skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you REALLY think everyone who buys .ly domains is prepared to go to Libyan court (including bit.ly?)

No, but that you don't go to court in general is taken to mean that either you don't care enough about the issue, that you consider your chances weak or that you feel that you can spend your time better, or any combination of that.

You could go to court, challenge their decision and maybe it would go your way. I personally don't believe it is worth the effort, if you have other ways of resurrecting your website then I would concentrate on that instead.

I've gone to court abroad several times and have won in each of those cases, I cared enough that I thought a lawsuit was warranted and even though it cost me plenty I think it was well worth it. I figured my chances were good, and that of course factored in there as well.

Going to court on principle is an expensive hobby.

> It's also interesting that you assume I'm American, as you've made several references to that in my post.

I tried to stay away from that and tried to use 'western' as a stand in, so if I slipped up then my apologies, HN is quite US centric and at times it feels like the people from other countries here are a serious minority. Especially around US election time.

And you do live in San Francisco, so for now at least you seem to be part of the US more than of the UK, so maybe that would not have been such a bad assumption after all ;)

> The point is that I don't think Islam or Libya for that matter is some crooked society where the rules of law are malleable as you make out. Perhaps on that last point I am wrong.

I think their laws are not 'malleable' per se, I think that expecting a Western attitude towards the law in non-Western countries is simply not the right thing to do.

We are very 'straight lined', we believe in logic in all its glory and we like things to be clear. Non-Western societies are much more arranged around customs and the things that are 'not said'. For them to spell out that this is not permitted is possibly already maneuvering them in to a corner where they'd rather not be.
Congratulations are in order, he sacrificed 400ms CPU time to save at least a few minutes of coding time.
Awesome, I had no idea Dayta and Instapaper were the same developer.
Check out my app: http://thewikigame.com that is of a "similar" type. The "Hitler Wikipedia Game" is a "game type" that is a favorite of a lot of people. Another instance of that type is "N clicks to Hitler / N clicks to Jesus", etc.
I'm probably being stupid but I don't understand what 'works approximately 40% of the time' means in this respect.

1 and 5 are obviously not random, and 3 is suspiciously well-centered.
just watched the CMU lecture by the PHD guy yesterday. Pretty inspiring.
Lady Gaga -> Electropop -> Adolf Hitler
Imagine: Google Features Its First Video Doodle In Honor Of John Lennon’s 70th
solutions in python http://gist.github.com/617686

about 30 lines of code in the tersest style, 40ish in the readability-obsesssive style I prefer
I love appshopper b/c iTunes is blocked at work so I can't check my app rankings without it =)

I'd love to see rankings for other countries besides the US.
What the author seems to be missing is that Google created Android to prevent Apple controlling the mobile space and locking them out. Fragmentation may not be the goal but its inevitable however google doesn't care. Google makes just as much money from iphones and ipads as it does from fragmented android phones. The goal is to ensure Apple doesn't have ultimate control of the mobile space because then they would just cut google out.
Launching an app, for whatever the reason, is an accomplishment in itself.

Absolutely. I was going by the present scene where a lot of folks seem to be able to launch something but struggle to get customers. Launch something has been hammered real well past few years. IMO upping the bar a little can help.

And yes, like Steve Blank says, if you think you got the next FB or Google, ignore every rule about making rev.
I pledge to launch a web app allowing mobile access to library accounts. Libraries will be able to create branded portals for their patrons. I will focus my attention first on an open source integrated library system such as Koha or Evergreen (primarily so there is no conflict of interest with my current place of employment).

How I'll do this while juggling work, school, another startup, and a girlfriend I do not know.
Combat code "pathetically simplistic" in this view?

Nah, it looks well-planned.
Of course this also applies to paid products too. One I just saw five minutes ago was Apple's .Mac homepage web hosting.
I live in Norway, so the phone bill is a significant factor. Also, the wife and kids are sleeping in the next room, which would require me to step outside on the porch in the middle of the night with my cellphone.

Yet also, I'm so tired I couldn't have englished very well in my phone anyway. :-)
The new 'shades of gray' YinYang
Work from anywhere. Just need a small design project done:

Email me at david {AT} emptyspaceads {DOT} com

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JOB SUMMARY
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We need the HTML/CSS for 4 wireframes we’ve completed, and you to update the CSS for an existing page we have. We already have a logo.

To make this easier for you, we already have the CSS/HTML (for the Account page with all the form elements you’d need, already) from a previous project. You are welcome to use as a base for the project. You will definitely need to adjust the font and color; but this should make it a lot easier for your to get the project done.

Notes: If you feel as though you need to move elements around to make a better user experience or make an easier, please feel free, we want to give you creative freedoms.

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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
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* HTML/CSS for the 4 wireframes we’ve created
* No programming REQUIRED

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JOB REQUIREMENTS
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* You create 4 pages of HTML/CSS for the 4 wireframes we created
* You will update the 1 page of HTML/CSS that we have provided to match the colors/styles you use.
* You must use HTML 4.01 Strict Doctype Blueprint CSS framework . (version 1.0)
* HTML Text Buttons (No Image Buttons Allowed)
* CSS must validate according to W3C Validator
* Browser Compatible: IE (7, 8, 9), Firefox (3.0, 3.5, 3.6, 4.0), Chrome, Safari. You should test to ensure compatibility. We will test ourselves as well to check your work.
* Deliverables are due in 7 days from us accepting you

About You:
* Excellent written English (spelling/grammar/etc)
* Available via IM (either Skype, Yahoo, Google Chat, Yahoo, MSN, etc)
I have my NoScript set to allow %site.com and *.%site.com by default. It leaves most sites usable, but blocks most of the bs. I only have to white list somethinsomethingCDN.com rarely. (less than five sites) That and googleapis, jquery, not much else. Read the docs and adjust the settings accordingly.
Techies using Google Chrome perhaps? (not me!)
Report: Microsoft to close in-game advertising company Massive
AirBNB has options for renting for the month: when you look at some of the listings, you'll see the daily rate, then a weekly rate, then a monthly rate.
Microsoft licenses Palm tech from patent troll Acacia
Maybe you don't want them knowing your phone number to call you back with job calls or whatever. (Of course, there are ways around that too.)
Drupal+Ubercart has to be the slickest open source cart.

I have used magento as well and there is just no comparison.

http://www.911insidejobshirt.com

was a one night project long before I considered myself an expert in Drupal. Same project would only take a couple hours max now.
I'll bite: why would one want a PHP QR Code decoder?
If you're switching to an HSA and anticipate good health in the near term, you could benefit from switching early and saving the unused portion of Microsoft's contribution to the HSA in your account, or otherwise contributing and allowing it to appreciate as savings.

So yes, it could be helpful information for future planning.
Nothing went according to plan...

Sounds like a typical startup plan to me!
That's unfortunate, because I assumed it was something nano-related, which sounded much more exciting than... uhh, rubber iPhone covers or whatever this is.
Digg's Newest Corporate Sponsor: BP America
When a field is new, its pioneers can be identified easily: they are the ones who are making the field up as they go along. Thus, there is no need for status signaling, because the merit of each individual is very clear: the "alphas" are the Newtons and Shakespeares, having to invent entirely new notations and words just to explain the things they're working on. This is how programming was for the previous generation.

When a field matures, and it becomes harder to make true advances on one's own, we lose our ability to easily evaluate objective merit--so we replace objective merit cues with subjective status cues. The "alphas" of a mature field are the ones who signal more, showing that they can afford to waste effort on useless plumage (little-used FOSS project contributions.)

Of course, once we have adapted to existence in a mature field, we begin to recognize an overabundance of status cues as "trying too hard," and recognize that those who have true merit might not be bothering with status cues at all: thus is born countersignaling, of the kind these "unsung amazing pogrammers" perform.
Are you Subzero, per the Reddit AMA?
MySpace Unveils New Logo
Fall for what? The temptation to express ideas using common memes? Good luck finding any publication where no writer ever gets lazy and uses cliched forms of expression. (Also, if you're looking for really engineer-friendly technical writing, Wired is probably not the place to turn.)
I'm guessing people didn't like your first comment because it was trivial to disprove due to your word choice. If you say that something "can't" be done, you're usually wrong. Statements of probability usually work better, which was the case for your second, more successful comment.
1. Brighter Colors!

2. The first level is too hard to hook casual players. You want their first experience to be brain-dead obvious -- hopefully to the point of eliminating the need for instructions.

Maybe (@=you, 0=rock, X=goal, viva nethack):

......
.@.0..
....X.
......
Digg is Dead - R.I.P.
Will def. be doing this... can someone hold us to it?
Over the past few months, the Tech world has been imploding over Android’s openness.

No wonder this office is staring to feel kind of cramped.
When you're taxed heavily by the government for having 'premium coverage', it kind of gives you the incentive to make the coverage crappier.
I didn't vote you down, but personally, I think it's worse design to invent your own style over using the platform's widgets.

Whether you like them or not, UI is about familiarity.
J.D. Salinger did those exact interviews.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/13/specials/salinger-spea...
Skills - a site, where you split up and clearly define your skills, offering them to the public for sale or trade, if order for people to find what ever skills they need in the vicinity.

max. three skills registered pr. person. Professionals need to register as such, but log in on equal terms with every one else.

Everyone is judged by those helped, on their assistance, from a decimal valuesystem. Friends inside the system can recommend skilled people.

Suggestet intro: SKILL - a skill can be anything, you do very, very well. You don't have to be a chef with a restaurant in order to be a good cook, but quite possibly you don't know as much about hygiene as the professional chef, and should restrict your skill to specifics. Like "Couisine of XX country". Or "The best kitchen utensils at any given price".

"Will aid for
- cash contribution to me, a charity, my church etc.
- DVDs, LPs, Comics, whatever collectable"
- assistance with my car (a xx model yy 19zz)
- food in the fridge
- minimum wage for max. xx days
- a homecooked meal
- a friendly/intelligent chat
- and so on

If you use it, credit me, or mail me krabat a menneske dot dk with willingness to jam more on topic.
If it already exists, please let me know.
Japan: Vending machines with facial recognition, offers drink recommendations
I'm in. Let's build some structure on how we'll report and share information as well. Honestly, I don't have anything in mind at the moment, but I'm open to grabbing a simple idea off of someone else.
Lets' move it to december
Give us edit access!
Bank of America Halts Foreclosure Sales
Alan Kay asks "Significant new inventions in computing since 1980"?
Sure. But what I'm saying is that finding the pathogen is not finding the 'cause', it's more like a symptom. I would have preferred if the article and headline took that attitude. That's all.
Try looking at Timecube again. Seriously.

Unstyled HTML is nothing like that mess.
If you're making your living expenses off it, why not just buy an iPhone that exhibits the behavior?
http://www.random.org/
Will the city's licensing laws catch up with new food business models in time?
The Meal Game
Monet never feels cliche, even all these years later. Sorkin starts to after a few episodes.
Network Security: 5 Key Questions a True Solution Should Address
Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience
It's been four months of hacking and now I am ready to show the world Portrit.
Portrit brings you your Facebook friends in visual experience.
Portrit is all about your friends photos and making the Facebook experience cleaner, quicker, and more fun.

Create a account at http://portrit.com/create_account/ Use the key HN. Limited supply!

I started working on Portrit because Facebook's photo service is junk and I wanted something better.
Originally this was a personal side project but it has grown into my first startup!
This is just a limited preview launch with official public beta coming soon.

If you don't have a Facebook account or just don't trust me with you data :), check out this blog post showing all the functionality of Portrit. http://blog.portrit.com/what-is-portrit
Most services have no switching cost, so it doesn't really matter. Gmail is pretty much the only Google service I can think of that would be a pain, and they'd keep Gmail even if it were losing money for a large host of reasons.

Oh, also Google Voice. When they bought that they changed my number on me and I basically stopped using it as a result.
Suggestion, repost as a post with a link, then add your blurb of text in the first comment.
Ping starting to get weird just recently (not sure when, but very recent), before this it was ranged between 160ms and 260ms. Download speed stay the at ~3Mbps as before, though. (Both from Speedtest.net and from SCP to my Linode.)
"Shared-use kitchens are a relatively new concept, designed to meet the needs of a food scene increasingly geared toward locally sourced products and small-batch production. Access to a commercial kitchen is a significant barrier to entry for a food business. Commercial kitchens are big, complicated, and expensive to run—monthly overhead for Logan Square Kitchen, with utilities, pest control, waste pickup, janitorial services, insurance, etc, is about $10,000. Shared-use kitchens allow small-food artisans and other entrepreneurs to ramp up legally with a minimum of risk. Also known as contract kitchens, they're fully equipped and licensed spaces available for rent on an hourly basis to caterers, bakers, confectioners, and others who either can't afford their own kitchen or simply don't need a full-time workspace."
This is Cute and Dangerous Frog
This frog looks so cute, but ... eats anything it can kill.
Yes, but the extra mass could shorten the process...
oh nice, a friend told me about it and I bought it right away, great app sr!
I built some fairly clumsy code to fix this on one of the blogs I run. It loaded the buttons in the footer of the page (so you can be reading the article before all the nonsense has loaded) then moves them to the correct places (the foot of the article) once ready. By the time you came to retweet or what have you, it was loaded.

It's not that dignified, but did what I needed it to do.
fox news channel -> adolf hitler
Your ISP and the Government Best Friends Forever[video]
Oh my god, Haskell is so pretty. This is the first time I've used it to solve math problems. Is it kosher to share solutions?
Too easy to solve by brute force. I'd suggest looking at Project Euler for inspiration.
One of my badges is "Fisher Price First Tweet," but I have no idea what it means and unlike the others it doesn't link anywhere. What is it?

Also, I laughed that one of my favorite topics is #fuckisuck. :(
Thanks a bunch, will do.
Why not sell the iPhone game to someone and just pocket a little cash from selling the rights to it?
Good luck! the screenshots look nice!
Tell that a couple years from now...
Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN
I think you should give people an option to get the full version of the application in return for viral actions.

Some people prefer not to pay but would rave about your app to 10 people (e.g. like dropbox, where both sides get some space for free in case of a referral). You could give 2 months free for every person that somebody gets to join (to both the referrer and the new user).

I think otherwise you may be crippling your own growth. Also, I'm sure you can find other premium needs that people would pay for and that don't detract from the experience for the non-paying user.

Lemme know if you want to chat. I like the app a lot and would love to see it get into as many hands as possible :)
I'll just +1 this. I spent several years at a major app developer (ya, there were third party apps before the iPhone!) and my experience matches up exactly.
I saw you've got a good amount of advertisers on the site already (as well as the cabin). Is it because the cost of hosting & S3 that makes it still not profitable?
It's been four months of hacking and now I am ready to show the world Portrit. Portrit brings you your Facebook friends in visual experience. Portrit is all about your friends photos and making the Facebook experience cleaner, quicker, and more fun.
Create a account at http://portrit.com/create_account/ Use the key HN. Limited supply!

I started working on Portrit because Facebook's photo service is junk and I wanted something better. Originally this was a personal side project but it has grown into my first startup! This is just a limited preview launch with official public beta coming soon.

If you don't have a Facebook account or just don't trust me with you data :), check out this blog post showing all the functionality of Portrit. http://blog.portrit.com/what-is-portrit

*edit - I just upgrade everyone who made an account to Social. This key was supposed to give everyone this upgrade when you made an account...My Bad. The Social account lets you comment and like post as well as select favorite friends or hide friends.
I highly doubt its 0% covered until $1k/year out of pocket-Probably something like 80%.
I really don't have any comments about the idea, but the drawings of Hitler made my day. Thanks.
> MS managed the fruits of the SoftImage acquisition pretty poorly.

It worked very well. You don't see any SGI workstations running visualization software anymore and most such software now runs under Windows. I say they won that war.

They never wanted to have an animation platform. They wanted to ruin SGI.
Goodbye last conceivable reason to ever go back to Microsoft.
Every law has its exception:

Adolf Hitler --> Anabolic steroid --> Peliosis hepatis --> Fecal enema
A command line version:

curl -silent randint.com | grep "</h1>" | sed 's/\<\/h1\>//'
Hey, If you have a couple of ideas you would like to share and allow others to develop, let us know.
My rule is : if you think you might need a designer, you need a designer.

My life (and work) has been infinitely better since I let go and paid good money to good designers to do good work. Find one, build a relationship and trust and then trust their judgement.
It depends how many SSDs you need. If you have one hard disk that needs to be upgraded to an SSD, do that instead of spending developer time on it. However, if you have thousands of disks that would all need to be upgraded to SSDs to save your 20%, it might be worth looking into software optimization.

Same for manual cleanups and stuff. If you need to fix half a dozen source files, just wince and do it manually. If you need to fix thousands of source files, it's probably time to write a parser & refactoring browser and then use that.
Difficult level is about the same as Project Euler's problems 1x
Perhaps you should call it NaNoAppMo?
It would be nice if we had a google form signup, so we could keep track of one another and what we are working on.
Even not knowing what an OS is, a user is incredibly frustrated by crashes, lag, and sms errors.

There may not be an 'android phone' but there is 'the alternative to the IPhone' which isn't, outside of the business market, the blackberry.

Users use. And they do compare how well things work, and migrate. So in the larger sense, users should care about fragmentation. Eventually, its going to limit their choices.
What I was missing is explanations for the badges: what actually got me each badge? Like dannytatom, I would have loved to know what a "Fisher Price First Tweet" is. Especially if you're talking about "winning badges", I would love to know what I need to do to win a badge (are you going to have badges that are "upgrades" from previous badges?)
Here's better-than-brute-force solution to Q1 http://gist.github.com/617715

Is there a better algorithm? Dynamic programming of some sort? I guess we'd need a longer string to tell the difference.
Still around somewhere?
Just a guess, but could it be that they want to be able to authenticate a user in the event that they delete their facebook account and thus their facebook credentials cannot be used for authentication?
You should really put those two lines in quotations. I know the second line is word for word from Seth Godin's blog (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/01/the_differen...), and quick check had your first line pretty close to word for word from Wikipedia.
Thanks btucker! That is a great idea.
Wow, this actually looks better than Harvest. I love threads like this!
In Defense of Standards, Ethics, and Honest Financial Reporting at HP
I got 88 on my first try. That's not very random at all.

Seriously though, are these true random or pseudorandom? There's nothing to say how they're generated. I personally want a true quantum random number generator, so that I can use it to make decisions and be guaranteed that an alternate-universe counterpart of myself made the opposite decision. That way at least one of me is going to be right.
Nice one, a job post aggregator and dev language trend tool. I like it. Quick UI feedback: clicking any of the top nav bar items causes the buttons to 'stutter' on the redirect (if that makes sense). OS X, chrome
I guess nobody else took the time to keep refreshing the page to see the lolcat.
Url-encoding Dictionaries/Assoc-Arrays in Python
so far the furthest away one I've found is lice
What do the Wordpress plugins do?
Cool. How long did it take and how big is it?

Also, what's the longest path?
I tend to agree with dkarl here because if it was for real, I would just have looked here to find all the answers and maybe the passwords.

It was way more fun to do it from scratch :D

Thanks grepplin

p.s. the csv was copied in my [] python list :)
Hulu IPO would be good sign for the markets. Amazing that they got this shareholders together in the first place.
But I wouldn't invest. Definitely not for the long run.
They will still be controlled by the large media companies and if Hulu's profits rise they will just charge Hulu more for the license. So Hulu's earning potential is limited.
(That was nuanced irony. But hey... Flash bad, HTML5 good, blah blah blah servers...)