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endianon How Engineers Are Building a New Railroad Under New York City

> ...total lack of electronic signage as to when the next train is...

NYC has this in most stations now.

endianon Show HN: Rappad - Write better lyrics

  I've got people in the Delaware D.O.C.
  I send 'em 89 bucks, they send me equity!
  
  Collaborate or compete, 'til HN's header goes sable
  I'll put a cap in your ass
  or put your ass in a cap table.

endianon Ask HN: Does anyone know what's going on at Coinbase?

For a moment there, it seemed we were witnessing what http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ had prophesied:

"Now I've contracted hemorragic e-coli from cleaning cow stalls and I'm bleeding out my asshole. I'll be dead soon, but that is a welcome relief. I will never have to witness the collapse of the world economy because NoSQL radicals talked financial institutions into abandoning perfectly good datastores because they didn't support distributed fucking map/reduce."

endianon Ask HN: Moving to a Macbook Pro from Ubuntu. Help

DTerm, SizeUp

endianon Show HN: An IDE for poets

  I've got people in the Delaware D.O.C.
  I send 'em 89 bucks, they send me equity!
  
  Collaborate or compete, 'til HN's header goes sable
  I'll put a cap in your ass
  or put your ass in a cap table.

endianon Valve Employee Handbook

> Not necessarily, but 50% are below the median.

Not necessarily. The numbers could all be the same.

endianon Notch's next game is an MMO

Yee-haw!

endianon Lat/Long to Time Zone API

Yes!

endianon After traveling to over 25 countries I created an app I wanted

You might want to improve the page load speed. Some quick thoughts:

- load above-the-fold content first

- combine the JS to a single file

- include the country flags and other small icons as inline base64 PNGs

endianon The real reason you can't hire developers....

Other red flags include:

    "API's"
    "potentially/maybe/sorta/kinda/probably/possibly"
    "Machine learning ...." <-- too many dots, space after "learning"

endianon Show HN: Errorception - High performance JavaScript error tracking

How, precisely, does your service interact with my code? What does an error report look like? This should be on the front page.

Also, "How can I pay for errorception? I'm working hard on getting a simple enough payment mechanism in place, that plays well with the laws of my land. As you can imagine, I need to start making money soon enough, and this is my top priority right now." doesn't inspire confidence in your product's reliability or half-life.

endianon Show HN: Errorception - High performance JavaScript error tracking

s/effect/affect/

endianon GitHub is one commit away from being the ultimate blog engine

I've been wanting to do this. I'm in NYC. I'll be less busy soon.

This should be done.

endianon Stop Eating My Pixels

http://www.ghostery.com helps fight third-party JS

endianon Proposal: Linear Algebra Study Group

It seems one can get the International Edition of the 4th edition from Abe Books at a greatly reduced price:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=003010567...

endianon Proposal: Linear Algebra Study Group

I'm in!

By the way, some less applied materials include:

- http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Right-Sheldon-Axler/dp/...

- http://www.math.mcgill.ca/goren/AlgebraII07-08/CourseNotesMa...

endianon First amateur polywell fusion reactor, in a Brooklyn apt

Nitpick: It's not an apartment, it's a shared lab space near the Marcy Projects. I visited a while back and it was cool.

Awesome work, Mark!

endianon Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?

Some splash page design thoughts: https://img.skitch.com/20110724-qejdafa6fjpwg3gx86q1xmxdgh.p...

endianon John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review

What about `sqlite3 -version`?

Can we haz 3.7 and its Write-Ahead Log?

endianon Fitbit users are unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives with the world

Since they will probably block this soon and get Google to flush its public cache, here's are some examples (with user tokens redacted):

Google results: https://img.skitch.com/20110703-r79t4swrjt3e2akwh3xdfbcrsg.p...

Part of a profile: https://img.skitch.com/20110703-cwmhwiicewy6hh5xw67ctwrq7m.p...

endianon Ask HN: What's the Google+ stack?

"Look, maybe you just suck at explaining." http://xkcd.com/566/

endianon Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB VPS

Where?

endianon Gitter: Publish Mac Sparkle software updates to Amazon S3

"It should also be noted that Glitter uses HTTPS S3 URLs to eliminate the need for the maintiance of public/private keys for Sparkle"

Eliminate? That assumes you can trust both Amazon and the CAs. For some products (Tor, Bitcoin...), that's insane.

endianon Senators seek crackdown on "Bitcoin" currency

To paraphrase the Beastie Boys[1], "You gotta fight / for your right / to barrrTER!"

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk

endianon The Wikipedia war over Paul Revere

Ghostery. It's like AdBlock, but for all 3rd-party code.

endianon #SilkRoad #Bitcoin "Senators Target Website That Sells Narcotics"

It's not a website, it's a Tor Hidden Service.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tor_%28anonym...

endianon #SilkRoad #Bitcoin "Senators Target Website That Sells Narcotics"

To paraphrase the Beastie Boys [1], "You gotta fight / for your right / to barter!"

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk

endianon Help Me HN: Can't think of new ideas I am interested on working on

If you're interested in open source Bitcoin projects, shoot me an email. There's plenty of world-changing high-quality FOSS components to create!

endianon Ask HN: Does the use of CoffeeScript improve your productivity?

Hell yes!

endianon Bitcoin is not decentralized

That's why you (and more importantly, non-security-savvy users) should use paper keys.

https://github.com/bitcoin-labs/paper-keys