skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow I was looking at this exact account after that globe post haha. Bizarre.

Also there is an (inactive) GooGuns_Staging: https://twitter.com/googuns_staging

As a note, the last nine digits just alternate between 200000000 and 350000000. On staging they're simply ba0000000.
The problem with this kind of backup scheme for photographers is that the utility in having a backup is huge, but the cost of doing that backup at the bandwidth the photographers need is ludicrous.

We have worked with many designers and photographers, and all of them have the same problem - they can generate hundreds of gigabytes of important resources in almost no time at all, and even with a relatively solid pipe normal backup solutions just don't work.

What they really need is a bulletproof storage device that can be transported to a safe location when it needs to be. LaCie has some products in this space, but they don't offer the service that the customer needs - reliable, accessible storage.

The real solution is tape drives. Try to sell an Ultrium drive to a designer, though.
What is the best way to strike a balance between the speaker and slides while recording/editing a talk?

I find it hard watching talks where only slides got recorded or others where only the speaker gets recorded.

For the latter, I'll normally download slides and use them to move along with talk.
Most intellectual property theft involves company insiders
For your purposes, a 13" Macbook Air would suffice.
This was mentioned before, but if this post gains traction it's worth talking about again:

It is almost totally unnecessary to maintain multiple key pairs for multiple purposes if they're going to be stored on the same machine (eg separate key for github). If one of these services is compromised, an adversary will only get your public key, which is useless. This is very different than the security practices of symmetric passwords.
Also, don't forget about those even crazier people (e.g., myself) who prefer a more traditional vi (e.g., nvi) to vim.
Windows 7 is available through direct download, but the presentation / ease-to-buy wasn't as slick as this.

Another cool thing it had was that you could upgrade the OS (e.g. from Pro to Ultimate) or activate a pirated version from the OS itself, over the air.
It a bit disingenuous.

First, no, there isn't "only one exchange rate", there's whatever you can buy or sell your currency for at a given point in time. As with so many other things in life, in banking or others, a regular person can't get access to the same prices as a professional who trades in bulk.

Second, erhm Floyds (http://www.lloydstsb.com/travel_main_page.asp) doesn't claim that they're not making a profit, they claim that they're not charging a commission. Which they don't. The fact that you can prime a low-end customer support person to say "profit" instead of "commission" doesn't change that fact.

Which boils down to: Pay attention to the spread you're getting. Like most other services provided by retail banks, you're probably not getting the best deal out there.
Ah, good. Well, you know what they say- "sarcasm always translates well over the internet" ;)
I don't get the point that the article is trying to make. Of course banks won't trade at mid-market price. Of course there will be a buy/sell spread.

Take a look at exchange rates for more exotic currencies than British Pound vs. Euro. The buy/sell spread can be huge, and often reflects actual risks in keeping around large amounts of cash in volatile currencies.
Why is this even on HN? People here are smart enough to known what spreading is and what it does.
It would be interesting to aggregate the top similar tweets in these hot areas and show that as a tool tip. No idea how difficult that might be :)
True this is likely some botnet coordinating where/who the C&C is currently. I wonder if this can be reverse engineered.

EDIT:
I wonder if it does some sort of transform on the number to get an IP addr? perhaps its part of a IPv6 Addr?

Perhaps its a distributed brute-force on a password or checksum being carried out by a botnet?
Its interesting distributed this is, too bad we dont have IP addrs associated with the posts
So, is that the wiki or not the wiki? It says wiki...

I think you're only telling me things that sound like they've been done to prevent spam or addition of spammy content.

I get that a file in the trunk is not the wiki. There is a real wiki, with web browser controls, and it's not what they're using. But it says wiki, and if you're trying to edit it but not a Fossil developer, you're probably doing it wrong... you should have your own Fossil repo/server.

I'll admit I did not try to submit an issue, and I'm not using Fossil right now. I just use Git. My users don't want the timeline on their homepage. shrug
I've been a pretty good boy so far. After looking at this video I'm surprised how many people I see daily did not make it to my video...I could do a day in the life of video here at school in Phuket, but it would be super fucking boring. So here are the highlights.
I am looking for a portable i386 compatible chip&board instead of ARM for running windows programs (wine doesn't work on arm), does anyone have tips?
I renamed the title, but with a slightly different wording, since you can't, in fact, even buy it yet.
Hacking hotel locks with Arduino
great story, and it bears repeating, you will have an incredible time _anywhere_ if you go with a positive spirit[0].

And you could end up being a slightly better person.

But you will always feel crap when leaving[1].

I have met many people who don't like where they live, I have yet to meet someone who regrets having lived somewhere else.

[0] yes, all over generalizations are wrong

[1] In italian there is a beautiful saying: partire è un po' morire, roughly "to depart/leave is (to die a bit|a bit of dying|a bit like dying) ".

EDIT: actually a french expression! http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Haraucourt
100K is no guarantee in freelancing. In fact, I would say that especially getting started, you may be hard pressed to hit that level. However, you have a better idea on your ability to do this than I do. Obviously this depends on what your rates are. It seems that perhaps your 100K job isn't quite enough either since you are supplementing that with freelancing. Personally, I could never do that, I would quickly burn out. Freelancing is a business, and running a business is a full time job.

Make sure that you have at least six months living expenses built up.

If your clients aren't local, and you are living in an expensive area, then you might consider moving somewhere cheaper since you can work from anywhere.

There really isn't much more to it since you have already been doing freelancing.
The edges are rough but this is great.

I've really warmed to the whole metro look when it's done right and I look forward to where this goes. White text/icons on block color squares works beautifully and looks "cool". This could be bigger than Twitter Bootstrap if done right.
It's still bit of a let down that they didn't contacted him in any way. They could at least track him and since he is a well meaning guy they could send him something funny.
I don't see that. Text is centered when I look at it.
I thought it was common knowledge among anyone who has travelled that the exchange rate is where the bank/money changer makes their profit. Banks are certainly the worst offenders when it comes to fiddling the exchange rate. In most of Asia, street money changers dominate the market over banks for small amounts (<US$10,000).
That's no reason to be condescending and rude. Not everybody knows about that stuff.
thank you! :)

i stumbled across the issue right here:
http://quickmaps.me/tryit.php (fixed atm)
https://www.google.com/maps?daddr=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway+... (here you can still find it)
Sorry, dyslexia, I spelt router wrong, just went through and spell checked it, unfortunately, my spell checker saw Monitor as being spelled correctly.
I launched Threddie.com two years ago by submitting to web app directories like appstorm.net . It was a manual and repetitive process which bored me half to death, but it still yielded better long term results than posting on HN & reddit or cold mailing big tech blogs.

From that experience I did notice that getting listed on a relatively big one like KillerStartups.com always resulted in an avalanche of automatic listings on smaller directories and blogs - as well as a lot of twitter activity.

From poring over google analytics, and talking to users, I concluded that while a lot of that chatter is automated garbage, it does often end up being read by real people who follow the links and sign up for the app.

All of this is to say that potential web users are scattered across too many discovery vectors to solve the problem by simply building The One True Directory.

What could be done, maybe, is build a sort of central repository to which developers could post their apps in a standardized fashion and then have those listings freely available. That repository could work a bit like Crunchbase, except with less focus on money & people and more on categorization & features. Ideally, app directories would then consume and relay that information to their audiences - editorialized or not.

Such an initiative would require massive participation by app developers, which, of course, is the real crux of the matter. In practical terms, there would be little difference between building a solution now or simply flocking massively to one of the already available directories. Which begs the question: why don't we?
passwd -d destroys the ability to a) log in from a console and b) to use sudo, which might well be a dealbreaker for most people. Disallowing password auth in your sshd_config is typically a better option.
It's interesting to see that the syntax of the html/css is identical to Twitter's Bootstrap. It really goes to show you that the syntax and nomenclature that Twitter developed won and NOT the design.
Here in the UK they charge on everything, IIRC when I went to USA they charged something like £5 per withdrawl, then the amount you got would also have an expensive spread. The £5 per withdrawl was irritating as it forced you to withdraw $200+ a time, the more you took out the cheaper it would be overall.
From a designers standpoint:

1. Take the hover border off and instead add a little CSS3 background transition animation and set the hover background color to something a tad lighter. I think this would be a cool effect.

2. Use Segoe UI or something close instead of the font you're using now, especially on the blocks

3. One of the cool things about the "metro" style is how they effectively use a ton of padding and space around things. Yours is very cramped in parts. Definitely be liberal with the padding and space stuff out.

I think those three things would make a big difference.
I've never had to enter a password to install an app.
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Just remember this:

1) Escape doesn't bring up the shutdown menu
2) Windows key doesn't
3) Mouse to the left, top or bottom doesn't
4) Mouse to the start menu doesnt

Only to the right will you find the menu. Why a simple button couldn't have been added defies me.
I laughed when I read this too! That's true "outside the box" thinking.
Is there any docs on the github public timeline? I did found http://github.com/timeline which made me guess for http://github.com/timeline.json which works, but is this documented anywhere? Are there parameters? How often does it refresh? Thnx!
Really cool, but will it over take all those Bootstrap sites?
I wish Microsoft devs would go the Twitter route and release a Metro equivalent of Twitter Bootstrap. They must certainly be using some internal framework.
Actually, if the app requires sign up then I close and delete it (unless it's a mobile interface like Skype).
Ruby used by 14% of all developers. Yeah right.

I'm guessing this is highly oriented towards web developers. Not all developers make iPhone apps and web sites. Your demography (what kind of developers are included in this survey) is not clearly stated here.
Nobody can transact at the mid-market rate (average of the best bid and best offer). It is a theoretical metric derived from the order book (or at least the portion of the global order book visible to you at the time of calculation - unlike stocks there is no requirement for quotes to be made publicly available). Yes, your bank is making a spread off you but no, not receiving the mid-market rate is not evidence of being screwed.
I'm having to upgrade my Win XP machine because the new XCom game doesn't run on less than Win Vista.

I only use windows for games so I only tend to upgrade when I find a game that wont work.
How Startups Are Killing Off Bosses
Really cool visualization - wish it went a step further when you got closer in (trendsmap.com style).
Research reveals 1 in 4 will still drive after 'just one drink'
That is Null Island

http://www.nullisland.com/
Actually, I bought Windows 7 and Office 2010 directly from the Microsoft Store online, and downloaded it directly back when it first came out.
... looks like I just missed out :/ Did anyone catch this?
yup, minimum to run modern apps: 1024 x 768

minimum to run modern apps with snap view (1/3 | 2/3 side-by-side): 1366 × 768
I use the public stream with a filter on location (:locations => '-180,-90,180,90')
Twitter doesn't seem to have limitation for that.

The backend is written in Ruby. The daemon to index tweets use the great Intridea gem https://github.com/intridea/tweetstream.

The page http://onemilliontweetmap.com/ is simple Sinatra application, and I use REDIS pub/sub to push tweets to the browser.
All code on Raspberry Pi’s ARM chip now open source
Finding Rails Shops in India
Where and how do you find Rails boutiques in India?
Your bank lied to you. I knew a person who worked in a bank (we became friends) and he flat out told me not to rely on banks to exchange currencies because their exchange rate is always lower than market rate. Obviously, the banks take profit.

This is one reason why I have both local currency and foreign currency (USD) accounts with the bank. Instead of the bank converting the money to local currency, I withdraw the money from foreign currency account, get it converted at a local exchange shop (after getting a better rate) and deposit the money back in my local currency account.

It takes time but it's worth it when converting a large amount of money.
Well obviously Microsoft wouldn't want to give a cut to Apple but the underlying idea is not so bad. Parallels Desktop and VMware (virtualization software for the OSX) already include an easy Windows purchase option in their installation process. I'd love to purchase a 'Windows 8 for Mac' edition directly from Microsoft if it means they'll have drivers and everything supported. I'm waiting for proper Windows HiDPI support in Bootcamp for my Macbook Pro retina as it is.
All Mathematica users hate PlotLegend...

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/4444/labeling...
That's a really nice looking box. I'm tempted to buy a physical copy just for the packaging.
Show HN: ZipPlease, a Zip file creation API
Italian scientists convicted of manslaughter for earthquake risk report
It might be useful, but it's trivially obtainable by anyone who needs it by googling, and irrelevant to anyone who isn't looking for it at the time.
Sorry, what is a Rails shop/boutique?
Aaargh, that looked really good until I saw there were no GPIOs. You almost solved my problem. with GPIOs being standard in so many SOCs I am surprised how some just don't bother placings SILs or DILs so we can easily use them
http://transferwise.com/ does this.
Although I did not get to hang out with you enough, I have to say that Ljubljana's tech, art and "good people" scene benefited a lot from your stay.

Keep it up Sam and Brooke.
Lately all Microsoft sites seem to break in Chrome for me. http://imgur.com/DLV4m
The old alt+f4 in desktop works too (or at least worked in all dev builds I tried. I rebooted a lot so I just used win+d, alt+f4, scroll to the last option and pressed enter.
If you click the videos tab at the bottom you can watch the archived recording. It looks like it's only 30 mins long
This is highly relevant for the conspiracy theorists.

Random number radio stations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

A numbers station (or number station) is a type of shortwave radio station
characterized by their unusual broadcasts, which consist of spoken words,
but mostly numbers, often created by artificially generated voices reading
streams of numbers, words, letters, tunes or Morse code.

Now, if you take a look at any random tweet, you will notice that the location that it was tweeted from changes every time (often in the middle of the Sea). This could also be a hidden chunk of information that encodes/hides other relevant data.

It is certainly not by accident that the lat/lngs change on each Tweet. If I had the time as an experiment, I'd probably try and find patterns between the lng/lats to see if the decimal equivalent means anything? How hilariously awesome would it be if when mapped on a globe, it builds up a large picture. (Fair warning.. this runs WebGL and will most likely nuke your browser for a few seconds http://data-arts.appspot.com/globe-search/ )
From the "guide" that came with a new "Premier" Lloyds Visa Debit card a few days ago: They charge 2.99% on all FX transactions and a further 1.5%, min £2, max £4.50 cash fee.
Recording: http://www.twitch.tv/notch/b/336813987
Would love to chat with you about this. I am a web designer who also speicalizes in mobile, UI/UX, etc.

Feel free to shoot me an email:
shahedkhan30 [at] gmail [dot] com
That account has almost as many followers as I do on twitter :'(
To me it looks like trying to bruteforce something and post the current sequence every 5 min.
Interesting to note is that all tweets from https://twitter.com/googuns_staging have random Lat/Long coordinates associated with it..

see:
https://twitter.com/googuns_staging/status/22294385659595980...

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=-20.73906235%2C-145.82847672&...
That page says "Quantity 100 starts at $229." Does that mean one board is $2.29?
passwordless sudo access to root? Not a great idea. If you don't like typing your sudo password so often just change the timeout.

I'd also suggest using ssh-add -t <timeout> to limit the lifetime of your ssh keys in the agent.
I wonder if this odd placeholder site has anything to do with it...

http://www.googun.com/
Wow thanks for the suggestion. I'll definitely check it out.
It's cool that phoronix linked and quoted Dave Airlie. It's too bad they didn't quote or respond to the last line of his blog post: "(and really phoronix, you suck even more than usual at journalism)"
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The streaming session is over. Here is the link to the archive in case anyone is too lazy to find it on the page: http://www.twitch.tv/notch/b/336813987

The game seems much shoot-ier than what I was imagining from the description. But maybe this is only a small portion of the actual gameplay.
Windows isn't released as often. So in the end, it's cheaper.

(And Apple doesn't need to make money from their OS, Microsoft does)
Most programmers are not gifted enough to read the docs? Well there's the problem.

Also "The most dangerous code in the world" is a bit misleading. I would say the code that runs a Predator drone is a little higher in the danger department.
Just poking through the source; is there a reason for selectors like this?

.metro .metro-sections .metro-section.tile-span-1

#charms .charms-header a.win-command span.win-commandimage.win-commandring
Yeah, it reminds me a bit of when Jeff Atwood writes up a big blog post recommending utility belt tools or something and every link is an Amazon affiliate link.
Yes, and the "snap view" feature practically demands it. They made an interesting compromise with their new Surface tablet to accommodate it. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/10/microsofts-first-stab... Sinofsky said that this [10.1" screen] made Windows' snapped view, where two Metro applications run side-by-side, too small. 11.1-inch screens solved that problem but used more power... The 10.6-inch screen is supposed to make snap view big enough while also permitting "all-day" battery life. You'll only need a 13" diagonal 4:3 screen to be as wide as a 10.6" 16:9 screen, but then you'll probably be using it from further away... So it might look awkward but you should be able to see all the content just fine.
I might do that actually. It was an interesting experience!
Are they the same though.
There are differences between english and American pints, for example.
Also it means nothing to me when someone quotes their weight in lbs or kgs. I need stones to get an impression of how heavy they are.
Where I live it's currently a mish mash of metric and imperial units but the trend is definitely towards metric.
I don't think my kids think in imperial the way i do a lot of the time. Meanwhile metric means absolutely nothing to my dad.
It probably has nothing to do with this but there is another account https://twitter.com/googuns which claims to be associated with google . . . . In particular the page has a title "Google Notifications".
Looks like the download version is an upgrade not a full retail license.

It doesn't make it clear whether the 'shipped' version is a full stand alone thing or not.

I have an existing boxed copy of Windows 7 Retail that is installed on a PC. I'd like to install Windows 8 on there but free up the Windows 7 license to put in a VM or on another PC.
This is an abomination. Do we honestly need a "framework" to use the background-color and float properties? Not to mention that the design here is very poorly executed, and as someone else mentioned the responsiveness doesn't even work.

I'm not trying to be a hater or a downer, I just can't believe that this is the state of web design right now. As Gob would say, "COME ON!"
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Thank you Toshio!

I'll be data mining about the usage of the millions of downloadable applications online.
Phusion Passenger 4:  Evented IO for Rails
This is good news— the rpi is really an embarrassing system. It is shockingly slow compared to other small arm systems clock per clock. A lot of people seem to be trying things on it that would be fine on almost any other arm SBC but fail on rpi…

There are many alternatives which are much faster but none are within a factor of two of the rpi's price, so people keep buying the rpi and walking away disappointed.
If we count the number of clicks then there is no difference. In win 7 too user had to do two clicks and only after the first click would you see shutdown button. Same goes for win 8.
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It's anyone's guess really but I interpreted it as a test of the networking code more than anything else. I don't think he is making a fast paced shooter :)
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There's a fork out there called EventMachine-LE, which is currently in active development for latest features (i.e. IPv6). https://github.com/ibc/EventMachine-LE

Anyway, just wanted to throw it out there that I've deployed several production apps (gaming/messaging servers) using EventMachine, and combined with em-synchrony, I'm pretty comfortable with its performance and limitations. There seems to be good community support (thanks to Ilya Grigorik's articles and em-synchrony) with plenty of examples/documentations.

Just wondering, are there any people out there with Celluloid app experience that's currently in production? Like any other geek, I love programming "the right way" but I know nothing about Celluloid and it's real-world benefits/drawbacks (performance, API, code maintainability, code documentation, community support, blog articles, etc).