skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's basically what I was getting at with my comparison as the London VC culture as that isn't greatly interested in stuff that doesn't involve high frequency trading, forex, markets, and anything that basically processes money and transactions.
NoSQL http://www.NoSQL.com Big data is growing too fast for me to handle on my own - will also consider co-founders
> Here's the problem that you have: smaller companies / start-ups in SF - they're probably not going to be able to sponsor you for a visa. So you're somewhat limited in terms of places you can apply to in the first place. What are Google, Facebook, and the like looking for in graduates? Experience, sure, but incredible technical savvy. You're competing against US graduates from great schools: it can be very difficult.

Yep your are right and thats what worries me the most. That technical savvy'ness is what someone non-technical person may think of me, but to a SV employer maybe not? I find it hard to rank myself of where I stand at the moment.

> Remember that many companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the like) have engineering offices in London. If you're wanting to move to the US you may find it much easier to look for an opportunity in the UK that could in the future allow you to move laterally.

Yep agreed. Its not that I have this long standing dreaming of living in SF or working in SV, I just feel that it would be a great opportunity, and a shame to not try. I feel that if I aim high and do not get it, alternatives cant be that bad. I will most def look for an opportunity in the UK before, but I am not keen on working in London because of having to commute everyday.
Whoa! Where did 'writing enterprise software in Java' come from? Didn't see that coming!
> It is more fundamental than that: religion does not offer any falsifiable claims

Most religions offer plenty. In the Bible for example, age and creation of the world, the great flood, praying can cure you, God punishes bad people, etc. The claims that have been falsified are nowadays interpreted as "metaphorical" stories.
You, in public increase the risk of a) yourself dying and b) the risk of others dying. Please stay home unless you wish to be liable for living.

Can you not see how ludicrous this line of thinking gets?
Damn. I live in India and would more than happily drop out of college for 80k/year. More like a dream to start with.
Should be able to do it with http://www.opendns.com/
How is http://nsfw.in different from any other URL shortener?
Readium.js, a JavaScript library for browser-based EPUB 3 reading
Atulos Online: https://atulos.com
Offers 10K+ considered.

I have some game related domains that I was going to use, but never got around to making the games:

softservegames.com (a play on the SaaS concept) - 2K

distortum.com (for more serious games) - 5K

fantasaar.com (bought it after a game dev abandoned it) - 5K

And if you want to sell an MMORPG engine:
mmorpgengine.com, mmoeng.com - 10K for both

Domain for a compliance business idea that never went anywhere: click2comply.com - 2K

Bitcoin trading compliance platform (just a domain): bitcomply.com - 1K

Bitcoin lottery (just a domain): coinlo.co - 1K

@SteveTaylorCEO
Wacom Helper (menubar application for osx to manage Wacom device mapping)

More info here: http://www.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/1de6ri/would_any_of_you...

Screenshot's here: http://d.pr/i/53NF

Price: $6K
> If you're talking about being a fresh graduate, the answer is that "Google or other SV company" will typically require zilch in the way of experience. Google, et al will have separate job postings for "recent graduates". The requirements are pretty bare.

The requirements never seem to reflect what you are tested on in an actual interview in one of those companies, as evidence of that blog post. However, yea in terms of experience they do not require that much - just a year in industry which is something most engineering/compsci uni courses's allow you to do. Thanks for the link, I will have a good read.
That wasn't the guys only criteria, so you're strawmanning them to an extent.

Even putting that aside though:

People who know what they're talking about write books. Oh not all of them, granted, but there are so many humans publishing so much stuff - so many of whom will be experts - that it makes at best limited sense to listen to anyone but the best. The world may be predominantly full of nobodies but that makes it a sorting problem.

Indeed, you could argue that for some literature the search data is rapidly becoming more important than producing anything new for a similar set of reasons.
I'm guessing when you see a nsfw.in URL, you'll know it's not safe for work (unlike bitly or alternatives).
RubyKaigi – great but I probably wouldn’t go next year if I was a woman
Weird headers

The main page is active in the browser but the header says 404 Not Found, maybe it's a bug?

~$ curl -IL http://www.bytengine.com/
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: nginx/1.1.19

~$ curl -IL http://www.bytengine.com/should_404
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: nginx/1.1.19
How can you possibly make an argument for not caring about failed deployments? "Skip over", "do it again", "its fast".

You can't possibly be talking about deployment here. Deployment is the result of moving tested, proven, known working artifacts into an environment in which they can execute or be accessed by an executable environment.

There is no skip, retry or anything resembling failure in a deployment model that Im aware of. So Im not sure why I would use a tool assuming it would fail to do what its intended to do.
I'm not being negative. It's a cool hack, I'll give them that, but don't use it in production for god's sake.
Thanks for mentioning me! We got similar ideas ;-)
Fuel is indeed rather more expensive in Europe (certainly UK, plus single person's sample abroad). :/
Correlate the cost of living with the salary as well.
:-) put me on the spot! thanks for going through the code though.

security layer definitely needs more work. my choices were mostly limited by my haste to get a working prototype and not very well thought through.
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In a similar situation to you, what is included in your role as a 'junior' if you don't mind me asking?
You don't need to wait. As someone living in Stockholm I can tell you that there is not a shadow of a doubt that the riots have a majority of immigrant participants.

The reason is that these riots are highly localized to poor areas where the population is almost exclusively immigrant, being clumped together by Swedish immigration policies. (Map: http://cdn.thinglink.me/api/image/394110718607097857/1024/10...) While international media might have given you an image of a Stockholm of fire, most Stockholmers have not seen a trace of the riots.

With large amounts of youth failing basic school, being unemployed, and lacking parents and role models who have jobs and have integrated into the Swedish society. Riots are almost bound to happen.
must probably be an issue with my nginx config and the proxying. will have a look at it. thanks
Lisp became a "language internally used by Google" when Google purchased ITA with a Lisp code-base so large and Lisp-only staff so large, that it is unlikely that it will ever be rewritten or that the staff will be retrained to use Java.
I didnt mean that the second wouldnt have to be redefined at all only that if it was defined in metric, it wouldnt be any more or less prone to adjustment (which I though was the first comments point) than our current system which is inaccurate.

So if our current system still has to be adjusted periodically to fit nature, then what is the real impact of changing the duration of a second? Besides the obvious: breaking every clock on earth LOL
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
I've been writing a Web-based, multi-player text adventure which is sort of a cross between Firefly and Mad Max, spanning all star systems in a 20 light-year radius around the remains of Sol. I have a lot of the core work done, with a Perl/Postgres/Catalyst/PSGI stack, but then my daughter was born and my wife and I are starting our own company. If you've ever heard of http://www.torn.com/, you have a rough idea about game play. The main difference is, aside from the background, this one is heavily story-based.

My intent was to make it free to play, but given significant advantages to those willing to make a minimal $5 donation per month.

I've always wanted to finish it, but I never found enough volunteers to help.
CNET Founder Halsey Minor Bankrupt 5 Years After Firm's $1.8 Billion Sale
Yeah, just thought I'd point it out because it will cause issues with spiders.
http://www.skinnyo.com - great site, community, profitable, lots of room for expansion but I'm busy elsewhere and no longer have the interest in weightloss I once did.
No protestor is doing any harm around. These are Civil disguised cops trying to make reason for their aggression. Been there seen it.

By the way I can't believe we still have blind believers in RTE's virtual democracy.
For the record, this was in Orange County, not L.A. County.
A CRM for personal life
Also on FS: http://firespotting.com/item?id=1056

I'm working on scratching an itch of my own: developing and refining my personal (ie outside of work) network of contacts in a systematic way.

For business, CRM usually boils down to:

-Keep track of sales

-Do customer support

-Keep track of social media, email campaigns, communication with customers, stuff like that

For private life you could boil it down to:

-Meet new people

-Do more with people you already know (ie have more fun together)

-Introduce people to each other in order to create a stronger network

Here are some examples of private life social "campaigns":

-Spend more time with grandparents

-Meet Chinese people to learn the language from

-Meet a partner

-Salsa dancing w/ friends

-Find a training buddy

-Go on fishing trip with casual acquaintance

-Meet new friends in new city you're moving to

-Host Thanksgiving

-Introduce one friend to another

Etc.

The question is: would you use a CRM to track your social life like this? Too creepy/machiavellian?

What features would be important?

My list of features that I would want:

-Import from Gmail, Linkedin, FB, etc

-Keep track of when I last emailed them

-Keep track of commitments/promises by myself/others

-Keep track of what kind of new people I want to meet

-Comments, journal, attachments, etc

-Set reminders to ping people

-Tag, and rate contacts on various dimensions (ie geographical proximity, how many years I've known them, what their skills/hobbies/passions are, do they know Spanish?, etc)

-Scan business cards (quite standard CRM feature I think)

-Connect friends with friends. I think this kind of combinatorics thing is really interesting. A personal life CRM could really help you spot opportunities for introducing friends to each other and see combinations that you might not have thought about before.

-Send out emails to friends and do analytics and A/B tests.

-Email templates for contacting multiple friends fast
I have this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.funcall.co...
..feature complete and had a few hundred users, but is just not getting my attention last few months.
This is a good reminder to always be a defensive and aware pedestrian. Just because you have the light or the right-of-way doesn't mean you are guaranteed a safe crossing of the street. Whenever I cross an intersection as a pedestrian I always look both ways (even on one way streets) and I always keep an eye on cars that are still in motion, especially those that don't appear to be slowing down. It's good to make these sorts of things just an innate habit, it could safe your life one day.
Sure. They burn stuff for warming up.
http://www.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/izmir_yangin_yeri-1135843

Assuming you know Turkish:

"...Gediz Üniversitesi'nin Çankaya Yerleşkesi binasının camlarını kıran ardından Şair Eşref Bulvarı üzerindeki Mc Donald binasını da taş yağmuruna tutan eylemciler, Talatpaşa üzerindeki Sevinç Pastanesi'nin önündeki yolu kapattı."
OT: I submitted the same news yesterday, but HN didn't pick it up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5797905

Just 7 votes, but today this story is already on HN front page. Hmmm, may be I should've chosen a better title.
> I'd need some sort of evidence showing their existence to change my mind.

Here you go, seems pretty well sourced:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_listening_device#Remotel...

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Beeing featured by The Changelog probably helped a lot too.
Implying you can spot the drone. Best police drone would simply tag the vehicle and see where it is moving around, then apprehend the fugitive one he settles for a longer period (during the night usually).
Thats not completely true. I've been promoted while still on H1B and had a pay rise. The procedures need to be followed. Position and pay can also change in preparation for GC, this is quite normal.
I'm not a religious person. Hinduism is supposedly not religion but a "way of life"[1]. I really don't want to get into to the specificity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism#cite_ref-Klostermaier_... [1]

If you assume it's a religion, try this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism (Ctrl/Cmd + F. "atheist")

By open I mean there is no rigid rule set or algorithm in my culture to obtain salvation or anything like that (going to temple is optional). You could simply say no. My parents didn't bother me after a while (My mum is an orthodox person). I do want to point out that being a "nasthik" (non-believer) is not encouraged, but ignored.
"It costs a great deal of money to keep Gandhi living in poverty," one of his followers said affectionately.
I've written a HTTP Proxy for Mac. nothing special so far, but it's intented to be used for debugging &&/|| development. It features a quite flexibel filter/modifier architecture, a working gui and a non-existant memory footprint. Since I just didn't have the dedication to finish the project but still think there's a market for that, I'd gladly sell it for a fair price. If anyone is interested in just seeing the app (which is unstable), just let me know.
I was referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism#cite_ref-6
Sometimes I do e.g. http://www.heroesgenerator.com/ :)
It warns you before sending you off to the destination URL.
Yet the undergrads did NOT draw a modern concept of a neuron. They drew the 1890s conception. So some temporal inversion thingy going on there?
EU is not a country. The police in Finland will almost always chase 'criminals' until they stop. The 'criminals' are mostly people who are drunk drivers or speeding, tough.

Ironically, the reason there's very few chases is that punishments are not severe for crimes. If you are certain that you'll get federal prison in USA for almost any crime, it makes sense to risk it and try to get away.
sure. But I think the killer feature I'd want is grouping/tagging friends automatically. The people I know from gaming aren't necessarily my friends from school. PRM (personal relationship manager) should know that.
In Belgium it's something like that too (for people with a master degree).
I know that Cisco offers £36000.
>And they even let the driver recover in a hospital, at tax payers expense.

What would you prefer to happen?
I created a skill-gaming-for-cash site called Cash Champs (http://www.cashchamps.com). Site is offline since we have no marketing, but 3 games and the site are done, and we have a very rare PayPal account that is authorized by PayPal to process skill-gaming transactions. The PayPal thing alone took nearly $20K in legal fees. If anyone is interested, let me know.
No problem, thanks for sharing your project with everyone! Just people definitely like to use symbols in passwords.

Your fundamentals are fine, i don't think those are very serious problems compared to the average custom web app in the wild (most of which probably use plaintext passwords with no concern for sqli or xss...)
Engineers don't have any intrinsic smartness advantage over non-engineers. We're (much) better at some things and (much) worse at others.
Incredible stuff, seems essentially (to a layman) like a stylus on vinyl records.
Breaking clocks is boring, but how about breaking SI? We would have to:

- redefine the speed of light
- redefine the unit of distance
- redefine the unit of work
- redefine the unit of the electrical current
- redefine the unit of light flux

The mole, kilogramm and kelvin should be fine, but well. Furthermore, if we wanted to keep a meter the length it currently is, the acceleration due to the gravitation field of the earth would change (currently 9.81 m/s²), along with the kinetic energy of a mass of one kilogram travelling at 1 m/s (currently 1/2 J) and roughly fifty trillion other things.

Really, no. No. NO.
I've developed http://whos.it. The source code has a really nice architecture - it supports more TLDs than other services like it - it supports web scraping for TLDs that don't have a standard whois server - parsing data is also implemented. I wanted to convert it into a API to sell subscriptions, but I already busy with other projects.
The Second Brain in Our Stomachs
Let me put forth another analogy from 'Surely You are Joking Mr Feynman':

Lets say you believe killing someone is evil. Then would you think it is OK to ask some else to kill someone for you ?

There is a reason people may not object to Stallman's request. Whatever that reason is it helps promote the surveillence mechanism that Stallman believes to be cellphones.
How To Find A Bargain Holiday And Save Money On Your Travels
In 2007 I built http://sudokugarden.de/ (German and English site about sudoku, with online playing, highscores, and a loyal user base, about 30k visitors/months).

In good times I made ~2.5k EUR/year with ads (mostly text links to boost other site's pagerank), but I lack the time and motivation to market it right now. It's zero maintenance.
Your service tells me that my website is available for registration. that's not correct.
BTW: Your email address doesn't show even if it's in your profile. It has to be in your "about" field for other to see it.
It's great to see the edX release! Good work guys!

However, it's AGPL (Affero GPL) which is really quite an onerous license. As
far as I understand it AGPL requires you to release your changes at the time
you make them rather than at the time you distribute the resulting software.
This will have a big impact on how useful the codebase is to anyone else.
It'll be interesting to see how and which communities develop around it.

The use of the AGPL will mean that it'll be slightly harder to form
companies around edX solutions: there won't be much advantage of
hosting/outsourcing companies over regular on-site consulting companies.
I'd expect these licensing terms to result in most users (i.e.
institutions) having to install and maintain their own solutions on site. As a
result, I'd expect it to be more expensive than other existing open source LMS
systems.
It's worth noting that the vast majority of these chases happen in Southern California. It's a relatively localized phenomenon.
Are Bloomberg Reporters "eavesdropping" for scoops?
what's wrong with webdav?
In China, police are not allowed to chase cars.
As far as I can tell, the theme you're sensing is an intangible one. Usually these sites are custom designed.
Worth noting that libstdc++, whilst a separate project, is not yet feature complete.

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/status.html#s...
The State of Apple’s Mac Software Products
I started my second project http://unboard.de/en/ some years ago but does not haven time to push it or update. It's Django-based platform to install Simple Machines Forums (PHP). Currently, it's localized in 3 languages.
I created a complete chatroom infrastructure in java, complete with website for registration. Features include, personal profiles, ban/reporting system, user hierarchy and a lot of other cool stuff. Could easily be adapted into an corporate chat network, that's what I planned to do with it. Let me know if you're interested!
A plasma TV has really LOW PPI... Like it's 50+ inches with only 1080 pixels down the screen... That's like a factor of 10 worse than retina displays...
I see it all the time on Cobra 11, an autobahnpolizei documentary series.
For the curious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
> but I never said I was a nice person

No, apparently you're a dick.
They're pushing game pricing up significantly, Ghosts is £40 preorder on Xbox 360. That's ridiculous.

EDIT: Actually, I guess we need to be careful.
From Amazon:
"Pre-order Price Guarantee: order now and if the Amazon.co.uk price decreases between the time you place your order and the release date, you'll be charged the lowest price."

So basically these prices are upper bounds, they could easily come down.
actually nginx config is fine. I wasn't properly using "github.com/gorilla/mux". Sorting it out now.
cheers
The Only Thing You Need To Know To Succeed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5802761
Considering selling this project: https://artistsnclients.com

Presentation deck about it, with most important info: https://speakerdeck.com/gargron/artists-and-clients-deck-may...

It's a marketplace for custom artwork. It has a lot of potential that I feel I don't have the time and business skills to realize.

Contact me at eugen@zeonfederated.com if you're interested.

Edit: Added direct link and e-mail.
A Wordpress plugin for Car Dealerships. It's currently at version 0.8 but needs adjustments for the US market. Check it out at http://wpDealership.com. There's around 140 people who've got access to the beta and 145 more who want access but I haven't had the time to give it to them.
go get github.com/minikomi/pipesock

ln -s $GOPATH/src/github.com/minikomi/pipesock/default ~/.pipesock
> mask my IP to keep my actual IP from occurring in the blockchain.

The blockchain does not store any IP address.

> Needing to "create a new bitcoin address" for every transaction, also fishy.

Creating a new bitcoin address for every transaction is not recommended and not needed. So no, it's not fishy. On the contrary, having the possibility to generate different address and using one address for one addressee is quite smart and useful.
Log scale please.
How Booking.com manages to treat its developers like dogs
http://blogs.perl.org/users/bookingemployee/2012/03/truth-about-bookingcom.html
Allthefavicons.com - generate favicons and retina icons for a website from a single image. Its not complicated and still gets a little traffic. Email on profile.