anyone arguing that "we shouldn't be conducting long-term studies of the health benefits and risks of running at various intensities"?

just reinforces his point, because it was meant to be a statement that everyone could easily agree with.

Pre-existing bias towards testing and researching in order to approach the truth is a virtue, and to dismiss it while simultaneously attacking by misusing the tools of reason and logic that are its fruits when it is situationally convenient to you is both silly and entirely dishonest.
dhoston/springy is awesome !
And in this type of collapsing facility they test the engines that never reach the orbit.
Personally, I found Trello quite straightforward to use, but in my opinion that straightforwardness depends heavily on the hacker-like mindset of thinking of everything in terms of levels of abstraction. Other sensible mindsets and organizational techniques exist, but I don't think they would align as obviously with Trello. It might still work, but not necessarily in an instantly obvious way.
What about having your students develop and launch a mock startup? Building small apps and going over books is great, but I think students can learn a lot more real world dev by actually doing it. You can still emphasize code quality, agile practices, working together on a team, etc. Put up everything on github and as they develop the startup make sure they are contributing back to whatever open source software they are using.

Im assuming most of your students are interested in working for startups so giving them a mock startup experience would be a plus for them and also for the startups they eventually work for.
Official demo: http://codejoust.github.com/session.js/
Great marketing for yourself. Unless you are 100% sold on Cali (I've lived here for 5 years and I'm 50/50), I'd use this to get a contracting job and live with family and friends. Then come out here and start something when you feel comfortable/saved up. Preferably this company involves bubbles (you seem to like them in various forms and are good with them).
Probably a good idea to speed up the ruby by compiling a ruby binary to javascript (through emscripten) similarly to how http://repl.it did it. That way you don't need a server.
You will not be able to drive to Chernobyl by yourself. The only way to visit the restricted zone (~30km out from the plant) is by going with a tour company. Which is why the motorcycle thing is either a hoax or she is "highly connected".