skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Dropped all things fluid."

What are the implications of this? I'm not a web designer, so does that mean that we have to have fixed-width pages? Won't that make it harder to design web apps? Will someone help to clear up my misunderstanding?
:) I see what you did there....I also agree
Because they don't have destitution motivating them to grab on by the skin of your teeth to any income whatsoever.

But, I want to note, that's a good thing. One of my college classmates is a severely messed-up person from being raised by abusively money-hungry and careerist upwardly-mobile parents from India. Having the fire of destitution in your belly is how you breed Goldman Sachs investment bankers, not good citizens of a developed society.
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Does anyone know of a decent introductory, authoritative text on cryptography? I haven't needed to know this stuff before beyond "use bcrypt because it's good, MD5 is rubbish", but have recently been given the task of generating license keys for our product. I would like to be able to test that what I've created isn't trivially crackable.
> And if I display the exact same frame twice in a row at 48fps I get 24fps.

Not quite. Shooting at 48fps requires a faster shutter speed than 24fps (1/48 vs 1/96) which gives you less motion blur.
Chalk is a natural language processing library
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And then 8 months later you find out about a group that had the same plan, but got started a month before you did...
Yes, it is a hosted blogging engine. You can sign up and use it with a single click. Just enter a blog title on the home page form and hit the 'create blog' button, that's all.
I got nothing against people who pursue that, I speak against myself on my first post. I also want to create something that makes a difference, I want to generate value and create something meaningful for other. But I would never replace my dream with all the other things I love in life. In the end the balance will always be negative for me.

With this said, It doesn't mean I aim low on things I want to achieve, I just thing balance is the correct path to have in life.
Very nice work. What's the output, canvas + javascript?

Love the quartz composer node style interface, it's very well done.

A few suggestions:

When entering in values, have them be saved on blur, not just on return keypress. I lost numbers many times just assuming that typing them in then going to another field would save my input.

I'd love a way to add names to the nodes. I quickly put together a pointer + 3 math nodes + a text node, and would want to add a label to the math node that I used as a multiplier constant for the x and y math nodes...

To that end, instead of having to use a math node of 0 + constant = constant, let me have a 'variable' node that just outputs whatever constant. Oh, full expression support for math too would rock.

It's good that you support multiple outputs per node output. That's how I was able to use a single math node as inputs for 2 other math nodes.

Your node bar should support drag + drop onto your editor area as well as simple clicks. People will try it both ways, it should just work.

How long has this been in development, and how many people have contributed? Using any cool libraries?
> It beats having to program every application three times from scratch to reach a full market.

How are you going to counteract the interests of Apple/Google and other established players, who are going to hold onto their turf with all the power the network effect will give them?
As a neat historical note, OpenBSD was forked from NetBSD partly over this: NetBSD's releases were BSD licensed, but were developed in secret. OpenBSD adopted a public anonymous CVS server so anyone could watch development as it was going on. Apparently they were the first project to do this[1]. A step on the way to GitHub, today, where code is the first thing you see and can be forked with a click of a button.

In 2012, development in public is so normal that I think it's completely fair to call Android less open than it could be. It's great that you can get the source code for Android's point releases (sometimes... 3.0 was completely closed-source, because Google said the code was too messy). But a code dump a couple times a year is not fully in the spirit of open source.

[1] http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix99/full_papers/cranor_f/cr... (pdf)
Could have I have gone forward without the new guys? Honestly, no. So I see your point.

I could have paid people to do the job, but I wanted to build something more than that. That was my intention from the start.

Thanks a lot!
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I find it rather amusing, given the context, that I spent a long time (more than 30 seconds) trying to figure out the match for your unbalanced parenthesis. I don't think I would have done that if it hadn't been a paragraph about Lisp: I kept going back thinking "Wait, I didn't realize I was in a parenthetical expression... does this change the interpretation of what is being said?".
I've heard that a lot of it has to do with "We have to advertise the position but someone on the inside is moving up." or something like that.

I've been meaning to look into meetups but haven't had much success in finding anything in my area. I did find a Ruby one recently that I could go to but I know nothing about it.
Where I live it doesn't seem there are many (if any) for developers. Starting my own is just my idea of a worst nightmare.

When I get done with the projects I've picked up lately I will look into it some more as a lot of times it isn't about how well you could do the job but who you know that can get you the job.
Indeed, and what are you going to do with the name going forward given that 'git' means something completely different to the non-technical minded?
"not created for the sake of culture itself, but for the sake of profit, and not intended to be shared."

Are we supposed to care about the intention of the creators? By putting the creators' intentions first, you are promoting commercialized culture -- you are turning pieces of the culture into an exploitable asset.

When commercial entertainment is shared, we get non-commercial entertainment. Sometimes it is silly, like the OVER 9000 videos on Youtube. Sometimes it is artistic, like remixes of hit songs. If we want to have a culture that is not controlled by profiteering gluttons, we need to ignore their wishes when it comes to sharing the entertainment they create; otherwise, they will always drown out whatever culture might emerge on its own (as they do today).
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The also redid their scaffolding model (grid system) to use percent widths instead of pixel widths, so it seems like the default (and only option) will be for things to behave like the old fluid layouts did.
None of those things are startups. You have a consultancy business and a couple small but useful web-based service products. I applaud you for the success you have had, which many of us would envy... but they're still not startups.
Looks like for IE7 they did it so they could use border-box.
I'm 33 and remember when I was in high school, there was a trend growing in the grades below me to reward all students, no matter whether they achieved anything or not. "Participation awards" became the hot new thing. I honestly wonder if this has had an impact on that generation just after me.
Oh, I've no doubt that some of the hard-core cyclists would latch on to it--eliminating the wind chill effect would be a big score over riding on a naked bike, but hoi polloi, the people with a short commute who could switch to something like this without too much sacrifice, are going to think twice about it.
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Would you hire a carpenter who had 0 experience but had read a lot of books at the library when you could alternatively hire a carpenter with actual experience?
The DMCA isn't relevant if you host your own website - they could sue you for copyright infringement, but that seems unlikely. Of course, IANAL.

As a commenter below said, you would be the one taking the risk, but it would add a huge amount to the credibility of your claim if you posted the legal notices.
Twitter Confirms ‘Download Your Tweet Archive’ Feature
Congratulations to the developer (if he's the OP) this is one of the best websites I've ever been shown on HN. The demo/tutorials are amazing and really display the power of the tool. Additionally, moonbase is downright beautiful and so simple to use.
Why would anyone need to get paid if robots are doing all the work? And if no one needs to be paid, why does anything need to cost?

Capitalism is nothing more than a system for allocating finite resources. If, for all practical intents and purposes, nothing is finite anymore then there's no reason to keep around a finite resources system.
I've long stopped believing that money helps improve the world. People do.

If you throw money at a problem, often times you create a dependency on that aid, and other times you just end up with even more mouths to feed.

It's not that monetary aid is always 100% ineffective. It's just that once you tally up the bad and the good, you're left with something that's in the red.
They also removed all IE7 specific CSS hacks. IE7 will no longer be supported at all.
You mean, "how about re-engineering the entire project for little benefit"? LESS vs SASS is one of the more infuriating "this vs that" argument circling the web right now, because everyone is so inexplicably vocal and passionate about it.

Looks like there is already a SASS port:

https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass
I'm (still) a fan of http://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html
If it seems offensive, you're reading the directionality wrong. The closest thing to use as an example, but doesn't exactly fit this situation, is the formal fallacy of affirming the consequent.

Like it or not, we live in a society where "because money" is a reasonable justification for a huge number of otherwise disgusting actions. Acknowledging that not does not imply that if your goal is to make money, you have to do such things.
Applied Cryptography is pretty much the standard.
I've held a perception that Stanford students have ludicrous offers from Bay Area companies, and I definitely expected the average to be higher due to cost of living.

However, these numbers really are similar to Georgia Tech's CS numbers for 2012, and I know there's a lot of east coast companies that pull GT graduates.

http://www.adors.gatech.edu/commencement/salary_report_resul...

The College of Computing has better numbers (including relocation and stock option numbers), but that link is the rollup for the school. I can't find the CoC specific ones.
When was the last time anybody used FF 3.6?

Serious question.
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Since you asked, there are a variety of jobs that fit the criteria of not requiring a college degree and that are learnable from books, practice and practical experience alone.

Sales, Software Development, Blogger, Author, Administrative Assistant, Fire fighter, Telecom engineer, (think Comcast/Verizon installers) Appliance Repair, Personal Trainer, Dietary Advisor, etc.

None of these may be a person's 'ideal' job, but the majority of them pay well and can be gotten with learnable education, practice, or a good interview.
That one thing it does for me is quite redeeming.
I have a deliverable due today; will someone elaborate on the following?

Career Trajectory. Job 1: 5,000 users. Job 2: 10,000 users. Job 3: 500,000 users. Job 4: 1,000,000 users. Job 5: 10,000,000 users. How many users does the startup have, how will that destroy my resume, and how long will it take me to recover my career if the startup fails?

Opportunity Cost vs. Peak Production Years Remaining. I am 20 something years old. I only have so many years of peak production remaining before it's time to have a family and a house and all that. Is a startup the best way to spend those years when I am worth $x per hour on the market?
+7 votes for a rough release date. Working on a new project which would benefit greatly from using 3.0... for the meantime, I suppose we just use the bleeding edge version and extend it in a separate CSS file, then keep the base bootstrap CSS up to date.
However I am not looking forward to removing all the row-fluid/container-fluids in my templates.
Maybe not in the short run. We'll see. But if Apple decides not to implement an open standard for business reasons, that doesn't make said standard not open.
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None of those things are startups. You have a consultancy business and a couple small but useful web-based service products.

I agree with you about the web-based tools - too many people classify these things as startups when they're really not, myself included.

Not sure about the consultancy though: it's small, designed to grow fast, adapting quickly and prepared to pivot as required, and on the verge of hiring. The consultancy owns the products mentioned, so it's not only doing consultancy, which is why I've classified it as a startup. I'm open to the idea that it's not though.
Yup, and then if you need specific pixel widths on anything, you specify them yourself. E.g. a fixed width page, you'd need `body { width:950px }` or etc.
You are close, I think their plan is to use your photos with people you know. AKA you drinking the coke is now coke's ad on your friend's pages.
The long-term vision is for Gittip to be general-purpose. Of course, with only a few hundred active users, Gittip has barely scratched the surface of the open source world, and it's possible that now wasn't the ideal time to cast the net wider. I committed Gittip to Twitter support when I threw together a half-baked implementation ahead of the XOXO festival a few months ago. Then I got side-tracked by fraud and other things and just now was able to really land this. For better or for worse, it's there now.

The next big feature is non-U.S. payouts. That's becoming a critical problem, because it means that Gittip is stuck holding money that belongs to other people. My goal is to solve that in the coming months, and then we'll be in a much better position to aggressively pursue growth. Where to focus those efforts in terms of communities will be part of the discussion.
I pronounced SQL by saying each letter for a long time, as I'd learnt all about it online and never spoken to anyone about it. It didn't help that I often worked with MSSQL, or... Messequel?
In an 'efficient' market all future risk is included in the analysis of current value meaning that if it was an 'efficient' market this would actually not be a problem.

The EMH claims that all future time discounted risk known to market participants is included in the analysis of current value.

If you want to show the markets are not efficient, go achieve excess risk-adjusted returns. The sole claim of the EMH is that you can't do that. The EMH doesn't claim that market participants will not take risks, nor does it claim that investors/customers will not apply time discounting to those risks.
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Author's website http://elepath.com/
Apache malware targeting online banking
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This was posted shortly after. http://blog.instagram.com/post/38252135408/thank-you-and-wer... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939849
gonna be fun when bcrypt will be "rubbish" and people won't understand that due to simplifications. Certainly is a good idea to inform yourself instead (despite the so called experts that will tell you not to even look at it)

I always liked www.amazon.com/Code-Book-Science-Secrecy-Cryptography/dp/0385495323/ as beginner introduction, before going on to more advanced books. it gives you all the basics, and the basics are imo the most important to get right (that's why they're basics), plus its a fun read
> In any case; I am not sure there are any unbiased articles. . .

I've found the blog Scary DBA's series of articles on the author's experience with his Surface to be quite interesting. The general shape of the story is that the first couple articles started out fairly enthusiastic, then the tone moved to one of frustration as he documented all the technical problems he was running into. Lately they've been a bit more upbeat; he seems to have reached a state of equanimity.
"...Facebook is blocking direct links to my site and libeling me by claiming the site is “Spammy and Unsafe...”. Does anyone else see a problem with this, or is this justified? It feels like Facebook has crossed a line from guardian to censor.
If there is no salary, it certainly sounds like they're helping to co-found the business.
Very nice. I just miss some way to change the values with the mouse (wheel) - some kind of slider maybe?
In fact, it will be hard! They will use `box-sizing: border-box;`, which changes everything about width calculation and IE7 does not support this property.
If you don't want a corporate entity, you should not use Firefox OS either. Mozilla does a bad job of making it clear, but mozilla.org the non profit and mozilla.com the corporation are not the same entity at all.
Sigh. You know full-well what I am talking about. Discussing it in terms of what is technically occurring does not achieve anything- Facebook is a service. The service is provided to you for free in return for showing you advertisements. If you block those advertisements then you are depriving Facebook of the means by which they pay for your presence on their service.

No, it is not a direct payment. Yes, it is a transaction.
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I used Ctrl-F and didn't find the word "determine" or "bled" anywhere on the page. Did you read a different article?
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Great suggestions and great questions!

> How long has this been in development, and how many people have contributed?

It started as a solo skunkworks project at the end of August with the rest of the Elepath team pitching in during the last few weeks, Pasquale making it look so beautiful and Kyle killing it on the backend.

> Using any cool libraries?

If you're not using RequireJS, you really should. It is super amazing.
Obviously this is particular to each site's visitor demographics, but the only IE7-specific CSS my sites need would be something along the lines of:

#ie-warning {
display:none;
}

html.ie7 #ie-warning {
display:block;
}
Copyright was supposed to be 14 years - not 30, and not 100. Your argument doesn't make sense. You can make something of extreme value and still be able to make a lot of money on it for 14 years. Don't forget copyright was also supposed to return the works into public domain. Don't think of it just frm the point of view of an author. Piracy has arisen as "competition" to the much crippled copyright system.
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same thoughts here - worried, then optimistic as it should actually be a more simple syntax to create nested grids - would be really nice if you'd be able to do a project wide removal of "-fluid" and it all just works the same
> The youth of tomorrow will look back at the low-res, fuzzy films of today the same way we look at black and white flicks from the past, "Did people really like this crud?!".

Speak for yourself... there is a certain art form in black and white movies that can never be reproduced in color (for example, great use of shadows). Many people enjoy watching the great classic masterpieces. It's a shame more movies are not made this way.
500 Million is not effortless for anyone on planet earth. Mark Zuckerberg has somewhere in the range of 7 to 10 billion dollars. 500M is somewhere between 5 and 7 percent of his net worth. I realize that money has less marginal utility to billionaires, but donating 5 to 7 percent of what you've earned in your whole life is nothing to sneeze at. I'm pretty sure Mark thought about this decision as he has never been known to throw money around, and for you to dismiss it as "effortless" is fairly absurd.
IE8 runs on XP, though. Just about every Windows computer still in operation should have IE8 installed, for security reasons if nothing else.
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Exciting! I really hope they do end up going with multiple modal widths in 3.1, as I've had to do this myself on more than a few occasions.

On a side note, I'm curious as to why they decided to refactor their variable names to include dashes instead of just sticking with camel casing. Personally, I find camel casing to be much more readable.
I may be missing something here, but if you're a fan of lisp and want easy interaction with libraries on the JVM, please tell me you've heard of Clojure. It's a modern lisp that strongly favors functional programming, and that has great concurrency support. Plus, there is already a data analysis / statistical platform built on top of it called Incanter.
https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto is excellent
"It might help… a little. But I think it’s largely a waste of time as far as weight loss is concerned."

The link you posted seems think cold exposure doesn't work. Why are you doing it?
> Why not, y'know, just not use Facebook?

The snarky knee-jerk answer is, why not throw away my cellphone and cancel my contract with the ISP while I'm at it? They also do things I disagree with.

The longer answer is that Facebook is how most of my friends communicate now, and how they schedule social events. I could delete my account, but it would mean a lot more friction when trying to talk to people, planning events, and attending events planned by others.
Exactly, in fairness I think the original author has figured this out, but its an important litmus test.

If you want to be an entrepreneur you first need to discover a problem you are passionate about fixing, and you enjoy working on. You will need that to carry you through the hard work. Finding that is best done by working for someone else and spending your personal time reading, networking, and listening. While you are working for someone else, hone those skills that make you a better employee, and you can use as an entrepreneur, get better at writing code, develop tools to communicate clearly, think through assignments and figure out what needs to be done to complete them. All great skills.
I worked on a bigger JavaEE project with serverlets and all the other things...

after doeing things like: "someurl".toURI.toURL; to get a valid url and some other stuff that i really dont wanne start with...

I just refuse do code something for the web with Java and Servlets and RMI or Beans or Java Technologie X...

now i code in Javascript and ruby and iam so much happier as a developer :)
Perhaps it would be best if it were unnecessary to go into crippling debt to gain a higher education?
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