skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SOPA Chrome Extension - My "Hello World" to the Bay
I moved into the Bay Area in September and I'm still making friends. I wanted to try and contribute to the ecosystem so I created a Chrome Extension for alerting users which websites support SOPA. My goal is to keep this updated every other day. Please check it out.

Source: https://github.com/cundimundi/StopSOPA-Chrome-Extension
Some content is inherently easy to copy. That doesn't mean it is without value. Copying a poem is easy, but copying a novel requires slightly more effort. Does that mean all poets should become novelists in order to make a living?

When the Beatles were making some of their best work (in my opinion), they weren't touring. Who are we to say that the recordings are without value, just because they are easily copied, and that they should have made their money by touring?

I'm frankly surprised to see this viewpoint stated so commonly on a site where I assume many people make their living writing code. Should your ability to make money be contingent on your ability to keep your source code hidden?
Isn't it a shame?

I once regularly toted my Swiss Army knife on plane trips. I'd toss it into the basket with my keys and wallet and be waved through the metal detector (with shoes still on, mind you), and it was never given a second glance.

I've carried that same poor, battered knife daily for almost 25 years now. In fact, I was denied entrance to a New Year's venue this year because I admitted to having a pocket knife on my person and refused to part with it. $60 wasted. WTF?

Have we become a society of emasculated pansies that fears little pocket knives?
Startup Deadlines: What is MVP
It's not the act of voice recognition, it's the act of running the call through a 3rd party.
Nice idea! I like how it's focused on wordpress and iphone (rather than turn any website to android/iphone/etc.) Care to share some implementations details with follow HN-ers? :) I.e. Do you have a "plugin-converter"? How do you transform the "normal screen width" to a "mobile feeling"?
Lol. I caught that too, had to read it twice to make sure I didn't miss a play on words though.
Same here. I had to view source and see that it was expertise and frequency.
Yup one of the reasons we switched once our team became bigger. Another problem with skype is that if user's are on multiple versions of skype, the text chat gets disabled.

Hangouts on the other hand is quick to start with, free and chat, screen sharing, scribble pad work seamlessly across all platforms.
Silicon Valley's New Secret Weapon: Designers Who Found Startups
Where did the name "dingadeal" come from and no we aren't a groupon clone
Cartoon: Ironclad Cloud Security
"click to view" is supposed to slide out a section where I provide my own snarky comments

On your home page, go to the second post, and click...

You're javascript only slides things with the id sampleOuter. As you have multiple entries with the id sampleOuter on your homepage, most browsers will pick the first.

If you're intent is to slide open ALL of them, I'd use a class, rather than an ID.

If you're intent is to just slide open the one that's clicked on, you need each "sampleOuter" to have a unique identifier you can select it on. You can then pass that to your "toggleSampleView" method.

HTH.
Why haven't tech companies started lobbying? Don't companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft,Amazon generate cumulatively more profit than any other industry in the US?

Why not just overpower, the SOPA lobbyist in Washington? Couldn't they also just buy one of these movie studios and take them out. Allot of these companies are sitting on a ton of cash.

I am generally curious as to why tech companies have not done this.
Our alert system can help journalists and administration to keep up with the cases around there areas. People might use it avoid offices with higher corruption cases. All the data will is available so anyone can do their own analytics. You may also dropin your email id while reporting and if authorities want they could contact you for evidence.
DOA in the US corporate world because of the headshot.
The point is not on the worth of a sunset picture. He just wants anybody who uses this picture to compensate him.
At least in the banks I deal with, there is a huge difference between what is considered core, and peripheral services that 1) rarely hold sensitive data, if any; 2) never hold the master and 3) are not part of the day to day banking experience (i.e. sending cheque books, delivering credit cards).

The psychological barrier I see is 'running the transaction' vs. 'reporting on it weeks after the fact'.
In iran, judging from the success of their missiles, flying saucer technology = well executed frisbee throw. That will teach the drone pilots for flying that thing too low.

On the other hand, maybe the Iranian government is actually run by aliens. That would explain their odd behavior.
Very very nice concept. Would attract so many WP site owners who want to have an app.

Please share some technical and transition stories.
Also is the homepage a little slow, or just me?
Technology can be misused, but we cant let in come in the way of the benefits it provides.
Exactly. It is not a perfect solution. Ideally there would be only 2 or 3 owners, and an accountant above all these silos.

The bigger problem is that it would encourage bitter feeling between teams. If a silo is not successful and freeloaders are not pruned, then there will be a tendency for a silo to sabotage another silo if they think their collective job security is at risk. It is not a perfect solution. It can be approximated but still actually separate small companies is what makes more sense.
Why I Love foursquare (And How You Can Too)
Now it is your chance to get the most of it
Thanks! We found 2 to be a bit cluttered overall because it's text heavy. Keeping 2 till fold sounds great.
I'm the primary author (formerly Which Linden). Surprised to see this pop up here after all this time!

We wrote this almost three years ago, and at the time ZeroMQ was substantially less mature than it is now. In particular, the Python bindings were broken, weren't maintained by the ZeroMQ organization, and there was no indication they'd be production-ready by the time we needed it (which would have been within the next month or two).

More importantly, we were looking for something that handled our use case a little bit more fully. Our message-rate requirements were laughably small, so what we really wanted was software that gave us an "inbox" for each of millions of users. We also weren't looking forward to implementing failover, consistency, and sharding from scratch.

Edit: corrected timeline.
Well, it was posted by Jane Wells (UX Lead for Wordpress) and filed under "Community" at Wordpress.org. I'm not sure where that falls exactly, but obviously she's chosen to speak for the community, or at least Wordpress' relationship to its community. It's on the Wordpress blog so I would guess she's speaking for Wordpress itself as well.
It's simply the market at work.

This is something of a mantra in US culture, but it's a poor model, because in fact the "market" for research papers may be the least "market"-like thing I know. Papers are funded by grants. There's a handful of agencies that give out significantly-sized grants. The most important of them in the USA - NIH, NSF, DoD - are agencies of the federal government, politically driven and centralized. In the research business as it stands today, the public's "demand" for an esoteric manuscript on, say, the mental health of Drosophila is barely relevant. All that matters is the opinions of your peers, and the opinions of your grant administrator. And these groups don't constitute anything like a "market"; they're more like a family, if perhaps a slightly dysfunctional family. Find a researcher with funding, and you'll find that he or she is almost inevitably well-connected to the research community by a web of patronage and mutual favors.

The peers don't care about open publishing, but apathy works both ways: They won't push for it very hard, but they won't push against it very hard either. What does a researcher really care if the paper comes out in Nature or in PLoS? Sure, there are considerations of culture and fashion - impact factor is not irrelevant to your life as a researcher - but fashion is fickle; old scientists are more adaptable than the average old person and in any case they don't live forever.

Meanwhile, if we gathered the bosses of all the grant administrators in the USA into a room, that room would be the size of an elevator. Convince just a critical mass of agencies - say, the NSF and the NIH - to mandate open publishing and only an act of Congress will prevent the rest of the system from falling in line.

Maybe this isn't right. But, tellingly, the opponents of open publishing have just proposed that act of Congress. A threat to deploy such a blunt instrument doesn't seem like a sign of strength. It seems like a last-ditch attempt to hold back the tide.

(Alas, I agree that the act of Congress could well pass, or even just threaten to pass, and that if it does my whole argument could go into reverse and the status quo will tend to dominate.)
Nice idea. I'd be interested to know (and if you're willing to share with the community):

1. What was your job.

2. How much did you get paid.

3. How much savings(runway) do you have to support this product.

Thanks!
Jane Wells (the author of the post) is an employee of Automattic, FWIW.
Twitter unhappy about Google's social search changes
Cool! I will be using such a service several times this year. Honest question - what makes your service more special than the other services out there that claim to do the same thing?

P.S. I do like the one time charge option... I haven't seen many that have that as an ooption.
> If anything, I think there's too little theory in the UK's CS courses these days.

This has been my experience with CS courses in the US as well.
Monthly Twitter activity in 2011 for members of U.S. Congress (data viz)
Wow! Really good unbiased article on why some people support SOPA/PROTECT-IP. It's hard to find these things these days when everyone is accusing the government of being run by corporations.
Lenovo K800 Intel Medfield Smartphone At CES
I think it should be done to convince USA policymakers to wake up. Not all countries copy USA in all laws (cf. EU employment rights), so this "USA-only blackout" might convince USA policymakers that SOPA will make the USA unattractive
Ask HN: Bartering Talents
I love hearing from people that want to 'offer' their talent to the HN community because they have free time in an effort to just give back or build 'real life' karma yet I've seen posts that discourage that on this board.

I am wondering if there is a place where like-minded people can or do barter their professional expertise with one another? Even something as simple as tweet for tweet...
N.B.: this page wasn't updated heavily since April 2009; a slight revision was made in January 2010.
Writing Quality Third-Party JS - Part 2: Loading Your Code
The Dark, Unsustainable Underbelly of the Cruise Ship Industry
According to NABU estimates, a single cruise ship emits particle pollution that equals the amount released by five million cars driving the same distance.
Thanks! I can't believe that slipped through!
Airline lets passengers choose seat partners based on social media profiles
Halfway down the page on http://www.reallifecomics.com , there's an hour long loop of this, complete with the random computer blip noises.
Scared from the Dentist?..4 ways cloud computing will change dentistry
Efforts like this and ipaidabribe.com shed light on societal processes that are poorly understood and undocumented.

I see it helping in few ways. First, it provides a quantitative look at it, so you know what your corruption tax is going to be. Second, there are regional variations, so in the medium-term, people can respond to this information to make better choices (yes, it is everywhere, but how bad is it?). Third, in the long-term, this can potentially impact governance. Public perception can be powerful, so I could see progressive entities trying to get off these websites.
I'm pretty sure it's fictionalized.
Do you include the WP markup in your generated app? Or do you transform the markup into Objective-C code (so no HTML/CSS included in the app)? The latter would be much harder to implement I think.
I systemize and automate businesses end-to-end for a living.

Don't despair, this is a bit of an art and it's slowly becoming a science.

I have largely virtualized my consulting practice that I have run for 10+ years using remote developers both locally and out of town.

This is a problem I have obsessed over solving the past 12 years. It was hard enough to get it working in-house with employees, to learn the key qualities needed to make it work from anywhere.

There are a few key things you must solve:

0) KNOW YOUR PROCESS.

Are you able to take all the steps of your process and lay it out on a flowchart, no matter how complex?

Can you take any request currently in your business and place it on this flow chart?

Once you can do this, you are ready to systemize. Until then, this is where you are needing to clarify and build out things.

1) A CENTRAL SYSTEM THAT HANDLES YOUR WORKFLOW.

There is no magic ONE tool that will solve anything. Most suggestions will be helpful with one or a few parts of the process. Instead you will need to connect multiple tools to get what you need.

The key is having a central communication system.
It doesn't sound like you have this yet. This is a non-neogotiable.

The communication system must be based around requests/cases. All communication, regarding work people need to do, needs to be in this system. The cases need to be run through a fulfillment process that captures and reflects your competitive advantage.

2) DOCUMENTATION IS YOUR FRIEND.

Documentation can suck, royally. Meaningful documentation is even harder. But it's the only thing that allows people to answer their own questions. Being able to capture your intellectual capital and spread it is critical to having your business grow.

If you're having trouble teaching, remote workers are having a hard time remembering. The key is to create a culture of self-serve updating documents. A wiki is often critical for this, however I am also a _big_ fan of videos integrated.

3) BUILD YOUR TIME / BILLING TRACKING INTO THE BREAD.

Billing, and time tracking, also sucks. Whatever unpleasantness we don't want to deal with now has to be dealt with doubly later.

It's best to bake time tracking/billing into the bread and your process. With the right configuration based around your process this is pretty possible.

If you have to track billing/time for this, it must be a simple, usable, system that is hopefully integrated right into your system. I am a quickbooks guy for most of my stuff, however I've started using Freshbooks for the Accounts Receivable / time collection side of my business and it's working a lot better.

If you have a process but works and just lacks in being clearly explained / taught, I can help you with that. Reach me by email or ask any questions here. I guarantee results if you're willing to do what's needed.
I had around 1,800 uniques over 3 hours in 2011 - posted some stats (browsers, OS, geo) here: http://willgrant.org/hn-traffic-stats-summary/
Thanks for the feedback, I would love to hear more about your app!
Here is another site with sounds from the beach.
http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/
Our VPS that hosts the website seems to be on fire. However our app is up and running just fine - http://engine.theappifier.com
Shazam Launches Own Music Player
People generally seriously underestimate the power of modern hardware.

They also often underestimate the bloat of modern software. The difference in page generation times between WordPress and some minimalistic CMS can be in the order of 50 or 100. And while it's compelling to believe that WordPress "does more", I don't believe that's the case.
Memory card is trademarked by Sony.

I've heard the horrible "usb key" used a lot (even though it's not a key). I prefer usb stick.
Also, with legislation like the Citizen's Right to Grievance Redress Bill we are hoping that practices will soon be in place that provide a channel to the anti corruption agencies for complaints. At that point the data available via CorruptionTrak could help greatly in investigations.

In addition, we believe there are people in the administration who want to change things. To cite a success story for http://ipaidabribe.com/, a similar website

"Several government officials at different levels, some of them horrified at finding their department high up on the list of bribe-takers, have contacted Janaagraha and asked for its help in building better structures. One was a commissioner of a transport department, who realized that he could reduce corruption by minimizing the number of touchpoints between citizens and officials."

(taken from http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/indian-website-uncover...)

That said, this is an experiment. It will take some time before we can gauge the success of our initiative.
Well, somebody has to compensate for the lack of professionalism in legitimate business.
Wow, grumpy!
نتيجة انتخابات جولة الاعادة من المرحلة الثالثة 2012 انتخابات مصر مجلس الشعب
> Add jenkins-ci.org's apt key to your system's trusted keys

> $ wget -q -O - http://... | sudo apt-key add -

This is NOT a good idea.

(Executing shell code from the net, as in #10, isn't a good idea either.)
1. I was a software engineer that got an MBA and was doing management consulting.
2. Over 80k / year
3. My runway is private, but we financed ourselves by taking on short-term iOS/Wordpress dev/design consulting gigs to stay fed.
He was also complaining about people asking for his photos for free. That has nothing to do with the law.
One such place is Github. Find an open source project that interests you and start sending pull requests for bugs or whatever areas you feel that you could improve.
” large teams took 8.92 months, and the small teams took 9.12 months. In other words, the large teams just barely (by a week or so) beat the small teams in finishing the project! Given that the large teams averaged 32 people and the small teams averaged 4 people, the cost of completing the project a week sooner with the large team is extraordinary: at $10,000 per person-month (fully loaded employee cost), the large teams would have spent $1.8M while the small teams only spent $245k. ”

9 x 32 x $10k != $1.8m, = ~$2.9m; 9 x 4 x $10k != $245k, = ~$360k.
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Three Of Everything
Right it's the concept of "standing on the shoulders of giants" While there is educational value in writing a web app from scratch, if it offers no core value to your product you are not working in the best interest of the project. A lot of developers go through a "not invented here" stage where they write everything, usually this is a mark of immaturity of the developers part. Understanding and leveraging frameworks helps the industry evolve. If we take the automotive industry for example (because everyone loves a car analogy), at one time there where all kinds of fuel systems and everyone built their own fuel system for engines. Eventually the market consolidated on best practices and companies like Bosch packaged up those best practices into systems like the Common Rail. Now when a car manufacturer designs a new car they generally build on the framework of the Common Rail for their fuel system. Further the entire power-plant is usually an off the shelf framework that they utilize in their design. This helps deliver a new product on a proven and tested framework for powering it.
Perhaps a misvote, perhaps someone thought that the thread bordered on "items for sale" and that open-sourcing would be more appropriate.
Happy 25th birthday SWI-Prolog
Interesting.

This looks like a container similar to PhoneGap, but more specialised to some sort of feed from the WP website, perhaps RSS.

Is there really that large a market for this sort of thing?
Eletric DeLorean at CES 2012
Stratfor hacked in "early december"
I think this is a great way to go. And any company that only accepts standard resumes that have to go through an HR department is a company you probably don't want to work at. So if your goal is to work at a smaller startup, then this seems a lot better than a resume.

I love this approach because it demonstrates what you can do. But, as others have said, I would redesign the "other skills/tools" page. I think the two scales are nice, but it needs to be more obvious upon first glance what I'm looking at. And maybe more compact.
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Indignant workers threaten suicide at Foxconn park in Wuhan
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Handshake Solutions (designer of clockless, asynchronous CPUs) has been buried.
Agreed. If I were an HR guy, I'd reach for the X in the corner the moment I saw "Oh, Hai!".
It would be interesting to see more details in a blog post about your transition, such as whether you started working on this before quitting your job, how long since you quit your job, what the makeup of your team is, how you met your team, etc. This looks really cool by the way, good job on launching!

EDIT: Correcting typos
Right, but I disagree. "Everyone in my network" agrees to accept the "information" that I put out as them as a consumer, which is just making known that a relationship between us exists. If I'm not posting any personal information about anyone (including myself) and not tagging anyone in anything, this is the only information one gives to Facebook. I use an alias on Facebook so I am not even directly exposing my identity in their databases and the relationship they record is false, though clearly IP addresses could be used to link the alias to my real identity if a person were interested.

I have long been worried about the implications of friending everyone you know. If you have to go on the run, and everyone you've ever talked to for more than 15 minutes is listed on Facebook, you're not going to have many places to hide. I am "friends" with only a handful of people, mostly close family, which doesn't really expose any new relationships.
Congrats! The hard part is to retain a couple of those new readers though :)
You know, it is pretty easy to kill someone. That doesn't mean it's morally acceptable, let alone legal. It doesn't matter how easy it is to copy the photograph. It's still not morally acceptable or legal.

As to your second argument, that 'anyone can take pro quality photos with minimal talent': image quality isn't all that counts. In fact, it's substantially less important than composing a good photograph in the first place. Someone with a little experience can take much better photographs with a $200 camera than someone unexperienced can with a $1200 camera.

Taking good photographs is as hard as it always was. It's about artistic composition, about knowing your tools, about having enough to experience to take the shot. Ask an amateur photographer friend whether he thinks he can easily reproduce this photo. Those in my vicinity all tell me they can't. Firstly, their equipment is insufficient. A $900 DSLR won't cut it and they don't have those filters. Secondly, they would never have thought of doing it this way, with these tools. Anyone can copy. This guy has done original work. How many people have enough experience with this $200 filter to know it would be perfect for this shot?