skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In case your rudeness springs strictly from ignorance:
- Any time you're moving up under your own power, you're climbing."

1. Namecalling my comment as "rudeness" is just an ad hominem attack, so you lose.
2. According to your definition of climbing, my suggestion to build an escalator is "climbing" so why are you calling it rude when it is also climbing according to you?

I did say I don't get what was so special about a C-clamp that just looks like an inverted version of what I have seen before. I am entitled to my opinion of what is cool or not, why be a hater and attack me? I never criticized you for using safety gear.
In-page Chat window display now supported by Banckle Live Chat
Banckle Live Chat now supports in-page chat display feature that allows your customers to minimize the chat window anytime. The chat window will automatically restore as a notification when new messages will be delivered to the window.
What a trial lawyer sees: Dear Employee, before we even talk to you, please spend time revealing to us your race, sex, age and differently-abled status. Thanks.

It's almost certainly a non-starter at any big company for that reason.
Does anyone have this pen? I'm trying to find details about the company, and I can't find the pen on the market.
I know this from practice, having come in halfway through a project on iOS whose code was exquisitely, terrifyingly awful. I was fine on memory management; it was hunting down previous memory management errors that took up most of my time. I ended up giving up and reimplementing certain classes because it was seriously simpler than debugging the existing code.

I think the issue is that trivial examples—for example, the kind you have in a blog post or comment—will invariably look simple and easy. In a non-trivial application, "four basic rules" ends up being four more things that can create bugs.
Actually, it can just turn the backlight off. The B&W mode isn't e-ink at all, it's still basically an LCD screen that can be illuminated by external light. So the effect should be the same, but this is the reason I want to wait for reviews to come out before I purchase it. It seems like a perfect compromise to me between e-ink and LCD screens. Sometimes, I want a backlight. If I'm reading, though, I probably don't want it activated.
Looks like they made a good showing at CES 2010, which may explain how/why folks know more about this than what's in that release.

http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-adam-hands-on-0969281/
I understand that Google will only ship the device to a US-based address and cannot send this device to a P.O. Box or address outside of the US

From the TOS at the bottom of the application
It's really like a worldmap: I think it's better to have a good overall view, then dive only when needed. You can literally spend weeks into a tiny part of such codebases.

What I used when dealing with very large code base (>500kloc) was putting the classes, their relationships (inheritance etc) as some kind of graph (UML, MindMap) on a large (A3 or A0) sheet of papier.

To achieve that, I used either an existing tool (reverse engineering UML model in C# for instance) or a home-baked approach (use reflection or even home-made file parsing) then graphviz or similar.

In any case, you'll want to have an automated way of doing this, so you can refine afterward (ie: put colors on what you already visited, add a summary extracted from comments, etc).

Good luck! If it's like for me, it will become fun :)
i expected a zombie choir.
everyone has been using iframes though.
I've had credit card payments refused for high value items (e.g. car repairs) in a way that did make me wonder if the vendor was trying to simply get me to use a different card.
Valuing those who give to charity more than those who start businesses is like eating your only chicken then wondering why you don't have any more eggs.
I have no idea, I am completely baffled. I really want to try without the node_redis library and do it all in memory, keeping the Array of elements in the returned list at less than 1000.

UPDATE: I should also mention, if you look at the charts, there's a point in time which the CPU hits 99%-100% and it's always reproducible. Once the CPU hits 100% I have just sat back and watched the memory get chewed up.

I'm sure someone w/ more experience than me can probably debug what's going on. The code is there, I really hope someone else can take a look at it. As my friend mentioned, it's reproducible, it can be fixed.
Isn't going to be pretty infeasible to take down Amazon? I guess they did take down PayPal, Mastercard, and Visa, but I always assumed people thought that it was pretty hard to saturate Amazon.
I doubt his home computers are any less weakly protected than Evernote's servers.
I don't like that as an incentive. For a start, it keeps your children in your financial orbit for the rest of your life. Secondly, it communicates to your children that you don't expect them ever to make as much money as you did.

Whenever I wish I were super-wealthy, I try to remember that super wealth probably just creates all sorts of problems when raising children. If I ever do get super wealthy I'll plan to spend all but a few million dollars, secretly and out of sight of the children, before they reach the age of twelve, so that I don't have to worry about them growing up with the typical rich-kid problems.
What about people who don't have Facebook accounts? I think the idea is cool and I get that the whole point is hitting the Facebook "Like" button, but it may keep some people out of the deals.

Something to consider and perhaps hedge one way or the other.

By the way, what's up with the Zuupy name? Everyone will have to explain and spell it out when telling a friend.
Phones calls used to redefine UK regions
Can you think of one Apple device, though, where those points applied at the time you could pre-order it?
Looking for a Bluetooth stack hacker
Dear YC hackernews members: We are looking for a bluetooth Guru to join our team, either as a consultant or a full time employee. Please let me know if you might be the one or have a lead. We are a medical device startup based in Los Gatos, trying to build a device that would help millions if not billions of people. You can reach me at qhuang.c8@gmail.com
According to what's happening on Twitter, Amazon is too big for their current forces and they have switched to PayPal again.
Not to discourage Notion Ink guys. They have done a fabulous job. But its not a well written post. None of what he wants to say is clearly stated. He is revealing his rates. Compare that with the simple rates table Steve Jobs showed in his iPad announcement.

I am guessing IST means Indian Standard Time. How will a normal consumer know this? Why not state this clearly?

I think this post would have been much better if a sales/marketing guy had written it.
I browse the web a lot on my desktop, and I find myself missing my laptop's two-fingers-and-swipe-down scroll.
Startup Riot Prizes for 2010
You don't have a market without a government to protect property rights. You can't have competing entities protecting property rights, because the Marxist gang down the street is going to protect a different set of property rights than the capitalist gang up the street.

Libertarians like to think of private property as some kind of moral essential, and it might be, but that's not enough to make anarcho-capitalism work. While we can probably all agree to outlaw murder, we can't, in fact, all agree on enforcing the same property rights. Plus, there needs to be a way to authoritatively register and adjudicate property claims, not a dozen competing protection rackets[1], each with its own inconsistent rules.

[1] Even actual protection rackets try not to overlap in territory, for exactly this reason.
Apple has actually shipped working products that perform as promised.
He is investing in people/companies to solve those big issues, like a YCombinator for development with pockets 100x the size.
Use if for a screen on a wall in a public place, like a train station. Passengers can gesture to the viewport to see different timetables etc., but they can't actually get physically near the things and damage them. Basically: give the public access to expensive electronic interface while keeping well protected from physical contact.
I think you need to work on this a bit more. It seems that a very large percentage of the web apps I work on, which include a few JavaScript libraries but are primarily written in Perl or Python get classified by Github as "JavaScript". I've created a short list of 15 just from my personal and work repos: https://gist.github.com/734979
I had the same thought immediately -- nothing smaller than 350GB? -- but then it occurred to me that fees lower than $800 may not be worth Dropbox's while.
The Declaration of Independence in Word
You're not getting very downvoted. And you seem to be missing the point. It's not to compare the value of what's being done; this is clearly nowhere near fighting for rights. It's to compare the damage done to the company.
From the News Line:

A former WikiLeaks employee, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, is starting his own new project OpenLeaks – a resource similar to WikiLeaks, he told German newspaper Freitag. He said that that there will be no personality cult like there has been with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Domscheit-Berg quit the project this year due to disagreements with Assange’s policy and criticized him for giving some newspapers special access to the secret documents instead of publishing them all openly. Domscheit-Berg said OpenLeaks will create a decentralized system of secured mailboxes that will allow everybody to share any information without the risk of being tracked. Meanwhile Assange is facing sexual assault charges after being arrested in the UK, and all payments to WikiLeaks are suspended.
Does `should of' have any meaning? To me it seems like a typo of `should have', but I am not a native speaker.
My tone might have appeared dismissive because I was being dismissive. Is that not allowed? Are you the judge of how people should speak? Labeling and criticizing my "tone" is just an ad hominem attack, so you lose. Why not just answer my question, at what point do you stop? What is wrong with building an escalator, that would reduce risk too, if that is the goal, and according to you that is the goal of this device.
looks more like a substantial HTC Sense-like UI overlaid on top of stock Android
Indeed, that's why I don't expect to get anything.
I have to OLPC XOs. The resolution of that Pixel Qi is impressive, but . . . it looks funny. Like the fine quartz sand on Pensacola Beach.
FYI: You can actually purchase those screens already from PixelQi

http://www.pixelqi.com/where_to_buy

Not sure if anyone has written up a review on the quality of the screen though. I've seen a few videos of the screen and it seems acceptable.

http://www.display-solution.com/en/products/tft_displays/pix... (video there)
Poll: what do you prefer for authentication? (login/pass,Twitter,Facebook?)
I'm currently working, at my pace, on a website for you, HackerNews users. So I'm wondering: which method of authentication do you prefer (when an authentication is needed)?

Thanks for your time (feel free to add a choice if you prefer).

Please don't forget to also upvote the poll itself if you'd like - I'd really like to build something relevant.
regular login/password
Deputizing Amazon: Gov't Policy at Cross Purposes or Crossroad?
Amazon's commercial decision to pull the plug on Wikileaks may be a key piece in the puzzle of evolving gov't Internet policy.
wow, that is quite fast. thanks for keeping us posted.
I did just that. Earned a lot of mileage traveling internationality, then took a big trip on airline miles. I'm at 30 countries in total now and still have a lot of miles.

http://ronnie.me/gallery if you'd like to see.
This is becoming suspiciously like a post-Singularity intelligence crop-dusting free advanced tech on remaining Primitive communities.
If batteries could be 10x more powerful, you don't necessarily need to spend all the gains on longer duration.

There is a space weight and power budget. Some of that budget could be spent on containment, or even just smaller more spread out cells.
The "Facebook" element is a relic from our previous product, which never took off, but we did become familiar with the Facebook API. Zuupy was a spare domain name that my co-founder had, which also happened to be unique and a 5-character .com.

We have considered letting non-Facebook users participate, but the core benefit to the retailer is traffic from and visibility within Facebook. Perhaps we will add another for Twitter, based on number of Tweets. But between Facebook and Twitter, we had to go with Facebook.

Thank you for your feedback!
According to the original announcement video stream, the CR-48 hardware is not the actual hardware. It's a test platform for beta testing the software.
Compared to the current "enterprise" DAM solutions, this is practically free. SharePoint, Documentum, etc. can be tens of thousands a month plus huge setup fees to get rolling.

Disclosure: I work for a startup that offers digital asset management and distribution to large corporations.
Resource Based View of the Web 2.0 Firm
I really like this view. Good job of putting all the useful information HN offers in one view. Now, how long will this be around? You planning on enhancing it?
I'm going to ask the same questions as others - are you looking to start a company, and if so, will you need a steady supply of local talent, or will you need to find employment in the tech industry ?
I went through this process with a large company, and one of the interesting things that was done was a check with Dunn and Bradstreet (www.dnb.com). It seems they would not buy from someone without a D&B number and "sufficient" history.
You can actually customize Android quite a lot without interfering with apps on the App Market. The phone companies are really getting into swing with that.

Luckily, Android is designed to enable that and still keep compatibility.
Similar features-checklist spreadsheets can arrive from industry analysts seeking your assistance in building their whitepaper products and various other of their comparison products, too.

Seeing the other side of those analyst annual reviews can be quite the revelation.

You can infer interesting details from what check-offs they are including, what they're omitting, from the nomenclature used, and from the check-off combinations used for specific features and capabilities.
Why would IV bribe them? In fact, why would a patent troll care about PR at all? Does a good reputation help in court?

I'm also going to invoke Hanlon's razor, in "defense" of the freakonomics guys.
Some rough process like:

- Identify the main use cases (i.e. what the thing is actually for)

- Work through each one until they bottom out in calls to a database, webservice, message on a queue, file update etc.

- Try and sketch out a rough architecture of how the "modules" in the application hang together

Once you get used to doing this it can be quite fun in a masochistic kind of way.
Introducing Google Message Continuity, powered by Postini
"One of the presenters was Carol Miaskoff, Assistant Legal Counsel for Coordination at the EEOC. Her guidance was less than equivocal but predictable: 'As with any recruiting technology . . . it all depends how you use it as to whether or not it would violate the federal EEO laws."

- from http://www.waemploymentlawblog.com/blog/2008/05/video-interv...
As a student, I'm curious to see if I can put my tuition on a card... That would be useful. :-)
Free services to monitor your website or blog
I applied yesterday. Here is hoping!
I got one. I think that everyone that applied using the prompt on the dev channel build of Chrome got one. Can anyone refute this?
A general note to all:

Note that only 1 in 4 Internet users has a Facebook account. Despite the incredible popularity of the site, if you use Facebook for authentication please provide an alternative method; otherwise you'll shut out 75% of the Internet.
What Can We Learn from Salesforce.com Cloud Database Initiative?
In Xeround's latest blog post, Avi Kapuya shares his thoughts on Salesforce.com's new cloud database initiative Database.com.
Liked the interviews about how every person discovered their muse and turned it into a successful business.
Important caveat:

"I’m not kidding when I say that I spent probably more than 24 total hours in the past three weeks having a blast on this thing creating itineraries, checking mileage, and figuring out where the heck I could go without going over the limit."
Anecdotally, I think at least a few universities have stopped accepting credit cards because of the fees associated with accepting them - the merchant fee on a $30K tuition payment is not trivial. I wouldn't doubt that when offered, most people end up paying with credit cards because of the rewards programs.
is not donating to charity evil now? man, thats escalated.
Actually, I happen to work for the Army so I am often near well armed "grunts" with access to that off switch. It's a judgment call, but I assume walking around the Pentagon is probably safer than driving which I am also willing to do. More to the point, I think being respectful to well armed people is prudent, hiding under the bed is pointless. So, while I recognize the risk to life and limb at some point you need to focus on risk mitigation rather than avoidance.

PS: To put this into perspective, one of the guys I work with was there for 9/11. He sustained significant injury while several people in the room with him died. Yet, he is also willing to work in the building and most people in the building where not harmed.
LOL:

"Do not expose the device to water, moisture, or rap music."
Feature Thrill: The myth of "give me a day and it's done"
That 'stuff' is just normal purchases. He didn't spend any extra then he normally did:

To answer your first question, I didn’t buy ANYTHING outside of what I would normally purchase to get these bonuses. For example, to earn 100,000 British Airways points, I had to spend $2,000 in six months – after prepaying my car insurance for the year, and putting all of my other payments (cable, gym, etc.) on the card for a few months I hit the bonus with ease.
http://www.apenusa.com/wheretobuy.asp
"Yes. Can you think of some examples? I can't think of a single I'd like to do on a desktop computer that wouldn't be easier and more-precise with a mouse."

Currently we have mostly just mouse+keyboard, so it's pretty much expected that majority of present applications would be optimized to work best with these inputs.

Once we will have more expressive inputs, new types of applications will start to pop up.

For example, I often work with 3d. For such applications, mouse + keyboard controls feel very clunky. Even simple tasks like setting up cameras or placing objects in the scene are pain.

It would be much more natural to manipulate 3d objects using gestures in 3d space.
EEWeb: ADC Quantization Error
That blog post is super schitzophrenic. What's with the parenthetical comments that are a different color weight? I thought they were links at first, but not so much. And the "Is Oprah Gay?" ranking, a micro-rant on currency markets...mostly I'm confused.
I didn't make an ad hominem attack and posting a comment on the internet isn't a game that one can lose.

Your comment demonstrates a lack of knowledge about rock climbing. Free soloing, which is climbing without protection, is far from the mainstream. You saw a video of it because it is an amazing display of mental toughness and physical fitness. Please don't use this as a stick by which to measure all other climbing endeavors.
Tweet Strange and funny trademarks by Google, Apple, MS and others
While I'm a big fan of Linode, and make frequent use of Stack Scripts, it seems kind of random to post a link a feature that's nearly a year old...
Perhaps if the author had titled the article "Understanding the impact of Anonymous" people would be better able to parse the title.
I completely agree. I missed the pre-order part of the blog post. I assumed they are only announcing the price now. Classic tl;dr case.
Worth noting, definitely!

In this precise case, I'm building something for hackernews users.
Like help desk tickets :) The issue I see is that such a system makes visible to all "the elephant in the room" that Fred Wilson is more important and more powerful than most of the people sending him email. This is ok -- I accept this and would like some visibility into the queue [Note that I've never contacted him, so this is hypothetical]. However, he risks the public hoopla which would come with his proclamation of the obvious. There seem to be a bunch of unwritten social rules which preclude this sort of thing. Perhaps this system could be portrayed publicly as his "secretary"? There certainly is a long and accepted social tradition of the powerful putting a layer of indirection between themselves and their public.
So, if the batteries have 10x the capacity, what is the charge time?
You really sound like a toxic customer.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Ongoing perf graphs for all WikiLeaks cyberwar related sites
I had a simple e-mail exchange with a DropBox Sales person about Team a few days ago where I told them I was interested because I need more than 100gb of space, but $795 was huge.

They never got back to me......
Actually the Host header is for HTTP/1.1. They are sending HTTP/1.0 requests.

Since most modern browsers send HTTP/1.1 requests, they may be able to filter by ignoring HTTP/1.0 traffic in general.
You mean other than that it's a tool used to launch DDoS attacks?

Joke aside, Host: is optional in HTTP/1.0 (it's mandatory in HTTP/1.1). I would not be surprised if blocking on this cut out some set of proxies and spiders out there as well (whether these are customers you can't afford to block is another question).
HTTP/1.0 doesn't specify Host as a request parameter, iirc, so you might as well block on "HTTP/1.0".
The source for one version of LOIC can be found on GitHub:

https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC/

A quick skim-read of the code mentioned in the post shows that this version seems to be different, specifically:

https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC/blob/master/HTTPFloode...

if (random == true)
buf = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(
String.Format("GET {0}{1} HTTP/1.1{2}Host: {3}{2}{2}{2}",
Subsite, new Functions().RandomString(), Environment.NewLine, Host));
else
buf = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(
String.Format("GET {0} HTTP/1.1{1}Host: {2}{1}{1}{1}",
Subsite, Environment.NewLine, Host));

(botched indentation is my own)

The Host header mentioned in the blog post is present, the protocol is now HTTP/1.1 and random string appears to be an attempt to defeat a simple packet matching algorithm.

I doubt many legitimate requests these days come without a User-Agent header, though...
I am really interested in what repercussions will come of all this, because I'm willing to bet some portion (probably large) of the people performing these attacks didn't actually take caution to make sure they were indeed anonymous.
You have a good point. I voted you up. But I also have a counterpoint.

The most valuable asset you can build is a resilient founding team. Facing important problems while still building your product is good practice for what happens when a company grows. Not being able to focus 100% on all important aspects of your startup is a good situation to gain experience with.

Another upside to not having funding is it forces you to seek economical ways to grow your userbase. I'm focusing on this intensely now. There are a lot of things my users would like, but I'm picking the ones that help them show my service to others.
"As long as they don't break into other people's computers, launching DDoS should not be treated as a crime by default; "

Yeah, they should. Those attacks are the same as vandalism. They destroy some things that are hard to quantify, such as trust and image, as well as cost the companies money to attempt to mitigate the issue.