skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, many cool apps under development and we're working on a showcase page.

Here are a couple of other links for now:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wine-box/id525182844?mt=8
http://needanaccountant.org/MobileApp.aspx
Words mean things. There's an external cost to society when marketers engage in deceptions that only work for the ignorant. It adds friction to the marketplace; each instance makes it a little bit harder for customers to find the goods and services they're after, and for legitimate vendors to be found.

It's also a missed opportunity to offer those people UIs that fit their tasks, rather than encourage them to continue poor use of the only tool they know.
https://schoolzilla.org/ is a data visualization tool powered by Tableau
"Fortunately", back in the days when I was at school, the BIOS tended to have backdoor passwords that were easily googleable. That stopped working eventually, but then I happened to procure for myself a second-hand school computer which turned out to have the BIOS password still set when I bought it. Short work to then run a tool to read the password directly from CMOS.

I've forgotten what it was, but for all I know they're still using the same password. Oh, the lengths I went to to run linux livecds...
Ask HN: What project, product, or company do you want to sell?
Hi everyone. I'm curious to see which members of the HN community are looking to sell products that they've built in their spare time and what those products do. I'm not looking to purchase anyone's product or company at this time, but I'm sure there are members of HN that would love to hear about great technology that is for sale. I've found that the companies or websites on Flippa tend to not be of a very high quality, and thus thought asking what sites are for sale here might bring more interesting answers!
If your effort spent on tools speeds up your time-to-stuff, then the assumptions embodied in 1) are invalid.

Besides, with open source you have more than just the original developer on whom you can use cash to entice him to make your favorite changes.
It's clear from Pincus's past actions that Zynga doesn't play by the rules everyone else does
Here are a few, check the comments under the top post. Looks like Cassandre Dayne, Wendy Baker Smith, and Penny Baker for starters. https://www.facebook.com/pages/LendInk/124974504234948 Also Danielle Yockman from a post further down the page. edit: looks like this page is compiling a list http://ashentech.com/index.php/topic,3037.html?PHPSESSID=t9k...

edit2: Chrystalla Thoma said some negative things on facebook but never contacted LendInk, she has apologized. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3891497111...
I think it was Einstein who once said, "knowledge is not about what you've learned, it's about what you've managed to unlearn.". The old "calories in, calories out" adage is one of those things you have to unlearn, because as much as it seems to make sense, modern science has shown us that it's simply not true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z5X0i92OZQ&feature=youtu...
Shoutcast pretty please :)
This seems like a really good idea. Writing login/auth/password reset/etc crap for the last 10 years has gotten tiring. The problem is that people are necessarily going to have to put a lot of trust into you and your service. For example, if your service goes down, can my users log in? Trust is going to be the biggest issue, but we've seen these walls fall down before if the pain threshold is high enough.
The 1,873 surveyed on CouponCodes4u is hardly an accurate representation of American iPhone fans.
Europe's quixotic plan to "clean" the Internet of terrorists
The early and enthusiastic support of DHH / the Rails community had a lot to do with the initial success of TextMate. Whether this was 'deserved' is too subjective to be worth debating. It happened, and TextMate took off as a result.
YAY! Hopefully this fills the void left in my life after the loss of getspool.com...now if only I can cache on my android for viewing on the go..... good luck with reelsurfer
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs all attended college. They just didn't finish. Yet, I think they all derived some value from the time they spent in college.
First full color Curiosity Mars Panoramic Pictures
It’s always very sad to see these Big companies give hard times to startups mostly for the simple reason that they can. They don't generally give a good reason, with a generic overnight internal policy rule they will just shut down a service. It’s even more so when you think that they too were startup. Just hang in there Unglue.it team, implement a new payment process, it’s the hard way to success I guess.
Seems like this would be a very easy way to DoS a Meteor app, if it's really spawning a PhantomJS process for each request.
A fairly popular and modern classical artist recently posted a spreadsheet showing 6 month of digital revenues. They are broken down by service. She averages $0.004 per stream on Spotify. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkasqHkVRM1OdEJ...
I'm a mentor; officially for two fellows, informally for another 6. Atop this, they move in my circles. It's a pro-bono relationship -- I'm working with them because I'm excited about them and what they're doing.
which is precisely why I won't be using it.
Google Fined $22.5 Million Over Safari Privacy Violation
Facebook releases mobile web app research
While it's true that salaries are by default depressed, anyone who's a pretty good hustler should be able to at least get within 5% of Vancouver. The real problem is that you're competing with all the kids who get out of UVic, don't want to leave the island, and are willing to work for peanuts.

On the other hand, if you're a high level/senior marketing, sales, or developer, there are opportunities at more reasonable pay levels - assuming you can find a position (it is after all, a relatively small community, and senior spots don't crop up all that often). One of the primary annoyances is that http://www.viatec.ca/ (the local tech community group) is kinda worthless for finding work - or for that matter, for finding talent when you're hiring. My experience is that hiring tends to be by word of mouth or via recruiter. Two of my last three Victoria jobs have been through recruiters, one was through word of mouth, all were reasonably well paid (at least as well as I did in Vancouver).
There are strangely a fair number of startups, mostly in the mobile advertising and sem/seo space - and all the regular caveats about working for startups and startup wages apply as they do anywhere else.

Since I'm a developer, I mostly keep an eye on who's hiring in that space. Amongst non-startups, you might try perforce (I know they were looking for a front end guy, they might not be any more), neverblue (definitely looking to hire a couple of intermediate devs, probably a front end person too if the right one came along), and abe books.

Hope that helps.
It'll be exactly 100% in the end. Heat death of the universe, if nothing else wipes us out first.

Sic transit gloria mundi.
This is well done, nice evolution of swole.me!
Those are mostly bug-fixes and feature requests, though. That's not really what I was talking about. When it comes to policy issues (like this whole point about "enforced rudeness") or anything procedural, they really seem to have their minds pretty well made up from what I've seen. I'm not going to waste time chasing up links and what-not, but when I've seen Joel or Jeff respond to that sort of thing, the tone has universally been something like "this is the way we do things here, deal with it." And that's if they decide to grace one with a reply at all.
Actually, Quicksilver gets updates on a regular basis; it's now 64-bit and Mountain Lion compatible: http://blog.qsapp.com/post/27968374731/mountain-lion-is-upon....
Ubuntu for Android Gets Shown Off and Detailed
I really want to like ST2, because it seems to have the fastest text engine of the current crop of editors; but as a Mac application, it's just barely better than Emacs.

1) The GUI is incomplete: look at the preferences, for instance. To change a setting, you have to open the defaults settings file, find the setting you want, copy it into a different file (user settings), and change it there. Actually, I take it back: it's worse than Emacs in this regard.

2) What GUI is there often works strangely. For example, if you open a folder you get both a sidebar and a tab bar. You can put files in the tab bar by double-clicking them, or you can browse the directory in the sidebar. But if you select a file in the sidebar which is not open in a tab, you end up with a tab bar with no selected tabs, which is quite jarring, since tab bars in all other applications always have one active tab. If you only have one tab visible, it looks like it's active even if in fact you have selected some other file in the sidebar (the fact that active and inactive tabs look very similar in the default theme does not help).

3) The default theme gives you a window that is a strange mix of light gray and dark gray, with no apparent logic. It looks like parts of two different applications got mashed together. I have yet to find a theme that looks satisfying.
If there's a macro distinction on can make about Thiel's strategy versus others, it's a strong focus on the long term.
I'm not on a mac but good luck, I've been waiting for someone to do something like this or similar for a while. For those people looking at alternatives I recently found and am enjoying - tomahawk-player.org
I think it's a likely death sentence, although certainly not a guaranteed one.

Clearly a lot of open source projects maintain active development for years/decades. But there aren't many success stories I can think of offhand when it comes to closed source commercial software converting to open source. The only big one that immediately comes to mind is OpenOffice, and it's a pretty unusual case -- it still had an actively-maintained proprietary commercial version developed alongside the open source version for years.

If you as an individual think having your editor be open source is critical, you weren't using TextMate anyway. If you were using TextMate, you're probably willing to pay $50-60 for a "Mac-like experience" with a closed source but extensible editor. That mostly leaves diehard TextMate 1.x users and people who would try a free TextMate for beer rather than speech reasons. I'm dubious as to whether there's a sufficiently talented and motivated subset of that group to seriously further TM's development.

Lastly, I'm not sure there's room for another "industrial strength" open source text editors. It's probably not much of an exaggeration to say that there's Emacs, Vim, jEdit for the weirdos, and Things Only Their Authors Use. And in all of the big cases, those editors are cross-platform. TM isn't and won't be for years, if ever.
Fortres was still alive and kicking in the early 2000s. (Actually, it appears to still be alive today! I love that their icon is a sad kid: http://www.fortresgrand.com/products/f101/f101.htm)

My internet forebears had already catalogued most of Fortres' flaws by the time I became familiar with it, but most of the holes had been closed upstream. The one obvious chink in the armor that still remained was their "Backdoor Password"

If you keyed Ctrl+Shift+Esc, an Unlock dialog would pop up and prompt you for the admin password. Alternately, there was a 6 digit integer in the titlebar that you could give to Fortres customer support and they would give you back a corresponding 6 digit unlock code. Some enterprising individual had figured out this algorithm and published the VB(6?) source for a keygen application.

My contribution to The Fight was a port of the keygen to the TI-83+ (it was a very prevalent platform at the time). No acclaim ever came to me for the port however; after I experienced the IT personnel rage when they discovered a classroom full of un-hobbled PCs, I decided to keep the authorship a secret.
I think he means in terms of popularity, not release date.
Some non English submissions were welcome in the past. My personal guidelines for those submissions are:

* It has to be the original source of the new.

* There has to be no official English translation available.

* It has to be interesting :).

See for example: "Homer Simpson 100% in CSS :)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176360

(I still remember the time, when 21 points where a lot.)
* Presumably shaky code base

* You need a leader, a figure head, to move a project along. But I think Allan Odgaard lost interest.

* Working on feature rich text editor is hard and not sexy. If it was in the long years since TM1.5 an OS project would have catched fire.

* Strong competition by existing editors like ST2 or BBedit or Textwrangler or chocolatapp.com

* Design by committee
This does not make sense. Windows has been the dominant operating system on PCs for a very long time, but Apple never sued PC manufacturers for it. The reason is simple: Microsoft never blatantly copied OS X to the same extent that certain Android manufacturers (cough Samsung) copy iOS and the iPhone.
I'm not dismissing your thorough reply, but HN can only support a certain depth of discussion.

I think we agree more than disagree here. I strongly agree with the idea that college should be seen as a set of tools and not the default choice. I think we can also both agree that alternatives need to be developed, otherwise college will remain a default.

I guess our disagreement is over the claims versus effectiveness of Thiel's alternative in particular.
It is. And the server doesn't even feed PhantomJS the HTML that it can generate, PhantomJS has to make another request to the server. I wonder if it can be made to recurse? https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/master/packages/spider...
Why do you assume EA won't release games for it?
Ask HN: As an established Java developer now, what...
...do you wish someone told you when you started? (headline split due to 80 char limit, editorial part of my brain clearly AWOL)

Or more generally what motions do you go through now on every project that would have been useful to know when you started?
This looks well done. Congratulations on building a cool product!

A word of caution on this as a business, though: this is going to be brutal. You're selling a service that every competent web developer can build. You can save them time -- but not a huge amount of time, especially compared to the prepackaged user registration apps that already exist for common web frameworks. And the customers that grow really big will have strategic reasons to want to move off of your service, in addition to any cost-saving reasons. Maybe over time you can grow into something like http://www.gigya.com/ , which powers registration & social/gamification components for mainly content sites. But to do that you'll need to find a market of people who aren't developers, for whom your thing is a real enabler, not just a time saver.

TL;DR: Unless you're building something technically complex enough that everyone realizes they can't come close to replicating it, don't build stuff for developers. We're stingy and we think we can do anything ourselves in a weekend.
You seem to be deliberately ignoring the fact that they cannot be handled by a layer on top of the filesystem without introducing all sorts of weird behavior and severe inefficiencies.
I have a question for the mid-to-upper level infosec guys. The article mentions lots of certifications and professional organizations. I can certainly see value in these associations and certifications, but I've always been leery of professional certifications. I felt that they were for mediocre players who didn't have "real" experience to show and needed some vocational training and certification. Am I way off? Are these certifications worthwhile when evaluating job applicants? Do they make you a more capable professional?
Why News Outlets in Different Countries Have Different Olympic Medal Tables
Haskell Live Episode 2: Time To Refactor
You're confusing up-and-coming, meaning "showing promise", with upcoming, meaning "forthcoming".
would be great to see some sample icebreakers
> DailyCred integrates just like Facebook Connect but with your branding. You also own your users' data and can take it with you at any time.

The context isn't clear if this means my OAuth credentials or my Facebook profile information but you shouldn't invite the question that the app owns my Facebook data or that they can access it when I'm not online.
I wonder how this will effect pyside...
I think it was Eric Raymond's idea; he, like most hackers, was outraged at computer security enthusiasts calling themselves "hackers" and suggested calling them "crackers" instead. I think the fact that the computer-security folks already had a (different) meaning for "cracker" was sort of a coincidence.
HP to book $8 billion charge
Ballistics is occasionally interestingly counterintuitive, but perhaps that was overkill.

Bully for you. But it's the idea of prioritizing what is essentially a technician's job (yes, we call ourselves engineers; in reality, most of us are craftsmen) over knowing how the world works, and having some of the mental tools to figure stuff out that's confusing me.

Also, physics really rubbed in abstraction as a concept: "here's the atom, it's a black box, but externally scientists at this point in history could tell this about it. Then this discovery was made. Here's the nucleus, it's a black box, but externally scientists at this point in history could tell this about it..."
What happens if Browser ID takes off?
Ask HN: Ideas to ease the installation of an EC2 hosted webapp
Recently i open sourced a DIY dropbox powered blogging engine ( http://www.nkrode.com/article/autopilot ). Many of the users interested are people who do not have a programming background, but would still like the idea of a dropbox powered blog. However, i think my current setup instructions are beyond most people. It requires them to :

1. Setup a dedicated server or fire an EC2 instance
2. Fork a github repository
3. Install some python packages etc. (i guess i can do a pip install)
4. Configure web servers
5. Configure the blog etc. etc.

I was wondering how can I can packages this all together so that it's a sort of 1-click install. One option I was thinking was :

1. User signs up for an Amazon account or azure or google. (non geeks will still find it hard to deal with downtimes, server issues etc.)
2. Fires a pre-configured image.
3. Done.

Are there any other tools, services, options which can easy this whole process?
Regarding crates in TF2: Nothing forces you to open the crates. You can trade them to others or delete them.

Any item that effects gameplay is craftable. Uncraftable items (ie: ones you have purchase in the store or uncrate) do not affect gameplay.

Of all the "free to play" schemes, this one is the least odious.
Curiosity Sends 1st Color Panorama of Gale Crater
Obviously not. But it's not up to Gentiles to decide the best strategy for the Jews to defend themselves from us, either. Likewise, what the Romani do to protect their nation is up to them.
I liked it, actually. Here's the two I made for my apps: http://www.smore.com/s06g and http://smore.com/r2w1

Now if only they allowed me to pay a few bucks a month to remove all the smore links on top, i would probably use it as the main landing page for my sites.
> free users cannot @-mention paid users

Whoa, not cool.
I might have been, I'm not sure.

But I do know several people who have moved up island citing low salary, cost of living and family lifestyle for the move.

HN ate one of my earlier comments. So I'll try and rewrite it here from memory.

Developer salaries are very depressed here in Victoria. You will often see "Senior" positions from $70K, more for large places like Abebooks (Amazon). Those go unfilled for months at a time.

The friends I have that have moved upisland now earn > $140K by simply computing once a week to Vancouver for facetime.

A recent sucessful immigrant friend from europe said to me (paraphrasing) "Everyone here has a trust fund and spends all their time trying to screw each other over". This is absolutely true.

I know of one guy who had a modest exit, and now views programmers as labour - he treats them like shit and pays $30K for php/ruby developers. If you interviewed with him, he would make comments about outsourcing to india.

As Patio11 might say, a pathological employer. But the point to be made is that I'm not surprised by this behaviour - I've encountered it myself several times. This is Victoria in a nutshell. It simply is not ready to respect talent and pay it well in order to build thriving businesses and an ecosystem.

Sorry I'm so negative, but I'd like to see people succeed in the easiest fashion possible.

Perhaps we need more meetups to start building networks of people building things? Housing/office space will be cheap sooner now that the mortgage rules are changing.
Test-Driven HTML: Why and How
This is a poor article. Who shut it down? The ISP? In response to complaints from whom? Amazon? This is what goes in the first paragraph, not buried in the middle of paragraph nine.
How running a marathon inspired 'Canabalt's' creator
This may be a dumb question but is this a startup or a project?
I thought the radio aspect of Pandora means they get to take advantage of compulsory licensing...
Ah, the memories...

Like most I started early with programming in assembly, C, pascal shudder and then discovering unix.

I remember starting off by hacking the computer lab computers in my school. The lab staff had to log you in so they would know who was using which machines. I learned the pattern through a little social engineering and it wasn't long before I never had to talk to the staff. I also bypassed many of the tools that locked those machines down and even locked the lab techs out of a few of my favorite machines that I used for long running processes. I even had my own primitive form of RDP using screen captures and email. Eventually I learned to crack the passwd file on my schools mainframe and then I had access to everyone's accounts including the teachers. I then discovered those passwords also worked on most home dialup accounts, outside email, irc accounts, etc. Fun! I used to dominate the east coast irc back in the day, at least in my little world, but I kept my head real low so I wouldn't be noticed.

You know the best way to pick up a girl from Scandinavia? Easy, hack her email and irc accounts, knock her boyfriend off of irc and impersonate him, erase her boyfriends incoming emails and, spoofing his email address, bully her a little and tell her to stop seeing guys like yourself. Somehow it worked like charm. Man was she hot! First hot girl I ever dated.

My downfall? I gave some "goobers" some irc scripts to perform netsplits and become admin of their favorite channels. The idiots got caught making life threats against an irc admin that banned them and, in a stroke of self-preservation, they turn me over as their "ring leader". No hacking your way out of that one! Real sweet, eh? My parents were not very happy having the local police, the FBI and the NSA knocking on their door. I lost computer privileges (still went to college and got my degrees though) and now I just hack my own private network of pcs, laptops and cellphones at home.

Ahhh, the memories....