skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm torn. You can't copyright names and such, those are trademarks. And while he has tried to defend his mark publicly, and could possibly register it retroactively (in the US, don't know about overseas), his defense hasn't been very energetic. The book he mentions is a self-published one and the sad fact is that the language has gotten little traction since first announcement in 2003.

So on the one hand, I feel that one can't possibly satisfy everyone, and if you're going to snag a desirable name like 'Go' for your product, it's up to you to think ahead about how to preserve your rights of ownership. For example 'Go' could be a great name for a brand of shoes or a bicycle, but if you don't launch an actual product people can buy and associate the name with it, then you can't complain too much when Nike or someone tries the same thing later. Go author Frank McCabe's own homepage [1] doesn't exactly ddraw attention to the project. On the other hand, Google has IMHO been a bit heavy-handed in defending their own mark, as when they picked a fight with 'Groggle' an Australian startup which aimed to help users find retailers of particular alcoholic drinks (grog being a synonym for booze down under), though both the site and dispute seem to be on the back burner right now.

1. http://homepage.mac.com/frankmccabe/Menu2.html

A nicer and inexpensive solution (in case anyone@google is reading) would be a link on the Go! homepage saying 'If you're looking for the Go logic programming language by McCabe and Clark, click here.' To be honest, I think the unfortunate naming overlap has generated more attention for the Go language than it would ever have acquired on its own.
That's entirely an artifact of the fact that there are more grad students than are {necessary/sustainable/(interesting problems)}. it certainly wasn't the case 50 years ago, or hell, even 30 years ago. The notion of a "postdoc" would have been rediculous during the graduate studentship of most of the luminaries of 20th century science, and is entirely an a result of inflated spending in the sciences and a funding structure that channels money to a small number people who can rack up (mostly by luck) impressive CVs. Did max planck do a postdoc? How about Crick? Watson? Curie?
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That's close to the current version, but a little out of date.
Here's the code running now:

(= gravity* 1.8 timebase* 120 front-threshold* 1
nourl-factor* .4 lightweight-factor* .17 gag-factor* .1)

(def frontpage-rank (s (o scorefn realscore) (o gravity gravity*))
(* (/ (let base (- (scorefn s) 1)
(if (> base 0) (expt base .8) base))
(expt (/ (+ (item-age s) timebase*) 60) gravity))
(if (no (in s!type 'story 'poll)) .8
(blank s!url) nourl-factor*
(mem 'bury s!keys) .001
(* (contro-factor s)
(if (mem 'gag s!keys)
gag-factor*
(lightweight s)
lightweight-factor*
1)))))
nice..it's here:

http://tv.airbnb.com/

I'm sure they will iron out where to put this and the navigation points, etc.

1) Trust Factor..instantly elevated. People who might ask, "now why would I do that?" "who will use this?" - they can put those questions to "bed" by seeing a real person and watching real stories.

2) Huge branding win overall. Fun. Connected. Social.

3) Support - squashed tons of typical support questions with their very simple, clean short, videos.

4) Recruiting - Office Life. Any questions? Looks pretty cool.

They should take these video assets, syndicate them and make sure they go everywhere the eye can see. And track it all. Conversions to booking and what happens to the support queue, after publishing.
I do this in Ontario too, someone saved my life by doing this as I was entering the fog from around a corner and didn't have time to adjust my speed.
As far as I know, that language has always been called Go! (your referenced wikipedia page doesn't state otherwise, although the wikipedia page for Go! didn't even exist before Google annouced its Go language).
Don't believe so. Nor can you mount the media drive (as with Android). As a Linux user, this'll keep me far away from Win7 phones (as it did with iphones)
dat soundtrack :E

Such a good idea!
Review sleepyti.me bedtime calculator (my weekend project)
When I saw that I didn't see it as cold, but as cool. You can't expect to block anyone from using a name they like just because you would like to use it for your hobby project. While I understand the Go! language designer having a go at it, the issue was soon reduced to whiners whining about a complete non-issue. Had Google tried to block the Go! designer from continuing to use his name, they would have been evil, but as things are, they are not evil at all.
It would've been interesting if they had renamed the language, "Issue 9".

I think Google missed an opportunity to gain a little developer goodwill here, but I don't think it will hurt them in the long run. (Assuming Go ever becomes a popular language)
Django OR cgi+flup+sqlalchemy

Idle and Visual Studio for editing
This is awesome - thanks for creating and sharing.
This is the same as any large company giving equity but requiring a vesting period. The reason you give equity vs. cash is to create an incentive for an employee to want their company to succeed. If the large transfer fees are in place to limit shareholders so they can stay under the 500 mark then it's a bit shady. If your shares are vested per the agreement you signed, it should be your right to sell when you want to without a substantial fee.
"Issue 9" would be an improvement.
I quite liked the comment suggesting Google rename their language to the eligibly employable moniker "i9".
I have no experience with and have heard nothing regarding using FreshBooks for recurring billing. It is my understanding, however, the FreshBooks primary focus is handling invoicing (physical and digital). This would lead me to believe that additional feature sets, such as recurring billing, would be, by default, prioritized lower for the company and therefore have a lower level of future support/expansion. Mind you this is all guess-work, but unless you're already using FreshBooks and/or interested in their invoicing solutions, they don't provide much of a draw from Braintree for recurring billing purposes in my mind.
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The thing I like about HN's ranking algorithm is how simple it is. Implementing something more sophisticated would require more work and probably much better servers.

Recently, I have been implementing a ranking algorithm and I started in the wrong direction by taking all kinds of things into consideration. This is dangerous because you spend a lot of time on something that is mostly irrelevant.

The bottom line is that HN's algorithm works pretty well for the majority of cases. There are some edges, but solving them would not be trivial and would require a lot more work.
Response to New York Times HTML5 Privacy FUD
Any kind of speaking voices that can keep my attention without being too exciting. A movie I've seen before, a documentary, or an audio book/podcast. Google Tech Talks and Charlie Rose tend to be pretty great for me.

The key is to occupy my mind with something external so my body can seize the opportunity to fall asleep.
7 Body Signals Guys Show When They Show Interest in a Woman
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I'm using a local company for low latency, but it also happenes to have great prices: www.intovps.com

Been with them for a year now... not perfect, but very good.
Really? Almost half your revenue is $99 off 35 customers? You charge your customers marginally more than $2.80 a month?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here with the pricing, but this sounds more like you're getting hurt because you're trying to take micro payments which typically isn't a solved problem (yet).
It's simple and beautiful, but I'm just not sure how much value it has as a web app. Pretty much, the only real information you're giving to the user is:

* Sleep cycles typically last 90 minutes

* The average adult human takes fourteen minutes to fall asleep

Unless you add some personalization, user-specific memory, or some other value, it's not gonna be more useful than just a blog post containing the above two facts.
As a result of how Chargify handled their price and policy changes (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1780348) we are no longer considering them as a viable option. Regardless of whether they're cheaper, have better features, etc., the fact that they would make this change without any real warning to their existing customers is beyond sketchy. I'm pretty much amazed that they did this without at least emailing their existing customers a few weeks in advance to prepare and warn them before making the public and official switch. If they are the type of company that would do this, what else would they do? Not worth the risk in my opinion.
They could've showed courtesy and it's a stupid name anyway.

And you don't need to hear about it, that's what search engines are for.
Just my 2c of course, IMHO, but a major reason you are getting so much grief is because of how difficult you have made it for people who cant now afford your services at the scale they once did, and how difficult it is for people to move from your service.

>>There will always be a "cheap" or cheaper competitor out there but we are not that one.

Well not now you are not. You hold all of their customers details, moving from chargify to something more affordable is a nigh on impossible task. I'd expect that there are more than a few startups who will just shut up shop who just dont have the resource to enter into a process of getting all of the users to re-sign up with alternative providers. Thats pretty sad dont you think?
Canvas rider, an innovative HTML5 game
> I hardly think this qualifies as stomping on his work.

He created a programming language called Go, worked on it for 10 years, published papers and books on the subject, a team from Google creates a programming language, calls it Go, and essentially tells him to go fuck himself when he points it out.

I do think it qualifies.

> Not to mention that a lot of people would have never heard of his language if Google didn't come out with their own Go.

Oh then I guess that makes it ok. Thanks everybody, ethics are irrelevant, please move along the show is over.

In any case, it's now pretty certain nobody will ever hear of his language ever again.
He read his parents books!
They had been licensed for the original purchasers use only - it's this sort of piracy that funds drug dealing and terrorism
Respect your desire and need to price accordingly. I also believe you need to respect the need for current clients that had certain expectations (a bootstrappable billing service that starts at $0).

If you are not going to grandfather the old prices, at lease give a long transition period. I would suggest six months given that this is a service that requires integration and customer interaction.
But you're not locked in like people who already have had users sign up and give Chargify their credit card info, so it's much less of a big deal for you.
For those who aren't well versed in Arc or Lisp, could someone go through the differences?
Yeah, this is what my girlfriend did, and it knocked about 40% off the new price, while still being only a couple years old and very low mileage.

I'll probably need to replace the brake pads myself after the warranty runs out, but for another few years, maintenance is supposedly comped.
A visually attractive site and sounds like a great plugin!

But quickly looking through the site...who are you? DNS records show private whois...GoDaddy's Domain By Proxy service. I'm logging in by giving my Gmail or GoogleApp credentials but is this through OpenID? Is there a terms of service before I do this? If you were a known entity I'm sure I would be quite a bit more forgiving.

Also, I saw a previous comment here by Tim about no visible pricing info by Tim...why should I have to login just to see what is required for an upgrade?

I'm interested but too many reasons for hesitation has me clicking away...
That's not an assumption stated or implied at all. I'm saying that motivation and metrics are different. The gov't needs to provide the same, if not more DD than the private sector (since return is harder to measure).
Google's response to this makes me want to create a pornography search engine called "Go Ogle!" and respond to the inevitable cease-and-desist letters with "the naming similarity is unfortunate, but I don't expect it will cause more than minimal confusion".
Why don't you try your idea on this idea itself? I mean use Mechanical Turk to get feedback on it. The main utility of your idea is to see if the feedback is any good. So, just do it manually first before building an application. Submit this idea and a few others (look at the many recent threads here about ideas).
Deleted Facebook photos persist in CDN cache 16 months later
broad topic/community. Vandalized might have been too strong a word. Just mean that the broader the topic and community, the more likely it is to attract spam, ridiculous posts, etc. and for your case, ridiculous voting.

I wouldn't say that HN is necessarily all that narrow of a topic (it is somewhat open, even though it is primarily tech entrepreneurs), but the community is more narrow.
Show HN: My side project: Heroku like deployment system for Node.js 
Last Saturday, Oct 2nd, I wanted to learn Node.js but I was a bit annoyed with copying the files repeatedly to my VPS. So, I got sidetracked into building a deployment platform for Node.js. Yes, I know about Heroku Node and Joyent Node, but I don't have the invitation code.

Fast forward to yesterday. I finished implementing the deployment platform for Node.js on top of Google App Engine (the web front-end) and Amazon EC2 (the back-end). Like Heroku, it has a git-based workflow.

The web site address is https://worqshop.appspot.com/

I've written a quick start guide on the web site. If you want to give it a try, just sign in with a Google account. Let me know if you encounter any problems.

Any feedback is much appreciated.

Donny
@donny_k_
Combine that with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranayama
Is anyone using any of those in production and can comment?
I strongly recommend leaning back, with the legs propped up. I don't even know what back pain is anymore, and I only realize how comfortable it is when I sit at someone else's desk.
Hitting IBM with a patent lawsuit is like hitting Mike Tyson with a boxing glove.
- Go! does not have its own web site, and is only available for download from a very old binary on the author's mac.com hosting account.

- Go! didn't have a wikipedia page until it was hastily created after Go was launched.
Hello lawsuit from Intel.
Try TED Talks (http://www.ted.com) and Mixergy interviews (http://www.mixergy.com) too!
Yeah, she bought it 2 years used, for about 60% of it's original sticker price. They may not last longer than their cheaper counterparts, but while they last, they're extremely different. It's not a great value except in the fun/$ category, in which case I would say a used one blows most cars out of the water. Driving time/$, not so much.
A friend just sent me this link for an EXACT copy of twitter.com for less than $500 USD.

Those sites set up unrealistic expectations for services from a professional that needs years of knowledge to ply their trade. I call them the project lottery some times someone gets lucky and gets a good developer who is just starting out. The rest pay for it in failed projects that no developer will touch without an agreement to abandon any code already written.

If twitter could be written for $500, the world would most certainly be a different place. Alas it is true, there is a sucker born every minute.
That depends on the car. A low end Acura or BMW will only lose around 40% over the first 3 years and IMO knowing that you don't need to worry about repairs for 4 years is worth a fair amount by it's self.
From the people who brought you Plan 9.
What is an Entrepreneur? A Video Contest
Even if he does ask for permission, the whole cult-of-some-guy-who-sprays-crap-on-other-people's-property is only serving to encourage other vandals who consider themselves "artists".

If he gets permission before each and every one of his "artworks" then he should come out and be explicit about it so that copycats don't get inspired. And if he doesn't, he should be thrown in prison, and the various city governments and other property owners who have been "blessed" by his work should subpoena (or whatever) the Simpsons producers in order to find out who exactly this asshole is.

edit: I wonder how many of the people who defend this guy are not property-owners themselves.
This reminded me to actually use AirBNB for my New York stay. Hopefully someone agrees to host me before my hostel cancellation policy runs out of a deadline, I'd much rather sleep on a couch than in a dorm.
That's why 301works exists (http://www.archive.org/details/301works). Granted, even if one of the URL shortener part of this group goes down, it would be a pain to get all the sort links replaced, but this would be possible.
typo.. on the domain to the site itself no less.

no thanks.
Yah, the original game is all in pure javascript written to the canvas. I have been poking around with making canvas apps and a few weeks ago I grabbed the source and spent a few hours reading through all of it. Good stuff. If the author wasn't in Poland (corporate doesn't have an office there) I would try to hire him.
Why SaaS Vendors and Buyers Need to Care About APIs
Wow... 5 commercials, just to watch that clip. :-(
Yup - spell check - www.androidlicener.com ;)

Try http://www.androidlicenser.com
How did you know how many flags it had?
So do you think partnering with a programmer to bring the ideas to life would be a better avenue?

I understand what you pay for is what you get as I have outsourced Webapps before.

The idea is to get something out there, learn the process, how to market it, ect. Take what I've learned and apply it to another one, reinvesting profits as I go a long.
To be more specific about what exactly the Axiom of Choice is:

If you have a finite number of sets, you don't need the Axiom of Choice. You can enumerate them and pick out of each.

If you have a rule to choose items, like picking the smallest element in a set of natural numbers, you don't need the Axiom of Choice. There is no choice to be made, you just follow the rule.

The problems come out when you have an infinite number of sets and you pick items arbitrarily. This is what the Axiom of Choice allows you to do. Infinity is dangerous.
"one can't patent... an idea per se"

Actually, this is precisely what patents are for. You don't need to implement an invention in order to obtain a patent, you just need to describe it in sufficient detail "as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use [the invention]" [1]

[1] http://www.bitlaw.com/source/35usc/index.html
- Go! didn't have a wikipedia page until it was hastily created after Go was launched.

Tarsnap doesn't have a wikipedia page either, but I'd be rather irritated if someone else created an online backup service and called it "tarsnap".

The existence of a wikipedia page is a very poor way of adjudicating notability.
And it will still probably be on google image search, and then the wayback machine. In short: You can't close the door after the horse has bolted: If any digital content gets published there is very little you can do to take it away.

That said, they must be wasting a huge amount of CDN storage on these old photos!
Never heard of them, I thought they had a service to create gif images of letters. Char-GIF-y.
"When you’re given a reading assignment, for example, you can estimate, within 10 – 20 minutes, how long it will take you to complete."

As long as it's not a scientific paper...
Well, I'll agree that the metrics are not the same as motivation, but you're putting emphasis on the metrics than the motivation. The argument that the government categorically needs inject more spending provide more than the private sector is totally insane. What if we've maximized the social capacity to wisely invest? Then the only thing left is for the money to chase after stupid things. Like, mindlessly repaving roads that don't need it (versus paving roads which do, which I will argue is a legit gov't function), or putting money into stocks that are sitting on a pedestal of vapor, paying for high schools to have olympic-class swimming pools and immense bureaucratic pyramids, or performing R&D in reach-for-the-stars science that doesn't have an adequate underlying foundation, or unsustainable real estate schemes....
In other words, if we've maximized the possible social output given the societal state, then maybe the right thing to do is to be SAVING for a rainy day. Which, it seems is what main street has been inclined to do despite immense government pressure to do otherwise.
At UsabilityHub we (fortunately) circumvented their "free" user count by never sending them to Chargify in the first place. If we did, we'd be now getting billed $1000 a month. We did this because when we switch to chargify a couple of months ago we had over 8000 users and didn't want to migrate them all to Chargify.

We'd be shutting up shop right now if we had.

I'm doubly lucky as I was about to start migrating users to do "one off" billing using Chargify. Given that every one of those would now count towards our monthly fee we'll be using a different service for "one off" purchases.
Hi Alberto, it is very very cool. would like to try out soon when I am launching my app contest site AppsToWin http://appstowin.com
General sleeping advice works. I find it's impossible to keep feeling like this once I turn off _all_ the lights in the house, including computers. Reading by candlelight (real ones... or just really weak yellow light) works. Don't get into bed until you're tired.

For everyday use, fLux is awsome.
Worse still: J, K, R, Io, T. At least with Python and Ruby, you can google for "python programming" or "ruby programming".

Also, some forums don't allow you to search for single-letter names.
I don't know, it seems to much like assuming the mantle of Plan 9, and that... has some negative connotations.
Then why do a bunch of the road work construction projects around San Francisco have big (an likely expensive) signs saying they were paid for by a federal stimulus program?
The only problem with that is that people would primarily find, or not, "go ogle" through ... google.
Anyone had any good experiences with those saddle and/or kneeling chairs? I find it odd that I get less backpain riding a motorcycle all day than sitting at a desk ...
it appears you're writing from the future as well

http://i.imgur.com/XpZWI.png
Both will be irrelevant soon enough anyway.
I've wondered if there aren't some hands-on efforts (as in, non-automated) to keep particular stories on the front page.
Kashmir:Crackdown on Facebook users, 4 arrested
I did enter this into Mechanical Turk as well. Was hoping to also get feedback from the users here since most seem more experienced in this area.
If I were to send you my resume (sans test scores), do you think you could guess whether I got a 1570 or a 1600? Or is it something you can only tell from personal interaction?