skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also work from home. I think the best way to stay social even working at home is to have internet chatting with friends!! I usually chat with two or three people while working at home. If you want, you can add me on gtalk.
Then Canonical has a second-rate Android platform, on which most people run apps that don't work so well, and they have zero control over the platform, so the vendors they are competing with can directly run them off the road.

If what you want is to run Android apps, stick with an Android phone.
It's not affecting me or any of my friends all over the country.
Chris Taylor Gas Powered Games founder on layoffs and Kickstarter
Since there won't be a trial, that superposition could continue indefinitely.
If any of these are true.
Import Sony NEX-FS700 1080 50p/60p MTS to FCP 6/7/X on Mac
"How can a journalist be such a fool to publish something as ridiculous as this"

Advertorial content?
This thread suggests that it's probably fun to say: good riddance to the fuckers! (And you might say "good riddance, you fucker" if you were on FuckedCompany...)

I've met pud and talked with him in an entrepreneurial setup, and I was truly impressed by his early-stage insight. Seriously, he's smart and savvy, so there, but for the grace of God, go I, etc. Rather than piling-on in a FuckedCompany-like sense, I think it's more interesting to think about the trajectory of a company founded by a bright and very in-tune entrepreneur.

Looking for lessons:

* What do you think went wrong?
* What are artifacts of the failure you can enumerate?
* What would you have done differently?
* How did their competitors excel?
If pixels exist, they are certainly indifferent to resolutions.
Hey Kyle, great post! Not sure if you remember, but we worked at that same company at exactly the same time (and I'm pretty sure we're exactly the same height).

I was more on the programming side of things at the time, but when I found out the difference between what I was paid and how my hours were billed to clients (also around 20x), I had the same sort of reaction. Since I was just barely starting college at the time (so no degree, but had the skills), I really think this was mostly just a function of the labor market around that area. I had younger/taller/thicker/balder/older co-workers who were similarly 'discriminated' with respect to their salaries as they were starting out there.

The high multiple probably had a lot to do with the type of clients this company was able to land. If I remember correctly, they charged something like 10x market rate for managed hosting, and clients happily paid because of the nature of the product.

Also, I'd say the unique thing about you that made (makes) you really stand out is not just the pixels, it's the glorious combination of both pixels and bits [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn
looks good. my application (database-ish) is in java and i haven't worked on any bindings yet. just trying to put together a demo that shows off the concurrency
You can also just right click on the marker and click "Copy video URL at current time."
i heard designers are the new black.

or maybe i'm just biased...
Aaron achieved so much so young and had the potential to change the world even more for better. Everytime I hear his name or read a post about him cannot help my anger at the people who pushed him to the edge. I can only hope the people responsible for his untimely death are soon brought to justice .
Or it could just be a talent acquisition. :)

Per my post above, I don't see how any company using Crashlytics continues to use them going forward. If you are a publisher, the last thing you'd want is Twitter having your data.
Where are you buying through now? My contact information is in my profile. Reach out if you'd like to discuss other options.
Not quite, because people are still monkeys. :) I'd say we lost our British accent when we stopped being British.
Announcing the Winners of the 2012 Canadian Startup Awards
I'm not being petty, if your only advice is to contact a professional, discussing the positives and negatives of contact runs contrary to and distracts from your intentions.
I can help you with alternatives. My contact info is in my profile. Give me and e-mail and we can chat.
Point taken, profit is not revenue, you're absolutely right.

Yet I looked the profit for VMWare for Q3 of 2012 and it's indicated that they made some 150 million dollars in Q3 of 2012. Then again, I am not an entrepreneur, sure, I might not understand all the details so this might be a bit naive but 150 million dollars in profit still seems like a good chunk of money and kind of clashes in my head with firing 900 people, the kind of situation I would expect if the company was bleeding money all over the place.

Then I looked some more and found this and it got even more confusing: http://www.eweek.com/virtualization/vmware-q4-earnings-up-bu...

From a noob outsider's point of view, it's almost as if the "value" of the company is not really correlated with its ability to make money and release good products, but on some decision from the market. And I guess this is where I (and most people who are not stock jockeys) completely lose track, where does that projection of what the earnings should be come from? How do people gauge that a quarter is a solid one or a bad one? Real question, any insight appreciated.
I deal with them as a customer and I will tell you that everything you say is exactly the way their customers see it. We're begging to find a reason to move the rest of our stuff off VMWare. Their technology is dull and pedestrian compared to what some vendors are bringing in. They are very good at what they do but every time I talk to a person in the company it just feels like they are in maintenance mode and are bored with their own products.
If you haven't already, go read TheVerge's excellent piece on WebOS. Lots of interesting details there.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-insid...
Ooh, reminds me of the accent on Tangier Island, Virginia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v... (that's a direct link to an example of the Tangier accent, which the article claims is not an uncorrupted version of Shakespearean English, but it does sound a bit similar to what those Shakespeare scholars have pieced together, what they call Original Pronunciation)
Sorry for confusing profit and revenue, it was a mistake. Being French, I was not brought up in a world of Bloomberg and stock markets, so I've obviously been short-changed on the whole business-venture / capitalism theory. My bad.
Sounds like the perfect platform for trolling.
The hilarious part is that if the reasoning really is that one doesn't want to see it being done near their home, then online gambling is ideal. People would do it "in the privacy of their own homes", and I think you'd quickly find people preferring it to going to a building (due to ease and sheer variety). The brick and mortar places "attract riff raff" precisely because they are by definition concentrations of theoretically socially unacceptable behavior, which are then additionally usually combined with alcohol sale.
There's no contact information in your profile. Only the about box is shared, the e-mail box is for password retrievals.
Wow. So we must change our immigration policies because of Stripe's chosen solution to their talent identification problem?

What other profession would that work for?

e.g., s/engineer/day-care-provider . I need to hire a good day care provider, and can't find one. But I know a good one in another country. Laws get in the way of my hiring them. Let's change the law!
No, what caused the crash was that there was no bigger fool to sell overvalued stock to. Engineers coming out of the woodwork were simply responding to the economic incentives that existed for them (and that's the problem with bubbles, it's that incentives get distorted).
I've been trying this out side by side with sparrow for the day, and I like it's looks, though it seems to be a little choppy (I do have a rather sizable gmail inbox), here's hoping the developers keep up the good work!
I think it's just the job descriptions are changing, as one of the above posts shows by comparing "guru" and "ninja."

No one wants a "Secretary" anymore, they want "Front-Office." "Office Assistant," and other buzz-worthy people.

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=front+office&l=

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=office+assistant&l=
I just spent decent bucks on my first new PC dev and gaming in years. Phones are nice and helpful too but nothing beats a PC (Ubuntu PC not Windows PC) for real work or real gaming fun. Windows 8 and UEFI threw me for a loop but deleting all the Windows partitions and turning all the UEFI stuff in the BIOS off finally worked. :)
> While the Internet is no longer as anonymous

> You don't know who I am from this comment (unless you stalk my bio and find me on Twitter). If you like it you'll upvote it. That's exactly (one of the many reasons) why I love the Internet.

That's the one sad thing, though: as you yourself point out, the Internet is moving in a direction where this concept of an anonymous meritocracy is already becoming more and more difficult - and, eventually, likely impossible.
Talk is cheap. Let's see the math.
Ruby elapsed time natural language parser
Have you even read that?

> Symfony applications are not vulnerable to this attack

And it definitely has not the same track record. For example, it has been audited by a security company in one of the first versions. So far I have only seen minor security vulnerabilities, nothing like what Rails brings every week.

Anyway, that's not why I changed. I found it to be much better architected, 100% decoupled (as opposed to monolithic). You can change anything you want if you have to, or if you find better vendors and want to try them. It has actually been designed from day 1, and not by someone who has read about design patterns little time before creating the framework, and calls himself 'the master chef'.

Having an OOP background, I thought (I don't remember why) Ruby/RoR community was some sort of elite, and everyone had a much higher minimum level (as opposed to php, where most people are noobs). I was disappointed, most of them didn't even understand what interfaces were for (no wonder ruby hasn't added them yet), let alone knowing the most basic design patterns. They also seem to enjoy laughing at developers from other languages. All this was a pain to watch, but I didn't care as long as Rails was perfect, and that's how I felt about it at first. But it wasn't, so I moved to Symfony2, and found out not only the framework was superior, but also the community was awesome.
First Music Video Created Using Real-Time MRI
Ask HN: Should I focus on iOS or Rails as Freelance? 
Hi

I'm currently trying to go freelance full-time and going through a dillema on where I should focus my attention and time.

While I'm more versatile on iOS (and have a lot of experience on C++ code, from nginx modules to multiplatform systems code and games) I have also been involved in
various Rails projects.

I'm trying to build a small portfolio to attract potential clients and find work but I don't really know on what I should focus. Preferences wise, I have things I like and dislike about both platforms. I'm more worried about getting clients than personal fullfilment to be honest (as I have my own pet projects for that) as I want to focus on getting more international clients and as such, a good portfolio is a must (since networking is so much harder).

I currently charge 50 USD/hour for iOS development work but would like to up my charges a bit since going full-time involves some more expenses as well.

Thank you
Bruno
I was thinking about that as I was posting that, but I thought this was generating an in-depth discussion beyond "crime without a new perspective" so it was okay with me.
can you give a high level overview of how this is accomplished from a technical perspective? and any chance of open sourcing this?
Parent is saying ACME has the best products, according to ACME. I, for one, don't click such articles as they're usually biased to favour the authors. Checks real quick In this case, Mozilla really ranked #20 but were #1 in their category of just 12. The article reeks of exploding just one tiny bullet point in a report which appears not to have been reviewed much outside of Ponemon Institute LLC except for the fine commentary here on HN.

(See http://search.cpan.org/~chromatic/Acme-Incorporated-1.00/lib... )
Just tried this out... pretty freaking awesome.
Google Celebrates 'Data Privacy Day'
> Now people can use this "open source software" and can modify the where the endpoints are.

I'm a bit confused by what you see as the point of concern here. Are you concerned that the actual deployed application doesn't reflect the source code provided? That's a concern regardless of the license used; it's an example of where security is based largely on trust.
The simple answer is that most people expect clothing to provide privacy for what is kept under them (such as your wallet, cell phone, genitals, etc). Now when the day comes that everyone normally wears augmented reality glasses that can see terahertz / infrared radiation, and that one would normally check themselves out in a mirror with such glasses before going out, then I guess there would be no expectation of privacy for what is under you clothes.
You have used the Econ 101 concept to suit your view. From the point of view of software buyer when prices go up demand goes down. Which means less opportunity to grow which equates less employment. It works both ways.
A better alternative to QR codes
Looks like your mom's going down too.

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=your+mom&l=

Ahem.
I think this bug will have to be closed pretty soon -- OS X will probably have the majority in a few years :)
Much better name... please add Windows / Linux support :-).
Just a dns problem, add www.
Google Offers $3.14159 Million In Total Rewards For Chrome OS Hacking Contest
If this is one of those "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" industries, I'll just buy a Casio. Why can't we get prices on these damn watch websites? I'm willing to spend money on a watch, but I'm not willing to wade through a phone call (or worse, give you my contact information and await your callback...)
The first developer preview devices specifically designed for Firefox OS
Consider that the fully loaded cost of an employee (salary, insurance, stock, taxes, etc.) may be somewhere around $150k. 900 people like that cost 135 million. So basically, most of that 150 million they made is because they didn't have 900 extra people on payroll.

"The company projected annual 2013 total revenues to be in the range of $5.23 billion to $5.35 billion." That's a variation of 120 million right there. Those 900 people could mean the difference between making money with the high estimate vs the low estimate.

Note that the stock price dropped not because it was a bad quarter (it was a good quarter), but because vmware said projected future revenue is expected to be lower than predicted.
Brad Feld talks to students about St. Louis startup communities
To open in a new window, hold shift when you click the link. To open in a new tab, hold control when you click the link. You're in control of where links open and websites don't need to do anything to give you that control.
Windows support is being actively worked on! Please sign up to our mailing list (from the website) if you haven't already and we should be able to give you good news in a few weeks time!
Sorry, the use of the nym INT_MIN suggested to me that the implementation under the covers was C.

It looks like it was once an interpreter, but is now compiled down to CLR and run with Mono.
http://blog.chromium.org/2013/01/show-off-your-security-skil...
>progressively larger constant factors

If they are getting progressively larger with larger inputs, then they are not in fact constant factors.
sometimes age is on your side and sometimes not. If one thinks they are worth more than what they are getting they should go get their worth, period. You have to trust your ability and back it up with unflinching guts. We live in fabulous times where showcasing your work is easier and the reach global.
Nope, the problem is not due to the magical nature of the framework.

They implemented the JSON decoder with a JSON to YAML converter, passing that through the YAML decoder.

The fix involves using an actual JSON parser and skip the going through YAML part. So it does qualify as a JSON parser bug, IMO (which is what I clumsily attempted to imply with my "(or JSON)" clause above.)
But, how does the second user to upload the same file know the file's encryption key (since presumably the server only knows ENCRYPT(FILE_KEY with USER1_KEY))?

It seems like either the server must know the file's encryption key, or the key must be derivable from the contents... which is no good.
Unfortunately, the problem is not only the NoSQL data stores but their ORMs. In fact, Devise was not vulnerable to any of the Rails previous vulnerabilities because MongoDB ORMs forced us a long time ago to sanitize all input values because if you do this:

User.where(password_token: params[:password_token])

You could make `params[:password_token]` return `{ "$ne" => "1" }` and effectively get any record from the database in MongoDB ORMs. So we limit the set of input values you can pass as argument for a while now. This is also why our patches were so simply, the whole sanitization infra structure was already there.

We were not able to test all ORMs and databases (because we would need to effectively test combinations of those) but we could verify the problem does not happen for PostgreSQL nor SQLite3. That's why you must upgrade if you don't want to take any risks.
I like the little plug at the bottom for physical OTP devices, which completely neglects to mention that RSA is a leading player in this space. I wonder if the writer accidentally went the completely wrong direction with that sound bite.
Organizing platform development
Never said it was an all encompassing term, just an all encompassing practice. The term means social ownership of the means of production. If the political structure of a society wants to pretend regulation, licensing, permissions, incentive/punitive taxes, bail-outs, take-overs and nationalizations are not effectively the same thing as (at least partial) social ownership; that's society's business, not mine.

I cannot understand the political philosophy of socialism any better than I can understand another's faith, nor do I try. Socialist agendas may not be marked as such on the packaging, but that doesn't mean the ingredients didn't come from the same farm.

I have no great plan for society. I am of the mind that the "problem" of stable society is as insoluble as determining what the product prices should be in a marketless society. So, I also don't think anyone else socialist or otherwise has a great plan for society (visions perhaps, but nothing practically actionable), but I don't think that stops policymakers from tinkering when they can.

I have no idea what a Libertarian paradise would be, and I have offered none. Since I have no power to stop the looming dissolution of social order, nor predict the exact time or nature of the chaos; I can only hope to eek out an existence somewhere. But I will continue to remind men such that they may listen, that it was not the pursuit of liberty that brought man's enslavement, but the pursuit of enslavement.
Hey Linux users, if you plug in a second mouse, you can turn it into a second mouse pointer pretty easily:

xinput create-master "Second"
xinput list
xinput reattach [device id] "Second pointer"

where [device id] is the mouse hardware device listed in `xinput list`. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multi-pointer_X for more information. (You can also get a second keyboard focus this way if you plug in a second keyboard; see the link for details.)

This is only tangentially related since it doesn't do the "screen sharing over a network" thing, but it can be handy for pair programming on a huge monitor.
Never Miss an Important Tweet Again
Would it be beneficial to legalize online gambling in the United States?
The algorithm is also relevant if you want to compute the nth Fibonacci number mod k.
Yeah, I don't really know where online gambling fits in. Though some people probably like that gambling is inconvenient because they have poor impulse control. "I want you to stop me from doing this thing I'm gonna want to do later before I regret it."
LinkedIn is written almost entirely in Java, so Devise would not have worked out that well. Using something like jBCrypt would have been almost as easy, though -- if they'd thought of it from the beginning.

The failure here is just that whoever wrote the auth code didn't know that it was a problem, or thought (incorrectly) that using something like bcrypt would be significantly more effort.
i've noticed the TLD facebook.com is down, but www. works fine.
Leaving aside one trolly user, most of the conversation here is either referencing data mentioned in the article or asking questions/having discussions about semi-related points.

I'd hardly call the argument over language speed a 'flame war' by any internet standard I've ever seen.

There are probably better examples than this one to pull the 'HN commenters suck' card. The conversation here is mostly civil and trying to learn things, one troll aside.
I've felt the same way for years. When I was younger I was on IRC all the time. I remember spending a bunch of time helping people out with Gentoo, and occasionally other code issues. It was funny one day after I helped a 35 year old guy out with a Javascript problem he was having for work, when he found out that I was 14. Haha, age has always felt like my biggest hurdle with my career, but it's not too bad, I'm far better off than others my age. I have always wished people would judge me more for my knowledge and abilities than for my age.
Success for Independent Professionals
Does anyone know if invalidating patents affects previous settlements? Could the company that settled sue for their money back?
Much better name guys!
Thanks for the love :)

We (the co-founders) are on Olark on the Screenhero website right now, if anyone has any live questions! :)
For those of you using emacs, I've been using imp-mode with some great success for sharing buffers:

https://github.com/skeeto/impatient-mode

I have found collaboratively typing/editing does not go that well for most coding I seem to want to collaborate on. The guy I work closest with uses vim in a very specific way (one window per buffer, many many MacVim windows with keybindings to search titles, etc) and I use Emacs a very specific way (helm buffer search, compilation modes, eshell, etc)

So now I just share my buffer, and (kbd "C-x n d") `narrow-to-defun` to hide everything down to just the definition I'm working on (generally a C/C++ class/function).

It also lets him go off and update bugs, read some email, whatever if I go off on a tight edit/compile/test loop to get a few things right that he doesn't have input on.
Illustrating Git's backend with Tinker Toys
What happens 5 minutes after this haven opens, and the $26 million in damages is compensation and then some?
1) the EU commission, the only EU institution with real lawgiving and executive power, is not elected (they are hand-picked by foreign ministers of EU nations, which are hand-picked by indirectly elected parliaments)

2) Jose Manuel Barrosso is an ex-communist (ex-Maoist to be exact). His style of government, shall we say, "reflects this".

3) You only have to visit Brussels and ask about the many CD signs on the road, or talk to a few people working for the EU and ask about "fonctionnaires" to hear exactly how responsible they feel towards their voters.