skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Review my startup: NivNav, fan friendly ticket resale
http://www.nivnav.com/hello/hn

With NivNav you can sell your tickets above cost, and both sides save 5% over StubHub. Or you can sell your ticket at-cost, the seller's fee is reduced to $0, and the seller also receives Fan Points that they can use to get first dibs on the at-cost tickets being made available by other users. There are other ways to earn Fan Points as well, the mechanics are similar to Listia. The site is currently in private beta, and from a group of 450 test users (Phish related), 80+ tickets have been listed and 50+ tickets sold. All tickets first go through a 3 day Fan Point auction and are only made generally available to "Buy Now" if nobody bids any points.

I'm interested to hear any thoughts you have on the site, the prospects of ramping up a sustainable marketplace and if it happens to catch your imagination, drop me a note at lerhaupt at gmail. Apart from logo design and legal, the work is my own, and I'm looking to bring on a founder level first-hire (deeply technical, data-crunchy) in the sf bay area to really get things moving.
I think you're right, this is much more likely to just be an arrington-ism than anything else.
Why not put the thing on torrents? (well I don't know much about security)

If people care about the source then just use a nick/signature on the torrent that indicates wikileaks else someone else would start to modify info or release a fake.

If they use torrents as a main medium, it might not be available to people to read as easily as a web app though (which even my grandpa can read stuff on the web). Considering they get blocked/change their DNS/host this way, torrents might seem right.
How does that make a difference? All numbers are the same to predators haha! I doubt she advertises the number on her business card as a personal one anyway.
Feeling Search Engine
Now THAT is not taking no for an answer -- he is talking to a senior person in the company he works for:

“I’m really sorry, Mark. I wish I could help you.”

“But you can. You have the power to change my life forever. I want to know what it’s going to take to get you to say ‘yes’ because that’s why I flew to Chicago. I came here for this 30 minute moment.”

Silence. Stupefied silence.

“Cory, what’s it going to take?”

Silence. I didn’t speak again. I stared into his eyes.

Cory: “Aargh.” Sigh. ”Errrgh.”

“Oh, OK. Fine.
http://www.nivnav.com/hello/hn
No. This is the wrong response. Just as the general public shouldn't be afraid of things like this, we shouldn't be afraid of the regulatory response. It is our responsibility to fight that response and preserve fun. If hacker news's response to this video is "great, here comes more regulation", then we have truly lost.
The reason is that i is used to denote (time changing) current in electrical engineering.
Are you perhaps thinking of Ian Bicking's "Topics of Interest" talk [0] from PyCon 2009? It definitely veered into the uncomfortable, but there was some reasonable handling of the situation during the talk, IIRC, and was definitely a catalyst in the PSF adopting a formal diversity statement [1] and trying to be encourage inclusivity in the community.

[0]: http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/76/

[1]: http://www.python.org/community/diversity/
If you like this post, you will probably love The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch:
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Lecture-Randy-Pausch/dp/140132325...

Pausch's book also carries the message that you can be persistent and obtain anything you want. But I really like Suster's stories of paying it forward to others.
So many acronyms, should be thanking the FAA I guess.
Already on torrents
Any language I have not used for a while get’s tossed out of the buffer, and I need to lookup even the most basic of syntax when I start coding in it. Once I get going I can easily recall if it’s *, &, ->, or ^ but at the start I really do need a refresher.

PS: Oddly enough, I have little issue working on a multi language programs, it's just I think in terms of pointer not C pointer.
they checked him fully so he got some paper saying he is "clean" and thus avoided problems at other airports.
edit: its not a typo, its TSA!
Except that the bikesheddiest bits are deliberate satire.
How do the leaked cables not fall under espionage?
From the rest of the essay, I got the impression that he is giving them the benefit of the doubt, but finds it implausible, given all the other friction wikileaks is experiencing.
What a dumbass you are - I bet you're one of those guys.

P.S. 10/10
Weird, because my local bank (https://www.mechbank.com) has Google Analytics embedded on their main page.

And I'm pretty sure they would consider themselves to work at a fucking bank (an FDIC one).
that tapping on your trackpad IS a click.
I use Screenflow but Jing is free
"We have no reason to doubt Amazon" != "It is clearly obvious that their stated motivation is true." It's a claim that there isn't a lot of evidence for the claim that Amazon has bowed to politics in the past, which is not the same as saying that they didn't this time. I do not have enough evidence to judge the claim myself, I'm just observing what you're reading the text as is not what it says.

I would also point out that large service hosts also have a vested interest in resisting government intrusions, because it's bad for Amazon to have a reputation of trashing your service every time some government somewhere burbles something to them. Exactly how "expedient" this is overall is actually a tricky thing to judge and the evidence isn't all one-sided. Again, I don't have enough information to judge.
I generally don't shop at Best Buy because of their exhorbitant prices, but I have to say that this app idea is awesome. Based on the site, it seems to be a really pretty app (again, I'd test it but I don't shop at Best Buy).

You consider extending this service to other well known retailers that operate under a Price Match guarantee. A lot of places advertise price matching (even retroactively), but of course will not go through the trouble to inform you if the price does, indeed, drop.

Very inspirational little app, looks like you developed it quickly and well. I wish you all the best!
> Two days in a row might be a larger red flag for tumblr or tumblr users.

Twitter has been having this sort of problem since always. Users don't seem to care about a little downtime.
i feel like it's up to the state to protect their secrets. I mean really, they made this info available to 2 million people, and easily accessible from machines that I'm guessing had enabled usb ports, cd writers and email.

100% this info was already sold to all other countries.
I'd say it's similar to the use of a mousedown to block a right click dialog. Sure, some idiots use it to disable right click, but a lot of applications (See: about everything Google's done) use it very well for creating in-app contextual menus.

This adjustment is pretty superfluous outside of iOS though, I can't think of any non-artistic reason to use it that couldn't be solved through transforms and an understanding of how Safari scales things.
SideStep does all of this for you. You can forgo the whole OpenVPN section (Steps 12 through 22) if you just want to use SideStep.
Tell HN: Please link to the full page article (print version) when available.
Just a short reminder that linking to the print version of multipage articles is way better to read, to keep as reference later but also to download over a poor quality GPRS connection. Thank you!
Oh man, whenever sexes are involved the comments read like World War II.

To the posters here: Getting a girl's number to ask her on a date on the pretense of networking is creepy.

To the author: Some guys are creepy. Deflect them like you usually do.

This doesn't seem such a big deal!
FTA:

The next big ones are Italy, Belgium and *France*.

France is in trouble, too? I hadn't heard that. I'd be interested to read about it, if anyone has any links. (I'm not French, despite the username. :-)
Self-involved? It's a personal site -duh?
At the end a respondant mentions a torrent offering the wikileaks information. Anyone got a link to it? I am having trouble finding it.
I would assume that, given a description, they probably wouldn't be able to code one (or code much of anything).

That's a pretty glaring assumption, especially since it's subject to empirical verification. It also contains an assumption of its own -- that all programming needs a heavyweight familiarity with algorithms. There's a lot of programming contexts where the productive programmer just uses a hash so the mental bandwidth can be devoted to something else.

(FWIW, I do sometimes wish those programmers knew a little more about algorithms.)
How Not to Request a New Feature
In Your Spare Time - by Ursula Le Guin
Lessons from building a prototype, Part II: Treat it Like Production
I could think of a couple reasons:

* bandwidth bill.

* rich interactions without back-and-forth server trips.

* What's on client-side can technically be saved on client-side. Thus, making distributed setup possible. And that contributes to lower bandwidth bill.

* client hardware is no longer wimpy, why not use all those CPU cycles on users' laptop/iphone/ipad/android/etc.
Or more generally, that hedge funds can be structured for their returns to bear little to no relation to the stock market as a whole. They do this by making highly leveraged bets in both directions. (Buy an option for 10 cents on a stock that rises from $4.00 to $4.10. Bam, 100% profit. Or 100% loss if the stock does not rise at all.) This action is called hedging, giving hedge funds their name.

The dirty secret is that hedge funds do not work long term. The stock market goes up on average over time. A hedge fund that does not correlate with the stock market has no guarantee or even reasonable expectation of doing so. The stock market rises over time because its constituent companies create wealth, by building or manufacturing things. Hedge funds have no such underlying creator of wealth. The only way a hedge fund makes money is to find a bigger fool. For every highly-leveraged gain, somebody else lost the same amount by possessing or acting on less information.

Some hedge funds actually do achieve consistent gains by technical means, as the original article touches on. They can have the fastest computers closest to the exchange trading centers, that can beat other investors to attractive offers by fractions of seconds and/or pennies. There's no secret cabal conspiracy there though. Profit is the only motive; any apparent manipulation is just the result of everybody acting in self interest.
I also can't recommend the documentary enough. The Internet Archive has it available for download/streaming, however:

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares
I often leave in old code that does not work because of an API issue, along with the API issue. Something like

/* the above is a workaround; Unfortunately _code_ causes a segfault due to bug 123 see:... */
Do they have it embedded anywhere past the login?

I sure as hell hope not, and I trust Google a hell of a lot more than I trust MixPanel or TypeKit.
Worst than just "ports" AFAIK: last I checked PPTP required use of either GRE or its own protocol (I can't remember which)--so not TCP nor UDP, and thus more likely to be blocked or simply NATed incorrectly. I don't recall how L2TP works, but I bet it uses a different IP protocol as well. I'm not sure if it's common to use L2TP unless it's tunneled in IPsec these days. IPsec can run over UDP if configured correctly. (I always encountered the UDP transport in the context of NAT-T which has/had its own set of problems. For example, it used to be the case that many IPsec "servers" had a problem with more than a single NAT-T client behind the same NAT. Not sure if that's still the case as this stuff is no longer my job, thankfully.)
I interpreted it as "the euro is cheap for the Germans". But I am very ignorant about European economy.
US DOT Looks to Disable Cell Phones in Cars
Nut: by being careless (or mendacious) with internal announcements, NBC and Comcast seek to make their merger a fait accompli by intertwining their business relationships in ways that would be untenable absent an actual merger; NBC is in effect granting Comcast beneficial ownership of its operations, independent of regulatory approval.

Al Franken is an awesome senator.
it was also featured on msnbc: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/40492187#40492187
New Google Maps UI?
probably due to communication

This is key at all times, not just in a post hoc analysis. If a guy and girl are flirting and one takes it too far some of the responsibility does fall on the other to immediately let them know. When this communication is ignored is when there is a problem.

For example, I was out with friends one time at a club and was talking/flirting with a couple different girls. At one point in the night one girl simply grabbed my crotch. She was obviously intoxicated, but once I told her that wasn't very cool she apologized and went on her way. We had been flirting for most of the night, but any girl who does that and wants to hook up the first night I meet them isn't a girl I want to hang out with.
Bird sounds from the lyre bird
You don't need an EBS to run an instance on EC2.

You can just run the instance as normal. It has a root filesystem, you can write to it etc. However if you stop the instance, then all your changes are lost. The EBS is only needed if you actually need disk space.
Anyone with any common sense can see that she's attempting to exploit sexuality to her advantage. In no way does that diminish her potential competency, nor does it excuse sexism and pigs, but come on -- project "consider me sexually" (from a male/female relationship perspective), and that is exactly what people will do.

And it's not exactly surprising that someone writing about being hit on, and their concerns with being hit on, does such a thing. It's all a part of the same visage.

To bring up Reddit, because this is a very Redditesque story, this reminds me of the hilarious comic someone submitted there of the difference of guys and girls showing off something in a picture for other Redditors to appreciate, be it a game, animal, etc: every guy picture is just the object. Every girl picture is 90% the girl, 10% the object. Wish I could find a link to it because it is far too true.
This is a serious accessibility issue as well. Is anything about the ability to resize text touched on in the w3c's content accessibility guidelines?
Does anyone know if you can install stock Android on, say, the Desire, and get it to act like a Nexus One (OTA updates, etc)? I'm not sure I see that much of a benefit in having HTC Sense, although it does have some good features.
Things you (probably) didn't know about App Engine
Ask HN: Feel like replacing TheFWA.com with an HTML5 showcase?
TheFWA.com is a great showcase for design inspiration, but they're dedicated pretty much exclusively to Flash sites.

Just for the heck of it, I decided to register TheHWA.com to showcase the best of HTML5 sites instead.

Like many people, I start more projects than I can handle, so this became a bit of fun one afternoon, then I never revisited it.

I'd hate to let it lie fallow, and I'm not trying to start a company, just have some fun. So, would anyone like to join me and actually start populating the site?

It's just a Wordpress site at the moment, I'd be happy to join up with anyone that wants to change the site into something more robust - or just keep it as is.

Let me know, we'll make it a community project if anyone's interested.
The same caveat about bandwidth usage applies to EC2. You have to pay (twice in & out) for EC2 traffic.
It doesn't really matter, I've had an ex get asked to dates over email by potential business leads. Especially awkward is the "half and half" situation where they asked you to dinner to discuss business. For her it was especially hard to turn down because it wasn't just a networking client is was often a potential client for her firm.
In this economy?
Tinychat’s Video Chat App Is Blowing Up On Facebook
I remember reading that the building sits on top of one of the main fiber optic junctions, clearly making it a bit more valuable. I was able to find an article that references this http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/10/27/google-to-play-daniel-pl....
Google Acquires Speech Synthesis Company Phonetic Arts
"I get tired of women complaining about sexism in the startup/tech field."

Cry me a river. Would you prefer people just shut up about it?
Well, they can always just twitter their current IP...

And if their servers are shut down, create checksummed files released into the bittorrent cloud.

Eventually this will either end sanely, or in another Great Firewall.
As an exercise, try writing in E-Prime[1], instead of regular English. Its a "variant" of English where the phrase "to be" and any variant of it ("be", "is", "am", "are", "was", "were", "been," "being" and their variants).

In High School, I had an English teacher who made us write like this for a few months. There is a noticeable difference between something I wrote directly before and after writing in E-Prime for a few months. I hated it at the time (writing in E-Prime forced me to think about every word I was writing). Few years down the line, the exercises are one of the biggest things that have stuck with me.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
Same problem with wikileaks.ch domain, no answer from EveryDNS's nameservers:

http://www.dnsvalidation.com/wikileaks.ch
http://www.dnsvalidation.com/wikileaks.org
About two years ago I lived in Long Island City, around Vernon Boulevard and 44th Drive. At least a couple times a week I'd see an RC plane doing circles around the neighborhood and I always wondered who was controlling it and for what purpose.

Now I know.
I use GoDaddy's domain name service so some people wrote on WOT that because the domain name servers are related to some people sending spam, then I must send spam too.

Nice, Web of Trust can kiss my ass. Anyone can write anything they want on there. I am also a pimp and a nuclear scientist.
"The American legal system is bullying the British legal system and there are a lot of British lawyers who are angry about it."

Bit unclear on where the "bullying" is occurring. The UK signed a treaty with the US that requires them to extradite McKinnon. The idea that public outcry in the UK --- a venue where advocacy of the US's counterclaims are obviously disadvantaged, despite appearing to be officially/formally/factually undisputed --- could preempt the UK's obligations? It seems like the "bullying" is in rather the other direction.

If the US penal system was so inhumane as to make it impossible for any high-functioning people with mental impairments to be housed there, why have an extradition treaty at all?

One expects the same argument to cut the other direction as more countries try to indict Bush-era officials, like Nigeria? is with Cheney.
I'd find it odd if I'd never met them. Having met someone in person is a whole different issue.
Shouldn't a license or some form of registration be required? What if it hits a building or car by mistake? There needs to be some way to trace it to the owner to pay for the damages.
It would be really useful for him to say what Node.js version he's using. Node <=0.2.3 has a bug related to reaching the file descriptor limit of the OS that makes CPU usage go through the roof, for example.
She did do something about it, didn't she? It's not going to solve the problem overnight but it's more likely to create change than just bucking up.
I'm not so sure this is going to be a beneficial partnership for DDG. It might hurt the quality of the search results.

When I was looking into this sort of market (website trust metrics/scam+spam defense) WoT was the biggest player but their accuracy was absolutely horrible which made it near useless.
> This has been the most peaceful period in history.

Not really.

Not for the middle east anyway.

Although I see your point about having nuclear weapons resulting in less wars. The USA and USSR never actually got in a direct war.

OTOH, if just one reckless leader decides to use nukes, just for once, it will probably start an endless nuclear war.

It's a double edged sword.

Wonder what would happen if every country in the middle east had them, or say, major countries (Turkey, and some Arab country).
Once again, my thoughts on this matter have been best expressed in a Harry Potter fanfic (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/18/Harry_Potter_and_the_...):

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"Let's try again," said Severus. "Potter, where would you look if I told you to find me a bezoar?"

"That's not in the textbook either," Harry said, "but in one Muggle book I read that a trichinobezoar is a mass of solidified hair found in a human stomach, and Muggles used to believe it would cure any poison -"

"Wrong," Severus said. "A bezoar is found in the stomach of a goat, it is not made of hair, and it will cure most poisons but not all."

"I didn't say it would, I said that was what I read in one Muggle book -"

"No one here is interested in your pathetic Muggle books. Final try. What is the difference, Potter, between monksblood and wolfsbane?"

That did it.

"You know," Harry said icily, "in one of my quite fascinating Muggle books, they describe a study in which people managed to make themselves look very smart by asking questions about random facts that only they knew. Apparently the onlookers only noticed that the askers knew and the answerers didn't, and failed to adjust for the unfairness of the underlying game. So, Professor, can you tell me how many electrons are in the outermost orbital of a carbon atom?"

(Of course Snape knew, but the point stands).
Nike releases public Environmental Apparel Design Tool
Yes, it's totally an issue. On the other hand, he's willing to hack his iPhone but not his Android?

It's different on Android. After the initial root, you get your future OS updates from the community. There's no reason to ever go back to the base. On the iPhone, you may have to revert your jailbreak at some point, like the author mentions.

After the initial root, which can be a pain (another thing to blame on short-sighted carriers and manufacturers), a custom ROM is actually far easier than updating many phones. There are ROM managers available in the Market that will manage them for you.

You can even change ROMs without even plugging into a computer. Try that with an iPhone.
Independence and Indie-dependence
SEO - Get Brand Identity by Befriending the Search Engine
I have seen a lot of friction about this over on some other news syndication sites, so in anticipation of that argument here, I offer the following compromise:

If not linked to, perhaps as the first comment following submission?

I long for the day that I can set a preference in my browser and it automatically views articles in Readability mode, or rolls-up paginated articles.
Google drops $1.9B on Manhattan city block
Fine, so those who read her blog won't be asking her out on a date, but it shouldn't hold them back from asking out other women who they think might be more receptive to the same approach. This is her personal opinion and personal taste, not a guidebook to women.
What Do Your Company Contracts Say About Your Business?
Or because people will use them to remove military security?

Exactly. Unless some kind of corresponding defense evolves, they're going to democratize sanitary application of force, which has largely been a privilege of governments until now. (Sanitary to the people ordering it, not to the people directly involved, obviously.) Can you imagine what ethnic cleansing would have looked like in the Balkans if the Serbs had been able to afford thousands of predator-style drones? It won't be long before the cost comes down to the point where they could have.