skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There'll be no time before you'll see european based identity provider. my company is looking into it at the moment and we are sure we are not alone.
> Will Mozilla provide native support or an extension?

They have a working native support - http://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/mozilla/persona/2011/07/15/m... - and expect it to see it natively in probably ~17. Their biggest push is for WebKit to adopt a similar solution based off the same tech.
I'd rather use ASDF but those keys are taken by other vi commands. Anyway, is there a way to press "Esc" without moving your whole arm?
If she would have just used the "new" men's room nobody would have cared and she wouldn't have had to write this blog post.

People do this all the time if one room is full.
If you don't want to store your mail locally, but want nice search functionality, for Google Mail users there's this patch:

http://people.spodhuis.org/phil.pennock/software/mutt-patche...

It'll do search server-side, which means that you have Google's full text search without storing mail locally.
How to use Asteroid Dust to Fight Climate Change on Earth
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Ask HN: Would you do some free work for good?
I am thinking about a match-making service for developers/designers/whatever pros and for their potential clients or charities. For example, you are a great developer and want to help some charity for good. Let's call the service FridayForGood. So, you signup and show your expertise in your profile and your availability, say, next Friday, or first Friday in next month. Some charity or may be your potential client (but without obligations I suppose) sees your message on the board and thinks your skills would help them and their showcase the project to you so that to make you interested.

You choose the one that interests you the most and contact them, then give them 8 hours of your mad skills for free. Then, if it's a potential client, they can continue working with you on a paid basis. If it's a charity, they just thank you and you still can consult them or help in any way.

So, the question is, do you think it would be interesting for both sides? Would you use this service as a client? I know there can be speculative bad guys searching for free labor, but I think it can be quite easily filtered technically. Please share your opinions.

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Cloud Bill of Rights
It was mainly in reference to the attitude (how DARE you want to make money?). Step number one in creating growth is to stop casting suspicion on the ambition and successful - and France is not alone in being bad at this, most of "old" Europe is.

But anyway, thinking you can fix the deficit by doubling your already high capital gains taxation while your neighbor Belgium, which whom you have open borders and share a language, have a 0% rate is ... naive, at best. Same naivety covers the 75% income tax rate, which is attempted applied to the single most mobile class of people ever to walk this earth.
I've used inuit in a couple projects (though not the most recent version) and would highly recommend it.

The trend lately seems to be immediately reaching for Bootstrap, which is a little bit shameful for those who might consider themselves legit front-end devs. While bootstrap is a great tool for prototyping, it's also led to a lot of boring, cookie-cutter apps.
Arh. True i didn't notice it. But Once you click on the address bar it does show back its address. Not a bad thing i guess. Will need to use it more before i can draw conclusion.
I live in France and the feeling I get talking to small business owners and my French friends who work in these environments is that everyone knows the system is broken and simply accept that the only way things can work is through liberal bending of the rules.

Business owners abuse CDD contracts, effectively running full time employees on rolling short term contracts (making it easier to hire and fire). Lots of employees work beyond 35 hours a week, with any hours over the 35 limit paid cash in hand i.e. black. A lot of businesses that deal with cash (garages, repair men, small bed and breakfasts, florists etc.) regularly declare much less turnover than they should. Newsagents, butchers etc. usually use family members to help out and pay them in cash (because they need staff but can't afford the tax burden if they were to legitimately hire them).

It's not uncommon for pool installation or irrigation companies (i.e. the ones who fit sprinkler systems in your garden) to offer to quote a job in two parts in return for a discount on the overall job price. One part will be the official invoice and the second part is paid in cash.

Without bending the current tax and labour laws, most small businesses in France would simply cease to trade.
Tim Cook's $30 Billion Mistake
The weekend has just passed and you submit this on a Monday? Really? Now I'm going to wake up tomorrow, heavy with sleep after spending the wee hours tweaking my configuration and trying out "contacts", "offlineemap", and the sidebar patch (that I thought I didn't want).

Thank goodness I already have mutt installed and configured (almost) to my liking.
it's not something awesome either. It's just an evolutionary dead-end; the male nipple of software design.

I disagree. I started out using the cursor keys all the time because they were what I was used to.

It wasn't until I had been using vim for hours every day for well over a year that I came to slowly prefer hjkl - it's not a habit from "the old days"; it's not leftover cruft we'd be better off without; it genuinely is better to use hjkl than the cursor keys.

If you do enough editing to make it worthwhile to build up the muscle memory, that is.

Having said that, I remapped the "up" and "down" cursor keys and I've started using them a lot more since:

noremap <Up> gk
noremap <Down> gj

They now allow me to navigate up & down wrapped lines the more intuitive way of one keypress per visible line, rather than the still-useful vim way of one keypress per actual line.

YMMV.

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The author :)
Do you know how he set the custom prompt? I was trying to edit my .bash_profile and couldn't use emoji.
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To take it back a bit further than he goes, I'm 31494 and registered sometime in late 97, early 98.

What's interesting about the numbers he presents is that there's a definite increase in growth rate (~2x) around 2008-2009.
I like the Chrome Developer Tools, but prefer Firefox's customizability for my personal use. I can install things like Vimperator/Pterodactl for Vim-like surfing, things like Ghostery to block monitoring sites, etc. Also, the high level of customization in my Firefox profile makes it unsuitable for testing sites.
Some people find more value in watching a video of 2 friends get coffee together, than in actually getting coffee with a friend.
Rails is adding typos to migrations
Most men didn't pick tech because it's for men, they picked it because they liked it.

>There are women out there that get interested in tech but society pushes them away because it's not feminine

I'm not sure if it's societal pressure that is the deciding factor for young women they picking a field of interest.
Why reinvent version control inside of WordPress? I'd rather version my content in git and build a static site from that.

I think there's a real opportunity for github, or a github app, to revolutionize publishing by building on the existing content collaboration capabilities of git. I'm not the first to have this idea [1]; there are already people executing on it [2].

[1] http://paulhammant.com/blog/github-as-a-cms-to-end-cmses.htm...

[2] http://prose.io/
Fostering a development community (follow-up to yesterdays Rails/PHP shit storm)
I think it would be difficult to calculate a good ranking when using trigrams for regex-search (as in the link). As far as I know besides pagerank you have to rely on a term-based ranking function e.g. bm25 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25.

Not sure if this is easy doable with trigrams.
Bootstrap sites only look cookie cutter if you use the default styling out of the box. If you take time customize the styles, you can get fairly differentiated sites.

Check out some of the styles on https://wrapbootstrap.com/.
A lot of Vim users remap <caps lock> to <esc>.
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Have you tried http://foundation.zurb.com/?

It seems to be a more designer-friendly framework.

Haven't tried inuit.
The Viral Storm: http://www.amazon.com/The-Viral-Storm-Pandemic-ebook/dp/B004...
How does one type in a patronizingly male tone of voice? I hope you don't mean "calm down, dear" is characteristically male.
1. Red Mars. Read a chapter and digest it. Packed top to bottom with all kinds of ideas.

2. Cyberspace: First Steps. From the early 90s, a collection of academic essays on the concept of cyberspace. Reading it as a kind of retrospective on where we were and where we thought we were going.

3. Rule 34. For fun.
> The reason women don't go into these fields is because of the misogynistic culture.

That is quite an assertion. Surely you can see that there are many, many more factors than just this one, even if you discount "biological inclination"?
I've been thinking about something along these lines for a while. A few months ago the science fiction writer William Hertling wrote an interesting blog post that, among other things, predicts we will have implantable computers by 2030.

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/06/how-to-predict-the-f...

It strikes me that this will enable a whole range of behavior optimization based on the computer having access to info provided by your body chemistry.
“Why should I want someone with no passion, who simply wants a job, to enter my market and drive down the price of labor?”

Because for every 10 people with no passion who simply want a job, you get one who is incredibly passionate but simply wanted a job. One who didn't realize that hey, this is actually pretty cool stuff, and maybe it's more than just a job, it can be a passion and a career.

I am of course making up the numbers. But discarding someone because they don't care before they've even learned a subject is even sillier than assuming that women don't want to be in tech because they're not interested in tech, rather than simply because they never took to looking into it because of all of the stereotypes (many of them true) about the male dominance of the industry.
If there were a lot of women with the kind of monomania that gets them through http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/L/larval-stage.html, but repelled from the profession by incidentals like role models, then there would be a lot of women hacking alone outside their day jobs. Are they really out there, and just aren't identifiably publishing that work or going to these conferences? Or is that kind of anti-social obsession not evenly distributed among teenagers?
What Google+ Needs to Do to Kill Facebook
Introducing the biological Internet
> Did I say 1965? What's the deal with Agusta National and Blacks and/or Women?

Augusta National isn't remotely comparable to the issue at hand. Its a VERY private, invite only club. There are numerous private clubs of all sorts that only allow men, only women, only blacks, etc. You can't compare a private club to a employment profession.

I don't necessarily agree with Augusta's position but they are a private club, so I just wouldn't join. If you were going to force Augusta to admit everyone then you'd have to go tell the Junior League they have to let men in, head up to the Ladies Golf Club of Toronto and tell them they have to admit male members, etc.

That said, Augusta National has invited black members since ~1990 and two women as of last month, Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore if it tells you anything about the exclusivity of this club.
Accepted, comming from Mountain View :)
CloudSigma and the Perils of Choice
if you want to use your CardDAV address book with mutt, you might want to try out pycarddav http://lostpackets.de/pycarddav/ . If you want features like write support, try the write_support branch from github https://github.com/geier/pycarddav/ (you can not really edit vCards just yet, but you can add email address directly from mutt)
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Barbara Liskov won the Turing award this decade. Cynthia Dwork won the Djikstra prize this decade. Jennifer Chayes is the head of the new Microsoft Research lab in NYC. They're pretty awesome people, but probably not that highly visible outside academia.
Meta-question for both men and women. If you were a woman considering a career in IT and you were to read the comments on a thread like this, would you be more likely to join, less likely, or unaffected by reading the thread?
You can have a system of governance where even though an individual cannot be trusted by themselves, it is more likely to trust the system given that a larger group of people have to make the decision together. (in fact most governments are setup like that, which is why the US government for example is more trustworthy than a dictatorship).

In the case of copyright law, the individuals voting might truly think they are doing the right thing for the economy, as not all politicians are corrupt (or so I'd like to think).
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Thank you. Copywriting resources are always valuable, and I'd not heard of Copyhackers. Subscribed.
Well, sure - but even if the reflective layer loosens, you still have the glass layer - then it would be the same as the hitachi concept: read the glass pits with a miroscope. Or add a new reflective layer.
I have found that I have outgrown the cranky, uncompromising userbase of that site. HN users (despite being extremely divisive at times), seem to be much more accepting of disruptive technological changes.
I know you're being sarcastic, but you bring up a point that I wonder about: there's certainly a difference in cultural values that contributes to the racial and gender profile of different occupations. Do we have a responsibility to change those values? Most ways of measuring progress on the problem have the unstated expectation that the difference in values doesn't exist, and you can't meet the measurement goals without eliminating that difference.
What are the barriers exactly?

The pervading attitude of The heavy use of logic is a masculine trait is a rather good example of at least one barrier. Do you not see how that statement is extremely problematic?
There has been a place in my heart for Slashdot since maybe 2004 or 2005, when I started reading it.

Over time I completely stopped reading the comments, but the front page has been a decent indicator of medium to big tech news, plus lots of niche stuff that I likely would never have known about otherwise!
tl;dr - Here's a video demonstration: http://youtu.be/0_6rC025sK0?t=34m16s

CardSpace was a Microsoft project led by Kim Cameron, the godfather of digital identity. They originally wanted to make it part of Windows Vista, but it was dropped for lack of interest. It was an open standard, and there were browser plugins to make it work in other browsers and operating systems. Microsoft knew they couldn't make it a Windows-only thing if they wanted people adopting it. They just wanted to be at the forefront of security for once.

A developer would add meta tags to a site's login page with a URL to post identity info to and a list of information it's requesting. That would trigger the browser (or plugin) to open a modal display of identity "cards", which the user could choose from. Then it would show what information the site requested and they could deny individual pieces of info. The data would be posted back to the site, along with a unique signature for that user & site.

Cards could be self-issued or issued by a third party, like your employer or bank. They could have graphical backgrounds applied so they looked more like ID cards or credit cards. It was a great UI for identity, and easy for developers to use. But I think the Microsoft name tarnished it. I know people outside the identity community were making comments about how this was Microsoft's attempt to become Big Brother & so forth, even though Microsoft was completely out of the communication loop between the user and the site.
Two. The consensus among fashion industry veterans seems to be that if a guy wants to work in the fashion industry, he must be gay or at least bisexual.
I did mean physical orientation, but I see from rereading my question that's not clear at all.
Defining Gittip's Scope
Trying to solve the Airplane/Train/No Signal Apps problem on iOS
Integrating a InfoPath form - Introduction to MS SharePoint with .Net – Part 11
Show HN: Keep your self motivated with wallsofinspiration.com
Herding Unix processes with Supervisor for the Busy Developer
I agree, I was about to grab this for my kid, but getting the dozen or so friends and relatives to create accounts isn't worth it. Very nice looking, but should have the option of just using an email whitelist to send. Then include a one time use reply link in each email so the recipient can reply without having an account.
First off, let me state that I in no way wish to diminish the accomplishments of the authors of RailwayJS in making these comments. I think they've built an inevitable framework given that Rails was (and likely still is) the most popular open source web framework (at least as far as the HN/startup crowd goes) and of course why not give developers the same abstractions they have with their old favorite when a new thing comes along. But here's a constructive observation:

Node.js isn't a framework. AND it's not a programming language. Node is ostensibly a set of libraries and a runtime environment. I've been to a few Node meetups over the past few years, and inevitably people (not just newbies btw) will ask "what will be the Rails for Node?" But I think making this analogy is wrong. It's wrong for two main reasons, the first of which is that it implicitly compares Node.js to Ruby, which is a category mistake. More importantly though I'd argue, it's wrong because making the Rails for Node analogy deprives the developer (you!) of the opportunity to allow an emergent programming paradigm to change the way you think about programming! So how should Node do that? My fantasy for how Node.js will evolve in the next few years is that it will be a series of node packages which can be easily dropped in and out of my programs. I believe that the goal of the third-party node package development community should be to encourage this modularity, because I think it is the right abstraction for what Node.js actually is, and not necessarily what some people might wish it was. It's easy enough to set up EventMachine in Rails and then you can use your familiar stack, but I'd encourage anyone looking to use Node.js to fully embrace it and use it as an opportunity to explore new workflows, and not just try to fit your old stack into an event loop.
Mind Your Git Manners