skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>men wouldn't even consider a sexual attack by a woman unpleasant

>That's just more sexist B.S.

It's also true. Poll your buddies about it. But note how you disingenuously left out the part where I wrote "except if they considered that woman ugly".

>Again, scary, fictional anecdotes. You're not going to sway me with that tactic.

You confuse "anecdotes" with hypotheticals and scenarios. And fictional or not has nothing to do with whether something is possible.

The scenario was meant to show that most rapes being done by people you know doesn't automatically mean that you would be OK to advertise your GPS position, because the category "people you know" also includes people that do not know your position (unlike say, an abusing father that does his "deed" at home, a stalking neighbor can attack you away from it).
Are you serious? I'm not sure what I disagree with more:

"The value of latex can only be realized when using computer modern."

Or

"Computer modern is the best font for every type of text in every document."
If IE10 is good enough it won't be hard as long as you don't depend on WebKit-specific stuff or WebGL, and this site does support Firefox.
I know that the grievance is on the design decision, which is a point of a trend which the dev team will follow, but as for the window switching, there are several extensions you can install for that; just flip the switch on the webpage and it'll get installed and activated immediately:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/38/windows-alt-tab/

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/97/coverflow-alt-tab/
Leader of Disputed Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Experiment Resigns
Exactly what I was thinking.. something small and light, but elegant (very much like Julia itself!). I have little experience in this area and have only built the most lightweight frameworks for myself, but if we start a git repo I'll be the first to dive in and start poking around. I think it would be a really cool project.
You made me curious so I played it out...
http://i.imgur.com/Y2M6j.png

At some point you just become unkillable.

edit
It's still going ;_; when will it end?! I wasted 2 hours on this already.
I solved security problems and made a enormous test-harness for ThisCausesThat, a research project for UC Irvine.
https://github.com/eLobato/wc_master
I was talking about doing estimations for tasks. It's a pretty normal "agile" thing to do. There's no trust issues, it's just a project management thing.
I once saw pretty much all 20 enemy ships nearest me suddenly turn towards me in near unison. Those were bots, not real people. I like the idea of the game. I feel a little disappointed that he appears to have lied about it actually being MMO.

I'll grant him one "get out of jail free card": perhaps it can be MMO, but if not enough human players are playing at any time he fills the world with bots. That's about the nicest guess I can make.
They must be really being hit hard, my connections keep timing out. :(
Update: Ok, looks like I fixed it. Firefox wasn't liking $('body').css('display', 'none'), as it turns out.
A product that lets you Build Your Own Phone System:
http://www.buildanumber.com

Very early alpha release. Lots of UI issues and its in desperate need of a tutorial.
Accomplished a few things:

Redesigned the layout for merchant signup at

http://giftsmatic.com/new

Built with 2 friends at a hack weekend

http://eventon.com

A cool mashup of upcoming events and ones that you rsvp'ed for. Currently it's integrated with eventbrite and facebook.
Nations fail due to low average intelligence and high average psychopathic tendencies. The reasons for those things are multitudinous, of course, but the ruling class is a result more often than a cause.
Here is a quick-and-hackish way to stream / broadcast your terminal (http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6788/):

script -qf | tee >(nc -l -p 5000) >(nc -l -p 5001) >(nc -l -p 5002)

The client can then run `nc your_ip port` to watch your terminal live.

Also, I once wrote a node.js script that broadcasts recorded terminal sessions. To see a demo:

nc wei23.net 5000

Code is on Github: https://github.com/clvv/scriptbroadcast
Sorry, did you actually checked the website? Your argument regarding Windows tablet market seems really shallow. They already optimize it for iOS devices and Android which is like 90% of the market. I agree, the market is webkit all over, which sounds like a monoculture. But, there is no windows tablet yet and for design professionals ( which the website targets ) this is IMHO not the target. So, no early optimization.
I am not going to comment on "actually used at least 5 orders of magnitude more often by 5 orders of magnitude more people" because this seems to be disconnected from reality.
Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs
> to counteract the increasing threat of total communications surveillance by governments

So I guess SSL man in the middle will be coming soon? If it isn't here already, of course.

Doesn't anyone else feel that the answer to over-surveillance from the government isn't a technological arms race but a political debate about the virtues of freedom?
Add me, guys. My username is 'reason'. I'm up over in the top left corner.
Scratched an itch and built LaTeX2Markdown (http://tullo.ch/projects/LaTeX2Markdown) - a LaTeX to Markdown converter designed for converting AMS-LaTeX documents to webpages.

Offers compatibility with AMS-LaTeX (theorems, lemmas, proofs, etc), and drop-in integration with a Markdown/MathJaX blogging environment. Pandoc can't cope with these environments, so it seemed useful to build something that did.

The usage model is effectively:

1) Write your mathematic documents (lecture notes, blog posts, exercise solutions) in LaTeX using the full AMS-LaTeX suite.

2) Convert to PDF, Markdown, or another format.

3) Use Markdown/MathJaX for blog, use PDF for distribution, etc.

Full source available at https://github.com/ajtulloch/LaTeX2Markdown.
Definitely hackish, but still useful. Thanks for sharing!
Really loving the Moon tiles too. Are the Moon tiles by Google as well or are they 3rd party tiles?
I built a tiny (>3 kb) JavaScript date picker. It's been done many times before, but it's my first open source project so I'm pretty stoked even if no one ever uses it. http://sunmer.github.com/tinycal/
there had to be at least one april fool article on first page.. n guess what.. it's google's..
As others have said, this is fake but I give it one day until someone does a 'Show HN' with a real version.
2 is not a question
I would rather use turn-key, ready-to-use solutions made by someone more versed than me.

Privacy doesn't work like that. It isn't set-it-and-forget-it. If you aren't constantly policing yourself, all the full-disk encryption and Tor networks in the world can't keep you anonymous.
My very first public application, tracks a simple checklist. http://solidusserver.net/ware/spike/
I'm not suggesting that this would work for subverting an agreement as it pertains to work done while an employee. The grandparent specifically referred to an employer demanding past work, presumably predating any business relationship.
At least from Finland and using Chrome, following the above leads me to this version, which I've not seen noted elsewhere -- is it specific to Hacker News?

http://imgs.xkcd.com/a1panels/4444e5d258b5f12b41350ed2c550e3...
You need a business case to write standards compliant accessible code that is browser agnostic?

WWW - as envisioned by Berners Lee - is getting worse.

> Berners-Lee identifies universality as one of Web’s key principles, providing people with the freedom to link to anything, regardless of hardware, software, or Internet connection.
As others have stated, it is already possible to get App Store information as an independent developer via the Apple Enterprise Partner Feed.

Here is a TechCrunch article from a year ago about some companies (including a YC one that has gone through a few iterations) that have already tried to do this:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/08/explor-app/
Cool. I for one would very much like to see more hacker tourism stories, though they probably have a higher research cost than fiction. Maybe a Kickstarter project to at least get Stross and Stephenson some plane tickets…
In my own experience (as a non-eng)- if you want to get a job at a startup outside of the engineering roles, you need to be a lot more proactive. That means emailing companies that you find interesting, and telling them why you find them interesting (do not send the same cover letter to every company without any mention of why you like their company - that's what people on craigslist do, and that's why a lot of companies are forced to use a jobvite/etc system).

Most startups have non-eng needs but don't know they need them until after they're hurting pretty bad. I've had the most success applying to companies (instead of jobs) - tell them what you're good at and why you like their product - if they think there's a fit, they'll get back to you. By applying to companies this way, you also manage to avoid a lot of the potential competition you'd have for the job once a formal job req/post has been generated (no one else even knows the job exists, because you just sent in your stuff and asked them to respond if they think there's a fit).

Do keep in mind - the more hype the startup has gotten, the more generic cover letters/resumes they get - so find a way to stand out, and understand it's a numbers game! Lucky for you, there's tons of startups that need great people in SV, so if you play the game enough, you'll get a job with an awesome company.

Good luck!
Currently building a little ditty which will send me an email notification every tuesday of all new album releases of my top artists according to Last.FM

You can check out an alpha, alpha build @ http://smooth-wind-2063.heroku.com/
I've been using freshbooks.com for quite awhile now and I like it a lot. I'm a one-man shop and it seems to fit my needs perfectly.
Beyond the discoverability problem, one thing that the App Store really needs to fix is allowing 'favoriting' apps for download later. This is especially important for those that are too large to download via the iPhone (although maybe now that the newer iOS doesn't require iTunes anymore that limit has gone away.) The current user experience is 1) browse through the webstore, 2) see something they like and try to download it, 3) get an error message saying it is too large, 4) forget about it.

Further, it would be great if it wouldn't show the same error message once per app, like it sometimes does (and again, maybe this has been fixed in the latest iOS.)
Harvard CS171, Data Visualization
I'd say that anything that convinces IE users to switch is a step forward.
However, I think that if you are operating in an environment like that, with that level of independence and creativity, you almost may as well go a step further and grab at least some element of ownership in what you are doing.

You mean climb the technical ladder? Because if you're already in a great company environment, that's exactly what the technical ladder is for.
The moon tiles are from Google Moon ( http://www.google.com/moon/ ), although I think it's actually NASA imagery.
Yeah, it has been awhile since the last Ubuntu release. Still thinking if we should do anything for the next ubuntu release.
I taught myself exactly what I needed to know about backend development (and no more!) and launched http://www.quipvideo.com!

Feedback appreciated.
It isn't disconnected from reality. Consider China alone - IE is still king there as it is in the majority of large organisations (who still like to have control over their users with AD/Group Policy).

I'm not saying preemptively design for it, but if you preemptively exclude its predecessors and your path will be frought with many less turds to not step in i.e:

In 2 years: "Oh shit we did it all in Webkit and Gecko features - The growing 20% of Windows tablet market doesn't support it - we're going to have to rewrite or ship an app both of which are costly".
Once again Occam's butterknife is spotted in the wild. Richard Lynn, call your office:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations
Very nice. Forked!
I built and launched Geocoda (https://geocoda.com), which lets developers location-enable their applications. Initial features include geocoding and a spatial database.

Thanks to the first round of feedback we got on HN, and to those who have already checked it out!
THIS ... is the beginning of an awesome company.
I've been getting back into the open web after spending a few years doing mostly Flash stuff. It blows my mind how little debugging web development requires nowadays. You can write an app in Chrome, and it works equally well in Firefox and IE9 without any added effort on your part.
Yes, right now there is a PHP example implementation that should work on most shared hosting as well. No need to open terminal, much less have root access.
These things are all good but I have found it ruins your ability to perceive signal versus noise.

Everything seems to be a trade-off - the mind included.
Working literally every waking hour (22 hour+ coding sessions) for two weeks, I've created a replacement for our WinPE-based Windows repair CDs [1] in Linux, in anticipation of Microsoft's non-renewal of all WinPE licensing agreements to 3rd parties, and made them fit on an ISO that (GUI desktop environment, all kinds drivers and binary blobs, web browser, partition editor, custom repair tools, and all) is only 40MiB. CDs will (hopefully, DV) fix any and all boot-related issues, attempt to repair registry, and perform various sanity checks to get your PC booting once more for Windows XP - 7.

Now for the testing phase! (anyone interested in trying it out, drop me an email mqudsi@neosmart.net and I'll send you a copy for free)

[1]: http://systemdiscs.com/
Have been hoping for someone to do this for so long - kind of like casting Star Craft, but codecasting instead. Rock on!
Awesome, Ill give it a spin. thnx
Minified:

Why I'm working for the man and not doing a startup?
Stability and lack of passion.

---

Two good reasons, however, not too insightful (subjective).
So... live your life in constant fear of the elephant. Whatever the elephants says, goes. Gotcha.
"A Ruby on a Rail" - funny stuff.
I completely rebuilt http://refer.ly and learned just enough about the backend part to configure the entire box myself on EC2 (yay!). 350 people in the beta, and sending out the next batch of invites tonight. Yay!
Can't believe I just wasted a few minutes reading that article. I went to find out how to save over $100k and learned nothing other than what I already knew: older versions of IE cause issues.
Or use Alt-Escape.
Heh. Financial results for organizations like the USPS are not some black mystery; you don't need to rely on anonymous sources, or conflicting reports.

http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/periodic-reports...

And now you know. (See, in particular, page 9 of the PDF - the second slide in the deck. Revenue down sharply, expenses up very slightly, EXCLUDING the prefunding requirement.)
added some features to http://classfy.com
In case anybody who is not running windows wants to see what their site looks like in IE, I fired up parallels out of curiosity:

http://i44.tinypic.com/54vewk.jpg
IETF 83 (Paris), HTTP/2.0, and Encryption [and SPDY]
Not to disrespect either Steven Jobs or Aston Kutcher, but while I guess Kutcher has the ego/arrogance to match the role he's playing, I cannot imagine his aura of flippancy and silliness being overcome. With all his silly, comic roles in the past, it'll be hard for anyone to take him seriously.

Wait - is this an April Fool's joke? (God, I can't wait for this day to be over!)
I built an in-memory NoSQL index (not a database) for answering subset inclusion queries, i.e. "find me all the Items with {Feature1, Feature2, Feature3}". It also supports queries by category, and by color.

It's vastly faster than SQL for this purpose.

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/introducing_hobo.html

https://github.com/stucchio/Hobo

I say it's not a database because it isn't even a Key-Value store. It's just a key-store - you query it for the keys, and retrieve the values from somewhere else (e.g. postgres).
Wow, this thread just became some kind of magnet for racists, didn't it. Since you are apparently very proud of your IQ, perhaps you can read the actual article and try to comment on something related to the article's substance, and not just give us a knee jerk reaction based on the title.
These "developers" would have saved company X a fair bit of money by actually researching IE. Microsoft has graciously provided a massive amount of documentation covering most Internet Explorer variants and their quirks (via MSDN)[0].

One of the main problems in web development today is the creation of browser-specific code; "IE6" in particular is a scapegoat for poor code. I found that once I studied MSDN and wrote no browser-specific code that IE 8 became elementary to support. IE 7 soon followed. IE 6 & 5.5 were close behind.

For CSS, the key is understanding that every page does not need to look the same. Furthermore, reading MSDN's CSS compatibility grid[1] provides more insight.

For JavaScript, the key is simplification. Using DOM 0 events over fancy DOM 3 events yields big gains. Avoiding selector engines will also yield gains.

I'm getting very tired of incompetent web developers and their browser elitism. Do your homework.

[0]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533050(v=vs.85).as...

[1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc351024(v=vs.85).as...
> amazingly 'analytical' sound with their wide soundstage.

You sound like a HiFi journo.

Techie here:

Sennheiser HD-25 II's here. Paid 35GBP new (on offer one fine day). I can run the cable over with my desk chair 100 times a day for 8 years and they still work like the day they were bought...
Currently Julia handles parallelism on its own: you use the parallel primitives or higher-level functions provided by the language, not an mpi, and run over multiple processes using either "julia -p <N>" (on a single machine) or "Julia -hostfile <host list>" (on a cluster). The Julia interpreter does the networking itself in the background: currently I'm pretty sure this tunnels over ssh.

I rather like Julia's parallel syntax, but I'd really prefer that the inter-host communication by done via MPI on the back end for performance. Something to hack at if I ever get time...
Introducing: Tachy Cache
"Stability is a huge benefit of a regular full time job"

That's a myth. While being an employee, there's no stability whatsoever. You can get fired any time - get laid off, become a victim of corporate politics, or get fired for whatever other reason. Just last month, someone I know got fired on the spot after 15 years at a company for not reporting some personal stuff between other employees.. something he wasn't involved with, at all. I'm sure everyone else heard stories of people being thrown out after 10-20-30 years of loyal service to the company for bullshit reasons.

At the same time, when you run a business, you can't ever get fired, and everything depends on you. Whether you make money, or lose money - it's for the most part, your doing (market circumstances nonwithstanding).

That's why running a business is a lot more of a stable job than working for the man.
You say that you know if you worked on someone else's idea you wouldn't be able to find the passion to sustain you. I would challenge you on that - how can you be so sure? I joined Twilio very early and it wasn't my idea. However, I took my passion for making software developers happy (and my even more fundamental professional passion for helping people be productive) and connected it with their specific idea. I never would have thought of Twilio, but I'm so happy to be part of making it exist.

Don't ever stop prospecting for other people and ideas that you could get behind, because when you find them it is magical.
I've been doing the same thing: http://i.imgur.com/WR7Xl.png
Ask HN: Someone trying to take over my online identity, what to do?
This is rather weird, but in the past 2 or 3 days I've received emails from several forums and communities of which I'm a member under the same handle warning me that someone has requested a password reset for my account.

I dismissed the first one as being one of those random things that happen, the second one made me thoughtful, but now I'm downright paranoid. What should I do (if anything?) about this?
For the purpose, yes. They did need her password, didn't they?
It surely doesn't explain differences between similarly coloured countries.
In Europe Italy seems to be the bluest and yet things are not good.
Ireland is very pale yet it fared pretty well before the recession.

I would argue that in many cases wealth causes IQ and poverty takes it away.
E.g. ex-ussr is rather blue for its sorry state, and I guess it would be much bluer if measured 25 years ago.
Argentina is pretty blue but yet it fails to monetize that.
Mongolia is very blue and it's effectively a placeholder.
I launched OptionBounce, a stock options swing trading system.
Also, there is Playterm [1], which does the same thing for shell recordings made with the 'script' command. 'script' and the player 'scriptreplay' are shipping with most modern distributions, e.g. they come in the package bsdutils on Ubuntu.

[1] http://www.playterm.org
NY Preschool DNA Testing
I finished my undergrad thesis!

A method for constructing a semantic graph from a large corpus of text.
A quick little tool to take the boilerplate work out of using forms in bootstrap : http://bootstrap-forms.heroku.com/
Check chrome://net-internals/#events and include actual bytes under "capture". The data being sent through seb.ly is not enough to for the game:

.#{"type":"leave","id":1333318871470}

It does look like he's updating the players coming in and out though.
I cringe at the idea, but I also cringed at the idea of heath ledger playing the joker. Ashton is one of the few celebrities I can think of that seems like they would really care of nailing jobs just right.
Explain it to someone
I built srctree (http://srctree.net/). In short, it aims to be a pastebin + git + canvas mix.
An example of usage: http://srctree.net/3Q-1

It still needs a lot of work to become usable, but I am already happy I got this far!
Which color best represents an entrepreneur?
A friend of mine, who is a designer asked me this question.

Actually we are trying to make a universal icon/logo to represent entrepreneurship or e.g a CEO's blog.

So this question just came out.
To be honest, where real time collaboration apps and updates are concerned, we're using WPF and WCF on top of .Net. There's a lot ready to roll there - much more than any open source framework. It's conveniently the "forms paradigm" with a nice asynchronous network backend and scary scalability (AppFabric/Azure really does scale!)
Yay, congrats and thanks for using Twilio. We'd love to share what you built with the community, can you drop me a note at danielle@twilio.com if interested?
App In Review, trying to get some visibility into the Apple App Store review queue:

http://appinreview.com
Is there any reason you couldn’t actually do this with emscripten?
It's already here and it's been here for a while.

I work in the financial industry where there are some strict regulatory requirements about information flow (you know, things like like insider trading and maintaining firewalls between different parts of big banks and stuff like that) and all the large banks that I know of are performing an SSL man-in-the-middle on their gateways and have been for quite a while.

Within a corporate setting it's very easy to do - you issue your own certs which are set to be trusted by internal computers and reencrypt with those at the gateways.
1) for what do they offer twitter sign in/up if you still have to enter an email/password?

2) node.js as a client dependency ... yeah right ... I can't wait to start a node.js install party on my Mac.
this is one of my all-time favorite games.
Hackers and Players