skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, that's a potential downside. Makes me think the personal injury attorneys would be more likely sue big fish in an attempt to win the legal lottery.

Of course, the smart company has a defense against this tactic: only use the funds provided by the opponent. This would eventually bankrupt the frivolous lawsuit trolls, since it would cost them real money to continue the case at the risk of losing it all while costing the defendant nothing.

The more I think about it, the more this seems like a system that provides an incentive to only sue when you have a legitimate claim. Anything else wouldn't be worth the risk for either side.
I'm pretty sure EasyBatchPhoto let's you do batch watermarking: http://www.yellowmug.com/easybatchphoto/
Another attempt at Security by obscurity .. Security by obscurity is mostly an illusion .. And it's not like MSFT has it easy either as far as keeping their OS secure inspite of having hundreds of people working on it.

anyway, I have no idea what Real-time system with "Windows"
software really means. Bad quoting or they really need to polish up on what they say in press conferences.

disclaimer: I'm Indian and while this is all typical in terms of getting publicity, I have no idea on who makes these decisions.
And of course their own compiler.

Based on what I've read (which admittedly isn't a whole lot), it sounds like they need to take a few minutes to read Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust"[1].

[1]: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
http://www.emailinahaystack.com
I sometimes wonder what the world would look like now if the UK govt had said right, computing is strategic, we need to maintain that capability, and had gone all-out to equip the public sector with the BBC Master or the Archimedes. Business would have followed suit. Or if the German govt had done the same with the Amiga.

Of course what would actually happen is they'd have bought Amstrad word processors and e-mailers from that snake-oil salesman Alan Sugar. Oh well.
We in India tend to think of it as defined by its diversity of culture and opinion. That multifarious landscape has its fair share of idiots and charlatans.

This is just one of them with a soapbox and the sort of government grant that keeps on giving.
Well said. After struggling to "get" Twitter for a while, I've realized that I don't have to post on it. It's essentially a read-only medium for me.

That's fine: I post on Facebook a lot and really enjoy the conversations there, but I don't like to post on Twitter because its conversation capabilities aren't great and, equally importantly, I don't have an audience! I'm not famous and most of the non-spam followers I have on Twitter are also Facebook friends. (Also, I personally really don't enjoy having to deal with the 140 character limit.) It's still really useful to me similarly to how many other web forums on which I'm primarily a lurker are useful.
well I was not really looking for one in the post because I did not want to hijack, but a good idea nonetheless

http://www.zachbruhnke.com
It's amazing that India is the go-to place for outsourcing when they have such backwards ideas about security and software development

That's a horrible generalisation. India has millions of developers. Just because one thinks security by obscurity is a good idea, doesn't mean they all do.
How about people list their domains here?

Right now, it is hard to tell who is real and who is fake without a large up front expenditure in time. Using HN, we can all do it collectively and reduce the time spent by each.
(Just follow ErrantX style)
How Ben Reid Was Able To Rethink The $20 Billion Wedding Gift Industry
Oh yes, the site is not ready for smartphones yet. Sorry about the pain. If you are in the area, I'll buy you a beer to make it up ! :)
Chrome 8 Adds Google Instant to the URL Bar
Also:

http://k-code.org (was going to be a Kohana project/module repo)
Turkey has done it. US has done it. Other have done it.
Is there a central place on or off HN this will be tracked?
> I see that ycombinator.com is up for trade on that spreadsheet

I'll take it! ;)

I really like the idea of a pure domain exchange - no transfer of money, just a straight domain swap service. No obvious business model in it though.
Not anymore. I went to register it, and it's gotten by James Davis.
That's precisely the point— when one company is deciding which products they want to sell, and that single company's business makes up 30% of your market, more than your profit margin, and they're telling you that you need to lower your prices by two cents this year or they're going to start buying from someone else and you'll have to fire seven hundred people or else go out of business...

How is that a free market?

The whole problem is that Wal-Mart is big enough to drive margins below what is sustainable. Forced reduction in margins leads to lower quality products, layoffs, and eventually the outsourcing of entire manufacturing sectors— and what good is a socket set for 15¢ less than the competition when the socket set company that used to pay you $35,000 a year moves to Indonesia and now pays you $0?

I would call that "good" quite equivocal.
If it's a new site, what the hell do you expect? No wonder there's no pagerank or alexa rank yet, it's too early.
The spreadsheet is a bit of a mess. I've got a two letter that I need to let go, though. http://rr.tl

Great for a URL shortener or the likes, I figure. Trade/sell works for me!
The US?
Companies look to social media to avoid snafus
More On Apple’s Retail Dominance Strategy for the iPad
What a sensible idea. Very cool.
http://www.TutorialShop.com - bought many years ago, can't seem to come up with a good enough Tutorial model for this site. Willing to partner or trade.
Google suggests many governments have done it. And they're all linux variants.
I had never come across this interview before. Thanks for sharing!

The section about education is especially interesting. Fixing education would fix so many parts of society. Amazing to read Steve Jobs' insight on this. He doesn't want to throw technology at the problem, but recognizes it needs more human touch. Amazing.
SELinux is an NSA product.
Should you add 'No RDBMS' as a con, or has that changed since the last time I looked? Cause that is, quite frankly, the only con that matters to me.
... 'Europe' book about Britain only.
Introducing the TED iPad App
Oh, awesome. So my idea does exist. Excellent.
The first time I finished reading through the complete source of an operating system, I felt the same way: "Wait, where was the magic? Did I miss it?"
So you'd prefer that economically viable rates are only offered by people who are irresponsible and/or uncaring.

No. I'm saying that only irresponsible and/or uncaring people offer those rates, that the act of charging those rates demonstrates you to be irresponsible or uncaring.
I can see some worth in the idea where a country/culture creates a home spun version of a Linux distro as it could come complete with the appropriate language packs and more relevant software included.

However, I can't imagine building an OS from the ground up for the purpose of fending for their own cyber security being a good idea.
can you provide some justification for "Historically, the most secure operating systems on the market have been "open", not closed."?

if you take security to be assured in some sense, TCSEC might be a reasonable standard. I do not know of any open source operating system certified to A1, but there is at least one closed source OS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTS-400

if you mean track record, in terms of number of compromises, i'd be interested to see the data.
> It does. It makes your browser the one in the middle

Doesn't.

> try opening the site with javascript turned off.

Exactly how I tested it: in the middle was Chrome. But I use Opera.

Now consider: If I'm ordinary user and I'm supposed to be helped to turn on JavaScript, I certainly don't need to see five darned icons "IE FFox Chrome Safari Opera" as the main information presented on the page. I came to the site with one browser, not with five of them. In that browser, the JavaScript is turned off. I certainly don't need the long page with the the instructions for all of them.

But as tav noted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794305 (although I don't agree to his "it is good as it is") -- the bigger problem is: if I'm using IE and I turn JavaScript off, I certainly know how to turn it on.

So who's the target user? I still posit that the target of the OP site are only lazy web developers ("ooh lookie I can link to this site from my noscript")
Ask HN: Do you trust Facebook?
Just curious. Why or why not?
The 'Retweet' button is Twitter's version of the Like Button, and it is for this reason they have disabled the ability to edit the tweet so as to mimic the 'single-click' behavior of Like buttons.
Usability - Experience design framework
To some it is a de facto standard of good design, but so much of what is produced fails in this area, and not just in digital design. It feels consistently that products, buildings, vehicles and urban planning lack a sufficient consideration of the human being...
Also Hotspot VM needs warmup to achieve maximum performance since it takes some time to detect and JIT-compile performance-critical parts of code with all optimizations.
The OP is a more advanced technology. But as to whether you've already seen this on live video, if you've ever watched a baseball game, live coverage of home plate usually replaces the advertisement behind the batter. You'll see that newer stadiums facilitate this by painting blocks of solid color in the spots where the ads appear on TV.
Why are you fixating on "Linux variants/forks"? Is there something inherently undesirable about them?
Thanks, this was a really interesting read.
And their own chip manufacturing[1].

1. http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/kingst/Research_files/king08.pd...
Further evidence from Top Gear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVkedyQZfwQ
Interesting. You think this is PR?

I was actually just looking for an old Tacoma/Hilux, although I first heard about their legendary status on Top Gear.
IMDb turning 20 on Sunday, takes stroll down memory lane
Yes, it does.

Next time you go to a (newer) baseball stadium, check out behind home plate and you'll sometimes see painted blocks where the TV cameras overlay ads.
"But what about the employees? Instead many are finding themselves churning through a series of companies built to flip, never making much money themselves and just jumping between treadmills."

This sounds remarkably like what happened to my dad in the late 80s/early 90s. VCs, founders make money, employees get fired and the company gets moved to (wherever-corporate-office). This is not a new trend; to make money in an acquisition, you must be one of the people with a large stake in the company. If you are Joe Programmer, that is probably not you... so ask for a salary.

It may be true that the lottery/pigeon dance effect is kind of wearing off, as there hasn't been a huge IPO (like Google's) in a while. This would make normal employees less likely to bank on a huge IPO.
I think that's all you really can do.
StackOverflow launches chat
The AK-47: 'The Gun' That Changed The Battlefield

Transcript of Terry Gross' interview with the author:

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...
I'm an atheist and think it is transparently irrational, however, not to those afflicted by the more virulent forms of religion from early childhood.

I would expect completely freeing oneself from the effects of such an upbringing would take years, if not a lifetime, and come at considerable cost to one's friends and familial relationships. You would have to be callous and remarkably ignorant of human psychology to think it could be overcome in an afternoon of contemplation.

I've known many smart but religious people, so I'm not terribly shocked. However, I'm yet to encounter -- and doubtful I ever will -- an intelligent person, raised in a healthy, secure and atheistic home, who as an adult earnestly embraced some established religion like Catholicism.
Like it or not: Millennials are here to stay
For most people, "operating system" is not synonymous with "kernel". I like C, but a lot of userland programs that are often considered to offer "operating system" functionality could tolerate being written in a safer language. OTOH, C is probably "good enough" as the lingua franca.
This was not a pump and dump scheme. Pump and dump involves manipulating the price via spreading false information, which is not at all what they did. They manipulated the price by actually executing trades and predicting how (certain parts of) the market would react to those trades.
About as far as I can throw it!
> Record created on 11-Nov-1999

I think it wasn't available in the first place.
I think their vision goes beyond parties/concerts/events. It's like a mobile Q&A for a specific area. What if you were at a brick and mortar store such as Bestbuy and had a question of opinion that both the other customers there and employees can answer? Or at a restaurant and wanted to quickly know what were the best dishes people are enjoying at that moment and at that specific restaurant? Many different business applications.
How can one more market fix your problem with too many markets?

The Android Market by Google is not as good as it could be. So it is good that there is the possibility of more markets.

The market will decide who survives and who will not.

At least here in Europe where the carriers do not decide which market I can have on my phone.

Choice is good!
If you are arguing that this is a PR thing, it's possible that getting it in the NY Times was, but there is a pretty solid basis to the story.

In fact, most of the reporting seems to be an update of a few War Nerd pieces combined together. (I'm not implying plagiarism, just that Toyotas are massively over represented in low-intensity conflicts, and that more than one person has noticed it)
No, it's just that the linked article says that India is going to be designing and developing a completely new architecture, and I'm suggesting that no country has ever done that. And that the likely result will be monstrous cost and time overruns followed by a quick and dirty forking and rebranding of linux to save face.
Retweeting, even though does not mean the same thing, in practice works pretty close to "like" in twitter ecosystem.
There's already a site here?
Where can I meet other independent game developers?
It means they didn't actually write the OS themself.
Certainly a cool idea, but doesn't this distract from people posting new questions on the site?
For a business model, you might find an advertiser or two wanting the eyeballs of people looking for domains.
Just as interesting to me is how the maple leaf on the vehicle came to signal high quality, a notion that then went viral to the point that people tattoo themselves with it.
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Beat me to in! :)
I wish everyone realizes what a joke this publicity-seeking exercise of a politician/bureacrat is (just as the so-called $10 laptop was). Discussing the technical merits or demerits of this whole absurdity would only give it more legitimacy.

Instead, I would humbly point you to http://greatbong.net/2010/10/14/the-grand-secret-os/, which recognizes this for what it actually is. At least you can have some fun talking about it.
Not even remotely. Facebook has a clear history of taking a "better to ask forgiveness than permission" approach to privacy. You never know what they're going to do with your information or what they're going to suddenly open up that you have to go set complicated privacy settings to fix.
Yep no relational db, I haven't ran into an issue I can't solve however with bigtable.

Here's a good article on modeling relationships.
http://blog.notdot.net/2010/10/Modeling-relationships-in-App...
Competition in the python-vm space is fantastic and I'm actually really, really happy to see PyPy maturing.
I sat looking at the spreadsheet for a couple of minutes watching everyone edit. I wonder if there are any larger volume use-cases and what load it creates. I've never had more than 3 people concurrently editing a sheet before.
Price deflation is a good thing.

I'm sorry, but this statement alone convinces me that there are important facts about economics which you do not understand. Deflation, among many other things, discourages investment. Without investment, economies stagnate.
http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html seems relevant when talking about the AK-47
It's a good point. A payday loan is cheaper than bouncing a check.
JSConf EU 2010 Videos Posted
Vote for "Rich Whitey" . . . in Chicago, maybe not really a typo?
Successful Developer Platforms Have 3 Things: Features, Users, Money.
>Not overtly ? Must have slept through shock and awe.

Invasion != conquest. The US has not taken Iraq as its territory, or claimed the right to control its government. An empire would.

I said "not overtly" because there probably is a case to be made that we have actually taken control, at least to some degree, while pretending not to. Not the same thing, though--not least because, if we had conquered them, we'd be responsible for them.
Lovely, but I doubt a non-Indian will get all those in-jokes.
Google Chrome 8 Gets Instant Search As Option
U.S. takes the prize for most infected PCs
lol

From Google Maps TOS (http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/help/terms_maps.html)

[...]

you will not:
(a) defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others;

[...]

I believe this is why Gawker Stalker is no longer around.
Ask HN: Review My Startup - Hypernumbers The Team Spreadsheet
Please review my startup:
http://hypernumbers.com

We finally have a ‘quantum of utility’ - a product like a spreadsheet but better at doing some things...

I would love to get your thoughts and opinions on what a native-web spreadsheet should be like - and in which ways hypernumbers meets (or fails to meet) your expectations.

BACK STORY

When I started writing this submission I googled for Paul Graham’s 'Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund' No 22 - web spreadsheet (http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html) from 2008 – so I could point out we started full time work on it in 2007. Through the miracle of Google I found this article of Paul’s from 2005 (http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html) which predates us. I have no idea if I read that article at the time :(

That got me thinking. Reading Paul’s articles today it all seems so simple and obvious, but it took 6 years for me to come to think that thought – and it has taken another 4 years to execute it.

In Web 1.0, I was Chief Technical Architect at if.com – a bank on the internet. There was an anti-pattern around called ‘how come it takes me a day to do this on a spreadsheet, but it takes 10 developers 4 months in Java?’ to which the answer was just a shrug. We had a pile of innovative product designs prototyped in Excel a mile high which we actually just could not implement.

One day I stumbled across the Functional Programming FAQ which used spreadsheets as an example of a Functional Language: Eureka! We left to start our own bank with an offer engine written in an (initially undecided - later Erlang) Functional Language on the 4th September 2001 – turned out not so good...

‘spreadsheetieness of Erlang’ to ‘spreadsheet in Erlang’ took another 5 years...

3 hours sleep, filthy hangover, rural airport in Sweden, yet another failed (Erlang) start-up, depressed, I knocked up the first prototype of hypernumbers in sort of migranetic/hungover ecstasy of coding just to cheer myself up.

Another 4 years later – here we are...
Even better if large companies like Google or Microsoft were to do something like this.
Strange that it's so prevalent globally and yet the US commander can still claim that it's "a sign you’re dealing with Al Qaeda".

Similar to the story posted here a while ago about people being arrested as terrorists on the evidence that they wore some totally generic casio wristwatch.

Wikipedia's List of Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of possessing Casio watches:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detainee...
German radar satellites fly tight space waltz
But if I were to do that (with sample made up numbers):

Android - 700 users worldwide

Functionality - 500 people in the demographic

That certainly doesn't mean that there are 1200 potential users, as I don't know where the crossover between people who require the functionality and also own an Android device are. In a technically disinclined demographic, maybe only 50 of the users that require the functionality also own an Android device - and only 10 of those would be willing to pay for the (an) app.
How is this better than IRC?
China's Rare-Earth Monopoly
Why would I trust Facebook? What reason have they ever given me to trust them?
Reading Code is Good, Writing Documentation is Better
Google Voice Android App Lag Issue
It's linked from the article.
Tell that to the [minecraft developer](http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/30767/Indie_Game_Minecraf...), who's making more than $10K a day selling a PC game he basically developed himself.
I think the "See a sample page" link should be more prominent. maybe it's just me, but I have very little patience for new web apps that don't let me see what they look like without signing up, so I was about to leave yours until I noticed that link down in the corner.

the intro video you have doesn't really tell you anything either, I'd replace that with a screencast of someone using the site.
Are they users or customers?

You cannot alienate customers that are not your potential customers.

The beauty of this service and the United States is that nobody is forcing you to use Chargify. Also, if you do use Chargify, you can stop at any time, without any penalty.

In fact, Chargify uses an API, so your application can be written in a way that competing and alternate services can be integrated into your application (without requiring major rewrites to your application).
> But they also require a minimum of a two month term, and I can't find any indication on the site that they let you pay off the loan early to avoid additional interest accrual.

This is the most damning part, IMO. I can understand the necessity of high fees to cover risk, but when someone has the ability to pay a loan back and you refuse to take their money so that you can get more interest, that's pretty shady.

The only other time I've heard of conditions like that are for some car loans, where they give you a better price on the car and then try to make the money back with a higher-interest loan. Then they want to prevent early payback to ensure their profit margins.
Google pays Apple a fortune for that privilege. I remember hearing the deal was around $300,000,000 / year (but I could be wrong). With Android, Google makes total profit.
Ask HN: How do you charge customers for calling your hotline?
I know that at kneejerk that sounds like a terrible thing, since we all hate that.

But I'd like to know how to do this. Twilio already provides me with a mechanism to cheaply receive and process calls, but how do I charge the users for this? anybody ever look into this? Google doesn't turn up much that is useful.