skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's dicey. Handmade in Etsy terms can mean as little as altering a commercial item by splashing it with pain, or as much as making a silver bracelet entirely from sheet metal.

The line is blurred by the fact that they allow vintage items (defined as 20 years old or more - clearly something decided by 23 year olds) and mass produced craft supplies in their own sections, which has always been a source of confusion and friction. The CEO/founder blamed this on 'Leah from Craftster' in an interview, saying she picked the categories.

Other than that, it's not juried in anyway which is think is good. BUT, they do sometimes interrogate sellers about whether their items qualify, and come to incorrect and poorly supported conclusions about whether people are allowed. Etsy has has a long history of closing people's shops suddenly with no accountability or recourse... it's really inconsistent, too. Really inconsistent. Check out http://www.etsybitch.com for some recent horror stories.
The most limited resource you have is not money, it is time. One Year of your life is a HUGE piece of your life. If life expectancy is around 70, and you don't really get full control of your life until you're around 20, then you have 50 years of life that you can direct as you will. One year is a whopping 2% of that. So wasting even a year being stuck in a crappy job or otherwise undesirable situation is a bad bad deal, even if you're getting paid big money. You need to be doing whatever it is that you really want to be doing, whatever it is that you're innately wired for and drawn to ... and you need to be doing it right now. If not, then you need to be on a road that will get you there, and that road needs to have a realistic chance of getting you there very soon. Because remember, 50 years is the optimistic number. You might only have 5, or 1. Stop chasing the dollar or whatever else leads you astray, and start doing whatever it is you are "meant" to be doing. ASAP.
This American Life is one of my favorite things. It's simply wonderful.
Here's the paper giving details:

http://www2.research.att.com/~bala/papers/wosn09.pdf

There's three ways info leaks:

1 - Referer header, eg facebook.com/profile.php?id=1

2 - Request, eg analytics.google.com/script.js?page=facebook.com/profile.php?id=1

3 - Cookies, eg z.digg.com points to an omniture server, and so passes all digg cookies to them!

1 and 2 are easily exploitable by advertisers who wanted to, but 1 especially seems like a very standard way of building urls on most services. Definitely will get them hammered for good reason, but there's not necessarily any bad intent.

3 seems a lot worse. Are there legit reasons I'm missing for hosting ad servers on the same domain, and so puncturing the browser security model?
To Update: Pontifier has sent me through the link / login details.. I'll agree completely that the design needs a lot of work -- but I'll refrain from commenting on how it works / business models / etc until I've played with it a bit more.
"It’s always easier to apologize for something you’ve already done than to get approval for it in advance."
- Grace Murray Hopper, quoted in Computerworld, September 10, 1984.
On a good day:
Alarm at 6, breakfast (oatmeal and low-fat yogurt), shave, brush teeth, in the gym by 6:45, shower, change, at my desk by 8.

I like to start the work day with "lighter" stuff. Anyone who says start your day with your "most important task" is full of crap. My brain takes time to get off the ground and into the zone, so I'll try to schedule more low threshold work (UI design, documentation, etc.) for the morning and write code later in the day.

On a bad day:
Alarm at 6, reset alarm for 7, snooze, alarm at 7, skip the gym (I tell myself that I'll go after work), shower, shave, brush teeth, drive to work, grab overpriced breakfast (blueberry muffin and a flat white), at my desk by 8:45.

Start my work day by putting out a fire. This morning it was the announcement overnight that the New Zealand government is putting GST up to 15% in the latest budget.

In conclusion, there are good days and bad days. My level of discipline and self control when the alarm first goes off tends to determine how the whole morning will play out.
> Is sarbox such a burden that it would be difficult for a simple one person company to comply?

Sarbox is about reporting, not size The simplicity of his biz helps him some but he's responsible to the public for everything.
From my grandfather:
Be good if you can, and if you can't, then be good at it.
Be good if you can, and if you can't, then name it after me.
Be good if you can, and if you can't, don't get caught.
Be good if you can, and if you can't, have fun.
re: 1 - For user shared links, Facebook redirects to anonymize the referring profile. I suspect they forgot to do the same for ads, and it was an honest if frustrating mistake.
"Caught" is a little strong. It's not like they were selling the information to advertisiers -- in fact, several of the advertisers who were receiving the information have said they were unaware it was even being sent, far less doing anything with it.

They didn't write any code to "share" this data; they just failed to put safeguards in place to prevent it leaking via HTTP referrers.

I'm willing to put this down to incompetence rather than malice, though of course incompetence is still not great.
I prefer to completely reset all default CSS rules and specify them manually. Works great for me, I haven't noticed any drawbacks.

* {
background-color: transparent;
border: none;
border-spacing: 0;
font-size: inherit;
font-weight: inherit;
font-family: inherit;
line-height: 1.5em;
list-style: none inside;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
text-align: inherit;
text-decoration: none;
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WSJ Calls Facebook's Referring URLs a Privacy Violation
IPOs are underwritten by investment banks. Filing to go public without being underwritten is called a direct public offering I believe.
My immediate thought when I read the original report of this was exactly this. I am Australian and I travel frequently - I have a 64-page passport which is mostly full with 100s of stamp, and is so worn the laminate is peeling off the ID page.

When I enter Australia in particular they often take it away to study and check, and advise me that I need to get it replaced or it will become a problem. I just had a customs official at Heathrow in the UK tell me the same just last month.

What's more realistic? They want him to replace his tattered passport, or everyone is out to get him?
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I've sometimes subdomained a few, select third party services on the same domain. For example, if a third party hosts your landing pages and you wish to own the urls to those, subdomaining is the best way to handle that.

That said, you should practice decent subdomain level security with cookies. You can and SHOULD restrict cookies to subdomain levels. The only exception is for SSO related cookies (that are stored at the domain root) that still need at least a second, shared secret verification at the very minimum.
Don't really get it, couldn't you just share a text file?
The spin people are putting on this is just unbelievably sensation-mongering. ReadWriteWeb of all places is calling them on it - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/unbelievable_wsj_calls_....

It's so disappointing to see Hacker News be a part of this mob mentality.
Small heart attack caused by alarm; death of alarm clock (they're cheap, I have several); iPod alarm 15 minutes later is too expensive to kill so I get up; brush teeth; kiss wife goodbye (VERY important to do this, and only AFTER the tooth brushing); fill canteen with water; leave the house; experience severe finger cramp during morning rush hour; buy bottle of ambrosia (Coke) at gas station near the office; find parking while experiencing further finger cramp in other hand; at my desk by 9AM; use topical lotion to ease forehead abrasions caused by facepalming too aggressively (on days I have support calls waiting for me).

By 10AM I'm fine :) What did the skeleton say when he walked into the bar? Gimme a beer and a mop.
What's your favorite & least favorite thing about HN? subreddits? other startupy sites you follow?
From the section near the end, looks like $9,700.90
I think that was what the parent's question was: when will it be ready for "anything mission critical"?
car pooling app - http://avego.com
This guy evidently has never cleaned an oven; it would be a nightmare to clean the "holes" he suggests.
Why is the best-case $2,300? The stock could sell for any price if it's offered.
"Because our president, Mr. Richard, currently owns 100% of our outstanding common stock, investors may find that corporate decisions influenced by Mr. Richard are inconsistent with the best interests of other stockholders."

ROTFL. Is this for real?
Sorry, but RWW's subtext that this is nothing more than regular referral URLs is disingenuous.

Providing advertisers with personally identifiable information, particularly information that can be used to both gather additional data and target you later, is a pretty significant privacy failing.
Getting things in place for 4G and more.
It's like watching a snowball roll down a hill at this stage.

Imagine what you could do if you could harness the power of that narrative in the other direction.

It's interesting to see how people react to realizing what has been going on under the hood pretty much for as long as I remember. I think that when the doubleclick trouble hit people just couldn't make the mental connection and for the media it was much too dry. Facebook is very close to home and it ties in to everybody's lives at such a close-to-home level that they seem to feel threatened way out of proportion.

Not sure if digg belongs in that list.
Love it. Interestingly enough there is a (somewhat useless) discussion on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/c6e49/a_girl_nam...) about a "bully who says he owns the right to "power hour" and is trying to shut [innocent site] down".
I am. Online video on mobile is something I can easily do without.
Really could have just as easy been a silly joke that is now taken out of context.

I wonder if any of us will ever make it to the level of Zuckerberg, but if you do, are you sure you never made an IM message or an email that might be used against you like this?

I don't even recall most of them.
As expected, Corbett says the subpoena is not because of the blunt criticism of these two but in relation to the ongoing investigation about misusing state funds, known as Bonusgate. I think there is no way Twitter can fight this off since it's a criminal investigation, but it's good that they are at least showing some effort.

The attorney's office alleges that casablancapa is Brett Cott, a former Democratic legislative aide; however, Cott has already been convicted.
Nineteen, from The Aquabats to Pedro the Lion via Nirvana: http://labs.echonest.com/SixDegrees/?start=the+aquabats&...
I find apt-get harder to use than macports though the packages are usually more uptodate.
Brilliant. I'll work up a blog post for giggle's sake. More to come.
Still it's an interesting question - can a small company go public? I vaguely remember there is a simplified procedure for companies with less than one million in revenue. How much pain is that exactly?
Wow i fail to understand why you were down voted!
Is HN new place to spread FUD?

Just because some bumpkin developer comments that code is similar to H.264 does not makes it an infringement. Also a company like Google which has thousand times smarter engineers should have surely thought about it before spendin ~125M$
People here are going bonkers over some comment by naive code monkey.
Maybe google has patents enough to coerce MPEGL LA!
who knows, but spreading FUD is bad.
Esp when you are a naive code monkey!
It may just as well have been that they misjudged the demographic of their prospective customer base to be mostly the larger accounts, but instead they found themselves with prospects a lot smaller than the ones they hoped to target.
>>> "what was your response when various Christians objected to "Piss Christ"?"

> Not sure I was around for that one - but I highly doubt I would've participated in a worldwide public shaming of all Christians, which is really what this thing boils down to.

"Piss Christ" was an intentional provocation. Would you have told Christians to get over it?

> > "We're currently saying "we have to avoid anything that might offend Muslims because some of them might go violent"."

> No, that's not what we're saying at all.

Actually, it is. It may not be what you intend to say, but it's what you're saying.

They threaten violence "unless" and you're doing as they demand. Your excuse for doing so doesn't matter.

I'd argue that the lack of blasphemy laws in the US has been an good thing. Arguing for defacto equivalents seems unwise.

However, if you're going to do so, it's unclear why Muslims should be a special case.

So, what are you going to do when another group starts saying "don't say things that we don't like or we'll get violent"?

> That's the line between exercising your freedom, and simply being a jackass.

You seem to think that they're distinct - they're not. Being a jackass is a subset.

However, even if they were, you're saying that given the choice between siding with jackasses and thugs, you'll take thugs.

No - there isn't another option, even if you need one so you can feel good about yourself.
Its not that I doubt that governments want to screw with him, its just that this doesn't seem to be an example. This article makes it sound like they took his passport away - in his comments at the time he said they took the passport for 15 minutes then returned it and told him it would be or was cancelled because its worn.
you think google is some awekward geek in corner of your class saying "I am confident" while picking his nose?

People here need to get a life, no one is stupid enough to spend 100M$ for some copy paste C code!

And you have 3 Up Votes!! has HN turned into a zoo of code monkey listening to only their kind and thinking everyone at Google is a stupid???
Thing is, any time I want to browse the web and I'm not conveniently close to my desk, I usually have my Nexus One in my pocket, or beside my bed. Browsing the web on the Nexus One in bed is far easier than using the iPad, because the iPad is actually quite heavy.

I'm also acutely aware of the limitations of soft keyboards. I spend too much time on sites like this one, where I feel compelled to comment, but I find writing anything longer than a search term is highly painful on a soft keyboard. I touch-type about 90 wpm on Dvorak. I can eke out maybe 15 on a soft keyboard, which isn't just painful on the fingers, but on the mind that wants to write as it composes.
"Imagine what you could do if you could harness the power of that narrative in the other direction."

diaspora
The opera.com entry addresses that update. Look at the WebM FAQ: They have a separate branch for possible improvements for inclusion on the main branch.
The damage is done though, and zendesks competitors are the ones that gained the most from this, even those that didn't switch are now more than aware of who they are and what their offering is.

The last thing you want to do when you have a good thing going is to get your customers to invest a bunch of time in to researching your competition.
I wonder where they are getting their information from. Connecting Gnarls Barkley to Muddy Waters reveals the song "もしも君まで失くしたら" by Neil Diamond as a connection, which plays Neil Diamond's cover of "The Chanukah Song".
Do you know the application qalculate? It's fantastic, but X11 only. However it's by far the most feature complete calculator I ever saw.
Google's Microsoft Moment - Why Google Made Android
On2 does not have the resources of Google and the entire internet at their disposal. Even the x264 developer pointed out that the VP8 spec was clearly unfinished.
I think qalculate lib does just that, and even better than google (understand abbreviations, and convert even unseen units like miles per minute or whatever).
- Wake up

- Complain about how early and cold it is

- Turn on computer

- Shower/shave/brush teeth

- Get dressed

- Prepare lunch

- Breakfast/coffee while browsing

- Feed cat

- Work (/read HN)
"The sales price to the public is fixed at $0.005 per share"

Maximum the ipo can bring in is $12,500. As noted above, expenses incurred by the ipo: $9700.90
Each morning, your wife puts up with your two alarms (perhaps more, depending on what you do to the cheap alarm clocks)?
Diaspora has already had its run in the media, they were at their peak pulling in $4500 per hour in donations, they've fallen back to < $1000 per day now.

The media has given them a nice old time of it (especially a major article about them taking on facebook and pointing people to kickstarter) but they failed to fan the fire as far as I can see, they're well in to the 'valley of despair' now media wise, unless they cook up some stunt.

Otherwise their next shot at a media slot is launch day, and they better not mess it up.

News is fickle that way.

And they have a bit of a delivery problem ahead of them, the expectations are way beyond reasonable at this point.

If they manage to pull it off I'll be most surprised, if they manage to take > 1% marketshare away from facebook without active help from facebook I'll be even more surprised.

But facebook may yet oblige them.
Oh I see. You meant the moderate muslims should talk one-on-one with the extreme muslims.

I thought you meant that athiests should talk one-on-one with moderate muslims.
Peter Bright of Ars Technica points out in the comments on their story:

here's why this is particularly objectionable: Facebook bounces user links through a redirect to strip the user data out of URLs. Facebook already has the technology, understands it, and uses it elsewhere. But not for adverts. The failure to use the existing technology is peculiar.

The original article was sensationalist, and I think this was much more likely an oversight than something malicious, but still... oops.
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Netbook chip VIA - DreamBook Lite E10
Pioneer Computers provide low-cost netbook, called the DreamBook Lite E10. This 10.1-inch model with the following features ARM processor VIA-8505 with a frequency of 533 MHz on netbook pre-installed operating system Windows CE and Android. The display resolution of 1024x600 pixels is a netbook.
This is great news both for the future of Tesla and also the workers at the NUMMI plant!
still on the homepage:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1366138

twice:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1366106
How did you manage to find such a patient cat?
very sad to read all these cases where the VCs despotize the founders. People with money always make the calls.

On an side note, is there a place where founders/developers discuss VCs and their experiences?
Club netbook users
http://everything2.com/title/The+terrorists+have+already+won...
What seems like a parody to you, seems like a pretty clever hack to me. The novelty of the making a beer pong company seems like the ultimate slap in the face to other public companies worrying about SOX compliance and such. I bet they make a lot of money from people willing to laugh at the idea and support their idea.
Yesterday I was told a story about a successful man who was asked "how did you become successful?".

"Two words", he replied. "Right decisions".

"So, how do you make the right decisions?"

"One word: experience".

"OK, so how do you get experience?"

"Two words", the man replied: "wrong decisions".

Yeah, I know. Pretty corny. :)
Xkcd: Infrastructures
New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It (theonion.com)
I've usually heard this phrased as "Be a doctor, not a patient!"
Regarding the patent:
I suggest reading original email to Wikipedia developer mailing list
To quote
"""
On the patent part— Simply being similar to something doesn't imply
patent infringement, Jason is talking out of his rear on that point.
He has no particular expertise with patents, and even fairly little
knowledge of the specific H.264 patents as his project ignores them
entirely. Codec patents are, in general, excruciatingly specific — it
makes passing the examination much easier and doesn't at all reduce
the patent's ability to cover the intended format because the format
mandates the exact behaviour. This usually makes them easy to avoid.
It's easy to say that VP8 has increased patent exposure compared to
Theora simply by virtue of its extreme newness (while Theora is old
enough to itself be prior art against most of the H.264 pool), but
I'd expect any problems to be in areas _unlike_ H.264 because the
similar areas would have received the most intense scrutiny. ... and
in any case, Google is putting their billion dollar butt on the line—
litigation involving inducement to infringe on top of their own
violation could be enormous in the extreme.
""

Dont trust some stupid kids comments for god sake knowledge in programming does not equal legalese.
> On a side note, does anyone know how bad it is for your name and reputation if the company has to go bankrupt and go through that process? Will he get gray listed for future incorporations, background checks and such?

The answer is "it depends". Some folks will care while others won't. It's just like the color of his pants, his age, the school he went to, and so on.

Note that whether he can incorporate is a matter of law and bankruptcy doesn't affect it. (Being the subject of a consent decree related to securities fraud does, but lots of folks go bankrupt without that.)
Doubtful, though I admittingly have little experience in this. In fact (I would imagine), most places would kill for guys with balls enough to file an IPO. What type of confidence do you need to make this happen?
Where are the moderators when you need them :-) Seriously, do all these new posts add anything new to the FB privacy debate?
Right here; just killed it.
I would imagine that any value he gains from this is "balls". He went out there and did his part. Bravo. Success or failure: he did something. Some will value that.
I cannot remember the exact cases, but the point is that you have an API on one hand, and the user of an API on the other.

The API returns strings to you, the user at some point needs to (say) perform multiple operations on that String. Say, multiple gsubs. So rather than create a new string with each, he uses a gsub!.

I've actually once had a discussion about this on ruby-forum when i faced this issue. We talked of a copy-on-write string. But i did not want to change my entire application.

It is inefficient for the API to keep returning dup()'ed strings. otoh, if the user accidentally changes the string (which she can), your API can throw an error or malfunction.
Makes more sense to remodel and reuse an existing manufacturing facility instead of building a new one. Tesla and Toyota have both been innovators in the electric car market, hopefully they can bring the price down a little bit once they get the production line operating.
Yeah, I was thinking more about the supporting infrastructure for subscriptions and perhaps tweaks if necessary so that a seed-file subscription via another protocol only has to occur initially...

That said, I think it's one of those context-free ideas which upon in-depth analysis fall apart...but I'm still interested to explore the idea a bit to see if there are any legs.
Google’s WebM may not be royalty-free for long