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Does anyone know of healthy open source projects that need people? I'm a fresh college grad and looking to sharpen my skills in my spare time - I like javascript and java, and wouldn't mind the opportunity to get better at python/ruby etc.
We had Nicholas for the last two weeks only (he was on break). Turning our hacknight project into a real CTF was his intern project last year. His help at launch was more or less indispensable. Our scheduling was not discretionary.

I'm sure Stripe has a similar story.

We all agree, more careful spacing would be great. Oh well! :)
Uber And Disruption
Valve Is Making All Their Games Free To Debian Developers
People can not see 4k resolution at normal couch viewing distances unless they have really huge displays.
http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.html
http://carltonbale.com/does-4k-resolution-matter/
JSON-LD is just fantastic at bringing all the data in RDF to power real world JS/websites. Angular.js and JSON-LD plus SPARQL results in JSON is just so much fun to play with.
This is very true and also the reason that you can't just dump a bag of cash onto an OSS project and expect it to fare batter: Open Source projects run on time, not money. The only way to give it more time is to have more devs that are willing to commit their free time to it.

This is not to say you shouldn't give money to OSS projects. You should definitely support your favourite programs even if its just $5 a year for a single one you used that year.
Wait, what? I'm not sure which levels of sarcasm you are applying to which parts of your post. Do you think there are real negative consequences to casting out this moron?

Morons are going to find things to protest. Some address real issues, others invent issues, or build them out of poor research.

It's generally a good thing to ignore the latter.
For me, its a scale thing. The 800M users is 80% of Facebook's user base give or take. Seems like more than a fad, definitely an itch was being scratched. For example the migration from MySpace to Facebook was pretty clear, but I don't see the bulk of Facebook's audience heading to some other service.

That said, its entirely possible that "social" is a fad, and certainly that internet social is way to wide a network than old fashion neighborhood social (invest in NextDoor I guess :-) but I'm still convinced that the value proposition of amplifying your ability to maintain a larger web of relationships is still a thing. Not many people are natural super connectors and Facebook takes more ordinary people a lot closer to that.
I've crashed at places like the StartupHouse in SF for very low rents. They had closet sized private rooms or bunk bed rooms for even cheaper. A private room in a shared apartment down in East Palo Alto was probably the best valley place I stayed, for $600/month. It was easy to Caltrain anywhere needed, including SF. Young people are far more likely to accept college dorm like crowded living conditions like this, though.
Reseachers say Facebook membership will drop 80 percent by 2017. Seriously?
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Have you heard of Facebook Open Academy [1]? It's an initiative to get students more involved in Open Source.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/facebook...
With secret courts, secret warrants and secret gag orders this does nothing to address the issues. Who's to say that MS won't receive a secret order to turn over access even to servers on foreign soil? I think this is the right response by MS but only as a signal to the govt that they are damaging US economic interests with their dragnet surveillance policy. Claiming US citizens don't have to worry because they are only spying on "foreigners" is only making matters worse.

Ultimately, this mess will require a political, not a technical solution. Legally some level of constitutional protects will have to be accorded to the clients or customers of US Citizens regardless of where in the world they reside. It has to be made clear that using a US company does not equal turning your data over to the NSA.
It's not. But I hope they have better luck than me when enunciating "trove". It's just not a word in many people's immediate vocabulary. Go figure!

me: Hello, I work at Trovebox
them: Travel box?
me: Troooovebox
them: Toe box?
me: Like treasure trove
them: oooh!

Disclaimer: founder @ trovebox
I would say I got lucky. I started the site not too long after the public launch of Bootstrap. And after about two weeks of farming Bootstrap sites myself (to build up content) I submitted it to HN. Then it went nuts. I got a spot on the official docs homepage without even asking and rode the wave as Bootstrap soared to becoming the most popular frontend framework and Github repo.

The popularity this brought was untold as hundreds of sites started naturally linking to BWB. I guess being first was the most important thing here.

I've also made a point to make it always free and easy for folks to submit a site. There's no complex review process and no fee (if you don't mind waiting in line). This gets some loyal supporters who are happy to provide new content on a somewhat regular basis.

The knock-on effect has been that Google seems to love the site and now the majority of my visitors come from searches. This despite Tumblr not being the greatest base for SEO.

No "growth hacking" required, whatever that is...
This is a client JS API key. If you want to spoof the referer you have to hack into all users of the web page and change the referer header their browser sends. And for what? Makes no sense.
Interesting move by Valve, and another positive step in support of Linux.
An appellation reserved for gamma ray bursts (and only within the emission cones).
What determines founder salary levels
Creating unsustainable businesses that get acquired is a sustainable business.
Or add a toggle switch somewhere for people that would like it
Thanks for the Seafile link, that looks perfect for what I've been looking for.

I was surprised to see such a mediocre HN thread on Seafile 6 months ago[1]. Haven't people been clamoring for an open-source Dropbox ever since Dropbox was released?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6051037
Slovenia frees hacker despite US extradition order
What is app.net? I've visited their homepage and read the "learn more", but can't really figure it out. At first it seems like an Android an iOS simulator that lets you install the apps virtually so that you can use them ("get access to great apps on $platforms"), but they focus so much on social apps only... Are they an alternative App Store/Play Store then? I don't get it and I don't really feel like creating an account just to find out.

Edit: Ah the bitcoin.app.net page explains it further down.
Scientists find secret to writing a best-selling novel
Oh, nice! For some reason I thought that was only for canvas.
I wonder why we don't use the CIE XYZ color space for monitors - in practice, humans see much fewer blues than reds, so having the same pixel dedication to both seems like a waste. I'm not a panel manufacturer here, so I imagine it is hard to architect a panel with subpixels of varying signaling depth, right?

Also, are there even 12-16 bit color panels in production? I like to hope 4k / 8k mean the end of the pixel race, because we really need adaptive vblank (from Displayport) of at least 100 hz before we keep pushing the pixel density. Hell, most of my family don't recognize the difference between 480 and 1080p already because the colors are so bad on most consumer tv panels.
I don't believe the focus should be "how much" rather "is it enough to survive". Are founders paying themselves enough to meet their basic needs of survival (food, shelter, family etc) ref Maslow's hierarchy of needs. We all have different circumstances and thus needs change too. Ref I am not talking about wants, just needs :-)

Like in business it is a fine art of balancing it all out. Pay yourself too little and our human basic needs to survive kick in (reptilian brain) and instead of using your cognitive mind to focus on the business you focus on the lack of money. So not paying yourself enough is very damaging for everyone involved with the business too.
I haven't tried the new Crystal Cove version - but I spoke to a number of devs who've tried both (the new Oculus and Valve's tech), and they said also it in no way compares. Crystal Cove is an incremental update, but I from what I've heard it won't have the sort of presence of Valve's current tech. I imagine just because they are limited to what they can actually manfacture
Writing your first web app using Python and Flask
^ This!

No need for 3rd party scripts to do the same, especially all the fiasco going around with adware folks getting into extensions.
On the same blog I actually wrote a short story with this same idea: http://www.3delement.com/?p=177
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Human Rights Watch annual report 2014 criticises NSA mass surveillance
Yes, I was shocked too. Guys fresh out of college without wives, children, and family obligations don't need as much money to operate, you say? Stop the presses!
Sorry, I don't quite get it. Why are the employees screwed? I know that the VSs got liquidate first usually. But the employees also have their shares value raised in their pocket. If the contracts are not favorable, then even if they go IPO, it's the same for the employees, right? This is different from a new round of VC investment which may dilute the employees holdings.
I'm sure there are plenty! You could start by picking a project on GitHub that seems interesting. Have a look at the open issues to see if there's anything you could fix. Most repository owners will be very grateful for pull requests, and are usually happy to provide feedback on your code.
This is important to remember but hopefully not relevant. If you have event handlers on each card instead of delegating them to the container, that's a performance problem all by itself.
Hit archive.org or whatever for "Strang Linear Algebra" and you'll see the MIT OCW videos for free. The quality is, um, very turn of the century, but you're watching to learn, not critique video codecs.

If you want to spend money, from my bookshelves:

Strang (the guy in the videos above) knows one or two things about Linear Algebra. His textbook is legendary. Bring lots of $$$, like three figures.

"The Manga guide to Linear Algebra" Yes, that is exactly what it sounds like. I think if you have to start somewhere, maybe this is it. Cheap. $

"Matrices for Engineers" by Kraus. There's about 50 textbooks along the lines of linear algebra matrices for engineers programmers using $math_application or $calculator or $chicken_entrails and similar title permutations. You'd think every engineering program in the nation is required to use a different text. This particular text was pretty good. If I recall correctly, reasonably priced $$.

I would suggest reading them in the order of the comic book, the engineer book (or any of the dozens of equivalent college texts), and Strang. Coincidentally thats also order of price.

At one time I understood everything in the comic book and the engineer book. That was a long time ago. Strang mystified me in parts. So I'm not going to pretend to have THE perfect answer. It is entirely likely in the last decade someone has written the Uber text to replace them all. Probably a new edition of Strang is out by now.

I would estimate the effort required to be about one programming language.

Best of luck to you.
You should probably report this to Lyft directly.
Progressions:

Browser --> Sandbox (within browser) --> "Operating system" (within browser)

Pages --> (Dynamic) Ads, "tracking", "web apps" --> Pervasive, intrusive monitoring via exploitation

If you are going to turn your browser into an operating system, you'd better get the security right -- and spend some time reflecting on the ongoing Java fiasco.

And maybe stop calling it a "browser" -- unless you mean that I'm now the one being browsed.
I just bought my first Bitcoins. As I was trying to buy a fixed amount in USD, the price in Bitcoins kept changing. It'd be weird to shop in Bitcoins, trying to guess the approximate price in USD as I was making the purchase. Whether the purchase price was volatile, or the value of the Bitcoins were volatile, I'm just not used to that!
Last I knew about it, it was paid-subscription Twitter, essentially. Not totally sure what it is now. Honestly, I'm not sure they know what they are right now.
I don't understand why people want to compare Django and Flask.

Django is ideal for the freelancer or developer that needs great tools available at their disposal for quick and high-quality development.

Flask is ideal for the large system and application where many components are expected to be built bottom-up and extra flexibility is needed.

The intersection point for both use cases goes to the point where you're having several people working on a project full time, and at that point you'll likely have much more important things to be concerned about.
I see crying like this all the time from people that hate StackOverflow, but (surprise!) there is not a single constructive answer on that page. The top voted answer starts with "Personally"! It has been said time and time again that StackOverflow is not meant to be a masturbratory playground for theoretical development; it's meant for discrete problems with discrete solutions.

That's not to say that there isn't a need for a site that discusses the pros and cons of different development tools ad nauseum, but that use case is explicitly outside of the scope of StackOverflow.
> You either believe in the currency and wish to implement it into your platform, or you don't.

seems like you're wrong about this one.
and yet I would guess that the majority of code written today is done largely in the procedural style. perhaps the reason for omitting it is that it it's assumed all students will be familiar with it. breaking it down into structured and unstructured would be archaic though.
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Carl Icahn: Time to break up eBay
Well, blubb obviously.
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I don't really get the whole push to minimalist frameworks, from people that say Django is too bloated. It takes up 46 Mb of disk space on my machine. That is nothing these days. If you don't need a component, don't use it.
EBay spikes 10% after hours following Q4 earnings
Wow. That flier is a bit off the rails. They blame this guy for the housing bubble because he started a company that made tablets designed to show blue prints at construction sites?
I don't suppose I could talk my fortysomething wife into those living conditions, no.
My remark did come off as a bit ruder than I had intended, hah. And to be fair, TV is still almost exclusively low-brow, mind-numbing junk. :) I don't actually disagree with you.
App.net still exists?
Learning SVG with Logos
I would kinda disagree here. Django's killer app starts (and almost ends) at the admin functionality. It's inferior to most other mainstream frameworks in other respects...but the admin is absolutely world class, which can be a huge time saver. I'm working on a commercial app now that has zero customer UI aside from the admin - which is used to configure a REST api.
That just means it's free of this particular backdoor.
Angular doesn't do this (batch DOM updates) - but because Angular's $digest cycle is a batch, it's fairly close (or at least, less bad than Backbone's default behaviour).

Dirty checking and watch execution happens in batches, but the resulting DOM updates are executed ad-hoc within each batch iteration - without any regard for requestAnimationFrame or forced synchronous layouts for instance.
If I know a bit of C++ and a lot of Web Languages, where would be the best place to get more information about VR Programming? For these games they are developing what language are they written in? What kind of software are they using to create 3D models ? Are they all using Unity?
I would love to see some statistics on location and personal debt (aka student loans) in relation to these numbers.

I'd suspect that first time entrepreneurs that live in SF who also pay themselves < 100k are free of personal debt. The only other option is that they're just not paying their bills and live with 5 other roommates.

Can any first time entrepreneurs that make less than 100k chime in here?
Hacking Snapchat's people verification in less than 100 lines
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If you did it again, would you do physical products? Is there any sort of "drop shipping" for large paper printing like that? I looked into it before for maps, but it looks horrifcally expensive to print large paper maps if you just want one copy.
The reason why I checked both out was because I wanted to try my hand at Python and see what all of the hoopla was about.

Unfortunately for me, the most memorable part of the experience was repeatedly calculating how many times I could have coded the exact same solution in PHP in the time it took me to finish a Flask project.
In the continuity of OP's post, I'd like to introduce sup [0], a MUA project written in ruby a long time ago by William Morgan to put gmail functionalities in your console. It has seen quite a success (even creating a fork-for-speed, notmuch [1]). Unfortunately William has left the boat, and sup is now maintained by other people. It's still hackish and has some bugs, but it does the work fairly well. Help is highly welcome !

[0] supmua.org

[1] http://notmuchmail.org/
What are the pros and cons of different subscription methods?
I am working on a project that requires site users to maintain a monthly subscription, like Netflix. I'm wondering if anyone has insight into the different pros and cons of when and how to ask users to enter their payment information.

It seems that if you ask for payment information during the initial signup process, you are tying your fate to how well your brochure pages sell the site and its services. The signup process is a bit more complicated, but users who sign up are more likely to actually use the service and are more likely to maintain a subscription. You won't end up with lots of short-time free users who aren't that interested.

However, if you make the signup process dead simple (i.e. no payment information required during initial account creation), you pull more users in to the site, get them using the product, and get feedback. Then, your fate is tied to whether or not users actually like your site and service. Also, it's an additional step of getting them to enter payment information after they've been enjoying the service for a period of time for free.

Anyone with direct experience of these different approaches would be greatly appreciated to contribute their two cents.
Part of me wishes that you too would have a tight time limit. Your level 19 still keeps me up at night. It disturbs my work. It makes me slightly worse as a person.
Another rant about the dangers of software rotting away if it (gasp) hasn't been updated within six months. It appears people are really bad at assessing maturity of software, so they choose cheap metrics (like # of commits / last commit), rather than examining the actual quality of the code and design.

Eventually some smaller open source projects achieve feature-completeness and no longer need any more features. It is healthy for them to declare themselves done. This is distinctly different from maintainer apathy, though the symptoms may be similar.
I sure hope it's not a bug, I can imagine real world applications where this feature would be useful. There are two obvious issues here.

1. the video presented this in a very biased light the popup was already open and behind as the main window.

2. chrome should provide an indicator in a more global way to indicate a recording is taking place...

additionally, just like the camera on your computer lights up when it's on, it would make sense for your computer to have a similar light indicator for when the mic is on?
I think you're right as well, and in fact many companies grow quite large without having a CFO, and you certainly don't need a CFO to raise VC (a top flight lawyer is money better spent). Through several startups I've done, every single adviser I've had that I felt had our interest at heart said, basically, "you don't need a CFO until you can see a path to going public". The rationale is that someone who is really qualified to be a CFO would be wasting 80% of their skill set until then and costing you a lot of money and ownership. Until then, a controller or accountant will be able to manage the organizations finances just fine (and that function can be outsourced), and there are any number of "rent a CFO" arrangements should you find yourself with some particularly hairy financial needs without committing to a hire.
I think he's aiming at something like older languages tended to do only one paradigm, or at most only do one of them well, but you can do a reasonable approximation of functional and OO in Scala, for example.

Observationally it seems harder to mix design patterns between paradigms than to merely merge language features.
Can't really argue with "and higher pay"
He lives in Berkeley. And the rooftop garden is in reference to the apartment building he is planning to build in downtown Berkeley.

Levandowski has also purchased a property on the corner of Dwight and Fulton, just one block from Shattuck Avenue. At this location, he has hired the Nautilus Group to construct a proposed 77-unit apartment building call Garden Village complete with rooftop gardens, 24-hour surveillance, private security, and a fleet of electric vehicles parked in an underground garage. The residents will have the luxury of renting these cars whenever they want to cruise out to the beach for a dip.

I thought for sure that would be something the typical Berkeley person would be all about. Rooftop gardens to grow your own veggies. Eco Friendly car sharing. That all sounds pretty good to me. Why are they hating on that?
Simply put on your Sales/Biz Dev Hat starting looking for specific individual targets-- Senior Executives or Senior Managers that you know how to help. Reach out, make a friend, engage them in a live conversation.
Before it was known as Silicon Valley it was home to places like Bell Laboratories, Xerox PARC, the Stanford Research Institute, etc. Tech workers in SV created ethernet, optical storage, text to speech recognition, laser printing, the modern graphical user interface, and all of that was just at Xerox PARC! I'm pretty sure the transistor was invented at Bell Labs in SV.

I agree that there are some privacy concerns about what's going on with social media companies, but if you think that's of equal importance to the transistor then I don't think we live in the same universe.
Except for the mention of ‘serial founders’, there's no attempt to correct for levels of relevant experience. Is the ratio of founder/employee salaries the same across different degrees of experience?
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Everything he said applies to a typical legacy corporate network that has a centralised default-deny firewall on front of it (but no NAT).

Host-based firewalls are much more flexible and have many security advanteges.
My laptop (Thinkpad) outputs over DisplayPort. I tried to pick up a DP to HDMI cable from Best Buy when my DVD player died right before we were trying to have a movie night, and the sales clerks had never heard of DisplayPort. Every time I brought it up, they handed me either a VGA or HDMI cable, or insisted that DisplayPort didn't exist, that there was only Mini DisplayPort. Why the hell would they name it Mini DisplayPort if a full size DisplayPort never existed?!

So yeah, in the "real world", DisplayPort doesn't exist outside of last-gen Macbooks.