skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> iPhoto?? Who has not gotten that with their Mac?

Upgrades to the latest version aren't free.
A trucker is only allowed to drive a certain number of hours a day, mostly because they are supposed to rest. If they aren't driving, they can sleep while the truck is moving.
this is a great idea, I had a similar idea.

I would have js bookmarklets and remove need for signups initially. Make it into a sort of pastebin. Also, make it a summary tool too (for oneself and for sharing.) Allow users to enter alternate headline, summary, quote/s, ranking, judgement.

Check out quote.fm and drop me a line if you want to see my screenshots, brainstorm or see my other research into this idea.
I think we crashed the site. It's not opening.
What he means, most probably, is to write colloquially. That is, write in informal, conversational style.
With Flash you can use the RTMFP protocol to do the exact same thing (stream audio, video and data in P2P). It's just not a very known technology.

If you really can't wait for P2P technology for browser you can check it : http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cirrus/. As far as I know, it's the only way to do true P2P in a browser.
Thanks. And wish you even more success in the coming times!
Where is it written that it takes a whole year? For all we know you could get that grant at the end of a week.
Could you not somehow reuse the JSIL code generator, and add things for the approach you took in Saltarelle (good integration with JQuery etc.)?

Another question, did you do any performance comparisons of Saltarelle? (to normal C# builds, to JSIL, or anything else?)
Really? Is this what you understand from guidelines?
What's your next post? "I found a very delicious and interesting recipe on web. It was delicious and I think it's worth sharing with hackers ♥."
Get out of here.

Maybe the blame is this stupid, non-central ranking mechanism which makes idiots like you and OP motivated to dump such stuff here for points and down-vote any criticism that does make sense.
In my experiences, manual backoffice that lets a human in a loop is rarely implemented (at all), rarely works and is frequently broken.

This is because the development process stimulates features and automation and such a backoffice has to touch every system while bypassing many checks. It's a perrenial pain in the ass.

So I expect a lot of companies and processes to lack "Plan B" entirely.
CCapture.js - A library to capture canvas-based animations
It could be anything, like a pile of garbage with a coca-cola vending machine on top of it, or just a piece of equipment.

Or, like in a video posted in this thread, an unsuitable writing on the wall, there seem to be a lot of them: http://i.imgur.com/0QL7a.png (similar size btw)
I <heart> Bumblebee. I just got an Optimus laptop (Lenovo U410 ideapad) and was appalled to discover I couldn't even run VMD [1].

Having installed Bumblebee, I can just use use optirun to provide CUDA enhancement just by initializing VMD using

$ optirun VMD

It's just that easy, and while it is a bit hacky, if you live on the command line it's not a major issue (especially when combined with aliases).

[1] - http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
The Big Small Screen
Lately I seem to be spending more time accessing the mobile Web on my Android phone and less time through a conventional desktop browser. In fact, I’m not alone in this behaviour. Last week Google published a very telling infographic on their Mobile Ad Blog illustrating the rise of so-called multi-screen consumer behaviour.
TEPCO owns and operates quite a few dams : http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/challenge/energy/hydro/p-plants-e....
re: his appeal to "interested corporations"

Does he need money? One would think he probably has a pretty good day job already. But if he really needed it in order to continue writing software, I would bet many people would be willing to contribute to a "Bellard Writing Fund". His contributions to open source are really in a class by themselves.
The original is hosted on Tepco's website[1] and Google-translating the article[2] suggests that it is purported to be an actual photo.

[1]: http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120830_03/120830_28.jpg
[2]: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&u=...
I have >500 and I can't downvote stories. Not sure if it's possible on HN at all.
>I took on silly amounts of work for absurdly low amounts of money.

I think you might have stuck longer to the lower rate + spec work. The idea is to start low and ramp up very very quickly. Infact initially you should try to double your rates, and adjust(A/B test!) your rate according to response rate.

Also i think rate is not a static thing. It depends on how much work is on your plate, or how less. It also depends on the market. So when tomorrow a lot of these startups go belly up and billion dollar valuations runs dry, so might your work. You will have to adapt accordingly.

If you don't have enough work at a particular rate, there's no harm in claiming a lower rate as a few test data points. You can always bill some hours you might not bill on the higher rate. For eg. sometimes i leave off some of the research hours when i'm billing a higher rate, but i bill them when i bid a lower one for whatever reason.
Exposed Terminal Services Remains High Frequency Threat
I'm not beating up on him for not batting 1000, I'm beating up on him for being a looter. KP was a solid, profitable company. Bain bought it, saddled it with debt (shame on the bankters, too), paid themselves massive management fees and "dividend". They made lots of "profit" from this exercise, but left a lot of people much worse off.

I have no problem whatsoever with people making a lot of money.
You are why I like /. better.
Not really, I usually bid on TYPO3 jobs (I'm a certified integrator), and alongside with me, there's usually 15 ridiculously low bids, most submitted by Indian project managers. And they go as low as 10% of my hourly rate or price.
HTML5mash: Twitter Bootstrap + HTML5 Boilerplate + Awesome
Looks like a door/access of some kind.

Edit: There was some kind of entrance tunnel connecting there : http://exposingthetruth.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/fuku...

Still not clear why they'd shop that.

Edit 2: this article has more details : http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js...

It's the entrance of the tunnel from which fuel is normally loaded.
You can still only downvote comments, not stories.
Honestly, this is not an option for everyone.

It's much cheaper to give your parents your old PC or laptop with an updated distro (say, Ubuntu) and forget about viruses, etc. They usually get most of their needs from the web (eg. webmail, facebook, etc.) and you can SSH in the event they actually need to install anything.

If you are a developer, it's very likely your old PC or laptop will be good enough for their needs.
If you really mean that resigning is the scariest thing you could imagine, then you're in for some surprises. I assume it's just hyperbole.
Second AMA by Gary Johnson (Libertarian candidate) coming to Reddit 11 Sept.
Since this, frankly over hyped piece of work keeps generating non-news I'm obliged to refer all interested to this well known little essay/rant: http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

Despite focusing on Windows it's still relevant as insight into the culture of Desktop GNU/Linux.
Entrepreneurship in Bengal: A Blueprint for India’s Next Stage of Development
Show HN: Foxbrowser, Firefox Home for iPad done right
I wonder how much Graves has actually used software. It is hard to be expressive in a medium that you lack the education to use. And it is very easy to pretend that a form of craft (like drawing) is creative in itself.
It seems to me that the basic problem was that the Hugo awards decided to broadcast using a service provider without a contractual arrangement. Is the Hugo really that low-rent?

If you're doing something big, always draw up a contract. Otherwise you're subject to terms like...

https://www.ustream.tv/terms-popup
[see sections 11, 12, and 13]
Progressive enhancement is the main reason HTML-based apps can't compete with native apps. Progressive enhancement is synonymous with not pushing things forward.

I know of at least one stealth startup who have built up a javascript library that is indistinguishably performant with native apps, but that performance comes at the cost of progressive enhancement. It's a tradeoff worth making.

I believe in an open web too, but one that is as powerful as native apps, not a crippled second-rate one that loses users and developers to proprietary platforms. Any browser feature that developers find useful and actively adopt will quickly be incorporated into the remaining browsers.
6 months in and I recognise most of that. About to make my first hire, so I guess the other half of that will come.
"To be successful I have to get out of my comfort zone." ...

This is my current mentality (I fear being in my confort zone), glad you share it... Anyone has an opinion on this type of behavior? Is this a good or bad habit on the long term?
You. Yes. YOU.
The guy who down-votes this post. You are what is wrong with HN.
I agree 100% with this. I always bid what I am willing to do a job for and explain my approach and level of attention to detail. FWIW I have been hired by many overseas firms that were looking for someone that could just get the job done correctly not just the cheapest provider.
3-D printing on the micrometer scale
What I don't understand is that sources are zipped on github? Goes against the very nature of git (or any versioning system for that matter).
I do OK with macros which use registers:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8120486/how-to-provide-pa...
> They are trying to get some momentum and solve chicken-and-egg.

Perhaps. I think they're trying to overcome the platform's innate disadvantages. Reasonable people may differ.

> Consider this a marketing effort.

When someone tries to pay me to use their product, all my alarm bells go off at once. :)
An invitation to come and hack on Buffer
This reminds me of a quote from Christopher Hitchens. I'm paraphrasing, but it was something along the lines of, "If you can speak then you can write. The problem is that few people know how to speak well."
Ubuntu tries to make publication easier for app developers
Yes, you're absolutely right!

I guess at the time I was worried about what people might say if I asked for too much - or what would happen if I didn't get any work. It's dreadfully hard to rid yourself of that mindset.
Mbrace - sneak preview
The History of Labor Day
"Flick to tv" represents everything wrong with product design today
Ustream would probably have at least one "special" stream up at any given time, so that code would get enough traffic to prevent it from rotting.
Better: https://login.persona.org/
They can't even lie competently. Where are the organizations competent to run a nuclear power station? Because nuclear power, done right and engineered well, is the one of the safest and best sources of energy. Tepco is criminally* incompetent, however, and this makes it hard to make a case for nuclear power when their gross incompetence is stinking up the joint.

* Have any Tepco execs been charged? They should be...
this is old news: "you never get a second chance to make a good first impression"
I have no opinion on Strunk & White, but boy, oh boy, is the criticism of it that you linked to by Geoff Pullum pedantic!
"Hi HN, I found a very interesting news here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/9508613/Winnie-the-Pooh-... You see it's about business and I think it's interesting, so I posted this here. Any hacker would find this interesting. If you don't you're not a hacker. Oh, by the way, I'm a guy who CODE in use javascript and down-vote people on HN, cool huh, which makes me an ub3r hacker. That's the definition of a hacker after all in this age.

Love"
Detroit Thugs Steal Secret Service Truck WOW
Make it a tweetmeme.com for Amazon items. Can you also pick out ebay items?
Been there, done that, and this list is pretty accurate. YMMV however.
Mac OSX is paired with limited hardware choice which is far from best. With Linux you can build any system you want up to very high end computers. It's unmatched in flexibility.
Fellow Coding Rookies: Are You Keeping Motivated?
You are a faggot.
I hope you'll lose a finger or two to yakuza.
Fair enough. I think "The Elements of Style" is aimed more toward people who must communicate effectively with the smallest number of words, where efficiently conveying information is the only priority.

Obviously someone writing creatively is free to ignore these journalism guidelines. On the other hand, many well-known writers first learned their craft at newspapers where the principles of Strunk & White (or its predecessors) were fully accepted -- Samuel Clemens and Ernest Hemingway to name just two.
The most likely thing, to me, is some piece of equipment that they agreed not to publicize.

So one way of looking at it is that they chose to release the rest of the photo.
Can Bruce Willis leave his iTunes music to his kids?
They also employ 5 oss devs i believe
Not always. Have you tried to use a remote desktop from a mobile network?
Show HN: LogCal - A Smart Online Calendar
This is a project I've been working on for a while, based on this hacker news thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3177349

Check it out. Please provide constructive criticism (no this sucks, or what is this? please)
Such irrelevant posts are submitted to HN on a regular basis. Relatively few (glancing at the front page now, at least) ever get to the frontage or even get a single upvote. I guess your hypotthesis is that no legitimate "hacker" upvoted the OP and hey, that's a fun hypothesis to test out. The other possibility is that not everyone shares your same definition, and having to deal with those other opinions is the price you pay in participating in an online community with more than one user
3D Virtual Store on MS Kinect
Well we've diverged a bit from the thread, but I'll make a final comment. I'm not aware of any apples to apples comparisons between Linux/Dalvik and the equivalent under a WIN CE combo. So the above is my opinion based on years of painful experiences dealing with clunky Windows embedded devices. Ultimately, the market will decide if customers will put up with a WIN CE device and right now, it's not looking good for Microsoft.
Hate to rain on your parade, but ISP-level NAT is coming (it's already here on mobile) and it breaks P2P. Hole-punching doesn't work, you can't manually open ports, and they don't support UPnP. If everyone is behind a nat who is left to tunnel through? Why, a central platform! Skype already went down this road.
Looks like there won't be OSX/Mac support

https://twitter.com/BlackMesaDevs/status/242317444880928768
"this could be Linux's big break"

Yes! 2012 will be the year of Linux on the desktop!

Idiot.
Hrm, surprised nobody suggested Craigslist. I bootstrapped myself into a data scientist/consultant with gigs from Craigslist. (Well, grad school helps too, but the initial contract leads were pretty much all from CL.)
Not sure why you're trying to be snarky. I was clear that I meant "profit" in terms of money. I clarified my point by listing the ways unions benefit their members. If you consider work environment, etc as part of "profit", then so be it. Nitpicking on minutia (definition of clearly defined words) is a waste of everyone's time.

>The question isn't whether unions are good or evil, it's whether they're actually a counter to a specific evil that companies might commit.

The specific evil being detrimental work environment, its obvious that unions are a balancing for to that.
Thanks for the reply, This seems to be a very nice tool. I will definitely try it out. Though I don't think that I will switch unless debugging is implemented (via source maps) like SharpKit has. This is invaluable to me at times.
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No, the DMCA/OCILLA's safe harbor for transit providers doesn't require them to honor something like a takedown notice to be eligible. Only ISPs who store material at the direction of their users, on systems controlled by the ISP, and who want to take advantage of that safe harbor, have to honor takedown notices.
Good luck, fellow Tweaker and Dutch person :)
Yeah keep telling yourself that.
Just take your spamming friends and get the hell outta here.
Regulations or not, a clever opponent could get a lot of mileage out of this guy accepting "untraceable donations".
sigh.

There used to be this small, simple tool called "ntop" which did exactly that - top, but for active network connections.

Then the authors decided to go apeshit and add everything and the kitchen sink to it ... a GUI, an http server, all kinds of crazy features as they attempted to slot it as some kind of end-all-be-all enterprise monitoring software.

I had some hacked up source tarballs that continued to allow me to run the old, circa 2002 ntop on systems as old as FreeBSD 6.x, but it no longer compiles under 8.x.

tl;dr: ntop used to exist but the devs had dollar signs in their eyes and mutated it beyond all recognition.
1 Semester Startup at University of Texas at Austin
Highlighting URLs with JavaScript
Sometimes you want to show the user a URL that is nicely visually structured. This happens especially in cases where it is important to focus on e.g. query parameters of an URL. I had this need and so I created urlhighlight, a very little (151 loc) JavaScript function that takes a URL as a parameter and returns HTML that wraps components of that URL. These components can be then styled in CSS.
From 'hackers' and the 'computer underground' at that!
Or OSX where I can never seem to get vim to build from source (which is the only option for Ruby or even Python integration). I know I've done it in the past but every time I need to I forget the magic I need to do.
Linus Torvalds responds to what killed the Linux desktop
Oh, I'm not saying any of this is good or healthy, just that it's got literally nothing to do with 'startups' or 'geeks'.
Fair enough. Still, it doesn't look like enenews is the place to go, to get balanced, objective reporting.
The Intel "GPU technology" people are referring to is integrated into the CPU: the CPU and the GPU share the same chip.

Not all the x86 chips in Intel's current catalog contain GPUs, but most do, and ISTR all the laptop-class chips do.
Fabrice Bellard is a genius. Seriously, this guy may just be one of the, if not the best software developers around. The very fact Bellard seems to like tackling heavily technical challenges and sharing his findings is why he's the great developer he is. This is impressive.
Honestly, visit an ophthalmologist. Eyesight can be improved but there is no reliable, do this, get that, way of going about things. For me patching an eye helped drastically improve the other but that was because I had Amblyopia which you don't necessarily have. There is also a lot of wrong facts out there so be sure to weed through the bullshit.
"[Sarcastic hyperbole] [Unprovoked insult]"

I don't think this type of commentary belongs here.
I've been attracted to companies that appear to have a "hacker culture" too. It seems I always end up at companies that used to have a hacker culture. Companies grow, responsibilities and clients get bigger, more checks and balances start emerging and that hacker mentality is usually the first casualty.

I'm curious how much of a hacker culture is still left at places like github, Fog Creek, etc.

I'm starting to think the most surefire way to submerge yourself in a hacker culture is to join or start a startup.
I often read or heard things like: "I want to work for Company X because they're so cool!" because a few written articles about the office settings and the "culture".

For some, that may work, for others, be careful of what you wish for. This is not a warning to stay away from such companies but when the companies are dominated by young energetic single employees and you're a father of 1 year old child (and maybe another one coming), there lies a cultural barrier between you and the rest of the company (unless you're going there as a Dev Manager).

As people get older, they no longer too crazy about the tech side as they used to be so sometimes conversation becomes dull for both side.
How to do it using Amazon (scales automatically): http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/De...
Getting a little contrived.
Indeed. In college the fans of "Linux" agonized over which Linux distribution or BSD distribution to use. Which goes to show that the idea of "Linux" on the desktop is very different from Android using a Linux kernel.

Since more than 90% were using a Linux kernel it was only occasionally that someone would say UN*X or 'nix. If not for the trademark that probably would have happened more often.
John Cusack: 'Is Obama Just Another Ivy League A--hole?'
App.net's crowdfunders: Taken for a ride?
To this I'd add: Make tutorials optional!

Nothing irks a veteran RPG player more than an NPC's condescending, non-skippable takeover of the controls to show you how to equip an item.

And some of us like to replay our games, especially on higher difficulty settings (another thing the guidelines recommend having) -- we don't want the game to talk to us like n00bs if we've already beaten it!

Also, many of the suggestions listed under Advanced are rather questionable for games that don't specifically target disabled players.

Adaptive difficulty isn't necessarily a good thing. Besides entertainment, people play games because they want to be competitive with others. In single-player games, this competitiveness usually takes the form of comparing achievements, progress or high scores.

With adaptive difficulty, your progress in a game ceases to be an objective measure of your ability; thus, adaptive difficulty alienates competitive gamers.
Nethogs (http://nethogs.sourceforge.net/) does what you want, but it's linux-only.
I fully relate, I wish I had the same background, it would have made me probably a better developer, but I'm already hooked...

What I'm wondering is, why can't we have the browser then be our IDE, chrome already supports editing, just need to persist it to my code base

By the way, I strongly suggest using something like resharper, VS is great, but I found eclipse much better if you are looking for those tricks and shortcuts.

If you haven't tried it yet, I encourage anyone to get eclipse, put in some java code, and play with ctrl+1 magic shortcut (mark anything in code and let it do the work for you) it allows you to be more expressive and write code in a modular way, for example, I don't have to be a boolean logic master, or even a smart developer to extract negation up a boolean condition, and if I forgot a param / method, it will create it for me with the right signature, and if I see a piece of string I want to replace with a variable, it takes it for me and adds those dreadful " + ... + " in so I don't have to. does it makes you a zombie programmer? probably yes, does it make you smarter? probably not, but does it make you more productive? absolutely yes.

again, VS I think is nowhere near eclipse JDT in that end (without resharper at least)

I think this is why GWT, Dart, Scala, Hibernate / Seam, Spring all invest so much in eclipse,

most developers of this world (me included) are just not good enough hackers to do it the VIM / grep way... sad but true.
I down-modded all your posts here on the yakuza story.

If you feel this much hatred about why this was posted, click the pretty X in the upper corner of the window and don't come back here.

We do not need your bile. I quite enjoyed it, and wouldn't have found it unless it was posted to HN.