skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for teaching me something new. Wikipedia agrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_and_maiden_names#China_...
The idea seems cool, but I'm always wary of new social media outlets. For example, a place where developers come together to share cool news items, code snippets and ideas seems eerily similar to HN.

Now, having overlapping use cases doesn't necessarily mean that the service won't take off. The invite-only service can work well to spread throughout different realms of professional environments. I'll request an invite and see what comes from it. Good luck!
I don't code. Here's my project: Notepeep.com
Site Link: http://www.notepeep.com

Site Description: A place where you can anonymously write about, rate, and comment on people, places, and things.

Hello everyone,

I don't really code. I have an extremely limited understanding of PHP and I get the basics of HTML/CSS. But, I've come up with Notepeep.com entirely on my own given my resources. I tried out a few popular CMS installations and eventually found that I could push WordPress and its plugins in a way that allowed my site operate like I wanted it to.

I know it's certainly not optimized/perfect. I'm sharing it now as I just want to show technical founders and those of us here not technical what a non-technical person can come up with given the amount of resources available to us.

Thanks for your time. I really appreciate your comments/feedback!
Clickable Link: http://www.notepeep.com
I like the site, just needs some CSS magic. The readability/usability is ok.
Another interesting example of a program like this is CLPython:

http://github.com/franzinc/cl-python

It is too bad that more language implementors do not go this route, as it is a really easy way to get decent efficiency.

I suppose it isn't surprising, however. It is a lot easier to find people willing to contribute to open source C/C++/Java code than Common Lisp.

I will note this implementation and does not have a lot of the important functionality involved in classes/modules and their scoping (so pretty much any of the language semantics, which is understandable as it is a toy).

Implementing the semantics of the language, would be trickier and probably lead to less efficient code.
Appears to be down for me.
www.codemonkeysatwork.com - We have a pay-for iPhone app called QuickShot that I make my money from. I also just launched http://www.talentopoly.com as another source of income.
We can celebrate the pinnacle of human intellectual achievements with some creepy stalker software? Hooray!
What about your claim:

...while we contest that there was NO pornography or adult material on vb.ly...

Next to their claim:

...the domain’s purpose (proclaimed by its registrants themselves) was to serve as a ‘sex friendly URL shortener’, mainly for adult uses...
Google Chrome Frame can now be installed without admin privileges
Good on ya for 1.) asking and 2.) executing. Most people don't even get to item 1.
I am interested though in hearing about how this kind of inter-application communication could evolve into a more well-defined protocol.

REST has become a fairly well defined way for applications to communicate, but it's pretty much geared toward a request/response model.

What's being described here is more of a pub/sub pattern, but to my knowledge there are not any agreed upon standards that publishers can/should use to format event messages and identify objects.

It reminds me a bit of the atom activity stream spec actually, which is really for publishing event streams for "social" objects:

http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/atom-activity-01.html

I don't know, I think it would be interesting to see something evolve that was more generalized for application communications.
Hey, that's great news!
The Unix cal program uses the switch in Britain for this shift.

cal 9 1752
Oh I see, thanks.
Wow - amazing the impact a single extra man-month had on your business. Congrats!
Should the Government Be Allowed to Read Your E-Mails?
Keep trying now and again; it seems to come and go. Just in case here is the current text:

NIC.ly rules and regulations were set by the local Libyan internet community (in accordance with best practices for ccTLDs) to reflect it’s identity and content. It’s a bottom up module in which the Community’s feedback, opinions and remarks are taken into decision-making consideration, and it is our duty to uphold these rules and regulations to serve the better interests of the community we represent.

In reference to the vb.ly incident: the domain’s purpose (proclaimed by its registrants themselves) was to serve as a ‘sex friendly URL shortener’, mainly for adult uses. This means that vb.ly had a policy different than the other URL shorteners, not using filters and encouraging the use of this service for creating links to adult sites and other “NSFW” links, thus placing vb.ly by definition in the porn/adult site category.
This use was deemed as unacceptable by our local internet community, regardless of whether or not the site hosts adult material or redirects traffic to 3rd party sites

Contrary to vb.ly’s claims, they were contacted on numerous occasions to investigate these concerns, and over the course of these contacts vb.ly has ignored our efforts and even changed their contact numbers.

When our repeated warnings were ignored, and after over 3 weeks of failed attempts to contact the owners of vb.ly, NIC.ly had no alternative but to apply its regulations that clearly state that it reserves the right to suspend or remove a .ly domain name in violation of rules and regulations. The domain has also been excluded from future registrations so that no other entity (local or abroad) can re-register it.

As to the decision to keep the registration of domain names shorter than 4 symbols long under .ly only for entities with a local Libyan presence, this comes in accordance with NIC.ly’s concern that the rise in popularity of URL shorteners from abroad taking up all these names has deprived locals of their right to register the important 3 letter abbreviations of their various businesses and interests. We as a Registry would prefer seeing art.ly used for a website about Libyan art for instance, or lda.ly used by the Libyan De-mining Association, rather than adding more URL shorteners under our National TLD.
For over 5 years, we as a Libyan Registry recognized by ICANN have been open for domain name registrations from all around the Globe, and we pride ourselves on being the online destination of thousands of domain names from all over the World. Over this span of time never once have we abused the trust invested in us by the Global internet community, nor have we ever taken advantage of having an attractive extension like ‘.ly’. Only when our Community's rules and regulations were compromised was when we had to act.
I would really need to see some examples of that. Adobe doesn't deal well with Linux (or anything non-Windows) and Microsoft would make more money with Linux around.
Sauce Labs ( http://saucelabs.com ) - automated functional testing with Selenium
I don't really know how it works to get into an IPO, but I'm very interested too.

Netflix and Hulu represent the (slow but certain) change of video broadcasting.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11499098

"Mrs Liu said police had informed her they would take her to Mr Liu's prison in the north-eastern province of Liaoning on Saturday so she could give him the news."
Sharepoint is a pretty good seller for them. Exchange has as much of a lock on corporations as Windows.
One of my cofounders committed this crime against nature: http://github.com/tow/fox

Yes, an XML parser in Fortran. Seriously, for data exchange between solid-state physics codes, writing this was the best option available.

Occasionally people ask us why we founded a startup. Seriously?!
Actually that is supposed to be an outsourcing. I know some guys does that which are close to media administration boards. They are collecting all data across the media and creating a pool to sell 3rd parties.And needles to say you have to have good and trustable connections inside.
That sucks. I've used TrueCrypt for Windows and LUKS for Linux, but have never been a Mac guy so I haven't looked into that side of things. Google suggests that your main options are OSX's built-in FileVault to encrypt just your home directory (and optionally TC or something for additional non-system data), or PGP Whole Disk Encryption for a whopping $150. Or running a virtualized OSX within an encrypted container within a second OS, with all the extra boot time and performance hits that would entail.

I'd bet on something better coming out before too long given more interest (and laws) about encryption these days, but unless I've missed something, for now it looks like you're pretty much of out of luck for as good, complete, free solutions go.
I think that's angle of attack.
Ask HN: Please review my app - Daily Todo
There are many mini tasks that I struggle to remember/do each day. For example - my exercise routine, cooking a meal, going through my server logs, checking RSS feeds and so on.

So I've written this app to help me track all such little tasks and record my performance. So I now know that I've exercised 4 days in a row, or that I haven't checked my RSS feeds in a week.

http://www.dailytodo.org/

You can start using the app right away - no registration required.
To summarize: If you're not on Facebook, you're invisible, irresponsible, not modern and uncivilized. Wow. Not having a Facebook account makes me a horrible person apparently.
"Since lobbying is a profession and not a person, it can be neither good nor bad" is almost as absurd as saying "Since nuclear weapons are a tool and not a weapon, it can be neither good nor bad".
What a great story. You should put together a "five things I learned" mini post and let us all read it. And tell us more about your biz - do you sell through ThemeForest?
Please, let us know what he does. Had he worked as a programmer or is he an hobbyist? Thanks.
Incredibly annoying. I have a quad core machine, 16GB RAM, SSD, 100Mbit broadband yet it takes 14 seconds for TechCrunch to fully load due to the Post Up widget they use. Once it loads the page scrolling is not smooth at all. It definitely makes me less likely to visit.
Nice work mathewsi. This is exactly what I would want to see out of a "business" guy with an idea. Do what you can, evangelize your idea.

Definitely one of the better ways to inspire a developer. And, as a developer, we're also better able to understand what the site COULD be than the average person you're showing it to. Bravo, keep at it!
What sets America apart is we welcome innovative thinking and fund it more than any other country.

We have private and public institutions that put down the momey for these people.

This creates organic innovation, but also attracts the best minds to our country, who later turn into citizens.
Which part of "no" is difficult to comprehend? I'd express it in one letter, but I've not figured out how yet.
Seems like the perfect time for those considering switching to read my Demystifying PostgreSQL article from this month's php|architect Databases issue. http://www.phparch.com/magazine/2010/september/.

Unfortunately, I can't post it on the web outside the magazine for 3 months.
That sentence made me laugh out loud. If this sentence were illustrated in a political cartoon, I would picture a Chinese Goliath sitting down to have tea at the table of international relations and being scolded by an old Nordic spinster for manners unbecoming of a young world power.
Brand sentiment tracking comes to real-world chatter
Neat trick. Still, it's like Charles Nutter said - it's easy to make a fast subset of ruby by chopping off inconvenient corner cases. It's really, really hard to make a fast ruby.
MySQL already had the mindshare back then, Slashdot hyped it to the heavens. It was considered "sexy" to sacrifice safety for speed...
Your Eyes Can’t Lie | Healthmad
The EU version also hinders making the same product in a different region. For instance, it is illegal to sell "Champagne imitation wine - made in Portugal" in the EU.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_indication

The US does not enforce the anti-consumer portions of this (which prevent consumers from learning that Wisconsin Brie-like cheese is similar to Brie), only the pro-consumer parts (you can't say "made in France" unless it really was).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Geographical_Status#U...
That's what they say now. Maybe it was their original motivation; maybe not. But I know for a fact they've confiscated names in order to resell them in the past, because they did it to Answerly.
There is also http://codesnipp.it. It is similar to Forrst but strictly for code.

I just joined today (asking for an invite almost instantly got me one, by the way) so don't know how quality it is.
Not quite able to live of its profit, but means my wife doesn't have to work part time any more :)

Android Mind Mapping app Thinking Space: http://www.thinkingspace.net
There's a port of Frotz for iPhone / iOS and an app named Twisty on Android that are z-Machine interpreters (so they can play these games offline.)
Astronomer Seeks ET Machines
I don't have any myself. but here is a talk by Mitch Altman from this years H.O.P.E. conference about the origin of tv-b-gone

http://c2047862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/tnha16.mp3
Microsoft buying Adobe would fix both companies' Apple problem
It's not at network level, it's probably at service level. Service takes too long to respond (overloaded, not enough bandwidth, real-time replication, deadlocks - you guess it). I don't know how widespread is the problem, but I'm on a major provider and connection to everything else is very fine.

The ping is fine BTW - 50ms for widgets.digg, 200ms for digg. Which just helps to prove that it's a service problem.
Now they are offline too, that'll learn 'em
I have a little brother who made all sorts of bad decisions that left him in a bad financial situation. A few times I lent him some money. Eventually he pulled through, started a business and is now making significantly more than I am. Rationally and personally I think that is awesome. Still, sometimes I get a bit jealous. I mean he's my LITTLE brother. He's better off, I'm better off (I even do some work for him now) but worse of relative to him.

I liked how this article is just a little reminder that other countries doing well does not come at our expense but to our benefit.
I like it. This could be useful as a simple way to share a todo list with a team for a single day when a whiteboard isn't available. I'll bookmark it.

By the way, there's a 'bug' if you have multiple lines with the same text. I don't know if I'd consider it a bug or not though...
One of my corporate clients needed to choose between either MSSQL or Oracle for an in-house system, and this sort of garbage is exactly why I pushed them hard towards MSSQL. I'm not a fan of Microsoft's licensing schemes in general, but they look positively saintly compared to Oracle.
http://www.dailytodo.org/
The short answer is no--not without a warrant.

In my opinion, the argument here is very similar to the NSA unwarranted wiretap scandal. Law enforcement and intelligence services should be able to listen in on calls deemed suspicious for reasons of national security--if they have a warrant. Overarching listening networks such as ECHELON seem unethical to me, but good luck telling that to the NSA.

The issue in question, however, is more along the lines of whether the government should be able to circumvent user encryption. Can the NSA throw your encrypted document in their massive server farm and crack it in a few days? Probably. Is there anything we can do to stop that? Not really, other than huge keys and secure algorithms.

What the government wants, however, is similar to what RIM provided Saudi Arabia (and what the USA wanted with its key escrow service years ago): a backdoor into an encryption scheme, or a copy of private keys.

Both from a computer security perspective and an interpreted Constitutional right to privacy, the government should need a warrant to get encrypted data. Just like they'd need a warrant to get your paper diary that you keep next to your laptop, they should (and currently do) require one to read your e-mail. And that's the way it should stay.
Also, there's no way to get back to the home page after I've created a todo list for the day. I wanted to create another one.
It's very nice to see asking for help on HN have a tangible effect in peoples lives. Another thing I really like about this particular story is that it is not 'charity' but a helping you to make you stronger so you can help yourself (and apparently others!).

Really neat. I wished there was more stuff like this on HN.
PostgreSQL couldn't have matured to the point it is at such a more fortuitous time. Thank you open source community. Good luck Oracle.
When they move their lips, they ARE lying to you.
From the description of the site, it's not just like HN but like countless design forums that have existed for years, where people critiqued each others work.

That's not what matters though. The quality of the designers, developers, starting a community from scratch with a slightly different demographic could be an incremental improvement over previous attempts.
You don't seem to understand.

"You (as in you the law enforcement agency) might be in the right to attach stuff to my car, but I as the owner of the vehicle am not responsible if your stuff goes missing in action."

Wrong, If the owner of the car on purpose destroys the agencies property, he is legally liable for those damages. How could it not be so? How could the fact that a tool is used unlawfully detract from the ownership? When the agency attaches the tool to the car, there is no transfer of ownership.

Secondly, I'm not sure what you are imagining that the absence of a warrant means, in theoretical and practical terms. In our country, illegally obtained evidence will usually cause at most a small reduction of the sentence. A complete dismissal is quite rare.
Always great to hear another success story. Not only have you managed to help yourself, but those five people now have a better circumstance as well. Good job, keep it up.
4 more free ideas for your next hackathon
There have been many IPOs announced here which aren't trading yet (or the IPO fell through), but here's a list of currently trading stocks which had an IPO mention here (I've probably missed some):

Tesla, Green Dot, Orbitz, NetSuite, Alibaba.com, OpenTable, Rackspace, COMSCORE, LogMeIn, Qlik Technologies, Blinkx, SolarWinds
And Dreamspark!
An old lady told me that it is not proud to label yourself a hacker. You're a criminal, etc.

I don't want to be that old guy who say that a youngster' subcultural identity doesn't exists based on my preconception or so I decided.
Who buys mysql support from Sun/Oracle? If you are brain dead enough to use mysql in the first place your support should be coming from Percona.
The bar from www.wibiya.com is even worse. Not only is it slow to load but it has notification pop ups and a bunch of other crap.

I'm sick and tired of all the sites that have decided to add bars to the top and bottom of their pages and a billion social network buttons all over the page. I'm at the point where even though I'm blocking most of them via adblock new ones keep showing up so I just give up and stop going back to sites that use them.
Is it illegal to promote personal use of cached browser data ie. Music?
You know how you can cache Playlist music and find it in your cached folder and listen to it... Is this something that is illegal to promote via say...youtube.
And then you eat it. With butter.
This is an inspirational story. Congrats, sounds like you're well on your way to exactly where you want to be!
"The Dungeon Master" (Short Fiction from The New Yorker)
By preventing Starbucks from ever having the capability to sell "Sidamo" beans from Kenya or Vietnam, it strengthens the bargaining position of the farmers and allows the Ethiopian government to devise more creative means to control the sale of beans than simple price or export controls.
I built something a bit similar for iPhone (Dayta - http://daytaapp.com/). Would love to talk!
Ask HN: Why use a DNS service? (e.g. DnsMadeEasy)
Hi,

I'm still learning about web hosting beyond a personal website. I keep seeing references to startups using DnsMadeEasy service and I wanted to find out why use them as opposed to the DNS provided by your hosting company.

What makes DnsMadeEasy a better option then say MediaTemple's DNS or Rackspace DNS servers?

Thank you.
Does Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) really matter?
New PeepCode Screencast: "Meet Raphael.js" (javascript SVG library)
So glad to hear a success story. Keep it up, and keep on building!
I did lots of research and finally settled with Payloadz ... visit https://www.payloadz.com/default.asp

Edit: they support PayPal, Google Checkout, 2Checkout, Amazon Payments and TrialPay - also you can use their system to create your own affiliate system/network.
Are you sure they are not referring to the already designed maps?

I mean it's based on OpenStreetMap.

Check out the actual site http://www.cloudmade.com/
Basecamp was a side project for us.
Then you should light lantern first.
Yes, that's what makes this hard, but keeping an eye on them is trivial, and it would be easy enough to call them out on this for any future violations where they sell the domain.

What was their stated reason for repossessing the answerly domain?

The bit in the other thread reads like this:

"We purchased .ly variant of our domain name through an authorized Libyan registrar about 10 months ago. It was seized back without explanation a few days later. When I contacted the registrar I was told that the domain was available for "four figures" through domains.ly (an aftermarket .ly reseller service that is operated by the same authorized registrar we used to purchase the domain initially). The domain wasn't critical, so we didn't pursue it any further.", so that seems to be a ploy by the (greedy) registrar rather than by NIC.ly from what I can see.

Did that make the news in any way?
Time to short sell then?
Instapaper is the (or at least, my) defacto example - http://instapaper.com/

Two of my iPhone apps, Color Stream and Dayta have turned into profitable businesses, even though they were just pet projects (and still are).
Indeed. That's part of my own logic for myself when considering "luxury" aspects of things. I'm not an avid driver at all, and it's not at all a big part of my life - so if I were to buy a car, "good enough" may very well be just that.

Whereas if I drove every day, and would spend a lot of time in the driver seat, I'd be much more inclined to buy something nicer (as opposed to merely functional).

In this case, photography is important to me, and I spend a lot of time doing it - so it's important that I have a tool that not only works well, but feels satisfying to use. After all, it's not a very good hobby if I'm constantly being frustrated by my equipments' usability.

Likewise, it's important for me to have a really nice coffee mug - given that it's part of my daily routine and I spend a lot of time interacting with it.

What I see is that many people over-optimize and fail to account for this effect - and they skimp on things that they do use heavily, resulting in a quality of life loss that they're probably not even aware of. (e.g., daily commuters, people who spend tens of hours in a car weekly, but driving a "good enough" beater, when they can easily afford better... or hackers who buy cheap/poorly made keyboards/mice even though they spend hours with it every single day).