skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
to be honest, if this guy hasnt touched the code, given any money, registered anything, then i really don't see what IP he has. an idea is an idea. that is it.
I think it's called "enhanced interrogation"?
For this reason (and others), we don't show the iPhone version to Android users. Sadly, the Android browser (especially before Android 2.2) is really lacking—it doesn't even do animated GIFs.
At least you're honest.
How (and Why) You Should Promote Informal Learning with Trainees (and the Boss)
More interestingly, he(Martin Kool) wrote an interpreter for the old Sierra adventure games engines. Notably the engines use GOTO statements which javascript doesn't have an analog of, so they compile the entire thing into a giant switch-case statement. Nifty!

This is much more impressive than it looks, I feel. Saving/loading games by using a browser bookmark? Multiplayer?
I think the real credit goes to Locale, the original context-sensitive settings application. It won the original Android Developer Challenge, and has been a staple on my Android phones since the evening I bought my old G1.

http://www.twofortyfouram.com/
Another suggestion - Allow readers to choose timezone
CartoTalk.com - your daily fix of maps (not my project)
Is anyone familiar with Tom's Shoes? http://www.toms.com/

The gist of their company is that for every pair of shoes they sell, they give a pair away to children in impoversihed countries. Seems like a really nice thing to do.

That said, I've always thought they would be better off helping would-be entrepreneurs in those countries to make and sell shoes of their own. IE, perhaps they could use their resources to help people in those countries learn how to make the shoes, provide some assistance in sourcing the materials, etc.

As it is today, if someone in those areas where they give shoes away has any aspiration of making shoes, they have no chance because they won't ever be able to compete with someone coming in and giving away free shoes.

When the kid who received the new pair of free shoes inevitably needs another pair, there is infrastructure in place for him to get those new shoes, rather than waiting for Tom's to show up again with more free shoes.

I'm not knocking Tom's because I think their intentions are simply to help people. But I do think they're missing the target - I think that is what Senor Slim is referring to.
- billbucket.com

- billcave.com

- lappy.org

- thisismyipad.com

- thisismylaptop.com
Are you using protection? Free speech, libel, and covering your ass
1. Under [U.S.] copyright law, both the UI and the code could fall under the category of "joint work," namely "a work prepared by two or more authors with the intention that their contributions be merged into inseparable or independent parts of a unitary whole." If that's the case, you could each be co-owners, with an obligation to account to each other for your respective future uses, for example, split the proceeds.

2. In court, the accounting could be messy and expensive. As an alternative, if your "friend" were amenable, you could sign a walk-away agreement that, in essence, let him do what he wanted with the UI, and you do what you want with the under-the-hood stuff, with no obligation to each other. In the agreement, you could consider an early-neutral-evaluation clause (see http://goo.gl/f2Js) and a fee-shifting clause (see http://goo.gl/J1JK) to create incentives to settle the (likely) subsequent disputes.

3. Another possibility is that, LLC notwithstanding, you were legally a partnership, with each of you owning an undivided interest in [EDIT:] the partnership, with the partnership in turn owning everything, e.g., the UI and the code. For that, a lot would depend on what state(s) the two of you are in.

(Disclaimer: I'm not your lawyer, YMMV, etc.)
That's interesting. I was thinking that I could learn some JavaScript from it, all that neat drag & drop and item placement stuff. Turned out that it uses Yahoo UI library for all the essential stuff, leaving only the actual game engine for the creator.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/
The YUI library is available under BSD license. Most probably worth to check out (especially for a JS newbie like me).
I wasn't making that argument -- I was merely suggesting that those who swear that they're not sexist for putting T&A all over slides at a supposedly respectable conference might want to reevaluate a few things. Sexist or not, I mean, we all know women, right? How do they typically react to you blatantly objectifying them in serious settings? Especially brainy settings?

Agree on viewing computing then like we view typing today. Says something about us then and now. And what it says is not "hey, we're a postmodern society, i'm a white male and I don't feel any exclusion, so all you PC whiners should shut up".
More like don't let my opponents have the obvious counter-site.
The enterprise I am affiliated with (the kind that can build its own annihilation-focused moonlike space vehicle) is already using and/or moving to REST interfaces internally and externally.
That's one purpose. My own suggestion elsewhere in this thread, Rainbows End, fits into this category.

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that George Lucas never meant to tell us that we'd be playing with light sabers. Frequently, the futuristic technology of sci-fi is nothing more than a literary device allowing the author to contrive a situation or theme that wouldn't be possible with more mundane environments.
I wish the same thing would work for staplers...
com.ww.com, CNAME breitkreuz.me.

if that is possible
Hey, man. Thanks for checking it out.

The triage is still in very early form. While most of the Brazilian listings are posted by actual users, we are still trying to break out of the chicken-and-egg problem everywhere else around the world.

To do that, we are pulling job listings from different sites. However, there is some "post-processing" to be done:

- we need to get information about the company (we only publish job listings from companies we know about).

- We need to add tags to the company page and the listing page.

- We try to break the job description into two parts: one describing what is expected of the candidate, the other describing what the position is about.

So, "triage" is some sort of post-processing queue. We are doing to get these job listings from other sites and to put in our format. We are automating it as much as possible, but there are always some detail that needs to be done by hand.

If you create an account, you'll see that we barely put any copy to explain how it works. I'm just dog-fooding for now. As I find more ways to automate or semi-automate the process, the better this triage system should work.

I don't want to put too much effort on it, though. Even if this system gets to be perfect, we would be no better than any job aggregator like indeed or simply-hired. I'd rather have companies coming directly to our site because we are offering some different service (the hiring process management) than by being a "better aggregator".
This sounds like a good thing to get into. Any tips for someone looking to get into it?
Wow, that's a load of non-sequiturs. Monopoly is a side effect of the massive corruption plaguing Mexico. Microsoft doesn't even come close.

As for aid in Africa, that's a specific charity you worked with in Africa. There are people who do good work there. Dismissing aid because people are bad at it is like dismissing software development because people are bad at it. One way or another it's necessary.
This may be your point, but you could take your argument and twist it to any law, or lack of law, in any country. All business, big or small, hinge on some sort of special privilege. IP law isn't special in this regard.
I emailed a similar comment about teenagers to the author. This was his reply (greeting and signature omitted)[0]:

If you've been able to raise teenagers who never forget to put things back where they found them, you have achieved a level of parenting that I absolutely have failed to reach. Congratulations on that!

[0] I know it's generally bad netiquette to post personal emails in a public forum, but I think it's appropriate given the nature of the conversation.
This has the ring of a valedictorian delivering the graduation speech -- lot's of platitudes about innovation and some interesting bits, but nothing really memorable
Did proprietary software need to happen to spur innovation?

To the extent that the Wintel monopoly resulted in lower hardware costs, it's hard to see any intellectually honest Linux or BSD user arguing otherwise.

You would not be able to buy 3+ GFLOPS systems with gigabytes of RAM and terabytes of mass storage for less than $1000 without the kind of mass standardization that, history suggests, can emerge only from monopolistic behavior.
How to Have an Idea
yes, that's ok.
A couple of months ago I was there: a failed project, no job, no money flowing in by almost 5 months, and albeit of being moderately competent by several measures, I was struggling too as you say. My view of the world has changed a lot because of that period, but the things just are in that way. I still strongly believe that you must find your way up in the ladder, but things are not easy.
In the meanwhile I did my best to try alternative strategies. At the end, thanks to God I was able to find a great job at a German company which happened to have a research center in my country, and the things are recovering.

I saw the tip of the iceberg, and it was scary.
I understand that, but it is also implied that the author iterated on a good deal of material provided by his partner and is now calling it his own. That seems a bit unfair also. I don't think we ought to prejudice the other party on the basis that he had the "idea." Yes, execution is more important than the idea, but it probably isn't that simple.

I'd be totally ready to render judgment if I heard the other guy use the idea argument but we need to hear it from his mouth.
> I find Fielding's writing on REST opaque to the point of unintelligibility.

I agree, somewhat, but I would formulate it a bit differently: REST is defined from a user's (or client's) standpoint. It is ill-defined on the other side, even to the point that it is hard to say whether any ruleset can be derived for implementers to use in building their applications. Essentially all of the popular conventions like Resource objects are somewhat misguided, as they are not in any way implied.

I have tried to hammer it in to my acquaintances and colleagues that if you pick one thing about REST to base everything on, it is links, not URLs.

I have pondered on writing a "everything you know about REST is wrong"-article, but have thus far been counterweighed by the consideration that perhaps this perversion that passes for REST is actually better than the real thing.
I'll love to get the AI book. I live in Thailand though but I could pay for the shipping, it's still cheaper than buying through amazon/ebay
Lots of questions, a few answers:

A.) Yes, move on. Pack up all your work and put it in a safe place.

B.) Learn from it. In the future, all of the equity and administrative decisions should be made and agreed upon before writing any lines of code.

C.) While it might be satisfying to take your work and launch yourself (or hit him with a free service), think hard about it, and definitely consult a lawyer. It will be a sticky situation.
I think that not listening a poor performer's opinion too carefully on any subject is generally good advice.
Took me two weeks to find a .com that I could use recently. I always sleep on my choice before purchase too, so no quick grabs. It was hard work, and I went down some weird alleys looking.

Ultimately, I think the system is very flawed and domain squatting needs to be tackled as a priority. But where's the motivation for the registrars when they collect the same cash regardless of the use of the domain?
Popular safety measures that don't make you any safer
I come from a religious background that can look at this helmet and basically say, "So what?".

Simply put, in my tradition, the subjective experience of religion is pretty much irrelevant. A "spiritual" feeling, or the feeling that there is "something there" is nice, but irrelevant. Instead our entire faith is based upon external proclamation, and hearing what is proclaimed. In fact, we discount the whole concept that religion is an experience, because we understand emotions to be secondary to the objective truths being proclaimed in the message. If the secondary effects, the "religious" or "mystical" feeling is present, that's great. If it isn't, that's great too. It doesn't matter.

Look at it this way: remember the last time you experienced wonder or awe at the reality of the universe, as revealed by the most current science. Now, imagine yourself working in that field, day-by-day, doing the grunt work that is most science. You are still doing science. Sometimes that wonder and awe returns. Most of the time it's just a memory. Same thing. The emotional experience is secondary to objective reality.
Do not under any circumstances sign anything. Copyright (http://www.copyright.gov/register/index.html) your code immediately. Then play hardball. Tell him you feel that you have done most of the work and want 60% or you will go your separate ways.

If he is threatening legal action, take legal action first. File a complaint if he even touched your software. (Uploads it to a server, tries to give it to another developer to reverse engineer, etc.). Don't say anything in email or verbally that you may regret later. In fact, assume that when you talk to him, whatever either of you say may be used in court.

Start going it alone right away. Try to market and sell the product by yourself. Your wrote it. Its yours. He might try to take you to court over this in that you had some "verbal" agreements wrt a joint venture and he probably has some emails to back him up (M. Arrington et. al.) so it is imperative that you either placate him or take legal action first.
Qubes Architecture - actual security-oriented OS
How I Explained REST to My Wife
Google In-Page Analytics Signal of Visual Analytics Revolution
I use tasker to emulate a feature that Apple devices have: separate volume levels for speaker and headphones (not sure why Android doesn't already have that).

Set a task that runs when headphones are plugged to set the media volume to x, and an exit task to set it back to y when they're unplugged. Simple.
This got me thinking, which is always a bad sign.

One possible way to "timestamp" your entire code tree might be to zip it up, cryptographically hash the result, and then print out the hash and physically sign it with a notary.

I have no idea how legally useful this might be. I'm sure it would be legally difficult to explain. :-)
www.bathtubfood.com - would love the hear the story behind that one.
Your idea has a 99% chance of failing so any chance so let him run the company. In the event it succeeds lawyer up, take a portion for free. Done. You win.

If you decide to keep the code for yourself, then you end up sweating it out with him, being stressed, and so on. Best to tell him good luck. I'm sure you're a smart guy so you'll find another adventure, so let that guy run with his pipedream, and just keep proof of the fact you built it, as I'm sure you have emails and proof showing equity division and so on.

Wish him the best of luck because ultimately if he succeeds you do as well (after the lawsuit), regardless if you split up or not.

You could always do a friendly "shotgun" clause tactic too.
Point B cannot be overstated. You should always have your corporate structure in order before you start working on a business endeavor with anyone -- even people you know well. Forming an LLC with an easy-to-understand operating agreement might take two four hour chunks of time and will save untold headaches down the road.
Demonstrating the main problem with charity: as soon as people start getting good intentions, they shut their brains off. They care about throwing money at a problem, not making sure that the money is spent in a way that doesn't make the problem even worse.

This is where the Gates Foundation really shines: they don't just give away huge sums of money, they carefully research how to spend it.
* If foul language offends you, then don't read articles by Zed Shaw.

* If blasphemy offends you, use monit instead of god.rb.

* If drnic's picture of a candy bar offends you, unfollow him.

* If adult entertainment offends you, then don't attend a talk title "CouchDB: Perform like a pr0n star".

Any large community of people has individuals with a large range of backgrounds. If you're easily offended, then you're bound to be offended by somebody in the group.

Just because you're offended doesn't mean that the people who offended you need to change. It means you either need to avoid those people, or (even better) look past the parts that offend you to see if any of the underlying information has value.
Can you explain and elaborate on what they don't get what distributed VC means?
I think the blog post is over a year old too, so it was relevant then. No idea why it's been reposted now.
Tell HN: My Amazon EC2 billing problems
I had small Amazon EC2 instance running for almost 3 years. I stopped it 3 months ago and currently have some data on Amazon S3 I had no time to delete.

Couple of days ago I received email from Amazon that they could not bill my credit card in order to collect 10 cents for the S3 data. I logged into my account to see what going on and for the first time in my life I saw this message:

"You have 7 charges past due. Please pay the amount in full to avoid suspension or termination of your AWS Account."
"Select past charges and pay now"

So I clicked that and to my surprise I saw this:

"Please pay the amount in full to avoid suspension or termination of your AWS account"

Billing Period, Bill Details, You owe
June 1, 2009 - June 30, 2009, Bill Details, $ 92.14
April 1, 2009 - April 30, 2009, Bill Details, $ 90.12
January 1, 2009 - January 31, 2009, Bill Details, $ 91.57
November 1, 2008 - November 30, 2008, Bill Details, $ 87.24
August 1, 2008 - August 31, 2008, Bill Details, $ 93.78
April 1, 2008 - April 30, 2008, Bill Details, $ 88.49
February 1, 2008 - February 29, 2008, Bill Details, $ 83.92

Total Amount You Owe	$627.26
Amount You Selected to Pay	$627.26

They did not billed me for February 2008 ?!? 2008! And the total I owe them is $627.

I ofter receive messages from Amazon that they could not bill my credit card. This is because I don't use credit card but debit card for online payments. Every time I need to make a payment I go to the bank (which is nearby) and put some money into my account. I do this because:
1) Bank is nearby and this way I don't have to worry about stolen card details, etc
2) I have to think twice before buying something big online: first - when I put the money on my account, and second - when I make the real payment

I just spent an hour filtering the online billing records on my card for the past three years and it seems according to the records that Amazon is right - they did not billed me, according to my card records. I have difficult time figuring out how this could happened, since AWS billing is a monthly routine for me. Every month when I receive their warning email I go to the bank put enough money into my account and then stopped receiving warning emails from them.

HN moment: I have read somewhere on HN, or on HN linked story long time ago that you can have one month past due before they cut you off. And I am sure it was from some CEO of famous startup company, who was explaining how you can play with startup finances by delaying your payments to Amazon with a month (or this is how I understand it at the time).

I will talk to my bank on Monday to see if they can provide my with paper billing details regrading Amazon and will probably pay, but I think it is not good business practice to bill your clients 30 months later.

Have you ever been more than a month late on AWS billing. What happened?
What will your advice be in this situation?
I use an old Nokia 6126. If I need anything more than the ability to place and receive calls, I'd bring my laptop along. My life seems to be much less hectic and less filled with inhuman beeps, rings, and concentration-breaking attention-grabbing stimulus than my iPhone-wielding friends' lives.
So he is supposed to chuck all his hard work and walk away? No way. He should roll up his sleeves and put up a fight. No one has ever succeeded by being a wimp, except windows 3.0.
please count me in...

moc.ww.com

Yes, it's a palindrome.
First, congrats! It is a great achievement to have (effectively) single-handedly built your first startup.

If you're going to break-up, try and get what you can out of it. I don't think you should get lawyers or courts involved -- wait until there is real money (if ever) before taking that plunge. Instead, why don't you offer to have your co-founder buy you out? I don't know what you'd charge for contracting, but 1200 * 150 = 180k. If you make that a debt that he owes you due on a liquidity event in exchange for him having total ownership, then you walk away with nothing now (which is the most likely outcome regardless) but you do have recourse if he ever does hit it big. It is also the best deal for him, as there is a working and near-done system that he can effectively get for free -- if he has a big liquidity event, then he should be happy to pay you a decent contractor's rate. Write something simple up in plain english and include a note where you agree to binding arbitration, which should save you both some cash if you ever have a deep disagreement in the future.
... So What?

"The only way to fight poverty is with employment"

"Trillions of dollars have been given to charity in the last 50 years, and they don’t solve anything"

"There is a saying that we should leave a better country to our children. But it’s more important to leave better children to our country"

That's what he said. It may be really wrong, stupid, or right. What matters is "is he right?".
“I Was Doing Research” Not a Defense for Child Porn Possession
Ok, that one is fine as well.

That's going to be a long dns file :)
That is a very good question. One that men have asked themselves over millenias. That is why since the birth of Democracy in Greece, we have had tyrants, dictators, emperors, kings and queens, oligarchs, etc.

I would suggest however that in theory, the politicians sell their policies, rather than themselves per se, although they do sell a bit of themselves also. But the way our system works is, you have a philosophy of governance which is conservative, low taxes, traditional values, screw the poor, and the democrats, sort of distribute wealth, keep the companies in check, tax the rich higher, etc. Any one politician in this scheme is not an individual, but rather a representative of a philosophy, or even ideology. So, it is right that the public decides which they prefer at any given time.

However, it would be quite savagery for the public to decide as to who should be guilty of murder, or rape, or conspiracy, or robbery, or the thousands of cases that go through the court. It too would be idiotic for the lay public, with very limited knowledge of the law, to decide as to who should be a judge, a job which requires high intelligence, but also common sense, a sort of moral structure, so taught through law school. Same as it would be idiotic for the public to decide who should be a doctor.
Maybe consider a mediator? It seems like everyone loses if the code just goes down the drain.
I thought I'll post this after the Indian OS link hit the front page. The document discusses many interesting things related to the OS security, while providing a fairly easy reading for most tech people. This project is actually live and downloadable from http://qubes-os.org/Home.html and has an interesting team behind.
Same thing happened at HP with benefits. Accountants have no idea how demoralizing it is, they just multiply $0.50 * however many hundreds of thousands of cans of pop per month and assume it's a no brainer.