skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's interested in Google/Glass and is sharing his interest with hn.
Though it does seem he submits his own site (glass-apps.org) a lot, it's not
the only site he submits. Also, a lot of great contributors to hn
regularly submit their own sites, including a number of people on the
hn leader board (see "Lists" link at the bottom of most hn pages).

Also, he's not trying to hide his identity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5450502

http://glass-apps.org/glasshole

https://plus.google.com/117240032172833853307

I've got nothing against anonymous or pseudonymous posters on hn,
but there is some correlation between anon accounts and abuse like
spamming or trolling (i.e. throw-away accounts).

If his submissions don't interest you then that's fine. Don't
up-vote them. We're all different, and we all have different
interests, but on rare occasions (i.e. everything on HN front
page), a enough people agree something is interesting and
up-vote it.

Heck, for me academic papers are interesting and I occasionally
submit them here, but I'd be nuts to think the masses on hn agree
with me that they're interesting.
Are they importing mentors, angel investors, and a support system to India? How can you teach "how to fail" somewhere where failure is very much taboo?
I guess this gives nice visualization to the deplorable state of Muni. Right now I see nine L trains clustered basically on top of each other in the Sunset.

Maybe one between market and West Portal and one on market near Embarcadero. I take the J and as usual I see independent cars running outbound right next to each other with unusually large and sporadic gaps between them.

Hard to believe $820 million for such a shitty service.
At some point, probably in the 70s, Frank Zappa began obsessively multi-tracking nearly-all performances (at significant cost back then). This led to a bunch of interesting output, including things like compositions based on an improvised guitar solo, separated from it's original backing, and placed in a completely different harmonic context. Also, lots of straight-up live compilations (with some overdubs), chiefly the You Can't Do That On Stage Any More (YCDTOSA) series, which is a six volume set of double-CDs.

For most people, back in those days, getting a sufficiently high-quality recording of a live show was prohibitively expensive.

Like Phish, Zappa was very much a cottage industry, unmolested by mainstream music industry stuff after the very early days.
I've driven from central VA to NYC. Aside from the domes, I'm pretty sure this has already happened.
This makes me happy to continuing donating to the EFF every year.
Many reasons. 1. We're a unpopulous country for the area we occupy. 2. Our investment environment is much more conservative. 3. We gave some sweet deals to telephone companies in order to get 80 percent telephone coverage back in the 70s.
Toronto isn't bad though. You can get 250 mbit for a decent price
I've enjoyed the discussion above, so I think it was a worthy submission. I guess I don't really understand why people are bothered by someone getting those priceless karma points even if it is a repost.
FYI, I believe that quote is from Blaise Pascal (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal#Sourced, 2nd bullet point)
Honestly, you can say that about a lot of popular music. Disco, anyone?
I think you've misread my comment. My "capitalism" bit was about "any other field", not politics.
MTA has "bus time" which is not like nextbus in three important ways:

1: it is not a scam run by money grubbing jackasses to keep public data for private profit.
2: it is built entirely from open source software, and all the data is accessible with an open api.

3: the predictions are not a pack of lies.

http://bustime.mta.info/wiki/Developers/Index
I don't much care, since early flags knocked this story out of the top 100 stories on the site within minutes of me leaving the comment you're replying to.

But since my comment mostly related facts, I'd assume people would want to listen so they can collect additional facts about how the site works, independent of what they thought about me.
Thanks for the tip. I just installed it, and it seems really nice. The autocompletion of flags is pretty amazing.
It may be hyperbole (probably not every design is a clone of something else), but a strong argument can be made that a number of designs, from the Blackjack to recent devices, are pretty good copies of something made by another company.

Err, wait, I didn't get the subtle astroturfing joke, did I?
> Use Gunicorn instead of Apache for your webserver

This is strange advice; while you can use gunicorn as a front-facing webserver, the gunicorn docs strongly recommend against doing so. In a typical deployment scenario, then, gunicorn and Apache would occupy different levels of your stack, with one running your WSGI app and the other exposing it to the world. The advice ought probably to be "Use gunicorn+nginx instead of Apache+mod_wsgi," and indeed, lots of people do make that recommendation about Django deployment.
2 weeks with the Meta Watch
Ask HN: Is anyone hiring remote workers? Starving college student needs work
Hi, I'm a starving college student about to graduate from a CS diploma program in a couple of months. I'm in a financial bind (rent due in two weeks!), and I need to start working sooner rather than later. I'm a super-frequent lurker on HN, and I'm always excited about the latest technologies being discussed.

I'm only taking two classes at the moment, one of which is a course on presentations and the other is on systems security. I am looking for work that would allow me to learn new things, and possibly even lead to something long term.

My current projects include a dashboard application for the BC Oil and Gas commission which is using Drupal. I built a prototype of this application during my co-op term with the commission last summer (and I can push the code to github if someone would like to see it).
I'm building a twitter clone as per the ruby on rails tutorial by Michael Hartl.

I have experience with a variety of languages and platforms gained both in school and on my own time. Some of these include PHP/MySql, JavaScript, Android, Java (including JSF, JSP, and struts), C, some python, and node.js. I pride myself on my ability to solve problems independent of language or environment.

I'm passionate about a few specific areas of software development, including databases and database warehousing, concurrent programming (hence the interest in node.js), and algorithms. Here are a few small sites I've worked on as a freelancer: http://www.andreecazabon.ca/[1] http://thirdworldcanada.ca/[2] http://www.lazoslearning.org/[3] http://cafedeluxe.ca/[4] http://tanglewoodconstruction.ca/[5]<p>My github mostly consists of my smaller learning projects, but nevertheless, I can provide a link to it if required.

I'm hoping someone here has a need for an enthusiastic 20-something hacker.

Cheers,

A
I just remind myself when I see something that I already know that it's completely new to ten thousand other people.

Relevant xkcd, as usual :)
http://xkcd.com/1053/
Are you the person who runs this site? I think it could be streamlined a lot; there is just so much information on the front page. Who's really going to read all of that?

Also, I'm not seeing any FavIcon and the Lobster icon just doesn't resonate with me at all. Joy is a really powerful word, but it just gets lost in your typeface logo.

Just some friendly advice.
I'm very Mormon and I've ended up hiring almost exclusively non-LDS employees, and more of my friends are non-Mormon than otherwise. Most people work together just fine. Some extremist ex-Mormons have problems, and a handful of really, really stupid Mormons may hypothetically have certain problems (though in professional practice I've never encountered these), but pretty much everyone gets along just fine.
I don't think you read that carefully enough. I didn't say China was low quality, I said it was "low-wage manufacturing". Which it is.

But the quality would be better if robots did the work instead of by low-wage peasants working overlong hours.
What does xenophobia have to do with it? We don't know where homosaur is from. Even in the US, there are many beloved foreign corporations, such as Nintendo. I don't think anybody discounts Samsung for being Korean, or even cares. Likewise, I doubt many people support Apple just because its American.

Regarding unsubstantiated, they have been openly accused and even found guilty in multiple courts across different countries. It's an ongoing case and you may disagree with the rulings, in which case "unsubstantiated" is not the word you're looking for.

As for being unfair to hard working employees, that is definitely true. Unfortunately for those employees, their executives' actions have brought their hard work into question. Any comments regarding a company are generally a reflection on the company's leadership, not any individual employee.
Huffington Post reports that Gmail also went offline on April 29th of 2010.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/29/gmail-down-check-gm...

Google reports that Gmail also went offline on April 24th of 2009.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/current-gmail-outage....

(Sadly, the partial Gmail outage of 2011 seemed to be February 27th, or this would be an epic pattern of "don't trust Gmail during the end of April" ;P.)

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Google-...
Well...I can't speak from an "MBA's" perspective, because there isn't 1 MBA perspective.

In terms of the way the world works, I can say that politicians are not in the business of running the world the way it should be run - they are in the business of politicking.

It has become fanciful in the last decade or so, to blame bankers, wall street, the 1%, capitalism, etc. for all the worlds ills - but that's just not the case.

Politicians (many who I support also) are just as guilty.

Here is 1 truism that no politician of a heavily indebted country will say - bond markets are dead right.

If they demand a higher yield on a country's debt - it isn't because there are some "nefarious speculators" trying to make bank off of the demise of the poor people in that country. It's because the stupid policymakers and politician s have fleeced the country, the affairs are not in order and in order for them (bond market investors) to lend to your country in the crappy state it is in, they charge more than they will charge to lend to the US Treasury, Germany, etc.

Likewise, if the bond markets are showing very low yields to America despite all the rhetoric of America's economy in shambles and the debt-to-GDP ratio being too high at 90% - clearly something else is at work and the situation is not as bad as it seems. Financial markets are forward looking indicators - and by all indications, as a general rule, when it comes to properly (and easily) communicating what is TRULY happening with the state's finances, they tend to be spot on.

The issue is that politicians hate it because bond markets show up their lies and untruths. So they blame 'wreckless speculators' and tax bankers. When half of the time, the investors that are wrecking their bond yields are not even BANKERS!

But...it sounds good in a newsbyte because people like to believe conspiracy stories about the wealthy bankers that are enslaving the masses with interest on debt.

The fact is, debt, equity financing & capitalism in general have been the best mechanisms for growth, poverty reduction and standard of living increases over the past few centuries.

Most things you hear politicians blame things on, are just simply scapegoats that people accept because they know no better.
The article recommends using MongoDB as a primary data store, so South wouldn't be applicable (and that's specifically addressed).
I really like Phish a lot, as my coworkers will attest since I have shitloads of their live shows filling up my iTunes album list. They're really one of the best live bands going now, definitely one of the best live bands of all time.

As the article says, their studio albums aren't that interesting. Especially after you've had a taste of their live shows. It's not just them, though. Once you start getting into live music more, everyone's studio albums sound bland. Go listen to Led Zeppelin's "How The West Was Won" (3 CD set made from a live show in LA around 1971 or so).. after that the Led Zeppelin studio albums just aren't as good as they used to be. Same goes for almost every band that I've heard live, or that I've heard live recordings of.

I think that's what Phish really has going for themselves, business-wise. Most bands you hear on the radio aren't really that good at their instruments, but with recording technology you really don't need to be that good. That's why you've got some artists who basically exist because they've got the right look. But Phish can go out there and perform 60 live shows in a year and feel confident enough in the performance that within a few hours the show will be available for download from livephish.com, and they can do this because they're actually really good musicians. They're able to fill this desire for good quality, energetic, live performances instead of bland studio recordings in a way that no other band has ever been able (or even tried) to do before.
Anybody know how to get this to work with Ctrl-p and ctrl-n? I try not to touch the arrow keys because they are too small on my new keyboard :(
> It doesn’t matter where the income I receive comes from, whatever the after tax sum is for each year, the investor will see 10 percent of it.

They would still get a piece of that pie.

Edit: added quote from the article
sorry - i did forget to mention nginx should be in front of everything managing all requests + serving static content.
Why not? Placebos also look like the real thing, don't they?

Anyhow, in cases like this it's always nice to save all the data you can get. The correlation you'd like to demonstrate might not exist at all. However, if there are many parameters, you might be able to find something else.
Sorry Aardwolf, https://www.myclean.com/
Two-Factor Authentication now available on Lumous
> "I wonder how bad an LDS-controlled area really would be"

It's got some outright bad stuff, some good, and some that's just oddly different.

For example, alcohol sales in Utah are extremely restricted because of an LDS prohibition on alcohol consumption [0].

Many Utah communities recently passed "free speech zone" ordinances, which seemed only to be enforced against people who were critical of the LDS church. Some friends of mine joined with the ACLU to get at least one of the ordinances repealed [1].

The social safety nets in Utah are strong, but in some circumstances there's also a lot of religious pressure tied to them. In other circumstances they're really great.

Being a stay-at-home dad in a heavily LDS community is a strange experience. It's a society that expects men to work and women to take care of children; I got a lot of funny looks when I'd go places with my son.

Many companies in Utah hire both LDS and non-LDS employees. I've heard quite a few people describe significant workplace tension. Others had no problems at all.

Net result: it's a really mixed bag.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_Wisdom#Prohibitions

[1] http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/brigham-city-free-speech-zon...
HN Fire Sale: hacki.ng
Hi guys, I have a domain name for quick sale: hacki.ng. Make me a reasonable offer at aitoehigie at google mail dot com.
There's always the great ivory tower known as Provable Programming.
That's not the problem. The amount of work done scanning short strings is completely irrelevant. Using escape_once is a problem because it shows that you have no clue what strings in your codebase are escaped and what are not. If you knew, it would be completely pointless. Instead, people resort to cargo-cult like solutions "hey let's escape everything again here just to be sure, that's gotta catch them all".

I've now worked a while in Yesod (Haskell), and I now feel very strongly that this is something they got right. Unescaped strings and html strings should be two completely separate types that can't be cast to each other, except by using transforming functions that clearly define intent.
When people say exchange, they don't just mean exchange, like change hands, they mean something akin to the NYSE.
Launch in the EaDo area of Houston, please!!!
You're attacking a straw man here. We've funded lots of companies started by people who weren't programmers. In the YC FAQ, we recommend that such people find cofounders who are, if they can. But we don't insist even on that.

http://paulgraham.com/identity.html
The telco is CenturyLink in Utah.
I freelance as a programmer. Used to take a limited amount of clients for marketing consultations, but not anymore. Too busy with my own startups.
How Betaworks is rolling out its new machine gun-style media play
Best of luck with this Jeffyee, to reach out to us email us at contact@myclean.com and mention that you'd like to get in touch with Michael Scharf.
Samsucks again...
Wheresgeorge tracks members bills though, those would mostly be carried by people going from one state to the other, not through Federal Reserve branches right?
No significant online tech community is free of anti-religion prejudice, let alone anti-Mormon prejudice. Mormonism in particular attracts ire because it is very inflexible on behaviors that most religions have compromised on recently, and its unusual origins.
Kinda interesting new web-app
let's you deconstruct HTML structure of any website in a matter of seconds...
Holy crap....that's kinda insane! I thought the 7 year figure was a joke.
Am I the only one left who finds south more trouble than it is worth?
I hope they get sued for this, but I don't believe it's a conspiracy. Rather, just a case of someone trying too hard to meet certain sale expectations and hold on to a bonus.
Thank you! :)

XML would be great to have, definitely... vote! http://plasticscm.uservoice.com/forums/196398-mergebegins?fi...
Interviewing bad practices
How does California make it impossible? State PUC, or just NIMBY culture?
Hell, I would pay $40 for 5mbit if they beat down the latency. Remote-desktop type applications would be much more pleasant.
Including the author considering he is claiming that this would leed to smaller cell phone batteries...
I don't understand. How do the 12 Federal Reserve Banks determine the flow of dollar bills?
Is it cheap because google doesn't have to make money on this product?.

I doubt any other company would survive providing 1Gbps fiber service $70/month, it costs a lot to dig through everybody's yard and create a fiber network.
If I recall correctly the prompt was:

boot> _

The developers should have put a countdown timer in there. Each hour, add a question mark and change it to:

boot?> _
boot??> _
boot???> _
hello? boot?> _
CISPA contains no definition of "attack", nor does it limit itself to "actual attacks", or anything resembling that language.

Furthermore, if it did, it doesn't matter. Bad actors are allowed to be wrong, with impunity, if they promise that it was "in good faith".
Dance Music Is the Microsoft of Modern Music
FWIW I have access to an Eagle license but prefer to use Kicad whenever I can. In no small part because of the Linux app being clunky (also because Kicad is FOSS.)

The annoying thing about using both is they're both similar-but-different in lots of little ways (like the other comment says, all EDA apps are weird.) Learning one once you're used to the other is a pain, but it's not impossible.
Try Mustache templates online
i think it is the best solution out there right now ... someone had a kickstarter recently to replace it, but I can't seem to find that info via google right now ...
Classical example of "you never know for certain if you've succeeded": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14#History_from_the_RISKS_... (see also the takk page and the refernced http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/oreilly/iefbr14.html for some comments on the veracity of these statements)
Lots of challenges Bratsche. Most of the liability is handled by carrying very expensive insurance. The taxes are also expensive and there is a lot of paperwork involved with having so many employee's.
I have no clue what you mean by that analogy? Are you referring to mainstream dance music? Or a specific genre?
There is one good thing in UNIX shared library + package management model: security updates. You don't have to depend on some weird ISV to update his own copy of buggy openssl code in his own "app" in the Unix world. Good for sysadmins. Inconvenient for users. Doh.
Bitcoin does have an intrinsic value: the ability to buy things online privately. People have a need to buy things online without their credit card company using that information to target marketing or update their risk profile.

People continue to use cash in the physical world, even though it's less convenient than cards, because it is private and the merchant gets 100% of the money. Bitcoin has the same virtues online.

FWIW, you can't actually pay your taxes with cash.
Of course, look how much traction Drupal has gotten from a raving water droplet .
Scientist Steven Eaton jailed for falsifying drug test results
If you don't know what you're talking about, then why are you talking about it?

"Morris is devious for his worm, which is a quality helpful in business." You don't have any idea what Robert is like.
Apple iPhone Causes Google Glass to Malfunction, Sabotage or Coincidence?
Hey guys, thanks for your comments, the actual app can be found here.

https://signup.learndot.com/#/plans/1

Would love to hear some feedback on it as well.
Not a dog, but my startup (tabuleapp.com) added a koala as our mascot, and our conversion rates more than doubled. We help college students organize homework, so the fun koala face helped differentiate us from most homework planners that just use a book as their logo.
When Bad Software Requirements Happen To Good People
Ask HN: What neat design trends do you notice emerging? (e.g. parallax)
I jumped on the parallax boat a little bit late - what are some things worth checking out now?
When I started using South, I was much in awe and loved its ease. But as time passed migrations became completed and south soon came to its knees.
This is actually an inherent side-effect of any transit system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_bunching
I believe you're thinking of Andrew Godwin's schema migration kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migr...
`phillmv has identified the biggest concern for sure, but more broadly speaking, you have issues whenever you cross one of two boundaries: 1) escaping context [characters get escaped differently in URLs, JavaScript, HTML, etc.] and 2) user-defined content.

The latter is the source of XSS attacks, but the former is a pain too. Let's say that you run a stock photo website, and your database has images and captions. You decide you want to use captions for the alt attribute of your images, and one of your captions is Cat saying "meow!". If you blindly insert that caption into your HTML without escaping, you could end up with

<img src="cat.jpg" alt="Cat saying "meow!"">

And now you've got crappy HTML on your hands. It's the same principle as XSS attacks, but you do it to yourself with less disastrous (but still unwanted) effects.

EDIT: Hm, seems like the comment I referenced is now gone? `phillmv pointed out that cross-site scripting (XSS) is an important reason to use escaping appropriately (and often widely).
Does someone care to explain the difference between this and <C-r>?
Now someone can acquire the http://apiary.io
Matterform's Photon 3D Scanner Outgrows Production Facility
Markup – Introducing the era of paperless grading for teachers
You still need to convert this high supply voltage to a lower voltage to match the cell voltage for charging. The currents involved mean this converter is still likely to dissipate a lot of heat, even if it is extremely efficient.