skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I'm curious — really asking not being passive agressive — do you see an iOS app developed by an independent developer as belonging to both the developer and to Apple?

I'd say that Apple's 30% is a commission based on the sales and service they offer, and yes it's worth it...especially given the market position and the fact that there's verification of IP ownership, etc. But in the end the app itself belongs to the creator, just as the music belongs to the artist (or label, depending on the deal.)

Seems a bit like perspective, but it goes deeper: if the music belongs to the artist who created it then they should have the right to pull it from a service and expect reasonable effort to keep it out of the service — YouTube's content ID does a commendable job. (Though it is abused by some of the majors...but the algorithm itself is really solid.)
Gumroad looks a bit more polished but what I'm missing with all those services is some sort of browse section. (is that only after logging in?) ... Ok you can share it via twitter or other networks but browsing around makes me impulsively buy more than just seeing one link on twitter :)
Bloody hell the IRS is a soft touch :-) In the UK they are very strict on benefits in kind.

At one point BT decided that to do away with loads of messy individual kitchens and all the resulting arguments between employee arguments over who had not paid this months tea money. They would provide free tea and coffee in the new big work-style buildings.

HMRC ruled that this was a taxable benefit and so that was that (I have actually seen the letter from HMRC to Group HR)
I realize that laws can be twisted by clever lawyers but I still think its quite a stretch to claim that a Dropbox-like site could be said to have its primary purpose be infringing copyrights.

For one thing, those files aren't publicly available by default. If they are publicly available, then the Dropbox team is probably already monitoring those files. If they are not monitoring those files then (this part is controversial...) maybe they should be investigated for copyright infringement, as long as they maintain due process.
Unladen Swallow might not be usable in production, but as a research project it's pretty interesting. One of its problems was supporting C-based extensions, but that's not a requirement for Emacs Lisp, and so a similar project might be more effective for Emacs than for Python. (I also like the idea of using LLVM for dynamic language runtimes, but as time goes forward this seems less likely to work out.)
I remember the site, but what was the hoax part exactly?
Today I learned that Moscow has a giant exhaust pipe sticking out of it that discharges combusted rocket fuel mixture ... which is then combined with water vapor, turned into a giant toxic fume cloud, and spread through-out the city.

I would love to know the reason for its placement there.
More fitting for the situation...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRRTOnXOZsM
I recommend this guy spend some time learning to code asap.

He is 19 - almost half my age. You have YEARS ahead of you, and if there is one thing I regret - it was not learning to code when I was a munchkin.
I use IMAP over SSL with Gnus, and the actual talking-to-the-network is asynchronous (handled by another UNIX process). The slow part is generating the summary buffer on large groups.

(BTW, if you use IMAP with Gnus, I highly recommend using a local IMAP server instead. You can sync to your remote IMAP server with offlineimap. This speeds up Gnus enormously for me; reading my Maildir directly from Gnus is too slow to be usable, but reading it through a local IMAP server makes reading my inbox instantaneous.)
His book "Bloomberg by Bloomberg" is also a good read. I also find it amusing this even made the news. His billion-dollar fortune comes from a tech company founded with money he got as severance after being fired from a previous tech management position, albeit in the finance sector.
I love photos of crazy, giant machinery. It's easy to forget that mankind builds things that are way, way larger than human scale that you just don't see in your comfortable city life.
It remember me a party where a friend was constantly asking me and a couple of school mates what algorithmic is... oh gosh=)
So, we were making huge explanations with 'complex' words.. It lasted hours =)

Finally, she said: "Oh I think I got you guys, you are finding solutions to solve problems."

Happy! :>
H1Bs, without a significant body of work to prove yourself with, are VERY hard to come by. Believe me.
Lessons Learned from a Non-technical Founder
Take a look at Podio, it does far more than nested lists and scales up or down to fit your needs.
Beating market returns based on employee satisfaction scores on Glassdoor
That is the most awesome thing I've heard about in quite a while. What a great idea.

I love how rapidly the forms of organization are changing around software and startups. This is almost like a guild.
where's the server stuff? is google providing everything that the pay service did, but for free?
Sorry, but what is the relevance of this to Hacker News? Please don't let this turn into Reddit.
This is not a hoax. It was on Russian national news network at about the same time when one of their satellites came down.
I agree that an internship would probably be easier overall, but the organization would need to be approved as an "Internship Program" first. I think there's a limited incentive to do all the lawyering necessary to get only one person in for less than 12 months, which is why we don't see many J1 interns in the valley.

Plus, my word of warning about painful working conditions applies doubly to a J1 internship visa, which as far as I know doesn't allow a transfer between companies (or quitting) at all.
2 Weeks Of SOPA: The Actual Godaddy Numbers: 100K Domains Out, 117K In
When I read that first bullet, my first thought was of Borat. Pop culture wins again...!!!
If you are cited for code violations, then you sell the property to your brother before the deadline to comply, and claim compliance is no longer your problem, that's fraud. This kind of analysis can be used to show a pattern of that kind of fraud.
HTML5 audio is kind of weaksauce atm yes. To support all major browsers I need to ship both oggs and mp3s for example.

Jaws creates instances of Audio() for each sound, loading them by setting the src-attribute and listening for the canplay event before making the asset as fully loaded.

Just google the Audio-tag, you have play(), pause() etc.
"Don't say a number first" is a popular belief, but is probably wrong in general, and irrelevant in some situations.

There's research that shows that in certain situations, the first mentioned number acts as a strong anchor. So you might want to be the first.

But then, you're not really following your own advice when you mention your approximate current salary. That is mentioning a number first. But you're helping the other side by setting a low anchor. After you've said "90s", you're bound to get an offer in the 90s.

In any case, having a "BATNA", best alternative to negotiated agreement, is often way more important than the first number. If you have a job with salary s and you're otherwise happy with it, you can always refuse offers below (say) 1.10s. And if the company has another candidate who asks less than s, it doesn't matter how well you negotiate.
You should consider working with/pulling data from the Get a Game app. Their app sucks but they are doing a good job getting partnerships to pull in games from existing networks.

http://techcocktail.com/get-a-game-app-2011-09#.TweHNZjaa2w
The VISA situation for internship would be F1, specifically F1-CPT. It would be much easier if Filip is studying in the US, but it is still easier compared to getting H1B.

Getting a silicon valley company to give him an offer would be a per-requisite.
For what it's worth, and there's a lot of feedback here relating to technical issues/lifestyle choices etc, but considering you're applying to be a designer I thought the site looked and felt awesome. Totally engaging, easy to read and follow, and I read right to the end.

Great pitch.
$100k for what ? They said they are finished with principal photography... More editing?
It's really a shame
well...that didn't take long
That is actually quite specific. Try thinking of patenting the ability to move objects via reducing the coefficient of friction. Not even specifying that you are using a wheel or what a wheel is.
No, I'm saying that both are needed. Thinking that computers will solve all problems in libraries and can just be a drop in replacement for books is a bit like thinking that bicycles will solve all transportation problems. Computers and IT do improve literacy, knowledge, research, ideas and creativity. But in a huge number of specific cases, books are very much needed too, and will be for a long time to come.
Business case for using Codehaus Sonar during development
OverDrive doesn't work on Kindle. Also, many libraries have only a very small number of OverDrive books: my local library has 30 ebooks on OverDrive.
Nocebo and Nocebo Effect
This sounds like just the kind of thing I've been looking for. Would anyone be willing to comment on whether or not it's worth taking a semester off from college to do HS?
We've had couple people hold down substantial client work (more on the order of 20-30 hours a week, I think)

I was typically able to get in 20-24 hours a week while in HS batch[1], so it is possible to do HS and client work at the same time, but it's very challenging. I came in with two clients but wound up passing one of the projects off to another developer because it was too much work. The other client I still work for. Having two clients while in HS was completely impossible. Having one client while in HS is doable, but it depends on the quality of the client. The client that I kept never bothered me about trivial matters, gave me full autonomy over my work, provided the resources I needed to get the job done, and were just plain cool. I still work for them. If my description sounds nothing like any of your clients, I wouldn't recommend doing HS and client work simultaneously.
Google Science Fair. Ideas?
The Google Science Fair is coming up and I would like to participate. The only problem: I have no ideas. I've been programming for a number of years so I would be doing something related to or integrating computer science.

Anyone have any ideas that they think could be a winner?
The brain-money balance
That's 1 billion IOPS across 8 servers, each having 8 FusionIO cards.. So it's 15,625,000 IOPS.

Compared to an SSD that does 100,000 IOPS.

Each card seems to be a dual unit, not taking this into account as some SSD pci cards are also like this.
Ubuntu TV – The Potential CES Dark Horse?
they do provide a meeting space for a couple of local groups (namely the TriLUG, though this is changing I believe), and hold a couple un-conferences which are a lot of fun.

Hmm... I haven't heard anything about Tri-LUG moving, but I haven't been terribly active lately. I know Tri-LUG did meet at SplatSpace in Durham for the December '11 meeting, but that was a one-off deal. It's sort of becoming a tradition for Space and Tri-LUG to do a join December social gathering / open-source show & tell. But AFAIK, the regular meetings remain at RH for now.

Tri-JUG meet at Red Hat's offices as well, FWIW.

I've also been to a few of the startup events, and it feels like a lot of business people and very few "hackers", though perhaps this is just due to selection bias (it is a social event).*

Check out RTP Hackers & Founders[1]. We haven't had a "formal" meeting for a while, mainly because I've been so heads-down working on Fogbeam Labs[2]... but we will be meeting in 2012 for sure. In fact, almost every member of the group should have "event coordinator" role to schedule events, and if anybody on this thread wants to join and schedule an event, ping me and I'll make sure you're able to do so.

Durham could use a new, really successful technical startup to give it a jump start.

Yeah, not to mention this area could use a sort of "Paypal Mafia" of it's own... a batch of people with plenty of $$$ from their own successful exit, wanting to invest in the next wave of local startups. Who knows, maybe 2012 will be the year things really blow up here...

[1]: http://www.meetup.com/RTP-Hackers-Founders/

[2]: http://www.fogbeam.com
My CoffeeScript playlist
> I realize DNSBL is voluntary and SOPA would mandate/force, but I don't see how the effects are different. For a DNS server

Bam, stop right there. DNS servers do not use DNSBL. There's your answer.

DNSBL is used in circumstances like this: You're connecting to an IRC server. It does some tests to make sure you're not spoofing your host, like using reverse DNS (PTR records). IRC servers will also try to prevent spammers and flooders by denying access to hosts that are in a DNSBL -- likely open proxies.

Here's some IRC software which does specifically that: http://www.blitzed.org/proxy/

I am running some mail servers which are having trouble delivering mail to gmail right now. gmail is returning back this error:

The IP you're using to send mail is not authorized to
send email directly to our servers. Please use the SMTP relay your
service provider instead.

Turns out, it's because the IPs I've been allocated are in Spamhaus, which is an implementation of DNSBL that specifically targets spammers.

Again, this is an action by the server software itself. It is not a mandate, and is not actually a restriction on DNS. It is nothing like blacklisting cache servers. The name has confused you.

> Regarding CDNs, for a user initiating request for a non-blacklisted site, why would the CDN be now less efficient in its response?

If you're trying to access Google, their nameservers may give your ISP's caching servers a different resolution if you're in California rather than in the UK, usually to resolve to closer servers. This is only effective because nameservers can target cache servers which are specific to geographic areas, and is a great side-effect of the current structure of the naming system and of the Internet.

By forcing people away from domestic nameservers, this targeted effect fails. A foreign cache server will return inefficient resolutions to queries compared to a domestic one operated by an ISP.

Aside from being terrible for the end user, it also begins to put stress and congest different areas of the global Internet unexpectedly. Though arrangements can be made to compensate, it's pretty annoying and will never be as efficient as before.

> My point is that if DNS and CDNs become drastically inefficient by having to ignore certain names, then it sounds like it could have been designed better to handle such cases.

The only real "design flaw" in DNS is the inflated trust in cache servers. DNSSEC tries to resolve this by attaching a chain of authentication alongside the delegation chain which can be verified. SOPA breaks DNSSEC entirely because it cannot return these authenticated messages (it is resolving incorrectly or lying about the delegation chain).

DNS was not designed to be censored in the way proposed by SOPA; it is not a design flaw in SOPA, it's a flaw in the legislation.
Fold'em. You're out of cash. Better to give up now than later.
Thanks for the kind words. It means a lot.
Pros and cons of outsourcing
Yeah, Relevance people seem to be crawling all over the place here.

That reminds me, I need to schedule another TriJVM Hack Night for sometime Real Soon Now as well. :-)
Is the entire thing just a Photoshop Save for Web document with some jQuery attached?

Also the "LET MY DREAM COME TRUE" image's hover state not being preloaded made me sad.

Okay to actually be constructive:

It's a good time to be trying this because it's the beginning of a new year so H-1B visas are available.

As another self taught young developer who's extremely eager to leave his full-time job and go to school next semester, I can't say I agree with his goals. But if that's what you want to do, it's a good attempt at getting out there.

Most companies I would know that would be willing to set up a visa for a person who wants to drop out of college in Europe would be start-ups, however I don't know if a pure Graphic Designer is in demand with start-ups. I would expect them to rather have someone who's very good at graphic design and can code the basics of the designs themselves rather than have someone who's fantastic at graphic design but is just a one-trick pony.

When I worked in a start-up one of the biggest deciding factors we had when interviewing designers (right after their taste) was how much of the design they could implement themselves. It made little sense to pay someone to design a Photoshop document and send to a developer to turn into HTML or a layout file where we could pay someone else to design it AND make the HTML file themselves. Most of the time that person didn't ask for 200% of the pay of someone just doing Photoshop work either.
Not much worse than finding out you are grossly underpaid. If that doesn't turn an exceptional employee into a slouch, I don't know what will.
How the story about your friend doing something (supposedly) illegal leads to conclusion that "all the arguments for their legality are largely moot"?

Especially after you tell in the very first sentence of your comment to leave arguments about legality aside.

Is this how you propose to judge the legality of a service?

Can overcome technological restrictions
to save music into a file instead of letting
the browser download and play it immediately?
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Is the resulting MP3 ---- No ----+---> Legal
of high quality?
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He lost me at "hello guys" and a picture of cleavage. Great design otherwise though.
For a second, I thought I spotted a Dalek in there.
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5/33213654.df/0_71e64_c0b3a07...
From the site faq: What to Submit...
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Absolutely agree. The only faux pa i've seen is that the call to action button on the bottom only starts loading when hovering over it, becoming invisible for a short moment.
So is this actually a coop? Interesting idea I used to work for and was a member of Poptel and capital for coops is a difficult area.

And if its a coop souled they not use the .coop TLD :-)
TIL == Today I learned?
(Edit)
I must be older than I thought. I take from the downvoting this is a well-known acronym I should know.
Can We Have Gadgets That Are Not Made of Blood
Configure centralized logging in 10 minutes
Do you have already an idea to offer to your cofounder to build it together? Do you need a partner from US or ..? Make these questions clear to make people able to answer.

Actually you don't need a technical cofounder. Building things with a cofounder is fun, motivational, interesting and he/she could be also a inspirational non-technical cofounder which you can work with. You can always hire a developer or learn to code yourself.
The best part about this whole thing is the location lookup. Seriously nice job.
Here is what J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2010 has to say on the subject:

The value of employer-furnished meals is not taxable if furnished on your employer's business premises for the employer's convenience.

The employer convenience test requires proof that an employer provides the free meals or lodging for a business purpose other than providing extra pay. In the case of meals, the employer convenience test is deemed to be satisfied for all meals provided on employer premises if a qualifying business purpose is shown for more than 50% of the meals. If meals are described in a contract or state statute as extra pay, this does not bar tax-free treatment provided they are also furnished for other substantial, noncompensatory business reasons; for example, you are required to be on call 24 hours a day, or there are inadequate eating facilities near the business premises.
Google provides it as an extra for the JSAPI, no telling how long it will last, though.
Facebook integration will definitely help. (I'm not on it)
APIs Allow Us To Do Data Without the Database
Occasionally, yes, but you don't see it because such a story will be flagged off the front page shortly after.
That sounds infuriating. You have the patience of a saint.
Not really. Of course meeting a guard would be a pretty stressful experience, but it's not like Russia is filled with slave camps. Unless you're a vocal activist, you should be ok ;)
Exactly. Or, you could just use your server side language to stuff the server's date onto the template.
What are your thoughts on impactjs? I know it's not a general purpose game engine, but I'm just curious to see what people think it's missing. A lot, I'm sure, in terms of general purpose gaming, but how could it be improved for it's target games; tile-based platformers and top-downs?
> This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory

It is neither military nor is it a factory. It is a rocket engine test facility. Interesting stuff nonetheless. Looks like a great source of grunge textures :)
What strikes me most is how alive it feels. This is a big deal.

Anything you can do to excite/attract hackers and then supply them to good companies is so valuable to both sides that of course you deserve to capture some of that value.

Actually, it's even better. If you do this right, you're creating value that wasn't there before. I can come to your school as a "nobody" (in market terms) - no resume, no experience, just energy and talent. And I can work hard and learn tons and have fun for three months, and probably bond with my classmates in a way that will last for years, and at the end of that process you can connect me with good companies who are in great need of people like me. Now both I and that company are more valuable (in market terms) than we were before. (Reminds me a little of how YC add value to the startups they invest in.)

And most of the anachronistic and stupid rituals of hiring can go out the window, replaced by hard work, talent, and fun.

A chance to get better at one's craft and learn from other hackers is just about at the top of all our wish lists. Talk about making something people want! If I weren't busy I'd jump at the chance to do this.
This is why you should just do the work yourself and get a dedicated server. Most apps don't need the AppEngine in the beginning anyway.
It seems she is an expert in this type of exploration- her whole blog is devoted to it, here's her entry of military finds- http://lana-sator.livejournal.com/tag/military
They installed one of these a few years ago where I live. Each U-turn area gets its own traffic light in addition to the light at the grade crossing; I don't drive through there often enough to know how the patterns are synchronized for the different lights.
Bad for to reply to onself, I know... but just wanted to say, we just setup an RTP Hackers & Founders meetup for the evening of Thurs., Jan 19th. That's the night before the "Venture Outlook" event that SCV is putting on, so it probably makes a good time to meet and talking startups, funding, VC, etc.

Panera Bread - Streets of Southpoint, 7:00pm.
Just one at the end of the year, based on the estimated value of the benefit.