skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
anonymous was asking about a lack of inspiration. The fact that there are so many students shows that they are definitely being inspired to enter the field.
and yet every single project to reimplement vim "cleanly" has failed. the only successful other implementation out there essentially ported the vim codebase directly to java. i can only conclude that vim has built up a tremendous amount of sheer value along with the cruft that is not easy to reproduce.
> the article that went around about using Netflix with Firefox in WINE

I'm not aware of any previously existing solution for Netflix on Linux using WINE. You mean the article from just a couple of days ago? This is the exact same thing, except provided in an installable package....
Boxing Results: Broner Vs. DeMarco Defeats Hurricane Sandy in Atlantic City
Looking at the "trolls" I can't see any trolling. I see people criticising the conference for fair reasons that they care about, and trying to be helpful after initial snarky tweets.

This is not trolling. And I absolutely agree with their criticisms.
I am the person of interest in this case.

Thank you HN for pulling together a miracle that saved me by the skin of my teeth.

Thank you pg for creating this amazing community.
The Bergamo Analemma
Free music
Radio station with lots of music on 115.64.87.1, easy hack windows xp.
Really? What evidence do you have regarding tramping of BeOS specifically?

I thought that BeOS was interesting, but not compelling enough to make a switch to (much like the NeXT stuff).
An Amazing Way to Get Customer Feedback and Build a Community
What is so important to actually relocate to the U.S. rather than any other country, or stay where you are? (if you are lucky to be somewhere that's safe and respectful to your way of life). I travel to and partner with the U.S. as a core part of my work but it's never been something I considered to actually permanently move there - you can open a business and a bank account remotely, run your S corp* etc. Is it because funding is hard to find, and harder to find if you are not actually living in NYC or SF? Are there not easier countries to move to, if you're looking to relocate for reasons other than financial, and run your U.S based company remotely? I don't think that there is any shortage of Comp Sci graduates anywhere in the OECD for those looking to hire.

* edit (C corp or LLC)
The Web Won't Be Safe or Secure until We Break It
As someone who worked calmly for years and made a quite reasonable amount of money, while retaining full control over everything, I must recommend the author's approach.
Greetings. As an active feminist and a Python programmer who may organise this sort of thing in the future, this is a fascinating discussion. On one hand, diversity is exceptionally important for a multitude of reasons, and there must be an effort made to make people of other ethnicities and genders feel welcome and represented. On the other hand, personally I know that "white dudes" significantly outnumber everyone else in the tech scene here in the UK. There definitely are, for instance, women who are fantastic programmers and would give amazing talks, but they may not be able to make the conference. It is also, I think, a difficult line to walk between encouraging diversity and tokenism.

I think what I'll do is bring this up as a point of discussion at our next meeting (interestingly, our feminist group meets at the tech community "hub" in Brighton) and see how our members feel the best way to approach an issue such as this in a constructive and positive manner.
As a power storify user; this - neat idea, change the name ASAP!
Oh no, we wouldn't want a few females to potentially be offended by our choice of words! Bitch, please. What's next, no rape jokes? Or are those okay because men get raped too?
Very cool. A C/C++ version (also mildly abandoned around the same time) was done by Robert O'Callahan, a very smart guy...

Worth checking out and it would be nice if someone could pick it up and develop it more actively.

http://code.google.com/p/chronomancer/
Hostess and Britruby
Good point, would love to hear more!

I have my contact details in the profile here.
For the record, when I say a ton of work I mean: figuring out where to make that change, re-generating the blog (which takes way too long), testing the whole thing and then deploying the change to the production server.

You don't get to decide how I allocate my time and half an hour or more is time I currently do not have to spend on something as un-important as this.

> Really? I feel now you're just talking from the rear.

I think we're done discussing this. Thank you for your contribution.
The 37Signals allotment was high - did they manage the whole campaign in Basecamp?
That's trivial to understand though. Hamas doesn't give a shit about Palestinian people. They are fanatics, why would they? Most of their weapons including medium range missiles is stored in civilian homes, mosques or other public places that less likely to be targeted. As a bonus points if such storage gets hit it's a breaking news for reporters who love to write stories about "Israel bombed mosque, 9000 children are killed".
Disassembling the Woolworths Facebook scam
Save a Tweet - Save tweets before they are deleted.
My guess is they're not happy about it either but if the pressure comes from high up enough they have to relent. One part of it may be that they think that even if they're doing the wrong thing legally they're doing it out of some moral obligation to stick together or to protect the old boys network.

I've never dealt with anything like this before so it is hard to gain any insight into what motivates people like this in general.
Sorry if my tone wasn't clear. I know html5 isn't something you can "download".

I'm just comparing a beginner developer experience for iOS/Android/Firefox OS.

iOS -> download Xcode, install, new project, build and run.

Android -> download Android SDK installer, install eclipse plugins, install eclipse, install current SDK, create new device for emulator, create new project, run on device.

Firefox OS -> ??? google "html5"

I would like to see them field a framework along with their OS. Even if it just means partnering with an existing framework. Make it a 1st class citizen on the OS so you don't need to include your own copy of all the .js files.

If that's not possible, even a simple "here are frameworks we like for Apps: x,y,z Games: j,k,l" would help set people on the right path.
If Windows 8 flops the most likely outcome will be people just staying on whatever version of Windows they have now. That's pretty much what happened when Vista flopped. And honestly, seeing as how Windows 7 only overtook XP in terms of popularity around September of this year (despite being a hit), there seems to be no real rush in the industry for OS upgrades to begin with.
Ask:HN  Buying a parked domain from GoDaddy. How'd you do it?
Hi,
I am interested in a domain that is parked on GoDaddy site. I am trying to contact the owner but GoDaddy is hiding its name behind a paywall and asking for $70.00 upfront +10% commission of the transaction price.

So how'd you it? Any inputs/suggestions and feedback will be great.
Thanks.
You can use pkg_resources which comes with setuptools to look up the version number of your package in setup.py:

import pkg_resources
pkg_resources.get_distribution("PIL").version
This is nearly identical to a feature in the newest version of iPhoto that lets you break up albums into sections with maps and weather information. Just thought you should be aware! (Disclaimer: I am working on a dead-simple storytelling app called Backspaces.)
I haven't really seen such a clean divide. There is definitely a group of developers that prefer building over everything else. This group loves tooling because it enhances their ability to keep adding new things. I also suspect that this group is a product of their environment. They are exceptional at debugging because debugging is the primary way of working. A problem is to be understood and additions made, not changed. Change ruins their understanding.

But even this definition feels too confined. There have been some developers I worked with that must have started out this way and then learned 'engineering' practices. They were all exceptional to work with. I wish more of this group could get to that level. Hence my interest in putting bread crumbs on the path to learning, rather than yet another pill to lose weight fast.
Fat Burning Workout Program Videos
Looks pretty great so far, and I really like the pages you're creating.

Just a handful of things:

1. I don't like logging in with my Google Account. I can see that you're using my Google pictures so you're going to need that. I don't like it anyway.

2. I completely don't understand the graph at the left hand side of your pages. Perhaps it's number of photos (but then that info appears twice, right?). Or is it text written? Or is it distance covered? Or is it coolness of the segment? Some information would be nice.

3. Or even better, how about customizing that area? I know you're quite early in development, but I'd expect to see some interaction there.

4. The location was a little off when I loaded my non-geotagged pictures. It placed them somewhere in Slovakia for some reason. After placing one of my segments into Africa, the overall location marker moved to Germany.

5. These little info boxes are cool. Can I do them myself, please?

6. The time line is interesting, but I'd like to customize that a bit better. In my case, there's lots of empty space at the top and the bottom because I arrived on Saturday and left on Tuesday, causing empty weeks there.

Ok, that was a bit of stuff. Don't take is as criticism, I really like the concept, but I'd also like to see it developed a bit more.
You can't own an S corp unless you're a US resident (citizen or GC holder).
Surely a tool like this is exactly how you translate that 'physical access' into a useful result within the target VM? If that VM is handling the data you're tasked with stealing, bypassing auth and getting a root-shell equivalent which you can use to exfiltrate is probably just as or more useful than taking a memory image at the hypervisor.

The "It's all over when they have physical access" idea always seemed to me like "Once the thief steals your safe, they can probably get it open eventually", but they still do need to get it open. Yes, you might succeed eventually with just a hand-drill and hacksaw, but a set of grinding tools and cutting torch is going to make it much easier and faster.
Or these statistics are just complete bunk, as the notorious browser statistics. Do any of them really claim any kind of precision for the emerging markets, India and China?
Running the nation isn't easy, either. You're supposed to delegate responsibility to people who know what they are doing.
Huh, WTF? Israel is not occupying Gaza since 2005.
I do agree that presidents shouldn't need to be technologists. It's nice if they are, but being able to run a software product is not the most important thing for a potential president to run.

However, that doesn't mean lessons can't be gleamed and abstracted. The President has to outsource a lot of knowledge and work. Presidents are typically experts at something, but not at most things. President Obama is a former Constitutional Law Professor. It's reasonable to assume that he understands Constitutional Law at a very high level; it's also reasonable to assume that Constitutional Law is one of the few things that he has a very high level of expertise at.

All Presidents have to work with other experts and teams to get things done. The fact that Governor Romney's tech teams failed so badly can be looked at a mark of his management abilities. He doesn't need to be a tech expert, but he does need to know how to put the right people in place to be successful.

I look at these failings as a case study as to what could of happened with other areas Governor Romney could have had to outsource: defense leadership, diplomacy, transportation policy and vision, etc.

At some point, you can't pass the buck. Steve Jobs said reasons stop mattering when you hit the vp level at Apple. Assuredly reasons have to stop mattering when you reach the level of potential president of the United States of America.
You can also read the TAL transcripts and get through them 4x faster...
Jony Ive's Design Video for the Twentieth Anniversary Mac
>You don't get to decide how I allocate my time

Please point to the location where I say I'm deciding how you allocate your time.

>I think we're done discussing this. Thank you for your contribution.

That language was probably more harsh than it needed to be. Still I've been hacking on my blog for the day and (granted it is much smaller than yours) I couldn't fathom how changing one line could ever be described as "a huge amount of work" when it currently looks like this to me:

<change line in editor. save the file>
$ fab deploy

That's all it takes. If what can be reduced to the above really takes half an hour for you then I think it would be a good time investment to try and speeden that deployment process up.

Sorry for the language above - really I just like your post and am saying how I find it could be improved.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk doesn't really support Git push of source code for compiled languages like .NET and Java. Details here: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=343686
This reminds me of when Iran blocked ssl connections, but I agree that security wise, they should of never been on http, but just https..
Have been into web photography for around 5 years, past flickr pro user. Finding a upload service that accepts large (10 mb) photos has been tough. I just think the price is too high and $5 a month would be my target.
DHH: App.net Isn’t Going To Work
There is a Open Web App Bootstrap that is being used by Mozilla to develop web applications. They are of course open source and you can grab them yourself. If you had read my previous comment, you would have seen it by now.

"This is a basic template that includes jQuery, require.js, volo, Mozilla Marketplace libraries, and other helpful things. A game template and others will be available soon."

It's called Mortar and can be downloaded here: https://github.com/mozilla/mortar/

I will link the same guide I gave you before, read it because it will teach you the basics you'll need: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Apps/Tutorials/Weat...

Edit: While I'm at it, I might as well link a introduction to the basics of developing Open Web Apps since it might be new to some people: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Apps/Tutorials/Gene...
Single domain SSL certificates don't cost a lot of money or are even free[1] which are ideal for small/personal websites. Won't solve the three problems you listed, but saves you the trouble of installing your own personal root across your devices.

[1] StartSSL.com offers free 1 year single domain certificates.
I don't think he was focusing on the software aspect, as much as the business aspect.

Again, I might be bias, but I agree with him, and if Obama had the same mess of where money was going to, I'd be disappointed. This doesn't read like a leader/manager controlling where time and money is spent, but rather a bunch of people going their own route and buying whatever servers their needs.

As a developer, I'd definitely like the latter route. But after time you come to realize that management stepping in and focusing direction is what's really best in the long term.

And if you can't do it yourself, you delegate to someone who can.

In short, this looks like what happens when the workers are running the show, instead of working together under a single driving force.
This is all I could find. The @britruby account has deleted some of their tweets too.

http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/iamdanw/1898
Honestly, the Obama for America technology team is already ahead of you there with proven delivery. Did you see the Atlantic interview with Harper Reed (OFA's CTO)? If not, it's worth a read.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-t...

(EDIT: Which not to say it's a bad idea, just that there is a well-connected established competitor.)
But you can own a C-Corp, which is what a venture-funded startup needs to be
Actually, Omar jumping out of the window to escape an ambush was something that one of the real-life guys he was based on (Donnie Andrews) actually did. The only thing that was made up about that was in the show they had him jump out of the fourth floor because they felt that people wouldn't believe it if they showed him doing what Donnie actually did - jumping out of a sixth floor window and limping away.

http://www.vice.com/read/david-simon-280-v16n12 (about half way down the page).
The Quiet Ones
> This whole situation has been quite eye-opening.

Indeed.

> Our (the US) government often likes to hold up India as a counter-example to the oppressive regime in China, but in practice, it seems there is little difference.

I think in general India is a bit better than China, but I'm fairly sure that you could move this whole affair to China with very little difference.

The Koreas are one of those scars on the world that will take a century to heal. There are a few others, I have 0 hope that any of them will be resolved within my lifetime. The big losers are the people of those countries used as pawns in a global game of chess that they probably don't even realize is being played.

I would not hold up South Korea as being exemplary in anything particular but they're trying hard to make it work.
Here's my story. I had H-1b for more than 3 years. I know for sure that I was taking someone's job - there's no doubt about that. When I finally got my green card - I quit the next day to start my own company. Now I create jobs.

So it took me 3 years until I could start creating jobs in the US. In my opinion US government should provide incentives for the foreigners to CREATE jobs, not TAKE them.
Right now it's exactly the opposite.

This OP's point is I think the most important part of this blog post: "And allow them to graduate into new visa's (like a greencard) once certain milestones have been hit like revenue thresholds (tax paid) and employment (aggregate demand in the economy increases)."
It's sad how much damage can be caused by the ripple effect. First the sexualized presentations and sexist invitations, and now the TSA-style response to every hint of sexism. Conference organizers shouldn't have to worry about forcing diversity into their line-up. It starts with schools and universities, and every child having equal opportunities to tinker with computers.

Does anyone have evidence that the @BritRuby organizers intentionally excluded anyone? Has anyone ever said 'I am an experienced Ruby developer and speaker, but I feel that I was excluded based on my race or gender"?

If you really care about the issue, then there are far more productive ways to shift the balance than posting comments on twitter. I think the cancellation is a ridiculous over-reaction, and I still don't understand why 100% white males is a big deal. My Ruby meetup group is diverse, but noone is there because they feel the need to represent their race or gender. We're just all interested in Ruby!
The author of the linked Forbes commentary touches but fails to understand that most poor black kids in urban areas do not have convenient or easy access to a computer. If they're lucky, they'll have access to a working computer at their school. If they're really lucky, they may even live close enough to the public library to use those computers.

The author fails to grasp that a kid from Oakland, Cleveland, or South LA, has never heard of TED, or Academic Earth, or Khan Academy. He has no idea that there are free resources available online, and no reason to expect such.

But what can you expect? The Forbes article is written by a very wealthy, middle-aged, white man who had both parents and lived in a wealthy neighborhood.
Chris Sacca talks about his investment in Kickstarter and how the founders don't want to sell the company: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VOQnK7O2To#t=67m

You have to get your investors on board even if it's not the "typical" setup.
The fail-whale articles about Orca talked about how it was a Microsoft partner that built it.
Agreed, but not every single new business is focused on raising VC capital
I've never heard of Mark Suster before today and I'm sorry if I offended you by criticizing one of your role models. Though if you reread his post, he does mention impertinence as being a characteristic of entrepreneurs. Maybe Mark Suster and I have more in common than I initially thought.
On the other hand, who doesn't think that their own company is the best for any given job?
Umm, woah there buddy?

The parent poster presented disagreements in a rational, calm manner that facilitates discussion. Everyone is entitled to opinions, and he made his points in a rather respectful manner.

You, on the other hand, exploded like a bomb. Why the need to lash out so violently? You've been around HN for a long time so you should know that this kind of discourse is not really desired.
You can also be the sole member of an LLC, which is sufficient for having a U.S. bank account and doing business, if you're not looking for VC funds. Real estate agents deal with these kinds of LLC setups anytime for foreign real estate purchases.
> In once case, they hired a freshly-minted RIT graduate as a contractor to be a system administrator, paying him just over $12,000 for six months of work.

I wonder how many hours that actually ended up being. $12,000 for six months seems like a pittance, but if his job involved showing up on Sunday afternoons and making sure that security patches had been installed Saturday night, that doesn't seem like a bad bargain.
Look beyond your bubble sir and you will know how. Feel free to downvote, patriotism is one thing, being adiabatic to or discouraging of criticism is another. I am Indian, and if you dig my threads you will find I react to claims that try to portray all Indian's as corrupt. All I can say is that whatever snippets of detail that have been let out here, all ring true.

You ask how may a person might come in contact with powers that be in their daily course of work. If anecdotes are the currency we are trading in, here is a well known one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binayak_Sen
This is the most complete and representative post on entrepreneurship I've ever read, at least according to my own experiences. I do listen to Mark's podcast, but this is by far the best of his best.
> Dogmatic Bayesians often come armed with assertions that probability calculus is the "correct" way of doing inference and, further, that there is some kind of ethical maximum achieved when you make your decisions exclusively via inference.

Put it more crudely, "Bayesians are a bit extremist, therefore we shouldn't trust them too much".

> Unfortunately, neither of these reasons have the conclusive force that they appear to. The sanity of Cox's postulates and ethics of optimization are still (arbitrary) choices…

I have read the first two chapters of Jayne's Book, so I must ask: do you know of any other choice that isn't completely insane? You need very few assumptions to get to probability theory.

> …which serve mostly to create a formalized world for us to live in and study with efficacy.

Last time I checked, it looked like our world runs on math (which math is the big question). But even if it doesn't, do you expect we can find anything better to study it? Even if the world is chaotic, it doesn't mean our thinking shouldn't be lawful.
"Running a software project (even if not directly) is notoriously hard. Make it a prerequisite to be a presidential candidate at your peril."

Isn't that essentially the entire premise of effective leadership? Substitute "software project" with "X" - knowing who to bring on-board, and how to execute by effectively using those resources to the best of your and their ability despite an endless stream of opposition.