skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FB Graph search is scary.

Many of these people probably just tried to checkout what the media buzz about BangWithFriends is - but it can be very damaging to their relationships.

Something, somewhere is really not right. How can this be fixed?
It is good to have you here.
There are lots of models for how open source developers can be paid.

The first person that I am aware of to be hired exclusively to develop open source software (though he of course called it free software) was Brian Fox in 1985.

The first company that I am aware of to establish a successful commercial business exclusively around open source software (though of course again it was called free software) was Cygnus in 1989. The business model is that people developing new chips needed a compiler for their chip, and would hire Cygnus on a contract to port GCC for them. (The resulting port then got folded back into GCC.)

There are thousands of people today whose paid job is developing open source software. Are there more people who want this type of work who don't get it? Absolutely. Are there a lot of useful projects that don't get funded? Of course. But there are a lot of these projects out there.
Jeez... what do we teach kids these days?

If you've done wrong, admit it. Don't lie about it.

If you get a ticket, accept it as deserving punishment for putting other lives at risk.
I think we should love people more. We have to be idealist. "If we take man as he is – we make him worse, if we take man as he should be, we make him capable of becoming what he can be". http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f...
Would you happen to know what they're using to do that now?
Hey Boxyroom,

The link seems to redirect away from the post and straight into an email collector on the homepage.

But this aside, it's nice to see yet another start-up tackling the fact real estate transactions are less Amazon and more queuing for welfare.

We've seen, in London, New York and San Fran that merely putting the transaction online to cut out agents doesn't resonate with the vast majority of landlords. They aren't price sensitive, regardless of what they say. Their actions prove otherwise: consistently paying heavy fees, taking the first tenant with a reasonable offer and often not updating the property to increase tenant interest.

Happy to chat about what we're doing at Wigwamm to create incentive for landlords and agents to participate in a single market (tweet us out @WigwammHQ).
I don't especially want a single tall, thin window for code. 5:4 is still wider than it is tall. My usual development environment is Emacs with two panes (Emacs calls them windows for historical reasons) side by side on 4:3.

My thinking is that a screen that's close to square works better for a wider range of tasks than one that's very oblong. A rotating oblong screen that could be tall or wide might work nicely for a lot of situations too, but it would be hard to implement well on a laptop.
On the other hand, News Corp kept GameSpy.com alive as a distinct editorial brand for 7 years, when it was easy to fold it into IGN.com.
Open source has nothing to do with cost. It is entirely possible to do it for cost, but of course adoption may suffer.
They ought to make a law against people using the word "terrorist". Leave it up to the proper authorities to handle such a dangerous word.
Passware extracts Facebook, Google passwords from memory or hibernation files
I think Gibson meant the future www would be "less fun" relative to the procrasination friendly "unsorted Global Ham Television" 1996 version
Sounds a lot more interesting than what it became.
(The submission form won't let me go over 2000 characters. Oops.)

I should add another reason why I'm wary of getting a job now: I'm not exactly the kind of person who easily finds new friends. College basically forces me to have a certain amount of interaction with people you can become friends with. Getting a job forces interaction, too, but interacting with colleagues is very different.
FYI, there's 2 parts to the GameSpy brand. IGN sold the technology group, behind in-game online middleware used by over 1,000 games (including BF 1942 e.g.) to GLU Mobile last year:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120802006354/en/Glu-...

What's being shut down here is the editorial GameSpy.com site.
Get the degree, even if the course looks like it's too easy.
Start a side project that you can turn into a business. Your aim should not be to work for someone else at the end of your formal education. And go to a demoparty since you're in Europe. Make new friends with the same interest in programming. See if you can build a business together.
Altruism can be part of the reasons for writing new open source code too. For example in a specific case the set of reasons can be that it's fun, it's a learning experience, it markets the coder's skills, _and_ it provides free value to others. It doesn't have to be the only reason, and I'm not necessarily talking about "pure" altruism here (if there is such a thing), but rather about a general concern for the welfare of others.
You dislike wanting to provide free value for others being part of the reason for writing / releasing open source software?
I'm a fan of Giant Bomb, they've been acquired by Gamespot but they still seem to be fairly editorially-independent.
Cisco Unity Express Multiple Vulnerabilities
This is the only graphing library that seems to believe that the challenge is "display lots and lots of data quickly in a legible fashion" as opposed to "take small amounts of data and render it in a way the user will consider pretty". I love dygraphs ;P.
Because the US justice system disproportionately punishes black crime, and older people are more likely to have had an encounter with the law.
I wonder what this does to the mindset/culture of the team knowing that "the tester will catch it". Does this lead to lots of sloppy code that the tester now has to catch? Vs not having the tester and having a mindset that "I better make sure my stuff works". Obviously there's a balance that must be met, but this is something we've debated at my current job. Thoughts?
Ask HN: How do you use your Twitter favourites?
I've been mulling over an idea for a webapp to help people make better use of their twitter favourites. I use my favourites to save things I want to see later, need to remember to reply to and tweets I find amusing. How do you use your twitter favourites? What features could help you use them in a more effective way?
Scala has way more language features than Java, that's for sure. It does have powerful abstractions and it makes a lot of things more elegant. You could say the same about C++ compared to C.

But in both cases, sensible people can disagree on whether or not the additional power justifies the additional complexity and those insane compile times.

And just to be a little more specific in what I mean by complexity: What I mean is, how much do you know about what a particular piece of code does when looking at it in isolation? How much additional context do you need to figure out what it does? How many possibilities are there?

Powerful syntactical abstractions are a double edged sword.
Yahoo is looking to acquire companies to remain relevant. So they might buy anything, like this failed startup.
Open source has nothing to do with cost.

Item 1 of http://opensource.org/osd disagrees with you. You may charge anything you like for open source software. But once someone gets it, they are free to redistribute it for any price that they want - including nothing. If your software does not have that property, then it is not open source.

(That web page has been up for nearly 15 years, with only minor modification, and the principles of that definition go back farther than the creation of the term "Open Source" as a marketing campaign for free software almost exactly 15 years ago. I've been personally using that term for over 14.5 years.)
What % Neanderthal?
> I don't understand why more people don't use Lyx for Latex production.

LyX is still not Vim. Or Emacs, for that matter. That may sound a little closed-minded, but when you basically spend your entire life in one editor (as a programmer) adapting to a different editor is a big pain, and very frustrating, because nothing works the way you expected it.

In my experience emulation of these editors in others is shoddy at best (I'm looking at you, SublimeText.) Not to mention I'm losing my favorite plugins, that I've grown used to. The only acceptable Vim emulation I've seen is Evil — for Emacs. And even there I couldn't stand to use it.
RockPaperShotgun
Domain Knowledge or a Lack Thereof
> Personally, that's what I'd like to see. A cms or email based blog that generates the static files and pushes them to whatever service/host you want (Dropbox, s3, github, FTP, SFTP, etc).

This is what I've been doing, after Posterous announced its retirement: http://code.dealmeida.net/nefelibata. You generate a static website from markdown files, publish it to configurable services (S3 initially, but it's plugin based), announce it to social networks (FB and Twitter). The idea is also that it will collect comments from FB and Twitter and add them to the static pages, so that discussion can happen on the social network du jour, but content will remain forever.
You might need to import servers.
I think the internet is more fun now - there is the boring mainstream but there is also an absolutely huge lunatic fringe. The web now is more chaotic than in 1994 because its so much more accessible to chaotic minds now. In 1994 it was all just monty python scripts and references to barney the dinosaur.
On-chip Optical Interlink
With the rapid expansion of cloud computing and server farms, data centers are having a hard time keeping the amount of cabling, and power, required to support the networks. Fiber optic data links are used to transfer data between servers and to other areas, but the signals still require copper cabling ins and around the server.
Massive Sunspot Rapidly Forming
I never got a degree. I was inches within going to university (or as it's known elsewhere: college). I'm a firm believer that while a degree will make you look good on a resume and usually get you a better salary, having skills that lay those to waste with degrees is how I got to where I am today. If you decide not to get a degree, learn to talk yourself up because prospective employers will grill you hard when they realise you don't have a degree, it's just how it is.

Every place I've ever worked at and the place I am at now, I proved what I know not by my resume but rather impressing them with my street smart developer skills. Sure, I could be earning more money than I currently am now by getting a degree, but I don't have a higher education debt like most of my peers to repay, so it probably works out the same.

If you're persistent and already know how to develop it's better to perhaps teach yourself. Like I said, a degree will get you a better starting salary at a lot of places, but it is by no means in my opinion an advantage over someone like myself who never went on to study computer science of equivalent degree.

The debt from student loans will take ages to repay and although you'll have invaluable skills, I've seen people do CS/IT degrees and struggle in the real world. It sounds like you're more than proficient at teaching yourself and that's all you need. I've often worried about hitting 40 without a degree and losing my job without getting another, but then I remind myself that experience above all else is the most valuable skill to have. A degree doesn't make you smart or good at what you do in my opinion.

I would argue if you love developing websites/software and find you keep yourself up-to-date with current technologies and always refreshing your skills, getting a degree is a waste of time.
Destroying data is never a solution.
Sorry, have to disagree with your little potshot. I can run Starcraft II and Diablo3 on my Surface Pro. Not with everything maxed out, but a damn sight better than my 2011 Macbook Pro. It drives my 27" Dell display with no difficulty.
I blog since 2000. I used almost all blogging platforms. Now I'm switching to Jekyll from Wordpress. Most of the blogging tools, specially those with mySQL, have an unlimited growth of features. Instead becoming limited, and scalable with plugins they start to become slower as bigger in code to do simply blogging. These tools derivate to website making tools, wich is really odd.

I love Jekyll. I'm designer and I didn't had too much trouble to switch from wordpress to something local on my machine and deploy it to my own server.

Today is the first day I will be completely off from Wordpress.
No, but he's suggesting that you should've upgraded by now.
It would be difficult to defend such a position: "We didn't upgrade because, well, we didn't think it was a big deal"?
There's really no good answer to that question when the exploit has been public for so long (and widely covered in media, and by rails officially).
Amazon Penalises You for Promoting Their Free eBooks.
Hey there, fellow dutchie here. Have some tea/coffee? + 31 6 30 366 241

If you drop out make sure you know what you're dropping into. If you intend to go freelance or contractor/consultant then I'd strongly advise against it if you are already worried about mental balance. That's a hard enough thing to do when you are stable.

Getting a job should be fairly easy, but getting a satisfying job will be a bit harder.
PSA: Software Development Tip: Clean out your Code Base
The similar for Germany: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/no-copyright-l...
I'm writing my own blog engine after Posterous' announcement. The way it works is that I create a static site which is upload somewhere, and it also publishes the post on Facebook and Twitter. Discussion happens there, on the social networks, and on the next build the comments are downloaded and stored in static files. This way when Facebook dies all the discussions will remain on the static site -- for good or bad. :-P
The Verge spawned a gaming-only sister site: http://www.polygon.com/ I'd also highly recommend http://www.escapistmagazine.com/ and if you have any interest in the development behind the games then http://www.gamasutra.com/ is great
Somebody has to pay for it, but nobody is obligated to.
Thanks. Right now, scores are kept independently by each client and never pushed to the server. This is simply to prevent cheating; cunning players could update their score without winning (or even playing a game), and the change would be pushed to their opponent.

I need to work out how to store and validate scores in Firebase to prevent cheating (which should be possible with their security rules, I think).
What happened to Keith Teare? I didn't realise he was involved as I only ever heard of Arrington
What (Legally) Happens to Our Social Media Accounts When We Die? [pdf]
Wiki aiming to list every single PC game issue and fix
Not adding anything useful to this, but the questions you've raised make me want to get into this - I've been playing around with this idea of capturing the oral histories that abound in the smaller towns in India and putting them up online for people to cross reference.
And the worst thing was that absurd advertising in Russia the other day. What an expensive campaign just for a web framework!
To continue adding to the other comments, I've seen in the large software companies I've worked for that the sales people do a lot of bundling and discounts or adding special services/products/customizations. While they tend to purvey shrink-wrapped apps, there's basically unlimited mixing/matching/customizing that goes on. Further, companies will pay differently for SLAs, license terms, support, etc.

Also, it forces you to reach out to the company which allows the sales people to start working their magic (applying pressure, creating a sense of immediacy, trashing the competition, etc).
Adblock/Android: Make it possible to configure the active connection's proxy
I don't use the favourites feature at all, but I might use them more if there was some additional benefit beyond 'bookmarking' them.
SilkJS, CouchDB, JavaScript
I still remember QSpy, and its text-mode linux version. I wasted so many happy days in QuakeWorld because of that little program.

Happy days.

/old
I dislike ranking the motivations of others on some arbitrary scale.

In this case, my comment was in direct response to your assertion about "altruism" being the "best" reason for OSS contribution.
What I want is as many vertical pixels as possible; this is the first new screen I've seen that's got more than my 10-year-old CRT (1536).

(At this point some wag is going to suggest portrait mode, but I've never seen a laptop with a portrait screen that can be used at the same time as the keyboard).
I want them to throw some sort a water-balloon like device at each other and have them try to gently catch it. Except this balloon explodes with fire instead of water if it can't catch it softly.
JetBrains at MS TechDays Belgium & Netherlands - Villain Fighting R#Guy Video
The problem is something like this, the government of India is currently totally disinterested in projects of this nature. What we do currently is take development work as the sole requirement and work towards that.

Indians have never shown interest towards quality research in history. Heck we don't even respect the symbols of history we have amidst us. We either demolish archeological evidences(Many demolished during new Airport road construction in Bangalore) or use them as places where lovers hang around to escape from their parents. Just look at the state of historical monuments and how badly they have been maintained, if it was not for some tourism value even those would have long vanished.

Apart from that much of the historical research comes from the archaeological work carried out during pre-independence era during British time or immediately post that. Archeological Survey of India is a joke, and much of the historical research is left to curious professors from universities who are severely underfunded.

I think even if research is carried out now, we are only likely to find out half truth and much of the story will have to reconstructed piecing things together.
Not sure i would call them developer tools since you cant write code in them.
I'm ready. I realise some people aren't, but I'm young with good vision; "microscopic" is exactly what I want. I'm buying the extra pixels so I can fit more on my screen, not so I can fit the same stuff with better-rounded edges.
Countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers
How to build simple http client
Slick Stopwatch HTML5 App
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/countering_tru...
The hate is strong in this one. Act like an adult and rant to Ed in private. I'm sure you feel aggravated by his comment but your anger serves no purpose in a public forum. If you feel the comment is inappropriate then simply downvote it and move on. Nothing is ever solved by offensively arguing in public.
Totally. This is my first view of Bloomberg West, but I was impressed by the tone of the interview. Very unlike any financial TV-news I've seen before.
What if they demo it in a non-laboratory setting, especially one where noisy backgrounds would make vicon impossibly difficult. If I understand correctly, the main problem with vicon is that it can't really be used in a real world scenario, right? So if the demo shows what can be done with the non-vicon solution, it should still be effective.
Dell Precision Mobile Workstation M6700? It's got a pointing stick and a decent keyboard, high res 17" screen (although, widescreen), solid construction, etc.
Congratulations,
Just a musician can think that :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5261851
I don't have a problem about "geeking out" with LaTeX `\' slashes, but frankly, what you mention about LyX is right. Thought you might appreciate this writeup by someone else who also agrees on your LyX viewpoint....

http://yihui.name/en/2012/10/lyx-vs-latex/

Enjoy the read.
Highwire CDT PhD Application (Large Stipend)
easy is achieveable.

wallet - use blockchain, no need to sync, or on your desktop the electrum client, alternatively in the official client it will be much faster from version 0.8.

buying BTC from mtgox sucks, buy them from bitcoin-otc, localbitcoins.com or other private selelrs for a much easier and quicker transaction.

You can do this on a mobile device, I buy of bitmit.net and only use my smartphone to do so.

Regarding your claim of waiting 50 minutes for some music, I dont nknow what site you are using but i bet most music download sites would only require 1 or 2 confirmatons so 10 - 20 mins
This is something I know about.

If you waited until stuff was selectable/searchable (i.e. transcribed) then you'd never get these types of documents online. The scanning part of this process is tough considering that either a) very decent equipment must be bought, staff must be trained, extreme care must be taken handling old documents, all this costs money and takes time; b) the scanning must be outsourced because the archive doesn't have the competencies or tech and this is done at a cost.

Archives regard documents in there special collections as assets belonging to the institution. There is a resistance to putting them online. Once they are online they can be 'stolen'. If you want to have the whole lot transcribed first it could take decades because of the sheer volume of documents and the lack of researchers and archivists (and its not really the job of an archivist to transcribe stuff, merely to synopsize for a descriptive list and catalogue). For instance, The University of London, a liberal institution founded by Jeremy Bentham, wanted to get all of Bentham's documents online. Except the guy was a prolific correspondent. It was taking them years and years to transcribe the Bentham archive and they had only gotten (I don't remember exactly but something like) 2% through it. In the end the crowd-sourced the task[1] by scanning everything, putting the scans in a wiki and letting everyone on the net have a go at transcribing the documents - they are 94% done now. And that's just one historical figure. Take into account that documents need to be semantically marked up using standards like TEI (Text Encoding Initiative; an XML format) and that researchers in these areas are not known for their techie skills and wouldn't know a programming language if it came up and bit them on the bum and you can see ...

Finally, the institution may never have done research on the documents in the archive and may want to vet everything before it goes online, or may be reluctant to 'give away' its jewels. There is a serious tension between enabling global research and respecting the 'property' of the archive. This is something that needs to be dealt with now and is what I'm a part of, at the moment we call it the digital humanities.

Hope that gives you an overview. Well done to the Kerala State Central Library.

[1] http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/

[2] http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml
Its ancient and these days massively underpowered but i could sit and do sid by side operations in cloud 9 and the laptop would always complete noticably faster. For example i would be debuggin and i would ask to go to hte next step and in the laptop it was immediate, on the chromebook i might wait a second.

Very very odd and very unexpected but it made cloud9 totally unusable for me. Chromeos is also horrible for nearly everything else i do, even reading pdfs, so i cannot think of any reason to shell out for another machine with it installed.
Particularly in the US, talking to the police is a bad idea. There's a famous video about it.
If Meteorite is the Package Manager for Meteor, why are the two not in sync? E.g. like npm for node?
I seriously doubt any company (especially the three listed) would give Zendesk admin access to their service. Why would such a thing be necessary, anyway?