skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But where do you see the threat here? They haven't tried to interfere with business operations or asserted the English guy would face a loss if he did not comply with their requests. All they did was advise him of their success in getting the mark and warn him off using the domain to infringe upon it in the future. His investment in the domain seems limited to the registration costs for a year or two, and there's no evidence he ever put time or money into building up any kind of business identity for it.

If he had elected to just sit there and keep renewing, and www.groupon.com just took you to a blank page saying 'not affiliated with the Groupon company', nothing bad would have happened. I personally think that having made $250k for doing very little other than have a good idea, he's feeling extremely pleased right now and the last thing on his mind is spending his windfall on bringing a court case of dubious merit.
"Perhaps the OP would have been more effective describing a less controversial field."

Exactly! As I read the article, my feeling was he was being disingenuous, condescendingly mocking the lawyer and his profession.

Then the final two sections, generalizing his advice to the lawyer for other professionals, seemed like a gloss.
Node.js is so much better, Ruby and Rails are the new Cobol.
Newspapers are like the internet in that every single day people waste an hour or more of their life reading them. They also clutter your living room and raise your carbon footprint. And also... reading the Daily Mail or The Guardian everyday can't be good for you! Realistically they're not as bad as TV or the net though.
I and many other experienced people on #clojure@freenode looked at this.

Heard comments such as:

“Huh.”
“I can't believe -> and ->> are being demonized now.”
”I think if you're calling things rules you should be somewhat careful about how you phrase them...”
“Someone is wrong on the internet.”
> How do you expect consumers to view flying as anything but a commodity when I can pay 2x more then the customer sitting next to me?

Wait, if people pay such different prices for the same product, doesn't that mean that it's not a commodity?
OTOH, there's another interesting approach to too many tabs: Don't allow them in the first place: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kjecajkoiikaohha...

The No More Tabs extension limits the number of tabs you can have, and will close an old tab if you open a new one over that limit.
Also it looks like they didn't mention groupon.com when they filed their trademark. I've made a more detailed analysis at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1549608
One of the issues with nutrition is that there is so much conflicting advice to wade through. Even if you do get down to the science it can still be unclear what you should follow.
> There are a lot of iPad owners not on Facebook, who are arguably a major market segment for Apple.

Facebook has somewhere around 120 million active users in the US alone. The US has around 307 million active residents. 1/3 of the population of the US is on facebook. A good number of the remaining 2/3 probably don't have their own means to buy things (e.g. that includes nearly 60 million people who are too young to be eligible for a facebook account).
The NOLOH PHP Framework includes Comet out of the box without any work or configuration. A brief video on this can be found from the Confoo Web Conference this past March, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r0FR0Dx4zE.

This includes support for streams, long-polling, and short-polling. Like everything else in NOLOH, this comes out of the box for all browsers.

A dedicated comet section will be added to noloh.com later in the summer with more examples, demos, and whitepapers.

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of NOLOH
This phenomenon, also called "rational ignorance" by economists, is a problem for democracies. Not every person has the time to become an expert on everything, but they still vote on it.
Well, in going from cable to Netflix, I probably reduced my time spent watching moving pictures by 75% (not that it was very high to begin with). In addition to the rationing involved (at least at the beginning, before the proliferation of Instant Watch), there was perhaps the decreased sense of "must get my money's worth." Paying $60/month for cable to watch two hours a week feels more wasteful than paying $10/month for the same.
To me it makes sense in the context:

> we'll have to figure out for ourselves what to avoid and how

At its most basic Paleo Nutrition is mostly about avoiding or minimizing so-called neolithic agents of disease: refined carbohydrates, grains, processed oils.

> It will actually become a reasonable strategy… to suspect everything new

It may be that thinking of it as a "modern" approach to nutrition (ironic in that it's supposed to be the "ancestral" way of eating, but the linked Wikipedia article does call it modern) can help the adoption of the Paleo diet, because "it's new" and because it's new, "addictive".
Great essay, but the responses here make me want to say: let's not forget that some of these bad addictive things also have their good sides.

A lot of the articles on HN are inspiring.

Sometimes it is good to switch off and relax with a movie or a computer game.

And so on...
The Search Engine Backlash Against 'Content Mills'
It will actually become a reasonable strategy (or a more reasonable strategy) to suspect everything new.

No. The reasonable strategy is, and has always been, defining the positive outcomes you want to reach rather than negative ones you want to avoid. The opposite of "drunk" is not "he avoids drinking", it's "he lives a fulfilled life without allowing alcohol to consume his existence".

The opposite of internet addict is not someone who abstains from internet, it is someone who lives a balanced life with work and play in equal measures, and play being divided amongst all the nature requires from us - exercise, family, friends, sex, artistic self-expression, fooling around with no purpose etc.

The same is true for any other addiction.
Who is your designer?
True, to be most efficient at web development I need an internet connection. To check docs and Google solutions so I don't have to reinvent the wheel, as well as communicate quickly with others working on the same projects plus monitoring and testing quickly in production.

Removing the internet connection may improve efficiencies in some areas but I'll be a whole lot more efficient if I can have the connection and manage to not be distracted.
as a note, the source is:

(defn frequencies
"Returns a map from distinct items in coll to the number of times they appear."
{:added "1.2"}
[coll]
(persistent!
(reduce (fn [counts x]
(assoc! counts x (inc (get counts x 0))))
(transient {}) coll)))

which I think is pretty much just Raphael's solution.
I haven't flown too many different airlines recently but some do sell exit-row seats in advance and usually don't sell them all so asking as soon as you get to the gate can get one for free.

It's one of those things where being polite and directly asking for something can go a long way.
> My hackles go up whenever I hear the term "myths".

I hate it when people use this term. They almost always mean "something I disagree with and I'm tired of hearing" rather than "something that is verifiably wrong".

Somehow I missed it this time, though. I guess because I assumed this sort of thing can actually be verified.
How did you pull those stats into Google Docs? It was automated, right?

If Google Docs can take an arbitrary page, figure out what the data is and slurp it into a spreadsheet, then there are some very interesting kinds of data mashups to make!
Possibly related: Apparently, India is somewhat perplexed by a resurgence of spirituality among the highly educated. No real effect in rural areas, but the heavy earners are becoming uncharacteristically religious.
> I've noticed that people that claim to be vegetarians do it in such a way that they come off smug.

Unfortunately the act of unapologetically refusing to participate in something that most other people do is often considered smug. This is rather similar to the way atheists are considered smug by many religious people where as agnostics are not.
A train bombing can be massively destructive, as has happened in London and Madrid. You mention that you were traveling to visit the winter Olympics: imagine the effect of a mass casualty attack close to the venue, in a town full of foreign visitors. Besides the immediate loss of life and panic, the resulting investigation would be difficult and almost certainly involve a large number of mistaken arrests, to say nothing of the global publicity which most extremists crave.
> it seems equally hard for a day-labourer as a top-notch scientist to get in

A day laborer would probably have the easier time, if he has family in the US. The US system is a relic of a past era when the goal was quickly integrating hordes of unskilled laborers fresh off the boat. Speaking as a highly educated Canadian, I would sooner go anywhere else in the developed world before subjecting myself to US Immigration.
I have to disagree. But then I have learned Illustrator very well over the years.
I have written extensively on this topic, here are a few articles. Here is the progression leading up to the development of Step.

http://howtonode.org/control-flow
http://howtonode.org/control-flow-part-ii
http://howtonode.org/control-flow-part-iii
http://howtonode.org/do-it-fast
http://howtonode.org/step-of-conductor
Even if we accept your frame, it's not a simple thing. Consider these "false" substitutes:

Large quantities of mass-produced food instead of meager quantities of undependable crops that you spend 90% of your working life growing;

Facebook instead of being lonely and isolated in your suburban home, miles from any of your friends;

HD porn instead of unhealthy sexual relationships;

Online dating instead of avoiding social situations because you never meet anyone you actually want to talk to, and when you do they're always seeing someone else;

Chess and WoW instead of mortal combat and intertribal warfare;

Football fandom instead of burning the fields of rival clans and kidnapping their women and children.

Inventiveness taketh away, but it also giveth.
Well, the analogy only goes so far. The ability to write is more evenly spread than the ability to design/code (much more so I would think).

Doesn't then mean that by applying your coding skills in a low tech community/situation wouldn't be both hugely valuable to the users of your code and thus hugely profitable for you.
I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing the data out.
The web really isn't a pixel based medium though. CSS has more in common with vectors than rasters. Creating flowing layouts that work with the user's DPI, browser's renderer and all that is much easier than trying to force pixel precision layouts.
Better (more efficient/effective) manufacturing techniques? Or more efficient/effective marketing techniques?

(I had a little trouble there with the adjective "better" applied to Madison Avenue's promotion of cigarettes).
I believe you're pretty much right on this, though I'd label it as a form of social signaling rather than outright smugness. It's the sort of group-identification we like, and depending on the group, want to signal "I made a better choice than you, you should be in my group too."

The whole "I'm a vegan!" is similar to "I'm a Christian", "I'm an environmentalist!", "I'm an Objectivist!", "I'm an Atheist!", "I'm gay!" phrases I often hear or read, and that social signaling can easily come off as smug/arrogant/annoying/pushy, and in general just make us not like the person. More action-oriented phrasings like "I don't smoke", "I don't eat meat", "I don't believe in any deity" seem more reasonable and I think they produce better conversation.
This depends, if you flat refuse all alcohol I can see how this would come across strange at social events. People that are drinking want everyone else in their presence to be loosened up a little as well. I would imagine the reaction would be different between I don't drink and I'm only having a couple.

What is more interesting would be if your not drinking but are still relaxed and are lively with other people present, whether you seem strange because your not drinking or whether it's got to do with your interactions due to not drinking.

I personally don't see anything wrong with not drinking unless your acting condescending to those that have had a few.
So basically you are saying that people that will do cocaine will simply do cocaine regardless? Those people are pre-destine do do it so who cares?
Writeroom + timemachine + dropbox. I don't think you're the target market :)
IPhone location provider SkyHook tracks individual phone for their marketing VP
If anyone has domains to report, feel free to email me and I'll add them to my training set. I've recently thought about open sourcing this whole piece.
I don't think it turns out this way at all, since I don't recall ever having the option of paying for more room (and nothing else). The physical seat type always seems to be bundled with something else, such as an upgraded meal.

Many airlines now have a "premium economy" section on international flights which offers just this. Maybe some of them have minor extra features too (like, I think I got a free drink before takeoff, and I certainly got better service, the one time I got upgraded to Premium Economy) but basically it's just the extra legroom. I'd probably pay for it on long flights if I were just a little bit richer.
Looking from the outside in, clojure has too many useful/amazing functions to learn in an afternoon, weekend, or a month. So, not using something you don't understand is perfectly valid in my opinion.
The history of lolcats (graphic)
So, to show that this market doesn't need to be shut down, I must find an example of a market with no regulation?
I particularly like the plain-English design from JJ at Graphicology, though I wish he'd used AM/PM instead of 24-hour time.

Using full sentences reminds me of a UI element* that replaces a form with an interactive sentence. The example (from a trip-reminder app) was the sentence "Do not announce these trains". Clicking "Do not" changed the sentence to "Do announce these trains 20 minutes before they depart", clicking "20 minutes" allowed the user to enter a time, and clicking "depart" changed it to "arrive". All clickable text appears as hyperlinks to let the user know what can be changed. The author then demonstrated this element scaling up to what would normally require a configuration dialog of a dozen checkboxes, radio buttons, text fields, and spin boxes. The full-sentence version has the benefit of being easy to check by reading, and it seems easier to set up in the first place, though that's hard to judge looking at mockups.

*See "Configuring notifications" from http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/#case_study_train_schedules (Linked on HN over a year ago at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=600799)

I highly recommend the whole article!
You can pay $40 for an "Extra Leg Room" seat on JetBlue.
Yes. Procuring a student visa would be far easier and more affordable for startup founders interested in working in Ireland, as far as I can tell.

re. meetup, I live in the US now, and unfortunately my relatives in Ireland aren't programmers - but thanks for the invite!
Modern evangelical Christianity is very much a mass-market phenomenon. It doesn't exist without Glenn Beck and his ilk, who are very much artifacts of the Internet echo chamber (though they perhaps owe more to Fox News, cable news being a bit of a prototype for the Internet's monotonous assault on reason.)

It's very fashionable in the hacker community to treat Christianity as an anti-science establishment, but that's really a brash generalization that isn't even supported by facts. You'll even find a lot of evangelical Christians who are stauch proponents of the theory of evolution.

It's a rather tired meme that Evangelicals are engaging in an all-out assault on the scientific establishment, when that simply isn't true. There is a large, vocal evangelical contingent that espouses creationism, but 'evangelicals' are a much more complex and noisy bunch than one might expect.

To put it simply: I've been to quite a few churches that were direct examples of the overload culture that PG is writing about. Some of them were evangelical, most of them had congregations whose political beliefs are in no way uniform. And again, evangelical is in no way a synonym for right-wing. PG is overreaching here. But, it was a footnote, so I've already gone on more than is justified.
I don't think religious people consider atheists smug. If nothing else they think they are going to hell. The thing is that many people come out and say "I'm a vegetarian" as if it were the second coming of Jesus. Honestly who gives a crap whether you are a vegetarian or not. No need to announce it to the world.
Yup... (not that there aren't plenty of smug people to go around....)

I quit drinking for quite a long time - and in some situations it was impossible for me NOT to be rude. I very politely said "Nope, just a diet coke thanks!" when first asked for a drink.... then they'd keep pushing and pushing...... I'd drop a polite "Sorry man, I don't drink...".... no smug at all.
It's after that that I might pull some attitude, when you just can't leave it alone and won't respect me enough and KEEP ASKING ME TO DRINK. If you're not a friend, and not a colleague, then i'll just ignore you likely. If you are a friend or colleague, you are showing a distinct and inappropriate lack of respect for my decision not to drink.
Now - if you are already wasted, I'll grant you a grain of salt or two... I want you to have fun (I'm having fun) - but if you KEEP pushing me, I'm going to KEEP flatly refusing, and at some point, when I'm not having fun anymore, I'm going to leave - and I refuse to be the bad guy in that situation.
Awesome, I had this same idea recently. I wanted to call it Cannabisseur and have the logo be a smug cartoony guy like the reviewer in Ratatouille, but smoking a joint or something.

I just didn't know enough about cannabis to really follow thru with it. Plus I came across http://nugporn.com/ and figured there were other strain reviewing sites like it.
Teams of Physicists Closing in on the ‘God Particle’
It complains in Safari 5 and the WebKit nightly build that I need a better browser.
You have this theory that marijuana (lets be consistent and say alcohol too) cause cocaine use.

You take the fact that cocaine users have almost invariably first used such substances as evidence supporting your theory, without recognising that this pattern is what we would expect to observe in any event. The idea of a cocaine user who has never touched alcohol is a bizarre one.

(By the way, why the focus on marijuana? Can you formulate a version of your argument that doesn't apply just as well to alcohol? I'll grant you that cigarettes have only a mild effect, but the effects of alcohol and cannabis are broadly similar; if anything, alcohol has a stronger effect.)
I feel your pain, I'm 6'4".

A tip for flying Southwest (who doesn't assign seats): Don't be scared to hop into one of the exit row seats, they are fair game like all other seats. I notice that a lot of people will walk right by them (who are traveling alone and could obviously use the extra leg room) just because there is a flight attendant standing in the row. Just ask if you can slide in, they are just standing there to get out of the way waiting for the rows to fill up so they can give the exit-row speech.
Try the beta version of Skype (windows only), it does multi video chat.

http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/w...

iChat, if on Macs works well for multi and Desktop sharing. iChat can connect using gmail accounts.
tab candy is a bit too much work.

sticking with tabgroups manager. it's a firefox addon which does the same thing but better. groups aren't hidden, they are tabs on a bar above the normal tab bar.

you can auto name group tabs after selected tabs title by double clicking it. you can switch groups in 1 click by selecting the group tab.

tab candy should go in that direction
Concentrate of fostering positive outcomes instead of fighting the negative ones. What do you want to accomplish?

Say, you want to write a new mobile app. Your desire itself will consist of rational analysis and emotional drive, the former being required to make it a sound business and the latter required to plow through to the finish line. Before you start, ask yourself - how much will this project take? one month? Let's make it three months - a good estimate for overruns. Do you have enough drive to plow through it without distraction? If the answer is a resounding, enthusiastic form-the-top-of-your-lungs yes, go right ahead - you will not be distracted because the shining beacon of the goal will pull you in the right direction.

If the answer came up short of "super yes", you need to plan a set of activities that will replenish your enthusiasm. Early user feedback works best for me (and if you can't get it your business itself is iffy). Peer encouragement is second best, if you can get it(that's a good reason to apply to YC). Quality business metrics themselves are motivating in an addictive way, just make sure to get addicted to the right metrics. Lastly, try something that your family and non-techie friend can relate to. If you keep telling everyone in your social circle what you do and they keep staring blank in return it will get to you one day, underminign your motivation. Plan ahead and don't let that happen.

And finally, remember back to what motivated you in the past and do more of that. When you sit right now in front of the computer reading this post you might not remember much right away, but as you spend more time thinking about "what really gets me going" in the coming days, things will start coming to the surface. Write them down as they do.
Why not just give in to information addiction? Unlike many other addictions, there's the possibility that the knowledge gained from it could lead to beneficial outcomes. As the book "Ambient Findability" says: what we find changes who we become.
funny, when I came to San Francisco for Google I/O, the inspector didn't even care about the conferences, meetups that I will attend or my background (ongoing MSc), all he is interested in was whether am I planning to reunion with my girlfriend in States, why I buy a one way ticket, how much cash I have on me. One hint by the way, the inspector seems to be impressed by the book I was reading that time "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Reddit costs $33k/month to operate?
I'm moving to Kunming in Jan 2010-- will be contracting for my former employer but also working on startup projects, and hoping to employ some local university grads to do some grunt work...
New COLOURlovers Channel for Entrepreneurs
My nexus used to be one. Then I installed aldiko and started reading books all the time instead. I'm much happier now.
I'm sure that's a part of it, but a bigger reason is probably just that the US has a very large number of manufacturers and most of them are too small to afford the robots this survey is discussing.

I've known many small job shops turning out thousands of parts a day with (automated, but not robotic) WW II surplus equipment; in some cases with the stenciled words "Property of War Department" still visible on the cabinet! Machine tools have lifetimes measured in human generations. There are also many small manufacturers that do everything by hand -- remember that most US small businesses are run part time -- a quick look at my bookmarks shows URLs of a few tiny businesses making just a few thousand units of their product a year.
yeh I was quite surprised that safari failed the test to play audio, usually when stuff works in chrome its ok in safari, I assume its some silly mistake on my end but as far as I can tell, safari doesnt support ogg audio at least.